Patents by Inventor Ning Zhang

Ning Zhang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230403273
    Abstract: A data processing method applied to a service terminal includes receiving an authorization request sent by a target client terminal. The authorization request includes target path information of the target client terminal. The method further includes searching for a target identifier matching the target path information in an authorization list including at least one authorization identifier. The authorization identifier is generated at least based on network path information of an authorized client terminal. The method further includes sending the target identifier to the target client terminal to cause the target client terminal to control a target application to run according to the target identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: Ning ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230385551
    Abstract: A caption of a multimodal message (e.g., social media post) can be identified as a named entity using an entity recognition system. The entity recognition system can use a visual attention based mechanism to generate a visual context representation from an image and caption. The system can use the visual context representation to identify one or more terms of the caption as a named entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Di Lu, Leonardo Ribas Machado das Neves, Vitor Rocha de Carvalho, Ning Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230382634
    Abstract: A telescopic ventilation pipeline device for a coal storage Eurosilo includes a second fan, an upper air pipe fixing interface, a telescopic air pipe, a bottom air pipe fixing interface, a mounting platform, and a ventilation air pipe, the telescopic air pipe being parallel to a central telescopic feed pipe of the Eurosilo, one end of the upper air pipe fixing interface being connected to the second fan, the other end thereof communicating with the top end of the telescopic air pipe, the bottom end of the telescopic air pipe, the bottom air pipe fixing interface and the ventilation air pipe communicating in sequence, and the bottom air pipe fixing interface being fixed to a spiral framework A-type frame of the Eurosilo. Compared with the prior art, the telescopic ventilation pipeline device is high in safety and ventilation efficiency and incapable of affecting the normal operation of the Eurosilo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Xiao ZHANG, Feng HAN, Yubin XU, Chenghui JIN, Shenyu ZHANG, Haokai CHEN, Ning ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230388813
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus for enhancing coverage of network. The method performed by a first network node may include: obtaining information about that a terminal device plans to stay at a location out of a coverage of a network; and transmitting at least one indication to at least one second network node, indicating the at least one second network node to move to at least one deployment point, respectively. The at least one second network node may be indicated to provide a relay of a communication between the terminal device at the location and the network. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the coverage of the network may be extended to a location of the terminal device, based on a requirement of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventor: Ning ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230384180
    Abstract: A reinforcement and bearing capacity calculation method for a self-stressed bridge deck link slab includes: calculating a cross-section moment of inertia of the link slab and a negative moment borne by the link slab; introducing a design self-stress according to stress distribution of the self-stressed bridge deck link slab, whether reinforced or un-reinforced; calculating a cracking moment of the plain self-stressed bridge deck link slab, comparing the cracking moment and the negative moment, proceeding to the next step, or configuring a structural reinforcement as needed; determining a design strength of reinforcement, selecting a reinforcement ratio, and calculating a resisting moment of the link slab; comparing the resisting moment and the negative moment of the link slab, design conditions are satisfied, or configuring the reinforcement ratio and carrying out iterative calculation to obtain a resisting moment; and analyzing stress on the reinforcement and concrete.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Qifeng WANG, Zhi GE, Chuan WANG, Yifeng LING, Ning ZHANG, Hongzhi ZHANG, Xiang GAO, Yuliang WANG, Hongyuan XIAO, Yanhua GUAN, Renjuan SUN, Meijun LIANG, Yujie FENG
  • Publication number: 20230384473
    Abstract: A method and system for advanced detection and optimization of tunnel resistivity based on depth resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicants: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY, SHANDONG HI-SPEED GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lichao NIE, Lei CHEN, Yong ZHOU, Chuan WANG, Xinji XU, Jian LI, Zhengyu LIU, Ning ZHANG, Peng BAI, Yongheng ZHANG, Dongdong XIE
  • Patent number: 11830209
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for object detection and inserting graphical elements into an image stream in response to detecting the object. The systems and methods detect an object of interest in received frames of a video stream. The systems and methods identify a bounding box for the object of interest and estimate a three-dimensional position of the object of interest based on a scale of the object of interest. The systems and methods generate one or more graphical elements having a size based on the scale of the object of interest and a position based on the three-dimensional position estimated for the object of interest. The one or more graphical elements are generated within the video stream to form a modified video stream. The systems and methods cause presentation of the modified video stream including the object of interest and the one or more graphical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Travis Chen, Samuel Edward Hare, Yuncheng Li, Tony Mathew, Jonathan Solichin, Jianchao Yang, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 11822600
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, media, and computer readable instructions are described for local image tagging in a resource constrained environment. One embodiment involves processing image data using a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) comprising at least a first subgraph and a second subgraph, the first subgraph comprising at least a first layer and a second layer, processing, the image data using at least the first layer of the first subgraph to generate first intermediate output data; processing, by the mobile device, the first intermediate output data using at least the second layer of the first subgraph to generate first subgraph output data, and in response to a determination that each layer reliant on the first intermediate data have completed processing, deleting the first intermediate data from the mobile device. Additional embodiments involve convolving entire pixel resolutions of the image data against kernels in different layers if the DCNN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Wang, Ning Xu, Ning Zhang, Vitor R. Carvalho, Jia Li
  • Publication number: 20230368489
    Abstract: A method is provided for generating enhanced image data for display on different types of display platforms. The method can include receiving a first format of display image data mastered to be displayed on a first type of display system. The method can include receiving a second format of display image data mastered to be displayed on a second type of display system that is different than the first type of display system. The method can include detecting one or more corresponding pixels in image segments among the first format of display image data and the second format of display image data. The method can include using attributes from the one or more corresponding pixel to generate enhanced image data for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Ning Zhang, Samuel Ziheng Zhou
  • Patent number: 11815150
    Abstract: A magnetostriction-based vibration suppression apparatus for a steel pipe of a power transmission tower includes a lantern ring, four spoiler cups, and two control boxes; the lantern ring is fixedly sleeved on the steel pipe; mouths of the spoiler cups face outwards, and bottoms thereof are hinged on the lantern ring; the four spoiler cups are squarely distributed; and the two control boxes are symmetrically and fixedly mounted on the lantern ring; the control boxes are arranged as follows: the spoiler cups are arranged in pairs as a group, and each control box is arranged between two spoiler cups; each control box is provided therein with two groups of inerter units corresponding one-to-one to the spoiler cups. The vortex is avoided using a structure such as a spoiler cup, and the vibration kinetic energy of the steel pipe is consumed, thereby achieving an effective vibration reduction effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: POWERCHINA SEPCO1 ELECTRIC POWER CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guodong Shao, Yongyang Liu, Jianping Zhang, Ning Zhang, Li Tian, Junke Han
  • Publication number: 20230354094
    Abstract: This document describes methods, devices, systems, and means for a switching scheme for opting in and out of multi-user orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (MU-OFDMA). In one aspect, an electronic device enters the MU-OFDMA mode to communicate via a wireless network over a shared-channel bandwidth. During the MU-OFDMA mode, the electronic device determines that an uplink-queue size is greater than a first threshold size. Responsive to the determining, the electronic device opts out of the MU-OFDMA mode and enters a single-user mode to contend for a transmit channel for transmitting uplink data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ahmed Ibrahim ElArabawy, Ning Zhang, Kai Shi
  • Publication number: 20230347156
    Abstract: A biostimulator, such as a leadless cardiac pacemaker, having a header assembly that includes an antenna, is described. The antenna can be integrated into an insulator that separates an electrode of the header assembly from a flange of the header assembly. The antenna includes an antenna loop embedded in a ceramic material of the insulator. The antenna loop is located distal to the flange to reduce the likelihood of signal interference and increase communication range of the antenna. The header assembly is mounted on a housing have an electronics compartment, and an antenna lead extends from the antenna loop to electronic circuitry contained within the electronics compartment. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Bei Ning Zhang, Brett C. Villavicencio, Perry Li, Souvik Dubey
  • Publication number: 20230343399
    Abstract: A voltage supply circuit includes a temperature compensation circuit and a voltage regulation circuit. The temperature compensation circuit includes a comparator circuit comparing a device temperature value with a reference value to output a comparison result, and a compensation controller circuit receiving the comparison result, a compensation value control signal, and a compensation enable signal, and outputting a voltage control signal according to the comparison result. The voltage regulation circuit receives the voltage control signal and provides a voltage output according to the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Ning Zhang, Ruxin Wei, Yongyong Wang, Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11792029
    Abstract: A device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to maintain an Internet of Things (IoT) device database that stores, for an IoT device in the IoT device database, an application server device list that includes one or more application server devices that are to be notified when the IoT device is determined to be in an awake state. The processor may be further configured to receive a first indication from a first application server device that the IoT device is in an awake state; access the IoT device database to identify a second application server device associated with the IoT device; and send a second indication to the second application server device that the IoT device is in the awake state based on the received first indication from the first application server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Rachel Ward, Ning Zhang, Carl Wang, Brian Matthew White
  • Patent number: 11783494
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media and methods are presented for a human pose tracking framework. The human pose tracking framework may identify a message with video frames, generate, using a composite convolutional neural network, joint data representing joint locations of a human depicted in the video frames, the generating of the joint data by the composite convolutional neural network done by a deep convolutional neural network operating on one portion of the video frames, a shallow convolutional neural network operating on a another portion of the video frames, and tracking the joint locations using a one-shot learner neural network that is trained to track the joint locations based on a concatenation of feature maps and a convolutional pose machine. The human pose tracking framework may store, the joint locations, and cause presentation of a rendition of the joint locations on a user interface of a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Yuncheng Li, Linjie Luo, Xuecheng Nie, Ning Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230316125
    Abstract: Determining a class-specific predictor indicator importance can include generating, using machine learning, a prediction model having a tree structure including nodes, class label subgroups, and class-specific predictor indicators. A class-specific predictor indicator importance can be generated for a selected class-specific predictor indicator by merging a term predictor indicator frequency and a purity predictor indicator frequency at each instance of the selected class-specific predictor indicator within one or more nodes of the tree structure. A representation of the tree structure displayed in a graphical user interface can depict each path between a root node of the tree structure and a leaf node mapped to the selected class label subgroup having a node containing an instance of the selected class-specific predictor indicator in a manner that contrasts with other paths between the root node and other leaf nodes of the tree structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Lei Tian, Han Zhang, Ning Zhang, Na Zhao, Li Na Wang, Rong Hong Wan
  • Publication number: 20230315033
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for controlling a device. A method performed by a controller comprises determining a scenario related to at least one user. The method further comprises sending a message for controlling at least one device to run in a mode dedicated for the determined scenario to the at least one device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventor: Ning Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230319041
    Abstract: An application client on a user device receives an internal request from within the application client. The internal request is associated with edge application device(s) hosted by a computing platform. In response to the internal request, the application client obtains an authorization token from the computing platform and initiates an edge discovery request to the computing platform using the authorization token. In response to the edge discovery request, the application client receives connection information of a particular edge application device among the edge application device(s) that is identified for the application client by the computing platform. The application client establishes a connection between the application client and the particular edge application device using the connection information of the particular edge application device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Umesh Kumar Gupta, Bjorn Hjelm, Jyotsna Kachroo, Raghuram Parvataneni, Ramanathan Subramaniam, Ning Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230317863
    Abstract: The photovoltaic cell includes a silicon substrate, a first passivation layer, a second passivation layer, at least one silicon oxynitride layer, and at least one silicon nitride layer. The second passivation layer includes a first silicon oxide layer and at least one aluminum oxide layer, a ratio of the number of oxide atoms to the number of aluminum atoms in the at least one aluminum oxide layer is greater than 0.8 and less than 1.6. The number of silicon atoms is greater than the number of oxygen atoms in the at least one silicon oxynitride layer and the number of oxygen atoms is greater than the number of nitrogen atoms in the at least one silicon oxynitride layer. A ratio of the number of silicon atoms to the number of nitrogen atoms in the at least one silicon nitride layer is greater than 1 and less than 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Ruifeng LI, Wenqi LI, Yankai QIU, Ning ZHANG, Bin LI
  • Publication number: 20230302285
    Abstract: A biostimulator, such as a leadless pacemaker, including a header assembly having an electrical feedthrough assembly incorporating a helix mount, is described. The header assembly includes a fixation element mounted on the helix mount. The helix mount is mounted on a flange of the electrical feedthrough assembly, and thus, the fixation element can attach the leadless biostimulator to a target tissue. An electrode of the electrical feedthrough assembly is mounted within the flange to deliver a pacing impulse to the target tissue. A ceramic portion of the helix mount is disposed between the flange and the electrode to block an electrical path between the electrode and the flange. Accordingly, the helix mount both retains the fixation element on the leadless biostimulator and electrically isolates the flange and electrode components of the electrical feedthrough. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Bei Ning Zhang, Brett C. Villavicencio, Perry Li