Patents by Inventor Qi Shan

Qi Shan 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).

  • Patent number: 11417067
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for synthesizing an environment based on an image. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In various implementations, a method includes determining an engagement score that characterizes a level of engagement between a user and a representation of a subject included in an image. In some implementations, the method includes, in response to the engagement score satisfying an engagement threshold, obtaining stored information regarding the subject, and synthesizing an environment based on the image and the stored information regarding the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ian M. Richter, Qi Shan
  • Patent number: 11408738
    Abstract: Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to generate mapping information using inter-connected images of a defined area, and for using the generated mapping information in further automated manners. In at least some situations, the defined area includes an interior of a multi-room building, and the generated information includes a floor map of the building, such as from an automated analysis of multiple panorama images or other images acquired at various viewing locations within the building—in at least some such situations, the generating is further performed without having detailed information about distances from the images' viewing locations to walls or other objects in the surrounding building. The generated floor map and other mapping-related information may be used in various manners, including for controlling navigation of devices (e.g., autonomous vehicles), for display on one or more client devices in corresponding graphical user interfaces, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Zillow, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Colburn, Qi Shan, Ramin Mehran, Li Guan
  • Publication number: 20220058993
    Abstract: A flexible display panel and a flexible display apparatus. The flexible display panel includes a display panel body having a bent region and non-bent regions, and a flexible support layer attached to the shady surface of the bent region, the flexible support layer includes a flexible base and a heating layer, a plurality of magnetic balls are provided in the flexible base; where the heating layer is provided on the flexible base for heating the plurality of magnetic balls, the plurality of magnetic balls are expanded with heat to enable the hardness of the flexible support layer when the display panel body is in an unfolded state to be greater than the hardness of the flexible support layer when the display panel body is in a bent state. The flexible display panel will not be wrinkled during the bending and unfolding process, and has an improved display effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yongfeng ZHAO, Qi SHAN, Zhaoji ZHU, Fu LIAO, Bo ZHANG, Fan DONG
  • Publication number: 20220053654
    Abstract: In a foldable display apparatus, two second support parts and a first support part jointly support a flexible screen, a rotating part is slidably connected to the second support part on the same side of the first support part, and the second support part rotates relative to the first direction of the flexible screen and away from the first support part, a crackshaft is slidably connected with the rotating part to drive the rotating part to rotate therearound, a connecting lever drives the rotating part to slide toward the crankshaft along a thickness direction, the connecting lever is hinged at its two ends to the fixed portion and the rotating part respectively, the connecting rob is hinged at its two ends to the fixed portion and the second support part respectively, the bent portion of the flexible screen is U-shaped under the action of the second support parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongqi HOU, Qi SHAN, Fu LIAO, Zhaoji ZHU, Yongfeng ZHAO, Kanglong SUN
  • Publication number: 20220003555
    Abstract: Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to generate mapping information using inter-connected images of a defined area, and for using the generated mapping information in further automated manners. In at least some situations, the defined area includes an interior of a multi-room building, and the generated information includes a floor map of the building, such as from an automated analysis of multiple panorama images or other images acquired at various viewing locations within the building—in at least some such situations, the generating is further performed without having detailed information about distances from the images' viewing locations to walls or other objects in the surrounding building. The generated floor map and other mapping-related information may be used in various manners, including for controlling navigation of devices (e.g., autonomous vehicles), for display on one or more client devices in corresponding graphical user interfaces, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Alex Colburn, Qi Shan, Ramin Mehran, Li Guan
  • Patent number: 11217643
    Abstract: The present application relates to a display screen and an electronic device. The display screen comprises a first display area for arranging a front device, wherein the first display area is provided with a first type of light-emitting unit; the first type of light-emitting unit comprises a pixel area and an electrochromic light transmittance material disposed around the pixel area; the electrochromic light transmittance material exhibits a light absorption property when being energized; and the electrochromic light transmittance material exhibits a light transmission property when not being energized. In addition, the present application also relates to an electronic device comprising the above-mentioned display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: YUNGU (GU'AN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tong Xu, Qi Shan, Rubo Xing
  • Publication number: 20210377442
    Abstract: Techniques are described for automated operations involving capturing and analyzing information from an interior of a house, building or other structure, for use in generating and providing a representation of that interior. Such techniques may include using a user's mobile device to capture visual data from multiple viewing locations (e.g., video captured while the mobile device is rotated for some or all of a full 360 degree rotation at each viewing location) within multiple rooms, capturing data linking the multiple viewing locations, analyzing each viewing location's visual data to create a panorama image from that viewing location, analyzing the linking data to determine relative positions/directions between at least some viewing locations, creating inter-panorama links in the panoramas to each of one or more other panoramas based on such determined positions/directions, and providing information to display multiple linked panorama images to represent the interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Ivaylo Boyadzhiev, Alex Colburn, Li Guan, Qi Shan
  • Patent number: 11182583
    Abstract: Display panels and display devices, in order to provide a new full screen solution that can realize fingerprint recognition. The display panel includes a substrate, a display film layer located on a surface of the substrate and a touch film layer located above the display film layer. The display panel further includes a fingerprint recognition film layer including a plurality of image sensing elements arranged in an array, and an orthographic projection of the image sensing element on the substrate is not overlapped with an orthographic projection of the light-emitting sub-pixels in the display film layer on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaolong Yang, Rubo Xing, Jiantai Wang, Qi Shan, Huimin Liu
  • Publication number: 20210359053
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to terminals and display screens. In an embodiment, a terminal includes a display area, the display area includes at least two display regions, the at least two display regions include a first display region and a second display region, a pixel density of the first display region is less than a pixel density of the second display region, and the pixel density of the first display region is less than or equal to a maximum pixel density of the first display region in a transparent state when the first display region is unlit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Qi SHAN, Tong XU, Xuejing ZHU
  • Patent number: 11165959
    Abstract: Techniques are described for automated operations involving acquiring and analyzing information from an interior of a house, building or other structure, for use in generating and providing a representation of that interior. Such techniques may include using a user's mobile device to capture video data from multiple viewing locations (e.g., 360° video at each viewing location) within multiple rooms, and capturing data linking the multiple viewing locations (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Zillow, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Shan, Alex Colburn, Li Guan, Ivaylo Boyadzhiev
  • Publication number: 20210325941
    Abstract: A support apparatus for a flexible screen, a foldable display module and a display device. The support apparatus for the flexible screen includes a support portion and a driving assembly. The support portion includes a first support portion and a second support portion connected with the first support portion. The driving assembly includes a rotary shaft assembly and a linkage assembly connected with the rotary shaft assembly. The rotary shaft assembly includes a plurality of rotary shafts arranged in parallel. The second support portion is slidably provided on the rotary shaft assembly and can be bent or unfolded together with the rotary shaft assembly. When the rotary shaft assembly is bent, the first support portion is driven by the linkage assembly to move away from or close to the rotary shaft assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongqi HOU, Qi SHAN, Jianping CHEN, Fu LIAO, Liwei DING, Zhaoji ZHU, Liuyang WANG, Kanglong SUN
  • Patent number: 11119536
    Abstract: Provided are a flexible electronic device and a manufacturing method thereof. The flexible electronic device (200) comprises a flexible substrate (210) and a device layer formed on the flexible substrate (210). The device layer comprises a semiconductor structure (220) and a wire structure (230) connected to the semiconductor structure, the wire structure (230) having an extension direction same to a channel direction of the semiconductor structure (220). The extension direction of the first wire structure (230) forms an included angle smaller than 90° with respect to a stretching direction of the flexible substrate (210).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignees: KUNSHAN NEW FLAT PANEL DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CENTER CO., LTD., KUNSHAN GO-VISIONOX OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qi Shan, Kun Hu, Li Lin, Shixing Cai, Shengfang Liu
  • Patent number: 11106280
    Abstract: Calibration of eye tracking is improved by collecting additional calibration pairs when user is using apps with eye tracking. A user input component is presented on a display of an electronic device, detecting a dwelling action for user input component, and in response to detecting the dwelling action, obtaining a calibration pair comprising an uncalibrated gaze point and a screen location of the user input component, wherein the uncalibrated gaze point is determined based on an eye pose during the dwelling action. A screen gaze estimation is determine based on the uncalibrated gaze point, and in response to determining that the calibration pair is a valid calibration pair, training a calibration model using the calibration pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Bigham, Mingzhe Li, Samuel C. White, Xiaoyi Zhang, Qi Shan, Carlos E. Guestrin
  • Publication number: 20210248811
    Abstract: The subject technology provides a framework for learning neural scene representations directly from images, without three-dimensional (3D) supervision, by a machine-learning model. In the disclosed systems and methods, 3D structure can be imposed by ensuring that the learned representation transforms like a real 3D scene. For example, a loss function can be provided which enforces equivariance of the scene representation with respect to 3D rotations. Because naive tensor rotations may not be used to define models that are equivariant with respect to 3D rotations, a new operation called an invertible shear rotation is disclosed, which has the desired equivariance property. In some implementations, the model can be used to generate a 3D representation, such as mesh, of an object from an image of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Qi SHAN, Joshua SUSSKIND, Aditya SANKAR, Robert Alex COLBURN, Emilien DUPONT, Miguel Angel BAUTISTA MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20210224516
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that obtain a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a physical environment that was generated based on depth data and light intensity image data, generate a 3D bounding box corresponding to an object in the physical environment based on the 3D representation, classify the object based on the 3D bounding box and the 3D semantic data, and display a measurement of the object, where the measurement of the object is determined using one of a plurality of class-specific neural networks selected based on the classifying of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Amit Jain, Aditya Sankar, Qi Shan, Alexandre Da Veiga, Shreyas V. Joshi
  • Patent number: 11057561
    Abstract: Techniques are described for automated operations involving capturing and analyzing information from an interior of a house, building or other structure, for use in generating and providing a representation of that interior. Such techniques may include using a user's mobile device to capture visual data from multiple viewing locations (e.g., video captured while the mobile device is rotated for some or all of a full 360 degree rotation at each viewing location) within multiple rooms, capturing data linking the multiple viewing locations, analyzing each viewing location's visual data to create a panorama image from that viewing location, analyzing the linking data to determine relative positions/directions between at least some viewing locations, creating inter-panorama links in the panoramas to each of one or more other panoramas based on such determined positions/directions, and providing information to display multiple linked panorama images to represent the interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Zillow, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivaylo Boyadzhiev, Alex Colburn, Li Guan, Qi Shan
  • Patent number: 10903291
    Abstract: The present application relates to a terminal and a display screen. A display screen includes a display area including at least two display regions. The at least two display regions includes a first display region and a second display region. A total thickness of metal layers of the first display region is less than a total thickness of metal layers of the second display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventors: Liwei Ding, Qi Shan, Yu Zhang, Fu Liao
  • Publication number: 20210021761
    Abstract: Techniques are described for automated operations involving acquiring and analyzing information from an interior of a house, building or other structure, for use in generating and providing a representation of that interior. Such techniques may include using a user's mobile device to capture video data from multiple viewing locations (e.g., 360° video at each viewing location) within multiple rooms, and capturing data linking the multiple viewing locations (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Qi Shan, Alex Colburn, Li Guan, Ivaylo Boyadzhiev
  • Publication number: 20200408532
    Abstract: Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to generate mapping information using inter-connected images of a defined area, and for using the generated mapping information in further automated manners. In at least some situations, the defined area includes an interior of a multi-room building, and the generated information includes a floor map of the building, such as from an automated analysis of multiple panorama images or other images acquired at various viewing locations within the building—in at least some such situations, the generating is further performed without having detailed information about distances from the images' viewing locations to walls or other objects in the surrounding building. The generated floor map and other mapping-related information may be used in various manners, including for controlling navigation of devices (e.g., autonomous vehicles), for display on one or more client devices in corresponding graphical user interfaces, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Alex Colburn, Qi Shan, Ramin Mehran, Li Guan
  • Publication number: 20200375048
    Abstract: The present application discloses a rotating device and a display device, which relate to a field of electronic technologies. The rotating device includes: a first member including an anti-rotation groove and at least one first connecting portion; and a second member including an anti-rotation protrusion and at least one second connecting portion. The first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are rotationally connected, and the anti-rotation protrusion enters the anti-rotation groove to prevent the first connecting portion from rotating along a first direction with respect to the second connecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuhua WU, Qi SHAN, Liwei DING, Fu LIAO, Yongfeng ZHAO, Jia LIU