Patents by Inventor Quan Wang

Quan Wang 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).

  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERIFYING AND PROCESSING TRANSACTIONS USING VIRTUAL CURRENCY
    Publication number: 20210295328
    Abstract: A payment processing system may be integrated with a centralized virtual currency issuing and transaction processing system to provide a standardized and more efficient virtual currency that can provide easier tracking of and use of a consumer's virtual currency balance. The payment processing system may implement a network communications systems that may allow the payment processing system to obtain additional consumer, merchant and transaction information for a transaction by data fields transmitted in a network header portion of a network communications protocol packet. The additional information may be stored and cross-referenced to provide greater transaction tracking data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventor: Quan Wang
  • Method for obtaining road marking data
    Patent number: 11120570
    Abstract: A method for obtaining road marking data and a device thereof are provided. The method includes steps of: obtaining coordinates of calibration references on a to-be-marked road; importing the coordinates of the calibration references into an electronic image of the to-be-marked road; determining, according to a difference between the coordinates of the calibration references and coordinates of to-be-calibrated points corresponding to the calibration references in a road image included in the electronic image, whether to perform a calibration on the coordinates of the to-be-calibrated points; and when the difference is greater than a threshold, performing the calibration on the coordinates of the to-be-calibrated points, and using calibrated coordinates of the to-be-calibrated points as road marking data. By applying the present disclosure, the accuracy of road marking data can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: HRG INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH & INNOVATION
    Inventors: Hsiencheng Lee, Chenxu Jiang, Yuan Cao, Zhenzhong Yu, Liang Ding, Fuchen Zhao, Kerui Xia, Quan Wang, Long Guo
  • Methods and apparatuses for determining hand three-dimensional data
    Patent number: 11120254
    Abstract: A method for determining hand three-dimensional data includes: obtaining a first hand image and a second hand image captured by a binocular photographing system; identifying, from each of the first hand image and the second hand image, at least one key point and a region profile covering the at least one key point; determining depth information of the at least one key point and depth information of the region profile according to a photographing parameter of the binocular photographing system, the at least one key point and the region profile identified from the first hand image, and the at least one key point and the region profile identified from the second hand image; and determining hand three-dimensional data according to the at least one key point and the depth information of the at least one key point together with the region profile and the depth information of the region profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING SENSETIME TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Quan Wang, Chen Qian
  • Fully Supervised Speaker Diarization
    Publication number: 20210280197
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an utterance of speech and segmenting the utterance of speech into a plurality of segments. For each segment of the utterance of speech, the method also includes extracting a speaker=discriminative embedding from the segment and predicting a probability distribution over possible speakers for the segment using a probabilistic generative model configured to receive the extracted speaker-discriminative embedding as a feature input. The probabilistic generative model trained on a corpus of training speech utterances each segmented into a plurality of training segments. Each training segment including a corresponding speaker-discriminative embedding and a corresponding speaker label. The method also includes assigning a speaker label to each segment of the utterance of speech based on the probability distribution over possible speakers for the corresponding segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Chong Wang, Aonan Zhang, Quan Wang, Zhenyao Zhu
  • Techniques for secure blockchain routing
    Patent number: 11108561
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for providing secure blockchain routing utilizing an extended blockchain protocol. In some embodiments, a blockchain routing node may join an overlay network including a plurality of blockchain routing nodes. The blockchain routing node may receive a plurality of forwarding tables from the plurality of blockchain routing nodes in accordance with an extended blockchain protocol. The blockchain routing node may determine a routing table for the overlay network based at least on part on the plurality of forwarding tables. In some embodiments, the blockchain routing node may route a payload message to a destination blockchain routing node in the overlay network in accordance with the determined routing table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventor: Quan Wang
  • PREPARATION PROCESS FOR GRAPHENE RESONANT GAS SENSOR BASED ON DOPED METAL ATOMS
    Publication number: 20210262984
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of sensors, relates to a graphene resonant gas sensor, and in particular, to a graphene resonant gas sensor based on doped metal atoms and a preparation process therefor. In the present disclosure, the metal atoms are embedded in a graphene resonant beam, and a transition metal layer may use the doped metal atoms as anchor points to be tightly adsorbed to the surface of the graphene resonant beam, so that the quality of surface contact between the transition metal layer and the graphene resonant beam is improved, and the problems such as low quality and low sensitivity of conventional resonant gas sensors are effectively solved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Quan WANG, Jiangtao WANG
  • SPEAKER VERIFICATION
    Publication number: 20210256981
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, to facilitate language independent-speaker verification. In one aspect, a method includes actions of receiving, by a user device, audio data representing an utterance of a user. Other actions may include providing, to a neural network stored on the user device, input data derived from the audio data and a language identifier. The neural network may be trained using speech data representing speech in different languages or dialects. The method may include additional actions of generating, based on output of the neural network, a speaker representation and determining, based on the speaker representation and a second representation, that the utterance is an utterance of the user. The method may provide the user with access to the user device based on determining that the utterance is an utterance of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Li Wan, Quan Wang
  • System and method for securely processing an electronic identity
    Patent number: 11095449
    Abstract: A method for providing identification using an endpoint device is disclosed. The endpoint device may include an electronic identity that is unique and can be securely stored. The electronic identity may be passed to an access device along with signed interaction data and a cryptogram. The access device may generate an authorization request with the cryptogram and may send it to a remote server computer for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventor: Quan Wang
  • BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK INTERACTION CONTROLLER
    Publication number: 20210243033
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for virtualizing policy enforcement amongst participants of an overlay network. In some embodiments, each of the participants may maintain a separate blockchain network. The overlay network may receive smart contracts or other policy documents that include information on interactions with a particular participant or between participants. A controller, which may be implemented on any node of the overlay network, may then extract an interaction algorithm from that smart contract that may be stored in policy data to be used in completing transactions between two participants of the overlay network. In some embodiments, the policy data may include cost data which may be used to determine how two entities may interact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Quan Wang
  • BIOMETRIC VERIFICATION PROCESS USING CERTIFICATION TOKEN
    Publication number: 20210243029
    Abstract: A method for performing biometric authentication is disclosed. In one example, the method includes obtaining first and second biometric templates and comparing them to determine if they match. The method also includes determining if a biometric certification token is valid. A computing device or other device may communicate with a verification system to determine the validity of the biometric certification token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Quan Wang
  • INTEGRATED COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOR TRANSACTIONS
    Publication number: 20210224780
    Abstract: An integrated communications network may be integrated with existing payment systems to provide for more efficient and secure payment related communications. The integrated communications network may use mobile network protocol encapsulation to provide more efficient, faster, and more robust payment related communications to a payment processor across a mobile network. The integrated communications network may implement a location-aware network communications system that may allow a payment processor to obtain additional information about a consumer using a location-aware header of a network communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Quan Wang, Steven Countway
  • SOFT PHYSIOTHERAPY INSTRUMENT
    Publication number: 20210213278
    Abstract: A soft physiotherapy instrument includes a flexible sheet and a controller. The flexible sheet includes a first flexible layer, a second flexible layer, a plurality of functional layers located between the first flexible layer and the second flexible layer, and a plurality of electrodes electrically connected with the plurality of functional layers. The functional layer includes a carbon nanotube layer including a plurality of carbon nanotubes uniformly distributed. The flexible sheet is electrically coupled with the controller via the plurality of electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: LI FAN, LI QIAN, YU-QUAN WANG
  • METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EXPANDING DATA
    Publication number: 20210216885
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for expanding data are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a triplet from a knowledge graph; mining a relationship path equivalent to a relationship in the triplet from the knowledge graph, a subject in the triplet being used as a start point of the relationship path, and an object in the triplet being used as an end point of the relationship path; and expanding the triplet based on the relationship path to generate an expanded triplet. This implementation expands the triplet in the knowledge graph, and strengthens the association between the subject and the object in the triplet in a larger context, such that the association between the subject and the object in the triplet is more global.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Pingping Huang, Quan Wang, Wenbin Jiang, Pengcheng Yuan
  • Synthesis of Speech from Text in a Voice of a Target Speaker Using Neural Networks
    Publication number: 20210217404
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech synthesis. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining an audio representation of speech of a target speaker, obtaining input text for which speech is to be synthesized in a voice of the target speaker, generating a speaker vector by providing the audio representation to a speaker encoder engine that is trained to distinguish speakers from one another, generating an audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker by providing the input text and the speaker vector to a spectrogram generation engine that is trained using voices of reference speakers to generate audio representations, and providing the audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker for output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ye Jia, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu, Jonathan Shen, Ruoming Pang, Ron J. Weiss, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Fei Ren, Yu Zhang, Quan Wang, Patrick Nguyen
  • METHOD FOR USING MASK-TYPE BEAUTY INSTRUMENT
    Publication number: 20210213277
    Abstract: A method for using a mask-type beauty instrument is provided. The method comprises providing a mask-type beauty instrument comprising a flexible mask and a controller, applying the flexible mask of on a user's face, and turning on the controller and selecting a function button on the controller, inputting a current to a plurality of functional layers in the flexible mask, and stimulating face skin with the current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: LI FAN, LI QIAN, YU-QUAN WANG
  • MASK-TYPE BEAUTY INSTRUMENT
    Publication number: 20210213276
    Abstract: A mask-type beauty instrument includes a flexible mask and a controller. The flexible mask includes a first flexible layer, a second flexible layer, a plurality of functional layers located between the first flexible layer and the second flexible layer, and a plurality of electrodes electrically connected with the plurality of functional layers. The functional layer includes a carbon nanotube layer including a plurality of carbon nanotubes uniformly distributed. The flexible mask is electrically coupled with the controller via the plurality of electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: LI FAN, LI QIAN, YU-QUAN WANG
  • METHOD FOR USING SOFT PHYSIOTHERAPY INSTRUMENT
    Publication number: 20210213287
    Abstract: A method for using soft physiotherapy instrument is provided. The method comprises providing a soft physiotherapy instrument comprising a flexible sheet and a controller, applying the flexible sheet of on a user's skin, and turning on the controller and selecting a function button on the controller, inputting a current to a plurality of functional layers in the flexible sheet, and stimulating user's skin with the current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: LI FAN, LI QIAN, YU-QUAN WANG
  • Modular data processing and storage system
    Patent number: 11061592
    Abstract: A system enables entities to access a single platform in order to utilize electronic data storage for storing different types of information. One or more computers may operate an electronic data storage processing network that entities can access when updating information in electronic data storage. The electronic data storage processing network may operate a plurality of electronic data storage processing modules, which can include an aggregator module, a formatter module, an operator signer module, and a validator module. Based on the specific use case for which electronic data storage is utilized, recordable data that is to be added to the electronic data storage can be processed by the appropriate aggregating, formatting, signing, and validating functions provided by the electronic data storage processing modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventor: Quan Wang
  • FACE MODEL CREATION
    Publication number: 20210209851
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and apparatus of creating a face model, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining at least one key point feature of an current face image by performing key point detection on the current face image; obtaining a target bone parameter set matching the current face image according to the at least one key point feature; and creating a virtual three-dimensional face model corresponding to the current face image according to the target bone parameter set and a standard three-dimensional face model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Shengwei XU, Quan WANG, Jingtan PIAO, Chen QIAN
  • Systems and methods for verifying and processing transactions using virtual currency
    Patent number: 11055710
    Abstract: A payment processing system may be integrated with a centralized virtual currency issuing and transaction processing system to provide a standardized and more efficient virtual currency that can provide easier tracking of and use of a consumer's virtual currency balance. The payment processing system may implement a network communications systems that may allow the payment processing system to obtain additional consumer, merchant and transaction information for a transaction by data fields transmitted in a network header portion of a network communications protocol packet. The additional information may be stored and cross-referenced to provide greater transaction tracking data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventor: Quan Wang