Patents by Inventor Ran Cheng
Ran Cheng 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).
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Patent number: 12646102Abstract: Embodiments of a supply chain management system (SCMS) are disclosed that enable the generation of synthetic supply chain activity data for developing machine learning models, such as models for predicting vendor lead times (VLTs) of purchase orders fulfilled by a supply chain network. In embodiments, the generation process is performed over successive time periods to simulate dynamically changing variables of the supply chain network, including inventory levels, product demand, and stock manager decisions. The generation process may also be used to generate synthetic data to simulate elements within the supply chain network, such as simulated warehouses, vendors, or products. The disclosed SCMS is able to generate highly realistic training data that simulates the operations within the supply chain network, which can be used to improve the performance of machine learning models.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: June 2, 2026Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Qi Zhang, Shaoyang Zhou, Zhongbo Geng, Ran Cheng, Tong Jiang
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Patent number: 12394227Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computing system, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium for semantic segmentation of a point cloud frame are provided. Point cloud frames including a target point cloud frame are received. For each sequence of a sliding set of sequences of point cloud frames, the sequence including the target point cloud frame, each point cloud frame in the sequence of point cloud frames is semantically segmented to apply semantic labels to points. A most prevalent semantic label is determined for each point in the target point cloud frame across the sliding set of sequences of point cloud frames.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 19, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xinhai Li, Yuan Ren, Ran Cheng, Bingbing Liu
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Patent number: 12293436Abstract: The present application provides an image reconstruction method, a device, equipment, a system, and a computer-readable storage medium. Said method comprises: obtaining a target reconstruction model (S1); invoking a first convolutional layer in the obtained target reconstruction model to extract shallow layer features from the obtained image to be reconstructed (S2); invoking a residual network module in the target reconstruction model to obtain middle layer features from the shallow layer features (S3); invoking a densely connected network module in the target reconstruction model to obtain deep layer features from the middle layer features (S4); and invoking a second convolutional layer in the target reconstruction model to perform image reconstruction on the deep layer features so as to obtain a reconstructed image of the image to be reconstructed (S5). Said method improves the quality and resolution of a reconstructed image.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: RAYCAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. (SUZHOU)Inventors: Ran Cheng, Qingguo Xie
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Publication number: 20250116447Abstract: The present disclosure provides a refrigerator and a refrigerator air duct purification system and belongs to the field of refrigerator purification technologies. A refrigeration air duct front foam is fixed at a rear side of a refrigeration air duct backplate. A light-source-oriented light transmission assembly is disposed at a front side of the refrigeration air duct backplate. An air outlet penetrating back and forth is disposed on the refrigeration air duct front foam, the refrigeration air duct backplate and the light-source-oriented light transmission assembly. An outlet air end of the air outlet is in communication with the refrigeration chamber. In a main air duct are disposed an ion generator, an air quality sensor, and an ethylene concentration sensor. A control board is initially in a determination state to determine by a door opening/closing sensor whether a refrigeration door is opened, and if the refrigeration door is opened, start up an ion purification mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Huanjie TENG, Hongjun SUI, Ming LIU, Liran WANG, Ran CHENG, Ruitang YE, Yannan XIE, Yang DU
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Patent number: 12205292Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for sematic segmentation of 3D point clouds using deep neural networks. The deep neural network generally has two primary subsystems: a multi-branch cascaded subnetwork that includes an encoder and a decoder, and is configured to receive a sparse 3D point cloud, and capture and fuse spatial feature information in the sparse 3D point cloud at multiple scales and multi hierarchical levels; and a spatial feature transformer subnetwork that is configured to transform the cascaded features generated by the multi-branch cascaded subnetwork and fuse these scaled features using a shared decoder attention framework to assist in the prediction of sematic classes for the sparse 3D point cloud.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Ran Cheng, Ryan Razani, Bingbing Liu
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Publication number: 20240383910Abstract: Novel small molecule proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are provided, along with methods for their use as Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) degraders. The small molecule PROTACs described herein are useful in treating and/or preventing BTK-related diseases, such as cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, inflammatory diseases, and metabolic disorders. Also provided are methods for inducing BTK degradation in a cell using the compounds and compositions described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Baylor College of MedicineInventors: Wen-Hao Guo, Xin Yu, Ran Cheng, Jin Wang
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Patent number: 12079970Abstract: Methods and systems for performing semantic scene completion of sparse 3D data are described. A frame of sparse 3D data is preprocessed into a sparse 3D tensor and a sparse 2D tensor. A partially completed 3D tensor is generated from the sparse 3D tensor using a 3D prediction network, and a semantically completed 2D tensor is generated from the sparse 2D tensor using a 2D prediction network. The partially completed 3D tensor is completed to obtain a semantically completed 3D tensor by assigning a given class label, which has been assigned to a given pixel in the semantically completed 2D tensor, to a voxel at a corresponding x-y coordinate in the partially completed 3D tensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Ran Cheng, Christopher George-R Agia, Bingbing Liu, Yuan Ren
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Patent number: 12008762Abstract: System and method for semantic segmentation of point clouds. The method may include: generating, via a first neural network, a birds-eye-view (BEV) image of the environment from the aggregated point cloud; generating, via a second neural network, a labelled BEV image from the BEV image, wherein each pixel in the labelled BEV image is associated with a class label from a set of class labels; generating a BEV feature map; and generating, via a third neural network, the road surface segmentation map in the form of a refined labelled BEV image based on the labelled BEV image by smoothing the labelled BEV image using the BEV feature map, wherein each pixel in the refined labelled BEV image is associated with a class label from the set of class labels.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Christopher George-R Agia, Ran Cheng, Yuan Ren, Bingbing Liu
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Publication number: 20240177758Abstract: The present application discloses a reading method and a reading circuit of FRAM. The method comprises: converting changing rates of voltage signals on bit lines of a memory cell and a reference cell in a FRAM array to be consistent with magnitudes of corresponding voltages by respective differential circuits, inputting the voltage signals into a sense amplifier, and reading a voltage difference by the sense amplifier. A reading circuit using this method comprises two differential circuit modules and one sense amplifier; the differential circuit module is used to differentiate the voltage signals on the bit lines with respect to time to obtain the change rates of the voltage signals on the bit lines with respect to time; the sense amplifier is used to amplify the signal difference processed by the differential circuit modules and convert the information stored in a memory cell into “0” and “1”.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2024Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Bing CHEN, Xuecheng CUI, Dong LIU, Ran CHENG
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Patent number: 11860304Abstract: A system and method for processing a 3D point cloud to generate a segmented point cloud in real time are disclosed, the method includes: receiving a sparse 3D point cloud captured by a detection and ranging sensor mounted to a vehicle, the 3D point cloud comprising a plurality of data points, each data point in the 3D point cloud having a set of coordinates in a coordinate system of the detection and ranging sensor; generating, from the 3D point cloud, a range map comprising a plurality of elements, each of the plurality of data points of the 3D point cloud occupying a respective element of the plurality of elements; labelling the data point in each respective element of the range map as one of a pole-like data point or a vertical-plane-like data point; and generating the segmented point cloud including one or more of the labeled data points.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuan Ren, Bingbing Liu, Ran Cheng
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Patent number: 11816841Abstract: In methods and systems for graph-based panoptic segmentation of point clouds, points of a point cloud are received with a semantic label from a first category. Further, a plurality of unified cluster feature vectors from a second category are received, each being extracted from a cluster of points in the point cloud. Nodes of a constructed graph represent the unified feature vectors, and edges indicate the relationship between pairs of nodes. The edges are represented as an adjacency matrix indicating the existence or absence of an edge between pairs of nodes. A graph convolutional neural network uses the graph to predict an instance label for each node or an attribute for each edge, wherein the attribute of each edge is used for assigning the instance label to each node.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Ran Cheng, Ryan Razani, Bingbing Liu
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Publication number: 20230267615Abstract: System and method for semantic segmentation of point clouds. The method may include: generating, via a first neural network, a birds-eye-view (BEV) image of the environment from the aggregated point cloud; generating, via a second neural network, a labelled BEV image from the BEV image, wherein each pixel in the labelled BEV image is associated with a class label from a set of class labels; generating a BEV feature map; and generating, via a third neural network, the road surface segmentation map in the form of a refined labelled BEV image based on the labelled BEV image by smoothing the labelled BEV image using the BEV feature map, wherein each pixel in the refined labelled BEV image is associated with a class label from the set of class labels.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2022Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Christopher George-R AGIA, Ran CHENG, Yuan REN, Bingbing LIU
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Patent number: 11658983Abstract: An authorization policy defines permissions that are exposed by a microservice. When a call is made to the microservice, it includes an access token. An application identifier uniquely identifying the calling application is extracted from the token. An access pattern, used by the calling application to obtain the access token and make the call to the microservice, is identified. Permissions that may be granted to the calling application are identified in the authorization policy based upon the application identifier and the access pattern that is identified. An authorization decision is made as to whether to authorize the call, based upon the granted permissions.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Matthias Leibmann, Grigory V. Kaplin, Vikas Ahuja, Kapil Kumar Jain, Qinxiao Zhou, Ran Cheng
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Publication number: 20230105331Abstract: Methods and systems for performing semantic scene completion of sparse 3D data are described. A frame of sparse 3D data is preprocessed into a sparse 3D tensor and a sparse 2D tensor. A partially completed 3D tensor is generated from the sparse 3D tensor using a 3D prediction network, and a semantically completed 2D tensor is generated from the sparse 2D tensor using a 2D prediction network. The partially completed 3D tensor is completed to obtain a semantically completed 3D tensor by assigning a given class label, which has been assigned to a given pixel in the semantically completed 2D tensor, to a voxel at a corresponding x-y coordinate in the partially completed 3D tensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Ran CHENG, Christopher George-R AGIA, Bingbing LIU, Yuan REN
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Publication number: 20230080574Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computing system, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium for semantic segmentation of a point cloud frame are provided. Point cloud frames including a target point cloud frame are received. For each sequence of a sliding set of sequences of point cloud frames, the sequence including the target point cloud frame, each point cloud frame in the sequence of point cloud frames is semantically segmented to apply semantic labels to points. A most prevalent semantic label is determined for each point in the target point cloud frame across the sliding set of sequences of point cloud frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Xinhai LI, Yuan REN, Ran CHENG, Bingbing LIU
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Publication number: 20230035475Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for sematic segmentation of 3D point clouds using deep neural networks. The deep neural network generally has two primary subsystems: a multi-branch cascaded subnetwork that includes an encoder and a decoder, and is configured to receive a sparse 3D point cloud, and capture and fuse spatial feature information in the sparse 3D point cloud at multiple scales and multi hierarchical levels; and a spatial feature transformer subnetwork that is configured to transform the cascaded features generated by the multi-branch cascaded subnetwork and fuse these scaled features using a shared decoder attention framework to assist in the prediction of sematic classes for the sparse 3D point cloud.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Ran Cheng, Ryan Razani, Bingbing Liu
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Publication number: 20230036359Abstract: The present application provides an image reconstruction method, a device, equipment, a system, and a computer-readable storage medium. Said method comprises: obtaining a target reconstruction model (S1); invoking a first convolutional layer in the obtained target reconstruction model to extract shallow layer features from the obtained image to be reconstructed (S2); invoking a residual network module in the target reconstruction model to obtain middle layer features from the shallow layer features (S3); invoking a densely connected network module in the target reconstruction model to obtain deep layer features from the middle layer features (S4); and invoking a second convolutional layer in the target reconstruction model to perform image reconstruction on the deep layer features so as to obtain a reconstructed image of the image to be reconstructed (S5). Said method improves the quality and resolution of a reconstructed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Ran CHENG, Qingguo XIE
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Publication number: 20220381914Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for processing sparse tensors using a trained neural network model. An input sparse tensor may represent a sparse input point cloud. The input sparse tensor is processed using an encoder stage having a series of one or more encoder blocks, wherein each encoder block includes a sparse convolution layer, a sparse intra-channel attention module, a sparse inter-channel attention module, and a sparse residual tower module. Output from the encoder stage is processed using a decoder stage having a series of one or more decoder blocks, wherein each decoder block includes a sparse transpose convolution layer, a sparse inter-channel attention module, and a sparse residual tower module. The output of the decoder stage is an output sparse tensor representing a sparse labeled output point cloud.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Ran CHENG, Ryan RAZANI, Yuan REN, Bingbing LIU
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Publication number: 20220301173Abstract: Methods and systems for graph-based panoptic segmentation of point clouds are described herein. The methods receive points of a point cloud with a semantic label from a first category. Further, a plurality of unified cluster feature vectors from a second category are received. Each unified cluster feature vector is extracted from a cluster of points in the point cloud. A graph comprising nodes and edges is constructed from the plurality of unified cluster feature vectors. Each node of the graph is the unified feature vector, and each edge of the graph indicates the relationship between every two nodes of the graph. The edges of the graph are represented as an adjacency matrix, wherein the adjacency matrix indicates the existence, or the lack of existence, of an edge between every two nodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Ran CHENG, Ryan RAZANI, Bingbing LIU
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Patent number: D1046061Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2024Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Inventor: Ran Cheng