Patents by Inventor Ran Tao

Ran Tao 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: 20240360985
    Abstract: A backlight module, a display module and a display apparatus are provided. The backlight module includes a backlight assembly, a back plate and a middle frame. The back plate is a die casting member and includes a back plate main body on a side away from a light outgoing surface of the backlight assembly and back plate sides around the backlight assembly. The middle frame includes a middle frame main body on a side of the back plate sides close to the backlight assembly. The middle frame further includes first middle frame sides, each of which is connected to the middle frame main body and on a side of the corresponding back plate side close to the backlight assembly; first clamping portions are on a surface of each first middle frame side opposite to the corresponding back plate side; second clamping portions are on a surface of each back plate side opposite to the corresponding first middle frame side, and each first clamping portion is clamped with the corresponding second clamping portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Ran TAO, Haifeng XU, Xiaojun WU, Xiaochun SHI
  • Publication number: 20240355085
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for matching products detected in an image of a shelf. The match or non-match of the products is then used to make a determination that the products are correctly positioned on the shelf of if the positioning of the products represents a plug or spread situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Marios Savvides, Chenchen Zhu, Fangyi Chen, Uzair Ahmed, Ran Tao
  • Patent number: 12118506
    Abstract: An automated inventory monitoring system includes an image capture module able to create an image of an aisle of a retail store. Images of products labels are identified in the image and classified as shelf labels or peg labels. For shelf labels, an area of the shelf is defined and associated with the shelf label. Images of products are identified in the image and products on the shelf within an area associated with a shelf label are associated with the shelf label. Products located below a peg label are associated with the peg label. Based on the association between labels and products, out-of-stock products, plugs and spread may be detected and reported to the staff of the retail store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: Carnegie Mellon University, Bossa Nova Robotics
    Inventors: Sarjoun Skaff, Marios Savvides, Uzair Ahmed, Sreena Nallamothu, Ran Tao, Nikhil Mohan
  • Publication number: 20240315910
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a perception system for a lower body powered exoskeleton device are provided. The perception system includes a camera configured to capture one or more images of terrain in proximity to the exoskeleton device, an at least one processor. The at least one processor is programmed to perform footstep planning for the exoskeleton device based, at least in part, on the captured one or more images of terrain, and issue an instruction to perform a first action based, at least in part, on the footstep planning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Shervin Talebi, Ran Tao, John Aaron Saunders, Dong Jin Hyun, San In Park
  • Publication number: 20240316051
    Abstract: Provided herein are the pharmaceutical combination comprising an embryonic ectoderm development (EED) inhibitor and one or more anticancer reagents, and the use of the combination in the treatment of a disease. Provided also is a pharmaceutical composition or a kit comprising the combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Yifan ZHAI, Dajun YANG, Douglas Dong FANG, Saijie ZHU, Hengrui ZHU, Ran TAO
  • Publication number: 20240310243
    Abstract: The present application relates to an interferogram phase estimation method. The interferogram phase estimation method includes: obtaining an interferogram for estimation of a measured object; and inputting the interferogram for estimation to a neural network model trained based on a method for training a neural network model for interferogram phase estimation, to obtain a phase image corresponding to the interferogram for estimation. In the interferogram phase estimation method of the present application, features of different scales of an interferogram are learned based on a Unet++ neural network model to obtain an accurately estimated phase image corresponding to the interferogram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mingfeng LU, Tianshan ZHANG, Peihang LI, Chenchen JI, Jinmin WU, Yao HU, Weidong HU, Feng ZHANG, Ran TAO
  • Patent number: 12073562
    Abstract: A device configured to transcribe an appearance of a human being, including a common housing holding an image capturing sensor, a computing device having a data processor, and a computer program product including a first machine learning model trained for detecting and labeling human beings, a second machine learning model trained for detecting appearances of human beings and a transcription module to transcribe the detected appearances of human beings to text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Kepler Vision Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Marc Jean Baptist Van Oldenborgh, Henricus Meinardus Gerardus Stokman, Ran Tao
  • Patent number: 12067527
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method of identifying misplaced products on a retail shelf using a feature extractor trained to extract features from images of products on the shelf and output identifying information regarding the product in the product image. The extracted features are compared to extracted features in a product library and a best fit is obtained. A misplaced product is identified if the identifying information produced by the feature extractor fails to match the identifying information associated with the best fit features from the product library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Marios Savvides, Sreena Nallamothu, Magesh Kannan, Uzair Ahmed, Ran Tao, Yutong Zheng
  • Patent number: 12065662
    Abstract: Provided is a lentiviral vector comprising an EF1? promoter, a normal ABCD1 gene and an NHP/TYF lentiviral vector system, said vector being used for treating adrenoleukodystrophy. The present invention uses transfection into autologous haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), for ALD gene therapy after being returned, which may be performed in combination with direct intracerebral injection of the lentiviral vector carrying the ABCD1 gene according to the actual circumstances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Chengdu Youwa Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ran Tao
  • Publication number: 20240272480
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module comprises: a lamp panel comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, the first surface comprising a light source array, and the second surface comprising a light source array driving circuit and an external terminal; a first back plate connected with the lamp panel at a side of the second surface of the lamp panel, and comprising first avoiding openings corresponding to the light source array driving circuit and the external terminal; a second back plate connected with the first back plate at a side of the first back plate away from the lamp panel, and comprising a second avoiding opening corresponding to the external terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Ran TAO, Yongjie XIANG, Fan YANG, Zifeng WANG, Lei CAO, Yunpeng WU, Yan REN, Wei LIN
  • Publication number: 20240272483
    Abstract: A backlight module and a display apparatus. The backlight module includes: a back panel, including a base plate and a vertical plate connected with an edge of the base plate; the base plate is matched with the vertical plate to form an accommodation space; a light guide plate, located in the accommodation space and having a safety gap with the vertical plate of the back panel; and an optical film, located in the accommodation space and located on a side of the light guide plate away from the base plate. A surface of the light guide plate facing the optical film has a first positioning portion and a second positioning portion; the first positioning portion positions the optical film in a first direction, and the second positioning portion positions the optical film in a second direction. The first direction and the second direction are perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Ran TAO, Haifeng XU, Yu SONG, Tao LIU, Aixia SANG
  • Patent number: 12061354
    Abstract: A backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes: a back plate, wherein the back plate has a bottom plate and a plurality of side plates, the side plates cooperate with the bottom plate to form an accommodating space, and the side of each of the side plates facing the accommodating space is provided with a groove having an opening facing the accommodating space; and a mold frame, includes bezels in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of side plates; in each group of a side plate and a bezel, the bezel includes a clamping part, a supporting part and a limiting part, the clamping part is located at a side of the limiting part away from the accommodating space, and is embedded into the groove to clamp with the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Ma, Haifeng Xu, Ran Tao, Kaiwen Wang, Jing Li
  • Patent number: 12026226
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improved few-shot detector which utilizes semantic relation reasoning to learn novel objects from both visual information and the semantic relation of base class objects Specifically, a semantic space is constructed using word embeddings. Guided by the word embeddings of the classes, the detector is trained to project the objects from the visual space to the semantic space and to align their image representations with the corresponding class embeddings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Marios Savvides, Chenchen Zhu, Fangyi Chen, Uzair Ahmed, Ran Tao
  • Publication number: 20240207240
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treating patients with cognitive dysfunction complicating HIV-associated CM with lenalidomide. Patients with HIV-associated CM develop IRIS, some of which develop cognitive dysfunction. The patients with HIV-associated CM-IRIS are diagnosed as having cognitive dysfunction by Chinese version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and International HIV Dementia Scale (IHDS). After the treatment with lenalidomide, the MoCA score and IHDS score of the patients are improved significantly, and the leukocyte, proteins, albumin, IgG and inflammatory cytokines (growth-related oncogene, interleukin [IL]-10, granulocyte-colony stimulating factor, IL-6, IL-8, complement factor H, tumor necrosis factor-?, and ?2 macroglobulin) in cerebrospinal fluid are greatly reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Biao Zhu, Ran Tao, Ye Xiong, Xiaorong Peng, Ying Huang
  • Publication number: 20240210759
    Abstract: Provided is a backlight module, including: a backplate, a light guide plate and an optical film layer. The backplate includes a bottom plate and side plates. The bottom plate and the side plates forms an accommodating space. The light guide plate and the optical film layer are sequentially stacked on the bottom plate in the accommodating space. The backlight module includes a display area and a bezel area. The light guide plate includes a main body portion and a first limiting portion arranged on a side, facing the optical film layer, of the main body portion, at least part of the first limiting portion is located in the bezel area, the first limiting portion limits a position of the optical film layer; an orthographic projection of the first limiting portion on the bottom plate is at least partially located outside a side edge of the bottom plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Ran TAO, Xiaochun SHI, Fei LING, Haifeng XU, Qingyi ZHUANG
  • Publication number: 20240200166
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aluminum alloy material, and specifically to a weldable in-situ nano-strengthened rare-earth metal (REM)-containing aluminum alloy with high strength and toughness and a preparation method thereof. In the present disclosure, in-situ nano-ceramic particles and REMs simultaneously introduced into an Al—Zn—Mg alloy can effectively refine the grains and significantly improve the strength and toughness of the alloy; and REM-containing nano-precipitated phases and in-situ nanoparticles distributed in the grains or at grain boundaries can also significantly increase a recrystallization temperature of the alloy, effectively inhibit the dynamic recovery, reduce the re-dissolution of alloying elements, and improve the weldability of the alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Xizhou KAI, Yutao ZHAO, Yanjie PENG, Gang CHEN, Ruikun CHEN, Lin WU, Ran TAO, Xiangfeng LIANG
  • Publication number: 20240200167
    Abstract: An AMC, and in particular to an AMC with high strength, high toughness, high thermal conductivity, and good weldability for a 5G base station and a preparation method thereof. A strip of the AMC with high strength, high toughness, high thermal conductivity, and good weldability for a 5G base station can be prepared by an electromagnetically and ultrasonically-controlled twin-roll continuous casting device developed and designed based on chemical composition designing, in-situ nanoparticle strengthening and refinement, and REM microalloying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Yutao ZHAO, Xizhou KAI, Gang CHEN, Yanjie PENG, Ran TAO, Xiangfeng LIANG
  • Publication number: 20240200831
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a method and apparatus for determining a fault of a heating device and an electric water heater. When the heating device includes at least two heating units in an operating state parallelly arranged on branches of a same phase line and the heating unit include a heating element and a switch controlling the heating element, the method includes: acquiring a main circuit current value of the phase line when the operating state of the heating units is not changed, and determining that a fault occurs in a heating element in at least one heating unit when the main circuit current value is not greater than a first current value; and acquiring a variation value of the main circuit current value caused by turning on/off the switch, and determining that a fault occurs in a heating element controlled by the switch when the variation value of the main circuit current value is not greater than a preset variation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Xing LIU, Ran TAO, Qiang HUANG
  • Patent number: 11963538
    Abstract: A yeast-containing dough that is used to form a leavened dough product having a desired degree of leavening is initially formed as two separate dough subcomponents that, when combined, leavens through a fermentation reaction process to form a dough having the desired degree of leavening. The first dough subcomponent includes a leavening activator, flour, salt and water, while the second dough component includes a biological leavening agent, flour, and water. When combined, the leavening agent reacts in the presence of the biological leavening activator through a fermentation process to form the dough having a desired degree of leavening, which can then be heated to a temperature exceeding a viability temperature of the leavening activator to terminate the fermentation process and form the leavened dough product. The dough can also be combined with at least one non-dough component to form the leavened dough product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: Edward J. Szczygiel, Kaylan Hayman, Karl Seiwert, Ran Tao
  • Patent number: 11956545
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, a camera optical-zoom method, a camera optical-zoom unit, and a memory are disclosed. The electronic apparatus may include a camera, a sensor, a processor, and a memory, where the memory stores a program instruction which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the following steps: receiving image data of a photographed object acquired by the camera; and integrating image data of a full pixel area corresponding to a zoom value of the camera according to a preset algorithm, and outputting the integrated image data according to a coordinate sequence of pixels on the sensor, where the full pixel area includes pixel areas of the sensor corresponding to the zoom value and pixel areas of the sensor corresponding to a value greater than the zoom value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ran Tao