Patents by Inventor Sheng Zhang

Sheng 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: 20250148730
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a camera and a display. The display may be configured to display virtual reality content for a user in which no real-world content from the camera is displayed or mixed reality content in which a combination of real-world content from the camera and overlaid virtual reality content is displayed. Control circuitry in the device may adjust the display and camera while transitioning between virtual reality and mixed reality modes. The control circuitry may reconfigure the camera to exhibit a desired frame rate immediately upon transitioning from virtual reality mode to mixed reality mode. Transitions between modes may be accompanied by smooth transitions between frame rates to avoid visible artifacts on the display. The camera frame rate may be synchronized to the display frame rate for at least part of the transition between the virtual reality and mixed reality modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Aleksandr M. Movshovich, Arthur Y. Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Moinul H. Khan, Paolo Sacchetto, Yunhui Hou
  • Patent number: 12293740
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. A plurality of lenticular lenses may extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. Crosstalk between viewing zones and disparity between images received from different viewing zones may result in disparity-caused shifts in images perceived by viewer of the lenticular display. To mitigate these disparity-caused shifts, compensation circuitry may be included in the display pipeline circuitry. The compensation circuitry may include stored disparity-caused shift calibration information that is used for the compensation. The stored disparity-caused shift calibration information may be a polynomial function that outputs a magnitude of disparity-caused shift for a given pixel location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ping-Yen Chou, ByoungSuk Kim, Fu-Chung Huang, Hao Chen, Juan He, Jun Qi, Mingming Wang, Sheng Zhang, Yang Li, Yi Huang, Yi-Pai Huang, Yunhui Hou
  • Publication number: 20250135304
    Abstract: A golf bag trolley with an extendable frame, comprising a front wheel set, a left rear wheel set, a right rear wheel set, a handlebar set, a frame, a connecting base, an upper bag support and a lower bag support. The front wheel set is installed at the lower bag support, the left rear wheel set is installed on the connecting base, the right rear wheel set is installed on the connecting base, the frame comprises an upper tube and a lower tube, the upper tube has a smaller outer diameter than the lower tube, the upper tube is inserted into the lower tube, the lower bag support is installed at the lower tube, the handlebar set is installed at the upper tube, the upper bag support is installed on the upper tube, and a locking mechanism is arranged between the lower tube and the upper tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: NINGBO WENTAI SPORT EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sheng ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250141178
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing a semiconductor or optical engine package, and more particularly methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for implementing a semiconductor package including a dummy die coupled to a top surface of a fan-out wafer comprising an electronic die and coupled to a side of a photonic die. In various embodiments, an apparatus includes a first layer comprising an electronic die. A photonic die can be stacked on and coupled to the electronic die and a dummy die can be coupled to a first side of the photonic die and coupled to the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Sukeshwar Kannan, Sheng Zhang, Near Margalit
  • Patent number: 12283258
    Abstract: An electronic device uses a leader synchronize signal generator to synchronize clock signal generators used by multiple components in the electronic device to a common time-base. A processor core complex of the electronic device sends per-frame configuration to a timing controller for frames to be displayed on an electronic display before a corresponding frame begins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yung-Chin Chen, Hopil Bae, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Sheng Zhang, Yanghyo Kim, Young Don Bae
  • Patent number: 12283996
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for mapping a symbol from a N-QAM constellation into a binary bit set, where N is the number of symbols in the constellation, and reducing the length of the binary bit set according to at least one property of nonlinear distortion by generating a lookup table (LUT) address from a LUT address generator, and adding the LUT address to a LUT of size smaller than N{circumflex over (?)}(2M+1), where 2M is the number of neighboring symbols to be stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Hongbin Zhang, Sheng Zhang, Tymon Barwicz
  • Patent number: 12278210
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure. The manufacturing method includes the following steps. A first dielectric layer is formed on a first substrate. A second dielectric layer is formed on a second substrate. A first heat treatment is performed on the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, wherein a temperature of the first heat treatment is between 300° C. and 400° C. A first conductive via is formed in the first dielectric layer. A second conductive via is formed in the second dielectric layer. The first substrate and the second substrate are bonded in a manner that the first dielectric layer faces the second dielectric layer, so as to connect the first conductive via and the second conductive via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Kai Zhu, Chien-Kee Pang, Chia-Liang Liao
  • Patent number: 12266578
    Abstract: A chips bonding auxiliary structure includes a first chip, an auxiliary pattern and a second chip. The first chip has a first surface. The auxiliary pattern is form on the first surface. The second chip has a second surface bonding to the first surface to form at least one gap space surrounding the auxiliary pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chien-Kee Pang, Xin Zhao
  • Publication number: 20250086350
    Abstract: This invention discloses a method for comprehensively apportioning the source contribution to fine particular matter (PM2.5) based on the receptor model and the chemical transport model, which comprises the receptor model calculation steps, chemical transport model calculation steps and comprehensive source apportionment steps; the said comprehensive source apportionment step comprises the following sub-steps: according to the principle of inverse proportionality between uncertainty and weight coefficient, the first (receptor model) uncertainty and the second (chemical transport model) uncertainty are normalized to obtain their respective weight coefficients; the comprehensive source apportionment results are calculated based on the apportionment results of the receptor model and the chemical transport model, and their respective weight coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Zhenliang LI, Yunqing CAO, Yuhong QIAO, Chao PENG, Weikai FANG, Xiaochen WANG, Linfeng DUAN, Mulan CHEN, Min DU, Sheng ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12249607
    Abstract: Provided are a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor structure includes a carrier substrate, a trap-rich layer, a dielectric layer, an interconnect structure, a device structure layer and a circuit structure. The trap-rich layer is disposed on the carrier substrate. The dielectric layer is disposed on the trap-rich layer. The interconnect structure is disposed on the dielectric layer. The device structure layer is disposed on the interconnect structure and electrically connected to the interconnect structure. The circuit structure is disposed on the device structure layer and electrically connected to the device structure layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chunyuan Qi, Xingxing Chen, Chien-Kee Pang
  • Publication number: 20250078546
    Abstract: A system and method of fine-grained image category discovery with few human annotations includes a camera and a trained machine learning model, which predicts a label for an object in a captured image and outputs the predicted label. The machine learning model is trained by contrastive affinity learning, including retrieving images having an object, a warm-up stage in which semi-supervised contrastive learning is performed based on projected features of a class token and an ensembled prompt, respectively. In a contrastive affinity learning stage, a student model and an exponentially moving averaged teacher model are forwarded with different augmented views of the retrieved images. Teacher embeddings are enqueued into a token-specific memory. A semi-supervised contrastive loss is computed on a current batch and a contrastive affinity learning loss for student embeddings and the teacher embeddings with pseudo-labels from a affinity graph dynamically generated by semi-supervised affinity generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
    Inventors: Sheng ZHANG, Salman KHAN, Zhiqiang SHEN, Muzammal NASEER, Guangyi CHEN, Fahad KHAN
  • Publication number: 20250054225
    Abstract: An effect video determining method, an effect video determining apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided by embodiments of the present disclosure. The method includes: obtaining an uploaded image in response to an effect trigger operation; determining, according to position information of a capturing device, a target perspective image from a 3D image surrounding scenario corresponding to the uploaded image; and generating and displaying an effect video frame based on the target perspective image and a target object, until receiving an operation to stop capturing an effect video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Jiajun CHEN, Yunhao LIAO, Huaiye SHEN, Sheng ZHANG, Shen WU
  • Patent number: 12217319
    Abstract: A method of interfacing a discrete digital workshop information system is provided, where the information system includes mutual integration among product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), a manufacturing execution system (MES), an energy management system (EMS), and a warehouse management system (WMS) of a finished product. A method of interfacing based on a data dictionary fusing different function datasets is proposed to solve the problems of a current discrete industry information system, such as single in function, a small amount of integrated information, a large number of “information islands” existing, incapable of achieving full-process informatization management and control, difficulty in product quality tracing and the like. By the method, it is possible to realize flexible production in a discrete manufacturing industry, precise management and control of a production process, significant improvement in product quality and significant reduction in operating costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: Machinery Technology Development Co., Ltd, Instrumentation Technology And Economy Institute
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Bin Xu, Hua Zhao, Dan Liu, Junguang Tan, Jian Jiao, Yedan Na, Pengfei Niu
  • Patent number: 12216461
    Abstract: An Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) scheduling method based on a narrow alley, electronic equipment and a storage medium are provided, and the method includes: through an AGV scheduling system, receiving a message that a to-be-driven-in AGV arrives at a driving-in platform, obtaining job information of each AGV in the narrow alley at the current moment, and determining whether the to-be-driven-in AGV can enter the narrow alley for performing the job fully according to the number of the AGVs in the narrow alley at the current moment, the job information and a loading/unloading position where the to-be-driven-in AGV will perform the job, so as to achieve concurrent collaborative job of the AGVs as many as possible in a confined workspace by making use of fragmented time and every bit of time, to form an efficient and flexible distribution solution, and to further achieve intelligent scheduling of the AGVs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Machinery Technology Development Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Haoyuan Qu, Peng Zhao, Bin Xu, Yang Liu, Changchen Li
  • Patent number: 12204862
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating and training a relation extraction model configured to extract document-level relations. Systems obtain a knowledge database that comprises a plurality of entity tuples and a plurality of relation types, use the knowledge database to generate annotated relation instances based on relation instances that are identified in a set of unlabeled text, generate a training dataset comprising the annotated relation instances and the set of unlabeled text, and generate the machine learning model via modular self-supervision. Systems and methods are also provided for using a relation extraction model to extract document-level relations in specific use scenarios, such as for extracting drug response relations from full-text medical research articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Cliff Richard Wong, Naoto Usuyama, Sarthak Jain, Tristan Josef Naumann, Hoifung Poon
  • Publication number: 20250023339
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a self-energy-taking hybrid direct-current circuit breaker and an application method therefor. In the self-energy-taking hybrid direct-current circuit breaker, a breaking branch is connected to a through-current branch in parallel, a first end of a grounding branch is connected to the breaking branch, and a second end of the grounding branch is grounded. When a direct-current system operates stably, the through-current branch conducts a steady-state running current of the direct-current system, and when the direct-current system breaks down, a self-energy-taking capacitor in the breaking branch assists a power electronic device in achieving the breaking of a fault current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicants: STATE GRID SMART GRID RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD., STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Wandi ZHOU, Zhiyuan HE, Yuan LIU, Sheng ZHANG, Chong GAO, Pengzhi LI
  • Patent number: 12195056
    Abstract: An underframe boundary beam connecting structure suitable for a railway vehicle with a drum-shaped vehicle body is provided. An underframe boundary beam is a through long roll bending piece, a section of the through long roll bending piece is of a channel structure, and has a side face, an upper wing face, and a lower wing face. The side face has an inclination angle consistent with a side wall plate, an upper end of an outer side of the side face is provided with a concave platen, and the side wall plate is lapped on the concave platen and fixed by a butt welding; an inner end of the lower wing face is provided with a downwards vertical flanging, a vertical plate is welded and fixed between the upper wing face and the lower wing face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanpin Du, Liang Zhu, Yanlin Jiang, Xiaoyu Wang, Yonggang Niu, Qunfa Shan, Sheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12197122
    Abstract: A compensation method and system for exposure alignment are provided. The method includes: acquiring original data of an aligned pattern, performing first-order processing on the original data to obtain first-order derivative data, obtaining a compensation value based on the original data and the first-order derivative data when exposure alignment has deviation, and compensating the exposure alignment based on the compensation value. According to the compensation method for exposure alignment, the first-order derivative data is obtained by performing first-order processing on the original data, and then the compensation value is obtained based on the original data and the first-order derivative data to compensate the exposure alignment, so that the compensation accuracy is higher, and the accuracy of exposure alignment is optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Sheng'an Zhang, Lei Zhao
  • Patent number: 12200184
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. Each viewing zone displays a respective two-dimensional image. Each eye of the viewer may receive a different one of the two-dimensional images, resulting in a perceived three-dimensional image. The electronic device may include display pipeline circuitry that generates and processes content to be displayed on the lenticular display. Content generating circuitry may initially generate content that includes a plurality of two-dimensional images, each two-dimensional image corresponding to a respective viewing zone. Pre-processing circuitry may subsequently anisotropically resize each two-dimensional image. Pixel mapping circuitry may then be used to map the resized two-dimensional images to the array of pixels in the lenticular display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Yue Ma
  • Patent number: 12198276
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a camera and a display. The display may be configured to display virtual reality content for a user in which no real-world content from the camera is displayed or mixed reality content in which a combination of real-world content from the camera and overlaid virtual reality content is displayed. Control circuitry in the device may adjust the display and camera while transitioning between virtual reality and mixed reality modes. The control circuitry may reconfigure the camera to exhibit a desired frame rate immediately upon transitioning from virtual reality mode to mixed reality mode. Transitions between modes may be accompanied by smooth transitions between frame rates to avoid visible artifacts on the display. The camera frame rate may be synchronized to the display frame rate for at least part of the transition between the virtual reality and mixed reality modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Aleksandr M. Movshovich, Arthur Y. Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Moinul H. Khan, Paolo Sacchetto, Yunhui Hou