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: 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: 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
  • 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20240430621
    Abstract: A vibration damping loudspeaker includes a sound-generating unit, a magnetic member, an assembly-auxiliary frame and dampers. Aligning units of the assembly-auxiliary frame are coupled to positioning units of the sound-generating unit. The dampers are symmetrically disposed between the magnetic member and the assembly-auxiliary frame. The sound-generating unit and the magnetic member can be quickly and easily mounted in place because of the assembly-auxiliary frame to not only enhance the production yield of the vibration damping loudspeaker but also allow the dampers to function as a buffer between the sound-generating unit and the magnetic member, so as to achieve vibration damping and vibration isolation during the operation of the vibration damping loudspeaker to spare users the discomfort they will otherwise experience for using electronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: FORTUNE GRAND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: PING-YU LEE, JIAN LV, CHUAN HE, MING-JUN ZENG, HONG-SHENG ZHANG, DE-WU WANG, ZHI-LONG NIU
  • Publication number: 20240428502
    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 lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may render different content layers that present different classes of content. The different classes of content may have different characteristics. As an example, a first class of content may be static content whereas a second class of content may be dynamic content. The different characteristics of each class of content may be leveraged to use a hybrid approach for content processing. The hybrid content processing may take advantage of different layers needing to be updated at different frequencies and may take advantage of sparse content in some of the layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Fu-Chung Huang, ByoungSuk Kim, Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva, Hao Chen, Igor Kozintsev, Pavel V Dudrenov, Ping-Yen Chou, Seung Wook Kim, Sheng Zhang, Victor H Yin, Wei H Yao, Wei Xiong, Yang Li, Yi Huang, Yi-Pai Huang, Justin A Meiners
  • Publication number: 20240404461
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using an optical crosstalk compensation (OXTC) block to compensate for optical crosstalk resulted from a combination of viewing angle change across field of view (FoV), color filter (CF) crosstalk, and the OLED various angle color shift (VACS) of a foveated electronic display. One or more two-dimensional (2D) OXTC factor maps are used to determine OXTC factors for input image data of the OXTC block, and the OXTC factors are updated on a per frame basis. Offset values are determined using a parallel architecture and used to determine the OXTC factors. Compensation weights are used to determine weighted OXTC factors to improve processing efficiency. Output image data are obtained by applying the weighted OXTC factors to the input image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Shereef Shehata, Jim C. Chou, Sheng Zhang, Shengchang Cai
  • Publication number: 20240394952
    Abstract: A mixed reality system that includes a device and a base station that communicate via a wireless connection The device may include sensors that collect information about the user's environment and about the user. The information collected by the sensors may be transmitted to the base station via the wireless connection. The base station renders frames or slices based at least in part on the sensor information received from the device, encodes the frames or slices, and transmits the compressed frames or slices to the device for decoding and display. The base station may provide more computing power than conventional stand-alone systems, and the wireless connection does not tether the device to the base station as in conventional tethered systems. The system may implement methods and apparatus to maintain a target frame rate through the wireless link and to minimize latency in frame rendering, transmittal, and display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Y Zhang, Ray L. Chang, Timothy R. Oriol, Ling Su, Gurjeet S. Saund, Guy Cote, Jim C. Chou, Hao Pan, Tobias Eble, Avi Bar-Zeev, Sheng Zhang, Justin A. Hensley, Geoffrey Stahl
  • Patent number: 12148370
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The electronic device may include a plurality of transparent windows that overlap the optical sensor. The resolution of the display panel may be reduced in some areas due to the presence of the transparent windows. To prevent a visible border between the reduced resolution areas of the display and full resolution areas of the display, uniformity compensation circuitry may be used to compensate pixel data. The uniformity compensation circuitry may output compensated pixel data for the display using one or more compensation maps that include compensation factors associated with pixel locations. The uniformity compensation circuitry may also use region-specific gamma look-up tables to apply different gamma curves to pixels in different regions of the display. The uniformity compensation circuitry may also be used to form a transition region between different regions of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lingtao Wang, Yingying Tang, Scott R. Johnston, Chaohao Wang, Sheng Zhang, Woo Shik Jung
  • Publication number: 20240373711
    Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel structures, each of the pixel structures is disposed in a hexagon, the hexagon is divided into six triangles disposed around a center of the hexagon, one pixel structure includes six closely arranged pixel units, one pixel unit is correspondingly disposed in one triangle; in one pixel unit and one corresponding triangle, the pixel unit includes three sub-pixels of different colors respectively disposed on three vertex angles of the triangle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12122538
    Abstract: A suspending release device for observing a drop vibration attitude change of a lander and a test method are provided. The device includes a bench system, a lifting system fixed to the bench system, a horizontal frame system, an attitude control system, and a suspending release system hinged to the attitude control system. The horizontal frame system may slide vertically on the bench system and may drive the attitude control system to slide horizontally. A test lander is fixed to a release sliding block. The release sliding block is locked with a main load bearing block. An attitude of the test lander when releasing is adjusted. The horizontal frame system is lifted to a predetermined height. Guide rods are indirectly driven to release the sliding block by a motor. The whole lander falls freely and touches the ground to collide, and the process is recorded by a high-speed camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Inventors: Shan Jia, Jianhua Zhao, Jinbao Chen, Xianghua Zhou, Sheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 12112663
    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 lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. To mitigate jaggedness in a curved edge of the active area, control circuitry may modify input pixel data for the display using dimming factors. Each brightness value of the pixel data may be multiplied by a corresponding dimming factor such that the curved edge has a smooth appearance. Each physical pixel in the display may have an associated perceived pixel that is based on an appearance of that physical pixel through the lenticular lens film. The perceived pixel may have a different footprint than its corresponding physical pixel. The dimming factors for boundary smoothing in the curved edges may be based on the perceived pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Inventors: Juan He, Yi Huang, Jun Qi, ByoungSuk Kim, Hao Chen, Ping-Yen Chou, Yi-Pai Huang, Yue Ma, Sheng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240328615
    Abstract: The present invention relates to household appliances, and in particular to a ceiling-fan lamp with multiple control modes, including a control circuit board, which includes a control-and-management module, an action control module for receiving action signals from a pull wire, and a motor drive module electrically connected to a ceiling-fan motor, a communication module configured to receive communication signals, and a lamp driver module electrically connected to a lamp; the control-and-management module is configured to receive and process the action signals or the communication signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: JIAN-SHENG ZHANG, Likui Xu
  • Patent number: D1046364
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: NINGBO WENTAI SPORT EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sheng Zhang
  • Patent number: D1048633
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: NINGBO WENTAI SPORT EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sheng Zhang