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).
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Publication number: 20240085595Abstract: A Fresnel lens in a lens body, the lens body is provided with a light incident surface and a light exit surface opposite to each other along a first direction, and the light exit surfaces are adjacently arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. There are several protruding teeth, and the protruding teeth are formed by an effective surface and an ineffective surface, and the ineffective surface is inclined at an acute angle relative to the first direction. The invention makes the light passing through the lens body reach the effective surface as much as possible, thereby reducing stray light and enhancing light efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Zuping He, Xiaoyun Liu, Jun Yang, Sheng Zhang, Kai Xu, Jianguo Dong, Huangfeng Pan
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Patent number: 11929021Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 2, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shereef Shehata, Jim C Chou, Sheng Zhang, Shengchang Cai
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Patent number: 11915633Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure is directed to a method of controlling screen color temperature. The method includes: acquiring ambient light parameters according to a preset time interval, obtaining an ambient relative color temperature value corresponding to the ambient light parameter acquired at each acquisition time point, performing a weighted average process on the ambient relative color temperature value corresponding to the ambient light parameter acquired at each acquisition time point to obtain a target ambient color temperature value, determining a target screen color temperature value corresponding to the target ambient color temperature value and further a current screen color temperature value, and changing a color temperature value of the screen from the current screen color temperature value to the target screen color temperature value according to the screen color temperature value change time.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HUIZHOU TCL MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTDInventors: Bin Liang, Sheng Zhang
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Patent number: 11908376Abstract: A compensation system includes a processor configured to determine compensated data for display on a sub-pixel of the display device. The processor may receive image data configured to be displayed on the sub-pixel, convert the gray level data to first voltage data; fetch, from a memory, compressed 1×1 sub-pixel uniformity compensation data for the sub-pixel, and decompress the compressed 1×1 sub-pixel uniformity compensation data via a decompressor. The decompressed data comprises the 1×1 sub-pixel uniformity compensation data for the sub-pixel. The processor may also determine a voltage compensation offset value associated with the sub-pixel based on the second voltage data, generate compensated voltage data based in part on the voltage compensation offset value and the first voltage data, convert the compensated voltage data to compensated gray level data; and transmit the compensated gray level data to pixel driving circuitry associated with the sub-pixel.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lingtao Wang, Giovanni Carbone, Chaohao Wang, Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov, Sheng Zhang, Jim C Chou, Shereef Shehata, Yung-Chin Chen
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Publication number: 20240051590Abstract: An electric golf trolley Includes an electric actuator includes a motor controller, two planetary gear reduction motors connected to the motor controller and mounted on two rear wheel modules in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and a power supply connected to the motor controller. A connecting-rod link mechanism is disposed between an upper frame module, a lower frame module and the two rear wheel modules. When folded towards the lower frame module, the upper frame module drives the rear wheel modules through the connecting-rod link mechanism to be folded synchronously. The motor controller is mounted on the upper or lower frame module. The power supply is mounted on the upper or lower frame module. The rear wheel modules are separately driven by the planetary gear reduction motors, so a spindle rotating synchronously along with the rear wheel modules does not need to be additionally disposed between the rear wheel modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: NINGBO WENTAI SPORT EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Sheng ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240044446Abstract: A canopy installing structure has a hanging mount and a canopy. The hanging mount has an upper mounting unit, at least one hanging hook segment mounted on the upper mounting unit, and a hanging mount main body. The hanging mount main body is fixed on a ceiling through the upper mounting unit. The canopy has an annular wall and at least one engaging groove segment. The annular wall is mounted around a side wall of the upper mounting unit. The at least one engaging groove segment is formed on an inner side of the annular wall. The at least one hanging hook segment protrudes toward the annular wall and each engaging with a respective one of the at least one engaging groove segment. The canopy installing structure improves the disassembling efficiency and facilitates ease in assembling.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Jian-Sheng Zhang, HAN-HUA HUANG
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Publication number: 20240042293Abstract: A golf cart with front and rear wheels capable of being unfolded and folded synchronously includes an upper frame module, a lower frame module, a handlebar module, a front wheel module and two rear wheel modules. The upper frame module is mounted on the lower frame module and is able to rotate with respect to the lower frame module under the action of force. The front wheel module is mounted at a front end of the lower frame module and is able to rotate with respect to the lower frame module under the action of force. The two rear wheel modules are mounted on left and right sides of a rear end of the lower frame module respectively. The handlebar module is mounted at an upper end of the upper frame module through a lock mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: NINGBO WENTAI SPORT EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Sheng ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240038158Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Lingtao Wang, Yingying Tang, Scott R. Johnston, Chaohao Wang, Sheng Zhang, Woo Shik Jung
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Publication number: 20240040669Abstract: Disclosed are a transparent heating film and a heating glass including the transparent heating film. The transparent heating film includes a transparent supporting body, a conductive grid, and a penetration window. A side of the transparent supporting body is provided with a plurality of trenches interconnected to each other in a grid shape; the conductive grid is formed by filling the plurality of trenches with a conductive material; and the penetration window is located between and partitioned with the conductive grid. The penetration window located between the conductive grid may disrupt or weaken a shielding effect of the conductive grid, thereby facilitating penetration of a signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: SHINE OPTOELECTRONICS (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng ZHANG, Zhikui HUANG, Lixiang LIU, Yi HUANG
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Patent number: 11885959Abstract: An electronic device may include a display system with a pixel array and a catadioptric lens. The display system may include a linear polarizer through which image light from the pixel array passes and a first quarter wave plate through which the light passes after passing through the polarizer. The lens may include a partial mirror, a second quarter wave plate, and a reflective polarizer. A third quarter wave plate may be formed between the linear polarizer and the pixel array to mitigate ghost images. Control circuitry may predict potential ghost images based on the geometry of the lens and data from an image frame. Tone mapping circuitry may adjust contrast of the image frame within a region overlapping the predicted ghost image. The control circuitry may adjust luminance of the image frame outside of the region overlapping the predicted ghost image.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Wei-Liang Hsu, Sheng Zhang, Mark F. Flynn, Yury A. Petrov, Chaohao Wang
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Publication number: 20240031554Abstract: An electronic device may include a stereoscopic display with a plurality of lenticular lenses that 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. The display may have different viewing zones that account for horizontal parallax as a viewer moves horizontally relative to the display. The display may be dimmed globally based on the detected vertical position of the viewer. The magnitude of dimming applied to the display may increase with increasing deviation of the viewer from a baseline viewing angle. The display may render content that compensates for the real-time vertical position of the viewer. Another option for the stereoscopic display is to include a lens film that has an array of lenses. Each lens in the array of lenses spreads light in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Yi-Pai Huang, Yang Li, Yi Huang, Pretesh A Mascarenhas, Menelik Baye Yimam, Guru Moorthy Ravi, Yunhui Hou, Fu-Chung Huang, Sheng Zhang
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Publication number: 20230411343Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: United Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Kai Zhu, Chien-Kee Pang, Chia-Liang Liao
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Patent number: 11842457Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for processing a slider for a virtual character, an electronic device, and a storage medium, relating to a field of virtual reality, in particular to fields of artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, voice technology, cloud computing, etc. An implementation includes: acquiring a shape model associated with a target semantic tag; acquiring a skeleton and skinning information of a reference virtual character; fitting the shape model based on the skeleton and skinning information to obtain a skeleton linkage coefficient; and generating a slider associated with the target semantic tag based on the skeleton linkage coefficient, wherein the slider is used to drive the reference virtual character to obtain a target virtual character complying with a target semantic feature contained in the target semantic tag.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ruizhi Chen, Sheng Zhang
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Publication number: 20230395019Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for compensating for color shift, such as due to optical crosstalk, with a corrective lens are provided. Such a device may include an electronic display and image processing circuitry. The electronic display may include a display panel and a corrective lens. The image processing circuitry may process image data to correct for optical crosstalk of the electronic display when the display panel is viewed through the corrective lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Shengchang Cai, Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov, Chaohao Wang, Sheng Zhang, Giovanni Carbone, Igor Stamenov
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Publication number: 20230394614Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are an image collection method and apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium. Provided in some embodiments of the present disclosure is an image collection method, which is used in an image collection apparatus and comprises: acquiring voice information; determining whether the voice information satisfies a first preset condition; if the voice information satisfies the first preset condition, determining the location of a target object; and according to the location of the target object, performing image capture on the target object so as to obtain an image of the target object. In the method of the present disclosure, when a target object needs to be shown to another person, the user does not need to manually operate the image collection apparatus for the other person to conveniently view the target object, thereby freeing both hands and improving convenience.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Zhenjiang SUN, Hui LI, Tong WANG, Jun LI, Sheng ZHANG
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Patent number: 11835066Abstract: An assembling structure of a ceiling fan has a motor shaft and a driving assembly mounted on the motor shaft. The motor shaft is mounted through the driving assembly. The driving assembly has an upper cover, a lower cover, a chamber, a circuit board, and a positioning mechanism. The lower cover has a covering board and a mounting cylinder mounted in a center of the covering board, and is mounted on the motor shaft via the mounting cylinder. The chamber is formed between the upper cover and the lower cover. The circuit board is mounted in the chamber. The upper cover, the lower cover, and the circuit board are sequentially arranged from top to bottom. The positioning mechanism is mounted in the chamber and limits a mounting position of the circuit board. The present invention solves the noise issue.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Foshan Carro Electrical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jian-Sheng Zhang, Zhi-Qiang Yuan
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Patent number: 11832427Abstract: A method and terminal for reducing coupling sensitivity deviations, and an apparatus having a storage function are provided. Sensitivities of different channels are collected to obtain sensitivity deviations between adjacent channels when a sample smart terminal is at a first predetermined position. It is determined whether one of the sensitivity deviations is greater than a predetermined deviation threshold. If one of the sensitivity deviations is greater than the predetermined deviation threshold, it is determined whether a cause of the sensitivity deviation comprises a signal scattering effect and/or a signal radiation effect. A smart terminal is then produced according to determination of the cause.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: HuiZhou TCL Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Zhihao Zheng
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Publication number: 20230373547Abstract: A golf cart includes a handlebar module, an upper frame module, a front wheel module, a lower frame module and two rear wheel modules. The upper frame module is mounted on the lower frame module. The front wheel module is mounted at a front end of the lower frame module. The two rear wheel modules are mounted on left side and right side of a rear end of the lower frame module respectively. The handlebar module is mounted at an upper end of the upper frame module through a lock mechanism. A connecting-rod link mechanism is arranged between the upper frame module, the lower frame module, the front wheel module and the two rear wheel modules. A first connecting rod is arranged between the handlebar module and the lower frame module.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2022Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: NINGBO WENTAI SPORT EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Sheng ZHANG
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Patent number: 11824072Abstract: Techniques for implementing and/or operating an electronic device that includes or utilizes a display panel. The display panel includes an organic light-emitting diode layer, an encapsulation layer disposed over the organic light-emitting diode layer, and a color filter layer disposed over the encapsulation layer. The color filter layer overhangs the organic light-emitting diode layer and comprises a first color filter cell of a first color component sub-pixel that at least partially overlaps an organic light-emitting diode of a second color component sub-pixel that is a different color compared to the first color component sub-pixel.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shengchang Cai, Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov, Chaohao Wang, Sheng Zhang, Giovanni Carbone, Igor Stamenov
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Patent number: 11823620Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lingtao Wang, Yingying Tang, Scott R. Johnston, Chaohao Wang, Sheng Zhang, Woo Shik Jung