Patents by Inventor Shukai Zhao

Shukai Zhao 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).

  • Patent number: 10877460
    Abstract: A security check instrument motion control system includes an FPGA control chip that receives motion instructions, comprising angle, direction, speed and the like, from an upper computer via an upper computer communication module, realizes quick control to a rotation motion module, and controls a motion state of the rotation motion module according to real-time motion information of the rotation motion module detected by a positioning detection module. The motion state includes a motion stop state and a normal rotation state. The FPGA control chip detects the working state of each module in the security check instrument motion control system in real time, and once the security check instrument motion control system has a fault, each module can be subjected to debugging, repairing and maintenance respectively. If the positioning detection module detects that the rotation motion module is abnormal, the FPGA control chip controls the rotation motion module to stop moving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rong Wang, Chunchao Qi, Xiongwei Huang, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20200333504
    Abstract: A millimeter wave image based human body foreign object detection method, comprising: acquiring a millimeter wave gray scale image of a human body; according to a pre-determined foreign object imaging characteristic, extracting from the millimeter wave gray scale image a foreign object area image; according to a pre-determined foreign object image recognition algorithm, performing calculations on the foreign object area image, and acquiring a foreign object image from the foreign object area image; displaying the foreign object image as a foreign object detection result. Also provided is a millimeter wave image based human body foreign object detection system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicants: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD., Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation, Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation
    Inventors: Hanjiang Chen, Zhiquan Li, Chunchao Qi, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 10795015
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a scanning apparatus and a security-inspection device with the same. The scanning apparatus include: at least one millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna module, wherein the millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna module include a plurality of millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna units each having a signal terminal facing the predetermined scanning area, and a dustproof film covering the signal terminal of each of the millimeter-wave transreceiving antenna units. The scanning mechanism is simple in structure, more convenient for maintenance, and has a lower cost. When each millimeter-wave transceiving antenna unit emits and receives millimeter waves, the millimeter waves pass through the dustproof film without passing through the organic glass, and the attenuation of the millimeter wave signal is small, thereby improving the 3D imaging effect of the security-inspection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Rong Wang, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20200220261
    Abstract: An electrically scanned array antenna device applied to a millimeter wave imaging system is provided. The electrically scanned array antenna device comprises an adjustable light source for outputting an optical signal with an adjustable wavelength; an electro-optical modulation module; an optocouple; a time delay module for performing optical delay of different duration on each modulated signal, and correspondingly changing the duration of the optical delay according to the wavelength of the optical signal to obtain modulated signals of different phases; an optical detector; and an array antenna. The millimeter wave is loaded on the optical signal with an adjustable wavelength to obtain a modulated signal; the modulated signal is divided into multiple signals; time delay of different duration is performed on each signal; and millimeter wave signals of different phases are obtained after demodulation and are simultaneously transmitted to scan an object to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicants: CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD., Shenzhen Institute of Terahertz Technology and Innovation
    Inventors: Zhihui Feng, Chunchao Qi, Hanjiang Chen, Rong Wang, Shukai Zhao
  • Patent number: 10706552
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for detecting concealed dangerous objects in microwave images. The method includes: simultaneously processes multiple adjacent microwave images, obtains edge images of a single image by using two methods for each image, obtains dangerous-object edges of the single image by edge fitting operation, obtains a rough dangerous-object contour by performing a registration operation and a second edge fitting operation on the dangerous-object edges of the multiple images, and performs a regional-binarization operation and a filtering on the rough dangerous-object contour to obtain a second dangerous-object area. The present disclosure has high detection accuracy and calculation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Yanli Liu, Hanjiang Chen, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20200150265
    Abstract: A close-range microwave imaging method includes: implementing Fourier transform in a pre-set rotation axis direction on an echo signal reflected from a target object and acquired by rotating an array antenna around the pre-set rotation axis to obtain a first echo signal, wherein the first echo signal is represented in polar coordinates; multiplying the first echo signal by a pre-set reference function to obtain a second echo signal; converting the second echo signal into rectangular coordinates by a pre-set algorithm to obtain a third echo signal; and implementing three-dimensional Fourier transform on the third echo signal to obtain three-dimensional image data of the target object. By means of the method, three-dimensional image data of a target object can be obtained fast, fast imaging of the target object can be realized, the data processing amount is small, the imaging precision is high and the method is easy to implement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Shenzhen Vlctooth Terahertz Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Guangsheng WU, Shukai ZHAO, Qian XIAO, Aixian WANG
  • Publication number: 20200142053
    Abstract: Provided are a direct wave suppression method and system for a microwave imaging system. The method includes a series of filtering operations, such as conversion from a frequency domain to a time domain, filtering, conversion from the time domain to the frequency domain, and cancellation subtraction, on an echo signal set composed of echo signals obtained by a vertical linear array antenna at all the equivalent antenna collection positions thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qian Xiao, Aixian Wang
  • Publication number: 20200142030
    Abstract: An amplitude-phase correction method and system for a microwave imaging system are provided. The method comprises: carrying out data processing, in a range direction, on an echo signal reflected from a target object and acquired by a linear array antenna according to a first pre-set algorithm to obtain a compressed signal in the range direction; extracting a range value corresponding to the maximum amplitude, in the range direction, of the compressed signal in the range direction; carrying out time delay compensation on the echo signal according to the range value to obtain a time-delay-compensated signal; carrying out data processing on the time-delay-compensated signal according to a second pre-set algorithm to obtain an amplitude-phase signal; and carrying out amplitude-phase correction on the echo signal according to the time-delay-compensated signal and the amplitude-phase signal to obtain a corrected echo signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qian Xiao, Aixian Wang
  • Publication number: 20200054236
    Abstract: A security check method includes: pre-creating at least four concurrently operating threads, one thread being responsible for movement control and data acquisition, one thread being responsible for imaging processing, one thread being responsible for interface displaying, and one thread being responsible for target detection and recognition; then the four concurrently operating threads divide original echo data of a human body to be checked into data of a plurality of adjacent overlapped azimuthal segments during data processing and perform individual processing on the data of each azimuthal segment. The security check system includes a thread creating unit, a first thread parallel unit, a second thread parallel unit, a third thread parallel unit, a fourth thread parallel unit, and a thread loop control unit. Because subsequent data processing is not required to be performed after the acquisition of all data is completed, the time for a security check process is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Aixian WANG, Hanjiang CHEN, Tiansheng ZHANG, Zhihui FENG, Hu YUAN, Shukai ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20200042779
    Abstract: A human body gender automatic recognition method includes: acquiring a current millimeter wave grayscale image, and determining gender part region positions of a human body in the millimeter wave grayscale image according to a pre-set body proportion; extracting a region sub-image corresponding to the gender part region position; performing dimension normalization on the region sub-image to obtain the region sub-image after normalization; performing feature information extraction on the region sub-image after normalization to obtain feature information about the region sub-image after normalization; recognizing the millimeter wave grayscale image by means of each pre-set classifier, and respectively outputting results; and integrating the output results to obtain a classification recognition result of the millimeter wave grayscale image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Hanjiang Chen, Yanli Liu, Chunchao Qi, Guangsheng WU, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20200041691
    Abstract: A GPU-based human body microwave echo simulation method includes: transmitting emulation input parameters from the memory of a CPU host into the display memory of a GPU device; configuring, at the CPU host, parallel computing network parameters to be run at the GPU device; initiating a kernel function for human body microwave echo simulation preset in the CPU host; computing the kernel function in parallel, in a plurality of processing kernels of the GPU device, in a multi-threaded manner, according to the parallel computing network parameters, to obtain simulation echoes of human body microwaves; transmitting the obtained simulation echoes of human body microwaves from the GPU device back to the CPU host. The method makes full use of the characteristic that a GPU can perform parallel computing to accelerate the echo simulation process, greatly improving the real-time performance of echo simulation of a human body microwave scanning and imaging system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Aixian WANG, Hanjiang CHEN, Xiongwei HUANG, Yanli LIU, Chengyan JIA, Shukai ZHAO
  • Patent number: 10551490
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a security inspection system and method using the three-dimensional holographic imaging technology. The system comprises: a body frame; a millimeter-wave transceiving module, disposed on the body frame; and at least two millimeter-wave switch antenna arrays, connected with the millimeter-wave transceiving module; the number of the millimeter-wave switch antenna arrays being the same as that of the scan areas; a scan driving device, configured to drive the at least two millimeter-wave switch antenna arrays to rotate along the same direction; a control device, configured to control the scan driving device to generate a rotation angle signal; and a parallel-image processing module, configured to synthesize a three-dimensional holographic image of an under-test object according to echo signals collected by the millimeter-wave transceiving module and spatial position information of the echo signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: SHENZHEN CCT THZ TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., CHINA COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Chao Sun, Guangsheng Wu, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20190391531
    Abstract: A human body security check system based on millimeter wave holographic three-dimensional imaging, comprising a mechanical scanning mechanism, millimeter wave signal transceiver units, an image processing unit (7), and an alarm unit (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Shukai ZHAO, Juncheng LIU, Guangsheng WU, Qing DING, Chengyan JIA, Beibei LIU, Yandong ZHANG, Yanli LIU
  • Publication number: 20190317208
    Abstract: A three-dimensional imaging system and method based on rotational scanning is disclosed. The system includes a column-shaped frame with a column-shaped side; a transceiving antenna array element arranged on the column-shaped side that transmits a micro-wave detection signal to a detected object located in the column-shaped frame and receives an echo signal reflected back from the detected object; a signal transceiving device that generates the micro-wave detection signal and sends same to the transceiving antenna array element and processes the echo signal; a rotation control device that controls rotational movement of the transceiving antenna array element so that the transceiving antenna array element transmits the micro-wave detection signal to the detected object in a plurality of angles; and a positioning trigger fixedly arranged on the column-shaped frame and configured to trigger the signal transceiving device when the transceiving antenna array element arrives at a position of the positioning trigger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Aixian WANG, Hanjiang CHEN, Jiaqi RUAN, Juncheng LIU, Qian XIAO, Wei CHEN, Shukai ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20190302230
    Abstract: A disclosed method includes: dividing an signal into a first signal and a second signal; performing frequency multiplication and amplification on the first signal to obtain an intermediate signal of corresponding power and frequency, and using the second signal as a local oscillation signal. The method further includes dividing the intermediate signal into a first intermediate signal and a second intermediate signal, and using the first intermediate signal as a reference signal; performing frequency mixing on the second intermediate signal and the local oscillation signal to obtain a mixed signal, which is a high-frequency millimeter wave signal; transmitting the mixed signal by a transmitting antenna; and performing frequency mixing on the signal received by a receiving antenna and the reference signal to obtain an intermediate-frequency controllable signal having a frequency consistent with that of the output signal of the signal source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Chao Sun, Juncheng Liu, Chunchao Qi, Guangsheng WU, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20190260121
    Abstract: A power adjustment method and apparatus, and a human body security check device are disclosed. The method may be applied in a human body security check device or an inspection device provided with a millimeter wave transceiver and comprises: obtaining a current humidity value by detecting the ambient humidity around the millimeter wave transceiver using a preset humidity sensor; determining a target power attenuation value of the adjustable power attenuator according to the current humidity value, the sum of the target power attenuation value and a power attenuation value caused to a millimeter wave signal by the ambient humidity being a constant value; and controlling the adjustable power attenuator to adjust its power attenuation value to be consistent with the target power attenuation value. An adjustable power attenuator is provided in a millimeter wave signal transmitting link of the millimeter wave transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Shukai ZHAO, Hanjiang CHEN, Beibei LIU
  • Publication number: 20190258220
    Abstract: A security check instrument motion control system includes an FPGA control chip that receives motion instructions, comprising angle, direction, speed and the like, from an upper computer via an upper computer communication module, realizes quick control to a rotation motion module, and controls a motion state of the rotation motion module according to real-time motion information of the rotation motion module detected by a positioning detection module. The motion state includes a motion stop state and a normal rotation state. The FPGA control chip detects the working state of each module in the security check instrument motion control system in real time, and once the security check instrument motion control system has a fault, each module can be subjected to debugging, repairing and maintenance respectively. If the positioning detection module detects that the rotation motion module is abnormal, the FPGA control chip controls the rotation motion module to stop moving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Rong Wang, Chunchao Qi, Xiongwei Huang, Guangsheng WU, Shukai Zhao, Qing Ding
  • Publication number: 20190243022
    Abstract: A close range microwave imaging method and system is provided. The method comprises: controlling a linear antenna array consisting of a preset number of antennas to rotate along a preset arc trajectory so as to scan a target region; controlling the linear antenna array to acquire a preset number of echo data at azimuthal positions on the arc trajectory and to send an echo data set constituted by the preset number of echo data to a signal processing device until the linear antenna array completes the acquisition of echo data at preset azimuthal positions on the arc trajectory; and controlling, every time the signal processing device receives the echo data set, the signal processing device to perform imaging processing on the echo data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Chunchao Qi, Aixian Wang, Hanjiang Chen, Lingxia Guo, Chao Sun, Xiaoxiang Hou, Shukai Zhao
  • Publication number: 20190227190
    Abstract: A millimeter wave security inspection instrument debugging system and a millimeter wave security inspection instrument debugging method, which are used for debugging the imaging definition of a millimeter wave holographic imaging security inspection system. A main control apparatus is used for generating a millimeter wave detection signal and a reference signal. The main control apparatus is also used for, where a millimeter wave transmitting antenna, a millimeter wave receiving antenna and a detected object are respectively located at different relative positions, transmitting the millimeter wave detection signal to the detected object by means of the millimeter wave transmitting antenna, and receiving an echo signal reflected from the detected object by means of the millimeter wave receiving antenna, and then using a holographic image technique to perform three-dimensional imaging according to the reference signal and the echo signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Chunchao QI, Chao Sun, Shukai Zhao, Guangsheng WU, Qing DING
  • Publication number: 20190204473
    Abstract: A terahertz security check method and system may include: a terahertz scanning device collecting a terahertz original image of a human body under test, and sending the same to a central server that identifies the terahertz original image, and determines whether the human body under test carries an article. If so, the image is marked with the position of the article and sent to a monitoring terminal. The monitoring terminal correspondingly marking the position of the article on a pre-stored human body cartoon image, and displaying the terahertz original images before and after marking to monitoring personnel, so that the monitoring personnel determine whether the central server has an identification error; and if so, the monitoring terminal changing a marker on the human body cartoon image, and sending the changed cartoon image to a client of security check personnel for displaying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Hanjiang Chen, Tiansheng ZHANG, Chunchao QI, Shukai ZHAO