Patents by Inventor Tao AN

Tao AN 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: 10945341
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a flexible display screen and a flexible display device. The flexible display screen includes a display screen body and a deformation component disposed on a back side of the display screen body, wherein when an ambient temperature is higher than a first temperature threshold value, the deformation component is deformed towards a direction in which the display screen body reveals curved display; when the ambient temperature is lower than a second temperature threshold value, the deformation component is deformed towards a direction in which the display screen body reveals flat display; and the second temperature threshold value is not greater than the first temperature threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaorui Hu, Guowen Yang, Zhouping Wang, Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 10944449
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method in a wireless communication system, and a computer readable storage medium. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: instruct one or more second base stations to assess an idle channel for an unauthorized frequency band on the basis of position information of the one or more second base stations and position information of a user equipment such that the one or more second base stations control access to the unauthorized frequency band on the basis of information of the assessment result relating to the idle channel. According to at least one aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure, accessing a channel on an unauthorized frequency band of, for example, 60 GHz on the basis of position information may improve the speed and reliability of channel access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxuan Xie, Qimei Cui, Tao Cui, Huiling Zuo, Song Wang
  • Patent number: 10943485
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system of an ADV perceives a driving environment surrounding the ADV using a plurality of sensors mounted on the ADV. The system identifies a blind spot based on the perceived driving environment surrounding the ADV. The system in response to identifying the blind spot, receives an image having the blind spot from an image capturing device disposed within a predetermined proximity of the blind spot. In some embodiments, the system receives the image having the blind spot from a remote server communicatively coupled to the image capturing device. The system identifies an obstacle of interest at the blind spot of the ADV based on the image. The system generates a trajectory based on the obstacle of interest at the blind spot to control the ADV to avoid the obstacle of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventors: Jiaming Tao, Liangliang Zhang, Dong Li, Yifei Jiang, Jiangtao Hu, Fan Zhu
  • Patent number: 10944343
    Abstract: An actuator for a cooling fan module includes a controller, a first motor and a second motor. The controller includes a controlling unit configured to receive control commands, and a motor driving unit electrically connected to the controlling unit and powered by a DC power supply. The first motor is electrically connected to the motor driving unit. The second motor is connected in parallel to the first motor. The first motor and the second motor are synchronously driven and controlled by the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Ruifeng Qin, Kwokkuen Tse, Tao Qu
  • Patent number: 10944390
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-speed and low-noise dynamic comparator, which includes: an input unit, including an input NMOS transistor and an input PMOS transistor; a latch unit, including a latching NMOS transistor and a latching PMOS transistor, where the latching NMOS transistor and the latching PMOS transistor are connected to form a latch structure; a pull-up unit, including a pull-up PMOS transistor connected to the input NMOS transistor; and a substrate bootstrap voltage generation circuit, generating a substrate bootstrap voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NO. 24 RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daiguo Xu, Gangyi Hu, Ruzhang Li, Jian'an Wang, Guangbing Chen, Dongbing Fu, Shiliu Xu, Tao Liu, Jie Pu, Zhihua Feng
  • Patent number: 10945149
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling that configures a channel measurement resource and an interference measurement resource within a same time interval. The UE may transmit a measurement report that indicates a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) measurement that is generated based on measuring the channel measurement resource and the interference measurement resource. In some cases, the UE may receive a quasi co-location (QCL) relationship indicator that indicates a QCL relationship for the interference measurement resource or the channel measurement resource. The UE may measure the channel measurement resource and the interference measurement resource in accordance with the QCL relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo, Kiran Venugopal, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 10943673
    Abstract: A method of medical data auto collection segmentation and analysis, includes collecting, from a plurality of sources, unstructured medical data in a plurality of formats, recognizing a medical name entity of each piece of the unstructured medical data, using a medical dictionary, and performing semantic text segmentation on each piece of the unstructured medical data so that each piece of the unstructured medical data is partitioned into groups sharing a same topic. The method further includes generating, as structured medical data, each piece of the unstructured medical data of which the medical name entity is recognized, each piece of the unstructured medical data being partitioned into the groups, and indexing the structured medical data into elastic search clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Shangqing Zhang, Min Tu, Nan Du, Yusheng Xie, Yaliang Li, Tao Yang, Wei Fan
  • Patent number: 10943161
    Abstract: A two-dimensional code, a two-dimensional code generation method, identification method, generation apparatus, and identification apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The two-dimensional code includes a square module array including an array of m*m modules, a location detection pattern and a data information pattern. The location detection pattern determines a location of the two-dimensional code, the data information pattern is configured to carry data information, each module of the array of m*m modules is at least one of a first-type module and a second-type module, a color attribute of the first-type module is different from a color attribute of the second-type module, and m is at least one of 17, 18, 19, and 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yu Geng Lin, Dian Ping Xu, Chen Ran, Hua Jie Huang, Yi Ke Liu, Zhang Jing Yang, Hong Yang Wang, Tao Zou, Hong Xiao Yu, Pin Lin Chen, Jun Jie Zhou, Ju Bo Mo, Ting Huang
  • Patent number: 10944659
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for receiving reference radio frequency (RF) signals for positioning estimation. In an aspect, a receiver device receives, from a transmission point, a reference RF signal on a wireless channel receives, from a positioning entity, an indication that the reference RF signal serves as a source for a quasi-collocation (QCL) type(s) for positioning reference RF signals received by the receiver device from the transmission point on the wireless channel, measures an average delay, a delay spread, or both the average delay and the delay spread of the reference RF signal based on the QCL type(s), receives, from the transmission point, a positioning reference RF signal on the wireless channel, and identifies a time of arrival (ToA) of the positioning reference RF signal based on the measured average delay, the delay spread, or both the average delay and the delay spread of the reference RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandres Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 10944028
    Abstract: An LED light bulb, comprising of: a lamp housing; a bulb base connected to the lamp housing; a stem connected to the bulb base and located in the lamp housing, the stem comprises a stand extending to the center of the lamp housing; a single LED filament, disposed in the lamp housing, the LED filament comprising: a plurality of LED sections, each of the LED sections includes at least two LED chips that are electrically connected to each other; a plurality of conductive sections, each of the conductive sections is located between the two adjacent LED sections and configured to electrically connect the two adjacent LED sections, each of the conductive sections includes at least one conductor that connects the two adjacent LED sections, each of the conductor has at least one through hole; a light conversion layer comprising a base layer and a top layer, wherein the base layer of the light conversion layer is filled into the through hole of the conductor and then contacting the surface of the top layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: JIAXING SUPER LIGHTING ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tao Jiang, Weihong Xu, Yukihiro Saito, Hayato Unagike, Aiming Xiong, Junfeng Xu, Yiching Chen
  • Patent number: 10940161
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for modulating repeat non-ATG protein (RAN protein) translation are provided. In some aspects, the disclosure relates to methods for treating a subject having a disease associated with RAN protein translation by administering the subject a modulator of eIF3 or an eIF3 subunit, or an antibody that bind to a RAN protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
    Inventors: Laura Ranum, Fatma Ayhan, Tao Zu
  • Patent number: 10940554
    Abstract: Methods of fabricating a probe are described. In an example, a structure may be formed on a surface of a substrate. The structure may include the probe, a hinge, and an anchor arranged linearly, where an angle is formed between the probe and the hinge. The hinge may be positioned between the probe and the anchor, and the structure may be parallel to the substrate. An amount of solder may be deposited on an area of the structure that spans from a portion of the probe to a portion of the anchor, and across the hinge. The deposited solder may be reshaped by an execution of a solder reflow process. The reshape of the deposited solder may cause the probe to rotate about the hinge in order to reduce the angle between the probe and the hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Li-Wen Hung, Jui-Hsin Lai, Chia-Yu Chen, Ko-Tao Lee
  • Patent number: 10942105
    Abstract: An experimental device for carbon dioxide imbition, diffusion and oil discharge in a tight oil reservoir includes: a multistage rock core holder connected with a confining pressure pump and including a pair of connecting holes arranged at an upper end and a lower end thereof with an oil filler pipe connecting therebetween, a crude oil injection device and a recovery device respectively connected to the upper and lower ends, an intermediate container connected to both a high-pressure cylinder and an injection pump, a return pressure pump, a collection device and a control system. A plurality of rows of openings is arranged at a side of the multistage rock core holder to act as a gas inlet connected with the intermediate container via a pipeline, and a gas outlet connected with the recovery device; heating layers are arranged at inner walls of the multistage rock core holder and the intermediate container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Shuyong Hu, Tao Long, Xiaobing Han, Yulong Zhao, Huiying Tang, Xindong Wang, Nana Song, Xueqiang Guo, Tingting Qiu, Bingyang Zheng, Xinyuan Long
  • Patent number: 10944702
    Abstract: A method and device for publishing at least one message and a storage medium is provided. The method includes the following steps. A first message published by a first session account in a first session of an instant messaging client is acquired, and session accounts participating in the first session include at least three session accounts containing the first session account, and the first message is used for allowing reply information of at least one reply of at least one session account participating in the first session to the first message to be displayed in the first message. And the first message is displayed in the first session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jia Tao, Heng Ye, Chen Wang, Wei Hu, Kaidi Wei, Qiang Li, Danyan Luo, Baohua Liu, Biqing Guo, Zekai Liao, Fengjie Chen, Liwei Zhao
  • Patent number: 10943517
    Abstract: A shift register, a method for driving the same, a gate drive circuit and a display device are provided. The shift register includes a write circuit, a pull-down control circuit and an output circuit. The write circuit is configured to write a write signal provided by a write signal input terminal to a pull-up node. The pull-down control circuit is configured to write a first operating voltage provided by a first power supply terminal to a pull-down node, and write a first clock signal to the pull-down node. The output circuit is configured to write a drive signal provided by a drive signal input terminal to a drive signal output terminal, and write a second operating voltage provided by a second power supply terminal to the drive signal output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Tao, Fengjing Tang, Jie Gao, Hongmin Li
  • Patent number: 10945342
    Abstract: A fastening assembly includes a fastening member and an operating member movably sheathed on the fastening member. The fastening member includes a threaded part and a mating part connected to the threaded part. The operating member includes a snap-fitting part corresponding to the mating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Deng, Yin Tang, Tao Zhao
  • Patent number: 10943401
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for intelligently generating an augmented reality (AR)-assisted repair guidance for a user is provided. The present invention may include detecting a scan of an object. The present invention may then include filtering one or more pose-controlled video frames. The present invention may also include extracting at least one new image feature by utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) based on the filtered one or more pose-controlled video frames. The present invention may also include aggregating a plurality of visual information associated with the object by utilizing the CNN, wherein the extracted at least one new image feature is included in the aggregated plurality of visual information. The present invention may further include presenting three dimensional (3D) animated instructions to the user, wherein the 3D animated instructions include an AR-assisted repair guidance for the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bing Zhou, Sinem Guven Kaya, Shu Tao
  • Patent number: 10942700
    Abstract: A hearing device comprises a processor configured to generate a virtual auditory display comprising a sound field, a plurality of disparate sound field zones, and a plurality of quite zones that provide acoustic contrast between the sound field zones. The sound field zones and the quiet zones remain positionally stationary within the sound field. One or more sensors are configured to sense a plurality of inputs from the wearer. The processor is configured to facilitate movement of the wearer within the sound field in response to a navigation input received from the one or more sensors. The processor is also configured to select one of the sound field zones for playback via a speaker or actuation of a hearing device function in response to a selection input received from the one or more sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Karim Helwani, Tao Zhang, Simon Carlile
  • Patent number: 10940453
    Abstract: The polymerization stability and the chemical stability and the water resistance of resin films are improved. A surfactant composition according to an embodiment contains a surfactant (A) represented by general formula (1) and an anionic surfactant (B) having a hydrophobic group different from that of the surfactant (A). R1 represents an alkyl group with 8 to 14 carbon atoms, A represents an alkylene group with 2 to 4 carbon atoms, and n representing an average number of moles of an oxyalkylene group added represents 1 to 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: DAI-ICHI KOGYO SEIYAKU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatake Joyabu, Kei Shiohara, Asako Ogasawara, Takuro Kimura, Chi Tao
  • Patent number: D912920
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN FCY TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiming Tao, Zhenyu Wu, Ning Lv