Patents by Inventor Tao Duan

Tao Duan 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: 20240396956
    Abstract: A network model for determining the performance of a real-time communication application, such as a video codec and transmission of the coded data, is implemented as computer software. The network model factors in burst data packet loss in determining a performance measure. The network model uses a Hidden Markov Model on a set of data packets of a unit of data to determine the performance measure in the form a probability that all the data packets within the set are received. The measure is used to fine tune the system settings. The network model causes the real-time communication application to adjust parameters of the application for improved transmission of data packets. The adjustment of a parameter can be an increase or a decrease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Sheng Zhong, Tao Duan, Jiajie Jian
  • Publication number: 20240397034
    Abstract: A system for determining the performance of a video codec for real-time communication applications includes a video codec performance evaluation network model and video codec quality analyze. A set of network conditions is used to simulate certain typical real-world network conditions. A coded video stream is transmitted from the transmitting end to the receiving end under these conditions. The end-to-end latency and received video fluency are measured along with a set of existing video quality measures by a video codec performance evaluation system including a network model and a video codec quality analyzer. The decodable frame ratio, latency and video fluency are used as the performance metrics for real-time communication video quality evaluation. The video codec performance evaluation system does not send any video data over a network when it determines the real-time communication quality of the video codec.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Wei Dai, Sheng Zhong, Tao Duan, Zesen Zhuang, Xiajun Gu
  • Patent number: 12101370
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the performance of a real-time communication application, such as a video codec and transmission of the coded data. The method factors in burst data packet loss in determining a performance measure. The method uses a Hidden Markov Model on a set of data packets of a unit of data to determine the performance measure in the form a probability that all the data packets within the set are received. The measure is used to fine tune the system settings. The method causes the real-time communication application to adjust parameters of the application for improved transmission of data packets. The adjustment of a parameter can be an increase or a decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Agora Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhong, Jiajie Jian, Tao Duan
  • Patent number: 12101458
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the performance of a video codec for real-time communication applications. A set of network conditions is used to simulate certain typical real-world network conditions. A coded video stream is transmitted from the transmitting end to the receiving end under these conditions. The end-to-end latency and received video fluency are measured along with a set of existing video quality measures by a video codec performance evaluation system including a network model and a video codec quality analyzer. The decodable frame ratio, latency and video fluency are used as the performance metrics for real-time communication video quality evaluation. The video codec performance evaluation system does not send any video data over a network when it determines the real-time communication quality of the video codec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Agora Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Dai, Sheng Zhong, Tao Duan, Zesen Zhuang, Xiajun Gu
  • Patent number: 12099201
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a display system, display glasses and a display system control method. The display system includes an eyeglass, a first optical engine, a light guide, and a light receiver. The eyeglass includes a first display area and a non-display area. Imaging light emitted from the first optical engine is received by the first display area. The light guide is disposed on a periphery of the eyeglass or at least a part of the light guide is disposed in the non-display area, and the light guide is provided with an optical communication channel for light transmitting. The first optical engine is disposed at one end of the optical communication channel, and the light receiver is disposed at another end of the optical communication channel. The technical solution of the disclosure can avoid increasing the size of the glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventor: Tao Duan
  • Publication number: 20240264443
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a display system, display glasses and a display system control method. The display system includes an eyeglass, a first optical engine, a light guide, and a light receiver. The eyeglass includes a first display area and a non-display area. Imaging light emitted from the first optical engine is received by the first display area. The light guide is disposed on a periphery of the eyeglass or at least a part of the light guide is disposed in the non-display area, and the light guide is provided with an optical communication channel for light transmitting. The first optical engine is disposed at one end of the optical communication channel, and the light receiver is disposed at another end of the optical communication channel. The technical solution of the disclosure can avoid increasing the size of the glasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventor: Tao DUAN
  • Publication number: 20230421626
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the performance of a real-time communication application, such as a video codec and transmission of the coded data. The method factors in burst data packet loss in determining a performance measure. The method uses a Hidden Markov Model on a set of data packets of a unit of data to determine the performance measure in the form a probability that all the data packets within the set are received. The measure is used to fine tune the system settings. The method causes the real-time communication application to adjust parameters of the application for improved transmission of data packets. The adjustment of a parameter can be an increase or a decrease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Sheng Zhong, Jiajie Jian, Tao Duan
  • Publication number: 20230262209
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the performance of a video codec for real-time communication applications. A set of network conditions is used to simulate certain typical real-world network conditions. A coded video stream is transmitted from the transmitting end to the receiving end under these conditions. The end-to-end latency and received video fluency are measured along with a set of existing video quality measures by a video codec performance evaluation system including a network model and a video codec quality analyzer. The decodable frame ratio, latency and video fluency are used as the performance metrics for real-time communication video quality evaluation. The video codec performance evaluation system does not send any video data over a network when it determines the real-time communication quality of the video codec.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Wei Dai, Sheng Zhong, Tao Duan, Zesen Zhuang, Xiajun Gu
  • Patent number: 11439519
    Abstract: An under-driven prosthetic hand with a self-adaptive grasping function is provided, which belongs to the field of medical equipment. The prosthetic hand simultaneously controls four fingers to implement bending and stretching movements by a first motor through structural designs of a prosthetic hand body, a finger transmission module, an inter-finger transmission module, and a thumb driving module, and limits the transmission torque between the motor and screws using a damping shaft and in cooperation with the telescopic characteristic of a telescopic component. On the one hand, mechanical damage to the prosthetic hand structure due to excessive torque outputted by the motor can be prevented. On the other hand, the self-adaptive grasping function of the prosthetic hand can be implemented. The disclosure can also effectively solve issues such as excessive volume or mass of the prosthetic hand, complicated control system, and low operation precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Cai-Hua Xiong, Chuang Liu, Bai-Yang Sun, Zhi-Liang Xie, Tao Duan
  • Patent number: 11384444
    Abstract: A method for electrochemical extraction of uranium from seawater using an oxygen vacancy (OV)-containing metal oxide includes the following steps: adding glycerin to a solution of indium nitrate in isopropanol, transferring a resulting mixture to a reactor, and conducting reaction to obtain a spherical indium hydroxide solid; dissolving the solid in deionized water, transferring a resulting solution to the reactor, and conducting reaction to obtain a flaky indium hydroxide solid; calcining the solid to obtain calcined OV-containing In2O3-x; adding the In2O3-x to ethanol, and adding a membrane solution; coating a resulting solution uniformly on carbon paper, and naturally drying the carbon paper; clamping dried carbon paper with a gold electrode for being used as a working electrode for a three-electrode system; and adding simulated seawater to an electrolytic cell, placing the three-electrode system in the simulated seawater, and stirring the simulated seawater for electrolysis to extract uranium from the sea
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wenkun Zhu, Rong He, Yi Li, Tao Duan, Jia Lei, Tao Chen, Fan Yang
  • Patent number: 11293110
    Abstract: A method for extracting uranium with a coupling device of wind power generation and uranium extraction from seawater includes the following steps: adding oxygen vacancy (OV)-containing In2O3-x to absolute ethanol, and subjecting a resulting mixture to stirring and ultrasonic treatment to obtain a solution of In2O3-x in absolute ethanol; coating the solution uniformly on carbon cloth, and drying to obtain carbon cloth coated with OV-containing In2O3-x; inserting the coated carbon cloth (as a working electrode) and another blank carbon cloth (as a counter electrode) into a plastic carrier of a coupling device; fixing a small wind power generation apparatus above the plastic carrier, and connecting the working electrode and the counter electrode to a storage battery of the apparatus via wires; and placing the coupling device in seawater, and after the storage battery is charged, energizing the working electrode and the counter electrode to extract uranium from the seawater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wenkun Zhu, Rong He, Yi Li, Tao Duan, Jia Lei, Tao Chen, Fan Yang
  • Publication number: 20220090271
    Abstract: A method for electrochemical extraction of uranium from seawater using an oxygen vacancy (OV)-containing metal oxide includes the following steps: adding glycerin to a solution of indium nitrate in isopropanol, transferring a resulting mixture to a reactor, and conducting reaction to obtain a spherical indium hydroxide solid; dissolving the solid in deionized water, transferring a resulting solution to the reactor, and conducting reaction to obtain a flaky indium hydroxide solid; calcining the solid to obtain calcined OV-containing In2O3-x; adding the In2O3-x; to ethanol, and adding a membrane solution; coating a resulting solution uniformly on carbon paper, and naturally drying the carbon paper; clamping dried carbon paper with a gold electrode for being used as a working electrode for a three-electrode system; and adding simulated seawater to an electrolytic cell, placing the three-electrode system in the simulated seawater, and stirring the simulated seawater for electrolysis to extract uranium from the se
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wenkun ZHU, Rong HE, Yi LI, Tao DUAN, Jia LEI, Tao CHEN, Fan YANG
  • Patent number: 11277182
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of communications, and in particular to a hybrid beam forming architecture-based calibration compensation method and apparatus for improving the accuracy and effectiveness of calibration compensation. The method comprises: a base station determining a preset calibration weight vector matrix W and a preset first calibration signal matrix S, then transmitting N times consecutively calibration signals through analog transmission channels, calculating, according to the calibration weight vector matrix W, the first calibration signal matrix S and a first received data vector matrix YTX, a transmission channel error matrix ETX, and then performing error compensation on the analog transmission channels based on ETX.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingyan Ma, Shihua Wang, Tao Duan, Jian Wu, Yongli Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220045728
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of communications, and in particular to a hybrid beam forming architecture-based calibration compensation method and apparatus for improving the accuracy and effectiveness of calibration compensation. The method comprises: a base station determining a preset calibration weight vector matrix W and a preset first calibration signal matrix S, then transmitting N times consecutively calibration signals through analog transmission channels, calculating, according to the calibration weight vector matrix W, the first calibration signal matrix S and a first received data vector matrix YTX, a transmission channel error matrix ETX, and then performing error compensation on the analog transmission channels based on ETX.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jingyan MA, Shihua WANG, Tao DUAN, Jian WU, Yongli ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220042194
    Abstract: A method for extracting uranium with a coupling device of wind power generation and uranium extraction from seawater includes the following steps: adding oxygen vacancy (OV)-containing In2O3-x to absolute ethanol, and subjecting a resulting mixture to stirring and ultrasonic treatment to obtain a solution of In2O3-x in absolute ethanol; coating the solution uniformly on carbon cloth, and drying to obtain carbon cloth coated with OV-containing In2O3-x; inserting the coated carbon cloth (as a working electrode) and another blank carbon cloth (as a counter electrode) into a plastic carrier of a coupling device; fixing a small wind power generation apparatus above the plastic carrier, and connecting the working electrode and the counter electrode to a storage battery of the apparatus via wires; and placing the coupling device in seawater, and after the storage battery is charged, energizing the working electrode and the counter electrode to extract uranium from the seawater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wenkun ZHU, Rong HE, Yi LI, Tao DUAN, Jia LEI, Tao CHEN, Fan YANG
  • Publication number: 20210353437
    Abstract: An under-driven prosthetic hand with a self-adaptive grasping function is provided, which belongs to the field of medical equipment. The prosthetic hand simultaneously controls four fingers to implement bending and stretching movements by a first motor through structural designs of a prosthetic hand body, a finger transmission module, an inter-finger transmission module, and a thumb driving module, and limits the transmission torque between the motor and screws using a damping shaft and in cooperation with the telescopic characteristic of a telescopic component. On the one hand, mechanical damage to the prosthetic hand structure due to excessive torque outputted by the motor can be prevented. On the other hand, the self-adaptive grasping function of the prosthetic hand can be implemented. The disclosure can also effectively solve issues such as excessive volume or mass of the prosthetic hand, complicated control system, and low operation precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Cai-Hua Xiong, Chuang Liu, Bai-Yang Sun, Zhi-Liang Xie, Tao Duan
  • Patent number: 11171417
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a method and an apparatus for calibrating an antenna. In the method, in a receiving channel calibration process, first a receiving channel beam weight matrix is initially updated by using a receiving calibration signal from a reference beam direction, i.e., performing initial receiving channel calibration, and then, for different beam direction regions, beam weight vectors corresponding to multiple beam directions within particular beam direction regions are updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingyan Ma, Shihua Wang, Tao Duan, Jian Wu, Jieli Wang
  • Patent number: 11128382
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a multi-modulation-format compatible high-speed laser signal generation system and method. The disclosure can greatly improve modulation format compatibility of a laser communication system and saves system upgrading costs and resource costs. The system mainly includes a control instruction unit, a serial-parallel changeover switch unit, a precoding switch unit, a power control unit, an IQ modulator, a narrow line width laser, and a bias point control unit, wherein the control instruction unit is respectively connected to the serial-parallel changeover switch unit, the precoding switch unit, the power control unit, and the bias point control unit; the serial-parallel changeover switch unit, the precoding switch unit, the power control unit, and the IQ modulator are electrically connected in sequence; the narrow line width laser is connected to an optical input end of the IQ modulator; and the bias point control unit is connected to the IQ modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: XI'AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaoping Xie, Xinning Huang, Wei Wang, Tao Duan, Hui Hu, Yulong Su, Duorui Gao
  • Publication number: 20210257730
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a method and an apparatus for calibrating an antenna. In the method, in a receiving channel calibration process, first a receiving channel beam weight matrix is initially updated by using a receiving calibration signal from a reference beam direction, i.e., performing initial receiving channel calibration, and then, for different beam direction regions, beam weight vectors corresponding to multiple beam directions within particular beam direction regions are updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Jingyan MA, Shihua WANG, Tao DUAN, Jian WU, Jieli WANG
  • Patent number: 11088762
    Abstract: A phase-lock-free system includes a control instruction unit, a low-noise high-gain optical amplifier, an optical switch, a filter, an optical delay interferometer I, an optical delay interferometer Q, a first balanced detector, a second balanced detector, an anti-coding switch unit, a parallel-serial conversion unit, and a data processing unit. The control instruction unit is connected to the optical switch, the anti-coding switch unit, and the parallel-serial conversion unit, respectively; the low-noise high-gain optical amplifier is connected to the optical switch; the optical switch is connected to the first balanced detector and the second balanced detector by means of the filter, the optical delay interferometer I, and the optical delay interferometer Q, respectively. This system improves the compatibility of a communication system at a relay node in an existing laser communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: XI'AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xinning Huang, Wei Wang, Xiaoping Xie, Yulong Su, Hui Hu, Tao Duan, Duorui Gao