Patents by Inventor Tao Lin
Tao Lin 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: 20220413340Abstract: A display apparatus including a circuit board, a plurality of light-emitting devices and a display panel is provided. The light-emitting devices are disposed on the circuit board and electrically connected to the circuit board. The display panel is disposed on the light-emitting devices. The display panel includes a peripheral light-shielding pattern. An opening portion of the peripheral light-shielding pattern defines an active area of the display panel. A physical portion of the peripheral light-shielding pattern defines a non-active area of the display panel. An optical axis of a light-emitting surface of at least one of the light-emitting devices is located at a junction of the active area and the non-active area, at the non-active area, or at the active area and a side wall of the at least one of the light-emitting devices is located at the junction of the active area and the non-active area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Coretronic CorporationInventors: Yu-Yu Liu, Tao-Lin Wang, Wen-Pin Yang, Chen-Hung Lin, Chung-Cheng Lin, Guan-Jr Huang
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Publication number: 20220405864Abstract: A crop yield estimation method based on spatio-temporal deep learning including: obtaining regional historical crop yield data and meteorological data, preprocessing the meteorological data and the yield data to respectively obtain meteorological parameters and a detrended yield as input and output of the crop yield spatio-temporal deep learning model; constructing the spatio-temporal deep learning model for crop yield estimation, and optimizing hyperparameters; and building a training set by taking the meteorological parameters as an input and the detrended yield as output to train the model and obtain parameters of the model; for the crop yield to be estimated, feeding meteorological parameters into the trained model, and obtaining the crop yield estimation result. The model combined temporal and spatial learning to achieve better crop yield estimation accuracy and stability at large spatial scales.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Tao LIN, Renhai ZHONG, Jinfan XU, Hao JIANG, Yibin YING, Kuan-Chong TING
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Publication number: 20220406054Abstract: Disclosed is a large-scale crop phenology extraction method based on a shape model fitting method. The method comprises: acquiring a multi-year vegetation index time sequence curve in a localized geographic region; performing smooth fitting on the vegetation index time sequence curve by using a dual logistic function fitting means; establishing shape models by using reference curves and reference points of agrometeorological stations; performing shape model fitting by means of transformation; and obtaining a phenological period extraction value of the localized geographic region by means of calculation using the optimal scaling parameter. According to the present invention, macroscopic features of the curve are used, such that the influence of localized fluctuation and noise of the curve can be reduced, and a better extraction precision is obtained; and each phenological period of a crop can be extracted at the same time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Tao LIN, Zhixian LIN, Hao JIANG, Yibin YING
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Publication number: 20220393678Abstract: The present invention provides a driving circuit for a driving hip. The driving circuit includes a bootstrap circuit with a bootstrap voltage terminal. A power terminal of a high-voltage driving circuit is connected to the bootstrap voltage terminal, and a ground terminal of the high-voltage driving circuit is connected to a regulating terminal. A high-side drive circuit includes a high-side pull-up circuit and a high-side pull-down circuit. The driving circuit includes: an auxiliary power terminal; a mirror current source an input terminal of the mirror current source being connected to the bootstrap voltage terminal; a first MOS transistor; a second MOS transistor an equivalent diode component, an output terminal of the second MOS transistor being connected to the regulating terminal through the equivalent diode component; and an equivalent resistance component, the gate of the first MOS transistor being connected to the regulating terminal through the equivalent resistance component.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: TAO LIN, SHAOYU MA, YUN SHENG
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Publication number: 20220383287Abstract: A transaction card is provided for communicating with a computing device. The transaction card may comprise a computer interface device, at least one memory, at least one processor, and a card reader module. The card reader module configured to receive, from the computing device through the computer interface device, a first data packet comprising a request associated with a transaction, the first data packet being compatible with an interface protocol. The card reader module may process the first data packet to generate a second data packet compatible with the payment authentication protocol; provide the second data packet to the processor; receive, from the processor, a third data packet comprising a response to the request; process the third data packet to generate a fourth data packet based on the response, the fourth data packet compatible with the interface protocol; and transmit, to the computer interface device, the fourth data packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Timur SHERIF, Matthew KLOSTER, Tao LIN, Kevin OSBORN
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Publication number: 20220373814Abstract: Disclosed is an optical component (20) applied to a depth camera having a light source (11). The optical component (20) includes a light-homogenized element (21) having a microlens array (212) and a receiving lens (22). The light-homogenized element (21) is arranged on a light beam propagation path of the light source (11), and is used for modulating a light field emitted by the light source (11) of the depth camera to form a light beam which is not interfered to form light and dark stripes. The receiving lens (22) is adapted to a field angle of the light-homogenized element (21), and the receiving lens (22) is configured to allow at least a part of the light beam passing through the light-homogenized element (21) to enter the receiving lens (22) after being reflected by a target object. The optical component (20) is beneficial to acquiring complete and clear image information of a target object.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Xinye Lou, Yuhuang Meng, He Huang, Tao Lin
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Publication number: 20220335468Abstract: Aspects described herein allow for systems and methods for spending reward points utilizing payment tokens and verifying reward payment tokens in cross-site transactions for reward purchases. The reward payment token system may include one or more of a reward payment token server, a merchant server, or one or more devices all connected via the network. The reward payment token server may include one or more of the following components: a reward payment token engine, a token translation engine, a rewards engine, a reward payment token database, or a rewards database. The reward payment token system and reward payment token server provide the unique capability of providing real-time spending of rewards without the customer having a pre-existing relationship and/or integration between the two businesses.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2021Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Timur Sherif, Tao Lin, Christopher Wu
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Publication number: 20220303035Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for sending and receiving a clock synchronization packet in FlexE. The method includes: generating, by a sending apparatus, indication information and a plurality of data blocks, where the plurality of data blocks are obtained by encoding a first clock synchronization packet, the indication information is used to indicate a first data block, and the first data block is a data block used for timestamp sampling in the plurality of data blocks; determining, by the sending apparatus, according to the indication information, a moment at which the first data block arrives at a medium dependent interface MDI of the sending apparatus, and generating a sending timestamp, where the sending timestamp is used to record a sending moment of the first clock synchronization packet; generating a second clock synchronization packet carrying the sending timestamp; and sending, by the sending apparatus, the second clock synchronization packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiang He, Yunlei Qi, Jingfeng Chen, Tao Lin, Junmin Song, Xinyuan Wang
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Publication number: 20220300273Abstract: An over-the-air (OTA) mobility service platform (MSP) is disclosed that provides a variety of OTA services, including but not limited to: updating software OTA (SOTA), updating firmware OTA (FOTA), client connectivity, remote control and operation monitoring. In some exemplary embodiments, the MSP is a distributed computing platform that delivers and/or updates one or more of configuration data, rules, scripts and other services to vehicles and IoT devices. In some exemplary embodiments, the MSP optionally provides data ingestion, storage and management, data analytics, real-time data processing, remote control of data retrieving, insurance fraud verification, predictive maintenance and social media support.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Tao Lin, Pratikkumar Desai, Rasmus Hjorth Nielsen, Mahbubul Alam, Li Jin, Revanth Attam, Leo Dumov, Suhasini John Gadam, Atul Ashok, Sneha Prasad Alam, Dhanaji More, Mohamed Karkori
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Patent number: 11451835Abstract: An image coding method and apparatus and an image decoding method and apparatus are provided by the present invention. The image coding method includes: implementing matching coding for pixels of an input video image to obtain one or more matching relationship parameters, herein the matching relationship parameters are parameters used in a process of constructing predicted values and/or reconstructed values of the pixels in the image; mapping the matching relationship parameters to obtain mapped values of the matching relationship parameters; and performing entropy coding on the mapped values of the matching relationship parameters. The present invention addresses the problem existing in the conventional art which is caused by the direct implementation of entropy coding for matching relationship parameters and achieves a good data compression effect through entropy coding.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignees: Tongji University, ZTE CorporationInventors: Tao Lin, Ming Li, Guoqiang Shang, Zhao Wu
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Publication number: 20220292660Abstract: A method for manufacturing a component carrier. The method includes (a) supplying a semifinished or finished component carrier to an automatic or semi-automatic optical inspection device and (b) performing an automatic or semi-automatic optical inspection by capturing a first image with a first illumination; capturing a second image with a second illumination; comparing a data set indicative of the first image and/or the second image with a reference data set; and identifying potential defects; (c) performing a quality classification of the semifinished or finished component carrier by generating a virtual third image indicative of the component carrier under a virtual different third illumination having a third spectral composition different from both the first spectral composition and from the second spectral composition; processing the three images; classifying the potential defects in true defects and false defects; and (d) taking action based on the quality classification.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Yong Wang, Xuebing Wan, Yanxu Chen, Yang Chen, Tao Lin
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Patent number: 11443292Abstract: A transaction card is provided for communicating with a computing device. The transaction card may comprise a computer interface device, at least one memory, at least one processor, and a card reader module. The card reader module configured to receive, from the computing device through the computer interface device, a first data packet comprising a request associated with a transaction, the first data packet being compatible with an interface protocol. The card reader module may process the first data packet to generate a second data packet compatible with the payment authentication protocol; provide the second data packet to the processor; receive, from the processor, a third data packet comprising a response to the request; process the third data packet to generate a fourth data packet based on the response, the fourth data packet compatible with the interface protocol; and transmit, to the computer interface device, the fourth data packet.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLCInventors: Timur Sherif, Matthew Kloster, Tao Lin, Kevin Osborn
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Patent number: 11435589Abstract: An optical waveguide includes an input diffractive optical element arranged for being aligned with an optical projector for diffracting the light beam therefrom, a waveguide substrate arranged for reflecting the light beam diffracted by the input diffractive optical element by means of total internal reflection, and an output diffractive optical element coupled at said waveguide substrate for partially diffracting the light beam as a diffracted light and partially transmitting the light beam as a transmitted light during the total internal reflection of the light beam within the waveguide substrate. The diffracted light is diffracted by the output diffractive optical element and is projected out of the waveguide substrate toward the user eye. The transmitted light is continuously transmitted and reflected within the waveguide substrate by the total internal reflection until the transmitted light is totally diffracted out of the waveguide substrate, so as to complete an exit pupil expansion.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Shanghai North Ocean Photonics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xinye Lou, He Huang, Tao Lin
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Patent number: 11431977Abstract: An image coding method and apparatus, and an image decoding method and apparatus are provided. In the coding method, a scanning manner parameter of a coding block is determined, and the scanning manner parameter may include at least one of: a region indication parameter used for determining a scanning region of the coding block and a scanning indication parameter used for determining a scanning order of pixels in a scanning region of the coding block; predicted values of part or all of pixels in the coding block are determined according to the scanning manner parameter; and the coding block is coded according to the predicted values, and a coding result is written into a bitstream.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignees: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD, TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Tao Lin, Ming Li, Guoqiang Shang, Zhao Wu
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Publication number: 20220257006Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a desk-mounted lifting platform comprising a workbench, an upper support and a low support. The workbench is connected to the upper support. A first lifting arm and a second lifting arm are arranged between the upper support and the lower support. The first lifting arm and the second lifting arm are X-shaped and hinged at an intersection thereof. An upper end of the first lifting arm is hinged with the upper support. A lower end of the first lifting arm is slidably fitted on the lower support. A lower end of the second lifting arm is hinged with the lower support. An upper end of the second lifting arm is slidably fitted on the upper support. A gas spring is arranged between the upper support and the lower support. The gas spring is used for providing a lifting force to lift the upper support.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Lehong XIANG, Tao LIN, Fangyuan LI
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Patent number: 11409118Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device for generating a 3D light field. The device comprises a first lens having a fixed focal length, and an imaging element arranged to send light into the first lens. The imaging element is configured to send the light from different positions within a defined distance on the optical axis of the first lens, in order to produce different depth layers of the 3D light field within a frame duration.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Cambridge Enterprise LimitedInventors: Jia Jia, Jhensi Chen, Daping Chu, Qing Zhang, Tao Lin
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Publication number: 20220248353Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a synchronization method and a device. First, a device marks, based on a preset period, a periodic code block in a data bitstream to be sent from a MAC layer to a PHY layer, then sends the data bitstream to a peer device through the PHY layer, records a sending time of each periodic code block as a first timestamp during sending, and returns the first timestamp to the MAC layer. To be specific, by marking a timestamp for the periodic code block received from the MAC layer, the device sets a PHY-layer-based time reference scale (namely, the first timestamp) at the PHY layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yongzhi LIU, Tao LIN, Jianqiang LIU, Chun YUAN
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Publication number: 20220243347Abstract: The application provides a determination method and a determination apparatus for conversion efficiency of hydrogen production by wind-solar hybrid electrolysis of water. The method includes that: first test data of a target factor influencing the conversion efficiency of hydrogen production by wind-solar hybrid electrolysis of water is acquired in real time; a neural network model of the conversion efficiency is established; and the conversion efficiency is determined according to the neural network model and the first test data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Tao LIANG, Hexu SUN, Xin CAO, Yan DONG, Tao LIN, Zhaoming LEI, Bin LIU, Wenzhe LIAO, Xiaoliang QIN, Xiaoyang WEI
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Patent number: 11402867Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display workstation used on a desktop, comprising an extension module for connection with a power module in the display workstation, and on the peripheral edge of the display workstation, there provides a detachable connection structure by which the extension module can be placed at different positions of the peripheral edge, as a sliding chute comprised by two guide rails is disposed along the edge of the display workstation and the bends of the sliding chute are in arc transition; the extension module is inserted on the guide rails on the outer side and can be connected to power source while sliding with the guide rails along the sliding chute to the required position.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Inventors: Lehong Xiang, Tao Lin, Fangyuan Li
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Patent number: 11403087Abstract: An over-the-air (OTA) mobility service platform (MSP) is disclosed that provides a variety of OTA services, including but not limited to: updating software OTA (SOTA), updating firmware OTA (FOTA), client connectivity, remote control and operation monitoring. In some exemplary embodiments, the MSP is a distributed computing platform that delivers and/or updates one or more of configuration data, rules, scripts and other services to vehicles and IoT devices. In some exemplary embodiments, the MSP optionally provides data ingestion, storage and management, data analytics, real-time data processing, remote control of data retrieving, insurance fraud verification, predictive maintenance and social media support.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Motional AD LLCInventors: Tao Lin, Pratikkumar Desai, Rasmus Hjorth Nielsen, Mahbubul Alam, Li Jin, Revanth Attam, Leo Dumov, Suhasini John Gadam, Atul Ashok, Sneha Prasad Alam, Dhanaji More, Mohamed Karkori