Patents by Inventor Tao Lu

Tao Lu 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: 20240127408
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to an adaptive deformable kernel prediction network for image de-noising. An embodiment of a method for de-noising an image by a convolutional neural network implemented on a compute engine, the image including a plurality of pixels, the method comprising: for each of the plurality of pixels of the image, generating a convolutional kernel having a plurality of kernel values for the pixel; generating a plurality of offsets for the pixel respectively corresponding to the plurality of kernel values, each of the plurality of offsets to indicate a deviation from a pixel position of the pixel; determining a plurality of deviated pixel positions based on the pixel position of the pixel and the plurality of offsets; and filtering the pixel with the convolutional kernel and pixel values of the plurality of deviated pixel positions to obtain a de-noised pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Anbang Yao, Ming Lu, Yikai Wang, Xiaoming Chen, Junjie Huang, Tao Lv, Yuanke Luo, Yi Yang, Feng Chen, Zhiming Wang, Zhiqiao Zheng, Shandong Wang
  • Publication number: 20240130022
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of lighting, and discloses an LED filament. The LED filament includes an LED chip unit, a light conversion layer, and an electrode. The light conversion layer covers the LED chip unit and part of the electrode, and a color of a light emitted by the LED filament after lighting is different from a color of the light conversion layer. This application has the characteristics of uniform light emission and good heat dissipation effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Tao Jiang, Lin Zhou, Ming-Bin Wang, Chih-Shan Yu, Rong-Huan Yang, Ji-Feng Xu, Heng Zhao, Jian Lu, Qi Wu
  • Publication number: 20240121479
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to multimedia processing method, apparatus, device and medium, wherein the method includes: presenting a first multimedia interface comprising first content; receiving an interface switching request of a user in the first multimedia interface; and switching from the first multimedia interface currently presented to a second multimedia interface, and presenting second content in the second multimedia interface, wherein the first content comprises the second content and other content associated with the second content, and the second content comprises a target audio and a target subtitle corresponding to the target audio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kojung CHEN, Yinuo ZHOU, Biao GONG, Jingsheng YANG, Tian ZHAO, Jinghui LIU, Daqian LU, Yao YANG, Tao CHENG, Zaofeng PAN, Tianhui SHI, Rongyi TANG, Guodong GONG
  • Publication number: 20240121997
    Abstract: Provided are a display substrate, a preparation method thereof and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a first semi-conductive layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a second semi-conductive layer, a third conductive layer, an interlayer insulating layer and an organic layer stacked on a substrate. The first semi-conductive layer includes an active layer of a polysilicon transistor, the first conductive layer includes a gate electrode of a polysilicon transistor and a first electrode plate of a storage capacitor, the second conductive layer includes a second electrode plate of a storage capacitor, the second semi-conductive layer includes an active layer of an oxide transistor, and the third conductive layer includes a gate electrode of an oxide transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaoqi DING, Peng HUANG, Ke LIU, Tao GAO, Xinlei YANG, Guoyi CUI, Zeliang LI, Hui LU
  • Publication number: 20240121424
    Abstract: Methods and systems for canvas size scalability across the same or different bitstream layers of a video coded bitstream are described. Offset parameters for a conformance window, a reference region of interest (ROI) in a reference layer, and a current ROI in a current layer are received. The width and height of a current ROI and a reference ROI are computed based on the offset parameters and they are used to generate a width and height scaling factor to be used by a reference picture resampling unit to generate an output picture based on the current ROI and the reference ROI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Peng Yin, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Tao Chen
  • Publication number: 20240109337
    Abstract: A label printing and attaching system includes a label printing device and a label attaching device. The label printing device has an ink tape supply mechanism for supplying an ink tape with a label pattern. A label tape supply mechanism of the label printing device is adapted to supply a label tape that includes a carrier tape and blank label paper adhered to the carrier tape. The label printing device further includes a heat transfer machine adapted to heat transfer the label pattern on the ink tape onto the blank label paper of the label tape to obtain a desired label. The label attaching device has a label picker adapted to pick up the label with the printed label pattern from the label tape, and a moving device adapted to move the label picker to place the picked label with the printed label pattern onto a product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Dongguan) Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Hongzhou (Andy) Shen, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Guoqiang Liu, Ziqiang Xiong, Kai Fu, Xueyun Zhu, Yi Li, Xuyan Yu
  • Publication number: 20240112880
    Abstract: Provided is a method of ion beam processing based on optical microscopy imaging, including: marking a surface of a sample using the ion beam, so as obtain a registration reference pattern; performing a three-dimensional optical imaging on the sample to obtain a first three-dimensional light microscopy image; projecting the first three-dimensional light microscopy image to a cutting angle of the ion beam, and determining a first position of a to-be-researched target in the first three-dimensional light microscopy image based on the registration reference pattern; performing an ion beam imaging on the sample to obtain an image excited by the ion beam, and determining, according to the first position, a second position of the to-be-researched target in the image excited by the ion beam; and thinning the sample according to the second position to obtain a first slice containing the to-be-researched target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Tao XU, Wei JI, Weixing LI, Jing LU, Ke XIAO
  • Patent number: 11945658
    Abstract: A platform for processing a workpiece includes a transmission mechanism, a plurality of workstations and a plurality of movable vehicles. The transmission mechanism transports the workpiece to be processed to one of the plurality of workstations. Each movable vehicle includes a processing module and a docking interface adapted to connect with a docking station of each workstation. The movable vehicles are each adapted to move in and out of each workstation, and each processing module is adapted to process the workpiece transmitted to the workstation after the movable vehicle is moved in and positioned in the workstation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Tyco Electronics (Qingdao) Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Cao, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Fengchun (Fred) Xie, An (Joshua) Yang, Yun (Shanghai) Liu, Wenhe Ma, Peng Ji, Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Tao Xu
  • Patent number: 11946759
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device for a vehicle according to the present disclosure comprises a processing circuit configured to: determine load information of the vehicle; generate vehicle information, with the vehicle information comprising the load information of the vehicle; and send the vehicle information to a server for the server to determine, according to the vehicle information, road planning information for the vehicle. By using the electronic device, the wireless communication method and the computer-readable storage medium according to the present disclosure, the load information of the vehicle can be taken into consideration during road planning and decision planning, thereby better managing the load of the vehicle and more rationally planning a road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tao Cui, Chen Sun, Rui Lu, Yi Liu
  • Publication number: 20240099972
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method to improve the encapsulation efficiency and physicochemical stability of ginsenosides Rg3 and CK nano-emulsion, belonging to the field of functional emulsions. The method to improve the encapsulation efficiency and physicochemical stability of ginsenosides Rg3 and CK nano-emulsion, includes the following steps: (1) WPI, Tween 80 and water were mixed evenly according to the amount ratio of 0.5 g:0.5-0.7 g:50 mL to obtain the aqueous phase; (2) Mixing a saponin extract containing the minor ginsenosides Rg3 and CK with edible oil evenly to obtain the oil phase; (3) Mixing the aqueous phase with the oil phase, carrying out shearing dispersion to obtain coarse emulsion, and then allowing the coarse emulsion to be subjected to microfluidization homogenization to obtain an oil-in-water nano-emulsion containing the minor ginsenosides Rg3 and CK.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Peng ZHOU, Changshu Liu, Yaowei Liu, Tao Yang, Yan Zheng, Jianguo Liu, Kexin Li, Shuyan Lu
  • Publication number: 20240103767
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for synchronously accessing data. The method may include sending metadata associated with data to be moved by a user to a programmable network device associated with a persistent memory containing the data, so as to enable the programmable network device to move the data based on the metadata, wherein the programmable network device is a smart network interface card having a remote direct memory access function. The method may also include entering a hibernation state. In addition, the method may include exiting from the hibernation state in response to receiving a confirmation of operation completion from the programmable network device, so as to notify the user that an operation of moving the data is complete.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Ran Liu, Wei Lu
  • Publication number: 20240103112
    Abstract: This disclosure may provide a system and a method. The method may include obtaining one or more sets of reference signals collected by a coil of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device in a pre-scan. The pre-scan may be performed on a subject before an MRI scan of the subject. The method may also include obtaining a first fault detection model. The first fault detection model may be a trained machine learning model. The method may further include determining whether the coil has a failure based on the one or more sets of reference signals and the first fault detection model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao SUN, Li TONG, Hai LU, Kairui HU
  • Patent number: 11943643
    Abstract: An access point (AP) and a station (STA) communicate with each other, with the AP indicating to the STA either or both of a preamble detection (PD) channel and a signaling (SIG) content channel and with the STA being initially monitoring a primary frequency segment of a plurality of frequency segments in an operating bandwidth of the AP. A downlink (DL) or triggered uplink (UL) communication is performed between the AP and the STA during a transmission opportunity (TXOP) such that: (i) during the TXOP, the STA monitors a preamble on the PD channel and decodes a SIG content on the SIG content channel; and (ii) after an end of the TXOP, the STA switches to the primary frequency segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Ying Lu, Yongho Seok, Hung-Tao Hsieh, Cheng-Yi Chang, James Chih-Shi Yee, Jianhan Liu, Po-Yuen Cheng
  • Publication number: 20240096811
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a package structure and a method of manufacturing a package. The package structure includes a semiconductor die laterally encapsulated by an encapsulant, a redistribution structure and bumps. The redistribution structure is disposed on the semiconductor die and the encapsulant, and is electrically connected with the at least one semiconductor die. The bumps are disposed on the redistribution structure. The redistribution structure includes dielectric layers and metallic pattern layers sandwiched between the dielectric layers. The redistribution structure includes metallic pads on an outermost dielectric layer of the dielectric layers, and the outmost dielectric layer has undercut cavities beside the metallic pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuan-Chung Lu, Bo-Tao Chen, An-Jhih Su, Ming-Shih Yeh, Der-Chyang Yeh
  • Patent number: 11936888
    Abstract: Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robin Atkins, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Walter J. Husak, Tao Chen, Guan-Ming Su
  • Patent number: 11933824
    Abstract: A power monitor comprises a current/voltage transformer, an electric energy meter connected in series with the current/voltage transformer, and at least one current regulating element connected between the current/voltage transformer and the electric energy meter. The current/voltage transformer connects the electric energy meter to a load to monitor the electric energy consumed by the load by the electric energy meter. When a current flowing from the current/voltage transformer to the electric energy meter is greater than or equal to a threshold current, the at least one current regulating element reduces the current to less than a rated maximum current of the electric energy meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Publication number: 20240089474
    Abstract: Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robin Atkins, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Walter J. Husak, Tao Chen, Guan-Ming Su
  • Patent number: D1019603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Hoyean Kim, Tao Lu, Alexander Demin
  • Patent number: D1020075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SMOORE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Mingming Wang, Tao Lu
  • Patent number: D1021856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Hoyean Kim, Tao Lu, Alexander Demin