Patents by Inventor Tao Wang

Tao Wang 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: 20220213567
    Abstract: An ironmaking system and process of a two-section downdraft bed, including: a vertical melting furnace, where a basic combustor/gasifier is at the top, first and second inlets evenly along a side wall of the melting furnace below the basic combustor/gasifier, and the first inlet connected to coke powder/pulverized coal, air, and water vapor sources; a slag pool, at a bottom of the melting furnace; a vertical pre-reduction furnace, the top portion connected to the outlet of the melting furnace, third and fourth inlets on an upper portion of the pre-reduction furnace and connected respectively to a temperature-adjusting and tempering medium source and an iron mineral powder source, an outlet at a bottom of the pre-reduction furnace; and a separator, an inlet of the separator connected to the outlet of the pre-reduction furnace, and an outlet at a bottom of the separator connected to the second inlet through a pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chunyuan MA, Yuan ZHAO, Tao WANG, Binxuan ZHOU, Zhenfeng ZHOU, Juan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220212523
    Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of air outflow, and aims to solve the problem whereby louvers in an air outflow device in a current vehicle needs to be manually turned to adjust an air outflow direction. The invention provides an air outflow device. An opening/closing member and an air distribution member are rotatably disposed in an air inflow section, an outlet of a first air outflow section and an outlet of a second air outflow section are respectively provided with a first louver structure and a second louver structure, and a first driving member and a second driving member are disposed outside an air channel. The first driving member is capable of driving the opening/closing member to open/close the air inflow section so as to connect/disconnect the air inflow section, and is capable of driving the air distribution member to rotate so as to adjust an air outflow amount and a longitudinal air outflow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Chunhua ZHU, Haobin ZHANG, Tao WANG, Han ZHANG, Guangming TIAN, Yong LI
  • Publication number: 20220216374
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a light-emitting diode chip and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The light emitting diode chip includes a transparent substrate, an epitaxial layer, a first electrode and a second electrode. The epitaxial layer includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a light-emitting layer. A containing groove is formed in the first semiconductor layer, and a metal layer is arranged in the containing groove. The metal layer is in ohmic contact with the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer is provided with an inclined groove, and the transparent substrate is combined with the first semiconductor layer. The first electrode is arranged in the inclined groove, and the second electrode is arranged on the second semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: CHONGQING KONKA PHOTOELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Wang, CHIA-HUI SHEN, KAI-YI WU
  • Publication number: 20220202066
    Abstract: A robotic arm includes a base, a first robotic arm, a second robotic arm, a robotic hand and a cigarette holder connected in sequence. The cigarette holder includes a cigarette insertion hole and a cigarette smoking tube. The cigarette smoking tube is connected to a smoking simulator. The robotic arm further includes at least one air exhausting hole. The air exhausting hole is located around the cigarette holder and communicated with an air exhauster through an air exhausting pipe. The robotic arm swings to control the cigarette holder to carry a cigarette from a smoking position to an ash flicking position. Airflow is formed near the air exhausting hole by means of air exhaustion, so as to simulate influences of a wind speed in an outdoor environment on the columnar ash in the cigarette smoking process of the human body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Han ZHENG, Jianbo ZHAN, Hao WANG, Geng LI, Ying ZHANG, Zhenhua YU, Tao WANG, Jiao XIE, Tingting YU, Xu WANG, Liwei LI, Haiyan DING, Baoshan YUE, Jiang YU, Jing ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11373275
    Abstract: This application provides a method for generating a high-resolution picture performed by a computer device. The method includes: acquiring at least one deep neural network model; acquiring a low-resolution picture; determining a corresponding deep neural network model according to the low-resolution picture; and converting the low-resolution pictures into a high-resolution picture through the deep neural network model, the deep neural network model including a plurality of non-linear conversion convolution layers that alternately use different parameter matrices as convolution template parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuwing Tai, Lizhao Gao, Qiang Fu, Fangmin Chen, Da Yao, Hengfeng Tian, Yubin Xie, Liuji Zhou, Tao Wang, Yongjian Wu, Junhong Huang
  • Patent number: 11370592
    Abstract: A vacuum freshness preservation container that can be pressed on two sides provided in this application includes a container body and container cove. The container cover has chambers disposed symmetrically, a piston is slidably disposed in each chamber, and each chamber has an air outlet which communicates with an interior of the container body and where a first check valve is disposed. The piston is provided with an air discharge structure that communicates the chamber with an outside when the piston moves toward the first check valve, and the container cover is provided with a linkage mechanism such that the two pistons move in opposite directions. By alternately pressing pistons in two chambers, the chambers always keep in a vacuumizing state, thereby achieving a higher efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Jingding Packaging Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Amy Lee, Guangzhi Luo
  • Patent number: 11369624
    Abstract: This invention provides for prodrug Compounds I, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and their use in treating HIV infection. wherein: X is C or N with the proviso that when X is N, R1 does not exist; W is C or N with the proviso that when W is N, R2 does not exist; V is C; E is hydrogen or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and Y is selected from the group consisting of Also, this invention provides for intermediate Compounds II useful in making prodrug Compounds I. wherein: L and M are independently selected from the group consisting of C1-C6 alkyl, phenyl, benzyl, trialkylsilyl, -2,2,2-trichloroethoxy and 2-trimethylsilylethoxy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventors: Yasutsugu Ueda, Timothy P. Connolly, John F. Kadow, Nicholas A. Meanwell, Tao Wang, Chung-Pin H. Chen, Kap-Sun Yeung, Zhongxing Zhang, David Kenneth Leahy, Shawn K. Pack, Nachimuthu Soundararajan, Pierre Sirard, Kathia Levesque, Dominique Thoraval
  • Patent number: 11373267
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for graphics processing. Aspects of the present disclosure can determine a portion of a display area, where the portion of the display area is determined based on display content of the display area. Further, aspects of the present disclosure can communicate display information corresponding to the determined portion of the display area. Additionally, aspects of the present disclosure can update the display information corresponding to the determined portion of the display area. Aspects of the present disclosure can also communicate the updated display information corresponding to the determined portion of the display area. Aspects of the present disclosure can also render at least some display content of the display area corresponding to the determined portion of the display area. In some aspects, the updated display information can be based on the rendered display content of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Shambhoo Khandelwal, Andrew Evan Gruber, Shangmei Yu, Jing Gao, Junmei Shao, Thomas Edwin Frisinger, Rick Hammerstone
  • Patent number: 11370143
    Abstract: The present invention provides a chain saw, which includes a housing, a driving assembly mounted on the housing, a guide plate extending outward from the housing, a chain arranged on the guide plate and driven by the driving assembly, and a tension assembly for tightening the chain. The tension assembly includes an operating member and a driving member driven by the operating member, the driving member cooperates with the guide plate, and when a driving force is applied to the operating member, the driving member is driven and the guide plate is moved to tension the chain, and after the chain is tensioned, if the driving force is continuously applied to the operating member, the operating member disengages with the driving member, and the operating member continues to move to compress the guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Globe (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yuexun Cao, Lingao Zhang, Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 11375410
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a method and apparatus for obtaining configuration information performed at a terminal. The terminal obtains configuration information of a 5G local area network (LAN), the configuration information including an information item for assisting the terminal in making an access decision and at least one of the following information items: a first information item, for indicating whether the 5G LAN supports maintenance of session continuity with a public land mobile network (PLMN); a second information item, for indicating an identifier of the 5G LAN; and a third information item, for indicating a service-level agreement (SLA) of the 5G LAN. Next the terminal determines whether to access the 5G LAN according to the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tao Wang
  • Publication number: 20220193914
    Abstract: A device and method for collaborative servo control of motion vision of a robot in an uncalibrated agricultural scene is provided. The device includes a robot arm, a to-be-gripped target object, an image sensor and a control module. An end of a robot arm is provided with a mechanical gripper, and a to-be-gripped target object is within a grip range of the robot arm. A control module drives the mechanical gripper to grip the to-be-gripped target object, and controls an image sensor to perform image sampling on a process of gripping the to-be-gripped target object by the robot arm. The image sensor sends sampled image data to the control module. The device does not need to perform precise spatial calibration on the to-be-gripped target object and the related environment in the scene. The robot arm is guided to complete the gripping task according to trained networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chengliang LIU, Liang GONG, Xudong LI, Tao WANG, Xiaoye SHEN, Chenhui LIN, Jianfeng TAO
  • Patent number: 11368820
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The communication method for a wireless communication system is applied to a network side device, the method including: receiving group data transmitted by a transmitter device through an uplink channel; obtaining a target cell to which the group data is to be transmitted and a target transmission mode used for transmitting the group data to the target cell; and transmitting, based on the target transmission mode, the group data to the target cell through a downlink channel, for reception by a receiver device. In the technical solutions in the embodiments of this application, a group communication mechanism may be implemented with the assistance of the network side device, and a constructed device group can be effectively controlled through the network side device, thereby improving the reliability of group communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tao Wang
  • Publication number: 20220188999
    Abstract: This application relates to an image enhancement technology in the field of computer vision in the field of artificial intelligence, and provides an image enhancement method and apparatus. This application relates to the field of artificial intelligence, and specifically, to the field of computer vision. The method includes: adjusting a pixel value of a to-be-processed image, to obtain K images, where pixel values of the K images are different, and K is a positive integer greater than 1; extracting local features of the K images; extracting a global feature of the to-be-processed image; and performing image enhancement processing on the to-be-processed image based on the global feature and the local features, to obtain an image-enhanced output image. This method helps to improve the effect of image quality enhancement processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Tao WANG, Xian WANG, Fenglong SONG
  • Publication number: 20220188626
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: obtaining a target neural network structure and constraints for a target neural network; generating a meta learning network having an associated quantization function based, at least in part, on the target neural network structure; training the meta learning network based, at least in part, on providing a hybrid quantization vector as input to the meta learning network and providing a training dataset to the target neural network; obtaining a plurality of hybrid quantization vectors; determining a new hybrid quantization vector from the plurality of hybrid quantization vectors; and retraining the trained meta learning network based, at least in part, on providing the new hybrid quantization vector as input to the trained meta learning network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Chang Xu, Chao Xue, Qing Wang
  • Publication number: 20220184041
    Abstract: This application includes a compound of Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; wherein the variables R1a, R1b, R2, R3, X, Y and Z are as defined herein, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of Formula I and methods of treatment comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a compound of Formula I for the treatment of transthyretin amyloidosis and diseases related thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Cabral, Daniel Paul Canterbury, Robert Lee Dow, Andrew Fensome, Magdalena Korczynska, Sophie Yvette Lavergne, Allyn Timothy Londregan, Vincent Mascitti, David Walter Piotrowski, Andre Shavnya, Meihua Mike Tu, Tao Wang, Hanna Maria Wisniewska
  • Publication number: 20220184678
    Abstract: A method for setting a roll gap of sinusoidal corrugated rolling for a metal composite plate includes steps of: determining entrance thicknesses, exit thicknesses, a width, and a rolling temperature of a difficult-to-deform metal slab and an easy-to-deform metal slab; detecting a roll speed and an entrance speed of a metal composite slab, obtaining a roll radius and friction factors; determining parameters of a sinusoidal corrugating roll and a quantity of complete sinusoidal corrugations on the sinusoidal corrugating roll; then calculating a time required for a complete corrugated rolling; calculating a rolling force at any time during the sinusoidal corrugated rolling of the metal composite plate; and calculating the roll gap S of the corrugated rolling at any time according to the rolling force F, and configuring a rolling mill to have the roll gap S according to an actual rolling schedule before normal production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Yaunming Liu, Tao Wang, Pingju Hao, Zhenhua Wang, Dongping He, Zhongkai Ren, Jianchao Han, Qingxue Huang
  • Publication number: 20220191453
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented method that includes using a reinforcement learning (RL) system to generate a first set of displayed region candidates based on inputs received from online users while watching video. A recommendation system is used to rank the first set of displayed region candidates based on inputs received from a local user watching video. The recommendation system is further used to select a first highest ranked one of the first set of displayed region candidates. Based on the first highest ranked one of the first set of displayed region candidates, a first section of a first raw video frame is fetched that matches the first highest ranked one of the first set of displayed candidate regions, wherein the first section of the first raw video frame includes a first predicted display region of the video frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Shi Lei Zhang, Lingyun Wang, Qing WANG
  • Patent number: 11358662
    Abstract: With an idler, a first member includes a first boss portion, a first rim portion, and a side plate. A second member includes a second boss portion, a second rim portion, and a side plate. A third member includes a third boss portion having a third axle hole portion configured to allow insertion of an axle. The third boss portion is disposed between the first boss portion and the second boss portion. A first welded portion is formed between the second boss portion and the third boss portion and connects the second and third boss portions. A second welded portion is formed between the first boss portion and the third boss portion and connects the first and third boss portions. A third welded portion is formed between the first rim portion and the second rim portion and connects the first and second rim portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Kenichi Hisamatsu, Minoru Katayama
  • Patent number: D955987
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Ye Yang, Kai Li
  • Patent number: D956693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Ningning Li