Patents by Inventor Tao Zhang

Tao Zhang 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: 20240155332
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A UE may cooperate with a group of one or more other UEs, where the UEs may each operate as a panel in a wireless communications system. To ensure updated information based on the cooperation status of the UE is provided to a network, the UE may receive one or more capability request messages from a base station. The UE may determine a group cooperation capability of the UE, based on a current group cooperation status of the UE. The group cooperation status may be based on the UE operating in cooperation with a group of UEs for communicating with the base station. The UE may then transmit, to the base station, one or more messages indicating the group cooperation capability of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Fang YUAN, Aleksandar DAMNJANOVIC, Shaozhen GUO, Tao LUO, Xiaoxia ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240155631
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for utilizing and processing repeated DCI transmissions that schedule common uplink or downlink transmissions. The techniques allow a UE to decide which repeated DCI to use for determining resources for the uplink or downlink transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Jing SUN, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20240154779
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a subband full duplex (SBFD) pattern report, indicating a candidate SBFD pattern. The candidate SBFD pattern may indicate a candidate number of downlink or uplink subbands, a number of or location of guard bands, frequency locations of the uplink or downlink subbands or guard bands, a total uplink and downlink bandwidth, time locations of SBFD symbols or slots, transmit/receive beam pairs, transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state pairs or timing, or any combination thereof. The network may configure the UE with an SBFD pattern based on receiving the SBFD pattern report (e.g., which may or may not be the same as the reported candidate SBFD pattern).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Hemant Saggar, Qian Zhang, Tao Luo, Navid Abedini
  • Publication number: 20240154781
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In a wireless communication system, a first wireless node may transmit a configuration message indicating one or more spatial configurations for communicating with a second wireless node. A spatial configuration may include one or more different sets of spatial parameters for half-duplex communications and full-duplex communications between the wireless nodes. In some examples, the first wireless node may select a first set of spatial parameters for half-duplex communications or a second set of spatial parameters for full-duplex communications based on an explicit indication or a resource configuration. The wireless nodes may perform half- or full-duplex communications using the first or second set of spatial parameters, respectively, in accordance with the configuration message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Hemant Saggar, Qian Zhang, Tao Luo, Navid Abedini
  • Publication number: 20240155568
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for maintaining, between a user equipment (UE) and a component of a base station (BS), a mutual understanding of multiple sets of linked physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates if some PDCCH candidates of the multiple sets of linked PDCCH candidates occupy a same set of resources. In one aspect, the UE may select to monitor one of the PDCCH candidates that occupy the same set of resources in accordance with a prioritization rule. Upon selecting one of the PDCCH candidates that occupy the same set of resources for monitoring by the UE, the UE and the component of the BS may select a reference PDCCH candidate for one or more of the multiple sets of PDCCH candidates in accordance with a reference selection rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Yitao CHEN, Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Jing SUN, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20240150194
    Abstract: A low-carbon, high-purity tantalum pentoxide powder has a carbon content of no greater than 15 ppm. A preparation method for the powder includes: (1) adding a fluotantalic acid (H2TaF7) solution into a reaction kettle, controlling the temperature of the reaction kettle at 30-60° C., adding a precipitator until the pH of the reaction solution is 8-10, then stopping introducing ammonia, and aging to obtain a tantalum hydroxide slurry; (2) filtering and washing the slurry obtained in step (1), and then carrying out solid-liquid separation to obtain a tantalum hydroxide filter cake; (3) drying the filter cake obtained in step (2) to obtain white tantalum hydroxide powder; (4) calcining the tantalum hydroxide powder obtained in step (3), crushing and screening the calcined sample to obtain tantalum pentoxide powder; and (5) subjecting the tantalum pentoxide powder obtained in step (4) to heat treatment at a temperature of 1000-1500° C. to obtain the powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NINGXIA ORIENT TANTALUM INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shun Guo, Jinfeng Zheng, Tao Guo, Hongyuan Liang, Yuewei Cheng, Jingyi Zuo, Li Zhang, Ying Wang, Tong Liu, Hongjie Qin
  • Publication number: 20240151386
    Abstract: An LED lighting device includes a seat, an optical assembly and a light source. The seat has a baseplate and a sidewall. A chamber is formed between the baseplate and the sidewall. The optical assembly completely covers a light-emitting side of the LED lighting device. The light source is disposed in the chamber of the seat and includes multiple LED arrays. Each LED array includes an LED chip. The optical assembly includes an optical unit. The optical unit includes multiple first optical members and multiple second optical members corresponding to the first optical members. The LED arrays correspond to the first optical members. Each first optical member possesses an effect of light diffusion resulting from its own material property. Each second optical member includes one or more sets of optical walls. Each set of optical walls surrounds one of the first optical members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: MINGBIN WANG, ZHICHAO ZHANG, DONGMEI ZHANG, JIFENG XU, TAO JIANG, KUAN LIN
  • Publication number: 20240151258
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a fastener for a server cabinet and the server cabinet. The fastener for the server cabinet includes an upper limit member, a fastening spring, a lower limit member, and a fastening pin rod. The present disclosure relates to the field of server cabinet technology. The fastener for the server cabinet provided in the present disclosure is small in volume, compact and reliable in structure, stable in fastening, and suitable for fastening connection in narrow space. The fastener may easily achieve fastening or unfastening operation by rotating 90° without restriction of a rotation direction, which is fast in installation and convenient for disassembly and assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Binghua ZHANG, Mingjiang LI, Tao LIU
  • Publication number: 20240153199
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a method and apparatus for image transmission for three-dimensional (3D) scene reconstruction. A target image may be obtained. A geometry feature and an appearance feature may be disentangled from the target image. An intermediate image may be reconstructed based on the geometry feature and a reference appearance feature. A difference between the intermediate image and the target image may be determined. The geometry feature may be transmitted to a receiving device for 3D scene reconstruction in response to determining that the difference is lower than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Xiao Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Tao Xu, Jie Tang, Yaobo Liang, Yanan Wei
  • Patent number: 11979701
    Abstract: Disclosed is an open earphone, comprising a sound production component and an ear hook. The ear hook may include a first portion and a second portion connected in sequence. The first portion may be hung between the auricle of a user and the head of the user, the second portion may extend toward a front outer side of the auricle and connect the sound production component, and the sound production component may be located close to the ear canal but not block the opening of the ear canal; wherein the sound production component and the auricle may have a first projection and a second projection on a sagittal plane, respectively, a centroid of the first projection may have a first distance from a highest point of the second projection in a vertical axis direction, a ratio of the first distance to a height of the second projection in the vertical axis direction may be within a range of 0.25-0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11979884
    Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a user equipment (UE). The apparatus may receive, from a base station via a DCI message, an indication of at least one K1 value corresponding to a plurality of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions over a plurality of PDSCH resources. The DCI message may comprise scheduling information for the plurality of PDSCH transmissions. The at least one K1 value may be associated with at least one physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource and indicative of a PDSCH-to-hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing. The apparatus may transmit, to the base station via the at least one PUCCH resource, at least one acknowledgment/negative-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) indication associated with the at least one K1 value and corresponding to the plurality of PDSCH resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qingjiang Tian, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Zhifei Fan, Tao Luo, Wooseok Nam, Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail, Anantha Krishna Karthik Nagarajan, Jun Ma
  • Patent number: 11979843
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to synchronization signal (SS) transmission coordination among base stations (BSs) and restricted SS measurements at user equipments (UEs) are provided. A first BS transmits a first SS burst in a first SS transmission period of a plurality of SS transmission periods. The first SS transmission period is designated to the first BS. A second SS transmission period of the plurality of SS transmission periods is designated to a second BS. The first SS transmission period and the second SS transmission period are different. The first BS receives, from a UE, a first signal in synchronization with the first SS burst. The first signal includes a SS measurement of the first SS burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kaushik Chakraborty, Tao Luo, Xiaoxia Zhang, Sony Akkarakaran, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Sumeeth Nagaraja, Wooseok Nam
  • Patent number: 11974595
    Abstract: A method for testing burning performance of a dark-colored cigarette using a dark-colored cigarette paper is provided. The dark-colored cigarette paper has a grayscale less than 255. The method includes: simulating, by a robotic arm, a cigarette smoking process and environment; acquiring, by a full-vision camera system, an image of a burn line and ash column region of the dark-colored cigarette; and analyzing a burning performance indicator of the dark-colored cigarette according to coordinate information of the burn line and ash column region. The method is based on a surface reflection characteristic of the dark-colored cigarette paper and a principle of optical reflection to light and highlight an edge of the dark-colored cigarette sample by a light source at a certain angle from a side. In this way, the method forms a chromatic aberration to localize the dark-colored cigarette sample, thereby testing the burning performance of the dark-colored cigarette sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Han Zheng, Jianbo Zhan, Hao Wang, Zhenhua Yu, Jiao Xie, Xu Wang, Ying Zhang, Tao Wang, Baoshan Yue, Tingting Yu, Jiang Yu, Liwei Li, Jing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11979709
    Abstract: An earphone, including a sound production component; an ear-hook configured to place the sound production component near an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal, at least a portion of the sound production component extends into a concha cavity; and a microphone assembly including a first microphone and a second microphone disposed in the sound production component or the ear hook, the sound production component or the ear hook includes a first sound hole and a second sound hole corresponding to the first microphone and the second microphone, respectively; wherein a projection of the first sound hole on a sagittal plane and a projection of the second sound hole on the sagittal plane have a first distance, a ratio of the first distance to a size of a projection of the sound production component on the sagittal plane along a major axis direction is 0.7-1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11979297
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a network slice processing method, system, and device, and a storage medium. The method is applicable to a network management system, and includes: virtualizing functions of a mobile communication network to obtain a plurality of isolated logical subnetworks, and using each logical subnetwork as a network slice; generating a slice-level quality of service (QoS) parameter for each network slice, the slice-level QoS parameter being used by the network management system to instruct a slice processing device to control a first resource corresponding to the network slice; and transmitting the slice-level QoS parameter to the slice processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Yunfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11978395
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a display substrate, a plurality rows of first pixel driving circuits, a plurality rows of second pixel driving circuits, and a plurality of first reset signal lines; the plurality of reset signal lines comprises a plurality of first reset signal lines and a plurality of second reset signal lines, each of the first reset signal lines is only electrically connected to one row of the first pixel driving circuits; each of the second reset signal lines is electrically connected to one row of the first pixel driving circuits and at least one row of the second pixel driving circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, Tao Chen
  • Patent number: 11978879
    Abstract: The present application provides a deviation-correcting method and apparatus for double-sided coating, and relates to the technical field of manufacturing of batteries. The method includes: acquiring a first distance between an edge of a coating area on a first surface of an electrode plate substrate and an edge of the electrode plate substrate from a deviation-correcting cross section; acquiring a second distance between an edge of a coating area on a second surface of the electrode plate substrate and the edge of the electrode plate substrate from the deviation-correcting cross section; determining edge deviation information of the coating areas; determining a first deviation-adjusting range; and in a case that a first intersection is present in the first deviation-correcting range, determining a deviation-correcting quantity of the electrode plate substrate. According to the method, the problem of the deviation of the coating areas in the coating process can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Yunfei Ma, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11977865
    Abstract: A software and hardware collaborative compilation processing method and system. The system comprises an environment configurator, a command parser, a code filler, a scheduler and a heterogeneous target system, wherein the code filler is configured for obtaining the source program path of a user, reading source codes and identifying the heterogeneous target system according to a macro definition, complementing the codes related to the heterogeneous target system, carrying out primary filling and secondary filling on the source codes; the scheduler is configured for realizing compilation scheduling and execution scheduling functions respectively; the heterogeneous target system is configured for compiling and processing user modal data, and comprises at least two heterogeneous target subsystems; each target subsystem comprises a target-related middle-end compiler, a back-end compiler and a target-related running environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Lei Xue, Tao Zou, Ruyun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11975315
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for partially regenerating a catalyst for methanol and/or dimethyl ether-to-olefin. The method comprises: introducing a mixed gas into a regenerated region containing a catalyst to be regenerated, and subjecting same to a partial regeneration reaction to obtain a regenerated catalyst, wherein the mixed gas contains water vapor and air; and in the regenerated catalyst, the coke content of at least part of the regenerated catalyst is greater than 1%. The method utilizes the coupling of a mixed gas of water vapor and air to activate a deactivated catalyst, selectively eliminate part of a coke deposit in the catalyst to be regenerated, and obtain a partially regenerated catalyst for methanol-to-olefin. Another aspect of the present invention is that further provided is a method for methanol and/or dimethyl ether-to-olefin by using the partially regenerated catalyst for methanol-to-olefin regenerated by means of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Jinling Zhang, Mao Ye, Zhongmin Liu, Jibin Zhou, Tao Zhang, Xiangao Wang, Hailong Tang, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 11978245
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for generating an image. A specific embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring at least two frames of facial images extracted from a target video; and inputting the at least two frames of facial images into a pre-trained generative model to generate a single facial image. The generative model updates a model parameter using a loss function in a training process, and the loss function is determined based on a probability of the single facial generative image being a real facial image and a similarity between the single facial generative image and a standard facial image. According to this embodiment, authenticity of the single facial image generated by the generative model may be enhanced, and then a quality of a facial image obtained based on the video is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao He, Gang Zhang, Jingtuo Liu