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).

  • Seamless preview stitching for multiple cameras
    Patent number: 11276145
    Abstract: Systems and methods for stitching videos are disclosed. Image-based registration between frames from a first video source and frames from a second video source is performed at a first rate. Calibration-based registration between frames from the first video source and frames from the second video source are performed at a second rate higher than the first rate. Then, for a first frame from the first video source for which calibration-based registration data and image-based registration data have been generated, a stitching transform that maps the first frame to a counterpart frame from the second video source based on image-based registration data is generated. A delta transform from the image-based registration data and the calibration-based registration data at the first frame is also derived.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jianping Zhou, Walker Eagleston, Tao Zhang
  • Self-reinforced Starch-based Multifunctional Materials and Processing Method thereof
    Publication number: 20220073706
    Abstract: Disclosed is a processing method of a self-reinforced starch-based multifunctional material, and belongs to the technical field of starch deep processing. The processing method takes bulk starch as a base material, including the following steps: firstly reacting starch nanoparticles with an organic acid anhydride reagent and adding a bacteriostatic agent to prepare composite nanoparticles, then mixing the composite nanoparticles with the bulk starch, an etherifying agent, a crosslinking agent, a plasticizer and the like, and finally preparing a starch-based multifunctional material by dry extrusion modification combined with a starch-based nanoparticle assembly and reinforcement technology. The method of the disclosure is simple and convenient in step, mild and controllable in reaction, and continuous and green in production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ming MIAO, Xue JIA, Osvaldo H. Campanella, Zhengyu JIN, Tao ZHANG, Lei YE
  • Method for Controlling Power Consumption of Terminal, and Storage Medium
    Publication number: 20220078703
    Abstract: Described are a method for controlling the power consumption of a terminal, and a storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining a power consumption rate of the terminal; and in response to the power consumption rate being greater than a power consumption rate threshold, controlling the terminal to disable a dual-connection mode thereof based on a power consumption adjustment strategy; wherein the terminal supports the dual-connection mode; the terminal is configured to communicate with communicates with a first base station and a second base station in the dual-connection mode; the first base station is a primary base station, and the second base station is a secondary base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yang Xia, Tao Zhang, Kai Tang, Yunteng Zhuang
  • Paging for low complexity user equipment and/or user equipment in coverage enhancement mode
    Patent number: 11272476
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for paging of low complexity UE and/or UE in coverage enhancement mode are provided. One method includes producing a machine type communication (MTC) physical downlink control channel (M-PDCCH) configuration by configuring separate M-PDCCH subsets for paging. One of the subsets may be for low complexity user equipment, and another one of the subsets may be for user equipment operating in coverage enhancement mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Yan Ji Zhang, Yuan Tao Zhang, Rapeepat Ratasuk
  • LAMINATED STRUCTURE AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, LED AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20220069256
    Abstract: A laminated structure which at least includes one laminated unit, the lamination unit includes: a first metal oxide layer and a second metal oxide layer which are oppositely arranged, and a third metal layer arranged between the first metal oxide layer and the second metal oxide layer, and a third metal oxide film is respectively formed between the first metal oxide layer and the third metal layer, and between the second metal oxide layer and the third metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Tao ZHANG, Chaoyu XIANG, Pei ZHU, Zhitian LUO
  • METHOD FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK CONNECTION, TERMINAL AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20220070760
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method for controlling a network connection, a terminal and a non-transitory storage medium. The method includes: detecting a state of a terminal, where the terminal is configured to communicate with both of a first base station and a second base station in the dual connectivity mode and the state of the terminal represents a connection status between the terminal and a network where the first base station locates; and prohibiting the terminal from connecting with the second base station in response to the state of the terminal representing the terminal is in an idle state and the terminal having been in the idle state for a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kai TANG, Yang XIA, Tao ZHANG, Yan WANG
  • Method and Apparatus for Controlling Power Consumption of Terminal, and Storage Medium
    Publication number: 20220070771
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for controlling the power consumption of a terminal, and a storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining a temperature of the terminal; and in response to the temperature being greater than a first temperature threshold, controlling the terminal to switch from a dual-connection mode to a single-connection mode based on a power consumption adjustment strategy; wherein the terminal supports the dual-connection mode; the terminal is configured to communicate with a first base station and to communicate with a second base station in the dual connection mode; the first base station is a primary base station, and the second base station is a secondary base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kai Tang, Yang Xia, Yan Wang, Xingsui Yang, Tao Zhang, Zhi Wang, Zhengpeng Tan, Yunteng Zhuang
  • BLOODLETTING SYRINGE, BLOODLETTING SYRINGE SYSTEM AND BLOODLETTING METHODS
    Publication number: 20220061722
    Abstract: A bloodletting syringe, including: a hollow needle that can be placed under skins, a barrel connected to the hollow needle, and a pump outlet being connected to the barrel, wherein the pump outlet is a one-way port. When pumping, the pump outlet is opened, air is pumped out of the barrel and hollow needle, when the pumping is stopped, the pump outlet is automatically closed; air pressure in the barrel becomes lower than the pressure outside of the barrel. The bloodletting syringe, bloodletting syringe systems and bloodletting methods of the present invention can be used to remove blood stasis in muscles and tissues safely and with great control by medical staff.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Weihui Li, Tao ZHANG
  • Vibrating motor
    Patent number: 11264882
    Abstract: The present application discloses a vibrating motor, which includes a housing having a receiving cavity, a stator received in the receiving cavity, a vibrator received in the receiving cavity, and a flexible assembly received in the receiving cavity. The flexible assembly is configured for elastically supporting the vibrator. The housing includes a top wall, a bottom wall facing the top wall, and a side wall connecting the top wall and the bottom wall. The stator includes an iron core, a coil sleeved on the iron core, and pole shoes positioned at two ends of the iron core. Each the pole shoe has a surface close to the iron core recessed to form an avoiding portion, and the iron core is inserted in the avoiding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Zhiyong Cui
  • MEASUREMENT REPORTING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20220060922
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a measurement reporting method. The method comprises: a terminal device receives a measurement request message transmitted by a network device under the condition that the terminal device accesses a first network, the measurement request message being used for requesting the terminal device to measure a second network; the terminal device does not report the measurement result of the second network to the network device, wherein the terminal device supports a dual-connection mode. Also disclosed in the present application are another measurement reporting method, an electronic device, and a storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunteng ZHUANG, Kai Tang, Yang Xia, Tao Zhang
  • VIDEO CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20220053198
    Abstract: This application relates to a video coding method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a current coding unit; obtaining target pixel gradient data through calculation according to a pixel value of a pixel in the current coding unit, the target pixel gradient data being obtained according to a difference between the pixel value of the pixel and a reference pixel value; determining a target division decision result corresponding to the current coding unit according to the target pixel gradient data; and performing video coding on the current coding unit according to the target division decision result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Jing CUI, Tao Zhang
  • Sound classification system for hearing aids
    Patent number: 11250878
    Abstract: A hearing aid includes a sound classification module to classify environmental sound sensed by a microphone. The sound classification module executes an advanced sound classification algorithm. The hearing aid then processes the sound according to the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: JuanJuan Xiang, Martin McKinney, Kelly Fitz, Tao Zhang
  • PREDICTION MODEL FOR LIP STICKING FORCE OF CIGARETTE TIPPING PAPER, CONSTRUCTION METHOD AND PREDICTION METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20220043949
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a prediction model for a lip sticking force of a cigarette tipping paper, a construction method and a prediction method thereof, which belongs to the technical field of analysis and detection. In the method, the stepwise regression analysis is performed on the lip sticking force and values of the dynamic friction coefficient and the grammage of the cigarette tipping paper to obtain a model for predicting the lip sticking force of the cigarette tipping paper. When checking the accuracy of the model, it is found that the predicted value and the measured value basically fall near the 1:1 line, R2 index is 0.99, and the normalized root mean square error (nRMSE) is 2.64%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ji YANG, Zhihua LIU, Ruizhi ZHU, Tao ZHANG, Chunbo LIU, Xiaoxi SI, Pei HE, Fengmei ZHANG, Wei JIANG, Zhenjie LI, Zhongbi SU, Chen YANG, Kunming JIANG
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220043048
    Abstract: A testing circuit includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit has a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The first circuit is configured to transfer at least a portion of a first voltage across the first capacitor to the second capacitor. The second circuit has the first capacitor and the second capacitor. The second circuit is configured to transfer at least a portion of a second voltage across the second capacitor to the first capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: JIHUA LI, TAO ZHANG, WENJIE LIN
  • PORE-SCALE, MULTI-COMPONENT, MULTI-PHASE FLUID MODEL AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20220035071
    Abstract: A method for calculating a fluid flow in a given underground medium, the method including receiving initial molar densities for components of the fluid; introducing a scalar auxiliary variable r into an inhomogeneous Helmholtz free energy equation F with a Peng-Robinson equation of state; calculating a molar density ni of each component of the fluid based on a discretized scalar auxiliary variable rk; and determining the flow of the fluid based on the calculated molar densities ni.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Shuyu SUN, Tao ZHANG, Xiaolin FAN, Yiteng LI, Jingfa LI
  • WORKLOAD OFFLOADING BETWEEN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20220027197
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system and computer program product for offloading a workload between computing environments. According to the method, a workload of a target function of a service provisioned in a first computing environment is determined. A processing capacity of the service available for the target function in the first computing environment is determined. In accordance with a determination that the workload exceeds the processing capacity, at least one incoming request for the target function is caused to be routed to a target instance of the target function, the target instance of the target function being provisioned in a second computing environment different from the first computing environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Gang Tang, Yue Wang, Liang Rong, Wen Tao Zhang
  • APPLICATION CONFIGURATION METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM OF INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS SOLUTION, COMPUTER SOFTWARE PRODUCT, AND READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20220026882
    Abstract: An application configuration method includes: obtaining a resource recommendation prompt from a repository according to a user customized demand of an industrial Internet of Things solution, invoking a resource from a knowledge base or the repository to generate an industrial Internet of Things model, and matching an application installed at an industrial cloud and at an edge device end with a configuration needed by the application; and generating the industrial Internet of Things solution and deploying the matched application to the industrial cloud and the edge device end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Qi WANG, Jun Jie CHEN, He YU, Wen Jing ZHOU, Hai Tao ZHANG, Wan Li MA
  • Methods and systems for fetching data for an accelerator
    Patent number: 11231930
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for fetching data for an accelerator. The methods include detecting an attempt to access a first page of data that is not stored on a primary storage unit of the accelerator; and responsive to detecting the attempt to access the first page of data: assessing activity of the accelerator; determining, based on the assessed activity of the accelerator, a prefetch granularity size; and transferring a chunk of contiguous pages of data of the prefetch granularity size from a memory system connected to the accelerator into the primary storage unit, wherein the transferred chunk of contiguous pages of data include the first page of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Yongbin Gu, Pengcheng Li, Tao Zhang
  • Set of earphones and charging case
    Patent number: D943553
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventor: Tao Zhang
  • Set of earphones and charging case
    Patent number: D943554
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventor: Tao Zhang