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).

  • Patent number: 11115672
    Abstract: This application relates to a video encoding method performed at a computer device. The computer device obtains a current encoding block to be encoded in a current video frame, the current encoding block having a width and a height different from the width. The computer device determines, within the current video frame, target reference pixels corresponding to the current encoding block, a target quantity corresponding to the target reference pixels being the e-th power of one of the width and the height under a target numeral system, e being a positive integer, the target numeral system being a numeral system used for calculating a predicted value of the current encoding block. After obtaining a predicted value corresponding to the current encoding block according to the target reference pixels, the computer device performs video encoding on the current encoding block according to the predicted value, to obtain encoded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210274292
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a hearing device including an image sensor are disclosed. The hearing device can include a housing, a user sensory interface connected to the housing, an image sensor connected to the housing, and an acoustic sensor connected to the housing. The device can also include a processor that is adapted to process image data from the image sensor to identify an image object, process acoustic data from the acoustic sensor, and determine a spatial location of the image object based upon at least one of the processed image data and the processed acoustic data. The processor can also be adapted to provide the spatial location to the user sensory interface, which can provide a sensory stimulus to the user that is representative of the spatial location of the image object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Solum, Tao Zhang, Dean G. Meyer
  • Patent number: 11105009
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a graphene material inlaid with single metal atoms, the preparation method thereof and its application of being used as the catalyst for the electroreduction of carbon dioxide. The graphene material inlaid with single metal atoms comprises single metal atoms and graphene; the single metal atoms are dispersed in the framework of the graphene; and the graphene is at least one selected from N doped graphene and N and S co-doped graphene. The material is used for the electrochemical reduction reaction of carbon dioxide, which significantly improves the utilization efficiency of the metal atoms and enhances the catalytic activity for the electroreduction of carbon dioxide, improves the catalytic stability, inhibits effectively the hydrogen evolution reaction, improves the selectivity for CO product, and broadens the electric potential window of reducing carbon dioxide to generate CO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Bin Liu, Hongbin Yang, Yanqiang Huang, Song Liu, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11105266
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system for providing mobile power, in which all equipment required for the mobile power are integrated on three transport vehicles, which can be combined for transport as a whole, greatly reducing the connection time required for field operations, with flexible combinations and wider applicability. An exhaust system can be flexibly connected to the side or the top. An air intake system, a gas turbine engine and a generator are connected at the same axial direction, avoiding unnecessary elbows, with small intake pressure losses and a stable flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: YANTAI JEREH PETROLEUM EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Libin Zhou, Qili Cui, Lili Wang, Ning Feng, Tao Kou, Ting Zhang, Tao Zhang, Xin Li
  • Patent number: 11100178
    Abstract: A method of pushing information is provided. According to an example, a search server obtains a natural search list including a first threshold number of natural search materials and a first evaluation score of each of the natural search materials by invoking a natural search service to perform a search operation on a search word, obtains a push information list including a second threshold number of push materials and a second evaluation score of each of the push materials by invoking a push information search service to perform a search operation on a search word, integrates the first evaluation score and the second evaluation score of a material existing in the natural search list and the push information list at the same time, re-ranks the natural search materials according to integrated evaluation scores, and pushes re-ranked natural search materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING SANKUAI ONLINE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ye Chen, Tao Zhang, Xing Wang, Zhihao Zheng, Jing Li, Shuhong Ye, Dan Shen, Guanhai Wang, Gong Zhang, Xiaolei Zhao, Hong Guan
  • Patent number: 11098028
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the manufacture of a compound of formula VIIIa and salts forms of VIIIa where Rc is an aryl sulfonic acid
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Jinguang Lin, Alexandra Chestakova, Wei Gu, Hans Iding, Jing Li, Xin Linghu, Patrik Meier, Chunbo Sha, Jeffrey Stults, Youchu Wang, Haiming Zhang, Jianqian Zhang, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11101663
    Abstract: A microgrid system and method of controlling same, the microgrid system comprising a storage battery (5000), an energy storage converter (1000), a monitoring circuit and a controllable switch (2000). When the microgrid system is in grid-connected mode, the energy storage converter outputs steady power under the control of an inner current loop unit (1220); in grid-connected mode, an outer voltage loop unit (1240) does not participate in control, but remains in an operating state, and on the basis of four outer voltage loop unit input signals, estimates in advance a specified current loop signal (Uvo) for handover from grid-connected mode to island mode. When the microgrid system hands over from grid-connected mode to island mode, the outer voltage loop unit goes into operation, and the inner current loop unit controls a steady output voltage and frequency from the energy storage converter according to the pre-estimated specified current loop signal output by the outer voltage loop unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: EAST GROUP GO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Wei Yu, Haibo Xu, Jianhui Su
  • Publication number: 20210252489
    Abstract: A method for preparing a supported carbon catalyst, the method includes at least the following steps: contacting a gas containing an organic silicon source with a silicon oxide-based material to obtain a precursor; contacting the precursor with a gas containing an organic carbon source to obtain the supported carbon catalyst. The temperature and energy consumption of the chemical vapor deposition of heteroatom-containing carbon material on silica-based materials can be greatly reduced in this method, and the cost of the catalyst can be effectively reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicants: DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jinming XU, Sisi FAN, Yanqiang HUANG, Tao ZHANG, Chin Lien HUANG, Wan Tun HUNG, Yu Cheng CHEN, Chien Hui WU, Ya Wen CHENG, Ming Hsien WEN, Chao Chin CHANG, Tsao Cheng HUANG
  • Publication number: 20210246902
    Abstract: A blood pump system includes a pump housing and an impeller for rotating in a pump chamber within the housing. The impeller has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The system includes a stator having drive coils for applying a torque to the impeller and at least one bearing mechanism for suspending the impeller within the pump chamber. The system includes a position control mechanism for moving the impeller in an axial direction within the pump chamber to adjust a size of a first gap and a size of a second gap, thereby controlling a washout rate at each of the first gap and the second gap. The first gap is defined by a distance between the first side and the housing and the second gap is defined by a distance between the second side and the pump housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: TC1 LLC
    Inventors: Masamichi Yanai, Shunzhou Yu, Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210248790
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a reconstruction method for motion compensated high quality four-dimensional (4D)-Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) image based on bilateral filtering, including the following steps: step 1, building a motion compensated three-dimensional (3D)-CBCT reconstruction model based on a simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART) to reconstruct a high quality CBCT image of a reference phase (phase 0%); step 2, creating an iterative optimization procedure and estimating a 4D Deformable Vector Field (DVF) model between phase 0% and other 4D phase images, thereby obtaining an exact 4D-DVF inclusive of an inverse sliding motion on a surface of a locomotive organ; and step 3, successively deforming the high quality phase 0% image in accordance with an optimized 4D-DVF to obtain a sequence of final high quality 4D-CBCT images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Jun Dang, Tao Zhang, Xiaopin Chen
  • Publication number: 20210244614
    Abstract: An automatic acupuncture device includes: a case; a motor or an electromagnet; a needle driver, configured to move linearly under the force of the motor or electromagnet to drive an acupuncture needle in a needle gadget into a human body, the needle gadget comprising a needle tube and an acupuncture needle inside the needle tube; a needle gadget chamber configured to house the needle gadget; and a locking-releasing structure that is configured to lock the needle gadget so that it will not fall out of the needle gadget chamber during acupuncture treatment, and also configured to release the needle gadget from the needle gadget chamber after acupuncture treatment. A needle gadget is provided for use with the acupuncture device, so that the acupuncture needle will not be exposed in air outside the needle tube before or after acupuncture. The acupuncture process is automatic, safe, without complicated manual operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Weihui Li, Tao ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11084765
    Abstract: A fast fluidized bed reactor, device and method for preparing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from methanol and/or dimethyl ether and benzene, resolving or improving the competition problem between an MTO reaction and an alkylation reaction during the process of producing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from methanol and/or dimethyl ether and benzene, and achieving a synergistic effect between the MTO reaction and the alkylation reaction. By controlling the mass transfer and reaction, competition between the MTO reaction and the alkylation reaction is coordinated and optimized to facilitate a synergistic effect of the two reactions, so that the conversion rate of benzene, the yield of para-xylene, and the selectivity of light olefins are increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Mao Ye, Tao Zhang, Zhongmin Liu, Jinling Zhang, Hailong Tang, Jinming Jia, Changqing He, Xiangao Wang, Cheng Zhang, Hua Li, Yinfeng Zhao, Chenggong Li
  • Publication number: 20210239642
    Abstract: A built-in electrode electrical capacitance tomography sensor, characterized in that the electrical capacitance tomography sensor is a barrel sensor, and sequentially comprises, from inside to outside, an array distribution electrode (1), an electrode insulating sleeve (2), a flange outer tube (3), an insulating tube (4) and a signal transmission line. The array distribution electrode (1) includes N electrode sheets of the same size and consists of measurement ends and fixed ends, N being an integer of 8-16. The electrode is connected to an electrical capacitance tomography signal acquisition system (13) by means of a transmission line, and the acquired electrical capacitance data is sent to the electrical capacitance tomography signal acquisition system (13) by means of a signal transmission line, and is then sent to an imaging computer by means of the electrical capacitance tomography signal acquisition system (13) so as to complete image reconstruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Shuanghe MENG, Mao YE, kai HUANG, Qiang GUO, Jingjing SHEN, Tao ZHANG, Zhongmin LIU
  • Publication number: 20210240540
    Abstract: Routing containerized services requests on a serverless platform can include responding to receiving on the serverless platform a request for a containerized service and detecting a potential request failure. The response to the potential request failure can include searching a database that maps version-specific requests to a plurality of containers that are configured and managed by the serverless platform. The routing can include redirecting the request to a container containing a prior version of the containerized service requested in response to determining that the prior version of the containerized service maps to a version-specific request that matches the request received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Yue Wang, Yue Chen, Wei ming He, Huai Nan Zhou, Hui Gao, Yanfeng Shi, Hai Jun Xu, Wen Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11081780
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-band antenna architecture, provided in a matrix of a wireless communication device, including: a first antenna, typically an LTE antenna, located in left outer side and right outer side areas of the matrix, a second antenna, typically a Sub-6 GHz MIMO antenna, located in upper outer side and lower outer side areas of the matrix, and a third antenna, typically a millimeter-wave antenna, located in left inner side and right inner side areas of the matrix. The above-mentioned areas are spaced from each other. The first antenna, the second antenna, and the third antenna work at different frequency bands. The third antenna can implement broadband and large-angle beam scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Electric Connector Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guangli Yang, Mingkai Wang, Jiayou Xu, Yong Luo, YiXin Li, Yun Luo, Tao Zhang, Yingjie Zhang, Eugene Yu-Jiun Ren
  • Patent number: 11081950
    Abstract: Provided is a linear vibration motor, including: a housing having a receiving space; a vibration unit received in the receiving space; an elastic assembly configured to suspend the vibration unit in the receiving space, and a driving unit fixed to the housing and configured to drive the vibration unit to vibrate. The linear vibration motor includes a coil assembly and two first permanent magnets respectively provided at two sides of the coil assembly. The vibration unit includes one of the coil assembly and the first permanent magnets, and the driving unit includes the other one. When the vibration unit is static, a central axis of the first permanent magnet perpendicular to a vibrating direction of the vibration unit and a central axis of the coil assembly perpendicular to the vibrating direction of the vibration unit are spaced apart from each other in the vibrating direction of the vibration unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210228161
    Abstract: A measurement system and calculation method for the concentration distribution of oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin in human tissues are provided. The measurement system includes an array of hemoglobin sensor modules, a control system, a signal analysis device and a display system. The hemoglobin sensor module includes a light source transmitter and a photoelectric sensor, which are used to emit and receive light respectively. When the control system triggers the hemoglobin sensor module to emit light, it controls multiple photoelectric sensors to receive the emitted light and upload relevant data. The signal analysis system evaluates the tissue blood oxygen concentration inside human tissues based on the emitted light, and proposes a tomographic three-dimensional reconstruction method. Based on the hemoglobin measurement system and detection method, this patent provides a low-cost, easy-to-use evaluation method for evaluating the blood circulation health level of human tissues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Weihui Li, Tao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210228102
    Abstract: A pulse device includes: force sensor arrays, force sensor carrier whose positions are manually adjustable to apply variable force on human body, a fixation structure to fix the force sensor carrier to human body, a control system controlling collection and transmission of data, a memory system, and a display system. A method including: measuring pulse waveforms; calculating characteristics of measured pulse waves; recommending one or more treatment methods to test on a human body for a few seconds to several minutes, and tracking the characteristics of the pulse wave during or after treatments to test their effectiveness; recommending one or more effective treatments for longer duration after finishing effectiveness tests; instructing the user to end treatments. The pulse device is convenient to use in clinic. It can also be developed into a wearable device to measure users' pulse in real time, and instructs users to perform self-care through software applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Weihui Li, Tao ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11072571
    Abstract: A fluidized bed reactor for producing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from benzene and methanol and/or dimethyl ether, including a first distributor and a second distributor. The first distributor is located at the bottom of the fluidized bed, and the second distributor is located at the downstream of the first distributor along a gas flow direction. Also, a method for producing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins, including the following steps: a material stream A enters a reaction zone of the fluidized bed reactor from the first gas distributor; a material stream B enters the reaction zone of the fluidized bed reactor from the second gas distributor; a reactant contacts a catalyst in the reaction zone to generate a gas phase stream comprising para-xylene and light olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Mao Ye, Tao Zhang, Jinling Zhang, Zhongmin Liu, Jinming Jia, Hailong Tang, Changqing He, Xiangao Wang, Cheng Zhang, Hua Li, Yinfeng Zhao, Chenggong Li
  • Patent number: 11066389
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the manufacture of a compound of formula VIIIa and salts forms of VIIIa where Rc is an aryl sulfonic acid
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Jinguang Lin, Alexandra Chestakova, Wei Gu, Hans Iding, Jing Li, Xin Linghu, Patrik Meier, Chunbo Sha, Jeffrey Stults, Youchu Wang, Haiming Zhang, Jianqian Zhang, Tao Zhang