Patents by Inventor Tao Zhao

Tao Zhao 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: 20240085742
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal lens panel and a display device. The liquid crystal lens panel comprises a first substrate (10) and a second substrate (20) that are opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer (30) provided between the first substrate (10) and the second substrate (20); the first substrate (10) comprises a first structural layer (12) provided on a first base (11) and a first orientation layer (13) provided on the first structural layer (12); the second substrate (20) comprises a second structural layer (22) provided on a second base (21) and a second orientation layer (23) provided on the second structural layer (22); on a plane parallel to the liquid crystal lens panel, at least one of the first orientation layer (13) and the second orientation layer (23) comprises multiple orientation areas, orientation pretilt angles of at least two orientation areas are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Lin LI, Pengxia LIANG, Zhongxiao LI, Weili ZHAO, Tao HONG, Jinye ZHU, Jing YU
  • Publication number: 20240081775
    Abstract: A method of planning a procedure to deploy an interventional instrument comprises receiving a model of an anatomic structure. The anatomic structure includes a plurality of passageways. The method further includes identifying a target structure in the model and receiving information about an operational capability of the interventional instrument within the plurality of passageways. The method further comprises identifying a planned deployment location for positioning a distal tip of the interventional instrument to perform the procedure on the target structure based upon the operational capability of the interventional instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Caitlin Q. Donhowe, Prashant Chopra, Dorin Panescu, Carol Reiley, Tao Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240088071
    Abstract: Methods for reducing resistivity of metal gapfill include depositing a conformal layer in an opening of a feature and on a field of a substrate with a first thickness of the conformal layer of approximately 10 microns or less, depositing a non-conformal metal layer directly on the conformal layer at a bottom of the opening and directly on the field using an anisotropic deposition process. A second thickness of the non-conformal metal layer on the field and on the bottom of the feature is approximately 30 microns or greater. And depositing a metal gapfill material in the opening of the feature and on the field where the metal gapfill material completely fills the opening without any voids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Yi XU, Yu LEI, Zhimin QI, Aixi ZHANG, Xianyuan ZHAO, Wei LEI, Xingyao GAO, Shirish A. PETHE, Tao HUANG, Xiang CHANG, Patrick Po-Chun LI, Geraldine VASQUEZ, Dien-yeh WU, Rongjun WANG
  • Patent number: 11927877
    Abstract: A handheld platform includes an imaging device configured to obtain image data, a gimbal assembly coupled to the imaging device and configured to permit movement of the imaging device with respect to at least a first axis and a second axis that are non-orthogonal to each other, and a handheld support coupled to the gimbal assembly. The handheld support includes an input interface configured to receive a user input to control the imaging device or the gimbal assembly and a controller configured to generate one or more control signals based at least in part on the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Paul Pan, Xifeng Zhao, Tao Zhao
  • Patent number: 11925265
    Abstract: A transmission rod assembly for a height-adjustable desk comprises: a first transmission head having positioning grooves; a second transmission head having positioning blocks; an elastic piece axially limiting abutment of the first and second transmission heads, the positioning blocks positioning respective positioning grooves; a sleeve pipe having an end mounted to the second transmission head, the elastic piece being mounted in the sleeve pipe, and an end of the elastic piece abutting the second transmission head; a first transmission rod having an end protruding into the other end of the sleeve pipe and abutting the other end of the elastic piece, the sleeve pipe limiting the first transmission rod; and a locking assembly mounted on the other end of the sleeve pipe, the locking assembly limiting the sleeve pipe and clamping the first transmission rod. Thus, mounting can be completed by elastic squeeze, bringing simple structure and easy operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LOCTEK ERGONOMIC TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Lehong Xiang, Tao Lin, Fangyuan Li, Jia Ge, Lijun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11930312
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an open earphone. The open earphone may include a sound production device and an ear hook including a first part and a second part connected in sequence. The first part may be hooked and arranged between an auricle and a head of a user. The second part may extend to a front lateral surface of the auricle and may be connected to the sound production device. The sound production device may be worn at a position that is near an ear canal without blocking an earhole of the user. The sound production device may be at least partially inserted into an auricular concha cavity of the user. An overlap ratio of a projection area of the sound production device on a sagittal plane to a projection area of the auricular concha cavity on the sagittal plane may be not less than 44.01%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 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: 11930317
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an earphone including a sound production component, an ear hook, and a microphone assembly. The microphone assembly includes a first microphone and a second microphone. The sound production component or ear hook includes a first sound hole and a second sound hole corresponding to the first microphone and second microphone, respectively. An extension line of a line connecting a projection of the first sound hole on a sagittal plane of the user and a projection of the second sound hole on the sagittal plane has an intersection point with a projection of an antihelix, a ratio of a first distance between the projection of the first sound hole on the sagittal plane and the projection of the second acoustic hole on the sagittal plane to a second distance between the projection of the second acoustic hole on the sagittal plane and the intersection point is 1.8-4.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 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: 11930315
    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: March 12, 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: 11923265
    Abstract: A power module, including: a first conductor, disposed at a first reference plane; a second conductor, disposed at a second reference plane, wherein projections of the first and second conductors on the first reference plane have a first overlap area; a third conductor, disposed at a third reference plane; a plurality of first switches and a plurality of second switches, wherein at least one of the first switches and at least one of the second switches that are located on a left side are alternatively disposed, at least one of the first switches and at least one of the second switches that are located on a right side are alternately disposed, and the left side and the right side of the first overlap area are oppositely disposed. Heat sources of the power module are evenly distributed and its parasitic inductance is low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Delta Electronics (Shanghai) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wei Cheng, Shouyu Hong, Dongfang Lian, Tao Wang, Zhenqing Zhao
  • Patent number: 11921088
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a thermal-stress-pore pressure coupled electromagnetic loading triaxial Hopkinson bar system and test method, the system mainly consists of an electromagnetic pulse generation system, a servo-controlled axial pressure loading system, a servo-controlled confining pressure loading system, a thermal control system, a pore pressure loading system, a bar system, and a data monitoring and acquisition system. Based on the conventional Hopkinson bar, the present disclosure creatively introduces a real-time loading and control system for confining pressure, thermal, and pore pressure, aiming to solve the technical problem that the existing test apparatus cannot be used to study dynamic response of deep rock mass under the coupling effect of thermal-stress-pore pressure and dynamic disturbance during dynamic impact loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tao Zhou, Heping Xie, Jianbo Zhu, Jian Zhao, Tianqi Zhai, Mingzhong Gao, Cunbao Li, Zhiyi Liao, Kai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11924600
    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 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 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
  • Publication number: 20240065769
    Abstract: A non-transitory machine-readable media stores instructions that, when run by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to store a deformable model of a patient anatomy and deform the deformable model based on a measured deformation of a branched anatomical structure of the patient anatomy. The deformable model includes a skeleton tree of nodes and linkages representing the branched anatomical structure of the patient anatomy. Each of the nodes is located at a respective bifurcation of the branched anatomical structure, and at each respective bifurcation the corresponding linkages include an orientation. The deformable model is deformed by modifying the orientations of the linkages of the branched anatomical structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Prashant Chopra, Vincent Duindam, Lei Xu, Tao Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240073028
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an anti-counterfeiting verifying method, a hardware apparatus, a system, an electronic device and a storage medium, which aim at improving anti-counterfeiting effectiveness for the electronic products, the method includes: executing a step of generating to-be-verified information of the first device in response to a triggered verification event; outputting the to-be-verified information to indicate a second device to send the to-be-verified information to a verifying terminal, the verifying terminal being configured to for verifying authenticity of the first device according to the to-be-verified information, and feeding back a verification result to the first device and/or the second device for displaying, wherein the step of generating the to-be-verified information of the first device includes: obtaining a device identifier of the first device and a private key pre-stored in the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongjun Du, Tao Li, Xingxing Zhao, Huailiang Wang, Hongda Yu
  • Patent number: 11917357
    Abstract: An earpiece includes a housing, a sound transmission component, a sound reception component, a force application structure and a trigger. A cavity is formed in the housing. The sound transmission component is provided in the cavity. The sound reception component is provided on the housing, and can move along a predetermined path. At least a retracted position and a stretched position are arranged on the predetermined path. The force application structure is connected to the sound reception component, and configured to drive the sound reception component to move to the retracted position or the stretched position. The earpiece in the present disclosure stretches out or retracts the sound reception component automatically. The earpiece in the present disclosure does not need the user to stretch out or retract the sound reception component manually, with good user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: YEALINK (XIAMEN) NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Zhao, Caifa Huang, Kaiwen Huang, Canhong Lin
  • Patent number: 11916064
    Abstract: An integrated circuit with a fault reporting structure. The integrated circuit has at least one power MOSFET having a plurality of MOSFET cells with each MOSFET cell having a drain metal and a source metal, and the integrated circuit has a power MOSFET area for routing the drain metals and the source metals of the plurality of MOSFET cells. The fault reporting structure has a metal net routed in the power MOSFET area or in an area above or below the power MOSFET area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Chiahsin Chang, Tao Zhao, Xintong Lyu
  • Patent number: 11910146
    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: February 20, 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: 11903693
    Abstract: Information extracted from sequential images captured from the perspective of a distal end of a medical device moving through an anatomical structure are compared with corresponding information extracted from a computer model of the anatomical structure. A most likely match between the information extracted from the sequential images and the corresponding information extracted from the computer model is then determined using probabilities associated with a set of potential matches so as to register the computer model of the anatomical structure to the medical device and thereby determine the lumen of the anatomical structure which the medical device is currently in. Sensor information may be used to limit the set of potential matches. Feature attributes associated with the sequence of images and the set of potential matches may be quantitatively compared as part of the determination of the most likely match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Tao Zhao, Giuseppe Maria Prisco
  • Patent number: 11896316
    Abstract: A method includes receiving anatomic image data comprising a plurality of graphical units; generating an initial segmented set of the plurality of graphical units associated with an anatomic tree structure; receiving an indication of a first user selected graphical unit, the first user selected graphical unit being outside the initial segmented set of the plurality of graphical units; applying a cost function to determine a first sequence of graphical units from the first user selected graphical unit to the initial segmented set of graphical units; receiving an indication of a second user selected graphical unit, the second user selected graphical unit being selected from the first sequence of the plurality of graphical units; and applying the cost function to determine a second sequence of the plurality of graphical units from the second user selected graphical unit to the initial segmented set of the plurality of graphical units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Pechin Chien Pau Lo, Jun Ma, Tao Zhao
  • Patent number: 11897127
    Abstract: A method is performed by a computing system. The method includes receiving image data from an imaging device, and determining, using the image data, a plurality of image-space tools, each image-space tool associated with a tool of a plurality of tools, each tool controlled by a manipulator of a plurality of manipulators. The method further includes determining a first correspondence between a first image-space tool of the plurality of image-space tools and a first tool of the plurality of tools based on a first disambiguation setting associated with the first tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon P. DiMaio, Ambarish G. Goswami, Dinesh Rabindran, Changyeob Shin, Tao Zhao
  • Patent number: 11896364
    Abstract: A non-transitory machine-readable media storing instructions is provided. The instructions cause one or more processors to: define a subregion of a model of an anatomic region of a patient anatomy, the subregion corresponding to an area surrounding a tip of an image capture probe located within the anatomic region, the subregion including a plurality of virtual tissue structures—a set of virtual tissue structures of the plurality of virtual tissue structures is situated distally from the tip of the probe; compare a tissue structure in an image received from a camera positioned at the tip of the probe to a portion of the plurality of virtual tissue structures to identify a closest matched virtual tissue structure; and based on identification of the closest matched virtual tissue structure, register the image to the model to identify a virtual probe position for the tip of the probe with respect to the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Zhao, Prashant Chopra