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).
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Publication number: 20240147119Abstract: The earphone includes a sound generation component including a transducer; at least a portion of the sound generation component extending into a concha cavity of a user; and an ear hook including a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being connected to the first portion, and being connected to the sound generation component to place the sound generation component at a position near an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal. The sound generation component has a first projection on a sagittal plane, and the auricle has a second projection on the sagittal plane. 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 in a range of 0.35-0.6.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Peigeng TONG, Guolin XIE, Yongjian LI, Jiang XU, Tao ZHAO, Duoduo WU, Ao JI, Xin QI
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Publication number: 20240147162Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a sound production component including a diaphragm, a magnetic circuit assembly, a coil, and a housing. The coil is connected to the diaphragm and is at least partially disposed in a magnetic gap formed by the magnetic circuit assembly, and the coil drives the diaphragm to vibrate to produce a sound after being energized. A sound outlet is provided on an inner side surface of the housing for directing a sound generated at a front side of the diaphragm out of the housing. The diaphragm comprises a main body region and a folded ring region surrounding the main body region, the folded ring region comprising an arc-shaped segment and a connection segment connected to the main body region. A projection of a center of the sound outlet along a vibration direction on the diaphragm is on an inner side of the arc-shaped segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Peigeng TONG, Guolin XIE, Yongjian LI, Jiang XU, Tao ZHAO, Duoduo WU, Ao JI, Xin QI
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Publication number: 20240147108Abstract: The present disclosure provides an earphone comprising a sound production component and a suspension structure. The sound production component includes a diaphragm and a housing. In a wearing state, the suspension structure is used to place the sound production component at a position near but not blocking an ear canal, wherein an inner side surface of the housing facing an auricle is provided with a sound outlet, at least another side surface of the housing is provided with a first pressure relief hole, and a distance between a center of the sound outlet and a midpoint of an upper boundary of the inner side surface is greater than a distance between a center of the first pressure relief hole and the midpoint of the upper boundary of the inner side surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Peigeng TONG, Guolin XIE, Yongjian LI, Jiang XU, Tao ZHAO, Duoduo WU, Ao JI, Xin QI
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Publication number: 20240147120Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Peigeng TONG, Guolin XIE, Yongjian LI, Jiang XU, Tao ZHAO, Duoduo WU, Ao JI, Xin QI
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Publication number: 20240147113Abstract: The present disclosure provides an earphone including a sound production component and an ear hook which is configured to place the sound production component at a position near an ear canal but not blocking the ear canal. The sound production component and an auricle have a first projection and a second projection on a sagittal plane, respectively, and a centroid of the first projection has 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 is in a range of 0.25-0.6, and a ratio of a distance from a center of a sound outlet provided on an inner side surface to a lower side surface of the sound production component to a short-axis dimension of the sound production component is in a range of 0.25-0.50.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Peigeng TONG, Guolin XIE, Yongjian LI, Jiang XU, Tao ZHAO, Duoduo WU, Ao JI, Xin QI
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Publication number: 20240147121Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Peigeng TONG, Guolin XIE, Yongjian LI, Jiang XU, Tao ZHAO, Duoduo WU, Ao JI, Xin QI
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Publication number: 20240147116Abstract: The present disclosure relates to acoustic technology, in particular to an earphone including a sound generation portion. The sound generation portion includes a transducer and a housing for accommodating the transducer. The earphone further includes an earhook. The earhook includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may be hung between an auricle and the head of a user, and the second portion may be connected to the first portion, extends toward an anterolateral side of the auricle, and may be connected to the sound generation portion. The sound generation portion may be fixed near an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal. In at least one frequency range, when an input current of the transducer does not exceed 35.3 mA, a maximum sound pressure that the sound generation portion is able to provide to the ear canal may not be smaller than 75 dB.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Peigeng TONG, Guolin XIE, Yongjian LI, Jiang XU, Tao ZHAO, Duoduo WU, Ao JI, Xin QI
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Publication number: 20240147133Abstract: An earphone comprises a sound production component and an ear hook including a first portion and a second portion connected in sequence. The first portion is hung between an auricle of a user and a head of the user, and the second portion extends toward a front outer side of the auricle and connects to the sound production component, so that the sound production component is worn at a position near an ear canal but does not block an opening of the ear canal. The sound production component and the auricle have a first projection and a second projection on a sagittal plane, respectively. A first distance between a centroid of the first projection and a highest point of the second projection in a vertical axis direction is within a range of 17 mm-43 mm, and an area of the first projection is within a range of 202 mm2-560 mm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Peigeng TONG, Guolin XIE, Yongjian LI, Jiang XU, Tao ZHAO, Duoduo WU, Ao JI, Xin QI
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Publication number: 20240147112Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an earphone, comprising: a sound production component, at least a portion of the sound production component extending into a concha cavity; ear hook disposed between an auricle and a head of the user, extending toward a side of the auricle away from the head, and connecting the sound production component; in a non-wearing state, the ear hook and the sound production component form a first projection on a first plane comprising an outer contour, a first end contour, an inner contour, and a second end contour, the outer contour, the first end contour, the second end contour, and a tangent segment connecting the first end contour and the second end contour define a first closed curve, a ratio of a projection area of the sound production component on the first plane to a first area of the first closed curve is between 0.25 and 0.4.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Peigeng TONG, Guolin XIE, Yongjian LI, Jiang XU, Tao ZHAO, Duoduo WU, Ao JI, Xin QI
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Patent number: 11974093Abstract: The earphone includes a sound generation component including a transducer; at least a portion of the sound generation component extending into a concha cavity of a user; and an ear hook including a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being connected to the first portion, and being connected to the sound generation component to place the sound generation component at a position near an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal. The sound generation component has a first projection on a sagittal plane, and the auricle has a second projection on the sagittal plane. 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 in a range of 0.35-0.6.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
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Patent number: 11968489Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an earphone, comprising: a sound production component, at least a portion of the sound production component extending into a concha cavity; ear hook disposed between an auricle and a head of the user, extending toward a side of the auricle away from the head, and connecting the sound production component; in a non-wearing state, the ear hook and the sound production component form a first projection on a first plane comprising an outer contour, a first end contour, an inner contour, and a second end contour, the outer contour, the first end contour, the second end contour, and a tangent segment connecting the first end contour and the second end contour define a first closed curve, a ratio of a projection area of the sound production component on the first plane to a first area of the first closed curve is between 0.25 and 0.4.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
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Patent number: 11968506Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a speaker. The speaker may include a diaphragm; a magnetic circuit component; and a coil connected to the diaphragm, at least part of the coil being arranged in a magnetic gap formed by the magnetic circuit component, and the coil driving the diaphragm to vibrate to generate sound after the coil being energized. The diaphragm may include a main-body region and a folded-ring region surrounding the main-body region, the main-body region may include a first inclined section and a first connecting section connected to the coil, the first inclined section may be attached to a portion of the folded-ring region, and the first inclined section may be tilted in a direction away from the coil with respect to the first connecting section.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD., KING TONE INNOVATION (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.Inventors: Lei Zhang, Shanyong Gu, Hongqiang Zhao, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
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Patent number: 11962817Abstract: Systems and methods for frequency management, including: an online media service configured to: receive a request for a media item, the request including a recipient identifier; identify a set of candidate media items ranked by a set of matching criteria; a frequency management service configured to: perform a query against a lookup service, where the query includes (i) an entity identifier of at least one candidate media item of the set of candidate media items, and (ii) the recipient identifier; receive a response from the lookup service including a quantity of impressions associated with the entity identifier and the recipient identifier; identify a predefined frequency threshold; determine that the frequency threshold is exceeded and exclude the at least one candidate media item from a result set based on the determination; and provide the result set including an identifier of at least one other candidate media item.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TUBI, INC.Inventors: Khaldun Matter Ahmad AlDarabsah, Hailong Geng, Yu Tao Zhao, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Haofei Wang, Mark Alden Rotblat, Jaya Kawale, Chang She, Marios Assiotis, Joseph Gallagher, Chiyu Zhong, Amir Mazaheri
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Patent number: 11957424Abstract: A system includes an interventional instrument and a control system. The control system is configured to: generate a graphical user interface (GUI) including an image of a target region for deploying the interventional instrument, wherein the target region includes a plurality of target points and is determined by a probabilistic collection of the plurality of target points, wherein a size of the target region is based at least in part on a location of a target structure within a patient anatomy; responsive to an engagement of the interventional instrument with tissue in the target region, update the GUI to include an engagement location marker; and responsive to the engagement of the interventional instrument, update the GUI to include an image of a revised target region.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Caitlin Q. Donhowe, Tao Zhao, Federico Barbagli, Vincent Duindam, Timothy D. Soper
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Patent number: 11956584Abstract: The present disclosure provides an earphone comprising a sound production component and an ear hook. In a wearing state, the ear hook is configured to place the sound production component at a position near an ear canal but not blocking the ear canal. An inner contour of the ear hook's projection on a user's sagittal plane includes a first curve having an extremum point in a first direction. The first direction is perpendicular to a long-axis direction of a projection of the sound production component on the sagittal plane. The extremum point is located behind a projection point of an upper vertex of the ear hook on the sagittal plane, and the upper vertex is a highest point of an inner contour of the ear hook along the user's vertical axis. An inclination angle of the long-axis direction relative to a horizontal direction is within a range of 13°-21°.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi, Zeying Zheng, Haofeng Zhang
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Publication number: 20240108426Abstract: A robotic system comprises an input device movable by an operator and a processing unit. An operator reference frame is defined relative to the operator. The processing unit is configured to present, to the operator, a first image of a first tool captured by an imaging device, receive, from the operator, a first indication that a first axis of the input device is aligned with a corresponding axis of the first tool in the first image, and in response to the first indication, determine a first alignment relationship between the imaging device and the first tool based on a second alignment relationship between the operator reference frame and the input device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Ambarish G. Goswami, Paul G. Griffiths, Brandon D. Itkowitz, Tao Zhao
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Patent number: 11941734Abstract: A robotic system may comprise a first robotic arm operatively coupleable to a first tool. The first tool has a first working end. The system may also comprise an image capture device, a display, and a processor. The processor may be configured to cause an image of a work site, which was captured by the image capture device from a perspective of an image reference frame, to be displayed on the display. The image of the work site includes an image of the first working end of the first tool. The processor may also determine a position of the first working end of the first tool in the image of the work site and render a tool information overlay at the position of the first working end of the first tool in the image of the work site. The tool information overlay visually indicates state information for the first tool. The processor may also change the tool information overlay while the first tool is in a first operational state by changing a brightness of the tool information overlay.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Simon P. DiMaio, Daniel J. Halabe, Christopher J. Hasser, Brian David Hoffman, David Q. Larkin, Catherine J. Mohr, Paul W. Mohr, Tao Zhao, Wenyi Zhao
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Publication number: 20240081775Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Caitlin Q. Donhowe, Prashant Chopra, Dorin Panescu, Carol Reiley, Tao Zhao
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Patent number: 11930317Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 15, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
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Patent number: 11930312Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 19, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi