Patents by Inventor Tong Xiao
Tong Xiao 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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Patent number: 11968514Abstract: The application relates to a vibration sounding device including: a housing body with a containment cavity and a sounding unit arranged in the containment cavity. The sounding unit includes a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system. The magnetic circuit system includes a main magnet and a secondary magnet assembly. The vibration sounding device also includes an elastic assembly, a weight assembly, and a drive coil. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. By virtue of the configuration, it is beneficial to simplify the forming process of the weight assembly, reduce the production cost, and also facilitate the replacement of the drive coil.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bo Xiao, Chenliang Kong, Tong Zhang, Ronglin Linghu
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Patent number: 11968513Abstract: The application discloses a vibration sounding device including a housing body with a containment cavity, a sounding unit placed in the containment cavity, a weight, a drive coil and a spring plate. The spring plate includes a first fixed section for fixed connection with the weight and a second fixed section for fixed connection with the housing body. The first fixed section and the second fixed section are fixed by laser spot welding. Compared with the prior art, the first fixed section and the second fixed section are fixed by laser spot welding, which can improve the bonding strength between the first fixed section and the second fixed section, and ensures the strength of the spring plate when the vibration sounding device is working.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bo Xiao, Chenliang Kong, Tong Zhang, Ronglin Linghu
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Patent number: 11968515Abstract: The present invention provides a multifunctional sounding device including a housing, a first vibration system, a second vibration system, a magnetic circuit system, an elastic component and a flexible circuit board. The elastic component includes a deformation part fixed to the second vibration system and an installation part extended from both ends of the deformation part and fixed to the housing. The second vibration system is suspended in the containment cavity through the elastic component. The flexible circuit board is connected with the elastic component, so that the vibration of the flexible circuit board is coupled with the vibration of the elastic component. Therefore, the damping of the elastic component is reduced, the force received by the elastic component during vibration is reduced, and the service life of the elastic component is extended.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bo Xiao, Chenliang Kong, Tong Zhang, Ronglin Linghu
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Publication number: 20240124853Abstract: Provided are transaminase mutants and uses thereof. The transaminase mutant is obtained by one or more amino acid mutations occurring in SEQ ID NO: 2 or is a mutant with a conserved amino acid mutation obtained by taking the sequence SEQ ID NO: 1 of a wild-type CvTA transaminase as a reference. Compared with wild-type transaminases, the catalytic activity of the mutant is improved to different degrees, so that the production efficiency of chiral amine compound synthesis may be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Hao Hong, Gage James, Yi Xiao, Na Zhang, Xuecheng Jiao, Yulei Ma, Huiyan Mou, Zujian Wang, Kaihua Sun, Xiang Li, Tong Zhao, Shan Cao
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Patent number: 11950046Abstract: The present invention provides a multifunctional sounding device including a housing, a first vibration system, a second vibration system, a magnetic circuit system, an elastic component and a flexible circuit board. The elastic component includes a deformation part fixed to the second vibration system and an installation part extended from both ends of the deformation part and fixed to the housing. The second vibration system is suspended in the containment cavity through the elastic component. The flexible circuit board is connected with the elastic component, so that the vibration of the flexible circuit board is coupled with the vibration of the elastic component. Therefore, the damping of the elastic component is reduced, the force received by the elastic component during vibration is reduced, and the service life of the elastic component is extended.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bo Xiao, Chenliang Kong, Tong Zhang, Ronglin Linghu
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Publication number: 20240078638Abstract: Provided are an image fusion method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes the following steps: A shooting operation acting on a first page of a target shooting activity is received, where the first page is an H5 page; in response to the shooting operation, a camera is called through system shooting software to collect an original image; a fusion operation for the original image is received; and in response to the fusion operation, the original image is fused with a first target effect, a static target image that includes a static image obtained by fusing the original image with the first target effect and the first description information related to the static image is generated, and the static target image is displayed on a second page, where the second page is an H5 page.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Honghui LIAO, Guangying SU, Weipeng WANG, Tong WU, Feng CHEN, Lei HUANG, Bei WANG, Yiqi XIAO, Yalong LIU
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Publication number: 20240078754Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may access a first image of a first portion of a face of a user captured by a first camera from a first viewpoint and a second image of a second portion of the face captured by a second camera from a second viewpoint. The system may generate, using a machine-learning model and the first and second images, a synthesized image corresponding to a third portion of the face of the user as viewed from a third viewpoint. The system may access a three-dimensional (3D) facial model representative of the face and generate a texture image for the face by projecting at least the synthesized image onto the 3D facial model from a predetermined camera pose corresponding to the third viewpoint. The system may cause an output image to be rendered using at least the 3D facial model and the texture image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: James Allan Booth, Elif Albuz, Peihong Guo, Tong Xiao
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Patent number: 11842442Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more computing systems may access a plurality of images corresponding to a portion of a face of a user. The plurality of images is captured from different viewpoints by a plurality of cameras coupled to an artificial-reality system worn by the user. The one or more computing systems may synthesize, using a machine-learning model, to generate a synthesized image corresponding to the portion of the face of the user. The one or more computing systems may access a three-dimensional (3D) facial model representative of the face of the user and generate a texture image by projecting the synthesized image onto the 3D facial model from a specific camera pose. The one or more computing systems may cause an output image of a facial representation of the user to be rendered using at least the 3D facial model and the texture image.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: James Allan Booth, Elif Albuz, Peihong Guo, Tong Xiao
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Publication number: 20230385366Abstract: A method for ecological disturbance risk identification and assessment based on automatic parameter adjusting optimization model is disclosed. The method includes: establishing a three-layer ecological disturbance risk assessment index system based on an ecological disturbance risk identification and assessment function, performing normalization preprocessing on the assessment indexes, screening the assessment indexes meeting a multicollinearity judgement interval based on variance inflation factor method, establishing an ecological disturbance risk assessment model, optimizing weight parameters of the ecological disturbance risk assessment model based on particle swarm optimization algorithm to obtain an optimal solution of the model weight, and outputting a result of the risk index of ecological disturbance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2022Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Jixi Gao, Mingyong Cai, Xinsheng Zhang, Wenfei Tai, Xuhui Chen, Yuanli Shi, Zhen Shen, Tong Xiao, Wandong Ma, Jianxin Sun, Xue Zhang, Zhihua Ren
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Publication number: 20230206560Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more computing systems may access a plurality of images corresponding to a portion of a face of a user. The plurality of images is captured from different viewpoints by a plurality of cameras coupled to an artificial-reality system worn by the user. The one or more computing systems may synthesize, using a machine-learning model, to generate a synthesized image corresponding to the portion of the face of the user. The one or more computing systems may access a three-dimensional (3D) facial model representative of the face of the user and generate a texture image by projecting the synthesized image onto the 3D facial model from a specific camera pose. The one or more computing systems may cause an output image of a facial representation of the user to be rendered using at least the 3D facial model and the texture image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: James Allan Booth, Elif Albuz, Peihong Guo, Tong Xiao
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Patent number: 11562535Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more computing systems may receive an image of a portion of a face of a first user. The one or more computing systems may access a three-dimensional (3D) facial model representative of the face of the first user. The one or more computing systems may identify one or more facial features captured in the image and determine a camera pose relative to the 3D facial model based on the identified one or more facial features in the image and predetermined feature locations on the 3D facial model. The one or more computing systems may determine a mapping relationship between the image and the 3D facial model by projecting the image of the portion of the face of the first user onto the 3D facial model from the camera pose and cause an output image of a facial representation of the first user to be rendered.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: James Allan Booth, Elif Albuz, Peihong Guo, Tong Xiao
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Publication number: 20220309772Abstract: A human activity recognition fusion method and system for ecological protection red line is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a pre-stage remote sensing image and a post-stage remote sensing image of a target ecological protection red line region, and performing a data pre-processing; inputting the pre-processed pre-stage remote sensing image and the post-stage remote sensing image into a human activity recognition model after a pre-training; identifying a human activity pattern of the target ecological protection red line region as a first detection result; segmenting, calculating and analyzing the latest image data corresponding to the target ecological protection red line region based on a geographical country situation data to obtain a change pattern as a second detection result; and fusing the first detection result and the second detection result to obtain a change detection pattern of the target ecological protection red line region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Jixi Gao, Wenming Shen, Mingyong Cai, Xinsheng Zhang, Wenfei Tai, Xuewei Shi, Xuhui Chen, Sihan Liu, Tong Xiao, Wandong Ma, Jing Li, Yuanli Shi, Lixia Wang, Hongwei Zhang, Zhihua Ren
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Patent number: 11301687Abstract: A pedestrian re-identification method includes: obtaining a target video containing a target pedestrian and at least one candidate video; encoding each target video segment in the target video and each candidate video segment in the at least one candidate segment separately; determining a score of similarity between the each target video segment and the each candidate video segment according to encoding results, the score of similarity being used for representing a degree of similarity between pedestrian features in the target video segment and the candidate video segment; and performing pedestrian re-identification on the at least one candidate video according to the score of similarity.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: BEIJING SENSETIME TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Dapeng Chen, Hongsheng Li, Tong Xiao, Shuai Yi, Xiaogang Wang
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Publication number: 20220092853Abstract: In one embodiment, one or more computing systems may receive an image of a portion of a face of a first user. The one or more computing systems may access a three-dimensional (3D) facial model representative of the face of the first user. The one or more computing systems may identify one or more facial features captured in the image and determine a camera pose relative to the 3D facial model based on the identified one or more facial features in the image and predetermined feature locations on the 3D facial model. The one or more computing systems may determine a mapping relationship between the image and the 3D facial model by projecting the image of the portion of the face of the first user onto the 3D facial model from the camera pose and cause an output image of a facial representation of the first user to be rendered.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: James Allan Booth, Elif Albuz, Peihong Guo, Tong Xiao
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Publication number: 20220058812Abstract: A method for identifying a target, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device include: acquiring a first image and a second image, the first image and the second image each including a target to be determined; generating a prediction path based on the first image and the second image, both ends of the prediction path respectively corresponding to the first image and the second image; and performing validity determination on the prediction path and determining, according to a determination result, whether the targets to be determined in the first image and the second image are the same target to be determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: BEIJING SENSETIME TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yantao SHEN, Tong XIAO, Hongsheng LI, Shuai YI, Xiaogang WANG
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Publication number: 20220051417Abstract: A method for identifying a target, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device include: acquiring a first image and a second image, the first image and the second image each including a target to be determined; generating a prediction path based on the first image and the second image, both ends of the prediction path respectively corresponding to the first image and the second image; and performing validity determination on the prediction path and determining, according to a determination result, whether the targets to be determined in the first image and the second image are the same target to be determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: BEIJING SENSETIME TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yantao SHEN, Tong XIAO, Hongsheng LI, Shuai YI, Xiaogang WANG
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Patent number: 11200682Abstract: A method for identifying a target, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device include: acquiring a first image and a second image, the first image and the second image each including a target to be determined; generating a prediction path based on the first image and the second image, both ends of the prediction path respectively corresponding to the first image and the second image; and performing validity determination on the prediction path and determining, according to a determination result, whether the targets to be determined in the first image and the second image are the same target to be determined.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: BEIJING SENSETIME TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yantao Shen, Tong Xiao, Hongsheng Li, Shuai Yi, Xiaogang Wang
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Patent number: 11113859Abstract: Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for rendering a three-dimensional (3D) model of an avatar according to an audio stream including a vocal output of a person and image data capturing a face of the person. In one aspect, phonemes of the vocal output are predicted according to the audio stream, and the predicted phonemes of the vocal output are translated into visemes. In one aspect, a plurality of blendshapes and corresponding weights are determined, according to the corresponding image data of the face, to form the 3D model of the avatar of the person. The visemes may be combined with the 3D model of the avatar to form a 3D representation of the avatar, by synchronizing the visemes with the 3D model of the avatar in time.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Tong Xiao, Sidi Fu, Mengqian Liu, Peihong Guo, Shu Liang, Evgeny Zatepyakin
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Patent number: 10970907Abstract: Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for applying an expression to an avatar. In one aspect, a class of an expression of a face can be determined according to a set of attributes indicating states of portions of the face. In one aspect, a set of blendshapes with respective weights corresponding to the expression of the face can be determined according to the class of the expression of the face. In one aspect, the set of blendshapes with respective weights can be provided as an input to train a machine learning model. In one aspect, the machine learning model can be configured, via training, to generate an output set of blendshapes with respective weights, according to an input image. An image of an avatar may be rendered according to the output set of blendshapes with respective weights.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Elif Albuz, Melinda Ozel, Tong Xiao, Sidi Fu
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Patent number: D922067Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Suyan Huang, Tong Xiao