Patents by Inventor Wei Xiong
Wei Xiong 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: 12293582Abstract: In a video processing method, a target video is received. Scene description information of a shooting scene in the target video is obtained. The scene description information indicates features of the shooting scene in the target video. A video processing package that corresponds to the shooting scene in the target video is obtained based on the scene description information. The video processing package is configured to add at least one content to the target video. The at least one content is added to the target video based on the video processing package.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company LimitedInventors: Xue Li, Wei Xiong
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Publication number: 20250137338Abstract: A technique facilitates deployment of open hole gravel packing equipment and sand control equipment downhole in a single trip. According to an embodiment, the technique utilizes a pipe string, e.g. a workstring or a drill string, for use in an open hole gravel packing operation. The pipe string is equipped with a sand control system having at least one filtration medium, Additionally, the pipe string comprises a valve and a valve actuation device. The valve actuation device is capable of being remotely activated in a manner allowing setting of one or more packers downhole without blocking subsequent flow through the pipe string.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: May 1, 2025Inventors: Joel Antonio Gil Lozano, Mark Wei Xiong Yun, Venkata Siva Reddy Battula, Nabil Batita, Joshua Jones, Mark Anderson, Ashish Sharma, Vincent Chatelet, Stephen Lewis, Matheus Pasti
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Publication number: 20250136449Abstract: An anti-oxidation dipping treatment method for a graphite sealing element for a thermal power generation unit, and an anti-oxidation production line. The anti-oxidation dipping treatment method for a graphite sealing element for a thermal power generation unit comprises the following steps: S1, placing a graphite sheet into a soaking device for soaking; S2, conveying the soaked graphite sheet into a drying and curing device for drying and curing; S3, stacking the multiple dried and cured graphite sheets together, and subjecting same to compression molding to form a layered graphite body; and S4, stamping the layered graphite body to form a finished graphite sealing element with a desired appearance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicants: HUANENG POWER INTERNATIONAL, INC., XI'AN THERMAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD., YUHUAN BRANCH OF HUANENG (ZHEJIANG) ENERGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTDInventors: Jinyang HUANG, Xingxing ZHANG, Jintao LU, Yingying DANG, Yongli ZHOU, Zhen YANG, Yong YUAN, Jingbo YAN, Hongfei YIN, Peng ZHANG, Pei LI, Peng LIU, Limin LI, Wei XIONG, Siyu LIN, Qihuai MAO
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Patent number: 12283089Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide an image processing method, an image processing terminal, an image processing apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method can include performing face detection on a target image to detect a face region in the target image. The method includes determining an expression class of the detected face region based on a trained expression recognition model and determining whether the determined expression class of the detected face region is a target expression class. If the determined expression class is the target expression class, head detection is performed to identify a head region in the target image and the identified head region is edited. If the determined expression class is not the target expression class, the head detection is not performed on the target image.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Wei Xiong, Fei Huang
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Publication number: 20250122516Abstract: Use of a gene ZmNPF6.8 in regulation of a nitrogen uptake and utilization efficiency of Zea mays L. and a yield per Zea mays L. plant is provided. The gene ZmNPF6.8 has: 1) a coding region nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 3; or 2) a nucleotide sequence that has 90% or more homology with the coding region nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 3 and encodes a same functional protein as the coding region nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 3. In the present disclosure, a Mutator transposon can be inserted into an amino acid-coding region of the gene ZmNPF6.8 to down-regulate an expression level of the gene and significantly reduce a nitrogen uptake and utilization efficiency of Zea mays L. and a yield per Zea mays L. plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: JIANGSU ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCESInventors: Ling ZHOU, Wei XIONG, Han ZHAO
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Publication number: 20250123592Abstract: An optically addressable pixelated spatial light modulator, comprising: a laser light source, a structured light field encoding projection module, and a superpixel metasurface device. The structured light field encoding projection module comprises a structured light field encoding module, which encodes a laser beam emitted by a laser light source into a structured light beam according to the modulation amount distribution of a target light field. The superpixel metasurface device comprises a plurality of unit cell structures, with each unit cell structure serving as a light field modulation pixel point. Each unit cell structure comprises a plurality of sub-wavelength micro-nano structures, and the unit cell structure generates a light field modulation amount under the action of the structured light beam for the light field modulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventors: Hui Gao, Ke Xu, Wei Xiong, Xuhao Fan, Xinger Wang
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Patent number: 12276547Abstract: A wide-field imaging and hyperspectral collaborative early warning system and method are provided. The system includes: a primary imaging system, a digital micromirror array, a first collimation system, a second collimation system, a first reflector, a second reflector, a wide-field imaging optical filter, a narrow-band optical filter, a wide-field imager and a hyperspectral interferometer. The system and method have the advantages that the wide-field imaging general survey and fine spectrum detection can be realized synchronously, the functions are multiple, and the false alarm rate is low; the target spatial resolution of the fine spectrum identification is adjustable, the micro-control unit flipping solution is simple to operate, and quick adjustment is realized; the adaptability is strong, the flipping time of the corresponding micro-control unit is adaptively adjusted for the measured target with too low or too strong radiation intensity, and the dynamic range of the system is effectively improved.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Haiyan Luo, Wei Xiong, Zhiwei Li, Wei Jin, Dekang Wang, Qiansheng Wang
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Publication number: 20250111133Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for. A method can include receiving, from a user through a user interface, a segmentation granularity value indicating a number of events in the transcript to be included in a summary, extracting, by a ranker model and from the transcript, a number of hints equal to the number of events, generating, by a summarizer model that includes a re-trained language model, respective summaries, one for each event, of a portion of the transcript corresponding to the event, and providing the respective summaries as an overall summary of the transcript.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Chenguang Zhu, Yang LIU, Nanshan ZENG, Xuedong HUANG, Ming ZHONG, Yuantao Wang, Wei XIONG
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Publication number: 20250101472Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel methods and compositions of matter to produce 3HB in acetogens by using a(S)-3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase, Hbd2, responsible for endogenous 3HB production. In conjunction with the heterologous thiolase atoB and CoA transferase ctfAB, hbd2 overexpression improves yields of 3HB on both sugar and syngas (CO/H2/CO2), outperforming previously disclosed pathways.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Jonathan LO, Jonathan Richard HUMPHREYS, Wei XIONG, Katherine Jenyan CHOU
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Patent number: 12260538Abstract: This invention relates to a method for training a neural network, comprising detecting a hole in each training image of a plurality of training images; transforming each training image into a transformed image, to suppress non-crack information in the training image; and training a neural network using the transformed images, to detect cracks in images (i.e. in objects in images).Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCHInventors: Jierong Cheng, Ying Sun, Wei Xiong, Wenyu Chen, Yusha Li, Ying Quan
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Patent number: 12242846Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate supporting 8-bit floating point format operands in a computing architecture is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor comprising: a decoder to decode an instruction fetched for execution into a decoded instruction, wherein the decoded instruction is a matrix instruction that operates on 8-bit floating point operands to cause the processor to perform a parallel dot product operation; a controller to schedule the decoded instruction and provide input data for the 8-bit floating point operands in accordance with an 8-bit floating data format indicated by the decoded instruction; and systolic dot product circuitry to execute the decoded instruction using systolic layers, each systolic layer comprises one or more sets of interconnected multipliers, shifters, and adder, each set of multipliers, shifters, and adders to generate a dot product of the 8-bit floating point operands.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2024Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Naveen Mellempudi, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Varghese George, Fangwen Fu, Shuai Mu, Supratim Pal, Wei Xiong
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Publication number: 20250036361Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor comprising a memory interface and a graphics processing cluster coupled with the memory interface. The graphics processing cluster includes a multi-lane parallel floating-point unit and a multi-lane parallel integer unit. The multi-lane parallel integer unit includes an integer pipeline including a plurality of parallel integer logic units configured to perform integer compute operations on a plurality of input data elements and a format conversion pipeline including a plurality of parallel format conversion units configured to convert a plurality of input data elements from a first one of a plurality of datatype formats to a second one of the plurality of datatype formats, the plurality of datatype formats including integer and floating-point formats.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Supratim Pal, Jiasheng Chen, Kevin Hurd, Jorge E. Parra Osorio, Christopher Spencer, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Pradeep K. Golconda, Fangwen Fu, Wei Xiong, Hongzheng Li, James Valerio, Mukundan Swaminathan, Nicholas Murphy, Shuai Mu, Clifford Gibson, Buqi Cheng
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Publication number: 20250036412Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor comprising a memory interface and a graphics processing cluster coupled with the memory interface. The graphics processing cluster includes a plurality of processing resources. A processing resource of the plurality of processing resources includes a source crossbar communicatively coupled with a register file, the source crossbar to reorder data elements of a source operand and a format conversion pipeline to convert a plurality of input data elements specified by the source operand from a first format of a plurality of datatype formats to a second format of the plurality of datatype formats, the plurality of datatype formats including integer and floating-point formats.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Supratim Pal, Jiasheng Chen, Christopher Spencer, Jorge E. Parra Osorio, Kevin Hurd, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Pradeep K. Golconda, Fangwen Fu, Wei Xiong, Hongzheng Li, James Valerio, Mukundan Swaminathan, Nicholas Murphy, Shuai Mu, Clifford Gibson, Buqi Cheng
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Publication number: 20250037251Abstract: A method includes obtaining an input image having a region to be inpainted, an indication of the region to be inpainted, and a guide image. The method also includes determining, by an encoder model, a first latent representation of the input image and a second latent representation of the guide image, and generating a combined latent representation based on the first latent representation and the second latent representation. The method additionally includes generating, by a style generative adversarial network model and based on the combined latent representation, an intermediate output image that includes inpainted image content for the region to be inpainted in the input image. The method further includes generating, based on the input image, the indication of the region, and the intermediate output image, an output image representing the input image with the region to be inpainted including the inpainted image content from the intermediate output image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Orly Liba, Kfir Aberman, Wei Xiong, David Futschik, Yael Pritch Knaan, Daniel Sýkora, Tianfan Xue
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Publication number: 20250039341Abstract: A projection apparatus includes a pixel array disposed on a substrate, where the pixel array has a light-emitting feature; a cantilever beam disposed on the substrate and configured to fasten a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) lens, where the cantilever beam is disposed outside the pixel array, the MEMS lens is configured to scan the pixel array, the cantilever beam and the MEMS lens form a MEMS lens scanner; and a driver coupled to the pixel array and the MEMS lens and configured to drive the pixel array having a light-emitting feature to perform color display to obtain a projected image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Kun Luo, Wei Xiong, Pengfei Zhao
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Patent number: 12211435Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display having a gate-on-array (GOA) that generates gate signals in response to an activation signal, pixels that activate in response to a combination of the gate signals and data signals indicative of image data, and sensing circuitry. The sensing circuitry may measure a characteristic response of a gate signal a characteristic response of one or more pixels, or both and compare the characteristic responses to baselines. The electronic device may also include compensation circuitry that applies a compensation to the activation signal and/or to the image data based on the comparisons between the characteristic responses and the baselines.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sun-Il Chang, Kwang Soon Park, Hao-Lin Chiu, Jie Won Ryu, Hyunsoo Kim, Hyunwoo Nho, Wei Xiong, Patrick R Cruce
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Publication number: 20250028750Abstract: A technique is described for compressing input information fed to a machine-trained generative model. The technique includes: receiving original input information having a plurality of sentences; performing word-level encoding of the original input information using a first part of a machine-trained transformer model, to provide word-level encoded information; performing sentence-level encoding of the word-level encoded information using a second part of the machine-trained transformer model, to provide scores associated with the first plurality of sentences; selecting a subset of the sentences in the original input information based on the scores, to provide modified input information; and providing the modified input information to the machine-trained generative model. The operation of word-level encoding performs parallel processing on portions of the original input information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2023Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lesly Sadiht MICULICICH WERLEN, Pengcheng HE, Yujia XIE, Wei XIONG, Siqing CHEN, Xun WANG, Elsie Prasuna NALLIPOGU, Yanling XIONG
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Patent number: 12182976Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and computer-readable storage mediums for processing images to remove moiré patterns. The method entails running an image processing model to perform moiré pattern removal processing on an original image to obtain a target image. The image processing model may include a network model trained according to a moiré pattern training data set. The image processing model can also include a multi-band module, which may be configured to process the original image to obtain an N-layer Laplacian pyramid of the original image, and obtain a first processing result feature map based on feature maps corresponding to N spatial frequency bands of the N-layer Laplacian pyramid, with N being a positive integer greater than or equal to 2. The image processing model can include obtaining the target image according to the first processing result feature map.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company LimitedInventors: Geyang Ke, Fei Huang, Wei Xiong
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Publication number: 20240428502Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may render different content layers that present different classes of content. The different classes of content may have different characteristics. As an example, a first class of content may be static content whereas a second class of content may be dynamic content. The different characteristics of each class of content may be leveraged to use a hybrid approach for content processing. The hybrid content processing may take advantage of different layers needing to be updated at different frequencies and may take advantage of sparse content in some of the layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Fu-Chung Huang, ByoungSuk Kim, Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva, Hao Chen, Igor Kozintsev, Pavel V Dudrenov, Ping-Yen Chou, Seung Wook Kim, Sheng Zhang, Victor H Yin, Wei H Yao, Wei Xiong, Yang Li, Yi Huang, Yi-Pai Huang, Justin A Meiners
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Publication number: 20240414998Abstract: This application provides a display panel, a preparation method therefor, and a display apparatus. A first display region of the display panel has an OLED pixel, a second display region has a Micro LED pixel, the Micro LED pixel has a light emitting region and a light transmission region, and a camera is disposed below the second display region. After the Micro LED pixel is used in the second display region, display pixels having a same area in the first display region and the second display region can be designed, to implement display effect consistency between the first display region and the second display region. Because a size of the Micro LED pixel for light emitting is small, it can be ensured that the Micro LED pixel has a large light transmission region, so that light transmittance of the second display region can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Wei XIONG, Kun LUO, Congbiao JIANG, Shipeng CHI, Pengfei ZHAO