Patents by Inventor Weiming Li
Weiming Li 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: 12061010Abstract: A dehumidifier includes a water tank, a body, and a drainage pump. The body has a working state and includes a drainage position. The body is configured to extend out relative to the water tank in the working state. A water inlet end of the drainage pump is communicated with the water tank, and a water outlet end of the drainage pump is communicated with the drainage position.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Weiming Li
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Patent number: 12053730Abstract: A dehumidifier comprising: a water tank with a mounting port facing upward, a machine body including an air inlet and a filter net slot beside the air inlet, and a filter net removably inserted in the filter net slot and covering the air inlet. The machine body is configured to be in one of a plurality of states including an idle state in which the machine body is at least partially accommodated in the water tank through the mounting port and a working state in which the machine body is extended out relative to the water tank through the mounting port.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Weiming Li
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Publication number: 20240255162Abstract: A dehumidifier includes a machine body having a dehumidification function and a water tank including a receiving cavity that includes a support boss on an inner side wall of the receiving cavity. The dehumidifier has a working state, in which a bottom of the machine body is above an upper surface of the support boss and abuts against the support boss. The dehumidifier has an idle state, in which the bottom of the machine body is below the upper surface of the support boss. A height of the dehumidifier in the working state is greater than a height of the dehumidifier in the idle state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Zhigang XING, Weiming LI
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Publication number: 20240185519Abstract: A processor-implemented method includes obtaining a first motion matrix corresponding to an extended reality (XR) system and a second motion matrix based on a conversion coefficient from an XR system coordinate system into a rolling shutter (RS) camera coordinate system, and projecting an RS color image of a current frame onto a global shutter (GS) color image coordinate system based on the second motion matrix and generating a GS color image of the current frame, wherein the second motion matrix is a motion matrix of a timestamp of a depth image captured by a GS camera corresponding to a timestamp of a first scanline of an RS color image captured by the GS camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Weiming LI, Namseop KWON, Kyungboo JUNG, Lin MA, Myungjae JEON, Qiang WANG, Young Hun SUNG, Bao HE
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Publication number: 20240187559Abstract: A processor-implemented method includes obtaining an input image, predicting light source color information of a scene corresponding to the input image and a panoramic image corresponding to the input image using an image processing model, and generating a rendered image by rendering the input image based on either one or both of the light source color information and the panoramic image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weiming LI, Inwoo HA, Qiang WANG, Young Hun SUNG, Hao WANG
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Publication number: 20240179287Abstract: An apparatus and method with depth estimation are disclosed. The method includes calculating a first reliability of each of a plurality of time of flight (ToF) pixels of a ToF image; and generating, based on the first reliabilities, a depth map of a scene based on a left image and a right image and selectively based on the ToF image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weiming LI, Namseop KWON, Bao HE, Kyungboo JUNG, Myungjae JEON, Qiang WANG, Young Hun SUNG, Lin MA
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Patent number: 11988407Abstract: A dehumidifier includes a machine body having a dehumidification function and a water tank including a receiving cavity. The receiving cavity includes a support boss on an inner side wall of the receiving cavity. The dehumidifier has a working state, in which a bottom of the machine body abuts against the support boss.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhigang Xing, Weiming Li
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Patent number: 11900610Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method are provided. The image processing apparatus acquires a target image including a depth image of a scene, determines three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data corresponding to the depth image based on the depth image, and extracts an object included in the scene to acquire an object extraction result based on the 3D point cloud data.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yueying Kao, Yang Liu, Hao Wang, Sunghoon Hong, Wooshik Kim, Chao Zhang, Lin Ma, Qiang Wang, Weiming Li
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Patent number: 11874016Abstract: A dehumidifier includes a machine body having a dehumidification function and a water tank including a receiving cavity. The dehumidifier has a working state, in which the machine body is directly above the water tank and the receiving cavity receives water formed by dehumidification by the machine body.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhigang Xing, Weiming Li
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Publication number: 20230396712Abstract: Systems and methods for establishing call connection in response to user action, the method including receiving a first user action from a user associated with making a call connection, wherein the first user action comprises any of copying at least part of a phone number, pasting at least part of the phone number, or inputting at least part of the phone number. The method also includes determining one or more call recipients based on the first user action. The method also includes establishing one or more silent call connections based on the determined one or more call recipients, wherein each of the one or more silent call connections comprises a call connection with a predetermined parameter so that there are no incoming call indicators on one or more devices associated with the one or more call recipients.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: RINGCENTRAL, INC.Inventors: QingHua CAI, JianWei CHEN, WeiMing LI, Christopher van RENSBURG, Martin ARASTAFAR
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Patent number: 11815284Abstract: A dehumidifier system is provided. The dehumidifier system may include a condensate tank and a dehumidifier. The dehumidifier may be positionable between at least one deployed position and at least one stowed position relative to the condensate tank. The condensate tank and the dehumidifier may telescope relative to each other. The dehumidifier system, or portions thereof, may include one or more stacking structures.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Weiming Li, Zhigang Xing, Zachary Chapin
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Patent number: 11767024Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an Augmented Reality (AR) method and apparatus for driving assistance, which are applied in the technical field of AR. The method comprises the steps of: determining, based on information acquired during the driving process, driving assistance information, and displaying virtual three dimensional (3D) display information corresponding to the driving assistance information. In the present invention, the AR technology can be applied in the vehicle travelling process to assist a driver in better mastering driving information in the vehicle travelling process, and the user experience can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chun Wang, Weiming Li, Zhihua Liu, Jie Dong
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Patent number: 11770479Abstract: Systems and methods for establishing call connection in response to user action, the method including receiving a first user action from a user associated with making a call connection, wherein the first user action comprises any of copying at least part of a phone number, pasting at least part of the phone number, or inputting at least part of the phone number. The method also includes determining one or more call recipients based on the first user action. The method also includes establishing one or more silent call connections based on the determined one or more call recipients, wherein each of the one or more silent call connections comprises a call connection with a predetermined parameter so that there are no incoming call indicators on one or more devices associated with the one or more call recipients.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: RINGCENTRAL, INC.Inventors: QingHua Cai, JianWei Chen, WeiMing Li, Christopher van Rensburg, Martin Arastafar
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Publication number: 20230230251Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method are provided. The image processing apparatus acquires a target image including a depth image of a scene, determines three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data corresponding to the depth image based on the depth image, and extracts an object included in the scene to acquire an object extraction result based on the 3D point cloud data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yueying KAO, Yang LIU, Hao WANG, Sunghoon HONG, Wooshik KIM, Chao ZHANG, Lin MA, Qiang WANG, Weiming LI
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Patent number: 11698201Abstract: A purification dehumidifier includes a housing, a fan, a dehumidifier assembly, and a purifier assembly. The housing includes an air inlet, a dehumidified air outlet, and a purified air outlet. An air duct in communication with the air inlet, the dehumidified air outlet, and the purified air outlet is formed in the housing. The fan is arranged in the air duct and configured to introduce an airflow into the air duct from the air inlet and blow the airflow in the air duct out from at least one of the dehumidified air outlet or the purified air outlet. The dehumidifier assembly is arranged in the air duct and corresponding to the dehumidified air outlet. The purifier assembly is arranged in the air duct and corresponding to the purified air outlet.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Weiming Li
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Publication number: 20230176649Abstract: An electronic device and method with gaze estimating are disclosed. The method includes obtaining target information of an image, the image including an eye, obtaining a target feature map representing information on the eye in the image based on the target information, and estimating a gaze for the eye in the image based on the target feature map. The target information includes either attention information on the image, or a distance between pixels in the image, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weiming LI, Qiang WANG, HYUN SUNG CHANG, JIYEON KIM, SUNGHOON HONG, Lin MA
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Publication number: 20230177722Abstract: An apparatus and method of estimating an object posture are provided. A method includes determining key point information in an image to be processed, determining modified key point information based on a key point feature map corresponding to the key point information, and estimating an object posture of an object in the image to be processed, based on the modified key point information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weiming LI, Qiang WANG, HYUN SUNG CHANG, JIYEON KIM, SUNGHOON HONG, Bao He
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Publication number: 20230169755Abstract: A processor-implement method with image processing includes: generating a feature map of a first image and detecting a target region in the first image based on the feature map; correcting the detected target region; and processing an object corresponding to the target region, based on the corrected target region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bao HE, Hao WANG, Jiyeon KIM, Hyun Sung CHANG, Qiang WANG, Sunghoon HONG, Weiming LI
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Publication number: 20230154170Abstract: A method, apparatus, electronic device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with multi-modal feature fusion are provided. The method includes generating three-dimensional (3D) feature information and two-dimensional (2D) feature information based on a color image and a depth image, generating fused feature information by fusing the 3D feature information and the 2D feature information based on an attention mechanism, and generating predicted image information by performing image processing based on the fused feature information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hao WANG, Weiming LI, Qiang WANG, Jiyeon KIM, Hyun Sung CHANG, Sunghoon HONG
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Publication number: 20230145239Abstract: A method for improving communications in a digital collaboration environment by receiving a communication directed to a first user, determining that the first user is unavailable, in response to determining that the first user is unavailable, determining a second user based on an attribute, and notifying the second user about the communication directed to the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2023Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: JianWei Chen, WeiMing Li, YanRong Huang