Patents by Inventor Wenbo Zhang

Wenbo Zhang 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: 20210166469
    Abstract: The application shows a method, an apparatus, and an electronic device for processing an image. The method includes comprises: obtaining an image of a first rendering style; obtaining an image of a second rendering style according to the image of the first rendering style and a first preset processing model; generating at least one first intermediate gradient image according to the image of the first rendering style, the image of the second rendering style, and a second preset processing model, the at least one first intermediate gradient image comprising an image in a process of gradient from the image of the first rendering style to the image of the second rendering style; generating a first gradient video according to the image of the first rendering style, at least one first intermediate gradient image, and an image of the second rendering style.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Wen Zheng, Wenbo Zhang, Qiang Li, Hongmin Xu
  • Publication number: 20210160749
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method in a wireless communication system and a computer readable storage medium, the apparatus comprising a processing circuit, and the processing circuit being configured to: configure a measurement cell range of a user device to include adjacent cells of the current serving cell of the user device and cells other than the adjacent cells; and notify the user device of the measurement cell range, such that the user device implements measurement for the measurement cell range. According to at least one aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, expanding the measurement cell range for an unmanned aerial vehicle to include cells other than adjacent cells can prevent the occurrence of frequent handover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG, Tao CUI
  • Publication number: 20210143959
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus, a wireless communication method and a computer-readable medium. The electronic apparatus for wireless communication according to one embodiment comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform control to send or receive configuration information. The configuration information is related to configuration of a reference signal used in a discovery process of an integrated access backhaul (IAB) link node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaodong XU, Mengying SUN, Guanyu CHEN, Yingting YUAN, Wenbo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210136845
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a method for wireless communications. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: for each candidate resource block, obtain a first receiving signal for a pilot symbol that is measured by the base station in a condition in which a D2D communication group does not perform D2D communication; receive obtaining a second receiving signal for a pilot symbol that is measured by the corresponding cellular user equipment in a condition in which the D2D communication group performs D2D communication; remove the impact of the first receiving signal from the second receiving signal, to serve as an interference signal received by the cellular user equipment from a D2D transmission device of the D2D communication group; and determine a priority order of resource blocks available to the D2D communication group by using interference minimization as an optimization objective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hao LIU, Pingping XU, Bin SHENG, Wenbo ZHANG, Penshun LU
  • Publication number: 20210099986
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus and method for wireless communication and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic apparatus comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: determine a signature in a multiple access signature pool to be used for user equipment in which the electronic apparatus is located, wherein the multiple access signature pool is divided into multiple sub-signature pools according to a communication system parameter, and the determined signature belongs to a sub-signature pool corresponding to the communication system parameter used for the user equipment; and using, on the basis of the determined signature, a multiple access time-frequency resource to perform transmission, wherein the multiple access time-frequency resource is shared by a group of user equipment comprising the above user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG, Tao CUI, Jianfei CAO, Xin GUO, Chen SUN
  • Patent number: 10936645
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for generating to-be-played multimedia content. An embodiment of the method includes: receiving a third-party multimedia playlist, the third-party multimedia playlist being from a third-party multimedia playing platform; analyzing the third-party multimedia playlist to obtain identifier information of multimedia contents in the third-party multimedia playlist, the identifier information including name information of the multimedia content and name information of the leading author; determining to-be-played multimedia content matching the multimedia contents in the third-party multimedia playlist from a multimedia content database based on the identifier information of the multimedia contents in the third-party multimedia playlist to generate a to-be-played multimedia content list; and sending the to-be-played multimedia content list to a terminal playing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guang Lu, Wenbo Zhang, Xiajun Luo, Shiquan Ye, Xiangjie Yin, Ran Zhao
  • Patent number: 10937064
    Abstract: A method of providing content includes acquiring user profile information from an image of a user of an electronic apparatus configured to provide content to the user, acquiring context information from a surrounding environment of the electronic apparatus, and providing content to the user based on the user profile information and the context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.. LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbo Zhang, Yanli Li, Chao Yan, Junjun Xiong, Zhixuan Li
  • Publication number: 20210058147
    Abstract: An electronic equipment, a user equipment, a wireless communication method, and a storage medium, the electronic equipment comprising a processing circuit and being configured to: receive from a user equipment a random access request message that is expected access a satellite equipment; and in response to the random access request message, send to the user equipment the advance in timing between the user equipment and the satellite equipment to be accessed. By using said electronic equipment, user equipment, wireless communication method, and storage medium, a user equipment in a satellite communication system may more quickly and efficiently acquire control information relating to uplink transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan ZHANG, Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG, Hiromasa UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210058595
    Abstract: The disclosure can provide a method for converting an image, an apparatus for converting an image, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining an image in RAW format; obtaining a semantic analysis result of the image in RAW format by inputting the image in RAW format into a pre-trained first network model; the first network model being obtained by training based on a labeled training sample corresponding to each of a plurality of first training samples, the first training sample being a sample image in RAW format, and the labeled training sample being a sample image in RAW format obtained by labeling a semantic analysis result on the corresponding first training sample; and determining an image in RGB (Red-Green-Blue) format corresponding to the image in RAW format based on the semantic analysis result of the image in RAW format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Wenbo Zhang, Hongmin Xu, Wen Zheng
  • Publication number: 20210045067
    Abstract: Provided are a device and method for a wireless communication system, and a computer readable storage medium. The device comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: acquire the current three-dimensional spatial location of a user equipment, and determine a resource for the user equipment according to information showing a mapping relationship at least between three-dimensional spatial regions and resources. According to an aspect of the embodiment of the present disclosure, time delay can be decreased and transmission performance can be optimized by pre-establishing a mapping relationship between three-dimensional spatial regions and resources and assigning to the user equipment an uplink/downlink time-frequency resource on the basis of the mapping relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Wenbo ZHANG, Jianfei CAO
  • Patent number: 10911117
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device in a wireless communication system, a method, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device in the wireless communication system disclosed in the present invention comprises a processing circuit, being configured to: determine an area for beamforming during a specific time period; transmit information associated with the area to one or more auxiliary transmitting devices in the wireless communication system, so that the one or more auxiliary transmitting devices generate beam signals during the specific time period and transmit the beam signals to the area; and generate the beam signals simultaneously with the one or more auxiliary transmitting devices during the specific time period and transmitting the beam signals to the area. By using the electronic device, the method, and the computer readable storage medium disclosed in the present invention, a plurality of transmitting devices can simultaneously transmit beam signals to a same area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bin Sheng, Pingping Xu, Penshun Lu, Wenbo Zhang
  • Patent number: 10911629
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a Contact Image Sensor (CIS), including a light source, a lens, a light-sensing portion receiving light converged by the lens, a sensor substrate carrying photosensitive Integrated Circuits (IC) arranged linearly, a frame accommodating the lens and the sensor substrate, and a light-transmitting plate provided on an upper part of the frame and configured to carry an original pattern. The CIS further includes a linear magnifying lens, provided between the light-transmitting plate and the lens, the linear magnifying lens having a characteristic of linearly magnifying an object in a single direction. The CIS involved in some embodiments of the present disclosure is capable of enhancing resolution in a single direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: WEIHAI HUALING OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbo Zhang, Huyan Wang
  • Publication number: 20200382263
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device, a User Equipment (UE), a method, and a computer readable storage medium. According to the present invention, a method for determining location of a positioning reference signal (PRS) comprises: obtaining a subcarrier interval of a resource block (RB); and determining a time-frequency location of the PRS in the RB according to the subcarrier interval. The electronic device, the UE, the method, and the computer readable storage medium according to the present invention can be used for designing the PRS with respect to an NR communication system more reasonably, so as to optimize the positioning of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Wei XU, Yucheng WANG, Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200351669
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus, a wireless communication method and a computer-readable medium. According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus for wireless communication comprises: a processing circuit configured to: determine whether a first user equipment satisfies a condition for performing direct link communication with a second user equipment by using an unlicensed frequency band resource; and if the condition is satisfied, control the first user equipment to perform direct link communication with the second user equipment by using the unlicensed frequency band resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaodong XU, Mengying SUN, Guanyu CHEN, Wenbo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200336184
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device in a wireless communication system, a method, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device in the wireless communication system disclosed in the present invention comprises a processing circuit, being configured to: determine an area for beamforming during a specific time period; transmit information associated with the area to one or more auxiliary transmitting devices in the wireless communication system, so that the one or more auxiliary transmitting devices generate beam signals during the specific time period and transmit the beam signals to the area; and generate the beam signals simultaneously with the one or more auxiliary transmitting devices during the specific time period and transmitting the beam signals to the area. By using the electronic device, the method, and the computer readable storage medium disclosed in the present invention, a plurality of transmitting devices can simultaneously transmit beam signals to a same area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Bin SHENG, Pingping XU, Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200279977
    Abstract: A light conversion device comprising a layer formed from an inorganic binder, the inorganic binder comprising: from about 25 to about 80 wt % of a filler; from about 20 to about 75 wt % of an inorganic adhesive; and from about 0.5 to about 5 wt % of a dispersant. The inorganic binders are capable of withstanding high temperatures, have a high light transmittance, have a high tensile-shear strength, can be applied by a flexible coating process, and have a low curing temperature. Such inorganic binders could advantageously be employed in a variety of applications, such light tunnels (300), projection display systems, and optical light conversion devices, such as phosphor wheels (100), used in such systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Wenbo Zhang, Ying Xu, Qiming Li
  • Publication number: 20200264636
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method of a wireless communication system, and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to configure, directly or indirectly on the basis of one or more height thresholds for user equipment and a current height of the user equipment, operation of the user equipment. According to at least one aspect of the embodiments of the disclosure, configuring, on the basis of a height threshold, operation of a user equipment optimizes communication performance in an unmanned aerial vehicle communication scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Wenbo ZHANG, Penshun LU, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20200245175
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are an apparatus and method in a wireless communication system, and a computer readable storage medium. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to determine one or more height thresholds for a user equipment according to at least one of base station-related information, cell-related information and user equipment-related information. According to at least one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, a proper height threshold is set for a communication scenario of an unmanned aerial vehicle, which helps to resolve and alleviate various problems that may exist in the communication scenario of the unmanned aerial vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Wenbo ZHANG, Penshun LU, Chen SUN
  • Publication number: 20200245174
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method in a wireless communication system and a computer readable storage medium. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit, configured to: obtain at least height information of each user equipment among one or more user equipments; and for each user equipment, allocate resources to the user equipment on the basis of at least the height information of the user equipment and one or more height thresholds for the user equipment. According to at least one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, resources are allocated on the basis of a height threshold, so that time-frequency resource allocation in an unmanned aerial vehicle communication scenario may be optimized, resource utilization efficiency may be improved, and interference may be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200245340
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus, a method and a computer-readable storage medium for a wireless communication system. The electronic apparatus for a wireless communication system according to the present disclosure comprises: a processing circuit, configured to generate resource allocation information according to interference conditions encountered by user equipment (UE), wherein a current altitude of the UE is higher than an altitude threshold, and sending the resource allocation information to base station equipment of other cells apart from neighboring cells of a current serving cell of the UE, so as to configure information sending resources for the base station equipment of the other cells. The electronic device, method and computer-readable storage medium of the present disclosure are capable of reducing information interference generated in a wireless communication system of an unmanned aerial vehicle device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan ZHANG, Penshun LU, Wenbo ZHANG