Patents by Inventor Xiang Li

Xiang 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).

  • Patent number: 11949849
    Abstract: A method for video decoding is provided. For a current block, whether an angular intra prediction mode for the current block is a wide angle mode that is in a direction outside of a range of directions that spans a bottom left diagonal direction and a top right diagonal direction of the current block is determined. Based on the angular intra prediction mode being determined as the wide angle mode, an intra smooth filter is enabled, the enabled intra smooth filter is applied to blocks neighboring the current block to generate filtered blocks, and intra prediction is performed based on the filtered blocks to decode the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Xin Zhao, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11950154
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to perform a switch of a TCI state from a serving cell to a neighbor cell. A UE determines whether the state of the neighbor cell is known or unknown and whether the neighbor cell's TCI state is known or unknown. The total delay time to perform the TCI state switch can impacted by this the known/unknown statuses. Other factors can also contribute to the total delay time. The UE may also signal its capability to monitor the TCI state of the neighbor cell and its capability to switch to such a TCI state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Manasa Raghavan, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11949855
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes processing circuitry that divides a current block into a plurality of sub-blocks, derives a plurality of pieces of sub-block motion information for the plurality of sub-blocks, generates predicted sub-block samples for the sub-blocks according to the pieces of sub-block motion information, and generates a predicted block for the current block according to a combination of the predicted sub-block samples. The processing circuitry also selects a piece of the sub-block motion information from the pieces of sub-block motion information as representative motion information for the current block, and stores the representative motion information in a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Guichun Li, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
  • Publication number: 20240106282
    Abstract: A magnetically-isolated wireless charging assembly enabling temporary attachment by magnetism to a device requiring charge by induction includes a housing defining an accommodating space, a plurality of magnetic members disposed within the accommodating space, a wireless charging receiver covering the plurality of magnetic members, and a wireless charging receiver. The wireless charging receiver is disposed on a side of the magnetic shielding member facing the plurality of magnetic members and the magnetic shielding member prevents the magnetic field of the magnetic members extending through or beyond the shielding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: BO-DUO YUAN, YAN-LEI CAO, HAO-XIANG LI
  • Publication number: 20240105115
    Abstract: Electronic devices, displays, and methods are provided for operating an electronic display in coexistence with sensors that could be adversely impacted by the operation of the electronic display. An electronic device may include an electronic display and a sensor. The electronic display may display image content by light emission during an emission period and periodically enter a quiet period in which the light emission of the electronic display is turned off. The sensor may perform sensing operations during the quiet period without interference from the operation of the electronic display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Ce Zhang, Haitao Li, Hari P. Paudel, Hopil Bae, Jeongsup Lee, Nikhil Acharya, Pablo Moreno Galbis, Seung B. Rim, SeyedAli TaheriTari, Shengzhe Jiao, Stanley B. Wang, Sunmin Jang, Xiang Lu, Yaser Azizi, Young Don Bae
  • Publication number: 20240106141
    Abstract: An electrical connection terminal includes a welding part welded to a solder pad of a battery pack cell to be electrically connected to the battery pack cell, a press fitting part pressed into a hole on a battery pack signal acquisition board to be electrically connected to the battery pack signal acquisition board, and an elastic part connected between the welding part and the press fitting part. The press fitting part is elastically floated in a length direction of the electrical connection terminal relative to the welding part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaozhi (George) Fu, Wei (Rock) Lv, Wei Zhang, Dingbing (Frank) Fan, Xiang Li
  • Publication number: 20240102782
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for evaluating deep-buried tunnel blasting parameters, and belongs to the technical field of mine engineering. The method comprises: setting multiple diverse blasting schemes; selecting a plurality of test sections with the same geological characteristics, the number of the test sections corresponding to the number of the blasting schemes; blasting the test sections using the blasting schemes, and obtaining diversified monitoring data of each test section; and comparing the diversified monitoring data to select the optimal blasting schemes for the test sections. According to the method for evaluating the deep-buried tunnel blasting parameters, by implementing different blasting schemes in test sections with the same geological characteristics, diversified monitoring data of the test sections are obtained and compared to select the optimal blasting schemes for the test sections, so as to ensure the safety and quality of blasting excavation of deep-buried tunnels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Nuwen Xu, Biao Li, Quanfu Ding, Haoyu Mao, Peiwei Xiao, Xiang Zhou, Xinchao Ding, Yuepeng Sun, Yong Xia, Jun Liu, Zhiqiang Sun
  • Publication number: 20240107388
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for determining timing advance in L1/L2 inter-cell mobility. A user equipment (UE) comprises at least one antenna, at least one radio coupled to the at least one antenna, and a processor coupled to the at least one radio. The processor is configured to receive a Time advance (TA) indicator together with a handover command from a source base station in a source coverage, wherein the TA indicator comprises information for determining a TA used for an uplink transmission with a target base station in a target coverage, the handover command is a Layer 1 handover command or a Layer 2 handover command, and the source coverage and the target coverage are identified by different Physical Cell identifiers; and in response to the handover command, determine the TA used for the uplink transmission with the target base station based on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Fangli Xu, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Yang Tang
  • Publication number: 20240107469
    Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE), comprising performing, based on acquired information, in at least one of an idle mode and an inactive mode, at least one of an intra-frequency neighbor cell measurement and an inter-frequency neighbor cell measurement. The acquired information comprises at least one of a group of a periodicity of synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB)-based measurement timing configuration (SMTC) and a periodicity of SMTC2-long periodicity (SMTC2-LP) and a physical cell identifier (PCI) list of SMTC2-LP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Yang Tang, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Hong He
  • Publication number: 20240107464
    Abstract: Activating an uplink (UL) gap at a base station may include decoding a user equipment (UE) UL gap capability report received from a UE. A radio resource control (RRC) UL gap configuration may be encoded for transmission to the UE. A power headroom report (PHR) medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) received from the UE may be decoded. The PHR MAC CE may include at least one of a P value or a power management maximum power reduction (P-MPR) value. Decoding the measurement information may include determining that the P value is equal to one or the P-MPR value is greater than zero. Based on determining that the P value is equal to one or the P-MPR value is greater than zero, the UL gap configuration may be implicitly activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Jie Cui, Laxminarayana Pillutla, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Sharad Sambhwani, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11939007
    Abstract: A steering mechanism of an all-terrain vehicle includes: a steering shaft; a power steering system; and an adjusting mechanism including a ball joint, a first connecting shaft and a second connecting shaft. The first connecting shaft has a first end provided with a first ball groove, the second connecting shaft has a first end provided with a second ball groove, and the first ball groove and the second ball groove each accommodate a partial structure of the ball joint, such that the first connecting shaft and the second connecting shaft are rotatably coupled by the ball joint; and a second end of the first connecting shaft away from the first ball groove is coupled to the steering shaft, and a second end of the second connecting shaft away from the second ball groove is coupled to the power steering system. An all-terrain vehicle is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SEGWAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiang Li
  • Patent number: 11942008
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a smart tracking-based projection method and system. The method includes: acquiring information of a real space of a spatial information capturing unit, constructing a 3D model of the real space, and acquiring first position information of a projection picture; acquiring target image information of a target tracking unit, and acquiring second position information of a tracking target based on the target image information; acquiring a target projection region based on the 3D model and the second position information; acquiring, based on the target projection region, rotation information desired by the projection unit; and controlling, based on the rotation information, a drive unit to operate such that the projection picture reaches the target projection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: IVIEW DISPLAYS (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang Li, Wenxiang Li, Mingnei Ding, Steve Yeung, Zhiqiang Gao
  • Patent number: 11943432
    Abstract: In a method of video decoding, coded information of a current block is received. First information associated with the current block in the coded information is obtained. The first information indicates whether the current block is intra predicted based on decoder side intra mode derivation (DIMD). Second information associated with the current block in the coded information is obtained. The second information indicates whether the current block is partitioned based on an intra sub-partition (ISP) mode. A context model index is determined in response to one of (i) the first information indicating that the current block is intra predicted based on the DIMD, and (ii) the second information indicating that an above adjacent block or a left adjacent block of the current block is partitioned based on the ISP mode. The current block is decoded from the coded video stream based at least on the context model index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Ling Li, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11939578
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of biomedicine, particularly to double-stranded RNA molecules targeting CKIP-1 and uses thereof, particularly to use of the double-stranded RNA molecules for the treatment of inflammatory diseases such as arthritis, particularly rheumatoid arthritis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING TIDE PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanping Zhao, Hongjun Wang, Yuanyuan Jiang, Weiting Zhong, Jianmei Pang, Gong Li, Xiang Li, Yixin He, Liying Zhou, Yanan Liu
  • Patent number: 11943702
    Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The method comprises determining a first time period for the UE, based on whether the UE uses Discontinuous Reception (DRX) and whether the UE uses Measurement Gap (MG). The first time period indicates a respective timing criterion for the UE to determine a time period of maintaining available downlink timing for a reference cell; The method further comprises determining, based on the first time period, a first time threshold for the UE to determine reference cell availability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Yang Tang, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11943292
    Abstract: A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to perform operations. The operations may include registering a custom resource definition for a tenant with a host and scaling a controller for the customer resource definition. The operations may include generating a replication using the customer resource definition, injecting information into the replication, and syncing a status of the custom resource definition between the host and the tenant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peng Li, Guangya Liu, Xun Pan, Hai Hui Wang, Xiang Zhen Gan, Xin Peng Liu
  • Patent number: 11939528
    Abstract: A method for preparing biochar and hydrogen by utilizing anaerobic fermentation byproducts, the method including: (1) mixing a first straw, seeding sludge and distilled water, and then carrying out anaerobic fermentation to obtain a mixed product after fermentation; (2) performing separation on the mixed product to obtain a second straw and biogas slurry; and (3) carbonizing the second straw to obtain biochar, and collecting gas after a pressurized catalytic reaction on the biogas slurry to obtain hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TIANJIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Guanyi Chen, Xiang Guo, Yurou Mao, Beibei Yan, Yanbin Zhang, Junyu Tao, Wanqing Li, Zhanjun Cheng, Wenchao Ma
  • Patent number: 11943435
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide method and apparatus for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry selects a reference line from a plurality of potential reference lines and selects an intra prediction mode from a set of potential intra prediction modes that is associated with the reference line. The processing circuitry encodes a block according to the intra prediction mode and at least one reference sample in the reference line. The processing circuitry further generates prediction information of the block. Inclusion of an indication of a reference line index of the reference line in the prediction information is based on the intra prediction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, Xiang Li, Shan Liu, Liang Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240098606
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatus, methods, computer-readable storage medium and computer program product for high speed train measurements and signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Dawei Zhang, Xiang Chen, Manasa Raghavan
  • Publication number: 20240096477
    Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the present application are a C-arm imaging system and a medical image processing method. The medical image processing method includes acquiring medical images by using the C-arm imaging system; in a first stitching mode, labeling medical images selected from the acquired medical images, and stitching the labeled medical images to obtain a stitched image; and respectively displaying the acquired medical images, the labeled medical images, and the stitched image. According to the embodiments of the present application, an image stitching function suitable for a C-arm imaging system can be provided for existing C-arm imaging systems, thereby providing reference for a doctor to evaluate surgical effects during or after surgery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Xiang Li