Patents by Inventor Xiang Lu

Xiang Lu 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: 20200412283
    Abstract: A method for generating a control signal is provided, including: acquiring a relationship curve between an initial signal and time, and the relationship curve includes several sampling points and a value of the initial signal and the time corresponding to each sampling point; determining whether the value of the initial signal is 0; constructing an optimization function according to the relationship curve if the value of the initial signal is not 0; multiplying the value of the initial signal corresponding to each sampling point by a corresponding value of the optimization function to obtain an optimized value of each sampling point; generating a control signal according to a corresponding relationship between the optimized value and time, where the control signal is used to drive the motor to vibrate. The method for generating control signals of the present disclosure can reduce an oscillation response and improve a user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Xiang Lu, Zheng Xiang
  • Patent number: 10854129
    Abstract: Hybrid architectures and method methods of operating a display panel are described. In an embodiment, row driver and pixel driver functions are combined in a group of backbone hybrid pixel driver chips, wherein global signal lines are distributed to the backbone hybrid pixel driver chips, where the global signals are manipulated and distributed to a row of pixel driver chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Xiang Lu, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xiaofeng Wang, Derek K. Shaeffer, Henry C. Jen, Hopil Bae
  • Patent number: 10816602
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for measuring bandwidth of linear motor, including the following steps: step S1: setting a frequency distribution of an excitation signal; step S2: with reference to a target displacement level, measuring a steady state displacement peak of a motor vibrator at each frequency point of the excitation signal, and obtaining a frequency response curve with reference to the target displacement level; step S3: according to the frequency response curve obtained in step S2, determining an upper frequency limit and a lower frequency limit with reference to the target displacement level, and obtaining a bandwidth of the linear motor by calculating a difference between the upper frequency limit and the lower frequency limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hanlin Deng, Zheng Xiang, Xiang Lu
  • Publication number: 20200212832
    Abstract: A method of generating motor driving signal includes: obtaining acceleration segment signal for driving motor to start vibrating, constant segment signal for achieving low-frequency vibration tactile effect of the motor, and attenuating segment signal for decreasing vibration quantity of the motor in low frequency manner, frequency of constant segment signal and of attenuating segment signal being smaller than frequency of acceleration segment signal; splicing the acceleration segment signal with the constant segment signal, and reserving idle period with no signal output therebetween to obtain first motor driving signal; adjusting parameter of constant segment signal of first motor driving signal according to vibration feeling requirement, and splicing attenuating segment signal after the adjusted first motor driving signal to obtain second motor driving signal; and adjusting parameter of attenuating segment signal of second motor driving signal, and determining second motor driving signal with highest braki
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hanlin Deng, Xiang Lu, Yajun Zheng, Xiuyue Wang
  • Publication number: 20200210826
    Abstract: Provided is an intelligent analysis system for inner detecting magnetic flux leakage (MFL) data in pipelines, including a complete data set building module, a discovery module, a quantization module and a solution module, wherein: a complete data set building method is adopted in the complete data set building module to obtain a complete magnetic flux leakage data set; a pipeline connecting component discovery method is adopted in the discovery module to obtain the precise position of a weld; an anomaly candidate region search and identification method is adopted in the discovery model to find out magnetic flux leakage signals with defects; a defect quantization method based on a random forest is adopted in the quantization module to obtain a defect size; and a pipeline solution based on an improved ASME B31G standard is adopted in the solution module to output an evaluation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Jin hai LIU, Ming rui FU, Sen xiang LU, Hua guang ZHANG, Da zhong MA, Gang WANG, Jian FENG, Xin bo ZHANG, Ge YU, Hong qiu WEI
  • Publication number: 20200211577
    Abstract: A method and device for audio signal processing is provided. The method includes steps of: obtaining an inputted audio signal; parsing the audio signal to obtain at least one audio feature; determining at least one vibration feature corresponding to the at least one audio feature; and generating a vibration signal corresponding to the audio signal according to the at least one vibration feature. The inputted audio signal is automatically converted into a vibration signal by the vibration feature corresponding to the audio feature of the inputted audio signal, which can avoid errors caused by manual operation and make the vibration signal possess high versatility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yajun Zheng, Hanlin Deng, Xiang Lu, Yulei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10613635
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of electronic devices, and a method for generating a motor brake signal is disclosed. In the present disclosure, the method for generating a motor brake signal includes the following steps: S1: controlling a motor by using different brake signals respectively to obtain vibration margins of the motor corresponding to the brake signals; and S2: selecting, from the brake signals, a brake signal with superior performance as the motor brake signal based on the vibration margins of the motor, wherein the smaller the vibration margin of the motor is, the more superior performance the corresponding brake signal has. The present disclosure further provides an apparatus for generating a motor brake signal. The method and the apparatus for generating a motor brake signal that are provided in the present disclosure enable the motor to have a good brake effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hanlin Deng, Xiang Lu, Zheng Xiang
  • Publication number: 20200090574
    Abstract: Display panel redundancy schemes and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, and display panel includes an array of drivers (e.g. microdrivers), each of which including multiple portions to independently receive control and pixel bits. In an embodiment, each driver portion is to control a group of redundant emission elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Kapil V. SAKARIYA, Tore NAUTA, Hopil BAE, Henry C. JEN, James E. PEDDER, Sunggu KANG, Shingo HATANAKA, Xiang LU, Mahdi Farrokh BAROUGHI, Hasan AKYOL, Saif CHOUDHARY, Ion BITA
  • Patent number: 10573137
    Abstract: A method and device for generating vibrating signal is provided in the present disclosure. The method of generating a vibrating signal includes the following steps: S10 , generating one unit cycle of basic vibrating signals, wherein the unit cycle is less than a preset threshold; S20 , obtaining N unit cycles of vibrating sub-signals by using the basic vibrating signal as a parent and changing a signal parameter of the basic vibrating signal, wherein the N is a positive integer; and S30 , generating a vibrating signal according to the N unit cycles of vibrating sub-signals. The present invention can generate a vibrating signal that can start to stop immediately, and the vibrating signal can be more rich in constructing the vibration mode, more realistic to simulate the actual vibration, and can be used in a larger range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Jiang, Xiang Lu, Yulei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200057109
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for measuring bandwidth of linear motor, including the following steps: step S1: setting a frequency distribution of an excitation signal; step S2: with reference to a target displacement level, measuring a steady state displacement peak of a motor vibrator at each frequency point of the excitation signal, and obtaining a frequency response curve with reference to the target displacement level; step S3: according to the frequency response curve obtained in step S2, determining an upper frequency limit and a lower frequency limit with reference to the target displacement level, and obtaining a bandwidth of the linear motor by calculating a difference between the upper frequency limit and the lower frequency limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Hanlin Deng, Zheng Xiang, Xiang Lu
  • Publication number: 20200056933
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for detecting a bandwidth of a linear vibration motor, including a linear vibration motor which comprises a housing and a motor vibrator. The method includes the following steps: step S1: setting a target displacement level of the linear vibration motor; step S2: measuring a displacement frequency response curve of the motor vibrator with reference to the target displacement level; step S3: comparing the displacement frequency response curve obtained in step S2 with a preset standard target displacement frequency response curve, determining whether the displacement frequency response curve is qualified, and if it is qualified, entering step S4; step S4: measuring a bandwidth of the linear vibration motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Hanlin Deng, Liang Jiang, Zheng Xiang, Xiang Lu
  • Publication number: 20200052635
    Abstract: A method for searching an excitation signal for a motor and an electronic device. The method includes: randomly generating M excitation signals for the motor, and determining whether the M excitation signals allow vibration sense obtained after the motor is driven to be expected vibration sense; if yes, outputting this excitation signal as an optimal excitation signal; if no, calculating the M excitation signals according to a preset genetic algorithm to obtain a new generation of M excitation signals, and then determining whether the new generation of M excitation signals allow vibration sense obtained after the motor is driven to be the expected vibration sense, until the optimal excitation signal is obtained. In the present disclosure, the optimal excitation signal for obtaining the expected vibration sense after the motor is driven can be quickly found, and thus an efficiency thereof is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Xiang Lu, Zheng Xiang, Hanlin Deng, Liang Jiang
  • Publication number: 20200047216
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for generating a motor vibration wave, including the following steps: step S1: exciting a motor by a white noise signal, and measuring a vibration signal of the motor by an acceleration sensor; and step S2: obtaining an impulse response of system based on the vibration signal obtained by the acceleration sensor; and step S3: constructing an expected vibration waveform; and step S4: performing Wiener inverse filtering on the vibration waveform obtained in step S3 to obtain a frequency-domain signal; and step S5: performing inverse fast Fourier transform on the frequency-domain signal obtained in step S4 to obtain an excitation signal in time domain. With such method for generating a motor vibration wave provided by the present disclosure, the expected vibration waveform can be automatically generated and conveniently extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Zheng Xiang, Hanlin Deng, Xiang Lu
  • Publication number: 20200052637
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and a method for controlling motor parameters. The system includes a feedforward processing module performing a linear processing on a control signal according to parameters; a control object module including a DAC digital to analog converter, an amplifying circuit and an ADC analog to digital converter, a control signal processed by the feedforward processing module passing through the DAC digital to analog converter, and amplified by the amplifier circuit, and passing through the ADC analog to digital converter to obtain a voltage vcm[n] and a current icm[n] across the motor; a system identification module including an LMS adaptive filter, a Least mean square filtering performed on an error signal err[n] between a measurement current icm[n] and a prediction current icp[n], results of iteration feed back to the feedforward processing module, and the feedback results applied to the next data acquisitions and parameters calculations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Zheng Xiang, Xiang Lu, Hanlin Deng, Liang Jiang
  • Publication number: 20200052636
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motor control system and method based on current feedback signal. The motor control system includes a control apparatus, a linear motor, and a current feedback apparatus, where an output end of the control apparatus is connected to the linear motor for calculating a displacement error of a previous moment to obtain a control output value of a current moment, and converting the control output value into a voltage signal for transmission to the linear motor; the linear motor is configured to vibrate according to the voltage signal input by the control apparatus; and the current feedback apparatus is connected to the linear motor, and is configured to: convert a measured current value of the linear motor into an actual displacement value of the current moment, and feed back the actual displacement value to an input end of the control apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Xiang Lu, Zheng Xiang, Liang Jiang, Hanlin Deng
  • Publication number: 20200033979
    Abstract: An integrated touchscreen can include light emitting diodes or organic light emitting diodes (LEDs/OLEDs), display chiplets and touch chiplets disposed in a visible area of the integrated touch screen. For example, the LEDs/OLEDs, display chiplets and touch chiplets can be placed on a substrate by a micro-transfer tool. The integrated touchscreen can also include electrodes disposed in the visible area of the integrated touch screen. The electrodes can be capable of providing display functionality via the one or more display chiplets during display operation (e.g., operating as cathode terminals of the LEDs during the display operation) and capable of providing touch functionality via the touch chiplets during touch operation (e.g., touch node electrodes can be formed from groups of the electrodes and sensed). In some examples, the touch node electrodes can be formed and coupled to touch chiplets via the display chiplets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Christian M. SAUER, Christoph H. KRAH, Derek K. SHAEFFER, Hasan AKYOL, Henry C. JEN, Hopil BAE, John T. WETHERELL, Thierry S. DIVEL, Xiang LU
  • Patent number: 10535296
    Abstract: Display panel redundancy schemes and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, and display panel includes an array of drivers (e.g. microdrivers), each of which including multiple portions to independently receive control and pixel bits. In an embodiment, each driver portion is to control a group of redundant emission elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kapil V. Sakariya, Tore Nauta, Hopil Bae, Henry C. Jen, James E. Pedder, Sunggu Kang, Shingo Hatanaka, Xiang Lu, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Hasan Akyol, Saif Choudhary, Ion Bita
  • Publication number: 20190385509
    Abstract: Hybrid architectures and method methods of operating a display panel are described. In an embodiment, row driver and pixel driver functions are combined in a group of backbone hybrid pixel driver chips, wherein global signal lines are distributed to the backbone hybrid pixel driver chips, where the global signals are manipulated and distributed to a row of pixel driver chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Xiang Lu, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xiaofeng Wang, Derek K. Shaeffer, Henry C. Jen, Hopil Bae
  • Publication number: 20190347985
    Abstract: Local passive matrix displays and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, the display includes a pixel driver chip coupled with a matrix of rows and columns of LEDs. The pixel driver chips may be arranged in rows across the display with separate portions to operate separate matrices of LEDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Derek K. Shaeffer, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Xiaofeng Wang, Sam S. Li, John T. Wetherell, Henry C. Jen, Xiang Lu, Hasan Akyol, Hopil Bae, Xiang Fang, Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema, Tore Nauta
  • Patent number: 10466877
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and a device for selecting an entity in a drawing, wherein the method includes that a hooked preview program corresponding to a functional instruction is invoked after the functional instruction is inputted into a Computer Aided Design (CAD) system; a pickup point in a drawing is selected; an entity in a predetermined range is filtered around the pickup point to obtain a preselected entity; the preselected entity is processed via the hooked preview program so as to pre-display a result of processing the preselected entity by the inputted instruction. An effect of a selected entity processed by a control instruction can be previewed according to the present invention, thus avoiding repeated selections of a graphic entity by a user to further improve working efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SUZHOU GSTARSOFT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guangsheng Wang, Songbin Guan, Changchun Li, Jiang Liang, Xiang Lu