Patents by Inventor Xiang Xu

Xiang Xu 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: 11949902
    Abstract: A method for video decoding in a decoder is provided. Coding information of a current block (CB) from a coded video bitstream is decoded. The coding information includes weighted prediction information that indicates a weighted prediction for the CB. A determination is made as to whether to apply a prediction refinement with optical flow (PROF) on the CB based on the weighted prediction information. The CB is reconstructed based on the weighted prediction and whether the PROF is determined to be applied on the CB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Guichun Li, Xiang Li, Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11949896
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video encoding. Whether a block size cbSize of a chroma block in luma samples is less than or equal to a minimum allowed chroma quaternary tree (QT) leaf node size MinQtSizeC in luma samples such that cbSize <=MinQtSizeC is determined. In response to the block size cbSize of the chroma block in luma samples being less than or equal to the minimum allowed chroma QT leaf node size MinQtSizeC in luma samples, a QT split is determined as disallowed for the chroma block. Partition information indicating that a chroma coding tree structure in a dual tree is applied to the chroma block is generated, the partition information further indicating the block size cbSize of the chroma block in luma samples and the minimum allowed chroma QT leaf node size MinQtSizeC in luma samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Guichun Li, Xiang Li, Shan Liu, Xiaozhong Xu
  • Publication number: 20240103802
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a multimedia processing method, apparatus, device, and medium. The method for multimedia processing includes: displaying an initial text content, wherein the initial text content corresponds to a target multimedia content; playing an associated multimedia content in response to a triggering operation for the associated multimedia content; wherein the associated multimedia content comprises a segment associated with a target text content in the target multimedia content, and the target text content is extracted from the initial text content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kojung CHEN, Jingsheng YANG, Wenming XU, Xiang ZHENG, Chunsai DU, Li ZHAO
  • 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: 20240104783
    Abstract: Method, apparatus, and system for merging multiple attribute maps for mesh compression may be provided. The process may include obtaining multiple attribute maps associated with a mesh including one or more texture maps. The multiple attribute maps may be concatenated into a single concatenated map and concatenated UV coordinates for each of the multiple attribute maps may be generated based on re-computing original UV coordinates of each of the multiple attribute maps within the single concatenated map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Fang-yi CHAO, Thuong Nguyen Canh, Xiang Zhang, Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu
  • Publication number: 20240095965
    Abstract: In a method, a base mesh is generated from a down-sampled input mesh in a current frame, where the base mesh includes a plurality of vertices. A prediction mode to be applied to the base mesh is determined. The prediction mode is an inter prediction mode or an intra prediction mode. Based on the prediction mode being determined as the intra prediction mode, duplicate vertices among the plurality of vertices in the base mesh are merged to generate a subset of the plurality of vertices. At least the subset of the plurality of vertices is encoded based on the determined intra prediction mode to generate prediction information of at least the subset of the plurality of vertices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Jun TIAN, Xiang ZHANG, Xiaozhong XU, Chao HUANG, Shan LIU
  • Publication number: 20240097116
    Abstract: The invention discloses a ternary positive electrode material coated with nitride/graphitized carbon nanosheets and preparation method thereof. The ternary positive electrode material coated with nitride/graphitized carbon nanosheets includes a ternary positive electrode material matrix and a coating layer; the coating layer is composed of nitride and graphitized carbon; and the graphitized carbon is formed in situ in the coating process of the nitride. Compared with a physical mixing method, the in-situ generated carbon layer is connected to the material matrix more tightly, and the formed conductive network is denser. So that the rate performance of the material is improved to the maximum extent. The preparation method is simple and easy to realize industrial production. And the obtained ternary positive electrode material coated with nitride/graphitized carbon nanosheets has excellent rate performance and cycling stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Kaihua XU, Rui HE, Weifeng DING, Yunhe ZHANG, Xiang ZHANG, Kun ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240095000
    Abstract: An electronic device receives a first user operation. The first user operation is used to request to install a first plug-in related to a first application, the first application includes a first plug-in framework and at least one plug-in associated with the first plug-in framework, a major version number of each of the at least one plug-in is the same as a major version number of the first plug-in framework, and the first plug-in is different from the at least one plug-in. The electronic device receives the first plug-in from a server. The electronic device detects whether a major version number of the first plug-in is the same as the major version number of the first plug-in framework. If yes, the electronic device installs the first plug-in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Yue Gu, Wenshuai Yin, Ke Wan, Xiang Xu, Mingjiang Li
  • Patent number: 11934371
    Abstract: A data processing method includes: generating a service serial number for a target service according to a preset naming rule; obtaining service data of the target service; obtaining a target data table from a plurality of pre-configured data tables, according to the service serial number; and storing the service data to the target data table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NETSUNION CLEARING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiang Lu, Jianjiang Xu, Yantao Gao, Wenbin Nie, Qin Huang, Yu Yang, Qiang Zhang, Lei Fan, Chao Zuo
  • Publication number: 20240084819
    Abstract: Provided are a heat collecting pump and a washing appliance. The heat collecting pump includes: a housing defining an accommodation cavity and having a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, and a mounting opening; a heating device and a flow guiding element that are disposed in the accommodation cavity; a drive device connected to the housing and configured to drive a fluid to flow from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet. The flow guiding element has an inner wall defining a fluid inlet channel in communication with the fluid inlet. A fluid discharge channel is defined between an outer wall of the flow guiding element and an inner wall of the accommodation cavity, and is in communication with the fluid inlet channel and the fluid outlet, respectively. The flow guiding element has a flow guiding portion configured to guide a fluid in the fluid discharge channel towards the fluid outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Jianqing WU, Richao LIU, Xiang LI, Canhua QIU, Pingping XU
  • Publication number: 20240087173
    Abstract: A method of encoding includes receiving a polygon mesh comprising a plurality of original vertices. The method further includes deriving an initial base mesh from the polygon mesh, the initial base mesh including a first set of base mesh vertices. The method further includes performing a symmetrize process on the initial base mesh to generate a symmetrical base mesh that includes a first side having the first set of base mesh vertices and a second side having a second set of base mesh vertices, each base mesh vertex in the first set of base mesh vertices having a corresponding symmetric vertex in the second set of base mesh vertices. The method further includes determining a first displacement between each original vertex in the polygon mesh located on the second side of the symmetrical base mesh and a nearest vertex included in the second set of base mesh vertices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Thuong NGUYEN CANH, Xiaozhong Xu, Xiang Zhang, Shan Liu
  • Publication number: 20240088071
    Abstract: Methods for reducing resistivity of metal gapfill include depositing a conformal layer in an opening of a feature and on a field of a substrate with a first thickness of the conformal layer of approximately 10 microns or less, depositing a non-conformal metal layer directly on the conformal layer at a bottom of the opening and directly on the field using an anisotropic deposition process. A second thickness of the non-conformal metal layer on the field and on the bottom of the feature is approximately 30 microns or greater. And depositing a metal gapfill material in the opening of the feature and on the field where the metal gapfill material completely fills the opening without any voids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Yi XU, Yu LEI, Zhimin QI, Aixi ZHANG, Xianyuan ZHAO, Wei LEI, Xingyao GAO, Shirish A. PETHE, Tao HUANG, Xiang CHANG, Patrick Po-Chun LI, Geraldine VASQUEZ, Dien-yeh WU, Rongjun WANG
  • Publication number: 20240089499
    Abstract: A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, derive a mesh from a frame of the volumetric data, the mesh including a plurality of base mesh vertices, determine a displacement of at least one vertex, that is not of the base mesh vertices, based on a series of projections from at least one of the plurality of base mesh vertices that is a neighboring one of the plurality of base mesh vertices to the at least one vertex, predicting the at least one vertex based at least on the determined displacement, and encode the volumetric data based on the predicted at least one vertex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Thuong NGUYEN CANH, Xiaozhong XU, Chao HUANG, Xiang ZHANG, Shan LIU
  • Patent number: 11929667
    Abstract: A switching converter and a low-voltage startup circuit is provided. The low-voltage startup circuit includes a comparator and a substrate voltage control module. The comparator performs a comparison between an input voltage and a reference voltage and obtain a voltage detection signal according to a result of the comparison. The substrate voltage control module adjusts a substrate voltage of a main switching transistor according to the voltage detection signal, wherein when the voltage detection signal indicates that the input voltage is lower than/equal to the reference voltage, the substrate voltage control module increases the substrate voltage of the main switching transistor, and then a turn-on threshold voltage of the main switching transistor can be reduced, so that the main switching transistor may be normally turned on when the input voltage is low, and the low-voltage startup capability of the switching converter is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SG MICRO CORP
    Inventors: Jing Xu, Shoubao Yan, Xiang Yu
  • Patent number: 11930164
    Abstract: A method for video encoding includes determining whether coding of a current block in an IBC prediction mode is performed in an explicit mode or an implicit mode based on whether a difference exists between a block vector and a corresponding block vector predictor. The current block is part of a current picture to be coded. The method further includes constructing a block vector predictor candidate list for the current block, the block vector predictor candidate list having a first number of block vector predictor candidates in the implicit mode, and having a second number of block vector predictor candidates in the explicit mode. The method further includes selecting a block vector predictor candidate from the constructed block vector predictor candidate list and encoding the current block according to the selected block vector predictor candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu, Xiang Li
  • Patent number: 11926544
    Abstract: The invention discloses a biological desulfurizer for removing organic sulfur in fracturing flowback fluid and application thereof. The biological desulfurizer includes a compound with a triazine structure formed by modifying chitosan with aldehydes and inorganic salts. The triazine structure has a good removal effect on hydrogen sulfide and organic sulfur such as mercaptan and sulfide. The biological desulfurizer of the invention has a sulfur capacity of up to 250 g/kg and a desulfurization efficiency of over 95% in 15 min. It can effectively remove the stink of sulfur-containing working water, improve the working environment of the well site, and reduce the impact of sulfur compounds on the atmospheric environment during the development of oil and gas fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CO., LTD. OF NORTH BRANCH
    Inventors: Xiaoqing Qiu, Xiang Wang, Guisheng Wang, Guofeng Li, Jiawei Zhang, Lei Song, Xia Wang, Qianli Xu, Puyan Hou
  • Patent number: 11930200
    Abstract: An apparatus for video decoding, includes processing circuitry configured to determine an affine model for a current block coded with an interweaved affine mode. Based on the affine model, a first prediction block corresponding to a first pattern for partitioning the current block into first sub-blocks and a second prediction block corresponding to a second pattern for partitioning the current block into second sub-blocks can be generated. The first and second prediction blocks include interpolated samples having an intermediate bit-depth larger than an input bit-depth of the current block. Co-located first and samples in the first and second prediction blocks with a precision corresponding to the intermediate bit-depth are weighted averaged to obtain averaged samples. The averaged samples are rounded to the input bit-depth to obtain corresponding third samples in a final prediction block of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Li, Guichun Li, Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu
  • Publication number: 20240078713
    Abstract: Method, apparatus, and system for texture coordinate prediction for mesh compression are provided. The process may include receiving, for a mesh, a coordinate of a first vertex and a coordinate of a prediction candidate vertex in a three dimensional (3D) space. The process may include determining a stretch perpendicular distance associated with the first vertex and the prediction candidate vertex, the stretch perpendicular distance being based on a conversion of the 3D space into a two dimensional (2D) space, and determining a 2D texture coordinate of the first vertex based on the stretch perpendicular distance associated with the first vertex and the prediction candidate vertex. The process may also include determining a residual of a predicted coordinate of the first vertex and an actual 2D coordinate of the first vertex; and compressing the mesh based on entropy coding the residual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Shan Liu, Jun Tian, Xiaozhong Xu, Chao Huang, Xiang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240079002
    Abstract: A minutes of meeting processing method, a device, and a medium. The method comprises: acquiring meeting text of a meeting audio/video; inputting the meeting text into a to-do identification model, and determining initial to-do statements; inputting the initial to-do statements into a tense determination model, and determining tense results of the initial to-do statements; and determining a meeting to-do statement in the initial to-do statements on the basis of the tense results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Chunsai DU, Jingsheng YANG, Kojung CHEN, Xiang ZHENG, Wenming XU