Patents by Inventor Xiang Zhang

Xiang 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: 20240089020
    Abstract: This application discloses a data transmission method. The method includes: performs bit multiplexing to obtain a plurality of third data streams based on a plurality of first data streams and a plurality of second data streams, where the first data stream and the second data stream belong to different virtual lane groups; and transmits the plurality of third data streams to a second module, to enable the second module to obtain a plurality of fourth data streams based on the plurality of third data streams, where any fourth data stream is obtained by performing bit multiplexing on any second quantity of third data streams in the plurality of third data streams. Bit multiplexing is performed on the obtained data streams, so that the method can improve a transmission rate of the data stream and reduce a frame loss ratio of a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Chengmin ZHANG, Xianwen QIU, Jianqiang LIU, Xiang HE
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11926794
    Abstract: A continuous operation method is employed for the microwave high-temperature pyrolysis of a solid material containing an organic matter. The method includes the steps of mixing a solid material containing an organic matter with a liquid organic medium; transferring the obtained mixture to a microwave field; and in the microwave field, continuously contacting the mixture with a strong wave absorption material in an inert atmosphere or in vacuum. The strong wave absorption material continuously generates a high temperature under a microwave such that the solid material containing an organic matter and the liquid organic medium are continuously pyrolyzed to implement a continuous operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, BEIJING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haibin Jiang, Jinliang Qiao, Xiaohong Zhang, Wenlu Liu, Jianming Gao, Guicun Qi, Zhihai Song, Jinmei Lai, Chuanlun Cai, Binghai Li, Xiang Wang, Yue Ru, Hongbin Zhang, Peng Han, Jiangru Zhang, Chao Jiang, Zhaoyan Guo
  • Patent number: 11929634
    Abstract: Provided by the present application are a Direct Current (DC) micro-grid system, a charging loop circuit and a control method thereof. The charging loop circuit selectively connects a charging loop to a first side loop or a second side loop through a set of switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Shiyong Jiang, Xiang Zhang, Chongyang Feng, Ningning Chen, Meng Li, Yu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11930460
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Yang Tang, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Hong He
  • Patent number: 11926687
    Abstract: A grafted polypropylene resin is prepared by a grafting reaction of a polar monomer capable of absorbing microwave so as to raise its temperature in a microwave field to more than 200° C. and a solid polypropylene resin using microwave irradiation without adding an initiator. The polar grafted polypropylene resin that does not contain initiator residues and does not have a significant reduction in molecular mass compared with a resin before grafting is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, BEIJING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jinliang Qiao, Songhe Wang, Xiaohong Zhang, Guicun Qi, Zhihai Song, Chuanlun Cai, Xiang Wang, Jinmei Lai, Binghai Li, Haibin Jiang, Yue Ru, Jiangru Zhang, Jianming Gao, Hongbin Zhang, Peng Han, Wenlu Liu
  • Patent number: 11926538
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of wastewater treatment, and provides a wastewater treatment method and apparatus based on hydrate-based water vapor adsorption. The apparatus includes a wastewater evaporation zone, a hydrate formation zone, a hydrate decomposition zone, and a data acquisition and control system. Rising water vapor and condensed water formed during evaporation of wastewater at normal temperature react with a hydrate former on a cooling wall surface to form a hydrate, continuous evaporation of the wastewater is promoted, the hydrate is scraped off to a collecting zone below by a scraper after being formed, and the hydrate is decomposed into fresh water, thereby realizing wastewater treatment. The present disclosure provides a method for treating complex wastewater containing a plurality of pollutants, where water vapor is consumed to form the hydrate to promote wastewater evaporation, and water obtained from the decomposition does not contain pollutants theoretically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Lunxiang Zhang, Huilian Sun, Zheng Ling, Jiafei Zhao, Lingjie Sun, Lei Yang, Mingjun Yang, Yu Liu, Weiguo Liu, Yanghui Li, Xiang Sun, Lanlan Jiang
  • 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
  • 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: 20240079579
    Abstract: A positive active material, a secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electrical device are disclosed. The positive active material includes a spinel-type lithium-manganese-containing composite oxide with a molecular formula of Li1+xAaMbXcMn2?a?b?c?xO4?t. In the molecular formula: A is a doping element for a manganese site of the spinel-type lithium-manganese-containing composite oxide; M is used for combining with O to form a second phase containing a polyoxyanion, and M includes one or more of B, C, N, Si, P, S, or Cl; X includes one or more of Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, or Zr; and the molecular formula satisfies: ?0.1?x?0.3, 0<a?0.2, 0<b?0.2, 0<c?0.7, and 0?t?0.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhenguo ZHANG, Xingkai HU, Xiang YIN, Jingpeng FAN, Sihui WANG, Zhijie YAO, Na LIU
  • Patent number: 11921276
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for evaluating image relative definition, a device and a medium, relating to technologies such as computer vision, deep learning and intelligent medical. A specific implementation solution is: extracting a multi-scale feature of each image in an image set, where the multi-scale feature is used for representing definition features of objects having different sizes in an image; and scoring relative definition of each image in the image set according to the multi-scale feature by using a relative definition scoring model pre-trained, where the purpose for training the relative definition scoring model is to learn a feature related to image definition in the multi-scale feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Long, Yan Peng, Shufei Lin, Ying Xin, Bin Zhang, Pengcheng Yuan, Xiaodi Wang, Yuan Feng, Shumin Han
  • Patent number: 11924434
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for mesh coding (e.g., compression and decompression). In some examples, an apparatus for mesh coding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes a plurality of initial maps in two-dimension from a bitstream carrying a three-dimensional (3D) mesh frame. The processing circuitry determines at least two sampling rates associated with different portions of the plurality of initial maps and recovers from the plurality of initial maps and based on the at least two sampling rates associated with the different portions of the plurality of initial maps to obtain a plurality of recovered maps. A first portion of the plurality of initial maps is recovered based on a first sampling rate, and a second portion of the plurality of initial maps is recovered based on a second sampling rate. The processing circuitry reconstructs the 3D mesh frame based on the plurality of recovered maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xiaozhong Xu, Xiang Zhang, Shan Liu, Chao Huang, Jun Tian
  • Patent number: 11920743
    Abstract: An LED tube lamp includes a first and second members and a connection member. Each of the first and second members includes lighting part and an end part. Each lighting part includes LED light strip. The connection member includes electrical connection portions and joining portions for the first and second members. The connection member connects the first member with the second member by the joining portions and the electrical connection portions and makes the first member substantially coaxial to the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: JIAXING SUPER LIGHTING ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Guang-Dong Wang, Ji-Feng Xu, Ming-Bin Wang, Zi-Xiang Zou, Dong-Mei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11922664
    Abstract: A processing circuitry decodes a plurality of maps in 2D from a bitstream carrying a mesh frame. The mesh frame represents a surface of an object with polygons. The plurality of maps includes a decoded geometry map and a decoded attribute map with an adaptive 2D atlas sampling applied. The processing circuitry determines at least a first sampling rate and a second sampling rate according to syntaxes signaled in the bitstream. The first sampling rate is applied to a first region of the mesh frame and the second sampling rate is applied to a second region of the mesh frame during the adaptive 2D atlas sampling. The processing circuitry reconstructs, based on the plurality of maps, at least a first vertex of the mesh frame according to the first sampling rate, and a second vertex of the mesh frame according to the second sampling rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Zhang, Shan Liu, Xiaozhong Xu, Chao Huang, Jun Tian
  • Patent number: 11924468
    Abstract: A method of point cloud geometry encoding includes receiving a slice of a point cloud frame for encoding, and constructing an octree representing a geometry of points in a bounding box of the slice where a current node of the octree is partitioned with a quadtree (QT) partition or a binary tree (BT) partition. The constructing includes determining a value of a partitionSkip variable specifying a partition type and a partition direction of the current node of the octree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Zhang, Wen Gao, Sehoon Yea, Shan Liu
  • Publication number: 20240073624
    Abstract: A downhole transducer can include at least one single-crystal piezoelectric material, the at least one single-crystal piezoelectric material being positioned in the downhole transducer that is deployed downhole in a wellbore. Additionally, the downhole transducer can include at least one pair of electrodes positioned adjacent to the at least one single-crystal piezoelectric material for determining wellbore parameter measurements using one or more acoustic signals transmitted in the wellbore. The single-crystal piezoelectric material can include PIN-PZN-PT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jing Jin, Xiang Wu, Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240073748
    Abstract: A method for a network element is provided. The method comprises: encoding a message for transmission to a user equipment (UE) including neighbor cell configuration information that includes a list of a plurality of neighbor cell groups, wherein each of the plurality of neighbor cell groups is associated with a specific cell; and transmitting the message to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Fangli Xu, Yuqin Chen, Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen
  • Publication number: 20240073724
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to perform measurements during two or more measurement gaps (MGs). The UE receives a MG configuration, wherein the MG configuration includes multiple MGs and MG conflict resolution information, determines whether a conflict exists between two or more of the MGs, selects at least one of the two or more MGs that have the conflict based on the MG conflict resolution information and performs signal measurements during the selected at least one of the two or more MGs that have the conflict.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Xiang CHEN, Dawei ZHANG, Huaning NIU, Jie CUI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Qiming LI, Yang TANG
  • Publication number: 20240073433
    Abstract: Coding information of a mesh is received. The coding information includes a plurality of first coordinates and a plurality of second coordinates corresponding to a plurality of vertices and a texture map that are associated with the mesh. A respective first coordinate and a respective second coordinate associated with each of the plurality of vertices are normalized by adjusting the respective first coordinate based on a first factor and the respective second coordinate based on a second factor. The first factor and the second factor are associated with at least one of (i) a bit depth value indicating a coded range of the first coordinates and the second coordinates and (ii) a size of the texture map. The normalized respective first coordinate and the normalized respective second coordinate are expanded based on the first factor and the second factor respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Jun TIAN, Xiaozhong XU, Chao HUANG, Xiang ZHANG, Shan LIU