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: 20180328893
    Abstract: A double-robot system for detecting a flaw of a rim or a spoke includes a movable cart, a lifting platform, a lifting rotating mechanism, and robots. The lifting platform is movably connected to the movable cart in a vertical direction. The lifting rotating mechanism is disposed on the lifting platform. A wheel lifting arm is disposed on each of the left side and the right side of the lifting rotating mechanism. The wheel lifting arms are used for lap joint on a rail where a wheel in detection is located. One robot is fixedly connected to each of the front side and the rear side of the lifting rotating mechanism. Each robot is provided with a tread carrier. The lifting rotating mechanism is also provided with two inner carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: BEIJING LEAD TIME SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu ZHANG, Li WANG, Xiaorong GAO, Quanke ZHAO, Zeyong WANG, Jianping PENG, Kai YANG, Chaoyong PENG, Xiang ZHANG, Jianzhong WEN, You TAN, Xingyu ZHANG, Yongjun LUO, Tiandou ZHANG, Xiaolong LIAO
  • Patent number: 10122292
    Abstract: A converter valve includes a top shielding cover, a bottom shielding cover, at least two vertically stacked valve layers, and a maintenance platform. The top shielding cover is disposed at an upper portion of an uppermost valve layer. The bottom shielding cover is disposed at a lower portion of a lowermost valve layer. Each of the valve layers comprises two valve modules disposed side-by-side in a horizontal direction. The two valve modules are electrically connected via a busbar and mechanically connected via securing connectors. A lower valve layer is connected to an upper valve layer in a suspended manner. A body of the maintenance platform is located between horizontal planes on which two vertically adjacent valve layers are located, or between horizontal planes on which the lowermost valve layer and the bottom shielding cover are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD, NR ELECTRIC POWER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang Zhang, Lei Liu, Taixun Fang, Chihan Chen, Zhao Li, Haiying Li, Fengfeng Ding
  • Patent number: 10107749
    Abstract: An active plasmon sensor comprising a single crystalline semiconductor CdS nano-slab atop a silver surface separated by a magnesium fluoride (MgF2) gap layer. The surface plasmon effect localizes the electromagnetic field at the interface between the metal and semiconductor, allowing both the device's physical size and mode confinement to shrink down to the nanometer scale in a dimension perpendicular to the metal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Xiang Zhang, Ren-Min Ma, Sadao Ota
  • Publication number: 20180262120
    Abstract: A converter valve includes a top shielding cover, a bottom shielding cover, at least two vertically stacked valve layers, and a maintenance platform. The top shielding cover is disposed at an upper portion of an uppermost valve layer. The bottom shielding cover is disposed at a lower portion of a lowermost valve layer. Each of the valve layers comprises two valve modules disposed side-by-side in a horizontal direction. The two valve modules are electrically connected via a busbar and mechanically connected via securing connectors. A lower valve layer is connected to an upper valve layer in a suspended manner. A body of the maintenance platform is located between horizontal planes on which two vertically adjacent valve layers are located, or between horizontal planes on which the lowermost valve layer and the bottom shielding cover are located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD, NR ELECTRIC POWER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang ZHANG, Lei LIU, Taixun FANG, Chihan CHEN, Zhao LI, Haiying LI, Fengfeng DING
  • Publication number: 20180249177
    Abstract: A reference frame decoding method includes obtaining a first reference frame, where the first reference frame is a first picture frame on which decoding reconstruction has been performed or a first interpolated picture frame obtained by pixel interpolation on the first picture frame, parsing a bitstream to obtain mapping parameters, determining to-be-determined coefficients of a preset mapping function according to the mapping parameters, obtaining, in the first reference frame according to the mapping function whose to-be-determined coefficients have been determined, a first pixel unit having a mapping relationship with a second pixel unit of a second reference frame, and assigning a pixel value of the first pixel unit to the second pixel unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Sixin Lin, Xiang Zhang, Siwei Ma, Haitao Yang
  • Publication number: 20180248932
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for acquiring target data from and sending target data to a network. An NDN network and a TCP/IP network are simultaneously contained as a network layer protocol, and the NDN network is used to perform interaction of control information and searching of target data, while the TCP/IP network is used to perform specific transmission of the target data. Not only are intelligent and efficient content distribution advantages of the NDN network made use of, but also, by means of the efficient transmission capability of the TCP/IP network in an existing network device and communication environment, the content distribution capability in a hybrid network simultaneously having the TCP/IP network and the NDN network is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: PEKING UNIVERSITY SHENZHEN GRADUATE SCHOOL
    Inventors: Kai LEI, Jie YUAN, Yunbo XUN, Xiang ZHANG, Lirui GONG
  • Patent number: 10055276
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for detecting one or more defects in an incoming log. One or more features are extracted from the incoming log. Utilizing the one or more features, one or more patterns, one or more pattern sequences of the one or more patterns, and one or more proximities associated with the one or more patterns contained in the incoming log are identified. For each defect model generated for the incoming log, a set of patterns in the defect model is compared to a set of patterns in each previously identified defect model in a set of previously identified defect models. Responsive to identifying a match and responsive to set of scores associated with the match meeting or exceeding a set of probability thresholds, an identification associated with the previously identified defect model along with any solution or workaround is passed to a support engineer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher G. Fredericks, Tien Hiong Lee, Konstantin Levinski, Xin Qian, Weng Sing Tang, Xiang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180217935
    Abstract: A method for reading data stored in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID). The RAID includes a RAID controller, a first cache, and a hard disk including a hard disk controller and a second cache. The method includes: receiving a read request, wherein the read request comprises an identifier of a to-be-read logical block; sending a first command to a hard disk controller of the hard disk when the first cache does not comprise data stored in the to-be-read logical block, wherein the first command is used to instruct the hard disk controller of the hard disk to return the data of the to-be-read logical block from the second cache of the hard disk; outputting the returned data, and caching the returned data in the first cache; and controlling the hard disk controller of the first hard disk to delete the returned data stored in the second cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Jian ZHANG, Xiang ZHANG, Liming WU
  • Publication number: 20180218965
    Abstract: A thyristor assembly radiator for a DC converter valve. A water discharging port of an Nth radiator is communicated with a water discharging port of an (N?2)th radiator. A water feeding port of the Nth radiator is communicated with a water feeding port of an (N+2)th radiator. Or, a water feeding port of the Nth radiator is communicated with a water feeding port of the (N?2)th radiator, and a water discharging port of the Nth radiator is communicated with a water discharging port of the (N+2)th radiator. A water discharging port of an Mth radiator is communicated with a water discharging port of an (M?2)th radiator, and a water feeding port of the Mth radiator is communicated with a water feeding port of an (M+2)th radiator, or a water feeding port of an Mth radiator is communicated with a water feeding port of the (M?2)th radiator, and a water discharging port of the Mth radiator is communicated with a water discharging port of an (M+2)th radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD, NR ELECTRIC POWER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang ZHANG, Taixun FANG, Dongming CAO, Chihan CHEN, Guangtai ZHANG, Haibin LIU
  • Publication number: 20180214997
    Abstract: An assembly method for a DC converter valve includes: assembling a top shielding case: lifting the top shielding case to a designated height via a lifting platform, and then fixedly connecting the top shielding case to lower ends of insulators, fixedly connecting upper ends of the insulators to a truss, the truss being located on the top of a valve hall; assembling valve layers: lifting the valve layers to designated locations in a sequence from top to bottom via the lifting platform; and assembling a bottom shielding case: lifting the bottom shielding case to a designated height via the lifting platform, connecting the bottom shielding case to a lowermost valve layer and suspending the bottom shielding case below the lowermost valve layer via suspension insulators. By means of the present invention, the operation is convenient, a small quantity of devices is used, and the security and reliability are high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicants: NR ELECTRIC CO., LTD, NR ENGINEERING CO., LTD, NR ELECTRIC POWER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang ZHANG, Fan YANG, Guoxing BAI, Zhao LI, Liang LIU, Xiaodong SHI
  • Publication number: 20180196099
    Abstract: Within a predetermined time range, record time information of status indication signals fed back by thyristor control units (TCU) of a converter valve. Perform, statistics and comparison of the pieces of time information using a bias statistics method. Mark, a thyristor level whose bias exceeds a preset value. And determine a probability of failure in the thyristor according to the marking result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Shengfu GAO, Taixun FANG, Yongping WANG, Xiang ZHANG, Weiming PAN, Ming YUAN, Guqing ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10013985
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method, an electronic system and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for recognizing audio commands in an electronic device. The electronic device obtains audio data based on an audio signal provided by a user and extracts characteristic audio fingerprint features from the audio data. The electronic device further determines whether the corresponding audio signal is generated by an authorized user by comparing the characteristic audio fingerprint features with an audio fingerprint model for the authorized user and with a universal background model that represents user-independent audio fingerprint features, respectively. When the corresponding audio signal is generated by the authorized user of the electronic device, an audio command is extracted from the audio data, and an operation is performed according to the audio command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuai Yue, Xiang Zhang, Li Lu, Feng Rao, Eryu Wang, Haibo Liu, Bo Chen, Jian Liu, Lu Li
  • Patent number: 9991664
    Abstract: A high-efficiency high-power ring laser amplifier includes four polarizers, four amplifiers, fours lens, two filter apertures, two electro-optic switches, a mirror, a wavefront corrector. A bidirectional ring laser amplifier configuration with twin pulses is suitable for any type of gain media and pumping configurations. This amplifier configuration can effectively improve the extraction efficiency of the gain medium. The amplification configuration proposed by the present invention patent can realize the ring amplification for any number of rounds in principle, and can effectively control quality of the output laser beam and relax the restriction on the injected energy. The two spatial filters in the novel high-efficiency high-power ring laser amplifier of the present invention patent can effectively removing the spatial modulations in the laser beams, and the first and second spatial filters reimage the beam at wavefront corrector to mirror which can effectively inhibit the diffraction effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiao Yuan, Tiancheng Yu, Xiang Zhang, Fan Gao
  • Publication number: 20180138651
    Abstract: A high-efficiency high-power ring laser amplifier includes four polarizers, four amplifiers, fours lens, two filter apertures, two electro-optic switches, a mirror, a wavefront corrector. A bidirectional ring laser amplifier configuration with twin pulses is suitable for any type of gain media and pumping configurations. This amplifier configuration can effectively improve the extraction efficiency of the gain medium. The amplification configuration proposed by the present invention patent can realize the ring amplification for any number of rounds in principle, and can effectively control quality of the output laser beam and relax the restriction on the injected energy. The two spatial filters in the novel high-efficiency high-power ring laser amplifier of the present invention patent can effectively removing the spatial modulations in the laser beams, and the first and second spatial filters reimage the beam at wavefront corrector to mirror which can effectively inhibit the diffraction effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Xiao YUAN, Tiancheng YU, Xiang ZHANG, Fan GAO
  • Publication number: 20180129549
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for detecting one or more defects in an incoming log. One or more features are extracted from the incoming log. Utilizing the one or more features, one or more patterns, one or more pattern sequences of the one or more patterns, and one or more proximities associated with the one or more patterns contained in the incoming log are identified. For each defect model generated for the incoming log, a set of patterns in the defect model is compared to a set of patterns in each previously identified defect model in a set of previously identified defect models. Responsive to identifying a match and responsive to set of scores associated with the match meeting or exceeding a set of probability thresholds, an identification associated with the previously identified defect model along with any solution or workaround is passed to a support engineer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher G. Fredericks, Tien Hiong Lee, Konstantin Levinski, Xin Qian, Weng Sing Tang, Xiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9940935
    Abstract: A method is performed at a device having one or more processors and memory. The device establishes a first-level Deep Neural Network (DNN) model based on unlabeled speech data, the unlabeled speech data containing no speaker labels and the first-level DNN model specifying a plurality of basic voiceprint features for the unlabeled speech data. The device establishes a second-level DNN model by tuning the first-level DNN model based on labeled speech data, the labeled speech data containing speech samples with respective speaker labels, wherein the second-level DNN model specifies a plurality of high-level voiceprint features. Using the second-level DNN model, registers a first high-level voiceprint feature sequence for a user based on a registration speech sample received from the user. The device performs speaker verification for the user based on the first high-level voiceprint feature sequence registered for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Eryu Wang, Li Lu, Xiang Zhang, Haibo Liu, Lou Li, Feng Rao, Duling Lu, Shuai Yue, Bo Chen
  • Publication number: 20180038804
    Abstract: An inspection device for inspecting screw-closures on bottles includes a rotationally-symmetric lens disposed above a bottle's screw-closure and having a convex portion and a flat aspheric portion, a first lighting-unit for illuminating the screw-closure, and a camera located above the lens and connected to an image processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Carsten Buchwald, Jürgen-Peter Herrmann, Marius Michael Herrmann, Wolfgang Schorn, Xiang Zhang
  • Patent number: D828351
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Shanghai Putao Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Xie, Xiang Zhang, Wenwu Wang, Ziwei Gao, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: D833494
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Shanghai Putao Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Zhang, Di Peng, Zhaolong Li, Shaohua Zhang, Benchao Xiao
  • Patent number: D833540
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Shanghai Putao Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Zhang, Di Peng, Zhaolong Li, Shaohua Zhang, Benchao Xiao