Patents by Inventor Xiang Zhao

Xiang Zhao 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: 11646527
    Abstract: An electric tool includes a body, a battery pack, and a guide portion including a primary guide unit and a secondary guide unit. The primary guide unit and the secondary guide unit each extend in a preset direction and the primary guide unit and the secondary guide unit each are arranged in the longitudinal direction between a connecting portion of the battery pack and a mounting portion of the body. The primary guide unit and the secondary guide unit implement rigid mating. The primary guide unit includes primary mating surfaces mating with each other in the transverse direction, the secondary guide unit includes secondary mating surfaces mating with each other in the transverse direction, and a ratio of a width of a transverse gap between the primary mating surfaces to a width of a transverse gap between the secondary mating surfaces is greater than or equal to 0.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fukinuki Masatoshi, Xiang Zhao, Muyang Ni
  • Publication number: 20230127109
    Abstract: An inverter casing and a connection structure of an inverter and a junction box are provided. The inverter casing includes an upper casing with an inner side that is provided with a cavity for accommodating a circuit board, and an upper surface that is provided with a junction recess for accommodating a junction box that is fixedly installed in the junction recess. Moreover, a bottom part of the junction recess is provided with an elastic protrusion for connecting a high-voltage protection device, and two incoming terminals. The elastic protrusion cooperates with a knockout pin on the junction box for high-voltage power-off protection, and the two incoming terminals are connected with external cables via the junction box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Xiang ZHAO, Hao ZHANG, Gabriel Gallegos LOPEZ
  • Patent number: 11615140
    Abstract: A method includes screening, by a video-clip screening module in a video description model, a plurality of video proposal clips acquired from a video to be analyzed, to acquire a plurality of video clips suitable for description. The plural video proposal clips acquired from the video to be analyzed may be screened by the video-clip screening module to acquire the plural video clips suitable for description; and then, each video clip is described by a video-clip describing module, thus avoiding description of all the video proposal clips, only describing the screened video clips which have strong correlation with the video and are suitable for description, removing the interference of the description of the video clips which are not suitable for description in the description of the video, guaranteeing the accuracy of the final descriptions of the video clips, and improving the quality of the descriptions of the video clips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang Long, Dongliang He, Fu Li, Xiang Zhao, Tianwei Lin, Hao Sun, Shilei Wen, Errui Ding
  • Patent number: 11609787
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an FPGA-based dynamic graph processing method, comprising: where graph mirrors of a dynamic graph that have successive timestamps define an increment therebetween, a pre-processing module dividing the graph mirror having the latter timestamp into at least one path unit in a manner that incremental computing for any vertex only depends on a preorder vertex of that vertex; an FPGA processing module storing at least two said path units into an on-chip memory directly linked to threads in a manner that every thread unit is able to process the path unit independently; the thread unit determining an increment value between the successive timestamps of the preorder vertex while updating a state value of the preorder vertex, and transferring the increment value to a succeeding vertex adjacent to the preorder vertex in a transfer direction determined by the path unit, so as to update the state value of the succeeding vertex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xiaofei Liao, Yicheng Chen, Yu Zhang, Hai Jin, Jin Zhao, Xiang Zhao, Beibei Si
  • Publication number: 20230025116
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a pair of electrical connectors for electrically connecting to one another to close an electric circuit. The assembly further includes a connection indicator attached to one or more of the electrical connectors. The connection indicator generates a feedback, in response to the electrical connectors being one of connected to one another and disconnected from one another. The connection indicator is separate from the electric circuit, and the feedback is at least one of a radio frequency signal (RF signal), an electronic signal, a visible light, and an acoustic signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Xiang Zhao, Dalong Gao, Jinglin Li
  • Patent number: 11427102
    Abstract: A method of autonomously charging an electric vehicle having a charge port is provided. The method comprises providing an electric charge system having a first controller and a second controller. The first controller is in communication with an electric charger and a movable charge arm. The movable charge arm is connected to the electric charger extends to an arm end comprising a charge plug and a camera. The movable charge arm has an idle position defining a charging zone and is movable via a predetermined number of degrees of freedom to connect the charge plug with the charge port for electrically charging the electric vehicle. The second controller disposed in the vehicle and in communication with the first controller. The method further comprises aligning the charge port with the charging zone by vehicle movement and aligning the charge plug with the charge port by the charge arm movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Zhao, Ningjian Huang
  • Patent number: 11423849
    Abstract: A display panel includes a data line, a pixel driving circuit, a light-emitting device and a voltage compensation circuit. The voltage compensation circuit includes a sampling and conditioning unit configured to obtain a driving current output by the pixel driving circuit and to output a control signal according to the driving current; a first switch unit including a control terminal, an input terminal and an output terminal, the control terminal of the first switch unit being connected to an output terminal of the sampling and conditioning unit, and the input terminal of the first switch unit being connected to the output terminal of the pixel driving circuit; a compensation unit including an input terminal and an output terminal, the input terminal of the compensation unit being connected to the output terminal of the first switch unit, and the output terminal of the compensation unit being connected to the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: YUNGU (GU'AN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen Huang, Dake Yang, Dong Ren, Gang Liu, Xiang Zhao, Hui Zhu
  • Patent number: 11410422
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for grounding a target video clip in a video are provided. The method includes: determining a current video clip in the video based on a current position; acquiring descriptive information indicative of a pre-generated target video clip descriptive feature, and executing a target video clip determining step which includes: determining current state information of the current video clip, wherein the current state information includes information indicative of a feature of the current video clip; generating a current action policy based on the descriptive information and the current state information, the current action policy being indicative of a position change of the current video clip in the video; the method further comprises: in response to reaching a preset condition, using a video clip resulting from executing the current action policy on the current video clip as the target video clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongliang He, Xiang Zhao, Jizhou Huang, Fu Li, Xiao Liu, Shilei Wen
  • Publication number: 20220234461
    Abstract: A power distribution system includes a charging station, a plurality of power socket assemblies, and at least one power line. The charging station includes a charging station control module. The plurality of power socket assemblies are operable to supply power to a vehicle. The at least one power line electrically connects the charging station to each of the plurality of power socket assemblies. The charging station is configured to supply power to any one of the plurality of power socket assemblies through the at least one power line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Xiang ZHAO, Ningjian HUANG, John P. SPICER
  • Publication number: 20220126718
    Abstract: A method of autonomously charging an electric vehicle having a charge port is provided. The method comprises providing an electric charge system having a first controller and a second controller. The first controller is in communication with an electric charger and a movable charge arm. The movable charge arm is connected to the electric charger extends to an arm end comprising a charge plug and a camera. The movable charge arm has an idle position defining a charging zone and is movable via a predetermined number of degrees of freedom to connect the charge plug with the charge port for electrically charging the electric vehicle. The second controller disposed in the vehicle and in communication with the first controller. The method further comprises aligning the charge port with the charging zone by vehicle movement and aligning the charge plug with the charge port by the charge arm movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Xiang Zhao, Ningjian Huang
  • Patent number: 11256920
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for classifying a video are provided. The method may include: acquiring a to-be-classified video; extracting a set of multimodal features of the to-be-classified video; inputting the set of multimodal features into a post-fusion model corresponding to each modal respectively, to obtain multimodal category information of the to-be-classified video; and fusing the multimodal category information of the to-be-classified video, to obtain category information of the to-be-classified video. This embodiment improves the accuracy of video classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Long, Dongliang He, Fu Li, Zhizhen Chi, Zhichao Zhou, Xiang Zhao, Ping Wang, Hao Sun, Shilei Wen, Errui Ding
  • Patent number: 11259029
    Abstract: A method, device, apparatus for predicting a video coding complexity and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring an attribute feature of a target video; extracting a plurality of first target image frames from the target video; performing a frame difference calculation on the plurality of the first target image frames, to acquire a plurality of first frame difference images; determining a histogram feature for frame difference images of the target video according to a statistical histogram of each first frame difference image; and inputting a plurality of features of the target video into a coding complexity prediction model to acquire a coding complexity prediction value of the target video. Through the above method, the BPP prediction value can be acquired intelligently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhichao Zhou, Dongliang He, Fu Li, Xiang Zhao, Xin Li, Zhizhen Chi, Xiang Long, Hao Sun
  • Publication number: 20220048178
    Abstract: A push-pull press-contact apparatus includes holding member capable of being held with fingers; push-pull member connected to the holding member and having push portion, stop portion and pull portion sequentially connected; and pressing member connected to the pull portion from front. An antiseptic case includes case member having mounting space; alcoholic sponge mounted in the mounting space and having slot insertable by push-pull member and pressing member; and lid for covering the case member. Another antiseptic case includes case member having mounting space; alcoholic sponge mounted in the mounting space and having slot insertable by push-pull member and pressing member of push-pull press-contact apparatus; and lid for covering the case member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Lin-Miao CHEN, Kai LIU, Yan-Xiang ZHAO, Yi-Gang TANG
  • Patent number: 11216924
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing an image are provided. A method may include: acquiring a to-be-processed foggy image, and performing minimum value filtering on the to-be-processed foggy image to obtain a grayscale image of the to-be-processed foggy image; selecting, in a descending order of pixel values, a target number of pixel points from the grayscale image, and determining an image area corresponding to the selected pixel points from the to-be-processed foggy image; acquiring pixel values of the pixel points included in the image area, and determining an atmospheric light value based on the acquired pixel values; and performing image defogging processing on the to-be-processed foggy image based on the grayscale image and the atmospheric light value to obtain a processed image. The effect of image display and the efficiency of image processing can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ti Bai, Xin Li, Xiao Liu, Xiang Zhao, Fan Yang, Xubin Li, Hao Sun, Shilei Wen, Errui Ding
  • Patent number: 11194339
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining and correcting autonomous transport imbalances. A transport vehicle operates over a route. A fixture plate is coupled to the transport vehicle by a joint to carry a payload. A sensor determines a position of the joint. A controller modifies the operation of the transport vehicle in response to a change in the position of the joint to correct imbalances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Zhao, Ningjian Huang, Jinglin Li, Jeffrey A. Abell
  • Publication number: 20210362317
    Abstract: An electric tool includes a body housing, a motor, a signal switch, and an operating component. The body housing includes a first housing portion, a second housing portion, and a third housing portion which are arranged sequentially from front to back. The motor is supported in the first housing portion and includes a motor shaft rotatable around a rotation axis. The signal switch includes a trigger portion capable of being triggered to control start-up or interruption of the motor. The operating component is disposed on the body housing, and the operating component is configured to move on the body housing to turn on or off the signal switch. A moving direction of the trigger portion is substantially perpendicular to an operating direction of the operating component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Jiayu Li, Xiang Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210359461
    Abstract: An electric tool includes a body, a battery pack, and a guide portion including a primary guide unit and a secondary guide unit. The primary guide unit and the secondary guide unit each extend in a preset direction and the primary guide unit and the secondary guide unit each are arranged in the longitudinal direction between a connecting portion of the battery pack and a mounting portion of the body. The primary guide unit and the secondary guide unit implement rigid mating. The primary guide unit includes primary mating surfaces mating with each other in the transverse direction, the secondary guide unit includes secondary mating surfaces mating with each other in the transverse direction, and a ratio of a width of a transverse gap between the primary mating surfaces to a width of a transverse gap between the secondary mating surfaces is greater than or equal to 0.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Fukinuki Masatoshi, Xiang Zhao, Muyang Ni
  • Patent number: 11149713
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a control method, device and system for a wind turbine. The control method includes: acquiring current working conditions of a power system, a yaw system and a communication system of the wind turbine when a typhoon warning signal is received; determining a target control strategy corresponding to the current working conditions according to a preset corresponding relationship between control strategies and working conditions of the power system, the yaw system and the communication system, wherein the control strategies may include an active windward strategy for controlling the yaw system to face typhoon wind direction, a controlled passive leeward strategy for controlling the yaw system to face opposite to the typhoon wind direction, and a passive leeward strategy for adjusting the yaw system to face opposite to the typhoon wind direction; and controlling the wind turbine by using the target control strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: XINJIANG GOLDWIND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gang Deng, Jinfeng Yin, Huixun Li, Xiang Zhao, Xianyou Wu
  • Publication number: 20210295785
    Abstract: A display panel includes a data line, a pixel driving circuit, a light-emitting device and a voltage compensation circuit. The voltage compensation circuit includes a sampling and conditioning unit configured to obtain a driving current output by the pixel driving circuit and to output a control signal according to the driving current; a first switch unit including a control terminal, an input terminal and an output terminal, the control terminal of the first switch unit being connected to an output terminal of the sampling and conditioning unit, and the input terminal of the first switch unit being connected to the output terminal of the pixel driving circuit; a compensation unit including an input terminal and an output terminal, the input terminal of the compensation unit being connected to the output terminal of the first switch unit, and the output terminal of the compensation unit being connected to the data line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: YUNGU (GU'AN) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen HUANG, Dake YANG, Dong REN, Gang LIU, Xiang ZHAO, Hui ZHU
  • Publication number: 20210223782
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining and correcting autonomous transport imbalances. A transport vehicle operates over a route. A fixture plate is coupled to the transport vehicle by a joint to carry a payload. A sensor determines a position of the joint. A controller modifies the operation of the transport vehicle in response to a change in the position of the joint to correct imbalances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Zhao, Ningjian Huang, Jinglin Li, Jeffrey A. Abell