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: 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
  • Publication number: 20210216783
    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: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20210191763
    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: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaofei LIAO, Yicheng Chen, Yu Zhang, Hai Jin, Jin Zhao, Xiang Zhao, Beibei Si
  • Patent number: 10989170
    Abstract: A rotor rotating device includes at least two rotating units; a movable end of a telescoping cylinder in each rotating unit is provided with a pin; the pin is releasably secured on a rotor. A control method for the rotor rotating device includes: dividing the at least two rotating units into two groups; first removing pins of a first group of rotating units from the rotor, and then re-securing the pins at another positions on the rotor; and after the pins of all the rotating units are re-secured, changing the state of the telescoping cylinders of all the rotating units, and driving the rotor to turn relative to a machine base. In this way, all the rotating units are sequentially unlocked, moved to a next working station, and re-locked on the rotor. A control device, and a rotor rotating system are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: JIANGSU GOLDWIND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Li, Zhu Zhang, Zhongyuan Ge, Tao Sun, Xingang Zhang, Xiang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10922804
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for evaluating image definition, a computer device and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises: obtaining an image to be processed; inputting the image to be processed to a pre-trained evaluation model; obtaining an comprehensive image definition score outputted by the evaluation model, the comprehensive image definition score being obtained by the evaluation model by obtaining N image definition scores based on N different scales respectively, and then integrating the N image definition scores, N being a positive integer greater than one. The solution of the present invention can be applied to improve the accuracy of the evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Zhao, Xin Li, Xiao Liu, Xubin Li, Hao Sun, Shilei Wen, Errui Ding
  • Publication number: 20210019531
    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: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Xiang Long, Dongliang He, Fu Li, Zhizhen Chi, Zhichao Zhou, Xiang Zhao, Ping Wang, Hao Sun, Shilei Wen, Errui Ding
  • Patent number: 10875420
    Abstract: A full-service electric vehicle charging station and method of operating the station can provide for efficient and secure vehicle access and movement. The full-service charging station can include a parking area with a charging area; an electric vehicle charger at the charging area; and a full-service charging station server. The full-service charging station server is configured to receive vehicle identification information and a charging confirmation profile from the electric vehicle. The vehicle identification information or the charging confirmation profile includes location information relating to the electric vehicle. Additionally, the full-service charging station server is further configured to disseminate a command profile directly, indirectly, or a combination thereof, to the electric vehicle. The command profile includes a security-based command, a driving command, or both a security-based command and a driving command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Donald K. Grimm, Xiang Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200391338
    Abstract: A polishing machine includes a housing, a motor, a main shaft rotatable about a first axis, a first execution assembly for connecting to a first accessory, wherein the first execution assembly includes a first rotation member and a first output, the first rotation member is configured for connecting to the main shaft and is movable about the first axis under driving of the main shaft in response to connecting to the main shaft, the first output member includes a first driving portion for connecting to the first accessory and is rotatable relative to the first rotation member about a second axis, and a limiting member movable between a first position at which the first rotation member is prevented from moving relative to the main shaft and a second position at which the first rotation member is allowed to move relative to the main shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Fukinuki Masatoshi, Guoming Tong, Xiang Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200374526
    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: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: 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
  • Patent number: 10848030
    Abstract: A motor slot wedge having a sealing structure is provided. An outer wall of the slot wedge is provided with a groove, and a thermal expansion material is provided in the groove, and the thermal expansion material, after expanding with heat, is in contact with an inner wall of an iron core tooth slot. A combination structure of a motor slot wedge having a sealing structure and a motor iron core is further provided, and includes the motor iron core having an iron core tooth slot and the motor slot wedge. A sealing structure is formed between the slot wedge and the inner wall of the slot of the iron core, thereby preventing the moisture from entering the inside of the slot of the iron core and damaging the insulation structure accordingly, and preventing varnish loss after varnish vacuum pressure impregnation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: XINJIANG GOLDWIND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Wang, Shengjun Ma, Chengqian Liu, Xiang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10828770
    Abstract: A vehicle charging station includes a track configured to extend across a plurality of vehicle parking spaces. The charging station further includes a movable charging apparatus supported by the track and translatable along the track between the plurality of vehicle parking spaces. The charging station further includes a first contact wire extending approximately parallel to the track. The charging station further includes a first conductor pole configured to couple the movable charging apparatus to the first contact wire at a plurality of locations along a width of the first contact wire. The first conductor pole is configured to move with the movable charging apparatus. In such a manner, a one-to-many charging station can be accomplished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Zhao, Ningjian Huang, Lei Zhang, Changfu Ye
  • Publication number: 20200346553
    Abstract: A full-service electric vehicle charging station and method of operating the station can provide for efficient and secure vehicle access and movement. The full-service charging station can include a parking area with a charging area; an electric vehicle charger at the charging area; and a full-service charging station server. The full-service charging station server is configured to receive vehicle identification information and a charging confirmation profile from the electric vehicle. The vehicle identification information or the charging confirmation profile includes location information relating to the electric vehicle. Additionally, the full-service charging station server is further configured to disseminate a command profile directly, indirectly, or a combination thereof, to the electric vehicle. The command profile includes a security-based command, a driving command, or both a security-based command and a driving command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Donald K. Grimm, Xiang Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200332766
    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: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Gang DENG, Jinfeng YIN, Huixun LI, Xiang ZHAO, Xianyou WU
  • Publication number: 20200320303
    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: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Dongliang He, Xiang Zhao, Jizhou Huang, Fu Li, Xiao Liu, Shilei Wen
  • Patent number: 10731721
    Abstract: An elastic adjustable brake pad for use in a train, comprising a brake pad frame (1) provided with a fourth through hole (18), a brake block assembly, and a spiral compression spring (6); the brake block assembly comprises a brake block (16), a rivet (4), a Belleville spring (5), and a rivet sleeve (3), the brake block (16) comprising a friction block (10) and a static sheet steel back (7) fixedly mounted together, the rivet (4) passing through the brake block (16) and being sleeved in turn by the Belleville spring (5) and the rivet sleeve (3); the fourth through hole (18) is a stepped counterbore, and the rivet (4) in the brake block (16) penetrates the fourth through hole (18) and extends outward therefrom, the spiral compression spring (6) being sleeved over the outside of the rivet sleeve (3), and the outer side of one end of the rivet sleeve (3) being provided with a clamping groove clamped to an elastic retainer ring (2), one end of the spiral compression spring (6) abutting a step on which a secondary
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING BEI MO GAO KE FRICTION MATERIAL CO. LTD
    Inventors: Jianfeng Chen, Changkun Yang, Xiang Zhao, Kai Xiao, Dan Zheng, Guangyu Li, Hua Feng, Xiaohua Liu, Yan Wang, Zhiwei Liu, Longjie Han, Xueqiang Li, Zhen Xiao, Hongbo Yang