Patents by Inventor Xiao-An

Xiao-An 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).

  • STEEL REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMN
    Publication number: 20210230859
    Abstract: A steel reinforced concrete column for a high rise building comprises a plurality of hot-rolled steel sections extending longitudinally through the concrete column. Each of these steel sections has an outward flange with an outer surface turned outwards in the concrete column, an opposite inward flange with an outer surface turned inwards in the concrete column, and a web connecting the outward flange to the inward flange. The steel sections are arranged in the concrete column so that the outer surfaces of their inward flanges at least partially delimit therein a central concrete core with n lateral sides and a transversal cross-section that forms an n-sided polygon, n being at least equal to three, and each of then lateral sides of the central concrete core being coplanar with the outer surface of the inward flange of at least one steel section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Teodora Bogdan, Jean-Claude Gerardy, Nicoleta Popa, Olivier Vassart, Donald W. Davies, Congzhen Xiao, Tao Chen, Fei Deng, Antony Wood, Dario Trabucco, Eleonora Lucchese
  • COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210234579
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. According to the communication method provided in this application, a first device sends, by using a control trailer and to one or more second devices, configuration information used for multiple-input multiple-output MIMO communication between the first device and the second device, so that the MIMO communication can be performed between the first device and the one or more second devices based on the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Xiao HAN, Jian YU, Ming GAN
  • Extreme Ultraviolet Mask Blank Hard Mask Materials
    Publication number: 20210232041
    Abstract: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture and production systems therefor are disclosed. The EUV mask blanks comprise a substrate; a multilayer stack of reflective layers on the substrate; a capping layer on the multilayer stack of reflecting layers; an absorber layer on the capping layer, the absorber layer comprising a tantalum-containing material; and a hard mask layer on the absorber layer, the hard mask layer comprising a hard mask material selected from the group consisting of CrO, CrON, TaNi, TaRu and TaCu.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuwei Liu, Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal, Azeddine Zerrade
  • DATA NOISE REDUCTION METHOD, DEVICE, COMPUTER APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210232550
    Abstract: A data noise reduction method based on data resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Xiuming YU, Wei WANG, Jing XIAO
  • MULTI-LAYER FILM, DISPLAY PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210234106
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multi-layer film. The multi-layer film may include a first region and a second region. The first region may include a first bonding layer and a first planarization layer directly contacted with each other. The second region includes a second bonding layer, a second planarization layer, and an intervention layer between the second bonding layer and the second planarization layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Zhu, Hua Huang, Weikang Xiao, Tian Yang
  • LANGUAGE GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210232775
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a language generation method and apparatus. The method includes: performing encoding processing on an input sequence by using a preset encoder to generate a hidden state vector corresponding to the input sequence; in response to a granularity category of a second target segment being a phrase, decoding a first target segment vector, the hidden state vector, and a position vector corresponding to the second target segment by using N decoders to generate N second target segments; determining a loss value based on differences between respective N second target segments and a second target annotated segment; and performing parameter updating on the preset encoder, a preset classifier, and the N decoders based on the loss value to generate an updated language generation model for performing language generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Han ZHANG, Dongling XIAO, Yukun LI, Yu SUN, Hao TIAN, Hua WU, Haifeng WANG
  • MICRO-NANO CHANNEL STRUCTURE, SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210229977
    Abstract: A micro-nano channel structure, a method for manufacturing the micro-nano channel structure, a sensor, a method for manufacturing the sensor, and a microfluidic device are provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure. The micro-nano channel structure includes: a base substrate; a base layer, on the base substrate and including a plurality of protrusions; and a channel wall layer, on a side of the plurality of the protrusions away from the base substrate, and the channel wall layer has a micro-nano channel; a recessed portion is provided between adjacent protrusions of the plurality of the protrusions, and an orthographic projection of the micro-nano channel on the base substrate is located within an orthographic projection of the recessed portion on the base substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaochen MA, Guangcai YUAN, Ce NING, Xin GU, Xiao ZHANG Xiao ZHANG, Chao LI
  • ARTICLE STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210228013
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an article storage and retrieval apparatus, including a frame body, configured to be fixed on a vertical mounting surface; a cap body, the cap body, hinged with the frame body at upper end, left end or right end to rotate to open and close; and an accommodating box, arranged in a space formed between the frame body and the cap body, adopting a foldable structure and configured to be unfolded after the cap body is opened relative to the frame body to form a space for accommodating articles and allow the cap body to be closed relative to the frame body after being folded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: BEIJING JINGDONG ZHENSHI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yafang ZHANG, Jun XIAO, Hui WANG, Zongjing YU, Jian ZHANG
  • Extreme Ultraviolet Mask Blank Hard Mask Materials
    Publication number: 20210232040
    Abstract: Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture and production systems therefor are disclosed. The EUV mask blanks comprise a substrate; a multilayer stack of reflective layers on the substrate; a capping layer on the multilayer stack of reflecting layers; an absorber layer on the capping layer, the absorber layer comprising an antimony-containing material; and a hard mask layer on the absorber layer, the hard mask layer comprising a hard mask material selected from the group consisting of CrO, CrON, TaNi, TaRu and TaCu.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuwei Liu, Wen Xiao, Vibhu Jindal, Azeddine Zerrade
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING IMAGE DATA, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210234991
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for converting image data. The method includes: acquiring image data of a target image, wherein the image data includes first pixel values of m pixels in the target image, each of the first pixel values includes a first color value of at least one color channel, the first color value being within a target color value interval of the at least one color channel; dividing the target color value interval into n color value partitions; determining a color value partition where the first color value falls from the n color value partitions; and converting the first color value into a second color value according to a position of the first color value in the color value partition, the number of bits occupied by the second color value being less than the number of bits occupied by the first color value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Xiuyun Chen, Zongze HE, Feng Long, Pin Xiao, Yuxuan Chen
  • MANUFACTURING PROCESS OF MAKING NEGATIVE ELECTRODES FOR BATTERIES
    Publication number: 20210234153
    Abstract: A method of making an electrode material for an electrode in an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions is provided, where a protective coating is applied to an electrode precursor material. The electrode precursor may be a silicon-containing composition. The protective coating is selected from the group consisting of: an oxide-based coating, a fluoride-based coating, and a nitride-based coating. The method also includes lithiating the electrode precursor material in a continuous process. The continuous process is conducted in a reactor having a first reaction chamber and a second reaction chamber to form a lithiated electrode material comprising the protective coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Xingcheng XIAO, Xingyi YANG, Raghunathan K, Mark W. VERBRUGGE
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TEXT BASED ON SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION, AND MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210232765
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for generating a text based on a semantic representation and relates to a field of natural language processing (NLP) technologies. The method for generating the text includes: obtaining an input text, the input text comprising a source text; obtaining a placeholder of an ith word to be predicted in a target text; obtaining a vector representation of the ith word to be predicted, in which the vector representation of the ith word to be predicted is obtained by calculating the placeholder of the ith word to be predicted, the source text and 1st to (i?1)th predicted words by employing a self-attention mechanism; and generating an ith predicted word based on the vector representation of the ith word to be predicted, to obtain a target text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Han Zhang, Dongling Xiao, Yukun Li, Yu Sun, Hao Tian, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang
  • MICROSERVICE DECOMPOSITION STRATEGY OF MONOLITHIC APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20210232390
    Abstract: Systems and techniques that facilitate automated recommendation of microservice decomposition strategies for monolithic applications are provided. In various embodiments, a community detection component can detect a disjoint code cluster in a monolithic application based on a code property graph characterizing the monolithic application. In various aspects, the code property graph can be based on a temporal code evolution of the monolithic application. In various embodiments, a topic modeling component can identify a functional purpose of the disjoint code cluster based on a business document corpus corresponding to the monolithic application. In various embodiments, a microservices component can recommend a microservice to replace the disjoint code cluster based on the functional purpose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Jinho Hwang, Anup Kalia, Jin Xiao, Malik Jackson, Maja Vukovic, John Rofrano, Senthil Kumar Kumarasamy Mani
  • OPTICAL DETECTION PANEL, FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF AND DISPLAY APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210234059
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical detection panel. The optical detection panel may include a first substrate and a second substrate opposite the first substrate, a photosensitive component and a driving thin film transistor at a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode at a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate, and a plurality of microlenses at a side of the photosensitive component opposite from the second substrate. The second electrode may be connected to the driving thin film transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicants: BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qianqian Bu, Weipin Hu, Dan Wang, Yun Qiu, Xiao Sun, Congcong Wei
  • METHOD FOR ENCODING IMAGES AND CORRESPONDING TERMINALS
    Publication number: 20210235085
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for encoding an image and corresponding terminals. The method includes steps of: determine the related coding information of the raw image to be processed according to the feature information of the raw image to be processed; and encode the raw image to be processed according to the related coding information. In the present invention, the encoded raw image is transmitted to a cloud server via network, and the decoded and reconstructed raw image is optimized by the ISP module in the cloud server. Compared with the prior art where complex algorithms cannot be implemented by the ISP module in the terminal due to the limitation of its computing capacity, the present invention significantly improves the perceptual quality of the user viewing image by adopting more sophisticated image processing algorithms, while increasing the image compression ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Jie CHEN, Jongbum CHOI, Fan WANG, Xiao QUYANG, Zhuoyi LV
  • High temperature sputtered stoichiometric titanium nitride thin films
    Patent number: 11072848
    Abstract: A method for producing high-temperature sputtered stoichiometric TiN thin films. A substrate is placed in a sputtering chamber a Ti target to be sputtered and the substrate temperature is controlled to be between room temperature and about 800° C. The sputtering chamber is evacuated to a base pressure of 2×10?7 Torr or lower, The Ti target is presputtered under an Ar gas flow at a pressure of 2-15 mTorr in a radio frequency (RF) power of 50-200 W. The Ti is then sputtered onto the substrate in the presence of N2 and Ar gas flows under the same pressure and RF power, with the ratio of N2 to Ar favoring N to ensure that the film is nitrogen-saturated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Xiao Liu, Battogtokh Jugdersuren, Brian T. Kearney
  • Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy gas detection apparatus and method based on beat effect
    Patent number: 11073469
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy gas detection apparatus and method based on beat effect. Provided is a quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy gas detection apparatus based on beat effect, comprising a photoacoustic signal detection module, a gas chamber, a light source module and a data acquisition module. In the present invention, by detecting the beat signal generated by mixing the piezoelectric signal output from the quartz tuning fork with the demodulation signal of the lock-in amplifier, the electrical parameters of the quartz crystal oscillator and the concentration of the gas to be measured can be obtained accurately in a time period on the order of milliseconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHANXI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lei Dong, Hongpeng Wu, Frank K. Tittel, Liantuan Xiao, Suotang Jia
  • Data ingestion platform
    Patent number: 11074476
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to data ingestion over a network. Raw data and integrated data associated with a plurality of separate data sources may be provided such that the raw data includes content associated with a plurality of subjects. Categorization models may be employed to categorize the raw data based on various features, such as, format, structure, data source, variability, volume, or associated entities. Matching models may be determined based on the categorization of the of the raw data, the integrated data and the content associated with the plurality of subjects. Matching models may generate a plurality of unified facts based on the raw data and the integrated data such that each unified fact is associated with a score associated with a quality of its match with a unified schema.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: AstrumU, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Jason Wray, Kaj Orla Peter Pedersen, Xiao Cai
  • Color filter substrate, display, and terminal
    Patent number: 11073720
    Abstract: A jagged display effect may be ameliorated by processing an edge of the display (104-2) into an arc shape, thereby improving display quality. Display units in the color filter substrate (43) are in a one-to-one correspondence with pixel units in the display (104-2). A plurality of display units corresponding to a corner area of the display (104-2) include a ribbon area including K display units. A target boundary line that is of the ribbon area and that is away from the center of the color filter substrate (43) is jagged, and K?2. In the ribbon area, a light transmittance of a first display unit close to the target boundary line is less than a light transmittance of a second display unit away from the target boundary line, where the light transmittance of the first display unit is greater than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chuanbin Geng, Guangnan Xiao, Wenbing Li
  • Tool-transition-free machining method and clamp for wheel outer rim
    Patent number: 11072014
    Abstract: A tool-transition-free machining method includes: first, a primary turning is conducted, then holes are drilled out by a machining center, and finally a secondary turning is conducted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: CITIC Dicastal CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zuo Xu, Guoyuan Xiong, Huiying Liu, Kuisheng Nie, Xiao Liu, Weidong Liu