Patents by Inventor Xiao Liu

Xiao Liu 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: 20240185321
    Abstract: Methods and systems for displaying, to a user interface, categories of items for the user to select from for querying the system, in order to enable the system to return to the user images of items of the type desired by the user for possible purchase. The items categories of items can be presented to the user interface visually in silhouette form so that the user can select brand and the silhouette image of the type of item desired. Upon selection of the silhouette image, a query is sent to the system and images of the desired type of item are returned to the user interface for presentation to the user, along with certain attributes of the items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Xiao Liu, Erin Louise Delacroix, Elizabeth Dobbin, Hema Budaraju
  • Publication number: 20240154567
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transmission device applied to a photovoltaic tracking support. The photovoltaic tracking support comprises a stand column and a main beam. The main beam is rotatably supported on the stand column, and the main beam supports a photovoltaic assembly. The transmission device comprises a composite chain gear set and a composite chain wheel set. The composite chain gear set has multiple chain gears. The multiple chain gears are coaxially arranged and are arranged in a manner that the teeth are staggered. The composite chain wheel set has multiple chain wheels. The multiple chain wheels are coaxially arranged, and are in one-to-one correspondence to and meshing transmission with the multiple chain gears. One of the composite chain gear set and the composite chain wheel set is rotatably disposed on the stand column, and the other is connected to the main beam. The present invention also provides a photovoltaic tracking support comprising the transmission device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Jiabao Guo, Xiao Liu
  • Patent number: 11977724
    Abstract: An information processing method includes determining a target area associated with a plurality of widgets that are different, determining a target display mode of the target area, and displaying the plurality of widgets in the target area based on the target display mode. Each of the plurality of widgets obtains a display content based on a target address, and the plurality of widgets are displayed differently in the target area under different display modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiao Liu
  • Publication number: 20240114213
    Abstract: A mobile software application implementing “live events,” via which a host of the event may sequentially offer one, two, three, four or more items to a plurality of guests in the event (e.g., via auction, via direct purchase, or via a giveaway). The host's device may obtain and transmit a real-time video stream, which is in turn provided to each guest's device in conjunction with real-time information about the item(s) being offered. Particular techniques further assist the host in sequencing two or more items to be offered in the same live event, thereby avoiding delays and cumbersome user interface interactions that might otherwise be involved in initiating the offering of a next item upon concluding an offering of a previous item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan Rhodes, Laura Rothman, Benjamin Luce Brodie, Xiao Liu, Craig Jones
  • Publication number: 20240111488
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus comprises: a memory configured to store a trained model; and processing circuitry configured to: receive at least one dataset that comprises d variables and n samples; determine variances associated with the variables by processing the dataset using the model; determine an order of the variables based on the determined variances, including iteratively removing at least one node or variable represented by said at least one node thereby to determine the order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: The University Court of the University of Edinburgh, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pedro SANCHEZ, Sotirios TSAFTARIS, Xiao LIU, Alison O’NEIL
  • Patent number: 11945015
    Abstract: A semi-automatic adjustment device for suppressing tension fluctuations during a rolling process of an ultra-thin strip includes a semi-automatic tension regulator, a semi-automatic tuned mass damper of variable stiffness and damping, a coiler, a tension roller and a twenty-high roller system. The semi-automatic tension regulator is disposed between the coiler and the tension roller, the semi-automatic tuned mass damper of variable stiffness and damping is disposed between the tension roller and the twenty-high roller system. The semi-automatic adjustment device can be used to reduce a short-time fluctuation impact of tension during startup and shutdown of a twenty-high roll mill when the twenty-high rolling mill rolls an ultra-thin strip, improve system stability, absorb the continuous micro disturbances generated during the rolling process of the twenty-high roll mill, and achieve flexible and stable adjustment of tension during the rolling process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Zhongkai Ren, Tao Wang, Xiao Liu, Peng Chen, Xiaobao Ma, Yaxing Liu, Qi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11947019
    Abstract: The carrier phase ready coherent acquisition of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) snapshot signal includes receiving in a snapshot receiver different GNSS signals from correspondingly different GNSS satellites, and performing multi-hypothesis (MH) acquisition upon each of GNSS signal in order to produce a complete set of secondary code index hypotheses, each hypothesis producing a corresponding acquisition result according to an identified peak at a correct code-phase and Doppler frequency. The secondary code index hypotheses are adjusted for each different GNSS signal based upon a flight time difference determined for each GNSS satellite, so as to produce a new set of hypotheses. Finally, one of the hypotheses in the new set may be selected as a correct hypothesis according to a predominate common index amongst the hypotheses in the new set, and the acquisition results for each of the different GNSS signals may be filtered utilizing the correct hypothesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ALBORA TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Adrià Gusi, Pau Closas, Xiao Liu
  • Patent number: 11935103
    Abstract: Methods and systems for displaying, to a user interface, categories of items for the user to select from for querying the system, in order to enable the system to return to the user images of items of the type desired by the user for possible purchase. The items categories of items can be presented to the user interface visually in silhouette form so that the user can select brand and the silhouette image of the type of item desired. Upon selection of the silhouette image, a query is sent to the system and images of the desired type of item are returned to the user interface for presentation to the user, along with certain attributes of the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Xiao Liu, Erin Louise Delacroix, Elizabeth Dobbin, Hema Budaraju
  • Publication number: 20240052446
    Abstract: A device for continuously applying a transverse tension in an annealing process of an ultra-thin strip, including an unfolding and receiving mechanism for unwinding and winding the strip and an orthopedic mechanism for correcting the strip including an annealing furnace, and two orthopedic assemblies fixedly arranged inside the annealing furnace; the two orthopedic assemblies are symmetrically arranged on both sides of the strip, are parallel to an advancing direction of the strip and correspond to side edges of the strip, and include annular guide rails; each annular guide rail is fixedly connected with the annealing furnace and is slidably connected with an orthopedic part; the orthopedic part corresponds to each side edge of the strip, and each annular guide rail is internally provided with a driving part; the driving part is in transmission connection with the orthopedic part, and the orthopedic part is communicated with an air source part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Zhongkai REN, Jingbi YANG, Xiao LIU, Tao WANG, Peng CHEN, Xiaobao MA, Liping BIAN
  • Patent number: 11901856
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transmission device applied to a photovoltaic tracking support. The photovoltaic tracking support comprises a stand column and a main beam. The main beam is rotatably supported on the stand column, and the main beam supports a photovoltaic assembly. The transmission device comprises a composite chain gear set and a composite chain wheel set. The composite chain gear set has multiple chain gears. The multiple chain gears are coaxially arranged and are arranged in a manner that the teeth are staggered. The composite chain wheel set has multiple chain wheels. The multiple chain wheels are coaxially arranged, and are in one-to-one correspondence to and meshing transmission with the multiple chain gears. One of the composite chain gear set and the composite chain wheel set is rotatably disposed on the stand column, and the other is connected to the main beam. The present invention also provides a photovoltaic tracking support comprising the transmission device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Mokun Renewable Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiabao Guo, Xiao Liu
  • Publication number: 20240043977
    Abstract: A high interfacial bonding strength laminated aluminum alloy manufacturing method includes: combining and fixing a rear plate, a middle plate, and a front plate to obtain a combined plate; performing a first heat treatment on the combined plate and then performing a first roll-bonding to obtain a laminated aluminum alloy; conducting a friction stir treatment after setting a weld-start plate and a lead-out plate on the laminated aluminum alloy; and carrying out a second heat treatment, a second rolling treatment, a solid solution treatment and an aging treatment in sequence on the laminated aluminum alloy after the friction stir treatment. By friction stir treatment of the laminated aluminum alloy, the original interlayer structure is broken and a three-dimensional spatial structure consisting of the nugget zone and an interlocked structural zone is formed. As a result, the interlayer bonding strength of the laminated aluminum alloy is greatly improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: JIMEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wenhui LIU, Xiaoming YUE, Changping TANG, Xiao LIU, Xuefeng DING, Yufeng SONG, Jianguo TANG, Shanming LUO, Hao HUANG
  • Publication number: 20240046686
    Abstract: A method for document extraction includes receiving, from a user device associated with a user, an annotated document that includes one or more fields. Each respective field of the one or more fields of the annotated document is labeled by a respective annotation. The method includes clustering, using a template matching algorithm, the annotated document into a cluster and inducing, using the annotated document, a document template for the cluster. The method includes receiving, from the user device, an unannotated document including the one or more fields. The method includes clustering, using the template matching algorithm, the unannotated document into the cluster and, in response to clustering the unannotated document into the cluster, extracting, using the document template, the one or more fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Tianjun Ye, Younghwan Jung, Xiaoqi Ren, Wael Farhan, Tianjun Fu, Nikolaos Kofinas, Nikolay Alexeevich Glushnev, Matthew Eastberg Persons, Xiao Liu, Evan S. Huang, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Bhavishya Mittal
  • Patent number: 11813652
    Abstract: A hydraulically controlled backing roller includes a mandrel, two cover plates which are installed at two ends of the mandrel through screws respectively, and two screwdown gears which are installed at two end portions of the mandrel respectively. The two screwdown gears are engaged with an output rack of a screwdown hydraulic cylinder, multiple saddle ring sets are sleeved on the mandrel at equal intervals, a saddle ring of each of the saddle ring sets is fixed with a frame through a fan-shaped plate, a backing bearing is provided between two adjacent saddle ring sets; an inner eccentric ring of the each of the saddle ring sets is driven to rotate by hydraulic driving, so that the mandrel has a deflection deformation, and the deflection deformation is transmitted to other adjacent rollers through the backing bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Qingshan Ding, Shufeng Wei, Zhenhua Wang, Xiao Liu, Xiaobin Fu, Zhongkai Ren
  • Publication number: 20230343418
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system for determining a population pharmacokinetic model of propofol and a derivative thereof. The method comprises determining a population pharmacokinetic model of a compound of formula (I) or propofol, wherein an equation of pharmacokinetic parameters in the population pharmacokinetic model of the compound of formula (1) comprises: CL2=exp(4.20+0.349·log(WT/63.9)-0.749·log(TP/72.4)+0.238·SITE+?CLj) ; an equation of pharmacokinetic parameters in the population pharmacokinetic model of propofol comprises: CL2=exp(4.56+?CLj ).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Xu WANG, Qianqian JI, Kai CHEN, Xiao LIU, Pangke YAN, Nan WU
  • Patent number: 11752588
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of deburring in machining, in particular to a flexible automatic deburring device, comprising a main body support, a lifting assembly, a rotary burr brushing assembly and positioning and clamping assemblies. The lifting assembly can move up and down to adapt to inner cavities of workpieces with different depths, springs are arranged on the bottom surfaces of brush holders, so that brushes can float up and down to adapt to hubs with different spoke inner cavity shapes, and it is guaranteed that the brushes make contact with spoke inner cavities all the time; in this way, hubs with the same size but different shapes can use the same brush mechanism, it is unnecessary to prepare brushes suitable for all wheel types, thus greatly reducing the workload of replacing deburring brushes, saving the storage space in a workshop and increasing the burr brushing flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CITIC Dicastal CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao Liu, Shouyan Shang, Siyang Fan
  • Patent number: 11745233
    Abstract: A single-side tower-type roller system based asynchronous rolling mill for rolling an ultra-thin composite strip and a hydraulic system therefor are provided. The mill includes a machine frame and reel assemblies. An upper roller system assembly and a lower roller system assembly are arranged in the machine frame. A down-pressing assembly is arranged on the machine frame and used to adjust a roll gap between the upper roller system assembly and the lower roller system assembly. A support roller balance assembly is arranged on the machine frame and used to support and balance the upper roller system assembly. The lower roller system assembly includes right and left working rollers. The right working roller is a plain roller. The left working roller is a patterned roller. A left-pressing assembly is arranged on the machine frame and used to adjust a roll gap between the right and left working rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Zhongkai Ren, Tao Wang, Xiao Liu, He Li, Jianchao Han, Dongping He, Qingxue Huang
  • Patent number: 11735159
    Abstract: A voice output device includes a voice output controller configured to determine, when a message reception unit receives a message, whether a start condition to be satisfied when a person intended to receive the message normally listens to voice in the predetermined space is satisfied, and cause a voice output unit to start voice output of the message when the start condition is satisfied and suspend voice output of the message when the start condition is not satisfied. The voice output is not immediately performed in response to a reception of a message but is performed only when the person intended to receive the message normally listens to the message, and the voice output of the message is suspended in other cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongda Zheng, Xiao Liu
  • Publication number: 20230257011
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for automatic adjustment of a planned train operation chart. The system comprises a train operation data analysis module, a passenger flow data matching module, and an operation chart adjustment module that are connected in sequence. The train operation data analysis module is connected to the operation chart adjustment module; the train operation data analysis module assesses the deviation between an actual operation chart and a planned operation chart on the basis of ATS historical operation data to obtain an operation chart assessment result; the passenger flow data matching module calculates the actual passenger flow distribution on the basis of on-board weighing passenger flow data and AFC passenger flow data, and matches the actual passenger flow distribution with the actual operation chart to obtain a passenger flow matching result; and the operation chart adjustment module performs optimizing adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: CASCO SIGNAL LTD.
    Inventors: Fengbo LIU, Jiang QIAN, Tingliang ZHOU, Xiang WU, Jing XU, Junkui QIU, Gongjian ZHOU, Xiao LIU
  • Patent number: 11719237
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pumping assembly, a piston pump and a water flosser. The pumping assembly includes: a cylinder, at least two chambers with different inner diameters being provided in the cylinder; a piston mechanism successively extending through the at least two chambers, the piston mechanism being in slidable cooperation with walls of the chambers, and a gap being formed between a sidewall of part of the piston mechanism and the walls of the chambers; and a drive mechanism connected to the piston mechanism, the drive mechanism being configured to drive the piston mechanism to move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: FLY CAT ELECTRICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Tang, Xiao Liu
  • Patent number: D1022521
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Inventor: Xiao Liu