Patents by Inventor Xiaofeng Ren
Xiaofeng Ren 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).
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Publication number: 20240155593Abstract: The present invention relates to a user equipment, an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a storage medium. The user equipment according to the present invention comprises a processing circuit configured to: select G transmit beam groups from K transmit beams of a network side device; and sending information about the selected G transmit beam groups to the network side device, wherein each of the G transmit beam groups comprises N transmit beams, the user equipment is capable of simultaneously receiving downlink information that the network side device sends by using the N transmit beams, and K, N, G are all integers greater than 1. The use of the user equipment, the electronic device, the wireless communication method, and the storage medium according to the present invention can improve beam selection process in a system that uses a beamforming technique.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Jin XU, Dongru LI, Wenjing REN, Xiaofeng TAO, Jianfei CAO
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Publication number: 20240109974Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a humanized antibody that can specifically bind to TNFR2, or an antigen-binding fragment thereof. The humanized antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof can regulate the function of immune cells and can be used in a drug for treating diseases related to immune abnormalities, such as tumours.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: SHANDONG SIMCERE BIOPHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaofeng ZHAO, Shiqiang LU, Zhuoxiao CAO, Renhong TANG, Jinsheng REN
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Patent number: 11946908Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for constructing a surface stress distribution cloud map based on critical refraction longitudinal wave detection. The method comprises: firstly, meshing a surface of a detected article; secondly, The mean transverse stress on different grid lines and the mean longitudinal stress on different grid lines were obtained by the critical refraction longitudinal wave detection method; next, calculating the equivalent stress of each mesh node according to the mean transverse stress on different mesh transverse lines and the mean longitudinal stress on different mesh longitudinal lines on the surface of the detected article; and finally, drawing a stress distribution cloud map of the surface of the detected article according to the equivalent stress. The present invention can obtain the stress situations at different points on the surface of the detected article.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: Beijing Precision Machinery & Engineering Research Co., Ltd., Beijing University Of TechnologyInventors: Yuhong Dai, Nana Niu, Zuguang Huang, Junyan Xing, Xiaofeng Zhu, Huiling Ren, Heqiang Liu, Dequan Wang, Yaru Hou, Xiaoqin Hao
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Publication number: 20240013399Abstract: This application describes cross-scale point cloud segmentation network architecture for and exemplary systems that utilize such network architecture for semantic segmentation of a point cloud. An embodiment of the network architecture includes an encoding path comprising a plurality of sequentially connected encoding nodes, a decoding path following the encoding path and comprising a plurality of sequentially connected decoding nodes, and a plurality of data links respectively corresponding to a plurality of levels of feature resolution, in which each of the plurality of data links connects one of the plurality of encoding nodes and one of the plurality of decoding nodes that have a same level of feature resolution.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Dong NIE, Xiaofeng REN
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Publication number: 20230276832Abstract: An ultrasonic preparation method of protein peptide-polysaccharide nanoparticles loaded with bioactive components is conducted as follows: Chitosan solution containing 1% glacial acetic acid is added gently to the casein phosphopeptide solution containing quercetin stock solution in an equal volume under constant magnetic stirring; pH is adjusted accordingly before subjecting the mixture solution to ultrasonic treatment; after ultrasonication, the quercetin-loaded casein phosphopeptide-chitosan nanoparticles are obtained by freeze-drying. In the process of using the electrostatic interaction between the casein phosphopeptide and the chitosan to embed the quercetin, the present disclosure employed the multi-mode ultrasonic processing technology to facilitate the cross-linking of the polypeptide and the polysaccharide through the physical force of ultrasound. This enabled the complex encapsulation to incorporate additional bioactive components.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: JIANGSU UNIVERSITYInventors: Haile MA, Xiaofeng REN, Qiufang LIANG, Xinru SUN, Xueqiong LIU, Jialin TANG, Chengwei ZHOU
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Publication number: 20230214768Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for tracking removal or placement of items at inventory locations with a materials handling facility. In some instances, a user may remove an item from an inventory location and the inventory management system may detect that removal and update a user item list associated with the user to include an item identifier representative of the removed item. Likewise, if the user places an item at an inventory location, the inventory management system may detect that placement and update the user item list to remove an item identifier representative of the placed item.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Dilip Kumar, Elie Micah Kornfield, Alexander Clark Prater, Sridhar Boyapati, Xiaofeng Ren, Chang Yuan
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Patent number: 11694301Abstract: A learning model may provide a hierarchy of convolutional layers configured to perform convolutions upon image features, each layer other than a topmost layer convoluting the image features at a lower resolution to a higher layer, and each layer other than a bottommost layer returning the image features to a lower layer. Each layer fuses the lower resolution image features received from a higher layer with same resolution image features convoluted at the layer, so as to combine large-scale and small-scale features of images. Layers of the hierarchy may be substantially equal to a number of lateral convolutions at a bottommost convolutional layer. The bottommost convolutional layer ultimately passes the fused features to an attention mapping module, which utilizes two attention mapping pathways in combination to detect non-local dependencies and interactions between large-scale and small-scale features of images without de-emphasizing local interactions.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Dong Nie, Jia Xue, Xiaofeng Ren
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Patent number: 11663829Abstract: Described is a system for counting stacked items using image analysis. In one implementation, an image of an inventory location with stacked items is obtained and processed to determine the number of items stacked at the inventory location. In some instances, the item closest to the camera that obtains the image may be the only item viewable in the image. Using image analysis, such as depth mapping or Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) algorithms, the distance of the item from the camera and the shelf of the inventory location can be determined. Using this information, and known dimension information for the item, a count of the number of items stacked at an inventory location may be determined.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Xiaofeng Ren, Avishkar Misra, Ohil Krishnamurthy Manyam, Liefeng Bo, Sudarshan Narasimha Raghavan, Christopher Robert Towers, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Yasser Baseer Asmi
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Publication number: 20230097644Abstract: An ultrasound-assisted simulated digestion method of a milk protein active peptide and an application thereof in health foods, pertaining to the technical field of intensive processing of dairy products and preparation of health foods. The method firstly employs ultrasonic pretreatment of casein and ?-lactoglobulin, followed by enzymatic hydrolysis with a protease to prepare casein and ?-lactoglobulin polypeptide, and traces the activity of the polypeptide by simulating gastrointestinal digestion, and then simulates absorption by intestinal epithelial cells with Caco-2 cells, to characterize a highly active milk protein polypeptide digested by the gastrointestinal tract and absorbed by the Caco-2 cells simulating absorption by the inner wall of the small intestine. The method has identified five such highly active milk protein polypeptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Xiaofeng REN, Qiufang LIANG, Haile MA, Yuqing DUAN, Ronghai HE, Xiaoming YANG, Xi ZHANG, Ting HOU, Xinxiang CHEN
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Patent number: 11568632Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for automatically identifying an item from among a variation of items of a same type. For example, an image may be processed and resulting item image information compared with stored item image information to determine a type of item represented in the image. If the matching stored item image information is part of a cluster, the item image information may then be compared with distinctive features associated with stored item image information of the cluster to determine the variation of the item represented in the received image.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sudarshan Narasimha Raghavan, Xiaofeng Ren, Michel Leonard Goldstein, Ohil K. Manyam
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Patent number: 11526840Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for tracking removal or placement of items at inventory locations with a materials handling facility. In some instances, a user may remove an item from an inventory location and the inventory management system may detect that removal and update a user item list associated with the user to include an item identifier representative of the removed item. Likewise, if the user places an item at an inventory location, the inventory management system may detect that placement and update the user item list to remove an item identifier representative of the placed item.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Dilip Kumar, Elie Micah Kornfield, Alexander Clark Prater, Sridhar Boyapati, Xiaofeng Ren, Chang Yuan
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Patent number: 11524977Abstract: An ultrasound-assisted simulated digestion method of a milk protein active peptide and an application thereof in health foods, pertaining to the technical field of intensive processing of dairy products and preparation of health foods. The method firstly employs ultrasonic pretreatment of casein and ?-lactoglobulin, followed by enzymatic hydrolysis with a protease to prepare casein and ?-lactoglobulin polypeptide, and traces the activity of the polypeptide by simulating gastrointestinal digestion, and then simulates absorption by intestinal epithelial cells with Caco-2 cells, to characterize a highly active milk protein polypeptide digested by the gastrointestinal tract and absorbed by the Caco-2 cells simulating absorption by the inner wall of the small intestine. The method has identified five such highly active milk protein polypeptides.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiaofeng Ren, Qiufang Liang, Haile Ma, Yuqing Duan, Ronghai He, Xiaoming Yang, Xi Zhang, Ting Hou, Xinxiang Chen
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Patent number: 11412185Abstract: Sensors in a facility generate sensor data associated with a region of the facility, which can be used to determine a 3D location of an object in the facility. Some sensors may sense overlapping regions of the facility. For example, a first sensor may generate data associated with a first region of the facility, while a second sensor may generate data associated with a second region of the facility that partially overlaps the first region. Sensors may fail at times as determined from sensor output data or status data. In response to identifying a failed sensor, an undetected region corresponding to the failed sensor is identified, as well as a substitute sensor that partially senses the undetected region. Sensor data from the substitute sensor, such as 2D data, is acquired and used to estimate a 3D location of an object in the undetected region.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Emilio Ian Maldonado, Daniel Bibireata, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai, Yasser Baseer Asmi, Xiaofeng Ren, Jaechul Kim
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Publication number: 20220101489Abstract: A learning model may provide a hierarchy of convolutional layers configured to perform convolutions upon image features, each layer other than a topmost layer convoluting the image features at a lower resolution to a higher layer, and each layer other than a bottommost layer returning the image features to a lower layer. Each layer fuses the lower resolution image features received from a higher layer with same resolution image features convoluted at the layer, so as to combine large-scale and small-scale features of images. Layers of the hierarchy may be substantially equal to a number of lateral convolutions at a bottommost convolutional layer. The bottommost convolutional layer ultimately passes the fused features to an attention mapping module, which utilizes two attention mapping pathways in combination to detect non-local dependencies and interactions between large-scale and small-scale features of images without de-emphasizing local interactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Dong Nie, Jie Xue, Xiaofeng Ren
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Patent number: 11288539Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for utilizing multiple image processing techniques to identify an item represented in an image. In some implementations, one or more image processing algorithms may be utilized to process a received image to generate item image information and compare the item image information with stored item image information to identify the item. When a similarity score identifying the similarity between the item image information and at least one of the stored item image information is returned, a determination may be made as to whether the similarity score is high enough to confidently identify the item. If it is determined that the similarity score is high enough to confidently identify the item, the other algorithms may be terminated and the determined identity of the item returned.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ohil Krishnamurthy Manyam, Minmin Chen, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren, Dilip Kumar
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Patent number: 11080316Abstract: People represented in multiple images can be recognized using accurate facial similarity metrics, where the accuracy can be further improved using contextual information. A set of models can be trained to process image data, and facial features can be extracted from a face region of an image and passed to the trained models. Resulting feature vectors can be concatenated and the dimensionality reduced to generate a highly accurate feature vector that is representative of the face in the image. The feature vector can be used to locate similar vectors in a multi-dimensional vector space, where similarity can be determined based at least in part upon the distance between the endpoints of those vectors in the vector space. Context information from the image can be used to adjust the similarity determination. Similar vectors can be clustered together such that the faces represented by those images are associated with the same person.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Ranju Das, Wei Xia, Meng Wang, Xiaofeng Ren
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Patent number: 11034516Abstract: An item stowed at an inventory location may rest or be supported by a surface, such as a shelf, that includes an optical sensor array. The optical sensor array comprises a plurality of optical sensors that detect light intensity values. When a light source illuminates the item resting on the surface, a footprint or shadow is cast by the item onto the surface. Such a shadow is detected by the light intensity values at the optical sensors in the optical sensor array. Once the shadow is detected, information about the area, shape, and perimeter of the shadow can be determined and saved as footprint data for a single item. Such a process can be performed at intake of the item to the facility and later accessed to determine a quantity of the item on a shelf of a facility.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Navid Shiee, Michel Leonard Goldstein, Ramanathan Palaniappan, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Xiaofeng Ren, Ohil Krishnamurthy Manyam, Christopher Robert Towers, Yasser Baseer Asmi
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Patent number: 10873726Abstract: During operation, a facility may utilize many sensors, such as cameras, to generate sensor data. The sensor data may be processed by an inventory management system to track objects, determine the occurrence of events at the facility, and so forth. At any given time, some of these sensors may fail to provide timely data, may fail to provide any data, may generate inaccurate data, and so forth. Described are techniques to determine failure of sensors and adjust operation of the inventory management system to maintain operability during sensor failure.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Emilio Ian Maldonado, Daniel Bibireata, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai, Yasser Baseer Asmi, Xiaofeng Ren, Jaechul Kim
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Patent number: 10789483Abstract: Described is a system for counting stacked items using image analysis. In one implementation, an image of an inventory location with stacked items is obtained and processed to determine the number of items stacked at the inventory location. In some instances, the item closest to the camera that obtains the image may be the only item viewable in the image. Using image analysis, such as depth mapping or Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) algorithms, the distance of the item from the camera and the shelf of the inventory location can be determined. Using this information, and known dimension information for the item, a count of the number of items stacked at an inventory location may be determined.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Xiaofeng Ren, Avishkar Misra, Ohil Krishnamurthy Manyam, Liefeng Bo, Sudarshan Narasimha Raghavan, Christopher Robert Towers, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Yasser Baseer Asmi
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Patent number: 10769488Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for automatically identifying an item from among a variation of items of a same type. For example, an image may be processed and resulting item image information compared with stored item image information to determine a type of item represented in the image. If the matching stored item image information is part of a cluster, the item image information may then be compared with distinctive features associated with stored item image information of the cluster to determine the variation of the item represented in the received image.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sudarshan Narasimha Raghavan, Xiaofeng Ren, Michel Leonard Goldstein, Ohil K. Manyam