Patents by Inventor Xiaomin Liu

Xiaomin 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: 20250228515
    Abstract: A method and breast imaging system for processing breast tissue image data includes feeding image data of breast images to an image processor, identifying image portions depicting breast tissue and high density elements and executing different processing methods on input images. A first image processing method involves breast tissue enhancement and high density element suppression, whereas the second image processing method involves enhancing high density elements. Respective three-dimensional sets of image slices may be generated by respective image processing methods, and respective two-dimensional synthesized images are generated and combined to form a two-dimensional composite synthesized image which is presented through a display of the breast imaging system. First and second image processing may be executed on generated three-dimensional image sets or two-dimensional projection images acquired by an image acquisition component at respective angles relative to the patient's breast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Haili Chui, Xiangwei Zhang, Nikolaos Gkanatsios
  • Publication number: 20250225694
    Abstract: A method for processing breast tissue image data includes processing image data of a patient's breast tissue to generate a high-dimensional grid depicting one or more high-dimensional objects in the patient's breast tissue; determining a probability or confidence of each of the one or more high-dimensional objects depicted in the high-dimensional grid; and modifying one or more aspects of at least one of the one or more high-dimensional objects based at least in part on its respective determined probability or confidence to thereby generate a lower-dimensional format version of the one or more high-dimensional objects. The method may further include displaying the lower-dimensional format version of the one or more high-dimensional objects in a synthesized image of the patient's breast tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Haili Chui, Xiaomin Liu, Xiangwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12338372
    Abstract: A green, safe and environmentally-friendly process and production equipment for industrialized continuous large-scale production of a formaldehyde-free water-based adhesive; the process includes: performing a polymerization reaction on a monomer having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond and an acid anhydride group and at least one other monomer containing a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond that serve as raw materials in the presence of a solvent and an initiator; and performing solid-liquid separation on the polymerization reaction solution under the action of a high-temperature inert carrier gas, vaporizing, condensing, and recovering the solvent for indiscriminate use in polymerization reaction, and performing a gas-solid reaction on the solid material serving as a polymer intermediate and a mixed gas of ammonia gas and air to obtain a solid formaldehyde-free water-based adhesive product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignees: New Era Chemical Shan Dong Co., Ltd., Weihai New Era New Material Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lefu Xie, Junqiang Shao, Xiaoliang Miao, Xiaomin Liu, Fei Cong, Jianmin Zhou, Weijie Zhao
  • Patent number: 12268989
    Abstract: A ceramic-based composite material used for low-concentration formaldehyde degradation, and preparation method therefor belonging to the technical field of environmental engineering. The present invention comprises: utilizing an alkali metal-transition metal (i.e. A-T) alcohol solution mixed at low temperature with a TiO2 sol to obtain an A-T-TiO2 sol; immersing activated ceramic (HFC) into the A-T-TiO2 sol, and stirring at normal temperature to obtain A-T-TiO2/HFC; subjecting the obtained A-T-TiO2/HFC to primary drying and primary low-temperature calcination to form A-T-TiO2/FC; then immersing the A-T-TiO2/FC into a metal-organic framework (MOF)-amino silane sol to obtain an aminated A-T-TiO2/MOF/NFC precursor; and finally, subjecting the obtained precursor to secondary drying and secondary low-temperature calcination, forming an A-T-TiO2/MOF/NFC composite material. The present invention effectively degrades low-concentration formaldehyde in indoor environments or in air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Yufeng Wu, Bin Li
  • Publication number: 20250054315
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system for detecting poses of people around a vehicle. An electronic sensor such as a camera is associated with a vehicle for the generation of consecutive frames within a video. The system generates a boundary box around a person within each frame and optimizes a tracker for each person in consecutive frames. The system detects people on the road through pose estimation. The system performs a confidence pre-processing procedure before sending the trackers to a pose estimator to extract their poses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Wenyi Wang, Lei Zhang, Qun Gu
  • Patent number: 12211124
    Abstract: A method for processing breast tissue image data includes processing image data of a patient's breast tissue to generate a high-dimensional grid depicting one or more high-dimensional objects in the patient's breast tissue; determining a probability or confidence of each of the one or more high-dimensional objects depicted in the high-dimensional grid; and modifying one or more aspects of at least one of the one or more high-dimensional objects based at least in part on its respective determined probability or confidence to thereby generate a lower-dimensional format version of the one or more high-dimensional objects. The method may further include displaying the lower-dimensional format version of the one or more high-dimensional objects in a synthesized image of the patient's breast tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Haili Chui, Xiaomin Liu, Xiangwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12207963
    Abstract: A method and breast imaging system for processing breast tissue image data includes feeding image data of breast images to an image processor, identifying image portions depicting breast tissue and high density elements and executing different processing methods on input images. A first image processing method involves breast tissue enhancement and high density element suppression, whereas the second image processing method involves enhancing high density elements. Respective three-dimensional sets of image slices may be generated by respective image processing methods, and respective two-dimensional synthesized images are generated and combined to form a two-dimensional composite synthesized image which is presented through a display of the breast imaging system. First and second image processing may be executed on generated three-dimensional image sets or two-dimensional projection images acquired by an image acquisition component at respective angles relative to the patient's breast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Haili Chui, Xiangwei Zhang, Nikolaos Gkanatsios
  • Patent number: 12205397
    Abstract: A method of human pose estimation, including, receiving an image frame, extracting in at least a first stage a first stage image feature based on the image frame, extracting in at least a second stage a second stage image feature based on the first stage image feature, extracting in at least a subsequent stage a subsequent stage image feature based on the second stage image feature, up-sampling the subsequent stage image feature, up-sampling the second stage image feature, concatenating the first stage image feature, the up-sampled second stage image feature and the up-sampled subsequent stage image feature and outputting a feature map based on an output of the concatenation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Black Sesame Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Lei Zhang, Qun Gu
  • Publication number: 20240347072
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a PMR write head with a trailing shield that comprises a FeCoNiM composition. The FeCoNiM composition can be formed via an electroplating process by adding Fe2+, Co2+, Ni2+ and a transition metal salt to an aqueous solution comprised of other additives in an electroplating cell that has an Ni or Co as the anode. The plated HD magnetic material as the trailing shield in a PMR writer can minimize a wide area track erasure (WATE). Further, a high moment high damping shield can lower bit error rate (BER) and increase aerial density capability (ADC) of the write head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Wenjie Chen, Yue Liu, Weihao Xu, Yuhui Tang, Feiyue Li
  • Publication number: 20240342653
    Abstract: A ceramic-based composite material used for low-concentration formaldehyde degradation, and preparation method therefor belonging to the technical field of environmental engineering. The present invention comprises: utilizing an alkali metal-transition metal (i.e. A-T) alcohol solution mixed at low temperature with a TiO2 sol to obtain an A-T-TiO2 sol; immersing activated ceramic (HFC) into the A-T-TiO2 sol, and stirring at normal temperature to obtain A-T-TiO2/HFC; subjecting the obtained A-T-TiO2/HFC to primary drying and primary low-temperature calcination to form A-T-TiO2/FC; then immersing the A-T-TiO2/FC into a metal-organic framework (MOF)-amino silane sol to obtain an aminated A-T-TiO2/MOF/NFC precursor; and finally, subjecting the obtained precursor to secondary drying and secondary low-temperature calcination, forming an A-T-TiO2/MOF/NFC composite material. The present invention effectively degrades low-concentration formaldehyde in indoor environments or in air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Yufeng Wu, Bin Li
  • Publication number: 20240338864
    Abstract: A method for processing breast tissue image data includes processing image data of a patient's breast tissue to generate a high-dimensional grid depicting one or more high-dimensional objects in the patient's breast tissue; determining a probability or confidence of each of the one or more high-dimensional objects depicted in the high-dimensional grid; and modifying one or more aspects of at least one of the one or more high-dimensional objects based at least in part on its respective determined probability or confidence to thereby generate a lower-dimensional format version of the one or more high-dimensional objects. The method may further include displaying the lower-dimensional format version of the one or more high-dimensional objects in a synthesized image of the patient's breast tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Haili Chui, Xiaomin Liu, Xiangwei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240260923
    Abstract: A method and breast imaging system for processing breast tissue image data includes feeding image data of breast images to an image processor, identifying image portions depicting breast tissue and high density elements and executing different processing methods on input images. A first image processing method involves breast tissue enhancement and high density element suppression, whereas the second image processing method involves enhancing high density elements. Respective three-dimensional sets of image slices may be generated by respective image processing methods, and respective two-dimensional synthesized images are generated and combined to form a two-dimensional composite synthesized image which is presented through a display of the breast imaging system. First and second image processing may be executed on generated three-dimensional image sets or two-dimensional projection images acquired by an image acquisition component at respective angles relative to the patient's breast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Haili Chui, Xiangwei Zhang, Nikolaos Gkanatsios
  • Patent number: 12002294
    Abstract: A method of face anti-spoofing, comprising, receiving a near infra-red facial image, having a near infrared channel, receiving a red-green-blue facial image, having a red channel, a green channel and a blue channel, generating a synthetic three channel image based on the near infrared channel, the red channel, the green channel and the blue channel and training a deep neural network based on the synthetic three channel image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Black Sesame Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Lei Zhang, Qun Gu, Zilong Hu
  • Patent number: 11983799
    Abstract: A method for processing breast tissue image data includes processing image data of a patient's breast tissue to generate a high-dimensional grid depicting one or more high-dimensional objects in the patient's breast tissue; determining a probability or confidence of each of the one or more high-dimensional objects depicted in the high-dimensional grid; and modifying one or more aspects of at least one of the one or more high-dimensional objects based at least in part on its respective determined probability or confidence to thereby generate a lower-dimensional format version of the one or more high-dimensional objects. The method may further include displaying the lower-dimensional format version of the one or more high-dimensional objects in a synthesized image of the patient's breast tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Haili Chui, Xiaomin Liu, Xiangwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11978488
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a PMR write head with a trailing shield that comprises a FeCoNiM composition. The FeCoNiM composition can be formed via an electroplating process by adding Fe2+, Co2+, Ni2+ and a transition metal salt to an aqueous solution comprised of other additives in an electroplating cell that has an Ni or Co as the anode. The plated HD magnetic material as the trailing shield in a PMR writer can minimize a wide area track erasure (WATE). Further, a high moment high damping shield can lower bit error rate (BER) and increase aerial density capability (ADC) of the write head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Headway Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Wenjie Chen, Yue Liu, Weihao Xu, Yuhui Tang, Feiyue Li
  • Patent number: 11964902
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for preparing lead smelting slag glass-ceramics based on the oxidation of silicon-rich silicon smelting slag and composition adjustment, and belongs to the technical field of resource utilization of smelting slag rich in monatomic silicon. The method comprises the steps: mixing the silicon slag rich in monatomic silicon with an oxidant, a fluxing agent and a clarifying agent according to a formula ratio, ball-milling and screening to obtain a tempering raw material with uniform size, and performing high-temperature oxidation melting on the tempering raw material to form an oxidation-state molten tempering material; and carrying out further mixed melting on the molten tempering material and hot lead slag, carrying out water quenching to obtain basic glass, and carrying out heat treatment system on the obtained basic glass to form the glass ceramics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yufeng Wu, Xiaomin Liu, Dean Pan
  • Patent number: 11958796
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound having the general formula (1) wherein in the general formula (1) the residues R1 to R8 and Ar are the same or different and are independently from each other selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, unsubstituted hydrocarbon groups, substituted hydrocarbon groups and inorganic groups, wherein at least one of the residues R1 to R8 and Ar is a hydrophilic group, such as for instance a group comprising one or more polyethylene groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
    Inventors: Qiang Chen, Akimitsu Narita, Klaus Müllen, Sapun Parekh, Mischa Bonn, Xiaomin Liu
  • Publication number: 20240082073
    Abstract: Absorbent articles (30) have bonded materials and bond patterns. One of the absorbent articles (30) has a bond pattern (150a-150d) comprising bonds (151,153,155,155a-155d). The bond pattern (150a-150d) comprises a longitudinally extending series of bonds (151,153), which comprises a first bond (151) and a second bond (153) disposed longitudinally adjacent to the first bond (151). The first bond (151) has an inboard lateral edge (158), an outboard lateral edge (156), a top edge (152), and a bottom edge (154) having a recess portion (164). The second bond (153) has an inboard lateral edge (158) and an outboard lateral edge (156), a top edge (152) having a recess portion (164), and a bottom edge (154).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Jongmin Mun, Ning Ye, Xixi Miao, Qi Dai, Xiaomin Liu, Weizhi Guo, Jason Sieck
  • Publication number: 20240076229
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for preparing lead smelting slag glass-ceramics based on the oxidation of silicon-rich silicon smelting slag and composition adjustment, and belongs to the technical field of resource utilization of smelting slag rich in monatomic silicon. The method comprises the steps: mixing the silicon slag rich in monatomic silicon with an oxidant, a fluxing agent and a clarifying agent according to a formula ratio, ball-milling and screening to obtain a tempering raw material with uniform size, and performing high-temperature oxidation melting on the tempering raw material to form an oxidation-state molten tempering material; and carrying out further mixed melting on the molten tempering material and hot lead slag, carrying out water quenching to obtain basic glass, and carrying out heat treatment system on the obtained basic glass to form the glass ceramics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yufeng WU, Xiaomin Liu, Dean Pan
  • Patent number: 11857358
    Abstract: A method and breast imaging system for processing breast tissue image data includes feeding image data of breast images to an image processor, identifying image portions depicting breast tissue and high density elements and executing different processing methods on input images. A first image processing method involves breast tissue enhancement and high density element suppression, whereas the second image processing method involves enhancing high density elements. Respective three-dimensional sets of image slices may be generated by respective image processing methods, and respective two-dimensional synthesized images are generated and combined to form a two-dimensional composite synthesized image which is presented through a display of the breast imaging system. First and second image processing may be executed on generated three-dimensional image sets or two-dimensional projection images acquired by an image acquisition component at respective angles relative to the patient's breast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Haili Chui, Xiangwei Zhang, Nikolaos Gkanatsios