Patents by Inventor Xiaopeng Zhang
Xiaopeng Zhang 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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Patent number: 12198421Abstract: A training method of underwater sea urchin image recognition model, and underwater sea urchin image recognition method and device are provided. The training method includes: constructing an underwater sea urchin image recognition model, acquiring an underwater sea urchin image dataset; performing MSRCR on the underwater sea urchin image dataset; processing the underwater sea urchin image dataset by a dark channel prior method; performing image fusion to obtain a fused image dataset; sharpening the fused image dataset to obtain a training image dataset; and training the underwater sea urchin image recognition model by using the training image dataset. By performing MSRCR and dark channel prior processing on the image, and then performing image fusion and sharpening based on a point sharpness weighting method, the quality of image is improved, and an accuracy of subsequent sea urchin object detection is improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Guangdong Ocean UniversityInventors: Xiaohong Peng, Zixiang Liang, Sidong Li, Liang Chen, Jun Zhang, Yifan Li, Xiaopeng Zhao
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Patent number: 12185726Abstract: The patent discloses a method for efficiently collecting and purifying Orobanche cumana (O. cumana) germination stimulants using aeroponic system and solid-phase extraction (SPE), including the following steps: (1) sunflower seeds germination, then planting sunflower seedlings in aeroponic device, and cultivating the sunflower seedlings in the aeroponic system; at the aeroponic stage, phosphorus-containing aeroponic nutrient solution is first used to cultivate the sunflower seedlings for 20 to 25 days, and phosphorus-free aeroponic nutrient solution is then used instead to subject the sunflower seedlings to starvation cultivation for 5 to 7 days; and (2) passing all nutrient solutions in the aeroponic device through an SPE cartridge for SPE to extract O. cumana germination stimulants. The obtained O. cumana germination stimulants are diversified, and have high concentration and purity.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Inventors: Weijun Zhou, Luyang Hu, Chong Yang, Ling Xu, Na Zhang, Jiansu Wang, Jinwen Zhu, Quanjiang Bai, Xiaopeng Yun
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Publication number: 20250004742Abstract: Techniques are described with regard to container image configuration in a computing environment. An associated computer-implemented method includes initializing a container image storage engine associated with a logical tree structure having a plurality of container image nodes, where each of the plurality of container image nodes includes a hash layer array and a hash data array. The method includes building at least one new container image node to incorporate into the plurality of container image nodes. The method further includes applying a software patch to a target container image node among the plurality of container image nodes. In an embodiment, the method further includes starting at least one container based upon a respective container image node among the plurality of container image nodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Yi Yuan, XiaoPeng Zhang, Heng Wang, Xiao Hu He, Jing Li
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Publication number: 20240429703Abstract: Provided are a method and system for protecting the HVDC line, device, and storage medium. The method for protecting the HVDC line includes that: a DC line parameter and a DC system operation parameter are acquired, and a DC line protection installation position operation parameter is sampled; a line-mode fault voltage of a sampling point, a zero-mode fault voltage of the sampling point, a line-mode fault current of the sampling point, and a continuous rate of change of the line-mode fault current are calculated; in response to starting the line protection, the line-mode fault voltage is compensated based on the DC line parameter, the DC system operation parameter, and a first peak value of the line-mode fault voltage; and in response to determining that the HVDC line is faulty, a line fault polarity is determined based on the zero-mode fault voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2023Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Xiaopeng LI, Yufei TENG, Lei LIU, Yuexiao YU, Dalin MU, Sheng LIN, Huajie ZHANG
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Patent number: 12169783Abstract: This application relates to the field of artificial intelligence and the field of computer vision. The method includes performing feature extraction on an image to obtain a basic feature map of the image, and determining a proposal of a region possibly including a pedestrian in the image. The basic feature map of the image is then processed to obtain an object visibility map in which a response to a pedestrian visible part is greater than a response to a pedestrian blocked part and a background part. The method further performs weighted summation processing on the object visibility map and the basic feature map to obtain an enhanced feature map of the image, and determines, based on the proposal of the image and the enhanced feature map of the image, a bounding box including a pedestrian in the image and a confidence level of the bounding box including the pedestrian.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qixiang Ye, Tianliang Zhang, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaopeng Zhang, Qi Tian, Lihui Jiang
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Publication number: 20240413255Abstract: A solar cell and a manufacturing method thereof, and a photovoltaic system. The solar cell includes: a substrate layer including a first surface and a second surface arranged oppositely along a thickness direction thereof; a tunnel oxide layer, a first doped polysilicon layer, and a first passivation layer sequentially arranged on the first surface of the substrate layer in a direction gradually away from the substrate layer; and a first finger electrode layer, at least one of the first fingers being arranged in first connection holes, bottoms of the first connection holes being located in the first doped polysilicon layer, and the first fingers passing through the first connection holes corresponding thereto to be electrically connected to the first doped polysilicon layer; and in the first direction, widths of the first connection holes being all less than widths of the first fingers corresponding to the first connection holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Chengfa Liu, Yang Zou, Kunzhou Wang, Wanli Li, Yaqian Zhang, Xiaopeng Wu, Shuai Zhang, Yugang Lu, Hong Chen
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Patent number: 12154021Abstract: Devices and techniques are generally described for providing a graphical user interface. In some examples, first image data may be sent to a computing device, that when rendered is effective to display a first combination of items disposed together in a first environment and a first selectable control. In some examples, first data may be received indicating a selection of the first selectable control. In various examples, a first computing device may determine first feature data representing the first image data. In some examples, the first computing device may determine second image data using the first feature data. In some examples, the second image data may be sent to a second computing device. The second image data, when rendered, may be effective to display a second combination of items disposed together in a second environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Josh Sternberg, Akshad Viswanathan, Xiaopeng Zhang, Ethan Alexander Smith, Lenworth Richard Rose, Joyce Huan Fu, Mengyun Lv, Rui Chen, Alexandru Indrei, Reece Dano, Saeed Salahi, Anqi Liang
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Publication number: 20240355140Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of computer vision, and proposes a lightweight real-time emotion analysis method incorporating eye tracking. In the method, gray frames and event frames that have synchronized time are acquired through event-based cameras and respectively input to a frame branch and an event branch; the frame branch extracts spatial features by convolution operations, and the event branch extracts temporal features through conv-SNN blocks; the frame branch has a guide attention mechanism for the event branch; and the spatial features and the temporal features are integrated by fully connected layers, The final output is the average of the n fully connected layer outputs, which represents the final expression. The method can recognize the emotional expression of any stage in various complex light changing scenarios; and in the case of limited accuracy loss, the emotion recognition time is shortened to achieve “real-time” user emotion analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2022Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: Xin YANG, Xiaopeng WEI, Bo DONG, Haiwei ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240347655Abstract: A method for preparing a solar cell is provided. The method includes providing a N-type silicon substrate; depositing a tunnel passivation structure on the first surface of the N-type silicon substrate, and then depositing a mask layer on the tunnel passivation structure; cleaning the second surface of the N-type silicon substrate; performing boron diffusion treatment on the cleaned second surface of the N-type silicon substrate and annealing treatment on the tunnel passivation structure in the same environment, so that a first emitter layer is formed on the second surface of the N-type silicon substrate and the tunnel passivation structure is crystallized; performing laser patterning treatment on the first emitter layer to form a second emitter region; depositing a passivation and anti-reflection film; and forming a first electrode and a second electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Applicants: TRINA SOLAR CO., LTD., TRINA SOLAR (SUQIAN) PHOTOELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Chengfa LIU, Xiaopeng WU, Yaqian ZHANG, Yang ZOU, Yugang LU, Shuai ZHANG, Hong CHEN, Daming CHEN, Yifeng CHEN
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Patent number: 12118096Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an image encryption method based on multi-scale compressed sensing and a Markov model. According to the difference in information carried by low-frequency coefficients and high-frequency coefficients of an image, different sampling rates are set for the low-frequency coefficients and the high-frequency coefficients of the image, which can effectively improve the reconstruction quality of a decrypted image. The decrypted image obtained by the present disclosure has higher quality than the decrypted image generated by the existing scheme, and a better visual effect and more complete original image information can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Qiang Zhang, Bin Wang, Pengfei Wang, Yuandi Shi, Rongrong Chen, Xiaopeng Wei
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Patent number: 12077417Abstract: An embedded bionic winch for sampling and exploration of a polar sub-glacial lake, including an actuating chamber, a power chamber, a transition chamber, a sensor chamber, a cable arranging chamber and a slip ring chamber, where the actuating chamber, the power chamber, the transition chamber, the sensor chamber, the cable arranging chamber and the slip ring chamber are arranged in sequence, and are coaxially connected; the power chamber provides a power for the winch, and realizes sealing of motors located therein under water with a certain depth; the transition chamber realizes a power transmission between the power chamber and the cable arranging chamber; the sensor chamber is used for mounting of a tension sensor; the cable arranging chamber realizes retraction and release of a cable through the precise cooperation of a drum and a lead screw, and the slip ring chamber contains a slip ring.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: JILIN UNIVERSITYInventors: Youhong Sun, Jianhua Wang, Pavel Talalay, Jixin Wang, Tianlong Lei, Zhigang Wang, Xiaopeng Fan, Nan Zhang, Bing Li, Da Gong, Rusheng Wang, Yanji Chen, Ting Wang
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Patent number: 12069662Abstract: The application discloses a signal transmission method and device. The signal transmission method comprises: a first communication node determining a mode for transmitting data in a time unit to a second communication node; and the first communication node transmitting data to the second communication mode in the time unit according to the determined mode for transmitting data. The data includes N data sets, where N is a positive integer. A data transmission method for M data sets in the data is known by the second communication node. Related information of a data transmission method for (N?M) data sets is notified to the second communication node by the first communication node by means of a control signal in the time unit, where M is less than or equal to N.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: Shujuan Zhang, Zhaohua Lu, Yuhong Gong, Xiaopeng Wang, Meng Mei
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Publication number: 20240269894Abstract: The present application provides a large-sized single crystal cutting device and a method of using the same. The device includes a cutting system, a commutation system, and a detection system. The cutting system includes a cutting line, a pay-off axis, a guide wheel, and a take-up axis. The commutation system is disposed between the pay-off axis and the take-up axis to adjust a tension and a line speed of the cutting line. The detection system is configured to detect the tension and the line speed of the cutting line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: TCL ZHONGHUAN RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhihui LIANG, Jianhong XU, Yujun XING, Ruixiang ZHANG, Wenjun KUANG, Xinyue GUO, Meng WANG, Xuelong LIN, Yiqiang GONG, Xizhen LI, Xiaopeng WANG, Wei ZHAO, Yanhui ZHAO, Shun CHANG, Yan SHI, Zhijian LI, Shusheng YANG
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Patent number: 12062728Abstract: A solar cell is provided. The solar cell includes: an N-type silicon substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a tunnel passivation structure and a first passivation and anti-reflection film formed on the first surface, a boron-doped emitter structure layer including a first emitter layer and a second emitter region formed on the second surface, a second passivation and anti-reflection film formed on the emitter structure layer, a first electrode configured to be in electrical contact with the second emitter region, and a second electrode configured to be in electrical contact with the tunnel passivation structure. The solar cell of the present application has a selective emitter structure. The metal contact region has a large junction depth to meet the metallization requirements. The region outside the metal contact region has a small junction depth to improve the optical response.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2023Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignees: TRINA SOLAR CO., LTD., TRINA SOLAR (SUQIAN) PHOTOELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Chengfa Liu, Xiaopeng Wu, Yaqian Zhang, Yang Zou, Yugang Lu, Shuai Zhang, Hong Chen, Daming Chen, Yifeng Chen
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Publication number: 20240266451Abstract: A solar cell is provided. The solar cell includes: an N-type silicon substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a tunnel passivation structure and a first passivation and anti-reflection film formed on the first surface, a boron-doped emitter structure layer including a first emitter layer and a second emitter region formed on the second surface, a second passivation and anti-reflection film formed on the emitter structure layer, a first electrode configured to be in electrical contact with the second emitter region, and a second electrode configured to be in electrical contact with the tunnel passivation structure. The solar cell of the present application has a selective emitter structure. The metal contact region has a large junction depth to meet the metallization requirements. The region outside the metal contact region has a small junction depth to improve the optical response.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicants: TRINA SOLAR CO., LTD., TRINA SOLAR (SUQIAN) PHOTOELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Chengfa LIU, Xiaopeng WU, Yaqian ZHANG, Yang ZOU, Yugang LU, Shuai ZHANG, Hong CHEN, Daming CHEN, Yifeng CHEN
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Publication number: 20240257304Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tactile pattern Super Resolution (SR) reconstruction method and acquisition system, which belong to the field of tactile perception. First, a High Resolution (HR) tactile pattern sample is obtained by using a Low Resolution (LR) tactile sensor; then, a deep learning-based tactile SR model is trained by using a tactile SR data set; and finally, reconstructing the tactile data of a contact surface to be measured as an SR tactile pattern by using the tactile SR model. The present disclosure uses the existing taxel-based LR tactile sensor and adopts a deep learning-based tactile SR reconstruction technology, which can effectively restore the shape of the contact surface, improves the resolution of the tactile sensor, and meanwhile, maintains the characteristics of the sensor being light, flexible, and easy to be integrated into devices, such as a robot.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2022Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Qian LIU, Bing WU, Qiang ZHANG, Xiaopeng WEI
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Patent number: 12026938Abstract: Example neural architecture search methods and image processing methods and apparatuses in the field of computer vision in the field of artificial intelligence are provided. The example neural architecture search method includes determining search space and a plurality of construction units, superimposing the plurality of construction units to obtain a search network, adjusting, in the search space, network architectures of the construction units in the search network, to obtain optimized construction units, and establishing a target neural network based on the optimized construction units. In each construction unit, some channels of an output feature map of each node are processed by using a to-be-selected operation to obtain a processed feature map, and the processed feature map and a remaining feature map are stitched and then input to a next node.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuhui Xu, Lingxi Xie, Xiaopeng Zhang, Xin Chen, Guojun Qi, Qi Tian
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Publication number: 20240152726Abstract: A processor-implemented method for a neural architecture search (NAS) starts by generating an over-parameterized super network having multiple layers. The super network has multiple operator types. Each of the layers includes a largest super kernel corresponding to a search space. The method also includes performing gradient descent to evolve a largest super kernel to a small kernel corresponding to the search space in order to generate a range of kernel encodings. The method further includes identifying a subset of kernel encodings from the range of kernel encodings, for each layer of the super network, based on the gradient descent. The method determines a set of candidate architectures based on the subset of kernel encodings, each of the candidate architectures having a different model size. The method selects a target model, from the set of architectures, based on meeting hardware specifications, and then applies the target model.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Chen FENG, Xiaopeng ZHANG, Shaojie ZHUO, Ramchalam KINATTINKARA RAMAKRISHNAN, Chenzheng SU, Liang SHEN, Zi Wen HAN, Yicheng LIN
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Publication number: 20240119266Abstract: A method for constructing an artificial intelligence (AI) integrated model is provided, including: obtaining a training dataset, an initial graph network model, and a plurality of base models; then iteratively training the initial graph network model by using training data in the training dataset and the plurality of base models, to obtain a graph network model; and then constructing the AI integrated model based on the graph network model and the plurality of base models, where an input of the graph network model is a graph structure consisting of outputs of the plurality of base models. Since the graph network model considers neighboring nodes of each node in the graph structure when processing the graph structure, the graph network model fully considers differences and correlations between the base models when fusing the outputs of the plurality of base models.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Qi Tian, Jianlong Chang, Hengheng Zhang, Nana Jiang, Longhui Wei, Xiaopeng Zhang, Lingxi Xie
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Publication number: 20240097348Abstract: An antenna structure, an electronic device, and a wireless network system are provided, and relate to the field of antenna technologies. A patch antenna array includes four patch antennas. The four patch antennas are arranged in two rows and two columns. One of the feeding structures is included between two of the patch antennas in each row. One of the feeding structures is included between two of the patch antennas in each column. The feeding structure located between the two patch antennas in each column is connected to the first feeding port, so that the four patch antennas all generate polarization in a first direction. The feeding structure located between the two patch antennas in each row is connected to the second feeding port, so that the four patch antennas all generate polarization in a second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: Honor Device Co., Ltd., TSINGHUA UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiaopeng ZHANG, Zhijun ZHANG, Dawei ZHOU