Patents by Inventor Xiaowei Zhou
Xiaowei Zhou 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: 20240153213Abstract: A data acquisition and reconstruction method and a data acquisition and reconstruction system for human body three-dimensional modeling based on a single mobile phone. In the aspect of data acquisition, the present application only uses a single smart phone, and uses augmented reality technology to guide users to collect high-quality video data input for a reconstruction algorithm, so as to ensure that the subsequent human body reconstruction algorithm can stably obtain a high-quality three-dimensional human body model. In the aspect of a reconstruction algorithm, the present application designs a deformable implicit neural radiance field. The use of an implicit spatial deformation field estimation model solves the problem that the subject has small motion in the process of collecting data with a single mobile phone; the implicit signed distance field is used to represent human geometry, which has rich expressive ability and improves the accuracy of three-dimensional human model reconstruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Hujun BAO, Jiaming SUN, Yunsheng LUO, Zhiyuan YU, Hongcheng ZHAO, Xiaowei ZHOU
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Patent number: 11969733Abstract: A production device for preparing a building material using a fine particle silt in iron tailings includes an operation desk and a grinding device. During movement of edge plates, gears are located inside a side groove and keep meshing with toothed grooves, the edge plates will drive various gears to rotate along a same direction and drive grinding balls and connecting shafts to rotate while moving, the grinding balls will perform grinding treatment on the fine particle silt at the inner end of the grinding cabinet while rotating.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, MEEInventors: Houhu Zhang, Bing Ma, Hao Zhou, Yuanshun Xu, Guodong Kang, Yi Wang, Xiaowei Xu
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Publication number: 20240130563Abstract: A cooktop system is configured to detect cooking events during a cooking process performed on a cooktop. The system includes a cooktop having one or more cameras integrated into the cooking surface and a controller that is configured to receive the image data generated by the cameras, process the image data to identify a corresponding cooking event, and perform a response function based on the identified cooking event.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventor: Xiaowei Zhou
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Publication number: 20240135115Abstract: Provided are an AR translation processing method and an electronic device, which relate to the technical field of communications. By the method, in a scenario in which an electronic device is used for AR translation, a pose change of the electronic device can be detected in real time, and feature matching can be performed on a plurality of consecutive frames of images acquired by a camera, so that whether to-be-translated text needs to be fully translated or partially translated, or needs not to be translated can be determined based on the pose change of the electronic device and a feature matching result, and therefore a corresponding translation trigger strategy is selected. In this way, repeated translation can be effectively avoided, thereby saving computing resources in the AR translation process and improving the translation efficiency to a particular extent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Xiaowei LIU, Bing CHEN, Guoyi WANG, Junwei ZHOU
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Publication number: 20240132581Abstract: A bispecific antibody and a monoclonal antibody against human thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), and a use thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Xueping ZHANG, Zhigang LIU, Xiaowei ZHOU, Junjie HU, Xiaobo HAO, Yulan LIU
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Publication number: 20240076701Abstract: Provided are a recombinant strain with modified gene BBD29_14900, and a method for constructing the same and use thereof, with the production of L-glutamic acid as a specific application. Further provided is a method for introducing a point mutation into the BBD29_14900 gene coding sequence in Corynebacterium or improving the expression thereof. The method can cause a bacterial strain with the mutation to increase the fermentation yield of glutamic acid. The point mutation involves a mutation of the base at position 1114 in the sequence of the BBD29_14900 gene from guanine (G) to adenine (A), and thus a substitution of aspartic acid at position 372 in the coded corresponding amino acid sequence with asparagine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: NINGXIA EPPEN BIOTECH CO., LTDInventors: Fengyong MA, Aiying WEI, Gang MENG, Chunguang ZHAO, Huiping JIA, Houbo SU, Lipeng YANG, Xiaowei GUO, Bin TIAN, Xiaoqun ZHOU
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Patent number: 11920472Abstract: A reasonable millisecond time control method for excavation blasting of a tunnel is provided, and includes: acquiring physical mechanical parameters to establish a millisecond blasting model, and designing four dimensions blasting parameters of explosive quantity, hole number, inter-hole millisecond and inter-row millisecond; simulating, based on the millisecond blasting model, a blasting process of an explosive package using blasting parameters to obtain a blasting vibration curve; obtaining single-hole blasting vibration waveforms, solving a vibration synthesis curve through a vibration synthesis theory; comparing the vibration synthesis curve with the blasting vibration curve to obtain a coupling relationship of blasting parameters; determining a target group of explosive quantity and hole numbers, determining a target millisecond through the coupling relationship of blasting parameters, and relating a millisecond blasting control strategy to control, and it is used for tunneling project to reduce cut blasType: GrantFiled: September 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: CHINA RAILWAY ELEVENTH BUREAU GROUP CO., LTD, CHINA RAILWAY ELEVENTH BUREAU GROUP FOURTH ENGINEERING CO., LTD., WUJIU RAILWAY PASSENGER DEDICATED LINE HUBEI CO., LTD, CHINA RAILWAY FOURTH BUREAU GROUP CO., LTD, ANHUI CHINA RAILWAY ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY SERVICE CO., LTD, WUHAN INSTITUTE OF GEOTECHNICAL MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, CHINA RAILWAY SOUTHWEST SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTDInventors: Jun Gao, Liyun Yang, Xiao Lin, Ming Zhang, kaiwen Liu, Xiaowei Zuo, Bin Zhou, Feng Wang, Yuxin Gao, Dan Xu, Ling Wang, Zhengyi Wang, Xiaokai Wen, Yongtai Wang, Huiling Xue
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Publication number: 20240067999Abstract: A recombinant strain with modified gene BBD29_11265 and a method for constructing the same are provided. The recombinant strain is a bacterium that generates L-glutamic acid, and has an improved expression of a polynucleotide encoding an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 or a homologous sequence thereof; the improved expression can be having a point mutation in, and an enhanced expression of the polynucleotide encoding an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 or a homologous sequence thereof. A genetically engineered bacterium in which the base at position 70 in the BBD29_112665 gene sequence is mutated to adenine from guanine, causing alanine at position 24 in the coded corresponding amino acid sequence to be substituted with threonine, and an engineered bacterium overexpressing the BBD29_112665 gene or BBD29_11265G70A gene are constructed in the present invention, facilitating an increase in the production and conversion rate of L-glutamic acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: NINGXIA EPPEN BIOTECH CO., LTDInventors: Aiying WEI, Gang MENG, Chunguang ZHAO, Huiping JIA, Houbo SU, Lipeng YANG, Xiaowei GUO, Bin TIAN, Fengyong MA, Xiaoqun ZHOU
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Publication number: 20240046570Abstract: A drivable implicit three-dimensional human body representation method, which is used for performing dynamic reconstruction by means of optimizing a three-dimensional representation of a drivable model from an input multi-view video.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Xiaowei ZHOU, Hujun BAO, Sida PENG, Junting DONG
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Patent number: 11867428Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a heat exchange pipe, a heat exchanger and a water heating apparatus. The heat exchange pipe comprises: a pipe body and a plurality of fins fixedly disposed to sleeve the pipe body; a flow guiding structure is provided at a partial outer edge of the fin; and a flow guiding flue is formed between the flow guiding structure and an outer wall of the pipe body. The heat exchange pipe, the heat exchanger and the water heating apparatus provided by the present disclosure can improve the flue gas flow path and the heat exchange efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: A.O. Smith CorporationInventors: Xiang Gao, Dian Fang, Xiaowei Zhou
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Patent number: 11848024Abstract: A smart mask includes a main body having a back frame and a front cover. The back frame and the front cover each include an opening that is aligned with the mask wearer's mouth when worn. The front cover and back frame may be detachable from one another, or a single piece. A microphone is provided in the main body, as well as a speaker. A processor located in the main body is connected to the microphone and the speaker, and is configured to enhance the speech of the mask wearer. In particular, the processor receives audio signals representing a transformation of a spoken utterance of the wearer, processes the audio signals to enhance the speech, and then outputs the enhanced speech to the speaker. This helps other people better understand what the mask wearer is saying.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Pongtep Angkititrakul, Xiaoyang Gao, Hyeongsik Kim, Xiaowei Zhou, Zhengyu Zhou
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Publication number: 20230316651Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a three-dimensional reconstruction and angle of view synthesis method for a moving human body, which performs reconstruction of a moving human body by optimizing three-dimensional representations of the moving human body from an inputted multi-angle of view video.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Xiaowei ZHOU, Hujun BAO, Sida PENG
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Publication number: 20230290099Abstract: A method for reconstructing three-dimensional includes the following operations. At least two frames of first key images for current reconstruction are acquired. A first space surrounding visual cones of the at least two frames of the first key images is determined. The first key images are obtained by photographing a to-be-reconstructed target. A first feature map of the first space is determined based on image information in the several frames of the first key images. The first feature map includes first feature information of voxels in the first space. A first reconstruction result of the current reconstruction is obtained based on the first feature map. A second reconstruction result obtained by previous reconstruction is updated based on the first reconstruction result of the current reconstruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Zhejiang SenseTime Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hujun BAO, Xiaowei ZHOU, Jiaming SUN, Yiming XIE
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Publication number: 20230267621Abstract: Disclosed is a human motion capture method based on unsynchorized videos, which can effectively recover the 3D motion of a target person through multiple unsynchorized videos of the person. In order to utilize multiple unsynchorized videos, the present disclosure provides a video synchronization and motion reconstruction method. The present disclosure is implemented in the following steps: synchronizing multiple videos based on a 3D human pose; performing motion reconstruction based on synchronized videos, modeling the motion difference across different viewpoints by using the low-rank constraint to realize high-precision human motion capture from the plurality of unsynchorized videos. According to the present disclosure, more accurate motion capture is carried out by using multiple unsynchorized videos.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Hujun BAO, Xiaowei ZHOU, Junting DONG, Qing SHUAI
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Patent number: 11710476Abstract: A voice recognition system includes a microphone configured to receive one or more spoken dialogue commands from a user in a voice recognition session. The system also includes a processor in communication with the microphone. The processor is configured to receive one or more audio files associated with one or more audio events associated with the voice recognition system, execute the one or more audio files in a voice recognition session in an audio event, and output a log report indicating a result of the audio events with the voice recognition session.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Xiaowei Zhou, Pongtep Angkititrakul
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Publication number: 20230208227Abstract: A rotor assembly and an electronic water pump are provided, and the rotor assembly includes an impeller cover, an impeller base and a rotor. One end of the impeller base is connected to the impeller cover, an outer wall of the other end of the impeller base is provided with a ring-shaped mounting recess, and the rotor is mounted in the mounting recess. The rotor comprises a rotor iron core, a sleeve and at least two end plates, the rotor iron core is sleeved on an outside of the impeller base and located in the mounting recess, the sleeve is sleeved on an outside of the rotor iron core to seal the rotor iron core in the mounting recess, the at least two end plates are located on both ends of the rotor iron core, respectively. And the at least two end plates are connected to the sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Xiaowei ZHOU, Fugang WANG, Peiyu CAI, Junjie WANG
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Publication number: 20220392201Abstract: In an image feature matching method, at least two images to be matched are acquired; a feature representation of each image to be matched is obtained by performing feature extraction on the image to be matched, wherein the feature representation comprises a plurality of first local features; transforming the first local features into first transformation features having a global receptive field of the images to be matched; and a first matching result of the at least two images to be matched is obtained by matching first transformation features in the at least two images to be matched.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: Zhejiang SenseTime Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaowei ZHOU, Hujun BAO, Jiaming SUN, Zehong SHEN, Yuang WANG
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Publication number: 20220238129Abstract: A smart mask includes a main body having a back frame and a front cover. The back frame and the front cover each include an opening that is aligned with the mask wearer's mouth when worn. The front cover and back frame may be detachable from one another, or a single piece. A microphone is provided in the main body, as well as a speaker. A processor located in the main body is connected to the microphone and the speaker, and is configured to enhance the speech of the mask wearer. In particular, the processor receives audio signals representing a transformation of a spoken utterance of the wearer, processes the audio signals to enhance the speech, and then outputs the enhanced speech to the speaker. This helps other people better understand what the mask wearer is saying.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Pongtep ANGKITITRAKUL, Xiaoyang GAO, Hyeongsik KIM, Xiaowei ZHOU, Zhengyu ZHOU
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Publication number: 20220220962Abstract: An electric water pump including a rotor assembly, wherein the rotor assembly includes an iron core body having a central through-hole, a plurality of magnetic plates disposed inside the iron core body, a first plastic coating layer for enclosing the iron core body, and a second plastic coating layer. At least one protruding rib is provided on a top surface and/or a bottom surface of the first plastic coating layer, a recess matching the protruding rib is provided on the second plastic coating layer, and the first plastic coating layer can drive the second plastic coating layer to rotate relative to an axis of the central through-hole of the iron core body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Junjie WANG, Xiaowei ZHOU
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Patent number: D968029Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Shenzhen Zewei Network Technology Co., LtdInventor: Xiaowei Zhou