Patents by Inventor XIN AI

XIN AI 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).

  • Patent number: 11565882
    Abstract: An intelligent warehousing system, a material fetching and placing method and a processing terminal thereof, where the intelligent warehousing system includes a first warehousing robot and a second warehousing robot, the first warehousing robot is configured to receive a first scheduling instruction, move to a fixed shelf to fetch and place a material box according to the first scheduling instruction, and handle the material box to a first target position; and the second warehousing robot is configured to receive a second scheduling instruction, move to a portable shelf according to the second scheduling instruction, and handle the portable shelf to a second target position. Through the technical solution of the present application, compatibility of the intelligent warehousing system is improved, which may be applied to a warehouse with different shelves, thus improving the utilization rate of the warehouse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuqi Chen, Jui-Chun Cheng, Hongxia Zhou, Xin Ai
  • Publication number: 20230014612
    Abstract: A warehousing system includes a control terminal and a robot. The control terminal is configured to send a first control instruction including running path information to the robot. The robot is configured to carry a first material, move in a running path according to the running path information, and transport the first material to a conveyor line. The conveyor line includes at least one conveyor line inlet and at least one conveyor line outlet. The robot is configured to dock with the conveyor line and place the first material on the conveyor line at the at least one conveyor line inlet. The running path includes a first path section passes through the at least one conveyor line inlet, a second path section passes through the at least one conveyor line outlet and a third path section connected between the first path section and the second path section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Hongxia ZHOU, Xiaolong LI, Xin AI
  • Patent number: 11498766
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a warehousing system, a material transporting method, a control terminal, a robot and a storage medium. Where the robot performs material fetching according to a control instruction of a control terminal, transports a material to a destination, and automatically docks with a conveyor line at the destination so as to automatically transport the material to the conveyor line. Manual participation is not needed in the material transporting process, therefore material transporting efficiency can be improved; besides, by configuring different conveyor lines corresponding to different workstations, the material conveying of each workstation does not affect each other, and the workstation with low material processing efficiency does not cause effect on other workstations, thereby facilitating to improve overall work efficiency of all workstations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventors: Hongxia Zhou, Xiaolong Li, Xin Ai
  • Publication number: 20220291654
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an online monitoring method of a nuclear power plant system based on an isolation forest method and a sliding window method. An isolation forest method used in the present disclosure is an abnormal detection model based on the idea of binary tree division, and has no requirements on the dimension and linear characteristics of monitoring data. In view of the characteristics of strong nonlinearity and high dimension of operation data of the nuclear power plant system, in the process of state monitoring, system abnormalities can be detected more quickly and accurately. In the present disclosure, a sliding window method is used to improve an isolation forest model, so that the improved isolation forest model has the functions of model online updating and real-time state monitoring, and the usability of an isolation forest state monitoring method is enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Harbin Engineering University
    Inventors: Yongkuo Liu, Xin Ai, Longfei Shan, Xueying Huang
  • Publication number: 20220284393
    Abstract: This application relates to a replenishment method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a replenishment order, and determining a mapping relationship between goods information of replenishment goods in the replenishment order and a storage space of a put wall, where the mapping relationship is used for instructing to correspondingly place target replenishment goods into a target storage space of the put wall; and determining a target inventory box corresponding to the target replenishment goods placed in the target storage space of the put wall, where the target inventory box is used for loading the target replenishment goods. The use of the method improves the replenishment efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Xin AI, Runfang YU
  • Publication number: 20220274779
    Abstract: This application provides a carrying device, a transport robot, an inventory method, and an inventory system. The transport robot includes a carrying device. The carrying device includes: a bracket; a tray, mounted to the bracket and configured to place goods; a weight detection device, configured to detect a weight of the goods placed on the tray; and a retractable arm assembly, configured to push the goods placed on the tray out of the tray or pull the goods to the tray. Compared with the prior art, the weight detection device is arranged on the tray of the carrying device to detect the weight of the goods placed on the tray. The quantity of the goods may be determined according to the weight of the goods. Therefore, the low goods carrying efficiency due to manual goods inventory is avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jiale QIAN, Xin AI, Chao XIE, Qingxin ZHAN
  • Publication number: 20220157028
    Abstract: A system for replacing physical items in images is discussed. A depicted item can be selected and removed from an image via image mask data and pixel merging techniques. Virtual light source positions can be generated based on real-world light source data from the image. A rendered simulation of a virtual item can then be integrated into the image to create a modified image for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Huang, Jingwen Wang, Yi Wu, Xin Ai
  • Publication number: 20220147928
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an order processing method, apparatus, device, system and storage medium, where the method includes: acquiring an original order to be processed; searching for unsorted target orders, where the target orders are obtained by combining a plurality of original orders; decomposing at least part of the searched target orders into original orders; combining the original orders obtained by decomposition and the original order to be processed to regenerate one or more target orders. The order processing method, apparatus, device, system and storage medium provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure can realize dynamic roll-back combining, so that the newly arrived original order is combined with the currently unsorted target orders, and the out-of-warehouse efficiency is effectively improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: RUNFANG YU, XIN AI
  • Publication number: 20220112031
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a warehousing system, a material handling method, a control terminal, a robot and a storage medium. Where the robot performs material fetching according to a control instruction of a control terminal, handles a material to a destination, and automatically docks with a conveyor line at the destination so as to automatically handle the material to the conveyor line. Manual participation is not needed in the material handling process, therefore material handling efficiency can be improved; besides, by configuring different conveyor lines corresponding to different workstations, the material conveying of each workstation does not affect each other, and the workstation with low material processing efficiency does not cause effect on other workstations, thereby facilitating to improve overall work efficiency of all workstations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Hongxia ZHOU, Xiaolong LI, Xin AI
  • Publication number: 20220083970
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an order processing method, apparatus, device, system and storage medium, where the method includes: acquiring an original order to be processed; searching for unsorted target orders, where the target orders are obtained by combining a plurality of original orders; decomposing at least part of the searched target orders into original orders; combining the original orders obtained by decomposition and the original order to be processed to regenerate one or more target orders. The order processing method, apparatus, device, system and storage medium provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure can realize dynamic roll-back combining, so that the newly arrived original order is combined with the currently unsorted target orders, and the out-of-warehouse efficiency is effectively improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: RUNFANG YU, XIN AI
  • Patent number: 11276036
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an order processing method, apparatus, device, system and storage medium, where the method includes: acquiring an original order to be processed; searching for unsorted target orders, where the target orders are obtained by combining a plurality of original orders; decomposing at least part of the searched target orders into original orders; combining the original orders obtained by decomposition and the original order to be processed to regenerate one or more target orders. The order processing method, apparatus, device, system and storage medium provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure can realize dynamic roll-back combining, so that the newly arrived original order is combined with the currently unsorted target orders, and the out-of-warehouse efficiency is effectively improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Runfang Yu, Xin Ai
  • Publication number: 20220063915
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to a goods sorting method and a goods sorting system. The goods sorting method includes: generating at least one collection order, each collection order including a predetermined number of sorting orders and recording a plurality of stock keeping units; sending the collection order to at least one picking console in a preset collection order issuance mode; and moving a cargo box to a corresponding picking console so that goods corresponding to the stock keeping units recorded in the collection order are picked out. By means of the method, a large quantity of sorting orders can be processed simultaneously by generating and issuing the collection order, which greatly improves the efficiency of a picking operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin AI, Runfang YU, Hongxia ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20220057812
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and system for assisting a robot to navigate in a warehouse setting. In some embodiments, robot is configured to receive a reserved route and move according to the reserved route as it navigates inside a warehouse. A reserved route includes one or more waypoints. Each waypoint represents a location and a size, the size being the space needed for accommodating a robot at the location. The one or more waypoints are listed in a sequence for a robot to follow sequentially. In some embodiments, each waypoint may further include a timestamp representing the time that the robot given the reserved route is supposed to arrive at the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: XIN AI, HAO YANG
  • Publication number: 20220024737
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a material handling method and device, a server and a handling robot. The material handling method provided by the present embodiment includes: acquiring position information and idle storage unit information of a robot; and allocating a second handling task to the robot according to the position information, the idle storage unit information and a position of a first target included in a first handling task; where one of the first handling task and the second handling task is a material fetching task, and the other is a returning task. Thus, a handling strategy can be set flexibly, and fetching materials while returning is implemented during a material handling process, the handling efficiency of the materials is improved effectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: XIN AI, YEGUANG CHEN, SHAOKAI ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20220002084
    Abstract: An intelligent warehousing system, a material fetching and placing method and a processing terminal thereof, where the intelligent warehousing system includes a first warehousing robot and a second warehousing robot, the first warehousing robot is configured to receive a first scheduling instruction, move to a fixed shelf to fetch and place a material box according to the first scheduling instruction, and handle the material box to a first target position; and the second warehousing robot is configured to receive a second scheduling instruction, move to a portable shelf according to the second scheduling instruction, and handle the portable shelf to a second target position. Through the technical solution of the present application, compatibility of the intelligent warehousing system is improved, which may be applied to a warehouse with different shelves, thus improving the utilization rate of the warehouse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: YUQI CHEN, JUI-CHUN CHENG, HONGXIA ZHOU, XIN AI
  • Patent number: 11164384
    Abstract: A system for replacing physical items in images is discussed. A depicted item can be selected and removed from an image via image mask data and pixel merging techniques. Virtual light source positions can be generated based on real-world light source data from the image. A rendered simulation of a virtual item can then be integrated into the image to create a modified image for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Houzz, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Huang, Jingwen Wang, Yi Wu, Xin Ai
  • Publication number: 20210287170
    Abstract: A material handling method, the method includes: acquiring a material identification; where a material identified by the material identification is stored in a material box corresponding to the material identification; when an unprocessed order includes the material identification, then querying whether there is an available temporary storage unit in a temporary storage shelf; and triggering a temporary storage instruction when there is an available temporary storage unit in the temporary storage shelf; where the temporary storage instruction is used to instruct to perform a temporary storage behavior triggered according to the material identification on the temporary storage shelf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: XIN AI, HAO YANG
  • Publication number: 20210027539
    Abstract: A system for replacing physical items in images is discussed. A depicted item can be selected and removed from an image via image mask data and pixel merging techniques. Virtual light source positions can be generated based on real-world light source data from the image. A rendered simulation of a virtual item can then be integrated into the image to create a modified image for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Huang, Jingwen Wang, Yi Wu, Xin Ai
  • Patent number: 10893065
    Abstract: Methods and systems of malware detection in distributed computer systems. An example method includes: receiving, by a network router, a network packet originated by a client computer; matching the network packet to a default route; forwarding the network packet to a command and control server simulator; and forwarding, to the client computer system, one or more response packets comprising a command and control instruction issued to the client computer system by the command and control server simulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
    Inventors: Eric J. Johnson, Christopher R. Henson, Xin Ai, Evan Stewart Morgan, Stephen Ward
  • Publication number: 20200145445
    Abstract: Methods and systems of malware detection in distributed computer systems. An example method includes: receiving, by a network router, a network packet originated by a client computer; matching the network packet to a default route; forwarding the network packet to a command and control server simulator; and forwarding, to the client computer system, one or more response packets comprising a command and control instruction issued to the client computer system by the command and control server simulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Eric J. Johnson, Christopher R. Henson, Xin Ai, Evan Stewart Morgan, Stephen Ward