Patents by Inventor Xin Wei

Xin Wei 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: 10893275
    Abstract: A method that is performed by a video encoding device is provided. The method includes identifying N image frames in a sliding window of an image frame sequence, the N image frames including N?1 encoded image frames and a to-be-encoded image frame; obtaining a motion amplitude difference of the N image frames in the sliding window, the motion amplitude difference indicating a difference between a corresponding image frame motion amplitude and a previous image frame motion amplitude; updating a static variable based on the motion amplitude difference of each of the N image frames in the sliding window, the static variable indicating a number of consecutive static image frames; and encoding the to-be-encoded image frame as an I frame based on the updated static variable not being less than a first preset threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD
    Inventors: Yao Yao Guo, Xu Nan Mao, Chen Chen Gu, Xin Wei Gao, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10871659
    Abstract: An ophthalmic lens includes an optic comprising an anterior surface, a posterior surface, and an optical axis. At least one of the anterior surface and the posterior surface has a surface profile including a base curvature and a plurality of morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures. The base curvature may correspond to a base optical power of the ophthalmic lens, and the morphed sinusoidal phase shift structures may be configured to extend depth of focus of the ophthalmic lens at intermediate or near viewing distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Hong, William Andrew Maxwell, Xin Wei
  • Patent number: 10865074
    Abstract: An automatic handrail tensioning system and a method for adjusting the tension degree of a handrail, and belongs to the technical field of escalators. The automatic handrail tensioning system of the present invention comprises: a sensor for detecting information that can reflect a tension degree of the handrail; a controller for determining the tension degree information of the handrail according to the information detected by the sensor, and generating a corresponding control instruction for adjusting the tension degree of the handrail based on the tension degree information; and an actuator for driving a tensioning device to adjust the tension degree of the handrail based on the control instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: QingXi Cai, JianGuo Li, Xin Wei, Jie Hu, LiFei Cheng, ZuAn Tang, Jun Ma
  • Publication number: 20200371490
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the field of offshore oil, and in particular relates to a method for assessing the safety integrity level of offshore oil well control equipment. The method for assessing the safety integrity level of the offshore oil well control equipment comprises three major steps: creating a safety instrumented function evaluation module and dividing the related devices for performing the safety instrumented functions into a sensor subsystem; a controller subsystem and an actuator subsystem, establishing a dynamic Bayesian network model for respective subsystems for calculation; and integrating, analyzing and optimizing the safety integrity data of the subsystems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: China University of Petroleum (East China)
    Inventors: Baoping CAI, Yonghong LIU, Wenchao LI, Xiangdi KONG, Xiaoyan SHAO, Hongqi XU, Xincheng LI, Yandong CHEN, Renjie JI, Zengkai LIU, Libing LIU, Rikui ZHANG, Yuqian YANG, Shitang LIU, Xin WEI
  • Publication number: 20200370408
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the field of marine engineering, and in particular relates to a method and system for guaranteeing the safety of offshore oil well control equipment. The method comprises: identifying the state of a main structure of the offshore oil well control equipment, identifying the state of a hydraulic control unit of offshore oil well control equipment, identifying the state of an electronic control unit of offshore oil well control equipment, predicting the state of the offshore oil well control equipment and making a real-time decision based on existing information; and the system for guaranteeing the safety of the offshore oil well control equipment comprises a state identification subsystem of a main structure, a state identification subsystem of the hydraulic control unit, a state identification subsystem of the electronic control unit and a state prediction and real-time decision subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: China University of Petroleum (East China)
    Inventors: Baoping CAI, Yonghong LIU, Chao YANG, Xiangdi KONG, Yi ZHAO, Hongqi XU, Xincheng LI, Yandong CHEN, Renjie JI, Zengkai LIU, Libing LIU, Rikui ZHANG, Yuqian YANG, Shitang LIU, Xin WEI
  • Publication number: 20200370429
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for evaluating the macro resilience of offshore oil well control equipment. The method for evaluating the macro resilience of offshore oil well control equipment comprises six steps: determining the type and strength of external disaster; calculating the failure rate of components; calculating the recovery rate of the components; modeling the BN for a degradation process; modeling the BN for a maintenance process; and calculating the resilience of the offshore oil well control equipment. A system for evaluating the macro resilience of offshore oil well control equipment comprises an external disaster evaluation module, a component failure rate calculation subsystem, a reliability degradation process simulation module, a fault identification module, a component recovery rate calculation module, a reliability recovery process simulation module, a reliability change curve derivation unit and an resilience calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: China University of Petroleum (East China)
    Inventors: Baoping CAI, Yonghong LIU, Yanping ZHANG, Chuntan GAO, Xiaoyan SHAO, Hongqi XU, Xincheng LI, Yandong CHEN, Renjie JI, Zengkai LIU, Libing LIU, Rikui ZHANG, Yuqian YANG, Shitang LIU, Xin WEI
  • Publication number: 20200370394
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the field of petroleum engineering, in particular to a fully-electrically driven downhole safety valve. The fully-electrically driven downhole safety valve comprises a downhole safety valve mechanism and a downhole safety valve control system; wherein the downhole safety valve mechanism includes an electronic cabin module, a transmission control module, a motion conversion module, a magnetic coupling and spring module. and a valve module; the downhole safety valve control system includes a downhole comprehensive unit and an uphole comprehensive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: China University of Petroleum (East China)
    Inventors: Baoping CAI, Yonghong LIU, Chuntan GAO, Chaoyang SHENG, Peng LIU, Xincheng LI, Hongqi XU, Yandong CHEN, Libing LIU, Renjie JI, Zengkai LIU, Rikui ZHANG, Yuqian YANG, Shitang LIU, Xin WEI
  • Patent number: 10838236
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporate high plus or add power profiles that at least one of slow, retard or preventing myopia progression and minimize halo effect. The lens includes a center zone with a negative power for myopic vision correction; and at least one treatment zone surrounding the center zone, the at least one treatment zone having a power profile that increases from an outer margin of the center zone to a positive power within the at least one treatment zone of greater than +5.00 D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled Chehab, Xu Cheng, Michael J. Collins, Manwai Charis Lau, Eric R. Ritchey, Xin Wei
  • Patent number: 10826211
    Abstract: A card edge connector with an insulative housing includes opposite longitudinal side walls along a longitudinal direction with a receiving slot therebetween in a transverse direction. Each side wall forms a plurality of passageways. A plurality of contacts are respectively received within the corresponding passageways. Each contact includes a retaining section, a contacting section extending from the retaining section into the receiving slot, and a leg extending downwardly from the retaining section out of the housing. Each contact is further equipped with an auxiliary spring beam with an additional contacting section extending into the receiving slot. The contacts are initially linked to a single contact carrier strip so as to be simultaneously inserted into the corresponding passageways, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin-Wei Wang, Guo-Xiang Niu, Zhuang Chen
  • Patent number: 10823980
    Abstract: Contact lenses incorporate high plus or add power profiles that at least one of slow, retard or preventing myopia progression and minimize halo effect. The lens includes a center zone with a negative power for myopic vision correction; and at least one treatment zone surrounding the center zone, the at least one treatment zone having a power profile that increases from an outer margin of the center zone to a positive power within the at least one treatment zone of greater than +5.00 D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Noel A. Brennan, Khaled Chehab, Xu Cheng, Michael J. Collins, Manwai Charis Lau, Eric R. Ritchey, Xin Wei
  • Patent number: 10808331
    Abstract: An electroplating system for depositing a plating material on an object includes a pressure device and an anode element. The pressure device includes a lid having first and second through holes and a base having a chamber, conduction holes and third through holes located in the chamber. Each of the conduction tubes includes a conduction hole connecting to one of the third through holes. The lid covers the chamber, the first through holes communicate with the chamber for spraying an electroplating solution toward the object and the second through holes reveal the conduction holes. A passage of electric force line is formed in the connected holes and the third through holes filled with the electroplating solution, and the anode element is located outside the passage of electric force line. The electroplating system can prevent defective plating and enhance plating efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: CHIPBOND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Hung Shih, Tsuo-Yun Chu, Xin-Wei Lo, Nian-Cih Yang
  • Patent number: 10721466
    Abstract: A video encoding method is provided. The video encoding method includes: obtaining a to-be-coded video frame; determining a current encoding mode according to current coding information and/or image feature information of the to-be-coded video frame; processing the to-be-coded video frame according to the current encoding mode to generate a current coded video frame; obtaining a current reference frame corresponding to the current coded video frame based on the current coded video frame being an inter frame; obtaining a corresponding processing reference frame according to resolution values of the current reference frame and the current coded video frame; and encoding the current coded video frame according to the processing reference frame to generate first coded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xu Nan Mao, Xin Wei Gao, Li Cai Guo, Yong Fang Shi, An Lin Gao, Haibo Deng, Chen Chen Gu, Jing Lv
  • Patent number: 10720730
    Abstract: A card edge connector includes an elongated insulative housing, a number of terminals retained to the housing, and a metallic member formed integrally with the housing via an insert-molding process. The housing includes two lengthwise walls, a central slot defining by the two lengthwise walls, and two protrusions located at two opposite ends of the two lengthwise walls. The protrusions protrude upwardly out of an upper surface of the lengthwise walls. The metallic member includes two main portions retained respectively in the two lengthwise walls and a pair of connecting portions connecting therebetween. The connecting portions are located at the bottom of the metallic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin-Wei Wang, Guo-Xiang Niu
  • Publication number: 20200215944
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a seat trim structure for a vehicle seat with at least a mounting element having a plurality of integrated retaining elements, a number of detachable support members, and a number of detachable trim elements. The support members may be detachably arranged to the mounting element and the integrated retaining elements may be configured to detachably retain the number of trim elements to the mounting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: John J. Gomez, Jame D. Biebel, Raza Bashir, Joseph Gasko, Dalibor Dimovski, Kurt A. Seibold, Xin Wei Jolene NG, John Bleau, Walter Daniel Merchant, Raymond Anthony Iavasile
  • Publication number: 20200215934
    Abstract: A seat mounting structure for at least one seat in a vehicle having a vehicle structure is provided. The seat mounting structure may have a seat rib cage configured as a universal solitary mounting bracket to which at least one seat can be affixed. The seat rib cage may have a plurality of rib cage elements connected with each other to form the seat rib cage. The seat rib cage may also have a plurality of seat mounting points for mounting the at least one seat to the seat rib cage. The seat rib cage may also have a plurality of vehicle structure mounting points for mounting the seat rib cage to the vehicle structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: John J. Gomez, James D. Biebel, Raza Bashir, Joseph Gasko, Dalibor Dimovski, Kurt A. Seibold, Xin Wei Jolene NG, John Bleau, Raymond Anthony Iavasile
  • Publication number: 20200087116
    Abstract: An automatic handrail tensioning system and a method for adjusting the tension degree of a handrail, and belongs to the technical field of escalators. The automatic handrail tensioning system of the present invention comprises: a sensor for detecting information that can reflect a tension degree of the handrail; a controller for determining the tension degree information of the handrail according to the information detected by the sensor, and generating a corresponding control instruction for adjusting the tension degree of the handrail based on the tension degree information; and an actuator for driving a tensioning device to adjust the tension degree of the handrail based on the control instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: QingXi Cai, JianGuo Li, Xin Wei, Jie Hu, LiFei Cheng, ZuAn Tang, Jun Ma
  • Publication number: 20200059101
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, and a medium for calculating capacities of a plurality of photovoltaic power stations. The method includes: receiving a plurality of historical weather data sets from the plurality of weather monitoring stations; determining a scene year based on the plurality of historical weather data sets; receiving an actual generating capacity of each photovoltaic power station predicted by a power system dispatch center; extracting weather data of each photovoltaic power station in the scene year from the corresponding historical weather data set; obtaining an available generating capacity of each photovoltaic power station in the scene year based on the weather data; and determining a capacity of each photovoltaic power station in the scene year according to the actual generating capacity and the available generating capacity of each photovoltaic power station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Jian ZHANG, Xin TIAN, Xueliang LI, Ning ZHANG, Jian WU, Long ZHAO, Yan WANG, Zhijie ZHENG, Hong MOU, Yuan WANG, Xiaoming LIU, Jie ZHANG, Xiaonan GAO, Jianing ZHANG, Dong LIU, Ying MOU, Shanjie JIA, Bo LI, Yi ZHU, Xiaohai GAO, Xin WEI, Jia WEI
  • Patent number: 10557082
    Abstract: A liquid crystal composition and use thereof in the liquid crystal display field. The liquid crystal composition includes, in percentages by weight, 5-40% of one or more compounds represented by general formula I, 2-30% of one or more compounds represented by general formula II, and 20-70% of one or more compounds represented by general formula III, and may further include 4-30% of one or more compounds represented by general formula IV and/or 5-25% of one or more compounds represented by general formulas V to IX. The combined use of the above-mentioned compounds can effectively reduce the rotational viscosity of the liquid crystal composition, improve related properties of the mixed liquid crystal, and thus reduce the response time thereof. The liquid crystal composition can be used for a fast-response liquid display in a variety of display modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING BAYI SPACE LCD TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Maoxian Chen, Haiguang Chen, Shihong Chu, Tianmeng Jiang, Xin Wei, Lin Zhang, Huiqiang Tian, Qinghua Li, Jin Yuan, Yunpeng Guo, Xuehui Su
  • Publication number: 20200032345
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods for predicting the likelihood that a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) will respond to transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) using a gene signature of 14 or 15 genes. Also provided are nucleic acid probes and kits for detecting the gene signature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: The U.S.A., as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Xin Wei Wang, Valerie Fako Miller
  • Publication number: 20190358027
    Abstract: An ophthalmic lens includes an optic comprising an anterior surface, a posterior surface, and an optical axis. At least one of the anterior surface and the posterior surface has a surface profile including a base curvature, a refractive region having the base curvature, and a diffractive region comprising a diffractive profile including a plurality of diffractive steps. At least a portion of the diffractive profile constitutes a combination of a base diffractive profile defining multiple foci for the ophthalmic lens and an achromatizing structure that reduces longitudinal chromatic aberrations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Xin Hong, Xin Wei