Patents by Inventor Xiong Zhang

Xiong 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).

  • Patent number: 11513164
    Abstract: A method and system for estimating a battery pack balance state of a new energy vehicle are provided. The method includes: acquiring an actual cell voltage difference measured for a battery pack of a new energy vehicle, and acquiring one or more operation condition parameters for an operation condition under which the actual cell voltage difference is measured, wherein the actual cell voltage difference is the difference between the maximum and minimum battery cell voltages within the battery pack; determining an expected cell voltage difference according to a model based on the one or more operation condition parameters; determining a compensated cell voltage difference according to the actual cell voltage difference and the expected cell voltage difference; and estimating a battery pack balance state of the new energy vehicle according to the compensated cell voltage difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yizhen Zhang, Jin Shang, Xiong Zhang, Yonggang Xu
  • Patent number: 11512034
    Abstract: The present application describes process for preparing an ortho-allylated hydroxy aryl compounds such as compounds of Formula (I) by reacting an allylic alcohol with a hydroxy aryl compound in the presence of aluminum compound selected from alumina and aluminum alkoxides and in a non-protic solvent wherein at least one carbon atom ortho to the hydroxy group in the hydroxy aryl compound is unsubstituted. The present application also includes compounds of Formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: McMaster University
    Inventors: Jakob Magolan, Nicholas Jentsch, Xiong Zhang, Mathew Piotrowski
  • Publication number: 20220319621
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information tamper-resistant system and method. The system includes: a storage module; a writing module connected with the storage module through a first OTP switch, to write source information to the storage module; a first reading module connected with the storage module through a second OTP switch, to read out written information in the storage module and disconnect the first OTP switch and the second OTP switch after confirming that the written information is accurate; and a second reading module connected with the storage module through a third OTP switch, to read out information stored in the storage module after the third OTP switch is switched on; the first OTP switch, the second OTP switch, and the third OTP switch can only perform one switch-on operation or one switch-off operation. The system and method effectively avoid theft and tampering of information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: MONTAGE TECHNOLOGY (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiong ZHANG, Gang SHI
  • Publication number: 20220284885
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for automated speech recognition. Audio data corresponding to one or more speakers is received. Covariance matrices of target speech and noise associated with the received audio data are estimated based on a gated recurrent unit-based network. A predicted target waveform corresponding to a target speaker from among the one or more speakers is generated by a minimum variance distortionless response function based on the estimated covariance matrices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Yong XU, Meng YU, Shi-Xiong ZHANG, Dong YU
  • Patent number: 11423906
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer readable medium are provided for automatic speech recognition. Video data and audio data corresponding to one or more speakers is received. A minimum variance distortionless response function is applied to the received audio and video data. A predicted target waveform corresponding to a target speaker from among the one or more speakers is generated based on back-propagating the output of the applied minimum variance distortionless response function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Yong Xu, Meng Yu, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Chao Weng, Jianming Liu, Dong Yu
  • Patent number: 11380307
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for automated speech recognition. Audio data corresponding to one or more speakers is received. Covariance matrices of target speech and noise associated with the received audio data are estimated based on a gated recurrent unit-based network. A predicted target waveform corresponding to a target speaker from among the one or more speakers is generated by a minimum variance distortionless response function based on the estimated covariance matrices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Yong Xu, Meng Yu, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Dong Yu
  • Publication number: 20220185590
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application provide a control system for a conveying line, a conveying line and a control method for a conveying line, the conveying line includes at least one conveying unit, the control system includes: at least one unit controller, a general controller and an upper computer, the unit controller one-to-one corresponds to the conveying unit, the unit controller is fixed in the corresponding conveying unit, the upper computer generates conveying path data according to a material conveying requirement and layout data of the conveying unit, the general controller is configured to receive the conveying path data, and is further configured to receive material location data sent by the unit controller and generate a control instruction for the unit controller according to the material location data and the conveying path data, and the unit controller controls the conveying unit according to the control instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Cheng WANG, Yuqin TANG, Chao LU, Ruiting XIONG, Xiong ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220155023
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a first casing and a second casing coupled to the first casing. The second casing includes a body having an inner surface and an outer surface opposite the inner surface, and a first portion and a second portion, each of the first and second portions having a different cross-sectional area. The heat dissipation device further includes a plurality of columns on the inner surface, and a first wick structure disposed on the inner surface and in the first portion and the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Xuemei WANG, Xiong ZHANG, Jen-Chih CHENG
  • Patent number: 11323749
    Abstract: A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes at least one pre-encoder configured to pre-encode a received input video signal, and output a pre-encoded video signal. The mechanism also includes an encoder configured to obtain the pre-encoded video signal from the pre-encoder, and encode the pre-encoded video signal as a bitstream for transmitting the bitstream to decoder for decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianhua Zheng, Quanhe Yu, Meng Li, Hai Chen, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220128631
    Abstract: A method and system for estimating a battery pack balance state of a new energy vehicle are provided. The method includes: acquiring an actual cell voltage difference measured for a battery pack of a new energy vehicle, and acquiring one or more operation condition parameters for an operation condition under which the actual cell voltage difference is measured, wherein the actual cell voltage difference is the difference between the maximum and minimum battery cell voltages within the battery pack; determining an expected cell voltage difference according to a model based on the one or more operation condition parameters; determining a compensated cell voltage difference according to the actual cell voltage difference and the expected cell voltage difference; and estimating a battery pack balance state of the new energy vehicle according to the compensated cell voltage difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Yizhen ZHANG, Jin SHANG, Xiong ZHANG, Yonggang XU
  • Publication number: 20220101831
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for automated speech recognition. Audio data corresponding to one or more speakers is received. Covariance matrices of target speech and noise associated with the received audio data are estimated based on a gated recurrent unit-based network. A predicted target waveform corresponding to a target speaker from among the one or more speakers is generated by a minimum variance distortionless response function based on the estimated covariance matrices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Yong XU, Meng XU, Shi-Xiong ZHANG, Dong YU
  • Patent number: 11270918
    Abstract: The present application disclosed a conducting layer-dielectric layer-conducting layer (CDC) laminate structure and test method for detecting defects of an inter-metal dielectric layer. The laminate structure comprises: a dielectric layer formed on a substrate; a first conducting layer formed at a first side of the dielectric layer, wherein the first conducting layer includes a first metal region and at least one first opening in the first metal region; and a second conducting layer formed at a second side of the dielectric layer opposite to the first conducting layer such that the second conducting layer is separated from the first conducting layer by the dielectric layer, wherein the second conducting layer includes a second metal region and a plurality of second openings in the second metal region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: MONTAGE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiong Zhang, Chunlai Sun, Peichun Wang, Gang Shi
  • Publication number: 20220060187
    Abstract: An asymmetrical I/O structure is provided. In one embodiment, the asymmetrical I/O structure comprises a first power supply node connected to a first voltage, a second power supply node connected to a second voltage, a pull-up unit and a pull-down unit which are connected between the first power supply node and the second power supply node. The first voltage is higher than the second voltage. A node between the pull-up unit and the pull-down unit is connected to an I/O node. The pull-up unit comprises one or more pull-up transistors, and the pull-down unit comprises one or more pull-down transistors. The number of the pull-up transistors is different from the number of the pull-down transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: MONTAGE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiong ZHANG, Chunlai SUN, Juan DU, Gang SHI, Chonghe YANG
  • Publication number: 20220013123
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer readable medium are provided for automatic speech recognition. Video data and audio data corresponding to one or more speakers is received. A minimum variance distortionless response function is applied to the received audio and video data. A predicted target waveform corresponding to a target speaker from among the one or more speakers is generated based on back-propagating the output of the applied minimum variance distortionless response function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Yong XU, Meng Yu, Shi-Xiong Zhang, Chao Weng, Jianming Liu, Dong Yu
  • Publication number: 20210390970
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system for separating a target voice from among a plurality of speakers is provided. Video data associated with the plurality of speakers and audio data associated with each of the one or more speakers are received. Video feature data is extracted from the received video data. The target voice is identified from among the plurality of speakers based on the received audio data and the extracted video feature data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Shi-Xiong Zhang, Yong Xu, Meng Yu, Dong Yu
  • Publication number: 20210380513
    Abstract: The present application describes process for preparing an ortho-allylated hydroxy aryl compounds such as compounds of Formula (I) by reacting an allylic alcohol with a hydroxy aryl compound in the presence of aluminum compound selected from alumina and aluminum alkoxides and in a non-protic solvent wherein at least one carbon atom ortho to the hydroxy group in the hydroxy aryl compound is unsubstituted. The present application also includes compounds of Formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Jake Magolan, Nick Jentsch, Xiong Zhang, Mathew Piotrowski, Partick Darveau, Meghan Fragis, Jarrod Johnson, Nikki Ritchie, Arnav Kaul
  • Patent number: 11190809
    Abstract: An apparatus including a memory operably coupled to a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether to use an intra smoothing filter for a rectangular prediction unit (PU), wherein a width of the rectangular PU is different from a height of the rectangular PU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Guichun Li, Lingzhi Liu, Changcai Lai, Nam Ling, Jianhua Zheng, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11181306
    Abstract: A double-sided roll bond condenser has a main body, an interposition section, and a neck portion. The main body is an upright board and has two side surfaces. Two filling structures are respectively protruded from the two side surfaces of the main body. The interposition section is formed at a bottom portion of the double-side roll bond condenser, and is a U-shaped folded structure. The U-shaped folded structure protrudes from one of the two side surfaces of the main body. The neck portion is located between the main body and the interposition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: COOLER MASTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiong Zhang, Jie Zhou
  • Patent number: 11152500
    Abstract: The application discloses a tunneling field-effect transistor, including: a substrate layer; a rectangular semiconductor strip formed on an upper surface of the substrate layer, where the rectangular semiconductor strip includes a first source region, a first channel region, a drain region, a second channel region, and a second source region that are disposed in sequence along a first direction; a first gate dielectric layer covering an outer surface of a first part of the first source region and a second gate dielectric layer covering an outer surface of a third part of the second source region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Zhao, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11119048
    Abstract: A highly integrated, fully automatic chemiluminescence detection equipment and its operation method are disclosed. The chemiluminescence detection equipment comprises a control module, a first electrical machine, a reagent wheel disc tank, a sampling module, a washing module, a second electrical machine and a detection module. Compared with the traditional large-scale chemiluminescence detection equipment, the chemiluminescence detection equipment of the present invention has the advantage of high integration, and greatly reduces the overall volume and weight of the chemiluminescence detection equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHAOXING PUSHKANG BIOTECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin Cheng, Chun-Yan Liu, Ya-Xiong Zhang, Xi-Jiang Qian, Quan-Qi Yang, Xian-Hua Wang, Hui Xu, Bo Yu, Ye-Qi Jin