Patents by Inventor Xuming Zhang
Xuming 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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Publication number: 20240111661Abstract: An embodiment of this application provides a method and apparatus for testing control software, and a computer-readable storage medium to reduce the time consumed in the simulation-based debugging and enhance efficiency. The method may include obtaining test information of a plurality of fault signals; and injecting, based on the test information of the plurality of fault signals, the plurality of fault signals into a simulation environment in sequence to obtain test results of the plurality of fault signals handled by the control software, where the simulation environment may be a simulation environment of a control object of the control software.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Bin LAN, Xuming WANG, Deqiang SHI, Chunguang YE, Runqi WU, Jianfeng GUO, Chang LIU, Dongfei ZHANG, Jianping BAI, Lang YANG, Xuan HE
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Patent number: 11933598Abstract: A deviation detection method includes obtaining first and second images of first and second electrode sheets, respectively, of an electrode assembly during winding using first and second cameras. The method further includes determining whether the first and/or second camera is deviated according to a distance from a reference point in the first and/or second image to a specific position, which is a position of a same object appearing in the first image and the second image. The method also includes determining whether the electrode assembly is deviated according to a vertical distance from the reference point in the first image to a boundary of the first electrode sheet and a vertical distance from the reference point in the second image to a boundary of the second electrode sheet if the first camera and the second camera are not deviated.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Xuming Wang, Jiwei Chen, Yuanyuan Zhang
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Publication number: 20240081648Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and a system for prostate multi-modal MR image classification based on a foveated residual network, the method comprising: replacing convolution kernels of a residual network using blur kernels in a foveation operator, thereby constructing a foveated residual network; training the foveated residual network using prostate multi-modal MR images having category labels, to obtain a trained foveated residual network; and classifying, using the foveated residual network, a prostate multi-modal MR image to be classified, so as to obtain a classification result. In the present invention, a foveation operator is designed based on human visual characteristics, blur kernels of the operator are extracted and used to replace convolution kernels in a residual network, thereby constructing a foveated deep learning network which can extract features that conform to the human visual characteristics, thereby improving the classification accuracy of prostate multi-modal MR images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Xuming ZHANG, Tuo WANG
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Publication number: 20230316549Abstract: Disclosed are a method for establishing a non-rigid multi-modal medical image registration model and an application thereof, which pertain to the field of medical image registration.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Xuming ZHANG, Xingxing ZHU
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Patent number: 11769237Abstract: A multimodal medical image fusion method based on a DARTS network is provided. Feature extraction is performed on a multimodal medical image by using a differentiable architecture search (DARTS) network. The network performs learning by using the gradient of network weight as a loss function in a search phase. A network architecture most suitable for a current dataset is selected from different convolution operations and connections between different nodes, so that features extracted by the network have richer details. In addition, a plurality of indicators that can represent image grayscale information, correlation, detail information, structural features, and image contrast are used as a network loss function, so that the effective fusion of medical images can be implemented in an unsupervised learning way without a gold standard.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Xuming Zhang, Shaozhuang Ye
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Publication number: 20230196528Abstract: A multimodal medical image fusion method based on a DARTS network is provided. Feature extraction is performed on a multimodal medical image by using a differentiable architecture search (DARTS) network. The network performs learning by using the gradient of network weight as a loss function in a search phase. A network architecture most suitable for a current dataset is selected from different convolution operations and connections between different nodes, so that features extracted by the network have richer details. In addition, a plurality of indicators that can represent image grayscale information, correlation, detail information, structural features, and image contrast are used as a network loss function, so that the effective fusion of medical images can be implemented in an unsupervised learning way without a gold standard.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Xuming ZHANG, Shaozhuang YE
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Patent number: 11245112Abstract: A preparation method of an ant nest like porous silicon for a lithium-ion battery comprises: (1) enabling a magnesium silicide raw material to react for 2-24 h in an ammonia gas or an atmosphere containing an ammonia gas at 600-900° C. to obtain a crude product containing porous silicon; and (2) subjecting the crude product containing porous silicon to an acid pickling treatment to obtain the ant nest like porous silicon. The preparation method has the advantages of simplicity and easiness. A large amount of porous silicon can be obtained by directly heating the magnesium silicide raw material in the ammonia gas or a mixed gas of the ammonia gas and an inert gas with a high yield.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kaifu Huo, Biao Gao, Weili An, Jijiang Fu, Xuming Zhang, Siguang Guo
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Patent number: 10853941Abstract: The present invention discloses a registration method and system for a non-rigid multi-modal medical image. The registration method comprises: obtaining local descriptors of a reference image according to Zernike moments of order 0 and repetition 0 and Zernike moments of order 1 and repetition 1 of the reference image; obtaining local descriptors of a floating image according to Zernike moments of order 0 and repetition 0 and Zernike moments of order 1 and repetition 1 of the floating image; and finally obtaining a registration image according to the local descriptors of the reference image and the floating image. In the present, by using self-similarity of the multi-modal medical image and adopting the Zernike moment based local descriptor, the non-rigid multi-modal medical image registration is thus converted into the non-rigid mono-modal medical image registration, thereby greatly improving its accuracy and robustness.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Xuming Zhang, Fei Zhu, Jingke Zhang, Jinxia Ren, Feng Zhao, Guanyu Li, Mingyue Ding
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Publication number: 20200287210Abstract: The present invention discloses a preparation method of ant nest like porous silicon for a lithium-ion battery, comprising: (1) enabling a magnesium silicide raw material to react for 2-24 h in an atmosphere containing ammonia gas at 600-900 DEG C. so as to obtain a crude product containing porous silicon (3Mg2Si+4NH3?3Si+2Mg3N2+6H2); the magnesium silicide raw material has a particle size of 0.2-10 ?m; and (2) subjecting the crude product containing porous silicon obtained in the step (1) to acid pickling so as to obtain ant nest like porous silicon for a lithium-ion battery. By improving the overall process flow of the porous silicon key preparation method as well as parameters and conditions of respective reaction steps, compared with the prior art, the preparation method has the advantage of simplicity and easiness, a large amount of porous micron silicon can be obtained by directly heating the obtained magnesium silicide in ammonia gas (or a mixed gas of ammonia gas and inert gas), and the yield is high.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2018Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Kaifu HUO, Biao GAO, Weili AN, Jijiang FU, Xuming ZHANG, Siguang GUO
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Patent number: 10328410Abstract: Systems and methods configured to produce electrical discharges in compositions, such as those, for example, configured to produce electrical discharges in compositions that comprise mixtures of materials, such as a mixture of a material having a high dielectric constant and a material having a low dielectric constant (e.g., a composition of a liquid having a high dielectric constant and a liquid having a low dielectric constant, a composition of a solid having a high dielectric constant and a liquid having a low dielectric constant, and similar compositions), and further systems and methods configured to produce materials, such as through material modification and/or material synthesis, in part, resulting from producing electrical discharges in compositions.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Min Suk Cha, Xuming Zhang, Suk Ho Chung
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Publication number: 20190130572Abstract: The present invention discloses a registration method and system for a non-rigid multi-modal medical image. The registration method comprises: obtaining local descriptors of a reference image according to Zernike moments of order 0 and repetition 0 and Zernike moments of order 1 and repetition 1 of the reference image; obtaining local descriptors of a floating image according to Zernike moments of order 0 and repetition 0 and Zernike moments of order 1 and repetition 1 of the floating image; and finally obtaining a registration image according to the local descriptors of the reference image and the floating image. In the present, by using self-similarity of the multi-modal medical image and adopting the Zernike moment based local descriptor, the non-rigid multi-modal medical image registration is thus converted into the non-rigid mono-modal medical image registration, thereby greatly improving its accuracy and robustness.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2016Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Xuming ZHANG, Fei ZHU, Jingke ZHANG, Jinxia REN, Feng ZHAO, Guanyu LI, Mingyue DING
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Publication number: 20180215616Abstract: Methods for the reformation of gaseous hydrocarbons are provided. The methods can include forming a bubble containing the gaseous hydrocarbon in a liquid. The bubble can be generated to pass in a gap between a pair of electrodes, whereby an electrical discharge is generated in the bubble at the gap between the electrodes. The electrodes can be a metal or metal alloy with a high melting point so they can sustain high voltages of up to about 200 kilovolts. The gaseous hydrocarbon can be combined with an additive gas such as molecular oxygen or carbon dioxide. The reformation of the gaseous hydrocarbon can produce mixtures containing one or more of H2, CO, H2O, CO2, and a lower hydrocarbon such as ethane or ethylene. The reformation of the gaseous hydrocarbon can produce low amounts of CO2 and H2O, e.g. about 15 mol-% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2016Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Min Suk CHA, Xuming ZHANG
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Publication number: 20170165629Abstract: Systems and methods configured to produce electrical discharges in compositions, such as those, for example, configured to produce electrical discharges in compositions that comprise mixtures of materials, such as a mixture of a material having a high dielectric constant and a material having a low dielectric constant (e.g., a composition of a liquid having a high dielectric constant and a liquid having a low dielectric constant, a composition of a solid having a high dielectric constant and a liquid having a low dielectric constant, and similar compositions), and further systems and methods configured to produce materials, such as through material modification and/or material synthesis, in part, resulting from producing electrical discharges in compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Min Suk CHA, Xuming ZHANG, Suk Ho CHUNG
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Patent number: 9641196Abstract: The present invention relates to communication field, disclosing a data block interleaving and deinterleaving method and apparatus for communication equipments. In the present invention, a recursive method for calculating interleaver or deinterleaver addresses for existing power line communication standards is proposed. The complex modulo operation is simplified to a series of Add-Compare-Subtract operations. Therefore, the hardware implementation complexity is significantly reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Hi-Trend Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xuming Zhang
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Publication number: 20150263765Abstract: The present invention relates to communication field, disclosing a data block interleaving and deinterleaving method and apparatus for communication equipments. In the present invention, a recursive method for calculating interleaver or deinterleaver addresses for existing power line communication standards is proposed. The complex modulo operation is simplified to a series of Add-Compare-Subtract operations. Therefore, the hardware implementation complexity is significantly reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Inventor: Xuming ZHANG
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Patent number: 8966988Abstract: Ultra-miniature surface-mountable optical pressure sensor is constructed on an optical fiber. The sensor design utilizes an angled fiber tip which steers the optical axis of the optic fiber by 90°. The optical cavity is formed on the sidewall of the optic fiber. The optical cavity may be covered with a polymer-metal composite diaphragm to operate as a pressure transducer, Alternatively, a polymer-filled cavity may be constructed which does not need a reflective diaphragm. The sensor exhibits a sufficient linearity over the broad pressure range with a high sensitivity. The sensitivity of the sensor may he tuned by controlling the thickness of the diaphragm. Methods of batch production of uniform device-to-device optical pressure sensors of co-axial and cross-axial configurations are presented.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: University of MarylandInventors: Miao Yu, Hyungdae Bae, Xuming Zhang
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Publication number: 20120210797Abstract: Ultra-miniature surface-mountable optical pressure sensor is constructed on an optical fiber. The sensor design utilizes an angled fiber tip which steers the optical axis of the optic fiber by 90°. The optical cavity is formed on the sidewall of the optic fiber. The optical cavity may be covered with a polymer-metal composite diaphragm to operate as a pressure transducer. Alternatively, a polymer-filled cavity may be constructed which does not need a reflective diaphragm. The sensor exhibits a sufficient linearity over the broad pressure range with a high sensitivity. The sensitivity of the sensor may be tuned by controlling the thickness of the diaphragm. Methods of batch production of uniform device-to-device optical pressure sensors of co-axial and cross-axial configurations are presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDInventors: Miao YU, Hyungdae BAE, Xuming ZHANG
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Patent number: 8151648Abstract: Ultra-miniature surface-mountable Fabry-Perot pressure sensor is constructed on an optical fiber which utilizes a 45° angled fiber tip covered with a reflective layer which steers the optical axis of the fiber by 90°. The Fabry-Perot cavity is formed on the sidewall of the fiber and a polymer-metal composite diaphragm is formed on the top of the Fabry-Perot cavity to operate as a pressure transducer. The sensor exhibits a sufficient linearity over the broad pressure range with a high sensitivity. The sensitivity of the sensor may be tuned by controlling the thickness of the diaphragm. The sensor may be used in a wide range of applications, including reliable in vivo low invasive pressure measurements of biological fluids, single sensor systems, as well as integral spatial-division-multiplexing sensor networks. Methods of batch production of uniform device-to-device Fabry-Perot pressure sensors of co-axial and cross-axial configurations are presented.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2010Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: University of MarylandInventors: Miao Yu, Hyungdae Bae, Xuming Zhang
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Patent number: 7925092Abstract: A hand-writing input device comprises: an input surface, a guidance device provided on the input surface along a predetermined track to guide a finger or pen along the track; a plurality of switch elements provided at particular positions on the track. When a particular character is inputted, the triggered switch element outputs the corresponding signal, and the combinations of the signals outputted by the switch elements correspond to the inputted characters. Since hand-writing input is performed by guiding a finger or pen along a predetermined track, only few switch elements are needed, thereby simplifying hand-writing recognition, reducing software requirements and increasing recognition accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2003Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Ziyan Wang, Xuming Zhang
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Publication number: 20110023617Abstract: Ultra-miniature surface-mountable Fabry-Perot pressure sensor is constructed on an optical fiber which utilizes a 45° angled fiber tip covered with a reflective layer which steers the optical axis of the fiber by 90°. The Fabry-Perot cavity is formed on the sidewall of the fiber and a polymer-metal composite diaphragm is formed on the top of the Fabry-Perot cavity to operate as a pressure transducer. The sensor exhibits a sufficient linearity over the broad pressure range with a high sensitivity. The sensitivity of the sensor may be tuned by controlling the thickness of the diaphragm. The sensor may be used in a wide range of applications, including reliable in vivo low invasive pressure measurements of biological fluids, single sensor systems, as well as integral spatial-division-multiplexing sensor networks. Methods of batch production of uniform device-to-device Fabry-Perot pressure sensors of co-axial and cross-axial configurations are presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDInventors: MIAO YU, HYUNGDAE BAE, XUMING ZHANG