Patents by Inventor Xun Zhang

Xun 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).

  • Publication number: 20150146884
    Abstract: A circuit for suppressing audio output noise and an audio output circuit are provided. The circuit for suppressing audio output noise includes: a detecting circuit, configured to detect output voltages of output stages of an audio power amplifier; a control circuit, configured to output at least one control signal, the control signal is related to detection results of the detecting circuit; and a compensating circuit, configured to compensate at least one output stage of the audio power amplifier which includes a differential circuit based on the at least one control signal output by the control circuit, to make parameters of the differential circuit symmetrical or approach symmetrical. Based on detection results of the output stage voltages, the differential circuit in the output stages of the audio power amplifier is compensated. The circuit for suppressing audio output noise has a wider application scope and it is easy to design the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Xun ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9015168
    Abstract: A device for generating opinion pairs having sentiment orientation based impact relations, having: a reception unit which receives a plurality of object-oriented opinions; an extraction unit which extracts opinions having impact relations among the plurality of object-oriented opinions; an analysis unit which analyzes sentiment orientations of the extracted respective opinions; and a generation unit which establishes correlations between the opinions having sentiment orientation based impact relations to generate the opinion pairs having the sentiment orientation based impact relations. The present device can search and locate more implicit opinions as supplementary opinions by detecting impact relations from a plurality of opinions, and help users interested in different objects obtain more comprehensive comments and summaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Keke Cai, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Xiao Xun Zhang, Hui Jia Zhu
  • Patent number: 8995072
    Abstract: A servo system includes a detector circuit operable to apply a data detection algorithm to digital data to yield hard decisions, a convolution circuit operable to yield ideal digital data based on the hard decisions and on target values, a subtraction circuit operable to subtract the ideal digital data from the digital data to yield an error signal, a scaling circuit operable to scale the error signal to yield a scaled noise signal, an adder operable to add the scaled noise signal to the digital data to yield noise-added digital data, and a second detector circuit operable to apply a second data detection algorithm to the noise-added digital data to yield output hard decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Dahua Qin, Xun Zhang, Lu Lu, Haitao Xia, Jianzhong Huang
  • Patent number: 8970981
    Abstract: A hard disk drive uses a second, reference burst field in a preamble to estimate burst phase and burst magnitude. Such estimations are used for position error signal integration and repeatable runout correction. Gain error is also derived from such estimations. Information contained in a preamble field is used in conjunction with the reference burst phase estimation to synchronize servo address marks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Xun Zhang, Haitao Xia, Dahua Qin
  • Patent number: 8958166
    Abstract: Sliding-window based data processing includes receiving an analog signal, converting the analog signal to a series of digital samples synchronous to a sampling clock, performing a first discrete Fourier transform on a first portion of the series of digital samples, performing a second discrete Fourier transform on a second portion of the series of digital samples, performing a third discrete Fourier transform on a third portion of the series of digital samples, generating a first series of zero phase start values by calculating a zero phase start value based on the first discrete Fourier transform in a sliding-window at a series of time increments across the servo preamble, storing the zero phase start values, and averaging the stored zero phase start values at the end of the servo preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Xun Zhang, Mark D. Thornley, Dahua Qin, Haitao Xia
  • Publication number: 20140340780
    Abstract: Sliding-window based data processing includes receiving an analog signal, converting the analog signal to a series of digital samples synchronous to a sampling clock, performing a first discrete Fourier transform on a first portion of the series of digital samples, performing a second discrete Fourier transform on a second portion of the series of digital samples, performing a third discrete Fourier transform on a third portion of the series of digital samples, generating a first series of zero phase start values by calculating a zero phase start value based on the first discrete Fourier transform in a sliding-window at a series of time increments across the servo preamble, storing the zero phase start values, and averaging the stored zero phase start values at the end of the servo preamble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Xun Zhang, Mark D. Thornley, Dahua Qin, Haitao Xia
  • Publication number: 20140331108
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting media flaws includes a branch metric selection circuit operable to select a first branch metric and a second branch metric, a subtraction circuit operable to subtract the second branch metric from the first branch metric to yield a difference, and a comparator operable to compare the difference with a threshold value and to indicate a presence of a potential flaw in a storage medium when the difference is less than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Dahua Qin, Xun Zhang, Haitao Xia
  • Patent number: 8874604
    Abstract: A method and system for searching an electronic map. The method includes the steps of: receiving a query entered by a user for searching the electronic map; extracting place names in the query; extracting in web pages searched on a computer network co-occurrence place names that co-occurred with the place names; selecting extension place names from the co-occurrence place names, thereby obtaining a set of extension place names; generating a set of queries, wherein the set of queries includes the query entered by the user, and includes a query obtained by replacing the place names in the query entered by the user with each extension place name in the set of extension place names respectively; and sending the set of queries to a map search engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Keke Cai, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Xiao Xun Zhang, Hui Jia Zhu
  • Patent number: 8874410
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods related to pattern detection. As an example, a system for sample selection is disclosed that includes a difference calculation circuit, a comparator circuit, and an output selector circuit. The difference calculation circuit is operable to calculate a first difference between a first value corresponding to a first digital sample and a second value corresponding to a second digital sample, and to calculate a second difference between a third value corresponding to a third digital sample and a fourth value corresponding to a fourth digital sample. The comparator circuit is operable to compare the first difference with the second difference to yield a comparison output. The output selector circuit is operable to select one of the second value and the fourth value as an output based at least upon the comparison output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Xun Zhang, Mark D. Thornley, Viswanath Annampedu, Peter J. Windler
  • Patent number: 8869025
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for identifying an advertisement in a web page. The method includes the steps of: receiving a sample page; analyzing a source code of the sample page to obtain a node feature of the sample page; analyzing the node feature using a preset rule to find a sample advertisement in the sample page; analyzing a first link of the sample advertisement to obtain a link mode of the sample advertisement; and utilizing the link mode to identify a second advertisement, where at least one of the steps is carried out using a computer device so that the advertisement in a web page is identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shenghua Bao, Zhong Su, Li Zhang, Xiao Xun Zhang
  • Patent number: 8868556
    Abstract: There are disclosed a method and a device for tagging a document. The method includes the steps of acquiring structural information of the document, retrieving a content block list corresponding to a user-input tag, comparing blocks in the structural information with blocks in the content block list, to obtain similar blocks, and annotating the user-input tag at positions, which correspond to the similar blocks, in the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ben Fei, Bo Hu, Zhong Su, Xian Wu, Xiao Xun Zhang
  • Patent number: 8861107
    Abstract: A data processing circuit with flaw robust burst field demodulation includes a burst integration circuit operable to calculate burst integration results for a servo data burst field, a comparison circuit operable to determine whether an absolute value of the burst integration results falls outside a window, and an error indicating circuit operable to indicate that a media flaw has been detected when the absolute value of the burst integration results fall outside the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Xun Zhang, Haitao Xia, Dahua Qin
  • Patent number: 8862460
    Abstract: System, method and program product for text processing using object coreference technology. In particular, the invention provides a text processing method which includes, acquiring text to be processed; extracting subject words and entity words corresponding to the subject words from the text; grouping the subject words; determining entity words that reference a same concerned object according to the grouped subject words; and generating processing policy for entity words that reference a same concerned object. The invention also includes a system with means for carrying out the method. The invention generally realizes automatic, more comprehensive, accurate, efficient analysis and processing on text data. The invention can be used to dig a large amount of comment data about some entity, and the invention can also be used to suggest insertion place in an article where embedded advertisement is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Keke Cai, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Xiao Xun Zhang, Hui Jia Zhu
  • Publication number: 20140268397
    Abstract: A hard disk drive uses a second, reference burst field in a preamble to estimate burst phase and burst magnitude. Such estimations are used for position error signal integration and repeatable runout correction. Gain error is also derived from such estimations. Information contained in a preamble field is used in conjunction with the reference burst phase estimation to synchronize servo address marks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Xun Zhang, Haitao Xia, Dahua Qin
  • Publication number: 20140233128
    Abstract: A data processing circuit with flaw robust burst field demodulation includes a burst integration circuit operable to calculate burst integration results for a servo data burst field, a comparison circuit operable to determine whether an absolute value of the burst integration results falls outside a window, and an error indicating circuit operable to indicate that a media flaw has been detected when the absolute value of the burst integration results fall outside the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Xun Zhang, Haitao Xia, Dahua Qin
  • Patent number: 8809237
    Abstract: A method of forming a superconducting article includes providing a substrate tape, forming a superconducting layer overlying the substrate tape, and depositing a capping layer overlying the superconducting layer. The capping layer includes a noble metal and has a thickness not greater than about 1.0 micron. The method further includes electrodepositing a stabilizer layer overlying the capping layer using a solution that is non-reactive to the superconducting layer. The superconducting layer has an as-formed critical current IC(AF) and a post-stabilized critical current IC(PS). The IC(PS) is at least about 95% of the IC(AF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: SuperPower, Inc.
    Inventors: Raghu N. Bhattacharya, Xun Zhang, Venkat Selvamanickam
  • Patent number: 8755138
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present inventions provide systems and methods for adaptive servo address mark detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Dahua Qin, Haitao Xia, Xun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140146413
    Abstract: Systems and method relating generally to detecting information, and more particularly without limitation to systems and methods for synchronizing to a data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Haitao Xia, Xun Zhang, Dahua Qin, Jiangzhong Huang
  • Publication number: 20140139939
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present inventions provide systems and methods for adaptive servo address mark detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: LSI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dahua Qin, Haitao Xia, Xun Zhang
  • Patent number: 8699160
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for validating a detection of RRO address marks. After a potential RRO address mark is detected, a disclosed RROAM validation metric evaluates the energy of the remaining RRO data bits in the servo sector, relative to a predefined energy threshold. In addition, the number of remaining RRO data bits in the servo sector is compared to an expected value. The detected RRO address mark is validated in an exemplary embodiment if the RROAM validation metric satisfies the predefined energy threshold and the proper number of remaining RRO data bits is detected in the servo sector. The potential RRO address mark can optionally be discarded if the potential RRO address mark is not validated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Viswanath Annampedu, Xun Zhang, Jeffrey P. Grundvig