Patents by Inventor Yanfu ZHANG

Yanfu 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: 11938868
    Abstract: A photographing device for a vehicle and relates to the field of automatic driving technology is disclosed. The specific solution is that the photographing device includes a seat; a camera mounted on the seat; a lens holder mounted on the seat and rotatable relative to the seat; a transparent lens mounted on the lens holder and arranged opposite to the camera; and a driving assembly connected with the lens holder to drive the lens holder to rotate relative to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apollo Intelligent Connectivity (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingsheng Hu, Zongtao Fan, Bolei Wang, Rui Ren, Cheng Tan, Jiali Zhang, Yanfu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230204491
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining a road surface adhesion coefficient are provided. The method includes: determining, based on M state parameters of a vehicle on a target road section, M road surface adhesion coefficient estimation results respectively corresponding to the M state parameters, M being an integer greater than 1; selecting N road surface adhesion coefficient estimation results from the M road surface adhesion coefficient estimation results according to a traveling work condition of the vehicle on the target road section, N being a positive integer smaller than or equal to M; and determining a road surface adhesion coefficient of the target road section based on the N road surface adhesion coefficient estimation results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Yuelei GAO, Yun Zhao, Zhihua YU, Yanfu Zhang, Zhenmin Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230031709
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an autonomous driving vehicle detection method and apparatus, an electronic device and a readable storage medium, and relates to the field of computer technologies, and in particular, to the field of artificial intelligence technologies such as intelligent transportation and autonomous driving technologies. A specific implementation solution involves: acquiring passengers' ride information on an autonomous driving vehicle; determining a vehicle component change state of the autonomous driving vehicle according to the ride information of the autonomous driving vehicle; wherein the vehicle component change state includes a door change state of the autonomous driving vehicle and a seat belt change state of the autonomous driving vehicle; and determining a seat load of the autonomous driving vehicle according to the vehicle component change state of the autonomous driving vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihua YU, Jianfeng SUN, Yun ZHAO, Ganghui WANG, Yanfu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230008398
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a Lidar and a positioning device, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a point-cloud data sequence of the Lidar and a pose data sequence of the positioning device, in which, the Lidar and the positioning device are on a same traveling device; determining first trajectory information of the Lidar and second trajectory information of the positioning device according to the point-cloud data sequence and the pose data sequence; and determining a calibration offset between the Lidar and the positioning device according to the first trajectory information and the second trajectory information, in which, a matching degree between the first trajectory information and the second trajectory information satisfies a preset matching degree condition under a trajectory information correspondence determined based on the calibration offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Qingqing XIE, Yanfu ZHANG, Jiali ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220327740
    Abstract: A registration method and a registration apparatus for an autonomous vehicle is provided. The method includes: generating a first trajectory curve based on first detection poses of a vehicle-mounted camera at a plurality of first time points, generating a second trajectory curve based on second detection poses of a vehicle-mounted positioning device at a plurality of second time points, aligning the first trajectory curve with the second trajectory curve based on the first detection poses and the second detection poses, and registering the vehicle-mounted camera and the vehicle-mounted positioning device based on the first trajectory curve and the second trajectory curve aligned with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingqing Xie, Yanfu Zhang, Jiali Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220234060
    Abstract: A mixing nozzle includes a first connector, a second connector, a first channel and a second channel, where a first end of the first channel is connected to the first connector, and a second end of the first channel is provided with a spraying opening in communication with the first channel; a first end of the second channel is connected to the second connector, and a second end of the second channel is in through connection with the first channel; the first connector is configured to introduce a first fluid into the first channel, and the second connector is configured to introduce a second fluid into the second channel; and a length of the second channel is less than a length of the first channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rui REN, Zongtao FAN, Bolei WANG, Jingsheng HU, Kang LI, Yanfu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220075026
    Abstract: A lidar map-based loop detection method, an electronic device, and a storage medium, which are related to a field of intelligent transportation and a technical field of automatic driving. The specific implementation include: acquiring an eigenvector of each grid in each sub-map of N sub-maps of the lidar map; determining a target eigenvector of each grid in each sub-map of the N sub-maps according to the eigenvector of each grid in each sub-map of the N sub-maps; constructing histograms of the N sub-maps according to the target eigenvector of each grid in each sub-map of the N sub-maps; and determining that a loop relation exists between two target sub-maps in the N sub-maps, in case that a similarity of histograms of the two target sub-maps is greater than a preset threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Qingqing XIE, Yanfu ZHANG, Jiali ZHANG, Meng YUAN
  • Publication number: 20210370844
    Abstract: A photographing device for a vehicle and relates to the field of automatic driving technology is disclosed. The specific solution is that the photographing device includes a seat; a camera mounted on the seat; a lens holder mounted on the seat and rotatable relative to the seat; a transparent lens mounted on the lens holder and arranged opposite to the camera; and a driving assembly connected with the lens holder to drive the lens holder to rotate relative to the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jingsheng HU, Zongtao FAN, Bolei WANG, Rui REN, Cheng TAN, Jiali ZHANG, Yanfu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210341584
    Abstract: A lidar base, a lidar device and an autonomous vehicle are provided, and relate to the technical field of automatic driving. Wherein, the lidar base includes: a seat body for installing a lidar assembly; a cover plate arranged on the seat body, and a diversion gap being defined between the cover plate and the base body, wherein an air outlet of the diversion gap is arranged toward the lidar assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Rui Ren, Zongtao Fan, Bolei Wang, Jingsheng Hu, Jiali Zhang, Yuquan Yuan, Yanfu Zhang
  • Patent number: 10796685
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for recognizing an image. A specific implementation of the method comprises: acquiring a to-be-recognized image containing a to-be-recognized object; sending the to-be-recognized image to a server, and receiving identification information of a target object corresponding to the to-be-recognized object returned by the server, obtained by recognizing the to-be-recognized image, and a confidence parameter returned by the server; and determining the identification information of the target object as a recognition result when the confidence parameter is greater than a confidence threshold; or acquiring labeled information associated with the to-be-recognized image from a third-party platform and determining the labeled information as the recognition result when the confidence parameter is smaller than the confidence threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Long Gong, Yanfu Zhang, Jiawei Gu
  • Patent number: 10726243
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for processing an image. A preferred embodiment of the method comprises: receiving video data acquired by a web camera and decoding the video data to obtain at least one to-be-processed image containing a face image; determining a face region image in the to-be-processed image; and extracting facial feature information from the face region image, the facial feature information comprising at least one of the following: facial form information, eyebrow information or eye shape information. The embodiment acquires video data by means of a web camera, which ensures the quality of the acquired image, realizes the pre-processing of the to-be-processed image and is useful to improve the accuracy of the subsequent face recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanfu Zhang
  • Patent number: 10685215
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for recognizing a face. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring at least two facial images of a to-be-recognized face under different illuminations using a near-infrared photographing device; generating at least one difference image based on a brightness difference between each two of the at least two facial images; determining a facial contour image of the to-be-recognized, face based on the at least one difference image; inputting the at least two facial images, the at least one difference image, and the facial contour image into a pre-trained real face prediction value calculation model to obtain a real face prediction value of the to-be-recognized face; and outputting prompt information for indicating successful recognition of a real face, in response to determining the obtained real face prediction value being greater than a preset threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dingfu Zhou, Ruigang Yang, Yanfu Zhang, Zhibin Hong
  • Publication number: 20190163959
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for recognizing a face. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring at least two facial images of a to-be-recognized face under different illuminations using a near-infrared photographing device; generating at least one difference image based on a brightness difference between each two of the at least two facial images; determining a facial contour image of the to-be-recognized, face based on the at least one difference image; inputting the at least two facial images, the at least one difference image, and the facial contour image into a pre-trained real face prediction value calculation model to obtain a real face prediction value of the to-be-recognized face; and outputting prompt information for indicating successful recognition of a real face, in response to determining the obtained real face prediction value being greater than a preset threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Dingfu Zhou, Ruigang Yang, Yanfu Zhang, Zhibin Hong
  • Publication number: 20190065826
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for processing an image. A preferred embodiment of the method comprises: receiving video data acquired by a web camera and decoding the video data to obtain at least one to-be-processed image containing a face image; determining a face region image in the to-be-processed image; and extracting facial feature information from the face region image, the facial feature information comprising at least one of the following: facial form information, eyebrow information or eye shape information. The embodiment acquires video data by means of a web camera, which ensures the quality of the acquired image, realizes the pre-processing of the to-be-processed image and is useful to improve the accuracy of the subsequent face recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yanfu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180204562
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for recognizing an image. A specific implementation of the method comprises: acquiring a to-be-recognized image containing a to-be-recognized object; sending the to-be-recognized image to a server, and receiving identification information of a target object corresponding to the to-be-recognized object returned by the server, obtained by recognizing the to-be-recognized image, and a confidence parameter returned by the server; and determining the identification information of the target object as a recognition result when the confidence parameter is greater than a confidence threshold; or acquiring labeled information associated with the to-be-recognized image from a third-party platform and determining the labeled information as the recognition result when the confidence parameter is smaller than the confidence threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Long GONG, Yanfu ZHANG, Jiawei GU