Patents by Inventor Yang Liu

Yang Liu 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).

  • AUGMENTATION FOR WEB CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS
    Publication number: 20240087177
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to augmentation for web conference participants. An augmentation rule set defining mappings between augmentations and participant characteristics can be received, where the augmentation rule set is implemented for a web conference to determine augmentations to apply onto participant video feeds within the web conference. A plurality of participants within the web conference can be identified. The web conference can be analyzed to determine participant characteristics of each participant of the plurality within the web conference. Augmentation can be applied on respective video feeds of each participant according to the augmentation rule set based on the determined characteristics of each participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Su Liu, Jill S. Dhillon, Luis Osvaldo Pizana, YANG LIANG
  • SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD UTILIZING ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE (ESD) PREVENTION LAYER
    Publication number: 20240087945
    Abstract: Semiconductor processing apparatuses and methods are provided in which an electrostatic discharge (ESD) prevention layer is utilized to prevent or reduce ESD events from occurring between a semiconductor wafer and one or more components of the apparatuses. In some embodiments, a semiconductor processing apparatus includes a wafer handling structure that is configured to support a semiconductor wafer during processing of the semiconductor wafer. The apparatus further includes an ESD prevention layer on the wafer handling structure. The ESD prevention layer includes a first material and a second material, and the second material has an electrical conductivity that is greater than an electrical conductivity of the first material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Tsai-Hao HUNG, Ping-Cheng KO, Tzu-Yang LIN, Fang-Yu LIU, Cheng-Han WU
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS CHARGING CONTROL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20240088709
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for wireless charging control, and a storage medium. The method is implemented by a wireless charging device including N sets of wireless charging coils, where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2. The method includes controlling the N sets of wireless charging coils to perform charging at different times in response to determining that a temperature of the wireless charging device exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Yang LIU
  • SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20240085464
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a signal processing method, it includes: a secondary node obtains first data and a plurality of pieces of second data; then, the secondary node determines a plurality of first similarity degrees based on the first data and the plurality of pieces of second data; and then, the secondary node determines a target primary node based on the plurality of first similarity degrees. The first data is power frequency cycle feature data collected by the secondary node in a target time period, the plurality of pieces of second data are power frequency cycle feature data respectively collected by a plurality of primary nodes in the target time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Chaobin XIANG, Yang LIU
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TOROIDAL PLASMA GENERATION
    Publication number: 20240087859
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for forming plasma in a process chamber use an annular exciter formed of a first conductive material with a first end electrically connected to an RF power source that provides RF current and a second end connected to a ground and an annular applicator, physically separated from the annular exciter, formed of a second conductive material with at least one angular split with an angle forming an upper overlap portion and a lower overlap portion separated by a high K dielectric material which is configured to provide capacitance in conjunction with an inductance of the annular applicator to form a resonant circuit that is configured to resonate when the annular exciter flows RF current that inductively excites the annular applicator to a resonant frequency which forms azimuthal plasma from the annular applicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kartik RAMASWAMY, Andrew NGUYEN, Yang YANG, Sathya GANTA, Fernando SILVEIRA, Yue GUO, Lu LIU
  • GAS PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, ELECTRICAL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20240088502
    Abstract: Provided are a gas processing system, a control method thereof, and an electrical device. The gas processing system includes: a gas storage container, a controller, and a switch component. The gas storage container has a first gas flow branch configured for communicating with a battery box and supplies a dry gas to the battery box. The controller can acquire a state parameter of a gas in the battery box. The switch component is arranged on the first gas flow branch and can switched between a first state, in which the first gas flow branch is turned on, and a second state, in which the first gas flow branch is blocked. The controller is in communication connection with the switch component, and can control the switch component to be switched from the second state to the first state when the state parameter of the gas acquired satisfies a preset condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Yang Liu, Wei Qiu
  • Methods for Treating HCV
    Publication number: 20240082245
    Abstract: The present invention features interferon-free therapies for the treatment of HCV. Preferably, the treatment is over a shorter duration of treatment, such as no more than 12 weeks. In one aspect, the treatment comprises administering at least two direct acting antiviral agents to a subject with HCV infection, wherein the treatment lasts for 12 weeks and does not include administration of either interferon or ribavirin, and said at least two direct acting antiviral agents comprise (a) Compound 1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and (b) Compound 2 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Christine Collins, Bo Fu, Abhishek Gulati, Jens Kort, Matthew Kosloski, Yang Lei, Chih-Wei Lin, Ran Liu, Federico Mensa, Iok Chan NG, Tami Pilot-Matias, David Pugatch, Nancy S. Shulman, Roger Trinh, Rolando M. Viani, Stanley Wang, Zhenzhen Zhang
  • ARRAY SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20240088171
    Abstract: An array substrate and display device are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate, and gate lines, data lines, compensation blocks and sub-pixels located on the base substrate. Two gate lines are arranged between two adjacent rows of sub-pixels. The data lines are provided with multiple first extensions and second extensions arranged alternately. The extending direction of the first extensions intersects with the extending direction of the second extensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Wenkai MU, Shijun WANG, Yi LIU, Bo FENG, Yang WANG, Zhan WEI, Li TIAN
  • ONE-SHOT ACOUSTIC ECHO GENERATION NETWORK
    Publication number: 20240087556
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for generating echo recordings. The system receives, by an autoencoder, an audio signal representation that represents an audio signal and a target echo embedding that comprises information about a target room. The autoencoder comprises an encoder and a decoder. The system generates, by the encoder, a content embedding and an estimated echo embedding. The system generates, by the decoder, an echo recording representation based on the content embedding and the target echo embedding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhaofeng Jia, Yang Liu, Qiyong Liu
  • Multi-level intermediate representation decoder for heterogeneous platforms
    Patent number: 11928446
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for generating heterogenous platform code. The method may obtain a neural network model. The neural network model may be programed to run on at least one platform. The method may also obtain an initial intermediate representation (IR) code by encoding the neural network model, and obtain a target IR code by adding decorations to the initial IR code based on a target platform. The method may also output an executable code optimized to run on the target platform by decoding the target IR code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KWAI INC.
    Inventors: Zhen Peng, Yang Liu, Hanxian Huang, Yongxiong Ren, Jishen Yang, Lingzhi Liu, Xin Chen
  • Communication method, terminal, server, communication system, computer device and medium
    Patent number: 11928311
    Abstract: The present application discloses a communication method, a terminal, a server, a communication system, a computer device and a medium. The communication method includes that a server establishes a connection and feeds back a display control in response to requests of a first terminal and a second terminal; then, the server feeds back function feedback information in response to a function request of the first terminal, and feeds back function feedback information in response to a menu request of the second terminal; and the servers presents multiple interface components and maintains and updates each interface component in response to management operation of a third user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing Zhongxiangying Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Ding, Li Ma, Yang Wu, Wanwan Tang, Dachuan Wang, Hong Wang, Guangyu Shao, Chaozheng Liu
  • Display driving integrated circuit and driving parameter adjustment method thereof
    Patent number: 11929007
    Abstract: A display driving integrated circuit (IC) and a driving parameter adjustment method thereof are provided. The display driving IC includes a control circuit and a driving parameter determination circuit. The control circuit controls a current driving circuit and a scanning circuit according to a driving parameter, wherein the current driving circuit is suitable for driving multiple driving lines of a light emitting diode (LED) array, and the scanning circuit is suitable for driving multiple scanning lines of the LED array. The driving parameter determination circuit is coupled to the control circuit to provide the driving parameter. The driving parameter determination circuit dynamically adjusts the driving parameter for a target LED in the LED array according to a grayscale value of the target LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chun-Wei Kang, Yi-Yang Tsai, Siao-Siang Liu, Shih-Hsuan Huang
  • System garbage collection method and method for garbage collection in solid state disk
    Patent number: 11928053
    Abstract: A system controller determines a to-be-collected first logical chunk group. The first logical chunk group includes a first data logical chunk located in a first solid state disk of the plurality of solid state disks. Valid data is stored in a first logical address in the first logical chunk group, and there is a correspondence between the first logical address and an actual address in which the valid data is stored. The system controller creates a second logical chunk group. At least one second data logical chunk in the second logical chunk group is distributed in the solid state disk in which the first data logical chunk storing a valid data is located in order to ensure that the valid data is migrated from the first logical chunk group to the second logical chunk group, but an actual address of the valid data remains unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guiyou Pu, Yang Liu, Qiang Xue
  • Distributed centralized automatic driving method
    Patent number: 11926340
    Abstract: A distributed centralized automatic driving method comprises a sensor processing module, a perception positioning module, a perception target detection module, a decision-making module, a planning module, and a vehicle control module. By clearly defining data domains and a control process, a modular design is performed to implement each functional method, and each module can be deployed to a control unit of the corresponding data domain according to the load of a computing platform. The distributed centralized automatic driving method has different computing requirements for different scenarios. By means of a distributed design, centralized computing is distributed to different computing unit modules, so as to greatly improve the stability, efficiency and parallelism of the method, thereby improving the overall performance of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AutoCore Technology (Nanjing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Zhang, Cheng Chen, Jie Liu
  • PERCEPTUAL ENHANCEMENT FOR BINAURAL AUDIO RECORDING
    Publication number: 20240080608
    Abstract: A method of audio processing includes capturing a binaural audio signal, calculating noise reduction gains using a machine learning model, and generating a modified binaural audio signal. The method may further including performing various corrections to the audio to account for video captured by different cameras such as a front camera and a rear camera. The method may further include performing smooth switching of the binaural audio when switching between the front camera and the rear camera. In this manner, noise may be reduced in the binaural audio, and the user perception of the combined video and binaural audio may be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Yuanxing MA, Zhiwei SHUANG, Yang LIU
  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20240081157
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on a substrate, a first spacer on one side of the of the MTJ, a second spacer on another side of the MTJ, a first metal interconnection on the MTJ, and a liner adjacent to the first spacer, the second spacer, and the first metal interconnection. Preferably, each of a top surface of the MTJ and a bottom surface of the first metal interconnection includes a planar surface and two sidewalls of the first metal interconnection are aligned with two sidewalls of the MTJ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Hui-Lin Wang, Chen-Yi Weng, Yi-Wei Tseng, Chin-Yang Hsieh, Jing-Yin Jhang, Yi-Hui Lee, Ying-Cheng Liu, Yi-An Shih, I-Ming Tseng, Yu-Ping Wang
  • DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20240077760
    Abstract: A display device includes: a frame, including a frame body, a first protrusion disposed on the frame body, and a second protrusion disposed on the frame body, the second protrusion including at least one stepped portion; a display panel, located on a side of one stepped portion of the at least one stepped portion close to a light emitting surface of the display device and located on an inner side of the frame body; and a planar back housing, fixed on the inner side of the frame body and a side of the first protrusion away from the light emitting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Hao LIU, Yunben SHEN, Guangning HAO, Tao NI, Yang LIU, Lihua SHENG
  • ENGINEERED ANTIBODIES AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20240076399
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an engineered antibody that co-engages a cell type-selective (or specific) antigen (guide) and a signaling receptor (effector) on a target cell. In some instances, the engineered antibody is capable of modulating a signaling pathway on a target cell. In other embodiments, an engineered antibody of the present disclosure is administered to a subject for the treatment of a disease or condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Bin LIU, Namkyung LEE, Yang SU, Scott BIDLINGMAIER
  • BATTERY MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20240079572
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium metal oxide composition, a method of synthesis of said composition, an electrode and a battery incorporating said composition, and a use of said composition. The lithium metal oxide composition has a cation-disordered rock salt structure, and a non-stoichiometric composition such that oxygen vacancies are present in the material. The lithium metal oxide composition has a general formula: Li1+xM?yM1-x-yO2-?, wherein M comprises a transition metal element, M? comprises a redox-inactive d0 element, and wherein 0<x?0.7, 0<y?0.7, and 0<??0.5. Such materials may provide satisfactory, improved, or excellent electrochemical performance at relatively low cost, and without the need for fluorination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Yang Liu
  • EXPRESSION VECTORS FOR IMMUNOGLOBULINS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20240076405
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an expression vector, comprising: a first expression cassette having a first transcriptional regulatory element and an immunoglobulin heavy chain-coding region operatively linked to the first transcriptional regulatory element; a second expression cassette having a second transcriptional regulatory element and an immunoglobulin light chain-coding region operatively linked to the second transcriptional regulatory element; and a third expression cassette having a third transcriptional regulatory element and an immunoglobulin J chain-coding region operatively linked to the third transcriptional regulatory element. The present disclosure further relates to the host cell comprising the expression vector and the use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Qianhui LIANG, Yang LIU, Dongxue FEI, Jana FRANK