Patents by Inventor Yao Zhang

Yao 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: 11507809
    Abstract: Provided are an integrated circuit chip apparatus and a related product, the integrated circuit chip apparatus being used for executing a multiplication operation, a convolution operation or a training operation of a neural network. The present technical solution has the advantages of a small amount of calculation and low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Xinkai Song, Bingrui Wang, Yao Zhang, Shuai Hu
  • Patent number: 11507810
    Abstract: Provided are an integrated circuit chip apparatus and a related product, the integrated circuit chip apparatus being used for executing a multiplication operation, a convolution operation or a training operation of a neural network. The present technical solution has the advantages of a small amount of calculation and low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Xinkai Song, Bingrui Wang, Yao Zhang, Shuai Hu
  • Patent number: 11507370
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a computation device. The computation device is configured to perform a machine learning computation, and includes an operation unit, a controller unit, and a conversion unit. The storage unit is configured to obtain input data and a computation instruction. The controller unit is configured to extract and parse the computation instruction from the storage unit to obtain one or more operation instructions, and to send the one or more operation instructions and the input data to the operation unit. The operation unit is configured to perform operations on the input data according to one or more operation instructions to obtain a computation result of the computation instruction. In the examples of the present disclosure, the input data involved in machine learning computations is represented by fixed-point data, thereby improving the processing speed and efficiency of training operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Cambricon (Xi'an) Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yao Zhang, Bingrui Wang
  • Publication number: 20220366006
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computing apparatus, a method and an integrated circuit chip for a vector inner product, where the computing apparatus may be included in a combined processing apparatus. The combined processing apparatus may further include a general interconnection interface and other processing apparatus. The computing apparatus interacts with other processing apparatus to jointly complete a computing operation specified by a user. The combined processing apparatus may further include a storage apparatus, where the storage apparatus is respectively connected to the computing apparatus and other processing apparatus, and the storage apparatus is used for storing data of the computing apparatus and other processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Yao ZHANG, Shaoli LIU
  • Publication number: 20220350569
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computing apparatus, a method, an integrated circuit chip and an integrated circuit device for performing a neural network operation. The computing apparatus may be included in a combined processing apparatus. The combined processing apparatus may further include a general interconnection interface and other processing apparatus. The computing apparatus interacts with other processing apparatus to jointly complete calculation operations specified by users. The combined processing apparatus may further include a storage apparatus. The storage apparatus is respectively connected to the computing apparatus and other processing apparatus, and the storage apparatus is used for storing data of the computing apparatus and other processing apparatus. Solutions of the present disclosure may be widely applied to various floating-point data computations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yao ZHANG, Shaoli LIU
  • Publication number: 20220326947
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a converter for data type conversion, a method for data type conversion, an integrated circuit chip, and a calculation apparatus, where the calculation apparatus may be included in a combined processing apparatus, where the combined processing apparatus may further include a general interconnection interface and other processing apparatus. The calculation apparatus interacts with other processing apparatus to jointly complete calculation operations specified by users. The combined processing apparatus may further include a storage apparatus. The storage apparatus is respectively connected to the calculation apparatus and other processing apparatus, and the storage apparatus is used for storing data of the calculation apparatus and other processing apparatus. A solution of the present disclosure may be widely applied to various data type conversion applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yao ZHANG, Shaoli LIU
  • Publication number: 20220303605
    Abstract: A method for switching live-streaming rooms is provided. The method includes: acquiring a live-streaming recommendation list; pushing the live-streaming recommendation list to a target client; receiving a live-streaming room switch instruction from the target client, wherein the live-streaming room switch instruction carries a live-streaming room identification corresponding to a second live-streaming room, and the live-streaming room identification corresponding to the second live-streaming room is a live-streaming room identification triggered in the live-streaming recommendation list; and sending a video stream corresponding to the second live-streaming room to the target client based on the live-streaming room switch instruction and the live-streaming room identification of the second live-streaming room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventor: Yao ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11449242
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shared storage space access method, device and system and a storage medium. The product comprises a control module. The control module comprises an instruction cache unit, an instruction processing unit and a storage queue unit. The instruction caching unit is used for storing a calculation instruction associated with the artificial neural network operation; the instruction processing unit is used for analyzing the calculation instruction to obtain a plurality of operation instructions; the storage queue unit is used for storing an instruction queue, and the instruction queue comprises a plurality of operation instructions or calculation instructions to be executed according to the front-back sequence of the queue. Through the method or the product, the access efficiency of the storage space can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Ping Kang, Yao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220261634
    Abstract: The technical solution involves a board card including a storage component, an interface apparatus, a control component, and an artificial intelligence chip. The artificial intelligence chip is connected to the storage component, the control component, and the interface apparatus, respectively; the storage component is used to store data; the interface apparatus is used to implement data transfer between the artificial intelligence chip and an external device; and the control component is used to monitor a state of the artificial intelligence chip. The board card is used to perform an artificial intelligence operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Shanghai Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Shaoli LIU, Xiaofu MENG, Xishan ZHANG, Jiaming GUO, Di HUANG, Yao ZHANG, Yu CHEN, Chang LIU
  • Patent number: 11417173
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining video streams of a game tabletop; detecting target objects in a plurality of image frames included in the video streams; determining a current game stage based on the target objects; and determining game detecting results according to the target objects and the determined game stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SENSETIME INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Yao Zhang, Wenbin Zhang, Shuai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11409535
    Abstract: A processing device and related products are disclosed. The processing device includes a main unit and a plurality of basic units in communication with the main unit. The main unit is configured to perform a first set of operations in a neural network in series, and transmit data to the plurality of basic units. The plurality of basic units are configured to receive the data transmitted from the main unit, perform a second set of operations in the neural network in parallel based on the data received from the main unit, and return operation results to the main unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Tianshi Chen, Bingrui Wang, Yao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11397579
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a computation device. The computation device is configured to perform a machine learning computation, and includes an operation unit, a controller unit, and a conversion unit. The storage unit is configured to obtain input data and a computation instruction. The controller unit is configured to extract and parse the computation instruction from the storage unit to obtain one or more operation instructions, and to send the one or more operation instructions and the input data to the operation unit. The operation unit is configured to perform operations on the input data according to one or more operation instructions to obtain a computation result of the computation instruction. In the examples of the present disclosure, the input data involved in machine learning computations is represented by fixed-point data, thereby improving the processing speed and efficiency of training operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI CAMBRICON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yao Zhang, Bingrui Wang
  • Publication number: 20220222041
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and an apparatus for processing data, and related products. The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a board card, which includes a storage component, an interface apparatus, a control component, and an artificial intelligence chip. The artificial intelligence chip is connected to the storage component, the control component, and the interface apparatus respectively. The storage component is used to store data, the interface apparatus is used to realize data transmission between the artificial intelligence chip and an external device; and the control component is used to monitor a state of the artificial intelligence chip. The board card may be used to perform artificial intelligence computations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Shanghai Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yao ZHANG, Guang JIANG, Xishan ZHANG, Shiyi ZHOU, Di HUANG, Chang LIU, Jiaming GUO
  • Publication number: 20220223819
    Abstract: A display module includes a display panel, a backplane, a magnetic attraction structure and a plurality of bonding portions; the display panel has a light exit surface and a back surface opposite to the light exit surface; the backplane is disposed on a side of the display panel away from the light exit surface; the magnetic structure is disposed between the display panel and the backplane, and the magnetic structure is configured to attract and fix the display panel and the backplane; the plurality of bonding portions are disposed between the display panel and the backplane, and the plurality of bonding portions are spaced apart; the plurality of bonding portions are configured to bond the display panel and the backplane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Zifeng WANG, Lei CAO, Yao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220222514
    Abstract: Provided are an integrated circuit chip apparatus and a related product, the integrated circuit chip apparatus being used for executing a multiplication operation, a convolution operation or a training operation of a neural network. The present technical solution has the advantages of a small amount of calculation and low power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Xinkai Song, Bingrui Wang, Yao Zhang, Shuai Hu
  • Publication number: 20220222515
    Abstract: Provided are an integrated circuit chip apparatus and a related product, the integrated circuit chip apparatus being used for executing a multiplication operation, a convolution operation or a training operation of a neural network. The present technical solution has the advantages of a small amount of calculation and low power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Xinkai Song, Bingrui Wang, Yao Zhang, Shuai Hu
  • Publication number: 20220217860
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and provides a display apparatus, including: a support and a display module, wherein the support includes a support part and a rotation part; a frame is disposed at a periphery of the display module, and includes two first frame segments which are oppositely arranged and two second frame segments which are oppositely arranged; one end of the rotation part is pivoted to the support part; a rotation axis of the rotation part is a center line of the rotation part; the other end of the rotation part is fixedly connected to any one of the first frame segments or the second frame segments; the axis of the rotation part is at a first included angle with the frame; and the first included angle is used for switching of the display module between a landscape-screen mode and a portrait-screen mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Yao ZHANG, Guoshuai ZHU, Jinghua YANG
  • Patent number: 11372511
    Abstract: A conducting thin film and preparation method therefor, a touch panel, and a display device are provided by the present disclosure. The conducting thin film includes a substrate, a conducting layer arranged on the substrate, a protecting layer arranged on the conducting layer, and an electricity conducting adhesive. The conducting layer includes a conducting net formed of conducting material. The protecting layer defines a plurality of openings for exposing the conducting material. The electricity conducting adhesive is formed on the protecting layer such that the electricity conducting adhesive passes through the plurality of openings in contact with the conducting material, and is filled in the plurality of openings. The protecting layer formed before the electricity conducting adhesive, thus reducing the problem of the conducting net breaking caused by the exposed conducting material being oxidized and vulmayized, and the thereby improving the conductivity of the conducting thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN ROYOLE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Chen, Yao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220198675
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for marking an image position of a sub-pixel of a display screen, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining an original image of the sub-pixel of the display screen that has been taken, marking all the sub-pixel bright points in the original image of the sub-pixel to obtain a sub-pixel mark map; searching for points to be filled among adjacent points of the bright point of each sub-pixel in the sub-pixel mark map according to the first direction pixel pitch and the second direction pixel pitch in the original image of the sub-pixel, filling the points to be filled to obtain a filling mark map; and obtaining the target sub-pixel mark map based on the sub-pixel mark map and the filling mark map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: SEICHI TECHNOLOGIES SHENZHEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Yao ZHANG, Bin ZHANG, Dapeng XU
  • Patent number: 11354133
    Abstract: A matrix-multiplying-vector operation method and a processing device for performing the same are provided. The matrix-multiplying-vector method includes distributing, by a main processing circuit, basic data blocks of the matrix and broadcasting the vector to a plurality of the basic processing circuits. That way, the basic processing circuits can perform inner-product operations between the basic data blocks and the broadcasted vector in parallel. The results are then provided back to main processing circuit for combining. The technical solutions proposed by the present disclosure provide short operation time and low energy consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoli Liu, Tianshi Chen, Bingrui Wang, Yao Zhang