Patents by Inventor Yi Niu

Yi Niu 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: 11943221
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include systems and methods configured to prevent masquerading service attacks. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes sending, from a first server in a cloud environment, a communication request comprising an application programming interface (API) key and a first server identifier to an identity and access management (IAM) server of the cloud environment. The API key can be uniquely assigned by the IAM server to a first component of the first server. The first server receives a credential that includes a token for the first component and sends the credential to a second server. The second server sends the credential, a second server identifier, and an identifier for a second component of the second server to the IAM server. The second server receives an acknowledgment from the IAM server and sends the acknowledgment to the first server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sen Wang, Mei Liu, Si Bo Niu, Wen Yi Gao, Zong Xiong Z X Wang, Guoxiang Zhang, Xiao Yi Tian, Xian Wei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230361039
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an interconnect structure includes forming an opening through a dielectric layer. The opening exposes a top surface of a first conductive feature. The method further includes forming a barrier layer on sidewalls of the opening, passivating the exposed top surface of the first conductive feature with a treatment process, forming a liner layer over the barrier layer, and filling the opening with a conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Shu-Cheng Chin, Ming-Yuan Gao, Chen-Yi Niu, Yen-Chun Lin, Hsin-Ying Peng, Chih-Hsiang Chang, Pei-Hsuan Lee, Chi-Feng Lin, Chih-Chien Chi, Hung-Wen Su
  • Patent number: 11808632
    Abstract: A four-shaft panoramic scanning temperature measuring device with a circulating water-cooling device is provided, which not only improves the working reliability of the probe, but also increases the overall flexibility and scanning measurement efficiency. The circulating water-cooling device is self-cooled. Compared with the conventional single-circulation water-cooling way, the design of five cooling cavities can achieve higher circulating water-cooling efficiency. The four-shaft structure includes a shaft structure for translation, a shaft structure for rotation, a shaft structure for swinging, and a shaft structure with coaxial sight pipe and light pipe. The design of the four-shaft structure is able to panoramically scan the high-temperature components inside the turbine. The temperature measuring device integrates functions of cooling, swinging, translating and rotating together, which solves problems of large size and complex control of the conventional temperature measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Jing Jiang, Yi Niu, Anmei Qiu, Zezhan Zhang, Peifeng Yu, Guiyun Tian, Shan Gao
  • Patent number: 11742290
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an interconnect structure includes forming an opening through a dielectric layer. The opening exposes a top surface of a first conductive feature. The method further includes forming a barrier layer on sidewalls of the opening, passivating the exposed top surface of the first conductive feature with a treatment process, forming a liner layer over the barrier layer, and filling the opening with a conductive material. The liner layer may include ruthenium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shu-Cheng Chin, Ming-Yuan Gao, Chen-Yi Niu, Yen-Chun Lin, Hsin-Ying Peng, Chih-Hsiang Chang, Pei-Hsuan Lee, Chi-Feng Lin, Chih-Chien Chi, Hung-Wen Su
  • Patent number: 11680851
    Abstract: A device for measuring surface temperature of a turbine blade based on a rotatable prism includes a probe, a prism rotating apparatus and an optical focusing apparatus. The prism rotating apparatus and the optical focusing apparatus are located inside the probe. The probe includes a probe outer casing, a probe inner casing, a water-cooled casing pipe, a sapphire window piece, a quartz prism, a light pipe, a collimating lens, a focusing lens and an infrared array detector. The prism rotating apparatus includes a rotary motor, a worm, a gear and a prism rotary table, the rotary motor rotates to drive the prism rotary table to rotate. The optical focusing apparatus includes a telescopic motor, a coupler, a lead screw and a drive rod, the telescopic motor rotates to drive the lead screw, so as to further drive the drive rod to move along the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Jing Jiang, Anmei Qiu, Yekui Zhong, Yi Niu, Peifeng Yu, Zezhan Zhang, Ying Duan, Xueke Gou, Guiyun Tian
  • Publication number: 20230029867
    Abstract: A blocking material is selectively deposited on a bottom surface of a back end of line (BEOL) conductive structure such that a barrier layer is selectively deposited on sidewalls of the BEOL conductive structure but not the bottom surface. The blocking material is etched such that copper from a conductive structure underneath is exposed, and a ruthenium layer is deposited on the barrier layer but less ruthenium is deposited on the exposed copper. Accordingly, the barrier layer prevents diffusion of metal ions from the BEOL conductive structure and is substantially absent from the bottom surface as compared to the sidewalls in order to reduce contact resistance. Additionally, the ruthenium layer reduces surface roughness within the BEOL conductive structure and is thinner at the bottom surface as compared to the sidewalls in order to reduce contact resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Shu-Cheng CHIN, Ming-Yuan GAO, Chun-Kai CHANG, Chen-Yi NIU, Hsin-Ying PENG, Chi-Feng LIN, Hung-Wen SU
  • Patent number: 11487966
    Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus for target recognition is disclosed. The method includes: inputting N frames of images into a quality evaluation network model; determining, with the quality evaluation network model, a feature vector of each of the N frames of images according to an attention weight of a preset sub-region image and M quality evaluation parameters; determining quality evaluation values of the N frames of images according to the feature vectors of the N frames of images; determining a target image or a target vector for target recognition according to the quality evaluation values of the N frames of images. The feature vector of each frame of image is determined based on the attention weight of the sub-region image and M quality evaluation parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yi Niu
  • Patent number: 11466979
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of measuring longitude deformation of blades. The radiation and rotation speed of the blade are collected by an optical probe and a synchronized rotation sensor. The stretch of the blade is able to be determined by the obvious change in the light intensity detected by the optical probe. The precision servo motor keeps driving the optical probe to move upward. The collected radiation is compared with the radiation collected on the previous point. The stretch of the blade is calculated based on position of the blade tip which is determined by the time when the high level radiation from the blade is disappeared. The longitude deformation of the blade is calculated by plugging the stretch into the deformation equation. Mapping the calculated deformation with the number of the blade calculated with rotation speed synchronizing signals to achieve the deformation of all the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Zezhan Zhang, Peifeng Yu, Yi Niu, Ying Duan, Xueke Gou, Yekui Zhong, Anmei Qiu, Pei Huang, Yuehai Zhang, Shan Gao, Jing Jiang
  • Publication number: 20220293528
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an interconnect structure includes forming an opening through a dielectric layer. The opening exposes a top surface of a first conductive feature. The method further includes forming a barrier layer on sidewalls of the opening, passivating the exposed top surface of the first conductive feature with a treatment process, forming a liner layer over the barrier layer, and filling the opening with a conductive material. The liner layer may include ruthenium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Shu-Cheng Chin, Ming-Yuan Gao, Chen-Yi Niu, Yen-Chun Lin, Hsin-Ying Peng, Chih-Hsiang Chang, Pei-Hsuan Lee, Chi-Feng Lin, Chih-Chien Chi, Hung-Wen Su
  • Publication number: 20220271370
    Abstract: An intelligent thermoelectric-battery integrated structure, which belongs to the field of new energy device, is provided. The structure intelligently controls the temperature of the single cells inside the battery pack by means of direct contact, so as to reduce the temperature and cut off the occurrence of thermal runaway from the root cause. In addition, the Seebeck voltage generated based on the temperature difference can directly store energy inside the battery when charging, and can increase the overall output voltage when discharging. The advantage of this structure solves the contradiction between the difficulty of achieving high energy density and high safety performance for traditional batteries at the same time, and provides a practical solution for the development and utilization of a new generation of high-performance batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Jing Jiang, Yi Niu, Xinrui He, Zhipeng Li, Fu Li, Pei Huang, Yuehai Zhang, Shan Gao
  • Publication number: 20220260423
    Abstract: An optical probe with high stability for measurement of radiation information of a turbine disk of an aeroengine includes a one-piece outer casing, a pressing ring, a sapphire window piece, an inner spacer, an outer spacer, a lens, first fixing nuts, second fixing nuts, fixing ropes and fixing screws. The one-piece outer casing is made from GH3044 solid solution strengthened nickel-based antioxidant alloy. An interior of the probe is divided into eight parts, which are as follows from a proximal hot end to a right end of the probe in sequence: a pressing ring chamber, a cold air vent, a sapphire window piece chamber, an outer spacer fixing chamber, a lens chamber, a beam chamber, a beam focusing chamber, and an optical fiber chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Jing Jiang, Yi Niu, Hongzu Li, Zezhan Zhang, Lihao Yang, Peifeng Yu, Shan Gao
  • Patent number: 11410819
    Abstract: A method for preparing a supercapacitor electrode material Ni doped CoP3/Ni foam is provided, and the CoP3 is applied to the supercapacitor for the first time. The method belongs to a technical field of synthesis and preparation of supercapacitor materials. The present invention adopts a low-temperature phosphating process to prepare the Ni-doped CoP3/foamed nickel as the electrode material of the supercapacitor, so as to provide advantages such as simple synthesis process, easy control, low cost and high specific capacity. The supercapacitor electrode material Ni doped CoP3/Ni foam prepared by the present invention has a hierarchical structure and a large specific surface area, which is beneficial to shorten an ion transmission path, reduce an interface resistance between the electrode material and electrolyte, provide more active sites, and provide a higher specific capacity in alkaline electrolyte. The electrode material shows great potential in electrochemical energy storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Jing Jiang, Zhipeng Li, Xinrui He, Yalin Hu, Yi Niu, Ting Zhou, Chao Wang
  • Publication number: 20220237766
    Abstract: A measurement and reconstruction method for a turbine blade strain field of with integrates an imaging technology and an infrared photoelectric measurement technology. The imaging technology is mainly responsible for the measurement of the strain field on a target blade surface, so as to use a digital image processing technology to obtain blade strain field data. The infrared photoelectric measurement technology is mainly aimed at the strain at blade edges, which uses temperature difference between the blade edges and blade gaps to perform strain measurement. Measurement results of the two modes are finally converted into blade strain parameters, thereby reconstructing the target blade strain field based on host computer software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Jing Jiang, Yi Niu, Chao Wang, Peifeng Yu, Zezhan Zhang, Shan Gao
  • Patent number: 11347977
    Abstract: An image object recognition method, apparatus, and computer device are provided. The image object recognition method includes: performing feature extraction in the direction of a horizontal angle of view and in the direction of a vertical angle of view of an image respectively, to extract a lateral feature sequence and a longitudinal feature sequence of the image; fusing the lateral feature sequence and the longitudinal feature sequence to obtain a fused feature; activating the fused feature by using a preset activation function to obtain an image feature; and recognizing an object in the image by decoding the image feature. This solution can improve the efficiency of the object recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhanzhan Cheng, Yi Niu, Binghua Luo
  • Publication number: 20220099496
    Abstract: A four-shaft panoramic scanning temperature measuring device with a circulating water-cooling device is provided, which not only improves the working reliability of the probe, but also increases the overall flexibility and scanning measurement efficiency. The circulating water-cooling device is self-cooled. Compared with the conventional single-circulation water-cooling way, the design of five cooling cavities can achieve higher circulating water-cooling efficiency. The four-shaft structure includes a shaft structure for translation, a shaft structure for rotation, a shaft structure for swinging, and a shaft structure with coaxial sight pipe and light pipe. The design of the four-shaft structure is able to panoramically scan the high-temperature components inside the turbine. The temperature measuring device integrates functions of cooling, swinging, translating and rotating together, which solves problems of large size and complex control of the conventional temperature measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Jing Jiang, Yi Niu, Anmei Qiu, Zezhan Zhang, Peifeng Yu, Guiyun Tian, Shan Gao
  • Patent number: 11270693
    Abstract: A speech information processing method includes: determining text information corresponding to collected speech information according to a speech recognition technology, wherein the text information comprises a word; with the word in the text information as a target word, determining one or more fuzzy words corresponding to the target word according to a phoneme sequence corresponding to the target and a preset phonetic dictionary, wherein the phonetic dictionary comprises a plurality of words and phoneme sequences corresponding to the plurality of words; and outputting the target word and the one or more fuzzy words corresponding to the target word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Niu, Hongyu Wang, Xuefang Wu
  • Patent number: 11177426
    Abstract: A low-temperature high-performance thermoelectric material possesses a chemical formula of (AgyCu2?y)1?xTe1?zSez, wherein ?0.025?x?0.075, 0.6?y?1.4, 0<z?0.25, diffraction peaks of a main phase of the thermoelectric material are indexed as a cubic structure at room temperature of 300 K, a highest ZT value between 300 K and 673 K is in range of 0.4 to 1.6, an average ZT value (ZT)avg is in range of 0.2 to 1.4. The highest ZT value of this material at the room temperature is comparable to that of Bi2Te3, which is an excellent complement to existing low-temperature thermoelectric materials. At the same time, the present invention also indicates a new strategy to improve the low-temperature thermoelectric performance of Cu2X-based (here, X is S, Se, Te) materials, and lays a foundation for the application of Cu2X-based materials in the field of low-temperature thermoelectricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Jing Jiang, Yan Pan, Yi Niu, Ting Zhou, Rui Zhang, Xinrui He, Chao Wang
  • Publication number: 20210303919
    Abstract: The embodiment of the application provides an image processing method and apparatus for target recognition, the method comprises: inputting N frames of images into a quality evaluation network model; determining, with the quality evaluation network model, a feature vector of each of the N frames of images according to an attention weight of a preset sub-region image and M quality evaluation parameters; determining quality evaluation values of the N frames of images according to the feature vectors of the N frames of images; determining a target image or a target vector for target recognition according to the quality evaluation values of the N frames of images. According to the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the present application, the feature vector of each frame of image is determined based on the attention weight of the sub-region image and M quality evaluation parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yi NIU
  • Patent number: 11126888
    Abstract: An object recognition method and apparatus for a deformed image are provided. The method includes: inputting an image into a preset localization network to obtain a plurality of localization parameters for the image, wherein the preset localization network comprises a preset number of convolutional layers, and wherein the plurality of localization parameters are obtained by regressing image features in a feature map that is generated from a convolution operation on the image; performing a spatial transformation on the image based on the plurality of localization parameters to obtain a corrected image; and inputting the corrected image into a preset recognition network to obtain an object classification result for the image. In the process of the neural network based object recognition, the embodiment of the present application first transforms the deformed image that has deformation, and then performs the object recognition on the transformed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yunlu Xu, Gang Zheng, Zhanzhan Cheng, Yi Niu
  • Publication number: 20210270674
    Abstract: A device for measuring surface temperature of a turbine blade based on a rotatable prism includes a probe, a prism rotating apparatus and an optical focusing apparatus. The prism rotating apparatus and the optical focusing apparatus are located inside the probe. The probe includes a probe outer casing, a probe inner casing, a water-cooled casing pipe, a sapphire window piece, a quartz prism, a light pipe, a collimating lens, a focusing lens and an infrared array detector. The prism rotating apparatus includes a rotary motor, a worm, a gear and a prism rotary table, the rotary motor rotates to drive the prism rotary table to rotate. The optical focusing apparatus includes a telescopic motor, a coupler, a lead screw and a drive rod, the telescopic motor rotates to drive the lead screw, so as to further drive the drive rod to move along the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Chao Wang, Jing Jiang, Anmei Qiu, Yekui Zhong, Yi Niu, Peifeng Yu, Zezhan Zhang, Ying Duan, Xueke Gou, Guiyun Tian