Patents by Inventor Yong Qin
Yong Qin 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).
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Publication number: 20100177305Abstract: The present invention provides an optical cuvette for use in a flow-type particle analyzer, wherein the cuvette includes a removable flow tube containing a flow channel oriented coaxially.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2010Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANYInventor: Yong Qin Chen
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Publication number: 20100114556Abstract: A method and apparatus for speech translation. The method includes: receiving a source speech; extracting non-text information in the source speech; translating the source speech into a target speech; and adjusting the translated target speech according to the extracted non-text information so that the target speech preserves the non-text information in the source speech. The apparatus includes: a receiving module for receiving source speech; an extracting module for extracting non-text information in the source speech; a translation module for translating the source speech into a target speech; and an adjusting module for adjusting the translated target speech according to the extracted non-text information so that the target speech preserves the non-text information in the source speech.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Fan Ping Meng, Yong Qin, Zhi Wei Shuang, Shi Lei Zhang
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Patent number: 7672124Abstract: A computer case includes a chassis comprising a first wall and a second wall detachably attached to the first wall, a cover detachably attached to the first wall, and means for coupling the cover to the first wall. The coupling means is driven by the second wall to fix the cover to the first wall and prevent the cover from being detached from the first wall before the second wall disengaged from the first wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2007Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jie Zhang, Xiao-Yong Qin, Hung-Chun Lu, Wen-Kang Lo, Guang-Yao Lee, Chun-Chi Liang
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Patent number: 7639490Abstract: A mounting apparatus includes a bracket, a frame slidably received in the bracket, a fixing member mounted inside the frame for fixing a storage device to the frame, at least one gasket, and at least one fastener for extending through the at least one gasket and the frame to engage with the fixing member, the at least one gasket dampening vibrations transmitted from the frame to the storage device along the at least one fastener and the fixing member.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2007Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiao-Yong Qin, Jie Zhang, Hung-Chun Lu, Hsuan-Tsung Chen, Guang-Yao Lee, Chun-Chi Liang
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Publication number: 20090299746Abstract: A method for performing speech synthesis to a textual content at a client. The method includes the steps of: performing speech synthesis to the textual content based on a current acoustical unit set Scurrent in a corpus at the client; analyzing the textual content and generating a list of target units with corresponding context features, selecting multiple acoustical unit candidates for each target unit according to the context features based on an acoustical unit set Stotal that is more plentiful than the current acoustical unit set Scurrent in the corpus at the client, and determining acoustical units suitable for speech synthesis for the textual content according to the multiple unit candidates; and updating the current acoustical unit set Scurrent in the corpus at the client based on the determined acoustical units.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Fan Ping Meng, Yong Qin, Qin Shi, Zhiwei Shuang
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Publication number: 20090274299Abstract: A system and method for real-time network communications provides a session identifier as a public key for group communication between clients, and provides a channel identifier representing a private key for each of a plurality of clients. The channel identifier includes client-specific attributes, which function to indicate grouping criteria for the group communication. A dynamic communication link is created over a network between a client and a service based upon the public and private key combination such that group communication is enabled based upon the attributes of the private key and the public key. Communications are translated using a translation service which employs the attributes associated with the private key and the public key combination to provide response information in a designated language to enable multi-lingual real-time communications.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2008Publication date: November 5, 2009Inventors: Sasha Porta Caskey, Danning Jiang, Wen Liu, David Lubensky, Yong Qin, Andrzej Sakrajda, Cheng Wu
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Publication number: 20090089063Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for voice conversion. The method includes performing speech analysis on the speech of a source speaker to achieve speech information; performing spectral conversion based on said speech information, to at least achieve a first spectrum similar to the speech of a target speaker; performing unit selection on the speech of said target speaker at least using said first spectrum as a target; replacing at least part of said first spectrum with the spectrum of the selected target speaker's speech unit; and performing speech reconstruction at least based on the replaced spectrum.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Inventors: Fan Ping Meng, Yong Qin, Qin Shi, Zhi Wei Shuang
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Publication number: 20090073579Abstract: The present invention provides an optical analyzer having illumination optics that include a light source, such as a laser or other source, adapted to emit a collimated, or approximately collimated, light beam, a focusing lens that focuses the beam onto a focus spot within a detection region, and beam-adjusting optics positioned in the light path between the light beam source and the focusing lens, which allow for precise positioning of the focus spot within the detection region. The beam-adjusting optics of the present invention comprise at least one movable focusing lens, mounted in a positioning device that allows repositioning of the lens in a plane perpendicular to the light path.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Inventor: Yong Qin Chen
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Publication number: 20090066195Abstract: A small scale electrical generator includes an elongated substrate and a first piezoelectric fine wire. The first piezoelectric fine wire is disposed along a surface of the substrate. The first piezoelectric fine wire has a first end and a spaced-apart second end. A first conductive contact secures the first end of the fine wire to a first portion of the substrate and a second conductive contact secures the second end of the fine wire to a second portion of the substrate. A fabric made of interwoven strands that includes fibers from which piezoelectric nanowires extend radially therefrom and conductive nanostructures extend therefrom is configured to generate electricity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: Zhong L. Wang, Xudong Wang, Yong Qin, Rusen Yang
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Publication number: 20090037179Abstract: The invention proposes a method and apparatus for significantly improving the quality of voice morphing and guaranteeing the similarity of converted voice. The invention sets several standard speakers in a TTS database, and selects the voices of different standard speakers for speech synthesis according to different roles, wherein the voice of the selected standard speaker is similar to the original role to a certain extent. Then the invention further performs voice morphing on the standard voice similar to the original voice to a certain extent, in order to accurately mimic the voice of the original speaker, so as to make the converted voice closer to the original voice features while guaranteeing the similarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yi Liu, Yong Qin, Qin Shi, Zhi Wei Shuang
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Publication number: 20080288258Abstract: The present invention provides a speech analysis method comprising steps of obtaining a speech signal and a corresponding DEGG/EGG signal; regarding the speech signal as the output of a vocal tract filter in a source-filter model taking the DEGG/EGG signal as the input; and estimating the features of the vocal tract filter from the speech signal as the output and the DEGG/EGG signal as the input, wherein the features of the vocal tract filter are expressed by the state vectors of the vocal tract filter at selected time points, and the step of estimating is performed using Kalman filtering.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Dan Ning Jiang, Fan Ping Meng, Yong Qin, Zhi Wei Shuang
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Publication number: 20080259554Abstract: A mounting apparatus includes a bracket, a frame slidably received in the bracket, a fixing member mounted inside the frame for fixing a storage device to the frame, at least one gasket, and at least one fastener for extending through the at least one gasket and the frame to engage with the fixing member, the at least one gasket dampening vibrations transmitted from the frame to the storage device along the at least one fastener and the fixing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2007Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: XIAO-YONG QIN, JIE ZHANG, HUNG-CHUN LU, HSUAN-TSUNG CHEN, GUANG-YAO LEE, CHUN-CHI LIANG
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Publication number: 20080225475Abstract: A computer case includes a chassis comprising a first wall and a second wall detachably attached to the first wall, a cover detachably attached to the first wall, and means for coupling the cover to the first wall. The coupling means is driven by the second wall to fix the cover to the first wall and prevent the cover from being detached from the first wall before the second wall disengaged from the first wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jie Zhang, Xiao-Yong Qin, Hung-Chun Lu, Wen-Kang Lo, Guang-Yao Lee, Chun-Chi Liang
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Publication number: 20080221863Abstract: The present invention discloses a search-based segmentation method and device for a language without a word boundary tag. The inventive method includes the steps of: a. providing at least one search engine with a segment of a text including at least one segment; b. searching for the segment through the at least one search engine, and returning search results; and c. selecting a word segmentation approach for the segment in accordance with at least part of the returned search results. The invention solves the problems of word segmentation for a language without a word boundary tag, and thus combat the limitations of the prior art in terms of flexibility, dependence upon coverage of dictionaries, available training data corpuses, processing of a new word, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Wen Liu, Yong Qin, Xin Jing Wang
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Publication number: 20080187109Abstract: A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product for automatically generating auditory archives in a customer service environment are disclosed. A communication link with an end user is established. An information form is retrieved. The information form includes at least a category choice information set and at least one audio recoding information set. The end user is prompted to answer a set of questions based on information in the information form. A data set associated with each answer to each question in the set of questions given by the end user is stored. The data is stored under a set of fields corresponding to a question. Each data set stored under the set of fields for each question in the set of questions are combined with each other. An audio archive file is generated including the data sets that have been combined.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2008Publication date: August 7, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: FAN PING MENG, Yong Qin, Qin Shi, Zhi Wei Shuang
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Patent number: 7298177Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining the size of a keeper transistor in a dynamic circuit is provided. A first portion of a dynamic circuit, comprising the keeper transistor, is analyzed to determine keeper current data that describes what size the keeper transistor would need to be to supply a specified amount of keeper current. A second portion of the dynamic circuit is analyzed, separate from the first portion, to determine an estimated amount of leakage current that passes through the PDN when the PDN is not actively discharging the dynamic node may be determined. The size for the keeper transistor that enables the keeper transistor, when activated, to produce an amount of keeper current that is substantially equal to the estimated amount of leakage current may be determined based on the analysis performed on the first and second portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: Yonghee Im, Yong Qin
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Publication number: 20070033049Abstract: A method and system that incorporates human recording with a TTS system to generate synthesized speech with high quality by searching over a database of pre-recorded utterances to select an utterance best matching text content to be synthesized into speech; dividing the best-matched utterance into a plurality of segments to generate remaining segments that are the same as corresponding parts of the text content and difference segments that are different from corresponding parts of the text content; synthesizing speech for the parts of the text content corresponding to the difference segments; and splicing the synthesized speech segments with the remaining segments of the best-matched utterance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2006Publication date: February 8, 2007Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yong Qin, Liqin Shen, Wei Zhang, Weibin Zhu
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Patent number: 7099531Abstract: An optical chromatic dispersion compensator (60) betters optical communication system performance. The dispersion compensator (60) includes a collimating means (61) that receives a spatially diverging beam of light from an end of an optical fiber (30). The collimating means (61) converts the spatially diverging beam into a mainly collimated beam that is emitted therefrom. An optical phaser (62) receives the mainly collimated beam from the collimating means (61) through an entrance window (63), and angularly disperses the beam in a banded pattern that is emitted from the optical phaser (61). A light-returning means (66) receives the angularly dispersed light and reflects it back through the optical phaser (62) to exit the optical phaser near the entrance window (63) thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2003Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Chromatic Micro Optics, Inc.Inventors: Yong Qin Chen, Fei Zhu
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Publication number: 20060100877Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for generating speech minutes. The method comprises the steps of displaying status indicators of respective audio (speech) stream chunks received and text information thereof on a GUI display and establishing the tagging between each audio stream chunk and the corresponding text information by dragging and dropping the status signs of the respective speech stream chunks onto the corresponding text information on the GUI, such that the speech stream, the text information and the corresponding tagging relation form voice tagged meeting minutes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2005Publication date: May 11, 2006Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Long Zhang, Li Yang, Shi Liu, Yong Qin
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Patent number: 7042922Abstract: A method for calibrating a preferred disposition for a moveable first mirror of an optical switch core of a photonic crossconnect device relative to a second mirror thereof, the method comprising the steps of determining approximate geometric coordinates of the first mirror relative to the second mirror, effecting a laser light crossconnection between the first and second mirrors to produce data from which to provide first order corrections to refine the geometric coordinates, and effecting a further laser light crossconnection between the first mirror and a third mirror, to produce data from which to provide second order corrections to further refine the geometric coordinates, whereby to calibrate the first mirror such that upon initiation of a laser light crossconnection involving the first mirror, a switching element detects deviation of the first mirror from the preferred disposition thereof and effects corrective changes.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2003Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Nortel Networks, Ltd.Inventors: Babu Narayanan, Yong-Qin Chen, Robert Ward, Rani Indaheng, Humair Raza