Patents by Inventor Yong Zhu

Yong Zhu 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).

  • Publication number: 20230367235
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photoreceptor, which includes a conductive substrate; an undercoat layer disposed on the conductive substrate and capable of conforming to the contour of the conductive substrate, a photoconductor charge generation layer disposed on the undercoat layer and capable of conforming to the contour of the undercoat layer, and a charge transport layer disposed on the photoconductor charge generation layer. The charge transport layer contains a charge transport material, a binder resin, a fluorine-containing resin, and a plurality of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) particles evenly dispersed in the binder resin, and the POSS particles are interconnected with at least one fluorine group and at least two non-fluoridated groups. By adding approximately 1% of the POSS particles and lubricant nanoparticles, a life-time improvement of at least 20% is achieved for an OPC drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yong ZHU, Yubo CHENG, Shiwei QIN, Chenmin LIU
  • Patent number: 11807774
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thoroughly modified, functionalized polymeric hard coating material represented by one of the following formulae for a bendable, transparent and photo/thermal curable coating film: [R1RaSiO3/2]??Formula (1); [R1R2RaSiO3/2]??Formula (2). This invention further relates to the synthetic method and application of the thoroughly modified, functionalized polymeric hard coating material. The thoroughly modified, functionalized polymeric hard coating material-containing composition for a coating exhibits higher surface hardness of at least 6H on flexible substrates, higher surface hardness of at least 9H on rigid substrates, and a certain degree of flexibility, with potential properties such as a light transparency of at least 85% and/or an antimicrobial effectiveness of at least 99%, and/or anti-scratch ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited
    Inventors: Yong Zhu, Jianping Han, Yubo Cheng, Shiwei Qin, Lanqi Huang, Chenmin Liu
  • Patent number: 11782981
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method, apparatus, server, and storage medium for incorporating a structured entity, wherein the method for incorporating a structured entity can comprise: selecting a candidate entity associated with a to-be-incorporated structured entity from a knowledge graph, determining the to-be-incorporated structured entity being an associated entity based on prior attribute information of a category of the candidate entity and a preset model, merging the associated entity and the candidate entity, and incorporating the associated entity into the knowledge graph. The embodiments can select a candidate entity, and then integrate a preset model using prior knowledge, which can effectively improve the efficiency and accuracy in associating entities, and reduce the amount of calculation, to enable the structured entity to be simply and efficiently incorporated into the knowledge graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ye Xu, Zhifan Feng, Chao Lu, Yang Zhang, Zhou Fang, Shu Wang, Yong Zhu, Ying Li
  • Patent number: 11776263
    Abstract: Techniques related to training and implementing a bidirectional pairing architecture for object detection are discussed. Such techniques include generating a first enhanced feature map for each frame of a video sequence by processing the frames in a first direction, generating a second enhanced feature map for frame by processing the frames in a second direction opposite the first, and determining object detection information for each frame using the first and second enhanced feature map for the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yan Hao, Zhi Yong Zhu, Lu Li, Ciyong Chen, Kun Yu
  • Patent number: 11775761
    Abstract: A method for mining an entity focus in a text may include: performing word and phrase feature extraction on an input text; inputting an extracted word and phrase feature into a text coding network for coding, to obtain a coding sequence of the input text; processing the coding sequence of the input text using a core entity labeling network to predict a position of a core entity in the input text; extracting a subsequence corresponding to the core entity in the input text from the coding sequence of the input text, based on the position of the core entity in the input text; and predicting a position of a focus corresponding to the core entity in the input text using a focus labeling network, based on the coding sequence of the input text and the subsequence corresponding to the core entity in the input text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shu Wang, Kexin Ren, Xiaohan Zhang, Zhifan Feng, Yang Zhang, Yong Zhu
  • Patent number: 11775776
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing information are provided. The method can include: acquiring a word sequence obtained by performing word segmentation on two paragraphs in a text; inputting the word sequence into a to-be-trained natural language processing model to generate a word vector corresponding to a word in the word sequence; inputting the word vector into a preset processing layer of the to-be-trained natural language processing model; predicting whether the two paragraphs are adjacent, and a replaced word in the two paragraphs; and acquiring reference information of the two paragraphs, and training the to-be-trained natural language processing model to obtain a trained natural language processing model, based on the prediction result and the reference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuangjie Li, Miao Yu, Yabing Shi, Xuefeng Hao, Xunchao Song, Ye Jiang, Yang Zhang, Yong Zhu
  • Patent number: 11778381
    Abstract: A sound-producing structure includes: a hollow piece; a sound-producing piece located in a hollow cavity of the hollow piece; and a heat dissipation piece located outside the hollow cavity, a first part of the heat dissipation piece being located below the hollow piece and a second part of the heat dissipation piece being on a side wall of the hollow piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yong Zhu, Lingyun Wen, Guang Xu
  • Patent number: 11755654
    Abstract: Provided by the present disclosure is a new category tag mining method, involving the field of knowledge graph technology, and including: obtaining a plurality of queries during a current preset time period; labeling a category tag on each query of the plurality of queries, by using a pre-trained sequence labeling model, to extract the category tag currently corresponding to the query from the query; and removing a category tag already existing in a preset current category tag library from category tags currently corresponding to all the queries, and determining a remaining category tag as a new category tag. The present disclosure also provides an electronic device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qian Li, Yabing Shi, Ye Jiang, Chunguang Chai, Yong Zhu
  • Patent number: 11754095
    Abstract: A pump front chamber automatic compensation device for improving closed impeller backflow is provided. The automatic compensation device is mounted on the inner wall surface of the pump body front chamber, extending from the inner wall surface of the pump body front chamber to the impeller front cover plate, stopping the flow of fluid from the impeller outlet to the pump front chamber. The automatic compensation device includes a spacer plate and a compensation feedback device. One end of the spacer plate extends into the pump front chamber, and the other end is connected to the automatic compensation assembly, through which the length of the spacer extension is automatically compensated. The pump front chamber automatic compensation device can prevent the fluid flowing out of the impeller outlet from entering the front chamber of the centrifugal pump, thus improving the operating efficiency and stability of the centrifugal pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wei Li, Lei Wang, Ling Zhou, Yong Zhu, Hao Chang, Qi Chen, Pu Wu
  • Publication number: 20230274521
    Abstract: An intelligent smog-penetrating optical imaging detection device and a method of thereof, and belongs to the technical field of photoelectric imaging. The intensity information, the spectrum information, and the polarization information of light are organically combined, the three functions of intensity imaging, spectrum imaging and polarization imaging can be achieved, traditional imaging detection is beneficially supplemented, smog can be penetrated, the image contrast of imaging is improved, and therefore the working distance is increased. The intensity information reflects the detection distance, the target shape, the target size and the like; the spectrum information reflects material components, surface morphology and the like of a space target; the polarization information reflects the material and roughness of the target and the contrast with the background; and the intensity, spectrum and polarization three-dimensional information is jointly applied, the image contrast can be increased by 2-3 times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Qiang FU, Meng ZHANG, Yingchao LI, Yong ZHU, Haodong SHI, Shuai YANG, Zhuang LIU, Chao WANG
  • Patent number: 11727216
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for linking an entity, relates to the technical fields of knowledge graph and deep learning are provided. The method may include: acquiring a target text; determining at least one entity mention included in the target text and a candidate entity corresponding to each entity mention; determining an embedding vector of each candidate entity based on the each candidate entity and a preset entity embedding vector determination model; determining context semantic information of the target text based on the target text and each embedding vector; determining type information of the at least one entity mention; and determining an entity linking result of the at least one entity mention, based on the each embedding vector, the context semantic information, and each type information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhijie Liu, Qi Wang, Zhifan Feng, Chunguang Chai, Yong Zhu
  • Patent number: 11704492
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for entity linking is disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a target text; determining at least one entity mention included in the target text; determining a candidate entity corresponding to each of the entity mention based on a preset knowledge base; determining a reference text of each of the candidate entity and determining additional feature information of each of the candidate entity; and determining an entity linking result based on the target text, each of the reference text, and each piece of the additional feature information, wherein determining the entity linking result includes determining a probability of linking each of the candidate entity to the entity mention based on a splicing of a first embedding vector and a second embedding vector of the target text and a splicing of a first embedding vector and a second embedding vector of each respective reference text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qi Wang, Zhifan Feng, Zhijie Liu, Siqi Wang, Chunguang Chai, Yong Zhu
  • Patent number: 11690394
    Abstract: A device for separating light flaky cut rolled stems (CRSs) by a throwing roller is provided. The device includes a vertically provided separation bin, and a CRS guide device and a CRS distribution plate which are arranged in the separation bin. The present disclosure further provides a method for separating light flaky CRSs by using the device. The present disclosure achieves full separation of finished CRSs from light flaky CRSs. The device of the present disclosure is designed for the first time, and can be directly connected to a pneumatic CRS feeding and discharging section of a production line. The device of the present disclosure is compact and suitable for industrial production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ze Liu, Banghua He, Lin Qi, Changgui Qiu, Yongzheng Li, Yong Zhu, Yuanzhen Zhou, Xishu Tang, Jun Tang, Gang Huang, Bing Zhou, Yunyue Cui
  • Publication number: 20230178088
    Abstract: An application-specific integrated circuit for accelerated encoding and decoding and a method, which are related to the technical field of Bluetooth mobile communication. The application-specific integrated circuit for accelerated encoding and decoding includes: a hardware accelerator, wherein the hardware accelerator includes a pre-processing and pronation processing module, which performs a pre-processing and pronation processing of data, a discrete Fourier transform module is used for performing a multi-level discrete Fourier transform, in an accelerated low-delay modified discrete cosine transform operation LD-MDCT and/or an accelerated the low-delay inverse modified discrete cosine transform operation LD-IMDCT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Barrot Technology Limited
    Inventors: Qiang Li, Yao Wang, Dongxiang Ye, Yong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230155619
    Abstract: The invention discloses a power mixer, radio frequency circuit, device and equipment, and belongs to the technical field of electronics and communication. The power mixer includes a mixer module, which amplifies an analog baseband current signal by a silicon germanium heterojunction bipolar transistor amplifying circuit, and converts a local oscillator voltage signal into a local oscillator current signal by a silicon germanium heterojunction bipolar transistor switching circuit. The silicon germanium heterojunction bipolar transistor switching circuit receives an amplified analog baseband current signal, and mixes the amplified analog baseband current signal and the local oscillator current signal into a radio frequency current signal; and a transformer module, which converts the radio frequency current signal into a radio frequency power signal and then outputs the radio frequency power signal from the power mixer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: CHONGQING BARROT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jie SU, Yizhe XU, Yong ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230153337
    Abstract: A question answering method, a method of training a question answering model, a device, and a medium are provided, which relate to a field of artificial intelligence technology, in particular to fields of natural language processing technology, deep learning technology, and knowledge mapping technology. The question answering method includes: obtaining data to be processed, wherein the data to be processed includes a question and candidate answers; performing general semantic understanding on the data to be processed to obtain a general data feature; selecting a target question answering mode from candidate question answering modes based on the general data feature; and processing the general data feature by using the target question answering mode, to obtain a target answer for the question from the candidate answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Wenbin JIANG, Yajuan LV, Chunguang CHAI, Yong ZHU
  • Patent number: 11651164
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, a device, an equipment and a storage medium for mining a topic concept. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of candidate topic concepts based on a query; performing word segmentation on the plurality of candidate topic concepts and performing part-of-speech tagging on words obtained after performing the word segmentation, to obtain a part-of-speech sequence of each of the plurality of candidate topic concepts; and filtering the plurality of candidate topic concepts based on the part-of-speech sequence, to filter out a topic concept corresponding to a target part-of-speech sequence among the plurality of candidate topic concepts, in which a proportion of accurate topic concepts in the target part-of-speech sequence is lower than or equal to a first preset threshold, or a proportion of inaccurate topic concepts in the target part-of-speech sequence is higher than or equal to a second preset threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhijie Liu, Qi Wang, Zhifan Feng, Zhou Fang, Chunguang Chai, Yong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230136435
    Abstract: Various examples are related to bioimpedance measurements. In one example, a wearable monitoring system includes electrodes and processing circuitry configured for bioimpedance sensing. The electrodes can include a current source electrode, a current sink electrode, and voltage measurement electrodes aligned between the current source and sink electrodes. The processing circuitry can sense bioimpedance based upon excitation current applied through the current source and sink electrodes and measured voltage obtained through the voltage measurement electrodes across a range of excitation frequencies. The electrodes can be conformal and stretchable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Yong Zhu, Alper Bozkurt, William D. Reynolds, Jr., Shuang Wu, Tanner Panithan Songkakul
  • Publication number: 20230134623
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system for controlling interactive live streaming co-hosting, a device, and a medium. The method for controlling interactive live streaming co-hosting includes acquiring a first interactive image and receiving a mirror interactive image of a second terminal by a first terminal, where the first terminal and the second terminal are in a live streaming co-hosting state, and the mirror interactive image of the second terminal is obtained by performing mirror processing on a second interactive image of the second terminal; and combining the first interactive image and the mirror interactive image by the first terminal to obtain a target interactive image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Wanhong WANG, Yalou Wang, Jiahuan Huang, Yong Zhu, Yaxin Li, Xin Che, Jiacheng Liu, Zihao Zhang, Yuanyuan Wang, Zheqi Qu, Weihao Xu, Jianping Chen
  • Publication number: 20230129505
    Abstract: A cure-on-demand adhesive kit capable of self-sustaining frontal polymerization after a heat or actinic radiation trigger for bonding two substrates is provided. The kit includes a first monomer/oligomer component and a UV or thermal cure catalyst component. In practical application, the first monomer/oligomer component and the UV or thermal cure catalyst component are mixed together to form a ready-to-use prepolymer mixture. The prepolymer mixture is applied onto the surface of a first substrate, and the first substrate is contacted with a second substrate by the mixture applied side. After giving a heat or actinic radiation trigger, a self-sustaining frontal polymerization of the mixture will be started for curing the mixture between two substrates as an adhesive to adhere the two substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Yiu Sun TAM, Yong ZHU, Chenmin LIU