Patents by Inventor Yongchang Cui
Yongchang Cui 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: 20240142175Abstract: Disclosed are an unblocking apparatus for a furnace discharging pipe and a use method. The unblocking apparatus includes a rail, a rail car that may move along the rail, an unblocking drive mechanism arranged on the rail car, a heat-unblocking component, a cold-unblocking component, and a material receiving component that is used to receive a blocking material in the discharging pipe, and a drive end of the unblocking drive mechanism is detachably connected with one end of the heat-unblocking component and the cold-unblocking component respectively. The present application effectively handles different blockage situations of the furnace discharging pipe by connecting the unblocking drive mechanism with an unblocking rod capable of heat-unblocking and a drilling rod capable of cold-unblocking, thereby two modes of heat-unblocking and cold-unblocking are performed on the furnace discharging pipe; and the discharging pipe may be unblocked by a remote operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: China Nuclear Sichuan Environmental Protection Engineering Co., Ltd., China Building Materials Academy, China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weidong XU, Yu CHANG, Yongchang ZHU, Hong DUAN, Chunyu TIAN, Wei WU, Debo YANG, Qingbin ZHAO, Shuaizhen WU, Lin WANG, Zhu CUI, Heyi GUO, Maosong FAN, Yuancheng SUN, Jie MEI, Xiaoli AN, Yongxiang ZHAO, Qinda LIU
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Patent number: 11972330Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for quantifying physical qualities of a ball returned by a player using a loop drive technique, such as in table tennis, and generating a corresponding quantitative summary of the overall quality of the loop drive technique based on the quantified physical qualities. Image processing techniques are applied to historical video recordings of balls returned using loop drive techniques to quantify physical properties of said balls. A machine learning model is generated using the quantified physical properties to determine relative significance of specific qualities and their corresponding quantified values to the overall quality or success of loop drive techniques, such as in table tennis matches.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Chuan Ran, Junhui Wang, Guandong Zhu, Yongchang Cui, Shuyan Lu, Yang Yang
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Patent number: 11417136Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for quantifying body postures of a player employing a loop drive technique to strike a ball, such as performed in table tennis activities. A video recording of a player striking a ball with a loop drive technique is received and divided, using image processing techniques, into two segments: the first concerning player body postures before the ball is hit, and the second concerning body postures from the moment of impact between the ball and racket and the subsequent follow-through body postures. Then, image processing techniques are again leveraged to isolate and quantify specific body postures contributing to a loop drive technique in a given segment.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Chuan Ran, Junhui Wang, Guandong Zhu, Yongchang Cui, Shuyan Lu, Pu Yang
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Patent number: 11369844Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for leveraging machine learning to generate posture adjustment values for specific body postures of a player to improve loop drive techniques, such as in table tennis. Video clips of a player hitting a ball with a loop drive technique are analyzed to determine values for specific body postures and qualities of the ball after being hit. A machine learning model is generated to analyze relationships between body posture values and ball qualities. Upon receiving a video clip of a live session of a player hitting a ball using a loop drive technique, the machine learning model is used to generate adjustment values for body postures of the player to impart improved loop drive qualities to the ball, such as faster topspin.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Chuan Ran, Junhui Wang, Guandong Zhu, Yongchang Cui, Shuyan Lu
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Patent number: 11308428Abstract: Customizing computing resource allocation based on machine learning is provided. A plurality of current users of a service are evaluated based on attributes of each current user. A user value score is generated for each current user based on the attributes. The plurality of current users is clustered into a plurality of user groups based on the user value score. A likelihood of each prospective user becoming a paying customer is predicted based on collected behavior data corresponding to each prospective user. A likelihood of an application corresponding to the service and associated with a particular user will misbehave is predicted based on resource usage and features of the application. Resource allocation to the application corresponding to the service and associated with the particular user is customized based the likelihood that the application will misbehave and whether the particular user is a current user or a prospective user.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bo Zhang, ChunHui Y. Higgins, Chuan Ran, Nancy Anne Schipon, Yongchang Cui
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Publication number: 20220101158Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for quantifying physical qualities of a ball returned by a player using a loop drive technique, such as in table tennis, and generating a corresponding quantitative summary of the overall quality of the loop drive technique based on the quantified physical qualities. Image processing techniques are applied to historical video recordings of balls returned using loop drive techniques to quantify physical properties of said balls. A machine learning model is generated using the quantified physical properties to determine relative significance of specific qualities and their corresponding quantified values to the overall quality or success of loop drive techniques, such as in table tennis matches.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: CHUAN RAN, Junhui WANG, GUANDONG ZHU, Yongchang CUI, Shuyan LU, Yang YANG
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Publication number: 20220096899Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for leveraging machine learning to generate posture adjustment values for specific body postures of a player to improve loop drive techniques, such as in table tennis. Video clips of a player hitting a ball with a loop drive technique are analyzed to determine values for specific body postures and qualities of the ball after being hit. A machine learning model is generated to analyze relationships between body posture values and ball qualities. Upon receiving a video clip of a live session of a player hitting a ball using a loop drive technique, the machine learning model is used to generate adjustment values for body postures of the player to impart improved loop drive qualities to the ball, such as faster topspin.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: CHUAN RAN, Junhui Wang, GUANDONG ZHU, Yongchang Cui, Shuyan Lu
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Publication number: 20220100992Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for quantifying body postures of a player employing a loop drive technique to strike a ball, such as performed in table tennis activities. A video recording of a player striking a ball with a loop drive technique is received and divided, using image processing techniques, into two segments: the first concerning player body postures before the ball is hit, and the second concerning body postures from the moment of impact between the ball and racket and the subsequent follow-through body postures. Then, image processing techniques are again leveraged to isolate and quantify specific body postures contributing to a loop drive technique in a given segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: CHUAN RAN, Junhui Wang, GUANDONG ZHU, Yongchang Cui, Shuyan Lu, Pu Yang
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Publication number: 20210012260Abstract: Customizing computing resource allocation based on machine learning is provided. A plurality of current users of a service are evaluated based on attributes of each current user. A user value score is generated for each current user based on the attributes. The plurality of current users is clustered into a plurality of user groups based on the user value score. A likelihood of each prospective user becoming a paying customer is predicted based on collected behavior data corresponding to each prospective user. A likelihood of an application corresponding to the service and associated with a particular user will misbehave is predicted based on resource usage and features of the application. Resource allocation to the application corresponding to the service and associated with the particular user is customized based the likelihood that the application will misbehave and whether the particular user is a current user or a prospective user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Bo Zhang, ChunHui Y. Higgins, Chuan Ran, Nancy Anne Schipon, Yongchang Cui