Patents by Inventor Yu An
Yu An 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: 20260146987Abstract: A method for estimating the organic carbon content of wetland soil with different restoration years, which relates to the technical field of carbon sink accounting. The method includes: setting a plurality of sampling points in a target research area, and collecting soil samples; preprocessing satellite image data and determining first input features, determining second input features according to geographic coordinates of the sampling points, and inputting the features into a regression prediction model to obtain a calculation result; generating soil organic matter content data distribution according to the calculation result; and dividing sample areas with different restoration years according to land use history or restoration measure records by using space-for-time substitution, and counting the soil organic matter content and total amount in each sample area according to the soil organic matter content data distribution to determine the organic carbon content of soil with different restoration years.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2025Publication date: May 28, 2026Applicants: Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHANGCHUN NORMAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Geng CUI, Yan LIU, Weiyu HUANG, Shouzheng TONG, Yu AN, Mingye ZHANG
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Publication number: 20260007975Abstract: Provided are a method for managing a game, and a terminal device. The method includes: by designing a game service application having dynamic game identification, double-entrance centralized management and intelligent function layout functions, a user can centrally manage and set a native game at an out-of-game entrance, and support a personalized setting of a single game. When the user enters the game, after dynamically identifying a game application, a background will start a game service application, and the game service application can be folded on a side of a page in a form of a suspended ball. In the game, function panels of the game service application will be intelligently arranged according to a last setting of the user and/or a type of the terminal device, so as to provide the user with a function layout more satisfying requirements, and create rapid, convenient and uninterrupted usage experience.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: January 8, 2026Inventors: Min XU, Hao WU, Liang XIAO, Yu AN, Lixin CHE
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Patent number: 12455751Abstract: Disability-related information of a user of a computing device can be acquired, the computing device can present a scene with user interface elements to the user. An accessibility requirement of the user can be identified based on the acquired disability-related information of the user. A processing routine can be determined from a plurality of processing routines stored in a routine library based on the accessibility requirement of the user. One or more of the user interface elements of the scene can be modified using the determined processing routine. The scene with the modified one or more of the user interface elements can be presented to the user through the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2023Date of Patent: October 28, 2025Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Dong Chen, Ye Chuan Wang, Xiang Wei Li, Ju Ling Liu, Yu An, Wei Yan, Ting Ting Zhan
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Patent number: 12417762Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating personalized audio data is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes receiving user input data, wherein the user input data is at least one of text or audio. The computer-implemented method further includes segmenting the user input data into a set of sentences. The computer-implemented method further includes generating, for each sentence in the set of sentences, a voice image, wherein the voice image includes at least one pronunciation tag and wave line associated with a sentence. The computer-implemented method further includes modifying the user input data based, at least in part on, the wave line and pronunciation tag of the voice image.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: September 16, 2025Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ju Ling Liu, Xiang Wei Li, Dong Chen, Ye Chuan Wang, Ting Ting Zhan, Wei Yan, Yu An
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Patent number: 12389819Abstract: A method for near-natural long-term breeding of economic crops in a wetland by using a returned farmland is provided, including the following steps: S1, selecting site of the returned farmland and restoring landform; S2, performing germplasm improvement treatment of Euryale ferox; S3, controlling sowing of the Euryale ferox seeds; and S4, germplasm improvement and ecological conservation.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2024Date of Patent: August 19, 2025Assignee: Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of SciencesInventors: Mingye Zhang, Shouzheng Tong, Ming Jiang, Guodong Wang, Yu An, Geng Cui
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Patent number: 12317785Abstract: A method for promoting establishment of associated plants in a restored wetland is provided, relating to a method for restoring associated plants in a wetland. The method includes: step 1, establishing a target; step 2, preparing seedlings; step 3, constructing micro-habitat; step 4, planting the seedlings; step 5, managing water; step 6, investigating and monitoring; and step 7, removing isolation plates.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2024Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of SciencesInventors: Bo Liu, Ming Jiang, Haitao Wu, Yuanchun Zou, Shouzheng Tong, Meiying Wang, Wenguang Zhang, Guodong Wang, Yu An
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Patent number: 12290028Abstract: A method for rapid reconstruction of a food source habitat of Leucogeranus leucogeranus by using a returned farmland is provided, including following steps: S1, selecting degraded farmland plots; S2, constructing a connected plot network; S3, improving local soil habitat elements; S4, coating water chestnut bulbs; S5, cultivating the water chestnut bulbs; and S6, regulating and controlling and managing a hydrological environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of SciencesInventors: Mingye Zhang, Shouzheng Tong, Ming Jiang, Guodong Wang, Yu An, Geng Cui
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Patent number: 12265142Abstract: A magnetic particle imaging (MPI) device based on an asymmetric bilateral structure includes a fixed section and a movable section. The fixed section includes a pair of magnetic field generation coils, and the magnetic field generation coils are configured to generate a uniform and variable magnetic field and drive a field-free point (FFP) to move along a Z-axis direction. The movable section includes a permanent magnet, excitation coils and a reception coil. The permanent magnet is configured to cooperate with the magnetic field generation coils to generate the FFP. The excitation coils are configured to move the FFP on a two-dimensional plane and excite magnetic particles to generate a nonlinear response signal. The reception coil is configured to receive an MPI signal. The MPI device is simple in structure and convenient to operate, and can perform targeted local imaging or covered overall imaging on the target object.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Beihang UniversityInventors: Jie Tian, Zhenchao Tang, Guangxing Zhou, Yu An
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Patent number: 12216901Abstract: A method for selecting an application and associated operational guidance to utilize on a mobile device is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method identifies a selected environment of interest. Within the selected environment, the method identifies one or more applications that are commonly utilized by users within the selected environment and documents the one or more applications. The method detects physical entry of a particular user into the selected environment and, in response to detecting the entry, automatically notifies the particular user of the one or more applications that are commonly utilized within the selected environment. In certain embodiments, the method enables the user to quickly launch the one or more applications and/or provides operational guidance to the user with regard to using the one or more applications. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Xiang Wei Li, Dong Chen, Ye Chuan Wang, Ting Ting Zhan, Ju Ling Liu, Yu An, Wei Yan
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Patent number: 12174277Abstract: An MPI device based on parallel scanning of multiple magnetic field free lines (FFLs) is provided. The MPI device includes a first coil, a second coil, an excitation coil, and a receiving coil; the first coil is configured to receive a first-frequency current and generate a plurality of FFLs; the second coil is configured to receive the first-frequency current and drive the FFLs to rotate under a joint action with the first coil; the excitation coil is configured to receive a second-frequency current and drive the FFLs to scan fast; the receiving coil receives a particle signal scanned by the FFLs at each time point; and the first coil, the second coil, the excitation coil and the receiving coil are provided in longitudinal symmetry along the center of the imaging field of view.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2024Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Beihang UniversityInventors: Jie Tian, Siao Lei, Yu An
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Patent number: 12171538Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) magnetic particle imaging (MPI) method and system without rotating a field-free line (FFL) are disclosed. In accordance with the method, an FFL is generated such that magnetic particles in a region far from the FFL enter a magnetic saturation state. Further, a non-uniform mixed-frequency excitation magnetic field parallel to the FFL is applied to generate intermodulation response signals. In addition, the intermodulation response signals are acquired, amplified and filtered. Moreover, the intermodulation response signals are transmitted to a digital signal processing unit and an image reconstruction unit, and an encoding matrix is constructed. Additionally, a one-dimensional (1D) concentration distribution of the magnetic particles is reconstructed based on the encoding matrix and an actually measured voltage signal. The FFL is driven for line-by-line scanning along a vertical plane of the FFL, thereby achieving 3D imaging.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2024Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Beihang UniversityInventors: Jie Tian, Yanjun Liu, Yu An, Guanghui Li
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Publication number: 20240419464Abstract: Disability-related information of a user of a computing device can be acquired, the computing device can present a scene with user interface elements to the user. An accessibility requirement of the user can be identified based on the acquired disability-related information of the user. A processing routine can be determined from a plurality of processing routines stored in a routine library based on the accessibility requirement of the user. One or more of the user interface elements of the scene can be modified using the determined processing routine. The scene with the modified one or more of the user interface elements can be presented to the user through the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2023Publication date: December 19, 2024Inventors: Dong Chen, Ye Chuan Wang, Xiang Wei Li, Ju Ling Liu, Yu An, Wei Yan, Ting Ting Zhan
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Patent number: 12070614Abstract: An apparatus and a method for magnetic particle imaging and thermotherapy fusion based on field-free line inertial scanning comprises a magnetic body group, an induction coil, a living body bed, a control device, a display device, an image processing device and a cooling system. The magnetic body group comprises a long curved magnetic body pair and a cylindrical magnetic body. The control device is used to scan and image the target living body and perform thermotherapy on a preset area.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Beihang UniversityInventors: Jie Tian, Jie He, Hui Hui, Jing Zhong, Yu An, Zhenchao Tang
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Patent number: 11940508Abstract: A magnetic particle imaging (MPI) and fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT)-fused multimodal imaging system and method for a small animal are provided. The multimodal imaging system includes an image processing module, a display module, a control module, an object table, a gradient coil, a driving coil, a reception coil, a fluorescence camera, and a light source module, where the gradient coil includes a first rounded rectangular coil and a second rounded rectangular coil; the driving coil includes a third rounded rectangular coil, a fourth rounded rectangular coil, and a fifth rounded rectangular coil; and the reception coil is a circular coil.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Beijing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsInventors: Jie Tian, Lishuang Guo, Jiangang Liu, Yu An
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Patent number: 11940507Abstract: A fixation and registration calibration system for multimodal MPI is provided. The fixation and registration calibration system includes an upper limiting device connected to a lower limiting device by a hand screw and an adjustable position component, where the upper limiting device and the lower limiting device each are symmetrical about the adjustable position component; an auxiliary clamping device is fixed at an upper end of the upper limiting device; the upper limiting device, the lower limiting device, and the auxiliary clamping device are provided with magnetic particle calibration holes at different positions; and an MPI calibration sample is provided through the magnetic particle calibration holes to achieve spatial position registration calibration. The fixation and registration calibration system achieves fixation of the detected object for MPI, flexible spatial position calibration based on magnetic particles, and stable and reliable multimodal MPI.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Beijing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsInventors: Jie Tian, Bo Zhang, Jie He, Yu An
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Publication number: 20240094902Abstract: A method for selecting an application and associated operational guidance to utilize on a mobile device is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method identifies a selected environment of interest. Within the selected environment, the method identifies one or more applications that are commonly utilized by users within the selected environment and documents the one or more applications. The method detects physical entry of a particular user into the selected environment and, in response to detecting the entry, automatically notifies the particular user of the one or more applications that are commonly utilized within the selected environment. In certain embodiments, the method enables the user to quickly launch the one or more applications and/or provides operational guidance to the user with regard to using the one or more applications. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Xiang Wei Li, Dong Chen, Ye Chuan Wang, Ting Ting Zhan, Ju Ling Liu, Yu An, Wei Yan
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Patent number: 11931135Abstract: A human-scale closed-bore MPI device and method based on radial-Cartesian trajectory scanning are provided. The human-scale closed-bore MPI device includes: a gradient module configured to generate a static gradient magnetic field; a rotating scanning module configured to construct a rotating uniform alternating magnetic field; an excitation module configured to construct a uniform alternating magnetic field; an induction module configured to acquire a nonlinear magnetization response signal of magnetic particles; and a compensation module configured to compensate for a coupling signal between a first cylindrical coil and a second cylindrical coil.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Beijing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsInventors: Jie Tian, Jie He, Bo Zhang, Yu An
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Patent number: 11927652Abstract: A structure, a method, and an electronic device for multi-coil handheld magnetic particle imaging (MPI) are provided. The structure for multi-coil handheld MPI includes a processing device, a control device, an imager, a gradient and scanning module, an excitation and correction module, and a detection module, where the gradient and scanning module includes a first circular coil pair and a second circular coil pair; the excitation and correction module includes a circular excitation and correction coil; and the detection module includes a circular detection coil. The structure for multi-coil handheld MPI focuses the imaging region in a specific part, improving the MPI accuracy, and features small volume, simple structure, and low power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Beijing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsInventors: Jie Tian, Haoran Zhang, Bo Zhang, Yu An
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Patent number: 11914011Abstract: A handheld MPI system and method based on field free line (FFL) rotation is provided. The handheld MPI system includes: a gradient module configured to construct a gradient field with an FFL; a cooling module configured to cool the gradient module; an excitation module configured to excite magnetic particles in a region of the FFL; a detection module configured to receive an excitation response signal of the magnetic particles and counteract an excitation signal directly induced by a reception coil; a rotation module configured to control the gradient module and the cooling module to rotate around an axis of an excitation coil; a control and signal processing module configured to control each module to operate as needed, and process a received magnetic particle induction signal; and an image reconstruction module configured to reconstruct a magnetic particle distribution into a two-dimensional image.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Beijing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsInventors: Jie Tian, Bo Zhang, Haoran Zhang, Yu An
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Patent number: D1104156Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2024Date of Patent: December 2, 2025Assignee: Shenzhen PXN Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yu An