Patents by Inventor Zhe Fan

Zhe Fan 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: 11948530
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes obtaining a first value of a first color setting of an operating system; obtaining a second value of a second color setting of an application on the operating system; and resetting the second color setting of the application to a third color setting based on a combination of the first value and the second value. The third color setting is different from the first color setting, and the third color setting is different from the second color setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhe Zhang, Yingjie Li, Linyi Fan
  • Patent number: 11932288
    Abstract: A double-deck rail vehicle and a vehicle body thereof are provided. An underframe (11) of the vehicle body comprises a lower-layer underframe (111), end underframes (112, 115), sealing plates (114, 116), and side underframes (118, 119); wherein the lower-layer underframe is provided with an underframe middle beam (1111); the end underframe is fixedly connected to the underframe middle beam by means of reinforcement middle beams (113, 117); the sealing plate is fixedly connected between the end underframe and the lower-layer underframe; and the side underframe comprises side beams (1181, 1191) of the side underframe that are integrated, and the side underframe is fixedly connected to the end underframe by means of the side beams of the side underframe. The vehicle body supplements the reinforcement middle beams capable of increasing the connection strength between the end underframe and the lower-layer underframe, and uses the integrated side beams of the side underframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CRRC TANGSHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhishen Li, Jijun Ma, Letian Fan, Chao Luo, Likui Guo, Zhe Qu, Dongbo Li, Shuoshao Zhang
  • Patent number: 10061715
    Abstract: The present invention relates to solving the issues related to subgraph query services with tunable preservation of privacy of structural information. More particularly, it relates to a novel cyclic group based encryption (CGBE) method for private matrix operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Hong Kong Baptist University
    Inventors: Koon Kau Choi, Zhe Fan
  • Patent number: 9626082
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to selecting textures for a user-supplied photographic image in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes a method for inputting a user-supplied photographic image that uses a photogrammetry algorithm to adjust a plurality of camera parameters for the user-supplied photographic image. In the method, a user-supplied photographic image inputted by a user is received. A set of geographic characteristics inputted by the user that correspond to a geographic location of a camera that took the user-supplied photographic image is received. A plurality of camera parameters that correspond to the geographic location of the camera that took the user-supplied photographic image is determined. The user-supplied photographic image to be texture mapped to the three-dimensional model is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Fan, Scott Shattuck, Mark A. Limber, Matthew W. Lowrie, Brian Gammon Brown, Matthew Robert Simpson, Tilman Reinhardt
  • Publication number: 20160357799
    Abstract: The present invention relates to solving the issues related to subgraph query services with tunable preservation of privacy of structural information. More particularly, it relates to a novel cyclic group based encryption (CGBE) method for private matrix operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Koon Kau CHOI, Zhe FAN
  • Patent number: 9269196
    Abstract: A system that runs in web browsers of mobile devices that allows mobile users to take photos of building exteriors and interiors or other real world objects, upload photos, share photos with others, and use the photo images to model the 3D models with the system's image-based modeling interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Fan, Mark Limber, Brian Gammon Brown, Tilman Reinhardt, Matthew Simpson
  • Publication number: 20150213590
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to determining pose data for a user-provided image. A user may model a building in a web browser plug in by mapping positions on two-dimensional images to a three-dimensional model of a building shown in the image. A geometry of the model of the building may be determined. The user may then provide an image that includes the building. One or more features of the selected building in the user-provided image may be detected using computer vision techniques. Detected features are correlated with features of the geometry of the three-dimensional model. Based on the correlation, pose data may be associated with the user-provided image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Gammon BROWN, Zhe FAN, Scott SHATTUCK, Matt LOWRIE
  • Publication number: 20150172628
    Abstract: Embodiments enable alteration of automatically-generated three-dimensional models using photogrammetry. In an embodiment, a method creates a three-dimensional model using a two-dimensional photographic image. An automatically generated three-dimensional model geocoded within a field of view of a camera that took the two-dimensional photographic image is received. A perspective of the camera that took the photographic image is represented by a set of camera parameters for the first two-dimensional photographic image. A user input constraint indicating that a feature of the automatically generated three-dimensional model corresponds to a position on two-dimensional photographic image is also received. In response to the user input constraint, the three-dimensional model is altered, using photogrammetry, according to the user input constraint and the set of camera parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Gammon BROWN, Tilman Reinhardt, Zhe Fan, Scott Shattuck
  • Patent number: 8902288
    Abstract: A system that runs in web browsers of mobile devices that allows mobile users to take photos of building exteriors and interiors or other real world objects, upload photos, share photos with others, and use the photo images to model the 3D models with the system's image-based modeling interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Fan, Mark Limber, Brian Gammon Brown, Tilman Reinhardt, Matthew Robert Simpson
  • Patent number: 8884950
    Abstract: Embodiments improve pose data for images via user interaction. A user may model a building in a web browser plug in by mapping positions on two-dimensional images to a three-dimensional model of a building shown in the image. Each of the images may have associated original pose data, which includes information related to a position and orientation of a camera which took the image. Upon modeling the building, pose data may be adjusted to more accurately depict the building as a three-dimensional model. If the adjusted pose data is superior to the original pose data, the adjusted pose data may be associated with the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Gammon Brown, Zhe Fan, Tilman Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 8866850
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to selecting textures for a user-supplied photographic image in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes a method for inputting a user-supplied photographic image that uses a photogrammetry algorithm to adjust a plurality of camera parameters for the user-supplied photographic image. In the method, a user-supplied photographic image inputted by a user is received. A set of geographic characteristics inputted by the user that correspond to a geographic location of a camera that took the user-supplied photographic image is received. A plurality of camera parameters that correspond to the geographic location of the camera that took the user-supplied photographic image is determined. The user-supplied photographic image to be texture mapped to the three-dimensional model is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Fan, Scott Shattuck, Mark Limber, Matt Lowrie, Brian Gammon Brown, Matthew Robert Simpson, Tilman Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 8817018
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to constructing a three-dimensional model using a plurality of two-dimensional photographic images. In a first embodiment, a first user input specifying a first position on a first photographic image may be received. A second user input specifying a second position on a second photographic image may be received, the second photographic image having a second perspective, specified by a second set of camera parameters, being different from a first perspective of the first image specified by a first set of camera parameters. The user inputs may indicate corresponding features in the images. Using photogrammetry, a point in a three-dimensional space may be determined according to the first position, the second position, the first set of camera parameters, and the second set of camera parameters. A surface of the three-dimensional model may be determined, whereby the surface may be curved to the point in three-dimensional space determined earlier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Fan, Brian Gammon Brown, Tilman Reinhardt, Matthew Robert Simpson
  • Patent number: 8818768
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to modeling three-dimensional interiors from photographic images. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method creates a three-dimensional model of an interior of a building from a photographic image. Input data is received from a user specifying a floor plan of the interior of the building. A first constraint input by a user indicating that a position on the floor plan corresponds to a position on the three-dimensional model is received. A second constraint input by a user indicating that a position on a photographic image of the interior corresponds to a position on the three-dimensional model is received. Finally, the three-dimensional model and camera parameters representing a camera that took the photographic image of the interior are altered based on the first and second constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Fan, Brian Gammon Brown, Tilman Reinhardt, Matthew Robert Simpson
  • Patent number: 8817067
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to selecting textures for a panoramic photographic image in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes a method for inputting a panoramic photographic image that uses a photogrammetry algorithm to adjust a plurality of camera parameters for the panoramic photographic image. In the method, a street-level panoramic photographic image is selected by a user from a street-level panoramic image display site. An area of the street-level panoramic image is also identified by the user. A photographic image at the area of the street-level panoramic image is captured. Camera parameters representing a camera that took the photographic image is determined. A position on the photographic image is mapped to a position on a three-dimensional model. The camera parameters are adjusted so that the three-dimensional model is rendered onto the photographic image from a perspective specified by the adjusted camera parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Fan, Scott Shattuck, Mark Limber, Matt Lowrie, Brian Gammon Brown, Matthew Robert Simpson, Tilman Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 8687877
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to locking geometric and camera parameters in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method modifies a three-dimensional model using a set of two-dimensional photographic images. In the method, at least one constraint, input by a user, for a two-dimensional photographic image from the set of two-dimensional photographic images are received. Each constraint indicates that a position on the two-dimensional photographic image corresponds to a position on the three-dimensional model. When the number of constraints received for the two-dimensional photographic image is less than or equal to a first threshold value, camera parameters representing a camera that took the constrained photographic image. Finally, a photogrammetry algorithm is applied to at least the set of parameters to determine at least one unlocked parameter in the set of parameters and to modify the three-dimensional model based on the constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Fan, Brian Gammon Brown, Tilman Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 8669976
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to selecting and verifying textures in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method for texturing a three-dimensional model. In the method, a polygon orientation of a polygon defining a face of a three-dimensional model is determined. A first camera orientation corresponding to a camera that took a first photographic image in a set of photographic images is also determined. The first photographic image is unconstrained to the three-dimensional model. The polygon orientation is compared with the first camera orientation to determine whether the first photographic image is directed toward the face of the three-dimensional model. If the first photographic image is directed toward the face of the three-dimensional model, a notification is provided for display to a user indicating that the first photographic image could be texture mapped to the three-dimensional model if the first photographic image is constrained to the three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Fan, Brian Gammon Brown, Matthew Robert Simpson, Tilman Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 8279218
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to selecting and verifying textures in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method for texturing a three-dimensional model. In the method, a polygon orientation of a polygon defining a face of a three-dimensional model is determined. A first camera orientation corresponding to a camera that took a first photographic image in a set of photographic images is also determined. The first photographic image is unconstrained to the three-dimensional model. The polygon orientation is compared with the first camera orientation to determine whether the first photographic image is directed toward the face of the three-dimensional model. If the first photographic image is directed toward the face of the three-dimensional model, a notification is provided for display to a user indicating that the first photographic image could be texture mapped to the three-dimensional model if the first photographic image is constrained to the three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Fan, Brian Gammon Brown, Matthew Robert Simpson, Tilman Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 8125522
    Abstract: A filter for filtering out spurious motion from a sequence of video images, for use in video image signal processing to identify objects in motion in the sequence of video images. Spurious motion is chaotic, repetitive, jittering portions of an image that constitute noise and interfere with motion detection in video signals. The filter keeps track of the location and the strengths of spurious motion, applies appropriate low pass filtering strengths according to the spurious motion strengths in real-time. Regular pixels without spurious motion will pass through the filter unaltered, while pixels with spurious motion will be “smoothed” to avoid being detected as noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventor: Zhe Fan
  • Patent number: 8115761
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to locking geometric and camera parameters in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method modifies a three-dimensional model using a set of two-dimensional photographic images. In the method, at least one constraint, input by a user, for a two-dimensional photographic image from the set of two-dimensional photographic images are received. Each constraint indicates that a position on the two-dimensional photographic image corresponds to a position on the three-dimensional model. When the number of constraints received for the two-dimensional photographic image is less than or equal to a first threshold value, camera parameters representing a camera that took the constrained photographic image. Finally, a photogrammetry algorithm is applied to at least the set of parameters to determine at least one unlocked parameter in the set of parameters and to modify the three-dimensional model based on the constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Fan, Brian Gammon Brown, Tilman Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 8115762
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to locking geometric and camera parameters in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method modifies a three-dimensional model using a set of two-dimensional photographic images. In the method, at least one constraint, input by a user, for a two-dimensional photographic image from the set of two-dimensional photographic images are received. Each constraint indicates that a position on the two-dimensional photographic image corresponds to a position on the three-dimensional model. When the number of constraints received for the two-dimensional photographic image is less than or equal to a first threshold value, camera parameters representing a camera that took the constrained photographic image. Finally, a photogrammetry algorithm is applied to at least the set of parameters to determine at least one unlocked parameter in the set of parameters and to modify the three-dimensional model based on the constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Fan, Brian Gammon Brown, Tilman Reinhardt