Patents by Inventor Zhi An

Zhi 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).

  • Publication number: 20210258615
    Abstract: A deblocking the method. The method includes deblocking a block boundary between a first block, B1, and a second block, B2, with the restriction that not more than 5 samples are modified on the B2 side of the block boundary as a result of the deblocking. The deblocking method also includes deblocking a sub-block boundary within the B2 block such that not more than 2 samples on the side of the sub-block boundary within the B2 block that is closest to the block boundary between B1 and B2 are modified by the deblocking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Kenneth ANDERSSON, Rickard SJÖBERG, Zhi ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210255645
    Abstract: Disclosed is an online dynamic mutual-observation modeling method for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm collaborative navigation, which includes: first performing first-level screening for members according to the number of usable satellites received by a satellite navigation receiver of each member, to determine the role of each member in collaborative navigation at the current time, and then establishing a moving coordinate system with each object member to be assisted as the origin, and calculating coordinates of each candidate reference node; and on this basis, performing second-level screening for the candidate reference nodes according to whether mutual distance measurement can be performed with each object member, to obtain a usable reference member set, and preliminarily establishing a dynamic mutual-observation model; and finally, optimizing the model by means of iterative correction, and conducting a new round of dynamic mutual-observation modeling according to an observation relationship in the U
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Rong WANG, Zhi XIONG, Jianye LIU, Rongbing LI, Chuanyi LI, Junnan DU, Xin CHEN, Yao ZHAO, Yuchen CUI, Jingke AN, Tingyu NIE
  • Publication number: 20210256930
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gate drive circuit, an array substrate, and a display device. The gate drive circuit includes cascaded shift registers, control circuits, level shifters, voltage stabilization circuits, and first exchanging circuits. The shift registers at respective stages output respective first signals. Each control circuit is configured to process the respective first signal to generate a respective second signal. Each level shifter is configured to convert the voltage level of the respective second signal to generate a respective third signal. Each voltage stabilization circuit is configured to stabilize the respective third signal. The stabilized third signal is outputted as a fourth signal. The first exchanging circuit is configured to enable any of the following: exchanging the first signals at two adjacent stages, exchanging the second signals at two adjacent stages, exchanging the third signals at two adjacent stages, and exchanging the fourth signals at two adjacent stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Shuai CHEN, Xiuzhu TANG, Zhi ZHANG, Xuebo LIANG, Lijun XIONG, Qiyuan WEI, Qi LI, Meiling TAN, Jinjin CHEN, Huan WANG
  • Publication number: 20210254066
    Abstract: A method of treating a subject suffering from cancer comprising a step of administering an effective amount of a group of double-stranded RNA molecules to the subject, wherein the RNA molecule is isolated or derived from a bacteria of the genus Escherichia. A method of inhibiting growth or proliferation of cancer cells comprising a step of contacting said cells with said RNA molecule; and a pharmaceutical composition for treating cancer comprising said RNA molecule and a pharmaceutically tolerable excipient. Also a double-stranded RNA molecule and a recombinant vector comprising the double-stranded RNA molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Zhi-Hong JIANG, Kai-Yue CAO, Yu PAN, Tong-Meng YAN
  • Publication number: 20210253893
    Abstract: An aqueous dispersion of multistage polymer particles comprising a specific oligomer prepared from polymerization of monomers comprising an alkoxylated (meth)acrylate providing aqueous coating compositions with both good flow-and-leveling property and extended open time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Yan Li, Tao Wang, Junyu Chen, Tao Wang, James C. Bohling, Zhi Juan Gong, Yuehan Hu
  • Publication number: 20210256139
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that sets a write protection flag in a guest command buffer associated with a virtual machine and injects a semaphore command into a shadow command buffer in response to a fault. The fault is to correspond to a write of a graphics command to the guest command buffer by code executing in graphics hardware. In one example, the technology also conducts a security scan of the graphics command in response to a context switch in the graphics hardware, wherein the context switch is to be associated with the semaphore command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Weinan Li, Yan Zhao, Zhi Wang
  • Publication number: 20210258939
    Abstract: Method of scrambling signals, transmission point device, and user equipment using the method are provided. The method includes: sending an ID table to a user equipment through higher layer signaling, the ID table being a subset of the whole ID space and containing available IDs for the user equipment; notifying the user equipment an ID in the ID table to be used through physical layer signaling or UE specific higher layer signaling; generating a random seed based on the notified ID; initializing a scrambling sequence by the random seed; and scrambling the signals with the initialized scrambling sequence. The method of the disclosure, by combining physical layer signaling and higher layer signaling, may notify the used group ID and the blind detection space to a UE, wherein the blind detection for the UE is enabled and the signaling overhead is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio
  • Publication number: 20210256129
    Abstract: A virtualized storage for use in performing dynamic analysis on a sample is configured, at least in part by copying the sample to the virtualized storage. A virtual machine emulator is launched using a snapshot of a virtualized platform. The virtualized platform is previously configured to use the virtualized storage, and the snapshot is configured to use a placeholder file to occupy space for later use when installing the sample. A location of the copied sample in an image corresponding to the virtualized storage is determined. The copied sample is installed and dynamic analysis is performed on the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Wenjun Hu, Cong Zheng, Zhi Xu
  • Publication number: 20210259008
    Abstract: An information transmission method, a device, and a computer readable medium are provided. The method comprises: receiving a paging message corresponding to the UE according to information associated with the UE; wherein the information comprises at least one of: a Paging-Radio Network Temporary Identity (P-RNTI) corresponding to the UE, a Control Resource SET (CORESET) corresponding to the UE and a search space corresponding to the UE; wherein receiving the paging message corresponding to the UE according to the information associated with the UE comprises: at a Paging Occasion (PO) of the UE, detecting Downlink Control Information (DCI) sent by a network device based on the information associated with the UE and receiving the DCI; receiving a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) according to the DCI; and acquiring the paging message from the PDSCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: ZHIHUA SHI, ZHI ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20210258113
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wireless communication method and a device. The method includes sending, by a network device, configuration signaling to a terminal device. The configuration signaling includes multiple sets of configuration information for a first type of channel, and/or a correspondence between the multiple sets of configuration information for the first type of channel and at least one set of configuration information for a second type of channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Zhihua Shi, Wenhong Chen, Yun Fang, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11094554
    Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes providing a wafer over a polishing platen. The wafer includes a metal layer and a dielectric layer. The metal layer covers the dielectric layer and fills an opening of the dielectric layer. The method also includes polishing the wafer using a first operation to thin down the metal layer. The first operation has a first polishing selectivity of the metal layer to the dielectric layer. The method further includes polishing the wafer using a second operation to further thin down the metal layer until the dielectric layer is exposed. The second operation has a second polishing selectivity of the metal layer to the dielectric layer. The second polishing selectivity is different from the first polishing selectivity. The first operation and the second operation are performed in-situ on the polishing platen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Ho Lin, Jen-Chieh Lai, Jheng-Si Su, Zhi-Sheng Hsu, Po-Ting Huang
  • Patent number: 11091816
    Abstract: A method for ironmaking by smelting reduction in a stir-generated vortex includes: (1) placing a pig iron in an induction furnace, and then heating the pig iron to a molten state to form a molten iron, and maintaining the molten iron to be greater than or equal to 1450° C.; (2) stirring a center of the molten iron to form a vortex with a height-to-diameter ratio of 0.5-2.5, and continuously performing stirring; (3) mixing and grinding on an iron-containing mineral, a reducing agent and a slag-forming agent in a mass ratio of 1:(0.1-0.15):(0.25-0.4) to obtain a powder mixture, spraying and blowing the powder mixture to a center of the vortex, performing a reduction reaction, and stopping the stirring after the molten iron and molten slags are obtained, wherein a waste gas is produced; and (4) discharging the molten iron and the molten slags respectively, and exhausting a treated waste gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ting an Zhang, Yan Liu, Zhi he Dou, Zi mu Zhang, Guo zhi Lv
  • Patent number: 11095580
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for instant message routing. The method includes: receiving a communication request from a source client to a destination client; acquiring the context associated with the source client and the destination client; and selecting a sub-user of the destination client for communication using a policy according to the context. When a source client requests communication with a virtual user, the method can route the communication request using a policy according to the context, to a sub-user of the virtual user which once communicated with the source client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhang Li, Su Ying Rui, Shou Hui Wang, Zhi Yu Yue
  • Patent number: 11096281
    Abstract: A power delivery system includes a first planar power module that is coupled to a power system and that transmits power received from the power system. A first planar power module connector is connected to the first planar power module and transmits the power received from the first planar power module. A second planar power module is connected to the first planar power module connector and transmits the power received from the first planar power module connector. A first power transmission coupling engages at least one of the first planar power module and the second planar power module, and receives the power from the at least one of the first planar power module and the second planar power module to which it is engaged, and transmits the power to a first component via a first power transmission pad coupled to the first component and engaging the first power transmission coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Xin Zhi Ma, Nan Wang
  • Patent number: 11092370
    Abstract: The present application provides a low load operating system for a refrigeration system having a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator. The low load operating system may include a hot gas bypass line extending from a discharge side of the compressor to a suction side of the compressor and a desuperheat line extending from upstream of the expansion valve to the suction side of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Heatcraft Refrigeration (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Yang Xie, Hongxiang Chen
  • Patent number: 11096131
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a wireless communication method and a device, which can implement configuration of a random access resource or a random access preamble in an NR system. The method includes: transmitting, by a network device, at least one synchronization signal block to a terminal device on each of at least one frequency point, respectively; transmitting, by the network device, first system information to the terminal device, wherein the first system information indicates a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource or a set of random access preambles corresponding to the at least one synchronization signal block transmitted on each frequency point, for random access of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai Tang, Zhi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11093181
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus using an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet and a display unit configured to display information includes at least one controller, the at least one controller configured to function as a management unit configured to manage print data in association with user information, the management unit configured to discriminably manage information about previously-printed print data and information about imprinted print data, and a unit configured to display on the display unit a user selection screen on which a plurality of selection objects corresponding to the user information is arrangeable and on which the selection object corresponding to the user information associated with the unprinted print data is arranged while no selection object corresponding to the user information associated with the previously-printed print data but not associated with the unprinted print data is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Zhi Lin
  • Patent number: 11094222
    Abstract: Embodiments describe an approach for concurrently managing a video display and an application user interface. Embodiments describe generating a translucent mask video display over a computer-implemented application and displaying a video in the translucent mask video display over the computer-implemented application. Additionally, embodiments describe detecting user activity associated with the computer-implemented application and pausing the video in the translucent mask video display when the user activity is detected. Responsive to an end to the user activity, embodiments describe translating the detected user activity as a set of computer operations, outputting the set of computer operations for performance on the computer-implemented application, and resuming the video in the translucent mask video display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wu Song Fang, Su Liu, Ting Chen, Zhi Kong
  • Patent number: 11094929
    Abstract: An electrode for an energy storage device and a method of fabricating such electrode. The electrode includes a plurality of layers of active material defining a layer material structure; and an interlayer material disposed between each adjacent pairs of layer of the active material. The interlayer material is arranged to facilitate a transportation of ions along and/or across the plurality of layers of active material during a charging or a discharging operation of the energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Chunyi Zhi, Donghong Wang, Zijie Tang, Guojin Liang
  • Publication number: 20210246043
    Abstract: Disclosed by the invention is a method for preparing lithium carbonate from lithium ore, comprising the steps of: preparing lithium sulfate leachate from lithium ore concentrate, removing Fe2+ and Al3+ from the lithium sulfate leachate by adding alkali, removing Ca2+ and Mg2+ from the lithium sulfate leachate by an ion exchange method, adding a saturated solution of soda ash into the obtained concentrated solution of lithium sulfate leachate, precipitating lithium carbonate, filtering and separating the lithium carbonate precipitate, washing with hot water and drying to obtain a finished lithium carbonate product. The invention saves the production cost, and obviously improves the purity of lithium carbonate as a final product. In addition, disclosed by the invention is also a system for realizing the method for preparing lithium carbonate from lithium ore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Sichuan Sidaneng Environmental Protection Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhi HE, Dingjiang GUO, Jinsong HE, Chao LIU