Patents by Inventor Zhifeng Chen
Zhifeng Chen 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: 20230364693Abstract: A table cutting device includes: a workbench on which a workpiece is capable of being placed; a cutting assembly capable of performing a cutting operation on the workpiece; a drive assembly including a motor and driving the cutting assembly to move; and a power supply connection assembly for connecting a battery pack. The battery pack supplies an energy source to the table cutting device. The table cutting device further includes a display assembly capable of displaying an electric quantity of the battery pack. When the battery pack is mounted to the table cutting device, the distance between the display assembly and the battery pack is greater than or equal to 5 mm. The table cutting device has the additional display assembly so that an operator can observe electric quantity information of the battery pack when operating the table cutting device, thereby greatly improving operation convenience.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Dianbo Zhu, Zhifeng Chen, Shisheng Wang
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Patent number: 11809834Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for machine translation using neural networks. In some implementations, a text in one language is translated into a second language using a neural network model. The model can include an encoder neural network comprising a plurality of bidirectional recurrent neural network layers. The encoding vectors are processed using a multi-headed attention module configured to generate multiple attention context vectors for each encoding vector. A decoder neural network generates a sequence of decoder output vectors using the attention context vectors. The decoder output vectors can represent distributions over various language elements of the second language, allowing a translation of the text into the second language to be determined based on the sequence of decoder output vectors.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Zhifeng Chen, Macduff Richard Hughes, Yonghui Wu, Michael Schuster, Xu Chen, Llion Owen Jones, Niki J. Parmar, George Foster, Orhan Firat, Ankur Bapna, Wolfgang Macherey, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar
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Patent number: 11774596Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing data generated by a sensing system that rotationally senses an environment. In one aspect, a method comprises partitioning a predetermined period of time into a plurality of sub-periods, wherein the predetermined period of time is a period of time for which data generated by the sensing system constitutes a complete rotational sensing of the environment; for each sub-period: receiving current data generated by the sensing system during the sub-period and characterizing a respective partial scene of the environment; processing the current data using an object detection neural network to generate a current object detection output that is specific to the respective partial scene of the environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jonathon Shlens, Vijay Vasudevan, Jiquan Ngiam, Wei Han, Zhifeng Chen, Brandon Chauloon Yang, Benjamin James Caine, Zhengdong Zhang, Christoph Sprunk, Ouais Alsharif, Junhua Mao, Chen Wu
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Publication number: 20230237995Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage media, for speech recognition using attention-based sequence-to-sequence models. In some implementations, audio data indicating acoustic characteristics of an utterance is received. A sequence of feature vectors indicative of the acoustic characteristics of the utterance is generated. The sequence of feature vectors is processed using a speech recognition model that has been trained using a loss function that uses a set of speech recognition hypothesis samples, the speech recognition model including an encoder, an attention module, and a decoder. The encoder and decoder each include one or more recurrent neural network layers. A sequence of output vectors representing distributions over a predetermined set of linguistic units is obtained. A transcription for the utterance is obtained based on the sequence of output vectors. Data indicating the transcription of the utterance is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar, Tara N. Sainath, Younghui Wu, Patrick An Phu Nguyen, Zhifeng Chen, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Anjuli Kannan
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Publication number: 20230222318Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing machine learning task on a network input to generate a network output. In one aspect, one of the systems includes an attention neural network configured to perform the machine learning task, the attention neural network including one or more attention layers, each attention layer comprising an attention sub-layer and a feed-forward sub-layer. Some or all of the attention layers have a feed-forward sub-layer that applies conditional computation to the inputs to the sub-layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Dmitry Lepikhin, Yanping Huang, Orhan Firat, Maxim Krikun, Dehao Chen, Noam M. Shazeer, HyoukJoong Lee, Yuanzhong Xu, Zhifeng Chen
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Publication number: 20230212269Abstract: The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies which have high anti-RSV neutralizing titers. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. The invention yet further provides for diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention, particularly as a passive immunotherapy agent in infants and the elderly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2022Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCInventors: Kalpit A. Vora, Kara S. Cox, Aimin Tang, Zhifeng Chen, Daniel DiStefano, Lan Zhang, Hua-Poo Su
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Publication number: 20230178068Abstract: A method includes receiving an input text sequence to be synthesized into speech in a first language and obtaining a speaker embedding, the speaker embedding specifying specific voice characteristics of a target speaker for synthesizing the input text sequence into speech that clones a voice of the target speaker. The target speaker includes a native speaker of a second language different than the first language. The method also includes generating, using a text-to-speech (TTS) model, an output audio feature representation of the input text by processing the input text sequence and the speaker embedding. The output audio feature representation includes the voice characteristics of the target speaker specified by the speaker embedding.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Yu Zhang, Ron J. Weiss, Byungha Chun, Yonghui Wu, Zhifeng Chen, Russell John Wyatt Skerry-Ryan, Ye Jia, Andrew M. Rosenberg, Bhuvana Ramabhadran
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Patent number: 11646019Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage media, for speech recognition using attention-based sequence-to-sequence models. In some implementations, audio data indicating acoustic characteristics of an utterance is received. A sequence of feature vectors indicative of the acoustic characteristics of the utterance is generated. The sequence of feature vectors is processed using a speech recognition model that has been trained using a loss function that uses N-best lists of decoded hypotheses, the speech recognition model including an encoder, an attention module, and a decoder. The encoder and decoder each include one or more recurrent neural network layers. A sequence of output vectors representing distributions over a predetermined set of linguistic units is obtained. A transcription for the utterance is obtained based on the sequence of output vectors. Data indicating the transcription of the utterance is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar, Tara N. Sainath, Yonghui Wu, Patrick An Phu Nguyen, Zhifeng Chen, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Anjuli Patricia Kannan
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Patent number: 11641308Abstract: A SDN orchestration method includes: obtaining a first request for creating a first logical switch; creating a control plane instance of the first logical switch, and sending first configuration information to instruct the first forwarding device to configure the data plane instance of the first logical switch; obtaining a second request for connecting the first logical switch to a first logical router; sending second configuration information to instruct the first forwarding device to configure a first port of the data plane instance of the first logical switch to be communicatively connected to a second port of a data plane instance of the first logical router on the second forwarding device configured with the data plane instance of the first logical router; and sending third configuration information to instruct the second forwarding device to configure the second port to be communicatively connected to the first port.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhifeng Chen, Xuefeng Wu, Weisheng Wang, Chenghao Li
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Publication number: 20230074608Abstract: A table saw includes a workbench, a support frame, a cutting assembly, a mounting device, and a first lighting mechanism. The workbench has a workplane. The support frame is used for supporting the workbench. The cutting assembly includes a cutting element, where the cutting element is disposed at least partially above the workplane, and a drive device that drives the cutting element to rotate around a rotational axis in a cutting plane. The mounting device is disposed above the cutting element. The first lighting mechanism is disposed on the mounting device and generates a first lighting region toward the cutting assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Zhifeng Chen, Dianbo Zhu, Matthew Rybka, Bun Hiong Chua, Patrick Platteuw
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Patent number: 11580952Abstract: A method includes receiving an input text sequence to be synthesized into speech in a first language and obtaining a speaker embedding, the speaker embedding specifying specific voice characteristics of a target speaker for synthesizing the input text sequence into speech that clones a voice of the target speaker. The target speaker includes a native speaker of a second language different than the first language. The method also includes generating, using a text-to-speech (TTS) model, an output audio feature representation of the input text by processing the input text sequence and the speaker embedding. The output audio feature representation includes the voice characteristics of the target speaker specified by the speaker embedding.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Yu Zhang, Ron J. Weiss, Byungha Chun, Yonghui Wu, Zhifeng Chen, Russell John Wyatt Skerry-Ryan, Ye Jia, Andrew M. Rosenberg, Bhuvana Ramabhadran
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Patent number: 11566065Abstract: The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies which have high anti-RSV neutralizing titers. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. The invention yet further provides for diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention, particularly as a passive immunotherapy agent in infants and the elderly.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLCInventors: Kalpit A. Vora, Kara S. Cox, Aimin Tang, Zhifeng Chen, Daniel DiStefano, Lan Zhang, Hua-Poo Su
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Publication number: 20230025140Abstract: A regulating cementitious material for promoting hydration of Portland cement is provided. The regulating cementitious material may include ingredients by weight as follows: ye'elimite, 27˜68 parts; anhydrite, 29˜68 parts; lithium nitrite, 2˜5 parts; ethylene glycol monoisopropanolamine, 0.14˜0.29 parts; triethanolamine acetate, 0.04˜0.09 parts; and polyglycerol, 0.04˜0.09 parts. An early strength of Portland cement can be improved through a cooperative hydration between minerals and an enhanced solubilization of a complexing agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Mingzhang Lan, Tianrui Pei, Jianfeng Wang, Junjian Yang, Zhifeng Chen, Suping Cui, Yali Wang
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Patent number: 11556100Abstract: A control method includes sending, by a controller, a created context-aware model to a context-aware engine. The context-aware model is used to define a preset control performed when target data meets a trigger condition and to instruct the context-aware engine to send indication information to the controller when the context-aware engine determines that the target data meets the trigger condition. The preset control is used to implement a context-aware function. The indication information is used to indicate that the target data meets the trigger condition. The method also includes receiving, by the controller, the indication information. The method further includes performing, by the controller, the preset control based on the indication information.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaotao Deng, Qing Luo, Zhifeng Chen, Tao Han, Junfei Zeng
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Publication number: 20220415042Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing data generated by a sensing system that rotationally senses an environment. In one aspect, a method comprises partitioning a predetermined period of time into a plurality of sub-periods, wherein the predetermined period of time is a period of time for which data generated by the sensing system constitutes a complete rotational sensing of the environment; for each sub-period: receiving current data generated by the sensing system during the sub-period and characterizing a respective partial scene of the environment; processing the current data using an object detection neural network to generate a current object detection output that is specific to the respective partial scene of the environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Jonathon Shlens, Vijay Vasudevan, Jiquan Ngiam, Wei Han, Zhifeng Chen, Brandon Chauloon Yang, Benjamin James Caine, Zhengdong Zhang, Christoph Sprunk, Ouais Alsharif, Junhua Mao, Chen Wu
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Publication number: 20220383076Abstract: A method for performing one or more tasks, wherein each of the one or more tasks includes predicting behavior of one or more agents in an environment, the method comprising: obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) input tensor representing behaviors of the one or more agents in the environment across a plurality of time steps; generating an encoded representation of the 3D input tensor by processing the 3D input tensor using an encoder neural network, wherein 3D input tensor comprises a plurality of observed cells and a plurality of masked cells; and processing the encoded representation of the 3D input tensor using a decoder neural network to generate a 4D output tensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Jonathon Shlens, Vijay Vasudevan, Jiquan Ngiam, Benjamin James Caine, Zhengdong Zhang, Zhifeng Chen, Hao-Tien Chiang, David Joseph Weiss, Jeffrey Ling, Ashish Venugopal
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Patent number: 11508147Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing data generated by a sensing system that rotationally senses an environment. In one aspect, a method comprises partitioning a predetermined period of time into a plurality of sub-periods, wherein the predetermined period of time is a period of time for which data generated by the sensing system constitutes a complete rotational sensing of the environment; for each sub-period: receiving current data generated by the sensing system during the sub-period and characterizing a respective partial scene of the environment; processing the current data using an object detection neural network to generate a current object detection output that is specific to the respective partial scene of the environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jonathon Shlens, Vijay Vasudevan, Jiquan Ngiam, Wei Han, Zhifeng Chen, Brandon Chauloon Yang, Benjamin James Caine, Zhengdong Zhang, Christoph Sprunk, Ouais Alsharif, Junhua Mao, Chen Wu
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Publication number: 20220351713Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech synthesis. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining an audio representation of speech of a target speaker, obtaining input text for which speech is to be synthesized in a voice of the target speaker, generating a speaker vector by providing the audio representation to a speaker encoder engine that is trained to distinguish speakers from one another, generating an audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker by providing the input text and the speaker vector to a spectrogram generation engine that is trained using voices of reference speakers to generate audio representations, and providing the audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker for output.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Ye Jia, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu, Jonathan Shen, Ruoming Pang, Ron J. Weiss, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Fei Ren, Yu Zhang, Quan Wang, Patrick An Phu Nguyen
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Patent number: 11488575Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech synthesis. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining an audio representation of speech of a target speaker, obtaining input text for which speech is to be synthesized in a voice of the target speaker, generating a speaker vector by providing the audio representation to a speaker encoder engine that is trained to distinguish speakers from one another, generating an audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker by providing the input text and the speaker vector to a spectrogram generation engine that is trained using voices of reference speakers to generate audio representations, and providing the audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker for output.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ye Jia, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu, Jonathan Shen, Ruoming Pang, Ron J. Weiss, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Fei Ren, Yu Zhang, Quan Wang, Patrick Nguyen
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Publication number: 20220319054Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predicting scene flow. One of the methods includes obtaining a current point cloud representing an observed scene at a current time point; obtaining object label data that identifies a first three-dimensional region in the observed scene; determining, for each current three-dimensional point that is within the first three-dimensional region and using the object label data, a respective preceding position of the current three-dimensional point at a preceding time point in a reference frame of the sensor at the current time point; and generating, using the preceding positions, a scene flow label for the current point cloud that comprises a respective ground truth motion vector for each of a plurality of the current three-dimensional points.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Nichola Abdo, Jonathon Shlens, Zhifeng Chen, Christopher John Sweeney, Philipp Florian Jund