Patents by Inventor Zhihong Liu

Zhihong Liu 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: 20250140902
    Abstract: A cellulose-based all-solid-state polymer electrolyte separator, a preparation method thereof and an application thereof are provided. The cellulose separator is used as a skeleton, and solid-state polymer electrolyte is injected into pores of the separator using atomic layer deposition and dipping-coating processes. In addition, the polymer electrolyte remains in an amorphous structure at high temperatures by using an instantaneous quenching method, and ionic conductivity of the solid-state polymer electrolyte at room temperature is improved. After a surface of the solid-state polymer electrolyte separator is further coated with an alumina nanolayer, an electrochemical window width of the separator is significantly increased, and the solid-state polymer electrolyte separator is prevented from decomposing under a high voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicants: BattFlex Technological, Inc., EneRol Nanotechnologies, Inc, Jianghan University
    Inventors: Ming XIE, Xuanxuan ZHANG, Zhihong LIU, Zhaohuai LI
  • Publication number: 20250118042
    Abstract: This application provides a method and an apparatus for interaction processing of a virtual item, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes displaying at least one idle virtual item in a virtual scene; moving a first virtual object in the virtual scene in response to a movement operation on the first virtual object; displaying a pickable prompt of the idle virtual item when there is no obstacle between the idle virtual item and the first virtual object; and controlling the first virtual object to pick up the idle virtual item in response to a picking-up operation by the first virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Patent number: 12268962
    Abstract: Some aspects of the disclosure provide a method for virtual environment control. The method includes displaying a first user interface (UI) that provides a virtual environment observed from a perspective of a first virtual character that has a first virtual item, and controlling, in response to a firing instruction, the first virtual character to use the first virtual item. The method also includes determining a category of a subject in an influence range of the first virtual item from a plurality of categories that the first virtual item is capable to influence on. The plurality of categories includes at least a virtual character category and a virtual item category. The method also includes controlling the first virtual item to produce an effect on the subject based on the determined category. The effect can change an attribute value associated with the determined category of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhihong Liu
  • Patent number: 12233337
    Abstract: A virtual aiming control method is provided. In the method, a recoil offset for an aim point of a virtual item is obtained when a shooting operation is performed by the virtual item. A scatter offset for the aim point of the virtual item is determined based on the obtained recoil offset for the aim point of the virtual item. An aim point offset for the aim point of the virtual item is determined based on the obtained recoil offset for the aim point of the virtual item and the determined scatter offset for the aim point of the virtual item. The aim point of the virtual item is shifted based on the aim point offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Zhihong Liu
  • Patent number: 12233340
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure include an information processing method. In the method, a picture of a virtual environment is displayed. The picture includes a target region located in the virtual environment where the target region is adjacent to a neighboring region in the virtual environment. In response to a first movement instruction, a virtual character is controlled to enter the target region from the neighboring region by processing circuitry of an information processing apparatus. A first movement speed of the virtual character in the neighboring region is higher than a second movement speed of the virtual character in the target region. The information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are also contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhihong Liu, Chang Guo
  • Patent number: 12226704
    Abstract: A method for virtual object control in a game application includes detecting a first virtual resource transfer operation when a distance between a first virtual object and a first virtual obstacle is less than or equal to a first predetermined distance threshold. The first virtual object is located in a first virtual region, the first virtual obstacle is in a first locked state that prevents the first virtual object from entering a second virtual region. Then, the method includes switching the first virtual obstacle from the first locked state to a first unlocked state that allows the first virtual object to enter the second virtual region based on a reduction of virtual resources from the first virtual object. Then, the method includes controlling the first virtual object to enter the second virtual region when a first control operation is detected. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhihong Liu
  • Publication number: 20250050216
    Abstract: A control method includes displaying a game interface configured to carry a virtual environment in which a virtual operation object is located and including a virtual prop selection control set, controlling, in response to a first operation on a first target virtual prop selection control in the virtual prop selection control set, the virtual operation object to be equipped with a first target virtual prop corresponding to the first target virtual prop selection control, and controlling, in response to a second operation on a second target virtual prop selection control in the virtual prop selection control set, the virtual operation object to throw a second target virtual prop corresponding to the second target virtual prop selection control. An equipping operation on the first target virtual prop and a throwing operation on the second target virtual prop are implemented using different parts of the virtual operation object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Patent number: 12220635
    Abstract: This application discloses a virtual unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The UAV control method includes: displaying, in a currently running one-round interactive task in a target interactive application, an interactive picture within a field of view of a first virtual operation object; calling, in response to a virtual UAV of the first virtual operation object being in a target state, the virtual UAV in the target interactive application in response to a first target operation; and displaying, in the target interactive application, an interactive picture within a field of view of the virtual UAV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhihong Liu
  • Publication number: 20250043297
    Abstract: Disclosed are use of a polynucleotide, protein, and biological material in the regulation and control of plant tuber development, and related products and production methods thereof. The tuber plant or part thereof, comprising a sequence encoding a polypeptide comprising a sequence having at least 92% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein the polypeptide is inhibited-expressed, loss-function, or overexpressed, and the development of plant tuber is changed. The polynucleotide is an identity gene of a tuber, and can control whether a tuber is formed, the formation time, the tuber size etc. by regulating and controlling a protein function, an expression quantity etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicants: Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
    Inventors: Sanwen HUANG, Jinzhe ZHANG, Zhihong LIU, Yuxin JIA, Shuangshuang FENG
  • Patent number: 12211163
    Abstract: This application provides a method and an apparatus for interaction processing of a virtual item, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes displaying at least one idle virtual item in a virtual scene; moving a first virtual object in the virtual scene in response to a movement operation on the first virtual object; displaying a pickable prompt of the idle virtual item when there is no obstacle between the idle virtual item and the first virtual object; and controlling the first virtual object to pick up the idle virtual item in response to a picking-up operation by the first virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhihong Liu
  • Patent number: 12204836
    Abstract: Method and System for Parallel Design and Technology Optimization are disclosed. The disclosed method enables efficient parallel design and technology optimization (PDTO) and allow designers to sign off the technology development or find the optimal design point with the design analysis tools. The method includes generating, from a manufacturing technology process, a baseline SPICE model based on technology specification and manufacturing process data; extending the baseline SPICE model to a corresponding description of technology specification window in the circuit design process, where the technology specification window describes extended ranges of device model parameters; extracting a targeted SPICE model using the technology specification window; verifying, by a circuit design process that operates in parallel to the manufacturing technology process, the integrated circuit meets a design specification using the targeted SPICE model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Primarius Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhihong Liu, Yutao Ma
  • Patent number: 12194385
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and a storage medium for displaying a virtual prop includes: displaying a screen in which a target virtual operation object is located in a target application; detecting a virtual prop of a target type within a visual angle range of the target virtual operation object in response to the target virtual operation object being configured with a target virtual skill, where the target virtual skill allows the target virtual operation object to see the virtual prop of the target type through a virtual obstacle; and displaying perspective information of the target virtual prop in the target application in response to the target virtual prop of the target type being detected within the visual angle range of the target virtual operation object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chao Liang, Zhihong Liu
  • Publication number: 20240403514
    Abstract: A method, system and device for allocating total emission reduction of a water environmental pollution load are provided. The method includes: dividing a watershed based on terrain elevation information in watershed-related data to generate a plurality of watershed control units; with a watershed control unit as a basic unit, estimating a pollution load output in each watershed control unit by using an output coefficient method; acquiring GDP of each watershed control unit, and combined with the pollution load output, calculating relative environmental efficiency of each watershed control unit by using a data envelopment method; quantifying a contribution rate of a pollution load produced by each watershed control unit to a pollution load of a section of river entering the sea one by one based on a constructed watershed water environmental model; and formulating a pollutant emission reduction scheme according to the relative environmental efficiency and the contribution rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Zhuohang XIN, Ming CONG, Zhihong LIU, Chi ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240382849
    Abstract: In a virtual character display method, a game scene of a first virtual character in a game application is displayed. A target marker is displayed based on an attack event between the first virtual character and a second virtual character being generated in the game application. The target marker is configured to mark the second virtual character in the game scene when the attack event is generated. The target marker moves in accordance with movement of the second virtual character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Patent number: 12142643
    Abstract: A material structure for silicon-based gallium nitride microwave and millimeter-wave devices and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The material structure includes: a silicon substrate; a dielectric layer of high thermal conductivity, disposed on an upper surface of the silicon substrate, and an uneven first patterned interface being formed between the dielectric layer and the silicon substrate; a buffer layer, disposed on an upper surface of the dielectric layer, and an uneven second patterned interface being formed between the buffer layer and the dielectric layer; a channel layer, disposed on an upper surface of the buffer layer; and a composite barrier layer, disposed on an upper surface of the channel layer. In the material structure, the uneven patterned interfaces increase contact areas of the interfaces, a thermal boundary resistance and a thermal resistance of device are reduced, and a heat dissipation performance of device is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Xidian University
    Inventors: Jincheng Zhang, Lu Hao, Zhihong Liu, Junwei Liu, Kunlu Song, Yachao Zhang, Weihang Zhang, Yue Hao
  • Patent number: 12128322
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for driving a vehicle in a virtual environment, a terminal, and a storage medium. The method includes: displaying a driving picture and a map display control, the driving picture being a picture in which a virtual object drives a virtual vehicle in a virtual environment, and the virtual vehicle being in a manual driving mode; receiving a marking operation on the map display control in response to the virtual vehicle being located in an automatic driving region in the virtual environment, the marking operation being an operation of marking a location in the map display control; and switching the virtual vehicle to an automatic driving mode in response to the marking operation, and controlling the virtual vehicle to automatically drive to a destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhihong Liu
  • Patent number: 12121798
    Abstract: This application discloses a method and apparatus for application of a scope in a virtual environment, a device, and a storage medium, and relates to the field of virtual environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Zhihong Liu
  • Publication number: 20240344779
    Abstract: A flow rate adjustment device includes: an adjustment unit including a pipe and a sealing plate provided below an outlet of the pipe, the sealing plate having a sealing surface; and a moving unit that moves the sealing plate to a sealing position where the sealing surface of the sealing plate is positioned vertically below the outlet of the pipe and a retraction position where the sealing surface of the sealing plate is retracted from a point vertically below the outlet of the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Zhihong LIU, Atsushi ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240335752
    Abstract: A method for controlling a virtual object in a virtual environment performed by a computer device is provided. The method includes: displaying a joystick control for controlling movement of the virtual object in the virtual scene, the joystick control comprising a plurality of trigger regions, each trigger regions having a unique sensitivity; detecting a first sliding operation whose start position is located in a first trigger region of the plurality of trigger regions; determining a first movement speed of the virtual object based on a sensitivity of the first trigger region; and controlling the virtual object to move at the first movement speed. A user may start performing a sliding operation at the trigger regions with the different sensitivities based on different demands, so that the virtual object can be controlled to move at different speeds, thereby enriching a manner for controlling the virtual object, and improving human-computer interaction efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventor: Zhihong LIU
  • Patent number: 12090401
    Abstract: A virtual object control method includes: displaying a mode selection interface of a shooting game; starting, in response to a selection instruction for a target game mode in the mode selection interface, a game battle of the target game mode, and displaying a battle interface of the game battle; controlling a first virtual object to operate in a virtual environment provided by the game battle; controlling, in response to a shooting instruction for a virtual firearm used by the first virtual object, the virtual firearm to fire a virtual bullet; and determining, when the virtual bullet hits a second virtual object in the game battle, that the second virtual object is switched from a alive state to a death state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhihong Liu