Patents by Inventor Zhongfei Zhang

Zhongfei Zhang 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: 11868862
    Abstract: A method of modelling data, comprising: training an objective function of a linear classifier, based on a set of labeled data, to derive a set of classifier weights; defining a posterior probability distribution on the set of classifier weights of the linear classifier; approximating a marginalized loss function for an autoencoder as a Bregman divergence, based on the posterior probability distribution on the set of classifier weights learned from the linear classifier; and classifying unlabeled data using the autoencoder according to the marginalized loss function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Zhongfei Zhang, Shuangfei Zhai
  • Publication number: 20230173730
    Abstract: A halogen-free modified high-filling recyclable plastic board is provided in this disclosure, which includes a substrate layer and a printed layer and a protective layer disposed sequentially on the substrate layer from bottom to top. Raw materials of the substrate layer include, by weight in percent, 20 to 25% of PEAT resin, 70 to 75% of stone powder, 0.5 to 0.8% of chain extender, 1 to 2% of white mineral oil, 3 to 6% PE, and 0.4 to 0.8% stearic acid. The plastic board according to the present disclosure is formed using a hot press process, without glue bonding and with good integrity; and the manufactured board is large in surface tension, its surface is easy to be processed and a substrate layer thereof has good compatibility with a printed layer and a protective layer, which can be recycled as a whole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Huibin DAI, Lijie DONG, Xin LI, Zhongfei ZHANG, Tao WANG, Mengfei LI, Jiangchuan CAO
  • Patent number: 11542388
    Abstract: A plastic floor board processing technology using digital printing, aiming to solve the problem relating to the high production cost, comprising the steps of: preparing a base material; blending the base material; extruding the blended base material into a mold to form a stone-plastic base material; adjusting a gap between a surface embossing roll and a bottom embossing roll to enable the stone-plastic base material to pass through the gap; generating embossing patterns and positioning marks at equal intervals on a surface of the stone-plastic base material; cooling the stone-plastic base material; cutting the stone-plastic base material into plastic floorboards; using a digital printer to print the plastic floorboards. According to the present disclosure, patterns are directly printed on the surface of the stone-plastic base material, which avoids the processes of arranging a color film and a wear layer, lowers the production cost and improves the production efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG KINGDOM NEW MATERIAL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huibin Dai, Zhongfei Zhang, Peidong Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220154006
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an ultra-matte board, which includes a semi-curing step, an irradiating step with an ultraviolet excimer lamp and a full curing step. The semi-curing step includes: coating a UV paint on a substrate, and irradiating the coated substrate with an ultraviolet lamp with a wavelength ranging from 350 nm to 450 nm to semi-cure the UV paint; the irradiating step with the ultraviolet excimer lamp includes: placing the semi-cured substrate in an inert gas atmosphere and irradiating the substrate with an ultraviolet excimer lamp for 2 s to 20 s; and the full curing step includes: irradiating with an ultraviolet lamp with a wavelength ranging from 350 nm to 450 nm to fully cure the UV paint to obtain the ultra-matte board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Zhejiang Kingdom New Material Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huibin DAI, Zhongfei ZHANG, Tao Wang, Lijie DONG
  • Publication number: 20220114405
    Abstract: A method of modelling data, comprising: training an objective function of a linear classifier, based on a set of labeled data, to derive a set of classifier weights; defining a posterior probability distribution on the set of classifier weights of the linear classifier; approximating a marginalized loss function for an autoencoder as a Bregman divergence, based on the posterior probability distribution on the set of classifier weights learned from the linear classifier; and classifying unlabeled data using the autoencoder according to the marginalized loss function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Zhongfei Zhang, Shuangfei Zhai
  • Patent number: 11205103
    Abstract: A method of modelling data, comprising: training an objective function of a linear classifier, based on a set of labeled data, to derive a set of classifier weights; defining a posterior probability distribution on the set of classifier weights of the linear classifier; approximating a marginalized loss function for an autoencoder as a Bregman divergence, based on the posterior probability distribution on the set of classifier weights learned from the linear classifier; and classifying unlabeled data using the autoencoder according to the marginalized loss function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University
    Inventors: Zhongfei Zhang, Shuangfei Zhai
  • Publication number: 20210146707
    Abstract: A method for forming a stereoscopic pattern of a plastic floorboard, comprising: positioning a base board on a digital printing unit, wherein the base board has an outer surface; using the digital printing unit to print pigment on the outer surface of the base board according to a preset pattern to form a pattern layer, wherein the pattern of the pattern layer corresponds to or does not correspond to the stereoscopic pattern; using a first forming unit to form a protection layer on the pattern layer with a transparent melt plastic raw material; and using a second forming unit to form the stereoscopic pattern having a concave-convex structure on the protection layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Huibin DAI, Peidong ZHAO, Zhongfei ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200377711
    Abstract: A plastic floor board processing technology using digital printing, aiming to solve the problem relating to the high production cost, comprising the steps of: preparing a base material; blending the base material; extruding the blended base material into a mold to form a stone-plastic base material; adjusting a gap between a surface embossing roll and a bottom embossing roll to enable the stone-plastic base material to pass through the gap; generating embossing patterns and positioning marks at equal intervals on a surface of the stone-plastic base material; cooling the stone-plastic base material; cutting the stone-plastic base material into plastic floorboards; using a digital printer to print the plastic floorboards. According to the present disclosure, patterns are directly printed on the surface of the stone-plastic base material, which avoids the processes of arranging a color film and a wear layer, lowers the production cost and improves the production efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Huibin DAI, Zhongfei ZHANG, Peidong ZHAO
  • Patent number: 10614366
    Abstract: Systems and Methods for multi-modal or multimedia image retrieval are provided. Automatic image annotation is achieved based on a probabilistic semantic model in which visual features and textual words are connected via a hidden layer comprising the semantic concepts to be discovered, to explicitly exploit the synergy between the two modalities. The association of visual features and textual words is determined in a Bayesian framework to provide confidence of the association. A hidden concept layer which connects the visual feature(s) and the words is discovered by fitting a generative model to the training image and annotation words. An Expectation-Maximization (EM) based iterative learning procedure determines the conditional probabilities of the visual features and the textual words given a hidden concept class. Based on the discovered hidden concept layer and the corresponding conditional probabilities, the image annotation and the text-to-image retrieval are performed using the Bayesian framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for the State University o
    Inventors: Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200056380
    Abstract: The invention discloses a chamfered plastic floor. The chamfered plastic floor is formed by splicing a plurality of substrates, wherein at least one side edge of an upper surface of each substrate is provided with a surface descending portion; the surface descending portion is disposed along a length direction of the edge of the substrate; adjacent substrates are spliced at the surface descending portions to form a boundary area, and a surface of the boundary area is covered with an antifouling layer. The invention provides a chamfered plastic floor which not only can present the boundaries between adjacent floors, but also facilitates the cleaning of the boundary areas between adjacent floors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Zhejiang Kingdom Plastics Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huibin Dai, Zhongfei Zhang, Peidong Zhao
  • Patent number: 10007679
    Abstract: Multimodal data mining in a multimedia database is addressed as a structured prediction problem, wherein mapping from input to the structured and interdependent output variables is learned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
    Inventors: Zhen Guo, Zhongfei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180165554
    Abstract: A method of modelling data, comprising: training an objective function of a linear classifier, based on a set of labeled data, to derive a set of classifier weights; defining a posterior probability distribution on the set of classifier weights of the linear classifier; approximating a marginalized loss function for an autoencoder as a Bregman divergence, based on the posterior probability distribution on the set of classifier weights learned from the linear classifier; and classifying unlabeled data using the autoencoder according to the marginalized loss function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Zhongfei Zhang, Shuangfei Zhai
  • Patent number: 9280562
    Abstract: Systems and Methods for multi-modal or multimedia image retrieval are provided. Automatic image annotation is achieved based on a probabilistic semantic model in which visual features and textual words are connected via a hidden layer comprising the semantic concepts to be discovered, to explicitly exploit the synergy between the two modalities. The association of visual features and textual words is determined in a Bayesian framework to provide confidence of the association. A hidden concept layer which connects the visual feature(s) and the words is discovered by fitting a generative model to the training image and annotation words. An Expectation-Maximization (EM) based iterative learning procedure determines the conditional probabilities of the visual features and the textual words given a hidden concept class. Based on the discovered hidden concept layer and the corresponding conditional probabilities, the image annotation and the text-to-image retrieval are performed using the Bayesian framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150186423
    Abstract: Multimodal data mining in a multimedia database is addressed as a structured prediction problem, wherein mapping from input to the structured and interdependent output variables is learned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Zhen Guo, Zhongfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 8923630
    Abstract: Multimodal data mining in a multimedia database is addressed as a structured prediction problem, wherein mapping from input to the structured and interdependent output variables is learned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
    Inventors: Zhen Guo, Zhongfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 8773536
    Abstract: The present invention features a qualitative method to detect independent motion revealed in successive frames of a compressed surveillance MPEG video stream using linear system consistency analysis without decompression of the stream, identifying the segments containing independent motion in a real-time or faster manner, for the retrieval of these segments. The linear system is constructed using the macroblocks of MPEG compressed video frames. The normal flow value of the macroblock is obtained by taking the dot product between the macroblock gradient vector, computed by averaging the four block gradient vectors, and the motion vector of this macroblock. The normal flow value is filtered for inclusion in the linear system, and the statistic of the matrices of the resulting linear system is determined, filtered to screen out false negatives and outliers, and used to determine the presence or absence of independent motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventor: Zhongfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 8700547
    Abstract: A general model is provided which provides collective factorization on related matrices, for multi-type relational data clustering. The model is applicable to relational data with various structures. Under this model, a spectral relational clustering algorithm is provided to cluster multiple types of interrelated data objects simultaneously. The algorithm iteratively embeds each type of data objects into low dimensional spaces and benefits from the interactions among the hidden structures of different types of data objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
    Inventors: Bo Long, Zhongfei Zhang
  • Patent number: 8676805
    Abstract: Relational clustering has attracted more and more attention due to its phenomenal impact in various important applications which involve multi-type interrelated data objects, such as Web mining, search marketing, bioinformatics, citation analysis, and epidemiology. A probabilistic model is presented for relational clustering, which also provides a principal framework to unify various important clustering tasks including traditional attributes-based clustering, semi-supervised clustering, co-clustering and graph clustering. The model seeks to identify cluster structures for each type of data objects and interaction patterns between different types of objects. Under this model, parametric hard and soft relational clustering algorithms are provided under a large number of exponential family distributions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Bo Long, Zhongfei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130251248
    Abstract: Multimodal data mining in a multimedia database is addressed as a structured prediction problem, wherein mapping from input to the structured and interdependent output variables is learned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Zhen Guo, Zhongfei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20120296907
    Abstract: A general model is provided which provides collective factorization on related matrices, for multi-type relational data clustering. The model is applicable to relational data with various structures. Under this model, a spectral relational clustering algorithm is provided to cluster multiple types of interrelated data objects simultaneously. The algorithm iteratively embeds each type of data objects into low dimensional spaces and benefits from the interactions among the hidden structures of different types of data objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: The Research Foundation of State University of New York
    Inventors: Bo Long, Zhongfei Zhang