Patents by Inventor Zikun LIU

Zikun 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: 20250228387
    Abstract: A cooking device includes a pot lid assembly and a pot body. The pot lid assembly includes a pot lid including a plurality of first pot teeth. The pot lid including at least two first fool-proof structures each formed at one of the plurality of first pot teeth. The pot body includes a plurality of second pot teeth. The pot body includes at least two second fool-proof structures each provided at one of the plurality of second pot teeth. The pot lid and the pot body are configured to be buckled with each other via a one-to-one cooperation between the at least two first fool-proof structures and the at least two second fool-proof structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventor: Zikun LIU
  • Publication number: 20250175708
    Abstract: A method performed by an electronic device, may include: acquiring image brightness information of a first image and scene brightness information of a shooting scene corresponding to the first image; and performing brightness adjustment on the first image based on the image brightness information and the scene brightness information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoxia XING, Zikun LIU, Jianxing ZHANG, Juan LEI, Xiangyu KONG, Daul PARK
  • Publication number: 20250095322
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method performed by an electronic device, an electronic device, a storage medium and a program product, relating to the field of computer vision, image processing and artificial intelligence. The method includes: extracting at least one object center area and at least one object boundary area from a first image; and aligning the extracted object center area with the object boundary area to obtain an object segmentation result of the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunmiao LI, Zheng Xie, Jianxing Zhang, Zikun Liu, Xiaopeng Li, Jongbum Choi
  • Publication number: 20240404015
    Abstract: A method performed by an electronic device and an electronic device are provided. The method includes acquiring a first image, determining restoration style information of the first image, and restoring the first image based on the restoration style information by using an artificial intelligence (AI) network to obtain a restored image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Jianxing ZHANG, Zikun LIU, Zheng XIE, Juan LEI, Yuanyang XUE, Hyungju CHUN
  • Publication number: 20240314745
    Abstract: An example embodiment may involve receiving, at a node of a radio access network, input signals on a plurality of wireless channels, wherein uplink channels in the plurality of wireless channels are respectively associated with downlink channels in the plurality of wireless channels; determining up-link characteristics for the uplink channels; providing, to a trained neural network, the uplink characteristics, wherein the trained neural network was iteratively trained, with a training data set of recorded uplink characteristics and recorded downlink characteristics, to form predictions of the recorded downlink characteristics from the recorded uplink characteristics, wherein the trained neural network includes an encoder that maps the recorded uplink characteristics to latent vector representations, and a decoder that maps the latent vector representations to the predictions; receiving, from the trained neural network, a prediction of downlink characteristics for the downlink channels; and transmitting, on th
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Deepak VASISHT, Gagandeep SINGH, Zikun LIU
  • Patent number: 11967045
    Abstract: An image processing method comprises obtaining an input image; converting the input image or a feature map of the input image into a plurality of target input images or target feature maps, wherein a resolution of each of the target input images or the target feature maps is smaller than a resolution of the feature map of the input image or the input image, and pixels at the same position in each of the target input images or the target feature maps are of a neighborhood relationship with the input image or the feature map of the input image; processing at least a part of the plurality of target input images or target feature maps by one or more convolution blocks in a convolutional neural network; and increasing a resolution of a feature map output from the one or more convolution blocks in the convolutional neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Zikun Liu, Chunying Li, Han Qiu, Yinglu Liu
  • Patent number: 11887218
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an image optimization method, system, and storage medium. The image optimization method includes extracting texture quality information from an input image. The texture quality information indicates a spatial distribution of texture quality in the input image. The image optimization method also includes performing, according to the texture quality information, texture restoration on a set region in the input image to generate a texture restored image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianxing Zhang, Zikun Liu, Chunyang Li, Jian Yang, Wei Wen
  • Publication number: 20230138049
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing method and device, an electronic apparatus and a storage medium, and the image processing method includes: acquiring an input image; detecting a target area in the input image; and processing the target area, wherein the processing of the target area includes: obtaining a feature map of the target area, rearranging feature blocks in the feature map in a feature space, and obtaining an output image after the target area is processed based on the rearranged feature blocks and the feature map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianxing ZHANG, Zikun LIU, Zheng XIE, Jian YANG, Hyungju CHUN, Wei WEN
  • Publication number: 20230080693
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing method to process an image, the method including acquiring a plurality of channel images of the image to be processed, acquiring a noise intensity corresponding to the each of the plurality of channel images of the image to be processed, denoising the image to be processed based on the noise intensity corresponding to the each of the plurality of channel images of the image, and obtaining the denoised image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ben HU, Jianxing ZHANG, Sengui ZHENG, Chunyang LI, Zikun LIU, Jili LI
  • Publication number: 20220076459
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an image optimization method, system, and storage medium. The image optimization method includes extracting texture quality information from an input image. The texture quality information indicates a spatial distribution of texture quality in the input image. The image optimization method also includes performing, according to the texture quality information, texture restoration on a set region in the input image to generate a texture restored image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jianxing ZHANG, Zikun LIU, Chunyang LI, Jian YANG, Wei WEN
  • Publication number: 20210192687
    Abstract: An image processing method comprises obtaining an input image; converting the input image or a feature map of the input image into a plurality of target input images or target feature maps, wherein a resolution of each of the target input images or the target feature maps is smaller than a resolution of the feature map of the input image or the input image, and pixels at the same position in each of the target input images or the target feature maps are of a neighborhood relationship with the input image or the feature map of the input image; processing at least a part of the plurality of target input images or target feature maps by one or more convolution blocks in a convolutional neural network; and increasing a resolution of a feature map output from the one or more convolution blocks in the convolutional neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Zikun LIU, Chunying LI, Han QIU, Yinglu LIU