Patents by Inventor Ziran Zhao

Ziran Zhao 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: 10918197
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a bristle bundle and a handle. The handle has a tubular structure and includes a straight part and a bent part, and the bent part is located at the end of the straight part. The bristle bundle is detachably placed in the tubular structure of the handle, and one end of the bristle bundle extends out of the bent part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Ziran Zhao
  • Patent number: 10914693
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a ray transmission and fluorescence CT imaging system and method. The system comprises: a ray source configured to emit a beam of rays; a rotational scanning device configured to perform rotational CT scanning on an object to be inspected; a transmission CT detector configured to receive the beam of rays which has passed through the object; a fluorescence CT detector configured to receive fluorescent photons excited by irradiation of the beam of rays on the object; a data acquisition unit configured to acquire a transmission data signal and a fluorescence data signal respectively; and a control and data processing unit configured to control the ray source to emit the beam of rays, control the rotational scanning device to perform the rotational CT scanning, and obtain a transmission CT image and a fluorescence CT image simultaneously based on the transmission data signal and the fluorescence data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liang Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Li Zhang, Ziran Zhao, Yuxiang Xing, Siyuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210023864
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a self-driving system having an RFID reader and a built-in printer. In one embodiment, a self-driving system includes a mobile base having one or more motorized wheels, the mobile base having a first end and a second end opposing the first end, a console coupled in an upright position to the first end of the mobile base, and a tag reader integrated with the console, the tag reader having a sensor surface facing upwardly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Ziran ZHAO, Xin HOU
  • Publication number: 20210023866
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a self-driving system having an RFID reader and a built-in printer. In one embodiment, a self-driving system includes a mobile base having one or more motorized wheels, the mobile base having a first end and a second end opposing the first end, a console coupled in an upright position to the first end of the mobile base, and a tag reader integrated with the console, the tag reader having a sensor surface facing upwardly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Ziran ZHAO, Xin HOU
  • Publication number: 20210023865
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a self-driving system having an RFID reader and a built-in printer. In one embodiment, a self-driving system includes a mobile base having one or more motorized wheels, the mobile base having a first end and a second end opposing the first end, a console coupled in an upright position to the first end of the mobile base, and a tag reader integrated with the console, the tag reader having a sensor surface facing upwardly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Ziran ZHAO, Xin HOU
  • Publication number: 20210025836
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a substance identification device and a substance identification method. The substance identification device comprises: a classifier establishing unit configured to establish a classifier based on scattering density values reconstructed for a plurality of known sample materials, wherein the classifier comprises a plurality of feature regions corresponding to a plurality of characteristic parameters for the plurality of known sample materials, respectively; and an identification unit for a material to be tested, configured to match the characteristic parameter of the material to be tested with the classifier, and to identify a type of the material to be tested by obtaining a feature region corresponding to the characteristic parameter of the material to be tested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Zhi ZENG, Xingyu PAN, Xuewu WANG, Junli LI, Ming ZENG, Jianmin LI, Ziran ZHAO, Jianping CHENG, Hao MA, Hui ZHANG, Hao YU, Bicheng LIU
  • Patent number: 10796436
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus and a method for segmenting an Image of a vehicle are disclosed. An X-ray transmission scanning is performed on the vehicle to obtain a transmission image. Each pixel of the transmission image is labeled with a category tag, by using a trained convolutional network. Images of respective parts of the vehicle are determined according to the category tag for each pixel. With the above solutions, it is possible to segment the images of respective parts of a vehicle more accurately in the situations that are complicated or have large variety kinds of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: Nuctech Company Limited, Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Chuanhong Huang, Qiang Li, Jianping Gu, Yaohong Liu, Ziran Zhao
  • Patent number: 10794923
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a wiping-type sample sampling and feeding device, a card reading apparatus, and a gate machine apparatus. The wiping-type sample sampling and feeding device comprises a thermally desorbing portion for analyzing a substance; a wiping-type sampling portion for wiping the substance on a card or certificate and includes a first wheel, a second wheel and a wiping conveyor belt that travels between the first and second wheels along a first direction; and a card/certificate conveyor portion including a card carrying belt configured to convey a card or certificate along a second direction so that the card or certificate can contact with the wiping conveyor belt during conveyance of the card or certificate, thereby the wiping conveyor belt wipes a surface of the card or certificate, wherein the second direction is substantially perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Qingjun Zhang, Yuanjing Li, Ziran Zhao, Qiufeng Ma, Ge Li, Biao Cao, Qi Mao
  • Publication number: 20200309987
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method of substance identification of an item to be inspected using a multi-energy-spectrum X-ray imaging system, the method comprising: acquiring a transparency related vector consisting of transparency values of the item to be inspected in N energy regions, wherein N is greater than 2; calculating distances between the transparency related vector and transparency related vectors stored in the system consisting of N transparency mean values of multiple kinds of items with multiple thicknesses in the N energy regions; and identifying the item to be inspected as the item corresponding to the minimum distance. The present disclosure is based on a multi-energy-spectrum X-ray imaging system, and proposes a method of substance identification by analyzing the multi-energy-spectrum substance identification issue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Guangming XU, Bicheng LIU, Ziran ZHAO, Jianping GU, Qiang LI, Lan ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10782211
    Abstract: A sampling device and an inspection apparatus are disclosed. In one aspect, an example gathering and sampling device includes a cylindrical outer housing and an inner housing disposed within the cylindrical outer housing, a cyclone chamber is formed between the cylindrical outer housing and the inner housing to generate a cyclone by injecting a gas flow into the cyclone chamber. The gathering and sampling device further includes an outer chamber body, and a plurality of gas injection orifices formed in the first inner housing end opening of the inner housing and configured to inject a gas towards a substantial center of a circular region defined by an end face of the first outer housing end opening of the cylindrical outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Qingjun Zhang, Yuanjing Li, Ziran Zhao, Ge Li, Biao Cao, Qiufeng Ma, Linxia Tan
  • Patent number: 10775278
    Abstract: It is disclosed a scrubbing and sampling device, a card reader apparatus and a gate apparatus. The scrubbing and sampling device includes: a scrubbing and sampling portion including a first wheel and a second wheel, which are respectively capable of rotating around respective rotating axes, and a scrubbing conveyor belt tensioned by the first wheel and the second wheel and driven by rotation of the first wheel and the second wheel, to move between them; and an desorbing portion configured to desorb properties of an sample that is conveyed into the desorbing portion. The scrubbing conveyor belt is configured to move through the desorbing portion such that the desorbing portion desorbs the sample on the scrubbing conveyor belt when the scrubbing conveyor belt enters the desorbing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Qingjun Zhang, Yuanjing Li, Ziran Zhao, Ge Li, Qiufeng Ma
  • Patent number: 10775302
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a terahertz detector. The terahertz detector includes a planar array structure that is constituted by a plurality of pixel units, the plurality of pixel units each include N sub pixels and each of the sub pixels includes no more than one signal trigger configured to transform a terahertz signal to an electrical current pulsing signal, and each of the plurality of pixel units detects a signal that is a sum of the electrical current pulsing signals of the N sub pixels, where N is an integer greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ziran Zhao, Haifan Hu, Xuming Ma, Yingxin Wang
  • Patent number: 10768575
    Abstract: An imaging device and an imaging method by millimeter wave 3D holographic scanning are disclosed. In an embodiment, the millimeter wave 3D holographic scanning imaging device may include: a conveying apparatus configured to convey an object located thereon in a first direction; and at least one millimeter wave transceiving module arranged beside the conveying apparatus, each configured to be enabled to scan the object when the conveying apparatus conveys the object through the respective millimeter wave transceiving module, wherein each millimeter wave transceiving module is arranged to have its longitudinal direction extend in a direction intersecting the first direction, and includes a millimeter wave transceiving antenna array for transceiving millimeter wave signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanjing Li, Ziran Zhao, Wanlong Wu, Zongjun Shen, Li Zhang, Yinong Liu, Yingkang Jin, Wentao Yu
  • Publication number: 20200249373
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a millimeter wave security inspection apparatus and a method for inspecting human or article. The apparatus includes: a door device including a first door and a second door arranged in a stacked mode and each made of a material allowing a millimeter wave to penetrate therethrough; a millimeter wave transceiver arranged between the first door and the second door and including an millimeter wave transceiving antenna array configured to transmit and receive a millimeter wave signal to and from an entrance side and an exit side of the door device; and a linear driver to which the millimeter wave transceiver is connected to be movable relative to the door device, so as to scan a first side of an object positioned at the entrance side and a second side of the object opposite to the first side positioned at the exit side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Ziran ZHAO, Yingkang JIN, Lingbo QIAO, Zhimin ZHENG, Ming XU, Xilei LUO
  • Publication number: 20200209384
    Abstract: A millimeter wave security check gate is provided, comprising: a gate body; and a top millimeter wave imaging system, comprising: a millimeter wave transceiving antenna array disposed at a top of the gate body, wherein the millimeter wave transceiving antenna array comprises at least one transmitting antenna unit and a plurality of receiving antenna units; and a millimeter wave signal source connected with the millimeter wave transceiving antenna array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Ziran Zhao, Zhimin Zheng, Lingbo Qiao, Yingkang Jin, Wenguo Liu
  • Publication number: 20200210785
    Abstract: Empty container identification method and system are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining customs declaration information, and finding out an vehicle declared as an empty container or an empty vehicle from the customs declaration information; performing X-ray inspection on the vehicle to acquire a transmission image of the vehicle; inputting the transmission image into an empty container identification model obtained by pre-training, so that the empty container identification model determines candidate regions of the transmission image, and performs post-processing analysis on the candidate regions to obtain an image identification result; and comparing the image identification result with the corresponding customs declaration information to determine whether or not the image identification result is consistent with the customs declaration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yanjie YAO, Yongchun LIU, Yan ZHANG, Ziran ZHAO, Li ZHANG, Yuxiang XING
  • Patent number: 10699887
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a preparation and feed apparatus of a standard sample for calibration of a trace-analysis instrument, and especially to a preparation and feed apparatus of a standard sample for calibration of a gas chromatograph-ion mobility spectrometer. When the trace-analysis instrument is being calibrated by taking advantage of the preparation and feed apparatus according to embodiments of the disclosure, it is unnecessary to use an additional dedicated tool and steps to prepare the sample for testing and to use an organic solvent or a dedicated sample application/dispensing tool, resulting in that the trace-analysis instrument is simple and convenient to carry and use, and the substance for calibration is also convenient to store and exchange; moreover, the trace-analysis instrument is also safe, reliable and environmentally friendly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Qingjun Zhang, Yuanjing Li, Ziran Zhao, Weiping Zhu, Nan Bai, Qiufeng Ma
  • Patent number: D907103
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ziran Zhao, Ningning Li, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: D909441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: LINGDONG TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO. LTD
    Inventor: Ziran Zhao
  • Patent number: D909442
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: LINGDONG TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO. LTD
    Inventors: Ziran Zhao, Xin Hou