Patents by Inventor Zixiang ZHOU

Zixiang ZHOU 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: 20250086828
    Abstract: An image processing method includes performing, using images obtained from one or more sensors onboard a vehicle, a 2-dimensional (2D) feature extraction; performing, a 3-dimensional (3D) feature extraction on the images; detecting objects in the images by fusing detection results from the 2D feature extraction and the 3D feature extraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Dongqiangzi YE, Yufei XIE, Weijia CHEN, Zixiang ZHOU, Lingting GE
  • Publication number: 20250086802
    Abstract: A method of processing point cloud information includes converting points in a point cloud obtained from a lidar sensor into a voxel grid, generating, from the voxel grid, sparse voxel features by applying a multi-layer perceptron and one or more max pooling layers that reduce dimension of input data; applying a cascade of an encoder that performs a N-stage sparse-to-dense feature operation, a global context pooling (GCP) module, and an M-stage decoder that performs a dense-to-sparse feature generation operation. The GCP module bridges an output of a last stage of the N-stages with an input of a first stage of the M-stages, where N and M are positive integers. The GCP module comprises a multi-scale feature extractor; and performing one or more perception operations on an output of the M-stage decoder and/or an output of the GCP module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Dongqiangzi YE, Zixiang ZHOU, Weijia CHEN, Yufei XIE, Yu WANG, Panqu WANG, Lingting GE
  • Patent number: 11919247
    Abstract: A powder-based three-dimensional printing (3DP) method, device and system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: analyzing printing images of layers corresponding to a part to be printed to determine a target print image and adding a preset mark to the target print image which includes a print image of a target layer that causes a previous powder layer of the target layer to displace during printing; acquiring an image to be printed of a current layer to be printed; identifying the image to be printed to determine whether the preset mark exists on the image to be printed; and if yes, processing the current layer to be printed and/or a previous powder layer of the current layer to be printed such that the previous powder layer of the current layer does not move with powder spreading of the current layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KOCEL INTELLIGENT MACHINERY LIMITED
    Inventors: Fan Peng, Donge Zheng, Yinxue Du, Yi Liu, Jun Yang, Cheng Hu, Zixiang Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220111600
    Abstract: A powder-based three-dimensional printing (3DP) method, device and system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: analyzing printing images of layers corresponding to a part to be printed to determine a target print image and adding a preset mark to the target print image which includes a print image of a target layer that causes a previous powder layer of the target layer to displace during printing; acquiring an image to be printed of a current layer to be printed; identifying the image to be printed to determine whether the preset mark exists on the image to be printed; and if yes, processing the current layer to be printed and/or a previous powder layer of the current layer to be printed such that the previous powder layer of the current layer does not move with powder spreading of the current layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Fan PENG, Donge ZHENG, Yinxue DU, Yi LIU, Jun YANG, Cheng HU, Zixiang ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11158071
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for point cloud registration. The method includes: segmenting a source point cloud and a destination point cloud respectively into different categories of attribute features based on semantic; segmenting the source point cloud and the destination point cloud into a plurality of grids based on the attribute features; calculating a current similarity between the source point cloud and the destination point cloud based on the plurality of grids; determining whether the current similarity and a current iterative number satisfy a preset condition; when the current similarity and the current iterative number satisfy the preset condition, performing a registration on the source point cloud and the destination point cloud to obtain a registered result; and based on the registered result, adjusting a position of the source point cloud, updating the current iterative number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miao Yan, Zixiang Zhou, Pan Luo, Yu Bai, Changjie Ma, Dangen She
  • Publication number: 20210187837
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a 3DP dislocated printing method and system. During layer-by-layer powder laying printing, printing heads are circularly closed and opened along a plurality of spray holes in two sides of the width direction, so that the spray positions of printing areas on adjacent layers corresponding to a same spray hole are mutually staggered. When individual spray holes of the printing heads are blocked, the corresponding positions of the blocked spray holes in the adjacent layers are also mutually staggered, and the problem of interruption of sections of a printing module caused by the phenomenon of missing spray of binders due to the blockage of individual spray holes on a single layer does not occur, thereby improving the 3DP printing efficiency, and reducing maintenance costs of the printing heads. The present invention also relates to a 3DP comprehensive printing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: KOCEL INTELLIGENT MACHINERY LIMITED
    Inventors: Fan PENG, Bao YANG, Zixiang ZHOU, Yinxue DU, Junwei WANG, Yi LIU
  • Publication number: 20200342614
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for point cloud registration. The method includes: segmenting a source point cloud and a destination point cloud respectively into different categories of attribute features based on semantic; segmenting the source point cloud and the destination point cloud into a plurality of grids based on the attribute features; calculating a current similarity between the source point cloud and the destination point cloud based on the plurality of grids; determining whether the current similarity and a current iterative number satisfy a preset condition; when the current similarity and the current iterative number satisfy the preset condition, performing a registration on the source point cloud and the destination point cloud to obtain a registered result; and based on the registered result, adjusting a position of the source point cloud, updating the current iterative number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Miao YAN, Zixiang ZHOU, Pan LUO, Yu BAI, Changjie MA, Dangen SHE