Ming Chu Zheng

US Patent:

7869664, Jan 11, 2011

Filed:

Jun 21, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/820939

Inventors:

Peng Lu - Mountain View CA, US
Ming Zheng - Mountain View CA, US
Guochun Liao - Belmont CA, US

Assignee:

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG - Basel

International Classification:

G06K 9/32
G06K 9/00

US Classification:

382294, 382128

Abstract:

Systems and methods for aligning objects in object sets are provided. An object set has objects that are in a corresponding image in a plurality of images. For each respective object in a first object set, a corresponding object group is constructed that contains the respective object, thereby constructing a plurality of object groups. Similarity metrics are computed between object groups and objects in objects sets in order to assign the objects to object groups. The object groups are then refined in order to align objects in the object sets.

US Patent:

20220215037, Jul 7, 2022

Filed:

Mar 28, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/706317

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Ming Zheng - Redwood City CA, US
Elliott Grant - Woodside CA, US
Nanzhu Wang - San Jose CA, US
Cheng-en Guo - Santa Clara CA, US
Aleksandra Deis - Sunnvayle CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 16/26
G06F 16/29
G06F 16/904
G06F 3/04847
G06F 16/9038
G06F 16/28
G06Q 50/02
G06F 16/248
G06Q 10/06
G06F 16/906

Abstract:

Some implementations herein relate to a graphical user interface (GUI) that facilitates dynamically partitioning agricultural fields into clusters on an individual agricultural field-basis using agricultural features. A map of a geographic area containing a plurality of agricultural fields may be rendered as part of a GUI. The agricultural fields may be partitioned into a first set of clusters based on a first granularity value and agricultural features of individual agricultural fields. The individual agricultural fields may be visually annotated in the GUI to convey the first set of clusters of similar agricultural fields. Upon receipt of a second granularity value different from the first granularity value, the agricultural fields may be partitioned into a second set of clusters of similar agricultural fields. The map of the geographic area may be updated so that individual agricultural fields are visually annotated to convey the second set of clusters.

US Patent:

20230072361, Mar 9, 2023

Filed:

Nov 14, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/986358

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Bodi Yuan - Sunnyvale CA, US
Ming Zheng - Redwood City CA, US

International Classification:

G06T 7/00
G06V 20/10
G06V 10/22
G06N 3/04
G06N 3/08
G06T 7/60

Abstract:

Implementations are described herein for normalizing counts of plant-parts-of-interest detected in digital imagery to account for differences in spatial dimensions of plants, particularly plant heights. In various implementations, one or more digital images depicting a top of a first plant may be processed. The one or more digital images may have been acquired by a vision sensor carried over top of the first plant by a ground-based vehicle. Based on the processing: a distance of the vision sensor to the first plant may be estimated, and a count of visible plant-parts-of-interest that were captured within a field of view of the vision sensor may be determined. Based on the estimated distance, the count of visible plant-parts-of-interest may be normalized with another count of visible plant-parts-of-interest determined from one or more digital images capturing a second plant.

US Patent:

20210399225, Dec 23, 2021

Filed:

Oct 9, 2020

Appl. No.:

17/066565

Inventors:

- Gaithersburg MD, US
Ming Zheng - Rockville MD, US

International Classification:

H01L 51/00
G01J 3/28
G01J 3/02

Abstract:

A nanotube spectrometer array includes: a substrate including block receivers; photodetectors arranged in an array with each photodetector including: a single wall carbon nanotube disposed on the substrate in a block receiver and disposed laterally along the block receiver; a source electrode on the single wall carbon nanotube; a drain electrode on the single wall carbon nanotube, such that the source and drain electrodes are separated from each other by a photoreceiver portion of the single wall carbon nanotube; and a gate electrode disposed on the substrate such that substrate is interposed between the gate electrode and the single wall carbon nanotube. The single wall carbon nanotube in each photodetector is a different chirality so that each photodetector absorbs light with a maximum photon absorptivity at a difference wavelength that is based on the chirality of the single wall carbon nanotube of the photodetector.

US Patent:

20180016148, Jan 18, 2018

Filed:

Jan 22, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/545659

Inventors:

Jason K. Streit - Gaithersburg MD, US
Angela R. Hight Walker - Gaithersburg MD, US
Ming Zheng - Gaithersburg MD, US
- Los Angeles CA, US
Ming Zheng - Rockville MD, US

International Classification:

C01B 32/172
C01B 32/17
B82Y 30/00
B82Y 40/00

Abstract:

A method of separating and extracting carbon nanotubes, the method includes introducing the carbon nanotubes into a two-phase system that includes a first component and a second component, the first component being different from the second component. The method includes introducing a chemical agent into the two-phase system, mixing the chemical agent and the carbon nanotubes in the two-phase system, removing the first component to extract a first portion of the carbon nanotubes contained in the first component after the mixing, replenishing the two-phase system with fresh first component, and extracting a second portion of the carbon nanotubes contained in the fresh first component. A bandgap of the carbon nanotubes in the first portion is different from the bandgap of the carbon nanotubes in the second portion.

US Patent:

20140174991, Jun 26, 2014

Filed:

Feb 25, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/189619

Inventors:

CONSTANTINE Y. KHRIPIN - GAITHERSBURG MD, US
MING ZHENG - ROCKVILLE MD, US

Assignee:

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY - GAITHERSBURG MD

International Classification:

B03B 5/00

US Classification:

209 31, 977845

Abstract:

A process for fractionating a nanoparticle composition, the process includes combining a first polymer, a second polymer, and a solvent to form a fluid and contacting the nanoparticle composition with the fluid. The nanoparticle composition includes a plurality of first nanoparticles, a plurality of second nanoparticles, and a dispersant disposed on an exterior surface of the first nanoparticles and the second nanoparticles. Fractionating the nanoparticle composition also includes forming a multiphase composition that includes a first phase and a second phase by partitioning the first polymer and the second polymer such that a concentration of the first polymer is greater than a concentration of the second polymer in the first phase, and the concentration of the second polymer is greater than the first polymer in the second phase, wherein the solvent is present in the first phase and the second phase. Additionally, the process includes apportioning the first nanoparticles and the second nanoparticles among the first phase and the second phase to fractionate the nanoparticle composition, based on a relative affinity of the first nanoparticles and the second nanoparticles for the first polymer and the second polymer, wherein the first nanoparticles are present in the first phase and substantially absent in the second phase, and the second nanoparticles are present in the second phase and substantially absent in the first phase.