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Utility
System, Method, and User Interface for Facilitating Product Research and Development
20 May 21
A method and system of facilitating product research and development, comprising: obtaining respective product-related data from a plurality of data sources, including product-specific data for a plurality of products, and non-product-specific data including at least one of talent profile data and technology description data; performing topic extraction on the respective product-specific data and the non-product-specific data to obtain respective topics associated with the plurality of products and corresponding numerical statistics for the respective topics; performing sentiment analysis on the respective product-specific data for a plurality of products for the respective topics to obtain respective values of a measure of consumer sentiment corresponding to the respective topics for a respective product; and presenting an integrated sentiment review of a selected product based on the respective values of the measure of consumer sentiment corresponding to one or more of the respective topics for the selected product.
Yujie Zhu, Suresh Mani, Yuxuan Wan, Sathyanarayanan Muthusamy
Filed: 15 Nov 19
Utility
System, Method, and User Interface for Facilitating Product Research and Development
20 May 21
A method and system of facilitating product research and development, comprising: providing, in a first user interface region, a plurality of filters for selecting product research data; receiving a request to display an integrated sentiment review for a respective collection of products corresponding to respective user selected values; obtaining results of topic extraction on selected product research data; obtaining results of sentiment analysis on the selected product research data; and presenting, in a second user interface region, the integrated sentiment review of the respective collection of products, including, for each of a plurality of top-ranked topics in the results of topic extraction on the selected product research data corresponding to the respective user selected values for a first filter and a second filter, a first visual representation of a quantitative measure of positive consumer sentiment adjacent a second visual representation of a quantitative measure of negative consumer sentiment.
Yujie Zhu, Suresh Mani, Yuxuan Wan, Chien-Hwa Hwang
Filed: 15 Nov 19
Utility
Ceiling Machine
13 May 21
A ceiling-embedded air conditioner is provided.
Qingsheng TANG
Filed: 19 Jan 21
Utility
Method and System for Controlling Machines Based on Object Recognition
13 May 21
A method includes: capturing one or more images of an unorganized collection of items inside a first machine; determining one or more item types of the unorganized collection of items from the one or more images, comprising: dividing a respective image in the one or more images into a respective plurality of sub-regions; performing feature detection on the respective plurality of sub-regions to obtain a respective plurality of regional feature vectors, wherein a regional feature vector for a sub-region indicates characteristics for a plurality of predefined local item features for the sub-region; generating an integrated feature vector by combining the respective plurality of regional feature vectors; and applying a plurality of binary classifiers to the integrated feature vector; and selecting a machine setting for the first machine based on the determined one or more clothes type in the unorganized collection of items.
Yunke Tian, Thanh Huy Ha, Zhicai Ou
Filed: 11 Nov 19
Utility
Capture Device for Purifying Air, Purification Device and Air Purifier
6 May 21
Disclosed are a capture device for purifying air, a purification device, and an air purifier.
Yunqing HAN, Chubin OU, Tongsheng WANG, Hui ZHANG
Filed: 8 Jan 21
Utility
Air Purifier
6 May 21
An air purifier comprising: a housing provided with air inlets and air outlets and defining an accommodating cavity, wherein the air inlets are located on the side walls of the housing; a water supply module arranged within the accommodating cavity and defining a water storage cavity; a purifying module arranged within the accommodating cavity and located on the water supply module, the purifying module comprising: a purifying assembly rotatably disposed within the accommodating cavity, a water distribution assembly for guiding water in the water supply module to flow upwards and distributing water to the purifying assembly, and a driving device located on the purifying assembly and connected with the purifying assembly; and an air discharge module disposed within the accommodating cavity and located on the purifying module.
Yunqing HAN, Zulin PU, Hui ZHANG
Filed: 8 Jan 21
Utility
Composition Kit for Preparing Polyurethane Foam and Preparation Method and Application Thereof
6 May 21
A composition kit for preparing a polyurethane foam and a preparation method and applications thereof are provided.
Shihu ZHAO, Haixia YUAN, Junjie LANG, Yihui XING, Yurong KONG
Filed: 8 Jan 19
Utility
Ice Storage Container and Refrigerator Having Same
29 Apr 21
Disclosed are an ice storage container (100) and a refrigerator (1000) having same.
Zanxi LIU, Yang SHAO, Zengqiang SI, Jincai WANG
Filed: 4 Apr 19
Utility
Adjusting Machine Settings Through Multi-Pass Training of Object Detection Models
22 Apr 21
System and method for controlling a machine, including: receiving a first image processing model trained to classify an input image into a first class for images containing at least one object of a first type or a second class for images not containing an object of the first type; identifying a subset of inference results that are false positive results; generating a set of new training data from the first set of images, including augmenting an image in the first set of images to obtain a respective plurality of images and labeling the respective plurality of images as containing at least one object of a pseudo first class; training a second image processing model to classify an input image into the first class, the second class, and the first pseudo class; and modifying a device setting of a machine based on an inference result of the second image processing model.
Thanh Huy Ha, Yuxiang Gao, Zhicai Ou
Filed: 18 Oct 19
Utility
Top Panel for a Laundry Washing Machine
1 Apr 21
A top panel for a laundry washing machine.
Phillip C. Hombroek, Dale Comenzind, Bryan T. Snook
Filed: 30 Sep 19
Utility
Blade Adjustment Mechanism and Air Circulator
1 Apr 21
Disclosed is a blade adjustment mechanism and an air circulator.
Huanming ZHANG
Filed: 14 Dec 18
Utility
Two-step Turn on for Digital Gas Valves
1 Apr 21
A system for a two-step activation for a valve includes at least one valve control selector having an output representative of a valve position and a touch sensor having an output representative of a permission to operate said valve.
Richard W. Cowan, Nathan E. Nelson, Daniel J. Trice
Filed: 30 Sep 19
Utility
Seven Burner Digital Cooktop with Re-configurable Wok and Griddle Burner
1 Apr 21
A digital cooktop system with six regular burners and a wok burner, allowing use of a reconfigurable control knob to control the cooktop burners for a wok mode, a griddle mode, and a six-burner mode.
Daniel J. Trice, Richard W. Cowan
Filed: 30 Sep 19
Utility
User-configurable Two-step Activation Sequence for Gas Cooktop Burner
1 Apr 21
A cooking appliance and system for a two-step activation for a gas cooktop burner includes at least one control selector having an output representative of a valve position and a touch sensor having an output representative of a permission to operate the valve, with a user-configurable two-step activation sequence used to control a digital gas valve and an ignitor for the gas cooktop burner to ignite and activate the gas cooktop burner.
Richard W. Cowan
Filed: 1 Jun 20
Utility
Configurable Control Selectors
1 Apr 21
A system for an appliance having a plurality of burners operated by a plurality of gas valves includes a plurality of selector buttons to assign a single control selector to a specified burner and a plurality of dedicated off buttons, assigned to the burners.
Richard W. Cowan, Daniel J. Trice
Filed: 30 Sep 19
Utility
Cooking Appliance with Multi-mode Burner Group
1 Apr 21
A cooking appliance and system therefor utilize a burner group capable of operating in multiple modes such that gas cooktop burners disposed in the burner group may be collectively or individually controlled in different modes.
Richard W. Cowan, Daniel J. Trice
Filed: 28 May 20
Utility
Articulating Rack for a Cooking Appliance
1 Apr 21
An apparatus and method of articulating a rack for a cooking appliance between a lowered position and a raised position.
Daniel J. Trice, Nathan E. Nelson
Filed: 30 Sep 19
Utility
Dishwasher with Image-based Position Sensor
1 Apr 21
A dishwasher and method utilize an image-based position sensor that is positioned to sense the rotational position of a discretely directable tubular spray element driven by a tubular spray element drive.
Bassam Fawaz, Robert M. Digman, Joel Boyer
Filed: 30 Sep 19
Utility
Dishwasher with Cam-based Position Sensor
1 Apr 21
A dishwasher and method utilize a cam-based position sensor that is configured to sense multiple rotational positions for a discretely directable tubular spray element driven by a tubular spray element drive.
Joel Boyer, Robert M. Digman
Filed: 30 Sep 19
Utility
Dishwasher with Image-based Detergent Sensing
1 Apr 21
A dishwasher includes an image-based detergent sensor that in some instances is configured to sense a type of detergent for use in optimizing a wash cycle based upon the type of detergent, and that in some instances is configured to direct one or more controllable sprayers to facilitate dissolution or mixing of detergent into a wash fluid during a wash cycle.
Joel Boyer, Bassam Fawaz
Filed: 30 Sep 19