Patents by Inventor Horace J. Meng

Horace J. Meng 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).

  • Methods, apparatus and articles-of-manufacture for secondary referral tracking on a public-access computer network
    Patent number: 10013695
    Abstract: Improved methods, systems and articles-of-manufacture permit the tracking of secondary referral sources in network-based e-commerce environments, thereby enabling advantageous commission-sharing arrangements between primary and secondary referral sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: RAKUTEN MARKETING LLC
    Inventors: Stephen D. Messer, Horace J. Meng, Cheryl Ho
  • Methods and architecture for indexing and editing compressed video over the world wide web
    Patent number: 9330722
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for editing and parsing compressed digital information. The compressed digital information may include visual information which is edited and parsed in the compressed domain. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a method for detecting moving objects in a compressed digital bitstream which represents a sequence of fields or frames of video information for one or more captured scenes of video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Shih-Fu Chang, Horace J. Meng
  • METHODS AND ARCHITECTURE FOR INDEXING AND EDITING COMPRESSED VIDEO OVER THE WORLD WIDE WEB
    Publication number: 20110255605
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for editing and parsing compressed digital information. The compressed digital information may include visual information which is edited and parsed in the compressed domain. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a method for detecting moving objects in a compressed digital bitstream which represents a sequence of fields or frames of video information for one or more captured scenes of video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Shih-Fu CHANG, Horace J. MENG
  • METHODS AND ARCHITECTURE FOR INDEXING AND EDITING COMPRESSED VIDEO OVER THE WORLD WIDE WEB
    Publication number: 20110064136
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for editing and parsing compressed digital information. The compressed digital information may include visual information which is edited and parsed in the compressed domain. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a method for detecting moving objects in a compressed digital bitstream which represents a sequence of fields or frames of video information for one or more captured scenes of video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Shih-Fu Chang, Horace J. Meng
  • Methods and architecture for indexing and editing compressed video over the world wide web
    Patent number: 7817722
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for editing and parsing compressed digital information. The compressed digital information may include visual information which is edited and parsed in the compressed domain. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a method for detecting moving objects in a compressed digital bitstream which represents a sequence of fields or frames of video information for one or more captured scenes of video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Shih-Fu Chang, Horace J. Meng
  • Methods and architecture for indexing and editing compressed video over the world wide web
    Publication number: 20080131072
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for editing and parsing compressed digital information. The compressed digital information may include visual information which is edited and parsed in the compressed domain. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a method for detecting moving objects in a compressed digital bitstream which represents a sequence of fields or frames of video information for one or more captured scenes of video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Shih-Fu Chang, Horace J. Meng
  • Algorithms and system for object-oriented content-based video search
    Patent number: 6741655
    Abstract: Object-oriented methods and systems for permitting a user to locate one or more video objects from one or more video clips over an interactive network are disclosed. The system includes one or more server computers (110) comprising storage (111) for video clips and databases of video object attributes, a communications network (120), and a client computer (130). The client computer contains a query interface to specify video object attribute information, including motion trajectory information (134), a browser interface to browse through stored video object attributes within the server computers, and an interactive video player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Shih-Fu Chang, William Chen, Horace J. Meng, Hari Sundaram, Di Zhong
  • Methods and architecture for indexing and editing compressed video over the world wide web
    Patent number: 6735253
    Abstract: Techniques for detecting moving video objects in a compressed digital bitstream (111) and for tools for editing compressed video are disclosed. Video objects (117) are detected and indexed by analyzing a compressed bitstream to locate scene cuts (112), estimating operating parameters for a camera which initially viewed the video (114), and detecting one or more moving video objects represented in the compressed bitstream by applying global motion compensation which account for the estimated operating parameters. Tools are provided for permitting dissolve, masking, freeze frame, slow and variable speed playback, and strobe motion special effects to compressed video. The tools may be implemented in a system for editing (130) compressed video information over a distributed network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Shih-Fu Chang, Horace J. Meng
  • Methods, apparatus and articles-of-manufacture for secondary referral tracking on a public-access computer network
    Publication number: 20020111856
    Abstract: Improved methods, systems and articles-of-manufacture permit the tracking of secondary referral sources in network-based e-commerce environments, thereby enabling advantageous commission-sharing arrangements between primary and secondary referral sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: Stephen D. Messer, Horace J. Meng, Cheryl Ho