Patents by Inventor Purdy Ho

Purdy Ho 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).

  • Method and apparatus for object identification, classification or verification
    Patent number: 7245767
    Abstract: There is provided a method for classifying, identifying or verifying an object by representing the object by a respective sequence of vectors, modeling the sequence of vectors with a respective generative model such that the object is represented by the generative model, computing the distances between the generative models to form one or many kernel matrices based on the distance metric, and using the kernel matrices to classify, identify or verify the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Pedro J. Moreno, Purdy Ho
  • Method and apparatus for object identification, classification or verification
    Publication number: 20050044053
    Abstract: There is provided a method for classifying, identifying or verifying an object by representing the object by a respective sequence of vectors, modeling the sequence of vectors with a respective generative model such that the object is represented by the generative model, computing the distances between the generative models to form one or many kernel matrices based on the distance metric, and using the kernel matrices to classify, identify or verify the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Pedro Moreno, Purdy Ho