Patents by Inventor Wenmei Gao

Wenmei Gao 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: 20210264148
    Abstract: In an eye open or closed state detection method, in addition to an eye opening feature, an iris shape feature and/or a vertical direction feature are added to identify the eye open or closed state, where the eye opening feature is used to represent an eye opening degree, the iris shape feature is used to represent a shape of an iris of an eye, and the vertical direction feature is used to represent a change degree of an eyelid curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Hongbao Li, Chen Dong, Yongtao Jiang, Wenmei Gao
  • Publication number: 20210266447
    Abstract: A photographing method of an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display screen. In some embodiments, display screen displays an icon of a first application. In those embodiments, display screen displays a user interface of the first application in response to an operation on the icon, where the user interface includes a photographing button. The display screen also displays a photographing preview interface of a second application in response to an operation on the photographing button, where the second application is a camera application, and the photographing preview interface is used to display an image collected by the camera. When ambient light meets a photographing condition, the electronic device automatically photographs the image collected by the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Xin Ding, Chen Dong, Hongwei Hu, Yongtao Jiang, Wenmei Gao
  • Patent number: 11095627
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of electronic information technologies, and disclose a message display method, apparatus, and device. The method in the embodiments of present invention includes: receiving first input information; extracting key information in the first input information, matching the key information and a user name, and determining a target user name; and binding the first input information and the target user name, and sending, to a receiver terminal, the first input information and the target user name that are bound, so that the receiver terminal displays a reminder message according to the target user name. The present invention is applicable to a scenario in which a user needs to quickly browse information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojuan Li, Wenmei Gao
  • Patent number: 11049499
    Abstract: A method includes receiving information from each device in multiple devices of one user, where the information includes a device type, determining, according to at least the received information, a device responding to a voice instruction in the multiple devices, and sending a message to a device different from the device responding to a voice instruction in the multiple devices, where the message is used to instruct a voice assistant of the different device not to respond to the voice instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojuan Li, Yahui Wang, Wenmei Gao
  • Patent number: 11042288
    Abstract: The present application discloses example information processing methods and electronic devices. One example method includes obtaining a touch gesture operation on a suspended button, and determining, according to the gesture operation, a first pressure intensity value that acts on the suspended button. If a determination is made that the first pressure intensity value is greater than a response pressure threshold, a detection process occurs to determine whether a display location of the suspended button overlaps with a first display icon displayed on a desktop of an electronic device. If it does, a function corresponding to the first display icon is invoked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaojuan Li, Wenmei Gao
  • Publication number: 20210168279
    Abstract: An image correction terminal provided starts a camera, to enter a default shooting mode; the terminal previews a photographed object, to obtain a preview image; the terminal determines, based on the preview image, whether the photographed object is of a document type; and the terminal corrects a photographed object image when the photographed object is of the document type, where the photographed object image is an image obtained after the photographed object is photographed. As a result, the terminal can effectively detect a scene type, and avoid system power consumption caused due to frequent detection of a type of the photographed object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenmei GAO, Guowei OUYANG, Yunchao ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11012608
    Abstract: A processing method, which includes receiving a photographing instruction in order to trigger a camera to photograph a target document, identifying four sides of a document image corresponding to the target document, determining a first included angle corresponding to the document image, where the first included angle represents an inclination degree of the document image relative to the target document, triggering the camera to reset a focus location in a direction of far-end content in the document image, and taking n pictures when the first included angle is greater than a preset threshold, applying geometric correction to the pictures obtained through photographing, outputting one of the pictures to which geometric correction has been applied. Hence, the method significantly increase definition of the far-end content in the document image, and improve correction quality of the document image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojuan Li, Chao Qin, Wenmei Gao
  • Patent number: 10950200
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display method. In one example method, a display is covered by a transparent panel. A location on the transparent panel and corresponding to a first area of the display has a cylindrical curved surface. An optical deformation parameter of a first area of the display is obtained. According to the optical deformation parameter of the first area, a shape of first image data is converted to obtain second image data. The first image data is image data to be displayed in the first area. The second image data is displayed in the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Qin, Chiaching Chu, Wenmei Gao, Xiaoyan Yu
  • Patent number: 10929497
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a web page processing method, including: receiving an operation instruction on a first page, where the operation instruction may include a page replacing instruction; and controlling a first resource included in the first page to remain in a connected state, where the first resource is specified in advance as a resource to be retained. Correspondingly, the embodiments of the present invention further provide a communications device. The embodiments of the present invention can improve robustness of page browsing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenmei Gao, Yahui Wang, Hao Jing, Xiaoqiang Lv, Shunan Fan
  • Patent number: 10921979
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by a head mounted display, a trigger instruction and determining coordinates of a line of sight focus of a user on a screen of a portable electronic device, where the trigger instruction is used to instruct the head mounted display to perform a display operation, sending the coordinates to the portable electronic device, when the coordinates trigger the portable electronic device to determine that an object corresponding to the coordinates can be processed by the portable electronic device, obtaining, by the portable electronic device, related content of the object, obtaining the related content of the object of the portable electronic device, and displaying the related content of the object on a virtual screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenmei Gao, Shunan Fan, Yahui Wang, Dian Fu, Weiguang Kong
  • Patent number: 10915998
    Abstract: In a rectangular region detection mechanism, a to-be-processed image information is received, where the to-be-processed image information comprises at least two images, and where the at least two images comprise a same plurality of first feature points. A plurality of first edge line segments in one of the at least two images are detected. Four first edge line segments from the plurality of first edge line segments are determined. Locations of photographed points corresponding to the plurality of first feature points in a region formed by the four first edge line segments are determined based on location information of the plurality of first feature points. The region is determined as a rectangular region when the photographed points corresponding to the plurality of first feature points in the region are coplanar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Chen, Wenmei Gao
  • Patent number: 10909719
    Abstract: An image processing method includes: detecting a first quadrangle in an image, where the first quadrangle includes four vertexes, the four vertexes correspond to four photographed points; determining distance information of the four photographed points relative to a camera capturing the image; determining locations of the four photographed points based on the distance information of the four photographed points and location information of the points on the image; and determining, based on the locations of the four photographed points, that the four photographed points are coplanar, where the four photographed points form a second quadrangle, determining a side ratio of two neighboring sides of the second quadrangle when a side angle and a side length relationship of the second quadrangle satisfy a preset condition, and correcting the first quadrangle to a rectangle, where two neighboring sides of the rectangle are in the side ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Chen, Wenmei Gao
  • Patent number: 10877885
    Abstract: A method is applied to an electronic device, all storage space of the electronic device includes internal storage space and at least one external storage space, and the method includes: receiving a data write instruction, where the data write instruction carries target write data; selecting at least one of all the storage space as target storage space according to a preset rule, and performing a write operation in the target storage space; and after the write operation is completed, updating a virtual file that is obtained by summarizing and combining files of a same file type in all the storage space of the electronic device and that is stored in a virtual storage card, and updating a mapping relationship between a virtual storage path corresponding to the virtual storage card and a physical storage path corresponding to the target storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongfeng Tu, Wenmei Gao, Yuanli Gan
  • Patent number: 10863077
    Abstract: An image photographing method is provided, including: based on a photographing instruction, selecting at least one focus in a quadrangular image, and photographing at least one initial image based on the at least one focus, where the quadrangular image includes a first pair of opposite sides and a second pair of opposite sides, an included angle between the opposite sides of the first pair of opposite sides is less than that of the second pair of opposite sides, a first side is a shorter side of the first pair of opposite sides, the at least one focus includes a first focus, and the first focus is in the quadrangular image and in a partial region including the first side; adjusting a quadrangular image to a rectangular image; and obtaining a final image and outputting the final image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Qin, Wenmei Gao
  • Publication number: 20200374447
    Abstract: A terminal device calibrates a to-be-detected image based on a light source color temperature and scene brightness that are obtained during imaging of the to-be-detected image and based on a preset reference color card image set to restore a real color of the to-be-detected image to a greatest extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Henghui LU, Hao LIU, Wenmei GAO
  • Patent number: 10838601
    Abstract: A terminal obtains feature information of target content of a first picture, obtains, according to the feature information, at least one second picture whose at least one degree of matching with the first picture is greater than a preset threshold and whose definition is higher than that of the first picture, and displays the at least one second picture. Hence, the terminal provides a picture with a higher definition to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Chen, Wenmei Gao
  • Patent number: 10831823
    Abstract: A photo distribution method and a terminal are disclosed. In an embodiment a method for distributing photos include obtaining, by a first terminal in a photo sharing group, user portrait information and address information of a second terminal in the photo sharing group, obtaining, by the first terminal, first index information created by a third terminal in the photo sharing group, segmenting, by the first terminal, the first index information to obtain second index information, and allocating the second index information to a fourth terminal in the photo sharing group and sending, by the first terminal, the user portrait information and the address information of the second terminal to the fourth terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenmei Gao, Xiaojuan Li, Hao Jing, Yahui Wang, Shunan Fan
  • Publication number: 20200336660
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a panoramic photo shooting method and an apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies. Based on a shooting scenario, a user may be automatically recommended to enter a panoramic photo shooting mode, thereby simplifying a shooting procedure and improving a shooting effect. The method includes: detecting, by a terminal, an input operation used to turn on a camera; turning on, by the terminal, the camera in response to the input operation; displaying, by the terminal, a preview picture obtained by the camera; and displaying, by the terminal in the preview picture, a prompt for entering the panoramic photo shooting mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Chen Dong, Xin Ding, Wenmei Gao
  • Publication number: 20200302892
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display method. In one example method, a display is covered by a transparent panel. A location on the transparent panel and corresponding to a first area of the display has a cylindrical curved surface. An optical deformation parameter of a first area of the display is obtained. According to the optical deformation parameter of the first area, a shape of first image data is converted to obtain second image data. The first image data is image data to be displayed in the first area. The second image data is displayed in the first area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Chao QIN, Chiaching CHU, Wenmei GAO, Xiaoyan YU
  • Patent number: RE48430
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to the field of computer technologies, and disclose a two-dimensional code processing method and a terminal, which can reduce time for a user to learn content indicated by a two-dimensional code, thereby improving a user experience effect. The method provided by the embodiments of the present invention includes: scanning a two-dimensional code using a camera to obtain two-dimensional code information, sending a first request message including the two-dimensional code information to a server, where the first request message is used to enable the server to determine description information corresponding to the two-dimensional code information; receiving the description information sent by the server; and outputting the description information, so that the user determines, according to the description information, whether to acquire detailed information corresponding to the two-dimensional code information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chan Wang, Huangwei Wu, Wenmei Gao, Dian Fu