Patents by Inventor Yanal Wazaefi

Yanal Wazaefi 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).

  • System for creative image navigation and exploration
    Patent number: 8775424
    Abstract: A system and method for assisting a user in navigation of an image dataset are disclosed. The method includes receiving a user's text query, retrieving images responsive to the query from an image dataset, providing for receiving the user's selection of a first feature selected from a set of available first features via a graphical user interface, providing for receiving the user's selection of a second feature selected from a set of available second features different from the first features via the graphical user interface, and displaying at least some of the retrieved images on the graphical user interface. The displayed images are arranged, e.g., grouped, according to levels and/or combinations of levels of the user-selected first and second features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Sandra Skaff, Luca Marchesotti, Tommaso Colombino, Ana Fucs, Gabriela Csurka, Yanal Wazaefi, Marco Bressan
  • SYSTEM FOR CREATIVE IMAGE NAVIGATION AND EXPLORATION
    Publication number: 20110184950
    Abstract: A system and method for assisting a user in navigation of an image dataset are disclosed. The method includes receiving a user's text query, retrieving images responsive to the query from an image dataset, providing for receiving the user's selection of a first feature selected from a set of available first features via a graphical user interface, providing for receiving the user's selection of a second feature selected from a set of available second features different from the first features via the graphical user interface, and displaying at least some of the retrieved images on the graphical user interface. The displayed images are arranged, e.g., grouped, according to levels and/or combinations of levels of the user-selected first and second features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Sandra SKAFF, Luca Marchesotti, Tommaso Colombino, Ana Fucs, Gabriela Csurka, Yanal Wazaefi, Marco Bressan