Patents by Inventor Yenming Mark Lai

Yenming Mark Lai 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).

  • Patent number: 10740603
    Abstract: A structured data processing system includes hardware processors and a memory in communication with the hardware processors. The memory stores a data structure and an execution environment. The data structure includes an electronic document. The execution environment includes a data extraction solver configured to perform operations including identifying a particular page of the electronic document; performing an optical character recognition (OCR) on the page to determine a plurality of alphanumeric text strings on the page; determining a type of the page; determining a layout of the page; determining at least one table on the page based at least in part on the determined type of the page and the determined layout of the page; and extracting a plurality of data from the determined table on the page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Drilling Info, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Randy Larsen Davis, Yenming Mark Lai
  • Patent number: 10565467
    Abstract: Techniques for extracting well log data include cropping one or more portions of a page of a well log file image that includes solid color space; further cropping portions of the page that includes well log file data from the cropped page of the well log file image; executing an optical character recognition (OCR) technique on the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data to generate an OCR'd image of the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data; parsing the well log file data from the OCR'd image; and comparing the parsed well log file data against one or more well log file data-specific rules to determine user-specified well log file data from the parsed well log file data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Drilling Info, Inc.
    Inventor: Yenming Mark Lai
  • Publication number: 20190332885
    Abstract: Techniques for extracting well log data include cropping one or more portions of a page of a well log file image that includes solid color space; further cropping portions of the page that includes well log file data from the cropped page of the well log file image; executing an optical character recognition (OCR) technique on the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data to generate an OCR'd image of the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data; parsing the well log file data from the OCR'd image; and comparing the parsed well log file data against one or more well log file data-specific rules to determine user-specified well log file data from the parsed well log file data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventor: Yenming Mark Lai
  • Patent number: 10445617
    Abstract: Techniques for extracting well log data include cropping one or more portions of a page of a well log file image that includes solid color space; further cropping portions of the page that includes well log file data from the cropped page of the well log file image; executing an optical character recognition (OCR) technique on the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data to generate an OCR'd image of the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data; parsing the well log file data from the OCR'd image; and comparing the parsed well log file data against one or more well log file data-specific rules to determine user-specified well log file data from the parsed well log file data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Drilling Info, Inc.
    Inventor: Yenming Mark Lai
  • Publication number: 20190286934
    Abstract: Techniques for extracting well log data include cropping one or more portions of a page of a well log file image that includes solid color space; further cropping portions of the page that includes well log file data from the cropped page of the well log file image; executing an optical character recognition (OCR) technique on the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data to generate an OCR'd image of the cropped portions of the page that includes well log file data; parsing the well log file data from the OCR'd image; and comparing the parsed well log file data against one or more well log file data-specific rules to determine user-specified well log file data from the parsed well log file data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventor: Yenming Mark Lai
  • Patent number: 10206035
    Abstract: Placement of microphones and design of filters in a microphone network are solved simultaneously. Using filterbanks with multiple sub-channels for each microphone, the design of the filter response is solved simultaneously with placement. By using an objective function that penalizes the number of sub-channels in any solution, only some of many possible sub-channels and corresponding microphones and filters are selected while also solving for the filter responses for the selected sub-channels. For a given target location, the location of the microphones and the filter responses to beamform are optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: University of Maryland
    Inventors: Yenming Mark Lai, Radu Victor Balan
  • Publication number: 20180276462
    Abstract: A structured data processing system includes hardware processors and a memory in communication with the hardware processors. The memory stores a data structure and an execution environment. The data structure includes an electronic document. The execution environment includes a data extraction solver configured to perform operations including identifying a particular page of the electronic document; performing an optical character recognition (OCR) on the page to determine a plurality of alphanumeric text strings on the page; determining a type of the page; determining a layout of the page; determining at least one table on the page based at least in part on the determined type of the page and the determined layout of the page; and extracting a plurality of data from the determined table on the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Chris Randy Larsen Davis, Yenming Mark Lai
  • Publication number: 20170064478
    Abstract: Placement of microphones and design of filters in a microphone network are solved simultaneously. Using filterbanks with multiple sub-channels for each microphone, the design of the filter response is solved simultaneously with placement. By using an objective function that penalizes the number of sub-channels in any solution, only some of many possible sub-channels and corresponding microphones and filters are selected while also solving for the filter responses for the selected sub-channels. For a given target location, the location of the microphones and the filter responses to beamform are optimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Yenming Mark Lai, Radu Victor Balan