Patents by Inventor Ying Ma
Ying Ma 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).
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Patent number: 9764272Abstract: A system includes a solvent gas processing system having a high pressure reaction vessel configured to remove an acid gas from an untreated feed gas using a solvent in a lean solvent fluid stream. The system includes a high pressure reaction vessel is configured to output a treated clean gas and a first flow of a high pressure fluid stream via a first flow path. The system includes a turbine having a main nozzle, an auxiliary nozzle, and an outlet. The main nozzle is configured to receive a second flow of the high pressure fluid stream from the first flow path via a main flow path. The system includes an auxiliary nozzle valve disposed along an auxiliary flow path. The auxiliary nozzle valve is configured to control a third flow of the high pressure fluid stream into the auxiliary nozzle of the turbine.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: ENERGY RECOVERY, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Grant Martin, John Sienkiewicz, Prem Krish, Ying Ma, Mark Richter, Felix Winkler
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Patent number: 9703782Abstract: Techniques for identifying near-duplicates of a media object and associating metadata of the near-duplicates with the media object are described herein. One or more devices implementing the techniques are configured to identify the near duplicates based at least on similarity attributes included in the media object. Metadata is then extracted from the near-duplicates and is associated with the media object as descriptors of the media object to enable discovery of the media object based on the descriptors.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Ming Liu, Yi Li, Wei-Ying Ma
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Patent number: 9703895Abstract: Many users make use of search engines to locate desired internet content by submitting search queries. For example, a user may search for photos, applications, websites, videos, documents, and/or information regarding people, places, and things. Unfortunately, search engines may provide a plethora of information that a user may be left to sift through to find relevant content. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for organizing search results are disclosed herein. In particular, user generated content, such as photos, may be retrieved based upon a search query. The user generated content may be grouped into clusters of user generated content having similar features. Search results of the search query may be obtained and organized based upon comparing the search results with the clusters. The organized search results and/or a table of content based upon the clusters may be presented to provide an enhanced user experience.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2010Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma
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Publication number: 20170185236Abstract: An image chat application generates comments to images based on features of the images. In one example, the image chat application searches through a repository of stored image-comment pairs to identify a stored image that is similar to the image, and generates a comment to the image based on an identified stored image-comment pair. In another example, the image chat application may identify and tag particular objects that dominate an image, and may generate a comment to the image based on characteristics of those particular objects. In this second example, the image chat application further generates a comment to the image based on comments previously associated with the identified tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2015Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Kuiyuan Yang, Wei-Ying Ma, Chunyan Liu, Di Li, Pengfei Xu, Yong Rui, Baoxun Wang
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Publication number: 20170177732Abstract: A method and system for recommending potential contacts to a target user is provided. A recommendation system identifies users who are related to the target user through no more than a maximum degree of separation. The recommendation system identifies the users by starting with the contacts of the target user and identifying users who are contacts of the target user's contacts, contacts of those contacts, and so on. The recommendation system then ranks the identified users, who are potential contacts for the target user, based on a likelihood that the target user will want to have a direct relationship with the identified users. The recommendation system then presents to the target user a ranking of the users who have not been filtered out.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Dafan Liu, Hua Chen, Wei-Ying Ma
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Patent number: 9678992Abstract: Techniques are described for online real time text to image translation suitable for virtually any submitted query. Semantic classes and associated analogous items for each of the semantic classes are determined for the submitted query. One or more requests are formulated that are associated with analogous items. The requests are used to obtain web based images and associated surrounding text. The web based images are used to obtain associated near-duplicate images. The surrounding text of images is analyzed to create high-quality text associated with each semantic class of the submitted query. One or more query dependent classifiers are trained online in real time to remove noisy images. A scoring function is used to score the images. The images with the highest score are returned as a query response.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma
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Publication number: 20170132371Abstract: A computerized method of automated patient chart review includes receiving a selection of a particular patient, automatically parsing at least one document of a patient's medical record having structured data and natural language data, automatically generating a list of variables from the patient's medical record, automatically generating a list of important variables from the list of variables associated with a specific clinical event from the structured data and natural language data. Predictive modeling and artificial intelligence are used to analyze the patient data, reviewer actions, and reviewer feedback data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Ruben Amarasingham, George Oliver, Timothy Scott Swanson, Allison Gilley, Ellen Araj, Ying Ma, Paea LePendu, Yukun Chen, Nora Huri, Anand Shah
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Patent number: 9626648Abstract: A method and system for recommending potential contacts to a target user is provided. A recommendation system identifies users who are related to the target user through no more than a maximum degree of separation. The recommendation system identifies the users by starting with the contacts of the target user and identifying users who are contacts of the target user's contacts, contacts of those contacts, and so on. The recommendation system then ranks the identified users, who are potential contacts for the target user, based on a likelihood that the target user will want to have a direct relationship with the identified users. The recommendation system then presents to the target user a ranking of the users who have not been filtered out.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Dafan Liu, Hua Chen, Wei-Ying Ma
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Publication number: 20170099526Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically inserting advertisements into source video content playback streams are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods communicate a source video content playback stream to a video player to present source video to a user. During playback of the source video, and in response to receipt of a request from the user to navigate portions of the source video (e.g., a user command to fast forward the source video, rewind the source video, or other action), the systems and methods dynamically define a video advertisement clip insertion point (e.g., and insertion point based on a current playback position). The systems and methods then insert a contextually relevant and/or targeted video advertisement clip into the playback stream for presentation to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventors: Xian-Sheng Hua, Wei Lai, Wei-Ying Ma, Shipeng Li
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Patent number: 9554093Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically inserting advertisements into source video content playback streams are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods communicate a source video content playback stream to a video player to present source video to a user. During playback of the source video, and in response to receipt of a request from the user to navigate portions of the source video (e.g., a user command to fast forward the source video, rewind the source video, or other action), the systems and methods dynamically define a video advertisement clip insertion point (e.g., and insertion point based on a current playback position). The systems and methods then insert a contextually relevant and/or targeted video advertisement clip into the playback stream for presentation to the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2007Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xian-Sheng Hua, Wei Lai, Wei-Ying Ma, Shipeng Li
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Patent number: 9536052Abstract: A clinical predictive and monitoring system comprising a data store operable to receive and store data associated with a plurality of patients selected from medical and health data; and a number of social, behavioral, lifestyle, and economic data; at least one predictive model to identify at least one high-risk patient associated with at least one medical condition; a risk logic module operable to apply the at least one predictive model to the patient data to determine at least one risk score associated the at least one medical condition and identify at least one high-risk patient; a data presentation module operable to present notification and information to an intervention coordination team about the identified at least one high-risk patient; and an artificial intelligence tuning module adapted to automatically adjust parameters in the predictive model in response to trends in the patient data.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Parkland Center for Clinical InnovationInventors: Rubendran Amarasingham, Timothy S. Swanson, Christopher A. Clark, Yu Qian, Sambamurthy Nalla, George R. Oliver, Kimberly P. Gerra, Ying Ma
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Publication number: 20160357741Abstract: Method and system for providing a user interface for presenting images of clusters of an image search result is provided. The user interface system displays the search result in a cluster/view form using a cluster panel and a view panel. The cluster panel contains a cluster area for each cluster. The view panel may contain thumbnails of images of the search result in a list view or a mix view. When a user selects a cluster area from the cluster panel, the user interface system displays a list view of thumbnails for that cluster in the view panel. The user interface system may display a thumbnail list near a cluster area of the cluster panel. The thumbnail list contains mini-thumbnails of the images of the selected cluster. The user interface system may also display a detail view of an image in the view panel when a user selects an image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, Ming Jing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Kefeng Deng
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Patent number: 9483577Abstract: A large web page is analyzed and partitioned into smaller sub-pages so that a user can navigate the web page on a small form factor device. The user can browse the sub-pages to find and read information in the content of the large web page. The partitioning can be performed at a web server, an edge server, at the small form factor device, or can be distributed across one or more such devices. The analysis leverages design habits of a web page author to extract a representation structure of an authored web page. The extracted representation structure includes high level structure using several markup language tag selection rules and low level structure using visual boundary detection in which visual units of the low level structure are provided by clustering markup language tags. User viewing habits can be learned to display favorite parts of a web page.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yu Chen, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Ming-Yu Wang
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Patent number: 9460122Abstract: Described herein is a technology that facilitates efficient large-scale similarity-based retrieval. In several embodiments documents, images, and/or other multimedia files are compactly represented and efficiently indexed to enable robust search using a long-query in a large-scale corpus. As described herein, these techniques include performing decomposition of a file, e.g., an image, a document containing an image, or a document-like representation of an image. The techniques use dimension reduction to obtain three parts, low-dimensional representations (major semantics), file specific terms (minor semantics), and background words, representing the major semantics in a feature vector and the minor semantics as keywords. Using the techniques described, file vectors are matched in a topic model and the results ranked based on the keywords.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang, Rui Cai, Wei-Ying Ma, Heung-Yeung Shum
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Patent number: 9396214Abstract: A method and system for providing a user interface for presenting images of clusters of an image search result is provided. The user interface system displays the search result in a cluster/view form using a cluster panel and a view panel. The cluster panel contains a cluster area for each cluster. The view panel may contain thumbnails of images of the search result in a list view or a mix view. When a user selects a cluster area from the cluster panel, the user interface system displays a list view of thumbnails for that cluster in the view panel. The user interface system may display a thumbnail list near a cluster area of the cluster panel. The thumbnail list contains mini-thumbnails of the images of the selected cluster. The user interface system may also display a detail view of an image in the view panel when a user selects an image.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2009Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, Ming Jing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Kefeng Deng
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Patent number: 9366934Abstract: A field sequential color (FSC) ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) display cell, part of an FSC display, is provided. The FSC FLC display cell includes: two polarizers; an FLC layer, positioned between the two polarizers, the FLC layer comprising FLCs with helix pitch less than the thickness of the FLC layer; and a voltage source, configured to apply an electrical driving voltage to the FLC layer, the electrical driving voltage applied to the FLC layer having an amplitude greater than a threshold voltage for helix unwinding, and wherein the voltage source is further configured to apply electrical driving voltages to light emitting diodes (LEDs) of the FSC display to illuminate pixels of the FSC display. The pixels are illuminated in an FSC manner. The FLC layer is configured to provide a defect-free layer of FLC under the electrical driving voltage applied to the FLC layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, Ying Ma, Vladimir Grigorievich Chigrinov, Hoi Sing Kwok
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Publication number: 20160133621Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a P-type substrate, and an N-well in the P-type substrate. A first N+ diffusion region is located in the P-type substrate, and a first P+ diffusion region is located in the N-well. A second P+ diffusion region is located across a boundary between the P-type substrate and the N-well. A first gate electrode overlies the N-well between the first P+ diffusion regions and the second P+ diffusion region. A second gate electrode overlies the P-type substrate between the second P+ diffusion region and the first N+ diffusion region. The first P+ diffusion region, the N-well, the P-type substrate, and the first N+ diffusion region form an SCR (Silicon-Controlled rectifier) device. The first P+ diffusion region, the second P+ diffusion region, and the first gate electrode form a PMOS transistor. The second P+ diffusion region, the first N+ diffusion region, and the second gate electrode form a gated diode.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2015Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventors: Yi Liu, Jun Wang, Ying Ma, Bin Lu, Huijuan Cheng
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Publication number: 20160125307Abstract: The use of data from multiple data source provides inferred air quality indices with respect to a particular pollutant for multiple areas without the addition of air quality monitor stations to those areas. Labeled air quality index data for a pollutant in a region may be obtained from one or more air quality monitor stations. Spatial features for the region may be extracted from spatially-related data for the region. The spatially-related data may include information on fixed infrastructures in the region. Likewise, temporal features for the region may be extracted from temporally-related data for the region that changes over time. A co-training based learning framework may be further applied to co-train a spatial classifier and a temporal classifier based at least on the labeled air quality index data, the spatial features for the region, and the temporal features for the region.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2013Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Eric I-Chao Chang
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Patent number: 9195942Abstract: A method and system for identifying information about people is provided. The information system identifies groups of people that have relationships based on their relationships to documents or more generally to objects. The information system initially is provided with an indication of which people have which relationships to which documents. The information system then identifies clusters of people based on having a relationship to the same objects. The information system may also identify clusters of related objects associated with a cluster of people. When a user wants to identify information about a person, the user can provide the name of that person to the information system. The information system then can retrieve and display the names of the other people who are in the same cluster as the person.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Benyu Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Gu Xu, Hongbin Gao, Zheng Chen, Randy Hinrichs, Hua-Jun Zeng
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Publication number: 20150275844Abstract: A system including a hydraulic turbine system, including a first hydraulic turbine, including a first hydraulic body with a first runner chamber, a first runner within the first runner chamber, a first primary nozzle fluidly coupled to the first runner chamber, a first auxiliary nozzle fluidly coupled to the first runner chamber and configured to equalize pressure in the first runner chamber, and a first valve fluidly coupled to the first auxiliary nozzle and configured to control a fluid flow into the first runner chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Felix Winkler, Ying Ma, Prem Krish