Patents by Inventor Yinghai Zhao

Yinghai Zhao 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: 8406573
    Abstract: This disclosure describes various exemplary user interfaces, methods, and computer program products for the interactively ranking image search results refinement method using a color layout. The method includes receiving a text query for an image search, presenting image search results in a structured presentation based on the text query and information from an interest color layout. The process creates image search results that may be selected by the user based on color selection palettes or color layout specification schemes. Then the process ranks the image search results by sorting the results according to similarity scores between color layouts from the image search results and the interest color layout from a user based on the color selection palettes and the color layout specification schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jingdong Wang, Shipeng Li, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yinghai Zhao
  • Patent number: 8369656
    Abstract: This disclosure describes various exemplary user interfaces, methods, and computer program products for the interactively ranking image search results refinement method using a color layout. The method includes receiving a text query for an image search, presenting image search results in a structured presentation based on the text query and information from an interest color layout. The process creates image search results that may be selected by the user based on color selection palettes or color layout specification schemes. Then the process ranks the image search results by sorting the results according to similarity scores between color layouts from the image search results and the interest color layout from a user based on the color selection palettes and the color layout specification schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jingdong Wang, Shipeng Li, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yinghai Zhao
  • Patent number: 8218859
    Abstract: This disclosure describes various exemplary method and computer program products for transductive multi-label classification in detecting video concepts for information retrieval. This disclosure describes utilizing a hidden Markov random field formulation to detect labels for concepts in a video content and modeling a multi-label interdependence between the labels by a pairwise Markov random field. The process groups the labels into several parts to speed up a labeling inference and calculates a conditional probability score for the labels, the conditional probability scores are ordered for ranking in a video retrieval evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jingdong Wang, Shipeng Li, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yinghai Zhao
  • Publication number: 20100158412
    Abstract: This disclosure describes various exemplary user interfaces, methods, and computer program products for the interactively ranking image search results refinement method using a color layout. The method includes receiving a text query for an image search, presenting image search results in a structured presentation based on the text query and information from an interest color layout. The process creates image search results that may be selected by the user based on color selection palettes or color layout specification schemes. Then the process ranks the image search results by sorting the results according to similarity scores between color layouts from the image search results and the interest color layout from a user based on the color selection palettes and the color layout specification schemes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jingdong Wang, Shipeng Li, Xian Sheng Hua, Yinghai Zhao
  • Publication number: 20100142803
    Abstract: This disclosure describes various exemplary method and computer program products for transductive multi-label classification in detecting video concepts for information retrieval. This disclosure describes utilizing a hidden Markov random field formulation to detect labels for concepts in a video content and modeling a multi-label interdependence between the labels by a pairwise Markov random field. The process groups the labels into several parts to speed up a labeling inference and calculates a conditional probability score for the labels, the conditional probability scores are ordered for ranking in a video retrieval evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jingdong Wang, Shipeng Li, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yinghai Zhao