Patents Assigned to Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20220335088
    Abstract: The present application discloses a query auto-completion method and apparatus, a device and a computer storage medium, which relates to the technical field of intelligent search. An implementation includes: acquiring a query prefix input by a user currently, and determining candidate Points of Interest (POIs) corresponding to the query prefix; acquiring vector representation of spatial-temporal features of each candidate POI; inputting the vector representation of the spatial-temporal features of each candidate POI into a pre-trained ranking model, so as to obtain a score of each candidate POI; and determining query completion suggestions recommended to the user according to the scores of respective candidate POIs; wherein the spatial-temporal features include at least one of a query time feature and a distance feature between each candidate POI and the user. With the present application, a retrieval intention of the user may be better completed, and practical requirements of the user are met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying LI, Jizhou HUANG, Miao FAN, Haifeng WANG
  • Patent number: 11473926
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying road names and a storage medium, the method comprises: performing collision detecting on and loading planned road names according to planned road name data and priority levels of the planned road names included in a navigation route; and performing collision detecting on and loading annotations of other map contents except the navigation route in a navigation map. The method and apparatus for displaying road names and the storage medium are used to enable a user to view the planned road names of the navigation route on an overview page of the navigational route, thereby improving guidance of map display for navigation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Deng, Jing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11475897
    Abstract: A response method and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes: receiving voice information sent through a client by a user; determining, based on the voice information, a user category to which the user belongs; and using voice matching the user category to respond to the voice information. Accordingly, response voice matches the user category of the user, which implements that the response is performed using the response voice targeted for the user category, and thus, the user experience may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenyu Wang
  • Patent number: 11474779
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for processing information. A specific embodiment of the method comprises: determining whether to enable a scenario mode based on received voice information; in response to determining to enable the scenario mode, determining a target scenario according to an analysis result of the voice information; acquiring resource information related to the target scenario; and feeding back the acquired resource information to a user. In the scenario mode, the embodiment may s provide many kinds of information resources at the same time for the user to select. This helps to improve the efficiency of the user in acquiring the information and may improve the efficiency of the human-machine interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangtao Jiang, Lijiao Liu
  • Patent number: 11475093
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and an apparatus for processing webpage, a device and storage medium, involving the terminal vision technology. The specific implementation is: when a server determines that a current network meets a preset condition and a webpage to be displayed includes an image required to be displayed, the server sends a static data resource corresponding to the image required to be displayed to the terminal. The preset condition includes at least one of the following: the current network being a mobile network, a bandwidth of the current network being less than a preset bandwidth, and a rate of the current network being less than a preset rate. Therefore, it is unnecessary to send a static data resource corresponding to an image not required to be displayed to the terminal, thereby reducing a traffic consumption and at the meanwhile, improving an integrity and coherence of the webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qun Wang, Penghe Li
  • Publication number: 20220327151
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for building a ranking model, a query auto-completion method and corresponding apparatuses, which relates to the technical field of intelligent search. An implementation includes: acquiring from a POI query log a query prefix input when a user selects a POI from query completion suggestions, POIs in the query completion suggestions corresponding to the query prefix and the POI selected by the user in the query completion suggestions; constructing positive and negative example pairs using the POI selected by the user and the POIs not selected by the user in the query completion suggestions corresponding to the same query prefix; and performing a training operation using the query prefix and the positive and negative example pairs corresponding to the query prefix to obtain the ranking model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jizhou HUANG, Haifeng WANG, Miao FAN
  • Publication number: 20220327421
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for extracting a geographic location point spatial relationship, and a method and apparatus for training an extracting model, and relates to the technical field of big data. A specific implementation solution is: obtaining second training data which include: a text, and marks of a geographic location point and geographic location point spatial relationship information in the text; training a geographic location point spatial relationship extracting model with the second training data, the geographic location point spatial relationship extracting model comprising an embedding layer, a transformer layer and a mapping layer; wherein the geographic location point spatial relationship extracting model is used to extract the geographic location point spatial relationship information from the input Internet text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jizhou HUANG, Haifeng WANG, Wei ZHANG, Miao FAN
  • Publication number: 20220326033
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for managing navigation broadcast, and a device, related to an Intelligent transportation technology field. A specific implementation solution includes: obtaining a geographical identifier of a user; obtaining a statement-conversion template set corresponding to the geographical identifier based on the geographical identifier of the user; converting a standard navigation broadcast statement based on the statement-conversion template set to generate a geographical navigation broadcast statement; and performing navigation broadcast based on the geographical navigation broadcast statement. Thereby, the navigation broadcasts are matched with respective regions, users in different regions are provided with diversified and personalized navigation broadcasts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ran JI, Jizhou HUANG, Ying LI, Yongzhi JI, Lei JIA
  • Patent number: 11468236
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for performing word segmentation on a text, a device and a medium, which relate to the field of data processing technology and particularly to a smart search technology. The method may include: dividing a to-be-segmented text into at least two layers of character fragment combinations, any layer of character fragments being child character fragments of a previous layer of character fragments and/or parent character fragments of a next layer of character fragments; and segmenting the to-be-segmented text according to a target word granularity based on the at least two layers of character fragment combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongmin Ma, Ben Xu, Xiujian Li
  • Patent number: 11461399
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method and an apparatus for responding to a question, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining a question characteristic representation corresponding to a question for an object; determining a comment characteristic representation corresponding to a first comment for the object; generating a first target characteristic representation by utilizing the question characteristic representation and the comment characteristic representation; and determining an answer for the question based on the first target characteristic representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miao Fan, Chao Feng, Mingming Sun, Ping Li, Haifeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11461984
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and apparatus for multi-user collaborative creation, and a storage medium, where the method includes: obtaining, by a second terminal, a three-dimensional (3D) creation created by a first creator, the 3D creation including at least one creation element, obtaining creation information corresponding to each creation element according to the 3D creation, and determining the first creator corresponding to each creation element according to the creation information corresponding to each creation element. In the technical solution, the second terminal may conveniently and quickly determine the first creator corresponding to each creation element in the 3D creation, which simplifies the communication process for the creation and improves the creation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11461762
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include an NFC payment method and apparatus implemented on a mobile terminal. In some embodiments, an NFC payment function of a mobile terminal is activated; an NFC connection to a POS terminal is directly established in an inactive-screen state, so as to start the current payment process; payment authentication is performed on a user, so as to instruct the POS terminal to make a payment when the authentication is completed. Some embodiments of the present disclosure provides a more convenient and efficient NFC payment manner. In some embodiments, the system can directly invoke NFC quick payment in an inactive-screen state, which significantly reduces an operation time and operation cost of a user. Moreover, the user may need to be authenticated before the payment, which also guarantees the security of the payment. Therefore, some embodiments of the present disclosure provides better mobile quick payment experience for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rendan Pan, Wenwen Guo
  • Patent number: 11461111
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for running applets, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes obtaining uniform resource identifier (URI) information of the applet based on an opening request when the opening request of the applet is received, wherein a format of the URI comprises a protocol name of a target boot protocol and content corresponding to the protocol, and the target boot protocol is a universal boot protocol applied to a plurality of host applications when opening the applet; analyzing the URI information based on grammatical format description rules of the target boot protocol, to obtain a first parameter and a second parameter; obtaining an execution file package of the applet based on the first parameter; and rendering corresponding page resources in the execution file package based on the second parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dan Zhou, Qian Liu, Zhixing Lei, Shuo Wang
  • Publication number: 20220308826
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a device for playing navigation audios are provided. The method includes: determining navigation audios to be broadcast in a navigation route and broadcast locations; and broadcasting a corresponding navigation audio at the broadcast location, and selecting non-navigation audios to be played in unoccupied durations between broadcast locations according to unoccupied durations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jizhou Huang, Hao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11455783
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image recognition method and apparatus, a device and a non-volatile computer storage medium. In embodiments of the present disclosure, it is feasible to obtain the to-be-recognized image of a designated size, extract the different-area image from the to-be-recognized image, and obtain the image feature of the different-area image according to the different-area image, so as to obtain the recognition result of the to-be-recognized image, according to the image feature of the different-area image and a preset template feature. In this way, recognition processing can be performed for images in a limited number of classes without employing the deep learning method based on hundreds of thousands of even millions of training samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoyi Liu, Guang Li
  • Patent number: 11449567
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, and an apparatus for detecting a regional event based on a search engine, a search engine, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining key search data related to the regional event based on search data of the search engine; performing regional event detection based on the key search data related to the regional event; and when the regional event is detected, estimating a location of the detected regional event based on geographical distribution of the key search data related to the regional event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qi Zhang, Hengshu Zhu, Hui Xiong
  • Patent number: 11449767
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of building a sorting model, and an application method and apparatus based on the model. The method of building a sorting model comprises: obtaining, from a search log, a query including a relationship triple and a clicked title of a search result corresponding to the query, wherein the relationship triple includes a content word pair and a relationship word of the content word pair; obtaining training data using the obtained query, the clicked title corresponding to the query, and times of click of the clicked title; using the training data to train a neural network-based sorting model, the sorting model being used to sort sentences according to the sentences' description of a relationship of the content word pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jizhou Huang, Wei Zhang, Shiqi Zhao, Shiqiang Ding, Haifeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11449707
    Abstract: Provided are a method for processing automobile image data, an apparatus, and a readable storage medium. The method includes training a preset adversarial network according to automobile image sample data obtained by collecting and preset random noise information, to obtain a trained adversarial network for generating automobile image data; and inputting the automobile image sample data into the trained adversarial network, and generating the automobile image data including a variety of the random noise information, according to a preset generation target, wherein the automobile image data are configured to train an automobile image recognition neural network to perform automobile image recognition. Therefore, the automobile image data that may be used to train an automobile image recognition neural network are generated by using the adversarial network, which amplifies the amount of data, and reduces the cost of obtaining data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shaoxiong Yang, Chen Zhao
  • Patent number: 11450318
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a speech skill creating method and system, wherein the method comprises: providing a speech skill creating interface in response to a developer's speech skill creating instruction; obtaining basic information and content configuration of the speech skill through the speech skill creating interface; in response to the developer's online publication instruction, adding a corresponding speech interaction capability for the content of the speech skill, and creating and publishing the speech skill. It is possible to, by employing the solutions of the present disclosure, complete the creation of the speech skill without performing any programming, and improve the development efficiency of the speech skill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD., SHANGHAI XIAODU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yaowen Qi
  • Patent number: 11437036
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a smart speaker wake-up method, a smart speaker wake-up device, a smart speaker and a storage medium, relates to the technical field of speech recognition. The method of the present disclosure is applied to a wireless network including two or more smart speakers, and a specific implementation thereof is: receiving, speech information including a wake-up word; performing a recognition processing to the speech information to obtain identification information corresponding to the wake-up word; and waking up one smart speaker in the wireless network to enter listening state according to the identification information. The present disclosure may be applied to a scenario where multiple smart speakers coexist, so as to quickly select one smart speaker that is most likely to be wakened, avoiding a chaotic speech interaction caused by multiple smart speakers being wakened simultaneously, improving efficiency and quality of speech interaction and achieving better user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Xiaodu Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangdang Zhang, Xing Luo, Xiangdong Xue, Guohui Zhou, Wenjie Liao