Patents Assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
  • Publication number: 20220156986
    Abstract: A method for scene interaction includes identifying a first real scene interacting with a virtual scene and obtaining media information of the first real scene. The method also includes determining a scene feature associated with the first real scene based on a feature extraction on the media information, and mapping the scene feature associated with the first real scene to the virtual scene according to a correspondence between the virtual scene and the first real scene. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are also contemplated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuxuan LIANG
  • Publication number: 20220159516
    Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure provides a user equipment (UE) that includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry of the UE determines whether to transmit service data associated with a service to a receiving device through a primary link or a sidelink. When the service data is determined to be transmitted through the sidelink, the processing circuitry selects a radio access technology (RAT) for implementing the sidelink from a plurality of available RATs according to a set of configuration parameters received from a network, determines communication parameters for the selected RAT based on quality of service (QoS) or service requirement related parameters included in the set of configuration parameters, and transmits the service data through the sidelink implemented by the selected RAT according to the communication parameters. When the service data is determined to be transmitted through the primary link, the processing circuitry transmits the service data through the primary link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Yixue LEI
  • Publication number: 20220155953
    Abstract: A virtual object control method includes: displaying, in response to a virtual object in a virtual scene being in a first movement state, at least two switch controls including a target switch control in an interface of the virtual scene, and a switching control other than the target switch control, the switching control being a control copy of the target switch control, and a display position of the control copy being different from a display position of the target switch control; and controlling, in response to a state switching operation triggered based on the control copy, the virtual object to be switched from the first movement state to a second movement state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Zefeng YANG, Jiaqi PAN
  • Publication number: 20220157646
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an air bridge, an air bridge, and an electronic device are disclosed. The method for manufacturing an air bridge includes: applying a first photoresist layer to a substrate; applying a second photoresist layer to the first photoresist layer; exposing, developing, and fixing the second photoresist layer, to form a patterned structure; etching away the first photoresist layer in a specified area through the patterned structure, to form a structure for blocking a deposition material from diffusing to a periphery on the substrate, the specified area including a projection area formed on the first photoresist layer by a top opening of the patterned structure; and depositing a bridge support structure on a surface of the substrate exposed after the first photoresist layer in the specified area is etched away, and forming an air bridge based on the bridge support structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Wenlong ZHANG, Chuhong YANG, Shengyu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220152507
    Abstract: A method for correcting a position of a target object is provided. In the method, a position correction process for the target object is determined according to at least one of an update time window of a server, a motion state of the target object, or a position deviation of the target object, the position deviation being a difference between a first position of the target object in the server and a second position of the target object in a client, and the position correction process moving the target object from the second position to the first position. The position correction process is executed during the update time window to move the target object from the second position to the first position. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are also contemplated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Huan He
  • Patent number: 11331574
    Abstract: This application provides a method and an apparatus for locking on to a target object in a game scene, and an electronic device. The method may include determining at least one to-be-applied object corresponding to a skill currently triggered by the terminal. The method may further include generating, in an active joystick area, a sub-area corresponding to a quantity of the at least one to-be-applied object. The method may further include determining, in at least one sub-area, a target sub-area indicated by a joystick corresponding to the skill. The method may further include determining, as a target object, a to-be-applied object corresponding to the target sub-area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Jiaqi Pan, Yajun Chen
  • Patent number: 11331584
    Abstract: An information display apparatus and method for displaying a virtual pet are provided. The method includes obtaining an event display instruction corresponding to the virtual pet from a user; obtaining, by a terminal from a server, event journal information of the virtual pet according to the event display instruction, the event journal information including information about n events related to the virtual pet, where n is a positive integer; and displaying the event journal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yi Cheng Zhang, Wei Peng, Xing He
  • Patent number: 11335124
    Abstract: This application relates to a face recognition method performed at a computer server. After obtaining a to-be-recognized face image, the server inputs the to-be-recognized face image into a classification model. The server then obtains a recognition result of the to-be-recognized face image through the classification model. The classification model is obtained by inputting a training sample marked with class information into the classification model, outputting an output result of the training sample, calculating a loss of the classification model in a training process according to the output result, the class information and model parameters of the classification model, and performing back propagation optimization on the classification model according to the loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Anping Li, Shaoxin Li, Chao Chen, Pengcheng Shen, Jilin Li
  • Patent number: 11334214
    Abstract: This application relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling an object in a virtual scene. The method may include generating a first virtual object at a first position point outside a navigation surface in a virtual scene; determining an appearance action of the first virtual object at a second position point in the navigation surface; controlling the first virtual object to move from the first position point to the second position point; and controlling the first virtual object to perform the appearance action at the second position point. In this way, when a virtual object needs to be refreshed, the first virtual object may be generated at the first position point, the first virtual object is controlled to move to the second position point, and the appearance action is performed at the second position point, thereby improving a refreshing effect of the virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Lei Liao, Lin Wang, Shangli Liang
  • Patent number: 11335352
    Abstract: A voice identity feature extractor training method includes extracting a voice feature vector of training voice, The method may include determining a corresponding I-vector according to the voice feature vector of the training voice. The method may include adjusting a weight of a neural network model by using the I-vector as a first target output of the neural network model, to obtain a first neural network model, The method may include obtaining a voice feature vector of target detecting voice and determining an output result of the first neural network model for the voice feature vector of the target detecting voice. The method may include determining an I-vector latent variable. The method may include estimating a posterior mean of the I-vector latent variable, and adjusting a weight of the first neural network model using the posterior mean as a second target output, to obtain a voice identity feature extractor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Na Li, Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 11331572
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays an interaction region that includes one or more interaction objects. While displaying the interaction region, the device displays an effect selection panel that includes effect selection affordances that correspond to different predefined effects. In response to detecting a consecutive sequence of one or more inputs, the device selects a first effect selection affordance in accordance with a first contact, displays a first visual indication that indicates selection of the first effect selection affordance and identifies at least one interaction object as being linked to the first effect selection affordance; and applies the first effect to the identified interaction object in accordance with a termination of the first contact on the touch-sensitive surface while the first effect selection affordance remains selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Min Zhou
  • Patent number: 11334908
    Abstract: A device extracts a plurality of characteristics from a sample set. For each extracted characteristic, the device determines different types of advertisements carried in advertisement samples in the sample set matching the characteristic. The device determines characteristic values of the characteristic that correspond to the different types of advertisements. The device filters based on characteristic values of the characteristic that correspond to the different types of advertisements, the extracted plurality of characteristics to obtain respective advertisement characteristics of the different types of advertisements. The device matches the advertisement characteristics of the different types of advertisements against characteristics extracted from a to-be-detected sample, and determines whether the to-be-detected sample carries an advertisement, and if so, which type of advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hong Yi, Jiabin Wang, Yuanhai Luo
  • Publication number: 20220143507
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and a storage medium for displaying a virtual prop includes: displaying a screen in which a target virtual operation object is located in a target application; detecting a virtual prop of a target type within a visual angle range of the target virtual operation object in response to the target virtual operation object being configured with a target virtual skill, where the target virtual skill allows the target virtual operation object to see the virtual prop of the target type through a virtual obstacle; and displaying perspective information of the target virtual prop in the target application in response to the target virtual prop of the target type being detected within the visual angle range of the target virtual operation object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Chao LIANG, Zhihong LIU
  • Publication number: 20220148337
    Abstract: A method of living body detection includes generating a detection interface in response to a receipt of a living body detection request for a verification of a detection object. The detection interface includes a first region with a viewing target for the detection object to track, a position of the first region in the detection interface changes during a detection time according to a first sequence of a position change of the first region. The method also includes receiving a video stream that is captured during the detection time, determining a second sequence of a sight line change of the detection object based on the video stream, and determining that the detection object is a living body at least partially based on the second sequence of the sight line change of the detection object matching the first sequence of the position change of the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jia MENG, Xinyao WANG, Shouhong DING, Jilin LI
  • Publication number: 20220148613
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a speech signal processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. A processing circuitry of the electronic device obtains speech feature parameters of a to-be-processed speech signal. The speech feature parameters include an initial spectrum of the to-be-processed speech signal. The processing circuitry predicts a first quantity of subband spectrum envelopes based on the speech feature parameters. The first set quantity is less than a quantity of initial spectrum coefficients included in the initial spectrum. Each of the subband spectrum envelopes corresponds to a second quantity of initial spectrum coefficients. The processing circuitry adjusts the initial spectrum based on the predicted subband spectrum envelopes to obtain an adjusted spectrum. The processing circuitry obtains an enhanced speech signal corresponding to the to-be-processed speech signal based on the adjusted spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wei XIAO, Meng WANG
  • Publication number: 20220148295
    Abstract: A processing circuitry obtains a training set based on an interaction process of a plurality of cards. The training set includes a plurality of video frames, and a video frame includes a trigger region for triggering an action during the interaction process. The processing circuitry determines feature regions in the trigger region. A feature region includes a card and is set with an action label for indicating a first training content in the feature region. The processing circuitry also determines a feature vector based on the plurality of video frames. The feature vector indicates a triggering of the feature region. The processing circuit inputs the feature vector into a first model for training to obtain a second model. The first model associates the feature vector with the action label, and the second model is used for indicating a correspondence between a content of the card and the action label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Chao HUANG
  • Publication number: 20220148571
    Abstract: This application relates to a speech recognition method and apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium, and the method includes: obtaining a first loss function of a speech separation and enhancement model and a second loss function of a speech recognition model; performing back propagation based on the second loss function to train an intermediate model bridged between the speech separation and enhancement model and the speech recognition model, to obtain a representation model; fusing the first loss function and the second loss function, to obtain a target loss function; and jointly training the speech separation and enhancement model, the representation model, and the speech recognition model based on the target loss function, and ending the training when a preset convergence condition is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Jun WANG, Wing Yip LAM
  • Publication number: 20220150678
    Abstract: A communication method of an edge computing platform in which an application function is deployed is provided. The edge computing platform is connected to a network exposure function-lite. The network exposure function-lite is connected to a network exposure function-central deployed in a core network. In the communication method, a capability invocation request is received from the application function. When the capability invocation request corresponds to a request to acquire wireless network information, a subscription request for the wireless network information is transmitted to an access network side based on the capability invocation request. The wireless network information fed back by the access network side is received in response to the subscription request. Further, the application function is notified of the wireless network information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhuoyun ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220148191
    Abstract: An image segmentation method includes obtaining target domain images and source domain images, and segmenting the source domain images and the target domain images by using a generative network in a first generative adversarial network. The method further includes segmenting the source domain images and the target domain images by using a generative network in a second generative adversarial network, and determining a first source domain image and a second source domain image according to source domain segmentation losses, and determining a first target domain image and a second target domain image according to target domain segmentation losses. The method also includes performing cross training on the first generative adversarial network and the second generative adversarial network to obtain a trained first generative adversarial network; and segmenting a to-be-segmented image based on the generative network in the trained first generative adversarial network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Luyan LIU, Kai MA, Yefeng ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20220148231
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses of virtual prop allocation and provide non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums storing instructions for virtual prop allocation. A method of virtual prop allocation includes obtaining a geographic location and state information of at least one terminal device participating in a first scene, and determining a first virtual prop associated with the first scene based on the geographic location and the state information of the at least one terminal device participating in the first scene. Further, the method includes determining geographic location information for releasing the first virtual prop, and transmitting, to a first terminal device in the at least one terminal device, the geographic location information for releasing the first virtual prop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuxuan Liang