Patents by Inventor Andrew Kae

Andrew Kae 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).

  • Automatic classification of display ads using ad images and landing pages
    Patent number: 8732014
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically classifying ads into a taxonomy of categories, the method including: extracting text features from ad images using OCR (optical character recognition) techniques; identifying objects of interest from ad images using object detection and recognition techniques in computer vision; extracting text features from the web-page of the advertiser to which the user is re-directed when clicking the ad; training statistical models using the extracted features mentioned above as well as advertiser attributes from a historical dataset of ads labeled by human editors; and determining the relevant categories of unlabeled ads using the trained models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Kae, Kin Fai Kan, Vijay K. Narayanan
  • AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF DISPLAY ADS USING AD IMAGES AND LANDING PAGES
    Publication number: 20120158525
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically classifying ads into a taxonomy of categories, the method including: extracting text features from ad images using OCR (optical character recognition) techniques; identifying objects of interest from ad images using object detection and recognition techniques in computer vision; extracting text features from the web-page of the advertiser to which the user is re-directed when clicking the ad; training statistical models using the extracted features mentioned above as well as advertiser attributes from a historical dataset of ads labeled by human editors; and determining the relevant categories of unlabeled ads using the trained models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Kae, Kin Fai Kan, Vijay K. Narayanan