Patents by Inventor Bin Fu

Bin Fu 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: 12602373
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating one or more database queries based on a natural language input data. An example method comprises configuring, using a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) editing module, information for a task. Moreover, the method may further comprise parsing the configured information based on a database schema to obtain a parsed database schema. Further, the method may further comprise generating, using a natural language question-answering system, one or more database queries based on the parsed database schema and natural language input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: SHOPEE IP SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Bin Fu, Hao-Tong Ye
  • Publication number: 20250363697
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an image generation method and apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium, and a program product. The method includes receiving a first source image of a predetermined style and a second source image comprising a predetermined portrait; performing feature extraction on the first source image using at least one image encoder to obtain at least one image feature; performing facial recognition on the second source image using a facial recognition model to obtain a facial feature of the predetermined portrait; concatenating the at least one image feature with the facial feature to obtain a concatenated feature; and inputting the concatenated feature into a trained diffusion model to generate a target image that is in the predetermined style and that comprises the predetermined portrait.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2025
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    Inventors: Yuxuan YAN, Rui WANG, Pei CHENG, Bin FU, Gang YU
  • Patent number: 12361751
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for training an expression transfer model performed by a computer device, the method including: obtaining a source domain facial image of a first object, a target domain facial image of a second object and a facial feature image associated with the target domain facial image; applying the facial feature image and the source domain facial image to an expression transfer model to obtain a synthesized facial image of the first object; applying the synthesized facial image and the target domain facial image to a discriminative network model obtain two discrimination results; applying the synthesized facial image and the target domain facial image to an image classification model to obtain a category feature vector for identifying a difference between the synthesized facial image and the target domain facial image; and updating the expression transfer model according to the category feature vector and the discrimination results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuxuan Yan, Youcheng Ben, Qiang Li, Yang Ding, Ruixue Shen, Chao Wang, Pei Cheng, Gang Yu, Bin Fu
  • Publication number: 20250200027
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating one or more database queries based on a natural language input data. An example method comprises configuring, using a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) editing module, information for a task. Moreover, the method may further comprise parsing the configured information based on a database schema to obtain a parsed database schema. Further, the method may further comprise generating, using a natural language question-answering system, one or more database queries based on the parsed database schema and natural language input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Bin FU, Hao-Tong YE
  • Patent number: 12266114
    Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The image processing method includes: performing preliminary segmentation recognition on a raw image by using a first segmentation model to obtain a candidate foreground image region and a candidate background image region of the raw image; recombining the candidate foreground image region, the candidate background image region, and the raw image to obtain a recombined image, pixels in the recombined image being in a one-to-one correspondence with pixels in the raw image; and performing region segmentation recognition on the recombined image by using a second segmentation model to obtain a target foreground image region and a target background image region of the raw image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Rui Zhang, Pei Cheng, Gang Yu, Bin Fu
  • Patent number: 12189844
    Abstract: An eye-gaze tracking apparatus and a method of eye-gaze tracking. The eye-gaze tracking apparatus comprises: a plurality of foreground cameras each arranged to capture at least a portion of a target view area of a user; and an eye-gaze estimation module having at least one eye-gaze camera each arranged to capture an image an eye of the user, so as to estimate a position of a pupil of the eye based on the image of the eye; wherein each of the plurality of foreground cameras includes a field-of-view (FOV) being different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: The Education University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Hong Fu, Bin Fu, Yang Zheng, Ruimin Li
  • Patent number: 12175640
    Abstract: A computing device obtains a to-be-optimized image. The device aligns the to-be-optimized image to obtain a to-be-optimized aligned image. The to-be-optimized aligned image includes a target region having points of objects that are distributed in a standard position. The computing device uses the to-be-optimized aligned image as an inputs to a generation network. The device performs feature extraction on the to-be-optimized aligned image using the generation network, to obtain an optimized image. The generation network is obtained by training a to-be-trained generative adversarial deep neural network model according to a low-quality image pair and a joint loss function. The low-quality image pair includes a target image and a low-quality image corresponding to the target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuxuan Yan, Pei Cheng, Gang Yu, Bin Fu
  • Publication number: 20240310266
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the use of biomarkers for predicting the response to cancer (e.g., melanoma) treatments, for selecting a treatment for a cancer patient (e.g., using targeted therapy, e.g., using an agent targeting BRAF and/or an agent targeting MEK in combination with an immuno-oncology therapy (e.g., an anti-PD-1 therapy)), for stratifying cancer patients into different treatment groups, for treating cancer patients, and for predicting clinical outcome in cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Jan Brase, Bin Fu, James Garrett, Gullu Gorgun, Daniel Gusenleitner, Radha Ramesh, Alexander Savchenko
  • Publication number: 20240094808
    Abstract: An eye-gaze tracking apparatus and a method of eye-gaze tracking. The eye-gaze tracking apparatus comprises: a plurality of foreground cameras each arranged to capture at least a portion of a target view area of a user; and an eye-gaze estimation module having at least one eye-gaze camera each arranged to capture an image an eye of the user, so as to estimate a position of a pupil of the eye based on the image of the eye; wherein each of the plurality of foreground cameras includes a field-of-view (FOV) being different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hong FU, Bin Fu, Yang Zheng, Ruimin Li
  • Patent number: 11898229
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-strength and high-plasticity casting high-entropy alloy (HEA), having a general formula of AlaCobCrcTidFeeNifCug, where 6.0<a?8.0, 18.0<b?23.0, 7.5?c<12.5, 2.0<d?8.5, 15.5<e?20.0, 28.0<f?37.0, 0.2<g?10.0, and a+b+c+d+e+f+g=100. The casting HEA can be prepared in one step and has excellent mechanical properties. The various metal raw materials are environmental-friendly and suitable for large-scale industrial production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Zemin Wang, Jiajun Li, Yu Dong, Min Liu, Linghuan Pang, Bin Fu, Zhanyong Wang
  • Publication number: 20230016108
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-strength and high-plasticity casting high-entropy alloy (HEA), having a general formula of AlaCobCrcTidFeeNifCug, where 6.0<a?8.0, 18.0<b?23.0, 7.5?c<12.5, 2.0<d?8.5, 15.5<e?20.0, 28.0<f?37.0, 0.2<g?10.0, and a+b+c+d+e+f+g=100. The casting HEA can be prepared in one step and has excellent mechanical properties. The various metal raw materials are environmental-friendly and suitable for large-scale industrial production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Zemin Wang, Jiajun Li, Yu Dong, Min Liu, Linghuan Pang, Bin Fu, Zhanyong Wang
  • Patent number: 11550012
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment executes a first imaging prior to a second imaging and includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives, on a first image obtained from the first imaging, a setting of a region in which an RF (Radio Frequency) pulse is to be applied to a subject, generates a three-dimensional image based on the first image, determines, based on an imaging purpose of the second imaging, a translucent region to which translucent processing is to be performed in the three-dimensional image, and displays the translucent region, making the translucent region translucent in the three-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Bin Fu, Bing Li
  • Publication number: 20220398742
    Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The image processing method includes: performing preliminary segmentation recognition on a raw image by using a first segmentation model to obtain a candidate foreground image region and a candidate background image region of the raw image; recombining the candidate foreground image region, the candidate background image region, and the raw image to obtain a recombined image, pixels in the recombined image being in a one-to-one correspondence with pixels in the raw image; and performing region segmentation recognition on the recombined image by using a second segmentation model to obtain a target foreground image region and a target background image region of the raw image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Rui ZHANG, Pei CHENG, Gang YU, Bin FU
  • Patent number: 11461876
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a video data processing method and apparatus, and a storage medium. After historical and current video frames are acquired from a video stream, two point position sets of a human body are obtained from the historical video frame and the current video frame, respectively. A jitter amplitude of a human body key point in the current video frame is analyzed according to the point position set of the human body in the current video frame and the point position set of the human body in the historical video frame; an adjustment reference position of the human body in the current video frame is determined according to the jitter amplitude; and subsequently a human body part below the adjustment reference position in the current video frame is adjusted and the adjusted current video frame is outputted for display as part of the video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jingjin Zhou, Pei Cheng, Yirong Zeng, Bin Fu, Yu Gao, Xiaolong Zhu
  • Patent number: 11443462
    Abstract: In a method for generating a cartoon face image that is performed by a computing device, a to-be-processed face image is obtained. Face feature information is recognized from the to-be-processed face image, and cartoon materials corresponding to feature parts of a face in the to-be-processed face image are obtained according to the face feature information. The obtained cartoon materials are cartoon face materials. The cartoon face materials include cartoon facial feature materials and another cartoon material other than the cartoon facial feature materials. Each of the cartoon facial feature materials are adjusted by using an adjustment parameter, and the other cartoon material are combined with the cartoon facial feature materials after adjustment to generate the cartoon face image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yanhao Ge, Xueyuan Xing, Bin Fu, Yirong Zeng, Pengcheng Shen, Chengjie Wang
  • Patent number: 11427424
    Abstract: The present application relates to rolled good feeding device and method. Material feeding devices and methods are provided for conveying material from material rolls. The material roll may be adjusted in the longitudinal direction during the feeding process by a rectifying frame to aid in maintaining alignment during the unrolling. Tension of the unrolled material may be monitored and unrolling speeds of the feeding device can be adjusted to maintain tension of the material within a range for that material. Aspects also contemplate elements to feed multiple rolled materials simultaneously for subsequent processing in combination as layered materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NIKE, INC.
    Inventors: Guo Chang Wang, Qi Feng Zheng, Bin Fu
  • Publication number: 20220261968
    Abstract: A computing device obtains a to-be-optimized image. The device aligns the to-be-optimized image to obtain a to-be-optimized aligned image. The to-be-optimized aligned image includes a target region having points of objects that are distributed in a standard position. The computing device uses the to-be-optimized aligned image as an inputs to a generation network. The device performs feature extraction on the to-be-optimized aligned image using the generation network, to obtain an optimized image. The generation network is obtained by training a to-be-trained generative adversarial deep neural network model according to a low-quality image pair and a joint loss function. The low-quality image pair includes a target image and a low-quality image corresponding to the target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Yuxuan YAN, Pei CHENG, Gang YU, Bin FU
  • Publication number: 20220245961
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for training an expression transfer model performed by a computer device, the method including: obtaining a source domain facial image of a first object, a target domain facial image of a second object and a facial feature image associated with the target domain facial image; applying the facial feature image and the source domain facial image to an expression transfer model to obtain a synthesized facial image of the first object; applying the synthesized facial image and the target domain facial image to a discriminative network model obtain two discrimination results; applying the synthesized facial image and the target domain facial image to an image classification model to obtain a category feature vector for identifying a difference between the synthesized facial image and the target domain facial image; and updating the expression transfer model according to the category feature vector and the discrimination results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Yuxuan YAN, Youcheng BEN, Qiang LI, Yang DING, Ruixue SHEN, Chao WANG, Pei CHENG, Gang YU, Bin FU
  • Patent number: 11392642
    Abstract: An image processing method includes: obtaining audio data corresponding to a reality scene image acquired in real time; dynamically determining attribute information of a virtual object according to the audio data, the attribute information indicating a visual state of the virtual object; identifying a target object from the reality scene image; determining, according to the target object, a fusion location of the virtual object determined according to the attribute information in the reality scene image according to the target object; fusing the virtual object determined according to the attribute information into the reality scene image according to the fusion location, the virtual object presenting different visual states that correspond to different attribute information dynamically determined according to the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jingjin Zhou, Pei Cheng, Bin Fu, Yu Gao
  • Patent number: 11120535
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image processing method, including: recognizing a source object in a source image, and determining, according to feature points of the source object, an orientation and a size of the source object; adjusting, according to matching relationships between the orientation and the size of the source object and the orientation and the size of the target object, the orientation and the size of the source object; adjusting a shape of the source object and a shape of the target object according to an average shape of the source object and an average shape of the target object; and fusing, in real time, the source image and the target image in a manner of aligning the shape of the source object with the shape of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Pei Cheng, Bin Fu, Mengren Qian