Patents by Inventor Bingbing Ni

Bingbing Ni 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: 9317533
    Abstract: Adaptive image retrieval image allows retrieval of images that are more likely to reflect a current trend of user preferences and/or interests, and therefore can provide relevant results to an image search. Adaptive image retrieval includes receiving image query log data from one or more clients, and updating a codebook of features based on the received query log data. The image query log data includes images that have been queried by the one or more clients within a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Linjun Yang, Qi Tian, Bingbing Ni
  • Patent number: 9183296
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein relating to video classification. A text mining component is disclosed that automatically generates a plurality of video event categories. Part-of-Speech (POS) analysis can be applied to video titles and descriptions, further using a lexical hierarchy to filter potential classifications. Classification performance can be further improved by extracting content-based features from a video sample. Using the content based features a set of classifier scores can be generated. A hyper classifier can use both the classifier scores and the content-based features of the video to classify the video sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Song, Ming Zhao, Bingbing Ni
  • Patent number: 8842965
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein relating to video classification. A text mining component is disclosed that automatically generates a plurality of video event categories. Part-of-Speech (POS) analysis can be applied to video titles and descriptions, further using a lexical hierarchy to filter potential classifications. Classification performance can be further improved by extracting content-based features from a video sample. Using the content based features a set of classifier scores can be generated. A hyper classifier can use both the classifier scores and the content-based features of the video to classify the video sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Song, Ming Zhao, Bingbing Ni
  • Patent number: 8463045
    Abstract: A hierarchical sparse codebook allows efficient search and comparison of images in image retrieval. The hierarchical sparse codebook includes multiple levels and allows a gradual determination/classification of an image feature of an image into one or more groups or nodes by traversing the image feature through one or more paths to the one or more groups or nodes of the codebook. The image feature is compared with a subset of nodes at each level of the codebook, thereby reducing processing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Linjun Yang, Qi Tian, Bingbing Ni
  • Publication number: 20120114248
    Abstract: A hierarchical sparse codebook allows efficient search and comparison of images in image retrieval. The hierarchical sparse codebook includes multiple levels and allows a gradual determination/classification of an image feature of an image into one or more groups or nodes by traversing the image feature through one or more paths to the one or more groups or nodes of the codebook. The image feature is compared with a subset of nodes at each level of the codebook, thereby reducing processing time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Linjun Yang, Qi Tian, Bingbing Ni
  • Publication number: 20120109943
    Abstract: Adaptive image retrieval image allows retrieval of images that are more likely to reflect a current trend of user preferences and/or interests, and therefore can provide relevant results to an image search. Adaptive image retrieval includes receiving image query log data from one or more clients, and updating a codebook of features based on the received query log data. The image query log data includes images that have been queried by the one or more clients within a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Linjun Yang, Qi Tian, Bingbing Ni