Patents by Inventor Chen Longbin

Chen Longbin 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).

  • Aesthetic search engine
    Patent number: 10726086
    Abstract: An improved approach for returning aesthetically relevant search results is disclosed. A training set of images (e.g., designer-created images) is used to train a detection engine that detects items in the images as features. A classification engine is configured to analyze the features and generate classification indices for the features. A user can select an item, and the classification index for the feature corresponding to the item is retrieved. The classification index is used to identify result images, which can be returned ranked according user action data and other parameters, such as style.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Houzz, Inc.
    Inventors: Chen Longbin, Le Kang, Lei Yao, Zhenyu Mao
  • AESTHETIC SEARCH ENGINE
    Publication number: 20180137201
    Abstract: An improved approach for returning aesthetically relevant search results is disclosed. A training set of images (e.g., designer-created images) is used to train a detection engine that detects items in the images as features. A classification engine is configured to analyze the features and generate classification indices for the features. A user can select an item, and the classification index for the feature corresponding to the item is retrieved. The classification index is used to identify result images, which can be returned ranked according user action data and other parameters, such as style.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Chen Longbin, Le Kang, Lei Yao, Mark Mao