Patents by Inventor Christine Cayol

Christine Cayol 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).

  • System and method for advertising using image search and classification
    Patent number: 9058611
    Abstract: An advertising system and method are disclosed for generating advertising content based on a user's images. These can be photographs owned by a user of a web page. An advertising template for an advertising sponsor is provided. For a user viewing the web page, a set of the user's images is categorized, based on image content of the images in the set. The categorization is performed with at least one classifier which has been trained on a finite set of image categories. An advertising image is selected for advertising content based on the categorization of the user's images. The template is combined with the selected advertising image to form the advertising content. The advertising content can then be displayed to the user on the web page. A user profile is also disclosed which can be used as the categorized user images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Craig John Saunders, Nicolas Guérin, Ruhul Islam, Christine Cayol, Thomas Dalban, Sébastien Dabet
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISING USING IMAGE SEARCH AND CLASSIFICATION
    Publication number: 20120239506
    Abstract: An advertising system and method are disclosed for generating advertizing content based on a user's images. These can be photographs owned by a user of a web page. An advertising template for an advertising sponsor is provided. For a user viewing the web page, a set of the user's images is categorized, based on image content of the images in the set. The categorization is performed with at least one classifier which has been trained on a finite set of image categories. An advertising image is selected for advertising content based on the categorization of the user's images. The template is combined with the selected advertising image to form the advertising content. The advertising content can then be displayed to the user on the web page. A user profile is also disclosed which can be used as the categorized user images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Craig John Saunders, Nicolas Guérin, Ruhul Islam, Christine Cayol, Thomas Dalban, Sébastien Dabet