Patents by Inventor Darning Lu

Darning Lu 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: 10915756
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for determining video material of news. The method for determining video material of news comprises: acquiring a weighted score value of a score of a keyword of a news text in a plurality of dimensions; filtering a keyword set of news based on the weighted score value of the score of the keyword; searching a pre-selected video using the keyword set of the news; and determining video material of the news based on the pre-selected video. The present disclosure improves the consistency between the video material of the news and the news text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Baidu USA LLC
    Inventors: Darning Lu, Hao Tian
  • Patent number: 10910014
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for generating a video. The method may include: receiving a query text inputted by a user; querying a material resource set related to the query text, material resources being images, videos, or audios; presenting the material resource set; determining a material resource sequence, in response to receiving a selecting operation and a ranking operation of the user on the material resources in the presented material resource set; and generating the video based on the material resource sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: BAIDU USA LLC, BAIDU.COM TIMES TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Tian, Darning Lu, Xi Chen, Jeff Chienyu Wang
  • Patent number: 10885344
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for generating a video. The method may include: determining a commentary of a target news cluster, each piece of news in the target news cluster being specific to a given news event; generating a voice corresponding to each paragraph in the commentary using a speech synthesis technology; determining a candidate material resource set corresponding to the commentary based on a video and an image included in the target news cluster, the candidate material resource being a video or image; determining a candidate material resource sequence corresponding to the each paragraph in the commentary; and generating a video corresponding to the commentary based on the voice corresponding to the each paragraph in the commentary and the candidate material resource sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: BAIDU USA LLC, BAIDU.COM TIMES TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Tian, Darning Lu, Xi Chen, Jeff ChienYu Wang