Patents by Inventor David Ballantyne CHRISTIANSON

David Ballantyne CHRISTIANSON 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).

  • Intelligent determination of aesthetic preferences based on user history and properties
    Patent number: 9721183
    Abstract: Techniques for selecting a digital image are disclosed. The techniques may include receiving a first set of digital images, analyzing the first set of digital images to extract first image features from each of the first set of digital images, accessing a user profile, comparing the extracted first image features to a preset list of image features, ranking each digital image of the first set, selecting each digital image having a ranking that exceeds a threshold, assigning a category to each selected digital image based on a comparison of each selected digital image to a category database of digital image categories, displaying each selected digital image with the assigned category, receiving an input from the user in response to the displaying, updating the user profile and the category database based on the input, and selecting at least one subsequent digital image based on the updated user profile and category database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Noah Raymond Heller, James Theodore Bartot, David Ballantyne Christianson, Jason Hayes Christensen, Schuyler Cullen, Hugh Crean, Navdeep Singh Dhillon, Samuel J S Fu, Craig Bruce Horman
  • INTELLIGENT DETERMINATION OF AESTHETIC PREFERENCES BASED ON USER HISTORY AND PROPERTIES
    Publication number: 20150220806
    Abstract: Techniques for selecting a digital image are disclosed. The techniques may include receiving a first set of digital images, analyzing the first set of digital images to extract first image features from each of the first set of digital images, accessing a user profile, comparing the extracted first image features to a preset list of image features, ranking each digital image of the first set, selecting each digital image having a ranking that exceeds a threshold, assigning a category to each selected digital image based on a comparison of each selected digital image to a category database of digital image categories, displaying each selected digital image with the assigned category, receiving an input from the user in response to the displaying, updating the user profile and the category database based on the input, and selecting at least one subsequent digital image based on the updated user profile and category database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: WIFFLEDAN INC. DBA VHOTO, INC.
    Inventors: Noah Raymond HELLER, James Theodore BARTOT, David Ballantyne CHRISTIANSON, Jason Hayes CHRISTENSEN, Schuyler CULLEN, Hugh CREAN, Navdeep Singh DHILLON, Samuel JS FU, Craig Bruce HORMAN