Patents by Inventor Hailong Liu

Hailong Liu 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).

  • Publication number: 20170249502
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facial property identification. For example, an image sample is acquired; a first effective area image of a face is acquired in the image sample; first textural features of the first effective area image are extracted; and the first textural features of the first effective area image are classified by race, gender and age using a race classifier, a gender classifier and an age classifier successively to obtain a race property, a gender property and an age property of the face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: PENGFEI XIONG, HAILONG LIU, BO CHEN, YAN LIU
  • Patent number: 9720540
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch signal detection circuit. The touch signal detection circuit includes: a processing unit, at least one linear transmitting electrode, and at least two linear receiving electrodes; the transmitting electrode is perpendicular to the receiving electrode, the receiving electrode is perpendicular to a source driver line of a display screen, and each receiving electrode and each transmitting electrode form one node mutual capacitance; the processing unit acquires capacitance change values of at least two node mutual capacitances, and acquires a location of a touch signal according to the capacitance change values of the at least two node mutual capacitances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hailong Liu, Jin Zhou
  • Patent number: 9697440
    Abstract: In the present disclosure, a client feature and a pre-stored template image feature are obtained; the obtained client feature and template image feature are projected according to a preset projection matrix, to generate a projection feature pair, where the projection matrix is formed by training of a first template image feature of a same object and a second template image feature of a different object; and similarity calculation is performed on the projection feature pair according to a preset similarity calculation rule, to generate a similarity result and prompt the similarity result to a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Pengfei Xiong, Hailong Liu, Bo Chen
  • Patent number: 9679195
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for facial property identification. For example, an image sample is acquired; a first effective area image of a face is acquired in the image sample; first textural features of the first effective area image are extracted; and the first textural features of the first effective area image are classified by race, gender and age using a race classifier, a gender classifier and an age classifier successively to obtain a race property, a gender property and an age property of the face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Pengfei Xiong, Hailong Liu, Bo Chen, Yan Liu
  • Patent number: 9667508
    Abstract: A computer system obtains a streaming media signal source, selects a testing sample from the streaming media signal source, records characteristics of the testing sample, and obtains an expected output according to the characteristics of the testing sample. Next, the computer system converts the testing sample into a digital streaming format preset by a service provider and initiates a media recognition request according to the testing sample in the digital streaming format to the service provider. After receiving a media recognition result of the testing sample returned by the service provider according to the media recognition request, the computer system compares the media recognition result with the expected output and indicates whether the service provider is normal in accordance with the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Dadong Xie, Jie Hou, Hailong Liu, Bo Chen
  • Patent number: 9621806
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide methods, apparatus, and electronic devices for image capturing. An exemplary image capturing method can include first acquiring image information via a camera contained in an electronic device and then detecting whether a shake amplitude of the electronic device is within a pre-set range. When the shake amplitude of the electronic device is detected within the pre-set range, the image information acquired by the camera can be captured. An exemplary image capturing apparatus can include an acquisition module for acquiring image information; a first detection module for detecting whether a shake amplitude of an electronic device is within a pre-set range; and a capturing module for capturing the image information, when the first detection module detects that the shake amplitude of the electronic device is within the pre-set range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Bin Xiao, Hailong Liu, Wen Zha
  • Publication number: 20170022971
    Abstract: A bi-directional contra-rotating circular rail bearing Y-shaped compound blade fluid energy collection multi-unit power generating windmill, the windmill comprising: a windmill remote automatic control system (1); a Y-shaped compound blade (2) from a combining of single blades; a circular rail windmill body (3) bearing the Y-shaped compound blade (2); a circular windmill rail (4) bearing the circular rail windmill body (3) for operation; a circular rail connection cable pulling vehicle (5) running on the circular cable pulling vehicle rail to pull the circular rail windmill using a stay cable (209); a hydraulic energy collection multi-unit power generating system (6) or pneumatic energy collection multi-unit power generating system (7); the Y-shaped compound blade (2) is born by three circles of the circular rail windmill body (3) arranged equidistant thereon; the circular rail windmill body (3) has six circles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Hailong Liu, Wei Zhan
  • Patent number: 9533470
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of liquid crystal panel manufacture, and discloses a cushion block for glass comprising a cushion block body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing Boe Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hailong Liu, Xuesong Gao, Hualong Wang
  • Patent number: 9529475
    Abstract: A method for calibration of a capacitive touch screen and a capacitive touch apparatus are disclosed. The calibration method includes obtaining a temporary reference capacitance value of a touch detection point of the capacitive touch screen when the capacitive touch screen powers up. A first difference between a backup reference capacitance value of the touch detection point and the temporary reference capacitance value of the touch detection point is obtained and a reference capacitance value of the touch detection point is determined according to the first difference and a first preset threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Zhou, Hailong Liu
  • Publication number: 20160349855
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a display method and an electronic device. The method comprises: projecting, by a first display unit, a first content; detecting, by a detection unit, an input operation relative to the first content, wherein a detection range of the detection unit corresponds to a projection range of the first display unit, and a bearing surface for displaying the first content is located within the projection range; judging whether the input operation satisfies a first condition to obtain a judgment result; and projecting a second content based on the judgment result, the second content comprising the first content and a prompt content for prompting that the first condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Xiaotian Zhu, Yan Gao, Hailong Liu, Xueqin Jiang
  • Publication number: 20160308737
    Abstract: A method of testing and monitoring a real-time streaming media recognition service provider is performed at a computer system. The computer system obtains a streaming media signal source, selects a testing sample from the streaming media signal source, records characteristics of the testing sample, and obtains an expected output according to the characteristics of the testing sample. Next, the computer system converts the testing sample into a digital streaming format preset by the service provider and initiates a media recognition request according to the testing sample in the digital streaming format to the service provider. After receiving a media recognition result of the testing sample returned by the service provider according to the media recognition request, the computer system compares the media recognition result with the expected output and indicates whether the service provider is normal in accordance with the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Jian LIU, Dadong Xie, Jie Hou, Hailong Liu, Bo Chen
  • Publication number: 20160301972
    Abstract: A method of interacting with an audience of multimedia content is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from a client device, data associated with a piece of multimedia content from a group of pieces of multimedia content that is presented to a user of the client device. The data is obtained at the client device in response to an instruction provided to the client device by the user. The method includes determining, based on the data, an identifier of the piece of multimedia content from a set of identifiers, each of which identifies a piece of multimedia content from the group of pieces of multimedia content. The method includes retrieving, based on the identifier of the piece of multimedia content, interactive content associated with the piece of multimedia content. The method includes sending the interactive content to the client device such that the client device presents the interactive content to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Hailong LIU, Dadong XIE, Jie HOU, Bo CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160295287
    Abstract: A digital video conversion device is communicatively coupled to a TV set and a TV signal source, respectively, so as to pass TV signals from the TV signal source to the TV set. Upon receipt of a TV channel identification request from a mobile terminal via a wireless communication channel, the digital video conversion device acquires an image from the TV signals currently broadcasted on the TV set and extracts a plurality of station logo characteristic sets from the image, each station logo characteristic set corresponding to one of a plurality of station logo templates. After calculating a similarity score between each station logo characteristic set and a corresponding station logo template, the digital video conversion device identifies one of the plurality of station logo templates as matching the image based on their similarity scores and returns TV channel information associated with the identified station logo template to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Mei JIANG, Hailong LIU, Jian LIU, Bo CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160277465
    Abstract: A method of processing real-time streaming media is performed at a computer system having one or more processors and a memory. The computer system obtains a streaming media based search request from a terminal, the search request including information from a streaming media data packet captured by the terminal. After extracting a set of streaming media features from the streaming media data packet, the computer system searches a plurality of streaming media feature sequences, each sequence corresponding to a respective streaming media source end, for a feature segment that matches the extracted set of streaming media features. After acquiring a playback timestamp of the matching feature segment and a corresponding source end identifier, the computer system searches for preconfigured interaction response information that corresponds to the acquired source end identifier and the playback timestamp and returns the corresponding interaction response information to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Jie Hou, Dadong Xie, Hailong Liu, Bo Chen
  • Patent number: 9411849
    Abstract: A method, system and computer storage medium for visual searching based on cloud service is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, from a client, an image recognition request of cloud service, the request containing image data; forwarding, according to a set classified forwarding rule, the image data to a corresponding classified visual search service; recognizing, by the respective corresponding classified visual search services, corresponding classified type information in the image data, and determining a corresponding name of the image data in accordance with the respective classified type information, and obtaining a classified visual search result; summarizing and sending, to a client, the classified visual search result of the corresponding classified visual search service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hailong Liu, Jie Hou, Pengfei Xiong, Bo Chen, Xiaobo Zhou, Feng Rao
  • Publication number: 20160223134
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of liquid crystal panel manufacture, and discloses a cushion block for glass comprising a cushion block body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Hailong Liu, Xuesong Gao, Hualong Wang
  • Patent number: 9373336
    Abstract: A method and device for performing audio recognition, including: collecting a first audio document to be recognized; initiating calculation of first characteristic information of the first audio document, including: conducting time-frequency analysis for the first audio document to generate a first preset number of phase channels; and extracting at least one peak value characteristic point from each phase channel of the first preset number of phrase channels, where the at least one peak value characteristic point of each phase channel constitutes the peak value characteristic point sequence of said each phase channel; and obtaining a recognition result for the first audio document, wherein the recognition result is identified based on the first characteristic information, and wherein the first characteristic information is calculated based on the respective peak value characteristic point sequences of the preset number of phase channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hailong Liu, Dadong Xie, Jie Hou, Bin Xiao, Xiao Liu, Bo Chen
  • Patent number: 9348906
    Abstract: An electronic device with one or more processors, memory, and a display detects a first trigger event and, in response to detecting the first trigger event, collects a audio sample of environmental audio data associated with a media item. The device transmits information corresponding to the audio sample to a server. In response to transmitting the information, the device obtains attribute information corresponding to the audio sample, where the attribute information includes metadata for the media item, a time indicator of a position of the audio sample in the media item, and stream information for the media item. The device displays a portion of the attribute information. The device detects a second trigger event and, in response to detecting the second trigger event: determines a last obtained time indicator; streams the media item based on the stream information; and presents the media item from the last obtained time indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaolong Zhang, Bin Zhang, Deyuan Li, Hailong Liu, Jie Hou, Dadong Xie
  • Patent number: 9330310
    Abstract: A server system with one or more processors and memory obtains, from a client device, a card image which includes an image of a card, and identifies a card configuration type corresponding to the card in the card image based on a database of stored card configuration types. Each stored card configuration type in the database is associated with layout information regarding respective features and information regions for the stored card configuration type. In accordance with the identified card configuration type, the server system determines one or more information regions of the card image containing respective card information of the card. The server system extracts at least a portion of the card information of the card from the one or more information regions of the card image and transmits, to the client device, at least the extracted portion of the card information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiucai Jiang, Hailong Liu, Jingchao Zhou, Chao Li, Bo Chen, Qi Song
  • Patent number: 9317770
    Abstract: An apparatus and terminal perform a method for detecting image stability in image processing. The method includes: acquiring N consecutive image frames, wherein N is an integer equal to 2 or larger; performing in each of the N consecutive image frames, the following: detecting corner points in the image frame, dividing the image frame into multiple areas, and recording distribution of the corner points in each of the multiple areas of the image frame in order to obtain a description vector of the image frame; calculating a number of areas according to the description vector of the image frame over the N consecutive image frames, wherein an existing state of the corner points has changed; determining whether the N consecutive image frames are stable, based on the number of areas which the existing state of the corner points has changed over the N consecutive image frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian Ding, Xiao Liu, Hailong Liu, Bo Chen