Patents by Inventor Huazhong Ning

Huazhong Ning 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).

  • Method and apparatus for focus-of-attention control
    Patent number: 8913103
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for automatically generating commands to transform a video sequence based on information regarding speaking participants derived from the audio and video signals. The audio stream is analyzed to detect individual speakers and the video is optionally analyzed to detect lip movement to determine a probability that a detected participant is speaking. Commands are then generated to transform the video stream consistent with the identified speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Emre Sargin, Rodrigo Carceroni, Huazhong Ning, Wei Hua, Marius Renn, Hrishikesh Aradhye
  • Recovery of 3D human pose by jointly learning metrics and mixtures of experts
    Patent number: 8311954
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining 3D human pose by generating an Appearance and Position Context (APC) local descriptor that achieves selectivity and invariance while requiring no background subtraction; jointly learning visual words and pose regressors in a supervised manner; and estimating the 3D human pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Huazhong Ning, Wei Xu, Yihong Gong
  • CONTENT ADVERTISEMENTS FOR VIDEO
    Publication number: 20100312608
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques and components for displaying a text advertisement in an online video being viewed by a user. The advertisement is selected based on keywords associated with the online video or the user, and the selected advertisement is presented as an overlay on the rendered video over regions of frames determined to be less important in the video. To determine importance, every frame of the online video is divided into grids, and parameters of the visual data in each grid are analyzed. Based on the analysis of each grid, regions in successive frames are identified to display the selected advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: YING SHAN, XU LIU, JUNXIAN WANG, HUAZHONG NING, JIAYUAN HUANG, ASHISH GUPTA
  • Recovery of 3D Human Pose by Jointly Learning Metrics and Mixtures of Experts
    Publication number: 20100049675
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining human pose by generating an Appearance and Position Context (APC) local descriptor that achieves selectivity and invariance while requiring no background subtraction; jointly learning visual words and pose regressors in a supervised manner; and estimating the human pose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Huazhong Ning, Wei Xu, Yihong Gong
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING UNSAFE CONDITIONS
    Publication number: 20090177602
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to detect unsafe system states by capturing and analyzing data from a plurality of sensors detecting parameters of the system; and applying temporal difference (TD) learning to learn a function to approximate an expected future reward given current and historical sensor readings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Huazhong Ning, Wei Xu, Yue Zhou, Yihong Gong, Thomas Huang