Patents by Inventor I.J. ERIC WANG

I.J. ERIC WANG 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, apparatus and system for priority processing
    Patent number: 10026447
    Abstract: A method of scheduling processing of a plurality of recorded media content items, each recorded media content item having one or more media segments which each represent a coverage option for a story fragment. The method receives a quality measure for each media segment in the plurality of recorded media content items, and determines a fitness score for each of a plurality of candidate sequences formed from the media segments, said fitness score being determined using the corresponding quality measure associated with media segments in the corresponding candidate sequence. The method determines a media segment score for each media segment from the corresponding fitness scores of candidate sequences that include that media segment, and then schedules processing of the plurality of recorded media content items in an order determined from media segment scores of the media segments in the recorded media content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: I. J. Eric Wang, Jie Xu
  • METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PRIORITY PROCESSING
    Publication number: 20160189748
    Abstract: A method of scheduling processing of a plurality of recorded media content items, each recorded media content item having one or more media segments which each represent a coverage option for a story fragment. The method receives a quality measure for each media segment in the plurality of recorded media content items, and determines a fitness score for each of a plurality of candidate sequences formed from the media segments, said fitness score being determined using the corresponding quality measure associated with media segments in the corresponding candidate sequence. The method determines a media segment score for each media segment from the corresponding fitness scores of candidate sequences that include that media segment, and then schedules processing of the plurality of recorded media content items in an order determined from media segment scores of the media segments in the recorded media content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: I.J. ERIC WANG, Jie XU