Patents by Inventor Jiang Zhang

Jiang Zhang 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: 20120005565
    Abstract: A large web page is analyzed and partitioned into smaller sub-pages so that a user can navigate the web page on a small form factor device. The user can browse the sub-pages to find and read information in the content of the large web page. The partitioning can be performed at a web server, an edge server, at the small form factor device, or can be distributed across one or more such devices. The analysis leverages design habits of a web page author to extract a representation structure of an authored web page. The extracted representation structure includes high level structure using several markup language tag selection rules and low level structure using visual boundary detection in which visual units of the low level structure are provided by clustering markup language tags. User viewing habits can be learned to display favorite parts of a web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Ming-Yu Wang, Hong Jiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8086549
    Abstract: Multi-label active learning may entail training a classifier with a set of training samples having multiple labels per sample. In an example embodiment, a method includes accepting a set of training samples, with the set of training samples having multiple respective samples that are each respectively associated with multiple labels. The set of training samples is analyzed to select a sample-label pair responsive to at least one error parameter. The selected sample-label pair is then submitted to an oracle for labeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Guo-Jun Qi, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yong Rui, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Shipeng Li
  • Patent number: 8086031
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems methods and devices related to region detection of an image. Detected regions include pixels of a particular one or more colors without requiring faces within the image to be previously detected. Region detection may include receiving information that a flash was used to capture the image or that return light was detected in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tong-Xian Chen, Xiangrong Chen, John C. Platt, Jie Yan, Hong-Jiang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20110275241
    Abstract: A packaging tray (100) for accommodating an electrical connector (200) which has a central conductor (60) having a conductive tail (65) at a first level and an outer conductor (50) having a grounding tail (53) at a different second level, includes a cavity (10) defining a bottom wall (20), and opposite first and second side walls (310, 320). The first side wall defines a first indentation (311) for accommodating the grounding tail of the outer conductor. The second side wall defines a second indentation (321) for accommodating the conductive tail of the central conductor. The second indentation has a bottom face at a first level. The first indentation has a bottom face (313) at a different second level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JIN-JIANG ZHANG, ZHENG-HUA XU
  • Patent number: 8028627
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gas generator for an occupant protection system, particularly for an airbag module in a motor vehicle, having an outer housing, an interior space formed in the outer housing for receiving a gas generating substance, an outflow opening for discharging gas generated in the interior space out of the gas generator, and a flow connection between the interior space and the outflow opening. According to the invention, the cross section of the flow connection between the interior space and the outflow opening is designed to be temperature-dependently variable. Further, a method for influencing a gas flow in a gas generator is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Takata-Petri AG
    Inventor: Jiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8020090
    Abstract: A large web page is analyzed and partitioned into smaller sub-pages so that a user can navigate the web page on a small form factor device. The user can browse the sub-pages to find and read information in the content of the large web page. The partitioning can be performed at a web server, an edge server, at the small form factor device, or can be distributed across one or more such devices. The analysis leverages design habits of a web page author to extract a representation structure of an authored web page. The extracted representation structure includes high level structure using several markup language tag selection rules and low level structure using visual boundary detection in which visual units of the low level structure are provided by clustering markup language tags. User viewing habits can be learned to display favorite parts of a web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Ming-Yu Wang, Hong Jiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 7996762
    Abstract: Correlative multi-label image annotation may entail annotating an image by indicating respective labels for respective concepts. In an example embodiment, a classifier is to annotate an image by implementing a labeling function that maps an input feature space and a label space to a combination feature vector. The combination feature vector models both features of individual ones of the concepts and correlations among the concepts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Guo-Jun Qi, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yong Rui, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Shipeng Li
  • Publication number: 20110185871
    Abstract: An apparatus for cutting foil strip from a spool includes a holding device, a pulling unit, a cutting unit, a brake unit, a detection unit, and a controller. The supporting is configured for receiving the spool. The pulling unit, the cutting unit, the brake unit are fixed on the holding device. The pulling unit is configured for pulling the foil apart from the spool to the cutting unit. The cutting unit is configured for cutting the foil into pieces. The brake unit is mechanically coupled to the reel and configured for applying a resistance to the spool. The detection unit is mechanically connected with to the reel and configured for sensing the rotation number of the spool. The controller is electronically connected to the sensor and the brake unit and configured for controlling the resistance the brake unit applying to the spool according signal of the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicants: Hong Heng Sheng Electronical Technology (HuaiAn) Co., Ltd, FOXCONN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Yun-Fei Lien, Tao Huang, Bing-Yan Yu, Bing-Qing Dong, Shao-Jiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 7986372
    Abstract: Systems and methods for smart media content thumbnail extraction are described. In one aspect program metadata is generated from recorded video content. The program metadata includes one or more key-frames from one or more corresponding shots. An objectively representative key-frame is identified from among the key-frames as a function of shot duration and frequency of appearance of key-frame content across multiple shots. The objectively representative key-frame is an image frame representative of the recorded video content. A thumbnail is created from the objectively representative key-frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Fei Ma, Bin Lin, Zhike Kong, Xinli Zou, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20110161660
    Abstract: In a method of temporarily registering a second device with a first device, in which the first device includes a temporary registration mode, the temporary registration mode in the first device is activated, a temporary registration operation in the first device is initiated from the second device, a determination as to whether the second device is authorized to register with the first device is made, and the second device is temporarily registered with the first device in response to a determination that the second device is authorized to register with the first device, in which the temporary registration requires that at least one of the second device and the first device delete information required for the temporary registration following at least one of a determination of a network connection between the first device and the second device and a powering off of at least one of the first device and the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL INSTRUMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiang Zhang, Alexander Medvinsky, Paul Moroney, Petr Peterka
  • Publication number: 20110158411
    Abstract: In a method of registering a plurality of client devices with a device registration server for secure data communications, a unique symmetric key is generated for each of the client devices using a cryptographic function on a private key of the device registration server and a respective public key of each of the client devices, and a broadcast message containing the public key of the device registration server is sent to the client devices, in which the client devices are configured to generate a respective unique symmetric key from the public key of the device registration server and its own private key using a cryptographic function, and in which the unique symmetric key generated by each client device matches the respective unique symmetric key generated by the device registration server for the respective client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: General Instrument Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Medvinsky, Paul Moroney, Jiang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20110161645
    Abstract: In a method for securing content in a system containing a security processor configured to control access to the content by a main processor, in which main processor being configured to send heartbeats to the security processor, a determination as to whether at least one heartbeat was received within a predicted time interval is made and in response to a determination that at least one heartbeat was not received with the predicted time interval, access to the content by the main processor is ceased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL INSTRUMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiang Zhang, Kun-Pei P. Chen, Alexander Medvinsky
  • Publication number: 20110129087
    Abstract: A method is provided for creating an encrypted data file from a data file having a sample entry box and a media data box. The sample entry box has description information therein. The media data box includes media data therein. The method includes: receiving the data file; encrypting the media data within the media data box with an encryption key; replacing the sample entry box with an encoded box; creating a sinf box within the encoded box; creating a form a box within the sinf box; and creating an schm box within the sinf box. The schm box indicates the type of formatting of the encrypted media data. The encoded box does not include an initial counter that may be used to decrypt the encrypted media data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL INSTRUMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiang Zhang, Geetha Mangalore, Petr Peterka
  • Patent number: 7953668
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for reserving a set of requested rights. In one example, the digital rights data associated with digital content information is found in a remaining rights file using a license index. A portion of the digital rights data is subsequently reserved. A determination is made as to whether a content download associated with the digital content information is successful. If the content download is unsuccessful, then the reserved portion of the digital rights data is cancelled. Alternatively, if the content download is successful, then the remaining rights file is updated to reflect a use of the portion of the digital rights data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: General Instrument Corporation
    Inventors: Jiang Zhang, Alexander Medvinsky, Petr Peterka
  • Patent number: 7904815
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for automatically generating video data based on still image data. Certain aspects of the video may also be configured to correspond to audio features identified within associated audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xian-Sheng Hua, Lie Lu, Hong-Jiang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20110050568
    Abstract: Improvements are provided to effectively assess a user's face and head pose such that a computer or like device can track the user's attention towards a display device(s). Then the region of the display or graphical user interface that the user is turned towards can be automatically selected without requiring the user to provide further inputs. A frontal face detector is applied to detect the user's frontal face and then key facial points such as left/right eye center, left/right mouth corner, nose tip, etc., are detected by component detectors. The system then tracks the user's head by an image tracker and determines yaw, tilt and roll angle and other pose information of the user's head through a coarse to fine process according to key facial points and/or confidence outputs by pose estimator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxiao HU, Lei Zhang, Mingjing Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20110036600
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for thermally initiated triggering of an aerosol fire extinguisher having a strike pin (6) acted upon by an inner spring (7) and locked in the stand-by state, and after thermal initiation, the lock is removed and the strike pin (6), driven by the force of the inner spring (7), strikes against a mechanical firing cap (1), whereby an initial firing material is released in the firing cap (1), igniting a booster charge (2), the hot conversion gas thereof igniting a pyrotechnic extinguisher charge in the aerosol fire extinguisher. In order that an absolutely reliable initiation takes place under the same conditions throughout the entire service life of the aerosol fire extinguisher, it is proposed that only immediately after the thermal initiation, when the firing pin (6) is still locked, the inner spring (7) is brought to the necessary tension for triggering the firing cap (1), and only after reaching said tension is the lock of the firing pin (6) automatically released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Jiang Zhang, Peter Kloft, Klaus-Jurgen Dell, Matthias Agostin, Stephan Cordes, Axel Hemmer, Michael Köller, Herbert Weisshaupt, Alexandra Welp
  • Patent number: 7885960
    Abstract: In community mining based on core objects and affiliated objects, a set of core objects for a community of objects are identified from a plurality of objects. The community is expanded, based on the set of core objects, to include a set of affiliated objects. According to one aspect, a model of a community of objects is obtained by grouping a first collection of a plurality of objects into a center portion, and grouping a second collection of the plurality of objects into one or more concentric portions around the center portion. The groupings of the first and second collections of the objects are identified as the community of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ji-Rong Wen, Wen-Jun Zhou, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 7873901
    Abstract: A large web page is analyzed and partitioned into smaller sub-pages so that a user can navigate the web page on a small form factor device. The user can browse the sub-pages to find and read information in the content of the large web page. The partitioning can be performed at a web server, an edge server, at the small form factor device, or can be distributed across one or more such devices. The analysis leverages design habits of a web page author to extract a representation structure of an authored web page. The extracted representation structure includes high level structure using several markup language tag selection rules and low level structure using visual boundary detection in which visual units of the low level structure are provided by clustering markup language tags. User viewing habits can be learned to display favorite parts of a web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Chen, Wei-Ying Ma, Ming-Yu Wang, Hong Jiang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20100325654
    Abstract: A method for registering a first device with a second device over a wireless network includes receiving a registration request from the first device and sending one or more user input choices to the first device. The user input choices each specify a user input action available though a user interface associated with the second device. A device description describing the second device is sent to the first device in a manner that allows it to be presented to the user by the first device. At least one of the user input actions are sequentially received through the user interface in response to instructions provided to the user by the first device. The first device is registered with the second device if the user input actions received by the second device correctly reflect the instructions provided to the user by the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL INSTRUMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Moroney, Jiang Zhang