Patents by Inventor Jichuan Zheng

Jichuan Zheng 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).

  • Patent number: 10607243
    Abstract: User behavior analysis method and device are disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining a behavior record of users regarding commodities; acquiring, by determining a commodity feature vector in a predetermined commodity feature space of each of the commodities, a commodity feature matrix consisting of the commodity feature vectors of the commodities; for each of the users, calculating, based on a sub behavior record of the corresponding user regarding each of the commodities, a preference score of the corresponding user regarding each of the commodities, so as to get a score matrix composed of the preference scores of the users regarding the commodities; and for each of the users, determining, based on a regularized least squares based solution of a difference function of the score matrix and a prediction matrix, a user feature vector of the corresponding user in its related predetermined commodity feature space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Guanglei Zhang, Jichuan Zheng, Bin Dong, Yixuan Tong
  • Patent number: 10282420
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for recognizing an evaluation element are provided. The method includes receiving an input text; performing, using a first conditional random field model, first recognition for the input text to obtain a first recognition result, the first recognition result including a pre-evaluation element that is recognized by using the first conditional random field model; performing, using a second conditional random field model, second recognition for the input text to obtain a second recognition result, the second recognition result including a false positive evaluation element that is recognized by using the second conditional random field model, the false positive evaluation element being an element erroneously detected as an evaluation element; and recognizing, based on the first recognition result and the second recognition result, an evaluation element in the input text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shanshan Jiang, Bin Dong, Jichuan Zheng, Jiashi Zhang, Yixuan Tong
  • Publication number: 20180047036
    Abstract: User behavior analysis method and device are disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining a behavior record of users regarding commodities; acquiring, by determining a commodity feature vector in a predetermined commodity feature space of each of the commodities, a commodity feature matrix consisting of the commodity feature vectors of the commodities; for each of the users, calculating, based on a sub behavior record of the corresponding user regarding each of the commodities, a preference score of the corresponding user regarding each of the commodities, so as to get a score matrix composed of the preference scores of the users regarding the commodities; and for each of the users, determining, based on a regularized least squares based solution of a difference function of the score matrix and a prediction matrix, a user feature vector of the corresponding user in its related predetermined commodity feature space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Guanglei ZHANG, Jichuan ZHENG, Bin DONG, Yixuan TONG
  • Publication number: 20170337182
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for recognizing an evaluation element are provided. The method includes receiving an input text; performing, using a first conditional random field model, first recognition for the input text to obtain a first recognition result, the first recognition result including a pre-evaluation element that is recognized by using the first conditional random field model; performing, using a second conditional random field model, second recognition for the input text to obtain a second recognition result, the second recognition result including a false positive evaluation element that is recognized by using the second conditional random field model, the false positive evaluation element being an element erroneously detected as an evaluation element; and recognizing, based on the first recognition result and the second recognition result, an evaluation element in the input text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shanshan JIANG, Bin DONG, Jichuan ZHENG, Jiashi ZHANG, Yixuan TONG
  • Publication number: 20160335493
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for acquiring a plurality of images and corresponding text comments that includes a plurality of segments; retrieving, based on a pre-established key-word library, a key word of each segment; and matching a segment, based on the key word retrieved from the segment, to a corresponding image selected from the plurality of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Jichuan ZHENG, Shanshan JIANG, Qian LI
  • Patent number: 9433063
    Abstract: Disclosed are an intelligent illumination control method, apparatus, and system. The method includes a step of obtaining at least one image of a predetermined lighting area captured by at least one stereo camera; a step of determining, based on the at least one image, one or more target illuminance values of the predetermined lighting area; and a step of determining, based on the one or more target illuminance values, a dimming level of at least one illumination apparatus so that the at least one illumination apparatus works according to the determined dimming level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Xinping Bao, Guanglei Zhang, Jichuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 9378424
    Abstract: Disclosed are a road line detection method and a road line detection device. The road line detection method comprises a step of obtaining a first disparity map including one or more road regions and a corresponding V-disparity image; a step of sequentially detecting plural sloped line segments in the corresponding V-disparity image according to a big-to-small order of disparities and a big-to-small order of V-values, to serve as plural sequentially adjacent road surfaces; a step of obtaining a second disparity map of plural road line regions of interest corresponding to the plural sloped line segments; and a step of detecting one or more road lines in the second disparity map of the plural road line regions of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ganmei You, Jichuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 9373043
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are used for detecting a road partition, the method comprising: a step of obtaining a disparity top view having a road area; and a step of detecting parallel lines as the road partitions from the disparity top view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaojie Lu, Ganmei You, Jichuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 9326357
    Abstract: A lighting control method for use in a lighting control system is disclosed. The lighting control method includes acquiring an influence coefficient of each of lighting devices on at least one local device based on a measured amount of invisible beams and a measured amount of visible light, the influence coefficient representing an influence level of each of the lighting devices on the local device; and acquiring a dimmer level of each of visible light sources based on a corresponding one of the influence coefficients to control the amount of the visible light measured at a position of the local device such that the measured amount of the visible light reaches or approaches a target lighting amount of the local device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Guanglei Zhang, Jichuan Zheng
  • Publication number: 20160109146
    Abstract: Disclosed is a control method of controlling an air conditioning system. The control method comprises steps of obtaining plural adjustment parameter groups of each of plural air conditioners contained in the air conditioning system; acquiring at least one desired environmental parameter of each of one or more control targets; selecting, based on the desired environmental parameters, one from the plural adjustment parameter groups of each of the plural air conditioners to serve as a target adjustment parameter group of the corresponding air conditioner; and respectively transmitting the plural target adjustment parameter groups to the plural air conditioners, so that the plural air conditioners respectively set their adjustment functions according to the plural target adjustment parameter groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Guanglei ZHANG, Jichuan ZHENG
  • Patent number: 8923605
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for detecting an object on a road. The method comprises a step of simultaneously capturing two depth maps, and then calculating a disparity map; a step of obtaining, based on the disparity map, a V-disparity image by adopting a V-disparity algorithm; a step of detecting an oblique line in the V-disparity image, and then removing points in the disparity map, corresponding to the oblique line so as to acquire a sub-disparity map excluding the road; a step of detecting plural vertical lines in the V-disparity image, and then extracting, for each of the plural vertical lines, points corresponding to this vertical line from the sub-disparity map as an object sub-disparity map corresponding to this vertical line; and a step of merging any two rectangular areas of the object sub-disparity maps approaching each other, into a rectangular object area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ganmei You, Yaojie Lu, Jichuan Zheng
  • Publication number: 20140379257
    Abstract: Disclosed are a road line detection method and a road line detection device. The road line detection method comprises a step of obtaining a first disparity map including one or more road regions and a corresponding V-disparity image; a step of sequentially detecting plural sloped line segments in the corresponding V-disparity image according to a big-to-small order of disparities and a big-to-small order of V-values, to serve as plural sequentially adjacent road surfaces; a step of obtaining a second disparity map of plural road line regions of interest corresponding to the plural sloped line segments; and a step of detecting one or more road lines in the second disparity map of the plural road line regions of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ganmei YOU, Jichuan ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20140333209
    Abstract: Disclosed are an intelligent illumination control method, apparatus, and system. The method includes a step of obtaining at least one image of a predetermined lighting area captured by at least one stereo camera; a step of determining, based on the at least one image, one or more target illuminance values of the predetermined lighting area; and a step of determining, based on the one or more target illuminance values, a dimming level of at least one illumination apparatus so that the at least one illumination apparatus works according to the determined dimming level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Xinping Bao, Guanglei Zhang, Jichuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 8861791
    Abstract: Disclosed are a road line detection method and a road line detection device. The road line detection method comprises a step of obtaining a first disparity map including one or more road regions and a corresponding V-disparity image; a step of sequentially detecting plural sloped line segments in the corresponding V-disparity image according to a big-to-small order of disparities and a big-to-small order of V-values, to serve as plural sequentially adjacent road surfaces; a step of obtaining a second disparity map of plural road line regions of interest corresponding to the plural sloped line segments; and a step of detecting one or more road lines in the second disparity map of the plural road line regions of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ganmei You, Jichuan Zheng
  • Publication number: 20140252963
    Abstract: A lighting control method for use in a lighting control system is disclosed. The lighting control method includes acquiring an influence coefficient of each of lighting devices on at least one local device based on a measured amount of invisible beams and a measured amount of visible light, the influence coefficient representing an influence level of each of the lighting devices on the local device; and acquiring a dimmer level of each of visible light sources based on a corresponding one of the influence coefficients to control the amount of the visible light measured at a position of the local device such that the measured amount of the visible light reaches or approaches a target lighting amount of the local device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Guanglei Zhang, Jichuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 8504367
    Abstract: Disclosed are a speech retrieval apparatus and a speech retrieval method for searching, in a speech database, for an audio file matching an input search term by using an acoustic model serialization code, a phonemic code, a sub-word unit, and a speech recognition result of speech. The speech retrieval apparatus comprises a first conversion device, a first division device, a first speech retrieval unit creation device, a second conversion device, a second division device, a second speech retrieval unit creation device, and a matching device. The speech retrieval method comprises a first conversion step, a first division step, a first speech retrieval unit creation step, a second conversion step, a second division step, a second speech retrieval unit creation step, and a matching step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dafei Shi, Yaojie Lu, Yueyan Yin, Jichuan Zheng, Lijun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20130163821
    Abstract: Disclosed are a road line detection method and a road line detection device. The road line detection method comprises a step of obtaining a first disparity map including one or more road regions and a corresponding V-disparity image; a step of sequentially detecting plural sloped line segments in the corresponding V-disparity image according to a big-to-small order of disparities and a big-to-small order of V-values, to serve as plural sequentially adjacent road surfaces; a step of obtaining a second disparity map of plural road line regions of interest corresponding to the plural sloped line segments; and a step of detecting one or more road lines in the second disparity map of the plural road line regions of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Ganmei YOU, Jichuan ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20130148856
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are used for detecting a road partition, the method comprising: a step of obtaining a disparity top view having a road area; and a step of detecting parallel lines as the road partitions from the disparity top view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Inventors: Yaojie LU, Ganmei YOU, Jichuan ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20130128001
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for detecting an object on a road. The method comprises a step of simultaneously capturing two depth maps, and then calculating a disparity map; a step of obtaining, based on the disparity map, a V-disparity image by adopting a V-disparity algorithm; a step of detecting an oblique line in the V-disparity image, and then removing points in the disparity map, corresponding to the oblique line so as to acquire a sub-disparity map excluding the road; a step of detecting plural vertical lines in the V-disparity image, and then extracting, for each of the plural vertical lines, points corresponding to this vertical line from the sub-disparity map as an object sub-disparity map corresponding to this vertical line; and a step of merging any two rectangular areas of the object sub-disparity maps approaching each other, into a rectangular object area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Ganmei YOU, Yaojie LU, Jichuan ZHENG
  • Patent number: 8316004
    Abstract: Disclosed are a speech retrieval apparatus and a speech retrieval method for searching, in an audio file database, for one or more target audio files by using one or more input search terms. The speech retrieval apparatus comprises a related document obtaining unit configured to search, in a related document database where documents related to audio files in the audio file database are stored, for one or more related documents by using the search terms; a correspondence audio file obtaining unit configured to search, in the audio file database, for one or more correspondence audio files corresponding to the obtained related documents; and a speech-to-speech search unit configured to search, in the audio file database, for the target audio files by using the obtained correspondence audio files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yueyan Yin, Yaojie Lu, Dafei Shi, Jichuan Zheng, Lijun Zhao