Patents by Inventor Keith B. Hall

Keith B. Hall 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: 9087297
    Abstract: A classifier learning module trains video classifiers associated with a stored set of concepts derived from textual metadata of a plurality of videos. Specifically, a first type of classifier (e.g., a content-based classifier) and a second type of classifier (e.g., a text-based classifier) are trained, the classifiers when applied to a video indicating a likelihood that the video represents one or more concepts corresponding to the classifier. The first type of classifier can be used to determine the training set for the second type of classifier. The learning process does not require any concepts to be known a priori, nor does it require a training set of videos having training labels manually applied by human experts. Scores from the first type of classifier are combined with scores from the second type of classifier to obtain video classification of enhanced accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Katja Filippova, Keith B. Hall
  • Patent number: 8825571
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining query suggestions from multiple correlation measures. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first query and second queries, each of the first and second queries including one or more terms; for each second query and a linear model, receiving correlation scores measuring the correlation between the first query and the respective second query, each correlation score received from a respective correlation process, and each respective correlation process being different from the other respective correlation processes, and applying the linear model to the plurality of correlation scores to determine a combined correlation score that quantifies a combined correlation between the first query and the respective second query based on the plurality of correlation scores. The second queries are ranked in an order according to their respective combined correlations scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Enrique Alfonseca, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Keith B. Hall
  • Patent number: 8478699
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining query suggestions from multiple correlation measures. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first query and second queries, each of the first and second queries including one or more terms; for each second query and a linear model, receiving correlation scores measuring the correlation between the first query and the respective second query, each correlation score received from a respective correlation process, and each respective correlation process being different from the other respective correlation processes, and applying the linear model to the plurality of correlation scores to determine a combined correlation score that quantifies a combined correlation between the first query and the respective second query based on the plurality of correlation scores. The second queries are ranked in an order according to their respective combined correlations scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Enrique Alfonseca, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Keith B. Hall