Patents by Inventor Kevin Dechau Tang

Kevin Dechau Tang 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: 11895068
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, media, and instructions for automated image processing and content curation are described. In one embodiment a server computer system receives a plurality of content communications from a plurality of client devices, each content communication comprising an associated piece of content and a corresponding metadata. Each content communication is processed to determine associated context values for each piece of content, each associated context value comprising at least one content value generated by machine vision processing of the associated piece of content. A first content collection is automatically generated based on context values, and a set of user accounts are associated with the collection. An identifier associated with the first content collection is published to user devices associated with user accounts. In various additional embodiments, different content values, image processing operations, and content selection operations are used to curate content collections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jianchao Yang, Yuke Zhu, Ning Xu, Kevin Dechau Tang, Jia Li
  • Publication number: 20230325430
    Abstract: Method for receiving an input onto a graphical user interface at a client device, capturing an image frame at the client device, the image frame comprising a depiction of an object, identifying the object within the image frame, accessing media content associated with the object within a media repository in response to identifying the object, and causing presentation of the media content within the image frame at the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Hao Hu, Yanjia Li, Xing Mei, Kevin Dechau Tang
  • Publication number: 20230237798
    Abstract: A contextual filter system configured to perform operations that include, capturing an image frame at a client device, wherein the image frame includes a depiction of an object, identifying an object category of the object based on the depiction of the object within the image frame, accessing media content associated with the object category within a media repository, generating a presentation of the media content, and causing display of the presentation of the media content within the image frame at the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis, Travis Chen, Kevin Dechau Tang, Kaveh Anvaripour
  • Patent number: 11710311
    Abstract: A contextual filter system configured to perform operations that include, capturing an image frame at a client device, wherein the image frame includes a depiction of an object, identifying an object category of the object based on the depiction of the object within the image frame, accessing media content associated with the object category within a media repository, generating a presentation of the media content, and causing display of the presentation of the media content within the image frame at the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis, Travis Chen, Kevin Dechau Tang, Kaveh Anvaripour
  • Patent number: 11651019
    Abstract: Method for receiving an input onto a graphical user interface at a client device, capturing an image frame at the client device, the image frame comprising a depiction of an object, identifying the object within the image frame, accessing media content associated with the object within a media repository in response to identifying the object, and causing presentation of the media content within the image frame at the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Hao Hu, Yanjia Li, Xing Mei, Kevin Dechau Tang
  • Patent number: 11637797
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, media, and instructions for automated image processing and content curation are described. In one embodiment a server computer system receives a content message from a first content source, and analyzes the content message to determine one or more quality scores and one or more content values associated with the content message. The server computer system analyzes the content message with a plurality of content collections of the database to identify a match between at least one of the one or more content values and a topic associated with at least a first content collection of the one or more content collections and automatically adds the content message to the first content collection based at least in part on the match. In various embodiments, different content values, image processing operations, and content selection operations are used to curate content collections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jianchao Yang, Yuke Zhu, Ning Xu, Kevin Dechau Tang, Jia Li
  • Publication number: 20230091214
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing operations including: receiving, via a messaging application, a request to scan an image captured by a camera of the user device; determining an attribute of an object depicted in the image; identifying, from a plurality of augmented reality items, an augmented reality item that is associated with the attribute of the object; combining the identified augmented reality item with the image captured by the camera; and displaying, via the messaging application, the image captured by the camera combined with the identified augmented reality item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kaveh Anvaripour, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Hao Hu, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis, Kevin Dechau Tang
  • Publication number: 20230063920
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, media, and instructions for automated image processing and content curation are described. In one embodiment a server computer system communicates at least a portion of a first content collection to a first client device, and receives a first selection communication in response, the first selection communication identifying a first piece of content of the first plurality of pieces of content. The server analyzes analyzing the first piece of content to identify a set of context values for the first piece of content, and accesses accessing a second content collection comprising pieces of content sharing at least a portion of the set of context values of the first piece of content. In various embodiments, different content values, image processing operations, and content selection operations are used to curate the content collections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Jianchao Yang, Yuke Zhu, Ning Xu, Kevin Dechau Tang, Jia Li
  • Patent number: 11558678
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for receiving a request for an alternate data stream of a plurality of individual data streams than an active data stream currently being displayed on a computing device, during display on the computing device of a stitched data steam comprising the plurality of individual data streams associated with a common audio timeline. The systems and methods further providing for determining a subset of the plurality of individual data streams of the stitched data stream associated with a time period of the active data stream in the common audio timeline, selecting the alternate data stream from the subset of the plurality of individual data streams, and providing the alternate data stream to the computing device, wherein the display of the active data stream on the computing device transitions to the alternate data stream on the computing device in the common audio timeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Dechau Tang
  • Publication number: 20230004708
    Abstract: A system according to various exemplary embodiments includes a processor and a user interface, communication module, and memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: retrieve a digital image from a server using the communication module; present the digital image on a display of the user interface; receive edits to the digital image via the user interface; generate, based on the edits, a modified digital image, wherein generating the modified digital image includes transforming a format of the digital image to include a field containing an identifier associated with the modified digital image; and transmit the modified digital image to the server using the communication module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Rahul Sheth, Kevin Dechau Tang, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 11544921
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing operations including receiving, via a messaging application, a request to scan an image captured by a camera of the user device; determining an attribute of an object depicted in the image; identifying, from a plurality of augmented reality items, an augmented reality item that is associated with the attribute of the object; combining the identified augmented reality item with the image captured by the camera; and displaying, via the messaging application, the image captured by the camera combined with the identified augmented reality item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Kaveh Anvaripour, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Hao Hu, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis, Kevin Dechau Tang
  • Patent number: 11483268
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, media, and instructions for automated image processing and content curation are described. In one embodiment a server computer system communicates at least a portion of a first content collection to a first client device, and receives a first selection communication in response, the first selection communication identifying a first piece of content of the first plurality of pieces of content. The server analyzes analyzing the first piece of content to identify a set of context values for the first piece of content, and accesses accessing a second content collection comprising pieces of content sharing at least a portion of the set of context values of the first piece of content. In various embodiments, different content values, image processing operations, and content selection operations are used to curate the content collections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jianchao Yang, Yuke Zhu, Ning Xu, Kevin Dechau Tang, Jia Li
  • Publication number: 20220292820
    Abstract: A contextual filter system configured to perform operations that include, capturing an image frame at a client device, wherein the image frame includes a depiction of an object, identifying an object category of the object based on the depiction of the object within the image frame, accessing media content associated with the object category within a media repository, generating a presentation of the media content, and causing display of the presentation of the media content within the image frame at the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Celia Nicole Moukogiannis, Travis Chen, Kevin Dechau Tang, Kaveh Anvaripour
  • Patent number: 11386261
    Abstract: A system according to various exemplary embodiments includes a processor and a user interface, communication module, and memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: retrieve a digital image from a server using the communication module; present the digital image on a display of the user interface; receive edits to the digital image via the user interface; generate, based on the edits, a modified digital image, wherein generating the modified digital image includes transforming a format of the digital image to include a field containing an identifier associated with the modified digital image; and transmit the modified digital image to the server using the communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Sheth, Kevin Dechau Tang, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 11361489
    Abstract: A dense captioning system and method is provided for analyzing an image to generate proposed bounding regions for a plurality of visual concepts within the image, generating a region feature for each proposed bounding region to generate a plurality of region features of the image, and determining a context feature for the image using a proposed bounding region that is a largest in size of the proposed bounding regions. For each region feature of the plurality of region features of the image, the dense captioning system and method further provides for analyzing the region feature to determine for the region feature a detection score that indicates a likelihood that the region feature comprises an actual object, and generating a caption for a visual concept in the image using the region feature and the context feature when a detection score is above a specified threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Linjie Yang, Kevin Dechau Tang, Jianchao Yang, Jia Li
  • Patent number: 11354898
    Abstract: A contextual filter system configured to perform operations that include, capturing an image frame at a client device, wherein the image frame includes a depiction of an object, identifying an object category of the object based on the depiction of the object within the image frame, accessing media content associated with the object category within a media repository, generating a presentation of the media content, and causing display of the presentation of the media content within the image frame at the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis, Travis Chen, Kevin Dechau Tang, Kaveh Anvaripour
  • Patent number: 11349796
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for a server computer to receive a plurality of messages from a plurality of user computing devices, each message of the plurality of messages comprising a data stream, determine a subset of messages of the plurality of messages associated with a similar geolocation and time period, determine a set of messages of the subset of messages based on a match score for each pair of messages, and stitch together the set of messages to generate a stitched data stream from the data streams for each message of the set of messages based on a time period for each message, wherein the stitched data stream comprises messages with data streams that overlap in time periods such that there may be more than one data stream for a given time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Dechau Tang
  • Publication number: 20220141552
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for receiving a request for an alternate data stream of a plurality of individual data streams than an active data stream currently being displayed on a computing device, during display on the computing device of a stitched data steam comprising the plurality of individual data streams associated with a common audio timeline. The systems and methods further providing for determining a subset of the plurality of individual data streams of the stitched data stream associated with a time period of the active data stream in the common audio timeline, selecting the alternate data stream from the subset of the plurality of individual data streams, and providing the alternate data stream to the computing device, wherein the display of the active data stream on the computing device transitions to the alternate data stream on the computing device in the common audio timeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Kevin Dechau Tang
  • Patent number: 11297399
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for receiving a request for an alternate data stream of a plurality of individual data streams than an active data stream currently being displayed on a computing device, during display on the computing device of a stitched data steam comprising the plurality of individual data streams associated with a common audio timeline. The systems and methods further providing for determining a subset of the plurality of individual data streams of the stitched data stream associated with a time period of the active data stream in the common audio timeline, selecting the alternate data stream from the subset of the plurality of individual data streams, and providing the alternate data stream to the computing device, wherein the display of the active data stream on the computing device transitions to the alternate data stream on the computing device in the common audio timeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Dechau Tang
  • Publication number: 20220092307
    Abstract: Method for receiving an input onto a graphical user interface at a client device, capturing an image frame at the client device, the image frame comprising a depiction of an object, identifying the object within the image frame, accessing media content associated with the object within a media repository in response to identifying the object, and causing presentation of the media content within the image frame at the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Hao Hu, Yanjia Li, Xing Mei, Kevin Dechau Tang