Patents by Inventor Manning HUANG

Manning HUANG 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: 20220269879
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for facial expression recognition. In some examples, a system receives an image frame corresponding to a face of a person. The system also determines, based on a three-dimensional model of the face, landmark feature information associated with landmark features of the face. The system then inputs, to at least one layer of a neural network trained for facial expression recognition, the image frame and the landmark feature information. The system further determines, using the neural network, a facial expression associated with the face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Peng LIU, Lei WANG, Kuang-Man HUANG, Michel Adib SARKIS, Ning BI
  • Publication number: 20220214067
    Abstract: A method and device for controlling an air conditioner, and a computer readable storage medium. The method for controlling an air conditioner includes: upon detecting a power-on or power-off command corresponding to an internal unit of a central air conditioner, acquiring a current predicted load of the central air conditioner; determining whether the predicted load meets an external unit change condition; and if so, adjusting an operating state of an external unit of the central air conditioner on the basis of the predicted load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Yuanyang LI, Jie FEI, Jiongpei HU, Yide QIU, Manning HUANG, Jie YAN, Zhecan LIN
  • Patent number: 11361508
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for generating three-dimensional models of objects from one or more images or frames. For example, at least one frame of an object in a scene can be obtained. A portion of the object is positioned on a plane in the at least one frame. The plane can be detected in the at least one frame and, based on the detected plane, the object can be segmented from the plane in the at least one frame. A three-dimensional (3D) model of the object can be generated based on segmenting the object from the plane. A refined mesh can be generated for a portion of the 3D model corresponding to the portion of the object positioned on the plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ke-Li Cheng, Kuang-Man Huang, Michel Adib Sarkis, Gerhard Reitmayr, Ning Bi
  • Publication number: 20220058871
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for generating three-dimensional models of objects from one or more images or frames. For example, at least one frame of an object in a scene can be obtained. A portion of the object is positioned on a plane in the at least one frame. The plane can be detected in the at least one frame and, based on the detected plane, the object can be segmented from the plane in the at least one frame. A three-dimensional (3D) model of the object can be generated based on segmenting the object from the plane. A refined mesh can be generated for a portion of the 3D model corresponding to the portion of the object positioned on the plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ke-Li CHENG, Kuang-Man HUANG, Michel Adib SARKIS, Gerhard REITMAYR, Ning BI
  • Publication number: 20210389013
    Abstract: An air conditioner water system, a control method therefor, and a control device thereof, the method includes acquiring the pressure difference and temperature difference between a water intake pipe and a water discharge pipe of an air conditioner water system, the water intake pipe being connected to an inlet of a host module of the air conditioner water system, and the water discharge pipe being connected to an outlet of the host module; detecting and confirming that the pressure difference is less than or equal to a preset pressure difference, and controlling the operating frequency of a water pump of the air conditioner water system according to the pressure difference; and detecting and confirming that the pressure difference is greater than the preset pressure difference, and controlling the operating frequency of the water pump of the air conditioner water system according to the temperature difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Yuanyang LI, Jie FEI, Manning HUANG, Yide QIU, Jie YAN
  • Patent number: 10956719
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for image processing are described. The method may include identifying a face in a first image based on identifying one or more biometric features of the face, determining an angular direction of one or more pixels of the identified face, identifying an anchor point on the identified face, sorting each of one or more pixels of the identified face into one of a set of pixel bins based on a combination of the determined angular direction of the pixel and a distance between the pixel and the identified anchor point, and outputting an indication of authenticity associated with the face based on a number of pixels in each bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ke-Li Cheng, Kuang-Man Huang, Michel Adib Sarkis, Yingyong Qi, Ning Bi
  • Publication number: 20200291071
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel compounds and uses thereof. The present compounds are useful in suppressing the growth of various bacteria, including gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Accordingly, these compounds may be used to manufacture a medicament or pharmaceutic composition for treating disease and/or disorders associated with bacterial infection, especially antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection. Al so disclosed herein are methods for treating infectious diseases by use of the present compounds, medicament or pharmaceutical composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Academia Sinica
    Inventors: Tsung-Lin LI, Chun-Man HUANG, Kuan-Hung LIN
  • Publication number: 20200175260
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for image processing are described. The method may include identifying a face in a first image based on identifying one or more biometric features of the face, determining an angular direction of one or more pixels of the identified face, identifying an anchor point on the identified face, sorting each of one or more pixels of the identified face into one of a set of pixel bins based on a combination of the determined angular direction of the pixel and a distance between the pixel and the identified anchor point, and outputting an indication of authenticity associated with the face based on a number of pixels in each bin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Ke-Li Cheng, Kuang-Man Huang, Michel Adib Sarkis, Yingyong Qi, Ning Bi
  • Patent number: 10552970
    Abstract: A depth based scanning system can be configured to determine whether pixel depth values of a depth map are within a depth range; determine a component of the depth map comprised of connected pixels each with a depth value within the depth range; replace the depth values of any pixels of the depth map that are not connected pixels; determine whether each pixel of the connected pixels of the component has at least a threshold number of neighboring pixels that have a depth value within the depth range; and for each pixel of the connected pixels of the component, if the pixel is determined to have at least the threshold number of neighboring pixels, replace its depth value with a filtered depth value that is based on the depth values of the neighboring pixels that have a depth value within the depth range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kuang-Man Huang, Michel Adib Sarkis, Yingyong Qi
  • Publication number: 20190220987
    Abstract: A depth based scanning system can be configured to determine whether pixel depth values of a depth map are within a depth range; determine a component of the depth map comprised of connected pixels each with a depth value within the depth range; replace the depth values of any pixels of the depth map that are not connected pixels; determine whether each pixel of the connected pixels of the component has at least a threshold number of neighboring pixels that have a depth value within the depth range; and for each pixel of the connected pixels of the component, if the pixel is determined to have at least the threshold number of neighboring pixels, replace its depth value with a filtered depth value that is based on the depth values of the neighboring pixels that have a depth value within the depth range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Kuang-Man Huang, Michel Adib Sarkis, Yingyong Qi
  • Patent number: 10197483
    Abstract: A tester assembled by multiple sets of mechanisms for shear strength-scale effect of a rock joint includes a horizontal loading mechanism, a horizontal supporting and force-measuring mechanism and a sample installation and lifting table are mounted on a platform on the bottom of a frame, the horizontal loading mechanism and the horizontal supporting and force-measuring mechanism are respectively located on two sides of the sample installation and lifting table; rock joint sample is divided into an upper portion and a lower portion by a slit, the horizontal loading mechanism is configured to load the upper portion of the multi-scale rock joint sample, and the horizontal supporting and force-measuring mechanism is configured to support the lower portion of the multi-scale rock joint sample; a vertical loading mechanism is located above the multi-scale rock joint sample, and can be mounted on the frame in a manner of being movable up and down; and the horizontal loading mechanism comprises at least two tangentia
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHAOXING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shigui Du, Yuanjun Lv, Zhanyou Luo, Jintao Lai, Man Huang, Chengrong Ma, Bo Li, Rui Yong, Yunjin Hu, Zhen Zhong, Zhihai He
  • Publication number: 20180128725
    Abstract: A tester assembled by multiple sets of mechanisms for shear strength-scale effect of a rock joint includes a horizontal loading mechanism, a horizontal supporting and force-measuring mechanism and a sample installation and lifting table are mounted on a platform on the bottom of a frame, the horizontal loading mechanism and the horizontal supporting and force-measuring mechanism are respectively located on two sides of the sample installation and lifting table; rock joint sample is divided into an upper portion and a lower portion by a slit, the horizontal loading mechanism is configured to load the upper portion of the multi-scale rock joint sample, and the horizontal supporting and force-measuring mechanism is configured to support the lower portion of the multi-scale rock joint sample; a vertical loading mechanism is located above the multi-scale rock joint sample, and can be mounted on the frame in a manner of being movable up and down; and the horizontal loading mechanism comprises at least two tangentia
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: SHIGUI DU, YUANJUN LV, ZHANYOU LUO, JINTAO LAI, MAN HUANG, CHENGRONG MA, BO LI, RUI YONG, YUNJIN HU, ZHEN ZHONG, ZHIHAI HE
  • Publication number: 20170219738
    Abstract: A method for quantitatively evaluating the anisotropy of joint roughness coefficient of rock joints is provided, comprising the following steps: selecting a joint sample of an engineering rock mass to be analyzed; uniformly arranging rock joint measurement segments in different orientations; recording each joint profile by a profilograph; measuring joint roughness coefficient of each measurement segment; calculating a statistical mean value of the joint roughness coefficients in each orientation under same dimensional conditions, and obtaining a roughness coefficient class ratio in each orientation; transforming each item in the roughness coefficient class ratio by R1(i)=r0(i)1/m; fitting the processed roughness coefficient of the rock joints by anisotropic ellipse function; determining a major axis a and a minor axis b of the anisotropic ellipse, ? representing a direction of rotation, where a ratio of the major axis to the minor axis indicates a difference between the maximum roughness coefficient and the m
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: SHIGUI DU, RUI YONG, JUN YE, XI FU, CHENGRONG MA, QIFENG LIANG, BO LI, MAN HUANG
  • Patent number: 9213890
    Abstract: A gesture recognition system using a skin-color based method combined with motion information to achieve real-time segmentation. A Kalman filter is used to track the centroid of the hand. The palm center, palm bottom, as well as the largest distance from the palm center to the contour from extracted hand mask are computed. The computed distance to a threshold is then compared to decide if the current posture is “open” or “closed.” In a preferred embodiment, the transition between the “open” and “closed” posture to decide if the current gesture is in “select” or “grab” state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuang-Man Huang, Ming-Chang Liu, Liangyin Yu
  • Patent number: 9210468
    Abstract: A system and method for effectively implementing a stroboscopic visual effect with a television device includes a strobe engine that analyzes video data to create a sequence of stroboscopic images based upon motion information from the video data. The television utilizes a display manager to present the stroboscopic images and the video data on a display device during a strobe display mode. A processor device of the television typically controls the operations of the strobe engine and the display manager to implement the stroboscopic visual effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Chang Liu, Kuang-Man Huang, Chuen-Chien Lee
  • Patent number: 9031326
    Abstract: A system for performing an image categorization procedure includes an image manager with a keypoint generator, a support region filter, an orientation filter, and a matching module. The keypoint generator computes initial descriptors for keypoints in a test image. The support region filter and the orientation filter perform respective filtering procedures upon the initial descriptors to produce filtered descriptors. The matching module compares the filtered descriptors to one or more database image sets for categorizing said test image. A processor of an electronic device typically controls the image manager to effectively perform the image categorization procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Liangyin Yu, Ming-Chang Liu, Kuang-Man Huang
  • Patent number: 8620024
    Abstract: A gesture recognition system and method that inputs videos of a moving hand and outputs the recognized gesture states for the input sequence. In each image, the hand area is segmented from the background and used to estimate parameters of all five fingers. The system further classifies the hand image as one of the postures in the pre-defined database and applies a geometric classification algorithm to recognize the gesture. The system combines a skin color model with motion information to achieve real-time hand segmentation performance, and considers each dynamic gesture as a multi-dimensional volume and uses a geometric algorithm to classify each volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kuang-Man Huang, Ming-Chang Liu, Liangyin Yu
  • Publication number: 20130216138
    Abstract: A system for performing an image categorization procedure includes an image manager with a keypoint generator, a support region filter, an orientation filter, and a matching module. The keypoint generator computes initial descriptors for keypoints in a test image. The support region filter and the orientation filter perform respective filtering procedures upon the initial descriptors to produce filtered descriptors. The matching module compares the filtered descriptors to one or more database image sets for categorizing said test image. A processor of an electronic device typically controls the image manager to effectively perform the image categorization procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Liangyin Yu, Ming-Chang Liu, Kuang-Man Huang
  • Publication number: 20120242779
    Abstract: A system and method for effectively implementing a stroboscopic visual effect with a television device includes a strobe engine that analyzes video data to create a sequence of stroboscopic images based upon motion information from the video data. The television utilizes a display manager to present the stroboscopic images and the video data on a display device during a strobe display mode. A processor device of the television typically controls the operations of the strobe engine and the display manager to implement the stroboscopic visual effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Ming-Chang Liu, Kuang-Man Huang, Chuen-Chien Lee
  • Patent number: D799346
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Little Nobelman Technology Limited
    Inventors: Sun Hoi Wong, Fei Xu, Xiao Man Huang