Patents by Inventor Melanie Sclar

Melanie Sclar 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: 20220353222
    Abstract: A message suggestion service may use clusters of pre-approved messages to improve the quality of messages suggested to users. During a conversation, messages of the conversation may be processed with a neural network to compute a conversation encoding vector. The neural network may also be used to compute pre-approved message encoding vectors of the pre-approved messages. Distances between the conversation encoding vector and the pre-approved message encoding vectors may be used to select one or more clusters. Distances between the conversation encoding vector and the pre-approved message encoding vectors may then be used to select one or more pre-approved messages from the selected clusters. The selected pre-approved messages may then be presented as suggested messages to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: William Abraham Wolf, Melanie Sclar, Clemens Georg Benedict Rosenbaum, Christopher David Fox, Kilian Quirin Weinberger
  • Patent number: 10582211
    Abstract: A neural network learning algorithm obtains a fingerprint of a video sequence. Using the fingerprint, selection of an appropriate video stabilization algorithm, and its parameter settings, is performed. The video thus stabilized is made more appealing for viewing and easier for subsequent video compression. The neural network may be trained during a training phase to select a correct fingerprint of each video sequence based on the effectiveness of resulting video stabilization and/or compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Melanie Sclar, Amit Puntambekar, Michael Hamilton Coward, Wurzel David Parsons-Keir
  • Patent number: 10506248
    Abstract: Video foreground and background detection is performed on a received video sequence on a macroblock by macroblock basis using motion vector encoding information associated with each macroblock. Some of the macroblocks in each frame, for example, edge or corner macroblocks, may be exempt from the foreground and background detection. The detection information, along with the video data, is passed to an image stabilization algorithm that prepares the video for subsequent video compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Melanie Sclar, Amit Puntambekar, Michael Hamilton Coward, Wurzel David Parsons-Keir
  • Publication number: 20180007269
    Abstract: A neural network learning algorithm obtains a fingerprint of a video sequence. Using the fingerprint, selection of an appropriate video stabilization algorithm, and its parameter settings, is performed. The video thus stabilized is made more appealing for viewing and easier for subsequent video compression. The neural network may be trained during a training phase to select a correct fingerprint of each video sequence based on the effectiveness of resulting video stabilization and/or compression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Melanie Sclar, Amit Puntambekar, Michael Hamilton Coward, Wurzel David Parsons-Keir
  • Publication number: 20180007381
    Abstract: Video foreground and background detection is performed on a received video sequence on a macroblock by macroblock basis using motion vector encoding information associated with each macroblock. Some of the macroblocks in each frame, for example, edge or corner macroblocks, may be exempt from the foreground and background detection. The detection information, along with the video data, is passed to an image stabilization algorithm that prepares the video for subsequent video compression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Melanie Sclar, Amit Puntambekar, Michael Hamilton Coward, Wurzel David Parsons-Keir