Patents by Inventor Min-Kuan Chang

Min-Kuan Chang 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).

  • Visual characteristics-based news anchorperson segment detection method
    Patent number: 7720281
    Abstract: A method to detect anchorperson segment in news reporting by using visual characteristics to provide the basis to divide news into various categories includes steps of providing news image for skin color detection on the image with color space; applying morphology depending on whether the object in the image subject to skin color detection is moving to eliminate noise surrounding the image of the face to solve the region of the face of the anchorperson; and performing anchorperson detection once again by detecting the probable anchorperson segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: MAVs Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Ko-Yen Lu, Min-Kuan Chang, Chia-Hung Yeh, Hsuan-Huei Shih
  • Visual characteristics-based news anchorperson segment detection method
    Publication number: 20080050015
    Abstract: A method to detect anchorperson segment in news reporting by using visual characteristics to provide the basis to divide news into various categories includes steps of providing news image for skin color detection on the image with color space; applying morphology depending on whether the object in the image subject to skin color detection is moving to eliminate noise surrounding the image of the face to solve the region of the face of the anchorperson; and performing anchorperson detection once again by detecting the probable anchorperson segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Ko-Yen Lu, Min-Kuan Chang, Chia-Hung Yeh, Hsuan-Huei Shih