Patents by Inventor Mingchen Gao

Mingchen Gao 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: 20240121511
    Abstract: An example method for camera processing includes detecting a first region of interest for image content captured with a primary camera, detecting a second region of interest for image content captured with a secondary camera, comparing the first region of interest and the second region of interest, determining a first lens position for a secondary camera lens of the secondary camera based on an autofocus process for the secondary camera, determining a second lens position for the secondary camera lens of the secondary camera based on a determined lens position for a primary camera lens of the primary camera, determining a lens position for the secondary camera lens based on the first lens position or the second lens position based at least in part on the comparison, and causing the secondary camera to capture images with the secondary camera lens at the determined lens position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jintao Xu, Yaoyao Hou, Mingchen Gao, Xiaocheng Wang, Zhigang Tian
  • Publication number: 20230292020
    Abstract: A processor may be configured to receive an image having lens distortion from a camera module and may determine one or more configuration settings from the image based on the lens distortion. In some examples, the processor may perform lens distortion correction on the image prior to determining the one or more configuration settings. In other examples, the processor may determine configuration settings based on distorted grid cells of the image having lens distortion, wherein the distorted grid cells are defined by the lens distortion. In other examples, the processor may determine initial configuration statistics values from the image having the lens distortion and then adjust the initial configuration statistics values based on the lens distortion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yingying Qin, Mingchen Gao, Xiaocheng Wang
  • Patent number: 11443245
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for federal learning are disclosed. One exemplary method may include receiving, by a client device from a server device, model parameters of a global machine learning model being collaboratively trained by the client device and the server device; constructing, by the client device, a local machine learning model based on the model parameters of the global machine learning model, wherein the local machine learning model comprises two branches corresponding to two loss functions; training, by the client device, the local machine learning model based on local training data, wherein the training comprises updating the model parameters to minimize a first loss function of the two loss functions and maximize a second loss function of the two loss functions; and sending, by the client device, the updated model parameters back to the server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Alipay Labs (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Du, Yan Shen, Mingchen Gao, Benyu Zhang
  • Patent number: 9152652
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying images responsive to a search phrase are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a set of responsive images for a search phrase that includes two or more terms. Interaction rankings are determined for images in the set of responsive images. Two or more sub-queries are created based on the search phrase. Sub-query model rankings are determined for images in the set of responsive images. A search phrase score is determined for the image relevance model. Based on the search phrase scores for the sub-queries, one of the sub-query models is selected as a model for the search phrase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kunlong Gu, Charles J. Rosenberg, Mingchen Gao, Thomas J. Duerig
  • Publication number: 20150169631
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying images responsive to a search phrase are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a set of responsive images for a search phrase that includes two or more terms. Interaction rankings are determined for images in the set of responsive images. Two or more sub-queries are created based on the search phrase. Sub-query model rankings are determined for images in the set of responsive images. A search phrase score is determined for the image relevance model. Based on the search phrase scores for the sub-queries, one of the sub-query models is selected as a model for the search phrase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Kunlong Gu, Charles J. Rosenberg, Mingchen Gao, Thomas J. Duerig