Patents by Inventor Ning Xu

Ning Xu 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: 20230237709
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure identify a first image depicting a first object; identify a plurality of candidate images depicting a second object; select a second image from the plurality of candidate images depicting the second object based on the second image and a sequence of previous images including the first image using a crop selection network trained to select a next compatible image based on the sequence of previous images; and generate a composite image depicting the first object and the second object based on the first image and the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventor: Ning Xu
  • Patent number: 11704893
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a storage medium storing a program and method for receiving a video comprising a plurality of video segments; selecting a target action sequence that includes a sequence of action phases; receiving features of each of the video segments; computing, based on the received features, for each of the plurality of video segments, a plurality of action phase confidence scores indicating a likelihood that a given video segment includes a given action phase of the sequence of action phases; identifying a set of consecutive video segments of the plurality of video segments that corresponds to the target action sequence, wherein video segments in the set of consecutive video segments are arranged according to the sequence of action phases; and generating a display of the video that includes the set of consecutive video segments and skips other video segments in the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Zhou Ren, Yuncheng Li, Ning Xu, Enxu Yan, Tan Yu
  • Patent number: 11694101
    Abstract: A system according to which a network of physical sensors are configured to detect and track the performance of aircraft engines. The physical sensors are placed in specific locations to detect an exhaust gas temperature, vibration, speed, oil pressure, and fuel flow for each aircraft engine. The performance of each aircraft engine is then viewed in combination with oil consumption associated with that aircraft engine and the routine maintenance program associated with that aircraft engine to route the aircraft and move the aircraft, in accordance with the routing, to a specific location. The sensors efficiently track the performance and physical condition of the engines. Moreover, a listing of identified “at-risk” engines is displayed on a screen of a GUI in a manner that allows for easy navigation and display. Data point(s) that triggered the identification of each “at-risk” engine are easily accessible and viewable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
    Inventors: Ning Xu, Jose Antonio Ramirez-Hernandez, Steven James Oakley, Mei Zhang, Ou Bai, Supreet Reddy Mandala
  • Publication number: 20230206793
    Abstract: A circuit board, a display module, and a display device are provided. The circuit board includes: a base substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other; bonding pads on the first surface; test pads electrically connected to the bonding pads and disposed on the second surface; a test auxiliary structure on the second surface; and a metal layer on the second surface. The test auxiliary structure overlaps with the test pads along a first direction which is a direction perpendicular to the first surface and the second surface of the base substrate; and the metal layer includes a metal structure for transmitting a first signal and the test auxiliary structure is insulated from the metal structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Ning XU, Xiong YANG, Zhihua YU
  • Publication number: 20230206462
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that utilize a progressive refinement network to refine alpha mattes generated utilizing a mask-guided matting neural network. In particular, the disclosed systems can use the matting neural network to process a digital image and a coarse guidance mask to generate alpha mattes at discrete neural network layers. In turn, the disclosed systems can use the progressive refinement network to combine alpha mattes and refine areas of uncertainty. For example, the progressive refinement network can combine a core alpha matte corresponding to more certain core regions of a first alpha matte and a boundary alpha matte corresponding to uncertain boundary regions of a second, higher resolution alpha matte. Based on the combination of the core alpha matte and the boundary alpha matte, the disclosed systems can generate a final alpha matte for use in image matting processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Qihang Yu, Jianming Zhang, He Zhang, Yilin Wang, Zhe Lin, Ning Xu
  • Patent number: 11670023
    Abstract: This disclosure involves executing artificial intelligence models that infer image editing operations from natural language requests spoken by a user. Further, this disclosure performs the inferred image editing operations using inferred parameters for the image editing operations. Systems and methods may be provided that infer one or more image editing operations from a natural language request associated with a source image, locate areas of the source that are relevant to the one or more image editing operations to generate image masks, and performing the one or more image editing operations to generate a modified source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Ning Xu, Trung Bui, Jing Shi, Franck Dernoncourt
  • Publication number: 20230169326
    Abstract: A method for training a neural network system for generating paired low resolution (LR) and high resolution (HR) images, the neural network system, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium thereof are provided. The method includes that a first generator in the neural network system generates a LR image based on a random vector; a second generator in the neural network system generates a HR image based on the random vector, where the HR image is paired with the LR image; obtaining a plurality of losses based on the LR image and the HR image; and updating the first generator based on the plurality of losses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: KWAI INC.
    Inventors: Ahmed Cheikh SIDIYA, Xuan XU, Ning XU
  • Publication number: 20230169626
    Abstract: A neural network system for restoring images, a method and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium thereof are provided. The neural network system includes an encoder and a generative adversarial network (GAN) prior network. The encoder includes a plurality of encoder blocks, where each encoder block includes at least one transformer block and one convolution layer, where the encoder receives an input image and generates a plurality of encoder features and a plurality of latent vectors. Additionally, the GAN prior network includes a plurality of pre-trained generative prior layers, where the GAN prior network receives the plurality of encoder features and the plurality of latent vectors from the encoder and generates an output image with super-resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: KWAI INC.
    Inventors: Ahmed Cheikh SIDIYA, Xuan XU, Ning XU
  • Publication number: 20230127652
    Abstract: Systems and methods for natural language processing are described. One or more embodiments of the present disclosure generate a word representation vector for each word of a text comprising an event trigger word and an argument candidate word; generate a dependency tree based on the text and the word representation vector; determine that at least one word of the text is independent of a relationship between the event trigger word and the argument candidate word; remove the at least one word from the dependency tree based on the determination to obtain a pruned dependency tree; generate a modified representation vector for each word of the pruned dependency tree using a graph convolutional network (GCN); and identify the relationship between the event trigger word and the argument candidate word based on the modified representation vector for each word of the pruned dependency tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Franck Dernoncourt, Ning Xu
  • Publication number: 20230126177
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatically processing images based on a user request. In some examples, a request is divided into a retouching command (e.g., a global edit) and an inpainting command (e.g., a local edit). A retouching mask and an inpainting mask are generated to indicate areas where the edits will be applied. A photo-request attention and a multi-modal modulation process are applied to features representing the image, and a modified image that incorporates the user's request is generated using the modified features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Ning Xu, Zhe Lin, Franck Dernoncourt
  • Patent number: 11636147
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tag-based font recognition system that utilizes a multi-learning framework to develop and improve tag-based font recognition using deep learning neural networks. In particular, the tag-based font recognition system jointly trains a font tag recognition neural network with an implicit font classification attention model to generate font tag probability vectors that are enhanced by implicit font classification information. Indeed, the font recognition system weights the hidden layers of the font tag recognition neural network with implicit font information to improve the accuracy and predictability of the font tag recognition neural network, which results in improved retrieval of fonts in response to a font tag query. Accordingly, using the enhanced tag probability vectors, the tag-based font recognition system can accurately identify and recommend one or more fonts in response to a font tag query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhaowen Wang, Tianlang Chen, Ning Xu, Hailin Jin
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11636570
    Abstract: This disclosure describes one or more implementations of a digital image semantic layout manipulation system that generates refined digital images resembling the style of one or more input images while following the structure of an edited semantic layout. For example, in various implementations, the digital image semantic layout manipulation system builds and utilizes a sparse attention warped image neural network to generate high-resolution warped images and a digital image layout neural network to enhance and refine the high-resolution warped digital image into a realistic and accurate refined digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Haitian Zheng, Zhe Lin, Jingwan Lu, Scott Cohen, Jianming Zhang, Ning Xu
  • Publication number: 20230120887
    Abstract: Sentiment classification can be implemented by an entity-level multimodal sentiment classification neural network. The neural network can include left, right, and target entity subnetworks. The neural network can further include an image network that generates representation data that is combined and weighted with data output by the left, right, and target entity subnetworks to output a sentiment classification for an entity included in a network post.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Jianfei Yu, Luis Carlos Dos Santos Marujo, Venkata Satya Pradeep Karuturi, Leonardo Ribas Machado das Neves, Ning Xu, William Brendel
  • Publication number: 20230118401
    Abstract: Certain aspects and features of this disclosure relate to graph-based video instance segmentation. In one example, a reference instance of an object in a reference frame and features in a target frame are identified and used to produce a graph of nodes and edges. Each node represents a feature in the target frame or the reference instance of the object in the reference frame. Each edge of the graph represents a spatiotemporal relationship between the feature in the target frame and the reference instance of the object. Embeddings of the nodes and edges of the graph are iteratively updated based on the spatiotemporal relationship between a feature in the target frame and the reference instance of the object in the reference frame, resulting in a fused node embedding that can be used for detecting the target instance of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventor: Ning Xu
  • Publication number: 20230103305
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, non-transitory computer readable storage media, and systems that utilize weakly supervised graph matching to align an ungrounded label graph and a visual graph corresponding to a digital image. Specifically, the disclosed system utilizes a label embedding model to generate label graph embeddings from the ungrounded label graph and a visual embedding network to generate visual graph embeddings from the visual graph. Additionally, the disclosed system determines similarity metrics indicating the similarity of pairs of label graph embeddings and visual graph embeddings. The disclosed system then generates a semantic scene graph by utilizing a graph matching algorithm to align the ungrounded label graph and the visual graph based on the similarity metrics. In some embodiments, the disclosed system utilizes contrastive learning to modify the embedding models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Ning Xu, Jing Shi
  • Publication number: 20230109090
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for image denoising. The method may include obtaining a raw image captured by a camera. The method may also include obtaining a color modeled image based on the raw image. The method may further include obtaining a subsampled raw image based on the raw image. The method may also include obtaining a denoised image based on a neural network processing the color modeled image and the subsampled raw image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: KWAI INC.
    Inventors: Paras MAHARJAN, Ning XU, Xuan XU, Yuyan SONG
  • Publication number: 20230099539
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for sub-band image reconstruction. The method may include obtaining an image captured by a camera. The method may also obtain a transform image based on the image captured by the camera. The transform image may be in a transform domain. The method may further obtain decomposed image components of the transform image. The decomposed image components may include a low frequency component and at least one high frequency component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: KWAI INC.
    Inventors: Paras MAHARJAN, Ning XU, Xuan XU, Yuyan SONG
  • Patent number: 11615308
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for generating a response to a question received from a user during display or playback of a video segment by utilizing a query-response-neural network. The disclosed systems can extract a query vector from a question corresponding to the video segment using the query-response-neural network. The disclosed systems further generate context vectors representing both visual cues and transcript cues corresponding to the video segment using context encoders or other layers from the query-response-neural network. By utilizing additional layers from the query-response-neural network, the disclosed systems generate (i) a query-context vector based on the query vector and the context vectors, and (ii) candidate-response vectors representing candidate responses to the question from a domain-knowledge base or other source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Wentian Zhao, Seokhwan Kim, Ning Xu, Hailin Jin
  • Publication number: 20230091110
    Abstract: A neural network system can select content based on user and item content embeddings in an approach that can be updated in real time on the user device without server support. Requests for content sent to the server can include an anonymous user embedding that includes data describing the user's inputs. The content that is nearest to the user embedding in a joint embedding space can be returned as suggested content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Lawrence Jason Muhlstein, Leonardo Ribas Machado das Neves, Yanen Li, Ning Xu