Patents by Inventor Qiang JU
Qiang JU 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).
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Patent number: 11205431Abstract: A method and apparatus for presenting a state of a voice interaction device are provided. The method includes: acquiring a current state of the voice interaction device; determining a current presentation mode corresponding to the current state, by searching a pre-stored correspondence relation between a state and a presentation mode according to the current state; and presenting the current state of the voice interaction device in the determined current presentation mode. In embodiments, a current state of a voice interaction device is presented to a user, and necessary usage recommendations and prompts are provided to a user, thereby improving user experience.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignees: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD., SHANGHAI XIAODU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shasha Wang, Gang Zhang, Yawen Diao, Tianyu Wang, Hongyu Chen, Yuning Yang, Zongliang Wen, Qiang Ju
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Patent number: 11200899Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a voice processing method, apparatus and device, where the method includes: acquiring, by a terminal device, first voice information; and acquiring, by the terminal device, response information corresponding to the first voice information, and performing an operation corresponding to the response information according to a type of the response information, where the type of the response information is at least one of a voice type, a text type, an image type, a video type, and a program operation type, which improves the flexibility of the voice processing.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignees: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Xiaodu Technology Co. Ltd.Inventors: Renquan Zhou, Xiaonan He, Qiang Ju, Gang Zhang, Zongliang Wen
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Publication number: 20210342348Abstract: A method for parsing a query, an electronic device and a readable storage medium, which relate to the field of natural language processing technologies, are disclosed. According to some embodiments, the method includes: acquiring the query input by a user; constructing a syntactic dependency tree of the query; matching the syntactic dependency tree of the query with syntactic dependency trees of preset templates, and determining a target template according to the matching result; and marking a slot operator of a slot in the query using the target template, and the marked slot operator represents a logical relationship applied to the slot in the query. With the technical solution, the logical relationship applied to the slot in the query may be acquired, and the accuracy of query parse may be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTDInventors: Xiaonan HE, Qiang JU, Jian XIE
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Patent number: 11081108Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an interaction method and apparatus. A specific embodiment of the method includes: generating, in response to determining that a request input by a user satisfies a guiding condition, guiding information, and feeding back the guiding information to the user, the guiding condition including one of the following: associating with a plurality of query intents, or associating with no query intent; and generating, based on the request and a feedback input by the user corresponding to the guiding information, an intent-clear request, and feeding back push information bound with the intent-clear request to the user. Realizing that in the process of interacting with the user, for conditions such as the request input by the user is associated with a plurality of query intents or incompleteness, an intent-clear request associated with an explicit query intent is determined through the interaction with the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignees: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Xiaodu Technology Co. Ltd.Inventors: Mengmeng Zhang, Zhongji Fan, Lei Shi, Li Wan, Qiang Ju, Chao Yin, Wei Shen, Jian Xie, Ran Xu, Jingya Wang
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Publication number: 20210191952Abstract: The present application discloses a human-machine dialog method, an apparatus, and a device. The specific implementation solution includes: acquiring a first query by a user, and perform semantic parsing on the first query to obtain a first key information set; acquiring a second key information set corresponding to at least one historical query; determining a plurality pieces of candidate semantics of the query according to the first key information set and the second key information set, and generating a response query corresponding to the first query according to the plurality pieces of candidate semantics. In the above process, the plurality pieces of candidate semantics of the user are determined according to the first key information set and the second key information set, the accuracy of user semantic understanding is improved, hence, a more reasonable response can be output to the user, and the user session experience is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Xiaonan HE, Chao YIN, Qiang JU, Jian XIE
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Patent number: 11017010Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure disclose an intelligent playing method and apparatus based on preference feedback. An embodiment of the method comprises: receiving voice feedback on currently played multimedia from a user; analyzing a user intention based on the voice feedback; calculating, in response to the user intention indicating updating a currently played multimedia list, a similarity between multimedia in a multimedia database and the current multimedia; and updating the currently played multimedia list based on the voice feedback and the similarity. The embodiment improves the quality and pertinence in playing multimedia.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Guang Lu, Shui Liu, Xiajun Luo, Shiquan Ye, Qiang Ju, Jian Xie
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Patent number: 10992595Abstract: The present disclosure provides a resource pushing method, a device and a storage medium for a smart device, the method includes: acquiring a first pushing resource according to a preset rule, where the first pushing resource is used by the smart device to interact with a user, pushing the first pushing resource to the user. In the solution, relevant resources are actively acquired according to behavior information of the user, triggering and hotspots, and are pushed to the user, thereby saving the cost in resource querying by the user, and increasing the exposure of platform resources.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Inventors: Mengmeng Zhang, Jingyu Ye, Xi Zhang, Hualong Zu, Xinya Zhang, Lingjin Xu, Xiaochen Jia, Sunhonglu Dong, Zhongji Fan, Li Wan, Bo Zhang, Liuhui Zhang, Wenming Wang, Jiaguang Lu, Shuai Wang, Gang Zhang, Qiang Ju, Xiaonan He, Wensong He, Yafei Miao
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Patent number: 10872108Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for updating a multimedia playlist. An embodiment of the method comprises: sending a current multimedia content playlist to a playing terminal; analyzing, in response to receiving a voice updating request from a user to update currently played multimedia content in the current multimedia content playlist, the voice updating request to obtain an updating instruction corresponding to the currently played multimedia content; searching in a preset multimedia content database based on the updating instruction to generate an optimized multimedia playlist; and sending the optimized multimedia playlist to the playing terminal. With the embodiment, a matching degree between the obtained optimized multimedia playlist and the user's updating instruction is higher, the search operation is simpler, and then the search consumes less hardware resources.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Guang Lu, Shiquan Ye, Xiajun Luo, Qiang Ju, Jian Xie
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Publication number: 20200243085Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a voice processing method, apparatus and device, where the method includes: acquiring, by a terminal device, first voice information; and acquiring, by the terminal device, response information corresponding to the first voice information, and performing an operation corresponding to the response information according to a type of the response information, where the type of the response information is at least one of a voice type, a text type, an image type, a video type, and a program operation type, which improves the flexibility of the voice processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Renquan ZHOU, Xiaonan HE, Qiang JU, Gang ZHANG, Zongliang WEN
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Publication number: 20200211551Abstract: A method and apparatus for presenting a state of a voice interaction device are provided. The method includes: acquiring a current state of the voice interaction device; determining a current presentation mode corresponding to the current state, by searching a pre-stored correspondence relation between a state and a presentation mode according to the current state; and presenting the current state of the voice interaction device in the determined current presentation mode. In embodiments, a current state of a voice interaction device is presented to a user, and necessary usage recommendations and prompts are provided to a user, thereby improving user experience.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Shasha Wang, Gang Zhang, Yawen Diao, Tianyu Wang, Hongyu Chen, Yuning Yang, Zongliang Wen, Qiang Ju
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Patent number: 10664755Abstract: A searching method and system based on multi-round inputs and a terminal are provided. The method comprises: acquiring search conditions input by a user in multiple searches; determining a multi-round property between at least two searches of the multiple searches; determining a search purpose of one of the search conditions, and determining that the search purpose of the one of the search conditions is a multi-round search purpose; generating search results based on the multi-round search purpose and search conditions input by the user; and ranking the generated search results, and determining and outputting an optimal search result. According to the searching method provided by the present application, a machine can understand a user's purpose under a continuous multi-round interactions by understanding the context, so that the use initiative of the user is improved.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Guang Lu, Qiang Ju, Xiajun Luo
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Patent number: 10643610Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a voice interaction based method and apparatus for generating a multimedia playlist. An embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring first voice request information for playing multimedia resources; identifying a key tag for indicating a characteristic attribute of the multimedia resources in the first voice request information; finding the multimedia resources having the key tag in a multimedia resource library; and generating a multimedia playlist based on the found multimedia resources. The embodiment realizes automatic generation of multimedia playlists and improves the efficiency of voice service.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Guang Lu, Shui Liu, Xiajun Luo, Shiquan Ye, Xiangjie Yin, Qiang Ju, Jian Xie
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Publication number: 20200013400Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an interaction method and apparatus. A specific embodiment of the method includes: generating, in response to determining that a request input by a user satisfies a guiding condition, guiding information, and feeding back the guiding information to the user, the guiding condition including one of the following: associating with a plurality of query intents, or associating with no query intent; and generating, based on the request and a feedback input by the user corresponding to the guiding information, an intent-clear request, and feeding back push information bound with the intent-clear request to the user. Realizing that in the process of interacting with the user, for conditions such as the request input by the user is associated with a plurality of query intents or incompleteness, an intent-clear request associated with an explicit query intent is determined through the interaction with the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Mengmeng Zhang, Zhongji Fan, Lei Shi, Li Wan, Qiang Ju, Chao Yin, Wei Shen, Jian Xie, Ran Xu, Jingya Wang
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Publication number: 20200007461Abstract: The present disclosure provides a resource pushing method, a device and a storage medium for a smart device, the method includes: acquiring a first pushing resource according to a preset rule, where the first pushing resource is used by the smart device to interact with a user, pushing the first pushing resource to the user. In the solution, relevant resources are actively acquired according to behavior information of the user, triggering and hotspots, and are pushed to the user, thereby saving the cost in resource querying by the user, and increasing the exposure of platform resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Mengmeng ZHANG, Jingyu YE, Xi ZHANG, Hualong ZU, Xinya ZHANG, Lingjin XU, Xiaochen JIA, Sunhonglu DONG, Zhongji FAN, Li WAN, Bo ZHANG, Liuhui ZHANG, Wenming WANG, Jiaguang LU, Shuai WANG, Gang ZHANG, Qiang JU, Xiaonan HE, Wensong HE, Yafei MIAO
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Publication number: 20190147864Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a voice interaction based method and apparatus for generating a multimedia playlist. An embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring first voice request information for playing multimedia resources; identifying a key tag for indicating a characteristic attribute of the multimedia resources in the first voice request information; finding the multimedia resources having the key tag in a multimedia resource library; and generating a multimedia playlist based on the found multimedia resources. The embodiment realizes automatic generation of multimedia playlists and improves the efficiency of voice service.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Guang LU, Shui LIU, Xiajun LUO, Shiquan YE, Xiangjie YIN, Qiang JU, Jian XIE
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Publication number: 20190147345Abstract: A searching method and system based on multi-round inputs and a terminal are provided. The method comprises: acquiring search conditions input by a user in multiple searches; determining a multi-round property between at least two searches of the multiple searches; determining a search purpose of one of the search conditions, and determining that the search purpose of the one of the search conditions is a multi-round search purpose; generating search results based on the multi-round search purpose and search conditions input by the user; and ranking the generated search results, and determining and outputting an optimal search result. According to the searching method provided by the present application, a machine can understand a user's purpose under a continuous multi-round interactions by understanding the context, so that the use initiative of the user is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Guang LU, Qiang JU, Xiajun LUO
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Publication number: 20190147053Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for updating a multimedia playlist. An embodiment of the method comprises: sending a current multimedia content playlist to a playing terminal; analyzing, in response to receiving a voice updating request from a user to update currently played multimedia content in the current multimedia content playlist, the voice updating request to obtain an updating instruction corresponding to the currently played multimedia content; searching in a preset multimedia content database based on the updating instruction to generate an optimized multimedia playlist; and sending the optimized multimedia playlist to the playing terminal. With the embodiment, a matching degree between the obtained optimized multimedia playlist and the user's updating instruction is higher, the search operation is simpler, and then the search consumes less hardware resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Guang LU, Shiquan YE, Xiajun LUO, Qiang JU, Jian XIE
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Publication number: 20190147051Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure disclose an intelligent playing method and apparatus based on preference feedback. An embodiment of the method comprises: receiving voice feedback on currently played multimedia from a user; analyzing a user intention based on the voice feedback; calculating, in response to the user intention indicating updating a currently played multimedia list, a similarity between multimedia in a multimedia database and the current multimedia; and updating the currently played multimedia list based on the voice feedback and the similarity. The embodiment improves the quality and pertinence in playing multimedia.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Guang LU, Shui LIU, Xiajun LUO, Shiquan YE, Qiang JU, Jian XIE