Patents by Inventor QINGEN ZHAO

QINGEN ZHAO 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: 20230368777
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for processing audio, an electronic device and a storage medium. A specific implementation solution includes: obtaining a first target feature vector from original audio, where the first target feature vector is used for representing a phoneme feature of the original audio; obtaining a second target feature vector and a third target feature vector from audio to be transferred, where the second target feature vector is used for representing a style prosody feature of the audio to be transferred, and the third target feature vector is used for representing a speaker feature of the audio to be transferred; performing spectrogram decoding on the first target feature vector, the second target feature vector and the third target feature vector to obtain a target spectrogram feature; and converting the target spectrogram feature into target audio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qingen ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20230127314
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a payment method, a client, an electronic device, a storage medium, and a server. The method includes: receiving a payment instruction of a user; generating, according to audio information in a voice input of the user, a voice feature vector of the audio information; performing matching between the voice feature vector and a user feature vector; and when the matching succeeds, sending personal information associated with the user feature vector to a server, so that the server performs a payment operation for a resource account associated with the personal information. The method can bring convenience to shopping by a consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: GANG LIU, QINGEN ZHAO, GUANGXING LIU
  • Patent number: 11551219
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a payment method, a client, an electronic device, a storage medium, and a server. The method includes: receiving a payment instruction of a user; generating, according to audio information in a voice input of the user, a voice feature vector of the audio information; performing matching between the voice feature vector and a user feature vector; and when the matching succeeds, sending personal information associated with the user feature vector to a server, so that the server performs a payment operation for a resource account associated with the personal information. The method can bring convenience to shopping by a consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Gang Liu, Qingen Zhao, Guangxing Liu
  • Publication number: 20220277732
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for training a speech recognition model, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventor: Qingen ZHAO
  • Patent number: 11011177
    Abstract: A voice identification method comprises: obtaining audio data, and extracting an audio feature of the audio data; determining whether a voice identification feature having a similarity with the audio feature above a preset matching threshold exists in an associated feature library; and in response to determining that the voice identification feature exists in the associated feature library, updating, by using the audio feature, the voice identification feature obtained through matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Gang Liu, Qingen Zhao, Guangxing Liu
  • Patent number: 10777206
    Abstract: Data update methods, systems, and devices are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring at least a first piece of audio data of a user in a first conversation scenario and at least a second piece of audio data of the user in a second conversation scenario, performing voiceprint recognition on the first and second pieces of audio data based on voiceprint information of the user, acquiring audio feature information of the first and second pieces of audio data, and updating voiceprint information of the user according to the audio feature information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Gang Liu, Qingen Zhao, Guangxing Liu
  • Publication number: 20180366128
    Abstract: Data update methods, systems, and devices are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring at least a first piece of audio data of a user in a first conversation scenario and at least a second piece of audio data of the user in a second conversation scenario, performing voiceprint recognition on the first and second pieces of audio data based on voiceprint information of the user, acquiring audio feature information of the first and second pieces of audio data, and updating voiceprint information of the user according to the audio feature information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: GANG LIU, QINGEN ZHAO, GUANGXING LIU
  • Publication number: 20180366125
    Abstract: A voice identification method comprises: obtaining audio data, and extracting an audio feature of the audio data; determining whether a voice identification feature having a similarity with the audio feature above a preset matching threshold exists in an associated feature library; and in response to determining that the voice identification feature exists in the associated feature library, updating, by using the audio feature, the voice identification feature obtained through matching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: GANG LIU, QINGEN ZHAO, GUANGXING LIU
  • Publication number: 20180365695
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a payment method, a client, an electronic device, a storage medium, and a server. The method includes: receiving a payment instruction of a user; generating, according to audio information in a voice input of the user, a voice feature vector of the audio information; performing matching between the voice feature vector and a user feature vector; and when the matching succeeds, sending personal information associated with the user feature vector to a server, so that the server performs a payment operation for a resource account associated with the personal information. The method can bring convenience to shopping by a consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: GANG LIU, QINGEN ZHAO, GUANGXING LIU
  • Publication number: 20150126059
    Abstract: A waterproof light string assembly that comprises two ends that join to complete a circuit. The first end comprises an electrical male conducting element encased within a protective nodule. A second end comprises a protruding sheath having a female conducting element disposed therein and a configuration that accepts a portion of the nodule when said male element enters the sheath. The assembly is designed such that electrical elements are protected from ambient matters such as water and provide improved connectivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: Shandong Neon King Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: QINGEN ZHAO