Patents by Inventor Ruoran Liu

Ruoran Liu 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).

  • GENERATING AUDIO ANNOTATIONS FOR SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL
    Publication number: 20120143907
    Abstract: Embodiments of a computer system to determine one or more annotation items associated with an audio file are described. During operation, the computer system provides an interactive environment in which multiple users listen to the audio file within a time interval. Next, the computer system receives one or more annotation items associated with the audio file from the multiple users. Then, the computer system displays the received one or more annotation items from the multiple users in the interactive environment, thereby enabling the multiple users to provide feedback to a given user in the multiple users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Douglas Turnbull, Luke Barrington, Ruoran Liu, Gert Lanckriet
  • Generating audio annotations for search and retrieval
    Patent number: 8112418
    Abstract: Embodiments of a computer system to determine one or more annotation items associated with an audio file are described. During operation, the computer system provides an interactive environment in which multiple users listen to the audio file within a time interval. Next, the computer system receives one or more annotation items associated with the audio file from the multiple users. Then, the computer system displays the received one or more annotation items from the multiple users in the interactive environment, thereby enabling the multiple users to provide feedback to a given user in the multiple users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Douglas Turnbull, Luke Barrington, Ruoran Liu, Gert Lanckriet
  • Method, apparatus, and system for object recognition, object segmentation and knowledge acquisition
    Patent number: 7785180
    Abstract: A method, comprising displaying an image to a first player, displaying a portion of the image to a second player wherein the portion of the image displayed to the second player is less than all of the image and wherein the portion of the image displayed to the second player is determined by an action of the first player, allowing the second player to submit a word, and determining whether the word submitted by the second player is related to the image. The present invention also includes apparatuses and systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Luis von Ahn, Ruoran Liu, Manuel Blum, Alexei A. Efros, Maria Manuela Veloso
  • GENERATING AUDIO ANNOTATIONS FOR SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL
    Publication number: 20080235283
    Abstract: Embodiments of a computer system to determine one or more annotation items associated with an audio file are described. During operation, the computer system provides an interactive environment in which multiple users listen to the audio file within a time interval. Next, the computer system receives one or more annotation items associated with the audio file from the multiple users. Then, the computer system displays the received one or more annotation items from the multiple users in the interactive environment, thereby enabling the multiple users to provide feedback to a given user in the multiple users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Douglas Turnball, Luke Barrington, Ruoran Liu, Gert Lanckriet