Patents by Inventor Sing Yun Chu

Sing Yun Chu 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).

  • Patent number: 10021524
    Abstract: An image associated with a location and depicting the current weather conditions at the location is served to the user along with the current weather data of the location. If an image for the location that aptly depicts the weather conditions as indicated by the weather data cannot be identified, the geographical area associated with the location is expanded to search for appropriate images from an expanded image pool. The expansion can continue in one or more steps until a threshold is reached beyond which the geographical area my no longer be expanded. If no images are retrieved upon reaching the threshold, an image reflecting the weather condition is selected from a fallback image set for presentation with the weather data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventors: Sing Yun Chu, Marco Wirasinghe
  • Publication number: 20160309299
    Abstract: An image associated with a location and depicting the current weather conditions at the location is served to the user along with the current weather data of the location. If an image for the location that aptly depicts the weather conditions as indicated by the weather data cannot be identified, the geographical area associated with the location is expanded to search for appropriate images from an expanded image pool. The expansion can continue in one or more steps until a threshold is reached beyond which the geographical area my no longer be expanded. If no images are retrieved upon reaching the threshold, an image reflecting the weather condition is selected from a fallback image set for presentation with the weather data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Sing Yun Chu, Marco Wirasinghe
  • Patent number: 9386432
    Abstract: An image associated with a location and depicting the current weather conditions at the location is served to the user along with the current weather data of the location. If an image for the location that aptly depicts the weather conditions as indicated by the weather data cannot be identified, the geographical area associated with the location is expanded to search for appropriate images from an expanded image pool. The expansion can continue in one or more steps until a threshold is reached beyond which the geographical area my no longer be expanded. If no images are retrieved upon reaching the threshold, an image reflecting the weather condition is selected from a fallback image set for presentation with the weather data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Sing Yun Chu, Marco Wirasinghe
  • Publication number: 20150050921
    Abstract: An image associated with a location and depicting the current weather conditions at the location is served to the user along with the current weather data of the location. If an image for the location that aptly depicts the weather conditions as indicated by the weather data cannot be identified, the geographical area associated with the location is expanded to search for appropriate images from an expanded image pool. The expansion can continue in one or more steps until a threshold is reached beyond which the geographical area my no longer be expanded. If no images are retrieved upon reaching the threshold, an image reflecting the weather condition is selected from a fallback image set for presentation with the weather data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Sing Yun Chu, Marco Wirasinghe
  • Publication number: 20020180811
    Abstract: Methods, system, and articles of manufacture consistent with certain feature related to the present invention allow a computing device including an interactive display device to distinguish between pointer events. The computing device may determine a position displacement associated with a user-controlled pointer interaction with the display device and compare the position displacement with an error threshold value to determine a type of operation to perform on the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventor: Sing Yun Chu
  • Patent number: 6262708
    Abstract: Systems and methods for rendering a complex character suitable for display on a monitor are provided. A raw character bitmap representing the complex character is filtered to form a filtered bitmap so as to reduce the effects of monitor flicker and enhance image contrast. The filtered bitmap is then scaled down to a target bitmap using a bilinear scaling operation followed by recursive cubic scaling operations. The target bitmap is suitably sized for storage in a memory device coupled to the monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Sing Yun Chu