Patents by Inventor Timothee Cour

Timothee Cour 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).

  • Contextual weighting and efficient re-ranking for vocabulary tree based image retrieval
    Patent number: 8892542
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to search for a query image, by detecting local invariant features and local descriptors; retrieving best matching images by quantizing the local descriptors with a vocabulary tree; and reordering retrieved images with results from the vocabulary tree quantization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Wang, Ming Yang, Timothee Cour, Shenghuo Zhu, Kai Yu
  • CONTEXTUAL WEIGHTING AND EFFICIENT RE-RANKING FOR VOCABULARY TREE BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL
    Publication number: 20120221572
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to search for a query image, by detecting local invariant features and local descriptors; retrieving best matching images by quantizing the local descriptors with a vocabulary tree; and reordering retrieved images with results from the vocabulary tree quantization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Wang, Ming Yang, Timothee Cour, Shenghuo Zhu, Kai Yu