Patents by Inventor Vikas Raykar

Vikas Raykar 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: 11379898
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for pressure-based apparel image searching are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes converting images in a product catalog of an electronic commerce website to a predetermined representation; storing the converted images in an index; determining a first object of interest within an image derived from a social media post and displayed on a screen, by detecting physical contact imparted by a user at a position on the screen corresponding to where the first object of interest is located; quantifying the amount of pressure applied by the user via the physical contact; determining additional objects of interest within the image based on the amount of pressure applied by the user; retrieving, from the index, images of products corresponding to the first object of interest and images of products corresponding to the additional objects of interest; and displaying the retrieved images on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vikas Raykar, Amrita Saha, Raghavendra Singh
  • Patent number: 11157562
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for recommending an apparel product is provided. The method for recommending an apparel product may include one or more processors identifying a user selection of an apparel product, wherein the apparel product includes information associated with retail websites. The method further includes one or more processors categorizing the apparel product into one or more groupings based upon user preferences, wherein the grouping is based on available versions of the apparel product. The method further includes one or more processors determining current apparel preference information corresponding to the user based on user preferences, fitness application data, health monitoring application data, and user-provided measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Priyanka Agrawal, Ayushi Dalmia, Pankaj Satyanarayan Dayama, Vikas Raykar, Amrita Saha, Srikanth Govindaraj Tamilselvam
  • Patent number: 10614100
    Abstract: A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: receiving a topic under consideration (TUC) and a set of claims referring to the TUC; identifying semantic similarity relations between claims of the set of claims; clustering the claims into a plurality of claim clusters based on the identified semantic similarity relations, wherein said claim clusters represent semantically different claims of the set of claims; and generating a list of non-redundant claims comprising said semantically different claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mitesh Khapra, Vikas Raykar, Amrita Saha, Noam Slonim, Ashish Verma
  • Publication number: 20200090245
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for pressure-based apparel image searching are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes converting images in a product catalog of an electronic commerce website to a predetermined representation; storing the converted images in an index; determining a first object of interest within an image derived from a social media post and displayed on a screen, by detecting physical contact imparted by a user at a position on the screen corresponding to where the first object of interest is located; quantifying the amount of pressure applied by the user via the physical contact; determining additional objects of interest within the image based on the amount of pressure applied by the user; retrieving, from the index, images of products corresponding to the first object of interest and images of products corresponding to the additional objects of interest; and displaying the retrieved images on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Vikas Raykar, Amrita Saha, Raghavendra Singh
  • Patent number: 10586263
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for pressure-based apparel image searching are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes determining an object of interest within an image displayed on a screen by detecting physical contact imparted by a user at a particular position on the screen corresponding to where the first object is located; quantifying the amount of pressure applied by the user via the physical contact; determining additional objects of interest based on the amount of pressure applied by the user by identifying objects that are located within a specified distance from the first object, and wherein the specified distance corresponds to the amount of pressure applied by the user; retrieving, from at least one electronic commerce website, images of products corresponding to the first object of interest and images of products corresponding to each of the additional objects of interest; and displaying the retrieved images on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vikas Raykar, Amrita Saha, Raghavendra Singh
  • Publication number: 20190197058
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for recommending an apparel product is provided. The method for recommending an apparel product may include one or more processors identifying a user selection of an apparel product, wherein the apparel product includes information associated with retail websites. The method further includes one or more processors categorizing the apparel product into one or more groupings based upon user preferences, wherein the grouping is based on available versions of the apparel product. The method further includes one or more processors determining current apparel preference information corresponding to the user based on user preferences, fitness application data, health monitoring application data, and user-provided measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Priyanka Agrawal, Ayushi Dalmia, Pankaj Satyanarayan Dayama, Vikas Raykar, Amrita Saha, Srikanth Govindaraj Tamilselvam
  • Publication number: 20180150891
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for pressure-based apparel image searching are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes determining an object of interest within an image displayed on a screen by detecting physical contact imparted by a user at a particular position on the screen corresponding to where the first object is located; quantifying the amount of pressure applied by the user via the physical contact; determining additional objects of interest based on the amount of pressure applied by the user by identifying objects that are located within a specified distance from the first object, and wherein the specified distance corresponds to the amount of pressure applied by the user; retrieving, from at least one electronic commerce website, images of products corresponding to the first object of interest and images of products corresponding to each of the additional objects of interest; and displaying the retrieved images on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Vikas Raykar, Amrita Saha, Raghavendra Singh
  • Patent number: 9753916
    Abstract: A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: identifying relations between pairs of claims of a set of claims; aggregating the claims of the set of claims into a plurality of clusters based on the identified relations; generating a plurality of arguments from the plurality of clusters, wherein each of the arguments is generated from a cluster of the plurality of clusters, and wherein each of the arguments comprises at least one claim of the set of claims, scoring each possible set of a predefined number of arguments of the plurality of arguments, based on a quality of each argument of the predefined number of arguments and on diversity between the predefined number of arguments; and generating a speech, wherein the speech comprises a top scoring possible set of the possible set of the predefined number of arguments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ehud Aharoni, Indrajit Bhattacharya, Yonatan Bilu, Dan Gutfreund, Daniel Hershcovich, Vikas Raykar, Ruty Rinott, Godbole Shantanu, Noam Slonim
  • Publication number: 20150370887
    Abstract: A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: receiving a topic under consideration (TUC) and a set of claims referring to the TUC; identifying semantic similarity relations between claims of the set of claims; clustering the claims into a plurality of claim clusters based on the identified semantic similarity relations, wherein said claim clusters represent semantically different claims of the set of claims; and generating a list of non-redundant claims comprising said semantically different claims.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Mitesh Khapra, Vikas Raykar, Amrita Saha, Noam Slonim, Ashish Verma
  • Publication number: 20150371651
    Abstract: A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: identifying relations between pairs of claims of a set of claims; aggregating the claims of the set of claims into a plurality of clusters based on the identified relations; generating a plurality of arguments from the plurality of clusters, wherein each of the arguments is generated from a cluster of the plurality of clusters, and wherein each of the arguments comprises at least one claim of the set of claims, scoring each possible set of a predefined number of arguments of the plurality of arguments, based on a quality of each argument of the predefined number of arguments and on diversity between the predefined number of arguments; and generating a speech, wherein the speech comprises a top scoring possible set of the possible set of the predefined number of arguments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Ehud Aharoni, Indrajit Bhattacharya, Yonatan Bilu, Dan Gutfreund Klein, Daniel Hershcovich, Vikas Raykar, Ruty Rinott, Godbole Shantanu, Noam Slonim
  • Publication number: 20050065740
    Abstract: A method, machine readable medium, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the method comprises generating an acoustic signal from an actuator of a first computing device, receiving the acoustic signal with a sensor of a second computing device, receiving the acoustic signal with a sensor of a third computing device, generating an estimate of a difference between the amount of time required for the acoustic signal to travel from the actuator of the first computing device to the sensor of the second computing device and the amount of time required for the acoustic signal to travel from the actuator of the first computing device to the sensor of the third computing device, wherein the sensors and actuator are unsynchronized, and computing, based on the estimated difference in time, a physical location of at least one of the said sensors and actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Vikas Raykar, Rainer Lienhart, Igor Kozintsev