Patents by Inventor William Yau

William Yau 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: 20240037138
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods to determine hair patterns presented in content items. The determined hair patterns may be associated with the content items to facilitate indexing, filtering, etc. of the content items based on the determined hair patterns. In exemplary implementations, a corpus of content items may be associated with an embedding vector that includes a binary representation of the content item. The embedding vectors associated with each content item can be provided as inputs to a trained machine learning model, which can process the embedding vectors to determine one or more hair patterns presented in each content item while eliminating the need for performing image pre-processing prior to determination of the hair pattern(s) presented in the content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Pinterest, Inc.
    Inventors: Nadia Fawaz, Anh Tuong Ta, Bhawna Juneja, Rohan Mahadev, Valerie Moy, Dmitry Olegovich Kislyuk, David Ding-Jia Xue, Christopher Lee Schaefbauer, Graham Roth, William Yau, Jordan DiSanto, Ding Zhang, David Voiss
  • Patent number: 11816144
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods to determine hair patterns presented in content items. The determined hair patterns may be associated with the content items to facilitate indexing, filtering, etc. of the content items based on the determined hair patterns. In exemplary implementations, a corpus of content items may be associated with an embedding vector that includes a binary representation of the content item. The embedding vectors associated with each content item can be provided as inputs to a trained machine learning model, which can process the embedding vectors to determine one or more hair patterns presented in each content item while eliminating the need for performing image pre-processing prior to determination of the hair pattern(s) presented in the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.
    Inventors: Nadia Fawaz, Anh Tuong Ta, Bhawna Juneja, Rohan Mahadev, Valerie Moy, Dmitry Olegovich Kislyuk, David Ding-Jia Xue, Christopher Lee Schaefbauer, Graham Roth, William Yau, Jordan DiSanto, Ding Zhang, David Voiss
  • Publication number: 20230315780
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods to determine hair patterns presented in content items. The determined hair patterns may be associated with the content items to facilitate indexing, filtering, etc. of the content items based on the determined hair patterns. In exemplary implementations, a corpus of content items may be associated with an embedding vector that includes a binary representation of the content item. The embedding vectors associated with each content item can be provided as inputs to a trained machine learning model, which can process the embedding vectors to determine one or more hair patterns presented in each content item while eliminating the need for performing image pre-processing prior to determination of the hair pattern(s) presented in the content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Nadia Fawaz, Anh Tuong Ta, Bhawna Juneja, Rohan Mahadev, Valerie Moy, Dmitry Olegovich Kislyuk, David Ding-Jia Xue, Christopher Lee Schaefbauer, Graham Roth, William Yau, Jordan DiSanto, Ding Zhang, David Voiss
  • Publication number: 20030148740
    Abstract: An electronic device holder, having a base having an insert aperture therein, an insert positioned in the insert aperture, and a one-piece flexible member connected to the base for supporting an electronic device disposed in the insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventors: William Yau, Wan Ho Lam, Kenneth Kwong Man Wai, Kenny Wai
  • Patent number: 6603856
    Abstract: The present invention provides a carrier for a handportable radiotelephone comprising handstrap means connectable to first and second ends of a radiotelephone and hanging means by which the carrier is releasably hangable, in a handsfree manner, from the user's accoutrements. Thereby, the present invention provides a suitable radiotelephone with dual mode support options. A first hand-carry mode, where the handstrap means provides auxiliary support to the telephone when the user holds the telephone in his hand in the normal way during a call. And, a second handsfree mode, where the hanging means is attached to the user's accoutrements when the phone is in an on-hook condition, for example. The user's accoutrements may include the user's belt, belt loop, bag or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Snyder, Ayako Yamazaki, William Yau
  • Patent number: D501470
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: William Yau, Todd Woods
  • Patent number: D560185
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Di, William Yau, Antti Kujala
  • Patent number: D560215
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Di, William Yau, Antti Kujala
  • Patent number: D561145
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Di, William Yau, Antti Kujala
  • Patent number: D561181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Di, William Yau, Antti Kujala
  • Patent number: D562815
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Di, William Yau, Antti Kujala
  • Patent number: D569857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Di, William Yau, Antti Kujala
  • Patent number: D495307
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: William Yau, Todd Woods
  • Patent number: D588565
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Hang Liu, William Yau, Antti Kujala, Totti Helin
  • Patent number: D623637
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Hang Liu, William Yau, Antti Kujala, Totti Helin