Patents by Inventor Xiaodong Zeng

Xiaodong Zeng 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: 10552681
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) client terminal identifies initial location information for a location of a user. A scene picture associated with the location of the user is captured. Image matching is performed between the captured scene picture and scene pictures in a scene picture set. The scene picture set is generated based on the initial location information. Each scene picture in the scene picture set is associated with detailed location information. In response to the captured scene picture matching a particular scene picture in the scene picture set, refined location information for the location of the user is determined based on the detailed location information of the particular scene picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Xiaodong Zeng
  • Publication number: 20200026839
    Abstract: Embodiments of the application provide information processing systems, methods and devices based on Internet of Things. An information processing system comprises a server device, a first device and a second device. The first device and second device are both an Internet of Things device. The first device is configured to: in response to detecting that a first acquisition instruction is triggered, acquire biometric feature information, and send the acquired biometric feature information to the server device. The server device is configured to identify a user corresponding to the biometric feature information. The second device is configured to: in response to detecting that a second acquisition instruction is triggered, acquire body movement information associated with the user, and send the acquired body movement information to the server device. The server device is further configured to perform an operation for the user according to the body movement information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yang YI, Lei CAO, Rong WANG, Feng LIN, Huanmi YIN, Xiaodong ZENG, Li CHEN
  • Publication number: 20190354758
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a virtual reality head-mounted apparatus are provided. One of the apparatus includes: an apparatus body being provided with a convex lens and a camera, the camera being located on a user side of the convex lens, and a lens of the camera facing an eye of the user to acquire eye pattern features of the user. The virtual reality head-mounted apparatus may acquire eye pattern features of the user without interrupting the displaying of virtual reality contents, and quickly and accurately perform identity verification on the user based on the eye pattern features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Jun WU, Huanmi YIN, Hong ZHANG, Xiaodong ZENG
  • Patent number: 10452825
    Abstract: A method for user identity authentication using virtual reality includes presenting one or more virtual elements on a virtual reality (VR) scenario of a VR application for initiating a service, identifying, using one or more sensors communicably coupled to the VR device, one or more interactive operations of a user of the VR device with the one or more virtual elements, determining whether the one or more interactive operations match one or more predetermined operations for selecting the one or more virtual elements to initiate the service and trigger biometric authentication for user identity authentication, invoking biometric authentication if the one or more interactive operations match one or more predetermined operations, presenting a virtual guidance in the VR scenario for guiding the user to perform the biometric authentication, and presenting a service interface to the user if the biometric authentication is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jun Wu, Xiaodong Zeng, Huanmi Yin, Feng Lin
  • Patent number: 10437973
    Abstract: Interaction characteristics of a user interacting with a virtual reality (VR) terminal are obtained through preset sensing hardware in response to a request for execution of a target task requiring user identity verification. The obtained interaction characteristics of the user are compared with preset interaction characteristics of an authorized user of the VR terminal to verify identity of the user. The target task is executed and the user is authenticated as an identity-verified user of the VR terminal based on a successful user identity verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jun Wu, Xiaodong Zeng, Huanmi Yin, Feng Lin
  • Publication number: 20190278997
    Abstract: A method for offline-service multi-user interaction based on augmented reality (AR) includes scanning, by an AR client terminal of a user, an offline service label at an offline service site. Information of the offline service label is transmitted to a server terminal. Based on the information of the offline service label, the server terminal establishes a service group including the user and a second user that scanned the offline service label. In response to transmitting the information of the offline service label, service data is received from the server terminal. The service data includes information related to the user and information related to the second user. Based on the service data, a service interactive interface is outputted. The service interactive interface displays the information related to the user and the information related to the second user at a position corresponding to the offline service label in an AR scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Huanmi Yin, Xiaodong Zeng, Feng Lin, Jun Wu
  • Publication number: 20190237097
    Abstract: An audio signal is obtained by a user terminal. The audio signal is divided into a plurality of short-time energy frames based on a frequency of a predetermined voice signal. Energy of each short-time energy frame is determined. Based on the energy of each short-time energy frame, whether the audio signal includes a voice signal is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Lei JIAO, Yanchu GUAN, Xiaodong Zeng, Feng LIN
  • Publication number: 20190215278
    Abstract: The application discloses a resource distributing method and device used for improving resource distributing efficiency. The method comprises: receiving a resource distributing request and determining one or more pre-selected receiving identifiers; determining a total distributing budget for distributing a resource; determining a distributing result according to the total distributing budget and one or more pre-selected receiving accounts corresponding to the one or more pre-selected receiving identifiers, wherein the distributing result is a resource value based on which the resource is to be distributed from the sending account to a receiving account in the one or more pre-selected receiving accounts; and distributing the resource from the sending account to the receiving account according to the distributing result. The application further discloses a red-envelope distributing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Jun WU, Huanmi YIN, Xiaodong ZENG, Feng LIN, Jiajia LI, Lei JIAO
  • Publication number: 20190205648
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) client terminal identifies initial location information for a location of a user. A scene picture associated with the location of the user is captured. Image matching is performed between the captured scene picture and scene pictures in a scene picture set. The scene picture set is generated based on the initial location information. Each scene picture in the scene picture set is associated with detailed location information. In response to the captured scene picture matching a particular scene picture in the scene picture set, refined location information for the location of the user is determined based on the detailed location information of the particular scene picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Xiaodong Zeng
  • Publication number: 20190197118
    Abstract: A statistics-based machine translation method is disclosed. The method generates probabilities of translation from a sentence to be translated to candidate translated texts based on features of the candidate translated texts that affect the probabilities of translation and a pre-generated translation probability prediction model. The features that affect probabilities of translation include at least degrees of semantic similarity between the sentence to be translated and the candidate translated texts. A preset number of candidate translated texts with highly ranked probabilities of translation are selected to serve as translated texts of the sentence to be translated. The method is able to go deep into a semantic level of a natural language when a machine translation model is constructed to avoid a semantic deviation of a translated text from an original text, thereby achieving the effect of improving the quality of translation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zeng, Weihua Luo, Feng Lin
  • Patent number: 10317342
    Abstract: Novel and advantageous systems and methods for performing nanometer-scale microscopy using graphene plasmons (GPs) are provided. Sub-diffraction microscopy can be achieved, taking advantage of the extremely small plasmon wavelength and low dissipation of GPs. Nanometer-scale resolution can be obtained under very weak light intensity, which is especially important in the imaging of biological systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignees: The Texas A&M University System, The National Centre for Applied Physics, KACST
    Inventors: Muhammad Suhail Zubairy, Mohammad D. Al-Amri, Xiaodong Zeng
  • Patent number: 10303946
    Abstract: A method for offline-service multi-user interaction based on augmented reality (AR) includes scanning, by an AR client terminal of a user, an offline service label at an offline service site. Information of the offline service label is transmitted to a server terminal. Based on the information of the offline service label, the server terminal establishes a service group including the user and a second user that scanned the offline service label. In response to transmitting the information of the offline service label, service data is received from the server terminal. The service data includes information related to the user and information related to the second user. Based on the service data, a service interactive interface is outputted. The service interactive interface displays the information related to the user and the information related to the second user at a position corresponding to the offline service label in an AR scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Huanmi Yin, Xiaodong Zeng, Feng Lin, Jun Wu
  • Patent number: 10268685
    Abstract: A statistics-based machine translation method is disclosed. The method generates probabilities of translation from a sentence to be translated to candidate translated texts based on features of the candidate translated texts that affect the probabilities of translation and a pre-generated translation probability prediction model. The features that affect probabilities of translation include at least degrees of semantic similarity between the sentence to be translated and the candidate translated texts. A preset number of candidate translated texts with highly ranked probabilities of translation are selected to serve as translated texts of the sentence to be translated. The method is able to go deep into a semantic level of a natural language when a machine translation model is constructed to avoid a semantic deviation of a translated text from an original text, thereby achieving the effect of improving the quality of translation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Xiaodong Zeng, Weihua Luo, Feng Lin
  • Patent number: 10235569
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) client terminal identifies initial location information for a location of a user. A scene picture associated with the location of the user is captured. Image matching is performed between the captured scene picture and scene pictures in a scene picture set. The scene picture set is generated based on the initial location information. Each scene picture in the scene picture set is associated with detailed location information. In response to the captured scene picture matching a particular scene picture in the scene picture set, refined location information for the location of the user is determined based on the detailed location information of the particular scene picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Xiaodong Zeng
  • Publication number: 20180374100
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises: obtaining, by the settlement device, a biometric feature of the user; determining, by the settlement device, that the obtained biometric feature matches a stored biometric feature, wherein the stored biometric feature corresponds to an account identifier; and in response to determining that the obtained biometric feature matches the stored biometric feature, performing, by the settlement device, a settlement of an account associated with the account identifier that corresponds to the stored biometric feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Le Zhou, Xiaodong Zeng, Li Chen, Hong Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang, Sihai Yao
  • Publication number: 20180197043
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving, at a server and from an augmented reality device, user information of a user using the augmented reality device; generating, by the server, a picture feature sample sub-library corresponding to the user information, including screening out, from a preset picture feature sample library, picture feature samples associated with the user information; and providing, to the augmented reality device, the picture feature sample sub-library, wherein the picture feature sample sub-library can be configured to be used by the augmented reality device to perform, during image scanning of an offline environment of the user, image recognition of images scanned from the offline environment by comparing the scanned images to picture features in the picture feature sample sub-library.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Linqing Wang, Xiaodong Zeng, Hong Zhang, Feng Lin
  • Publication number: 20180121727
    Abstract: A method for offline-service multi-user interaction based on augmented reality (AR) includes scanning, by an AR client terminal of a user, an offline service label at an offline service site. Information of the offline service label is transmitted to a server terminal. Based on the information of the offline service label, the server terminal establishes a service group including the user and a second user that scanned the offline service label. In response to transmitting the information of the offline service label, service data is received from the server terminal. The service data includes information related to the user and information related to the second user. Based on the service data, a service interactive interface is outputted. The service interactive interface displays the information related to the user and the information related to the second user at a position corresponding to the offline service label in an AR scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Huanmi Yin, Xiaodong Zeng, Feng Lin, Jun Wu
  • Publication number: 20180114065
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) client terminal identifies initial location information for a location of a user. A scene picture associated with the location of the user is captured. Image matching is performed between the captured scene picture and scene pictures in a scene picture set. The scene picture set is generated based on the initial location information. Each scene picture in the scene picture set is associated with detailed location information. In response to the captured scene picture matching a particular scene picture in the scene picture set, refined location information for the location of the user is determined based on the detailed location information of the particular scene picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Xiaodong Zeng
  • Publication number: 20180107816
    Abstract: Interaction characteristics of a user interacting with a virtual reality (VR) terminal are obtained through preset sensing hardware in response to a request for execution of a target task requiring user identity verification. The obtained interaction characteristics of the user are compared with preset interaction characteristics of an authorized user of the VR terminal to verify identity of the user. The target task is executed and the user is authenticated as an identity-verified user of the VR terminal based on a successful user identity verification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jun Wu, Xiaodong Zeng, Huanmi Yin, Feng Lin
  • Publication number: 20180107815
    Abstract: A method for service control and user identity authentication includes recognizing a voice command of a virtual reality (VR) device user for initiating a service supported by a VR application, using a biometric sensor to collect one or more biometric characteristics of the VR device user, performing user identity authentication based on the collected one or more biometric characteristics, and communicating with a server that provides the service for performing the service if the user identity authentication is successful.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jun Wu, Xiaodong Zeng, Huanmi Yin, Feng Lin