Patents by Inventor Xiaorui Gan

Xiaorui Gan 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: 11893770
    Abstract: Provided are a method for converting a picture into a video, a device, and a storage medium. The method for converting a picture into a video includes the following: performing color fading processing on an original picture to obtain a black-and-white image; determining a foreground area and a background area of the black-and-white image; performing iterative color restoration on pixels in the black-and-white image based on a processing order of the foreground area and the background area, and storing the image obtained by each restoration as a picture frame to obtain multiple frames of images; and splicing the multiple frames of images to obtain a target video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventors: Shupeng Zhang, Xiaorui Gan, Jie Wen, Yitong Wang, Jingxiang Pan
  • Publication number: 20230140558
    Abstract: Provided are a method for converting a picture into a video, a device, and a storage medium. The method for converting a picture into a video includes the following: performing color fading processing on an original picture to obtain a black-and-white image; determining a foreground area and a background area of the black-and-white image; performing iterative color restoration on pixels in the black-and-white image based on a processing order of the foreground area and the background area, and storing the image obtained by each restoration as a picture frame to obtain multiple frames of images; and splicing the multiple frames of images to obtain a target video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Shupeng ZHANG, Xiaorui GAN, Jie WEN, Yitong WANG, Jingxiang PAN
  • Publication number: 20130110865
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing image endorsements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search query from a user device of a user that belongs to a social affinity group; receiving image search results responsive to the search query, each image search result referencing a corresponding image resource and including a representative image of the image resource; identifying representative images of the image search results that each have an endorsement association with one or more of the users identified by the social affinity group; generating annotation data describing the endorsement association with at least one of the users identified by the social affinity group; and providing the annotation data to a user device for presentation with the representative image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Arcot J. Preetham, Myron Flickner, Xiaorui Gan, Gabriel Wolosin