Patents by Inventor Ying Ma

Ying Ma 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: 9554093
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically inserting advertisements into source video content playback streams are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods communicate a source video content playback stream to a video player to present source video to a user. During playback of the source video, and in response to receipt of a request from the user to navigate portions of the source video (e.g., a user command to fast forward the source video, rewind the source video, or other action), the systems and methods dynamically define a video advertisement clip insertion point (e.g., and insertion point based on a current playback position). The systems and methods then insert a contextually relevant and/or targeted video advertisement clip into the playback stream for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Xian-Sheng Hua, Wei Lai, Wei-Ying Ma, Shipeng Li
  • Patent number: 9536052
    Abstract: A clinical predictive and monitoring system comprising a data store operable to receive and store data associated with a plurality of patients selected from medical and health data; and a number of social, behavioral, lifestyle, and economic data; at least one predictive model to identify at least one high-risk patient associated with at least one medical condition; a risk logic module operable to apply the at least one predictive model to the patient data to determine at least one risk score associated the at least one medical condition and identify at least one high-risk patient; a data presentation module operable to present notification and information to an intervention coordination team about the identified at least one high-risk patient; and an artificial intelligence tuning module adapted to automatically adjust parameters in the predictive model in response to trends in the patient data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation
    Inventors: Rubendran Amarasingham, Timothy S. Swanson, Christopher A. Clark, Yu Qian, Sambamurthy Nalla, George R. Oliver, Kimberly P. Gerra, Ying Ma
  • Publication number: 20160357741
    Abstract: Method and system for providing a user interface for presenting images of clusters of an image search result is provided. The user interface system displays the search result in a cluster/view form using a cluster panel and a view panel. The cluster panel contains a cluster area for each cluster. The view panel may contain thumbnails of images of the search result in a list view or a mix view. When a user selects a cluster area from the cluster panel, the user interface system displays a list view of thumbnails for that cluster in the view panel. The user interface system may display a thumbnail list near a cluster area of the cluster panel. The thumbnail list contains mini-thumbnails of the images of the selected cluster. The user interface system may also display a detail view of an image in the view panel when a user selects an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, Ming Jing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Kefeng Deng
  • Patent number: 9483577
    Abstract: A large web page is analyzed and partitioned into smaller sub-pages so that a user can navigate the web page on a small form factor device. The user can browse the sub-pages to find and read information in the content of the large web page. The partitioning can be performed at a web server, an edge server, at the small form factor device, or can be distributed across one or more such devices. The analysis leverages design habits of a web page author to extract a representation structure of an authored web page. The extracted representation structure includes high level structure using several markup language tag selection rules and low level structure using visual boundary detection in which visual units of the low level structure are provided by clustering markup language tags. User viewing habits can be learned to display favorite parts of a web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yu Chen, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Ming-Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 9460122
    Abstract: Described herein is a technology that facilitates efficient large-scale similarity-based retrieval. In several embodiments documents, images, and/or other multimedia files are compactly represented and efficiently indexed to enable robust search using a long-query in a large-scale corpus. As described herein, these techniques include performing decomposition of a file, e.g., an image, a document containing an image, or a document-like representation of an image. The techniques use dimension reduction to obtain three parts, low-dimensional representations (major semantics), file specific terms (minor semantics), and background words, representing the major semantics in a feature vector and the minor semantics as keywords. Using the techniques described, file vectors are matched in a topic model and the results ranked based on the keywords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang, Rui Cai, Wei-Ying Ma, Heung-Yeung Shum
  • Patent number: 9396214
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a user interface for presenting images of clusters of an image search result is provided. The user interface system displays the search result in a cluster/view form using a cluster panel and a view panel. The cluster panel contains a cluster area for each cluster. The view panel may contain thumbnails of images of the search result in a list view or a mix view. When a user selects a cluster area from the cluster panel, the user interface system displays a list view of thumbnails for that cluster in the view panel. The user interface system may display a thumbnail list near a cluster area of the cluster panel. The thumbnail list contains mini-thumbnails of the images of the selected cluster. The user interface system may also display a detail view of an image in the view panel when a user selects an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Feng Jing, Lei Zhang, Ming Jing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Kefeng Deng
  • Patent number: 9366934
    Abstract: A field sequential color (FSC) ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) display cell, part of an FSC display, is provided. The FSC FLC display cell includes: two polarizers; an FLC layer, positioned between the two polarizers, the FLC layer comprising FLCs with helix pitch less than the thickness of the FLC layer; and a voltage source, configured to apply an electrical driving voltage to the FLC layer, the electrical driving voltage applied to the FLC layer having an amplitude greater than a threshold voltage for helix unwinding, and wherein the voltage source is further configured to apply electrical driving voltages to light emitting diodes (LEDs) of the FSC display to illuminate pixels of the FSC display. The pixels are illuminated in an FSC manner. The FLC layer is configured to provide a defect-free layer of FLC under the electrical driving voltage applied to the FLC layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, Ying Ma, Vladimir Grigorievich Chigrinov, Hoi Sing Kwok
  • Publication number: 20160133621
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a P-type substrate, and an N-well in the P-type substrate. A first N+ diffusion region is located in the P-type substrate, and a first P+ diffusion region is located in the N-well. A second P+ diffusion region is located across a boundary between the P-type substrate and the N-well. A first gate electrode overlies the N-well between the first P+ diffusion regions and the second P+ diffusion region. A second gate electrode overlies the P-type substrate between the second P+ diffusion region and the first N+ diffusion region. The first P+ diffusion region, the N-well, the P-type substrate, and the first N+ diffusion region form an SCR (Silicon-Controlled rectifier) device. The first P+ diffusion region, the second P+ diffusion region, and the first gate electrode form a PMOS transistor. The second P+ diffusion region, the first N+ diffusion region, and the second gate electrode form a gated diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Yi Liu, Jun Wang, Ying Ma, Bin Lu, Huijuan Cheng
  • Publication number: 20160125307
    Abstract: The use of data from multiple data source provides inferred air quality indices with respect to a particular pollutant for multiple areas without the addition of air quality monitor stations to those areas. Labeled air quality index data for a pollutant in a region may be obtained from one or more air quality monitor stations. Spatial features for the region may be extracted from spatially-related data for the region. The spatially-related data may include information on fixed infrastructures in the region. Likewise, temporal features for the region may be extracted from temporally-related data for the region that changes over time. A co-training based learning framework may be further applied to co-train a spatial classifier and a temporal classifier based at least on the labeled air quality index data, the spatial features for the region, and the temporal features for the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Eric I-Chao Chang
  • Patent number: 9195942
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying information about people is provided. The information system identifies groups of people that have relationships based on their relationships to documents or more generally to objects. The information system initially is provided with an indication of which people have which relationships to which documents. The information system then identifies clusters of people based on having a relationship to the same objects. The information system may also identify clusters of related objects associated with a cluster of people. When a user wants to identify information about a person, the user can provide the name of that person to the information system. The information system then can retrieve and display the names of the other people who are in the same cluster as the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benyu Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Gu Xu, Hongbin Gao, Zheng Chen, Randy Hinrichs, Hua-Jun Zeng
  • Publication number: 20150275844
    Abstract: A system including a hydraulic turbine system, including a first hydraulic turbine, including a first hydraulic body with a first runner chamber, a first runner within the first runner chamber, a first primary nozzle fluidly coupled to the first runner chamber, a first auxiliary nozzle fluidly coupled to the first runner chamber and configured to equalize pressure in the first runner chamber, and a first valve fluidly coupled to the first auxiliary nozzle and configured to control a fluid flow into the first runner chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Felix Winkler, Ying Ma, Prem Krish
  • Publication number: 20150201295
    Abstract: A speaker includes an audio arrangement and a lighting effect system. The audio arrangement includes a control module and a speaker module operatively linked to the control module, wherein the speaker module defines an audio output side in front of said speaker module for generating an audio signal. The lighting effect system includes a speaker cover coupled at the audio output side of the speaker module and a lighting arrangement supported by the speaker cover for generating a light effect at the audio output side of the speaker module to synchronize with the audio signal thereof, so as to provide a single light-and-audio source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Chiu Yu Lau, Qun Ying MA
  • Patent number: 9063226
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are one or more embodiments that arrange a plurality of location entities into a hierarchy of location descriptors. One or more of the disclosed embodiments may determine whether one of the location entities is a spatial outlier based at least in part on presence of one or more other location entities within a predetermined distance of the one location entity. Also, the other location entities and the one location entity may share a location descriptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yu Zheng, Jianqiao Feng, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma
  • Patent number: 9058382
    Abstract: A method and system for augmenting a training set used to train a classifier of documents is provided. The augmentation system augments a training set with training data derived from features of documents based on a document hierarchy. The training data of the initial training set may be derived from the root documents of the hierarchies of documents. The augmentation system generates additional training data that includes an aggregate feature that represents the overall characteristics of a hierarchy of documents, rather than just the root document. After the training data is generated, the augmentation system augments the initial training set with the newly generated training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tie-Yan Liu, Wei-Ying Ma
  • Publication number: 20150138496
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrically suppressed helix ferroelectric liquid crystal (ESHFLC) cell with polymer stabilization. The cell has a liquid crystal (LC) material that is a mixture comprising a monomer, a photo-initiator and a ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) where a polymer network has been established at a certain temperature to achieve constraints of ESHFLC electro-optical mode. The resultant mixture is characterized by a helix pitch less than and comparable to a FLC layer thickness of the cell, and provides a selective reflection in an UV region. The concentration of the monomer in the pure FLC mixture has also been optimized for the phase diagram, scattering and the tilt angle. The resultant mixture, i.e. the polymer stabilized ESHFLC cell, follows all constraints of the ESHFLC electro-optical mode and shows electro-optical characteristics similar to a typical ESHFLC cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Abhishek Kumar SRIVASTAVA, Ying MA, Qi GUO, Vladimir Grigorievich CHIGRINOV, Hoi Sing KWOK
  • Publication number: 20150118131
    Abstract: A system includes a solvent gas processing system having a high pressure reaction vessel configured to remove an acid gas from an untreated feed gas using a solvent in a lean solvent fluid stream. The system includes a high pressure reaction vessel is configured to output a treated clean gas and a first flow of a high pressure fluid stream via a first flow path. The system includes a turbine having a main nozzle, an auxiliary nozzle, and an outlet. The main nozzle is configured to receive a second flow of the high pressure fluid stream from the first flow path via a main flow path. The system includes an auxiliary nozzle valve disposed along an auxiliary flow path. The auxiliary nozzle valve is configured to control a third flow of the high pressure fluid stream into the auxiliary nozzle of the turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Jeremy Grant Martin, John Sienkiewicz, Prem Krish, Ying Ma, Mark Richter, Felix Winkler
  • Patent number: 8995771
    Abstract: Implementations for identifying duplicate images in an image space are described. An image space is partitioned into a plurality of coarse clusters based on signatures of the images within the image space. The signatures are determined from compact descriptors of the images. Refined clusters that include one or more images of an individual coarse cluster are created based on pair-wise comparisons of the compact descriptors of images in the coarse cluster, and the refined clusters are identified as sets of duplicate images. The refined clusters are grown by searching in similar coarse clusters for images to add to the refined clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma
  • Patent number: D721239
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Inventor: Tai-Ying Ma
  • Patent number: D721512
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Inventor: Tai-Ying Ma
  • Patent number: D725083
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Inventors: Chiu Yu Lau, Qun Ying Ma