Patents by Inventor Yinging Ma
Yinging 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).
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Patent number: 8902312Abstract: A total-sky lightning event observation system and method may include a photographing device, a housing, a temperature control device, a light shielding device, a control module, a power supply module, a corona current sensor, a data acquisition device, a GPS antenna, a GPS timing module and a processing unit. The photographing device can capture total-sky digital images and transmit the images directly to the processing unit. The processing unit consecutively acquire corona current via the data acquisition device and judges whether there exists thunderstorm activity within the observed range; if there exists thunderstorm activity, the light shielding device is opened so as to enter a lightning observation mode, and the light shielding device is closed after the observation is finished so as to protect the photographing device in non-thunderstorm weather.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Chinese Academy of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Weitao Lv, Ying Ma, Yang Zhang, Jun Yang, Wen Yao, Dong Zheng, Qing Meng, Yijun Zhang
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Patent number: 8782805Abstract: A method and system for detecting whether an outgoing communication contains confidential information or other target information is provided. The detection system is provided with a collection of documents that contain confidential information, referred to as “confidential documents.” When the detection system is provided with an outgoing communication, it compares the content of the outgoing communication to the content of the confidential documents. If the outgoing communication contains confidential information, then the detection system may prevent the outgoing communication from being sent outside the organization. The detection system detects confidential information based on the similarity between the content of an outgoing communication and the content of confidential documents that are known to contain confidential information.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Benyu Zhang, Hua-Jun Zeng, Wei-Ying Ma, Zheng Chen
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Publication number: 20140118650Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Inventors: Abhishek Kumar SRIVASTAVA, Ying MA, Vladimir Grigorievich CHIGRINOV, Hoi Sing KWOK
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Patent number: 8700600Abstract: A method and system for identifying informative links of a web site for use in crawling the web site is provided. A forum crawler analyzes sample web pages of a web forum to identify informative links and then crawls the web forum by following links determined to be informative and not following other links. The forum crawler system determines whether links are informative based on whether they are part of the overall structure of the web site or are used to select sequential information that has been split onto multiple web pages.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Wei Lai, Jiangming Yang, Rui Cai
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Patent number: 8666821Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting advertisements to present to a user of a computing device are provided. An advertisement system selects advertisements to display to a user based on the serving area of candidate advertisements. The advertisement system selects those candidate advertisements whose serving area encompasses the user's current location. The advertisement system may also select candidate advertisements to present to a user based on a map area currently being displayed to the user. The advertisement system may filter the candidate advertisements based on the provider location being within the map area that is currently being displayed to the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2006Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Xing Xie, Xianfang Wang, Ying Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Lee Wang
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Patent number: 8650094Abstract: An exemplary method includes defining a vocabulary for emotions; extracting descriptions for songs; generating distributions for the songs in an emotion space based at least in part on the vocabulary and the extracted descriptions; extracting salient words from a document; generating a distribution for the document in an emotion space based at least in part on the vocabulary and the extracted salient words; and matching the distribution for the document to one or more of the distributions for the songs. Various other exemplary methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2008Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Rui Cai, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma
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Patent number: 8645370Abstract: A method and system for determining relevance of a document having text and images to a text string is provided. A scoring system identifies image text associated with an image of the document. The scoring system calculates an image score indicating relevance of the image text to the text string. The image score may be used in many applications, such as searching, summary generation, and document classification, image search, and image classification.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Qing Yu, Shuming Shi, Zhiwei Li, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
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Patent number: 8620912Abstract: While browsing, a user may interact with a wide variety of images. The user may upload and share images taken with a digital camera and/or search for image using a search engine. Because images are rich in contextual information, it may be advantageous to provide additional information, such as adjacent market advertising based upon matching advertisements with contextual information of the images. Accordingly, a query image may be used to retrieve a video frame set. The video frame set may be expanded with related video frames corresponding to adjacent markets. The expanded video frame set may be grouped into clusters of similar frames. The clusters may be used to rank advertisements based upon how similar the advertisements are to the clusters and/or video frames within the clusters. In this way, one or more ranked advertisements may be presented with the query image.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma
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Publication number: 20130346416Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2012Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang, Rui Cai, Wei-Ying Ma, Heung-Yeung Shum
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Patent number: 8612453Abstract: A method and system for generating a search result for a query of hierarchically organized documents based on retrieval of subtrees that are key resources for topic distillation is provided. The retrieval system may identify documents relevant to a query using conventional searching techniques. The retrieval system then calculates a subtree feature for subtrees that have an identified document as their root. After the retrieval system calculates the subtree feature for the subtrees, the retrieval system may generate a subtree relevance score for each subtree based on its subtree feature. The retrieval system may then order the identified documents based on their corresponding subtree relevances.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Wei-Ying Ma
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Publication number: 20130286203Abstract: A total-sky lightning event observation system and method may include a photographing device, a housing, a temperature control device, a light shielding device, a control module, a power supply module, a corona current sensor, a data acquisition device, a GPS antenna, a GPS timing module and a processing unit. The photographing device can capture total-sky digital images and transmit the images directly to the processing unit. The processing unit consecutively acquire corona current via the data acquisition device and judges whether there exists thunderstorm activity within the observed range; if there exists thunderstorm activity, the light shielding device is opened so as to enter a lightning observation mode, and the light shielding device is closed after the observation is finished so as to protect the photographing device in non-thunderstorm weather.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: Chinese Academy of Meteorological SciencesInventors: Weitao Lv, Ying Ma, Yang Zhang, Jun Yang, Wen Yao, Dong Zheng, Qing Meng, Yijun Zhang
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Publication number: 20130287302Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2012Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Lei Zhang, Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma
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Patent number: 8571850Abstract: A dual cross-media relevance model (DCMRM) is used for automatic image annotation. In contrast to the traditional relevance models which calculate the joint probability of words and images over a training image database, the DCMRM model estimates the joint probability by calculating the expectation over words in a predefined lexicon. The DCMRM model may be advantageous because a predefined lexicon potentially has better behavior than a training image database. The DCMRM model also takes advantage of content-based techniques and image search techniques to define the word-to-image and word-to-word relations involved in image annotation. Both relations can be estimated by using image search techniques on the web data as well as available training data.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2007Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Mingjing Li, Jing Lui, Bin Wang, Zhiwei Li, Wei-Ying Ma
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Patent number: 8572088Abstract: Automated rich presentation of a semantic topic is described. In one aspect, respective portions of multimodal information corresponding to a semantic topic are evaluated to locate events associated with the semantic topic. The probability that a document belongs to an event is determined based on document inclusion of one or more of persons, times, locations, and keywords, and document distribution along a timeline associated with the event. For each event, one or more documents objectively determined to be substantially representative of the event are identified. One or more other types of media (e.g., video, images, etc.) related to the event are then extracted from the multimodal information. The representative documents and the other media are for presentation to a user in a storyboard.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2005Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lie Lu, Wei-Ying Ma, Zhiwei Li
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Patent number: 8559682Abstract: Names of entities, such as people, in an image may be identified automatically. Visually similar images of entities are retrieved, including text proximate to the visually similar images. The collected text is mined for names of entities, and the detected names are analyzed. A name may be associated with the entity in the image, based on the analysis.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lei Zhang, Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma
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Publication number: 20130262357Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: Rubendran Amarasingham, Timothy S. Swanson, Christopher A. Clark, Yu Qian, Sambamurthy Nalla, George R. Oliver, Kimberly P. Gerra, Ying Ma
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Patent number: 8548853Abstract: A peer-to-peer advertisement platform is provided to ubiquitously promote products or services supplied by advertisers across content-based applications executing on nodes in a peer-to-peer network. The peer-to-peer advertisement platform may include a registration component to register nodes in the peer-to-peer advertising platform, an advertisement submission component to receive advertisement data from the advertisers, and a distribution component to distribute the advertisement data to the nodes registered in the peer-to-peer advertisement platform. The peer-to-peer advertisement platform also includes a money sharing component to reward nodes based on a contribution level assigned to the node. Accordingly, the peer-to-peer advertisement platform stores the advertisement data locally at the plurality of nodes registered in the peer-to-peer advertising platform and shares a portion of the revenue generated from the advertisement data with the nodes registered in the peer-to-peer advertising platform.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2005Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Benyu Zhang, Fengping Zeng, Hua-Jun Zeng, Li Li, Tarek Najm, Wei-Ying Ma, Ying Li, Zheng Chen
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Publication number: 20130246167Abstract: According to a cost-per-action advertising model, advertisers submit ads with cost-per-action bids. Ad auctions are conducted and winning ads are returned with contextually relevant search results. Each time a winning ad is selected by a user, resulting in the user being redirected to a website associated with the advertiser, a selected impression and a price is recorded for the winning ad. Periodically, an advertiser submits a report indicating a number of actions attributed to the ads that have occurred through the advertiser website. The advertiser is then charged a fee for each reported action based on the recorded prices for the winning ads and based on the number of selected impressions recorded for the winning ads.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Wenkui Ding, Wei-Ying Ma, Hsiao-Wuen Hon
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Patent number: 8538898Abstract: A “Name Disambiguator” provides various techniques for implementing an interactive framework for resolving or disambiguating entity names (associated with objects such as publications) for entity searches where two or more same or similar names may refer to different entities. More specifically, the Name Disambiguator uses a combination of user input and automatic models to address the disambiguation problem. In various embodiments, the Name Disambiguator uses a two part process, including: 1) a global SVM trained from large sets of documents or objects in a simulated interactive mode, and 2) further personalization of local SVM models (associated with individual names or groups of names such as, for example, a group of coauthors) derived from the global SVM model. The result of this process is that large sets of documents or objects are rapidly and accurately condensed or clustered into ordered sets by that are organized by entity names.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Zhengdong Lu, Zaiqing Nie, Gang Luo, Yong Cao, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
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Publication number: 20130226693Abstract: Functionality is described herein for allocating group-buying deals in a group-buying service. In certain implementations, the functionality operates by receiving deal information from deal-providing entities (such as merchants). The deal information describes plural deals. The functionality then assigns a number of impressions to each deal so as to maximize revenue provided to an entity which administers the group-buying service. This yields allocation information. The functionality then presents deals to users in accordance with the allocation information. For example, if the allocated number of impressions for a certain deal is x, then the functionality will provide x opportunities for users to select this deal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Wei-Ying Ma