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).

  • Patent number: 8902312
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences
    Inventors: Weitao Lv, Ying Ma, Yang Zhang, Jun Yang, Wen Yao, Dong Zheng, Qing Meng, Yijun Zhang
  • Patent number: 8782805
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benyu Zhang, Hua-Jun Zeng, Wei-Ying Ma, Zheng Chen
  • Publication number: 20140118650
    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: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Abhishek Kumar SRIVASTAVA, Ying MA, Vladimir Grigorievich CHIGRINOV, Hoi Sing KWOK
  • Patent number: 8700600
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Wei Lai, Jiangming Yang, Rui Cai
  • Patent number: 8666821
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xing Xie, Xianfang Wang, Ying Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Lee Wang
  • Patent number: 8650094
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Rui Cai, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma
  • Patent number: 8645370
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Qing Yu, Shuming Shi, Zhiwei Li, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
  • Patent number: 8620912
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma
  • Publication number: 20130346416
    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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang, Rui Cai, Wei-Ying Ma, Heung-Yeung Shum
  • Patent number: 8612453
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Wei-Ying Ma
  • Publication number: 20130286203
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences
    Inventors: Weitao Lv, Ying Ma, Yang Zhang, Jun Yang, Wen Yao, Dong Zheng, Qing Meng, Yijun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130287302
    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: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma
  • Patent number: 8571850
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mingjing Li, Jing Lui, Bin Wang, Zhiwei Li, Wei-Ying Ma
  • Patent number: 8572088
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Lie Lu, Wei-Ying Ma, Zhiwei Li
  • Patent number: 8559682
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma
  • Publication number: 20130262357
    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: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Rubendran Amarasingham, Timothy S. Swanson, Christopher A. Clark, Yu Qian, Sambamurthy Nalla, George R. Oliver, Kimberly P. Gerra, Ying Ma
  • Patent number: 8548853
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benyu Zhang, Fengping Zeng, Hua-Jun Zeng, Li Li, Tarek Najm, Wei-Ying Ma, Ying Li, Zheng Chen
  • Publication number: 20130246167
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Wenkui Ding, Wei-Ying Ma, Hsiao-Wuen Hon
  • Patent number: 8538898
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Zhengdong Lu, Zaiqing Nie, Gang Luo, Yong Cao, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
  • Publication number: 20130226693
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Wei-Ying Ma