Patents by Inventor Zheng Ping AC Chu

Zheng Ping AC Chu 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: 11145334
    Abstract: One or more frames within a video are segmented and classified according to information type. At least a portion of the information in the one or more frames is determined to be obscured. In response to this determination, information from audio data and the unobscured portion of the one or more frames is extracted. Using this extracted information, a set of replacement data is generated, according to the information type, for the obscured information in the one or more frames. The set of replacement data and the unobscured portion of the one or more frames is merged into one or more composite frames. These composite frames are displayed to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zheng Ping AC Chu, Fan Xiao Xin, Yuan Jin, Xi Xi Liu
  • Publication number: 20210065748
    Abstract: One or more frames within a video are segmented and classified according to information type. At least a portion of the information in the one or more frames is determined to be obscured. In response to this determination, information from audio data and the unobscured portion of the one or more frames is extracted. Using this extracted information, a set of replacement data is generated, according to the information type, for the obscured information in the one or more frames. The set of replacement data and the unobscured portion of the one or more frames is merged into one or more composite frames. These composite frames are displayed to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Zheng Ping AC Chu, Fan Xiao Xin, Yuan Jin, Xi Xi Liu
  • Publication number: 20190207901
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a system receives a first meme sent from a first user that is targeted to a second user. The system transforms the first meme into a second meme based on analyzing the first meme against a first user profile data corresponding to the first user and a second user profile data corresponding to the second user. The transforming includes replacing at least one element of the first meme with a second element in the second meme. The system, in turn, sends the transformed second meme to the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Zheng Ping AC Chu, Yuan Jin, Xi Xi Liu, Xin Peng Liu, Fan Xiao Xin
  • Patent number: 10261987
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method and system for pre-processing an E-book, wherein the E-book comprises text pages in scanned format and annotation pages in scanned format and the annotation pages contain annotation items for explaining text elements in the text pages. The method comprises: extracting annotations from the annotation items; identifying annotated elements from the text pages, wherein an annotated element is a text element that may be determined to be associated with one of the annotations; defining positions on the text pages for the annotated elements respectively; and storing the positions and the annotations. The positions and the annotations are correlated according to their relationship with the annotated elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xi Xi Liu, Yuan Jin, Su Liu, Fan Xiao Xin, Zheng Ping AC Chu, Yu Huang