Patents by Inventor Zhen Hao Zhou

Zhen Hao Zhou 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: 10185725
    Abstract: Implementations include actions of receiving an initial data set including a plurality of images, each image being associated with a set of labels, wherein each label in the set of labels is assigned to a respective image of the plurality of images by an initial model, the initial model being specific to a ground-truth label; for each image in the plurality of images: providing a list of categories associated with a respective image based on a respective set of labels, and determining a primary category of the respective image based on the list of categories; determining a category of the ground-truth label; and providing a revised data set based on the initial data set by comparing the category to primary categories of respective images in the plurality of images, the initial model being trained based on the revised data set to provide a revised model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Cai, Zhen Hao Zhou, Neil G. Alldrin, Thomas J. Duerig
  • Patent number: 10013436
    Abstract: Implementations include actions of receiving an initial data set including a plurality of images, each image being associated with a set of labels, wherein each label in the set of labels is assigned to a respective image of the plurality of images by an initial model, the initial model being specific to a ground-truth label; for each image in the plurality of images: providing a list of categories associated with a respective image based on a respective set of labels, and determining a primary category of the respective image based on the list of categories; determining a category of the ground-truth label; and providing a revised data set based on the initial data set by comparing the category to primary categories of respective images in the plurality of images, the initial model being trained based on the revised data set to provide a revised model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Cai, Zhen Hao Zhou, Neil G. Alldrin, Thomas J. Duerig
  • Patent number: 9727584
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for refining image annotations. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, for each image in a set of images, a corresponding set of labels determined to be indicative of subject matter of the image. For each label, one or more confidence values are determined. Each confidence value is a measure of confidence that the label accurately describes the subject matter of a threshold number of respective images to which it corresponds. Labels for which each of the one or more confidence values meets a respective confidence threshold are identified as high confidence labels. For each image in the set of images, labels in its corresponding set of labels that are high confidence labels are identified. Images having a corresponding set of labels that include at least a respective threshold number of high confidence labels are identified as high confidence images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Neil G. Alldrin, Charles J. Rosenberg, Bin Shen, Samy Bengio, Zhen Hao Zhou
  • Publication number: 20150169641
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for refining image annotations. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, for each image in a set of images, a corresponding set of labels determined to be indicative of subject matter of the image. For each label, one or more confidence values are determined. Each confidence value is a measure of confidence that the label accurately describes the subject matter of a threshold number of respective images to which it corresponds. Labels for which each of the one or more confidence values meets a respective confidence threshold are identified as high confidence labels. For each image in the set of images, labels in its corresponding set of labels that are high confidence labels are identified. Images having a corresponding set of labels that include at least a respective threshold number of high confidence labels are identified as high confidence images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Neil G. Alldrin, Charles J. Rosenberg, Bin Shen, Samy Bengio, Zhen Hao Zhou
  • Patent number: 8873867
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for assigning labels to images. In general, in one aspect, a method includes determining, for an image, a first set of labels, each label being determined to be indicative of subject matter of the image based on content feature values of the image, for each label in the first set of labels, determining a second set of labels, each label in the second set of labels determined to be semantically related to the label in the first set of labels, assigning a score to each label in the second sets of labels, and based on the scores assigned to each label in the second sets of labels, assigning one or more of the labels in the second sets of labels to the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Neil G. Alldrin, Thomas J. Duerig, Zhen Hao Zhou, Maks Ovsjanikovs, Charles J. Rosenberg, Samy Bengio, Maya Gupta
  • Patent number: 8855430
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for refining image annotations. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, for each image in a set of images, a corresponding set of labels determined to be indicative of subject matter of the image. For each label, one or more confidence values are determined. Each confidence value is a measure of confidence that the label accurately describes the subject matter of a threshold number of respective images to which it corresponds. Labels for which each of the one or more confidence values meets a respective confidence threshold are identified as high confidence labels. For each image in the set of images, labels in its corresponding set of labels that are high confidence labels are identified. Images having a corresponding set of labels that include at least a respective threshold number of high confidence labels are identified as high confidence images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Neil G. Alldrin, Charles J. Rosenberg, Bin Shen, Samy Bengio, Zhen Hao Zhou