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Minghai Qin

Also filed as: QIN MINGHAI

60 granted patents·26 pending applications·126 citations·filing 2015–2024

98Inventor score

Technology areasG06N G06F G11C H04N G06V

Files withALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD39 WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC33 SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC7 HGST Netherlands BV4 ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD1

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86 records

0196US11528493B2Method and system for video transcoding based on spatial or temporal importanceALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Dec 13, 2022·10 cites·30 claims
0295US11263261B2Method and system for characteristic-based video processingALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 1, 2022·5 cites·20 claims
0395US10387303B2Non-volatile storage system with compute engine to accelerate big data applicationsWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 20, 2019·19 cites·25 claims
0493US11586601B2Apparatus and method for representation of a sparse matrix in a neural networkALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Feb 21, 2023·5 cites·20 claims
0592US11074318B2Hardware accelerated discretized neural networkWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2019·Granted Jul 27, 2021·12 cites·24 claims
0691US9912352B1Hamming distance based binary representations of numbersWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 6, 2018·11 cites·20 claims
0790US10691537B2Storing deep neural network weights in non-volatile storage systems using vertical error correction codesWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2018·Granted Jun 23, 2020·10 cites·19 claims
0890US10566048B2Managing refresh operations for a memory deviceWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 18, 2020·10 cites·20 claims
0986US12184864B2Intelligent computing resources allocation for feature network based on feature propagationALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Dec 31, 2024·2 cites·19 claims
1085US12039696B2Method and system for video processing based on spatial or temporal importanceALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Jul 16, 2024·2 cites·28 claims
1184US11328204B2Realization of binary neural networks in NAND memory arraysSANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC·Filed 2019·Granted May 10, 2022·5 cites·20 claims
1284US10552251B2Storage of neural networksWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 4, 2020·6 cites·21 claims
1381US11570477B2Data preprocessing and data augmentation in frequency domainALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2019·Granted Jan 31, 2023·2 cites·20 claims
1481US10430329B2Quality of service aware storage class memory/NAND flash hybrid solid state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 1, 2019·3 cites·19 claims
1577US11470327B2Scene aware video content encodingALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 11, 2022·1 cites·26 claims
1677US11386873B2Method and apparatus for efficient application screen compressionALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Jul 12, 2022·1 cites·14 claims
1776US10025652B2Error location pointers for non volatile memoryHGST Netherlands BV·Filed 2015·Granted Jul 17, 2018·2 cites·17 claims
1876US9704594B1Inter-cell interference reduction in flash memory devicesWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 11, 2017·4 cites·17 claims
1975US11275968B2Super-sparse image compression using cross-bar non-volatile memory deviceWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 15, 2022·2 cites·31 claims
2075US11170260B2Techniques for determining importance of encoded image components for artificial intelligence tasksALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 9, 2021·2 cites·20 claims
2174US10804938B2Decoding data using decoders and neural networksWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 13, 2020·2 cites·20 claims
2273US11223838B2AI-assisted programmable hardware video codecALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 11, 2022·1 cites·6 claims
2371US12112723B2Method and apparatus for efficient application screen compressionALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Oct 8, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
2471US11556616B2Methods to tolerate programming and retention errors of crossbar memory arraysSANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Jan 17, 2023·2 cites·20 claims
2571US9892793B1Systems and methods for programming data to storage devicesHGST Netherlands BV·Filed 2016·Granted Feb 13, 2018·3 cites·19 claims
2669US12394195B2Non-volatile cross-bar memory with on-chip processing circuitryWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2022·Granted Aug 19, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
2769US11741188B2Hardware accelerated discretized neural networkWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2021·Granted Aug 29, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
2868US11403783B2Techniques to dynamically gate encoded image components for artificial intelligence tasksALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 2, 2022·1 cites·18 claims
2966US12067054B2Method and system for characteristic-based video processingALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Aug 20, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
3066US2025390733A1Artificial intelligence training systemSANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
3165US12298909B2Memory prefetch based on machine learningSANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2023·Granted May 13, 2025·0 cites·19 claims
3265US12190245B2Multi-task segmented learning modelsALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2019·Granted Jan 7, 2025·1 cites·20 claims
3365US12003732B2Scene aware video content encodingALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Jun 4, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
3465US11375241B2Frequency specific compression and compensation technique in image processingALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 28, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
3563US12277058B2Hierarchical methods and systems for storing dataALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Apr 15, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
3663US11785261B2Frequency specific compression and compensation technique in image processingALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Oct 10, 2023·0 cites·17 claims
3763US11231993B2Symbol-based variable node updates for binary LDPC codesWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2018·Granted Jan 25, 2022·1 cites·20 claims
3861US2020311512A1Realization of binary neural networks in nand memory arraysSANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC·Filed 2020·Application pending·0 cites
3959US11403782B2Static channel filtering in frequency domainALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 2, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
4058US2023109617A1Pruning hardware unit for training neural networkALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2022·Application pending·0 cites
4157US11663077B2Symbol-based variable node updates for binary LDPC codesWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2020·Granted May 30, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
4257US11568252B2Variable input size techniques for neural networksALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 31, 2023·0 cites·19 claims
4357US10999592B1Estimated optimal video encoding parameter set systems and methodsALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2020·Granted May 4, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
4457US2025307344A1Split weights for deep neural network inference with non-volatile memory arraysSANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
4557US2025307601A1Ensemble and averaging for deep neural network inference with non-volatile memory arraysWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
4657US2024095540A1Reducing data communications in distributed inference schemesWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
4756US11500811B2Apparatuses and methods for map reduceALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 15, 2022·0 cites·18 claims
4856US11443163B2Method and system for executing neural networkALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 13, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
4956US11251812B2Encoding and decoding of hamming distance-based binary representations of numbersWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2020·Granted Feb 15, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
5055US9836350B2Joint decoding of rewriting NVM error sectorsWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2015·Granted Dec 5, 2017·1 cites·14 claims

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