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Qifa Ke
Also filed as: KE QIFA
36 granted patents·7 pending applications·785 citations·filing 1999–2019
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43 records- 0197US8156115B1Document-based networking with mixed media realityEROL BERNA·Filed 2008·Granted Apr 10, 2012·70 cites·24 claims
- 0296US9710493B2Approximate K-means via cluster closuresMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 18, 2017·47 cites·19 claims
- 0396US9229956B2Image retrieval using discriminative visual featuresKE QIFA·Filed 2011·Granted Jan 5, 2016·110 cites·20 claims
- 0493US8276088B2User interface for three-dimensional navigationKE QIFA·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 25, 2012·56 cites·35 claims
- 0591US10255273B2Method and system for ranking and summarizing natural language passagesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Apr 9, 2019·20 cites·20 claims
- 0691US8989431B1Ad hoc paper-based networking with mixed media realityEROL BERNA·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 24, 2015·22 cites·23 claims
- 0791US8184155B2Recognition and tracking using invisible junctionsKE QIFA·Filed 2007·Granted May 22, 2012·37 cites·28 claims
- 0890US10572598B2Method and system for ranking and summarizing natural language passagesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 25, 2020·9 cites·20 claims
- 0990US8433140B2Image metadata propagationKE QIFA·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 30, 2013·25 cites·20 claims
- 1090US8254697B2Scalable near duplicate image search with geometric constraintsISARD MICHAEL·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 28, 2012·39 cites·8 claims
- 1190US8069210B2Graph based bot-user detectionGILLUM ELIOT C·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 29, 2011·27 cites·17 claims
- 1289US11068474B2Sequence to sequence conversational query understandingMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Jul 20, 2021·13 cites·20 claims
- 1389US10169453B2Automatic document summarization using search engine intelligenceMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Jan 1, 2019·15 cites·20 claims
- 1489US8503769B2Matching text to imagesBAKER SIMON·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 6, 2013·17 cites·20 claims
- 1588US9373029B2Invisible junction feature recognition for document security or annotationHULL JONATHAN J·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 21, 2016·21 cites·45 claims
- 1685US8768050B2Accurate text classification through selective use of image dataKANNAN ANITHA·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 1, 2014·10 cites·20 claims
- 1785US8144921B2Information retrieval using invisible junctions and geometric constraintsKE QIFA·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 27, 2012·21 cites·30 claims
- 1883US11200269B2Method and system for highlighting answer phrasesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 14, 2021·7 cites·20 claims
- 1983US9286548B2Accurate text classification through selective use of image dataMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 15, 2016·7 cites·20 claims
- 2083US8498455B2Scalable face image retrievalKE QIFA·Filed 2010·Granted Jul 30, 2013·12 cites·18 claims
- 2183US7970171B2Synthetic image and video generation from ground truth dataRICOH CO LTD·Filed 2007·Granted Jun 28, 2011·17 cites·16 claims
- 2282US9235396B2Optimizing data partitioning for data-parallel computingKE QIFA·Filed 2011·Granted Jan 12, 2016·8 cites·20 claims
- 2382US8452106B2Partition min-hash for partial-duplicate image determinationKE QIFA·Filed 2010·Granted May 28, 2013·10 cites·20 claims
- 2482US8086038B2Invisible junction features for patch recognitionKE QIFA·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 27, 2011·18 cites·27 claims
- 2581US10192279B1Indexed document modification sharing with mixed media realityEROL BERNA·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 29, 2019·6 cites·27 claims
- 2681US9710491B2Content-based image searchKE QIFA·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 18, 2017·12 cites·20 claims
- 2781US9183436B2Matching text to imagesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2013·Granted Nov 10, 2015·5 cites·20 claims
- 2880US7352386B1Method and apparatus for recovering a three-dimensional scene from two-dimensional imagesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 1, 2008·65 cites·34 claims
- 2979US8838432B2Image annotations on web pagesBAKER SIMON JOHN·Filed 2012·Granted Sep 16, 2014·7 cites·20 claims
- 3074US8745738B2Vouching for user account using social networking relationshipXIE YINGLIAN·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 3, 2014·1 cites·20 claims
- 3172US8238609B2Synthetic image and video generation from ground truth dataLOOKINGBILL ANDREW·Filed 2011·Granted Aug 7, 2012·4 cites·20 claims
- 3271US8543574B2Partial-matching for web searchesKE QIFA·Filed 2009·Granted Sep 24, 2013·5 cites·20 claims
- 3366US6750860B1Rendering with concentric mosaicsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 15, 2004·38 cites·78 claims
- 3464US9355179B2Visual-cue refinement of user query resultsKUO YU-TING·Filed 2010·Granted May 31, 2016·3 cites·20 claims
- 3556US8787680B2Scalable near duplicate image search with geometric constraintsISARD MICHAEL·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 22, 2014·1 cites·18 claims
- 3643US10534780B2Single unified rankerMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 14, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 3740US2012246158A1Co-range partition for query plan optimization and data-parallel programming modelKE QIFA·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
- 3840US2012117051A1Multi-modal approach to search query inputLIU JIYANG·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 3940US2011106798A1Search Result Enhancement Through Image Duplicate DetectionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 4039US2012155717A1Image search including facial imageMA YUE·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 4139US2019012373A1Conversational/multi-turn question understanding using web intelligenceMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2017·Application pending·0 cites
- 4232US2011208714A1Large scale search bot detectionC O MICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 4332US2017075985A1Query transformation for natural language queriesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Application pending·0 cites
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