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Richard Qian
Also filed as: QIAN RICHARD · QIAN RICHARD J · QIAN RICHARD JUNQIANG
47 granted patents·28 pending applications·4,003 citations·filing 1997–2023
99Inventor score
Files withSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC21DEKOCK BRUCE W10INTEL CORP10MICROSOFT CORP9MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC6
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75 records- 0198US6332033B1System for detecting skin-tone regions within an imageSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 18, 2001·211 cites·72 claims
- 0298US6236395B1Audiovisual information management systemSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1999·Granted May 22, 2001·704 cites·79 claims
- 0398US6148092ASystem for detecting skin-tone regions within an imageSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 14, 2000·329 cites·18 claims
- 0496US6070167AHierarchical method and system for object-based audiovisual descriptive tagging of images for information retrieval, editing, and manipulationSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1998·Granted May 30, 2000·327 cites·28 claims
- 0595US6785606B2System for providing traffic informationFiled 2003·Granted Aug 31, 2004·152 cites·23 claims
- 0695US6466862B1System for providing traffic informationDEKOCK BRUCE·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 15, 2002·410 cites·34 claims
- 0793US7639873B2Robust shot detection in a videoMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 29, 2009·19 cites·18 claims
- 0893US7536706B1Information enhanced audio video encoding systemSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1999·Granted May 19, 2009·164 cites·29 claims
- 0993US6404900B1Method for robust human face tracking in presence of multiple personsSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 11, 2002·268 cites·20 claims
- 1092US6678635B2Method and system for detecting semantic eventsINTEL CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 13, 2004·96 cites·20 claims
- 1191US6226388B1Method and apparatus for object tracking for automatic controls in video devicesSHARP LABS OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1999·Granted May 1, 2001·157 cites·10 claims
- 1290US6810397B1Collecting event data and describing eventsINTEL CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 26, 2004·80 cites·14 claims
- 1389US6707940B1Method and apparatus for image segmentationINTEL CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 16, 2004·58 cites·31 claims
- 1489US6445835B1Method for image characterization using color and texture statistics with embedded spatial informationSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 3, 2002·44 cites·4 claims
- 1588US7177861B2Method and system for detecting semantic eventsINTEL CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 13, 2007·56 cites·7 claims
- 1687US7194110B2Method and apparatus for tracking features in a video sequenceINTEL CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 20, 2007·41 cites·33 claims
- 1787US6516100B1Method for image characterization using color and texture statistics with embedded spatial informationSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 4, 2003·84 cites·6 claims
- 1887US6356658B1Method for fast return of abstracted images from a digital image databaseSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 12, 2002·38 cites·6 claims
- 1986US7730047B2Analysis of media content via extensible objectMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 1, 2010·25 cites·18 claims
- 2086US7676495B2Advanced streaming format table of contents objectMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 9, 2010·16 cites·20 claims
- 2186US6616529B1Simulation and synthesis of sports matchesINTEL CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 9, 2003·144 cites·19 claims
- 2283US6721454B1Method for automatic extraction of semantically significant events from videoSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 13, 2004·134 cites·15 claims
- 2383US6477524B1Method for statistical text analysisSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1999·Granted Nov 5, 2002·102 cites·9 claims
- 2482US10990701B2Content customization with security for client preferencesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 27, 2021·3 cites·14 claims
- 2577US10176232B2Blending enterprise content and web resultsMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Jan 8, 2019·3 cites·15 claims
- 2676US8762405B2Search behavior based communication forumsQIAN RICHARD J·Filed 2011·Granted Jun 24, 2014·6 cites·21 claims
- 2775US8081842B2Image resizing for web-based image searchLU YAN·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 20, 2011·3 cites·20 claims
- 2875US6011872AMethod of generalized content-scalable shape representation and codingSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1997·Granted Jan 4, 2000·56 cites·10 claims
- 2975US6002803AMethods of coding the order information for multiple-layer verticesSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 14, 1999·48 cites·7 claims
- 3073US9183310B2Disambiguating intents within search engine result pagesLI KANG·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 10, 2015·3 cites·18 claims
- 3172US8503523B2Forming a representation of a video item and use thereofWILLIAMS HUGH E·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 6, 2013·13 cites·20 claims
- 3272US6925207B1Method for fast return of abstracted images from a digital images databaseSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 2, 2005·13 cites·2 claims
- 3368US7467104B2Digital content pricing methods and articlesINTEL CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 16, 2008·1 cites·17 claims
- 3468US6950130B1Method of image background replacementSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1999·Granted Sep 27, 2005·33 cites·10 claims
- 3568US6285788B1Method for fast return of abstracted images from a digital image databaseSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1998·Granted Sep 4, 2001·39 cites·11 claims
- 3667US8270772B2Image resizing for web-based image searchLU YAN·Filed 2011·Granted Sep 18, 2012·1 cites·20 claims
- 3766US8000504B2Multimodal classification of adult contentMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 16, 2011·6 cites·18 claims
- 3865US8572065B2Link discovery from web scriptsMCDONALD KIERAN RICHARD·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 29, 2013·8 cites·19 claims
- 3965US7440611B2Method for image characterization using color and texture statistics with embedded spatial informationSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 21, 2008·6 cites·10 claims
- 4064US6965706B2Method for image characterization using color and texture statistics with embedded spatial informationSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 15, 2005·16 cites·8 claims
- 4163US5838830AVertex-based hierarchical shape representation and coding method and apparatusSHARP LAB OF AMERICA INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 17, 1998·26 cites·9 claims
- 4259US7383207B2Digital content pricing apparatusINTEL CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 3, 2008·7 cites·7 claims
- 4358US7324984B2Method and system for detecting semantic eventsINTEL CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 29, 2008·6 cites·28 claims
- 4454US2010253544A1System for providing traffic informationDEKOCK BRUCE W·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 4553US2015149070A1System for providing traffic informationDEKOCK BRUCE W·Filed 2015·Application pending·0 cites
- 4651US2009287404A1System for providing traffic informationDEKOCK BRUCE W·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 4750US7257538B2Generating animation from visual and audio inputINTEL CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 14, 2007·5 cites·23 claims
- 4850US2009150784A1User interface for previewing video itemsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4949US9519717B2Content customization with security for client preferencesKIMCHI GUR·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 13, 2016·0 cites·20 claims
- 5049US2016179970A1Disambiguating intents within search engine result pagesMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Application pending·0 cites
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