Wei Mou Jiang, 532562 Cropsey Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11214

7720851, May 18, 2010

Dec 22, 2006

11/615120

Shih-Fu Chang - New York NY, US
Wei Jiang - New York NY, US
Alexander C. Loui - Penfield NY, US

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

G06F 17/30

707749

A context-based concept fusion method detects a first concept in an image record. The method includes automatically determining at least one other concept in the image record which has a contextual relationship with the first concept and which is to be labeled by a user of the method; and labeling the at least one other concept by the user with a ground truth label to be used in the context-based concept fusion method to improve detection of the first concept in the image record.

8135221, Mar 13, 2012

Oct 7, 2009

12/574716

Wei Jiang - New York NY, US
Courtenay Cotton - New York NY, US
Shih-Fu Chang - New York NY, US
Daniel P. Ellis - New York NY, US
Alexander C. Loui - Penfield NY, US

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY
Columbia University - Rochester NY

G06K 9/62
G06K 9/54

382224, 382305, 725 37

A method for determining a classification for a video segment, comprising the steps of: breaking the video segment into a plurality of short-term video slices, each including a plurality of video frames and an audio signal; analyzing the video frames for each short-term video slice to form a plurality of region tracks; analyzing each region track to form a visual feature vector and a motion feature vector; analyzing the audio signal for each short-term video slice to determine an audio feature vector; forming a plurality of short-term audio-visual atoms for each short-term video slice by combining the visual feature vector and the motion feature vector for a particular region track with the corresponding audio feature vector; and using a classifier to determine a classification for the video segment responsive to the short-term audio-visual atoms.

2005025, Nov 10, 2005

Mar 25, 2005

11/090677

Wei Jiang - Forest Hills NY, US
Declan Collins - New York NY, US
Liesl Leach - New York NY, US

G06F017/60
G06K005/00

705014000, 235380000

A method and system for consolidating loyalty rewards from multiple programs into a single currency which is managed in a single account allows a customer to utilize accumulated rewards for making full or partial payments at a point of sale with an online merchant. A payment transaction can represent the use of multiple accounts (i.e., reward currency, credit card, or debit card). When executing the transaction, the system conceals a customer's account information by generating a virtual account number (VAN). As such, the online merchant is not required to have any prior knowledge of the system and processes the transaction as a conventional credit card purchase.