Ming Yang

US Patent:

6358636, Mar 19, 2002

Filed:

Jan 20, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/235369

Inventors:

Ming M. Yang - San Jose CA
Zhangmin Wang - Mountain View CA
James L. Chao - Milpitas CA
Michael A. Russak - Pleasanton CA

Assignee:

HMT Technology Corporation - Freemont CA

International Classification:

G11B 566

US Classification:

428694TP, 428 653, 428336, 428693, 428694 TC, 428900

Abstract:

Protective overlayers for magnetic recording media are described. The overlayers, composed of a transition metal-silicon or transition metal-germanium interlayer and a carbon overcoat, provide good wear resistance and corrosion resistance at thicknesses of less than 100.

US Patent:

8149273, Apr 3, 2012

Filed:

Jul 10, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/171273

Inventors:

Qiong Liu - Milpitas CA, US
Ming Yang - Evanston IL, US
Althea Turner - Menlo Park CA, US

Assignee:

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. - Tokyo

International Classification:

A62B 1/04
H04N 5/33
G06K 9/00
A61B 5/04

US Classification:

348 65, 348164, 382128, 600509

Abstract:

A system for measuring a pulse and respiratory rate from passive thermal video includes contour segmentation and tracking, clustering of informative pixels of interests, and robust dominant frequency component estimation. Contour segmentation is used to locate a blood vessel region to measure, after which all pixels in the nearby region are aligned across frames based on the segmentation's position, and scale in each frame. Spatial filtering is then performed to remove noise not related to heart beat and then non-linear filtering is performed on the temporal signal corresponding to each aligned pixel. The signal spectrum of each pixel is then feed to a clustering algorithm for outlier removal. Pixels in the largest cluster are then used to vote for the dominant frequency, and the median of the dominant frequency is output as the pulse rate.

US Patent:

8345984, Jan 1, 2013

Filed:

Jun 11, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/814328

Inventors:

Shuiwang Ji - Tempe AZ, US
Wei Xu - Los Gatos CA, US
Ming Yang - San Jose CA, US
Kai Yu - Santa Clara CA, US

Assignee:

NEC Laboratories America, Inc. - Princeton NJ

International Classification:

G06K 9/00
G06K 9/62
G06K 9/64

US Classification:

382190, 382103, 382155, 382156, 382279

Abstract:

Systems and methods are disclosed to recognize human action from one or more video frames by performing 3D convolutions to capture motion information encoded in multiple adjacent frames and extracting features from spatial and temporal dimensions therefrom; generating multiple channels of information from the video frames, combining information from all channels to obtain a feature representation for a 3D CNN model; and applying the 3D CNN model to recognize human actions.

US Patent:

8379920, Feb 19, 2013

Filed:

Jan 5, 2011

Appl. No.:

12/985003

Inventors:

Ming Yang - Cupertino CA, US
Kai Yu - Santa Clara CA, US

Assignee:

NEC Laboratories America, Inc. - Princeton NJ

International Classification:

G06K 9/00
G06K 9/34
G06K 9/46

US Classification:

382103, 382115, 382164, 382171, 382173, 382190

Abstract:

Systems and methods are disclosed to recognize clothing from videos by detecting and tracking a human; performing face alignment and occlusal detection; and performing age and gender estimation, skin area extraction, and clothing segmentation to a linear support vector machine (SVM) to recognize clothing worn by the human.

US Patent:

8582807, Nov 12, 2013

Filed:

May 31, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/790979

Inventors:

Ming Yang - Cupertino CA, US
Fengjun Lv - Cupertino CA, US
Kai Yu - Santa Clara CA, US

Assignee:

NEC Laboratories America, Inc. - Princeton NJ

International Classification:

G06K 9/00

US Classification:

382103, 704270

Abstract:

Systems and methods are disclosed for determining personal characteristics from images by generating a baseline gender model and an age estimation model using one or more convolutional neural networks (CNNs); capturing correspondences of faces by face tracking, and applying incremental learning to the CNNs and enforcing correspondence constraint such that CNN outputs are consistent and stable for one person.

US Patent:

20120111826, May 10, 2012

Filed:

Nov 10, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/943835

Inventors:

YANFENG CHEN - Milpitas CA, US
Yunjun Tang - Pleasanton CA, US
Yana Qian - Sunnyvale CA, US
Ming M. Yang - San Jose CA, US
Yunfei Li - Fremont CA, US
Paul E. Anderson - Fremont CA, US

Assignee:

Western Digital (Fremont), LLC - Fremont CA

International Classification:

G11B 5/127

US Classification:

216 22

Abstract:

Damascene processes using physical vapor deposition (PVD) sputter carbon film as a chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) stop layer for forming a magnetic recording head are provided. In one embodiment, one such process includes providing an insulator, removing a portion of the insulator to form a trench within the insulator, depositing a carbon material on first portions of the insulator using a physical vapor deposition process, disposing at least one ferromagnetic material on second portions of the insulator to form a pole including a portion of the ferromagnetic material within the trench, and performing a chemical mechanical planarization on the at least one ferromagnetic material using at least a portion of the carbon material as a stop for the chemical mechanical planarization.

US Patent:

20120243789, Sep 27, 2012

Filed:

Dec 28, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/339240

Inventors:

Ming Yang - Sunnyvale CA, US
Xiaoyu Wang - Columbia MO, US
Yuanqing Lin - Sunnyvale CA, US
Kai Yu - Santa Clara CA, US

Assignee:

NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA, INC. - Princeton NJ

International Classification:

G06K 9/46

US Classification:

382195

Abstract:

Systems and methods are disclosed to categorize images by detecting local features for each image; applying a tree structure to index local features in the images; and extracting a rank list of candidate images with category tags based on a tree indexing structure to estimate a label of a query image.

US Patent:

59780916, Nov 2, 1999

Filed:

Jun 26, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/105695

Inventors:

Peter C. Jann - Santa Clara CA
Marco A. Krumbuegel - Danville CA
Reginald Lee - Alameda CA
Ming M. Yang - San Jose CA

Assignee:

HMT Technology Corporation - Fremont CA

International Classification:

G01B 1124
G01B 1130
G01N 2100
G01N 2188

US Classification:

356376

Abstract:

An apparatus for measuring the height and diameter of laser-zone texture bumps on a rigid magnetic disk substrate is disclosed. The apparatus has a disk holder for supporting and rotating the substrate, and an optical beam-source assembly for directing a focused laser beam on the substrate, and for shifting the position of the beam's illumination spot on the substrate in a tracking (radial) direction. An optical detection assembly in the apparatus measures the deflection of the laser beam due to specular reflection of the beam by laser-zone texture bumps, as a function of time, in both scanning (circumferential) and tracking directions. A computational device in the apparatus functions to (i) calculate scanning and tracking deflection values which characterize beam deflections in the scanning and tracking directions, respectively, for a texture bump passing through the illumination spot produced by the beam on the substrate, (ii) select for bump-height analysis, those texture bumps whose scanning deflection values are above a selected threshold value and whose tracking deflection values are below a selected threshold value, indicative of a condition in which the selected textured bumps are each in focus and centered within said illumination spot, and (iii) determine the texture bump heights and diameters of the selected bumps from the beam deflections in the scanning direction. Also disclosed is a method by which the apparatus measures the light power which is scattered by the of laser-zone texture bumps on a rigid magnetic disk substrate.