Patents Represented by Attorney Dirk Drinkman
  • Patent number: 7756407
    Abstract: A method and system deblurs images acquired of a scene by a camera. A light field acquired of a scene is modulated temporally according to a sequence of ons and offs. The modulated light field is integrated by a sensor of a camera during an exposure time to generate an encoded input image. The encoded input image is decoded according to a pseudo-inverse of a smearing matrix to produce a decoded output image having a reduced blur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Ramesh Raskar
  • Patent number: 6911995
    Abstract: The location of an object in a physical scene is identified with a stereo camera. A virtual surface is identified in the physical scene, and an approximate disparity set is constructed for the virtual surface. A main and a reference image of the scene are acquired by the stereo camera. The reference image is warped according to the disparity set, and subtracted from the main image to determine a set of depth residual values. Pixels having a substantially non-zero residual are identified with a surface of the object not coincident with the virtual surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuri A. Ivanov, Alex P. Pentland, Christopher R. Wren