Patents Examined by Carol Wang
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Patent number: 11170239Abstract: Provided are a method for setting an owner of an object based on sensing information regarding an internal environment of a vehicle when the object comes apart from a passenger, and an electronic apparatus therefor. In the present disclosure, one or more of an electronic apparatus, a vehicle, a vehicular terminal, and the autonomous driving vehicle may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a 5G service-related device, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyunkyu Kim, Kibong Song
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Patent number: 11170224Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for keyframe-based object scanning and tracking. A sensor device captures images of objects in a scene. For each image, a computing device labels each of at least a plurality of pixels in the image, tracks at least one region of the labeled image to determine an estimate of a current pose of at least one object, validates the estimate of the current pose of the at least one object, selects the labeled image as a keyframe based upon validation of the estimate of the current pose, and updates a volumetric model comprising the at least one object using the keyframe. The computing device generates a final 3D model of the at least one object based upon the updated volumetric model.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: VanGogh Imaging, Inc.Inventors: Craig Cambias, Ken Lee, Xin Hou, Jun Yin, Huy Bui
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Patent number: 11164013Abstract: Methods and systems for generating and utilizing a road friction estimate (RFE) indicating the expected friction level between a road surface and the tires of a vehicle based on forward looking camera image signal processing. A forward-looking camera image is pre-processed, patch segmented (both laterally and longitudinally, as defined by wheel tracks or the like), transformed into a bird's eye view (BEV) image using perspective transformation, patch quantized, and finally classified. The resulting RFE may be used to provide driver information, automatically control the associated vehicle's motion, and/or inform a cloud-based alert service to enhance driver safety.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Volvo Car CorporationInventors: Mats Jonasson, Sohini Roy Chowdhury, Minming Zhao, Niklas Ohlsson
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Patent number: 11158042Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to object defect detection. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. According to the method, for a test image of at least one part of a target object, a reference image is generated by repeating a periodic pattern detected in the test image, the target object consisting of elements. A differential image is determined by comparing the test image and the reference image. The differential image is superimposed on a predefined grid image to obtain a superimposed image. The grid image comprises grids corresponding to elements of a reference object associated with the target object. The number of defective elements is determined in the at least one part of the target object based on the superimposed image. In other embodiments, a system and a computer program product are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jing Chang Huang, Guo Qiang Hu, Peng Ji, Jun Zhu, Yuan Yuan Ding
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Patent number: 11157764Abstract: An example apparatus for semantic image segmentation includes a receiver to receive an image to be segmented. The apparatus also includes a gated dense pyramid network comprising a plurality of gated dense pyramid (GDP) blocks to be trained to generate semantic labels for each pixel in the received image. The apparatus further includes a generator to generate a segmented image based on the generated semantic labels.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Libin Wang, Anbang Yao, Jianguo Li, Yurong Chen
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Patent number: 11151409Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that are designed to enable easy generation of a path for successively displaying characteristic images. The information processing device includes a setting unit that sets a path for connecting characteristic portions in at least one image by referring to metadata including at least information about feature points detected from the image. The setting unit sets the path by determining a regression curve, using the feature points. In a case where the feature points include a feature point at a distance equal to or longer than a predetermined threshold value from the regression curve, the setting unit redetermines the regression curve after removing a feature point detected from an image including a feature point having a low score among the feature points. The present technology can be applied to information processing devices that process still images and moving images.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda, Shuichi Asajima, Yuki Ono
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Patent number: 11138744Abstract: A method for determining whether a goal is achieved by a trajectory of a ball using a mobile computer device comprises capturing a sequence of video frames of the ball with a camera of the mobile computer device; detecting the ball in at least three of the video frames; computing a trajectory of the ball using the detections of the ball; detecting a goal image in at least one of the video frames; computing whether the trajectory of the ball achieves intersection or similar with a goal plane computed from the goal image according to a goal criterion.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: FORMALYTICS HOLDINGS PTY LTDInventors: Andrew Hall, David Budden, Grant Etherington, Holly Ade Simpson, Tres Kani, Se Yeun Kim
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Patent number: 11132552Abstract: This invention provides a system and method that employs reduction in bandwidth and the amount of data stored, along with queuing of data, so that the significant and/or relevant shipboard visual information is detected and communicated continuously from the ship (or other remote vehicle/location) to shore without loss of useful/high-priority information and within the available bandwidth of that typical, available satellite link. The system and method supports remote configuration and management from shore to the ship over the same communications channel but in the reverse direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: ShipIn Systems Inc.Inventors: Ilan Naslavsky, Osher Perry, Moran Cohen, David J. Michael
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Patent number: 11132561Abstract: An information processing device is configured to: obtain sensing data from an optical sensor; obtain position information of a mobile body which includes the optical sensor; obtain map information; determine, in sensing data, a specific sensing data region corresponding to a specific region in a sensing region of the optical sensor by using the position information and the map information that have been obtained; determine input information to be provided to an object detection model, according to the specific sensing data region; and cause the object detection model to perform object detection processing by using the input information.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Masaki Takahashi, Yasunori Ishii, Ryota Fujimura
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Patent number: 11132585Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for monitoring passengers in within a cabin of a vehicle and determining whether the passengers are engaging in abnormal behavior. The method and system uses a novel vector to robustly and numerically represent the activity of the passengers in a respective frame, which is referred to herein as an “activity vector.” Additionally, a Gaussian Mixture Model is utilized by the method and system to distinguish between normal and abnormal passenger behavior. Cluster components of the Gaussian Mixture Model are advantageously learned using an unsupervised approach in which training data is not labeled or annotated to indicate normal and abnormal passenger behavior. In this way, the Gaussian Mixture Model can be trained at a very low cost.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Yumi Kondo, Ryan Burt, Krishnan Bharath Navalpakkam, Alexander Hirsch, Naveen Ramakrishnan, Filipe Goncalves, Stefan Weissert, Jayanta Kumar Dutta, Ravi Kumar Satzoda
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Patent number: 11126863Abstract: A method for detecting objects in traffic flow includes identifying a location of a first camera and a second camera. The method includes determining a traffic flow direction. The method includes receiving a first image set captured by the first camera and a second image set captured by the second camera. The method includes identifying an object of a first object type in the first image set based on the location of the first camera and the traffic flow direction. The method includes identifying an object of a second object type in the second image set based on the location of the second camera and the traffic flow direction. The method includes recording the object of the first object type as a single incremented count in a first object type queue and the object of the second object type as a single incremented count in a second object type queue.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Southwest Airlines Co.Inventors: Angela Marano, Daniel Novotny, Justin Bundick
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Patent number: 11127118Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory and configured to execute the instructions to: acquire a plurality of images having angles of view that at least partially overlap each other and varying in in-focus positions, and information corresponding to each of the plurality of images; determine a rearrangement method for rearranging the plurality of images in order of the in-focus positions based on the information; rearrange the plurality of images using the rearrangement method; and generate a combined image by extracting areas in focus from the plurality of images and performing the combining based on the extracted areas.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Marina Nishiyama
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Patent number: 11106949Abstract: A computing device, including a processor configured to receive a first video including a plurality of frames. For each frame, the processor may determine that a target region of the frame includes a target object. The processor may determine a surrounding region within which the target region is located. The surrounding region may be smaller than the frame. The processor may identify one or more features located in the surrounding region. From the one or more features, the processor may generate one or more manipulated object identifiers. For each of a plurality of pairs of frames, the processor may determine a respective manipulated object movement between a first manipulated object identifier of the first frame and a second manipulated object identifier of the second frame. The processor may classify at least one action performed in the first video based on the plurality of manipulated object movements.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Muhammad Zeeshan Zia, Federica Bogo, Harpreet Singh Sawhney, Huseyin Coskun, Bugra Tekin
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Patent number: 11107991Abstract: A method of analyzing film on a substrate comprises receiving surface profile data obtained from measurements of a plurality of discrete regions on a substrate, the plurality of discrete regions comprising one or more film layers; extracting a plurality of parameters from the received surface profile data, the plurality of parameters comprising one or more parameters of the one or more film layers of each of the plurality of discrete regions, wherein the extracting is based on a predetermined pattern for the plurality of the discrete regions on the substrate; and displaying a user interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.Inventors: Doris Pik-Yiu Chun, Ian David Parker
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Patent number: 11106943Abstract: A computer implemented method includes obtaining a first deep neural network (DNN) model trained on labeled real image data for a downstream vision task, obtaining a second DNN model trained on synthetic images created with random image parameter values for the downstream vision task, obtaining a third DNN model trained on the labeled real image data and the synthetic images for the downstream vision task, performing a forward pass execution of each model to generate a loss, backpropagating the loss to modify parameter values, and iterating the forward pass execution and backpropagating with images generated by the modified parameters to jointly train the models and optimize the parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yuri Pekelny, Pedro Urbina Escos, Emanuel Shalev, Di Wang, Dimitrios Lymperopoulos
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Patent number: 11087483Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a representative-distance calculator and a joining processor. The representative-distance calculator generates representative distance values of the basis of a distance image generated from a stereo image including an image of at least one object including a vehicle. The distance image includes distance values of pixels. The joining processor performs a joining process of joining a first image region and a second image region that are defined based on the image of the at least one object and disposed apart from each other in the stereo image. The joining processor performs a determining process of determining whether the first image region and the second image region each include an image of a side face of the vehicle. The joining processor performs the joining process when the first image region and the second image region each include the image of the side face of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Shuji Arai
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Patent number: 11076770Abstract: Systems and methods are described for the compositing together of model-linked vascular data from a plurality of sources, including at least one 2-D angiography image, for display in a frame of reference of the at least one angiography image. In some embodiments, a linking model comprises a data structure configured to link locations of angiographic images to corresponding elements of non-image vascular parameter data. The linking data structure is traversed to obtain a mapping to the frame of reference of one or more of the angiographic images.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: CathWorks Ltd.Inventors: Ifat Lavi, Guy Lavi
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Patent number: 11080516Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for red eye detection are provided. In one aspect, a system includes an image acquisition device, first and second illuminators, and at least one processor. The first illuminator is arranged closer to the image acquisition device than the second illuminator. The image acquisition device is configured to capture a first facial image of a face of a subject with the first illuminator being on and the second illuminator being off and a second facial image of the face of the subject with the second illuminator being on and the first illuminator being off. The processor can process the first facial image based on the second facial image to determine whether at least one eye of the subject is live by determining that the first facial image includes a red eye reflection from the at least one eye.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: EyeVerify, Inc.Inventors: Yash Joshi, Reza R. Derakhshani
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Patent number: 11069049Abstract: A division line detection device includes: a processor configured to detect a division line candidate pixel from an image acquired by a camera mounted on a vehicle, set first reliability for a division line candidate pixel whose value representing likelihood that a lane division line is represented is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value; set second reliability lower than the first reliability for a division line candidate pixel whose value is less than the predetermined threshold value; correct to the first reliability, when a first predetermined number or more of the division line candidate pixels are located on a first scan line having one end at a vanishing point of the image, the second reliability of each division line candidate pixel on the first scan line; and detect a lane division line based on the division line candidate pixels having the first reliability.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Sota, Jia Sun, Masataka Yokota
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Patent number: 11068746Abstract: A method for predicting the realism of an object within an image includes generating a training image set for a predetermined object type. The training image set comprises one or more training images at least partially generated using a computer. A pixel level training spatial realism map is generated for each training image of the one or more training images. Each training spatial realism map configured to represent a perceptual realism of the corresponding training image. A predictor is trained using the training image set and the corresponding training spatial realism maps. An image of the predetermined object is received. A spatial realism map of the received image is produced using the trained predictor.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventors: Raja Bala, Matthew Shreve, Jeyasri Subramanian, Pei Li