Patents Examined by Michelle M Entezari
  • Patent number: 11593597
    Abstract: A system includes first and second sensors and a controller. The first sensor is of a first type and is configured to sense objects around a vehicle and to capture first data about the objects in a frame. The second sensor is of a second type and is configured to sense the objects around the vehicle and to capture second data about the objects in the frame. The controller is configured to down-sample the first and second data to generate down-sampled first and second data having a lower resolution than the first and second data. The controller is configured to identify a first set of the objects by processing the down-sampled first and second data having the lower resolution. The controller is configured to identify a second set of the objects by selectively processing the first and second data from the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yasen Hu, Shuqing Zeng
  • Patent number: 11587325
    Abstract: A method for detecting people entering and leaving a field is provided in an embodiment of the disclosure. The method includes the following. An event detection area corresponding to an entrance is set, and the event detection area includes an upper boundary, a lower boundary, and an internal area, and the lower boundary includes a left boundary, a right boundary, and a bottom boundary; a person image corresponding to a person in an image stream is detected and tracked; and whether the person passes through or does not pass through the entrance is determined according to a first detection result and a second detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Shu-Hsin Chang, Yao-Chin Yang, Yi-Yu Su, Kun-Hsien Lu
  • Patent number: 11587346
    Abstract: Ink-processing technology is set forth herein for detecting a gesture that a user performs in the course of interacting with an ink document. The technology operates by identifying a grouping of ink strokes created by the user. The technology then determines whether the grouping expresses a gesture based on a combination of spatial information and image information, both of which describe the grouping. That is, the spatial information describes a sequence of positions traversed by the user in drawing the grouping of ink strokes using an ink capture device, while the image information refers to image content in an image produced by rendering the grouping into image form. The technology also provides a technique for identifying the grouping by successively expanding a region of analysis, to ultimately provide a spatial cluster of ink strokes for analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Oz Solomon, Oussama Elachqar, Sergey Aleksandrovich Doroshenko, Nima Mohajerin, Badal Yadav
  • Patent number: 11576628
    Abstract: Emission imaging data are reconstructed to generate a low dose reconstructed image. Standardized uptake value (SUV) conversion (30) is applied to convert the low dose reconstructed image to a low dose SUV image. A neural network (46, 48) is applied to the low dose SUV image to generate an estimated full dose SUV image. Prior to applying the neural network the low dose reconstructed image or the low dose SUV image is filtered using a low pass filter (32). The neural network is trained on a set of training low dose SUV images and corresponding training full dose SUV images to transform the training low dose SUV images to match the corresponding training full dose SUV images, using a loss function having a mean square error loss component (34) and a loss component (36) that penalizes loss of image texture and/or a loss component (38) that promotes edge preservation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Sydney Kaplan, Yang-Ming Zhu, Andriy Andreyev, Chuanyong Bai, Steven Michael Cochoff
  • Patent number: 11548310
    Abstract: This patent document discloses physical documents including metameric ink pairs. One claim recites a document comprising: a first surface; a second surface, in which the first surface comprises a first set of print structures and a second set of print structures, in which the first set of print structures and the second set of print structures collective convey an encoded signal discernable from optical scan data representing at least a first portion of the first surface, in which the first set of print structures is provided on the first surface with a first ink and the second set of print structures is provided on the first surface with a second, different ink, and in which the first ink and the second, different ink comprise a metameric pair. Of course, other claims and combinations are described as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventors: Tony F. Rodriguez, Geoffrey B. Rhoads, Ravi K. Sharma
  • Patent number: 11514695
    Abstract: Technology is described herein for parsing an ink document having a plurality of ink strokes. The technology performs stroke-level processing on the plurality of ink strokes to produce stroke-level information, the stroke-level information identifying at least one characteristic associated with each ink stroke. The technology also performs object-level processing on individual objects within the ink document to produce object-level information, the object-level information identifying one or more groupings of ink strokes in the ink document. The technology then parses the ink document into constituent parts based on the stroke-level information and the object-level information. In some implementations, the technology converts the ink stroke data into an ink image. The stroke-level processing and/or the object-level processing may operate on the ink image using one or more neural networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Oussama Elachqar, Badal Yadav, Oz Solomon, Sergey Aleksandrovich Doroshenko, Nima Mohajerin
  • Patent number: 11501543
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system and a method for language independent automatic license plate localization by analysis of plurality of images in real-time under day-light condition without using any external light. In one embodiment, the system can work without any spatiality constraints and/or demographic considerations without any restriction on jurisdiction and can effectively localize license plates (LPs) of any type consisting of alpha-numeric characters and symbols. In other embodiment, methods for search-space reduction system based on motion-based filtration and LPs localization based on edge-active-region filtration with high frame-per-second (FPS) throughput are described. In another embodiment, a dual-binarization scheme is described for color invariant LP localization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: VIDEONETICS TECHNOLOGY PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Sudeb Das, Apurba Gorai, Tinku Acharya
  • Patent number: 11501572
    Abstract: In various examples, a set of object trajectories may be determined based at least in part on sensor data representative of a field of view of a sensor. The set of object trajectories may be applied to a long short-term memory (LSTM) network to train the LSTM network. An expected object trajectory for an object in the field of view of the sensor may be computed by the LSTM network based at least in part an observed object trajectory. By comparing the observed object trajectory to the expected object trajectory, a determination may be made that the observed object trajectory is indicative of an anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Milind Naphade, Shuo Wang
  • Patent number: 11495074
    Abstract: A face recognition unlocking device includes a collection device configured to obtain information of a user, a controller configured to determine whether face recognition of the user succeeds, based on the information of the user, and calculate a location of the user for success in the face recognition, and an output device configured to guide the user to move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Min Gu Park
  • Patent number: 11490986
    Abstract: Methods and systems for displaying an image of a medical procedure (e.g., an intraoperative image) with additional information (e.g., data) that can augment the image of the medical procedure are provided. Augmenting the image can include overlaying data from a first image to a second image. Overlaying the data can involve determining, for a point or multiple points in the first image, a matching location or multiple matching locations in a second image. The first image and the second image can be of a patient. Determining the matching location can involve using a rotation and scale invariant geometrical relationship. The matching locations can be used as the basis for the overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: BEYEONICS SURGICAL LTD.
    Inventor: Rani BEn-Yishai
  • Patent number: 11488415
    Abstract: A three-dimensional facial shape estimating device (300) includes a face image acquiring unit (301) configured to acquire a plurality of image frames that capture a subject's face; a face information acquiring unit (302) having, preset therein, a predetermined number of facial feature points, the face information acquiring unit (302) being configured to acquire, for each of the plurality of image frames, face information that indicates a position of each of the predetermined number of facial feature points of the subject's face within the image frame; and a three-dimensional shape estimating unit (303) configured to perform mapping of each of the predetermined number of facial feature points of the subject's face between the plurality of image frames based on the face information of each of the plurality of image frames and to estimate the three-dimensional shape of the subject's face based on a result from the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akinori Ebihara
  • Patent number: 11484251
    Abstract: A method of generating a correction plan for a knee of a patient includes obtaining a ratio of reference bone density to reference ligament tension in a reference population. A bone of the knee of the patient may be imaged. From the image of the bone, a first dataset may be determined including at least one site of ligament attachment and existing dwell points of a medial femoral condyle and lateral femoral condyle of the patient on a tibia of the patient. Desired positions of contact in three dimensions of the femoral condyles of the patient with the tibia of the patient may be obtained by determining a relationship in which a ratio of bone density to ligament tension of the patient is substantially equal to the ratio of reference bone density to reference ligament tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: Gokce Yildirim, Sally Liarno, Mark Gruczynski
  • Patent number: 11481901
    Abstract: There is provided a medical image processing apparatus which includes a first extraction unit configured to extract coronary arteries depicted in images of a plurality of time phases relating to the heart, and to extract at least one stenosed part depicted in each coronary artery; a calculation unit configured to calculate a pressure gradient of each of the extracted coronary arteries, based on tissue blood flow volumes of the coronary arteries; a second extraction unit configured to extract an ischemic region depicted in the images; and a specifying unit configured to specify a responsible blood vessel of the ischemic region by referring to a dominance map, in which each of the extracted coronary arteries and a dominance territory are associated, for the extracted ischemic region, and to specify a responsible stenosis, based on the pressure gradient corresponding to a stenosed part in the specified responsible blood vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Igarashi, Satoshi Wakai, Kazumasa Arakita, Hideaki Ishii, Yasuko Fujisawa, Shigeo Kaminaga, Kenji Hirohata, Junichiro Ooga
  • Patent number: 11482021
    Abstract: A microscope for adaptive sensing may comprise an illumination assembly, an image capture device configured to collect light from a sample illuminated by the assembly, and a processor. The processor may be configured to execute instructions which cause the microscope to capture, using the image capture device, an initial image set of the sample, identify, in response to the initial image set, an attribute of the sample, determine, in response to identifying the attribute, a three-dimensional (3D) process for sensing the sample, and generate, using the determined 3D process, an output image set comprising more than one focal plane. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SCOPIO LABS LTD.
    Inventors: Ben Leshem, Eran Small, Itai Hayut, Erez Na'Aman, Eyal Ben-Bassat
  • Patent number: 11478118
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a robot, including: a plurality of sensors; at least one encoder; a processor; a tangible, non-transitory, machine readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor effectuates operations including: measuring, with the at least one encoder, wheel rotation of at least one wheel; capturing, with an image sensor, images of an environment as the robot moves within the environment; identifying, with the processor, at least one characteristic of at least one object captured in the images of the environment; determining, with the processor, an object type of the at least one object based on characteristics of different types of objects stored in an object database; and instructing, with the processor, the robot to execute at least one action based on at least one of: the object type of the at least one object and the measured wheel rotation of the at least one wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: AI Incorporated
    Inventor: Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi
  • Patent number: 11468570
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method for acquiring maximum principal strain or a maximum principal stress status of a vessel wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongjian Wang, Jieyan Ma, Yuan Ren
  • Patent number: 11470298
    Abstract: A method with algorithm updating includes: receiving a first input batch including one or more first images; generating a first output batch with respect to the first input batch using an algorithm configured to generate a disparity image, the first output batch including one or more first output images; receiving a second input batch corresponding to the first input batch, the second input batch including one or more second images having viewpoints that are different from viewpoints of the one or more first images; generating a test batch based on the first output batch and the second input batch, the test batch including one or more test images; and updating the algorithm based on a difference between the first input batch and the test batch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungeon Kim, Wonhee Lee
  • Patent number: 11461989
    Abstract: A monitor method for detecting an object includes capturing an image; calculating an initial probability of the object existing in the image; applying a mask to cover a first portion of the image if the initial probability is higher than a threshold; calculating a first probability of the object existing in the image excluding the first portion; and using at least the first probability to detect the location the object in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Pin-Rong Chen, Ti-Wen Tang
  • Patent number: 11455855
    Abstract: A document is received by a first computer system from a second computer system. The document is received through a network. A document level security code is received by the first computer system through a second network. A content level security code is received by the first computer system and through the second network. A first validation operation is performed by the first computer system. The performance is based on the document level security code. The first computer system determines the document is an altered document. The determination is based on the performance of the first validation operation. A second validation operation is executed on the altered document. The second validation operation is executed by the first computer system and in response to the determination. An alteration status of the document is detected by the first computer and based on the second validation operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Mathew Jawaharlal, Sathya Santhar, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Balamurugaramanathan Sivaramalingam
  • Patent number: 11450080
    Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: detecting a target object in a current video frame of a target video stream, to obtain a current detection region for the target object; adjusting the current detection region according to a historic detection region corresponding to the target object in a historic video frame of the target video stream, to obtain a determined current detection region; performing key point positioning on the target object based on the determined current detection region, to obtain a first set of key points; and performing stabilization on locations of the key points in the first set according to locations of key points in a second set corresponding to the target object in the historic video frame, to obtain current locations of a set of key points of the target object in the current video frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Weilong Peng, Xiaoyong Shen, Yilun Chen, Yanan Sun