Patents by Inventor Allen Hainline

Allen Hainline has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11682142
    Abstract: Subject matter regards colorizing a three-dimensional (3D) point set. A method of colorizing a 3D point can include voxelizing 3D points including the 3D point into voxels such that a voxel of the voxels including the 3D point includes a voxel subset of the 3D points, projecting the voxel subset to respective image spaces of first and second images used to generate the 3D points, and associating a color value, determined based on a respective number of pixels of the first and second images to which the voxel subset projects, with the 3D point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Stephen J. Raif, Allen Hainline
  • Publication number: 20210192789
    Abstract: Subject matter regards colorizing a three-dimensional (3D) point set. A method of colorizing a 3D point can include voxelizing 3D points including the 3D point into voxels such that a voxel of the voxels including the 3D point includes a voxel subset of the 3D points, projecting the voxel subset to respective image spaces of first and second images used to generate the 3D points, and associating a color value, determined based on a respective number of pixels of the first and second images to which the voxel subset projects, with the 3D point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen J. Raif, Allen Hainline
  • Patent number: 10553020
    Abstract: A method can include determining, based on elevation data of a geographic region corresponding to a location at which an image was captured and a solar elevation angle at a time the image was captured, whether each pixel of the image is a shadow or a non-shadow to create a shadow mask of the image, generating an eroded shadow mask that includes the shadow mask with a specified number of pixels from a perimeter of each shadow in the shadow mask changed to respective values corresponding to non-shadows, generating a dilated shadow mask that includes the specified number of pixels in the shadow mask changed to values corresponding to shadows, and refining the shadow mask using the eroded shadow mask and the dilated shadow mask to create a refined shadow mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ratheon Company
    Inventors: Allen Hainline, Richard W. Ely