Patents by Inventor Antoine Meler

Antoine Meler 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).

  • Publication number: 20180262683
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for image signal processing. For example, methods may include receiving a first image from a first image sensor; receiving a second image from a second image sensor; stitching the first image and the second image to obtain a stitched image; identifying an image portion of the stitched image that is positioned on a stitching boundary of the stitched image; and inputting the image portion to a machine learning module to obtain a score, wherein the machine learning module has been trained using training data that included image portions labeled to reflect an absence of stitching and image portions labeled to reflect a presence of stitching, wherein the image portions labeled to reflect a presence of stitching included stitching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Antoine Meler, Bruno Cesar Douady-Pleven
  • Publication number: 20180262685
    Abstract: Multiple images may be combined to obtain a composite image. Individual images may be obtained with different camera sensors and/or at different time instances. In order to obtain the composite image source images may be aligned in order to produce a seamless stitch. Source images may be characterized by a region of overlap. A disparity measure may be determined for pixels along a border region between the source images. A warp transformation may be determined using a refinement process configured to determine displacement of pixels of the border region based on the disparity. Pixel displacement at a given location may be constrained to direction configured tangential to an epipolar line corresponding to the location. The warp transformation may be propagated to pixels of the image. Spatial and/or temporal smoothing may be applied. In order to obtain refined solution, the warp transformation may be determined at multiple spatial scales.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Antoine Meler, Thomas Derbanne
  • Patent number: 10033928
    Abstract: Images may be obtained using a moving camera comprised of two or more rigidly mounted image sensors. Camera motion may change camera orientation when different portions of an image are captured. Pixel acquisition time may be determined based on image exposure duration and position of the pixel in the image array (pixel row index). Orientation of the sensor may at the pixel acquisition time instance may be determined. Image transformation may be performed wherein a given portion of the image may be associated with a respective transformation characterized by the corrected sensor orientation. In some implementations of panoramic image acquisition, multiple source images may be transformed to, e.g., equirectangular plane, using sensor orientation that is corrected for the time of pixel acquisition. Use of orientation correction may improve quality of stitching by, e.g., reducing contrast of border areas between portions of the transformed image obtained by different image sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Antoine Meler
  • Patent number: 9973696
    Abstract: Multiple images may be combined to obtain a composite image. Individual images may be obtained with different camera sensors and/or at different time instances. In order to obtain the composite image source images may be aligned in order to produce a seamless stitch. Source images may be characterized by a region of overlap. A disparity measure may be determined for pixels along a border region between the source images. A warp transformation may be determined using a refinement process configured to determine displacement of pixels of the border region based on the disparity. Pixel displacement at a given location may be constrained to direction configured tangential to an epipolar line corresponding to the location. The warp transformation may be propagated to pixels of the image. Spatial and/or temporal smoothing may be applied. In order to obtain refined solution, the warp transformation may be determined at multiple spatial scales.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Antoine Meler, Thomas Derbanne
  • Patent number: 9973695
    Abstract: A first image sensor may generate images capturing a first portion of a capture field. The capture of images by the first image sensor may be characterized by a first rolling shutter direction. A second image sensor may generate images capturing a second portion of the capture field. The capture of images by the second image sensor may be characterized by a second rolling shutter direction. The first portion may be adjacent to the second portion. The first rolling shutter direction may be parallel to and the same as the second rolling shutter direction. A first image may be obtained from the first image sensor. A second image may be obtained from the second image sensor. A stitched image may be generated based on the first image and the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Antoine Méler, Martin Arnoux
  • Patent number: 9792709
    Abstract: Multiple images may be combined to obtain a composite image. Individual images may be obtained with different camera sensors and/or at different time instances. In order to obtain the composite image source images may be aligned in order to produce a seamless stitch. Source images may be characterized by a region of overlap. A disparity measure may be determined for pixels along a border region between the source images. A warp transformation may be determined using an optimizing process configured to determine displacement of pixels of the border region based on the disparity. Pixel displacement at a given location may be constrained to direction configured tangential to an epipolar line corresponding to the location. The warp transformation may be propagated to pixels of the image. Spatial and/or temporal smoothing may be applied. In order to obtain optimized solution, the warp transformation may be determined at multiple spatial scales.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Antoine Meler
  • Patent number: 9747667
    Abstract: First visual information defining the visual content in a first projection may be accessed. Second visual information defining lower versions of the visual content in the first projection may be accessed. A transformation of the visual content from the first projection to a second projection may be determined. The transformation may include a visual compression of a portion of the visual content in the first projection. The portion may be identified. An amount of the visual compression of the portion may be determined. One or more lower resolution versions of the visual content may be selected. The visual content may be transformed using the one or more lower resolution versions of the visual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Antoine Meler, Benoit Fouet, Yann Gilquin