Patents by Inventor Arthur Charles Ciccolo

Arthur Charles Ciccolo 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: 6449382
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of sensor fusion, and discloses in one embodiment a method for extracting the trajectories of moving objects from an assembly of low-resolution sensors, whose spatial relationships are initially unknown, except that their fields of view are known to overlap so as to form a continuous coverage region, which may be much larger than the field of view of any individual sensor. Segments of object trajectories may be extracted from the data of each sensor, and then stitched together to reconstruct the trajectories of the objects. The stitching process also allows determination of the spatial relationships between the sensors, so that from initially knowing little or nothing about the sensor arrangement or the paths of the objects, both may be reconstructed unambiguously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur Charles Ciccolo, Philip C. D. Hobbs, Howard E. Sachar