Patents by Inventor Claudia Ferraris

Claudia Ferraris 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).

  • System and method for motion capture
    Patent number: 10092220
    Abstract: A motion capture system includes a wearable device (e.g. a glove) suitable for being worn by a user and including one or more markers having respective colors. A video camera acquires a sequence of color frames of the user moving while wearing the glove, while a range camera acquires corresponding depth frames of the same scene. A processing unit processes both color frames and depth frames for reconstructing the 3D positions of the markers. In particular, the depth information provided by the depth frames are used for isolating a validity area within the color frames, and the markers are searched based on their colors, exclusively within the validity area of the color frames. The movements of the user are then captured as a sequence of positions of the markers. Combined use of color information and depth information provide a very reliable and accurate motion capture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Alessandro Mauro, Corrado Azzaro, Giovanni Albani, Claudia Ferraris, Roberto Nerino, Antonio Chimienti, Giuseppe Pettiti, Laura Contin
  • System and Method for Motion Capture
    Publication number: 20170086712
    Abstract: A motion capture system includes a wearable device (e.g. a glove) suitable for being worn by a user and including one or more markers having respective colors. A video camera acquires a sequence of color frames of the user moving while wearing the glove, while a range camera acquires corresponding depth frames of the same scene. A processing unit processes both color frames and depth frames for reconstructing the 3D positions of the markers. In particular, the depth information provided by the depth frames are used for isolating a validity area within the color frames, and the markers are searched based on their colors, exclusively within the validity area of the color frames. The movements of the user are then captured as a sequence of positions of the markers. Combined use of color information and depth information provide a very reliable and accurate motion capture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicants: Telecom Italia S.p.A., Telecom Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Alessandro Mauro, Corrado Azzaro, Giovanni Albani, Claudia Ferraris, Roberto Nerino, Antonio Chimienti, Giuseppe Pettiti, Laura Contin