Patents by Inventor Don Madden
Don Madden 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).
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Patent number: 10664706Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for performing a method for discerning a vehicle at an access control point. The method including obtaining a video sequence of the access control point; detecting an object of interest from the video sequence; tracking the object from the video sequence to obtain tracked-object data; classifying the object to obtain classified-object data; determining that the object is a vehicle based on the classified-object data; and determining that the vehicle is present in a predetermined detection zone based on the tracked-object data.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATIONInventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
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Patent number: 10565733Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for virtual inductance loop technology. In one aspect, a method includes calibrating, using calibration parameters, cameras directed towards a scene, obtaining, by the cameras, images corresponding to the scene, identifying reference structures in the scene, and determining, based on the reference structures and the images, locations in the scene for generating virtual inductance loop lines in the scene. The method also includes generating the virtual inductance loop lines to be imposed on the images, comparing the virtual inductance loop lines to determine one or more offsets, and determining, based on the offsets, characteristics of the scene.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Alarm.com IncorporatedInventors: Zhong Zhang, Allison Beach, Narayanan Ramanathan, Don Madden
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Publication number: 20190163983Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for performing a method for discerning a vehicle at an access control point. The method including obtaining a video sequence of the access control point; detecting an object of interest from the video sequence; tracking the object from the video sequence to obtain tracked-object data; classifying the object to obtain classified-object data; determining that the object is a vehicle based on the classified-object data; and determining that the vehicle is present in a predetermined detection zone based on the tracked-object data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2019Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
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Patent number: 10210397Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for performing a method for discerning a vehicle at an access control point. The method including obtaining a video sequence of the access control point; detecting an object of interest from the video sequence; tracking the object from the video sequence to obtain tracked-object data; classifying the object to obtain classified-object data; determining that the object is a vehicle based on the classified-object data; and determining that the vehicle is present in a predetermined detection zone based on the tracked-object data.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2018Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Avigilon Fortress CorporationInventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
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Patent number: 10169665Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for virtual inductance loop technology. In one aspect, a method includes calibrating, using calibration parameters, cameras directed towards a scene, obtaining, by the cameras, images corresponding to the scene, identifying reference structures in the scene, and determining, based on the reference structures and the images, locations in the scene for generating virtual inductance loop lines in the scene. The method also includes generating the virtual inductance loop lines to be imposed on the images, comparing the virtual inductance loop lines to determine one or more offsets, and determining, based on the offsets, characteristics of the scene.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Alarm.com IncorporatedInventors: Zhong Zhang, Allison Beach, Narayanan Ramanathan, Don Madden
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Publication number: 20180260633Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for performing a method for discerning a vehicle at an access control point. The method including obtaining a video sequence of the access control point; detecting an object of interest from the video sequence; tracking the object from the video sequence to obtain tracked-object data; classifying the object to obtain classified-object data; determining that the object is a vehicle based on the classified-object data; and determining that the vehicle is present in a predetermined detection zone based on the tracked-object data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
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Patent number: 9996976Abstract: A method is provided for augmenting video feed obtained by a camera of a aerial vehicle to a user interface. The method can include obtaining a sequence of video images with or without corresponding sensor metadata from the aerial vehicle; obtaining supplemental data based on the sequence of video images and the sensor metadata; correcting an error in the sensor metadata using a reconstruction error minimization technique; creating a geographically-referenced scene model based on a virtual sensor coordinate system that is registered to the sequence of video images; overlaying the supplemental information onto the geographically-referenced scene model by rendering geo-registered data from a 3D perspective that matches a corrected camera model; creating a video stream of a virtual representation from the scene from the perspective of the camera based on the overlaying; and providing the video stream to a UI to be render onto a display.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATIONInventors: Shirley Zhou, Don Madden, Tae Eun Choe, Andrew W. Scanlon
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Patent number: 9996753Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for performing a method for discerning a vehicle at an access control point. The method including obtaining a video sequence of the access control point; detecting an object of interest from the video sequence; tracking the object from the video sequence to obtain tracked-object data; classifying the object to obtain classified-object data; determining that the object is a vehicle based on the classified-object data; and determining that the vehicle is present in a predetermined detection zone based on the tracked-object data.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Avigilon Fortress CorporationInventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
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Publication number: 20170286778Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for performing a method for discerning a vehicle at an access control point. The method including obtaining a video sequence of the access control point; detecting an object of interest from the video sequence; tracking the object from the video sequence to obtain tracked-object data; classifying the object to obtain classified-object data; determining that the object is a vehicle based on the classified-object data; and determining that the vehicle is present in a predetermined detection zone based on the tracked-object data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
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Patent number: 9710712Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for performing a method for discerning a vehicle at an access control point. The method including obtaining a video sequence of the access control point; detecting an object of interest from the video sequence; tracking the object from the video sequence to obtain tracked-object data; classifying the object to obtain classified-object data; determining that the object is a vehicle based on the classified-object data; and determining that the vehicle is present in a predetermined detection zone based on the tracked-object data.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATIONInventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
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Publication number: 20170039765Abstract: A method is provided for augmenting video feed obtained by a camera of a aerial vehicle to a user interface. The method can include obtaining a sequence of video images with or without corresponding sensor metadata from the aerial vehicle; obtaining supplemental data based on the sequence of video images and the sensor metadata; correcting an error in the sensor metadata using a reconstruction error minimization technique; creating a geographically-referenced scene model based on a virtual sensor coordinate system that is registered to the sequence of video images; overlaying the supplemental information onto the geographically-referenced scene model by rendering geo-registered data from a 3D perspective that matches a corrected camera model; creating a video stream of a virtual representation from the scene from the perspective of the camera based on the overlaying; and providing the video stream to a UI to be render onto a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Shirley Zhou, Don Madden, Tae Eun Choe, Andrew W. Scanlon
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Publication number: 20160210512Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for performing a method for discerning a vehicle at an access control point. The method including obtaining a video sequence of the access control point; detecting an object of interest from the video sequence; tracking the object from the video sequence to obtain tracked-object data; classifying the object to obtain classified-object data; determining that the object is a vehicle based on the classified-object data; and determining that the vehicle is present in a predetermined detection zone based on the tracked-object data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2015Publication date: July 21, 2016Inventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne