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).

  • Patent number: 10664706
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
  • Patent number: 10565733
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhong Zhang, Allison Beach, Narayanan Ramanathan, Don Madden
  • Publication number: 20190163983
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
  • Patent number: 10210397
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Avigilon Fortress Corporation
    Inventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
  • Patent number: 10169665
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhong Zhang, Allison Beach, Narayanan Ramanathan, Don Madden
  • Publication number: 20180260633
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
  • Patent number: 9996976
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shirley Zhou, Don Madden, Tae Eun Choe, Andrew W. Scanlon
  • Patent number: 9996753
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Avigilon Fortress Corporation
    Inventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
  • Publication number: 20170286778
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
  • Patent number: 9710712
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: AVIGILON FORTRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne
  • Publication number: 20170039765
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Shirley Zhou, Don Madden, Tae Eun Choe, Andrew W. Scanlon
  • Publication number: 20160210512
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Don Madden, Ethan Shayne