Patents by Inventor Douglas Bemis

Douglas Bemis 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: 20240013049
    Abstract: A trained computer model includes a direct network and an indirect network. The indirect network generates expected weights or an expected weight distribution for the nodes and layers of the direct network. These expected characteristics may be used to regularize training of the direct network weights and encourage the direct network weights towards those expected, or predicted by the indirect network. Alternatively, the expected weight distribution may be used to probabilistically predict the output of the direct network according to the likelihood of different weights or weight sets provided by the expected weight distribution. The output may be generated by sampling weight sets from the distribution and evaluating the sampled weight sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Zoubin Ghahramani, Douglas Bemis, Theofanis Karaletsos
  • Patent number: 11829876
    Abstract: A trained computer model includes a direct network and an indirect network. The indirect network generates expected weights or an expected weight distribution for the nodes and layers of the direct network. These expected characteristics may be used to regularize training of the direct network weights and encourage the direct network weights towards those expected, or predicted by the indirect network. Alternatively, the expected weight distribution may be used to probabilistically predict the output of the direct network according to the likelihood of different weights or weight sets provided by the expected weight distribution. The output may be generated by sampling weight sets from the distribution and evaluating the sampled weight sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zoubin Ghahramani, Douglas Bemis, Theofanis Karaletsos
  • Publication number: 20220051100
    Abstract: A trained computer model includes a direct network and an indirect network. The indirect network generates expected weights or an expected weight distribution for the nodes and layers of the direct network. These expected characteristics may be used to regularize training of the direct network weights and encourage the direct network weights towards those expected, or predicted by the indirect network. Alternatively, the expected weight distribution may be used to probabilistically predict the output of the direct network according to the likelihood of different weights or weight sets provided by the expected weight distribution. The output may be generated by sampling weight sets from the distribution and evaluating the sampled weight sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Zoubin Ghahramani, Douglas Bemis, Theofanis Karaletsos
  • Patent number: 11164076
    Abstract: A trained computer model includes a direct network and an indirect network. The indirect network generates expected weights or an expected weight distribution for the nodes and layers of the direct network. These expected characteristics may be used to regularize training of the direct network weights and encourage the direct network weights towards those expected, or predicted by the indirect network. Alternatively, the expected weight distribution may be used to probabilistically predict the output of the direct network according to the likelihood of different weights or weight sets provided by the expected weight distribution. The output may be generated by sampling weight sets from the distribution and evaluating the sampled weight sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zoubin Ghahramani, Douglas Bemis, Theofanis Karaletsos
  • Publication number: 20200058158
    Abstract: Example systems and methods improve a location detection process. A system accesses image data and image metadata, whereby the image data captures images of a plurality of objects from different views, each image having corresponding image metadata. The system then detects each object in the plurality of objects in the image data. A plurality of rays in three-dimensional space is generated, whereby each ray of the plurality of rays is generated based on the detected objects and the corresponding image metadata. The system predicts object locations using the generated rays based on a probabilistic triangulation of the rays. The networked system updates map data using the predicted object locations. The updating includes adding objects at their predicted object locations to the map data. The map data is used to generate a map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Fritz Obermeyer, Jonathan Chen, Vladimir Lyapunov, Lionel Gueguen, Noah Goodman, Benjamin James Kadlec, Douglas Bemis
  • Publication number: 20180114113
    Abstract: A trained computer model includes a direct network and an indirect network. The indirect network generates expected weights or an expected weight distribution for the nodes and layers of the direct network. These expected characteristics may be used to regularize training of the direct network weights and encourage the direct network weights towards those expected, or predicted by the indirect network. Alternatively, the expected weight distribution may be used to probabilistically predict the output of the direct network according to the likelihood of different weights or weight sets provided by the expected weight distribution. The output may be generated by sampling weight sets from the distribution and evaluating the sampled weight sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Zoubin Ghahramani, Douglas Bemis, Theofanis Karaletsos