Patents by Inventor Gianfranco Doretto

Gianfranco Doretto 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: 20090089093
    Abstract: A system and method to manage delivery of healthcare via a plurality of resources to a patient is provided. The system and method track and output a signal representative of a location of at least one of a series of resources relative to a control volume associated with the patient, acquire at least one signal representative of detecting ingress or egress of at least one of the plurality of resources relative to the control volume; and output a first signal representative of one of a series of milestones as defined in a predetermined protocol in response to detecting ingress or egress of at least one of the resources relative to the control volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Christopher Johnson, Kunter Akbay, Andrew Day, GianFranco Doretto, Peter Tu, Onur Dulgeroglu, Marcia Peterson, David Toledano
  • Publication number: 20090034791
    Abstract: A device and method for processing an image to create appearance and shape labeled images of a person or object captured within the image. The appearance and shape labeled images are unique properties of the person or object and can be used to re-identify the person or object in subsequent images. The appearance labeled image is an aggregate of pre-stored appearance labels that are assigned to image segments of the image based on calculated appearance attributes of each image segment. The shape labeled image is an aggregate of pre-stored shape labels that are assigned to image segments of the image based on calculated shape attributes of each image segment. An identifying descriptor of the person or object can be computed based on both the appearance labeled image and the shape labeled image. The descriptor can be compared with other descriptors of later captured images to re-identify a person or object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gianfranco Doretto, Xiaogang Wang, Thomas B. Sebastian, Jens Rittscher, Peter H. Tu
  • Publication number: 20090015678
    Abstract: A system and method, the method including stabilizing a video sequence captured by an image capturing system, extracting a subject of interest in the stabilized video sequence to isolate the subject from other objects in the video sequence, determining a trajectory associated with the subject, tracking the trajectory of the subject over a period of time; extracting data associated with the trajectory of the subject based on the tracking; and presenting the extracted data in a user-understandable format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Anthony J. Hoogs, Nils Oliver Krahnstoever, A. G. Perera, Xiaoming Liu, Peter Tu, Gianfranco Doretto
  • Publication number: 20080291272
    Abstract: A system and method, the method including calibrating an image capturing system; capturing a video sequence with the image capturing system; detecting a subject of interest in the video sequence; tracking the subject over a period of time; and extracting data associated with a motion of the subject based on the tracking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Nils Oliver Krahnstoever, Gianfranco Doretto, Peter Tu, Jens Rittscher, Mark Grabb
  • Publication number: 20080187220
    Abstract: A device and method for efficient computation of statistical information, such as a mean, co-variance, or histogram of the image pixels, over discrete image regions. The computation employs integral computations to determine the statistical information over image regions of arbitrary shape, including irregular polygonal shaped regions. The integral computations are simplified by categorizing corner points of boundaries of image regions. The computation can be applied to calculate descriptors or signatures of persons or objects within an image. The computation also has a low computational cost enabling fast calculation of image statistics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gianfranco Doretto, Xiaogang Wang, Thomas Sebastian, Jens Rittscher, Peter H. Tu
  • Publication number: 20070286460
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a system and a method for determining whether a person is carrying concealed contraband, such as an improvised explosives device or other weapon. The system includes a people tracking video subsystem, a people tracking decisioning subsystem, a concealed contraband detection aiming subsystem, and a concealed contraband detection decisioning subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Peter Henry Tu, Kai Erik Thomenius, Nils Oliver Krahnstoever, Jens Rittscher, John Charles Hill, Gianfranco Doretto, Thomas Baby Sebastian, Jeffrey Michael Ashe
  • Publication number: 20070211938
    Abstract: A method for re-identifying an image is provided. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of images and generating a correspondence map between the plurality of images. The method further comprises defining a plurality of region signatures for one or more regions comprising the plurality of images and comparing the plurality of images based on the correspondence map and the plurality of region signatures to perform image re-identification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Inventors: Peter Tu, Thomas Sebastian, Jens Rittscher, Nils Krahnstoever, Gianfranco Doretto, Xiaoming Liu