Patents by Inventor Menghua Zhai

Menghua Zhai 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: 10678256
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an occlusion-aware bird's eye view map of a road scene include identifying foreground objects and background objects in an input image to extract foreground features and background features corresponding to the foreground objects and the background objects, respectively. The foreground objects are masked from the input image with a mask. Occluded objects and depths of the occluded objects are inferred by predicting semantic features and depths in masked areas of the masked image according to contextual information related to the background features visible in the masked image. The foreground objects and the background objects are mapped to a three-dimensional space according to locations of each of the foreground objects, the background objects and occluded objects using the inferred depths. A bird's eye view is generated from the three-dimensional space and displayed with a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Schulter, Paul Vernaza, Manmohan Chandraker, Menghua Zhai
  • Patent number: 10678257
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an occlusion-aware bird's eye view map of a road scene include identifying foreground objects and background objects in an input image to extract foreground features and background features corresponding to the foreground objects and the background objects, respectively. The foreground objects are masked from the input image with a mask. Occluded objects and depths of the occluded objects are inferred by predicting semantic features and depths in masked areas of the masked image according to contextual information related to the background features visible in the masked image. The foreground objects and the background objects are mapped to a three-dimensional space according to locations of each of the foreground objects, the background objects and occluded objects using the inferred depths. A bird's eye view is generated from the three-dimensional space and displayed with a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Schulter, Paul Vernaza, Manmohan Chandraker, Menghua Zhai
  • Publication number: 20190096125
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an occlusion-aware bird's eye view map of a road scene include identifying foreground objects and background objects in an input image to extract foreground features and background features corresponding to the foreground objects and the background objects, respectively. The foreground objects are masked from the input image with a mask. Occluded objects and depths of the occluded objects are inferred by predicting semantic features and depths in masked areas of the masked image according to contextual information related to the background features visible in the masked image. The foreground objects and the background objects are mapped to a three-dimensional space according to locations of each of the foreground objects, the background objects and occluded objects using the inferred depths. A bird's eye view is generated from the three-dimensional space and displayed with a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Samuel Schulter, Paul Vernaza, Manmohan Chandraker, Menghua Zhai
  • Publication number: 20190094875
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an occlusion-aware bird's eye view map of a road scene include identifying foreground objects and background objects in an input image to extract foreground features and background features corresponding to the foreground objects and the background objects, respectively. The foreground objects are masked from the input image with a mask. Occluded objects and depths of the occluded objects are inferred by predicting semantic features and depths in masked areas of the masked image according to contextual information related to the background features visible in the masked image. The foreground objects and the background objects are mapped to a three-dimensional space according to locations of each of the foreground objects, the background objects and occluded objects using the inferred depths. A bird's eye view is generated from the three-dimensional space and displayed with a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Samuel Schulter, Paul Vernaza, Manmohan Chandraker, Menghua Zhai