Patents by Inventor Nathan Carr

Nathan Carr 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: 20240144586
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify two-dimensional images via scene-based editing using three-dimensional representations of the two-dimensional images. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to generate and modify shadows in the two-dimensional images according to various shadow maps. Additionally, the disclosed systems utilize three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to modify humans in the two-dimensional images. The disclosed systems also utilize three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to provide scene scale estimation via scale fields of the two-dimensional images. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilizes three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to generate and visualize 3D planar surfaces for modifying objects in two-dimensional images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Vojtech Krs, Radomir Mech, Nathan Carr, Matheus Gadelha
  • Publication number: 20240135612
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify two-dimensional images via scene-based editing using three-dimensional representations of the two-dimensional images. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to generate and modify shadows in the two-dimensional images according to various shadow maps. Additionally, the disclosed systems utilize three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to modify humans in the two-dimensional images. The disclosed systems also utilize three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to provide scene scale estimation via scale fields of the two-dimensional images. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilizes three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to generate and visualize 3D planar surfaces for modifying objects in two-dimensional images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Vojtech Krs, Radomir Mech, Nathan Carr, Matheus Gadelha
  • Patent number: 11926855
    Abstract: An enzyme composition containing a protease combination or a protease mixture having neutral metalloprotease and serine alkaline protease activity, and an amylase. Feed compositions, additives and formulations containing the enzyme composition in methods for improving digestibility of proteins in an animal diet or animal feed, as well as optimizing the nutritional value of an animal diet or animal feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Kerry Group Services International Limited
    Inventors: Niall Higgins, Jacques Georis, Sara Llamas Moya, Nathan Marshall, Derek Carr, Rachel Maloney, Laura Guaras
  • Publication number: 20240062455
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for performing 3-D vectorization. The method includes obtaining a three-dimensional rendered image and a camera position. The method further includes obtaining a triangle mesh representing the three-dimensional rendered image. The method further involves creating a reduced triangle mesh by removing one or more triangles from the triangle mesh. The method further involves subdividing each triangle of the reduced triangle mesh into one or more subdivided triangles. The method further involves performing a mapping of each pixel of the three-dimensional rendered image to the reduced triangle mesh. The method further involves assigning a color value to each vertex of the reduced triangle mesh. The method further involves sorting each triangle of the reduced triangle mesh using a depth value of each triangle. The method further involves generating a two-dimensional triangle mesh using the sorted triangles of the reduced triangle mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Ankit PHOGAT, Xin SUN, Vineet BATRA, Sumit DHINGRA, Nathan A. CARR, Milos HASAN
  • Patent number: 11908063
    Abstract: Aspects and features of the present disclosure provide a direct ray tracing operator with a low memory footprint for surfaces enriched with displacement maps. A graphics editing application can be used to manipulate displayed representations of a 3D object that include surfaces with displacement textures. The application creates an independent map of a displaced surface. The application ray-traces bounding volumes on the fly and uses the intersection of a query ray with a bounding volume to produce rendering information for a displaced surface. The rendering information can be used to generate displaced surfaces for various base surfaces without significant re-computation so that updated images can be rendered quickly, in real time or near real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Theo Thonat, Xin Sun, Tamy Boubekeur, Nathan Carr, Francois Beaune
  • Patent number: 11880766
    Abstract: An improved system architecture uses a pipeline including a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) including a generator neural network and a discriminator neural network to generate an image. An input image in a first domain and information about a target domain are obtained. The domains correspond to image styles. An initial latent space representation of the input image is produced by encoding the input image. An initial output image is generated by processing the initial latent space representation with the generator neural network. Using the discriminator neural network, a score is computed indicating whether the initial output image is in the target domain. A loss is computed based on the computed score. The loss is minimized to compute an updated latent space representation. The updated latent space representation is processed with the generator neural network to generate an output image in the target domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Smith, Ratheesh Kalarot, Wei-An Lin, Richard Zhang, Niloy Mitra, Elya Shechtman, Shabnam Ghadar, Zhixin Shu, Yannick Hold-Geoffrey, Nathan Carr, Jingwan Lu, Oliver Wang, Jun-Yan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11823313
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating a modified digital image by identifying patch matches within a digital image utilizing a Gaussian mixture model. For example, the systems described herein can identify sample patches and corresponding matching portions within a digital image. The systems can also identify transformations between the sample patches and the corresponding matching portions. Based on the transformations, the systems can generate a Gaussian mixture model, and the systems can modify a digital image by replacing a target region with target matching portions identified in accordance with the Gaussian mixture model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Sun, Sohrab Amirghodsi, Nathan Carr, Michal Lukac
  • Patent number: 11657562
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that utilize hemispherical clamping for importance sampling of an image-based light (IBL) to generate a digital image of a virtual environment. For example, the disclosed systems identify a hemispherical portion of an IBL image that corresponds to a reflective surface location on a virtual object. The disclosed systems can then clamp the IBL image using one or more importance sampling algorithms to exclude portions of the IBL image outside of the hemispherical portion that do not contribute direct lighting onto the reflective surface location. The disclosed systems can further utilize the one or more importance sampling algorithms to efficiently sample a ray direction between the reflective surface location and the hemispherical portion of the IBL image. In certain embodiments, the disclosed systems use the sampled ray direction to generate a digital image rendering portraying the virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Sun, Milos Hasan, Nathan Carr
  • Patent number: 11584658
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for compositions, methods of making compositions, and methods of using the composition. In an aspect, the composition can be a reactive material that can be used to split a gas such as water or carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Helena Hagelin-Weaver, Samantha Roberts, Nathan Carr
  • Patent number: 11580675
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are provided for generating a video from texture images, and for reconstructing the texture images from the video. For example, a texture image can be divided into a number of tiles, and the number of tiles can be sorted into a sequence of ordered tiles. The sequence of ordered tiles can be provided to a video coder for generating a coded video. The number of tiles can be encoded based on the sequence of ordered tiles. The encoded video including the encoded sequence of ordered tiles can be decoded. At least a portion of the decoded video can include the number of tiles sorted into a sequence of ordered tiles. A data file associated with at least the portion of the decoded video can be used to reconstruct the texture image using the tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Gwendal Simon, Viswanathan Swaminathan, Nathan Carr, Stefano Petrangeli
  • Publication number: 20230017659
    Abstract: Aspects and features of the present disclosure provide a direct ray tracing operator with a low memory footprint for surfaces enriched with displacement maps. A graphics editing application can be used to manipulate displayed representations of a 3D object that include surfaces with displacement textures. The application creates an independent map of a displaced surface. The application ray-traces bounding volumes on the fly and uses the intersection of a query ray with a bounding volume to produce rendering information for a displaced surface. The rendering information can be used to generate displaced surfaces for various base surfaces without significant re-computation so that updated images can be rendered quickly, in real time or near real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Theo Thonat, Xin Sun, Tamy Boubekeur, Nathan Carr, Francois Beaune
  • Publication number: 20220335677
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that utilize hemispherical clamping for importance sampling of an image-based light (IBL) to generate a digital image of a virtual environment. For example, the disclosed systems identify a hemispherical portion of an IBL image that corresponds to a reflective surface location on a virtual object. The disclosed systems can then clamp the IBL image using one or more importance sampling algorithms to exclude portions of the IBL image outside of the hemispherical portion that do not contribute direct lighting onto the reflective surface location. The disclosed systems can further utilize the one or more importance sampling algorithms to efficiently sample a ray direction between the reflective surface location and the hemispherical portion of the IBL image. In certain embodiments, the disclosed systems use the sampled ray direction to generate a digital image rendering portraying the virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Xin Sun, Milos Hasan, Nathan Carr
  • Publication number: 20220280676
    Abstract: A system and method for an air purification assembly that creates high volume, sterilized straight-line airflow with a significant reduction in electricity consumption utilizing counter rotation of two propellers mounted in reverse to create linear airflow and thrust that sucks in air through an inlet and blows the air out through an outlet. Air purification assembly may also sterilize the air as it passes through light utilizing a light core system with a ring-shaped assembly that has one or more UV-C LEDs that may kill bio-organisms within proximity to the air purification assembly while dissipating the heat created by the UVC LED lights in the light core system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventor: Nathan Carr
  • Publication number: 20220267163
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for compositions, methods of making compositions, and methods of using the composition. In an aspect, the composition can be a reactive material that can be used to split a gas such as water or carbon dioxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Helena Hagelin-Weaver, Samantha Roberts, Nathan Carr
  • Patent number: 11344648
    Abstract: A system and method for an air purification assembly that creates high volume, sterilized straight-line airflow with a significant reduction in electricity consumption utilizing counter rotation of two propellers mounted in reverse to create linear airflow and thrust that sucks in air through an inlet and blows the air out through an outlet. Air purification assembly may also sterilize the air as it passes through light utilizing a light core system with a ring-shaped assembly that has one or more UV-C LEDs that may kill bio-organisms within proximity to the air purification assembly while dissipating the heat created by the UVC LED lights in the light core system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Ventorlux, LLC
    Inventor: Nathan Carr
  • Publication number: 20220122222
    Abstract: An improved system architecture uses a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) including a specialized generator neural network to generate multiple resolution output images. The system produces a latent space representation of an input image. The system generates a first output image at a first resolution by providing the latent space representation of the input image as input to a generator neural network comprising an input layer, an output layer, and a plurality of intermediate layers and taking the first output image from an intermediate layer, of the plurality of intermediate layers of the generator neural network. The system generates a second output image at a second resolution different from the first resolution by providing the latent space representation of the input image as input to the generator neural network and taking the second output image from the output layer of the generator neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Cameron Smith, Ratheesh Kalarot, Wei-An Lin, Richard Zhang, Niloy Mitra, Elya Shechtman, Shabnam Ghadar, Zhixin Shu, Yannick Hold-Geoffrey, Nathan Carr, Jingwan Lu, Oliver Wang, Jun-Yan Zhu
  • Publication number: 20220122305
    Abstract: An improved system architecture uses a pipeline including an encoder and a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) including a generator neural network to generate edited images with improved speed, realism, and identity preservation. The encoder produces an initial latent space representation of an input image by encoding the input image. The generator neural network generates an initial output image by processing the initial latent space representation of the input image. The system generates an optimized latent space representation of the input image using a loss minimization technique that minimizes a loss between the input image and the initial output image. The loss is based on target perceptual features extracted from the input image and initial perceptual features extracted from the initial output image. The system outputs the optimized latent space representation of the input image for downstream use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Cameron Smith, Ratheesh Kalarot, Wei-An Lin, Richard Zhang, Niloy Mitra, Elya Shechtman, Shabnam Ghadar, Zhixin Shu, Yannick Hold-Geoffrey, Nathan Carr, Jingwan Lu, Oliver Wang, Jun-Yan Zhu
  • Publication number: 20220122221
    Abstract: An improved system architecture uses a pipeline including a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) including a generator neural network and a discriminator neural network to generate an image. An input image in a first domain and information about a target domain are obtained. The domains correspond to image styles. An initial latent space representation of the input image is produced by encoding the input image. An initial output image is generated by processing the initial latent space representation with the generator neural network. Using the discriminator neural network, a score is computed indicating whether the initial output image is in the target domain. A loss is computed based on the computed score. The loss is minimized to compute an updated latent space representation. The updated latent space representation is processed with the generator neural network to generate an output image in the target domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Cameron Smith, Ratheesh Kalarot, Wei-An Lin, Richard Zhang, Niloy Mitra, Elya Shechtman, Shabnam Ghadar, Zhixin Shu, Yannick Hold-Geoffrey, Nathan Carr, Jingwan Lu, Oliver Wang, Jun-Yan Zhu
  • Patent number: D994833
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PACCAR Inc
    Inventors: Alex Gomez, Daniel Richards, Nathan Carr
  • Patent number: D1024005
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BOSE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joshua Kevin Dryden, Nathan David Schaal, Paul C. Williamson, David J. Fustino, Adam A. Carr