Patents by Inventor Oliver Thomas Ruepp

Oliver Thomas Ruepp 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: 11967146
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for normal estimation using a directional measurement, such as a gravity vector. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes identifying planar surfaces in an environment represented by an image. Each planar surface is associated with a respective orientation. A directional vector associated with the environment is determined. A subset of the planar surfaces that have a threshold orientation relative to the directional vector is identified. For each planar surface in the subset of the planar surfaces, a normal vector for the planar surface is determined based on the orientation of the planar surface and the directional vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Oliver Thomas Ruepp, Pedro Antonio Pinies Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11935264
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for pose estimation using one point correspondence, one line correspondence, and a directional measurement. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining an image corresponding to a physical environment. A first correspondence between a first set of pixels in the image and a spatial point in the physical environment is determined. A second correspondence between a second set of pixels in the image and a spatial line in the physical environment is determined. Pose information is generated as a function of the first correspondence, the second correspondence, and a directional measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jai Prakash, Lina Maria Paz-Perez, Oliver Thomas Ruepp
  • Publication number: 20230334847
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for normal estimation using a directional measurement, such as a gravity vector. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes identifying planar surfaces in an environment represented by an image. Each planar surface is associated with a respective orientation. A directional vector associated with the environment is determined. A subset of the planar surfaces that have a threshold orientation relative to the directional vector is identified. For each planar surface in the subset of the planar surfaces, a normal vector for the planar surface is determined based on the orientation of the planar surface and the directional vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Oliver Thomas Ruepp, Pedro Antonio Pinies Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20230306709
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of estimating the heading of a device is performed by the device including a processor, non-transitory memory, and an image sensor. The method includes determining a geographic location of the device. The method includes capturing, using the image sensor, an image at the geographic location. The method includes detecting one or more lines within the image. The method includes determining a heading of the device based on the one or more lines and the geographic location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Oliver Thomas Ruepp, Jai Prakash, Johan Hedborg, Rahul Raguram, Michele Stoppa
  • Patent number: 11699279
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of estimating the heading of a device is performed by the device including a processor, non-transitory memory, and an image sensor. The method includes determining a geographic location of the device. The method includes capturing, using the image sensor, an image at the geographic location. The method includes detecting one or more lines within the image. The method includes determining a heading of the device based on the one or more lines and the geographic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Oliver Thomas Ruepp, Jai Prakash, Johan Hedborg, Rahul Raguram, Michele Stoppa
  • Patent number: 11562560
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for normal estimation using a directional measurement, such as a gravity vector. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes identifying planar surfaces in an environment represented by an image. Each planar surface is associated with a respective orientation. A directional vector associated with the environment is determined. A subset of the planar surfaces that have a threshold orientation relative to the directional vector is identified. For each planar surface in the subset of the planar surfaces, a normal vector for the planar surface is determined based on the orientation of the planar surface and the directional vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Oliver Thomas Ruepp, Pedro Antonio Pinies Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11430206
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes: extracting key-points from a reference image associated with a scene; generating a multi-cone structure including cones based on the key-points and intrinsic parameters, wherein an apex of the cones corresponds to a camera origin point associated with the reference image, and wherein each axis of the cones intersects a respective key-point; aligning the multi-cone structure based on a nominal alignment vector in order to restrict two rotational degrees of freedom; and determining a rigid transformation for the multi-cone structure, including a value for a remaining rotational degree of freedom and values for three translational degrees of freedom, within a search space associated with the scene, wherein a number of the cones within the multi-cone structure that include at least one point in a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud associated with the scene is maximal when the multi-cone structure is transformed by the rigid transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chavdar Chavdarov Papazov, Lina Maria Paz-Perez, Oliver Thomas Ruepp
  • Publication number: 20220222848
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for pose estimation using one point correspondence, one line correspondence, and a directional measurement. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining an image corresponding to a physical environment. A first correspondence between a first set of pixels in the image and a spatial point in the physical environment is determined. A second correspondence between a second set of pixels in the image and a spatial line in the physical environment is determined. Pose information is generated as a function of the first correspondence, the second correspondence, and a directional measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Jai Prakash, Lina Maria Paz-Perez, Oliver Thomas Ruepp
  • Patent number: 11315280
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for pose estimation using one point correspondence, one line correspondence, and a directional measurement. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining an image corresponding to a physical environment. A first correspondence between a first set of pixels in the image and a spatial point in the physical environment is determined. A second correspondence between a second set of pixels in the image and a spatial line in the physical environment is determined. Pose information is generated as a function of the first correspondence, the second correspondence, and a directional measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jai Prakash, Lina Maria Paz-Perez, Oliver Thomas Ruepp
  • Patent number: 11257245
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at a device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and an image sensor. The method includes synthesizing, from image data that corresponds to a physical perspective of an object relative to the device, a surface mask characterizing a portion of a surface of the object based on a grid arranged on the object, wherein the grid is represented in the image data. The method includes generating a virtual perspective of a model associated with the object having a surface oriented to match the surface mask within a predefined confidence threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Oliver Montague Welton Dunkley, Oliver Thomas Ruepp, Aitor Aldoma Buchaca, Jai Prakash
  • Patent number: 11238297
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method includes: obtaining an input image, wherein the input image is captured by an image sensor having a rotational orientation with respect to a direction of gravity; obtaining a gravity direction estimation associated with the rotational orientation of the sensor; generating, from the input image, a rotationally preprocessed input image by applying one or more transformations to the input image based on the gravity direction estimation; providing the rotationally preprocessed input image to the machine learning sub-system; and identifying, using the machine learning sub-system, a visual feature within the rotationally preprocessed input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Oliver Thomas Ruepp, Vimal Thilak