Patents by Inventor Patricia Ann Keaton

Patricia Ann Keaton 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: 7400770
    Abstract: A system for automatically extracting geospatial features from multi-spectral imagery, suitable for fast and robust extraction of landmarks, is presented. The system comprises a computer system including a processor, a memory coupled with the processor, an input coupled with the processor for receiving imagery and user-provided geospatial features, and an output coupled with the processor for outputting the extracted landmarks. The computer system includes a region-growing system, an appending disjointed regions system, and an automatic reseeding system, which are configured to accurately and efficiently extract all regions within the input image that closely resemble the desired geospatial feature. The region-growing system is based on a level set technique, which allows for the fast and accurate extraction of a region evolved from a single user-provided seed point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Keaton, Jeffrey Brokish