Patents by Inventor Petros Boufounos

Petros Boufounos 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: 10541839
    Abstract: A receiver for use in a wireless communication system to receive signals transmitted over a wireless channel. The receiver includes a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) chains coupled a plurality of antennas. Each RF chain has at least one-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to convert each measurement of an analog signal received by the antenna into at least one bit of information representing a result of a comparison of the measurement with a randomly selected threshold to produce a sequence of bits and a corresponding sequence of thresholds. Each bit in the sequence of bits represents a relative value of the measurement of the analog signal with respect to a threshold from the corresponding sequence of thresholds. A processor coupled to the plurality of RF chains estimates parameters of the wireless channel using the sequences of bits and the corresponding sequences of thresholds received from the plurality of RF chains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Pu Wang, Milutin Pajovic, Philip Orlik, Petros Boufounos
  • Publication number: 20190391258
    Abstract: Systems and methods for radar systems to produce a radar image of a region of interest (ROI with targets. Sensors to transmit source signals to the ROI and to measure echoes reflected back from the targets corresponding to the transmitted source signals. A processor to calculate an estimate of a noisy and a partial Euclidean Distance Matrix (EDM) of the sensors and the targets. Decompose the noisy and the partial EDM into a low rank EDM that corresponds to locations to actual sensors and target locations, and a sparse matrix of distance errors, using a constrained optimization process. The low rank EDM is mapped into the sensors and the targets locations, to obtain estimated actual sensor locations. Implement an inverse imaging process using the estimated actual sensor locations and the received data, to produce the radar image to output to a communication channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Dehong Liu, Hassan Mansour, Petros Boufounos, Ulugbek Kamilov
  • Patent number: 10482576
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image processing for increasing resolution of a multi-spectral image. Accept a multi-spectral image including a set of images of a scene. A memory to store a set of dictionaries trained for different channels, and a set of filters trained for the different channels. A hardware processor is to process the set of images of the different channels with the set of filters, and to fuse, for each channel, the set of structures, to produce a set of fused structures. Wherein a fused structure of the channel is fused as a weighted combination of the set of structures using weights corresponding to the channel, such that the fused structures of different channels are combined with different weights. To process the set of fused structures with corresponding dictionaries from the set of dictionaries, to produce a super-resolution multi-spectral image. An output interface to render the super-resolution multi-spectral image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Dehong Liu, Bihan Wen, Ulugbek Kamilov, Hassan Mansour, Petros Boufounos
  • Patent number: 10455250
    Abstract: A method for reconstructing an uncompressed signal. The method includes obtaining an encoded signal corresponding to the signal. Obtaining side information about the signal and using the side information to obtain a prediction of dithered linear measurements of the signal. Using the prediction of the dithered linear measurements and encoded quantized dithered linear measurements to obtain quantized linear measurements of the signal based on processing each bitplane iteratively, starting from a least significant level bitplane to a most significant level bitplane. At each iteration, a prediction of each bitplane is formed using the prediction of the dithered linear measurements and the bitplanes processed in the previous iterations. Wherein each code for each bitplane is used to correct each bitplane prediction. Reconstructing the signal as a reconstructed signal using the recovered quantized dithered linear measurements, wherein the steps are performed in a processor of a decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Petros Boufounos, Maxim Goukhshtein, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Stark C Draper
  • Publication number: 20190287216
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image processing for increasing resolution of a multi-spectral image. Accept a multi-spectral image including a set of images of a scene. A memory to store a set of dictionaries trained for different channels, and a set of filters trained for the different channels. A hardware processor is to process the set of images of the different channels with the set of filters, and to fuse, for each channel, the set of structures, to produce a set of fused structures. Wherein a fused structure of the channel is fused as a weighted combination of the set of structures using weights corresponding to the channel, such that the fused structures of different channels are combined with different weights. To process the set of fused structures with corresponding dictionaries from the set of dictionaries, to produce a super-resolution multi-spectral image. An output interface to render the super-resolution multi-spectral image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Dehong Liu, Bihan Wen, Ulugbek Kamilov, Hassan Mansour, Petros Boufounos
  • Publication number: 20190242991
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a radar system to produce a radar image of a region of interest (ROI). A set of antennas to transmit radar pulses to the ROI and to measure a set of reflections from the ROI corresponding to the transmitted radar pulses. A processor acquires an estimate of the radar image, by matching the reflections of the ROI measurements for each antenna. Determine a set of shifts of the radar image. Wherein each shift corresponds to an antenna, and is caused by an uncertainty in a position of the antenna. Update the estimate of the radar image, based on the determined set of shifts of the radar image. Wherein for each antenna, the estimate of the radar image is shifted by the determined shift of the radar image corresponding to the antenna, that fits the reflections of the ROI measurements of the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Hassan Mansour, Ulugbek Kamilov, Dehong Liu, Petros Boufounos
  • Publication number: 20190132156
    Abstract: A receiver for use in a wireless communication system to receive signals transmitted over a wireless channel. The receiver includes a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) chains coupled a plurality of antennas. Each RF chain has at least one-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to convert each measurement of an analog signal received by the antenna into at least one bit of information representing a result of a comparison of the measurement with a randomly selected threshold to produce a sequence of bits and a corresponding sequence of thresholds. Each bit in the sequence of bits represents a relative value of the measurement of the analog signal with respect to a threshold from the corresponding sequence of thresholds. A processor coupled to the plurality of RF chains estimates parameters of the wireless channel using the sequences of bits and the corresponding sequences of thresholds received from the plurality of RF chains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Pu Wang, Milutin Pajovic, Philip Orlik, Petros Boufounos
  • Patent number: 10212410
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image processing including a memory having stored multi-angled view images of a scene. Each multi-angled view image includes pixels, and at least one multi-angled view image includes a clouded area in the scene, resulting in missing pixels. A processor configured to align three multi-angled view images in the multi-angled view images to a target view angle of the scene, to form a set of aligned multi-angled view images representing a target point of view of the scene, at least one aligned multi-angled view image of the at least three multi-angled view images, has missing pixels due to the clouded area. Form a matrix using vectorized aligned multi-angled view images, wherein the matrix is incomplete due to the missing pixels. Complete the matrix using a matrix completion to combine the aligned multi-angled view images to produce a fused image of the scene without the clouded area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Dehong Liu, Yanting Ma, Hassan Mansour, Ulugbek Kamilov, Yuichi Taguchi, Petros Boufounos, Anthony Vetro
  • Publication number: 20180352249
    Abstract: A method for reconstructing an uncompressed signal. The method includes obtaining an encoded signal corresponding to the signal. Obtaining side information about the signal and using the side information to obtain a prediction of dithered linear measurements of the signal. Using the prediction of the dithered linear measurements and encoded quantized dithered linear measurements to obtain quantized linear measurements of the signal based on processing each bitplane iteratively, starting from a least significant level bitplane to a most significant level bitplane. At each iteration, a prediction of each bitplane is formed using the prediction of the dithered linear measurements and the bitplanes processed in the previous iterations. Wherein each code for each bitplane is used to correct each bitplane prediction. Reconstructing the signal as a reconstructed signal using the recovered quantized dithered linear measurements, wherein the steps are performed in a processor of a decoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Petros Boufounos, Maxim Goukhshtein, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Stark C. Draper
  • Publication number: 20180176531
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image processing including a memory having stored multi-angled view images of a scene. Each multi-angled view image includes pixels, and at least one multi-angled view image includes a clouded area in the scene, resulting in missing pixels. A processor configured to align three multi-angled view images in the multi-angled view images to a target view angle of the scene, to form a set of aligned multi-angled view images representing a target point of view of the scene, at least one aligned multi-angled view image of the at least three multi-angled view images, has missing pixels due to the clouded area. Form a matrix using vectorized aligned multi-angled view images, wherein the matrix is incomplete due to the missing pixels. Complete the matrix using a matrix completion to combine the aligned multi-angled view images to produce a fused image of the scene without the clouded area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Dehong Liu, Yanting Ma, Hassan Mansour, Ulugbek Kamilov, Yuichi Taguchi, Petros Boufounos, Anthony Vetro
  • Patent number: 9976765
    Abstract: A method controls an operation of an air-conditioning system generating airflow in a conditioned environment. The method updates a model of airflow dynamics connecting values of flow and temperature of air conditioned during the operation of the air-conditioning system. The model is updated interactively iteratively to reduce an error between values of the airflow determined according to the model and values of the airflow measured during the operation. Next, the method models the airflow using the updated model and controls the operation of the air-conditioning system using the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Petros Boufounos, Boris Kramer, Piyush Grover
  • Patent number: 9971031
    Abstract: A method and system generates a three-dimensional (3D) image by first acquiring data from a scene using multiple parallel baselines and multiple different pulse repetition frequencies (PRF), wherein the multiple baselines are arranged in a hyperplane. Then, a 3D compressive sensing reconstruction procedure is applied to the data to generate the 3D image corresponding to the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Dehong Liu, Petros Boufounos
  • Publication number: 20180059237
    Abstract: Systems and methods for fusing a radar image in response to radar pulses transmitted to a region of interest (ROI). The method including receiving a set of reflections from a target located in the ROI. Each reflection is recorded by a receiver at a corresponding time and at a corresponding coarse location. Aligning the set of reflections on a time scale using the corresponding coarse locations of the set of distributed receivers to produce a time projection of the set of reflections for the target. Fitting a line into data points formed from radar pulses in the set of reflections. Determining a distance between the fitted line and each data point. Adjusting the coarse position of the set of distributed receivers using the corresponding distance between the fitted line and each data point. Fusing the radar image using the set of reflections received at the adjusted coarse position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Dehong Liu, Ulugbek Kamilov, Petros Boufounos
  • Patent number: 9778354
    Abstract: A decoder includes a memory storing a map of a space of encoded values. The map includes a plurality of cells partitioning the space, such that each cell encloses a cluster of encoded values and quantizes the cluster of encoded values to a quantized encoded value. Each cell is identified by a label selected from a finite alphabet, such that multiple cells in the map are identified by the same label, and the cells are labeled such that a pair of cells identified by the same label does not share a common boarder. The decoder also includes a receiver to receive from an encoder a label of a cell enclosing an encoded value on the map of the space and a processor to estimate the encoded value using side information to produce an estimation of the encoded value, to select a cell identified by the received label on the map of the multi-dimensional space that is the closest to the estimation of encoded value, and to determine the encoded value as the quantized encoded value of the selected cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Petros Boufounos, Diego Valsesia
  • Publication number: 20170200273
    Abstract: A method for fusing measurements of sensors having different resolutions performs jointly a calibration of the sensors and a fusion of the their measurements to produce calibration parameters defining a geometrical mapping between coordinate systems of the sensors and a fused set of measurements that includes the modality of a sensor with resolution greater than its resolution. The calibration and the fusion are performed jointly to update the calibration parameters and the fused set of measurements in dependence on each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Ulugbek Kamilov, Juan Castorena, Petros Boufounos
  • Publication number: 20170048537
    Abstract: A decoder includes a memory storing a map of a space of encoded values. The map includes a plurality of cells partitioning the space, such that each cell encloses a cluster of encoded values and quantizes the cluster of encoded values to a quantized encoded value. Each cell is identified by a label selected from a finite alphabet, such that multiple cells in the map are identified by the same label, and the cells are labeled such that a pair of cells identified by the same label does not share a common boarder. The decoder also includes a receiver to receive from an encoder a label of a cell enclosing an encoded value on the map of the space and a processor to estimate the encoded value using side information to produce an estimation of the encoded value, to select a cell identified by the received label on the map of the multi-dimensional space that is the closest to the estimation of encoded value, and to determine the encoded value as the quantized encoded value of the selected cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Petros Boufounos, Diego Valsesia
  • Publication number: 20160258644
    Abstract: A method controls an operation of an air-conditioning system generating airflow in a conditioned environment. The method updates a model of airflow dynamics connecting values of flow and temperature of air conditioned during the operation of the air-conditioning system. The model is updated interactively iteratively to reduce an error between values of the airflow determined according to the model and values of the airflow measured during the operation. Next, the method models the airflow using the updated model and controls the operation of the air-conditioning system using the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Mouhacine Benosman, Petros Boufounos, Boris Kramer, Piyush Grover
  • Publication number: 20160216372
    Abstract: A method and system generates a three-dimensional (3D) image by first acquiring data from a scene using multiple parallel baselines and multiple different pulse repetition frequencies (PRF), wherein the multiple baselines are arranged in a hyperplane. Then, a 3D compressive sensing reconstruction procedure is applied to the data to generate the 3D image corresponding to the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Dehong Liu, Petros Boufounos
  • Patent number: 9335410
    Abstract: A spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image is generated by directing randomly a beam of transmitted pulses at a set of two or more areas using a steerable array of antennas. Each area is illuminated by an approximately equal number of the transmitted pulses. Then, a reconstruction procedure is applied independently to received signals from each area due to reflecting the transmitted pulses to generate the image corresponding to the set of areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Dehong Liu, Petros Boufounos
  • Patent number: 9261592
    Abstract: A method reconstructs a scene behind a wall by transmitting a signal through the wall into the scene. Parameters of the wall are estimated from a reflected signal. A model of a permittivity of the wall is generated using the parameters, and then the scene is reconstructed as an image from the reflected signal using the model and sparse recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Petros Boufounos, Li Li, Dehong Liu, Hassan Mansour, Zafer Sahinoglu