Patents by Inventor Rick S. Chartrand

Rick S. Chartrand 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: 11635510
    Abstract: Sparse phase unwrapping is disclosed. A first image and a second image are received. The first image and the second image are coregistered. The first image and the second image comprise respective phase data. An unwrapped interferogram is generated, including by solving an optimization problem using a nonconvex penalty function, where minimizing the penalty function produces sparse minimizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Descartes Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick S. Chartrand, Matthew T. Calef
  • Patent number: 10909662
    Abstract: A boundary map and a first image are received. The boundary map is used to determine that brightness values for a set of pixels included in the first image should be regularized. The first set of pixels include, at a first pixel position, a first pixel having a first set of brightness values. The first set of pixels further includes, at a second pixel position, a second set of brightness values. An output image is generated by storing, at both a first and second pixel position in the output image, a set of regularized values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Descartes Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick S. Chartrand, Ryan S. Keisler
  • Patent number: 10852421
    Abstract: Sparse phase unwrapping is disclosed. A first image and a second image are received. The first image and the second image are coregistered. The first image and the second image comprise respective phase data. An unwrapped interferogram is generated, including by solving an optimization problem using a nonconvex penalty function, where minimizing the penalty function produces sparse minimizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Descartes Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick S. Chartrand, Matthew T. Calef
  • Patent number: 10489689
    Abstract: A first image is received. An initial label is assigned to at least some pixels in the first image, including by assigning a first label to a first pixel. A determination is made that the first pixel's label should be replaced with a different label. The first pixel's label is updated with the different label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Descartes Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan S. Keisler, Rick S. Chartrand, Xander H. Rudelis
  • Patent number: 10331980
    Abstract: A boundary map and a first image are received as input. The boundary map indicates a plurality of fields. The boundary map is used to regularize, across a set comprising a plurality of pixels bounded by a first field in the plurality of fields, a set of one or more pixel brightness values. A regularized image is generated as output, where for each pixel in the first image bounded by the first field, a set of values in the corresponding pixel in the regularized image is assigned the set of regularized pixel brightness values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Descartes Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Rick S. Chartrand
  • Patent number: 10318847
    Abstract: A first image is received. An initial label is assigned to at least some pixels in the first image, including by assigning a first label to a first pixel. A determination is made, based at least in part on labels of spectral neighbors of the first pixel, that the first pixel's label should be replaced with a different label. The first pixel's label is updated with the different label. The first pixel's label is iteratively refined until convergence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Descartes Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan S. Keisler, Rick S. Chartrand, Xander H. Rudelis
  • Patent number: 10217192
    Abstract: Various approaches to image enhancement are disclosed. In one approach, a boundary map and an image are received. The boundary map is used to determine that brightness values for a set of pixels included in the image should be regularized. An output image is generated by storing, at both a first and second pixel position in the output image, a set of regularized values. In another approach, an image to be enhanced and an edge map are received. Edge-masked derivative matrices are constructed and used to iteratively solve a series of linear equations, wherein solutions to the linear equations minimize an increasingly accurate quadratic approximation of a penalty function that measures a total amount of variation in a function, and a derivation of the function from the image. A vector result of the iterative solution is transformed into a raster image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Descartes Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick S. Chartrand, Ryan S. Keisler
  • Patent number: 10108885
    Abstract: A first image is received. An initial label is assigned to at least some pixels in the first image, including by assigning a first label to a first pixel. A determination is made, based at least in part on labels of spectral neighbors of the first pixel, that the first pixel's label should be replaced with a different label. The first pixel's label is updated with the different label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Descartes Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan S. Keisler, Rick S. Chartrand, Xander H. Rudelis
  • Patent number: 10089554
    Abstract: A set of data comprising at least a first tile and a second tile is received. A determination of a measure is made, for a first pixel location included in both the first tile and the second tile, of whether the first pixel location corresponds to a boundary. A boundary map is generated as output. The boundary map can be used, in conjunction with an image, to regularize pixel brightness values of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Descartes Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Rick S. Chartrand
  • Patent number: 9928578
    Abstract: Various approaches to image enhancement are disclosed. In one approach, an image to be enhanced and a boundary map are received. A field value array is made using the boundary map and the received image. For each field represented in the field value array, pixel values obtained from the received image are aggregated. An enhanced image is generated as output by performing a rereasterization using the aggregated values. In another approach, an image to be enhanced and an edge map are received. Edge-masked derivative matrices are constructed. The edge-masked derivative matrices are used to iteratively solve a series of linear equations, wherein solutions to the linear equations minimize an increasingly accurate quadratic approximation of a penalty function that measures a total amount of variation in a function, and a derivation of the function from the image. A vector result of the iterative solution is transformed into a raster image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Descartes Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Rick S. Chartrand, Ryan S. Keisler
  • Patent number: 9875430
    Abstract: A first image is received. An initial label is assigned to at least some pixels in the first image, including by assigning a first label to a first pixel. A determination is made, based at least in part on labels of spectral neighbors of the first pixel, that the first pixel's label should be replaced with a different label. The first pixel's label is updated with the different label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Descartes Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan S. Keisler, Rick S. Chartrand, Xander H. Rudelis