Patents by Inventor Troy Chinen

Troy Chinen 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: 20240078712
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for compressing and decompressing data. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing data using an encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the data; processing the latent representation of the data using a hyper-encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of an entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the data using the latent representation of the entropy model; and determining a compressed representation of the data from the entropy encoded representations of: (i) the latent representation of the data and (ii) the latent representation of the entropy model used to entropy encode the latent representation of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh, Johannes Balle, Troy Chinen, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Johnston, George Dan Toderici
  • Patent number: 11670010
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for compressing and decompressing data. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing data using an encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the data; processing the latent representation of the data using a hyper-encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of an entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the data using the latent representation of the entropy model; and determining a compressed representation of the data from the entropy encoded representations of: (i) the latent representation of the data and (ii) the latent representation of the entropy model used to entropy encode the latent representation of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh, Johannes Balle, Troy Chinen, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Johnston, George Dan Toderici
  • Publication number: 20230099526
    Abstract: Example aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a computer-implemented method for determining a perceptual quality of a subject video content item. The method can include inputting a subject frame set from the subject video content item into a first machine-learned model. The method can also include generating, using the first machine-learned model, a feature based at least in part on the subject frame set. The method can also include outputting, using a second machine-learned model, a score indicating the perceptual quality of the subject video content item based at least in part on the feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Troy Chinen, Alex Sukhanov, Eirikur Thor Agustsson, George Dan Toderici
  • Publication number: 20220138991
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for compressing and decompressing data. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing data using an encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the data; processing the latent representation of the data using a hyper-encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of an entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the data using the latent representation of the entropy model; and determining a compressed representation of the data from the entropy encoded representations of: (i) the latent representation of the data and (ii) the latent representation of the entropy model used to entropy encode the latent representation of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh, Johannes Balle, Troy Chinen, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Johnston, George Dan Toderici
  • Patent number: 11257254
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for compressing and decompressing data. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing data using an encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the data; processing the latent representation of the data using a hyper-encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of an entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the data using the latent representation of the entropy model; and determining a compressed representation of the data from the entropy encoded representations of: (i) the latent representation of the data and (ii) the latent representation of the entropy model used to entropy encode the latent representation of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh, Johannes Balle, Troy Chinen, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Johnston, George Dan Toderici
  • Publication number: 20200027247
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for compressing and decompressing data. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing data using an encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the data; processing the latent representation of the data using a hyper-encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of an entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the data using the latent representation of the entropy model; and determining a compressed representation of the data from the entropy encoded representations of: (i) the latent representation of the data and (ii) the latent representation of the entropy model used to entropy encode the latent representation of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh, Johannes Balle, Troy Chinen, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Johnston, George Dan Toderici
  • Patent number: 9805292
    Abstract: Techniques for providing image search templates are provided. An image search template may be associated with an image search query to aid the user in capturing an image that will be appropriate for processing the search query. The template may be displayed as an overlay during an image capturing process to indicate an appropriate image capturing pose, range, angle, or other view characteristics that may provide more accurate search results. The template may also be used in the image search query to segment the image and identify features relevant to the search query. Images in an image database may be clustered using characteristics of the images or metadata associated with the images in order to establish groups of images from which templates may be derived. The generated templates may be provided to users to assist in capturing images to be used as search engine queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Troy Chinen, Ameesh Makadia, Corinna Cortes, Hartwig Adam, Nemanja Petrovic, Teresa Ko, Sebastian Pueblas
  • Publication number: 20170206439
    Abstract: Techniques for providing image search templates are provided. An image search template may be associated with an image search query to aid the user in capturing an image that will be appropriate for processing the search query. The template may be displayed as an overlay during an image capturing process to indicate an appropriate image capturing pose, range, angle, or other view characteristics that may provide more accurate search results. The template may also be used in the image search query to segment the image and identify features relevant to the search query. Images in an image database may be clustered using characteristics of the images or metadata associated with the images in order to establish groups of images from which templates may be derived. The generated templates may be provided to users to assist in capturing images to be used as search engine queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Troy Chinen, Ameesh Makadia, Corinna Cortes, Hartwig Adam, Nemanja Petrovic, Teresa Ko, Sebastian Pueblas
  • Patent number: 9659352
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying a first portion of a facial image in a first image, wherein the first portion includes noise. A corresponding portion of the facial image is identified in a second image, wherein the corresponding portion includes less noise than the first portion. One or more filter parameters of the first portion are determined based upon, at least in part, the first portion and the corresponding portion. At least a portion of the noise from the first portion is smoothed based upon, at least in part, the one or more filter parameters. At least a portion of face specific details from the corresponding portion is added to the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Ioffe, Troy Chinen, Vivek Kwatra, Hui Fang, Yichang Shih
  • Patent number: 9639782
    Abstract: Techniques for providing image search templates are provided. An image search template may be associated with an image search query to aid the user in capturing an image that will be appropriate for processing the search query. The template may be displayed as an overlay during an image capturing process to indicate an appropriate image capturing pose, range, angle, or other view characteristics that may provide more accurate search results. The template may also be used in the image search query to segment the image and identify features relevant to the search query. Images in an image database may be clustered using characteristics of the images or metadata associated with the images in order to establish groups of images from which templates may be derived. The generated templates may be provided to users to assist in capturing images to be used as search engine queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Troy Chinen, Ameesh Makadia, Corinna Cortes, Hartwig Adam, Nemanja Petrovic, Teresa Ko, Sebastian Pueblas
  • Patent number: 9619732
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to generating compositional media content. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of photos from a user, and determining one or more composition types from the photos. The method also includes generating compositions from the selected photos based on the one or more determined composition types. The method also includes providing the one or more generated compositions to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Murphy-Chutorian, Matthew Steiner, Vivek Kwatra, Shengyang Dai, John Spiegel, Nicholas Butko, Falk Sticken, Florian Kriener, Tom Binder, John Flynn, Troy Chinen, Steven Vandebogart, Nikolaos Trogkanis, Ingo Wehmeyer, Matthias Grundmann
  • Publication number: 20160034785
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to generating compositional media content. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of photos from a user, and determining one or more composition types from the photos. The method also includes generating compositions from the selected photos based on the one or more determined composition types. The method also includes providing the one or more generated compositions to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Erik MURPHY-CHUTORIAN, Matthew STEINER, Vivek KWATRA, Shengyang DAI, John SPIEGEL, Nicholas BUTKO, Falk STICKEN, Florian KRIENER, Tom BINDER, John FLYNN, Troy CHINEN, Steven VANDEBOGART, Nikolaos TROGKANIS, Ingo WEHMEYER, Matthias GRUNDMANN
  • Publication number: 20150317540
    Abstract: Techniques for providing image search templates are provided. An image search template may be associated with an image search query to aid the user in capturing an image that will be appropriate for processing the search query. The template may be displayed as an overlay during an image capturing process to indicate an appropriate image capturing pose, range, angle, or other view characteristics that may provide more accurate search results. The template may also be used in the image search query to segment the image and identify features relevant to the search query. Images in an image database may be clustered using characteristics of the images or metadata associated with the images in order to establish groups of images from which templates may be derived. The generated templates may be provided to users to assist in capturing images to be used as search engine queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Troy Chinen, Ameesh Makadia, Corinna Cortes, Hartwig Adam, Nemanja Petrovic, Teresa Ko, Sebastian Pueblas
  • Patent number: 9087269
    Abstract: Techniques for providing image search templates are provided. An image search template may be associated with an image search query to aid the user in capturing an image that will be appropriate for processing the search query. The template may be displayed as an overlay during an image capturing process to indicate an appropriate image capturing pose, range, angle, or other view characteristics that may provide more accurate search results. The template may also be used in the image search query to segment the image and identify features relevant to the search query. Images in an image database may be clustered using characteristics of the images or metadata associated with the images in order to establish groups of images from which templates may be derived. The generated templates may be provided to users to assist in capturing images to be used as search engine queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Troy Chinen, Teresa Ko, Corinna Cortes, Nemanja Petrovic, Ameesh Makadia, Sebastian Pueblas, Hartwig Adam
  • Patent number: 9076270
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to generating compositional media content. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of photos from a user, and determining one or more composition types from the photos. The method also includes generating compositions from the selected photos based on the one or more determined composition types. The method also includes providing the one or more generated compositions to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Murphy-Chutorian, Matthew Steiner, Vivek Kwatra, Shengyang Dai, John Spiegel, Nicholas Butko, Falk Sticken, Florian Kriener, Tom Binder, John Flynn, Troy Chinen, Steven VanDeBogart, Nikolaos Trogkanis, Ingo Wehmeyer, Matthias Grundmann
  • Patent number: 9076076
    Abstract: A system and method is provided that determines whether objects in one image are visually similar to objects in another image by replacing the images' backgrounds with other images, such as a solid color or an image with texture, and comparing the resulting histograms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Ioffe, Troy Chinen
  • Publication number: 20150169992
    Abstract: A system and method is provided that determines whether objects in one image are visually similar to objects in another image by replacing the images' backgrounds with other images, such as a solid color or an image with texture, and comparing the resulting histograms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Sergey Ioffe, Troy Chinen
  • Publication number: 20150154743
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying a first portion of a facial image in a first image, wherein the first portion includes noise. A corresponding portion of the facial image is identified in a second image, wherein the corresponding portion includes less noise than the first portion. One or more filter parameters of the first portion are determined based upon, at least in part, the first portion and the corresponding portion. At least a portion of the noise from the first portion is smoothed based upon, at least in part, the one or more filter parameters. At least a portion of face specific details from the corresponding portion is added to the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Ioffe, Troy Chinen, Vivek Kwatra, Hui Fang, Yichang Shih
  • Patent number: 8977012
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying a first portion of a facial image in a first image, wherein the first portion includes noise. A corresponding portion of the facial image is identified in a second image, wherein the corresponding portion includes less noise than the first portion. One or more filter parameters of the first portion are determined based upon, at least in part, the first portion and the corresponding portion. At least a portion of the noise from the first portion is smoothed based upon, at least in part, the one or more filter parameters. At least a portion of face specific details from the corresponding portion is added to the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Ioffe, Troy Chinen, Vivek Kwatra, Hui Fang, Yichang Shih
  • Publication number: 20140341482
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to generating compositional media content. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of photos from a user, and determining one or more composition types from the photos. The method also includes generating compositions from the selected photos based on the one or more determined composition types. The method also includes providing the one or more generated compositions to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Murphy-Chutorian, Matthew Steiner, Vivek Kwatra, Shengyang Dai, John Spiegel, Nicholas Butko, Falk Sticken, Florian Kriener, Tom Binder, John Flynn, Troy Chinen, Steven VanDeBogart, Nikolaos Trogkanis, Ingo Wehmeyer, Matthias Grundmann