Patents by Inventor Vikram VijayanBabu Appia
Vikram VijayanBabu Appia 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).
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Patent number: 11915442Abstract: An apparatus and method for geometrically correcting an arbitrary shaped input frame and generating an undistorted output frame. The method includes capturing arbitrary shaped input images with multiple optical devices and processing the images, identifying redundant blocks and valid blocks in each of the images, allocating an output frame with an output frame size and dividing the output frame into regions shaped as a rectangle, programming the apparatus and disabling processing for invalid blocks in each of the regions, fetching data corresponding to each of the valid blocks and storing in an internal memory, interpolating data for each of the regions with stitching and composing the valid blocks for the output frame and displaying the output frame on a display module.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Rajasekhar Reddy Allu, Niraj Nandan, Mihir Narendra Mody, Gang Hua, Brian Okchon Chae, Shashank Dabral, Hetul Sanghvi, Vikram VijayanBabu Appia, Sujith Shivalingappa
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Patent number: 11867500Abstract: A method for computing a depth map of a scene in a structured light imaging system including a time-of-flight (TOF) sensor and a projector is provided that includes capturing a plurality of high frequency phase-shifted structured light images of the scene using a camera in the structured light imaging system, generating, concurrently with the capturing of the plurality of high frequency phase-shifted structured light images, a time-of-flight (TOF) depth image of the scene using the TOF sensor, and computing the depth map from the plurality of high frequency phase-shifted structured light images wherein the TOF depth image is used for phase unwrapping.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Sanjeev Jagannatha Koppal, Vikram Vijayanbabu Appia
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Patent number: 11823404Abstract: A method of image processing in a structured light imaging system is provided that includes receiving a captured image of a scene, wherein the captured image is captured by a camera of a projector-camera pair, and wherein the captured image includes a binary pattern projected into the scene by the projector, applying a filter to the rectified captured image to generate a local threshold image, wherein the local threshold image includes a local threshold value for each pixel in the rectified captured image, and extracting a binary image from the rectified captured image wherein a value of each location in the binary image is determined based on a comparison of a value of a pixel in a corresponding location in the rectified captured image to a local threshold value in a corresponding location in the local threshold image.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventor: Vikram Vijayanbabu Appia
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Publication number: 20230300308Abstract: A method of image processing in a structured light imaging device is provided that includes capturing a plurality of images of a scene into which a structured light pattern is projected by a projector in the structured light imaging device, extracting features in each of the captured images, finding feature matches between a reference image of the plurality of captured images and each of the other images in the plurality of captured images, rectifying each of the other images to align with the reference image, wherein each image of the other images is rectified based on feature matches between the image and the reference image, combining the rectified other images and the reference image using interpolation to generate a high resolution image, and generating a depth image using the high resolution image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Vikram VijayanBabu Appia, Ibrahim Ethem Pekkucuksen
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Publication number: 20230184954Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for identifying a drivable area in front of a vehicle. A three-dimensional measurement sensor captures three-dimensional data corresponding to an area in front of the vehicle. Processing circuitry compares the captured three-dimensional data with a three-dimensional ground model to identify at least one obstacle and determine a drivable area in front of the vehicle based on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Martin Fritz Mueller, Gary Fay, Vikram Vijayanbabu Appia
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Patent number: 11606538Abstract: A method for automatic keystone correction in a projection system is provided that includes rectifying a first image to be projected using current keystone correction parameters to generate a first rectified image, projecting, by a projector in the projection system, the first rectified image on a projection surface, determining whether or not current keystone correction parameters are providing sufficient keystone correction after the first rectified image is projected, rectifying a second image to be projected using the current keystone correction parameters to generate a second rectified image if the current keystone correction parameters are providing sufficient keystone correction, computing new keystone correction parameters if the current keystone correction parameters are not providing sufficient keystone correction and rectifying the second image to be projected using the new keystone correction parameters to generate the second rectified image, and projecting, by the projector, the second rectifiedType: GrantFiled: August 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Texas Instmments IncorporatedInventor: Vikram VijayanBabu Appia
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Patent number: 11601631Abstract: A method of image processing in a structured light imaging device is provided that includes capturing a plurality of images of a scene into which a structured light pattern is projected by a projector in the structured light imaging device, extracting features in each of the captured images, finding feature matches between a reference image of the plurality of captured images and each of the other images in the plurality of captured images, rectifying each of the other images to align with the reference image, wherein each image of the other images is rectified based on feature matches between the image and the reference image, combining the rectified other images and the reference image using interpolation to generate a high resolution image, and generating a depth image using the high resolution image.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Vikram VijayanBabu Appia, Ibrahim Ethem Pekkucuksen
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Patent number: 11599975Abstract: An apparatus and method for geometrically correcting a distorted input frame and generating an undistorted output frame. The apparatus includes an external memory block that stores the input frame, a counter block to compute output coordinates of the output frame for a region based on a block size of the region, a back mapping block to generate input coordinates corresponding to each of the output coordinates, a bounding module to compute input blocks corresponding to each of the input coordinates, a buffer module to fetch data corresponding to each of the input blocks, an interpolation module to interpolate data from the buffer module and a display module that receives the interpolated data for each of the regions and stitch an output image. The method includes determining the size of the output block based on a magnification data.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Rajasekhar Reddy Allu, Niraj Nandan, Mihir Narendra Mody, Gang Hua, Brian Okchon Chae, Shashank Dabral, Hetul Sanghvi, Vikram VijayanBabu Appia, Sujith Shivalingappa
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Patent number: 11303807Abstract: A method for generating a surround view (SV) image for display in a view port of an SV processing system is provided that includes capturing, by at least one processor, corresponding images of video streams from each camera of a plurality of cameras and generating, by the at least one processor, the SV image using ray tracing for lens remapping to identify coordinates of pixels in the images corresponding to pixels in the SV image.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Hemant Vijay Kumar Hariyani, Martin Fritz Mueller, Vikram Vijayanbabu Appia
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Patent number: 11303806Abstract: A method for displaying a surround view on a single display screen is disclosed. A plurality of image frames for a particular time may be received from a corresponding plurality of cameras. A viewpoint warp map corresponding to a predetermined first virtual viewpoint may be selected, wherein the viewpoint warp map defines a source pixel location in the plurality of image frames for each output pixel location in the display screen. The warp map was predetermined offline and stored for later use. An output image is synthesized for the display screen by selecting pixel data for each pixel of the output image from the plurality of image frames in accordance with the viewpoint warp map. The synthesized image is then displayed on a display screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Vikram VijayanBabu Appia, Sujith Shivalingappa, Brijesh Rameshbhai Jadav, Hemant Hariyani, Shashank Dabral, Mayank Mangla
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Publication number: 20210407120Abstract: An apparatus and method for geometrically correcting an arbitrary shaped input frame and generating an undistorted output frame. The method includes capturing arbitrary shaped input images with multiple optical devices and processing the images, identifying redundant blocks and valid blocks in each of the images, allocating an output frame with an output frame size and dividing the output frame into regions shaped as a rectangle, programming the apparatus and disabling processing for invalid blocks in each of the regions, fetching data corresponding to each of the valid blocks and storing in an internal memory, interpolating data for each of the regions with stitching and composing the valid blocks for the output frame and displaying the output frame on a display module.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Rajasekhar Reddy Allu, Niraj Nandan, Mihir Narendra Mody, Gang Hua, Brian Okchon Chae, Shashank Dabral, Hetul Sanghvi, Vikram VijayanBabu Appia, Sujith Shivalingappa
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Publication number: 20210329169Abstract: A method for generating a surround view (SV) image for display in a view port of an SV processing system is provided that includes capturing, by at least one processor, corresponding images of video streams from each camera of a plurality of cameras and generating, by the at least one processor, the SV image using ray tracing for lens remapping to identify coordinates of pixels in the images corresponding to pixels in the SV image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Hemant Vijay Kumar Hariyani, Martin Fritz Mueller, Vikram VijayanBabu Appia
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Patent number: 11145079Abstract: An apparatus and method for geometrically correcting an arbitrary shaped input frame and generating an undistorted output frame. The method includes capturing arbitrary shaped input images with multiple optical devices and processing the images, identifying redundant blocks and valid blocks in each of the images, allocating an output frame with an output frame size and dividing the output frame into regions shaped as a rectangle, programming the apparatus and disabling processing for invalid blocks in each of the regions, fetching data corresponding to each of the valid blocks and storing in an internal memory, interpolating data for each of the regions with stitching and composing the valid blocks for the output frame and displaying the output frame on a display module.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Rajasekhar Reddy Allu, Niraj Nandan, Mihir Narendra Mody, Gang Hua, Brian Okchon Chae, Shashank Dabral, Hetul Sanghvi, Vikram VijayanBabu Appia, Sujith Shivalingappa
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Publication number: 20210279493Abstract: A method of image processing in a structured light imaging system is provided that includes receiving a captured image of a scene, wherein the captured image is captured by a camera of a projector-camera pair, and wherein the captured image includes a binary pattern projected into the scene by the projector, applying a filter to the rectified captured image to generate a local threshold image, wherein the local threshold image includes a local threshold value for each pixel in the rectified captured image, and extracting a binary image from the rectified captured image wherein a value of each location in the binary image is determined based on a comparison of a value of a pixel in a corresponding location in the rectified captured image to a local threshold value in a corresponding location in the local threshold image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventor: Vikram VijayanBabu Appia
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Patent number: 11102405Abstract: A rear-stitched view panorama (RSVP) system is provided that includes at least one processor and a memory storing software instructions that, when executed by the least one processor, cause the RSVP system to compute a disparity map for a left center rear image and a right center rear image captured by a stereo camera mounted on a rear of a vehicle, transform a right rear image, a left rear image, a reference center rear image, and the disparity map to a virtual world view, the right rear image and left rear image captured by respective right and left cameras mounted on the vehicle, compute an optimal left seam and an optimal right seam based on the transformed disparity map, and stitch the transformed images based on respective optimal seams to generate a panorama.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Texas Instmments IncorporatedInventors: Janice Shuay-Ann Pan, Vikram VijayanBabu Appia
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Patent number: 11050932Abstract: A method for generating a surround view (SV) image for display in a view port of an SV processing system is provided that includes capturing, by at least one processor, corresponding images of video streams from each camera of a plurality of cameras and generating, by the at least one processor, the SV image using ray tracing for lens remapping to identify coordinates of pixels in the images corresponding to pixels in the SV image.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Hemant Vijay Kumar Hariyani, Martin Fritz Mueller, Vikram VijayanBabu Appia
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Patent number: 11048957Abstract: A method of image processing in a structured light imaging system is provided that includes receiving a captured image of a scene, wherein the captured image is captured by a camera of a projector-camera pair, and wherein the captured image includes a binary pattern projected into the scene by the projector, applying a filter to the rectified captured image to generate a local threshold image, wherein the local threshold image includes a local threshold value for each pixel in the rectified captured image, and extracting a binary image from the rectified captured image wherein a value of each location in the binary image is determined based on a comparison of a value of a pixel in a corresponding location in the rectified captured image to a local threshold value in a corresponding location in the local threshold image.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventor: Vikram VijayanBabu Appia
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Publication number: 20210042891Abstract: A method for geometrically correcting a distorted input frame and generating an undistorted output frame includes capturing and storing an input frame in an external memory, allocating an output frame with an output frame size and dividing the output frame into output blocks, computing a size of the input blocks in the input image corresponding to each output blocks, checking if the size of the input blocks is less than the size of the internal memory and if not dividing until the required input block size of divided sub blocks is less than the size of the internal memory, programming an apparatus with input parameters, fetching the input blocks into an internal memory, processing each of the divided sub blocks sequentially and processing the next output block in step until all the output blocks are processed; and composing the output frame for each of the blocks in the output frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Rajasekhar Reddy Allu, Niraj Nandan, Mihir Narendra Mody, Gang Hua, Brian Okchon Chae, Shashank Dabral, Hetul Sanghvi, Vikram VijayanBabu Appia, Sujith Shivalingappa
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Patent number: 10890648Abstract: A method of generating an alignment matrix for a camera-radar system includes: receiving radar data originated by a radar subsystem and representative of an area of interest within a field of view for the radar subsystem; receiving image data originated by a camera subsystem and representative of the area of interest within a field of view for the camera subsystem; processing the radar data to detect features within the area of interest and to determine a reflected radar point with three dimensions relating to a camera-radar system; processing the image data to detect features within the area of interest and to determine a centroid with two dimensions relating to the camera-radar system; and computing an alignment matrix for radar and image data from the camera-radar system based on a functional relationship between the three dimensions for the reflected radar point and the two dimensions for the centroid.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Vikram VijayanBabu Appia, Dan Wang
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Patent number: 10853923Abstract: A method for geometrically correcting a distorted input frame and generating an undistorted output frame includes capturing and storing an input frame in an external memory, allocating an output frame with an output frame size and dividing the output frame into output blocks, computing a size of the input blocks in the input image corresponding to each output blocks, checking if the size of the input blocks is less than the size of the internal memory and if not dividing until the required input block size of divided sub blocks is less than the size of the internal memory, programming an apparatus with input parameters, fetching the input blocks into an internal memory, processing each of the divided sub blocks sequentially and processing the next output block in step until all the output blocks are processed; and composing the output frame for each of the blocks in the output frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Rajasekhar Reddy Allu, Niraj Nandan, Mihir Narendra Mody, Gang Hua, Brian Okchon Chae, Shashank Dabral, Hetul Sanghvi, Vikram VijayanBabu Appia, Sujith Shivalingappa