Patents Assigned to Edge 3 Technologies
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Patent number: 10409382Abstract: A method includes monitoring a plurality of system inputs, and detecting a behavioral pattern performed by a user and associated with the plurality of system inputs, When the behavioral pattern is detected, the method includes associating, in a memory, a gesture with at least one action, the at least one action being determined by the plurality of system inputs, and, upon detecting the gesture, executing the action associated with the gesture.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., EDGE 3 TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Stuart Yamamoto, Tarek A. El Dokor
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Patent number: 10222910Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating an adaptive mosaic pixel-wise virtual Bayer pattern. The method may include receiving a plurality of monochromatic images from an array of imaging elements, creating a reference ordered set at infinity from the plurality of monochromatic images, running a demosaicing process on the reference ordered set, and creating a color image from the demosaiced ordered set. One or more offset artifacts resulting from the demosaicing process may be computed at a distance other than infinity, the ordered set may be modified in accordance with the computed offsets.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tarek El Dokor, Joshua King, Roger Hauptman
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Patent number: 10176564Abstract: A novel disparity computation technique is presented which comprises multiple orthogonal disparity maps, generated from approximately orthogonal decomposition feature spaces, collaboratively generating a composite disparity map. Using an approximately orthogonal feature set extracted from such feature spaces produces an approximately orthogonal set of disparity maps that can be composited together to produce a final disparity map. Various methods for dimensioning scenes and are presented. One approach extracts the top and bottom vertices of a cuboid, along with the set of lines, whose intersections define such points. It then defines a unique box from these two intersections as well as the associated lines. Orthographic projection is then attempted, to recenter the box perspective. This is followed by the extraction of the three-dimensional information that is associated with the box, and finally, the dimensions of the box are computed. The same concepts can apply to hallways, rooms, and any other object.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2018Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tarek El Dokor, Jordan Cluster
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Patent number: 10162429Abstract: A gesture-enabled keyboard and method are defined. The gesture-enabled keyboard includes a keyboard housing including one or more keyboard keys for typing and a pair of stereo camera sensors mounted within the keyboard housing, a field of view of the pair of stereo camera sensors projecting substantially perpendicularly to the plane of the keyboard housing. A background of the field of view is updated when one or more alternative input devices are in use. A gesture region including a plurality of interaction zones and a virtual membrane defining a region of transition from one of the plurality of interaction zones to another of the plurality of interaction zones is defined within the field of view of the pair of stereo camera sensors. Gesture interaction is enabled when one or more gesture objects are positioned within the gesture region, and when one or more alternative input devices are not in use.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Tarek El Dokor
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Patent number: 10156906Abstract: A gesture control system includes a processor, the processor in communication with a plurality of sensors. The processor is configured to perform the steps of detecting, using the plurality of sensors, a gesture in a volume occupied by a plurality of occupants, analyzing a prior knowledge to associate the gesture with one of the plurality of occupants, and generating an output, the output being determined by the gesture and the one of the plurality of occupants.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Stuart Yamamoto, Tarek El Dokor, Graeme Asher, Jordan Cluster, Matt Conway, Josh King, James E. Holmes, Matt McElvogue, Churu Yun
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Patent number: 10073535Abstract: A user, such as the driver of a vehicle, to retrieve information related to a point of interest (POI) near the vehicle by pointing at the POI or performing some other gesture to identify the POI. Gesture recognition is performed on the gesture to generate a target region that includes the POI that the user identified. After generating the target region, information about the POI can be retrieved by querying a server-based POI service with the target region or by searching in a micromap that is stored locally. The retrieved POI information can then be provided to the user via a display and/or speaker in the vehicle. This process beneficially allows a user to rapidly identify and retrieve information about a POI near the vehicle without having to navigate a user interface by manipulating a touchscreen or physical buttons.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., EDGE 3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Pedram Vaghefinazari, Stuart Masakazu Yamamoto, Tarek A. El Dokor, Jordan Cluster, James E. Holmes
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Patent number: 10061442Abstract: A near-touch interface is provided that utilizes stereo cameras and a series of targeted structured light tessellations, emanating from the screen as a light source and incident on objects in the field-of-view. After radial distortion from a series of wide-angle lenses is mitigated, a surface-based spatio-temporal stereo algorithm is utilized to estimate initial depth values. Once these values are calculated, a subsequent refinement step may be applied in which light source tessellations are used to flash a structure onto targeted components of the scene, where initial near-interaction disparity values have been calculated. The combination of a spherical stereo algorithm, and smoothing with structured light source tessellations, provides for a very reliable and fast near-field depth engine, and resolves issues that are associated with depth estimates for embedded solutions of this approach.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Tarek El Dokor
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Patent number: 10037602Abstract: A method and apparatus for segmenting an image are provided. The method may include the steps of clustering pixels from one of a plurality of images into one or more segments, determining one or more unstable segments changing by more than a predetermined threshold from a prior of the plurality of images, determining one or more segments transitioning from an unstable to a stable segment, determining depth for one or more of the one or more segments that have changed by more than the predetermined threshold, determining depth for one or more of the one or more transitioning segments, and combining the determined depth for the one or more unstable segments and the one or more transitioning segments with a predetermined depth of all segments changing less than the predetermined threshold from the prior of the plurality of images.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2016Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tarek El Dokor, Jordan Cluster
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Patent number: 9990567Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing image data is provided. The method includes the steps of employing a main processing network for classifying one or more features of the image data, employing a monitor processing network for determining one or more confusing classifications of the image data, and spawning a specialist processing network to process image data associated with the one or more confusing classifications.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2014Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Tarek El Dokor
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Patent number: 9865045Abstract: A novel disparity computation technique is presented which comprises multiple orthogonal disparity maps, generated from approximately orthogonal decomposition feature spaces, collaboratively generating a composite disparity map. Using an approximately orthogonal feature set extracted from such feature spaces produces an approximately orthogonal set of disparity maps that can be composited together to produce a final disparity map. Various methods for dimensioning scenes and are presented. One approach extracts the top and bottom vertices of a cuboid, along with the set of lines, whose intersections define such points. It then defines a unique box from these two intersections as well as the associated lines. Orthographic projection is then attempted, to recenter the box perspective. This is followed by the extraction of the three-dimensional information that is associated with the box, and finally, the dimensions of the box are computed. The same concepts can apply to hallways, rooms, and any other object.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tarek El Dokor, Jordan Cluster
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Patent number: 9852332Abstract: A system for capturing image data for gestures from a passenger or a driver in a vehicle with a dynamic illumination level comprises a low-lux sensor equipped to capture image data in an environment with an illumination level below an illumination threshold, a high-lux sensor equipped to capture image data in the environment with the illumination level above the illumination threshold, and an object recognition module for activating the sensors. The object recognition module determines the illumination level of the environment and activates the low-lux sensor if the illumination level is below the illumination threshold. If the illumination level is above the threshold, the object recognition module activates the high-lux sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., EDGE 3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Pedram Vaghefinazari, Stuart Masakazu Yamamoto, Ritchie Winson Huang, Josh Tyler King, Tarek El Dokor
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Patent number: 9723296Abstract: A method and system to determine the disparity associated with one or more textured regions of a plurality of images is presented. The method comprises the steps of breaking up the texture into its color primitives, further segmenting the textured object into any number of objects comprising such primitives, and then calculating a disparity of these objects. The textured objects emerge in the disparity domain, after having their disparity calculated. Accordingly, the method is further comprised of defining one or more textured regions in a first of a plurality of images, determining a corresponding one or more textured regions in a second of the plurality of images, segmenting the textured regions into their color primitives, and calculating a disparity between the first and second of the plurality of images in accordance with the segmented color primitives.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tarek El Dokor, Joshua King, Jordan Cluster, James Edward Holmes
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Patent number: 9672609Abstract: A method and apparatus for segmenting an image are provided. An image acquisition and segmentation apparatus may include a sensor, a lens having a variable distance to the sensor, and a processor for acquiring an image and segmenting one or more segments from the acquired image. The lens may be moved relative to the sensor in accordance with a microelectronic machine in order to provide a shallow depth of field and a resulting blurred background, therefore easing a segmentation of one or more foreground objects in an acquired image.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2011Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tarek El Dokor, Jordan Cluster
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Patent number: 9652084Abstract: A near-touch interface is provided that utilizes stereo cameras and a series of targeted structured light tessellations, emanating from the screen as a light source and incident on objects in the field-of-view. After radial distortion from a series of wide-angle lenses is mitigated, a surface-based spatio-temporal stereo algorithm is utilized to estimate initial depth values. Once these values are calculated, a subsequent refinement step may be applied in which light source tessellations are used to flash a structure onto targeted components of the scene, where initial near-interaction disparity values have been calculated. The combination of a spherical stereo algorithm, and smoothing with structured light source tessellations, provides for a very reliable and fast near-field depth engine, and resolves issues that are associated with depth estimates for embedded solutions of this approach.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2016Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Tarek El Dokor
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Patent number: 9645680Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating an adaptive mosaic pixel-wise virtual Bayer pattern. The method may include receiving a plurality of monochromatic images from an array of imaging elements, creating a reference ordered set at infinity from the plurality of monochromatic images, running a demosaicing process on the reference ordered set, and creating a color image from the demosaiced ordered set. One or more offset artifacts resulting from the demosaicing process may be computed at a distance other than infinity, the ordered set may be modified in accordance with the computed offsets.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tarek El Dokor, Joshua King, Roger Hauptman
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Patent number: 9541418Abstract: A user, such as the driver of a vehicle, to retrieve information related to a point of interest (POI) near the vehicle by pointing at the POI or performing some other gesture to identify the POI. Gesture recognition is performed on the gesture to generate a target region that includes the POI that the user identified. After generating the target region, information about the POI can be retrieved by querying a server-based POI service with the target region or by searching in a micromap that is stored locally. The retrieved POI information can then be provided to the user via a display and/or speaker in the vehicle. This process beneficially allows a user to rapidly identify and retrieve information about a POI near the vehicle without having to navigate a user interface by manipulating a touchscreen or physical buttons.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tarek A. El Dokor, Jordan Cluster, James E. Holmes, Pedram Vaghefinazari, Stuart M. Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9469251Abstract: A system for capturing image data for gestures from a passenger or a driver in a vehicle with a dynamic illumination level comprises a low-lux sensor equipped to capture image data in an environment with an illumination level below an illumination threshold, a high-lux sensor equipped to capture image data in the environment with the illumination level above the illumination threshold, and an object recognition module for activating the sensors. The object recognition module determines the illumination level of the environment and activates the low-lux sensor if the illumination level is below the illumination threshold. If the illumination level is above the threshold, the object recognition module activates the high-lux sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Edge 3 Technologies, LLCInventors: Pedram Vaghefinazari, Stuart Masakazu Yamamoto, Ritchie Winson Huang, Josh Tyler King, Tarek El Doker
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Patent number: 9417700Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, the a method includes the steps of receiving one or more raw frames from one or more cameras, each of the one or more raw frames representing a time sequence of images, determining one or more regions of the one or more received raw frames that comprise highly textured regions, segmenting the one or more determined highly textured regions in accordance textured features thereof to determine one or more segments thereof, determining one or more regions of the one or more received raw frames that comprise other than highly textured regions, and segmenting the one or more determined other than highly textured regions in accordance with color thereof to determine one or more segments thereof. One or more of the segments are then tracked through the one or more raw frames representing the time sequence of images.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Edge3 TechnologiesInventors: Tarek A. El Dokor, Joshua T. King
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Patent number: 9346471Abstract: An in-vehicle computing system allows a user to control components of the vehicle by performing gestures. The user provides a selecting input to indicate that he wishes to control one of the components. After the component is identified, the user performs a gesture to control the component. The gesture and the component that was previously selected are analyzed to generate a command for the component. Since the command is based on both the gesture and the identified component, the user can perform the same gesture in the same position within the vehicle to control different components.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tarek A. El Dokor, Jordan Cluster, James E. Holmes, Pedram Vaghefinazari, Stuart M. Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9342797Abstract: Some embodiments provide systems and methods for enabling a learning implicit gesture control system for use by an occupant of a vehicle. The method includes identifying features received from a plurality of sensors and comparing the features to antecedent knowledge stored in memory. A system output action that corresponds to the features can then be provided in the form of a first vehicle output. The method further includes detecting a second vehicle output from the plurality of sensors and updating the antecedent knowledge to associate the system output action with the second vehicle output.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Edge 3 Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tarek A. El Dokor, Joshua King, Jordan Cluster, James E. Holmes