Patents Assigned to Five Apes, Inc.
  • Method and apparatus for creating a pattern recognizer
    Patent number: 8290250
    Abstract: An image-based pattern recognizer and a method and apparatus for making such a pattern recognizer are disclosed. By employing positional coding, the meaning of any feature present in an image can be defined implicitly in space. The pattern recognizer can be a neural network including a plurality of stages of observers. The observers are configured to cooperate to identify the presence of features in the input image and to recognize a pattern in the input image based on the features. Each of the observers includes a plurality of neurons. The input image includes a plurality of units, and each of the observers is configured to generate a separate output set that includes zero or more coordinates of such units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Five Apes, Inc.
    Inventor: Williams J. F. Paquier
  • MULTI-STAGE IMAGE PATTERN RECOGNIZER
    Publication number: 20120207394
    Abstract: An image-based pattern recognizer and a method and apparatus for making such a pattern recognizer are disclosed. By employing positional coding, the meaning of any feature present in an image can be defined implicitly in space. The pattern recognizer can be a neural network including a plurality of stages of observers. The observers are configured to cooperate to identify the presence of features in the input image and to recognize a pattern in the input image based on the features. Each of the observers includes a plurality of neurons. The input image includes a plurality of units, and each of the observers is configured to generate a separate output set that includes zero or more coordinates of such units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: Five Apes, Inc.
    Inventor: Williams J. F. Paquier
  • Neural network based pattern recognizer
    Patent number: 8229209
    Abstract: An image-based pattern recognizer and a method and apparatus for making such a pattern recognizer are disclosed. By employing positional coding, the meaning of any feature present in an image can be defined implicitly in space. The pattern recognizer can be a neural network including a plurality of stages of observers. The observers are configured to cooperate to identify the presence of features in the input image and to recognize a pattern in the input image based on the features. Each of the observers includes a plurality of neurons. The input image includes a plurality of units, and each of the observers is configured to generate a separate output set that includes zero or more coordinates of such units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Five Apes, Inc.
    Inventor: Williams J. F. Paquier
  • Multi-stage image pattern recognizer
    Patent number: 8160354
    Abstract: An image-based pattern recognizer and a method and apparatus for making such a pattern recognizer are disclosed. By employing positional coding, the meaning of any feature present in an image can be defined implicitly in space. The pattern recognizer can be a neural network including a plurality of stages of observers. The observers are configured to cooperate to identify the presence of features in the input image and to recognize a pattern in the input image based on the features. Each of the observers includes a plurality of neurons. The input image includes a plurality of units, and each of the observers is configured to generate a separate output set that includes zero or more coordinates of such units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Five Apes, Inc.
    Inventor: Williams J. F. Paquier