Patents Examined by Aaron W Carter
  • Patent number: 11644339
    Abstract: A database construction method includes determining a target image set that meets a preset image coincidence degree requirement, obtaining a scenario key point information set based on the target image set and natural condition information corresponding to each image, determining, in the scenario key point information set, first scenario key point information corresponding to a scenario key point whose life value on a single mobile terminal is greater than a first preset life value threshold, determining, in the first scenario key point information, second scenario key point information corresponding to a scenario key point whose life value on a plurality of mobile terminals is greater than a second preset life value threshold, and when the second scenario key point information does not match preset scenario key point information in a database, constructing the database based on the second scenario key point information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xun Chai, Jun Wang, Jingwei Zhou, Jiong Deng
  • Patent number: 11640582
    Abstract: A method for aligning NFC antennas on a mobile device and document. The method comprises determining the mobile device model identifier, associating the model identifier with a configuration, determining a model type and determining the document configuration in relation to its NFC components, selecting an feedback schema for aligning the NFC antennas based on the device and document configuration, generating alignment feedback according to the alignment feedback schema, detecting a data connection between the mobile device and the document and generating a connection indication. The determining the document type can be performed by reading a Machine Readable Zone. The feedback schema can be coupled with the mobile device's video camera and display, audio, and haptic feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Mitek Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashok Singal, James Treitler, Sanjay Gupta, Michael Ramsbacker, Jason L. Gray, Michael Hagen
  • Patent number: 11636666
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for identifying key point locations in an image. The method includes: obtaining an image to be detected, and obtaining a feature map and a saliency map of the image to be detected; generating a score response map of the image to be detected based on the feature map of the image to be detected; obtaining a first key point location of a key point on the score response map; obtaining a second key point location of the key point mapped on the image to be detected based on the first key point location; and correcting the second key point location based on the saliency map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuetong Xue, Hui Ren, Min Yang
  • Patent number: 11636173
    Abstract: An accelerator includes a key matrix register configured to store a key matrix, a query vector register configured to store a query vector; and a preprocessor configured to calculate similarities between the query vector and the key matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: SK hynix Inc., Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
    Inventors: Tae Jun Ham, Seonghak Kim, Sungjun Jung, Younghwan Oh, Jaewook Lee, Deog-Kyoon Jeong, Minsoo Lim
  • Patent number: 11625907
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed, including a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to identify a first image, a second image, and a third image, the first image overlapping the second image and the third image, the second image overlapping the third image; determine a first connectivity between the first image and the second image; determine a second connectivity between the first image and the third image; determine a third connectivity between the second image and the third image, the second connectivity being less than the first connectivity, the third connectivity being greater than the second connectivity; assign the first image, the second image, and the third image to a cluster based on the first connectivity and the third connectivity; conduct a bundle adjustment process on the cluster of the first image, the second image, and the third image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Pictometry International Corp.
    Inventor: David Nilosek
  • Patent number: 11625555
    Abstract: Respective labels are generated automatically for a plurality of record pairs, with a label for a given pair indicating a relationship detected between the records of the pair. One or more machine learning models are trained using the labeled record pairs. The trained versions of the models are stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitry Vladimir Zhiyanov, Lichao Wang, Archiman Dutta
  • Patent number: 11620769
    Abstract: An image information overlay system retrieves an image associated with a vehicle listing and uses machine learning models to classify the image, generating identification data that may comprise a vehicle make and model, a feature or part of the vehicle present in the image, and a location of the vehicle feature or part. The identification data or an individual identifier of the vehicle, such as a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), may be used to retrieve overlay information related to the vehicle make and model, such as recalls or known maintenance issues or information specific to the vehicle, such as mileage, accident reports, or ownership history. The overlay information is displayed on the image as an overlay at the location of the vehicle feature or part corresponding to the overlay information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Qiaochu Tang, Geoffrey Dagley, Micah Price, Avid Ghamsari, Jason Richard Hoover
  • Patent number: 11615993
    Abstract: A care area is determined in an image of a semiconductor wafer. The care area is divided into sub-care areas based on the shapes of polygons in a design file associated with the care area. A noise scan of a histogram for the sub-care areas is then performed. The sub-care areas are clustered into groups based on the noise scan of the histogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: KLA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Boshi Huang, Hucheng Lee, Vladimir Tumakov, Sangbong Park, Bjorn Brauer, Erfan Soltanmohammadi
  • Patent number: 11606967
    Abstract: Smoking-related article inspection systems and associated methods are disclosed herein. In some aspects, the systems include an x-ray imaging device configured to capture at least one image of the smoking-related articles, a smoking-related article transporting device configured to sequentially introduce the smoking-related articles into the imaging zone; and an analysis unit in communication with the x-ray imaging device and configured to analyze the at least one image captured by the x-ray imaging device for each of the smoking-related articles, the analysis unit being configured to execute: an inspection tool to determine values for one or more parameters of each of the smoking-related articles based on the analysis of the at least one image; and a comparison tool to determine an acceptability of the smoking-related articles for further processing based on comparing the determined values for the one or more parameters to ideal values for the one or more parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventor: Balager Ademe
  • Patent number: 11610295
    Abstract: A system for detecting the operating condition of components of an implement may include an implement, a first sensor comprising one of an acoustic sensor or a vision-based sensor, a second sensor comprising the other of the acoustic sensor or the vision-based sensor, and a controller communicatively coupled to the first and second sensors. The controller may receive performance data from the first sensor indicative of a performance of the implement. The controller may further monitor the performance data received from the first sensor and identify an area of interest relative to the implement. Additionally, the controller may control an operation of the second sensor to collect component data indicative of an operating condition of at least one component of the implement located within the area of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Phillip Duane Dix, Daniel Geiyer, Aditya Singh, Brett McClelland, Navneet Gulati
  • Patent number: 11593582
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to a method and device for comparing media features, the method comprising: obtaining first media feature sequences of a first media object and second media feature sequences of a second media object, the first media feature sequence comprises a plurality of first media feature units arranged in sequence, and the second media feature sequence comprises a plurality of second media feature units arranged in sequence; determining unit similarities between the first media feature units and the second media feature units; determining a similarity matrix between the first media feature sequences and the second media feature sequences according to the unit similarities; determining a similarity of the first media object and the second media object according to the similarity matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi He, Lei Li, Cheng Yang, Gen Li, Yitan Li
  • Patent number: 11587224
    Abstract: An image error identification system retrieves an image associated with a vehicle listing and uses various machine learning models to classify the image and generate identification data that may include a vehicle make, model, trim level, and/or various features of the vehicle present in the image. The identification data is compared to the rest of the vehicle listing to detect a mismatch between the image and the vehicle listing. An alert is generated, when a mismatch is detected, indicating the one of the image or the data in the vehicle listing is incorrect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Qiaochu Tang, Geoffrey Dagley, Micah Price, Avid Ghamsari, Jason Richard Hoover
  • Patent number: 11586881
    Abstract: A method of generating receiving a valid domain name comprises evaluating a received valid domain name in a neural network trained to generate similar domain names, and providing an output comprising at least one domain name similar to the received valid domain name generated by the neural network. In a further example, a recurrent neural network is trained using valid domain names and observed malicious similar domain names and/or linguistic rules. In another example, the output of the recurrent neural network further comprises a similarity score reflecting a degree of similarity between the valid domain name and the similar domain name, such that the similarity score can be used to generate a ranked list of domain names similar to the valid domain name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Avast Software s.r.o.
    Inventors: Petr Gronát, Petr Kaderábek, Jakub Sanojca
  • Patent number: 11587319
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, devices, and computer-readable media to perform gating for video analysis. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining a video comprising a plurality of frames and corresponding audio. The method further includes performing sampling to select a subset of the plurality of frames based on a target frame rate and extracting a respective audio spectrogram for each frame in the subset of the plurality of frames. The method further includes reducing resolution of the subset of the plurality of frames. The method further includes applying a machine-learning based gating model to the subset of the plurality of frames and corresponding audio spectrograms and obtaining, as output of the gating model, an indication of whether to analyze the video to add one or more video annotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sharadh Ramaswamy, Sourish Chaudhuri, Joseph Roth
  • Patent number: 11556743
    Abstract: A highlight learning technique is provided to detect and identify highlights in sports videos. A set of event models are calculated from low-level frame information of the sports videos to identify recurring events within the videos. The event models are used to characterize videos by detecting events within the videos and using the detected events to generate an event vector. The event vector is used to train a classifier to identify the videos as highlight or non-highlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Kwatra, Ullas Gargi, Mehmet Emre Sargin, Henry Hao Tang
  • Patent number: 11551068
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing system for a binary weight convolutional neural network. The system comprises: at least one storage unit for storing data and instructions; at least one control unit for acquiring the instructions stored in the storage unit and sending out a control signal; and, at least one calculation unit for acquiring, from the storage unit, node values of a layer in a convolutional neural network and corresponding binary weight value data and obtaining node values of a next layer by performing addition and subtraction operations. With the system of the present invention, the data bit width during the calculation process of a convolutional neural network is reduced, the convolutional operation speed is improved, and the storage capacity and operational energy consumption are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Yinhe Han, Haobo Xu, Ying Wang
  • Patent number: 11551092
    Abstract: A method for classifying a response signal of acceleration data of a structure includes obtaining at least one signal feature of a response signal, inputting the at least one signal feature into an artificial neural network, and classifying, using the artificial neural network, the response signal as an impact event or a non-impact event. One or more signal features may be used, including a response length feature, a number of peaks feature, a spectral energy feature, a dominant frequency feature, a maximum response feature, a center of mass feature, a slope feature, an average peak power feature, a response symmetry feature, or combinations thereof. One or more artificial neural networks may be used. The artificial neural networks may be trained using different combinations of signal features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, SENSR Monitoring Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Brett Story, Jase D. Sitton, John P. Orsak, Walter F. Bleser, II
  • Patent number: 11551155
    Abstract: An ensemble learning prediction method includes: establishing a plurality of base predictors based on a plurality of training data; initializing a plurality of sample weights of a plurality of sample data and initializing a processing set; in each iteration round, based on the sample data and the sample weights, establishing a plurality of predictor weighting functions of the predictors in the processing set and predicting each of the sample data by each of the predictors in the processing set for identifying a prediction result; evaluating the predictor weighting functions, and selecting a respective target predictor weighting function from the predictor weighting functions established in each iteration round and selecting a target predictor from the predictors in the processing set to update the processing set and to update the sample weights of the sample data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chuang-Hua Chueh, Jia-Min Ren, Po-Yu Huang, Yu-Hsiuan Chang
  • Patent number: 11538247
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and a system for monitoring manufacturing operation workflow using Structural Similarity (SSIM) index based activity detection. The method comprising receiving video data corresponding to a manufacturing operation activity, extracting a plurality of video frames from the video data, measuring SSIM index for each video frame of the plurality of video frames with respect to next consecutive video frame of the plurality of video frames, comparing the SSIM index of the each video frame with the SSIM index of next consecutive video frame of the plurality of video frames to identify one or more local maxima, and determining at least one manufacturing operation activity based on the one or more local maxima using machine learning technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventors: Sundara Rajan Varadarajan, Peyman Behbahani
  • Patent number: 11538246
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for training a feature extraction model, a computer device, and a computer-readable storage medium that belong to the field of video processing technologies. The method can include detecting a plurality of images in one or more sample videos and obtaining at least two images including the same object. The method can further include determining the at least two images including the same object as sample images, and training according to the determined sample images to obtain the feature extraction model, where the feature extraction model is used for extracting a video feature of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Guoping Gong, Xuyuan Xu, Tao Wu