Patents Examined by Andrae S Allison
  • Patent number: 12169620
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for video display and a camera are disclosed. The camera includes one wide-field lens assembly and a wide-field sensor corresponding to the wide-field lens assembly; at least one narrow-field lens assembly and narrow-field sensor corresponding to the narrow-field lens assembly, wherein an angle of view of the wide-field lens assembly is greater than an angle of view of the narrow-field lens assembly, and for a same target, a definition of the wide-field sensor is smaller than that of the narrow-field sensor; and a processor configured for performing human body analysis on the wide-field image and performing face analysis, head and shoulder analysis or human body analysis on at least one frame of narrow-field image. The methods, apparatuses and systems can reduce the workload of installing and adjusting the cameras during monitoring, the performance requirements for the server, and monitoring costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenwei Li
  • Patent number: 12165294
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for high resolution image inpainting comprising the following steps: providing a high resolution input image, providing at least one inpainting mask, selecting at least one rectangular sub-region of the input image and at least one aligned rectangular subregion of the inpainting mask such that the rectangular subregion of the input image encompasses at least one set of pixels to be removed and synthetized, the at least one sub-region of the input image and its corresponding aligned subregion of the inpainting mask having identical minimum possible size and a position for which a calculated information gain does not decrease, processing the sub-region of the input image and its corresponding aligned subregion of the inpainting mask by a machine learning model, generating an output high resolution image comprising the inpainted sub-region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TCL RESEARCH EUROPE SP. Z O. O.
    Inventors: Michal Kudelski, Tomasz Latkowski, Filip Skurniak, Lukasz Sienkiewicz, Piotr Frankowski, Bartosz Biskupski
  • Patent number: 12158410
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a real-time quantification method of cell viability through a supravital dye uptake using a lens-free imaging system. The method includes a step of incubating a sample cell in a cell culture medium, steps of detecting light penetrating the cell culture medium and identifying a boundary region of the sample cell at a preset time interval based on the detected light, a step of staining the incubated sample cell with the supravital dye, a step of detecting intensity of light penetrating the cell culture medium at a preset time interval, a step of calculating absorbance of the sample cell included in the cell culture medium at a preset time interval based on the boundary region and the detected intensity of light and a step of analyzing a viability of the sample cell based on the calculated absorbance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: SOL INC., Government of the United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Commerce
    Inventors: Jong Muk Lee, Darwin R. Reyes-Hernandez, Brian J. Nablo
  • Patent number: 12154382
    Abstract: An eye state detecting method, applied to an electronic apparatus with an image sensor, which comprises: (a) acquiring a detecting image via the image sensor; (b) defining a face range on the detecting image; (c) defining a determining range on the face range; and (d) determining if the determining range comprises an open eye image or a close eye image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventor: Guo-Zhen Wang
  • Patent number: 12154256
    Abstract: A discriminator of a training model is trained to discriminate between original training images without artificial subsurface data and modified training images with artificial subsurface data. A generator of the training model is trained to: replace portions of original training images with the artificial subsurface data to form the modified training images, and prevent the discriminator from discriminating between the original training images and the modified training images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kishore Mulchandani, Abhishek Gupta
  • Patent number: 12154302
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method, an apparatus and a storage medium for image encoding/decoding using a binary mask. An encoding method includes generating a latent vector using an input image, generating a selected latent vector component set using a binary mask, and generating a main bitstream by performing entropy encoding on the selected latent vector component set. A decoding method includes generating a selected latent vector component set including one or more selected latent vector components by performing entropy decoding on a main bitstream and generating the latent vector in which the one or more selected latent vector components are relocated by relocating the selected latent vector component set in the latent vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Joo-Young Lee, Se-Yoon Jeong, Hyoung-Jin Kwon, Dong-Hyun Kim, Youn-Hee Kim, Jong-Ho Kim, Ji-Hoon Do, Jin-Soo Choi, Tae-Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 12147495
    Abstract: A visual search system facilitates retrieval of provenance information using a machine learning model to generate content fingerprints that are invariant to benign transformations while being sensitive to manipulations. The machine learning model is trained on a training image dataset that includes original images, benign transformed variants of the original images, and manipulated variants of the original images. A loss function is used to train the machine learning model to minimize distances in an embedding space between benign transformed variants and their corresponding original images and increase distances between the manipulated variants and their corresponding original images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Viswanathan Swaminathan, John Philip Collomosse, Eric Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12148186
    Abstract: A method is provided. The method includes receiving an input image, extracting at least one feature from the input image, determining at least one local tone curve for a portion of the input image based on the extracted at least one feature, the portion of the input image being less than an overall area of the input image, and generating a toned image based on the at least one local tone curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, Luxi Zhao, Michael Scott Brown
  • Patent number: 12148060
    Abstract: A vehicle having one or more cameras, configured to record one or more images of a person approaching the vehicle. The camera(s) can be configured to send biometric data derived from the image(s). The vehicle can include a computing system configured to receive the biometric data and to determine a risk score of the person based on the received biometric data and an AI technique, such as an ANN or a decision tree. The received biometric data or a derivative thereof can be input for the AI technique. The computing system can also be configured to determine whether to notify a driver of the vehicle of the risk score based on the risk score exceeding a risk threshold. The vehicle can also include a user interface, configured to output the risk score to notify the driver when the computing system determines the risk score exceeds the risk threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Lodestar Licensing Group LLC
    Inventor: Robert Richard Noel Bielby
  • Patent number: 12148200
    Abstract: A method for processing an image includes acquiring an input image, performing down-sampling and feature extraction on the input image by an encoder network to obtain multiple feature maps, and performing up-sampling and feature extraction on the multiple feature maps by a decoder network to obtain a target segmentation image. Processing levels between the encoder network and the decoder network for outputting feature maps with the same resolution are connected with each other. The encoder network and the decoder network each includes one or more dense calculation blocks, and at least one convolution module in any dense computation block includes at least one group of asymmetric convolution kernels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunhua Lu, Hanwen Liu, Pablo Navarrete Michelini, Lijie Zhang, Dan Zhu
  • Patent number: 12148223
    Abstract: A method for generating a dense light detection and ranging (LiDAR) representation by a vision system includes receiving, at a sparse depth network, one or more sparse representations of an environment. The method also includes generating a depth estimate of the environment depicted in an image captured by an image capturing sensor. The method further includes generating, via the sparse depth network, one or more sparse depth estimates based on receiving the one or more sparse representations. The method also includes fusing the depth estimate and the one or more sparse depth estimates to generate a dense depth estimate. The method further includes generating the dense LiDAR representation based on the dense depth estimate and controlling an action of the vehicle based on identifying a three-dimensional object in the dense LiDAR representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Arjun Bhargava, Chao Fang, Charles Christopher Ochoa, Kun-Hsin Chen, Kuan-Hui Lee, Vitor Guizilini
  • Patent number: 12136277
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and system to acquire aircraft flight data through visual analysis of flight instruments with a data capture neural network, to compare aircraft flight data to a standard of a flight maneuver with a data analysis neural network with minimal or no human input, to output a visualization of aircraft flight data and or analysis of aircraft flight data, and to acquire aircraft flight data, programmatically analyze aircraft flight data, and provide aircraft training to a prospective aircraft pilot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Inventors: Mahdi Al-Husseini, Joshua Barnett, Anthony Chen, Joseph Divyan Thomas
  • Patent number: 12137203
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for optical calibration of a 3D printer. The method includes: projecting, by an optical apparatus, a projection image to a projection platform, placing a calibration plate on the projection platform, and capturing the projection platform; identifying the coordinates of calibration points and the coordinates of actual projection points according to the captured image to obtain a matrix of calibration points and a matrix of actual projection points; rotating and translating the matrix of the calibration points and/or the matrix of the actual projection points, and calculating a distance value T0 between the calibration points and the actual projection points in an image coordinate system; converting the T0 in the image coordinate system into an offset C1 in a pixel coordinate system, and inversely distorting an initial ideal projection image according to the offset C1 to offset optical distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU HEYGEARS IMC. INC
    Inventors: Xin Wan, Weitao Li, Peihui Wu, Songlin She, Peiyan Gui, Heyuan Huang
  • Patent number: 12135312
    Abstract: A method of displaying stress distribution on a sample surface includes: step S4 of capturing images of the sample surface before loading, during the loading, and after unloading; step S5 of measuring a first strain amount for each pixel position based on correlation between the image before the loading and the image after the unloading; step S6 of measuring a second strain amount for each pixel position based on correlation between the image before the loading and the image during the loading; step S7 of calculating stress for each pixel position based on the difference between the first strain amount and the second strain amount; and step S8 of displaying the distribution of the calculated stress at each pixel position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
    Inventor: Myeong-heom Park
  • Patent number: 12135284
    Abstract: An image processing method includes acquiring an image obtained by imaging of an object, ambient light data during the imaging, and reflection characteristic data and transmission characteristic data which depend on a concentration of a material contained in the object, and separating a reflected light component and a transmitting light component in the image using the ambient light data, the reflection characteristic data, and the transmission characteristic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironobu Koga
  • Patent number: 12131512
    Abstract: A product positioning method includes collecting a product image of a product, dividing the product image into a plurality of rectangular regions, performing integral image calculation on each rectangular region to obtain a plurality of integral images, forming n integral image regions each having four said integral images with two adjacent sides of each of the four said integral images connecting with one side of other two images of the four said integral images, numbering the four said integral images clockwise or counterclockwise, performing differential calculation on each integral image region to obtain a differential value according to the four said integral images, obtaining coordinates of a vertex of the product according to the differential values, and performing position correction on the product image according to obtained coordinates of the vertex and coordinates of a target vertex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yixian Du, Gang Wang, De Chen, Jinjin Shi
  • Patent number: 12131518
    Abstract: A method and a device associate an object detection in a first frame with an object detection in a second frame using a convolutional neural (CNN) network trained to determine feature vectors such that object detections relating to separate objects are arranged in separate clusters. The CNN determines a reference set of feature vectors associated with the object detection in the first frame, and candidate sets of feature vectors associated with a respective one of identified areas corresponding to object detections in the second frame. A set of closest feature vectors is determined, and then measure of closeness to the reference set of feature vectors is determined for each candidate. A respective weight is determined for each object detection in the second frame. The object detection in the first frame is associated with one of the object detections in the second frame based on the assigned weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: AXIS AB
    Inventors: Niclas Danielsson, Haochen Liu
  • Patent number: 12131461
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, systems, methods, and media for automatically transforming a digital image into a simulated pathology image are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving a content image from an endomicroscopy device; receiving, from a hidden layer of a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained to recognize a multitude of classes of common objects, features indicative of content of the content image; receiving, providing a style reference image to the CNN; receiving, from another hidden layer of the CNN, features indicative of a style of the style reference image; receiving, from the hidden layers of the CNN, features indicative of content and style of a target image; generating a loss value based on the features of the content image, the style reference image, and the target image; minimizing the loss value; and displaying the target image with the minimized loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: DIGNITY HEALTH, ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mohammadhassan Izadyyazdanabadi, Mark C. Preul, Evgenii Belykh, Yezhou Yang
  • Patent number: 12125294
    Abstract: A vehicle position determination device mountable to a vehicle, the vehicle position determination device including an acquisition unit that acquires a surrounding image that is road information for identifying a position of the vehicle and is represented by a small displacement with respect to the vehicle, and a control unit that compares the road information with road characteristic information indicating an absolute position of a predetermined point and determines a vehicle position according to a result of the comparison; the road information includes at least one of road shape information indicating a shape of a road surface in a direction of travel of the vehicle and road pattern information indicating a pattern on a road surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa Yokoyama, Noriyuki Ido
  • Patent number: 12118741
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (20) including a first generation unit (22) that generates, from a plurality of time-series images, three-dimensional feature information indicating a time change of a feature in each position in each of the plurality of images, a second generation unit (23) that generates person position information indicating a position in which a person is present in each of the plurality of images, and an estimation unit (24) that estimates person behavior indicated by the plurality of images, based on the time change of the feature indicated by the three-dimensional feature information in the position in which the person is present being indicated by the person position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianquan Liu, Junnan Li