Patents Examined by Casey L Kretzer
  • Patent number: 11793407
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems related to determining biometric data using an array of infrared (IR) illuminators are described. In an example, a method can include projecting a number of IR dots on a user using a dot projector and an array of IR illuminators, capturing an IR image of the number of IR dots using an IR camera, comparing a number of pixels of the captured IR image to a number of corresponding pixels of a baseline IR image using a processing resource, and determining biometric data of the user at least partially based on comparing the captured IR image to the baseline IR image using the processing resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventors: Carla L. Christensen, Bhumika Chhabra, Zahra Hosseinimakarem
  • Patent number: 11798298
    Abstract: Disclosed are a multi-task training technique and resulting model for detecting distracted driving. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising inputting a plurality of labeled examples into a multi-task network, the multi-task network comprising: a backbone network, the backbone network generating one or more feature vectors corresponding to each of the labeled examples, and a plurality of prediction heads coupled to the backbone network; minimizing a joint loss based on outputs of the plurality of prediction heads, the minimizing the joint loss causing a change in parameters of the backbone network; and storing a distraction classification model after minimizing the joint loss, the distraction classification model comprising the parameters of the backbone network and parameters of at least one of the prediction heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ali Hassan, Ijaz Akhter, Muhammad Faisal, Afsheen Rafaqat Ali, Ahmed Ali
  • Patent number: 11790044
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a sensor to sense real world information; a digitizer coupled to the sensor to digitize the real world information into digitized information; a signal processor coupled to the digitizer to process the digitized information into an image; a discriminator coupled to the signal processor to determine, based at least in part on the image, whether the real world information comprises an anomaly, where the discriminator is trained via a generative adversarial network; and a controller coupled to the discriminator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Javier Elenes, Antonio Torrini
  • Patent number: 11790041
    Abstract: System and method for reducing false negatives in object detection, including: extracting an object of interest from a respective image in a first set of training data that includes in distribution (ID) data. For each of the object of interest extracted from the respective image in the first set of training data: fusing the object of interest with an image from a second set of data that does not include any objects of interest to form a fused image; adding the fused image to the training data; and using the training data to train a detection model for object detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Thanh Huy Ha, Yunke Tian, Mohamad Al Jazaery, Sathyanarayanan Muthusamy, Zhicai Ou
  • Patent number: 11775830
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network. One of the methods includes processing each training input using the neural network and in accordance with the current values of the network parameters to generate a network output for the training input; computing a respective loss for each of the training inputs by evaluating a loss function; identifying, from a plurality of possible perturbations, a maximally non-linear perturbation; and determining an update to the current values of the parameters of the neural network by performing an iteration of a neural network training procedure to decrease the respective losses for the training inputs and to decrease the non-linearity of the loss function for the identified maximally non-linear perturbation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Chongli Qin, Sven Adrian Gowal, Soham De, Robert Stanforth, James Martens, Krishnamurthy Dvijotham, Dilip Krishnan, Alhussein Fawzi
  • Patent number: 11756155
    Abstract: A method for mosaicking and normalizing ortho-rectified images includes selecting imagery from a database using a query tool. The method also includes producing a GeoTIFF a digital elevation model (DEM) or creating a virtual mosaic from the selected imagery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventor: Christopher S. Rudasill-Neigh
  • Patent number: 11741726
    Abstract: A lane line detection method, an electronic device, and a storage medium, related to the field of artificial intelligence, and particularly related to computer vision and deep learning technologies, which can be applied to intelligent traffic scenes, are provided. The method includes: dividing an image into a foreground region and a background region; determining a solid line and a dotted line included in the foreground region; determining, according to the solid line and the dotted line comprised in the foreground region, whether a dotted-and-solid line is included in the foreground region; and determining a lane line detection result according to the solid line, the dotted line, and whether a dotted-and-solid line is comprised in the foreground region. According to the technical solution, the accuracy of lane line detection can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingying Li, Xiao Tan, Hao Sun
  • Patent number: 11734392
    Abstract: An active interaction method, an electronic device and a readable storage medium, relating to the field of deep learning and image processing technologies, are disclosed. According to an embodiment, the active interaction method includes: acquiring a video shot in real time; extracting a visual target from each image frame of the video, and generating a first feature vector of each visual target; for each image frame of the video, fusing the first feature vector of each visual target and identification information of the image frame to which the visual target belongs to generate a second feature vector of each visual target; aggregating the second feature vectors with the same identification information respectively to generate a third feature vector corresponding to each image frame; and initiating active interaction in response to determining that the active interaction is to be performed according to the third feature vector of a preset image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Xue, Fan Wang, Jingzhou He
  • Patent number: 11727676
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image processing method. An image to be classified is input into a feature extraction model to generate N dimensional features. Dimension fusion is performed on M features of the N dimensional features to obtain M dimension fusion features. The image to be classified is processed based on M dimension fusion features and remaining features of the N dimensional features other than the M features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingying Li, Xiao Tan, Minyue Jiang, Hao Sun
  • Patent number: 11720991
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for digitally signing predetermined arrays of digital data. Such a method may provide a secret neural network model trained to classify arrays of digital data in dependence on data content of the arrays. The array of the arrays may be signed by supplying the array to the secret neural network model to obtain an initial classification result; and effecting a modification of data in the array to change the initial classification result to a predetermined, secret classification result, the modification being effected via a backpropagation process in the secret neural network model to progressively modify the array in response to backpropagated errors dependent on a difference between a current classification result for the array and the secret classification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Serge Monney, Andrea Giovannini, Adam Ivankay
  • Patent number: 11717860
    Abstract: A system for categorizing seeds of plants into hybrid and non-hybrid categories. Seeds sorted according to the disclosed system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SeedX Technolooles Inc.
    Inventors: Mordekhay Shniberg, Elad Carmon, Sarel Ashkenazy, David Gedalyaho Vaisberger, Sharon Ayal
  • Patent number: 11710332
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for data extraction. A target document representation may be generated based on modified text of a target electronic document. A measure of similarity may be determined between the target document representation and a reference document representation, which may be based on modified text of a reference electronic document. Based on the measure of similarity, the reference document representation may be selected. An extraction model associated with the selected reference document representation can then be used to extract data from the target document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: BILL.COM, LLC
    Inventors: Changlin Zhang, Bryan Wang, Akshay Ukey, Sangam Singh
  • Patent number: 11710346
    Abstract: Methods and systems for training a neural network include generate an image of a mask. A copy of an image is generated from an original set of training data. The copy is altered to add the image of a mask to a face detected within the copy. An augmented set of training data is generated that includes the original set of training data and the altered copy. A neural network model is trained to recognize masked faces using the augmented set of training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Inventors: Manmohan Chandraker, Ting Wang, Xiang Xu, Francesco Pittaluga, Gaurav Sharma, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Masoud Faraki, Yuheng Chen, Yue Tian, Ming-Fang Huang, Jian Fang
  • Patent number: 11711146
    Abstract: A terminal (1050) includes a light receiver (151) that receives a light signal emitted by an apparatus (1000), the light signal including an identifier (SSID) of at least one base station (470); a receiver (153) that performs a reception process on the received light signal to output reception data; a data analyzer (155) that selects one base station based on the identifier of the at least one base station that is included in the reception data; and a radio device (453) that establishes a wireless connection with the selected base station (470) by using the identifier of the base station (470) and wirelessly communicates with the base station (470).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Yutaka Murakami
  • Patent number: 11698947
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for training a machine-learning model for predicting emotions from received media data. Methods according to the present disclosure include displaying a user interface. The user interface includes a predefined media content, a plurality of predefined emotion tags, and a user interface control for controlling a recording of the user imitating the predefined media content. Methods can further include receiving, from a user, a selection of one or more emotion tags from the plurality of predefined emotion tags, receiving the recording of the user imitating the predefined media content, storing the recording in association with the selected one or more emotion tags, and training, based on the recording, the machine-learning model configured to receive input media data and predict an emotion based on the input media data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Hume AI Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Cowen, Dacher Keltner, Bill Schoenfeld
  • Patent number: 11693925
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for a distance-based vector classification in anomaly detection. The method includes one or more processors identifying one or more audio communications from a first user to a second user, wherein the one or more audio communications is transmitted utilizing a first computing device. The method further includes determining an objective of the first user based at least in part on the audio communication of the first user. The method further includes determining a set of conditions corresponding to the one or more audio communications and the objective, wherein the set of conditions indicate a vulnerability of personal data of the first user. The method further includes prohibiting the first computing device from transmitting audio data that includes the personal data of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki Kimura, Subhajit Chaudhury, Michiaki Tatsubori, Asim Munawar, Ryuki Tachibana
  • Patent number: 11694446
    Abstract: ADAS includes a processing circuit and a memory which stores instructions executable by the processing circuit. The processing circuit executes the instructions to cause the ADAS to receive, from a vehicle that is in motion, a video sequence, generate a position image including at least one object included in the stereo image, generate a second position information associated with the at least one object based on reflected signals received from the vehicle, determine regions each including at least a portion of the at least one object as candidate bounding boxes based on the stereo image and the position image, and selectively adjusting class scores of respective ones of the candidate bounding boxes associated with the at least one object based on whether a respective first position information of the respective ones of the candidate bounding boxes matches the second position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventors: Sangsoo Ko, Byeoungsu Kim, Kyoungyoung Kim, Sanghyuck Ha
  • Patent number: 11688193
    Abstract: A computer system, product, and method are provided to utilize machine learning to facilitate document processing. A document collection is introduced to an artificial neural network (ANN), which subjects the document collection to table region identification within discretized contiguous areas. The documents are assigned to one or more clusters responsive to the leveraged ANN. Documents are selectively evaluated from the clusters, and one or more label corrections are applied to the ANN. The ANN generates an updated document collection incorporating the applied one or more label corrections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xin Ru Wang, Douglas Ronald Burdick, Yunyao Li
  • Patent number: 11688088
    Abstract: An example method includes acquiring a three-dimensional coordinate system associated with a three-dimensional camera and a first reference point associated with the three-dimensional camera, acquiring a two-dimensional coordinate system associated with a two-dimensional camera and a second reference point associated with the two-dimensional camera, aligning the three-dimensional coordinate system with the two-dimensional coordinate system, based on a fixed and known positional relationship between the first reference point and the second reference point, to obtain a fixed positional relationship between the three-dimensional coordinate system and the two-dimensional coordinate system, and transferring the three-dimensional coordinate system to a datum point of the two-dimensional coordinate system, using the fixed positional relationship between the three-dimensional coordinate system and the two-dimensional coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Magik Eye Inc.
    Inventor: Akiteru Kimura
  • Patent number: 11688156
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system and method for image processing and recognizing a scene of an image. The system utilizes a Multi-mode scalable network system and regrouping pipeline. The system is AI based system which uses neuro network. The system includes a pre-processing, processing and a post-processing unit. The system uses optical information recorded from the camera of a mobile device to extract and analyze the content in an image such as a photo or video clip. Based on the retrieved information, a label is given to best describe the scene of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Black Sesame Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Zi Sian Wong, Fangwen Tu, Bo Li