Patents Examined by Delomia L Gilliard
  • Patent number: 11842546
    Abstract: A system in a vehicle includes a first sensor to obtain first sensor data from a first field of view and provide a first top-view feature representation. The system also includes a second sensor to obtain second sensor data from a second field of view with an overlap with the first field of view and provide a second top-view feature representation. Processing circuitry implements a neural network and provides a top-view stixel representation based on the first top-view feature representation and the second top-view feature representation. The top-view three-dimensional stixel representation is used to control an operation of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Keren Rotker, Max Bluvstein, Bat El Shlomo
  • Patent number: 11842513
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes one or more processors, and one or more memories storing executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform functions of a detection and tracking unit configured to detect and track a person by using an image obtained through capturing of a moving image, an orientation detection unit configured to detect a face orientation of the person, and an action detection unit configured to detect a suspicious action of the person, based on a cumulative value of an amount of time-series change in the face orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Kawano, Akifumi Tanaka, Ichiko Mayuzumi
  • Patent number: 11837003
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems to generate a modified feature map specific to a client. A template feature map may be modified based on usage data associated with a client. The template feature map may represent a visual representation of a plurality of features provided by an operator, each feature associated with a plurality of instructions to be processed for the client. The usage data may be compared with each feature to determine whether any feature is associated and/or utilized by the client. Based on determining whether the usage data indicates that any feature is associated and/or utilized by the client, the template feature map may be modified to perform an action to the template feature map indicating that a feature is associated and/or utilized by the client. A modified template feature map may be generated that is specific for a client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Certinia Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Spencer Arnett
  • Patent number: 11837024
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for using an apparatus to perform pupil identification. An example method includes toggling circuitry configured to determine, based on a measured ambient infrared light level, whether to perform pupil identification using one of either the dark pupil identification process or the bright pupil identification process; and pupil identification circuitry configured to perform pupil identification on a user using the bright identification process upon the determination that the measured ambient infrared light level falls within a first range and to perform dark pupil identification process upon the determination that the measured ambient infrared light level falls within a second range. Corresponding apparatuses and non-transitory computer readable storage media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Masoud Vakili
  • Patent number: 11836726
    Abstract: Game image processing method, an electronic device, and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes: in a money substitute operating stage, a first game image is acquired, and first money substitute information and human body image that are detected or recognized from the first game image are associated to obtain association information; in a payout stage, a detection and recognition result for a second game image is acquired before payment or collection of money substitute, the detection and recognition result at least including second money substitute information; when the second money substitute information is successfully associated with a target human body image of the human body image according to the association information, personal identity information corresponding to the target human body image is queried; and payout information corresponding to the personal identity information is determined according to the second money substitute information and a game result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SENSETIME INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiyang Guo, Xinxin Wang
  • Patent number: 11829959
    Abstract: A pothole monitoring and repair system for a road surface includes at least one UAV which includes a video camera, a video processor, a computing unit and a global positioning receiver. The UAV generates video streams of road surfaces using the video camera which are processed by the video processor to extract road frames. The computing unit generates a geo-fenced area of the road surface, and determines whether there is at least one pothole in each of the road frames within the geo-fenced area. The cloud server generates a map of the geo-fenced area, labels location coordinates of each pothole on the map, identifies and labels geographical features in the road frames within the geo-fenced area, extracts pothole features in the road frames, and uses a classifier to predict repair actions based on pothole features and geographical features, which are presented on a front end interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
    Inventors: Ghazanfar Latif, Abul Bashar, Ghassen Ben Brahim, Salahudean Basem Tohmeh
  • Patent number: 11830199
    Abstract: Physical object boundary detection techniques and systems are described. In one example, an augmented reality module generates three dimensional point cloud data. This data describes depths at respective points within a physical environment that includes the physical object. A physical object boundary detection module is then employed to filter the point cloud data by removing points that correspond to a ground plane. The module then performs a nearest neighbor search to locate a subset of the points within the filtered point cloud data that correspond to the physical object. Based on this subset, the module projects the subset of points onto the ground plane to generate a two-dimensional boundary. The two-dimensional boundary is then extruded based on a height determined from a point having a maximum distance from the ground plane from the filtered cloud point data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Ryan Nelson, Jinrong Xie, Randall Chall Fry
  • Patent number: 11823452
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for video analytics evaluation are disclosed. A method includes: identifying a video to display a result of an evaluation of video analysis; identifying a particular time in the video when a video analysis determination does not match a ground truth determination for the video; displaying an image from the particular time in the video; and displaying an indication that the video analysis determination does not match the ground truth determination for the video. Displaying the image from the particular time in the video can include generating a graphical user interface for presentation on a display of a computing device. The indication that the video analysis determination does not match the ground truth determination for the video can include a user-selectable icon. In response to a user selecting the user-selectable icon, the method can include displaying video analysis results for the particular time in the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Ethan Shayne, Donald Gerard Madden, Daniel Todd Kerzner, Allison Beach, Benjamin Asher Berg
  • Patent number: 11823491
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including an inter-face-image-group determination unit (11) that determines whether a similarity score between a first representative face image in a first face image group and a second representative face image in a second face image group satisfies a first condition, an intra-face-image-group determination unit (12) that determines, for each of the first face image group and the second face image group, whether a second condition defining a relationship between the representative face image and another image in the face image group is satisfied, based on a similarity score between the first representative face image and each of other face images in the first face image group and a similarity score between the second representative face image and each of other face images in the second face image group, and a processing unit (13) that associates a same person identifier (ID) with a plurality of face images included in the first face image group and t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianquan Liu, Satoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11816886
    Abstract: A system may include a wearable apparatus dimensioned to be worn by a user about an axial region of the user’s body such that, when the wearable apparatus is worn by the user, the user’s field of view into a local environment is substantially free of a view of the wearable apparatus. The system may also include a machine-perception subsystem that is coupled to the wearable apparatus and that gathers information about the local environment by observing the local environment. Additionally, the system may include an experience-analysis subsystem that infers, based on the information about the local environment and information about the user, contextual information about an experience of the user in the local environment. Furthermore, the system may include a non-visual communication subsystem that outputs the contextual information about the experience of the user. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Andrew Newcombe, Renzo De Nardi
  • Patent number: 11816873
    Abstract: An image analysis device according to the present invention includes: an image capturing unit that captures a subject; a light emitting unit that emits light to the subject; a sensor unit that senses an inclination of the image capturing unit relative to the subject; a control unit that causes the image capturing unit to capture an image of the subject while controlling light emission of the light emitting unit; and a determination unit that, based on a positional relationship of the image capturing unit and the light emitting unit and the inclination, determines a measurement region spaced apart by a predetermined distance from a reflection region corresponding to a position in the image where a light from the light emitting unit regularly reflects at the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Shiseido Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Masuda, Megumi Sekino, Hironobu Yoshikawa, David Christopher Berends, Michael Anthony Isnardi, Yuzheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11803988
    Abstract: A method of adaptive neural image compression with a hyperprior model by meta-learning is performed by at least one processor and includes generating a statistic feature, based on an input image and a hyperparameter, and generating a first shared feature and an estimated adaptive encoding parameter, encoding the input image to obtain a signal encoded image, based on the generated first shared feature and the generated estimated adaptive encoding parameter, generating a second shared feature and an estimated adaptive hyper encoding parameter, generating a hyper feature, based on the signal encoded image, the generated second shared feature, and the generated estimated adaptive hyper encoding parameter, and compressing the obtained signal encoded image, the generated statistic feature, and the generated hyper feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Shan Liu, Xiaozhong Xu
  • Patent number: 11804045
    Abstract: To present a region which is not fully monitored, provided is a monitoring device comprising a detection means, an estimation means, a determination means, and a presentation means. The detection means detects a person from an image. The estimation means estimates a region which is being viewed by the person who is detected by the detection means. On the basis of the region estimated by the estimation means, the determination means determines a region which requires special attention within a monitoring area. The presentation means presents information indicating the region which requires special attention determined by the determination means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Kudo
  • Patent number: 11798306
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for occupancy detection are described herein. One device includes instructions to receive an image of a portion of a facility captured by an imaging device, the image defined by a field of view, and set a first occupancy detection threshold for a first part of the field of view and a second occupancy detection threshold for a second part of the field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Robert Townsend, Sahand Ghanoun
  • Patent number: 11798156
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which the approach captures an image of a component rack that includes a set of hardware components that are part of a hyperconverged system. The approach discovers the set of hardware components on a computer network during a domain-specific discovery process, and verifies that each one of the set of hardware components captured in the image matches one of the discovered set of hardware components. The approach monitors a status of the set of hardware components in response to verifying that each one of the set of hardware components captured in the image matches one of the discovered set of hardware components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sneha Arunkumar Gaikwad, Cynthia Diaz, Shalini Gundaiah Ramamurthy, Sahil Bhadreshkumar Shah, Debbani Kundu Naskar
  • Patent number: 11798286
    Abstract: A tracking system for tracking objects within a field of view is disclosed. The field of view may include a first zone and an adjacent zone of interest where at least two gates are associated with respective sides of the first zone within the field of view. The first camera is configured to detect when an object crosses one of the at least two gates and track the object throughout the first zone and the zone of interest. The tracking system is configured to generate a first event message in response to the object being tracked from one of the gates into the zone of interest and subsequently leaving the first zone through a dedicated gate of the at least two gates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: OSRAM GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Faller, Fabio Galasso, Prasanth Kuncheerath Ramankutty, Meltem Demirkus Brandlmaier
  • Patent number: 11790658
    Abstract: An investigation assist system includes a plurality of servers and an integration server communicatively connected to a terminal and the plurality of servers. In response to reception of a video captured by a plurality of cameras, each of the plurality of servers performs a video analysis of an object with respect to an incident, with the plurality of servers processing different objects, respectively. Based on an input of a plurality of different object feature elements from the terminal, the integration server sends a search request for corresponding objects to the respective servers corresponding to the object feature elements, receives and integrates search results of the corresponding objects from the respective servers, and causes the terminal to display an integrated search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Mori, Hideo Noguchi, Yoshitaka Fukushima, Hiroaki Ootake, Ryoji Koga
  • Patent number: 11785172
    Abstract: A static identification area detecting method and module, chip, electronic device and medium, which can improve the accuracy of static identification area detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: AMLOGIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tao Ji, Zhihong He, Chun Wang, Dongjian Wang, Xuyun Chen
  • Patent number: 11783583
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for digital fingerprinting of media content. The system does this by normalizing and pre-processing the media content into a standard format, then generating fingerprints for image, audio, and/or video aspects of the media. These fingerprints are mathematical vectors generated using one or more techniques, such as perceptual hashes coupled with machine learning. Once the fingerprints for new content is generated, the system can compare those fingerprints to fingerprints of known content to determine if the new content contains prohibited content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: 9219-1568 Quebec Inc.
    Inventors: Olivier Hillman Beauchesne, Bertrand Chapleau, Jordan Pleet, Jose Maria Mateos Perez
  • Patent number: 11776137
    Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to systems, methods, and computer readable media for detecting movement in a scene. A first temporal pixel image is generated based on a first set of images of a scene over time, and a second temporal pixel image is generated based on a second set of images. One or more derived values are determined based on values of the temporal pixels in the first temporal pixel image, the second temporal pixel image, or both. Correspondence data is determined based on the first temporal pixel image and the second temporal pixel image indicative of a set of correspondences between image points of the first set of images and image points of the second set of images. An indication of whether there is a likelihood of motion in the scene is determined based on the one or more derived values and the correspondence data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Cognex Corporation
    Inventors: Marcus Große, Bastian Harendt