Patents Examined by Edward F. Urban
  • Patent number: 12288290
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for generating a three-dimensional point cloud image, a computer device and a storage medium. The method comprises: detecting three-dimensional shape coordinates of a three-dimensional object in an infrared camera coordinate system; detecting three-dimensional marker coordinates of the marker set in a marker measurement coordinate system at the same time; obtaining, according to a pre-stored first conversion relationship and a second conversion relationship parameter, three-dimensional color coordinates in the infrared camera coordinate system on the basis of the three-dimensional marker coordinates in the marker measurement coordinate system; and generating a three-dimensional point cloud image of the three-dimensional object in the infrared camera coordinate system by combining the three-dimensional shape coordinates and the three-dimensional color coordinates of the three-dimensional object in the infrared camera coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Black Sesame Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Yicheng Zhang, Yanhui Zhang
  • Patent number: 12283037
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of battery swap technologies, and specifically provides a detection method for battery swap in a battery swap station. The invention aims to solve the following problem: Potential safety risks are caused by no prevention of a foreign matter on an upper surface of a battery, a damage on a battery in a process of battery swap, and no prevention of circulation of a battery with a damaged lower surface in a battery swap station, because a battery surface is not monitored before and after battery mounting in existing battery swap stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: NIO TECHNOLOGY (ANHUI) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tao Liu, Shenyi Ding, Junhai Yang, Jiyong Zou
  • Patent number: 12284465
    Abstract: An automated camera system and method are provided that are configured to search for an object emitting or reflecting a certain wavelength of light. The camera can be infrared, electro-optical, or otherwise. Image processing software is configured to isolate pixel groups in each image, wherein those pixel groups fit a wavelength or color patterns of an object being searched. The system also includes processing methods for determining the relative location of the object (GPS or other) based upon the location of the camera and the field of view of the camera. Materials can also be used to tag the object so that the object is easier to find in adverse lighting conditions. Alternatively, the tag can be a wavelength that only one group of searchers knows about, and hence the object can remain relatively hidden from others. The system can be readily mounted in an aircraft or other vehicle so that large areas can be scanned and searched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Anthony Ligouri, Hayk Azatyan, William Erwin, Travis Rennich, David Shald, Adam Warren
  • Patent number: 12283129
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for monitoring a user's movement in real-time and providing or augmenting stimulation. For example, various embodiments provide techniques generating movement prediction profiles using movement prediction machine learning models and for use in conjunction with wearable devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
    Inventors: Jon Kevin Muse, Rama S. Ravindranathan, Marilyn L. Gordon, Gregory J. Boss
  • Patent number: 12266112
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for generating an instant mask from polarized input images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Tenell Rhodes, Brian Price, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller, Kenji Enomoto
  • Patent number: 12260534
    Abstract: A method of detecting a blemish in a digital camera includes capturing a digital image of a white area by the digital camera; reducing resolution of the digital image by grouping pixels of the digital data into a matrix of a plurality of data blocks; and comparing a luminance value of each of the plurality of data blocks to an average luminance value of other data blocks of the plurality of data blocks within a predetermined region to determine if each of the plurality of data blocks is a potentially bad data block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventors: Nidhin Davis, Timothy Hopfer, Mark Parsons
  • Patent number: 12249144
    Abstract: A cleaning wizard monitors and provides feedback for cleaning of medical equipment to ensure that cleaning is performed based on best practices. The cleaning wizard receives a video stream comprising an item of medical equipment and inputs a first set of video frames from the video stream into a first machine learning model. The first machine learning model is trained to output whether the first set of video frames corresponds to activity that initiates a cleaning protocol for the item of medical equipment. Responsive to the cleaning protocol being initiated, the cleaning wizard inputs a second set of video frames into a second machine learning model trained to output whether the second set of frames meets criteria of the cleaning protocol. Responsive to all criteria of the cleaning protocol being met, the cleaning wizard transmits a notification to an operator that the cleaning protocol is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Digital Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Ferrante, Kelsey Gross, Elliot Swart
  • Patent number: 12249058
    Abstract: An inspection machine includes image sensors that image a sheet, a lighting device that irradiates the sheet with light, and an image processing device that generates an image of an object from outputs of the image sensors. The image processing device generates captured images that include an image in a predetermined range of the sheet in common based on the outputs from the image sensors. The image processing device extracts images of the object on the sheet for each of the generated captured images. The image processing device associates the extracted images of the object with each other based on a feature amount of the object reflected in the images. The image processing device combines the associated images of the object with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinya Nakashima
  • Patent number: 12243251
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a computing system may receive a video comprising a plurality of image frames. The system may generate, for each image frame in the video, an initial depth map using a machine-learning model. The system may compute a misalignment error indicating depth misalignments in initial depth maps using a reprojection technique. The system may generate, for each image frame in the video, an optimized camera pose and a flexible deformation spline associated with the image frame to minimize the misalignment error. The system may generate, for each image frame in the video, a refined depth map by adjusting the initial depth map associated with the frame using the flexible deformation spline associated with the image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Johannes Peter Kopf, Xuejian Rong, Jia-Bin Huang
  • Patent number: 12236574
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes an imaging unit that photographs loci of the one or more discharge liquids discharged from the plurality of nozzles, and an inspection unit that calculates impact points of the one or more discharge liquids discharged from the plurality of nozzles and determines whether the impact points of the one or more discharge liquids discharged from the plurality of nozzles are normal. The inspection unit includes an image synthesizing unit that synthesizes a plurality of images captured by the imaging unit, a pre-processing unit that pre-processes image data generated through the image synthesizing unit, and a calculation unit that calculates whether the impact points of the one or more discharge liquids discharged from the plurality of nozzles are normal by comparing the image data pre-processed by the pre-processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ohyeol Kwon, Soo Yeon Shin, Jihyun Lee, Chang Yul Cho
  • Patent number: 12236624
    Abstract: A system for an endoscope includes a camera head coupled to an optical channel. The system also includes a light port coupled to the endoscope and configured to receive a first light ray, wherein the first light ray travels through a first optical path along an optical axis of the optical channel. The system also includes a depth measurement module coupled to the endoscope, wherein the depth measurement module is configured to transmit a second light ray through a second optical path along the optical axis. The system also includes an image sensor coupled to the camera head and configured to receive a first set of images pertaining to the first light ray and a second set of images pertaining to the second light ray. The system also includes a processing device configured to use the first and second sets of images to generate one or more 3-D images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC., SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LIMITED
    Inventors: Carlos Omar Morales, Xuanye Wang, Eduardo Tepichin-Rodríguez, Andrea-Fernanda Muñoz-Potosi, Luis-Gabriel Valdivieso-González, Ponciano Rodriguez-Montero
  • Patent number: 12236663
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing an image processing system that can accurately and efficiently detect a target object even when the positional relationship between an image capturing device and the target object differs between the time of teaching and the time of detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Namiki
  • Patent number: 12236613
    Abstract: A method and a device for generating a control signal for a controllable device are provided. The controllable device has an optical position detection system. At least two images of at least one spatial region are generated with at least one optical detection device of the optical position detection system. Markers are identified in the images and the control signal is generated when a relative position between at least two markers changes. In addition, a marker array and a controllable system are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH, Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Stefan Saur, Zuzanna Derda, Stefan Schute, Adrian Samp
  • Patent number: 12230045
    Abstract: The invention provides an English char image recognition method mainly generating a rectangular coordinate frame from a loaded English character image, finding a gravity center in the rectangular coordinate frame, obtaining feature points on the rectangular coordinate frame and around the gravity center, performing one-dimensional convolutional operation and processing on the feature points to generate six layer feature maps, and generating a character recognition result from the six layer feature maps to solve the problem of generating a large amount of computation in conventional two-dimensional recognition operation, thereby achieving an efficacy of reducing recognition equipment costs and enabling fast and accurate recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ADVANCED VIEW INC.
    Inventor: Chung-Hsing Chen
  • Patent number: 12223812
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are described herein for tracking objects and managing data. One or more objects may be determined in a first image. An avatar may be generated which is associated with the one or more objects in the first image. A second image may be received. The second image may comprise a change in at least one object of the one or more objects. Based on the change, in the at least one object, the avatar may be updated and the information kept for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Melissa Doogan, Robert Lopes
  • Patent number: 12217186
    Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method for training a machine learning (ML) model using labelled and unlabelled data, the method comprising obtaining a set or training data comprising a set of labelled data items and a set of unlabelled data items, training a loss module of the ML model using labels in the set of labelled data items, to generate a trained loss module capable of estimating a likelihood of a label for a data item, and training a task module of the ML model using the loss module, the set of labelled data items, and the set of unlabelled data items, to generate a trained task module capable of making a prediction of a label for input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ivana Balazevic, Carl Allen, Timothy Hospedales
  • Patent number: 12213453
    Abstract: An image capture device with processors can execute a set of instructions stored in the system memory to: receive a plurality of time-sequenced images of the animal from the digital image sensor; determine, using an artificial intelligence module, a first birth in process from a first subset of images of the plurality of time-sequenced images of the animal; and determine an interval of time lapse between the first birth in process from the first subset of images of the plurality of time-sequenced images of the animal and a next birth in process from the next subset of images of the plurality of time-sequenced images of the animal, as determined using the artificial intelligence module, and when the interval of time lapse between the first birth in process and the next birth in process exceeds a predetermined amount trigger an action from an alert trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SwineTech, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Rooda, Abraham Espinoza, John Rourke, Ben White, Adam Magstadt
  • Patent number: 12217516
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method estimates a course of a roadway in a surrounding area of a vehicle on the basis of a state function describing the course of a roadway. The state function includes a clothoid spline. The method includes providing surrounding-area measurement data describing the course of a roadway at a current position of the vehicle, the surrounding-area measurement data having at least one polynomial function. The method also includes transforming the state function and the surrounding-area measurement data into a common coordinate system. The method further includes adapting the state function on the basis of the surrounding-area measurement data in the common coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Keidel, Sebastian Rauch, Sean Brown, Tim Rakowski, Alexander Born, Fernando Herrero Carron, Joachim Schiehlen
  • Patent number: 12217463
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for point cloud compression. An exemplary method includes: receiving point cloud data; quantizing the point cloud data to remove noise to produce quantized point cloud data; generating, using the quantized point cloud data, a plurality of multi-level tiles; performing reordering within the multi-level tiles to optimize a compression rate producing a plurality of reordered multi-level tiles; bit packing the reordered multi-level tiles minimizing bits required to store per tile header data producing a bit packed multi-level tile data; and performing additional compression on the bit-packed multi-level tile data using a first compression algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Allen R. Hainline
  • Patent number: 12217336
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a first image, determining a first target curve of a first region occupied by the first image, where an area of the first region is equal to an area of the first image, determining a target object on the first image, moving the first image to obtain a second image, where a second target curve of a second region in which the target object on the second image is located is close to or overlaps the first target curve, and the second region is an external polygon of the target object, and cropping out an image part that is of the second image and that is moved out of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yundie Zhang, Liang Hu, Yifan Ji