Patents Examined by Gregory M. Desire
  • Patent number: 11430236
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, systems and devices having segmented numeral character recognition. In an embodiment, users may take digital pictures of a seven-segment display on a sensor device. For example, a user at a remote location may use a digital camera to capture a digital image of a seven-segment display on a sensor device. Captured images of a seven-segment display may then be sent or uploaded over a network to a remote health management system. The health care management system includes a reader that processes the received images to determine sensor readings representative of the values output on the seven-segment displays of the remote sensor devices. Machine learning and OCR are used to identify numeric characters in images associated with seven-segment displays. In this way, a remote heath management system can obtain sensor readings from remote locations when users only have access to sensor devices with seven-segment displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: REDIMD, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Holmsten, Malcolm Edward Storey, Aakash L. Gupta
  • Patent number: 11398035
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for partitioning a medical image which encompasses acquiring a medical image of a surface of a patient and a surface of at least one object (embodied by image data), for example, by means of a 3D scanning device. Furthermore, a thermal image of the surface of the patient and the surface of the object is acquired (embodied by thermal data), for example, by means of a thermal camera. The medical image and the thermal image are fused (based on registration data), such that the image data is associated with the thermal data (embodied by association data). By analyzing the association data with regard to a specified condition (embodied by condition data), for example a condition related to a temperature threshold, a subset of the association data which fulfills the condition and describes a part of the medical image is determined (embodied by condition compliance data).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Hagen Kaiser, Stefan Seifert
  • Patent number: 11398019
    Abstract: A method of image processing for occlusion removal in images and videos captured by light field camera systems. The method comprises: capturing a plurality of camera views using a plurality of cameras; capturing a plurality of depth maps using a plurality of depth sensors; generating a depth map for each camera view; calculating a target view on a focal plane corresponding to a virtual camera; set a weighting function on the pixels on the camera views based on the depth map and a virtual distance; and blending the pixels in accordance with the weighting function to generate a refocused target view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: ShanghaiTech University
    Inventors: Minye Wu, Zhiru Shi
  • Patent number: 11393112
    Abstract: A camera module according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a structured light projector configured to generate structured light of a specific pattern and changes an optical path of the structured light into units of subpixels of an image sensor for each image frame to project the structured light onto a subject, and a structured light camera configured to photograph the subject onto which the structured light is projected to generate a plurality of low-resolution image frames and generate a high-resolution depth map from the plurality of low-resolution image frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Hyuck Lee, Kang Yeol Park, Seong Ha Jang
  • Patent number: 11386293
    Abstract: In an example method for training image signal processors, a reconstructed image is generated via an image signal processor based on a sensor image. An intermediate loss function is generated based on a comparison of an output of one or more corresponding layers of a computer vision network and a copy of the computer vision network. The output of the computer vision network is based on the reconstructed image. An image signal processor is trained based on the intermediate loss function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Aleksandar Sutic, Zoran Zivkovic, Gilad Michael
  • Patent number: 11386555
    Abstract: Embodiments discussed herein facilitate employing a pretrained model to determine risk(s) of adverse event(s) based on Computed Tomography (CT) image volume(s) of an artery and/or training a model to determine such risk(s). Example embodiments can determine risk based on territory-specific calcium score(s) and/or intensity/morphological/location features discussed herein. Various embodiments can determine risk(s) based on a single CT image volume and/or change(s) in CT image volumes taken over a series of time points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Case Western Reserve University
    Inventors: David L. Wilson, Di Wen, Brendan L. Eck, Jacob Levi, Yingnan Song
  • Patent number: 11373322
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device and method for depth sensing by utilizing the combination of a ranging sensor and an image sensor. The ranging sensor can accurately detect distance measurement from an object. The image sensor can take images with high resolution of the object. By combining each sensor data from the ranging sensor and the image sensor, accurate depth information with high resolution of the object may be obtained. A structured light having patterned shapes are used in conjunction with the ranging sensor to receive reflected patterned shapes of the object. These reflected patterned shapes are used to analyze distance measurements associated with the specific patterned shapes. These distance measurements from both the ranging sensor and the image sensor is aligned and combined to generate an accurate depth map with high resolution using a processor of an electronic device including the ranging sensor and the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyong Yang, Chang Myung Ryu, James Kath, Rui Xiao
  • Patent number: 11373441
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes supplying to a client device prompts for a first individual to specify matching criteria for a potential introduction to a second individual. The matching criteria includes a filter to sort a pool of individuals by a facial feature categorized by a facial recognition module. Matching criteria from the client device are collected. Matches between the first individual and a pool of individuals are generated based upon the matching criteria. The matches are supplied to the client device. A match acceptance by the first individual of the second individual is collected. Attributes of the second individual are verified to selectively establish a verified status. Network communication between the first individual and the second individual are enabled in response to the verified status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: AMI Holdings Limited
    Inventor: Sergey Frolovichev
  • Patent number: 11373396
    Abstract: Systems and methods for extracting a feature in an image are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining image data representing a scene, wherein the image data includes a plurality of images of the scene, each image associated with a different polarization angle. The method includes determining attribute information based at least in part on the plurality of images. The method includes determining one or more features in the image data based at least in part on the attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Chetan Mahadeswaraswamy, Jingjin Xie, Christopher James Ducote
  • Patent number: 11371828
    Abstract: A coordinate measuring machine has a measurement head having a point measurement device which measures first coordinates of only a single point on the surface of a workpiece at a given time. An area measurement device records images of a reference surface. A displacement device displaces the measurement head and/or the workpiece such that they assume different relative positions with respect to one another. An evaluation device calculates a shift between images that the area measurement device has recorded of the reference surface at different times at different relative positions, with a stitching algorithm. Based on this, second coordinates of the measurement head, which are defined relative to the reference surface, are determined. By linking the first coordinates with the second coordinates, third coordinates are determined, which define the points on the surface of the workpiece measured by the point measurement device relative to the reference surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Nils Haverkamp, Dominik Seitz, Tanja Teuber, Lars Omlor
  • Patent number: 11366229
    Abstract: A method of finding a range to a target object includes extracting a signal component from a beat signal obtained by synthesizing a transmission wave irradiated onto the target object and a reflection wave reflected and received from the target object, generating a matching evaluation value of a plurality of image data of the target object captured by an imaging device, fusing the signal component and the matching evaluation value before generating a distance image from the matching evaluation value, and setting distance information for each pixel of the image data of the target object based on the signal component and the matching evaluation value fused together to generate a distance image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi, Hidetaka Miyajima, Shigeru Ouchida
  • Patent number: 11353692
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed herein that includes an infrared light source to emit infrared light, a rolling shutter sensor, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is to: cause the rolling shutter sensor to output a first signal corresponding to a first frame of image data during exposure to the infrared light, reset the rows of the rolling shutter sensor at a same time, cause the rolling shutter sensor to output a second signal corresponding to a second frame of image data without exposure to the infrared light from the infrared light source, determine a difference between the first signal and the second signal to generate an ambient infrared free frame, and recognize a face based on the ambient infrared free frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mikko Ollila
  • Patent number: 11354784
    Abstract: Methods and systems for training a non-blind deblurring module are disclosed. Unblurred test images and blurred test images are received, wherein each of the blurred test images is related to a corresponding one of the unblurred test images by a blur kernel term and a noise term. A regularized deconvolution sub-module and a convolutional neural network are jointly trained by adjusting a regularization parameter of a regularized deconvolution function and weights of a convolution neural network in order to minimize a cost function representative of a difference between each deblurred output image and a corresponding one of the unblurred test images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Michael Slutsky
  • Patent number: 11348324
    Abstract: An information processing device (100) extracts a first point group constituting an object from a first distance image acquired by a first sensor. The information processing device (100) extracts a second point group constituting an object from a second distance image acquired by a second sensor. The information processing device (100) generates a first translated point group by translating the first point group by first translation coordinates. The information processing device (100) generates a second translated point group by translating the second point group by second translation coordinates. The information processing device (100) calculates a rotation parameter and a translation parameter based on the first translated point group and the second translated point group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Satoru Ushijima
  • Patent number: 11348217
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a detection method of a projector, a projector, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a speckle pattern, the speckle pattern being an image generated by irradiating laser light generated by a light source in the projector onto an object by an optical element; and performing an abnormality detection on the projector according to the speckle pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng Tang, Guohui Tan, Zhihua Tian, Haitao Zhou, Xiao Tan, Jian Bai
  • Patent number: 11341650
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, including downsampling a full point cloud to obtain a downsampled point cloud, wherein the downsampling reduces a data size of the full point cloud; and using a machine-learning model to assign labels for segmentation and object identification to points in the downsampled point cloud, wherein the machine-learning model is trained on the full point cloud. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Bo Han, Cheuk Yiu Ip, Eric Zavesky, Huanle Zhang
  • Patent number: 11335020
    Abstract: A method for correcting errors of a depth camera caused by the temperature includes: obtaining, by at least two depth cameras, a depth image of a current target, wherein two adjacent depth cameras of the at least two depth cameras have a common field of view; modeling a measurement error of the two adjacent depth cameras caused by a temperature change; and correcting the depth image using the modeled measurement error, wherein the corrected depth image has a minimum depth difference in the common field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Orbbec Inc.
    Inventors: Xianzhuo Liu, Zhiming Huang, Xu Chen
  • Patent number: 11328428
    Abstract: Technologies for detecting occlusions on a camera of a vehicle by a compute device are disclosed. The compute device may receive one or more images from the camera. The compute device may analyze the images using various algorithms such as optical flow calculations, blurriness detection for portions of the image, edge detection, and circular artifact detection. The analysis may be used to determine the presence of occlusions on the camera, such as water drops, mud, dirt, etc. The compute device may send a command to clean the camera and/or may use the determined presence of occlusions as part analyzing images from the camera for a driver assist system, such as by ignoring portions of the image that are occluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert Kahlbaum
  • Patent number: 11320357
    Abstract: A method is described for training a model that refines estimated parameter values within core images is disclosed. The method includes receiving multiple training image pairs wherein each training image pair includes: (i) an unrefined core image of a rock sample to be used for estimating rock properties, and (ii) a refined core image of the same rock sample; generating a training dataset from the multiple training image pairs; receiving an initial core model; generating a conditioned core model by training, using the multiple training image pairs, the initial core model; and storing the conditioned core model in electronic storage. The conditioned core model may be applied to an initial target core image data set to generate a refined target sore image dataset. The method may be executed by a computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Duke, Bo Gong, Paul Hart
  • Patent number: 11321845
    Abstract: A method of virtual reality image segmentation and a virtual reality image reproducing device are disclosed. The method provides a step of determining the Play FOV of the image segmentation by adding a Guard FOV to the Temporary FOV covered by the temporary image segmentation, in the temporary image segmentation that divides the original image into Nth regions, a step of determining a Virtual Device FOV wider than a Device FOV of the head-mounted display by a predetermined Additional FOV and a step of starting a transit procedure of reproduced image segmentation among a plurality of image segmentation when a predetermined transit standard calculated using the Virtual Device FOV and Play FOV of reproduced image segmentation is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: ALPHACIRCLE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ta Sik Chung, Dong Woo Cha