Patents Examined by Guillermo M Rivera-Martinez
  • Patent number: 11403931
    Abstract: A vehicle occupancy reminder system. The system includes at least one camera mounted to an interior surface of a motor vehicle. The camera is in operable connection with a processor. The processor is configured to perform a first logic. The first logic is a facial recognition program. The facial recognition program is configured to detect the presence of an individual or multiple individuals. The facial recognition program is configured to enact an alarm protocol when the facial recognition program detects the presence of any individuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventor: Fenglou Mao
  • Patent number: 11403742
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a solid object extraction unit that divides each of a plurality of captured images into a foreground image part occupied by an existent object and a background image part; a background complementing unit that complements each background image part; a background image synthesis unit that generates a background bird's eye synthetic image by performing bird's eye transformation and combining together the background image parts after undergoing the bird's eye transformation; a solid object recognition unit that acquires posture information on the existent object; a solid object projection unit that acquires a three-dimensional virtual object by using the posture information; a three-dimensional space superimposition unit that generates a three-dimensional space image by superimposing the three-dimensional, virtual object on the background bird's eye synthetic image; and a display image output unit that outputs a bird's eye synthetic image generated based on the three-dimension
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tsukasa Fukasawa, Kohei Okahara, Ichiro Furuki
  • Patent number: 11395717
    Abstract: Methods of representing user edits or modifications of a treatment plan for a dental apparatus (e.g., one or a series of aligners) by managing an original clinical data set and a set of modifications of the clinical data set. Also described herein are methods of displaying, condensing, storing and reconstructing collision regions between two or more teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantin Yuryev, Vasily Stavenko, Andrey Verizhnikov
  • Patent number: 11393063
    Abstract: An object detecting method includes imaging a plurality of target objects with an imaging section and acquiring a first image, recognizing an object position/posture of one of the plurality of target objects based on the first image, counting the number of successfully recognized object positions/postures of the target object, outputting, based on the object position/posture of the target object, a signal for causing a holding section to hold the target object, calculating, as a task evaluation value, a result about whether the target object was successfully held, updating, based on an evaluation indicator including the number of successfully recognized object positions/postures and the task evaluation value, a model for estimating the evaluation indicator from an imaging position/posture of the imaging section and determining an updated imaging position/posture, acquiring a second image in the updated imaging position/posture, and recognizing the object position/posture of the target object based on the seco
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventor: Jun Toda
  • Patent number: 11389119
    Abstract: For generating a breathing alert is disclosed, a method receives a video stream of a subject. The method further estimates a breathing signal from the video stream. The method determines one of a large-scale motion and/or a breathing event of the subject based on the breathing signal. The method generates an alert if both no breathing event is identified and no large-scale motion of the subject is identified within an event time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Photorithm, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Gunther, Nathan E. Ruben
  • Patent number: 11373399
    Abstract: There is provided method of analyzing a field of crops using a drone. The method initially includes remotely controlling the drone to fly the drone to adjacent the field of crops. The method further includes remotely controlling the drone to land the drone adjacent the crops. The method further includes remotely controlling the drone to drive the drone on the ground along the crops. The method further includes capturing ground-based images of the crops at an upward view angle using a multispectral camera on-board the drone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: Hall Enterprise LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Paul Lindberg, Kaveh Nemati
  • Patent number: 11373263
    Abstract: A work system includes a robot control device, a robot, an image processing device, and an imaging device. The robot control device controls an operation of the robot using a teaching point. The image processing device acquires an image by controlling the imaging device and capturing an image of a workpiece at the teaching point, and stores image data after imaging in association with data of an operation position of the robot corresponding to the teaching point. When a user performs work restoration, the image processing device performs a process of assisting with setting of work restoration by performing control for acquiring an image captured by the imaging device at the operation position of the robot during work restoration and displaying a difference between the image and the stored image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Genki Cho, Yuuya Miyake
  • Patent number: 11361502
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems are described herein for optimising aerial observation positions for capturing aerial images of a geographical area, in which both the field of view of the camera used to capture the images and the surface terrain is taken into consideration to ensure that all of the geographical area is fully and completely imaged. Aspects may be used for improving the aerial imagery used for geospatial surveying. The pixels of a digital surface model representative of a geographic area are analysed to determine whether they will be visible to a camera when it is located at a number of different observation points located above the same target geographic area. For each observation point at which an image is to be captured, each pixel is analysed to determine whether or not they are within the field of view of the camera when positioned at that given observation point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Ordnance Survey Limited
    Inventor: Joseph Braybrook
  • Patent number: 11361418
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transfer learning based capsule endoscopic images classification system. The system removes the capsule endoscopic images with an average brightness value beyond the preset threshold, and removes the capsule endoscopic images without details based on image brightness standard deviation and image brightness gradient. The system also removes similar images from the capsule endoscopic images using optical flow method, classifies the capsule endoscopic images according to the corresponding anatomical structure, and obtains the classified capsule endoscopic images list arranged in chronological order. The system further determines and labels the position of the first image of each specific anatomical structure in the classified capsule endoscopic images list arranged in chronological order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: ANKON TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wenjin Yuan, Hao Zhang, Hang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11354548
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using recurrent attention. One of the methods includes determining a location in the first image; extracting a glimpse from the first image using the location; generating a glimpse representation of the extracted glimpse; processing the glimpse representation using a recurrent neural network to update a current internal state of the recurrent neural network to generate a new internal state; processing the new internal state to select a location in a next image in the image sequence after the first image; and processing the new internal state to select an action from a predetermined set of possible actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu
  • Patent number: 11341654
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining/mapping between a matrix element (ME) and a comparison ME (CME) of a comparison matrix (CM), including writing the ME position in a table element (TE) of a correspondence table (CT) for a number of MEs, and following a predefined offset, reading out a TE, ascertaining the ME position stored in the TE until the read for the same number of MEs has been performed, establishing a mapping from the TE's read-out position and a CME's current position. The writing includes reading out a ME feature, ascertaining an access feature (AF) from the ME feature, ascertaining a TE of the CT from the AF, and writing the ME position in the ascertained TE. The reading includes reading out a CME feature, ascertaining an AF from the CME, ascertaining a TE of the CT from the AF, and reading out the ME's stored position from the ascertained TE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Simon, Arne Zender
  • Patent number: 11308627
    Abstract: A device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for interactive 3D visualization of ultrasound images of a supraspinatus tendon injury. Ultrasound images are acquired of a region in which the supraspinatus tendon injury is suspected. The ultrasound images are preprocessed, and energy of the preprocessed ultrasound images is minimized. A set of supraspinatus tendon images are extracted from low energy preprocessed ultrasound images. A morphological operation is performed on the set of supraspinatus tendon images to generate a smoothed set of supraspinatus tendon images. A binary mask is applied to the smoothed set of supraspinatus tendon images to detect boundary points of the supraspinatus tendon and generate a set of segmented image frames. The set of segmented image frames are arranged based on spatial position of each segmented image frame with respect to the supraspinatus tendon. A 3D representation of the supraspinatus tendon is reconstructed and rendered on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: King Abdulaziz University
    Inventors: Mohammed U. Alsaggaf, Irraivan Elamvazuthi, Ubaid M. Al-Saggaf, Muhammad Moinuddin
  • Patent number: 11301991
    Abstract: Methods and systems for performing image analytics using graphical reporting associated with clinical images. One system includes at least one data source and a server. The server includes an electronic processor and an interface for communicating with the data source. The electronic processor is configured to receive training information from the at least one data source over the interface. The training information includes a plurality of images and graphical reporting associated with each of the plurality of images. Each graphical reporting includes a graphical marker designating a portion of one of the plurality of images and diagnostic information associated with the portion of the one of the plurality of images. The electronic processor is also configured to perform machine learning to develop a model using the training information. The model is used to automatically analyze an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Murray A. Reicher, Jon T. DeVries, Michael W. Ferro, Jr., Marwan Sati
  • Patent number: 11301670
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for generating a sampled profile including a plurality of sampling points having a plurality of characteristic values associated with the detected non-visible light, identifying one or more macroblocks each includes a subset of the plurality of sampling points, calculating a number of occurrences of the local pattern value within each subset of the plurality of the sampling points for each of the one or more macroblocks, generating a first array including a plurality of weighted values by calculating the plurality of weighted values based on the numbers of occurrences of the local pattern value and corresponding sizes of the one or more macroblocks, assigning a unique index to each of the plurality of weighted values, generating a second array of the unique index by ranking the plurality of weighted values, and generating a third array including a plurality of ranking distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Stone Lock Global, Inc.
    Inventors: James Trani, David Douglas Dunlap
  • Patent number: 11288811
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and device for correcting a vascular pressure difference are disclosed. An intracavity imaging technology is used to acquire images in a main branch blood vessel. A plurality of blood vessel cross sections are obtained using the images, and an area of a cutting plane of a side branch blood vessel is directly calculated by using the blood vessel cross sections. The blood vessel difference is then corrected by using the cutting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventors: Shengxian Tu, Wei Yu, Jiayue Huang, Yundai Chen, Fuhua Yan
  • Patent number: 11281230
    Abstract: A computing device of a first vehicle may receive a first image and a second image of a second vehicle having flashing light signals. The computing device may determine, in the first image and the second image, an image region that bounds the second vehicle such that the image region substantially encompasses the second vehicle. The computing device may determine a polar grid that partitions the image region in the first image and the second image into polar bins, and identify portions of image data exhibiting a change in color and a change in brightness between the first image and the second image. The computing device may determine a type of the flashing light signals and a type of the second vehicle; and accordingly provide instructions to control the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Wan-Yen Lo, David Ian Franklin Ferguson, Abhijit Ogale
  • Patent number: 11275929
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for generating a sampled profile including a plurality of sampling points having a plurality of characteristic values associated with the detected non-visible light, identifying one or more macroblocks each includes a subset of the plurality of sampling points, calculating a number of occurrences of the local pattern value within each subset of the plurality of the sampling points for each of the one or more macroblocks, generating a first array including a plurality of weighted values by calculating the plurality of weighted values based on the numbers of occurrences of the local pattern value and corresponding sizes of the one or more macroblocks, assigning a unique index to each of the plurality of weighted values, generating a second array of the unique index by ranking the plurality of weighted values, and generating a third array including a plurality of ranking distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Stone Lock Global, Inc.
    Inventors: James Trani, David Douglas Dunlap
  • Patent number: 11270426
    Abstract: Computer aided inspection systems (CAIS) and method for inspection, error analysis and comparison of structures are presented herein. In some embodiments, a CAIS may include a SLAM system configured to determine real-world global localization information of a user in relation to a structure being inspected using information obtained from a first sensor package, a model alignment system configured to: use the determined global localization information to index into a corresponding location in a 3D computer model of the structure being inspected; and align observations and/or information obtained from the first sensor package to the local area of the model 3D computer model of the structure extracted; a second sensor package configured to obtain fine level measurements of the structure; and a model recognition system configured to compare the fine level measurements and information obtained about the structure from the second sensor package to the 3D computer model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Garbis Salgian, Bogdan C. Matei, Taragay Oskiper, Mikhail Sizintsev, Rakesh Kumar, Supun Samarasekera
  • Patent number: 11256919
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of terminals, and particularly relates to a method and device for terminal-based object recognition, and an electronic device. The method includes: receiving a function instruction for simulated magnifier input to a terminal by a user; activating a camera of the terminal according to the function instruction for simulated magnifier; determining an object to be recognized based on an object photographed by the camera; acquiring a physical distance between the object to be recognized and the camera, and acquiring a preset focal length corresponding to the physical distance; generating, according to the preset focal length, a first image corresponding to the object to be recognized, and displaying the first image; performing image processing and image recognition on the first image; and displaying information of the object to be recognized at the terminal according to a result of image processing and image recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: Gree Electric Appliances (Wuhan) Co., Ltd, Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventor: Linlin Diao
  • Patent number: 11253171
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a positioning system suitable for use in an imaging system. The positioning system may include one or more cameras configured to capture images or videos of an imaging object and surrounding environment thereof for ROI targeting or patient position recognition. The positioning system may also include one or more position probes and sources configured to determine an instant location of an imaging object or an ROI thereof in a non-contact manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiqiang Hao, Zhuobiao He, Mingchao Wang, Yining Wang