Patents Examined by Ishrat I Sherali
  • Patent number: 11574379
    Abstract: A cell phone is disclosed for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto. A capture device captures information from an external source. A processor is provided for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that the representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information. The processor also places the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the augmented captured information to a receiving facility requiring such subscriber information. A transmitter transmits the transmission including the augmented captured information and the subscriber information to the receiving facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: MyPort IP, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael F. Malone, Frederick J. Murphy
  • Patent number: 11568540
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium, for detecting whether an eye blink or non-blink is captured in the image. The method includes filtering, from the image, one or more objects that are predicted to be unsuitable for determining whether an eye blink or no-blink is captured in the image, to provide a filtered image. The method also includes correlating the filtered image with a reference image, and determining, based on the correlating, whether the eye blink or non-blink is captured in the image. The eye blink is a full eye blink or a partial eye blink, and the images may be sequentially captured IR SLO images, in one example embodiment herein. Images determined to include an eye blink can be omitted from inclusion in a final (e.g., OCT) image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: OPTOS PLC
    Inventor: David Clifton
  • Patent number: 11557152
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for recognizing sign language movements using multiple input and output modalities. One example method includes capturing a movement associated with the sign language using a set of visual sensing devices, the set of visual sensing devices comprising multiple apertures oriented with respect to the subject to receive optical signals corresponding to the movement from multiple angles, generating digital information corresponding to the movement based on the optical signals from the multiple angles, collecting depth information corresponding to the movement in one or more planes perpendicular to an image plane captured by the set of visual sensing devices, producing a reduced set of digital information by removing at least some of the digital information based on the depth information, generating a composite digital representation by aligning at least a portion of the reduced set of digital information, and recognizing the movement based on the composite digital representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: AVODAH, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Menefee, Dallas Nash, Trevor Chandler
  • Patent number: 11553965
    Abstract: A method of generating a correction plan for correcting a deformed bone includes inputting to a computer system a first image of the deformed bone in a first plane and inputting to the computer system a second image of the deformed bone in a second plane. Image processing techniques are employed to identify a plurality of anatomical landmarks of the deformed bone in the first image. The first image of the deformed bone is displayed on a display device. A graphical of the deformed bone is autonomously generated and graphically overlaid on the first image of the deformed bone on the display device, the graphical template including a plurality of lines, each line connected at each end to a landmark point corresponding to one of the anatomical landmarks. A model of the deformed bone may be autonomously generated based on the graphical template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Anup Kumar, Sridhar Anjanappa, Ashish Gangwar, Manash Lahiri, Arpit Gautam, Kanishk Sethi, Sistu Ganesh
  • Patent number: 11551365
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for processing a 3-D point cloud data and an associated image data to enrich the 3-D point cloud data with relevant portions of the image date. The method comprises generating a 3-D point cloud data tensor representative of information contained in the 3-D point cloud data and generating an image tensor representative of information contained in the image data; and then analyzing the image tensor to identify a relevant data portion of the image information relevant to the at least one object candidate. The method further includes amalgamating the 3-D point cloud data tensor with a relevant portion of the image tensor associated with the relevant data portion of the image information to generate an amalgamated tensor associated with the surrounding area and storing the amalgamated tensor to be used by a machine learning algorithm (MLA) to determine presence of the object in the surrounding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: YANDEX SELF DRIVING GROUP LLC
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Murashkin, Andrey Olegovich Rykov
  • Patent number: 11546154
    Abstract: This invention relates to a network interface device. A first capture device interfaces with a first external information source to capture first external information. A processor processes the captured first external information and stores it in a first media. The processor initiates the storage of the first captured information at an initial time and completes storage of the first captured information at a completion time, thus providing a stored defined set of first captured information. A transmitter transmits the defined set of stored captured information to a remote location on a network. A remote processing system is disposed at the remote node on the network and includes a database and a receiver for receiving the transmitted defined set of first captured information. A data converter is operable to convert the received defined set of first captured information to a second format. The database stores the set of converted captured information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MyPortIP, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael F. Malone
  • Patent number: 11532159
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor a split screen media presentation. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to generate one or more video signatures associated with video output from a media device and determine whether the one or more video signatures correspond to first media identified based on audio output from the media device. Disclosed example apparatus are also to, in response to a determination that the one or more generated video signatures do not correspond to the first media, determine that the video corresponds to a split-screen presentation having a plurality of regions-of-interest, and identify a first one of the regions-of-interest of the split-screen presentation that includes the first media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Justin David Lee Fahnestock, John C. Kistenmacher, Ronan Heffernan, Scott Daniel Barraclough, John Wesley Kercher, IV
  • Patent number: 11521395
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program capable of making it easier to recognize standing objects. Movement transformation of moving a subject position where a subject appears in a target image to be processed is performed, depending on a subject distance from a vanishing point in the target image to the subject position. The present technology can be applied to, for example, the image processing and the like of an image taken by a camera unit onboard a vehicle or other moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11514703
    Abstract: In order to detect an object by discriminating the object in accordance with the state of the object, a detection device comprises: a detection unit configured to detect a plurality of portions of an object contained in a frame image of a moving image; an intrusion determination unit configured to determine that the object has intruded into a preset area of the frame image; and a determination unit configured to determine whether to notify a determination result of the intrusion determination unit, in accordance with whether portions detected by the detection unit include a predetermined portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Oya
  • Patent number: 11508158
    Abstract: An electronic device for and a method of assisting vehicle driving are provided. The electronic device includes a plurality of cameras configured to capture a surrounding image around a vehicle; at least one sensor configured to sense an object around the vehicle; and a processor configured to obtain, during vehicle driving, a plurality of image frames as the surrounding image of the vehicle is captured based on a preset time interval by using the plurality of cameras, based on the object is sensed using the at least one sensor while the vehicle is being driven, extract an image frame corresponding to a time point when and a location where the object has been sensed, from among the obtained plurality of image frames, perform object detection from the extracted image frame, and perform object tracking of tracking a change in the object, from a plurality of image frames obtained after the extracted image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaeyong Ju, Myungsik Kim, Seunghoon Han, Taegyu Lim, Boseok Moon
  • Patent number: 11501545
    Abstract: Automation of microscopic pathological diagnosis relies on digital image quality, which, in turn, affects the rates of false positive and negative cellular objects designated as abnormalities. Cytogenetic biodosimetry is a genotoxic assay that detects dicentric chromosomes (DCs) arising from exposure to ionizing radiation. The frequency of DCs is related to radiation dose received, so the inferred radiation dose depends on the accuracy of DC detection. To improve this accuracy, image segmentation methods are used to rank high quality cytogenetic images and eliminate suboptimal metaphase cell data in a sample based on novel quality measures. When sufficient numbers of high quality images are found, the microscope system is directed to terminate metaphase image collection for a sample. The International Atomic Energy Agency recommends at least 500 images be used to estimate radiation dose, however often many more images are collected in order to select the metaphase cells with good morphology for analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CytoGnomix Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Keith Rogan, Yanxin Li, Jin Liu
  • Patent number: 11501439
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a diagnosis support apparatus includes: an input circuit configured to acquire a first medical image; and processing circuitry configured to generate a second medical image from the first medical image in such a manner that information included in the second medical image is reduced from information included in the first medical image, extract auxiliary information from the first medical image, and perform inference of a disease by using the second medical image and the auxiliary information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Aoyagi, Yasuko Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 11501451
    Abstract: Presented are concepts for detecting subject motion in medical imaging of a subject. One such concept obtains a motion classification model representing relationships between motion of image features and subject motion values. For each of a plurality of medical slice images of an imaged volume of the subject, an image feature of the medical slice image is extracted. Based on the extracted image feature for each of the plurality of medical slice images, motion information for the image feature is determined. Based on the motion information for the image feature and the obtained motion classification model, a subject motion value is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Dinesh Mysore Siddu, Krishnamoorthy Palanisamy, Christopher Stephen Hall, Nagaraju Bussa
  • Patent number: 11501525
    Abstract: Systems and methods for panoptic image segmentation are disclosed herein. One embodiment performs semantic segmentation and object detection on an input image, wherein the object detection generates a plurality of bounding boxes associated with an object in the input image; selects a query bounding box from among the plurality of bounding boxes; maps at least one of the bounding boxes in the plurality of bounding boxes other than the query bounding box to the query bounding box based on similarity between the at least one of the bounding boxes and the query bounding box to generate a mask assignment for the object, the mask assignment defining a contour of the object; compares the mask assignment with results of the semantic segmentation to produce a refined mask assignment for the object; and outputs a panoptic segmentation of the input image that includes the refined mask assignment for the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Hou, Jie Li, Vitor Guizilini, Adrien David Gaidon, Dennis Park, Arjun Bhargava
  • Patent number: 11494876
    Abstract: According to example embodiments, an Image View Aggregator identifies a frontal view of an item within an image. The Image View Aggregator identifies at least one reflection view of the item within the image. Each reflection view of the item having been captured off a corresponding reflective physical surface. The Image View Aggregator extracts the frontal view of the item and each reflection view of the item from the image. The Image View Aggregator generates a representation of the item based at least on the extracted frontal view of the item and each extracted reflection view of the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Sergio Pinzon Gonzales, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11486713
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for positioning an autonomous vehicle. The method includes: matching a current point cloud projected image of a first resolution with a map of the first resolution to generate a first histogram filter based on the matching result; determining at least two first response areas in the first histogram filter based on a probability value of an element in the first histogram filter; generating a second histogram filter based on a result of matching a current point cloud projected image of a second resolution with a map of the second resolution and the at least two first response areas, the first resolution being less than the second resolution; and calculating a weighted average of probability values of target elements in the second histogram filter to determine a positioning result of the autonomous vehicle in the map of the second resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Li, Guowei Wan, Yao Zhou, Shiyu Song, Fangfang Dong
  • Patent number: 11481934
    Abstract: An exemplary system, method and computer-accessible medium for generating an image(s) of a portion(s) of a patient(s) can be provided, which can include, for example, receiving first information associated with a combination of positron emission tomography (PET) information and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) information, generating second information by applying a convolutional neural network(s) (CNN) to the first information, and generating the image(s) based on the second information. The PET information can be fluorodeoxyglucose PET information. The CNN(s) can include a plurality of convolution layers and a plurality of parametric activation functions. The parametric activation functions can include, e.g., a plurality of parametric rectified linear units. Each of the convolution layers can include, e.g., a plurality of filter kernels. The PET information can be reconstructed using a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) procedure to generate a MLE image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Fernando Boada, David Rigie
  • Patent number: 11475546
    Abstract: A method for enhancing a wide angle image to improve the perspectives and the visual appeal thereof wide-angle images uses custom adaptive dewarping. The method is based on the scene image content of recognized objects in the image, the position of these objects in the image, the depth of these objects in the scene with respect to other objects and the general context of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: IMMERVISION, INC.
    Inventors: Patrice Roulet, Pierre Konen, Jocelyn Parent, Simon Thibault, Xavier Dallaire, Xiaojun Du, Ebrahim Mortazy
  • Patent number: 11468545
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems, media, and methods for mitigating measurement drift and improving IMU odometry measurement. In an embodiment, the system may perform operations including receiving first sensor data from at least one motion sensor; receiving 3-dimensional (3-D) motion data based on motion detected by at least one camera; inputting model input data into a machine learning model configured to generate at least one vector, the model input data being based on the received first sensor data and the received 3-D motion data; and apply the at least one vector as an offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: BioMech Sensor, LLC
    Inventors: Igor Peric, Dusko Mirkovic, Alexander Maslennikov
  • Patent number: 11461704
    Abstract: A computing device of the present invention estimates an unknown parameter ? of a model formula when distributed sample data is acquired, wherein when an estimated quantity of ? is acquired, a function g is estimated using a random forest model, such that when an estimated quantity of g is acquired, the estimated quantity of g and the estimated quantity of ? are used so as estimate a function G as a prediction formula for new data corresponding to a specific item such that an estimated quantity of G is acquired, and thus new data xnew is received, thereby enabling the class of the specific item to be classified from the calculated value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: BIOINFRA LIFE SCIENCE INC.
    Inventors: Chul Woo Kim, Yong Dai Kim, Kyung Nam Kang, Oh Ran Kwon