Patents Examined by Jerome Grant
  • Surveillance drone with microbots
    Patent number: 11275951
    Abstract: A drone which carries out surveillance by surveilling the user's property. Items in the property can be mapped by the drone. People come on the property can be imaged, and use image processing to compare the image of the people with known images of known people. An alarm can because when an unknown person comes. When the packages delivered, the drone can carry out surveillance on the package, including imaging the outside of the package in the inside of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Inventor: Connie Jordan Carmichael
  • Unsupervised representation learning with contrastive prototypes
    Patent number: 11263476
    Abstract: The system and method are directed to a prototypical contrastive learning (PCL). The PCL explicitly encodes the hierarchical semantic structure of the dataset into the learned embedding space and prevents the network from exploiting low-level cues for solving the unsupervised learning task. The PCL includes prototypes as the latent variables to help find the maximum-likelihood estimation of the network parameters in an expectation-maximization framework. The PCL iteratively performs an E-step for finding prototypes with clustering and M-step for optimizing the network on a contrastive loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Junnan Li, Chu Hong Hoi
  • Image providing system, method, and program
    Patent number: 11263464
    Abstract: Provided is a system protecting privacy or the like of a land owner when providing an image taken by an unmanned flying object to the public (1) includes an unmanned aerial vehicle (10) and a computer (30). A control unit (14) in the unmanned aerial vehicle (10) executes an image acquisition module (141) to acquire an aerial image including positional information. A control unit (32) in the computer (30) executes a region designation module (321) to set a region where viewing is to be restricted. The control unit (32) executes a condition setting module (332) to set conditions for canceling the viewing restriction and set the conditions in a viewing authorization database (332). The control unit (32) executes a provision module (323) to provide an aerial image which includes the region where viewing is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Image forming apparatus, image forming method and recording medium
    Patent number: 11249708
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a print engine to perform printing; a memory that stores a plurality of print conditions set for each of a plurality of direct printing methods; and circuitry to: receive print information on printing to be performed, the print information at least indicating image data to be printed; identify a direct printing method from the print information; acquire from the memory at least one print condition corresponding to the identified direct printing method; and control the print engine to perform printing based on image data according to the acquired print condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuroh Yoshioka
  • Method and apparatus for realtime object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle image
    Patent number: 11227374
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, an apparatus for real-time object detection in an image captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) including an image splitter configured to receive an input image and split the input image into a left image and a right image; and an object detector configured to detect an object from each of the left image and the right image provided from the image splitter is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Seong Kyun Han, Ji Sang Yoo, Soon Chul Kwon
  • Information processing apparatus, crack line detection method, and recording medium recording program
    Patent number: 11216930
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: partition an image of a structure into regions; detect, for target regions each including crack points among the regions, a representative line segment representing the crack points included in each target region as a basic line segment for each target region; generate, based on basic line segments whose end points are close to each other among the detected basic line segments, a tree structure having an end point of a specific basic line segment as a root; and detect, among routes in the generated tree structure, routes from a top to a bottom of the tree structure corresponding to a basic line segment group in which values indicating degrees of coupling probability between the basic line segments are highest and a total length of the basic line segments coupled is longest, as a stroke corresponding to crack lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yutaka Katsuyama, Eigo Segawa
  • Tracking method and device
    Patent number: 11216958
    Abstract: A tracking method includes obtaining first characteristic information of a target object through a first camera. The tracking method also includes obtaining second characteristic information of the target object through a second camera. The tracking method further includes tracking the target object based on at least one of the first characteristic information or the second characteristic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Zhang
  • Information processing device and positional information obtaining method
    Patent number: 11195293
    Abstract: An information processing device extracts an image of a marker from a photographed image, and obtains a position of a representative point of the marker in a three-dimensional space. Meanwhile, a position and an attitude corresponding to a time of photographing the image are estimated on the basis of an output value of a sensor included in a target object. A weight given to positional information of each marker is determined by using a target object model on the basis of the estimation, and positional information of the target object is calculated. Further, final positional information is obtained by synthesizing estimated positional information at a predetermined ratio, and the final positional information is output and fed back for a next estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Masaki Uchida
  • Generating a model for an object encountered by a robot
    Patent number: 11195041
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to generating a model for an object encountered by a robot in its environment, where the object is one that the robot is unable to recognize utilizing existing models associated with the robot. The model is generated based on vision sensor data that captures the object from multiple vantages and that is captured by a vision sensor associated with the robot, such as a vision sensor coupled to the robot. The model may be provided for use by the robot in detecting the object and/or for use in estimating the pose of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Konolige, Nareshkumar Rajkumar, Stefan Hinterstoisser
  • Optimized focal-plane electronics using vector-enhanced deep learning
    Patent number: 11182672
    Abstract: Imaging systems and methods that implement a deep learning network are disclosed. The deep learning network utilizes pose information associated with at least some identified objects. The network is pruned, to reduce the amount of information processed and to optimize runtime processing when the network is deployed. In operation, the network identifies objects, and propagates pose information for at least some of the objects or components of identified objects. The network can be deployed as part of a processing system of an imaging system included as part of a remote platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Zachary Schmidt, Bevan D. Staple, Cynthia Wallace, Jennifer H. Lee
  • Data processing method, electronic device and computer-readable storage medium
    Patent number: 11170204
    Abstract: A method for data processing, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method may include: receiving target information associated with a face; and determining an execution environment corresponding to the target information according to a security level of the target information, and performing a processing related to the face based on the target information under the execution environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Ziqing Guo, Haitao Zhou, Fangfang Hui, Xiao Tan
  • Ocular image capturing device
    Patent number: 11170213
    Abstract: There is provided an ocular image capturing device comprising an ocular image generating module operable to generate an image of a subject's eye based on light reflected from the eye, and a determination module arranged to determine whether or not at least a portion of a pupil region of the generated image is within a predetermined permissible region within the generated image, and to generate a signal that is indicative of the determination, the pupil region being an image of at least a portion of the pupil of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: OPTOS PLC
    Inventors: Alan Anderson, Praveen Ashok, Tomoharu Fujiwara, Yasushi Tanabe, Hiroshi Kintou, Mariko Hirokawa, Tadashi Umezaki
  • Machine learning based video compression
    Patent number: 11165559
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a miner node, to a blockchain network comprised of a plurality user nodes, reading, by the miner node, a smart contract generated by a user node of the plurality of the user nodes, wherein the smart contract specifies a location of a user video file, acquiring, by the miner node, the user video file from the location, generating, by the miner node, a profile vector of the user video file based on properties of the user video file, determining, by the miner node, a cluster that has similar profile vectors, applying, by the miner node, a compression algorithm associated with the cluster to the user video file to generate a compressed user video file, and sending, by the miner node, the compressed user video file to the user node of the plurality of the user nodes for a validation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Kumar Ananthapur Bache, Saravanan Sadacharam, Vijay Ekambaram, Jhilam Bera
  • Information processing device, method, and multi-camera system
    Patent number: 11165945
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an information acquisition unit that acquires camera location information indicating locations of a plurality of imaging cameras located in an imaging space, and an evaluation unit that acquires calibration accuracy obtained in a case of locating a calibration camera in the imaging space on a basis of the location of each of the plurality of imaging cameras indicated by the camera location information and a location of the calibration camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oryoji
  • Method and device for on-vehicle active learning to be used for training perception network of autonomous vehicle
    Patent number: 11157813
    Abstract: A method of on-vehicle active learning for training a perception network of an autonomous vehicle is provided. The method includes steps of: an on-vehicle active learning device, (a) if a driving video and sensing information are acquired from a camera and sensors on an autonomous vehicle, inputting frames of the driving video and the sensing information into a scene code assigning module to generate scene codes including information on scenes in the frames and on driving events; and (b) at least one of selecting a part of the frames, whose object detection information satisfies a condition, as specific frames by using the scene codes and the object detection information and selecting a part of the frames, matching a training policy, as the specific frames by using the scene codes and the object detection information, and storing the specific frames and specific scene codes in a frame storing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Stradvision, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongmo Je, Bongnam Kang, Yongjoong Kim, Sung An Gweon
  • Information processing method, information processing device, object detection apparatus, and robot system
    Patent number: 11158080
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: receiving design data of an object; generating object data including shape data of the object and position/posture information of the object from the design data; generating first bulk data by stacking the object data by simulation; extracting the object data disposed on an outermost surface; disposing an imaging section by searching for an imaging angle from which extracted object data is obtained, when the object is imaged by the imaging section; acquiring first imaging data by imaging the object by the imaging section from the imaging angle; and generating learning data by replacing the shape data included in extracted object data with the first imaging data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventor: Hiromitsu Mizukami
  • Adaptive virtual camera for indirect-sparse simultaneous localization and mapping systems
    Patent number: 11158087
    Abstract: Techniques related to indirect sparse simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are discussed. Such techniques include adaptively positioning a virtual camera relative to an estimated position of a physical camera within an environment to be mapped, projecting a depth error to an image plane corresponding to the adaptive camera position, and using the projected depth error to update a mapping of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Anirud Thyagharajan, Om J Omer
  • Classification system
    Patent number: 11144748
    Abstract: A biometric classification system includes a biometric capture system that captures a biometric identifier. A classifier includes a plurality of group classifiers. Each group classifier in the plurality of classifiers includes a group discriminator that determines, based on the captured biometric identifier, whether the biometric identifier belongs to a group of persons associated with the group discriminator, and includes a plurality of object discriminators. Each object discriminator is associated with a single person within the group of persons. The group discriminator determines whether the biometric identifier belongs to the group of persons. The object discriminator determines whether the biometric identifier belongs to the single person associated with the object discriminator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: IOT Technology, LLC.
    Inventor: Karl L. Wang
  • Methods and devices for grading a medical image
    Patent number: 11145405
    Abstract: Method and system for grading a medical image. For example, a system for grading a medical image comprising a grading network configured to provide a grading result corresponding to the medical image based on at least the medical image and/or a list of lesion candidates generated by a lesion identification network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie-Zhi Cheng, Zaiwen Gong, Zhiqiang He, Yiqiang Zhan, Xiang Sean Zhou
  • Voronoi cropping of images for post field generation
    Patent number: 11138706
    Abstract: A method and system including: defining a geographic area; receiving a plurality of images; determining a plurality of image points; partitioning the geographic area into a plurality of image regions based on the plurality of image points; and stitching the plurality of images into a combined image based on the plurality of image regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
    Inventor: Quentin Lindsey