Patents Examined by Justin Philip Cascais
  • Patent number: 12400317
    Abstract: This application provides a method of detecting printing defects. The method includes obtaining a first image of each character in a reference image. A third image of each character is obtained based on the first image of each character, a fourth image of each character is obtained based on a second image of each character obtained from an image to be detected. Once a fifth image of each character is obtained based on the third image of each character, a sixth image of each character is obtained according to the fourth image and the fifth image of each character, a detection result of each character in the image to be detected is determined according to the fifth image and the sixth image of the each character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yen-Yi Lin, Cheng-Feng Wang, Li-Che Lin
  • Patent number: 12394174
    Abstract: An image processing method includes: performing target object detection on an initial image to obtain an object detection result, and performing image saliency detection on the initial image to obtain a saliency detection result; cropping the initial image based on the object detection result and the saliency detection result to obtain a corresponding cropped image; acquiring an image template for indicating an image style, and acquiring layer information corresponding to the image template; and adding the layer information to the cropped image based on the image template to obtain a target image corresponding to the image style indicated by the image template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Junyu Liu
  • Patent number: 12373909
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for adaptive sampling for rendering using deep learning. This includes receiving, at a sampler in a rendering pipeline, a plurality of rendered pixel data, wherein the sampler includes a first machine learning (ML) model. It further includes generating a sampling map for the rendering pipeline using the first ML model and the plurality of rendered pixel data, including predicting a plurality of pixel values in the sampling map based on a generated distribution of pixel values. It further includes rendering an image using the sampler, the sampling map, and a denoiser in the rendering pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Marios Papas, Gerhard Röthlin, Henrik D. Dahlberg, Farnood Salehi, David M. Adler, Mark A. Meyer, Andre C. Mazzone, Christopher R. Schroers, Marco Manzi, Thijs Vogels, Per H. Christensen
  • Patent number: 12354318
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence-based image processing method implemented by a computer device is provided. The method includes: acquiring an image; performing element region detection on the image to determine an element region in the image; detecting a target element region in the image using an artificial intelligence-based technique; generating a target element envelope region by searching an envelope for the detected target element region; and fusing the element region and the target element envelope region to obtain a target element region outline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liang Wang, Jianhua Yao
  • Patent number: 12347204
    Abstract: A vison-based landing system comprises a processor onboard an aerial vehicle, an onboard vision sensor, onboard aiding sensors, and a data storage unit. The processor hosts an adaptive feature extraction module operative to perform a method that comprises capturing an image of a landing area having a plurality of edge features; calculating an estimated slope of an expected edge feature; calculating an expected gradient direction of the expected edge feature; selecting a horizontal basis kernel for the expected edge feature along an expected horizontal gradient; selecting a vertical basis kernel for the expected edge feature along an expected vertical gradient; calculating a combined convolution kernel for the expected edge feature based on the horizontal and vertical basis kernels, the estimated slope, and the expected gradient direction; and performing a convolution operation on the image using the combined convolution kernel to obtain an edge feature image of the landing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhil Gupta, Shouvik Das
  • Patent number: 12315112
    Abstract: An image detection obtains original image. The original image is corrected to obtain a corrected image. Median filtering is performed on the corrected image to obtain a filtered image. A contrast of the filtered image is adjusted to obtain an adjusted image. Bilateral filtering is performed on the adjusted image to obtain an enhanced image. Defects in the enhanced image is detected. The method can detect defects in images accurately and efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Hsuan Chien, Chin-Pin Kuo
  • Patent number: 12272442
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network to perform a downstream computer vision task. One of the methods includes pre-training an initial neural network that shares layers with the neural network to perform an initial computer vision task and then training the neural network on the downstream computer vision task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Xiaohua Zhai, Sylvain Gelly, Alexander Kolesnikov, Yin Ching Jessica Yung, Joan Puigcerver i Perez, Lucas Klaus Beyer, Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby, Wen Yau Aaron Loh, Alan Prasana Karthikesalingam, Basil Mustafa, Jan Freyberg, Patricia Leigh MacWilliams, Vivek Natarajan
  • Patent number: 12260626
    Abstract: A method for re-recognizing an object image is provided based on multi-feature information capture and correlation analysis weights of an input feature map by using a convolutional layer with a spatial attention mechanism and a channel attention mechanism, causing channel and spatial information to effectively combined, which not only focus on an important feature and suppress an unnecessary feature, but also improve a representation of a feature. A multi-head attention mechanism is used to process a feature after an image is divided into blocks to capture abundant feature information and determine a correlation between features to improve performance and efficiency of object image retrieval. The convolutional layer with the channel attention mechanism and the spatial attention mechanism is combined with a transformer having the multi-head attention mechanism to focus on globally important features and capture fine-grained features, thereby improving performance of re-recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHANDONG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiushan Nie, Xue Zhang, Chuntao Wang, Peng Tao, Xiaofeng Li