Patents Examined by Ping Y Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11908036
    Abstract: The technology described herein is directed to a cross-domain training framework that iteratively trains a domain adaptive refinement agent to refine low quality real-world image acquisition data, e.g., depth maps, when accompanied by corresponding conditional data from other modalities, such as the underlying images or video from which the image acquisition data is computed. The cross-domain training framework includes a shared cross-domain encoder and two conditional decoder branch networks, e.g., a synthetic conditional depth prediction branch network and a real conditional depth prediction branch network. The shared cross-domain encoder converts synthetic and real-world image acquisition data into synthetic and real compact feature representations, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver Wang, Jianming Zhang, Dingzeyu Li, Zekun Hao
  • Patent number: 11900586
    Abstract: A hot spot defect detecting method and a hot spot defect detecting system are provided. In the method, hot spots are extracted from a design of a semiconductor product to define a hot spot map comprising hot spot groups, wherein local patterns in a same context of the design yielding a same image content are defined as a same hot spot group. During runtime, defect images obtained by an inspection tool performing hot scans on a wafer manufactured with the design are acquired and the hot spot map is aligned to each defect image to locate the hot spot groups. The hot spot defects in each defect image are detected by dynamically mapping the hot spot groups located in each defect image to a plurality of threshold regions and respectively performing automatic thresholding on pixel values of the hot spots of each hot spot group in the corresponding threshold region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Huei Chen, Pei-Chao Su, Xiaomeng Chen, Chan-Ming Chang, Shih-Yung Chen, Hung-Yi Chung, Kuang-Shing Chen, Li-Jou Lee, Yung-Cheng Lin, Wei-Chen Wu, Shih-Chang Wang, Chien-An Lin
  • Patent number: 11893086
    Abstract: A system for analyzing images includes a processing device includes a receiving module configured to receive an image, and an analysis module configured to apply the received image to a machine learning network and classify one or more features in the received image, the machine learning network configured to propagate image data through a plurality of convolutional layers, each convolutional layer of the plurality of convolutional layers including a plurality of filter channels, the machine learning network including a bottleneck layer configured to recognize an image feature based on a shape of an image component, The system also includes an output module configured to output characterization data that includes a classification of the one or more features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Dan Levi, Noa Garnett, Roy Uziel
  • Patent number: 11887307
    Abstract: Disclosed are computer systems and computer-implemented methods for rapid diagnostic test result interpretation platform employing computer vision. The system can visually analyze the test device in real-time by receiving image streams of the test device from the camera system. The detection system can be used to identify the test result in the test region. In some embodiments, the test result is binary (e.g., Positive/Negative). In some embodiments, the test result is in semi-quantitative formats (e.g., 1-10). The test result can be sent back to the user, operator, HMO, or physician for further confirmation, recording, and medical treatment decision/follow-up. The detection system can close the loop between the user of the test device and the HMO/physician for recording of the test result and the provision of medical treatment/follow-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BIO-MARKETING-T, LTD. (BMT)
    Inventors: Roey Tamir, Idan Tamir
  • Patent number: 11887350
    Abstract: A system for vector extraction comprising a vector extraction engine stored and operating on a network-connected computing device that loads raster images from a database stored and operating on a network-connected computing device, identifies features in the raster images, and computes a vector based on the features, and methods for feature and vector extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Maxar Intelligence Inc.
    Inventors: Jacek Grodecki, Seth Malitz, Josh Nolting
  • Patent number: 11887351
    Abstract: System and method for imaging-based quality assessment of raw produce loads, including an imaging structure comprising a mounting beam, light sources; optical sensors, and additional sensors; wherein the mounting beam is configured to allow vertical, lateral and/or longitudinal and movement of the measurement chamber. The system also includes a processing unit configured to control the vertical, lateral and/or longitudinal movement of the measurement chamber relative to the mounting beam, control opto-mechanical parameters of the optical sensors, control the position, orientation, light projection and/or light intensity of the light sources; trigger signal acquisition, receiving and fusing spectral data from the optical sensors with data from the additional sensors; and feeding the fused data into machine learning algorithm and/or big-data analytics model, to derive internal and/or external quality attributes of the produce.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventors: Timea Ignat, Guy Morgan, Eliyahu Osherovich, Ze'ev Schmilovitch
  • Patent number: 11887370
    Abstract: In a method for identification of an Internet meme, a plurality of sources is monitored for digital visual content comprising a visual moment and a caption. It is determined whether instances of digital visual content include a same visual moment. Provided the instances of digital visual content include the same visual moment, the instances of digital visual content including the same visual moment are identified as similar digital visual content. Each instance of the similar digital visual content is tracked. Provided a total number of instances of the similar digital visual content exceeds an Internet meme threshold, the similar digital visual content is identified as an Internet meme, wherein the same visual moment is a root visual moment and each caption corresponds to a different iteration of the Internet meme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Harris, Daniel McEleney, Harrison John Dodini, Ernestine Fu
  • Patent number: 11881028
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes a lidar system that obtains an initial point cloud and obtains a dual density point cloud by implementing a first neural network and based on the initial point cloud. The dual density point cloud results from reducing point density of the initial point cloud outside a region of interest (ROI). Processing the dual density point cloud results in a detection result that indicates any objects in a field of view (FOV) of the lidar system. A controller obtains the detection result from the lidar system and controls an operation of the vehicle based on the detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Shuqing Zeng, Jordan Chipka, Yasen Hu
  • Patent number: 11881050
    Abstract: A method for detecting a face synthetic image, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The technical solution includes inputting a face image to be detected into a pre-trained convolution neural network to obtain a raw image feature of the face image; inputting the raw image feature into a first full connected layer and a second full connected layer respectively to obtain a first feature vector corresponding to a face key point of the face image and a second feature vector corresponding to the face image; merging the first feature vector and the second feature vector to obtain a merged feature vector; inputting the merged feature vector to a third full connected layer to obtain a detection result of the face image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keyao Wang, Haocheng Feng, Haixiao Yue
  • Patent number: 11881042
    Abstract: A system and method for field extraction including determining a key position of a key in an electronic file, isolating candidate key values based on a distance from the key position, selecting a key value from the candidate key values based on an output of a trained neural network, and extracting the key and the key value from the electronic file, regardless of a key-value structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zhong Fang Yuan, Tong Liu, Li Juan Gao, Peng HuangFu, Si Heng Sun, Yi Chen Zhong
  • Patent number: 11881038
    Abstract: A method of multi-directional scene text recognition based on multi-element attention mechanism include: performing normalization processing for a text row/column image output from an external text detection module by a feature extractor, extracting a feature for the normalized image by using a deep convolutional neural network to acquire an initial feature map, adding a 2-dimensional directional positional encoding P to the initial feature map in order to output a multi-channel feature map, converting the multi-channel feature map output from a feature extractor by an encoder into a hidden representation, and converting the hidden representation output from the encoder into a recognized text by a decoder and using the recognized text as the output result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liangrui Peng, Ruijie Yan, Shanyu Xiao, Gang Yao, Shengjin Wang, Jaesik Min, Jong Ub Suk
  • Patent number: 11880997
    Abstract: A method and apparatus with pose estimation, where the method may include obtaining, using a depth network, a respective depth image for each of a plurality of successive input images, obtaining, using a pose network, respective image pose transformation matrices between images, of the successive input images, at adjacent time points, obtaining, based on initial pose information and the respective image pose transformation matrices, image pose information for each of the adjacent times, estimating final pose information dependent on the obtained image pose information, accumulating the image pose transformation matrices, calculating a pose loss value based on a result of comparing image position information, obtained from a result of the accumulating, and sensor position information obtained from a sensor. The pose and depth networks may be updated based on the pose loss value and a composite loss value dependent on the image pose transformation matrices and the input images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wonhee Lee
  • Patent number: 11875512
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for training a neural network classifier to learn to more closely align an input image with its attribution map. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods comprise receiving a training image comprising a representation of one or more objects, the training image associated with at least one label for the representation of the one or more objects, generating a perturbed training image based on the training image using a neural network, and training the neural network using the perturbed training image by minimizing a combination of classification loss and attribution loss to learn to align an image with its corresponding attribution map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mayank Singh, Balaji Krishnamurthy, Nupur Kumari, Puneet Mangla
  • Patent number: 11875514
    Abstract: The invention relates to an analysis device (6) for analyzing image data of a camera (5), wherein the image data has a plurality of individual images B, comprising a device (7) for determining a number of persons, said device (7) for determining a number of persons being designed to determine the number of persons P in the individual images B; an image selection device (8), said image selection device (8) being designed to select individual images B on the basis of the number of persons P and provide the selected individual images B and the corresponding number of persons P as analysis data A; a device (10) for identifying persons, said device (10) for identifying persons being designed to mark persons P1, P2, P3 as image sections A1, A2 in the individual images B on the basis of the analysis data A and provide same as mask images M; and an image combination device (10), said image combination device (10) being designed to replace the marked image sections A1, A2 with corresponding image sections A1?, A2? wit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Karl Warzelhan, Michael Christern
  • Patent number: 11875488
    Abstract: A method for parallel processing of retinal images includes: optimizing an objective function with a chaotic supply-demand algorithm to enhance a real retinal image; synthesizing a virtual retinal image by a hybrid image generation method; establishing a parallel multi-layer decomposed interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy convolutional neural network model based on the virtual retinal image and the enhanced real retinal image; and integrating outputs from a plurality of parallel multi-layer decomposed interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy convolutional neural network models as a final classification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HENAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Chuan Zhou, Xiaoxia Feng, Jingjing Li, Yuanyuan Liu, Ranran Si, Zhifeng Xie, Yuankun Fu, Junwei Jin, Kunpeng Zhang, Lei Zhang, Shimeng Shi, Tianci Wang, Dongjiang Liu, Meng Li, Zhiyuan Shi
  • Patent number: 11875248
    Abstract: A multicore hardware implementation of a deep neural network includes a plurality of layers arranged in plurality of layer groups. The input data to the network comprises a multidimensional tensor including one or more traversed dimensions that are traversed by strides in at least one layer of a first layer group, and one or more non-traversed dimensions. If a size of the input data in a first dimension is greater than a threshold, the hardware implementation splits the input data for the first layer group into at least a first tile and a second tile, along the first dimension. If the size of the input data in the first dimension is not greater than the threshold, the hardware implementation splits the evaluation of the first layer group into at least a first pass and a second pass, along a dimension other than the first dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Xiran Huang, Fernando Escobar
  • Patent number: 11876492
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to power amplification and power supply control. A power amplification control system can include an interface configured to receive a transceiver control signal from a transceiver. The power amplification control system can include a power amplifier control component configured to generate a power amplifier control signal based on the transceiver control signal from the transceiver and a power supply control component configured to generate a power supply control signal based on the transceiver control signal from the transceiver and to generate the power supply control signal based on a local control signal from the power amplifier control component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: David Steven Ripley
  • Patent number: 11875529
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for estimating the 3D joint location of skeleton joints from an image segment of an object and a 2D joint heatmaps comprising 2D locations of skeleton joints on the image segment. This includes applying the image segment and 2D joint heatmaps to a convolutional neural network containing at least one 3D convolutional layer block, wherein the 2D resolution is reduced at each 3D convolutional layer and the depth resolution is expanded to produce an estimated depth for each joint. Combining the 2D location of each kind of joint with the estimated depth of the kind of joint generates an estimated 3D joint position of the skeleton joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HINGE HEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: Colin Brown, Louis Harbour
  • Patent number: 11869253
    Abstract: System and techniques for vehicle environment modeling with a camera are described herein. A device for modeling an environment comprises: a hardware sensor interface to obtain a sequence of unrectified images representative of a road environment, the sequence of unrectified images including a first unrectified image, a previous unrectified image, and a previous-previous unrectified image; and processing circuitry to: provide the first unrectified image, the previous unrectified image, and the previous-previous unrectified image to an artificial neural network (ANN) to produce a three-dimensional structure of a scene; determine a selected homography; and apply the selected homography to the three-dimensional structure of the scene to create a model of the road environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Gideon Stein, Itay Blumenthal, Jeffrey Moskowitz, Nadav Shaag, Natalie Carlebach
  • Patent number: 11861919
    Abstract: A text recognition method includes: acquiring an image including text information, the text information including M characters, M being a positive integer greater than 1; performing text recognition on the image to acquire character information about the M characters; recognizing reading direction information about each character in accordance with the character information about the M characters, the reading direction information being used to indicate a next character corresponding to a current character in a semantic reading order; and ranking the M characters in accordance with the reading direction information about the M characters to acquire a text recognition result of the text information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chengquan Zhang, Pengyuan Lv, Kun Yao, Junyu Han, Jingtuo Liu