Patents Examined by Qian Yang
  • Patent number: 12211604
    Abstract: This application relates to medical devices having cameras. According to a first aspect, this specification describes an electronic device comprising: a display; and a stereoscopic camera, in which the electronic device is configured to: capture a stereoscopic image using the stereoscopic camera; determine if the captured stereoscopic image comprises one or more items of food; in the event of a positive determination, determine an estimate of nutritional content of the one or more items of food in dependence on the captured stereoscopic image; and display information relating to the estimate of nutritional content via the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventor: Michael Helmer
  • Patent number: 12211178
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for combining digital images. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems combine latent codes of a source digital image and a target digital image utilizing a blending network to determine a combined latent encoding and generate a combined digital image from the combined latent encoding utilizing a generative neural network. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems determine an intersection face mask between the source digital image and the combined digital image utilizing a face segmentation network and combine the source digital image and the combined digital image utilizing the intersection face mask to generate a blended digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Tobias Hinz, Shabnam Ghadar, Richard Zhang, Ratheesh Kalarot, Jingwan Lu, Elya Shechtman
  • Patent number: 12186050
    Abstract: Computer implemented biometric methods and systems incorporate sensing biophysical phenomena, translating the phenomena into digital data and transmitting the data to a series of servers operating in an open feedback loop to generate a module. A biometric networking system can include a biometric monitoring cloud computing platform with AI/machine learning augmented models are generated to make user assessments, programs and confidence scores to the healthcare provider systems. The AI/machine learning models can be used by the biometric monitoring network to generate health-related AI processes that analyze relationships treatment techniques and outcomes. AI techniques can be used to calculate movement modeling and confidence scoring including support vector machines, neural networks, and decision trees. The biophysical phenomena may include biometric parameters based on data, such as medical history, exertion, sleep, temperature, cardiovascular events, respiratory events, and muscle and blood pH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: AnneAlise Bonistalli
  • Patent number: 12182969
    Abstract: An exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium for detection of functional disorder(s) or aging progression of patient(s) can be provided which can include, for example, receiving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) information of the portion(s), generating gadolinium (“Gd”) enhanced map(s) based on the MRI information using a machine learning procedure(s), and detecting the functional disorder(s) or aging progression of the patient(s) based on the Gd enhanced map(s). The Gd enhanced map(s) can be a full dosage Gd enhanced map which can be a full dosage Gd enhanced cerebral blood volume map(s). The machine learning procedure can be a convolutional neural network. The MRI information can include (i) a low-dosage Gd MRI scan(s), and/or (ii) a Gd-free MRI scan(s). Functional disorder(s) or age progression can include a neurodegenerative disease, a neuropsychiatric disease, a neurodevelopment disorder or aging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Jia Guo, Scott A. Small
  • Patent number: 12183006
    Abstract: A target positioning method is provided to include: determining, in response to determining that a video frame image including a target lesion is detected from a video stream, location information of the target lesion on the video frame image; tracking the target lesion according to the location information of the target lesion on the video frame image, and determining location information of the target lesion on a video frame image in the video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hong Shang, Zijian Zhang, Zhongqian Sun
  • Patent number: 12183449
    Abstract: A diagnosis support program causes a computer to execute a derivation procedure of deriving, on the basis of a first pathological image corresponding to a first affected tissue, history information regarding a history of viewing the first pathological image, and diagnostic information for the first affected tissue corresponding to the first pathological image, diagnosis support information for supporting diagnosis of a second pathological image corresponding to a second affected tissue to be diagnosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Aisaka, Takeshi Kunihiro, Kenji Yamane, Shinji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12175784
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that generates transmission guide information according to a second form issued in response to a first form, and registers information representing the second form and first form information in a memory in association with each other. The information representing the second form is transmitted based on the transmission guide information. The first form information is included in first form image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Ayumi Mihara
  • Patent number: 12171605
    Abstract: A system for measuring muscle mass of a patient has a dual-energy radiation emission source. A radiation detector is configured to detect radiation emitted from the dual-energy radiation emission source passed through the patient. A processor has a memory with storing instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform a set of operations. The operations include receiving radiation detection data; generating a scan representation; identifying a primary fat target; determining an amount of fat in the primary fat target; comparing the amount of fat in the primary fat target to a reference; and based on the comparison, correcting an estimated amount of lean tissue to generate a corrected muscle mass value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Wilson, Thomas Kelly
  • Patent number: 12175715
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a processor configured to obtain a point cloud, make a choice between octree encoding or quadtree encoding of a parent node, and encode the parent node into a bitstream based on the choice; and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the bitstream. An apparatus comprises a receiver configured to receive a bitstream; and a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to parse from the bitstream a first parameter indicating a depth of PCC, decode first nodes before the depth using octree decoding, parse from the bitstream a second parameter indicating a node coding mode for second nodes at and after the depth, and decode the second nodes based on the second parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vladyslav Zakharchenko, Birendra Kathariya, Jianle Chen
  • Patent number: 12171498
    Abstract: A presentation device for displaying a graphical presentation of an augmented reality is disclosed. The presentation device includes a recording unit, a first display unit, and a processing unit. The recording unit is configured to capture a relative positioning of the first display unit in respect of a presentation area and capture a second set of graphical information. The processing unit is configured to generate an augmented reality based on a received dataset, supply a graphical presentation of the augmented reality by virtual mapping to the presentation area, and adjust the augmented reality and/or the graphical presentation thereof as a function of the second set of graphical information. The first display unit is at least partially transparent and is configured to display the graphical presentation of the augmented reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG
    Inventor: Tobias Lenich
  • Patent number: 12169926
    Abstract: A system for disease diagnosis includes a patch neural network for generating a patch-level diagnostic result of whether or not a disease is present in each of predetermined patches formed by dividing a slide into a predetermined size; a heat map generation module for generating a patch-level heat map image corresponding to the biometric image obtained from the slide on the basis of the patch diagnostic results of the respective multiple patches included in the slide; a tissue mask generation module for generating a tissue mask image corresponding to the biometric image obtained from the slide on the basis of a hue-saturation-value (HSV) model corresponding to the slide; and a visualization module for generating a disease diagnostic visualization image corresponding to the biometric image obtained from the slide on the basis of the patch-level heat map image and the tissue mask image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: DEEP BIO INC.
    Inventors: Joon Young Cho, Sun Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 12169957
    Abstract: An image processing device comprises pixel group setting part that sets plurality of pixel groups including first and second pixel groups, which are not connected to each other, based on image data of first image which shows target object including linear portion; pair setting part that performs setting pair of first and second pixel groups including pixel within predetermined range from first pixel group to calculate connecting degree of second pixel group with respect to first pixel group; and calculation part that calculates connecting degree of pair, wherein predetermined range is search range set based on first distance between first and second pixel groups, or search range set on based on first angle formed between first line segment corresponding to first pixel group and second line segment corresponding to second pixel group, and calculation part calculates first distance or first angle using first distance or first angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko Yoshida, Moeka Nobuta
  • Patent number: 12165337
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to machine learning based object recognition using pixel difference information. A difference image generated by subtraction of a current image from one or more previous images can be provided, as input, to a machine-learning engine. The machine-learning may output a detected object or a detected action based, at least in part, on the difference image. In this way, temporal information about the object can be provided to, and used by, a machine-learning model that is structured to accept image input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anish Prabhu, Sayyed Karen Khatamifard, Hessam Bagherinezhad
  • Patent number: 12159369
    Abstract: A method of providing super-resolved images of a photon emitting particle is disclosed, which includes providing a machine-learning (ML) platform, wherein the ML platform is configured to receive pixel-based sparse autocorrelation data and generate a predicted super-resolved image of a photon emitting particle, receiving photons from the photon emitting particle by two or more photon detectors, each generating an electrical pulse associated with receiving an incident photon thereon, generating sparse autocorrelation data from the two or more photon detectors for each pixel within an image area, and inputting the pixel-based sparse autocorrelation data to the ML platform, thereby generating a predicted super-resolved image of the imaging area, wherein the resolution of the super-resolved image is improved by ?n as compared to a classical optical microscope limited by Abbe diffraction limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Zhaxylyk A. Kudyshev, Demid Sychev, Zachariah Olson Martin, Simeon I. Bogdanov, Xiaohui Xu, Alexander Kildishev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vladimir Shalaev
  • Patent number: 12150814
    Abstract: An ultrasonic signal processing method and apparatus (30), a computer device (50) and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a target ultrasonic signal of a dynamic broadband corresponding to target tissue (101); determining, according to the target ultrasonic signal, an acoustic characteristic parameter of the target tissue (102); performing assessment processing to the target tissue according to the acoustic characteristic parameter of the target tissue (103). The acoustic characteristic parameter of the target tissue is determined according to the target ultrasonic signal of the dynamic broadband corresponding to the target tissue, and the assessment is performed to the target tissue based on the acoustic characteristic parameter of the target tissue, and ultrasonic signals of the target tissue at multiple frequencies are comprehensively considered, so that signal components are varied, thereby improving accuracy of the assessment to the target tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wuxi Hisky Medical Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiong He, Jinhua Shao, Jin Sun, Houli Duan
  • Patent number: 12148133
    Abstract: A method and device for image processing, and storage medium are provided. In the method, an initial image I is acquired; a set of m predetermined tone-mapping functions is provided; a pixel I(i) of the initial image is selected; a pixel weight w(i) for the selected pixel I(i) is determined based on pixel information of at least the selected pixel; for each tone-mapping function, a tone-mapping function weight is determined based on the pixel weight; each tone-mapping function is applied to the selected pixel I(i) and weighting the result with the respective tone-mapping function weight; the sum of the weighted result as final pixel I?(i) is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tapio Finnilä, Murat Birinci, Petteri Kyrönlahti, Uygar Tuna, Ali Karaoglu
  • Patent number: 12148148
    Abstract: A metrology system for obtaining a measurement representative of a thickness of a layer on a substrate includes a camera positioned to capture a color image of at least a portion of the substrate. A controller is configured to receive the color image from the camera, store a predetermined path in a coordinate space of at least two dimension including a first color channel and a second color channel, store a function that provides a value representative of a thickness as a function of a position on the predetermined path, determine a coordinate of a pixel in the coordinate space from color data in the color image for the pixel, determine a position of a point on the predetermined path that is closest to the coordinate of the pixel, and calculate a value representative of a thickness from the function and the position of the point on the predetermined path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Dominic J. Benvegnu
  • Patent number: 12148433
    Abstract: This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Samuel Bengio, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
  • Patent number: 12141541
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods that convert digital video data, such as two-dimensional digital video data, into a natural language text description describing the subject matter represented in the video. For example, the disclosed implementations may process video data in real-time, near real-time, or after the video data is created and generate a text-based video narrative describing the subject matter of the video. In addition, the disclosed implementations may also support a question and answer session in which a user may submit queries about the subject matter of one or more videos and the disclosed implementations will present natural language responses based on the subject matter of the video and any corresponding context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Armada Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Pragyana K. Mishra
  • Patent number: 12131500
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing error from noisy data received from a high frequency sensor by fusing received input with data received from a low frequency sensor by collecting a first set of dynamic inputs from the high frequency sensor, collecting a correction input point from the low frequency sensor, and adjusting a propagation path of a second set of dynamic inputs from the high frequency sensor based on the correction input point either by full translation to the correction input point or dampened approach towards the correction input point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Janusz Woods, Andrew Rabinovich