Patents Examined by Quan M Hua
  • Patent number: 11823440
    Abstract: An imaging system and method uses grouping and elimination to label images of unknown items. The items may be stacked together with known or unknown items. The items may be packages, such as packages of beverage containers. A machine learning model may be used to infer skus of the packages. The machine learning model is trained on known skus but is not trained on unknown skus. Multiple images of the same unknown sku are grouped using the machine learning model. Elimination based upon lists of expected skus is used to label each group of unknown skus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Rehrig Pacific Company
    Inventors: Justin Michael Brown, Daniel James Thyer
  • Patent number: 11823361
    Abstract: A method comprising obtaining image data representative of pixel intensities associated with an image. Irrespective of a respective magnitude of the pixel intensities, the image data is processed with a logarithmic transformation to transform the pixel intensities to transformed pixel intensities, thereby generating transformed image data representative of the transformed pixel intensities. The logarithmic transformation, L(x), is representable as: L(x)=P logM(f(x))+N where x represents a pixel intensity to be transformed, f(x) represents a function of x and P, M and N represent constants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: David Hanwell, Alexey Kornienko
  • Patent number: 11816821
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a system for generating an enriched image of a target object and to a corresponding computer program and a computer-readable storage medium, on which the computer program is stored. In the method, image data of the target object is acquired. Furthermore, tactile data is acquired for the target object, which characterizes a mechanical resistance of at least one section of the target object against a force applied thereto. The enriched image is then generated by merging the image data and the tactile data and/or a classification of the respective section derived therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Marcus Pfister
  • Patent number: 11818625
    Abstract: An unmanned mobile observation device, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle, can be used to acquire observation data for a sensitive area. The observation data can include image data and geolocation data corresponding to a real-world geographic location at which the image data was acquired. The geolocation data can be accurate to five centimeters or less. The observation data can be evaluated to identify any defects within the sensitive area. Such evaluation can include comparison with previously acquired image data for the sensitive area, which can be enables by using the geolocation data to select the corresponding previously acquired image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Electronic Machines Corp.
    Inventor: Zahid F. Mian
  • Patent number: 11812320
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method, and a network node for implementing the method, of initiating a transfer in a cellular telecommunications network, wherein the cellular telecommunications network comprises a User Equipment (UE) and a base station, wherein the UE includes a camera, the method including storing visual data including a visual representation of at least a part of the base station; receiving visual data captured by the camera of the UE; performing a computer vision operation, trained on the stored visual data, on the captured visual data to determine that the visual representation of the base station or part thereof is present in the captured visual data; and, initiating a transfer of the UE to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Arman Shojaeifard, Richard Mackenzie
  • Patent number: 11810351
    Abstract: Systems and methods for video analytic processing with neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence are provided. These systems and methods include detecting and extracting one or more objects from one or more video frames, and identifying the attributes associated with each of the one or more objects. These further include extracting context from a question, and compiling a series of inquiries to identify the information needed to answer the question and identify missing information. These further include storing intermediate information about the extracted objects and identified attributes, and determining whether the question requires further modeling of data to obtain missing information. These further include mining the one or more video frames for missing information, and compiling the intermediate information from the data storage and missing information based on the context of the question to produce a final answer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Biplob Debnath, Srimat Chakradhar, Yi Yang, Neisarg Dave
  • Patent number: 11804048
    Abstract: A method and a driver assistance system recognize the intention of a pedestrian to move on the basis of a sequence of images of a camera. The method includes detecting a pedestrian in at least one camera image. The method also includes selecting a camera image that is current at the time t and selecting a predefined selection pattern of previous camera images of the image sequence. The method further includes extracting the image region in which the pedestrian was detected in the selected camera images of the image sequence. The method also includes classifying the movement profile of the detected pedestrian on the basis of the plurality of extracted image regions. The method outputs the class that describes the movement intention determined from the camera images of the image sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventors: Elias Strigel, Martin Pfitzer, Stefan Heinrich, Manuel du Bois, Felix Hachfeld
  • Patent number: 11798144
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a plurality of sensors comprising a camera sensor for communicating camera data, a user presence and focus state manager configured to receive the camera data and generate an inference of user presence and focus based on the camera data, and a dynamic filtering service. The dynamic filtering service may be configured to receive the inference, determine based on the inference a filtering action, and cause the filtering action to be applied to dynamically-generated information associated with a user of the information handling system and communicated to other information handling systems communicatively coupled to the information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Daniel L. Hamlin
  • Patent number: 11790669
    Abstract: In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed herein for a vehicle command operation system that may use technology across multiple modalities to cause vehicular operations to be performed in response to determining a focal point based on a gaze of an occupant. The system may utilize sensors to receive first data indicative of an eye gaze of an occupant of the vehicle. The system may utilize sensors to receive second data indicative of other data from the occupant. The system may then calculate a gaze vector based on the data indicative of the eye gaze of the occupant. The system may determine a focal point based on the gaze vector. In response to determining the focal point, the system causes an operation to be performed in the vehicle based on the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Jason Conrad Roche, Niranjan Avadhanam
  • Patent number: 11783473
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for characterizing, from a volume image, a fibrous structure having a three-dimensional weaving between a plurality of warp yarns extending along a first direction and a plurality of weft yarns extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first one, the method comprising: a first processing of the volume image by filtering along a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions so as to attenuate the periodic patterns along the third direction, obtaining a two-dimensional image corresponding to an intermediate plane along the third direction of the filtered volume image, a second processing of the two-dimensional image by filtering along the first or second direction so as to attenuate the periodic patterns, obtaining a one-dimensional profile representing the positions of warp or weft columns and corresponding to an intermediate line along the first or second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQU, ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS-SACLAYE
    Inventors: Julien Paul Schneider-Die-Gross, Intisar Belhaj Saad, Arturo Mendoza Quispe, Estelle Marie Laure Parra, Stéphane Roux
  • Patent number: 11783462
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for image processing are provided. A mask is obtained by separating an original image into a background image and a foreground image. A partial stylized image is obtained by transforming the background image or the foreground image according to a selected style. A stylized image is obtained according to the mask and the partial stylized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Jenhao Hsiao, Chiuman Ho
  • Patent number: 11756201
    Abstract: A method and system for performing characterization of one or more materials. One or more materials are scanned by means of a sensory system including an X-ray sensor configured to perform multi-energy imaging for obtaining at least a lower-energy X-ray image and a higher-energy X-ray image. Images obtained by means of the sensory system are segmented, and for each segmented object, data indicative of an area density and data indicative of an atom number by analysis of the lower-energy X-ray image and the higher-energy X-ray image, and data indicative of the area density and atom number is determined by means of a calibrated model. Data indicative of a mass is calculated based on the data indicative of the area density and the data indicative of the area of each of the segmented objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: VITO NV
    Inventors: Roeland Geurts, Kris Broos, Mieke Quaghebeur
  • Patent number: 11748994
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a measurement area setting unit that sets a measurement area in an input image, a small image setting unit that sets a small image in the input image based on the measurement area, a first estimation unit that estimates a flow distribution of a target in the small image, and a second estimation unit that estimates the number of targets to pass through the measurement area based on the flow distribution in the small image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hajime Muta, Kotaro Yano, Yasuo Bamba
  • Patent number: 11743680
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, via a mobile station, contextual information or geographic location data relating to a plurality of members of the population within the geographic region, identifying a common element in the received contextual information relating to at least two members of the population as a basis for defining a geofence to include the at least two members, wherein the common element is identified upon a comparison of the first and second contextual information, and defining the boundary of the geofence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Scott Zises
  • Patent number: 11741611
    Abstract: Introduced here are computer programs and associated computer-implemented techniques for training and then applying computer-implemented models designed for segmentation of an object in the frames of video. By training and then applying the segmentation model in a cyclical manner, the errors encountered when performing segmentation can be eliminated rather than propagated. In particular, the approach to segmentation described herein allows the relationship between a reference mask and each target frame for which a mask is to be produced to be explicitly bridged or established. Such an approach ensures that masks are accurate, which in turn means that the segmentation model is less prone to distractions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventor: Ning Xu
  • Patent number: 11741585
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for obtaining a second image from a first image when the dynamic range of the luminance of the first image is greater than the dynamic range of the luminance of the second image. The disclosure describes deriving at least one component representative of the colors of the second image from the first image, and maximizing at least one derived component according to a maximum value depending on a linear-light luminance component of the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Robin Le Naour, David Touze, Catherine Serre
  • Patent number: 11743855
    Abstract: A core network device of a telecommunications network can receive a first request from a consumer network function (NF) and forward the first request to a first provider NF. The device can subsequently detect a violation by the first provider NF of a response criterion. The device can receive a second request and forward the second request to a second, different provider NF in response to the violation. In some examples, the device can later detect that the first provider NF has satisfied the response criterion with respect to a third request. The device can modify load data to increase the proportion of subsequent requests for which the first provider NF is selected. The device can select provider NFs based on the load data. In some examples, a system can include a network registry device that selects NFs based on violation indications received from the core network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Suliman Albasheir, Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva, Salvador Mendoza
  • Patent number: 11726163
    Abstract: The position detection of user equipment within a network, and the corresponding methods performed at the network node, user equipment and location server are disclosed, along with these entities and a computer program. The method performed at the network node comprises within a position reference signal time period, broadcasting: a first position reference signal within a first frequency band and during a first time period; and at least one further position reference signal within at least one further frequency band and during at least one subsequent time period, said at least one further frequency band being different to said first frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Zhilan Xiong, David Bhatoolaul
  • Patent number: 11729853
    Abstract: In a communications method of a wearable device, if a second BLUETOOTH connection between user equipment and the wearable device is disconnected, a first BLUETOOTH connection between a network connection device and the wearable device is established, so that the network connection device may send, to the wearable device through the first BLUETOOTH connection, first information sent by the user equipment through a third communication connection to the network connection device. In this way, indirect communication between the user equipment and the wearable device is implemented by using the network connection device, so that the user equipment and the wearable device are not limited by a communication range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qinliang Zhang, Yu Zhu
  • Patent number: 11704804
    Abstract: Techniques are described for domain adaptation of image processing models using post-processing model correction According to an embodiment, a method comprises training, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a post-processing model to correct an image-based inference output of a source image processing model that results from application of the source image processing model to a target image from a target domain that differs from a source domain, wherein the source image processing model was trained on source images from the source domain. In one or more implementations, the source imaging processing model comprises an organ segmentation model and the post-processing model can comprise a shape-autoencoder. The method further comprises applying, by the system, the source image processing model and the post-processing model to target images from the target domain to generate optimized image-based inference outputs for the target images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Sidharth Abrol, Bipul Das, Sandeep Dutta, Saad A. Sirohey