Patents Examined by Sumati Lefkowitz
  • Patent number: 12784410
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a medical system (100) comprising a memory (110) storing machine executable instructions (120). The memory (110) further stores a trained first machine learning module (122) trained to output in response to receiving a medical image (124) as input a saliency map (126) as output. The saliency map (126) is predictive of a distribution of user attention over the medical image (124). The medical system (100) further comprises a computational system (104). Execution of the machine executable instructions (120) causes the computational system (104) to receive a medical image (124). The medical image (124) is provided as input to the trained first machine learning module (122). In response to the providing of the medical image (124), a saliency map (126) of the medical image (124) is received as output from the trained first machine learning module (122). The saliency map (126) predicts a distribution of user attention over the medical image (124).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Sergey Kastryulin, Alexey Chernyavskiy, Nicola Pezzotti
  • Patent number: 12784494
    Abstract: This application discloses a method and an apparatus for selecting a face image, a device, and a storage medium and relates to the field of artificial intelligence technologies. The method includes detecting, after a frame of face image is obtained, whether the face image meets a preliminary quality screening condition; determining, in response to a first face image meeting the preliminary quality screening condition, an overall quality score of the first face image, the overall quality score representing overall quality of the face image; and transmitting the first face image to a face recognition process in response to the overall quality score of the first face image being greater than a level-one threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xingyu Chen, Ruixin Zhang, Tao Wang, Shaoxin Li, Yuan Huang, Pan Cheng, Guangyuan Li, Sizheng Yang, Jilin Li, Yongjian Wu, Feiyue Huang
  • Patent number: 12784523
    Abstract: An information processing system. First comparing unit compares a feature of a person detected in a first image and a feature of a person registered as a person permitted to pass through a first place. First controlling unit performs control to permit passage through the first place based on first similarity. Second comparing unit compares a feature of a person detected in a second image and a feature of a person registered as a person permitted to pass through a second place reached after passing through the first place. Second controlling unit performs control to not permit the person to pass through the second place based on a second similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 12784308
    Abstract: The current disclosure provides methods and systems to reduce an amount of artifact in image data. In one example, a method for an image processing system comprises generating a plurality of simulated images, generating a set of training image pairs based on the plurality of simulated magnetic resonance images, training an artifact removal neural network using the set of training image pairs, and generating an output of the artifact removal neural network based on an inputted acquired image, wherein generating the plurality of simulated images comprises generating images from RGB images, simulating motion in the simulated images, simulating contrast in the simulated images, and simulating phase contrast dynamics in the simulated images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Xinzeng Wang, Xucheng Zhu, Graeme C Mckinnon
  • Patent number: 12784151
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an image processing circuit that performs noise reduction on image data. The image processing circuit includes a noise reduction circuit with a kernel calculation circuit, a noise filtering circuit, and a blending circuit. The kernel calculation circuit generates a machine learning (ML) kernel for at least one pixel of an image and a bilateral kernel for the at least one pixel of the image. The noise filtering circuit performs noise filtering of the image using the ML kernel to generate a first de-noised version of the image, and performs noise filtering of the image using the bilateral kernel to generate a second de-noised version of the image. The blending circuit blends each color component of the first de-noised version of the image with a corresponding color component of the second de-noised version of the image to generate a de-noised multi-color version of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Inventor: Maxim Smirnov
  • Patent number: 12776034
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for identifying a mid-sagittal plane (MSP) in a medical image. In one example, a method for an image processing system comprises obtaining an input volume acquired with an ultrasound imaging system, entering the input volume as input to a segmentation model trained to output a segmentation mask that identifies a segmented fetal head, a first segmented orbit, and a second segmented orbit, identifying a mid-sagittal plane (MSP) of the fetal head using the segmented first orbit and the segmented second orbit, visually displaying the MSP on the segmented fetal head, in response to determining the MSP is not an acquired plane, alerting a user of poor facial rendering or a possibility of poor facial rendering and prompting the user to reorient an ultrasound probe and reacquire the input volume, and displaying the input volume and/or saving the input volume in memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2026
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: KS Shriram, Rahul Venkataramani, Chandan Kumar Aladahalli, Stephan Anzengruber
  • Patent number: 12777160
    Abstract: A system includes a controller configured to: obtain palette keys for an image; and for each of a plurality of sub-blocks of the image, obtain a compressed set of palette keys responsive to gradient analysis and entropy analysis. The system also includes a spatial light modulator coupled to the controller and configured to project an image responsive to the palette keys and the compressed set of palette keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2026
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jeffrey Kempf, Jonathan Lucas
  • Patent number: 12770268
    Abstract: An image processing method is provided, the method includes: acquiring an image-to-be-processed, the image-to-be-processed including a target part of an object, the morphology of the target part being a first morphology, and the first morphology being not matched with an expected morphology; acquiring description information corresponding to the first morphology, and acquiring contour information of the target part in the first morphology; and correcting the morphology of the target part based on the description information and the contour information so as to correct the morphology of the target part from the first morphology to a second morphology, the second morphology being matched with the expected morphology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Zhiqiang Zhou
  • Patent number: 12770424
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting images in documents are described. A method implemented by an electronic device having one or more processors for determining whether a document is an image includes partitioning a document into a plurality of cells. The method includes scaling each of the cells to a standardized number of pixels to provide a corresponding snippet for each of the cells, classifying the snippets, using a neural network, to determine a set of cells classified as text, and determining a volume of text for the document based on a sum of an amount of text in each cell of the set of cells. The method further includes in response to a determination that the volume of text for the document is below a predetermined threshold, determining that the document is an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: BENDING SPOONS OPERATIONS S.P.A.
    Inventors: Alexander Pashintsev, Boris Gorbatov, Eugene Livshitz, Vitaly Glazkov
  • Patent number: 12770310
    Abstract: A photon counting X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes a photon counting detector and a time digital converter. The photon counting detector outputs a pulse corresponding to photons included in an X-ray, and the time digital converter obtains time information corresponding to timing at which the photons were detected, based on the pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaharu Tsuyuki
  • Patent number: 12770375
    Abstract: A deep learning method of an artificial intelligence model for medical image recognition is provided. The method includes the following steps: obtaining a first image set, where the first image set includes at least two images captured with different parameters; performing image pre-processing on each image of the first image set to obtain a second image set; performing image augmentation on the second image set to obtain a third image set; adding the third image set to a training image data set; and training the artificial intelligence model using the training image data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignees: QUANTA COMPUTER INC., CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT LINKOU
    Inventors: Chia-Yuan Chang, Chen-Hwa Sung, Gigin Lin, Tzu-Hsiang Yang, Tzu-Yun Wang, Chien-Yu Huang
  • Patent number: 12755371
    Abstract: A method analyzes optical quality of a glazing region using images of a reference pattern. A first reference image of a first fixed reference pattern is provided or acquired without the glazing, and a first distorted image of the first reference pattern is acquired with the glazing positioned between an optical image acquisition device and the first reference pattern. A second reference image of a reference pattern is provided or acquired without the glazing, and a second distorted image of the reference pattern is acquired with the glazing positioned between the optical image acquisition device and the reference pattern, the reference pattern being located at a distance different from the first reference pattern. Image points are generated on the reference and distorted images, first and second apparent displacement fields are calculated, and a simulated apparent displacement field is determined for a third distance different from the first and second distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2026
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN SEKURIT FRANCE
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Laudereau, Theo Rybarczyk, Tatiana Severin-Fabiani
  • Patent number: 12755364
    Abstract: Provided is a method for processing sample data, an electronic device and a storage medium, relating to the field of artificial intelligence technology, and especially to the fields of image processing and computer vision. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of first working images of a spinning box; for each first working image in the plurality of first working images, determining the first working image as a defect image of the spinning box when a difference between the first working image and a normal image of the spinning box meets a first condition; and obtaining a first sample data set based on all defect images in the plurality of first working images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2026
    Assignees: ZHEJIANG HENGYI PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD., ZHEJIANG HENGYI HIGH-TECH MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiantao Peng, Peng Wang, Dake Li, Yaobin Zhang, Huitao Fan, Feng Xu
  • Patent number: 12749179
    Abstract: A medical imaging system includes a data storage resource to store probability data representing probability information for a location of a feature of interest in an anatomical region. The system further includes processing circuitry to receive medical image data representing a medical image of the anatomical region, retrieve the probability data from the data storage resource, process the medical image data to perform an image augmentation operation on the received medical image for a feature of interest based on the probability information for the location of the feature of interest in the anatomical region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Sonia Dahdouh
  • Patent number: 12746578
    Abstract: A method and system for training a machine learning model configured to perform characterization of components in a material stream with a plurality of unknown components. A training reward associated with each unknown component within the plurality of unknown components in the material stream is determined, based on which at least one unknown component is physically isolated from the material stream by means of a separator unit, wherein the separator unit is configured to move the selected unknown component to a separate accessible compartment. The isolated at least one unknown component is analyzed for determining the ground truth label thereof, wherein the determined ground truth is used for training an incremental version of the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: VITO NV
    Inventor: Roeland Geurts
  • Patent number: 12749187
    Abstract: Provided are a method and system for automatically estimating a mammary gland volume based on a mammary gland magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image, to automatically segment a mammary gland region in a three-dimensional MRI image of a subject's chest by means of morphological prior knowledge of a breast MRI image and a computer image processing technology, calculate a voxel volume of a segmented part and an actual volume, and guide a doctor in selecting an appropriate fake breast mold. Compared with manual framing of the mammary gland region in conventional practice, the present disclosure can automatically complete marking and volume calculation of the mammary gland region, and greatly improve working efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Juan Liu, Haobing Wang, Jinxuan Hou
  • Patent number: 12749325
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of image annotation and recognition in the field of artificial intelligence technologies, and in particular, to a data annotation method. The method includes: using at least two different classification models; pretraining one of the classification models as an initial classification model, and annotating a label for data in a to-be-annotated source dataset as initial data by using the pretrained classification model; and controlling the classification models to perform alternating training and data annotation a quantity of times. Operations of current training and current data annotation include: obtaining data that is re-annotated with a label by a previously trained classification model, selecting a first part of the data to train a current classification model, and re-annotating, by the trained current classification model, a label for a second part of data that is not selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zichen Wang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Qi Tian
  • Patent number: 12749219
    Abstract: To achieve faster search processing in the search processing of a similar image, based on a feature value of each of a plurality of keypoints of a human body included in an image, the present invention provides an image processing system 10 including: a target image acquisition unit 11 that acquires a target image; a skeleton structure detection unit 12 that performs processing of detecting a keypoint of a human body included in the target image; a first verification unit 13 that extracts a first reference image whose relationship with the target image satisfies a first extraction condition, from among a plurality of reference images, based on the detected keypoint; and a second verification unit 14 that extracts a second reference image whose relationship with the target image satisfies a second extraction condition, from among the first reference images, based on the detected keypoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takeuchi, Ryo Kawai, Noboru Yoshida, Jianquan Liu, Yuta Namiki, Naoki Shindou, Youhei Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12743886
    Abstract: A component mounting system includes multiple production facilities installed in a component mounting line for mounting a component on a board, an imaging section installed in the component mounting line and configured to image the multiple production facilities and one or multiple workers disposed in the component mounting line, and an image processing section configured to perform image processing on an image captured by the imaging section in a predetermined production period in which a product is produced in the component mounting line. The image processing section is configured to visualize and display, for at least one of the one or multiple workers, a work status of the worker for at least one of the multiple production facilities in each of the multiple points in time or multiple periods set in advance in the production period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2026
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Takeuchi, Katsushi Ota
  • Patent number: 12730055
    Abstract: Method for characterizing biological particles of a sample, the characterization aiming to determine a property of each particle, the method comprising: a) measuring a characteristic of at least one particle of the sample; b) processing the characteristic of the or each particle using an artificial intelligence algorithm; c) based on the processing, characterizing the particles of the sample, so as to assign a class to each particle, each class being representative of the property of the particle; the method being characterized in that the artificial intelligence algorithm has been trained beforehand by learning from labels, based on training samples, each training sample being assigned a proportion of cells in each class, such that the training is performed on the basis of the proportions respectively assigned to each training sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Guillaume Godefroy, Cédric Allier