Patents Examined by Timothy Choi
  • Patent number: 12372347
    Abstract: A method and a device for measuring the topography and/or the gradients and/or the curvature of an optically active surface of an object are disclosed. The device allows the object to be arranged in a receiving region with a contact surface for contact with the object. Inside the device, there is a plurality of point light sources that provide light that is reflected at the surface to be measured of an object arranged in the receiving region. The device includes at least one camera with an objective assembly and an image sensor for detecting a brightness distribution which is produced on a light sensor by the light of the point light sources reflected at the surface to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Lars Omlor, Carsten Glasenapp
  • Patent number: 12343616
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method for providing an interactive experience. The method includes illuminating, by an enhancer, an area with light having wavelength invisible to humans. A plurality of image detectors capture at least two images of a person in the area including a portion of the light reflected from the person. A processing element determines a first skeletal feature of the person based on the at least two images. The processing element determines a position characteristic of the first skeletal feature; constructs, from the first skeletal feature, a vector in three dimensions corresponding to the position characteristic; and outputs an interactive effect based on the position characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Przemyslaw Iwanowski, Bob Hickman, Brent D. Strong, Sarit Ghildayal, Matthew S. Daly, Jeffrey Elbert
  • Patent number: 12333829
    Abstract: A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: receiving sensor data detected by one or more image sensors in a vehicle, wherein the sensor data is representative of driver movements of a driver in the vehicle; categorizing the sensor data as driver postures representative of actions of the driver in the vehicle; rotating and scaling the driver postures to be standardized for different drivers and for different locations of the one or more image sensors within different vehicles; analyzing the sensor data to determine a reference position of the driver in the vehicle; and storing, in a database, the driver postures, as rotated and scaled, and the reference position of the driver in the vehicle. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: QUANATA, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Scott Chan, Kenneth J. Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12211608
    Abstract: A system and method for reviewing a tomosynthesis image data set comprising volumetric image data of a breast, the method comprising, in one embodiment, causing an image or a series of images from the data set to be displayed on a display monitor and selecting or indicating through a user interface an object or region of interest in a presently displayed image of the data set, thereby causing an image from the data set having a best focus measure of the user selected or indicated object or region of interest to be automatically displayed on the display monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Jin-Long Chen, Haili Chui, Kevin Kreeger, Xiangwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12169883
    Abstract: Accelerated filtered back projection for computed tomography image reconstruction. In an embodiment, a filtered back projection is performed on a sinogram. The back projection may comprise transitioning the sinogram to a linogram using linear interpolation, and performing an inverse Fast Hough Transform on the linogram to produce a reconstructed CT image. Filtering in the filtered back projection may use an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Smart Engines Service, LLC
    Inventors: Dmitry Petrovich Nikolaev, Anastasiya Dolmatova, Marina Chukalina
  • Patent number: 12094159
    Abstract: A system for estimating a pose of one or more persons in a scene includes a camera configured to capture one or more images of the scene; and a data processor configured to execute computer executable instructions for: (i) receiving the one or more images of the scene from the camera; (ii) extracting features from the one or more images of the scene for providing inputs to a keypoint subnet and a person detection subnet; (iii) generating one or more keypoints using the keypoint subnet; (iv) generating one or more person instances using the person detection subnet; (v) assigning the one or more keypoints to the one or more person instances by learning pose structures from image data; and (vi) determining one or more poses of the one or more persons in the scene using the assignment of the one or more keypoints to the one or more person instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Bertec Corporation
    Inventors: Emre Akbas, Utku Aktas, Bedirhan Uguz, Ozhan Suat, Necip Berme, Mohan Chandra Baro
  • Patent number: 12087087
    Abstract: A face verifying method and apparatus. The face verifying method includes detecting a face region from an input image, generating a synthesized face image by combining image information of the face region and reference image information, based on a determined masking region, extracting one or more face features from the face region and the synthesized face image, performing a verification operation with respect to the one or more face features and predetermined registration information, and indicating whether verification of the input image is successful based on a result of the performed verification operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungju Han, Minsu Ko, Deoksang Kim, Chang Kyu Choi, Jaejoon Han
  • Patent number: 12056950
    Abstract: The invention discloses a Transformer-based multi-scale pedestrian re-identification method. The present invention proposes a pedestrian re-identification network based on multi-scale pedestrian feature extraction and Transformer. Firstly, we designed a multi-scale feature cascade module, which aims to mine detailed feature information of pedestrians at different depths and scales, so as to obtain stronger feature representation. Secondly, we constructed a feature extraction based on Transformer to learn pedestrian features at a global scale. Finally, the features output by the Transformer are aggregated to obtain a better expression of pedestrian features, thereby improving the discrimination ability of the model. The result shows that this method has better robustness and adaptive ability, and effectively enhances the generalization ability of the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Hangzhou Dianzi University
    Inventors: Min Zhang, Lingjie He, Ming Jiang
  • Patent number: 12045916
    Abstract: Techniques for computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction are presented. The techniques can include acquiring, by a detector grid of a computed tomography system, detector signals for a location within an object of interest representing a voxel, where each detector signal of a plurality of the detector signals is obtained from an x-ray passing through the location at a different viewing angle; reconstructing a three-dimensional representation of at least the object of interest, the three-dimensional representation comprising the voxel, where the reconstructing comprises computationally perturbing a location of each detector signal of the plurality of detector signals within the detector grid, where the computationally perturbing corresponds to randomly perturbing a location of the x-ray within the voxel; and outputting the three-dimensional representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Joseph Webster Stayman, Alejandro Sisniega, Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen
  • Patent number: 11967127
    Abstract: Systems and methods capture image dynamics and use those captured image dynamics for image feature recognition and classification. Other methods and systems train a neural network to capture image dynamics. An image vector representing image dynamics is extracted from an image of an image stream using a first neural network. A second neural network, predicts a previous and/or subsequent image in the image stream from the image vector. The predicted previous and/or subsequent image is compared with an actual previous and/or subsequent image from the image stream. The first and second neural networks are trained using the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Komath Naveen Kumar
  • Patent number: 11961255
    Abstract: The object detection device extracts a plurality of predetermined features from an image in which a target object is represented, calculates an entire coincidence degree between the plurality of predetermined features set for an entire model pattern of the target object and the plurality of predetermined features extracted from a corresponding region on the image while changing a relative positional relationship between the image and the model pattern, and calculates, for each partial region including a part of the model pattern, a partial coincidence degree between the predetermined features included in the partial region and the predetermined features extracted from a region corresponding to the partial region on the image. Then, the object detection device determines whether or not the target object is represented in the region on the image corresponding to the model pattern based on the entire coincidence degree and the partial coincidence degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoutarou Ogura
  • Patent number: 11922604
    Abstract: PET/MR images are compensated with simplified adaptive algorithms for truncated parts of the body. The compensation adapts to a specific location of truncation of the body or organ in the MR image, and to attributes of the truncation in the truncated body part. Anatomical structures in a PET image that do not require any compensation are masked using a MR image with a smaller field of view. The organs that are not masked are then classified as types of anatomical structures, the orientation of the anatomical structures, and type of truncation. Structure specific algorithms are used to compensate for a truncated anatomical structure. The compensation is validated for correctness and the ROI is filled in where there is missing voxel data. Attenuation maps are generated from the compensated ROI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Shekhar Dwivedi
  • Patent number: 11887274
    Abstract: An image dataset comprising pixel depth arrays might be processed by an interpolator, wherein interpolation is based on pixel samples. Input pixels to be interpolated from and an interpolated pixel might comprise deep pixels, each represented with a list of samples. Accumulation curves might be generated from each input pixel, weights applied, and accumulation curves combined to form an interpolation accumulation curve. An interpolated deep pixel can be derived from the interpolation accumulation curve, taking into account zero-depth samples as needed. Samples might represent color values of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Unity Technologies SF
    Inventor: Peter M. Hillman
  • Patent number: 11879977
    Abstract: Described are street level intelligence platforms, systems, and methods that can include a fleet of swarm vehicles having imaging devices. Images captured by the imaging devices can be used to produce and/or be integrated into maps of the area to produce high-definition maps in near real-time. Such maps may provide enhanced street level intelligence useful for fleet management, navigation, traffic monitoring, and/or so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Woven by Toyota, U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Ro Gupta, Justin Day, Chase Nicholl, Max Henstell, Ioannis Stamos, David Boyle, Ethan Sorrelgreen, Huong Dinh
  • Patent number: 11861917
    Abstract: Method and system for detecting vehicle occupant actions are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving, by one or more processors, previously classified image data from a previously classified image database, the previously classified image data representing driver postures that are rotated and scaled to be standardized for a range of different drivers and different locations of a vehicle interior sensor within a given vehicle, wherein the previously classified image data is representative of previously classified vehicle occupant actions; receiving, by the one or more processors, current image data from the vehicle interior sensor subsequent to the vehicle interior sensor being registered within the given vehicle, wherein the current image data is representative of current vehicle occupant actions; and determining, by the one or more processors, a vehicle occupant action based at least in part upon a comparison of the current image data and the previously classified image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANIES
    Inventors: Aaron Scott Chan, Kenneth J. Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11816840
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium for extracting a cardiovascular vessel from a CTA image, the method including the steps of: performing erosion operation and dilation operation on image data successively via a preset structural element to obtain a structure mask; performing a slice-by-slice transformation on the plane of section images of the structural mask to acquire the first ascending aortic structure in the structural mask, and acquiring an aortic center position and an aortic radius in the last slice of the plane of section image of the said structural mask; establishing a binarized sphere structure according to the aortic center position and the aortic radius, and synthesizing a second ascending aorta structure by combining the first ascending aorta structure with the structure mask and the binarized sphere structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
    Inventors: Shoujun Zhou, Baochang Zhang, Baolin Li, Cheng Wang, Pei Lu
  • Patent number: 11810387
    Abstract: Example implementations involve a location system, which can involve associating each location of one or more unidentified targets detected from sensor data of the one or more sensors with identifiers corresponding to the transmitter of each of the one or more pairs of electronic devices, by calculating first distance relationships indicative of relationships of distances between the each location of the one or more unidentified targets detected from the sensor data of the one or more sensors and a reference point; calculating second distance relationships indicative of relationships of distances between the transmitter and the receiver of each of the one or more pairs of electronic devices; and associating the identifiers corresponding to the transmitter of the each of the one or more pairs of electronic devices with the each location of the one or more unidentified targets based on the first distance relationships and the second distance relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Maeda, Sudhanshu Gaur
  • Patent number: 11802968
    Abstract: Described are street level intelligence platforms, systems, and methods that can include a fleet of swarm vehicles having imaging devices. Images captured by the imaging devices can be used to produce and/or be integrated into maps of the area to produce high-definition maps in near real-time. Such maps may provide enhanced street level intelligence useful for fleet management, navigation, traffic monitoring, and/or so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Woven by Toyota, U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Ro Gupta, Justin Day, Chase Nicholl, Max Henstell, Ioannis Stamos, David Boyle, Ethan Sorrelgreen, Huong Dinh
  • Patent number: 11783635
    Abstract: A system for motion detection may include at least one storage medium that includes a set of instructions, and at least one processor in communication with the at least one storage medium. When executing the set of instructions, the at least one processor may be configured to cause the system to obtain data related to a video scene of a space from at least one video camera; detect an object in the video scene; classify the object as a human object or a non-human object; when the object is classified as a human object, track movements of the human object; and determine a posture of the human object in the video scene based on the movements of the human object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TRUTHVISION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11769583
    Abstract: In a method for generating at least one medical result image from a plurality of single-frame images, the plurality of single-frame images referring to a medical image acquisition procedure conducted with a medical imaging system, at least one first parameter representative for the medical image acquisition procedure is acquired, and the at least one first parameter is evaluated to generate an evaluation result. Based on the evaluation result, it is decided whether to: (i) combine at least partially the plurality of single-frame images to generate the result image before permanently storing the result image, or (ii) permanently store the plurality of single-frame images before combining them to generate the result image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Stranjak