Patents by Inventor Achi Brandt
Achi Brandt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10043097Abstract: An image abstraction engine is provided to characterize scenes like typically found in an urban setting. Specifically buildings and manmade structures have certain characteristic properties that may be abstracted and compressed in a manner that takes advantage of those characteristic properties. This allows for a more compact and computationally efficient abstraction and recognition.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Fringefy LTD.Inventors: Stav Yagev, Omer Meir, Eitan Sharon, Achi Brandt, Assif Ziv
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Patent number: 9508011Abstract: A video visual and audio query system for quickly identifying video within a large known corpus of videos being played on any screen or display. In one embodiment, the system can record via a mobile phone camera and microphone a live video clip from the TV and transcode it into a sequence of frame-signatures. The signatures representative of the clips can then be matched against the signatures of the TV content in a corpus across a network to identify the correct TV show or movie.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: VIDEOSURF, INC.Inventors: Eitan Sharon, Asael Moshe, Praveen Srinivasan, Mehmet Tek, Eran Borenstein, Achi Brandt
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Publication number: 20160267326Abstract: An image abstraction engine is provided to characterize scenes like typically found in an urban setting. Specifically buildings and manmade structures have certain characteristic properties that may be abstracted and compressed in a manner that takes advantage of those characteristic properties. This allows for a more compact and computationally efficient abstraction and recognition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: FRINGEFY LTD.Inventors: Stav Yagev, Omer Meir, Eitan Sharon, Achi Brandt, Assif Ziv
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Patent number: 8488839Abstract: A computer program and apparatus function to extract objects from a video by identifying regions to be tracked, tracking the regions across several frames, calculating motions of the regions, and identifying new regions to be tracked. Regions of a selected frame of the video that are appropriate for tracking are selected. Tracking of the identified regions is then performed across frames subsequent to the selected frame of the video. Motions of the identified regions are calculated, and new regions for tracking are identified.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2007Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Videosurf, Inc.Inventors: Eitan Sharon, Achi Brandt
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Patent number: 8379915Abstract: A method of extracting objects from a video includes the identification of regions to be tracked, tracking the regions across several frames, calculating motions of the regions, and identifying new regions to be tracked. Regions of a selected frame of the video that are appropriate for tracking are selected. Tracking of the identified regions is then performed across frames subsequent to the selected frame of the video. Motions of the identified regions are calculated, and new regions for tracking are identified.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2007Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Videosurf, Inc.Inventors: Eitan Sharon, Achi Brandt
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Publication number: 20120008821Abstract: A video visual and audio query system for quickly identifying video within a large known corpus of videos being played on any screen or display. In one embodiment, the system can record via a mobile phone camera and microphone a live video clip from the TV and transcode it into a sequence of frame-signatures. The signatures representative of the clips can then be matched against the signatures of the TV content in a corpus across a network to identify the correct TV show or movie.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: VIDEOSURF, INCInventors: Eitan Sharon, Asael Moshe, Praveen Srinivasan, Mehmet Tek, Eran Borenstein, Achi Brandt
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Patent number: 7920748Abstract: An apparatus and software for processing an image reduces the number of pixels constituting the image by sequentially eliminating alternate rows and columns of pixels, the information represented by each pixel being eliminated (a “source” pixel) being redistributed into adjacent “destination” pixel locations. The redistribution is made in proportion to the similarity between the source and each destination pixel, e.g., similarity of color and/or luminance values.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2007Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Videosurf, Inc.Inventors: Eitan Sharon, Achi Brandt, Asael Moshe
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Patent number: 7903899Abstract: A method of processing an image reduces the number of pixels constituting the image by sequentially eliminating alternate rows and columns of pixels, the information represented by each pixel being eliminated (a “source” pixel) being redistributed into adjacent “destination” pixel locations. The redistribution is made in proportion to the similarity between the source and each destination pixel, e.g., similarity of color and/or luminance values.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2007Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Videosurf, Inc.Inventors: Eitan Sharon, Achi Brandt, Asael Moshe
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Publication number: 20080118107Abstract: A method of extracting objects from a video includes the identification of regions to be tracked, tracking the regions across several frames, calculating motions of the regions, and identifying new regions to be tracked. Regions of a selected frame of the video that are appropriate for tracking are selected. Tracking of the identified regions is then performed across frames subsequent to the selected frame of the video. Motions of the identified regions are calculated, and new regions for tracking are identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: REXEE, INC.Inventors: Eitan Sharon, Achi Brandt
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Publication number: 20080118108Abstract: A computer program and apparatus function to extract objects from a video by identifying regions to be tracked, tracking the regions across several frames, calculating motions of the regions, and identifying new regions to be tracked. Regions of a selected frame of the video that are appropriate for tracking are selected. Tracking of the identified regions is then performed across frames subsequent to the selected frame of the video. Motions of the identified regions are calculated, and new regions for tracking are identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: REXEE, INC.Inventors: Eitan Sharon, Achi Brandt
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Patent number: 7349922Abstract: A method and apparatus for clustering data, particularly regarding an image, that constructs a graph in which each node of the graph represents a pixel of the image, and every two nodes represent neighboring pixels associated by a coupling factor. Block pixels are selected with unselected neighboring pixels coupled with a selected block to form aggregates. The graph is coarsened recursively by performing iterated weighted aggregation to form larger blocks (aggregates) and obtain hierarchical decomposition of the image while forming a pyramid structure over the image. Saliency of segments is detected in the pyramid, and by computing recursively, a degree of attachment of every pixel to each of the blocks in the pyramid. The pyramid is scanned from coarse to fine starting at the level a segment is detected, to lower levels and rebuilding the pyramid before continuing to the next higher level. Relaxation sweeps sharpen the boundaries of a segment.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2001Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd.Inventors: Achi Brandt, Eitan Sharon, Ronen Basri
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Publication number: 20040013305Abstract: A method and apparatus for clustering data, particularly regarding an image, that constructs a graph in which each node of the graph represents a pixel of the image, and every two nodes represent neighboring pixels associated by a coupling factor. Block pixels are selected with unselected neighboring pixels coupled with a selected block to form aggregates. The graph is coarsened recursively by performing iterated weighted aggregation to form larger blocks (aggregates) and obtain hierarchical decomposition of the image while forming a pyramid structure over the image. Saliency of segments is detected in the pyramid, and by computing recursively, a degree of attachment of every pixel to each of the blocks in the pyramid. The pyramid is scanned from coarse to fine starting at the level a segment is detected, to lower levels and rebuilding the pyramid before continuing to the next higher level. Relaxation sweeps sharpen the boundaries of a segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2003Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventors: Achi Brandt, Eitan Sharon, Ronen Basri