Patents by Inventor Adam Milstein

Adam Milstein 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).

  • Patent number: 11462022
    Abstract: A traffic signal analysis system for an autonomous vehicle (AV) can receive image data from one or more cameras, the image data including an upcoming traffic signaling system located at an intersection. The system can determine an action for the AV through the intersection and access a matching signal map specific to the upcoming traffic signaling system. Using the matching signal map, the system can generate a signal template for the upcoming traffic signaling system and determine a first subset and a second subset of the plurality of traffic signal faces that apply to the action. The system can dynamically analyze the first subset and the second subset to determine a state of the upcoming traffic signaling system for the action, and generate an output for the AV indicating the state of the upcoming traffic signaling system for the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Carl Wellington, Colin Green, Adam Milstein
  • Patent number: 10909670
    Abstract: Hyperspectral imaging spectrometers have applications in environmental monitoring, biomedical imaging, surveillance, biological or chemical hazard detection, agriculture, and minerology. Nevertheless, their high cost and complexity has limited the number of fielded spaceborne hyperspectral imagers. To address these challenges, the wide field-of-view (FOV) hyperspectral imaging spectrometers disclosed here use computational imaging techniques to get high performance from smaller, noisier, and less-expensive components (e.g., uncooled microbolometers). They use platform motion and spectrally coded focal-plane masks to temporally modulate the optical spectrum, enabling simultaneous measurement of multiple spectral bins. Demodulation of this coded pattern returns an optical spectrum in each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Adam Milstein, Charles Wynn, Yaron Rachlin, Ryan Sullenberger, Sumanth Kaushik
  • Publication number: 20200410653
    Abstract: Hyperspectral imaging spectrometers have applications in environmental monitoring, biomedical imaging, surveillance, biological or chemical hazard detection, agriculture, and minerology. Nevertheless, their high cost and complexity has limited the number of fielded spaceborne hyperspectral imagers. To address these challenges, the wide field-of-view (FOV) hyperspectral imaging spectrometers disclosed here use computational imaging techniques to get high performance from smaller, noisier, and less-expensive components (e.g., uncooled microbolometers). They use platform motion and spectrally coded focal-plane masks to temporally modulate the optical spectrum, enabling simultaneous measurement of multiple spectral bins. Demodulation of this coded pattern returns an optical spectrum in each pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Adam Milstein, Charles Wynn, Yaron Rachlin, Ryan Sullenberger, Sumanth Kaushik
  • Patent number: 10871782
    Abstract: A system to use submaps to control operation of a vehicle is disclosed. A storage system may be provided with a vehicle to store a collection of submaps that represent a geographic area where the vehicle may be driven. A programmatic interface may be provided to receive submaps and submap updates independently of other submaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Milstein, Brett Browning
  • Patent number: 10852744
    Abstract: A system to use submaps to control operation of a vehicle is disclosed. A storage system may be provided with a vehicle to store a collection of submaps that represent a geographic area where the vehicle may be driven. A programmatic interface may be provided to receive submaps and submap updates independently of other submaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Brett Browning, Narek Melik-Barkhudarov, Adam Milstein
  • Publication number: 20200302196
    Abstract: A traffic signal analysis system for an autonomous vehicle can receive image data from one or more cameras, the image data including an upcoming traffic signaling system located at an intersection. The system can determine an action for the AV through the intersection and access a matching signal map specific to the upcoming traffic signaling system. Using the matching signal map, the system can generate a signal template for the upcoming traffic signaling system and determine a first subset and a second subset of the plurality of traffic signal faces that apply to the action. The system can dynamically analyze the first subset and the second subset to determine a state of the upcoming traffic signaling system for the action, and generate an output for the AV indicating the state of the upcoming traffic signaling system for the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Carl Wellington, Colin Green, Adam Milstein
  • Patent number: 10739786
    Abstract: A system to use submaps to control operation of a vehicle is disclosed. A storage system may be provided with a vehicle to store a collection of submaps that represent a geographic area where the vehicle may be driven. A programmatic interface may be provided to receive submaps and submap updates independently of other submaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Milstein, Brett Browning
  • Patent number: 10726280
    Abstract: A traffic signal analysis system for an autonomous vehicle (AV) can receive image data from one or more cameras, the image data including an upcoming traffic signaling system located at an intersection. The system can determine an action for the AV through the intersection and access a matching signal map specific to the upcoming traffic signaling system. Using the matching signal map, the system can generate a signal template for the upcoming traffic signaling system and determine a first subset and a second subset of the plurality of traffic signal faces that apply to the action. The system can dynamically analyze the first subset and the second subset to determine a state of the upcoming traffic signaling system for the action, and generate an output for the AV indicating the state of the upcoming traffic signaling system for the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Carl Wellington, Colin Green, Adam Milstein
  • Publication number: 20180218226
    Abstract: A traffic signal analysis system for an autonomous vehicle can receive image data from one or more cameras, the image data including an upcoming traffic signaling system located at an intersection. The system can determine an action for the AV through the intersection and access a matching signal map specific to the upcoming traffic signaling system. Using the matching signal map, the system can generate a signal template for the upcoming traffic signaling system and determine a first subset and a second subset of the plurality of traffic signal faces that apply to the action. The system can dynamically analyze the first subset and the second subset to determine a state of the upcoming traffic signaling system for the action, and generate an output for the AV indicating the state of the upcoming traffic signaling system for the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Carl Wellington, Colin Green, Adam Milstein
  • Patent number: 9990548
    Abstract: A traffic signal analysis system can receive image data from one or more cameras of an autonomous vehicle, where the image data includes a traffic signaling system located at an intersection. The traffic signal analysis system can determine a pass-through action for the autonomous vehicle through the intersection, and access a matching signal map that includes characteristic information indicating properties of the traffic signaling system. Based on the characteristic information and the image data, the traffic signal analysis system can identify a state of the traffic signaling system for the pass-through action, and generate an output for the autonomous vehicle indicating the state of the traffic signaling system for the pass-through action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Wellington, Colin Green, Adam Milstein
  • Publication number: 20180004226
    Abstract: A system to use submaps to control operation of a vehicle is disclosed. A storage system may be provided with a vehicle to store a collection of submaps that represent a geographic area where the vehicle may be driven. A programmatic interface may be provided to receive submaps and submap updates independently of other submaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Adam Milstein, Brett Browning
  • Publication number: 20180004225
    Abstract: A system to use submaps to control operation of a vehicle is disclosed. A storage system may be provided with a vehicle to store a collection of submaps that represent a geographic area where the vehicle may be driven. A programmatic interface may be provided to receive submaps and submap updates independently of other submaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Adam Milstein, Brett Browning
  • Publication number: 20180004227
    Abstract: A system to use submaps to control operation of a vehicle is disclosed. A storage system may be provided with a vehicle to store a collection of submaps that represent a geographic area where the vehicle may be driven. A programmatic interface may be provided to receive submaps and submap updates independently of other submaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Brett Browning, Narek Melik-Barkhudarov, Adam Milstein
  • Publication number: 20170262709
    Abstract: A traffic signal analysis system can receive image data from one or more cameras of an autonomous vehicle, where the image data includes a traffic signaling system located at an intersection. The traffic signal analysis system can determine a pass-through action for the autonomous vehicle through the intersection, and access a matching signal map that includes characteristic information indicating properties of the traffic signaling system. Based on the characteristic information and the image data, the traffic signal analysis system can identify a state of the traffic signaling system for the pass-through action, and generate an output for the autonomous vehicle indicating the state of the traffic signaling system for the pass-through action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Carl Wellington, Colin Green, Adam Milstein