Patents by Inventor Akash J. Sagar

Akash J. Sagar 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: 11947511
    Abstract: Indexing a data corpus to a set of multidimensional points, including: generating a set of points in a multidimensional space; identifying, for each sample in a plurality of samples in a data corpus, a nearest point in the set of points; and generating an index mapping each sample with the nearest point in the set of points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GHOST AUTONOMY INC.
    Inventors: Volkmar Uhlig, John Hayes, Akash J. Sagar, Faissal Sleiman, David Stephenson, Daniel J. Fillingham, Timothy Cerexhe
  • Patent number: 11892857
    Abstract: Distributed data sampling, including: receiving a sampling target; generating, based on one or more sensors, sampled data; determining, based on the sampling target, a value for the sampled data; and determining, based on the value for the sampled data, whether to provide the sampled data to a remotely disposed computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GHOST AUTONOMY INC.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Volkmar Uhlig, Akash J. Sagar
  • Patent number: 11849225
    Abstract: Throughput reduction in autonomous vehicle camera sensors, including: generating, by a camera sensor, a frame; selecting an area of focus for the frame; and generating, by the camera sensor from the frame, a downsampled frame and a cropped frame, wherein the cropped frame is based on the area of focus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: GHOST AUTONOMY INC.
    Inventors: Volkmar Uhlig, John Hayes, Riaz Ali, Shaun M. Pacheco, Justin N. Erickson, James S. Cross, Daniel D. Schmidt, Akash J. Sagar
  • Publication number: 20230367755
    Abstract: Indexing a data corpus to a set of multidimensional points, including: generating a set of points in a multidimensional space; identifying, for each sample in a plurality of samples in a data corpus, a nearest point in the set of points; and generating an index mapping each sample with the nearest point in the set of points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: VOLKMAR UHLIG, JOHN HAYES, AKASH J. SAGAR, FAISSAL SLEIMAN, DAVID STEPHENSON, DANIEL J. FILLINGHAM, TIMOTHY CEREXHE
  • Patent number: 11780460
    Abstract: Determining control operations for an autonomous vehicle may include receiving, by an operational model, an operational model input based on camera data from one or more cameras of an automated vehicle; determining, by the operational model, based on the input, a current environmental state and a predicted environmental state; providing, to a rules module, a differential between the current environmental state and a previously predicted environmental state; and determining, based on the rules module, one or more control operations for the automated vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: GHOST AUTONOMY INC.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Volkmar Uhlig, Akash J. Sagar, Nima Soltani, Feng Tian
  • Publication number: 20230269491
    Abstract: Throughput reduction in autonomous vehicle camera sensors, including: generating, by a camera sensor, a frame; selecting an area of focus for the frame; and generating, by the camera sensor from the frame, a downsampled frame and a cropped frame, wherein the cropped frame is based on the area of focus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: VOLKMAR UHLIG, JOHN HAYES, RIAZ ALI, SHAUN M. PACHECO, JUSTIN N. ERICKSON, JAMES S. CROSS, DANIEL D. SCHMIDT, AKASH J. SAGAR
  • Patent number: 11704895
    Abstract: Camera data normalization for an autonomous vehicle are described herein, including: receiving, from one or more cameras of the autonomous vehicle, camera data; applying a color normalization to the camera data; applying a spherical reprojection to the camera data; and applying, based on a registration point, a stabilization to the camera data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Ghost Autonomy Inc.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Volkmar Uhlig, Akash J. Sagar, Nima Soltani, Feng Tian, Christopher R. Lumb
  • Patent number: 11577756
    Abstract: Detecting out-of-model scenarios for an autonomous vehicle including: determining, based on first sensor data from one or more sensors, an environmental state relative to the autonomous vehicle, wherein operational commands for the autonomous vehicle are based on a selected machine learning model, wherein the selected machine learning model comprises a first machine learning model; comparing the environmental state to a predicted environmental state relative to the autonomous vehicle; and determining, based on a differential between the environmental state and the predicted environmental state, whether to select a second machine learning model as the selected machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GHOST AUTONOMY INC.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Volkmar Uhlig, Akash J. Sagar, Nima Soltani, Feng Tian
  • Patent number: 11574409
    Abstract: Scene filtering using motion estimation, including identifying, in camera data from an autonomous vehicle, based on motion relative to the autonomous vehicle, one or more pixels; filtering, from the camera data, the one or more pixels; and training, based on the filtered camera data, a neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: GHOST AUTONOMY INC.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Volkmar Uhlig, Akash J. Sagar, Nima Soltani, Feng Tian, Christopher R. Lumb
  • Publication number: 20230001950
    Abstract: Using predictive visual anchors to control an autonomous vehicle, including: determining, based on a plurality of frames of video data from a camera of an autonomous vehicle, one or more predicted visual anchors, wherein the one or more predicted visual anchors comprise a predicted location of one or more visual anchors at a future time relative to when the plurality of frames were captured; identifying, in another frame of video data corresponding to the future time, the one or more visual anchors; determining one or more differentials between the one or more visual anchors and the one or more predicted visual anchors; determining, based on the one or more differentials, one or more control operations for the autonomous vehicle; and applying the one or more control operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG, AKASH J. SAGAR, NIMA SOLTANI, FENG TIAN
  • Patent number: 11458988
    Abstract: Controlling an automated vehicle using visual anchors, including receiving, from one or more cameras of an autonomous vehicle, first video data; identifying one or more visual anchors in the first video data; determining one or more differentials between the one or more visual anchors and one or more predicted visual anchors; and determining, based on the one or more differentials, one or more control operations for the autonomous vehicle to reduce the one or more differentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Ghost Locomotion Inc.
    Inventors: John Hayes, Volkmar Uhlig, Akash J. Sagar, Nima Soltani, Feng Tian
  • Publication number: 20210382499
    Abstract: Distributed data sampling, including: receiving a sampling target; generating, based on one or more sensors, sampled data; determining, based on the sampling target, a value for the sampled data; and determining, based on the value for the sampled data, whether to provide the sampled data to a remotely disposed computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG, AKASH J. SAGAR
  • Publication number: 20210094576
    Abstract: Determining control operations for an autonomous vehicle may include receiving, by an operational model, an operational model input based on camera data from one or more cameras of an automated vehicle; determining, by the operational model, based on the input, a current environmental state and a predicted environmental state; providing, to a rules module, a differential between the current environmental state and a previously predicted environmental state; and determining, based on the rules module, one or more control operations for the automated vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG, AKASH J. SAGAR, NIMA SOLTANI, FENG TIAN
  • Publication number: 20210097698
    Abstract: Scene filtering using motion estimation, including identifying, in camera data from an autonomous vehicle, based on motion relative to the autonomous vehicle, one or more pixels; filtering, from the camera data, the one or more pixels; and training, based on the filtered camera data, a neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG, AKASH J. SAGAR, NIMA SOLTANI, FENG TIAN, CHRISTOPHER R. LUMB
  • Publication number: 20210094564
    Abstract: Camera data normalization for an autonomous vehicle are described herein, including: receiving, from one or more cameras of the autonomous vehicle, camera data; applying a color normalization to the camera data; applying a spherical reprojection to the camera data; and applying, based on a registration point, a stabilization to the camera data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG, AKASH J. SAGAR, NIMA SOLTANI, FENG TIAN, CHRISTOPHER R. LUMB
  • Publication number: 20210094565
    Abstract: Motion-based scene selection for an autonomous vehicle may include identifying, in camera data from an autonomous vehicle, based on a plurality of motion vectors associated with the camera data, one or more image objects; determining, for each image object of the one or more image objects, based on the one or more motion vectors, a corresponding label of one or more labels; and encoding the one or more labels in association with the camera data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG, AKASH J. SAGAR, NIMA SOLTANI, FENG TIAN, CHRISTOPHER R. LUMB
  • Publication number: 20210078611
    Abstract: Detecting out-of-model scenarios for an autonomous vehicle including: determining, based on first sensor data from one or more sensors, an environmental state relative to the autonomous vehicle, wherein operational commands for the autonomous vehicle are based on a selected machine learning model, wherein the selected machine learning model comprises a first machine learning model; comparing the environmental state to a predicted environmental state relative to the autonomous vehicle; and determining, based on a differential between the environmental state and the predicted environmental state, whether to select a second machine learning model as the selected machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG, AKASH J. SAGAR, NIMA SOLTANI, FENG TIAN
  • Publication number: 20210080969
    Abstract: Controlling an automated vehicle using visual anchors, including receiving, from one or more cameras of an autonomous vehicle, first video data; identifying one or more visual anchors in the first video data; determining one or more differentials between the one or more visual anchors and one or more predicted visual anchors; and determining, based on the one or more differentials, one or more control operations for the autonomous vehicle to reduce the one or more differentials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: JOHN HAYES, VOLKMAR UHLIG, AKASH J. SAGAR, NIMA SOLTANI, FENG TIAN
  • Patent number: 10931748
    Abstract: Optimistic concurrency is effectuated to manage constraints in a synchronization environment at multiple computing device endpoints in a consistent fashion without utilizing concentrated centralized constraint logic. Implemented data synchronization constraints that identify false violation scenarios may be automatically resolved without user intervention by using an etag system directed by a master component to assist computing device endpoints to maintain data synchronization among them. Data entries defining each file hierarchy component to be synched are generated and shared with the master component and each computing device endpoint in a synchronization environment. Individual computing device endpoints can use the data entries generated locally with those generated by other computing device endpoints to locally resolve identified false violation scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Akash J. Sagar, Richard Y. Chung, Raymond E. Endres
  • Patent number: 9762664
    Abstract: Optimistic concurrency is effectuated to manage constraints in a synchronization environment at multiple computing device endpoints in a consistent fashion without utilizing concentrated centralized constraint logic. Implemented data synchronization constraints that identify false violation scenarios may be automatically resolved without user intervention by using an etag system directed by a master component to assist computing device endpoints to maintain data synchronization among them. Data entries defining each file hierarchy component to be synched are generated and shared with the master component and each computing device endpoint in a synchronization environment. Individual computing device endpoints can use the data entries generated locally with those generated by other computing device endpoints to locally resolve identified false violation scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Akash J. Sagar, Richard Y. Chung, Raymond E. Endres