Patents by Inventor Alessandro Bissallo

Alessandro Bissallo 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).

  • Object detection with false positive filtering
    Patent number: 8761446
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention relate to detecting and blurring images. In an embodiment, a system detects objects in a photographic image. The system includes an object detector module configured to detect regions of the photographic image that include objects of a particular type at least based on the content of the photographic image. The system further includes a false positive detector module configured to determine whether each region detected by the object detector module includes an object of the particular type at least based on information about the context in which the photographic image was taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Frome, German Cheung, Ahmad Abdulkader, Marco Zennaro, Bo Wu, Alessandro Bissallo, Hartmut Neven, Luc Vincent, Hartwig Adam