Patents by Inventor Andreas Ess

Andreas Ess 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).

  • Motion estimating device
    Patent number: 8213684
    Abstract: A motion estimating device first detects mobile objects Oi and Oi? in continuous image frames T and T?, and acquires image areas Ri and Ri? corresponding to the mobile objects Oi and Oi?. Then, the motion estimating device removes the image areas Ri and Ri? corresponding to the mobile objects Oi and Oi? in the image frames T and T?, extracts corresponding point pairs Pj of feature points between the image frames T and T? from the image areas having removed the image areas Ri and Ri?, and carries out the motion estimation of the autonomous mobile machine between the image frames T and T? on the basis of the positional relationship of the corresponding point pairs Pj of feature points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignees: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Andreas Ess, Bastian Leibe, Konrad Schindler, Luc Van Gool, Kenichi Kitahama, Ryuji Funayama
  • MOTION ESTIMATING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20100027847
    Abstract: A motion estimating device first detects mobile objects Oi and Oi? in continuous image frames T and T?, and acquires image areas Ri and Ri? corresponding to the mobile objects Oi and Oi?. Then, the motion estimating device removes the image areas Ri and Ri? corresponding to the mobile objects Oi and Oi? in the image frames T and T?, extracts corresponding point pairs Pj of feature points between the image frames T and T? from the image areas having removed the image areas Ri and Ri?, and carries out the motion estimation of the autonomous mobile machine between the image frames T and T? on the basis of the positional relationship of the corresponding point pairs Pj of feature points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicants: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Andreas Ess, Bastian Leibe, Konrad Schindler, Luc Van Gool, Kenichi Kitahama, Ryuji Funayama