Patents by Inventor Andreas Velten

Andreas Velten 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: 12243195
    Abstract: Real time, low-light images, for example, obtained from the fluorescent marker for identifying tumors during surgery, are combined to improve the signal-to-noise ratio using a motion signal derived from corresponding high-light images, for example, taken with a second camera at interleaved intervals of higher illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Andreas Velten, Trevor Seets, Wei Lin, Christie Lin, Adam Uselmann, Yizou Lu
  • Publication number: 20250035750
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, various examples of systems, methods, and media for single photon depth imaging with improved efficiency using learned compressive representations are provided. For example, systems and methods herein may detect a photon arrival based on a signal from a detector at a given position and time bin. A compressed histogram comprising K stored values, representing bins of the compressed histogram based on K values in a code word calculated based on the time bin and position and K coding tensors. Such systems and methods may be utilized for, among other uses, determining depth in a scene being imaged by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Felipe Gutierrez Barragan, Andreas Velten, Fangzhou Mu, Yin Li, Mohit Gupta, Atul Ingle
  • Publication number: 20250022579
    Abstract: The present application is directed to a system and method for creating a precision three dimensional biomap and/or digital twin representation. A representative method includes receiving, by a computing system, medical imaging data for a patient and organizing, by the computing system, the medical imaging data into hierarchical virtual space data. The method further includes creating, by the computing system, a three dimensional biomap of the patient based on the hierarchical virtual space data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Moira F. SCHIEKE, Andreas VELTEN
  • Patent number: 12078720
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for single photon depth imaging with improved precision in ambient light conditions are provided. In some embodiments, the system comprises: a light source; a single photon detector; an attenuation element configured to provide a variable intensity attenuation factor; and a processor programmed to: (a)-determine an ambient light intensity associated with a scene point; (b)-select an attenuation factor based on the ambient light intensity; (c)-estimate a depth of the scene point based on a multiplicity of photon arrival times determined using the detector during a period of time during which light incident on the detector is attenuated by the selected attenuation factor and during which the light source is configured to periodically emit a pulse of light toward the scene point; (d)-repeat (a)-(c) for each of a multiplicity of scene points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Anant Gupta, Atul Ingle, Andreas Velten, Mohit Gupta
  • Publication number: 20240259706
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods, and media for high dynamic range imaging using single-photon and conventional image sensor data are provided. In some embodiments, the system comprises: first detectors configured to detect a level of photons proportional to incident photon flux; second detectors configured to detect arrival of individual photons; a processor programmed to: receive, from the first detectors, first values indicative of photon flux from a scene with a first resolution; receive, from the second detectors, second values indicative of photon flux from the scene with a lower resolution; provide a first encoder of a trained machine learning model first flux values based on the first values, provide the second encoder of the model second flux values; receive, as output, values indicative of photon flux from the scene; and generate a high dynamic range image based on the third plurality of values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Felipe Gutierrez Barragan, Yuhao Liu, Atul Ingle, Mohit Gupta, Andreas Velten
  • Publication number: 20230393241
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods, and media for single photon depth imaging with improved efficiency using compressive histograms are provided. In some embodiments, the system comprises: a light source; a detector configured to detect arrival of individual photons; a processor programmed to: detect a photon arrival; determine a time bin i of the photon arrival in a range from 1 to N a total number of time bins; update a compressed histogram comprising K stored values representing bins of the compressed histogram based on K values in a code word represented by an ith column of a coding matrix C having dimension K×N, with each column different than each other column, and each column corresponds to a single time bin i; and estimate a depth value based on the K values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Felipe Gutierrez Barragan, Andreas Velten, Mohit Gupta, Atul Ingle, Trevor Seets
  • Publication number: 20230351551
    Abstract: Real time, low-light images, for example, obtained from the fluorescent marker for identifying tumors during surgery, are combined to improve the signal-to-noise ratio using a motion signal derived from corresponding high-light images, for example, taken with a second camera at interleaved intervals of higher illumination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Velten, Trevor Seets, Wei Lin, Christie Lin, Adam Uselmann, Yizou Lu
  • Patent number: 11758297
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods, and media for high dynamic range imaging using single-photon and conventional image sensor data are provided. In some embodiments, the system comprises: first detectors configured to detect a level of photons proportional to incident photon flux; second detectors configured to detect arrival of individual photons; a processor programmed to: receive, from the first detectors, first values indicative of photon flux from a scene with a first resolution; receive, from the second detectors, second values indicative of photon flux from the scene with a lower resolution; provide a first encoder of a trained machine learning model first flux values based on the first values, provide the second encoder of the model second flux values; receive, as output, values indicative of photon flux from the scene; and generate a high dynamic range image based on the third plurality of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Felipe Gutierrez Barragan, Yuhao Liu, Atul Ingle, Mohit Gupta, Andreas Velten
  • Publication number: 20230224599
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods, and media for high dynamic range imaging using single-photon and conventional image sensor data are provided. In some embodiments, the system comprises: first detectors configured to detect a level of photons proportional to incident photon flux; second detectors configured to detect arrival of individual photons; a processor programmed to: receive, from the first detectors, first values indicative of photon flux from a scene with a first resolution; receive, from the second detectors, second values indicative of photon flux from the scene with a lower resolution; provide a first encoder of a trained machine learning model first flux values based on the first values, provide the second encoder of the model second flux values; receive, as output, values indicative of photon flux from the scene; and generate a high dynamic range image based on the third plurality of values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Felipe Gutierrez Barragan, Yuhao Liu, Atul Ingle, Mohit Gupta, Andreas Velten
  • Patent number: 11539895
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods, and media for motion adaptive imaging using single-photon image sensor data are provided. In some embodiments, the system comprises: an image sensor comprising single-photon detectors in an array; a processor programmed to: receive a sequence of photon frames, each comprising pixels having a value indicative of whether a photon was received during a frame period, each of the pixels corresponds to a pixel location; identify, for each of the pixel locations, changepoints, each indicative of a change in scene brightness; identify a photon frame in the sequence at which at least a threshold change in brightness has occurred based on the changepoints associated with each of the plurality of pixel locations; and generate a series of changepoint frames, wherein each changepoint frame is based on estimated brightness associated with each pixel location at a point in the sequence of photon frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Trevor Seets, Atul Ingle, Andreas Velten
  • Publication number: 20200284907
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for single photon depth imaging with improved precision in ambient light conditions are provided. In some embodiments, the system comprises: a light source; a single photon detector; an attenuation element configured to provide a variable intensity attenuation factor; and a processor programmed to: (a)-determine an ambient light intensity associated with a scene point; (b)-select an attenuation factor based on the ambient light intensity; (c)-estimate a depth of the scene point based on a multiplicity of photon arrival times determined using the detector during a period of time during which light incident on the detector is attenuated by the selected attenuation factor and during which the light source is configured to periodically emit a pulse of light toward the scene point; (d)-repeat (a)-(c) for each of a multiplicity of scene points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Anant Gupta, Atul Ingle, Andreas Velten, Mohit Gupta
  • Patent number: 10739447
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for encoding and decoding signals used in time-of-flight imaging are provided. In some embodiments, a method for estimating the depth of a scene is provided, comprising: causing a light source to emit modulated light toward the scene based on a modulation function; causing the image sensor to generate a first value based on the modulated light and a first demodulation function of K modulation functions; causing the image sensor to generate a second value; causing the image sensor to generate a third value; and determining a depth estimate for the portion of the scene based on the first value, the second value, the third value, and three correlation functions each including at least one half of a trapezoid wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Felipe Gutierrez Barragan, Mohit Gupta, Andreas Velten, Eric Breitbach, Shree K. Nayar
  • Patent number: 10645367
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for encoding and decoding signals used in time-of-flight imaging are provided. In some embodiments, a method for estimating the depth of a scene is provided, comprising: causing a light source to emit modulated light toward the scene based on a modulation function; causing the image sensor to generate a first value based on the modulated light and a first demodulation function of K modulation functions, including at least one trapezoid wave; causing the image sensor to generate a second value; causing the image sensor to generate a third value; and determining a depth estimate for the portion of the scene based on the first value, the second value, and the third value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignees: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Mohit Gupta, Eric Breitbach, Andreas Velten, Shree K. Nayar
  • Patent number: 10616512
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for high dynamic range imaging using dead-time-limited single photon detectors are provided. In some embodiments, a system for high dynamic range imaging is provided, comprising: an image sensor comprising: a pixels comprising: a single photon detector having dead time ?d; and a counter coupled to an output of the single photon detector, wherein the counter is configured to increment in response to a signal indicative of detection of a photon output by the single photon detector; and a processor that is programmed to: read out a value stored by the counter after an exposure time has elapsed; and calculate an intensity for the pixel based on the value and the dead time ?d.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Atul Nishikant Ingle, Mohit Gupta, Andreas Velten
  • Publication number: 20200036918
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for high dynamic range imaging using dead-time-limited single photon detectors are provided. In some embodiments, a system for high dynamic range imaging is provided, comprising: an image sensor comprising: a pixels comprising: a single photon detector having dead time ?d; and a counter coupled to an output of the single photon detector, wherein the counter is configured to increment in response to a signal indicative of detection of a photon output by the single photon detector; and a processor that is programmed to: read out a value stored by the counter after an exposure time has elapsed; and calculate an intensity for the pixel based on the value and the dead time ?d.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Atul Nishikant Ingle, Mohit Gupta, Andreas Velten
  • Publication number: 20190146073
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for encoding and decoding signals used in time-of-flight imaging are provided. In some embodiments, a method for estimating the depth of a scene is provided, comprising: causing a light source to emit modulated light toward the scene based on a modulation function; causing the image sensor to generate a first value based on the modulated light and a first demodulation function of K modulation functions; causing the image sensor to generate a second value; causing the image sensor to generate a third value; and determining a depth estimate for the portion of the scene based on the first value, the second value, the third value, and three correlation functions each including at least one half of a trapezoid wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Felipe Gutierrez, Mohit Gupta, Andreas Velten, Eric Breitbach, Shree K. Nayar
  • Publication number: 20180309970
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for encoding and decoding signals used in time-of-flight imaging are provided. In some embodiments, a method for estimating the depth of a scene is provided, comprising: causing a light source to emit modulated light toward the scene based on a modulation function; causing the image sensor to generate a first value based on the modulated light and a first demodulation function of K modulation functions, including at least one trapezoid wave; causing the image sensor to generate a second value; causing the image sensor to generate a third value; and determining a depth estimate for the portion of the scene based on the first value, the second value, and the third value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Mohit Gupta, Eric Breitbach, Andreas Velten, Shree K. Nayar
  • Patent number: 10045696
    Abstract: Fluorescent markers used to identify a tissue may be imaged in a bright environment by synchronizing the imaging process with rapidly switched ambient lighting so that imaging occurs in phase with a switching off of the ambient lighting. In this way, valuable fluorescent imaging may be performed in an environment that appears to be brightly illuminated, for example in the area of a surgical suite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Thomas Mackie, Adam Uselmann, Andreas Velten, Surendra Prajapati, Kevin Eliceiri
  • Patent number: 9448060
    Abstract: An active imaging system, which includes a light source and light sensor, generates structured illumination. The light sensor captures transient light response data regarding reflections of light emitted by the light source. The transient light response data is wavelength-resolved. One or more processors process the transient light response data and data regarding the structured illumination to calculate a reflectance spectra map of an occluded surface. The processors also compute a 3D geometry of the occluded surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Andreas Velten, Ramesh Raskar
  • Publication number: 20160138904
    Abstract: An active imaging system, which includes a light source and light sensor, generates structured illumination. The light sensor captures transient light response data regarding reflections of light emitted by the light source. The transient light response data is wavelength-resolved. One or more processors process the transient light response data and data regarding the structured illumination to calculate a reflectance spectra map of an occluded surface. The processors also compute a 3D geometry of the occluded surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Andreas Velten, Ramesh Raskar