Patents by Inventor Aparna Taneja

Aparna Taneja 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: 9393697
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a system and method for creating a customized guest experience at an amusement park. In one example, the method includes capturing by a foot sensor a first foot shape corresponding to at least one foot in a pair of feet of a guest and capturing by a camera a first foot appearance corresponding to at least one foot in the first pair of feet receiving guest data from the guest. The method also includes generating a first foot model using the first foot shape and the first foot appearance and tagging the first foot model with the guest data. The foot model can be used to identify a particular guest and the guest data can be used to output a customized guest experience to the guest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC
    Inventors: Paul Beardsley, Aparna Taneja
  • Patent number: 8385599
    Abstract: The present invention is a system and a method of segmenting and detecting objects which can be approximated by planar or nearly planar surfaces in order to detect one or more objects with threats or potential threats. The method includes capturing imagery of the scene proximate a platform, producing a depth map from the imagery and tessellating the depth map into a number of patches. The method also includes classifying the plurality of patches as threat patches and projecting the threat patches into a pre-generated vertical support histogram to facilitate selection of the projected threat patches having a score value within a sufficiency criterion. The method further includes grouping the selected patches having the score value using a plane fit to obtain a region of interest and processing the region of interest to detect said object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Theodore Armand Camus, Aparna Taneja, Mayank Bansal, Ankit Kumar, John Benjamin Southall
  • Publication number: 20100092038
    Abstract: The present invention is a system and a method of segmenting and detecting objects which can be approximated by planar or nearly planar surfaces in order to detect one or more objects with threats or potential threats. The method includes capturing imagery of the scene proximate a platform, producing a depth map from the imagery and tessellating the depth map into a number of patches. The method also includes classifying the plurality of patches as threat patches and projecting the threat patches into a pre-generated vertical support histogram to facilitate selection of the projected threat patches having a score value within a sufficiency criterion. The method further includes grouping the selected patches having the score value using a plane fit to obtain a region of interest and processing the region of interest to detect said object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Armand Camus Theodore, Aparna Taneja, Mayank Bansal, Ankit Kumar, John Benjamin Southall