Patents by Inventor Aravind Padmanabhan
Aravind Padmanabhan 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).
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Patent number: 12033431Abstract: A facial recognition system includes a memory for storing a facial image database, wherein the facial image database includes a plurality of entries each corresponding to a different person, and wherein each entry includes a person identifier along with one or more facial images of the person. The facial recognition system further includes a facial recognition module that is operatively coupled to the memory. The facial recognition module is configured to receive a new facial image, and to select one or more facial recognition engines based on one or more facial image parameters of the new facial image, and to use the selected facial recognition engines to compare the new facial image with facial models that are based upon facial images stored in the facial image database in order to identify the person in the new facial image.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Aravind Padmanabhan, Tomas Brodsky, Yunting Lin
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Publication number: 20230282027Abstract: A facial recognition system includes a memory for storing a facial image database, wherein the facial image database includes a plurality of entries each corresponding to a different person, and wherein each entry includes a person identifier along with one or more facial images of the person. The facial recognition system further includes a facial recognition module that is operatively coupled to the memory. The facial recognition module is configured to receive a new facial image, and to select one or more facial recognition engines based on one or more facial image parameters of the new facial image, and to use the selected facial recognition engines to compare the new facial image with facial models that are based upon facial images stored in the facial image database in order to identify the person in the new facial image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Aravind Padmanabhan, Tomas Brodsky, Yunting Lin
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Patent number: 11688202Abstract: A facial recognition system includes a memory for storing a facial image database, wherein the facial image database includes a plurality of entries each corresponding to a different person, and wherein each entry includes a person identifier along with one or more facial images of the person. The facial recognition system further includes a facial recognition module that is operatively coupled to the memory. The facial recognition module is configured to receive a new facial image, and to select one or more facial recognition engines based on one or more facial image parameters of the new facial image, and to use the selected facial recognition engines to compare the new facial image with facial models that are based upon facial images stored in the facial image database in order to identify the person in the new facial image.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Aravind Padmanabhan, Tomas Brodsky, Yunting Lin
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Patent number: 11626004Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring procedural compliance of staff in a facility. A system may include a plurality of sensors positioned adjacent a hand washing station. Each of the plurality of sensors may be configured to provide a corresponding sensor output signal that is indicative of whether a person is washing their hands at the hand washing station or not. A controller may be configured to fuse the sensor output signals from each of two or more of the plurality of sensors and to determine using the fused sensor output signals whether the person has washed their hands at the hand washing station in compliance with one or more predetermined criteria or not. The controller may be further configured to output a notification when the controller has determined that the person has washed their hands at the hand washing station in compliance with the one or more predetermined criteria.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Soumitri Kolavennu, Ramdas Pai, Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan, Aravind Padmanabhan, Rongbao Nie
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Publication number: 20220207985Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring procedural compliance of staff in a facility. A system may include a plurality of sensors positioned adjacent a hand washing station. Each of the plurality of sensors may be configured to provide a corresponding sensor output signal that is indicative of whether a person is washing their hands at the hand washing station or not. A controller may be configured to fuse the sensor output signals from each of two or more of the plurality of sensors and to determine using the fused sensor output signals whether the person has washed their hands at the hand washing station in compliance with one or more predetermined criteria or not. The controller may be further configured to output a notification when the controller has determined that the person has washed their hands at the hand washing station in compliance with the one or more predetermined criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Soumitri Kolavennu, Ramdas Pai, Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan, Aravind Padmanabhan, Rongbao Nie
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Patent number: 11288945Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring procedural compliance of staff in a facility. A system may include a plurality of sensors positioned adjacent a hand washing station. Each of the plurality of sensors may be configured to provide a corresponding sensor output signal that is indicative of whether a person is washing their hands at the hand washing station or not. A controller may be configured to fuse the sensor output signals from each of two or more of the plurality of sensors and to determine using the fused sensor output signals whether the person has washed their hands at the hand washing station in compliance with one or more predetermined criteria or not. The controller may be further configured to output a notification when the controller has determined that the person has washed their hands at the hand washing station in compliance with the one or more predetermined criteria.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Soumitri Kolavennu, Ramdas Pai, Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan, Aravind Padmanabhan, Rongbao Nie
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Publication number: 20210334521Abstract: A facial recognition system includes a memory for storing a facial image database, wherein the facial image database includes a plurality of entries each corresponding to a different person, and wherein each entry includes a person identifier along with one or more facial images of the person. The facial recognition system further includes a facial recognition module that is operatively coupled to the memory. The facial recognition module is configured to receive a new facial image, and to select one or more facial recognition engines based on one or more facial image parameters of the new facial image, and to use the selected facial recognition engines to compare the new facial image with facial models that are based upon facial images stored in the facial image database in order to identify the person in the new facial image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Aravind Padmanabhan, Tomas Brodsky, Yunting Lin
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Patent number: 10984329Abstract: A voice activated knowledge management system may be used as a virtual assistant. In some cases, a knowledge management system may be configured to receive a voice request from a user, generate and send a knowledge base query to each of the two or more different knowledge base engines, and fuse the resulting responses from the knowledge base engines, resulting in a fused response. The fused response may be provided back to the user as a response to the voice request and/or may be provided as a device command to control a corresponding device.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Soumitri Kolavennu, Aravind Padmanabhan
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Patent number: 10601603Abstract: Integrating functionality in a line powered device of a facility is described herein. One method includes integrating, in a line powered device of a facility that has a first functionality, a second functionality, obtaining, by the line powered device, information associated with the facility using the second functionality, and sending, by the line powered device, the information associated with the facility obtained using the second functionality to a computing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan, Aravind Padmanabhan, Samuel George Fenton
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Publication number: 20200074836Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring procedural compliance of staff in a facility. A system may include a plurality of sensors positioned adjacent a hand washing station. Each of the plurality of sensors may be configured to provide a corresponding sensor output signal that is indicative of whether a person is washing their hands at the hand washing station or not. A controller may be configured to fuse the sensor output signals from each of two or more of the plurality of sensors and to determine using the fused sensor output signals whether the person has washed their hands at the hand washing station in compliance with one or more predetermined criteria or not. The controller may be further configured to output a notification when the controller has determined that the person has washed their hands at the hand washing station in compliance with the one or more predetermined criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Soumitri Kolavennu, Ramdas Pai, Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan, Aravind Padmanabhan, Rongbao Nie
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Publication number: 20200021455Abstract: Integrating functionality in a line powered device of a facility is described herein. One method includes integrating, in a line powered device of a facility that has a first functionality, a second functionality, obtaining, by the line powered device, information associated with the facility using the second functionality, and sending, by the line powered device, the information associated with the facility obtained using the second functionality to a computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan, Aravind Padmanabhan, Samuel George Fenton
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Publication number: 20200011696Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for indoor wayfinding to equipment and infrastructure at a facility are described herein. One method includes receiving an identifier associated with a piece of equipment or infrastructure within a facility, receiving location information associated with the location of the piece of equipment or infrastructure within the facility, receiving visual view data to produce a visual view of an area of the facility, and merging the identifier, the location information, and the visual view data to produce a visual view on a user interface of a computing device to communicate the location of the piece of equipment or infrastructure to a user of the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan, Aravind Padmanabhan, Samuel George Fenton
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Patent number: 10505749Abstract: Integrating functionality in a line powered device of a facility is described herein. One method includes integrating, in a line powered device of a facility that has a first functionality, a second functionality, obtaining, by the line powered device, information associated with the facility using the second functionality, and sending, by the line powered device, the information associated with the facility obtained using the second functionality to a computing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan, Aravind Padmanabhan, Samuel George Fenton
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Publication number: 20190332848Abstract: A facial recognition system includes a memory for storing a facial image database, wherein the facial image database includes a plurality of entries each corresponding to a different person, and wherein each entry includes a person identifier along with one or more facial images of the person. The facial recognition system further includes a facial recognition module that is operatively coupled to the memory. The facial recognition module is configured to receive a new facial image, and to select one or more facial recognition engines based on one or more facial image parameters of the new facial image, and to use the selected facial recognition engines to compare the new facial image with facial models that are based upon facial images stored in the facial image database in order to identify the person in the new facial image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2018Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Aravind Padmanabhan, Tomas Brodsky, Yunting Lin
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Patent number: 10459412Abstract: A structure having convergence of a control system and a data analytics system. The control system may involve input-output models of items, for example, homes, buildings and process plants. The system may use sensor data and scientific principles to implement control models. The models may help to precisely achieve a desired value of a parameter. The data analytics system may involve analysis of diverse data and may create insights of the items. The control system plus the data analytics system may close the loop between insights and on-premise controls of the items represented by the input-output models. The control and data analytics systems may merge the best of both worlds to solve difficult issues pertaining to the items. The structure may be for comfort control, energy reduction, and so on, having improved performance based on the convergence.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Petr Stluka, Aravind Padmanabhan, Vladimir Havlena
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Publication number: 20190094821Abstract: A structure having convergence of a control system and a data analytics system. The control system may involve input-output models of items, for example, homes, buildings and process plants. The system may use sensor data and scientific principles to implement control models. The models may help to precisely achieve a desired value of a parameter. The data analytics system may involve analysis of diverse data and may create insights of the items. The control system plus the data analytics system may close the loop between insights and on-premise controls of the items represented by the input-output models. The control and data analytics systems may merge the best of both worlds to solve difficult issues pertaining to the items. The structure may be for comfort control, energy reduction, and so on, having improved performance based on the convergence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Petr Stluka, Aravind Padmanabhan, Vladimir Havlena
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Publication number: 20180365567Abstract: A voice activated knowledge management system may be used as a virtual assistant. In some cases, a knowledge management system may be configured to receive a voice request from a user, generate and send a knowledge base query to each of the two or more different knowledge base engines, and fuse the resulting responses from the knowledge base engines, resulting in a fused response. The fused response may be provided back to the user as a response to the voice request and/or may be provided as a device command to control a corresponding device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Soumitri Kolavennu, Aravind Padmanabhan
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Patent number: 9972183Abstract: Systems and methods of using secondary measurements to make a system-based determination are provided. Some methods can include a transceiver device receiving a first signal from at least one system-based device, the transceiver device receiving a second signal from at least one non-system device, and control circuits coupled to the transceiver device making a system-based determination responsive to both the first signal and the second signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Sheflin, Kenneth L. Addy, Aravind Padmanabhan
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Publication number: 20170084148Abstract: Systems and methods of using secondary measurements to make a system-based determination are provided. Some methods can include a transceiver device receiving a first signal from at least one system-based device, the transceiver device receiving a second signal from at least one non-system device, and control circuits coupled to the transceiver device making a system-based determination responsive to both the first signal and the second signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Daniel J. Sheflin, Kenneth L. Addy, Aravind Padmanabhan
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Patent number: 9536406Abstract: A regional monitoring system in communication with a plurality of locally displaced detectors can implement a fusion of inputs from a variety of additional non-system devices. The monitoring system includes a wireless receiver or transceiver enabling the system to detect local traffic from the non-system devices, such as sensors. Information received from such non-system devices can be combined with information from system detectors to initiate activity on other networks, to energize actuators, or to activate system detectors that normally reside in a low energy inactive state.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Sheflin, Kenneth L. Addy, Aravind Padmanabhan