Patents by Inventor Ashok Chandrashekar

Ashok Chandrashekar 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: 8625907
    Abstract: A database of images may be accessed. A feature set may be computed for each image, respectively. Each feature set includes feature integers quantized from interest points of a corresponding image. An initial set of clusters of the feature sets is found based on min hashes of the feature sets. Given the clusters of feature sets, descriptors for each of the clusters are computed, respectively, by selecting feature integers from among the feature sets in a cluster. The clusters are then refined by comparing at least some of the feature sets with at least some of the cluster descriptors, and based on such comparing adding some of the feature sets to clusters whose feature descriptors have similarity to the feature sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Zitnick, Rafael Sagula, Ashok Chandrashekar
  • Publication number: 20110305399
    Abstract: A database of images may be accessed. A feature set may be computed for each image, respectively. Each feature set includes feature integers quantized from interest points of a corresponding image. An initial set of clusters of the feature sets is found based on min hashes of the feature sets. Given the clusters of feature sets, descriptors for each of the clusters are computed, respectively, by selecting feature integers from among the feature sets in a cluster. The clusters are then refined by comparing at least some of the feature sets with at least some of the cluster descriptors, and based on such comparing adding some of the feature sets to clusters whose feature descriptors have similarity to the feature sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles Zitnick, Rafael Sagula, Ashok Chandrashekar