Patents by Inventor Beau Jeffrey Tippetts

Beau Jeffrey Tippetts 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).

  • Stereo vision apparatus and method
    Patent number: 9317923
    Abstract: A method for stereo vision may include filtering a row or column in a stereo image to obtain intensity profiles, identifying peaks in the intensity profiles, pairing peaks within a maximum disparity distance, determining a shape interval for peak pairs, selecting a peak pair with a maximum shape interval, determining a disparity offset for the peak pairs, extending shape intervals to include all pixels in the intensity profiles, computing depths or distances from disparity offsets, and smoothing the stereo image disparity map along a perpendicular dimension. Another method for stereo vision includes filtering stereo images to intensity profiles, identifying peaks in the intensity profiles, pairing peaks within a maximum disparity distance, determining shape intervals for peak pairs, and selecting peak pairs with the maximum shape interval. Apparatus corresponding to the above methods are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Brigham Young University
    Inventors: Beau Jeffrey Tippetts, Dah-Jye Lee
  • STEREO VISION APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20130266211
    Abstract: A method for stereo vision may include filtering a row or column in a stereo image to obtain intensity profiles, identifying peaks in the intensity profiles, pairing peaks within a maximum disparity distance, determining a shape interval for peak pairs, selecting a peak pair with a maximum shape interval, determining a disparity offset for the peak pairs, extending shape intervals to include all pixels in the intensity profiles, computing depths or distances from disparity offsets, and smoothing the stereo image disparity map along a perpendicular dimension. Another method for stereo vision includes filtering stereo images to intensity profiles, identifying peaks in the intensity profiles, pairing peaks within a maximum disparity distance, determining shape intervals for peak pairs, and selecting peak pairs with the maximum shape interval. Apparatus corresponding to the above methods are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Brigham Young University
    Inventors: Beau Jeffrey Tippetts, Dah-Jye Lee