Patents by Inventor Benjamin Kimia
Benjamin Kimia 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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Publication number: 20230392944Abstract: According to some aspects, a wearable device for estimating a location of the device within a space is provided, the device comprising a plurality of cameras mounted to a structure, at least a portion of the structure being adapted to facilitate a user wearing the device, the plurality of cameras having substantially fixed positions and orientations on the structure relative to each other, and at least one processor configured to receive image data from the plurality of cameras, perform feature detection on the image data to obtain a first plurality of features from the image data, and determine an estimate of the location of the device in the space based, at least in part, on a location associated with a second plurality of features obtained from image data previously captured of the space that matches the first plurality of features.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventor: Benjamin Kimia
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Publication number: 20220057226Abstract: According to some aspects, a wearable device for estimating a location of the device within a space is provided, the device comprising a plurality of cameras mounted to a structure, at least a portion of the structure being adapted to facilitate a user wearing the device, the plurality of cameras having substantially fixed positions and orientations on the structure relative to each other, and at least one processor configured to receive image data from the plurality of cameras, perform feature detection on the image data to obtain a first plurality of features from the image data, and determine an estimate of the location of the device in the space based, at least in part, on a location associated with a second plurality of features obtained from image data previously captured of the space that matches the first plurality of features.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventor: Benjamin KIMIA
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Patent number: 11112261Abstract: According to some aspects, a wearable device for estimating a location of the device within a space is provided, the device comprising a plurality of cameras mounted to a structure, at least a portion of the structure being adapted to facilitate a user wearing the device, the plurality of cameras having substantially fixed positions and orientations on the structure relative to each other, and at least one processor configured to receive image data from the plurality of cameras, perform feature detection on the image data to obtain a first plurality of features from the image data, and determine an estimate of the location of the device in the space based, at least in part, on a location associated with a second plurality of features obtained from image data previously captured of the space that matches the first plurality of features.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Brown UniversityInventor: Benjamin Kimia
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Publication number: 20180066953Abstract: According to some aspects, a wearable device for estimating a location of the device within a space is provided, the device comprising a plurality of cameras mounted to a structure, at least a portion of the structure being adapted to facilitate a user wearing the device, the plurality of cameras having substantially fixed positions and orientations on the structure relative to each other, and at least one processor configured to receive image data from the plurality of cameras, perform feature detection on the image data to obtain a first plurality of features from the image data, and determine an estimate of the location of the device in the space based, at least in part, on a location associated with a second plurality of features obtained from image data previously captured of the space that matches the first plurality of features.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: Brown UniversityInventor: Benjamin Kimia
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Patent number: 9576198Abstract: In one aspect, a method and apparatus for detecting subject matter of interest in view data obtained by scanning an object including generating a filter adapted to respond to the subject matter of interest, splatting the filter onto a portion of the view data to provide a filter splat, and performing at least one operation on the portion of the view data using the filter splat to facilitate determining whether the subject matter of interest is present in the portion of the view data.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Brown UniversityInventors: Joseph L. Mundy, Benjamin Kimia, Philip Nathan Klein, Kongbin Kang, Huseyin Can Aras
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Publication number: 20160104026Abstract: In one aspect, a method and apparatus for detecting subject matter of interest in view data obtained by scanning an object including generating a filter adapted to respond to the subject matter of interest, splatting the filter onto a portion of the view data to provide a filter splat, and performing at least one operation on the portion of the view data using the filter splat to facilitate determining whether the subject matter of interest is present in the portion of the view data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Applicant: Brown UniversityInventors: Joseph L. Mundy, Benjamin Kimia, Philip Nathan Klein, Kongbin Kang, Huseyin Can Aras
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Publication number: 20150324646Abstract: According to some aspects, a wearable device for estimating a location of the device within a space is provided, the device comprising a plurality of cameras mounted to a structure, at least a portion of the structure being adapted to facilitate a user wearing the device, the plurality of cameras having substantially fixed positions and orientations on the structure relative to each other, and at least one processor configured to receive image data from the plurality of cameras, perform feature detection on the image data to obtain a first plurality of features from the image data, and determine an estimate of the location of the device in the space based, at least in part, on a location associated with a second plurality of features obtained from image data previously captured of the space that matches the first plurality of features.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: Brown UniversityInventor: Benjamin Kimia
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Publication number: 20150139525Abstract: In one aspect, a method for determining a value for at least one parameter of a configuration of a model, the model associated with structure of which view data has been obtained from at least one x-ray scanning device capable of producing x-ray radiation, the view data being obtained, at least in part, by scanning at least a portion of the structure, wherein the view data is attenuation data of the x-ray radiation attenuated by the structure as a function of view angle about the structure is provided. The method comprises acts of operating on the view data to detect at least one feature in the view data, and determining the value for the at least one parameter of the configuration of the model based, at least in part, on the at least one feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Brown UniversityInventors: Joseph L. Mundy, Benjamin Kimia
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Publication number: 20150003737Abstract: In one aspect, a method and apparatus for detecting subject matter of interest in view data obtained by scanning an object including generating a filter adapted to respond to the subject matter of interest, splatting the filter onto a portion of the view data to provide a filter splat, and performing at least one operation on the portion of the view data using the filter splat to facilitate determining whether the subject matter of interest is present in the portion of the view data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Brown UniversityInventors: Joseph L. Mundy, Benjamin Kimia, Philip Nathan Klein, Kongbin Kang, Huseyin Can Aras
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Patent number: 8515145Abstract: In one aspect, a method and apparatus for detecting subject matter of interest in view data obtained by scanning an object including generating a filter adapted to respond to the subject matter of interest, splatting the filter onto a portion of the view data to provide a filter splat, and performing at least one operation on the portion of the view data using the filter splat to facilitate determining whether the subject matter of interest is present in the portion of the view data.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2011Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Brown UniversityInventors: Joseph L. Mundy, Benjamin Kimia, Philip Nathan Klein, Kongbin Kang, Huseyin Can Aras
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Patent number: 8428317Abstract: In one aspect, a method of obtaining micro-vessel density (MVD) measurements from an image of biological vasculature containing a plurality of vessels is provided. The method comprises acts of analyzing a region of interest of the image for each of a plurality of bins, each of the plurality of bins associated with a predetermined range of vessel sizes, the act of analyzing the region of interest including determining which of the plurality of bins that portions of any vessel subject matter identified in the region of interest belong based on a size associated with the respective portions of the vessel subject matter, and associating each portion of the vessel subject matter with the corresponding one of the plurality of bins to which the portion belongs, and computing at least one measurement for each of the plurality of bins, the at least one measurement related to the MVD of the portions of vessel subject matter associated with the respective bin.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Bio-Tree Systems, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Kimia, Raul A. Brauner, John Heymach, Jesse Funaro
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Publication number: 20120114214Abstract: In one aspect, a method and apparatus for detecting subject matter of interest in view data obtained by scanning an object including generating a filter adapted to respond to the subject matter of interest, splatting the filter onto a portion of the view data to provide a filter splat, and performing at least one operation on the portion of the view data using the filter splat to facilitate determining whether the subject matter of interest is present in the portion of the view data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: Brown UniversityInventors: Joseph L. Mundy, Benjamin Kimia, Philip Nathan Klein, Kongbin Kang, Huseyin Can Aras
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Patent number: 7978887Abstract: In one aspect, a method and apparatus for detecting subject matter of interest in view data obtained by scanning an object including generating a filter adapted to respond to the subject matter of interest, splatting the filter onto a portion of the view data to provide a filter splat, and performing at least one operation on the portion of the view data using the filter splat to facilitate determining whether the subject matter of interest is present in the portion of the view data.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2005Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Brown UniversityInventors: Joseph L. Mundy, Benjamin Kimia, Philip Nathan Klein, Kongbin Kang, Huseyin Can Aras
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Publication number: 20100159497Abstract: In one aspect, a method of obtaining micro-vessel density (MVD) measurements from an image of biological vasculature containing a plurality of vessels is provided. The method comprises acts of analyzing a region of interest of the image for each of a plurality of bins, each of the plurality of bins associated with a predetermined range of vessel sizes, the act of analyzing the region of interest including determining which of the plurality of bins that portions of any vessel subject matter identified in the region of interest belong based on a size associated with the respective portions of the vessel subject matter, and associating each portion of the vessel subject matter with the corresponding one of the plurality of bins to which the portion belongs, and computing at least one measurement for each of the plurality of bins, the at least one measurement related to the MVD of the portions of vessel subject matter associated with the respective bin.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2007Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: Bio-Tree Systems, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Kimia, Raul A. Brauner, John Heymach, Jesse Funaro
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Publication number: 20090123053Abstract: In one aspect, a method and apparatus for determining a value for at least one parameter of a configuration of a model associated with structure of which view data has been obtained including detecting at least one feature in the view data, and determining the value for the at least one parameter of the configuration of the model based at least in part on the at least one feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2009Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: Brown UniversityInventors: Joseph L. Mundy, Benjamin Kimia
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Patent number: 7492934Abstract: In one aspect, a method and apparatus for determining a value for at least one parameter of a configuration of a model associated with structure of which view data has been obtained including detecting at least one feature in the view data, and determining the value for the at least one parameter of the configuration of the model based at least in part on the at least one feature.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2004Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Brown UniversityInventors: Joseph L. Mundy, Benjamin Kimia
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Publication number: 20060182327Abstract: In one aspect, a method and apparatus for detecting subject matter of interest in view data obtained by scanning an object including generating a filter adapted to respond to the subject matter of interest, splatting the filter onto a portion of the view data to provide a filter splat, and performing at least one operation on the portion of the view data using the filter splat to facilitate determining whether the subject matter of interest is present in the portion of the view data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2005Publication date: August 17, 2006Applicant: Brown UniverstiyInventors: Joseph Mundy, Benjamin Kimia, Philip Klein, Kongbin Kang, Huseyin Aras
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Publication number: 20040267114Abstract: In one aspect, a method and apparatus for determining a value for at least one parameter of a configuration of a model associated with structure of which view data has been obtained including detecting at least one feature in the view data, and determining the value for the at least one parameter of the configuration of the model based at least in part on the at least one feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: Brown UniversityInventors: Joseph L. Mundy, Benjamin Kimia