Patents by Inventor Bruce Ferry

Bruce Ferry 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: 11516538
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for detecting image impairments indicating low quality images within video content. An image impairment detection (IMD) model can be generated with a training data set including images that include one or more image impairments. Video content comprising a set of video frames may be obtained and a video frame provided to the image impairment detection model as input. Output may be received from the image impairment detection model indicating that the video frame includes an image impairment artifact indicative of a particular image impairment. One or more operations may be executed based at least in part on the output received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zongyi Liu, Bruce Ferry, Simon Paul Lacasse, Hai Wei
  • Patent number: 10869091
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for latency detection for streaming video. Example methods may include receiving a request to determine a time to first frame for video content, determining a streaming service and a playback device associated with the request, and determining a time at which playback of the content is initiated. Example methods include capturing a playback sequence of the video content, classifying individual frames of the playback sequence, where each classification is associated with a probability value indicative of a likelihood the frame is a first frame, analyzing classifications of the individual frames, and determining, based at least in part on the analysis of the classifications of the individual frames, the time to first frame for the video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zongyi Liu, Bruce Ferry, Ayush Goyal, Kun Chen
  • Patent number: 10766143
    Abstract: Techniques for systems and methods that provide for utilizing a robotic system to type commands that correspond to voice commands using a keyboard of a device are described herein. In embodiments, an image of a device may be received from a camera. A keyboard region of the device may be determined based on a keyboard detection algorithm that uses the image. One or more characters in a portion of the image that corresponds to the keyboard region of the device may be detected based on a character detection algorithm. The one or more characters may be grouped into one or more groups based on the portion of the image. A character of a portion of character associated with a group may be edited based on an error detection algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zongyi Liu, Bruce Ferry, Kun Chen, Andrew Becker