Patents by Inventor Cedar Warman

Cedar Warman 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).

  • Apparatus and method to quantify maize seed phenotypes
    Patent number: 11823408
    Abstract: A maize ear scanning device and computer vision kernel counting pipeline is used to analyze a maize ear. The process of analyzing the maize ear comprises: placing the ear on a rotating motor, fastened at the top with a metal pin on the sliding portion of the scanner; starting the motor's rotation; capturing an image of rotating ear with camera; converting rotating ear video into flat image by extracting individual frames, cropping to center horizontal pixel row, and concatenating all pixel rows; and running computer vision pipeline on image to identify seed locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Cedar Warman, John E. Fowler
  • NOVEL SYSTEM TO QUANTIFY MAIZE SEED PHENOTYPES
    Publication number: 20210287392
    Abstract: A maize ear scanning device and computer vision kernel counting pipeline is used to analyze a maize ear. The process of analyzing the maize ear comprises: placing the ear on a rotating motor, fastened at the top with a metal pin on the sliding portion of the scanner; starting the motor's rotation; capturing an image of rotating ear with camera; converting rotating ear video into flat image by extracting individual frames, cropping to center horizontal pixel row, and concatenating all pixel rows; and running computer vision pipeline on image to identify seed locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Oregon State University
    Inventors: Cedar Warman, John E. Fowler