Patents by Inventor Collin Otis

Collin Otis 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).

  • Publication number: 20240300533
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include systems and methods to maintain tracking of an object that passes into an occluded area, including defining a map of a driving area; defining one or more occlusion areas within the map; detecting an object using sensor data from one or more sensors; creating an object track for the object detected using sensor data; determining that the object track entered one of the one or more occlusion areas; and maintaining the object track while the object track remains in the one or more occlusion areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Collin Otis, Philip C. Du Toit
  • Publication number: 20240300487
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems to adjust a driving path in a planner-map, including: identifying a driving surface; determining a path on the driving surface; identifying one or more objects relative to the driving surface using one or more sensors; detecting one or more occlusion areas from sensor data from the one or more sensors; tracking one or more tracks of one or more objects within the one or more occlusion areas; adding uncertainty to the one or more tracks within the one or more occlusion areas; and adjusting the path on the driving surface based on the uncertainty of the one or more tracks within the one or more occlusion areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Collin Otis, Philip C. Du Toit
  • Publication number: 20240300486
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments described herein include systems and method to remove tracks from a tracker when the tracks are within an occluded region, including defining a map of a driving area; defining an occlusion area within the map; detecting an object using sensor data from one or more sensors; determining that the object entered the occlusion area; creating an estimated object location for the object within the occlusion area; dropping the estimated object location for the object when the occlusion area is cleared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Collin Otis, Philip C. Du Toit
  • Patent number: 11106682
    Abstract: A decision platform can be a computer-implemented platform for predicting and increasing the likelihood that directed information is relevant to a user or device. The decision platform can have capabilities for predicting rates of interactivity with the directed information updating models, and reacting to directed information inventory changes in real-time without human intervention. The decision platform can use a three-dimensional logistic regression model to predict interactivity based in part on a user interactivity rate, a directed information interactivity rate, and a placement interactivity rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Collin Otis, Mandeep Waraich
  • Patent number: 10242384
    Abstract: A location-based product recommendation system uses consumer profile data, a network of beacons that emit unique identifiers, and a recommender to determine current product-correlated location information for a space in which a consumer's mobile device is physically present. The system may use the current product-correlated location information and the consumer's profile data to generate a recommendation for a candidate product for the consumer to consider. The system also may incorporate data from other interactions with products such as purchases, clicks on a website, etc. The system also may incorporate data generated on multiple channels (e.g., a product click on a personal computer at work, a mobile device location in a physical store, a product purchase on a personal computer in the home) into a single profile for the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Collin Otis, Joshua Barrett Strausser
  • Patent number: 9942724
    Abstract: A system creates a content-based mapping of a physical space based on data received from beacons positioned at various locations in a physical space. Each beacon transmits a unique beacon identifier. When a mobile device detects a beacon identifier, the mobile device may also detect the signal strength of the transmitted identifier. If, with or shortly after detecting the beacon identifier, the mobile device is used to view content that is present in the physical space, the system may use the content information, the beacon identifier and the signal strength to build content-based floor map of the physical space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Collin Otis, Joshua Barrett Strausser
  • Publication number: 20170272917
    Abstract: A system creates a content-based mapping of a physical space based on data received from beacons positioned at various locations in a physical space. Each beacon transmits a unique beacon identifier. When a mobile device detects a beacon identifier, the mobile device may also detect the signal strength of the transmitted identifier. If, with or shortly after detecting the beacon identifier, the mobile device is used to view content that is present in the physical space, the system may use the content information, the beacon identifier and the signal strength to build content-based floor map of the physical space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Collin Otis, Joshua Barrett Strausser
  • Patent number: 9622046
    Abstract: A system creates a content-based mapping of a physical space based on data received from beacons positioned at various locations in a physical space. Each beacon transmits a unique beacon identifier. When a mobile device detects a beacon identifier, the mobile device may also detect the signal strength of the transmitted identifier. If, with or shortly after detecting the beacon identifier, the mobile device is used to view content that is present in the physical space, the system may use the content information, the beacon identifier and the signal strength to build content-based floor map of the physical space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Collin Otis, Joshua Barrett Strausser
  • Publication number: 20150379576
    Abstract: A location-based product recommendation system uses consumer profile data, a network of beacons that emit unique identifiers, and a recommender to determine current product-correlated location information for a space in which a consumer's mobile device is physically present. The system may use the current product-correlated location information and the consumer's profile data to generate a recommendation for a candidate product for the consumer to consider. The system also may incorporate data from other interactions with products such as purchases, clicks on a website, etc. The system also may incorporate data generated on multiple channels (e.g., a product click on a personal computer at work, a mobile device location in a physical store, a product purchase on a personal computer in the home) into a single profile for the consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Collin Otis, Joshua Barrett Strausser
  • Publication number: 20150382153
    Abstract: A system creates a content-based mapping of a physical space based on data received from beacons positioned at various locations in a physical space. Each beacon transmits a unique beacon identifier. When a mobile device detects a beacon identifier, the mobile device may also detect the signal strength of the transmitted identifier. If, with or shortly after detecting the beacon identifier, the mobile device is used to view content that is present in the physical space, the system may use the content information, the beacon identifier and the signal strength to build content-based floor map of the physical space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Collin Otis, Joshua Barrett Strausser