Patents by Inventor Dirk B. Warnaar, PhD

Dirk B. Warnaar, PhD 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: 20230005236
    Abstract: Methods and media for determining a list of geographic location candidates from an image of an environment are described. Open-source data indicative of the Earth's surface may be obtained and compared with images obtained from online sources. The images may be automatically analyzed using a plurality of modular convolution neural networks to determined probabilities of interest, environment, and if the image is locatable. Further, the resulting images may be analyzed for skyline and ridgeline depth orders and Region of Interest. A geolocation depicted in the image may be determined by comparing the results of the analysis with global geographic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Dirk B. Warnaar, PhD, Lance E. Besaw, PhD
  • Publication number: 20220215202
    Abstract: Methods and media for determining a list of geographic location candidates from an image of an environment are described. Open-source data indicative of the Earth's surface may be obtained and compared with images obtained from online sources. The images may be automatically analyzed using a plurality of modular convolution neural networks to determined probabilities of interest, environment, and if the image is locatable. Further, the resulting images may be analyzed for skyline and ridgeline depth orders and Region of Interest. A geolocation depicted in the image may be determined by comparing the results of the analysis with global geographic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Dirk B. Warnaar, PhD, Lance E. Besaw, PhD
  • Publication number: 20210390737
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a geographic location of an environment from an image including an annotation on a mobile device without GPS, with no network access, and with no access to peripheral devices or media is described. Open source data indicative of the earth's surface may be obtained and combined into grids or regions. Elevation data may be used to create skyline models at grid points on the surface. An image of an environment may be obtained from a camera on a mobile device. The user of the mobile device may trace a skyline of the environment depicted in the image. The annotation may be used to create reduced regions for edge detection analysis. The edge detection analysis may detect the skyline. The detected skyline may be compared to the skyline models to determine a most likely location of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Dirk B. Warnaar, PhD, Douglas J. Totten
  • Publication number: 20210287393
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for determining a list of geographic location candidates from an image of an environment are described. Open source data indicative of the earth's surface may be obtained and combined into grids to create region data to gain a representation of the earth's surface within each grid cell. An image of an environment may be obtained from an unknown camera. Image characteristics may be compared to the region data to determine error between the image characteristics and projections of the region data. A list of lowest error geographic location candidates may be determined and provided to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventor: Dirk B. Warnaar, PhD