Patents by Inventor Don Dongwoo Kim

Don Dongwoo Kim 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: 10909423
    Abstract: Data representing a scene is received. The scene includes labeled elements such as walls, a floor, a ceiling, and objects placed at various locations in the scene. The original received scene may be modified in different ways to create new scenes that are based on the original scene. These modifications include adding clutter to the scene, moving one or more elements of the scene, swapping one or more elements of the scene with different labeled elements, changing the size, color, or materials associated with one or more of the elements of the scene, and changing the lighting used in the scene. Each new scene may be used to generate labeled training data for a classifier by placing a virtual sensor (e.g., a camera) in the new scene, and generating sensor output data for the virtual sensor based on its placement in the new scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Trebor Lee Connell, Emanuel Shalev, Michael John Ebstyne, Don Dongwoo Kim
  • Publication number: 20190377980
    Abstract: Data representing a scene is received. The scene includes labeled elements such as walls, a floor, a ceiling, and objects placed at various locations in the scene. The original received scene may be modified in different ways to create new scenes that are based on the original scene. These modifications include adding clutter to the scene, moving one or more elements of the scene, swapping one or more elements of the scene with different labeled elements, changing the size, color, or materials associated with one or more of the elements of the scene, and changing the lighting used in the scene. Each new scene may be used to generate labeled training data for a classifier by placing a virtual sensor (e.g., a camera) in the new scene, and generating sensor output data for the virtual sensor based on its placement in the new scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Trebor Lee CONNELL, Emanuel SHALEV, Michael John EBSTYNE, Don Dongwoo KIM
  • Patent number: 10038842
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for generating improved planar panorama imagery, which may be used to view street-level, human-scale locations along a desired path, for example. One or more desired objects can be detected in source imagery that may be used to produce the resulting planar panorama imagery. Respective object regions comprising a desired object can be identified in one or more frames of the source imagery. One or more portions of the source imagery that do not comprise the object region for the desired object can be joined with at least some of the one or more frames that do comprise the object region for the desired object. The resulting planar panorama imagery can thus comprise the desired object. Also, the planar panorama imagery can be generated so as to lack one or more non-desired objects and/or adverse effects that may result therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Thomas Williams, Jonathan Paul Rosenberg, Johannes Kopf, Don Dongwoo Kim, Sandeep Kanumuri
  • Publication number: 20150249786
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for generating improved planar panorama imagery, which may be used to view street-level, human-scale locations along a desired path, for example. One or more desired objects can be detected in source imagery that may be used to produce the resulting planar panorama imagery. Respective object regions comprising a desired object can be identified in one or more frames of the source imagery. One or more portions of the source imagery that do not comprise the object region for the desired object can be joined with at least some of the one or more frames that do comprise the object region for the desired object. The resulting planar panorama imagery can thus comprise the desired object. Also, the planar panorama imagery can be generated so as to lack one or more non-desired objects and/or adverse effects that may result therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Samuel Thomas Williams, Jonathan Paul Rosenberg, Johannes Kopf, Don Dongwoo Kim, Sandeep Kanumuri
  • Publication number: 20130106990
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for generating improved planar panorama imagery, which may be used to view street-level, human-scale locations along a desired path, for example. One or more desired objects can be detected in source imagery that may be used to produce the resulting planar panorama imagery. Respective object regions comprising a desired object can be identified in one or more frames of the source imagery. One or more portions of the source imagery that do not comprise the object region for the desired object can be joined with at least some of the one or more frames that do comprise the object region for the desired object. The resulting planar panorama imagery can thus comprise the desired object. Also, the planar panorama imagery can be generated so as to lack one or more non-desired objects and/or adverse effects that may result therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Thomas Williams, Jonathan Paul Rosenberg, Johannes Kopf, Don Dongwoo Kim, Sandeep Kanumuri