Patents by Inventor Eric Chris Wolfgang SOMMERLADE

Eric Chris Wolfgang SOMMERLADE 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: 20220116549
    Abstract: Technology is described herein that uses an object-encoding system to convert an object image into a combined encoding. The object image depicts a reference object, while the combined encoding represents an environment image. The environment image, in turn, depicts an estimate of an environment that has produced the illumination effects exhibited by the reference object. The combined encoding includes: a first part that represents image content in the environment image within a high range of intensities values; and a second part that represents image content within a low range of intensity values. Also described herein is a training system that trains the object-encoding system based on combined encodings produced by a separately-trained environment-encoding system. Also described herein are various applications of the object-encoding system and environment-encoding system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Alexandros NEOFYTOU, Eric Chris Wolfgang SOMMERLADE, Alejandro SZTRAJMAN, Sunando SENGUPTA
  • Publication number: 20220044071
    Abstract: A computing system includes an encoder that receives an input image and encodes the input image into real image features, a decoder that decodes the real image features into a reconstructed image, a generator that receives first audio data corresponding to the input image and generates first synthetic image features from the first audio data, and receives second audio data and generates second synthetic image features from the second audio data, a discriminator that receives both the real and synthetic image features and determines whether a target feature is real or synthetic, and a classifier that classifies a scene of the second audio data based on the second synthetic image features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Chris Wolfgang SOMMERLADE, Yang LIU, Alexandros NEOFYTOU, Sunando SENGUPTA
  • Patent number: 11164042
    Abstract: A computing system includes an encoder that receives an input image and encodes the input image into real image features, a decoder that decodes the real image features into a reconstructed image, a generator that receives first audio data corresponding to the input image and generates first synthetic image features from the first audio data, and receives second audio data and generates second synthetic image features from the second audio data, a discriminator that receives both the real and synthetic image features and determines whether a target feature is real or synthetic, and a classifier that classifies a scene of the second audio data based on the second synthetic image features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Chris Wolfgang Sommerlade, Yang Liu, Alexandros Neofytou, Sunando Sengupta
  • Publication number: 20210216817
    Abstract: A computing system includes an encoder that receives an input image and encodes the input image into real image features, a decoder that decodes the real image features into a reconstructed image, a generator that receives first audio data corresponding to the input image and generates first synthetic image features from the first audio data, and receives second audio data and generates second synthetic image features from the second audio data, a discriminator that receives both the real and synthetic image features and determines whether a target feature is real or synthetic, and a classifier that classifies a scene of the second audio data based on the second synthetic image features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Chris Wolfgang SOMMERLADE, Yang LIU, Alexandros NEOFYTOU, Sunando SENGUPTA
  • Publication number: 20210097644
    Abstract: A method for image enhancement on a computing device includes receiving a digital input image depicting a human eye. From the digital input image, the computing device generates a gaze-adjusted image via a gaze adjustment machine learning model by changing an apparent gaze direction of the human eye. From the gaze-adjusted image and potentially in conjunction with the digital input image, the computing device generates a detail-enhanced image via a detail enhancement machine learning model by adding or modifying details. The computing device outputs the detail-enhanced image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Chris Wolfgang SOMMERLADE, Alexandros NEOFYTOU, Sunando SENGUPTA