Patents by Inventor Etienne Eccles

Etienne Eccles 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: 8897492
    Abstract: Disclosed is a people counter including a setting interface and a setting method thereof. Since a reference width used to count of a moving object within an image is visibly arranged and displayed on a screen so that a detected width of the moving object can be compared with the reference width, setting and verification for count is very easy. In addition, since the interface can be freely moved for adjustment and comparison of a reference width using a pointing device such as a mouse, thereby providing verification and resetting which are intuitive and practical over conventional manual adjustment schemes, count accuracy can be easily increased in different environments depending on conditions or type of moving objects within an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignees: UDP Technology Ltd., VCA Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeon Hag Chou, Jung Keun Ahn, Ben White, Etienne Eccles, Bin Cheng, Geoffrey Thiel, Neil Robinson
  • Patent number: 8780177
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for camera parameter calibration which is capable of easily and simply setting physical and optical characteristic parameters of a camera in order to acquire information on actual measurement of an image provided through the camera with high accuracy. The camera parameter calibration apparatus and method has an advantage of correct image analysis that it is capable of increasing accuracy of information of measurement through an image only with an intuitive interface manipulation, without taking a time-consuming and incorrect actual measurement procedure, by determining parameters of the space model corresponding to the image by displaying a 3D space model corresponding to a real space of the image on the image and changing and adjusting visual point parameters such that the 3D space model matches the display image, and regarding the determined parameters of the space model as camera parameters of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignees: UDP Technology Ltd., VCA Technology
    Inventors: Etienne Eccles, Ben White, Geoff Thiel, Jung Keun Ahn
  • Publication number: 20140119594
    Abstract: Disclosed is a people counter including a setting interface and a setting method thereof. Since a reference width used to count of a moving object within an image is visibly arranged and displayed on a screen so that a detected width of the moving object can be compared with the reference width, setting and verification for count is very easy. In addition, since the interface can be freely moved for adjustment and comparison of a reference width using a pointing device such as a mouse, thereby providing verification and resetting which are intuitive and practical over conventional manual adjustment schemes, count accuracy can be easily increased in different environments depending on conditions or type of moving objects within an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Yeon Hag Chou, Jung Keun Ahn, Ben White, Etienne Eccles, Bin Cheng, Geoffrey Thiel, Neil Robinson
  • Publication number: 20110149041
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for camera parameter calibration which is capable of easily and simply setting physical and optical characteristic parameters of a camera in order to acquire information on actual measurement of an image provided through the camera with high accuracy. The camera parameter calibration apparatus and method has an advantage of correct image analysis that it is capable of increasing accuracy of information of measurement through an image only with an intuitive interface manipulation, without taking a time-consuming and incorrect actual measurement procedure, by determining parameters of the space model corresponding to the image by displaying a 3D space model corresponding to a real space of the image on the image and changing and adjusting visual point parameters such that the 3D space model matches the display image, and regarding the determined parameters of the space model as camera parameters of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicants: UDP Technology Ltd., VCA Technology
    Inventors: Etienne Eccles, Ben White, Geoff Thiel, Jung Keun Ahn