Patents by Inventor Ewa Nowara

Ewa Nowara 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: 11259710
    Abstract: A remote photoplethysmography (RPPG) system includes an input interface to receive a sequence of measurements of intensities of different regions of a skin of a person indicative of vital signs of the person; a solver to solve an optimization problem to determine frequency coefficients of photoplethysmographic waveforms corresponding to the measured intensities at the different regions, wherein the solver determines the frequency coefficients to reduce a distance between intensities of the skin reconstructed from the frequency coefficients and the corresponding measured intensities of the skin while enforcing joint sparsity on the frequency coefficients; and an estimator to estimate the vital signs of the person from the determined frequency coefficients of photoplethysmographic waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Hassan Mansour, Tim Marks, Ewa Nowara, Yudai Nakamura, Ashok Veeraraghavan
  • Publication number: 20210224983
    Abstract: A remote photoplethysmography (RPPG) system for estimating vital signs of a person is provided. The RPPG system is configured to receive a set of imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG) signals measured from different regions of a skin of a person. The RPPG system is further configured to determine frequency coefficients at the frequency bins of the quantized frequency spectrum of the measured iPPG signals by minimizing a distance between the measured iPPG signals and corresponding iPPG signals reconstructed from the determined frequency coefficients, while enforcing joint sparsity of the determined frequency coefficients subject to the sparsity level constraint, such that the determined frequency coefficients of different iPPG signals have the non-zero values at the same frequency bins; and output one or a combination of the determined frequency coefficients, the iPPG signals reconstructed from the determined frequency coefficients, and a vital sign signal corresponding to the reconstructed iPPG signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tim Marks, Hassan Mansour, Ewa Nowara, Yudai Nakamura, Ashok Veeraghavan
  • Publication number: 20190350471
    Abstract: A remote photoplethysmography (RPPG) system includes an input interface to receive a sequence of measurements of intensities of different regions of a skin of a person indicative of vital signs of the person; a solver to solve an optimization problem to determine frequency coefficients of photoplethysmographic waveforms corresponding to the measured intensities at the different regions, wherein the solver determines the frequency coefficients to reduce a distance between intensities of the skin reconstructed from the frequency coefficients and the corresponding measured intensities of the skin while enforcing joint sparsity on the frequency coefficients; and an estimator to estimate the vital signs of the person from the determined frequency coefficients of photoplethysmographic waveforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Tim Marks, Hassan Mansour, Ewa Nowara, Yudai Nakamura, Ashok Veeraraghavan