Patents by Inventor Gabriel Molina

Gabriel Molina 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: 11941833
    Abstract: Systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention can perform parallax detection and correction in images captured using array cameras. Due to the different viewpoints of the cameras, parallax results in variations in the position of objects within the captured images of the scene. Methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention provide an accurate account of the pixel disparity due to parallax between the different cameras in the array, so that appropriate scene-dependent geometric shifts can be applied to the pixels of the captured images when performing super-resolution processing. In a number of embodiments, generating depth estimates considers the similarity of pixels in multiple spectral channels. In certain embodiments, generating depth estimates involves generating a confidence map indicating the reliability of depth estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Adeia Imaging LLC
    Inventors: Florian Ciurea, Kartik Venkataraman, Gabriel Molina, Dan Lelescu
  • Patent number: 11875475
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed that use super-resolution (SR) processes to use information from a plurality of low resolution (LR) images captured by an array camera to produce a synthesized higher resolution image. One embodiment includes obtaining input images using the plurality of imagers, using a microprocessor to determine an initial estimate of at least a portion of a high resolution image using a plurality of pixels from the input images, and using a microprocessor to determine a high resolution image that when mapped through the forward imaging transformation matches the input images to within at least one predetermined criterion using the initial estimate of at least a portion of the high resolution image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Adeia Imaging LLC
    Inventors: Dan Lelescu, Gabriel Molina, Kartik Venkataraman
  • Publication number: 20230360566
    Abstract: Methods and systems for adjusting device functions based on ambient conditions or battery status are disclosed. When environmental or device conditions reach a threshold level, device function such as display brightness or display refresh rate may be adjusted. One such example, may include a method and system for image fusion with a wide camera and a second image from a narrow camera to create a composite image with unnoticeable blending between the images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Suhas Gupta, Raunaq Naidu, Zhaonian Zhang, Scott Jeffrey Woltman, Joshua Miller, Sebastian Sztuk, Gabriel Molina, Josiah Vincent Vivona, Varun Nasery, Xiaofei Ma, Nan Jiang
  • Publication number: 20230308770
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for operating image modules via an artificial reality (AR) device. In various exemplary embodiments, an artificial reality device may initiate a first camera of the AR device to identify a picture region and may track at least one gaze via a second camera of the AR device or at least one gesture via the first camera. The AR device may be a head-mounted device, for example, including a plurality of inward and outward facing cameras. The AR device may determine a region of interest within the picture region based on the at least one tracked gaze or gesture and may focus on the region of interest via the first camera. The focusing operations may include at least one of an auto-exposure operation, an auto-focus operation, or a stabilizing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaoxing Li, Jun Hu, Yazhu Ling, Honghong Peng, Shan Tong, Gabriel Molina
  • Publication number: 20220414829
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed that use super-resolution (SR) processes to use information from a plurality of low resolution (LR) images captured by an array camera to produce a synthesized higher resolution image. One embodiment includes obtaining input images using the plurality of imagers, using a microprocessor to determine an initial estimate of at least a portion of a high resolution image using a plurality of pixels from the input images, and using a microprocessor to determine a high resolution image that when mapped through the forward imaging transformation matches the input images to within at least one predetermined criterion using the initial estimate of at least a portion of the high resolution image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: FotoNation Limited
    Inventors: Dan Lelescu, Gabriel Molina, Kartik Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 11423513
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed that use super-resolution (SR) processes to use information from a plurality of low resolution (LR) images captured by an array camera to produce a synthesized higher resolution image. One embodiment includes obtaining input images using the plurality of imagers, using a microprocessor to determine an initial estimate of at least a portion of a high resolution image using a plurality of pixels from the input images, and using a microprocessor to determine a high resolution image that when mapped through the forward imaging transformation matches the input images to within at least one predetermined criterion using the initial estimate of at least a portion of the high resolution image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Inventors: Dan Lelescu, Gabriel Molina, Kartik Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 11348264
    Abstract: A communication system captures writing surface content in a physical space for transmittal to remote client devices participating in a communication session. During a communication session with one or more remote client devices, a communication system captures image data and depth data describing objects in a physical space of the communication system. Based on the captured data, the communication system identifies a writing surface in the physical space and captures content on the writing surface. The communication system may also identify objects occluding content on the writing surface based on the captured data and may modify image data to make an object occluding the content at least partially transparent. The communication system transmits the content to at least one of the remote client devices participating in the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Back, Gabriel Molina
  • Publication number: 20220109822
    Abstract: The disclosed camera system may include a primary camera and a plurality of secondary cameras that each have a maximum horizontal FOV that is less than a maximum horizontal FOV of the primary camera. Two of the plurality of secondary cameras may be positioned such that their maximum horizontal FOVs overlap in an overlapped horizontal FOV and the overlapped horizontal FOV may be at least as large as a minimum horizontal FOV of the primary camera. The camera system may also include an image controller that simultaneously activates two or more of the primary camera and the plurality of secondary cameras when capturing images from a portion of an environment included within the overlapped horizontal FOV. Various other systems, devices, assemblies, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Howard William Winter, Gabriel Molina, Stephen Mark Jeapes, Nan Jiang, Anthony Dodero, John Kramer, Honghong Peng, Jesse Tyler Walton, Andrea Colaco, Joseph Moak, Rex Crossen, Josiah Vincent Vivona
  • Publication number: 20210150748
    Abstract: Systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention can perform parallax detection and correction in images captured using array cameras. Due to the different viewpoints of the cameras, parallax results in variations in the position of objects within the captured images of the scene. Methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention provide an accurate account of the pixel disparity due to parallax between the different cameras in the array, so that appropriate scene-dependent geometric shifts can be applied to the pixels of the captured images when performing super-resolution processing. In a number of embodiments, generating depth estimates considers the similarity of pixels in multiple spectral channels. In certain embodiments, generating depth estimates involves generating a confidence map indicating the reliability of depth estimates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: FotoNation Limited
    Inventors: Florian Ciurea, Kartik Venkataraman, Gabriel Molina, Dan Lelescu
  • Publication number: 20210133927
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed that use super-resolution (SR) processes to use information from a plurality of low resolution (LR) images captured by an array camera to produce a synthesized higher resolution image. One embodiment includes obtaining input images using the plurality of imagers, using a microprocessor to determine an initial estimate of at least a portion of a high resolution image using a plurality of pixels from the input images, and using a microprocessor to determine a high resolution image that when mapped through the forward imaging transformation matches the input images to within at least one predetermined criterion using the initial estimate of at least a portion of the high resolution image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: FotoNation Limited
    Inventors: Dan Lelescu, Gabriel Molina, Kartik Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 10909707
    Abstract: Systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention can perform parallax detection and correction in images captured using array cameras. Due to the different viewpoints of the cameras, parallax results in variations in the position of objects within the captured images of the scene. Methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention provide an accurate account of the pixel disparity due to parallax between the different cameras in the array, so that appropriate scene-dependent geometric shifts can be applied to the pixels of the captured images when performing super-resolution processing. In a number of embodiments, generating depth estimates considers the similarity of pixels in multiple spectral channels. In certain embodiments, generating depth estimates involves generating a confidence map indicating the reliability of depth estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: FotoNation Limited
    Inventors: Florian Ciurea, Kartik Venkataraman, Gabriel Molina, Dan Lelescu
  • Patent number: 10839485
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed that use super-resolution (SR) processes to use information from a plurality of low resolution (LR) images captured by an array camera to produce a synthesized higher resolution image. One embodiment includes obtaining input images using the plurality of imagers, using a microprocessor to determine an initial estimate of at least a portion of a high resolution image using a plurality of pixels from the input images, and using a microprocessor to determine a high resolution image that when mapped through the forward imaging transformation matches the input images to within at least one predetermined criterion using the initial estimate of at least a portion of the high resolution image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: FotoNation Limited
    Inventors: Dan Lelescu, Gabriel Molina, Kartik Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 10742621
    Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to receive registration data for a local network device, receive registration data for an electronic device, receive a request to pair the local network device and the electronic device, where the request to pair the devices includes a pairing code, and allow the pairing if the registration data for the local network device, the registration data for the electronic device, and the pairing code satisfies predetermined conditions. In an example, the pairing code was to the local network device and the electronic device requested and received the pairing code from the local network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: German Lancioni, Emiliano Gabriel Molina, Patricio A. Maller
  • Patent number: 10674138
    Abstract: Systems with an array camera augmented with a conventional camera in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In some embodiments, the array camera is used to capture a first set of image data of a scene and a conventional camera is used to capture a second set of image data for the scene. An object of interest is identified in the first set of image data. A first depth measurement for the object of interest is determined and compared to a predetermined threshold. If the first depth measurement is above the threshold, a second set of image data captured using the conventional camera is obtained. The object of interest is identified in the second set of image data and a second depth measurement for the object of interest is determined using at least a portion of the first set of image data and at least a portion of the second set of image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: FotoNation Limited
    Inventors: Kartik Venkataraman, Paul Gallagher, Ankit K. Jain, Semyon Nisenzon, Dan Lelescu, Florian Ciurea, Gabriel Molina
  • Patent number: 10646555
    Abstract: Processes and compositions for the therapeutic treatment of pathogenic Gram-negative bacterial infection are provided whereby argininosuccinate synthetase or PEGylated argininosuccinate synthetase is administered to a subject to inactivate endotoxin thereby reducing the likelihood of bacterial sepsis and improving patient outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BioRegency, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanislav I. Svetlov, Victor Prima, Alvin Wang, Gabriel Molina, Kevin Ka-wang Wang
  • Patent number: 10547772
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing motion blur in images or video in ultra low light with array cameras in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for synthesizing an image from multiple images captured using an array camera includes capturing image data using active cameras within an array camera, where the active cameras are configured to capture image data and the image data includes pixel brightness values that form alternate view images captured from different viewpoints, determining sets of corresponding pixels in the alternate view images where each pixel in a set of corresponding pixels is chosen from a different alternate view image, summing the pixel brightness values for corresponding pixels to create pixel brightness sums for pixel locations in an output image, and synthesizing an output image from the viewpoint of the output image using the pixel brightness sums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: FotoNation Limited
    Inventor: Gabriel Molina
  • Publication number: 20190362515
    Abstract: Systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention can perform parallax detection and correction in images captured using array cameras. Due to the different viewpoints of the cameras, parallax results in variations in the position of objects within the captured images of the scene. Methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention provide an accurate account of the pixel disparity due to parallax between the different cameras in the array, so that appropriate scene-dependent geometric shifts can be applied to the pixels of the captured images when performing super-resolution processing. In a number of embodiments, generating depth estimates considers the similarity of pixels in multiple spectral channels. In certain embodiments, generating depth estimates involves generating a confidence map indicating the reliability of depth estimates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: FotoNation Limited
    Inventors: Florian Ciurea, Kartik Venkataraman, Gabriel Molina, Dan Lelescu
  • Publication number: 20190347768
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed that use super-resolution (SR) processes to use information from a plurality of low resolution (LR) images captured by an array camera to produce a synthesized higher resolution image. One embodiment includes obtaining input images using the plurality of imagers, using a microprocessor to determine an initial estimate of at least a portion of a high resolution image using a plurality of pixels from the input images, and using a microprocessor to determine a high resolution image that when mapped through the forward imaging transformation matches the input images to within at least one predetermined criterion using the initial estimate of at least a portion of the high resolution image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: FotoNation Limited
    Inventors: Dan Lelescu, Gabriel Molina, Kartik Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 10380752
    Abstract: Systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention can perform parallax detection and correction in images captured using array cameras. Due to the different viewpoints of the cameras, parallax results in variations in the position of objects within the captured images of the scene. Methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention provide an accurate account of the pixel disparity due to parallax between the different cameras in the array, so that appropriate scene-dependent geometric shifts can be applied to the pixels of the captured images when performing super-resolution processing. In a number of embodiments, generating depth estimates considers the similarity of pixels in multiple spectral channels. In certain embodiments, generating depth estimates involves generating a confidence map indicating the reliability of depth estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: FotoNation Limited
    Inventors: Florian Ciurea, Kartik Venkataraman, Gabriel Molina, Dan Lelescu
  • Patent number: 10366472
    Abstract: Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed that use super-resolution (SR) processes to use information from a plurality of low resolution (LR) images captured by an array camera to produce a synthesized higher resolution image. One embodiment includes obtaining input images using the plurality of imagers, using a microprocessor to determine an initial estimate of at least a portion of a high resolution image using a plurality of pixels from the input images, and using a microprocessor to determine a high resolution image that when mapped through the forward imaging transformation matches the input images to within at least one predetermined criterion using the initial estimate of at least a portion of the high resolution image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FotoNation Limited
    Inventors: Dan Lelescu, Gabriel Molina, Kartik Venkataraman