Patents by Inventor Glenn Sweeney

Glenn Sweeney 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: 20240134020
    Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to mitigating motion misalignment of a time-of-flight sensor system and/or generating transverse velocity estimate data utilizing the time-of-flight sensor system. A stream of frames outputted by a sensor of the time-of-flight sensor system is received. A pair of non-adjacent frames in the stream of frames is identified. Computed optical flow data is calculated based on the pair of non-adjacent frames in the stream of frames. Estimated optical flow data for at least one differing frame can be generated based on the computed optical flow data, and the at least one differing frame can be realigned based on the estimated optical flow data. Moreover, transverse velocity estimate data for an object can be generated based on the computed optical flow data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Glenn Sweeney, Zhanping Xu, Brandon Seilhan, Ryan Suess, Alexander Lesnick, Kartheek Chandu, Ralph Spickermann
  • Publication number: 20240134021
    Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to mitigating motion misalignment of a time-of-flight sensor system and/or generating transverse velocity estimate data utilizing the time-of-flight sensor system. A stream of frames outputted by a sensor of the time-of-flight sensor system is received. A pair of non-adjacent frames in the stream of frames is identified. Computed optical flow data is calculated based on the pair of non-adjacent frames in the stream of frames. Estimated optical flow data for at least one differing frame can be generated based on the computed optical flow data, and the at least one differing frame can be realigned based on the estimated optical flow data. Moreover, transverse velocity estimate data for an object can be generated based on the computed optical flow data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Glenn Sweeney, Zhanping Xu, Brandon Seilhan, Ryan Suess, Alexander Lesnick, Kartheek Chandu, Ralph Spickermann
  • Publication number: 20230196619
    Abstract: The present technology pertains to validating a virtual camera in a simulation environment by utilizing an improved camera model to provide quantitative measurements of the model's performance. A method of validating a virtual camera in a simulation environment comprises presenting at least one reference chart in the simulated environment and capturing images of the reference chart in the simulated environment using a virtual camera. The method further includes interrupting an image pipeline of the virtual camera after at least one simulated process in the image pipeline to extract a RAW image. The method analyzes the RAW image to derive measurements of metrics to characterize the virtual camera. The measured metrics are compared to metrics of a calibrated real-world camera to verify that the metrics are within a threshold delta that is indicative that the virtual camera sufficiently approximates the real-world camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Kaitlyn Williams, Justin DeCell, Glenn Sweeney