Patents by Inventor Gregory Baratoff
Gregory Baratoff 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).
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Publication number: 20240059310Abstract: A method for automatically driving a vehicle for a drive-through includes measuring a location of the vehicle with respect to physical features by a sensor mounted on the vehicle, detecting, by the sensor, nearby vehicles and pedestrians around the vehicle, and controlling driving of the vehicle based on information related to the location of the vehicle, the nearby vehicles, and the pedestrians.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Douglas C. MacKenzie, Gregory Baratoff
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Patent number: 10223802Abstract: In a method for determining a depth map from stereo images, the disparity for a pixel is selected from a predefined quantity or set of predefined discrete disparity values that are distributed over the entire predefined disparity value range, whereby the distribution is non-uniform or has at least two different distances or intervals between different adjacent disparity values. This method makes it possible to more precisely determine (with finer resolution) especially only those disparities for which a more precise determination is required.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbHInventors: Frederik Lange, Robert Stueck, Christian Exner, Alexander Bachmann, Gregory Baratoff
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Publication number: 20170270680Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a depth map from stereo images. The disparity for a pixel is determined from a discrete quantity of predefined disparity values, said disparity values are distributed over the entire predefined disparity value range and said distribution has at least two different distances between adjacent disparity values. One advantage of the method according to the invention is that it allows only those disparities for which a more precise determination is required to be more precisely calculated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Frederik LANGE, Robert STUECK, Christian EXNER, Alexander BACHMANN, Gregory BARATOFF
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Patent number: 9704253Abstract: In a method for determining a depth map from stereo images, the disparity for a pixel is determined from a discrete quantity of predefined disparity values that are distributed over the entire predefined disparity value range. The distribution has at least two different distances between different pairs of adjacent disparity values. In this method, it is possible that only those disparities for which a more precise determination is required, will be more precisely calculated.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbHInventors: Frederik Lange, Robert Stueck, Christian Exner, Alexander Bachmann, Gregory Baratoff
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Patent number: 9592764Abstract: A device for redundant object detection includes a stereo camera having two image sensors, a first processor for detecting objects by stereo image evaluation of image data from the two image sensors, and a second processor for classifying the detected objects by evaluation of image data from at least one of the two image sensors. A method and a program for such object detection and classification are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbHInventors: Martin Randler, Gregory Baratoff
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Patent number: 9269142Abstract: To improve the performance for determining obstruction of a stereoscopic system using two cameras or more, a hybrid of local and semi-global methods is provided. For each stereoscopic image formed from simultaneous left and right images, a breakdown of each left and right image into corresponding sectors is applied. Obstruction level is determined by a disparity map by sector, based on left or right images, and in which a disparity is assigned to each pixel corresponding to the best matching score. A determination of density by sector of the disparity map is carried out by reference to a fraction of pixels with a disparity considered to be valid. A state of obstruction of at least one camera is determined based on a weighted average of the probabilities of obscuring of the sectors of the disparity map obtained by comparison between the density of the sectors and a predefined density level.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Laure Bajard, Alain Giralt, Sophie Rony, Gregory Baratoff
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Publication number: 20150332467Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a depth map from stereo images. The disparity for a pixel is determined from a discrete quantity of predefined disparity values, said disparity values are distributed over the entire predefined disparity value range and said distribution has at least two different distances between adjacent disparity values. One advantage of the method according to the invention is that it allows only those disparities for which a more precise determination is required to be more precisely calculated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Frederik LANGE, Robert STUECK, Christian EXNER, Alexander BACHMANN, Gregory BARATOFF
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Patent number: 9187051Abstract: A method and a device for detecting an imminent rollover of a vehicle. The method comprises taking a series of images of the surroundings of the vehicle, in particular of the road ahead, with a camera; determining and tracking point features in the series of images; eliminating point features which are located on objects that move relative to the stationary surroundings of the vehicle; and computing at least one parameter of the rotational movement of the camera (roll, pitch and/or yaw rate) taking into account the remaining point features.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignees: Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH, Continentail Automotive GmbHInventors: Michael Feser, Jochen Schmidt, Gregory Baratoff, Andreas Raith, Rudolf Ertlmeier, Thomas Brandmeier
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Publication number: 20150279018Abstract: To improve the performance for determining obstruction of a stereoscopic system using two cameras or more, a hybrid of local and semi-global methods is provided. For each stereoscopic image formed from simultaneous left and right images, a breakdown of each left and right image into corresponding sectors is applied. Obstruction level is determined by a disparity map by sector, based on left or right images, and in which a disparity is assigned to each pixel corresponding to the best matching score. A determination of density by sector of the disparity map is carried out by reference to a fraction of pixels with a disparity considered to be valid. A state of obstruction of at least one camera is determined based on a weighted average of the probabilities of obscuring of the sectors of the disparity map obtained by comparison between the density of the sectors and a predefined density level.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Laure BAJARD, Alain GIRALT, Sophie RONY, Gregory BARATOFF
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Publication number: 20140330485Abstract: A method and a device for detecting an imminent rollover of a vehicle. The method comprises taking a series of images of the surroundings of the vehicle, in particular of the road ahead, with a camera; determining and tracking point features in the series of images; eliminating point features which are located on objects that move relative to the stationary surroundings of the vehicle; and computing at least one parameter of the rotational movement of the camera (roll, pitch and/or yaw rate) taking into account the remaining point features.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2012Publication date: November 6, 2014Inventors: Michael Feser, Jochen Schmidt, Gregory Baratoff, Andreas Raith, Rudolf Ertlmeier, Thomas Brandmeier
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Publication number: 20140160252Abstract: A device for redundant object detection includes a stereo camera having two image sensors, a first processor for detecting objects by stereo image evaluation of image data from the two image sensors, and a second processor for classifying the detected objects by evaluation of image data from at least one of the two image sensors. A method and a program for such object detection and classification are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbHInventors: Martin Randler, Gregory Baratoff
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Patent number: 8725394Abstract: A speed limit assistant (SLA) system includes a camera based SLA, a map based SLA, and a fusion unit. The camera based SLA is configured to determine a first set of probabilities for an input image, wherein the probabilities indicate how likely the image includes a discrete set of speed limit signs. The map based SLA is configured to determine a second set of probabilities for an input coordinate, wherein the probabilities indicate how likely the coordinate is to correspond to one of a discrete set of speed limits. The fusion unit is configured to perform a Bayesian fusion on the first and second set of probabilities to determine a final speed limit from the discrete set of speed limits.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2008Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignees: Siemens Corporation, Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Claus Bahlmann, Martin Pellkofer, Jan Giebel, Gregory Baratoff
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Patent number: 8098889Abstract: A method for vehicle detection and tracking includes acquiring video data including a plurality of frames, comparing a first frame of the acquired video data against a set of one or more vehicle detectors to form vehicle hypotheses, pruning and verifying the vehicle hypotheses using a set of course-to-fine constraints to detect a vehicle, and tracking the detected vehicle within one or more subsequent frames of the acquired video data by fusing shape template matching with one or more vehicle detectors.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2008Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignees: Siemens Corporation, Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Ying Zhu, Gregory Baratoff, Thorsten Köhler
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Publication number: 20110187863Abstract: A method for detecting expansive static objects from a vehicle in motion. For this purpose, the method employs a front camera that interacts with an image processing device. The front camera can detect road markings on the road. A lateral detection device detects objects in the blind spot of the vehicle. Additional detection devices detect minimal distances to laterally passing or following vehicles. A logic unit links the data of the image processing device of the front camera to the data of the remaining detection devices in such a manner that expansive static objects in the front detection range of the vehicle are detected and are included as such in the detection of the lateral and rear detection devices using the logic unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2009Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBHInventors: Karl-Heinz Glander, Gregory Baratoff
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Publication number: 20100188288Abstract: A speed limit assistant (SLA) system includes a camera based SLA, a map based SLA, and a fusion unit. The camera based SLA is configured to determine a first set of probabilities for an input image, wherein the probabilities indicate how likely the image includes a discrete set of speed limit signs. The map based SLA is configured to determine a second set of probabilities for an input coordinate, wherein the probabilities indicate how likely the coordinate is to correspond to one of a discrete set of speed limits. The fusion unit is configured to perform a Bayesian fusion on the first and second set of probabilities to determine a final speed limit from the discrete set of speed limits.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2008Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.Inventors: Claus Bahlmann, Martin Pellkofer, Jan Giebel, Gregory Baratoff
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Patent number: 7737832Abstract: An assistance system for motor vehicles has at least one monitoring unit monitoring a space external to a vehicle, in particular in a direction of travel of the motor vehicle, with a warning zone being defined in the monitored external space on each side of a lane. The warning zone is delimited by an earliest warning line and a latest warning line encompassing the respective lane marking or, as the case may be, boundary. An evaluation unit receives the data transmitted by the monitoring unit and generates a warning signal for an acoustic, visual and/or haptic warning and/or a steering intervention if the evaluation unit detects that a defined warning threshold lying within the warning zone is exceeded. The warning signal is issued only as a function of further planned driver-adaptive conditions.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2005Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Gregory Baratoff, Ludwig Ertl, Thorsten Köhler, Martin Pellkofer, Andre Rieder
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Patent number: 7724962Abstract: Adaptive vision-based vehicle detection methods, taking into account the lighting context of the images are disclosed. The methods categorize the scenes according to their lighting conditions and switch between specialized classifiers for different scene contexts. Four categories of lighting conditions have been identified using a clustering algorithm in the space of image histograms: Daylight, Low Light, Night, and Saturation. Trained classifiers are used for both Daylight and Low Light categories, and a tail-light detector is used for the Night category. Improved detection performance by using the provided context-adaptive methods is demonstrated. A night time detector is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2007Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignees: Siemens Corporation, Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ying Zhu, Gregory Baratoff, David Jean Pascal Acunzo
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Patent number: 7542592Abstract: Methods for image processing for detecting and recognizing an image object include detecting an image object using pose-specific object detectors, and performing fusion of the outputs from the pose-specific object detectors. The image object is recognized using pose-specific object recognizers that use outputs from the pose-specific object detectors and the fused output of the pose-specific object detectors; and by performing fusion of the outputs of the pose-specific object recognizers to recognize the image object.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2005Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignees: Siemesn Corporate Research, Inc., Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Maneesh Singh, Kazunori Okada, Benedicte Bascle, Dorin Comaniciu, Gregory Baratoff, Thorsten Köhler
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Publication number: 20080273752Abstract: A method for vehicle detection and tracking includes acquiring video data including a plurality of frames, comparing a first frame of the acquired video data against a set of one or more vehicle detectors to form vehicle hypotheses, pruning and verifying the vehicle hypotheses using a set of course-to-fine constraints to detect a vehicle, and tracking the detected vehicle within one or more subsequent frames of the acquired video data by fusing shape template matching with one or more vehicle detectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2008Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.Inventors: Ying Zhu, Gregory Baratoff, Thorsten Kohler
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Publication number: 20080069400Abstract: Adaptive vision-based vehicle detection methods, taking into account the lighting context of the images are disclosed. The methods categorize the scenes according to their lighting conditions and switch between specialized classifiers for different scene contexts. Four categories of lighting conditions have been identified using a clustering algorithm in the space of image histograms: Daylight, Low Light, Night, and Saturation. Trained classifiers are used for both Daylight and Low Light categories, and a tail-light detector is used for the Night category. Improved detection performance by using the provided context-adaptive methods is demonstrated. A night time detector is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2007Publication date: March 20, 2008Inventors: Ying Zhu, Gregory Baratoff, David Acunzo