Patents by Inventor Guy Dassa

Guy Dassa 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: 12175749
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing automatic detection of surfaces in video frames resulting in the creation of a seamless in-video ad experience for viewing users. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available surfaces in videos to show advertisements in compliance with publisher protection, compliance and policy in a fully automatic, end-to-end solution. The disclosed framework evidences a streamlined, automatic and computationally efficient process(es) that modifies digital content at the surface level within the frames of the content in compliance with the digital rights of the owners of the content being merged via the disclosed augmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Guy Dassa, Whitney Zoller
  • Patent number: 12026596
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in computerized security and content monitoring, hosting and providing devices, systems and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that adaptively distinguishes between known people versus unknown people based on a dynamically applied, anonymous facial recognition methodology. The disclosed framework provides such functionality by recognizing faces within captured images without storing any information or annotations regarding or revealing the captured person's identity. The framework is configured to adaptively learn to distinguish between faces seen for the first time and faces it has previously seen by locally processing a captured image and only sending face embeddings to a network location for future comparisons of subsequently, anonymously captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Zhang, Guy Dassa, Atte Lahtiranta
  • Publication number: 20230237800
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing automatic detection of surfaces in video frames resulting in the creation of a seamless in-video ad experience for viewing users. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available surfaces in videos to show advertisements in compliance with publisher protection, compliance and policy in a fully automatic, end-to-end solution. The disclosed framework evidences a streamlined, automatic and computationally efficient process(es) that modifies digital content at the surface level within the frames of the content in compliance with the digital rights of the owners of the content being merged via the disclosed augmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Guy DASSA, Whitney ZOLLER
  • Patent number: 11694358
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide an image processing framework that sub-divides computer vision techniques into three computationally efficient steps: detection, classification and matching. These steps provide an improved image processing framework that can analyze live stream data of a media file, in real-time, in order to identify and track specific digital objects depicted therein. This enables not only image processing detection results, but also the capabilities of augmenting the video stream with additional data related to the detected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Dassa, Yale Song, Jeffrey Scholz, Joao Vitor Baldini Soares, Minho Lee
  • Patent number: 11620825
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing automatic detection of surfaces in video frames resulting in the creation of a seamless in-video ad experience for viewing users. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available surfaces in videos to show advertisements in compliance with publisher protection, compliance and policy in a fully automatic, end-to-end solution. The disclosed framework evidences a streamlined, automatic and computationally efficient process(es) that modifies digital content at the surface level within the frames of the content in compliance with the digital rights of the owners of the content being merged via the disclosed augmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Guy Dassa, Whitney Zoller
  • Publication number: 20220277562
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing automatic detection of surfaces in video frames resulting in the creation of a seamless in-video ad experience for viewing users. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available surfaces in videos to show advertisements in compliance with publisher protection, compliance and policy in a fully automatic, end-to-end solution. The disclosed framework evidences a streamlined, automatic and computationally efficient process(es) that modifies digital content at the surface level within the frames of the content in compliance with the digital rights of the owners of the content being merged via the disclosed augmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Guy DASSA, Whitney ZOLLER
  • Patent number: 11341744
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing automatic detection of surfaces in video frames resulting in the creation of a seamless in-video ad experience for viewing users. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available surfaces in videos to show advertisements in compliance with publisher protection, compliance and policy in a fully automatic, end-to-end solution. The disclosed framework evidences a streamlined, automatic and computationally efficient process(es) that modifies digital content at the surface level within the frames of the content in compliance with the digital rights of the owners of the content being merged via the disclosed augmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO AD TECH LLC
    Inventors: Guy Dassa, Whitney Zoller
  • Patent number: 11270522
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes an augmented reality system acquiring an image of an event from a viewpoint of a camera of a computing device in proximity to the event, the event including a performance area; identifying at least part of the performance area of the event within the image of the event; determining a three-dimensional (3D) pose of the performance area of the event within the image of the event; and providing, for concurrent display by a display device of the computing device, the image of the event and augmented reality content that is oriented according to the 3D pose of the performance area of the event within the image of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Tauber, Herve Bizira, Viktor Kyriazakos, Christos Papapavlou, Sean McCall, Guy Dassa, Jeffrey Scholz, Praveen Mareedu, Xingyue Zhou, Haoxin Guo
  • Publication number: 20220068038
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes an augmented reality system acquiring an image of an event from a viewpoint of a camera of a computing device in proximity to the event, the event including a performance area; identifying at least part of the performance area of the event within the image of the event; determining a three-dimensional (3D) pose of the performance area of the event within the image of the event; and providing, for concurrent display by a display device of the computing device, the image of the event and augmented reality content that is oriented according to the 3D pose of the performance area of the event within the image of the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Zachary Tauber, Herve Bizira, Viktor Kyriazakos, Christos Papapavlou, Sean McCall, Guy Dassa, Jeffrey Scholz, Praveen Mareedu, Xingyue Zhou, Haoxin Guo
  • Publication number: 20210397823
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in computerized security and content monitoring, hosting and providing devices, systems and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that adaptively distinguishes between known people versus unknown people based on a dynamically applied, anonymous facial recognition methodology. The disclosed framework provides such functionality by recognizing faces within captured images without storing any information or annotations regarding or revealing the captured person's identity. The framework is configured to adaptively learn to distinguish between faces seen for the first time and faces it has previously seen by locally processing a captured image and only sending face embeddings to a network location for future comparisons of subsequently, anonymously captured images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Yang ZHANG, Guy DASSA, Atte LAHTIRANTA
  • Patent number: 11206433
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating augmented videos are provided. First coordinates, of a first video frame of a video, may be determined for projection of a graphical object. A first plurality of keypoints on the first video frame may be determined based upon a set of objects. A second plurality of keypoints on a second video frame may be determined. A keypoint of the second plurality of keypoints may correspond to a keypoint of the first plurality of keypoints. A relationship between the first video frame and the second video frame may be determined based upon the first plurality of keypoints and the second plurality of keypoints. Second coordinates of the second video frame may be determined based upon the first coordinates and the relationship. The graphical object may be projected onto the second video frame based upon the second coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Xingyue Zhou, Andrew Edward Kae, Guy Dassa
  • Patent number: 11126830
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in computerized security and content monitoring, hosting and providing devices, systems and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that adaptively distinguishes between known people versus unknown people based on a dynamically applied, anonymous facial recognition methodology. The disclosed framework provides such functionality by recognizing faces within captured images without storing any information or annotations regarding or revealing the captured person's identity. The framework is configured to adaptively learn to distinguish between faces seen for the first time and faces it has previously seen by locally processing a captured image and only sending face embeddings to a network location for future comparisons of subsequently, anonymously captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Yang Zhang, Guy Dassa, Atte Lahtiranta
  • Publication number: 20210081657
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in computerized security and content monitoring, hosting and providing devices, systems and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework that adaptively distinguishes between known people versus unknown people based on a dynamically applied, anonymous facial recognition methodology. The disclosed framework provides such functionality by recognizing faces within captured images without storing any information or annotations regarding or revealing the captured person's identity. The framework is configured to adaptively learn to distinguish between faces seen for the first time and faces it has previously seen by locally processing a captured image and only sending face embeddings to a network location for future comparisons of subsequently, anonymously captured images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Yang ZHANG, Guy DASSA, Atte LAHTIRANTA
  • Publication number: 20210042960
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide an image processing framework that sub-divides computer vision techniques into three computationally efficient steps: detection, classification and matching. These steps provide an improved image processing framework that can analyze live stream data of a media file, in real-time, in order to identify and track specific digital objects depicted therein. This enables not only image processing detection results, but also the capabilities of augmenting the video stream with additional data related to the detected object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Guy DASSA, Yale SONG, Jeffrey SCHOLZ, Joao Vitor Baldini SOARES, Minho LEE
  • Publication number: 20200359064
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating augmented videos are provided. First coordinates, of a first video frame of a video, may be determined for projection of a graphical object. A first plurality of keypoints on the first video frame may be determined based upon a set of objects. A second plurality of keypoints on a second video frame may be determined. A keypoint of the second plurality of keypoints may correspond to a keypoint of the first plurality of keypoints. A relationship between the first video frame and the second video frame may be determined based upon the first plurality of keypoints and the second plurality of keypoints. Second coordinates of the second video frame may be determined based upon the first coordinates and the relationship. The graphical object may be projected onto the second video frame based upon the second coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Xingyue Zhou, Andrew Edward Kae, Guy Dassa
  • Patent number: 10818033
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide an image processing framework that sub-divides computer vision techniques into three computationally efficient steps: detection, classification and matching. These steps provide an improved image processing framework that can analyze live stream data of a media file, in real-time, in order to identify and track specific digital objects depicted therein. This enables not only image processing detection results, but also the capabilities of augmenting the video stream with additional data related to the detected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventors: Guy Dassa, Yale Song, Jeffrey Scholz, Joao Vitor Baldini Soares, Minho Lee
  • Patent number: 10740394
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel machine-in-the-loop, image-to-video bootstrapping framework that harnesses a training set built upon an image dataset and a video dataset in order to efficiently produce an accurate training set to be applied to frames of videos. The disclosed systems and methods reduce the amount of time required to build the training dataset, and also provide mechanisms to apply the training dataset to any type of content and for any type of recognition task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventors: Yale Song, Guy Dassa, Minho Lee, Jeffrey Scholz, Joao Vitor Baldini Soares
  • Patent number: 10713319
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to determine a degree of separation between a user and a connection within a social network of the user, the connection associated with an interaction from which at least topic is determined. A value of affinity between the user and the connection is determined. A weight reflecting a value of interest similarity between the user and the connection is determined. A term based on the degree of separation, the value of affinity, and the weight reflecting a value of interest similarity is calculated. Terms associated with the at least one topic are combined to generate a composite score associated with the at least one topic to determine whether to present the at least one topic to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Dassa, Louis Paul Kruger
  • Patent number: 10621626
    Abstract: A system of generating advertising inventory by marketers sharing content with others via a social network or other electronic communication across a network. This embodiment may include allowing one or more content providers to provide links to content items. The content items may be provided directly by the content provider or by a clearinghouse entity or other intermediary. A subscriber may then search for relevant content items from one or more content providers. The subscriber may provide ancillary content for association with the selected content item. Thus, when the subscriber shares a URL identifying the selected content item via a social network, the URL may be encoded with a unique identifier identifying the subscriber. When the URL is clicked by a user, an ad server on the publisher's side may recognize the unique identifier and display the content item with the ancillary content provided by the subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: The New York Times Company
    Inventors: Matthew T. Boggie, Amy E. Hyde, Guy Dassa, Bobby Roe
  • Publication number: 20190332865
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing automatic detection of surfaces in video frames resulting in the creation of a seamless in-video ad experience for viewing users. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available surfaces in videos to show advertisements in compliance with publisher protection, compliance and policy in a fully automatic, end-to-end solution. The disclosed framework evidences a streamlined, automatic and computationally efficient process(es) that modifies digital content at the surface level within the frames of the content in compliance with the digital rights of the owners of the content being merged via the disclosed augmentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Guy DASSA, Whitney ZOLLER