Patents by Inventor Harmut Neven

Harmut Neven 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: 8897508
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating and updating a facial image database from a collection of digital images is disclosed. A set of detected faces from a digital image collection is stored in a facial image database, along with data pertaining to them. At least one facial recognition template for each face in the first set is computed, and the images in the set are grouped according to the facial recognition template into similarity groups. Another embodiment is a naming tool for assigning names to a plurality of faces detected in a digital image collection. A facial image database stores data pertaining to facial images detected in images of a digital image collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Hartwig Adam, Johannes Steffens, Keith Kiyohara, Harmut Neven, Brian Westphal, Tobias Magnusson, Gavin Doughtie, Henry Benjamin, Michael Horowitz, Hong-Kien Kenneth Ong
  • Publication number: 20130251217
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating and updating a facial image database from a collection of digital images is disclosed. A set of detected faces from a digital image collection is stored in a facial image database, along with data pertaining to them. At least one facial recognition template for each face in the first set is computed, and the images in the set are grouped according to the facial recognition template into similarity groups. Another embodiment is a naming tool for assigning names to a plurality of faces detected in a digital image collection. A facial image database stores data pertaining to facial images detected in images of a digital image collection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Hartwig ADAM, Johannes Steffens, Keith Kiyohara, Harmut Neven, Brian Westphal, Tobias Magnusson, Gavin Doughtie, Henry Benjamin, Michael Horowitz, Hong-Kien Kenneth Ong
  • Publication number: 20070159522
    Abstract: Content media having images associated with remotely stored information are provided with barcodes marked with indicia to indicate a source of the information. In this manner, a user, having, for example, a camera phone, will become aware that the particular content medium has images that can be scanned to retrieve additional information (from the remote information store) via their camera phone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Harmut Neven