Patents by Inventor Henry Allan Rowley
Henry Allan Rowley 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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Patent number: 11971897Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating results for a client-requested query involves receiving a query produced by a client communication device, generating a result for the query in response to reception of the query, determining one or more predictive follow-up requests before receiving an actual follow-up request from the client device, and initiating retrieval of information associated with the one or more predictive follow-up requests, and transmitting at least part of the result to the client device, and then transmitting to the client device at least part of the information associated with the one or more predictive follow-up requests.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Shumeet Baluja, Henry Allan Rowley
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Patent number: 11092455Abstract: A computer-implemented method of providing personalized route information involves gathering a plurality of past location indicators over time for a wireless client device, determining a future driving objective using the plurality of previously-gathered location indicators, obtaining real-time traffic data for an area proximate to the determined driving objective, and generating a suggested route for the driving objective using the near real-time traffic data.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Henry Allan Rowley, Shumeet Baluja
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Patent number: 10963730Abstract: Comparing extracted card data from a continuous scan comprises receiving, by one or more computing devices, a digital scan of a card; obtaining a plurality of images of the card from the digital scan of the physical card; performing an optical character recognition algorithm on each of the plurality of images; comparing results of the application of the optical character recognition algorithm for each of the plurality of images; determining if a configured threshold of the results for each of the plurality of images match each other; and verifying the results when the results for each of the plurality of images match each other. Threshold confidence level for the extracted card data can be employed to determine the accuracy of the extraction. Data is further extracted from blended images and three-dimensional models of the card. Embossed text and holograms in the images may be used to prevent fraud.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Sanjiv Kumar, Henry Allan Rowley, Xiaohang Wang, Yakov Okshtein, Farhan Shamsi, Alessandro Bissacco
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Patent number: 10922350Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for associating still images and videos. One method includes receiving a plurality of images and a plurality of videos and determining whether the images are related to the videos. The determining includes, for an image and a video, extracting features from the image and extracting features frames of the video, and comparing the features to determine whether the image is related to the video. The method further includes maintaining a data store storing data associating each image with each video determined to be related to the image.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ming Zhao, Yang Song, Hartwig Adam, Ullas Gargi, Yushi Jing, Henry Allan Rowley
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Patent number: 10656829Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, at a user device, user input corresponding to handwritten text to be recognized using a recognition engine; and receiving, at the user device, a representation of the handwritten text. The representation includes the handwritten text parsed into individual handwritten characters. The method further includes: displaying, on a display of the user device, the handwritten characters using a first indicator; receiving, at the user device, an identification of a text character recognized as one of the handwritten characters; displaying, on the display, the text character; and adjusting, at the user device, the one of the handwritten characters from being displayed using the first indicator to using a second indicator in response to the received identification. The first and second indicators are different.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Franz Josef Och, Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Martin Keysers, Henry Allan Rowley
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Patent number: 10614334Abstract: Capturing information from an imprinted item comprises a computing device that receives an image of a back side of an imprinted item, the payment instrument comprising information imprinted thereon such that the imprinted information protrudes from a front side of the imprinted item and the imprinted information is indented into the back side of the imprinted item. The computing device extracts sets of characters from the image of the back side of the imprinted item based on the imprinted information indented into the back side of the imprinted item and depicted in the image of the back side of the imprinted item. The computing device applies a first character recognition application to process the sets of characters extracted from the image of the back side of the imprinted item and categorizes each of the sets of characters into one of a plurality of categories relating to the information.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Henry Allan Rowley, Ashok Chhabedia Popat, Michael Edward Jahr, Zhifei Li
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Patent number: 10586100Abstract: Extracting financial card information with relaxed alignment comprises a method to receive an image of a card, determine one or more edge finder zones in locations of the image, and identify lines in the one or more edge finder zones. The method further identifies one or more quadrilaterals formed by intersections of extrapolations of the identified lines, determines an aspect ratio of the one or more quadrilateral, and compares the determined aspect ratios of the quadrilateral to an expected aspect ratio. The method then identifies a quadrilateral that matches the expected aspect ratio and performs an optical character recognition algorithm on the rectified model. A similar method is performed on multiple cards in an image. The results of the analysis of each of the cards are compared to improve accuracy of the data.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Xiaohang Wang, Jeff Huber, Farhan Shamsi, Yakov Okshtein, Sanjiv Kumar, Henry Allan Rowley, Marcus Quintana Mitchell, Debra Lin Repenning
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Publication number: 20190340194Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for associating still images and videos. One method includes receiving a plurality of images and a plurality of videos and determining whether the images are related to the videos. The determining includes, for an image and a video, extracting features from the image and extracting features frames of the video, and comparing the features to determine whether the image is related to the video. The method further includes maintaining a data store storing data associating each image with each video determined to be related to the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Ming Zhao, Yang Song, Hartwig Adam, Ullas Gargi, Yushi Jing, Henry Allan Rowley
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Patent number: 10394878Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for associating still images and videos. One method includes receiving a plurality of images and a plurality of videos and determining whether the images are related to the videos. The determining includes, for an image and a video, extracting features from the image and extracting features frames of the video, and comparing the features to determine whether the image is related to the video. The method further includes maintaining a data store storing data associating each image with each video determined to be related to the image.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ming Zhao, Yang Song, Hartwig Adam, Ullas Gargi, Yushi Jing, Henry Allan Rowley
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Publication number: 20190258886Abstract: Capturing information from an imprinted item comprises a computing device that receives an image of a back side of an imprinted item, the payment instrument comprising information imprinted thereon such that the imprinted information protrudes from a front side of the imprinted item and the imprinted information is indented into the back side of the imprinted item. The computing device extracts sets of characters from the image of the back side of the imprinted item based on the imprinted information indented into the back side of the imprinted item and depicted in the image of the back side of the imprinted item. The computing device applies a first character recognition application to process the sets of characters extracted from the image of the back side of the imprinted item and categorizes each of the sets of characters into one of a plurality of categories relating to the information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Henry Allan Rowley, Ashok Chhabedia Popat, Michael Edward Jahr, Zhifei Li
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Publication number: 20190235749Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, at a user device, user input corresponding to handwritten text to be recognized using a recognition engine; and receiving, at the user device, a representation of the handwritten text. The representation includes the handwritten text parsed into individual handwritten characters. The method further includes: displaying, on a display of the user device, the handwritten characters using a first indicator; receiving, at the user device, an identification of a text character recognized as one of the handwritten characters; displaying, on the display, the text character; and adjusting, at the user device, the one of the handwritten characters from being displayed using the first indicator to using a second indicator in response to the received identification. The first and second indicators are different.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Franz Josef Och, Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Martin Keysers, Henry Allan Rowley
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Publication number: 20190213186Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating results for a client-requested query involves receiving a query produced by a client communication device, generating a result for the query in response to reception of the query, determining one or more predictive follow-up requests before receiving an actual follow-up request from the client device, and initiating retrieval of information associated with the one or more predictive follow-up requests, and transmitting at least part of the result to the client device, and then transmitting to the client device at least part of the information associated with the one or more predictive follow-up requests.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Shumeet Baluja, Henry Allan Rowley
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Publication number: 20190205639Abstract: Extracting financial card information with relaxed alignment comprises a method to receive an image of a card, determine one or more edge finder zones in locations of the image, and identify lines in the one or more edge finder zones. The method further identifies one or more quadrilaterals formed by intersections of extrapolations of the identified lines, determines an aspect ratio of the one or more quadrilateral, and compares the determined aspect ratios of the quadrilateral to an expected aspect ratio. The method then identifies a quadrilateral that matches the expected aspect ratio and performs an optical character recognition algorithm on the rectified model. A similar method is performed on multiple cards in an image. The results of the analysis of each of the cards are compared to improve accuracy of the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventors: Xiaohang Wang, Jeff Huber, Farhan Shamsi, Yakov Okshtein, Sanjiv Kumar, Henry Allan Rowley, Marcus Quintana Mitchell, Debra Lin Repenning
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Patent number: 10318835Abstract: Capturing information from an imprinted item comprises a computing device that receives an image of a back side of an imprinted item, the payment instrument comprising information imprinted thereon such that the imprinted information protrudes from a front side of the imprinted item and the imprinted information is indented into the back side of the imprinted item. The computing device extracts sets of characters from the image of the back side of the imprinted item based on the imprinted information indented into the back side of the imprinted item and depicted in the image of the back side of the imprinted item. The computing device applies a first character recognition application to process the sets of characters extracted from the image of the back side of the imprinted item and categorizes each of the sets of characters into one of a plurality of categories relating to the information.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Henry Allan Rowley, Ashok Chhabedia Popat, Michael Edward Jahr, Zhifei Li
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Patent number: 10275503Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating results for a client-requested query involves receiving a query produced by a client communication device, generating a result for the query in response to reception of the query, determining one or more predictive follow-up requests before receiving an actual follow-up request from the client device, and initiating retrieval of information associated with the one or more predictive follow-up requests, and transmitting at least part of the result to the client device, and then transmitting to the client device at least part of the information associated with the one or more predictive follow-up requests.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Shumeet Baluja, Henry Allan Rowley
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Patent number: 10262201Abstract: Extracting financial card information with relaxed alignment comprises a method to receive an image of a card, determine one or more edge finder zones in locations of the image, and identify lines in the one or more edge finder zones. The method further identifies one or more quadrilaterals formed by intersections of extrapolations of the identified lines, determines an aspect ratio of the one or more quadrilateral, and compares the determined aspect ratios of the quadrilateral to an expected aspect ratio. The method then identifies a quadrilateral that matches the expected aspect ratio and performs an optical character recognition algorithm on the rectified model. A similar method is performed on multiple cards in an image. The results of the analysis of each of the cards are compared to improve accuracy of the data.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Xiaohang Wang, Jeff Huber, Farhan Shamsi, Yakov Okshtein, Sanjiv Kumar, Henry Allan Rowley, Marcus Quintana Mitchell, Debra Lin Repenning
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Publication number: 20190108415Abstract: Comparing extracted card data from a continuous scan comprises receiving, by one or more computing devices, a digital scan of a card; obtaining a plurality of images of the card from the digital scan of the physical card; performing an optical character recognition algorithm on each of the plurality of images; comparing results of the application of the optical character recognition algorithm for each of the plurality of images; determining if a configured threshold of the results for each of the plurality of images match each other; and verifying the results when the results for each of the plurality of images match each other. Threshold confidence level for the extracted card data can be employed to determine the accuracy of the extraction. Data is further extracted from blended images and three-dimensional models of the card. Embossed text and holograms in the images may be used to prevent fraud.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Sanjiv Kumar, Henry Allan Rowley, Xiaohang Wang, Yakov Okshtein, Farhan Shamsi, Alessandro Bissacco
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Patent number: 10254952Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, at a user device, user input corresponding to handwritten text to be recognized using a recognition engine; and receiving, at the user device, a representation of the handwritten text. The representation includes the handwritten text parsed into individual handwritten characters. The method further includes: displaying, on a display of the user device, the handwritten characters using a first indicator; receiving, at the user device, an identification of a text character recognized as one of the handwritten characters; displaying, on the display, the text character; and adjusting, at the user device, the one of the handwritten characters from being displayed using the first indicator to using a second indicator in response to the received identification. The first and second indicators are different.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Franz Josef Och, Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Martin Keysers, Henry Allan Rowley
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Publication number: 20190026268Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for associating still images and videos. One method includes receiving a plurality of images and a plurality of videos and determining whether the images are related to the videos. The determining includes, for an image and a video, extracting features from the image and extracting features frames of the video, and comparing the features to determine whether the image is related to the video. The method further includes maintaining a data store storing data associating each image with each video determined to be related to the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Ming Zhao, Yang Song, Hartwig Adam, Ullas Gargi, Yushi Jing, Henry Allan Rowley
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Patent number: 10185872Abstract: An optimal recognition for handwritten input based on receiving a touch input from a user may be selected by applying both a delayed stroke recognizer as well as an overlapping recognizer to the handwritten input. A score may be generated for both the delayed stroke recognition as well as the overlapping recognition and the recognition corresponding to the highest score may be presented as the overall recognition.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Daniel M. Keysers, Thomas Deselaers, Henry Allan Rowley