Patents by Inventor Ian R. Fasel

Ian R. Fasel 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: 11521423
    Abstract: Occlusion of facial features may be detected and assessed in an image captured by a camera on a device. Landmark heat maps may be used to estimate the location of landmarks such as the eyes, mouth, and nose of a user's face in the captured image. An occlusion heat map may also be generated for the captured image. The occlusion heat map may include values representing the amount of occlusion in regions of the face. The estimated locations of the eyes, mouth, and nose may be used in combination with the occlusion heat map to assess occlusion scores for the landmarks. The occlusion scores for the landmarks may be used control one or more operations of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Gernoth, Ian R. Fasel, Touraj Tajbakhsh, Jia-Chi Wu
  • Publication number: 20210133428
    Abstract: Occlusion of facial features may be detected and assessed in an image captured by a camera on a device. Landmark heat maps may be used to estimate the location of landmarks such as the eyes, mouth, and nose of a user's face in the captured image. An occlusion heat map may also be generated for the captured image. The occlusion heat map may include values representing the amount of occlusion in regions of the face. The estimated locations of the eyes, mouth, and nose may be used in combination with the occlusion heat map to assess occlusion scores for the landmarks. The occlusion scores for the landmarks may be used control one or more operations of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Thorsten Gernoth, Ian R. Fasel, Touraj Tajbakhsh, Jia-Chi Wu
  • Patent number: 10896318
    Abstract: Occlusion of facial features may be detected and assessed in an image captured by a camera on a device. Landmark heat maps may be used to estimate the location of landmarks such as the eyes, mouth, and nose of a user's face in the captured image. An occlusion heat map may also be generated for the captured image. The occlusion heat map may include values representing the amount of occlusion in regions of the face. The estimated locations of the eyes, mouth, and nose may be used in combination with the occlusion heat map to assess occlusion scores for the landmarks. The occlusion scores for the landmarks may be used control one or more operations of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Gernoth, Ian R. Fasel, Touraj Tajbakhsh, Jia-Chi Wu
  • Patent number: 10713475
    Abstract: A single network encodes and decodes an image captured using a camera on a device. The single network detects if a face is in the image. If a face is detected in the image, the single network determines properties of the face in the image and outputs the properties along with the face detection output. Properties of the face may be determined by sharing the task for face detection. Properties of the face that are output along with the face detection output include the location of the face, the pose of the face, and/or the distance of the face from the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Gernoth, Atulit Kumar, Ian R. Fasel, Haitao Guo, Onur C. Hamsici
  • Patent number: 10650540
    Abstract: An estimate of distance between a user and a camera on a device is used to determine an illumination pattern density used for speckle pattern illumination of the user in subsequent images. The distance may be estimated using an image captured when the user is illuminated with flood infrared illumination. Either a sparse speckle (dot) pattern illumination pattern or a dense speckle pattern illumination pattern is used depending on the distance between the user's face and the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Gernoth, Ian R. Fasel, Haitao Guo, Atulit Kumar
  • Publication number: 20190347813
    Abstract: An estimate of distance between a user and a camera on a device is used to determine an illumination pattern density used for speckle pattern illumination of the user in subsequent images. The distance may be estimated using an image captured when the user is illuminated with flood infrared illumination. Either a sparse speckle (dot) pattern illumination pattern or a dense speckle pattern illumination pattern is used depending on the distance between the user's face and the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Thorsten Gernoth, Ian R. Fasel, Haitao Guo, Atulit Kumar
  • Patent number: 10401158
    Abstract: An estimate of distance between a user and a camera on a device is used to determine an illumination pattern density used for speckle pattern illumination of the user in subsequent images. The distance may be estimated using an image captured when the user is illuminated with flood infrared illumination. Either a sparse speckle (dot) pattern illumination pattern or a dense speckle pattern illumination pattern is used depending on the distance between the user's face and the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Gernoth, Ian R. Fasel, Haitao Guo, Atulit Kumar
  • Publication number: 20190080149
    Abstract: Occlusion of facial features may be detected and assessed in an image captured by a camera on a device. Landmark heat maps may be used to estimate the location of landmarks such as the eyes, mouth, and nose of a user's face in the captured image. An occlusion heat map may also be generated for the captured image. The occlusion heat map may include values representing the amount of occlusion in regions of the face. The estimated locations of the eyes, mouth, and nose may be used in combination with the occlusion heat map to assess occlusion scores for the landmarks. The occlusion scores for the landmarks may be used control one or more operations of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Thorsten Gernoth, Ian R. Fasel, Touraj Tajbakhsh, Jia-Chi Wu
  • Publication number: 20190042833
    Abstract: A single network encodes and decodes an image captured using a camera on a device. The single network detects if a face is in the image. If a face is detected in the image, the single network determines properties of the face in the image and outputs the properties along with the face detection output. Properties of the face may be determined by sharing the task for face detection. Properties of the face that are output along with the face detection output include the location of the face, the pose of the face, and/or the distance of the face from the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Thorsten Gernoth, Atulit Kumar, Ian R. Fasel, Haitao Guo, Onur C. Hamsici
  • Publication number: 20190041197
    Abstract: An estimate of distance between a user and a camera on a device is used to determine an illumination pattern density used for speckle pattern illumination of the user in subsequent images. The distance may be estimated using an image captured when the user is illuminated with flood infrared illumination. Either a sparse speckle (dot) pattern illumination pattern or a dense speckle pattern illumination pattern is used depending on the distance between the user's face and the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Thorsten Gernoth, Ian R. Fasel, Haitao Guo, Atulit Kumar
  • Patent number: 7624076
    Abstract: A facial expression recognition system that uses a face detection apparatus realizing efficient learning and high-speed detection processing based on ensemble learning when detecting an area representing a detection target and that is robust against shifts of face position included in images and capable of highly accurate expression recognition, and a learning method for the system, are provided. When learning data to be used by the face detection apparatus by Adaboost, processing to select high-performance weak hypotheses from all weak hypotheses, then generate new weak hypotheses from these high-performance weak hypotheses on the basis of statistical characteristics, and select one weak hypothesis having the highest discrimination performance from these weak hypotheses, is repeated to sequentially generate a weak hypothesis, and a final hypothesis is thus acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, University of California, San Diego
    Inventors: Javier R. Movellan, Marian S. Bartlett, Gwendolen C. Littlewort, John Hershey, Ian R. Fasel, Eric C. Carlson, Josh Susskind, Kohtaro Sabe, Kenta Kawamoto, Kenichi Hidai
  • Patent number: 7587069
    Abstract: A facial expression recognition system that uses a face detection apparatus realizing efficient learning and high-speed detection processing based on ensemble learning when detecting an area representing a detection target and that is robust against shifts of face position included in images and capable of highly accurate expression recognition, and a learning method for the system, are provided. When learning data to be used by the face detection apparatus by Adaboost, processing to select high-performance weak hypotheses from all weak hypotheses, then generate new weak hypotheses from these high-performance weak hypotheses on the basis of statistical characteristics, and select one weak hypothesis having the highest discrimination performance from these weak hypotheses, is repeated to sequentially generate a weak hypothesis, and a final hypothesis is thus acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, San Diego, University of California
    Inventors: Javier R. Movellan, Marian S. Bartlett, Gwendolen C. Littlewort, John Hershey, Ian R. Fasel, Eric C. Carlson, Josh Susskind, Kohtaro Sabe, Kenta Kawamoto, Kenichi Hidai
  • Publication number: 20080247598
    Abstract: A facial expression recognition system that uses a face detection apparatus realizing efficient learning and high-speed detection processing based on ensemble learning when detecting an area representing a detection target and that is robust against shifts of face position included in images and capable of highly accurate expression recognition, and a learning method for the system, are provided. When learning data to be used by the face detection apparatus by Adaboost, processing to select high-performance weak hypotheses from all weak hypotheses, then generate new weak hypotheses from these high-performance weak hypotheses on the basis of statistical characteristics, and select one weak hypothesis having the highest discrimination performance from these weak hypotheses, is repeated to sequentially generate a weak hypothesis, and a final hypothesis is thus acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Javier R. Movellan, Marian S. Bartlett, Gwendolen C. Littlewort, John Hershey, Ian R. Fasel, Eric C. Carlson, Josh Susskind, Kohtaro Sabe, Kenta Kawamoto, Kenichi Hidai
  • Publication number: 20080235165
    Abstract: A facial expression recognition system that uses a face detection apparatus realizing efficient learning and high-speed detection processing based on ensemble learning when detecting an area representing a detection target and that is robust against shifts of face position included in images and capable of highly accurate expression recognition, and a learning method for the system, are provided. When learning data to be used by the face detection apparatus by Adaboost, processing to select high-performance weak hypotheses from all weak hypotheses, then generate new weak hypotheses from these high-performance weak hypotheses on the basis of statistical characteristics, and select one weak hypothesis having the highest discrimination performance from these weak hypotheses, is repeated to sequentially generate a weak hypothesis, and a final hypothesis is thus acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Javier R. Movellan, Marian S. Bartlett, Gwendolen C. Littlewort, John Hershey, Ian R. Fasel, Eric C. Carlson, Josh Susskind, Kohtaro Sabe, Kenta Kawamoto, Kenichi Hidai
  • Patent number: 7379568
    Abstract: A facial expression recognition system that uses a face detection apparatus realizing efficient learning and high-speed detection processing based on ensemble learning when detecting an area representing a detection target and that is robust against shifts of face position included in images and capable of highly accurate expression recognition, and a learning method for the system, are provided. When learning data to be used by the face detection apparatus by Adaboost, processing to select high-performance weak hypotheses from all weak hypotheses, then generate new weak hypotheses from these high-performance weak hypotheses on the basis of statistical characteristics, and select one weak hypothesis having the highest discrimination performance from these weak hypotheses, is repeated to sequentially generate a weak hypothesis, and a final hypothesis is thus acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, San Diego, University of California
    Inventors: Javier R. Movellan, Marian S. Bartlett, Gwendolen C. Littlewort, John Hershey, Ian R. Fasel, Eric C. Carlson, Josh Susskind, Kohtaro Sabe, Kenta Kawamoto, Kenichi Hidai