Patents by Inventor Ignacio Ramirez

Ignacio Ramirez 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: 7925099
    Abstract: In various embodiments of the present invention, a context-based denoiser is applied to each noisy-image symbol embedded within a context to determine a replacement symbol for the noisy-signal symbol. The context-based denoiser includes a context-modeling component that efficiently generates context classes and symbol-prediction classes, assigns individual contexts to context classes and symbol-prediction classes, collects symbol-occurrence statistics related to the generated context classes and symbol-prediction classes, and, optionally, generates noisy-symbol predictions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ignacio Ramirez, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Marcelo Weinberger
  • Patent number: 7656942
    Abstract: A denoising process models a noisy signal using classes and subclasses of symbol contexts. The process generates class count vectors having components that combine occurrence counts for different symbols in different contexts. Biases determined separately for each subclass and a fixed predictor indicate which symbol occurrence counts for different context are combined in the same component of a class count vector. For impulse noise, the bias for a subclass can be the average error that results when the fixed predictor predicts non-noisy symbols found in contexts of the context subclass. Denoising of impulse noise can select replacement symbols without matrix multiplication or a channel matrix inverse by evaluating distributions that result from subtracting error probabilities from probability vectors associated with respective contexts. Probability mass can be moved from adjacent components of the probability vector to assure that subtraction of the error probabilities leaves non-negative results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ignacio Ramirez, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Marcelo Weinberger
  • Publication number: 20080247659
    Abstract: In various embodiments of the present invention, a context-based denoiser is applied to each noisy-image symbol embedded within a context to determine a replacement symbol for the noisy-signal symbol. The context-based denoiser includes a context-modeling component that efficiently generates context classes and symbol-prediction classes, assigns individual contexts to context classes and symbol-prediction classes, collects symbol-occurrence statistics related to the generated context classes and symbol-prediction classes, and, optionally, generates noisy-symbol predictions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Ignacio Ramirez, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Marcelo Weinberger
  • Publication number: 20080031315
    Abstract: A denoising process models a noisy signal using classes and subclasses of symbol contexts. The process generates class count vectors having components that combine occurrence counts for different symbols in different contexts. Biases determined separately for each subclass and a fixed predictor indicate which symbol occurrence counts for different context are combined in the same component of a class count vector. For impulse noise, the bias for a subclass can be the average error that results when the fixed predictor predicts non-noisy symbols found in contexts of the context subclass. Denoising of impulse noise can select replacement symbols without matrix multiplication or a channel matrix inverse by evaluating distributions that result from subtracting error probabilities from probability vectors associated with respective contexts. Probability mass can be moved from adjacent components of the probability vector to assure that subtraction of the error probabilities leaves non-negative results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Ignacio Ramirez, Erik Ordentlich, Gadiel Seroussi, Marcelo Weinberger
  • Patent number: 6626318
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a trash dump which solves and satisfy the current requirements. The new trash dump is embedded to a wall or gate or to any other place where can be used. This new trash dump has the peculiarity that the user can deposit the trash inside the dump without going out from the building and the personnel of the trash collection service, can pick the trash disposed in the collector up through an opening in the wall, which has a collector with a safety system of rotatory doors. Said safety system allows, at the same time, the easy operation of the trash dump and avoids any intrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Inventor: Ignacio Ramirez Salcedo
  • Publication number: 20020047013
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a trash dump which solves and satisfy the current requirements. The new trash dump is embedded to a wall or gate or to any other place where can be used. This new trash dump has the peculiarity that the user can deposit the trash inside the dump without going out from the building and the personnel of the trash collection service, can pick the trash disposed in the collector up through an opening in the wall, which has a collector with a safety system of rotatory doors. Said safety system allows, at the same time, the easy operation of the trash dump and avoids any intrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventor: Ignacio Ramirez Salcedo