Patents by Inventor Ivan Bella

Ivan Bella 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).

  • Scaleable object recognition with a belief model
    Patent number: 7184994
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is directed to a system, method and computer program product for providing an object recognition blackboard system architecture. The system for recognizing objects in content can include: a blackboard comprising a plurality of experts, and data comprising original input data and data created by processing of any of the plurality of experts, and a controller operative to control the experts; a belief model, coupled to the controller, comprising a set of beliefs and probabilities associated with each belief of the set of beliefs; a belief network, coupled to the controller; and a relations subsystem, coupled to the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Ivan Bella, Christopher Hood
  • Scaleable object recognition with a belief model
    Publication number: 20020103776
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is directed to a system, method and computer program product for providing an object recognition blackboard system architecture. The system for recognizing objects in content can include: a blackboard comprising a plurality of experts, and data comprising original input data and data created by processing of any of the plurality of experts, and a controller operative to control the experts; a belief model, coupled to the controller, comprising a set of beliefs and probabilities associated with each belief of the set of beliefs; a belief network, coupled to the controller; and a relations subsystem, coupled to the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventors: Ivan Bella, Christopher Hood