Patents by Inventor Jan Jelinek

Jan Jelinek 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: 9798803
    Abstract: Systems and methods for increasing an efficiency of an operator of a security system are discussed generally herein. A system can include a memory including ontology data saved thereon, the ontology data can define interrelationships between a scanner associated with access to a room of an area under surveillance, a camera with a field of view at least partially overlapping a footprint of the room, an identifier configured to be scanned by the scanner and associated with a person, and a security policy including one or more predefined conditions, which when satisfied, indicate when a security threat exists, the security policy includes a response an operator can perform if the conditions are satisfied, and the system can include a query module configured to receive a query and search the ontology data and temporal and spatial data associated with the area under surveillance in response to receiving the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Michelle Raymond, Vit Libal, Jan Jelinek, Valerie Guralnik
  • Patent number: 9767228
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer-readable media for determining a deployment of an access control system are described herein. One method includes extracting a plurality of two-dimensional spaces from a building information model of a facility, determining a plurality of connections between the plurality of spaces, defining a zone of the facility, wherein the zone includes a subset of the plurality of spaces and a subset of the plurality of connections between the spaces, and associating an access reader with a particular connection of the subset of the plurality of connections located on a boundary of the zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Jian Geng Du, Michelle Raymond, Vit Libal, Jan Jelinek, Valerie Guralnik
  • Patent number: 9332191
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for determining shutter fluttering sequence. The disclosed approach is based on the use of shutter flutter technology, which means that an image can be acquired in such a manner as to encode all information about the moving subject. The disclosed approach involves determining a shutter's fluttering pattern that optimally encodes information at all frequencies. The disclosed approach involves an optimization method for finding a shutter fluttering pattern that has several desired properties. These properties can be expressed in the context of a fitness function: given a fluttering pattern and the target subject's velocity, it produces the equivalent Modulation Transfer Function (MTF), measures three attributes, and produces a fitness score. These attributes are the minimum contrast, the variance in contrast across spatial frequencies, and the mean contrast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Scott McCloskey, Jan Jelinek, Kwong Wing Au
  • Patent number: 9122926
    Abstract: A system receives an iris image and segments the iris region. The segmented iris region is mapped to a unit disk and partitioned into local iris regions (or sectors) as a function of the radius and angle The system calculates localized Zernike moments for a plurality of regions of the unit disk. The localized Zernike moment includes a projection of the local iris region into a space of Zernike polynomial orthogonal basis functions. The system generates an iris feature set from the localized Zernike moments for each partitioned region, excluding the regions which are comprised by occlusion. The iris features are weighted based on the conditions of blur, gaze and occlusion of the iris region. A probe iris image is then matched to a plurality of iris images in a database based on the distance of its feature set to the corresponding plurality of iris feature sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Sharath Venkatesha, Saad J. Bedros, Jan Jelinek
  • Publication number: 20150208040
    Abstract: Methods, systems and Devices for operating a surveillance system are described herein. One method includes determining a plurality of parameters of a video camera installed at a particular location in a facility based on a projection of an image captured by the video camera onto a virtual image captured by a virtual video camera placed at a virtual location in a building information model of the facility corresponding to the particular location, determining a two-dimensional geometry of the facility based on the building information model, wherein the geometry includes a plurality of spaces, determining a coverage of the video camera based on a portion of the plurality of parameters and the geometry, determining which spaces of the plurality of spaces are included in the coverage, and associating each space included in the coverage with a respective portion of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Hao Bai, Michelle Raymond, Vit Libal, Jan Jelinek, Valerie Guralnik
  • Publication number: 20150206361
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer-readable media for determining a deployment of an access control system are described herein. One method includes extracting a plurality of two-dimensional spaces from a building information model of a facility, determining a plurality of connections between the plurality of spaces, defining a zone of the facility, wherein the zone includes a subset of the plurality of spaces and a subset of the plurality of connections between the spaces, and associating an access reader with a particular connection of the subset of the plurality of connections located on a boundary of the zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Jian Geng Du, Michelle Raymond, Vit Libal, Jan Jelinek, Valerie Guralnik
  • Publication number: 20150066903
    Abstract: Systems and methods for increasing an efficiency of an operator of a security system are discussed generally herein. A system can include a memory including ontology data saved thereon, the ontology data can define interrelationships between a scanner associated with access to a room of an area under surveillance, a camera with a field of view at least partially overlapping a footprint of the room, an identifier configured to be scanned by the scanner and associated with a person, and a security policy including one or more predefined conditions, which when satisfied, indicate when a security threat exists, the security policy includes a response an operator can perform if the conditions are satisfied, and the system can include a query module configured to receive a query and search the ontology data and temporal and spatial data associated with the area under surveillance in response to receiving the query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Michelle Raymond, Vit Libal, Jan Jelinek, Valerie Guralnik
  • Patent number: 8957956
    Abstract: According to one example embodiment, a process and system include a camera used to capture a sequence of illuminated images of an subject, wherein the images are stored in frames. The focus point is changed for each image captured so that the focus point sweeps from a far to a near end of a sweep range, in discrete steps or continuous motion, so that successive images have slightly overlapping depths of field. The sweep range and overlapping depths of field provide that at least one image is well focused on the iris of the eye of the subject. In one other example embodiment, one or more of the images are illumined with a illumination fired for a respective captured image. In another embodiment, the sweep range is determined at least in part using a range finder or is otherwise controlled to determine a position of the subject so that the sweep range starts and stops a desired distance in front of and behind the subject, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Edward Determan, Jan Jelinek
  • Patent number: 8873810
    Abstract: A feature-based method and system for blur estimation in eye images. A blur estimation can be performed from eye/iris images in order to produce de-blurred images that are more useful for biometric identification. The eye/iris region, in particular the edge between the iris and pupil regions, can be utilized. The pattern of shutter motion or a characterization of the optical system can be utilized. By capturing a burst of images, or a video stream, one can use eye position in the images before and after a given capture to predict the motion of the eye within that capture. Because the before/after image frames need only contain the information necessary to locate the eye, and need not contain sufficient information to perform matching, the capture of these images can be accomplished with a wider range of settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Scott McCloskey, Jan Jelinek, Kwong Wing Au
  • Patent number: 8872926
    Abstract: A flashless image acquisition system that includes a tandem imaging device having a tandem field of view and comprising a velocity vector estimate imaging device coupled to an object imaging device; and a peripheral imaging device having a peripheral field of view wider than the tandem field of view and configured to acquire real-time information related to positions of a moving object, wherein the real-time information is provided to the tandem imaging device, further wherein the velocity vector estimate imaging device is configured to provide in-exposure velocity vector estimates to control the object imaging device is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Jelinek, Sharath Venkatesha
  • Patent number: 8860824
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes motion blur modeling methods and systems for image formation. One motion blur modeling method for image formation includes obtaining image data utilized to form a particular image taken by a camera of a subject, obtaining velocity vector data for the subject at the time the image was taken, defining a convolution kernel for use formation of the particular image and based upon the velocity vector data, and applying the convolution kernel to the image data to produce a de-blurred set of image data utilized to form the particular image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Jelinek
  • Patent number: 8854481
    Abstract: Image stabilization devices, methods, and systems are described herein. One image stabilization device includes a sensor having an array of pixels, wherein the sensor is configured to track a moving object using a number of the pixels, wherein the number of the pixels track only a particular portion of the moving object, and form an image of the moving object using the number of the pixels and their neighboring pixels that were not used to track the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Jelinek
  • Patent number: 8737687
    Abstract: Image acquisition systems are described herein. One image acquisition system includes an image recording device configured to determine and record a tracking error associated with a raw image of a moving subject, and a computing device configured to deblur the raw image using the tracking error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Jelinek
  • Patent number: 8705808
    Abstract: A system using face and iris image capture for recognition of people. The system may have wide field-of-view, medium field-of-view and narrow field-of-view cameras to capture images of a scene of people, faces and irises for processing and recognition. Matching of the face and iris images with images of a database may be a basis for recognition and identification of a subject person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Gary E. Determan, Vincent C. Jacobson, Jan Jelinek, Thomas Phinney, Rida M. Hamza, Terry Ahrens, George A. Kilgore, Rand P. Whillock, Saad Bedros
  • Publication number: 20140023240
    Abstract: A system receives an iris image and segments the iris region. The segmented iris region is mapped to a unit disk and partitioned into local iris regions (or sectors) as a function of the radius and angle The system calculates localized Zernike moments for a plurality of regions of the unit disk. The localized Zernike moment includes a projection of the local iris region into a space of Zernike polynomial orthogonal basis functions. The system generates an iris feature set from the localized Zernike moments for each partitioned region, excluding the regions which are comprised by occlusion. The iris features are weighted based on the conditions of blur, gaze and occlusion of the iris region. A probe iris image is then matched to a plurality of iris images in a database based on the distance of its feature set to the corresponding plurality of iris feature sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Sharath Venkatesha, Saad J. Bedros, Jan Jelinek
  • Patent number: 8616450
    Abstract: A hand held matrix code scanner includes an orthogonal transfer charge-coupled device (OTCCD), a controller coupled to the OTCCD, and a sensor coupled to the controller. The sensor senses movement of the scanner The controller is configured to move a first location of the OTCCD array to a second location as a function of data from the sensor to compensate for the device motion during image exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Jelinek
  • Publication number: 20130308001
    Abstract: Image stabilization devices, methods, and systems are described herein. One image stabilization device includes a sensor having an array of pixels, wherein the sensor is configured to track a moving object using a number of the pixels, wherein the number of the pixels track only a particular portion of the moving object, and form an image of the moving object using the number of the pixels and their neighboring pixels that were not used to track the moving object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Jan Jelinek
  • Patent number: 8576324
    Abstract: An image acquisition system that includes a first image recording device that records a series of images of a subject. A lateral velocity vector estimator receives the series of images from the first image recording device and estimates the lateral velocity vectors of the subject relative to the image acquisition system. The image acquisition system further includes a second image recording device that includes an orthogonal transfer CCD sensing element which records a target image of the subject. The orthogonal transfer CCD sensing element includes an array of pixels. A control adjusts the array of pixels within the orthogonal transfer CCD sensing element based on the lateral velocity vector estimates provided by the lateral velocity estimator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Jelinek
  • Patent number: 8553937
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a video sensing device, a velocity vector estimator (VVE) coupled to the video sensing device, a controller coupled to the velocity vector estimator, and an orthogonal transfer charge-coupled device (OTCCD) coupled to the controller. The video sensing device transmits a plurality of image frames to the velocity vector estimator. The controller receives a location of an object in a current frame, stores locations of the object in one or more previous frames, predicts a motion trajectory and the predicted location of the object on it in a subsequent frame as a function of the locations of the object in the current frame and the one or more previous frames, and transmits the predicted location of the object to the OTCCD. The OTCCD shifts its image array of pixels as a function of the predicted location of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Jelinek, Sharath Venkatesha, Vincent Jacobson
  • Patent number: 8537272
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for determining an optimal shutter fluttering sequence. The disclosed approach is based on the use of shutter flutter technology, which means that an image can be acquired in such a manner as to encode all information about the moving subject. The disclosed approach involves determining a shutter's fluttering pattern that optimally encodes information at all frequencies. The disclosed approach involves an optimization method for finding a shutter fluttering pattern that maximizes the minimum value of a function defining the plurality of flutter shutter sequences over a frequency domain. The disclosed approach involves eliminating all flutter shutter sequences that contain lost frequencies. The objective of the disclosed approach is to select an optimal flutter shutter sequence for implementation with a flutter shutter camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Jelinek, Scott McCloskey