Patents by Inventor Jeff B. Pelz

Jeff B. Pelz 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: 11138741
    Abstract: A method and system for monitoring the motion of one or both eyes, includes capturing a sequence of overlapping images of a subject's face including an eye and the corresponding non-eye region; identifying a plurality of keypoints in each image; mapping corresponding keypoints in two or more images of the sequence; assigning the keypoints to the eye and to the corresponding non-eye region; calculating individual velocities of the corresponding keypoints in the eye and the corresponding non-eye region to obtain a distribution of velocities; extracting at least one velocity measured for the eye and at least one velocity measured for the corresponding non-eye region; calculating the eye-in-head velocity for the eye based upon the measured velocity for the eye and the measured velocity for the corresponding non-eye region; and calculating the eye-in-head position based upon the eye-in-head velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Rochester Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jeff B. Pelz, Dan Witzner Hansen
  • Publication number: 20200320718
    Abstract: A method and system for monitoring the motion of one or both eyes, includes capturing a sequence of overlapping images of a subject's face including an eye and the corresponding non-eye region; identifying a plurality of keypoints in each image; mapping corresponding keypoints in two or more images of the sequence; assigning the keypoints to the eye and to the corresponding non-eye region; calculating individual velocities of the corresponding keypoints in the eye and the corresponding non-eye region to obtain a distribution of velocities; extracting at least one velocity measured for the eye and at least one velocity measured for the corresponding non-eye region; calculating the eye-in-head velocity for the eye based upon the measured velocity for the eye and the measured velocity for the corresponding non-eye region; and calculating the eye-in-head position based upon the eye-in-head velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Rochester Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jeff B. Pelz, Dan Witzner Hansen
  • Patent number: 9785835
    Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus that assist with object recognition includes determining when at least one eye of an observer fixates on a location in one or more of a sequence of fixation tracking images. The determined fixation location in the one or more of the sequence of images is correlated to a corresponding one of one or more sequence of field of view images. At least the determined fixation location in each of the correlated sequence of field of view images is classified based on at least one of a classification input or a measurement and comparison of one or more features of the determined fixation location in each of the correlated sequence of field of view images against one or more stored measurement feature values. The determined classification of the fixation location in each of the correlated sequence of field of view images is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jeff B. Pelz, Thomas B. Kinsman, Daniel F. Pontillo, Susan M. Munn, Nicholas R. Harrington, Brendon Ben-Kan Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20140160340
    Abstract: The method enhances the perceived quality of the main subject matter in an image at capture by determining where in the scene the photographer is looking using gaze-tracking technology. The device includes an image management computing device coupling a processor, memory, input and display device interface, optional network interface device, and camera directed at the photographer as well as the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Susan P. Farnand, Jeff B. Pelz
  • Publication number: 20120328150
    Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus that assist with object recognition includes determining when at least one eye of an observer fixates on a location in one or more of a sequence of fixation tracking images. The determined fixation location in the one or more of the sequence of fixation tracking images is correlated to a corresponding one of one or more sequence of field of view images. At least the determined fixation location in each of the correlated sequence of field of view images is classified based on at least one of a classification input or a measurement and comparison of one or more features of the determined fixation location in each of the correlated sequence of field of view images against one or more stored measurement feature values. The determined classification of the fixation location in each of the correlated sequence of field of view images is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jeff B. Pelz, Thomas B. Kinsman, Daniel F. Pontillo, Susan M. Munn, Nicholas R. Harrington, Brendon Ben-Kan Hsieh
  • Patent number: 7549743
    Abstract: A system and method for retraining the visual system of a subject with damage to the striate and/or extrastriate visual cortex includes displaying a visual stimulus within a first location of an impaired visual field of the subject; and detecting the subject's perception of an attribute of the visual stimulus. The system and method are believed to effectively recruit undamaged higher level structures in the visual system to assume the functions of the damaged structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: University of Rochester
    Inventors: Krystel R. Huxlin, Mary M. Hayhoe, Jeff B. Pelz
  • Publication number: 20080278682
    Abstract: A system and method for retraining the visual system of a subject with damage to the striate and/or extrastriate visual cortex includes displaying a visual stimulus within a first location of an impaired visual field of the subject; and detecting the subject's perception of an attribute of the visual stimulus. The system and method are believed to effectively recruit undamaged higher level structures in the visual system to assume the functions of the damaged structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    Inventors: Krystel R. Huxlin, Mary M. Hayhoe, Jeff B. Pelz
  • Patent number: 7324143
    Abstract: A method for reducing noise in a digital image includes providing a digital image comprising a plurality of channels with each of the channels comprising a set of pixel data signals and applying a filter to each of the sets of pixel data signals, where the filter applied to at least one of the sets of pixel data signals is different from the filter applied to another one of the sets of pixel data signals. An imaging system which reduce noise in a digital image includes an image sensor apparatus and a filter system. The image sensor apparatus captures a digital image comprising a plurality of channels with each of the channels comprising a set of pixel data signals. The filter system comprises at least two different filters with each of the filters filtering at least one of the sets of pixel data signals for one of the channels. The filter applied to at least one of the sets of pixel data signals is different from the filter applied to another one of the sets of pixel data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Rochester Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Jeff B. Pelz