Patents by Inventor Jeffrey S. Lawson

Jeffrey S. Lawson 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).

  • Image-based vehicle detection and distance measuring method and apparatus
    Patent number: 10081308
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, an image based vehicle detection and measuring apparatus that employs an accelerated, structured, search method is described for quickly finding the extrema of a multivariable function. The input domain of the function is determined. The method exploits information as it becomes available, calculating a best possible value with the information available so far, and terminating further evaluation when the best possible value does not exceed the extreme value found so far. Ordering and best guess schemes are added to the best possible value idea to accelerate it further. The method is applied to speed up an image processing problem, an example of which is given, but has general application, for example, in fields such as vehicle detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC
    Inventors: Andreas U. Kuehnle, Jeffrey S. Lawson, Dilip Swaminathan, Cathy L. Boon, Chandra Sekhar Gatla, Hans M. Molin, Ken D. Au
  • IMAGE-BASED VEHICLE DETECTION AND DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140293052
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, an image based vehicle detection and measuring apparatus that employs an accelerated, structured, search method is described for quickly finding the extrema of a multivariable function. The input domain of the function is determined. The method exploits information as it becomes available, calculating a best possible value with the information available so far, and terminating further evaluation when the best possible value does not exceed the extreme value found so far. Ordering and best guess schemes are added to the best possible value idea to accelerate it further. The method is applied to speed up an image processing problem, an example of which is given, but has general application, for example, in fields such as vehicle detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Andreas U. Kuehnle, Jeffrey S. Lawson, Dilip Swaminathan, Cathy L. Boon, Chandra Sekhar Gatla, Hans M. Molin, Ken D. Au