Patents by Inventor John Brian Burns

John Brian Burns 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).

  • Publication number: 20200341114
    Abstract: An identification system includes a radar sensor configured to generate a time-domain or frequency-domain signal representative of electromagnetic waves reflected from one or more objects within a three-dimensional space over a period of time and a computation engine executing on one or more processors. The computation engine is configured to process the time-domain or frequency-domain signal to generate range and velocity data indicating motion by a living subject within the three-dimensional space. The computation engine is further configured to identify, based at least on the range and velocity data indicating the motion by the living subject, the living subject and output an indication of an identity of the living subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: SRI International
    Inventors: Girish Acharya, Douglas Bercow, John Brian Burns, Bradley J. Clymer, Aaron J. Heller, Jeffrey Lubin, Bhaskar Ramamurthy, David Watters, Aravind Sundaresan
  • Patent number: 10178290
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for long-range facial and ocular acquisition. One embodiment of a system for acquiring an image of a subject's facial feature(s) includes a steerable telescope configured to acquire the image of the facial feature(s), a first computational imaging element configured to minimize the effect of defocus in the image of the facial feature(s), and a second computational imaging element configured to minimize the effects of motion blur. In one embodiment, the detecting, the acquiring, the minimizing the effect of the motion, and the minimizing the effect of the defocus are performed automatically without a human input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: David Stoker, Cregg Cowan, Motilal Agrawal, Jan Edward van der Laan, John Brian Burns
  • Publication number: 20120154536
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for long-range facial and ocular acquisition. One embodiment of a system for acquiring an image of a subject's facial feature(s) includes a steerable telescope configured to acquire the image of the facial feature(s), a first computational imaging element configured to minimize the effect of defocus in the image of the facial feature(s), and a second computational imaging element configured to minimize the effects of motion blur. In one embodiment, the detecting, the acquiring, the minimizing the effect of the motion, and the minimizing the effect of the defocus are performed automatically without a human input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: David Stoker, Cregg Cowan, Motilal Agrawal, Jan Edward van der Laan, John Brian Burns
  • Patent number: 7697725
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for autonomous object tracking. In one embodiment, a method for tracking a moving object across at least a portion of a video signal made up of a plurality of image frames includes stabilizing the video signal by processing selected portions of selected image frames, detecting at least one movement in the stabilized video signal, and computing a location of the detected movement(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: John Brian Burns, Michael Eriksen, Carl Shapiro, Aaron Heller, Regis Vincent
  • Patent number: 5845009
    Abstract: A system and method which identifies an object in an image. The system accesses a statistical model corresponding to a statistically identifying feature of the object and accesses a characteristic corresponding to a second identifying feature of the object. The system generates a value set from the image, the statistical model, the characteristic, and a geometric relationship. The value set indicates a likely location of the object in the image. The object is located using the value set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Lee Marks, John Brian Burns