Patents by Inventor Julien VALENTIN
Julien VALENTIN 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).
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Patent number: 12316825Abstract: An electronic device estimates a depth map of an environment based on matching reduced-resolution stereo depth images captured by depth cameras to generate a coarse disparity (depth) map. The electronic device downsamples depth images captured by the depth cameras and matches sections of the reduced-resolution images to each other to generate a coarse depth map. The electronic device upsamples the coarse depth map to a higher resolution and refines the upsampled depth map to generate a high-resolution depth map to support location-based functionality.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Sameh Khamis, Yinda Zhang, Christoph Rhemann, Julien Valentin, Adarsh Kowdle, Vladimir Tankovich, Michael Schoenberg, Shahram Izadi, Thomas Funkhouser, Sean Fanello
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Publication number: 20230209036Abstract: An electronic device estimates a depth map of an environment based on matching reduced-resolution stereo depth images captured by depth cameras to generate a coarse disparity (depth) map. The electronic device downsamples depth images captured by the depth cameras and matches sections of the reduced-resolution images to each other to generate a coarse depth map. The electronic device upsamples the coarse depth map to a higher resolution and refines the upsampled depth map to generate a high-resolution depth map to support location-based functionality.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Sameh KHAMIS, Yinda ZHANG, Christoph RHEMANN, Julien VALENTIN, Adarsh KOWDLE, Vladimir TANKOVICH, Michael SCHOENBERG, Shahram IZADI, Thomas FUNKHOUSER, Sean FANELLO
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Patent number: 11589031Abstract: An electronic device estimates a depth map of an environment based on matching reduced-resolution stereo depth images captured by depth cameras to generate a coarse disparity (depth) map. The electronic device downsamples depth images captured by the depth cameras and matches sections of the reduced-resolution images to each other to generate a coarse depth map. The electronic device upsamples the coarse depth map to a higher resolution and refines the upsampled depth map to generate a high-resolution depth map to support location-based functionality.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Sameh Khamis, Yinda Zhang, Christoph Rhemann, Julien Valentin, Adarsh Kowdle, Vladimir Tankovich, Michael Schoenberg, Shahram Izadi, Thomas Funkhouser, Sean Fanello
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Patent number: 11493042Abstract: A pumping system is provided, including a rough-vacuum pump; a Roots vacuum pump including a pumping stage having a stator inside which two Roots rotors are configured to rotate synchronously in opposite directions to drive a gas to be pumped between an inlet orifice and an outlet orifice; and a pipeline connecting the outlet orifice to an intake of the rough-vacuum pump, a shortest distance between an edge of the outlet orifice and each of the Roots rotors in the pumping stage being less than 3 cm, and the outlet orifice being situated at the end of an upstream tube of the pipeline that passes into the pumping stage.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: PFEIFFER VACUUMInventors: Serge Brandolin, Mickael Rusconi, Julien Valentin, Yannick Grenier
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Publication number: 20210381509Abstract: A pumping system is provided, including a rough-vacuum pump; a Roots vacuum pump including a pumping stage having a stator inside which two Roots rotors are configured to rotate synchronously in opposite directions to drive a gas to be pumped between an inlet orifice and an outlet orifice; and a pipeline connecting the outlet orifice to an intake of the rough-vacuum pump, a shortest distance between an edge of the outlet orifice and each of the Roots rotors in the pumping stage being less than 3 cm, and the outlet orifice being situated at the end of an upstream tube of the pipeline that passes into the pumping stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: PFEIFFER VACUUMInventors: Serge BRANDOLIN, Mickael RUSCONI, Julien VALENTIN, Yannick GRENIER
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Patent number: 11145075Abstract: A handheld user device includes a monocular camera to capture a feed of images of a local scene and a processor to select, from the feed, a keyframe and perform, for a first image from the feed, stereo matching using the first image, the keyframe, and a relative pose based on a pose associated with the first image and a pose associated with the keyframe to generate a sparse disparity map representing disparities between the first image and the keyframe. The processor further is to determine a dense depth map from the disparity map using a bilateral solver algorithm, and process a viewfinder image generated from a second image of the feed with occlusion rendering based on the depth map to incorporate one or more virtual objects into the viewfinder image to generate an AR viewfinder image. Further, the processor is to provide the AR viewfinder image for display.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Julien Valentin, Onur G. Guleryuz, Mira Leung, Maksym Dzitsiuk, Jose Pascoal, Mirko Schmidt, Christoph Rhemann, Neal Wadhwa, Eric Turner, Sameh Khamis, Adarsh Prakash Murthy Kowdle, Ambrus Csaszar, João Manuel Castro Afonso, Jonathan T. Barron, Michael Schoenberg, Ivan Dryanovski, Vivek Verma, Vladimir Tankovich, Shahram Izadi, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos
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Patent number: 10839541Abstract: A method includes capturing a first image and a second image of a scene using at least one imaging camera of an imaging system. The first image and the second image form a stereo image pair and each comprises a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels in the second image is initialized with a disparity hypothesis. Matching costs of the disparity hypothesis for each of the plurality of pixels in the second image are recursively determined, from an image tile of a smaller pixel size to an image tile of a larger pixel size, to generate an initial tiled disparity map including a plurality of image tiles. After refining the disparity value estimate of each image tile and including a slant hypothesis, a final disparity estimate for each pixel of the image is generated.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Vladimir Tankovich, Michael Schoenberg, Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello, Julien Valentin
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Publication number: 20200099920Abstract: An electronic device estimates a depth map of an environment based on matching reduced-resolution stereo depth images captured by depth cameras to generate a coarse disparity (depth) map. The electronic device downsamples depth images captured by the depth cameras and matches sections of the reduced-resolution images to each other to generate a coarse depth map. The electronic device upsamples the coarse depth map to a higher resolution and refines the upsampled depth map to generate a high-resolution depth map to support location-based functionality.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Sameh KHAMIS, Yinda ZHANG, Christoph RHEMANN, Julien VALENTIN, Adarsh KOWDLE, Vladimir TANKOVICH, Michael SCHOENBERG, Shahram IZADI, Thomas FUNKHOUSER, Sean FANELLO
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Publication number: 20190287259Abstract: A method includes capturing a first image and a second image of a scene using at least one imaging camera of an imaging system. The first image and the second image form a stereo image pair and each comprises a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels in the second image is initialized with a disparity hypothesis. Matching costs of the disparity hypothesis for each of the plurality of pixels in the second image are recursively determined, from an image tile of a smaller pixel size to an image tile of a larger pixel size, to generate an initial tiled disparity map including a plurality of image tiles. After refining the disparity value estimate of each image tile and including a slant hypothesis, a final disparity estimate for each pixel of the image is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2018Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Vladimir TANKOVICH, Michael SCHOENBERG, Sean Ryan Francesco FANELLO, Julien VALENTIN