Patents by Inventor Kai Jochen Kohlhoff

Kai Jochen Kohlhoff 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: 20230015117
    Abstract: Techniques for tuning an image editing operator for reducing a distractor in raw image data are presented herein. The image editing operator can access the raw image data and a mask. The mask can indicate a region of interest associated with the raw image data. The image editing operator can process the raw image data and the mask to generate processed image data. Additionally, a trained saliency model can process at least the processed image data within the region of interest to generate a saliency map that provides saliency values. Moreover, a saliency loss function can compare the saliency values provided by the saliency map for the processed image data within the region of interest to one or more target saliency values. Subsequently, the one or more parameter values of the image editing operator can be modified based at least in part on the saliency loss function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kfir Aberman, David Edward Jacobs, Kai Jochen Kohlhoff, Michael Rubinstein, Yossi Gandelsman, Junfeng He, Inbar Mosseri, Yael Pritch Knaan
  • Patent number: 9703373
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying a direction in which a user is looking. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an image of a sequence of images. The image can depict a face of a user. A template image for each particular facial feature point can be compared to one or more image portions of the image. The template image for the particular facial feature point can include a portion of a previous image of the sequence of images that depicted the facial feature point. Based on the comparison, a matching image portion of the image that matches the template image for the particular facial feature point is identified. A location of the matching image portion is identified in the image. A direction in which the user is looking is determined based on the identified location for each template image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Jochen Kohlhoff, Xiaoyi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150309569
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying a direction in which a user is looking. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an image of a sequence of images. The image can depict a face of a user. A template image for each particular facial feature point can be compared to one or more image portions of the image. The template image for the particular facial feature point can include a portion of a previous image of the sequence of images that depicted the facial feature point. Based on the comparison, a matching image portion of the image that matches the template image for the particular facial feature point is identified. A location of the matching image portion is identified in the image. A direction in which the user is looking is determined based on the identified location for each template image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Kai Jochen Kohlhoff, Xiaoyi Zhang