Patents by Inventor Kathy Sun

Kathy Sun 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: 20240124111
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for controlling a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) for performing an underwater task. One apparatus includes a watertight housing; a mounting hardware that attaches the watertight housing to the ROV; one or more sensors in the watertight housing, the one or more sensors configured to generate sensor data that is associated with an underwater task; and one or more processors in the watertight housing, the one or more processors configured to: receive the sensor data from the one or more sensors; generate a navigation plan for the ROV using the sensor data; determine, using the navigation plan, control instructions configured to control the ROV to perform the underwater task; and provide the control instructions to an interface of the ROV configured to communicate with the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Robert Swanson, Harrison Pham, Kathy Sun, Matthew Aaron Knoll
  • Patent number: 11881017
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining turbidity of water using machine learning. One of the methods includes obtaining, by a camera, an image of water; detecting, using a blob detector, a plurality of blobs in the image that represent particles suspended in the water; determining a distribution of the plurality of blobs; determining, from the distribution of the plurality of blobs, a measurement associated with turbidity of the water; and providing a signal associated with the measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Harrison Pham, Kathy Sun, Alex Ryan Edwards
  • Publication number: 20230395048
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for receiving outputs from a plurality of models that are each informed by real-time data provided by one or more sensors that are present in an aquaculture environment. An input is generated for an algorithmic music composer for algorithmically composing music that reflects multiple current conditions within the aquaculture environment, based at least on the received outputs from the plurality of models. The input is provided to the algorithmic music composer to algorithmically compose the music that reflects the multiple current conditions within the aquaculture environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Grace Calvert Young, Laura Valentine Chrobak, Kathy Sun
  • Publication number: 20230306734
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining turbidity of water using machine learning. One of the methods includes obtaining, by a camera, an image of water; detecting, using a blob detector, a plurality of blobs in the image that represent particles suspended in the water; determining a distribution of the plurality of blobs; determining, from the distribution of the plurality of blobs, a measurement associated with turbidity of the water; and providing a signal associated with the measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Harrison Pham, Kathy Sun, Alex Ryan Edwards
  • Publication number: 20230177841
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for automatic object detection for underwater cameras. In some implementations, an underwater camera captures many images which are obtained by a control unit. The control unit can detect one or more contours within a captured image based on values representing pixels of the image, generate a representation of the image based on the detected contours, provide the representation to a model that is trained to classify an input image as including a net or as not including a net, and perform an action based on classifying the image as including a net.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Kathy Sun, Peter Kimball, Harrison Pham, Ryan Heacock, Andrew Rossignol, Mirkó Visontai