Patents by Inventor Kevin Stone

Kevin Stone 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: 20240373546
    Abstract: Provided are flexible hybrid interconnect circuits and methods of forming thereof. A flexible hybrid interconnect circuit comprises multiple conductive layers, stacked and spaced apart along the thickness of the circuit. Each conductive layer comprises one or more conductive elements, one of which is operable as a high frequency (HF) signal line. Other conductive elements, in the same and other conductive layers, form an electromagnetic shield around the HF signal line. Some conductive elements in the same circuit are used for electrical power transmission. All conductive elements are supported by one or more inner dielectric layers and enclosed by outer dielectric layers. The overall stack is thin and flexible and may be conformally attached to a non-planar surface. Each conductive layer may be formed by patterning the same metallic sheet. Multiple pattern sheets are laminated together with inner and outer dielectric layers to form a flexible hybrid interconnect circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: CelLink Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Coakley, Malcolm Parker Brown, Jose Juarez, Emily Hernandez, Joseph Pratt, Peter Stone, Vidya Viswanath, Will Findlay
  • Patent number: 12131529
    Abstract: A method for performing a task by a robotic device includes mapping a group of task image pixel descriptors associated with a first group of pixels in a task image of a task environment to a group of teaching image pixel descriptors associated with a second group of pixels in a teaching image based on positioning the robotic device within the task environment. The method also includes determining a relative transform between the task image and the teaching image based on mapping the plurality of task image pixel descriptors. The relative transform indicates a change in one or more of points of 3D space between the task image and the teaching image. The method also includes performing the task associated with the set of parameterized behaviors based on updating one or more parameters of a set of parameterized behaviors associated with the teaching image based on determining the relative transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy Ma, Josh Petersen, Umashankar Nagarajan, Michael Laskey, Daniel Helmick, James Borders, Krishna Shankar, Kevin Stone, Max Bajracharya
  • Patent number: 12052814
    Abstract: Provided are flexible hybrid interconnect circuits and methods of forming thereof. A flexible hybrid interconnect circuit comprises multiple conductive layers, stacked and spaced apart along the thickness of the circuit. Each conductive layer comprises one or more conductive elements, one of which is operable as a high frequency (HF) signal line. Other conductive elements, in the same and other conductive layers, form an electromagnetic shield around the HF signal line. Some conductive elements in the same circuit are used for electrical power transmission. All conductive elements are supported by one or more inner dielectric layers and enclosed by outer dielectric layers. The overall stack is thin and flexible and may be conformally attached to a non-planar surface. Each conductive layer may be formed by patterning the same metallic sheet. Multiple pattern sheets are laminated together with inner and outer dielectric layers to form a flexible hybrid interconnect circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: CelLink Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Coakley, Malcom Parker Brown, Jose Juarez, Emily Hernandez, Joseph Pratt, Peter Stone, Vidya Viswanath, Will Findlay
  • Publication number: 20240211660
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include generating, using a machine-learning model of a computing device, a set of antenna designs. The method may also include tokenizing, by the computing device, each antenna design in the generated set of antenna designs. Additionally, the method may include predicting, by the machine-learning model of the computing device, a frequency response for each tokenized antenna design. Furthermore, the method may include comparing, by the computing device, the frequency response for each tokenized antenna design. Finally, the method may include selecting, by the computing device based on the comparison, an antenna design that meets a performance threshold for the frequency response. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Weiping Dou, Yuandong Tian, Andrew Cohen, Jiang Zhu, Geng Ye, Ulf Jan Ove Mattsson, Peter Eli Renner, Beidi Chen, Xiaomeng Yang, Kevin Stone, Slawomir Marcin Koziel
  • Publication number: 20230401721
    Abstract: A method for 3D object perception is described. The method includes extracting features from each image of a synthetic stereo pair of images. The method also includes generating a low-resolution disparity image based on the features extracted from each image of the synthetic stereo pair images. The method further includes predicting, by a trained neural network, a feature map based on the low-resolution disparity image and one of the synthetic stereo pair of images. The method also includes generating, by a perception prediction head, a perception prediction of a detected 3D object based on the feature map predicted by the trained neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Thomas KOLLAR, Kevin STONE, Michael LASKEY, Mark Edward TJERSLAND
  • Publication number: 20230398692
    Abstract: A method for training a neural network to perform 3D object manipulation is described. The method includes extracting features from each image of a synthetic stereo pair of images. The method also includes generating a low-resolution disparity image based on the features extracted from each image of the synthetic stereo pair of images. The method further includes generating, by the neural network, a feature map based on the low-resolution disparity image and one of the synthetic stereo pair of images. The method also includes manipulating an unknown object perceived from the feature map according to a perception prediction from a prediction head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Thomas KOLLAR, Kevin STONE, Michael LASKEY, Mark Edward TJERSLAND
  • Publication number: 20230283925
    Abstract: A method for training an object detection system includes estimating a location of a first object in an environment based on a density cluster map generated from a plurality of images of the environment. The method also includes generating one or more negative training samples of the first object in the environment based on the plurality of images, each of the one or more negative training samples corresponding to a second object at a location in the environment that is different than the estimated location of the first object. The method further includes generating positive training samples from a set of images of the first object. The method also includes training the object detection system to detect the first object based on the positive training samples and the negative training sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Brandon NORTHCUTT, Katarina BOUMA, Kevin STONE, Konstantine MUSHEGIAN
  • Patent number: 11741701
    Abstract: A method for controlling a robotic device is presented. The method includes capturing an image corresponding to a current view of the robotic device. The method also includes identifying a keyframe image comprising a first set of pixels matching a second set of pixels of the image. The method further includes performing, by the robotic device, a task corresponding to the keyframe image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy Ma, Kevin Stone, Max Bajracharya, Krishna Shankar
  • Publication number: 20230154015
    Abstract: A method for performing a task by a robotic device includes mapping a group of task image pixel descriptors associated with a first group of pixels in a task image of a task environment to a group of teaching image pixel descriptors associated with a second group of pixels in a teaching image based on positioning the robotic device within the task environment. The method also includes determining a relative transform between the task image and the teaching image based on mapping the plurality of task image pixel descriptors. The relative transform indicates a change in one or more of points of 3D space between the task image and the teaching image. The method also includes performing the task associated with the set of parameterized behaviors based on updating one or more parameters of a set of parameterized behaviors associated with the teaching image based on determining the relative transform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy MA, Josh PETERSEN, Umashankar NAGARAJAN, Michael LASKEY, Daniel HELMICK, James BORDERS, Krishna SHANKAR, Kevin STONE, Max BAJRACHARYA
  • Patent number: 11610080
    Abstract: A method for generating positive and negative training samples is presented. The method includes identifying false positive images of an object based on multiple images of an environment. The method also includes generating positive training samples from a set of images of the object. The method further includes generating a negative training sample from the false positive image. The method still further includes training an object detection system based on the positive training samples and the negative training sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Brandon Northcutt, Katarina Bouma, Kevin Stone, Konstantine Mushegian
  • Publication number: 20230077856
    Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to single-shot multi-object three-dimensional (3D) shape reconstruction and categorical six-dimensional (6D) pose and size estimation. In one embodiment, a method includes inferring a heatmap based upon a feature pyramid, where the feature pyramid is generated based upon a red green blue depth (RGB-D) image that includes objects. The method further includes sampling a 3D parameter map at locations corresponding to peaks in the heatmap, where the 3D parameter map is inferred based upon the feature pyramid, and where the locations include latent shape codes, 6D poses, and one-dimensional (1D) scales. The method further includes generating point clouds based upon the latent shape codes, the 6D poses, and the 1D scales.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Thomas Kollar, Michael Laskey, Kevin Stone
  • Patent number: 11586861
    Abstract: A system includes a memory module configured to store image data captured by a camera and an electronic controller communicatively coupled to the memory module. The electronic controller is configured to receive image data captured by the camera, implement a neural network trained to predict a drivable portion in the image data of an environment. The neural network predicts the drivable portion in the image data of the environment. The electronic controller is configured to implement a support vector machine. The support vector machine determines whether the predicted drivable portion of the environment output by the neural network is classified as drivable based on a hyperplane of the support vector machine and output an indication of the drivable portion of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy Ma, Krishna Shankar, Kevin Stone
  • Patent number: 11580724
    Abstract: A method for controlling a robotic device is presented. The method includes positioning the robotic device within a task environment. The method also includes mapping descriptors of a task image of a scene in the task environment to a teaching image of a teaching environment. The method further includes defining a relative transform between the task image and the teaching image based on the mapping. Furthermore, the method includes updating parameters of a set of parameterized behaviors based on the relative transform to perform a task corresponding to the teaching image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy Ma, Josh Petersen, Umashankar Nagarajan, Michael Laskey, Daniel Helmick, James Borders, Krishna Shankar, Kevin Stone, Max Bajracharya
  • Publication number: 20220410757
    Abstract: A multi-charger, serially operated electrical vehicle (EV) charging system, contains a Power Control System (PCS) providing DC power. A plurality of EV chargers is serially power-connected to each other, wherein the first EV charger is connected to the PCS. There are sets of relays in at least the first EV charger, wherein a first set of the set of relays, when activated, is configured to supply power to a respective charging cable of the EV charger, and a second set of the set of relays, when activated, is configured to supply power to a next-serially connected EV charger. The sets of relays contain auxiliary contacts providing relay status information. A hardware logic prevents the first and second sets of relays from simultaneously being activated, allowing only one EV charger of the plurality of EV chargers to charge at a time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Gottlieb, Kevin Stone
  • Publication number: 20220165057
    Abstract: A method for controlling a robotic device is presented. The method includes capturing an image corresponding to a current view of the robotic device. The method also includes identifying a keyframe image comprising a first set of pixels matching a second set of pixels of the image. The method further includes performing, by the robotic device, a task corresponding to the keyframe image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy MA, Kevin STONE, Max BAJRACHARYA, Krishna SHANKAR
  • Patent number: 11288883
    Abstract: A method for controlling a robotic device is presented. The method includes capturing an image corresponding to a current view of the robotic device. The method also includes identifying a keyframe image comprising a first set of pixels matching a second set of pixels of the image. The method further includes performing, by the robotic device, a task corresponding to the keyframe image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy Ma, Kevin Stone, Max Bajracharya, Krishna Shankar
  • Publication number: 20210326651
    Abstract: A method for generating positive and negative training samples is presented. The method includes identifying false positive images of an object based on multiple images of an environment. The method also includes generating positive training samples from a set of images of the object. The method further includes generating a negative training sample from the false positive image. The method still further includes training an object detection system based on the positive training samples and the negative training sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Brandon NORTHCUTT, Katarina BOUMA, Kevin STONE, Konstantine MUSHEGIAN
  • Patent number: 11113526
    Abstract: A method for training a deep neural network of a robotic device is described. The method includes constructing a 3D model using images captured via a 3D camera of the robotic device in a training environment. The method also includes generating pairs of 3D images from the 3D model by artificially adjusting parameters of the training environment to form manipulated images using the deep neural network. The method further includes processing the pairs of 3D images to form a reference image including embedded descriptors of common objects between the pairs of 3D images. The method also includes using the reference image from training of the neural network to determine correlations to identify detected objects in future images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Stone, Krishna Shankar, Michael Laskey
  • Publication number: 20210081724
    Abstract: A system includes a memory module configured to store image data captured by a camera and an electronic controller communicatively coupled to the memory module. The electronic controller is configured to receive image data captured by the camera, implement a neural network trained to predict a drivable portion in the image data of an environment. The neural network predicts the drivable portion in the image data of the environment. The electronic controller is configured to implement a support vector machine. The support vector machine determines whether the predicted drivable portion of the environment output by the neural network is classified as drivable based on a hyperplane of the support vector machine and output an indication of the drivable portion of the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Ma, Krishna Shankar, Kevin Stone
  • Patent number: 10950536
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes an electro-mechanical interface having angled signal interconnects, wherein, the angling of the signal interconnects is to reduce noise coupling between the angled signal interconnects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Zhen Zhou, Jun Liao, Xiang Li, Kevin Stone, Daqiao Du, Tae-Young Yang, Ling Zheng, James A. McCall