Patents by Inventor Kyle Sargent

Kyle Sargent 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: 20260034668
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for robot policy training from view-invariant demonstrations of a task. An example method includes obtaining an image of an environment of the apparatus; generating a plurality of random pose transforms to apply to the image; generating, with a generative diffusion model, respective augmented images of the image based on each of the plurality of random pose transforms, wherein the respective augmented images correspond to augmented views of the environment; selecting a set of the respective augmented images based on a distribution corresponding to a sphere centered at the robot base; and training a robot task diffusion policy with the set of the respective augmented images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2025
    Publication date: February 5, 2026
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Stephen TIAN, Katherine LIU, Sergey ZAKHAROV, Blake WULFE, Kyle SARGENT, Vitor Campagnolo GUIZILINI, Jiajun WU
  • Publication number: 20250191206
    Abstract: A method includes determining, based on an image having an initial viewpoint, a depth image, and determining a foreground visibility map including visibility values that are inversely proportional to a depth gradient of the depth image. The method also includes determining, based on the depth image, a background disocclusion mask indicating a likelihood that pixel of the image will be disoccluded by a viewpoint adjustment. The method additionally includes generating, based on the image, the depth image, and the background disocclusion mask, an inpainted image and an inpainted depth image. The method further includes generating, based on the depth image and the inpainted depth image, respectively, a first three-dimensional (3D) representation of the image and a second 3D representation of the inpainted image, and generating a modified image having an adjusted viewpoint by combining the first and second 3D representation based on the foreground visibility map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Varun Jampani, Huiwen Chang, Kyle Sargent, Abhishek Kar, Richard Tucker, Dominik Kaeser, Brian L. Curless, David Salesin, William T. Freeman, Michael Krainin, Ce Liu
  • Patent number: 12260572
    Abstract: A method includes determining, based on an image having an initial viewpoint, a depth image, and determining a foreground visibility map including visibility values that are inversely proportional to a depth gradient of the depth image. The method also includes determining, based on the depth image, a background disocclusion mask indicating a likelihood that pixel of the image will be disoccluded by a viewpoint adjustment. The method additionally includes generating, based on the image, the depth image, and the background disocclusion mask, an inpainted image and an inpainted depth image. The method further includes generating, based on the depth image and the inpainted depth image, respectively, a first three-dimensional (3D) representation of the image and a second 3D representation of the inpainted image, and generating a modified image having an adjusted viewpoint by combining the first and second 3D representation based on the foreground visibility map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Varun Jampani, Huiwen Chang, Kyle Sargent, Abhishek Kar, Richard Tucker, Dominik Kaeser, Brian L. Curless, David Salesin, William T. Freeman, Michael Krainin, Ce Liu
  • Publication number: 20240249422
    Abstract: A method includes determining, based on an image having an initial viewpoint, a depth image, and determining a foreground visibility map including visibility values that are inversely proportional to a depth gradient of the depth image. The method also includes determining, based on the depth image, a background disocclusion mask indicating a likelihood that pixel of the image will be disoccluded by a viewpoint adjustment. The method additionally includes generating, based on the image, the depth image, and the background disocclusion mask, an inpainted image and an inpainted depth image. The method further includes generating, based on the depth image and the inpainted depth image, respectively, a first three-dimensional (3D) representation of the image and a second 3D representation of the inpainted image, and generating a modified image having an adjusted viewpoint by combining the first and second 3D representation based on the foreground visibility map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Varun Jampani, Huiwen Chang, Kyle Sargent, Abhishek Kar, Richard Tucker, Dominik Kaeser, Brian L. Curless, David Salesin, William T. Freeman, Michael Krainin, Ce Liu
  • Patent number: 11620282
    Abstract: A method of information retrieval is provided. The method comprises receiving a query from a user and parsing the query in real-time as the user enters the query. The parsed query is interpreted dynamically based on a defined schema of a knowledge base, and a number of query interpretations is displayed in real-time as the user enters the query. When a selection of one of the query interpretations is received from the user information is retrieved from the knowledge base according to the selected query interpretation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: S&P Global Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Yurtsev, Vadym Barda, Maxim Sokolov, Jeremy Lopez, Eli Rosen, Ben Cohen, Qibo Chen, Hamima Halim, Anurag Rai, Josh Shapiro, Predrag Gruevski, Kyle Sargent, Bojan Serafimov
  • Publication number: 20210397609
    Abstract: A method of information retrieval is provided. The method comprises receiving a query from a user and parsing the query in real-time as the user enters the query. The parsed query is interpreted dynamically based on a defined schema of a knowledge base, and a number of query interpretations is displayed in real-time as the user enters the query. When a selection of one of the query interpretations is received from the user information is retrieved from the knowledge base according to the selected query interpretation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Eugene Yurtsev, Vadym Barda, Maxim Sokolov, Jeremy Lopez, Eli Rosen, Ben Cohen, Qibo Chen, Hamima Halim, Anurag Rai, Josh Shapiro, Predrag Gruevski, Kyle Sargent, Bojan Serafimov
  • Publication number: 20190179903
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improvements in AI model learning and updating are provided. The model updating may reuse existing business conversations as the training data set. Features within the dataset may be defined and extracted. Models may be selected and parameters for the models defined. Within a distributed computing setting the parameters may be optimized, and the models deployed. The training data may be augmented over time to improve the models. Deep learning models may be employed to improve system accuracy, as can active learning techniques. The models developed and updated may be employed by a response system generally, or may function to enable specific types of AI systems. One such a system may be an AI assistant that is designed to take use cases and objectives, and execute tasks until the objectives are met. Another system capable of leveraging the models includes an automated question answering system utilizing approved answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: George Alexis Terry, Werner Koepf, Siddhartha Reddy Jonnalagadda, James D. Harriger, William Dominic Webb-Purkis, Macgregor S. Gainor, Ryan Francis Ginstrom, Caleb Andrew Bredlow, Kyle Sargent, Alexander Carmelo Reid Fordyce, Ian McCann