Patents by Inventor Malte AHL

Malte AHL 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).

  • Object recognition method and time-of-flight object recognition circuitry
    Patent number: 12725442
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to an object recognition method for time-of-flight camera data, including: recognizing a real object based on a pretrained algorithm, wherein the pretrained algorithm is trained based on time-of-flight training data, wherein the time-of-flight training data are generated based on a combination of real time-of-flight data being indicative of a background, and simulated time-of-flight data generated by applying a mask on synthetic overlay image data representing a simulated object, thereby generating a masked simulated object, the mask being generated based on the synthetic overlay image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Malte Ahl, David Dal Zot, Varun Arora
  • OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD AND TIME-OF-FLIGHT OBJECT RECOGNITION CIRCUITRY
    Publication number: 20240071122
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to an object recognition method for time-of-flight camera data, including: recognizing a real object based on a pretrained algorithm, wherein the pretrained algorithm is trained based on time-of-flight training data, wherein the time-of-flight training data are generated based on a combination of real time-of-flight data being indicative of a background, and simulated time-of-flight data generated by applying a mask on synthetic overlay image data representing a simulated object, thereby generating a masked simulated object, the mask being generated based on the synthetic overlay image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Malte AHL, David DAL ZOT, Varun ARORA
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20240005758
    Abstract: An electronic device having circuitry configured to perform smoke detection based on a depth image and a confidence image captured by an iToF sensor to obtain a smoke detection status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Malte AHL, David DAL ZOT, Varun ARORA