Patents by Inventor Man Yau CHIU

Man Yau CHIU 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).

  • Patent number: 10685428
    Abstract: Methods and systems which provide super-resolution synthesis based on weighted results from a random forest classifier are described. Embodiments apply a trained random forest classifier to low-resolution patches generated from the low-resolution input image to classify the low-resolution input patches. As each low-resolution patch is fed into the random forest classifier, each decision tree in the random forest classifier “votes” for a particular class for each of the low-resolution patches. Each class is associated with a projection matrix. The projection matrices output by the decision trees are combined by a weighted average to calculate an overall projection matrix corresponding to the random forest classifier output, which is used to calculate a high-resolution patch for each low-resolution patch. The high-resolution patches are combined to generate a synthesized high-resolution image corresponding to the low-resolution input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yan Wang, Hailiang Li, Yang Liu, Man Yau Chiu, Zhi Bin Lei
  • Publication number: 20200151852
    Abstract: Methods and systems which provide super-resolution synthesis based on weighted results from a random forest classifier are described, Embodiments apply a trained random forest classifier to low resolution patches generated from the low-resolution input image to classify the low resolution input patches. As each low-resolution patch is fed into the random forest classifier, each decision tree in the random forest classifier “votes” for a particular class for each of the low-resolution patches. Each class is associated with a projection matrix. The projection matrices output by the decision trees are combined by a weighted average to calculate an overall projection matrix corresponding to the random forest classifier output, which is used to calculate a high-resolution patch for each low-resolution patch. The high-resolution patches are combined to generate a synthesized high-resolution image corresponding to the low-resolution input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Yan Wang, Hailiang Li, Yang Liu, Man Yau Chiu, Zhi Bin Lei
  • Patent number: 9928426
    Abstract: A method for a vehicle management system with a perspective view camera generating perspective images of vehicles in a traffic direction, including performing an anti-perspective transform on the perspective images; separating each anti-perspective image into sub-images along one of a radial direction and a tangential direction relative to the traffic direction; determining a scale factor for each sub-image based upon measuring a scale of each vehicle at plural positions in one image using a frame difference method performing a scale transform for each sub-image using the corresponding scale factors for the sub-image; combining each of the scale transformed sub-images for each vehicle into corresponding enhanced anti-perspective images; performing vehicle detection for each vehicle based a combination of the enhanced anti-perspective images in which tracking is enhanced with an optimized detection box size range determined by the enhanced anti-perspective images; and performing vehicle tracking for each vehic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: HONG KONG APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hailiang Li, Zhi Bin Lei, Yang Liu, Man Yau Chiu, Kangheng Wu
  • Publication number: 20180082131
    Abstract: A method for a vehicle management system with a perspective view camera generating perspective images of vehicles in a traffic direction, including performing an anti-perspective transform on the perspective images; separating each anti-perspective image into sub-images along one of a radial direction and a tangential direction relative to the traffic direction; determining a scale factor for each sub-image based upon measuring a scale of each vehicle at plural positions in one image using a frame difference method performing a scale transform for each sub-image using the corresponding scale factors for the sub-image; combining each of the scale transformed sub-images for each vehicle into corresponding enhanced anti-perspective images; performing vehicle detection for each vehicle based a combination of the enhanced anti-perspective images in which tracking is enhanced with an optimized detection box size range determined by the enhanced anti-perspective images; and performing vehicle tracking for each vehic
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Hailiang LI, Zhi Bin LEI, Yang LIU, Man Yau CHIU, Kangheng WU
  • Patent number: 9219924
    Abstract: This invention discloses an encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus for scalable video coding such that a non-scalable video decoder is usable for decoding a scalable video bit-stream comprising a base layer bit-stream and an enhancement layer bit-stream. In one embodiment, a source video frame is downscaled to give a downscaled video frame, which is then encoded into the base layer bit-stream. The difference between the source video frame and an up-scaled video frame reconstructed from the downscaled video frame in the base layer bit-stream yields a residual frame. The residual frame is partitioned into a number of residual sub-frames each having a resolution that is the downscaled video frame's resolution. The residual sub-frames are encoded into the enhancement layer bit-stream. Thereby, a non-scalable encoder is usable to encode both the downscaled video frame and the residual sub-frames, allowing both bit-streams to be decodable by employing only one non-scalable decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Man Yau Chiu, Zhi Bin Lei
  • Publication number: 20150030072
    Abstract: This invention discloses an encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus for scalable video coding such that a non-scalable video decoder is usable for decoding a scalable video bit-stream comprising a base layer bit-stream and an enhancement layer bit-stream. In one embodiment, a source video frame is downscaled to give a downscaled video frame, which is then encoded into the base layer bit-stream. The difference between the source video frame and an up-scaled video frame reconstructed from the downscaled video frame in the base layer bit-stream yields a residual frame. The residual frame is partitioned into a number of residual sub-frames each having a resolution that is the downscaled video frame's resolution. The residual sub-frames are encoded into the enhancement layer bit-stream. Thereby, a non-scalable encoder is usable to encode both the downscaled video frame and the residual sub-frames, allowing both bit-streams to be decodable by employing only one non-scalable decoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Man Yau CHIU, Zhi Bin LEI