Patents by Inventor Michael Gleicher

Michael Gleicher 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).

  • Video processing with region-based warping
    Patent number: 8649558
    Abstract: Video data is processed with region-based warping. In accordance with various example embodiments, video data having a plurality of source video frames is processed as follows, for each source video frame. Pixels representing the source video frame and at least one temporally-adjacent video frame are used to generate a motion history map, based upon frame-to-frame movement of at least one region in the source video frame and temporally-adjacent video frames. At least one salient region is identified in the source video frame based upon the motion history map and static image saliency data. Weighting data is determined for warping pixels corresponding to background regions of the source video frame differently than pixels corresponding to the at least one salient region in the source video frame. Using the weighting data, the pixels representing the source video frame are warped to generate pixels representing a warped video frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Michael Gleicher, Feng Liu, Yuzhen Niu
  • VIDEO PROCESSING WITH REGION-BASED WARPING
    Publication number: 20120307155
    Abstract: Video data is processed with region-based warping. In accordance with various example embodiments, video data having a plurality of source video frames is processed as follows, for each source video frame. Pixels representing the source video frame and at least one temporally-adjacent video frame are used to generate a motion history map, based upon frame-to-frame movement of at least one region in the source video frame and temporally-adjacent video frames. At least one salient region is identified in the source video frame based upon the motion history map and static image saliency data. Weighting data is determined for warping pixels corresponding to background regions of the source video frame differently than pixels corresponding to the at least one salient region in the source video frame. Using the weighting data, the pixels representing the source video frame are warped to generate pixels representing a warped video frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Michael Gleicher, Feng Liu, Yuzhen Niu
  • Retargeting images for small displays
    Patent number: 7574069
    Abstract: A method retargets an image to a different size. An input image is segmented into regions. Selected regions are cut from the input image to construct a background image. The background image is scaled to a predetermined size, and the selected regions are pasted back into the scaled background image to produce an output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Vidya Setlur, Michael Gleicher, Bruce Gooch, Saeko Takagi, Ramesh Raskar
  • Retargeting images for small displays
    Publication number: 20070025637
    Abstract: A method retargets an image to a different size. An input image is segmented into regions. Selected regions are cut from the input image to construct a background image. The background image is scaled to a predetermined size, and the selected regions are pasted back into the scaled background image to produce an output image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Vidya Setlur, Michael Gleicher, Bruce Gooch, Saeko Takagi, Ramesh Raskar