Patents by Inventor Mike Blommer

Mike Blommer 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).

  • Systems and methods for gait recognition via disentangled representation learning
    Patent number: 11315363
    Abstract: Gait, the walking pattern of individuals, is one of the most important biometrics modalities. Most of the existing gait recognition methods take silhouettes or articulated body models as the gait features. These methods suffer from degraded recognition performance when handling confounding variables, such as clothing, carrying and view angle. To remedy this issue, a novel AutoEncoder framework is presented to explicitly disentangle pose and appearance features from RGB imagery and a long short-term memory integration of pose features over time produces the gait feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Ford Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Xiaoming Liu, Jian Wan, Kwaku Prakah-Asante, Mike Blommer, Ziyuan Zhang, Luan Tran, Xi Yin, Yousef Atoum
  • Systems And Methods For Gait Recognition Via Disentangled Representation Learning
    Publication number: 20210224524
    Abstract: Gait, the walking pattern of individuals, is one of the most important biometrics modalities. Most of the existing gait recognition methods take silhouettes or articulated body models as the gait features. These methods suffer from degraded recognition performance when handling confounding variables, such as clothing, carrying and view angle. To remedy this issue, a novel AutoEncoder framework is presented to explicitly disentangle pose and appearance features from RGB imagery and a long short-term memory integration of pose features over time produces the gait feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicants: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaoming LIU, Jian WAN, Kwaku PRAKAH-ASANTE, Mike BLOMMER, Ziyuan ZHANG, Luan TRAN, Xi YIN, Yousef ATOUM
  • Methods and apparatus to monitor an activity level of a driver
    Patent number: 10583840
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to monitor an activity level of a driver are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, at a processor, eye movement data from a sensor monitoring eye movements of a driver of a vehicle. The method includes calculating, via the processor, an eye movement activity index using a substantially real-time recursive analysis of the eye movement data. The method further includes calculating, via the processor, a low activity indicator for the driver based on the eye movement activity index. The method also includes executing a task based on the low activity indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: FORD MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Gary Steven Strumolo, Reates Curry, Mike Blommer, Radhakrishnan Swaminathan
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR AN ACTIVITY LEVEL OF A DRIVER
    Publication number: 20190232966
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to monitor an activity level of a driver are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, at a processor, eye movement data from a sensor monitoring eye movements of a driver of a vehicle. The method includes calculating, via the processor, an eye movement activity index using a substantially real-time recursive analysis of the eye movement data. The method further includes calculating, via the processor, a low activity indicator for the driver based on the eye movement activity index. The method also includes executing a task based on the low activity indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Kwaku O. PRAKAH-ASANTE, Gary Steven STRUMOLO, Reates CURRY, Mike BLOMMER, Radhakrishnan SWAMINATHAN