Patents by Inventor Neil A. Stein
Neil A. Stein 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).
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Patent number: 8798392Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, organizing information relevant to the image according to a smooth-illumination constraint enforcing a Laplacian filter response such that ?2ƒ(x, y)=0 and utilizing the smooth-illumination constraint to generate an intrinsic image from the image.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Neil Stein, Casey Arthur Smith
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Publication number: 20140072210Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image represented in a spatial plane, organizing spatio-spectral information for the image in a matrix equation expressed by normal and tangential constraints determined as a function of a spatial orientation of selected image locations, relative to the spatial plane of the image and utilizing the matrix equation to solve for an intrinsic image corresponding to the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Neil Stein, Jean-Francois Lalonde
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Publication number: 20140056514Abstract: An automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. The method comprises the steps of providing a sequence of image files depicting images of a same scene, in a computer memory, determining correspondence information relevant to the same scene across the sequence of images, and generating individual intrinsic images for each one of the sequence of images, as a function of the correspondence information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Casey Arthur Smith, Andrew Neil Stein, Bruce Allen Maxwell, Richard Mark Friedhoff
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Publication number: 20140050399Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image defined by image locations, in a computer memory, generating a bi-illuminant chromaticity plane in a log color space for representing the image locations of the image in a log-chromaticity representation for the image, providing a set of estimates for the orientation of the bi-illuminant chromaticity plane and calculating an orientation for each one of the image locations as a function of the set of estimates for the orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Jean-Francois LALONDE, Patrick BUEHLER, Bruce Allen MAXWELL, Casey Arthur SMITH, Andrew Neil STEIN, Richard Mark FRIEDHOFF
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Patent number: 8606050Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing a sequence of image files depicting images of a same scene, in a computer memory, determining correspondence information relevant to the same scene across the sequence of images, and generating individual intrinsic images for each one of the sequence of images, as a function of the correspondence information.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Casey Arthur Smith, Andrew Neil Stein, Bruce Allen Maxwell, Richard Mark Friedhoff
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Publication number: 20130321419Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, calculating processing scale parameter information as a function of width dimension information for penumbrae depicted in the image; and generating intrinsic illumination and material reflectance images corresponding to the image using the processing scale parameter information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: TANDENT VISION SCIENCE, INC.Inventor: Andrew Neil Stein
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Patent number: 8600169Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, assembling a feature vector for the image file, the feature vector containing information regarding a likelihood that a selected pair of regions of the image file are of a same intrinsic characteristic, providing a classifier derived from a computer learning technique, computing a classification score for the selected pair of regions of the image file, as a function of the feature vector and the classifier and classifying the regions as being of the same intrinsic characteristic, as a function of the classification score.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Neil Stein, Bartholomeus Christianus Leonardus Nabbe, Casey Arthur Smith, James Andrew Bagnell, David Allen Tolliver
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Patent number: 8483480Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, generating an illumination image from the image; and factoring the illumination image to generate a diffuse illumination image and a harsh shadow illumination image.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Casey Arthur Smith, Andrew Neil Stein, Neil Alldrin
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Patent number: 8478029Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, forming a set of selectively varied representations of the image file and performing an image segregation operation on at least one preselected representation of the image of the image file, to generate intrinsic images corresponding to the image. According to a feature of the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the selectively varied representations comprise multi-resolution representations such as a scale-spaced pyramid of representations. In a further feature of the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the intrinsic images comprise a material image and an illumination image.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2009Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: David Allen Tolliver, Kristin Jean Dana, Andrew Neil Stein, Neil Alldrin
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Patent number: 8452109Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, assembling a feature vector for the image file, the feature vector containing information regarding a likelihood that a selected pair of regions of the image file are of a same intrinsic characteristic, for example, a same texture, providing a classifier derived from a computer learning technique, computing a classification score for the selected pair of regions of the image file, as a function of the feature vector and the classifier and classifying the regions as being of the same intrinsic characteristic, as a function of the classification score.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Neil Alldrin, Kshitiz Garg, Andrew Neil Stein, Kristin Jean Dana, Bruce Allen Maxwell, Casey Arthur Smith, Youngrock Yoon, Besma Roui Abidi
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Publication number: 20130071033Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, providing a multi-class classifier trained to identify edges in an image relative to computer actions to be taken in respect to the respective edges, determined as a function of illumination effects in the image and utilizing the multi-class classifier to classify edges in the image, for identification of computer actions to be taken in respect to the edges in the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Neil Stein, Kshitiz Garg
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Publication number: 20130039571Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, assembling a feature vector for the image file, the feature vector containing information regarding a likelihood that a selected pair of regions of the image file are of a same intrinsic characteristic, providing a classifier derived from a computer learning technique, computing a classification score for the selected pair of regions of the image file, as a function of the feature vector and the classifier and classifying the regions as being of the same intrinsic characteristic, as a function of the classification score.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2012Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Neil Stein, Bartholomeus Christianus Leonardus Nabbe, Casey Arthur Smith, James Andrew Bagnell, David Allen Tolliver
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Publication number: 20120321222Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing a sequence of image files depicting images of a same scene, in a computer memory, determining correspondence information relevant to the same scene across the sequence of images, and generating individual intrinsic images for each one of the sequence of images, as a function of the correspondence information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Casey Arthur SMITH, Andrew Neil STEIN, Bruce Allen MAXWELL, Richard Mark FRIEDHOFF
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Patent number: 8311338Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, assembling a feature vector for the image file, the feature vector containing information regarding a likelihood that a selected pair of regions of the image file are of a same intrinsic characteristic, providing a classifier derived from a computer learning technique, computing a classification score for the selected pair of regions of the image file, as a function of the feature vector and the classifier and classifying the regions as being of the same intrinsic characteristic, as a function of the classification score.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Neil Stein, Bartholomeus Christianus Leonardus Nabbe, Casey Arthur Smith, James Andrew Bagnell, David Allen Tolliver
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Patent number: 8260050Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a test bed for optimizing an image segregation is provided. According to a feature of the present invention, the test bed comprises a memory storing an image file containing an image, a set of operations, a set of constraint software modules and a set of parameters relevant to the image, a transform module for performing a preselected one of the set of operations, defined by a preselected one of the set of constraint software modules, on the image, as a function of preselected ones of the set of parameters, to provide an output image, a test module utilizing the transform module output image, an analysis module for analyzing test module performance, and a feedback loop for varying selected ones of the operations, constraint software modules and parameters, for input to the transform module, to provide a new output image for input to the test module.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Neil Stein, Iljung Samuel Kwak, Casey Arthur Smith, Bruce Allen Maxwell, David Allen Tolliver, James Andrew Bagnell
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Publication number: 20120114263Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, organizing information relevant to the image according to a smooth-illumination constraint enforcing a Laplacian filter response such that ?2 ƒ(x, y)=0 and utilizing the smooth-illumination constraint to generate an intrinsic image from the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Neil Stein, Casey Arthur Smith
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Patent number: 8139867Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of generating spatio-spectral information for the image, defining a constraint as a function of the spatio-spectral information, and performing an optimization operation as a function of the constraint to generate an intrinsic image corresponding to the image.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Allen Maxwell, Casey Arthur Smith, David Allen Tolliver, James Andrew Bagnell, Andrew Neil Stein, Iljung Samuel Kwak, Kristin Jean Dana, Steven Joseph Bushell, Timothy King Rodgers, Jr., Bartholomeus Christianus Leonardus Nabbe, Milan Diebel, Richard Mark Friedhoff
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Patent number: 8139850Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image, organizing spatio-spectral information for the image in a matrix equation expressed by: [A][x]=[b], wherein [A] expresses values determined by a constraining relationship imposed upon the spatio-spectral information, [b] expresses recorded information for the image, and [x] expresses an unknown material/illumination component of the image, and utilizing the matrix equation in an image segregation operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Inventors: Bruce Allen Maxwell, Casey Arthur Smith, David Allen Tolliver, James Andrew Bagnell, Andrew Neil Stein, Iljung Samuel Kwak, Kristin Jean Dana, Steven Joseph Bushell, Timothy King Rodgers, Jr., Bartholomeus Christianus Leonardus Nabbe, Milan Diebel, Richard Mark Friedhoff
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Publication number: 20110222742Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, identifying shadow edges in the image, computing gradient information for the image and modifying the gradient information relative to the shadow edges for improved performance of computer functionality in an image processing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2010Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Neil Stein, Neil Alldrin, Kshitiz Garg
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Publication number: 20110170768Abstract: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, assembling a feature vector for the image file, the feature vector containing information regarding a likelihood that a selected pair of regions of the image file are of a same intrinsic characteristic, for example, a same texture, providing a classifier derived from a computer learning technique, computing a classification score for the selected pair of regions of the image file, as a function of the feature vector and the classifier and classifying the regions as being of the same intrinsic characteristic, as a function of the classification score.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: Tandent Vision Science, Inc.Inventors: Neil Alldrin, Kshitiz Garg, Andrew Neil Stein, Kristin Jean Dana, Bruce Allen Maxwell, Casey Arthur Smith, Youngrock Yoon, Besma Roui Abidi