Patents by Inventor NICHOLAS JOHN VANDER VALK

NICHOLAS JOHN VANDER VALK 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).

  • Method and apparatus for inferring the geographic location of captured scene depictions
    Patent number: 8989483
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a geographic location of a scene in a captured depiction comprising extracting a first set of features from the captured depiction by algorithmically analyzing the captured depiction, matching the extracted features of the captured depiction against a second set of extracted features associated with reference depictions with known geographic locations and when the matching is successful, identifying the geographic location of the scene in the captured depiction based on a known geographic location of a matching reference depiction from the reference depictions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Hui Cheng, Harpreet Singh Sawhney, Bogdan Calin Mihai Matei, Zhiwei Zhu, Nicholas John Vander Valk
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFERRING THE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF CAPTURED SCENE DEPICTIONS
    Publication number: 20120314935
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a geographic location of a scene in a captured depiction comprising extracting a first set of features from the captured depiction by algorithmically analyzing the captured depiction, matching the extracted features of the captured depiction against a second set of extracted features associated with reference depictions with known geographic locations and when the matching is successful, identifying the geographic location of the scene in the captured depiction based on a known geographic location of a matching reference depiction from the reference depictions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: SRI INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: HUI CHENG, HARPREET SINGH SAWHNEY, BOGDAN CALIN MIHAI MATEI, ZHIWEI ZHU, NICHOLAS JOHN VANDER VALK