Patents by Inventor Nicholas Johnstone
Nicholas Johnstone 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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Publication number: 20250045974Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reliably performing data compression and data decompression across a wide variety of hardware and software platforms by using integer neural networks. In one aspect, there is provided a method for entropy encoding data which defines a sequence comprising a plurality of components, the method comprising: for each component of the plurality of components: processing an input comprising: (i) a respective integer representation of each of one or more components of the data which precede the component in the sequence, (ii) an integer representation of one or more respective latent variables characterizing the data, or (iii) both, using an integer neural network to generate data defining a probability distribution over the predetermined set of possible code symbols for the component of the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Nicholas Johnston, Johannes Balle
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Patent number: 12154304Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reliably performing data compression and data decompression across a wide variety of hardware and software platforms by using integer neural networks. In one aspect, there is provided a method for entropy encoding data which defines a sequence comprising a plurality of components, the method comprising: for each component of the plurality of components: processing an input comprising: (i) a respective integer representation of each of one or more components of the data which precede the component in the sequence, (ii) an integer representation of one or more respective latent variables characterizing the data, or (iii) both, using an integer neural network to generate data defining a probability distribution over the predetermined set of possible code symbols for the component of the data.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Nicholas Johnston, Johannes Balle
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Patent number: 12118466Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing a network input using a neural network to generate a network output for the network input. One of the methods includes maintaining, for each of the plurality of neural network layers, a respective look-up table that maps each possible combination of a quantized input index and a quantized weight index to a multiplication result; and generating a network output from a network input, comprising, for each of the neural network layers: receiving data specifying a quantized input to the neural network layer, the quantized input comprising a plurality of quantized input values; and generating a layer output for the neural network layer from the quantized input to the neural network layer using the respective look-up table for the neural network layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Michele Covell, David Marwood, Shumeet Baluja, Nicholas Johnston
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Publication number: 20240223817Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for compressing video data. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving a video sequence of frames; generating, using a flow prediction network, an optical flow between two sequential frames, wherein the two sequential frames comprise a first frame and a second frame that is subsequent the first frame; generating from the optical flow, using a first autoencoder neural network: a predicted optical flow between the first frame and the second frame; and warping a reconstruction of the first frame according to the predicted optical flow and subsequently applying a blurring operation to obtain an initial predicted reconstruction of the second frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2022Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventors: George Dan Toderici, Eirikur Thor Agustsson, Fabian Julius Mentzer, David Charles Minnen, Johannes Balle, Nicholas Johnston
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Patent number: 11970049Abstract: A system is described for controlling dust in a cabin, such as a cabin or cabinet in a piece of mobile plant equipment. The system includes an air circulation unit comprising an air flow passageway extending from a return air intake in communication with the cabin interior to one or more conduits in communication with the cabin interior and a circulation fan in communication with the air flow passageway, wherein the circulation fan can cause air from the cabin interior to pass through a filter and to be redelivered to the cabin interior. A control system is in communication with the air circulation unit. The control system includes a controller and a detector, wherein the controller receives a input signal from the detector related to a condition in the cabin and wherein the controller generates an output signal in response to the input signal, the output signal being delivered to the air circulation unit to control the operation thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: BREATHESAFE PTY LTDInventor: Nicholas Johnstone
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Publication number: 20240104786Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reliably performing data compression and data decompression across a wide variety of hardware and software platforms by using integer neural networks. In one aspect, there is provided a method for entropy encoding data which defines a sequence comprising a plurality of components, the method comprising: for each component of the plurality of components: processing an input comprising: (i) a respective integer representation of each of one or more components of the data which precede the component in the sequence, (ii) an integer representation of one or more respective latent variables characterizing the data, or (iii) both, using an integer neural network to generate data defining a probability distribution over the predetermined set of possible code symbols for the component of the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Nicholas Johnston, Johannes Balle
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Publication number: 20240078712Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for compressing and decompressing data. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing data using an encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the data; processing the latent representation of the data using a hyper-encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of an entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the data using the latent representation of the entropy model; and determining a compressed representation of the data from the entropy encoded representations of: (i) the latent representation of the data and (ii) the latent representation of the entropy model used to entropy encode the latent representation of the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh, Johannes Balle, Troy Chinen, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Johnston, George Dan Toderici
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Patent number: 11869221Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reliably performing data compression and data decompression across a wide variety of hardware and software platforms by using integer neural networks. In one aspect, there is provided a method for entropy encoding data which defines a sequence comprising a plurality of components, the method comprising: for each component of the plurality of components: processing an input comprising: (i) a respective integer representation of each of one or more components of the data which precede the component in the sequence, (ii) an integer representation of one or more respective latent variables characterizing the data, or (iii) both, using an integer neural network to generate data defining a probability distribution over the predetermined set of possible code symbols for the component of the data.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Nicholas Johnston, Johannes Balle
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Publication number: 20230284852Abstract: A system for safely capturing dust is disclosed. The system includes a dust containment system including a filter member within the containment unit. The dust containment unit is selectively attachable to a vacuum base whereby the dust containment unit with filter member therein can be selectively disconnected from the vacuum base, sealed, and disposed of, and a new dust containment unit can then be attached to the vacuum base.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: TRACS QLD Ply Lid T/A BREATHESAFEInventor: Nicholas Johnstone
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Publication number: 20230186082Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing a network input using a neural network to generate a network output for the network input. One of the methods includes maintaining, for each of the plurality of neural network layers, a respective look-up table that maps each possible combination of a quantized input index and a quantized weight index to a multiplication result; and generating a network output from a network input, comprising, for each of the neural network layers: receiving data specifying a quantized input to the neural network layer, the quantized input comprising a plurality of quantized input values; and generating a layer output for the neural network layer from the quantized input to the neural network layer using the respective look-up table for the neural network layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Michele Covell, David Marwood, Shumeet Baluja, Nicholas Johnston
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Patent number: 11670010Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for compressing and decompressing data. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing data using an encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the data; processing the latent representation of the data using a hyper-encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of an entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the data using the latent representation of the entropy model; and determining a compressed representation of the data from the entropy encoded representations of: (i) the latent representation of the data and (ii) the latent representation of the entropy model used to entropy encode the latent representation of the data.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh, Johannes Balle, Troy Chinen, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Johnston, George Dan Toderici
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Patent number: 11610124Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, by a neural network (NN), a dataset for generating features from the dataset. A first set of features is computed from the dataset using at least a feature layer of the NN. The first set of features i) is characterized by a measure of informativeness; and ii) is computed such that a size of the first set of features is compressible into a second set of features that is smaller in size than the first set of features and that has a same measure of informativeness as the measure of informativeness of the first set of features. The second set of features if generated from the first set of features using a compression method that compresses the first set of features to generate the second set of features.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Abhinav Shrivastava, Saurabh Singh, Johannes Balle, Sami Ahmad Abu-El-Haija, Nicholas Johnston, George Dan Toderici
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Patent number: 11488016Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing a network input using a neural network to generate a network output for the network input. One of the methods includes maintaining, for each of the plurality of neural network layers, a respective look-up table that maps each possible combination of a quantized input index and a quantized weight index to a multiplication result; and generating a network output from a network input, comprising, for each of the neural network layers: receiving data specifying a quantized input to the neural network layer, the quantized input comprising a plurality of quantized input values; and generating a layer output for the neural network layer from the quantized input to the neural network layer using the respective look-up table for the neural network layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Michele Covell, David Marwood, Shumeet Baluja, Nicholas Johnston
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Patent number: 11354822Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for image compression and reconstruction. A request to generate an encoded representation of an input image is received. The encoded representation of the input image is then generated. The encoded representation includes a respective set of binary codes at each iteration. Generating the set of binary codes for the iteration from an initial set of binary includes: for any tiles that have already been masked off during any previous iteration, masking off the tile. For any tiles that have not yet been masked off during any of the previous iterations, a determination is made as to whether a reconstruction error of the tile when reconstructed from binary codes at the previous iterations satisfies an error threshold. When the reconstruction quality satisfies the error threshold, the tile is masked off.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Michele Covell, Damien Vincent, David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Johnston, Joel Eric Shor, George Dan Toderici
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Publication number: 20220138991Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for compressing and decompressing data. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing data using an encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the data; processing the latent representation of the data using a hyper-encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of an entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the data using the latent representation of the entropy model; and determining a compressed representation of the data from the entropy encoded representations of: (i) the latent representation of the data and (ii) the latent representation of the entropy model used to entropy encode the latent representation of the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh, Johannes Balle, Troy Chinen, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Johnston, George Dan Toderici
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Patent number: 11306831Abstract: A tap assembly includes a flow control mechanism, a spindle which rotates about its principal axis to operate the flow control mechanism, and a handle connectable to the spindle. The location on the handle where the spindle connects coincides with the spindle's principal axis but does not with the centroid of the handle's planform shape. When the handle is turned by a user, the handle rotates about the spindle's principal axis. The handle also moves or translates relative the spindle's principal axis. When the handle is in an initial “fully off” position, there is an area that is obscured from a user's view by the handle, but when the handle is initially turned from the initial position towards a final “fully on” position, the area begins to be revealed, and with further rotation of the handle towards the final position, more of, or different parts of, the area become revealed.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignees: RAMTAPS PTY LTD, ROGERS SELLER & MYHILL PTY LTDInventor: Nicholas Johnston
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Patent number: 11257254Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for compressing and decompressing data. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing data using an encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the data; processing the latent representation of the data using a hyper-encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of an entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the entropy model; generating an entropy encoded representation of the latent representation of the data using the latent representation of the entropy model; and determining a compressed representation of the data from the entropy encoded representations of: (i) the latent representation of the data and (ii) the latent representation of the entropy model used to entropy encode the latent representation of the data.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh, Johannes Balle, Troy Chinen, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Johnston, George Dan Toderici
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Patent number: 11250595Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for image compression and reconstruction. An image encoder system receives a request to generate an encoded representation of an input image that has been partitioned into a plurality of tiles and generates the encoded representation of the input image. To generate the encoded representation, the system processes a context for each tile using a spatial context prediction neural network that has been trained to process context for an input tile and generate an output tile that is a prediction of the input tile. The system determines a residual image between the particular tile and the output tile generated by the spatial context prediction neural network by process the context for the particular tile and generates a set of binary codes for the particular tile by encoding the residual image using an encoder neural network.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Michele Covell, Damien Vincent, David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Johnston, Joel Eric Shor, George Dan Toderici
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Publication number: 20210358180Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reliably performing data compression and data decompression across a wide variety of hardware and software platforms by using integer neural networks. In one aspect, there is provided a method for entropy encoding data which defines a sequence comprising a plurality of components, the method comprising: for each component of the plurality of components: processing an input comprising: (i) a respective integer representation of each of one or more components of the data which precede the component in the sequence, (ii) an integer representation of one or more respective latent variables characterizing the data, or (iii) both, using an integer neural network to generate data defining a probability distribution over the predetermined set of possible code symbols for the component of the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Nicholas Johnston, Johannes Balle
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Publication number: 20210335017Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for image compression and reconstruction. A request to generate an encoded representation of an input image is received. The encoded representation of the input image is then generated. The encoded representation includes a respective set of binary codes at each iteration. Generating the set of binary codes for the iteration from an initial set of binary includes: for any tiles that have already been masked off during any previous iteration, masking off the tile. For any tiles that have not yet been masked off during any of the previous iterations, a determination is made as to whether a reconstruction error of the tile when reconstructed from binary codes at the previous iterations satisfies an error threshold. When the reconstruction quality satisfies the error threshold, the tile is masked off.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Michele Covell, Damien Vincent, David Charles Minnen, Saurabh Singh, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Johnston, Joel Eric Shor, George Dan Toderici