Patents by Inventor Ofer Affias

Ofer Affias 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).

  • Publication number: 20220373999
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying parts manufactured by a workstation by measuring signals generated by machines in the workstation, extracting features from the signals, clustering the features into clusters, associating clusters with manufactured parts and recognizing the parts through the clusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Yuri Osokin, Beny Kirson, Aviv Rovshitz, Eden Hadad, Menashe Soffer, Ariel Rosenfeld, Ofer Affias, David Koren, Itzhak Pomerantz, Mordechai Teicher
  • Patent number: 11409873
    Abstract: A method of cyber protection of a machine based on acquiring acoustic signals from a vicinity of the machine, while the machine is operative. The method includes analyzing the acquired acoustic signals to determine whether the machine or a controller of the machine is operating suspiciously and initiating a cyber measure on the controller of the machine, responsive to a determination based on the acquired acoustic signals that the machine or the controller is operating suspiciously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: 3D SIGNALS LTD.
    Inventors: Amnon Shenfeld, Yair Lavi, Amit Ashkenazi, Ofer Affias
  • Patent number: 10916259
    Abstract: A method includes acquiring, by a vibro-acoustic sensor in a vicinity of a machine, vibro-acoustic signals due to an operation of the machine. The acquired vibro-acoustic signals are analyzed so as to estimate at least two operational parameters of the machine, selected from a group of the operational parameters consisting of an uptime factor, a production speed factor, and a production quality factor of the machine. An overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of the machine is computed, the computed OEE including at least one of a minimum and a product of the at least two estimated operational parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: 3D SIGNALS LTD.
    Inventors: Gideon Genadi Kogan, Amnon Hanoch Shenfeld, Ofer Affias, Amit Ashkenazi
  • Publication number: 20210034746
    Abstract: A method of cyber protection of a machine based on acquiring acoustic signals from a vicinity of the machine, while the machine is operative. The method includes analyzing the acquired acoustic signals to determine whether the machine or a controller of the machine is operating suspiciously and initiating a cyber measure on the controller of the machine, responsive to a determination based on the acquired acoustic signals that the machine or the controller is operating suspiciously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Amnon Shenfeld, Yair Lavi, Amit Ashkenazi, Ofer Affias
  • Patent number: 10839076
    Abstract: A method of cyber protection of a machine based on acquiring acoustic signals from a vicinity of the machine, while the machine is operative. The method includes analyzing the acquired acoustic signals to determine whether the machine or a controller of the machine is operating suspiciously and initiating a cyber measure on the controller of the machine, responsive to a determination based on the acquired acoustic signals that the machine or the controller is operating suspiciously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: 3D SIGNALS LTD.
    Inventors: Amnon Shenfeld, Yair Lavi, Amit Ashkenazi, Ofer Affias
  • Publication number: 20200219527
    Abstract: A method includes acquiring, by a vibro-acoustic sensor in a vicinity of a machine, vibro-acoustic signals due to an operation of the machine. The acquired vibro-acoustic signals are analyzed so as to estimate at least two operational parameters of the machine, selected from a group of the operational parameters consisting of an uptime factor, a production speed factor, and a production quality factor of the machine. An overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of the machine is computed, the computed OEE including at least one of a minimum and a product of the at least two estimated operational parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Gideon Genadi Kogan, Amnon Hanoch Shenfeld, Ofer Affias, Amit Ashkenazi
  • Publication number: 20200142499
    Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media for triggering actions based on touch-free gesture detection are disclosed. The disclosed systems may include at least one processor. A processor may be configured to receive image information from an image sensor, detect in the image information a gesture performed by a user, detect a location of the gesture in the image information, access information associated with at least one control boundary, the control boundary relating to a physical dimension of a device in a field of view of the user, or a physical dimension of a body of the user as perceived by the image sensor, and cause an action associated with the detected gesture, the detected gesture location, and a relationship between the detected gesture location and the control boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Itay Katz, Ofer Affias
  • Publication number: 20200103980
    Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media for triggering actions based on touch-free gesture detection are disclosed. The disclosed systems may include at least one processor. A processor may be configured to receive image information from an image sensor, detect in the image information a gesture performed by a user, detect a location of the gesture in the image information, access information associated with at least one control boundary, the control boundary relating to a physical dimension of a device in a field of view of the user, or a physical dimension of a body of the user as perceived by the image sensor, and cause an action associated with the detected gesture, the detected gesture location, and a relationship between the detected gesture location and the control boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Itay Katz, Ofer Affias
  • Publication number: 20190250714
    Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media for triggering actions based on touch-free gesture detection are disclosed. The disclosed systems may include at least one processor. A processor may be configured to receive image information from an image sensor, detect in the image information a gesture performed by a user, detect a location of the gesture in the image information, access information associated with at least one control boundary, the control boundary relating to a physical dimension of a device in a field of view of the user, or a physical dimension of a body of the user as perceived by the image sensor, and cause an action associated with the detected gesture, the detected gesture location, and a relationship between the detected gesture location and the control boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Itay Katz, Ofer Affias
  • Patent number: 10345800
    Abstract: Monitoring of a machine is performed by an acoustic monitor which acquires, through an acoustic sensor, acoustic signals from a vicinity of a machine, while the machine is operative. A processor calculates a frequency spectrum of a segment of the acquired acoustic signals, determines boundaries of a frequency band to be analyzed and extracts, from the calculated frequency spectrum, a base frequency window in the determined boundaries, and one or more harmonics windows of harmonics of the determined boundaries. For each of the base and harmonic windows a weight based on a distribution of values of frequencies in the windows is determined and a parameter of operation of the machine is calculated as a function of a weighted sum of the base and harmonic windows. The operation of the machine is evaluated responsive to the calculated parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: 3D SIGNALS LTD.
    Inventors: Yair Lavi, Amit Ashkenazi, Ofer Affias, Amnon Shenfeld
  • Patent number: 10203764
    Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media for triggering actions based on touch-free gesture detection are disclosed. The disclosed systems may include at least one processor. A processor may be configured to receive image information from an image sensor, detect in the image information a gesture performed by a user, detect a location of the gesture in the image information, access information associated with at least one control boundary, the control boundary relating to a physical dimension of a device in a field of view of the user, or a physical dimension of a body of the user as perceived by the image sensor, and cause an action associated with the detected gesture, the detected gesture location, and a relationship between the detected gesture location and the control boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Eyesight Mobile Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Itay Katz, Ofer Affias
  • Publication number: 20180173879
    Abstract: A method of cyber protection of a machine based on acquiring acoustic signals from a vicinity of the machine, while the machine is operative. The method includes analyzing the acquired acoustic signals to determine whether the machine or a controller of the machine is operating suspiciously and initiating a cyber measure on the controller of the machine, responsive to a determination based on the acquired acoustic signals that the machine or the controller is operating suspiciously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Amnon Shenfeld, Yair Lavi, Amit Ashkenazi, Ofer Affias
  • Publication number: 20170285626
    Abstract: Monitoring of a machine is performed by an acoustic monitor which acquires, through an acoustic sensor, acoustic signals from a vicinity of a machine, while the machine is operative. A processor calculates a frequency spectrum of a segment of the acquired acoustic signals, determines boundaries of a frequency band to be analyzed and extracts, from the calculated frequency spectrum, a base frequency window in the determined boundaries, and one or more harmonics windows of harmonics of the determined boundaries. For each of the base and harmonic windows a weight based on a distribution of values of frequencies in the windows is determined and a parameter of operation of the machine is calculated as a function of a weighted sum of the base and harmonic windows. The operation of the machine is evaluated responsive to the calculated parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Yair Lavi, Amit Ashkenazi, Ofer Affias, Amnon Shenfeld
  • Publication number: 20160179211
    Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media for triggering actions based on touch-free gesture detection are disclosed. The disclosed systems may include at least one processor. A processor may be configured to receive image information from an image sensor, detect in the image information a gesture performed by a user, detect a location of the gesture in the image information, access information associated with at least one control boundary, the control boundary relating to a physical dimension of a device in a field of view of the user, or a physical dimension of a body of the user as perceived by the image sensor, and cause an action associated with the detected gesture, the detected gesture location, and a relationship between the detected gesture location and the control boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Itay Katz, Ofer Affias
  • Patent number: 9274608
    Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media for triggering actions based on touch-free gesture detection are disclosed. The disclosed systems may include at least one processor. A processor may be configured to receive image information from an image sensor, detect in the image information a gesture performed by a user, detect a location of the gesture in the image information, access information associated with at least one control boundary, the control boundary relating to a physical dimension of a device in a field of view of the user, or a physical dimension of a body of the user as perceived by the image sensor, and cause an action associated with the detected gesture, the detected gesture location, and a relationship between the detected gesture location and the control boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: EYESIGHT MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Itay Katz, Ofer Affias
  • Publication number: 20140168062
    Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media for triggering actions based on touch-free gesture detection are disclosed. The disclosed systems may include at least one processor. A processor may be configured to receive image information from an image sensor, detect in the image information a gesture performed by a user, detect a location of the gesture in the image information, access information associated with at least one control boundary, the control boundary relating to a physical dimension of a device in a field of view of the user, or a physical dimension of a body of the user as perceived by the image sensor, and cause an action associated with the detected gesture, the detected gesture location, and a relationship between the detected gesture location and the control boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: EYESIGHT MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Ofer Affias, Itay Katz