Patents by Inventor Peter Henry Tu

Peter Henry Tu 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).

  • Patent number: 10275402
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a signal processing unit may receive distributed acoustic sensing data associated with a first set of a plurality of pipeline locations. The signal processing unit may also receive collected physical data representing a physical characteristic of a second set of a plurality of pipeline locations. The signal processing unit may then utilize a pipeline model having the distributed acoustic sensing data and collected physical data as inputs to automatically generate at least one alert indicating an increased probability of damage to the pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Marco Guerriero, Frederick Wilson Wheeler, Glen Peter Koste, Sachin Narahari Dekate, Peter Henry Tu
  • Patent number: 10271017
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present technique, a method includes receiving one or more videos from one or more image capture devices. The method further includes generating a video-loop of the person from the one or more videos. The video-loop depicts the person in the commercial site. The method also includes generating an action clip from the video-loop. The action clip includes a suspicious action performed by the person in the commercial site. The method further includes generating an activity summary of the person including the video-loop and the action clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Peter Henry Tu, Ting Yu, Dashan Gao, Yi Yao
  • Publication number: 20190066317
    Abstract: The present approach relates to an automatic and efficient motion plan for a drone to collect and save a qualified dataset that may be used to improve reconstruction of 3D models using the acquired data. The present architecture provides an automatic image processing context, eliminating low quality images and providing improved image data for point cloud generation and texture mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Ming-Ching Chang, Junli Ping, Eric Michael Gros, Arpit Jain, Peter Henry Tu
  • Publication number: 20190066283
    Abstract: The present approach relates to the use of a point cloud of an object to initialize or seed a space carving technique used to generate a 3D model of the object. In one implementation, feature matching is performed on 2D images, with matched features constituting the points of a point cloud model. The point cloud generated in this manner, is one input of a foreground/background segmentation algorithm, which generates a set of segmented 2D images used by a space carving routine to generate a 3D model of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Eric Michael Gros, Junli Ping, Arpit Jain, Ming-Ching Chang, Peter Henry Tu
  • Patent number: 10216983
    Abstract: A security monitoring technique includes receiving data related to one or more individuals from one or more cameras in an environment. Based on the input data from the cameras, agent-based simulators are executed that each operate to generate a model of behavior of a respective individual, wherein an output of each model is symbolic sequences representative of internal experiences of the respective individual during simulation. Based on the symbolic sequences, a subsequent behavior for each of the respective individuals is predicted when the symbolic sequences match a query symbolic sequence for a query behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Peter Henry Tu, Tao Gao, Jilin Tu
  • Patent number: 10147021
    Abstract: A novel technique for performing video matting, which is built upon a proposed image matting algorithm that is fully automatic is disclosed. The disclosed methods utilize a PCA-based shape model as a prior for guiding the matting process, so that manual interactions required by most existing image matting methods are unnecessary. By applying the image matting algorithm to these foreground windows, on a per frame basis, a fully automated video matting process is attainable. The process of aligning the shape model with the object is simultaneously optimized based on a quadratic cost function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ting Yu, Peter Henry Tu, Xiaoming Liu, Ser Nam Lim
  • Publication number: 20180330827
    Abstract: An example method includes: classifying lung function risk based on patient attributes and a clinical protocol; generating alarms and incentives for compliance with the clinical protocol based on patient attributes, clinical protocol, and patient lung function risk; determining an orientation and position of a clinical device based on tagged feature(s) of the clinical device compared to identified patient feature(s); monitoring patient interaction with the clinical device; identifying a deviation from the clinical protocol based on the monitored patient interaction, a patient biometric indicator, and a desired setpoint state in the protocol; when a deviation is identified, providing feedback proportional to the deviation, the feedback including an adjustment with respect to the clinical protocol and/or the clinical device; and triggering at least one alarm and/or incentive based on deviation and feedback, wherein the alarm/incentives differs based on whether and to what extent deviation is identified and feed
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher Donald Johnson, Peter Henry Tu, Andrew Phelps Day, Ting Yu, Jeffrey Richardson Terry
  • Publication number: 20180246963
    Abstract: A method for analyzing time series data to identify an event of interest is provided. The method includes receiving, at a computing device, time series data that includes the event of interest, identifying, using the computing device, a start time of the event of interest and an end time of the event of interest by modeling at least one transitional pattern in the time series data, and categorizing, using the computing device, the event of interest based on the at least one transitional pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Jixu Chen, Peter Henry Tu, Ming-Ching Chang, Yelin Kim, Siwei Lyu
  • Patent number: 10061897
    Abstract: An example method includes: classifying lung function risk based on patient attributes and a clinical protocol; generating alarms and incentives for compliance with the clinical protocol based on patient attributes, clinical protocol, and patient lung function risk; determining an orientation and position of a clinical device based on tagged feature(s) of the clinical device compared to identified patient feature(s); monitoring patient interaction with the clinical device; identifying a deviation from the clinical protocol based on the monitored patient interaction, a patient biometric indicator, and a desired setpoint state in the protocol; when a deviation is identified, providing feedback proportional to the deviation, the feedback including an adjustment with respect to the clinical protocol and/or the clinical device; and triggering at least one alarm and/or incentive based on deviation and feedback, wherein the alarm/incentives differs based on whether and to what extent deviation is identified and feed
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher Donald Johnson, Peter Henry Tu, Andrew Phelps Day, Ting Yu, Jeffrey Richardson Terry
  • Publication number: 20180174682
    Abstract: The system and method disclosed herein provides an integrated and automated workflow, sensor, and reasoning system that automatically detects breaches in protocols, appropriately alarms and records these breaches, facilitates staff adoption of protocol adherence, and ultimately enables the study of protocols for care comparative effectiveness. The system provides real-time alerts to medical personnel in the actual processes of care, thereby reducing the number of negative patient events and ultimately improving staff behavior with respect to protocol adherence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher Donald Johnson, Peter Henry Tu, Piero Patrone Bonissone, John Michael Lizzi, JR., Kunter Seref Akbay, Ting Yu, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Viswanath Avasarala, Naresh Sundaram Iyer, Yi Yao, Kedar Anil Patwardhan, Dashan Gao
  • Publication number: 20180157903
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for assessing individual or crowd level behavior based on image data analysis. For example, in one embodiment, the techniques may include generating signatures representative of an observed behavior based on video data and performing pairwise matching by determining whether the first signature matches a second signature indicative of a query behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Henry Tu, Tao Gao, Jilin Tu
  • Publication number: 20180157902
    Abstract: A security monitoring technique includes receiving data related to one or more individuals from one or more cameras in an environment. Based on the input data from the cameras, agent-based simulators are executed that each operate to generate a model of behavior of a respective individual, wherein an output of each model is symbolic sequences representative of internal experiences of the respective individual during simulation. Based on the symbolic sequences, a subsequent behavior for each of the respective individuals is predicted when the symbolic sequences match a query symbolic sequence for a query behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Henry Tu, Tao Gao, Jilin Tu
  • Patent number: 9984154
    Abstract: A method for analyzing time series data to identify an event of interest is provided. The method includes receiving, at a computing device, time series data that includes the event of interest, identifying, using the computing device, a start time of the event of interest and an end time of the event of interest by modeling at least one transitional pattern in the time series data, and categorizing, using the computing device, the event of interest based on the at least one transitional pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Morpho Detection, LLC
    Inventors: Jixu Chen, Peter Henry Tu, Ming-Ching Chang, Yelin Kim, Siwei Lyu
  • Patent number: 9934358
    Abstract: The system and method disclosed herein provides an integrated and automated workflow, sensor, and reasoning system that automatically detects breaches in protocols, appropriately alarms and records these breaches, facilitates staff adoption of protocol adherence, and ultimately enables the study of protocols for care comparative effectiveness. The system provides real-time alerts to medical personnel in the actual processes of care, thereby reducing the number of negative patient events and ultimately improving staff behavior with respect to protocol adherence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher Donald Johnson, Peter Henry Tu, Piero Patrone Bonissone, John Michael Lizzi, Jr., Kunter Seref Akbay, Ting Yu, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Viswanath Avasarala, Naresh Sundaram Iyer, Yi Yao, Kedar Anil Patwardhan, Dashan Gao
  • Publication number: 20180000407
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the reduction of pressure ulcers and falls with respect to patients with physical or cognitive impairments who are in bed. A control system assures that the bed and ancillary apparatus are physically set and that patient behaviors are responded to by care providers. Motion is monitored with a non-mutually exclusive portfolio of sensors, and this information is used by one or more reasoning engines. An integrated clinical workflow is informed by the patterns of movement and then the physical environment, patient interaction, and care provider workflow are controlled to reduce the incidence of falls and pressure ulcers in bed ridden patients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher Donald Johnson, Peter Henry Tu, Andrew Phelps Day, Ting Yu
  • Publication number: 20170364644
    Abstract: The system and method disclosed herein provides an integrated and automated workflow, sensor, and reasoning system that automatically detects breaches in protocols, appropriately alarms and records these breaches, facilitates staff adoption of protocol adherence, and ultimately enables the study of protocols for care comparative effectiveness. The system provides real-time alerts to medical personnel in the actual processes of care, thereby reducing the number of negative patient events and ultimately improving staff behavior with respect to protocol adherence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Donald Johnson, Peter Henry Tu, Piero Patrone Bonissone, John Michael Lizzi, JR., Kunter Seref Akbay, Ting Yu, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Viswanath Avasarala, Naresh Sundaram Iyer, Yi Yao, Kedar Anil Patwardhan, Dashan Gao
  • Patent number: 9830710
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an image comprising a human head from an imaging device. Further, the method includes grouping one or more pixels of the image into one or more super pixels. Furthermore, the method includes generating a polar coordinate grid for the image, wherein the polar coordinate grid comprises one or more grid points. Additionally, the method includes labeling the one or more grid points as one of a face region, a hair region, and a background region based on tiered structure constraint. The method also includes labeling the one or more super pixels as one of the face region, the hair region, and the background region based on the one or more labels of the one or more grid points. Further, the method includes transmitting a notification comprising the one or more labels of the one or more super pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Peter Henry Tu, Jixu Chen, Yang Yu
  • Publication number: 20170329307
    Abstract: A processing system having at least one processor operatively coupled to at least one memory. The processor receives sensor data from the at least one sensor indicating one or more characteristics of the asset. The processor generates, updates, or maintains a digital representation that models the one or more characteristics of the asset. The processor detects a defect of the asset based at least in part on the one or more characteristics. The processor generate an output signal encoding or conveying instructions to provide a recommendation to an operator, to control the at least one robot to address the defect on the asset, or both, based on the defect and the digital representation of the asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Mauricio Castillo-Effen, Victor Robert Abate, John Michael Lizzi, JR., Huan Tan, Charles Burton Theurer, Charles Robert Gilman, Shiraj Sen, Peter Henry Tu, Arpit Jain
  • Patent number: 9798923
    Abstract: A tracking and recognition system is provided. The system includes a computer vision-based identity recognition system configured to recognize one or more persons, without a priori knowledge of the respective persons, via an online discriminative learning of appearance signature models of the respective persons. The computer vision-based identity recognition system includes a memory physically encoding one or more routines, which when executed, cause the performance of constructing pairwise constraints between the unlabeled tracking samples. The computer vision-based identity recognition system also includes a processor configured to receive unlabeled tracking samples collected from one or more person trackers and to execute the routines stored in the memory via one or more algorithms to construct the pairwise constraints between the unlabeled tracking samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ting Yu, Peter Henry Tu, Dashan Gao, Kunter Seref Akbay, Yi Yao
  • Patent number: 9785744
    Abstract: The system and method disclosed herein provides an integrated and automated workflow, sensor, and reasoning system that automatically detects breaches in protocols, appropriately alarms and records these breaches, facilitates staff adoption of protocol adherence, and ultimately enables the study of protocols for care comparative effectiveness. The system provides real-time alerts to medical personnel in the actual processes of care, thereby reducing the number of negative patient events and ultimately improving staff behavior with respect to protocol adherence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Christopher Donald Johnson, Peter Henry Tu, Piero Patrone Bonissone, John Michael Lizzi, Jr., Kunter Seref Akbay, Ting Yu, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Viswanath Avasarala, Naresh Sundaram Iyer, Yi Yao, Kedar Anil Patwardhan, Dashan Gao