Patents by Inventor Peter O. Stubler
Peter O. Stubler 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: 8634660Abstract: A method for determining an event classification for digital images, comprising: receiving one or more digital images; detecting one or more lit candles within the one or more digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected lit candles in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the one or more digital images.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLCInventors: Peter O. Stubler, Andrew C. Blose, Andrew Charles Gallagher
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Patent number: 8634661Abstract: A method for determining an event classification for digital images, comprising: receiving one or more digital images; detecting one or more man-made light emitting sources within the one or more digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected man-made light emitting sources in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the one or more digital images.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLCInventors: Andrew Charles Gallagher, Peter O. Stubler, Andrew C. Blose
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Patent number: 8630485Abstract: A method of combining an image with an imaging-related product, comprising: providing an image; forming an image-color histogram of spatially-coherent color clusters within the image, the image-color histogram indicating the frequency of occurrence of spatially-coherent related colors in the image; selecting one or more of the image colors having a frequency of occurrence in the image high enough to be visible to an image observer; selecting an imaging-related product having one or more of the selected high-frequency colors within the imaging-related product or having a color complementary to one or more of the selected high-frequency colors within the imaging-related product; and combining the image and the imaging-related product.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLCInventors: Ronald S. Cok, Anthony Scalise, Peter O. Stubler
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Publication number: 20130315485Abstract: A method for extracting textual information from a document containing text characters using a digital image capture device. A plurality of digital images of the document are captured using the digital image capture device. Each of the captured digital images is automatically analyzed using an optical character recognition process to determine extracted textual data. The extracted textual data for the captured digital images are merged to determine the textual information for the document, wherein differences between the extracted textual data for the captured digital images are analyzed to determine the textual information for the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: Andrew C. Blose, Peter O. Stubler
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Publication number: 20130314755Abstract: A digital image capture device, comprising an image sensor and an optical system for capturing digital images, and a program memory storing instructions configured to cause a data processing system to implement a method for extracting textual information from a document containing text characters. The method includes capturing plurality of digital images of the document using the image sensor. Each of the captured digital images is automatically analyzed using an optical character recognition process to determine extracted textual data. The extracted textual data for the captured digital images are merged to determine the textual information for the document, wherein differences between the extracted textual data for the captured digital images are analyzed to determine the textual information for the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: Andrew C. Blose, Peter O. Stubler
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Publication number: 20130315441Abstract: A system including a data processing system, a network interface for communicating over a network, and a program memory storing instructions configured to cause the data processing system to implement a method for extracting textual information from images of a document containing text characters. The method includes receiving a plurality of digital images of the document over the network. Each of the captured digital images is automatically analyzed using an optical character recognition process to determine extracted textual data. The extracted textual data for the captured digital images are merged to determine the textual information for the document, wherein differences between the extracted textual data for the captured digital images are analyzed to determine the textual information for the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: Andrew C. Blose, Peter O. Stubler
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Publication number: 20130058542Abstract: A method for determining an event classification for digital images, comprising: receiving one or more digital images; detecting one or more lit candles within the one or more digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected lit candles in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the one or more digital images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Inventors: Peter O. Stubler, Andrew C. Blose, Andrew Charles Gallagher
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Publication number: 20130058577Abstract: A method for determining an event classification for a set of related digital images, comprising: receiving a set of related digital images; detecting one or more man-made light emitting sources within at least one of the digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected man-made light emitting sources in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the digital images in the set of digital images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Inventors: Peter O. Stubler, Andrew C. Blose, Andrew Charles Gallagher
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Publication number: 20130058583Abstract: A method for determining an event classification for digital images, comprising: receiving one or more digital images; detecting one or more man-made light emitting sources within the one or more digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected man-made light emitting sources in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the one or more digital images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Inventors: Andrew Charles Gallagher, Peter O. Stubler, Andrew C. Blose
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Patent number: 8369582Abstract: An appeal estimation system for estimating a personal appeal of a candidate individual to an observer including a digital image capture device and a soft-copy display.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Andrew C. Blose, Peter O. Stubler, Joseph A. Manico
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Patent number: 8369581Abstract: A method for estimating a personal appeal of a candidate individual to an observer, comprising: designating a set of proxy individuals; providing one or more digital images for each proxy individual; determining personal appeal values of each proxy individual to the observer; providing one or more digital images for the candidate individual; determining image similarity metrics between the digital images for the candidate individual and the digital images for each proxy individual; determining similarity values between the candidate individual and each proxy individual responsive to the determined image similarity metrics; and estimating the personal appeal of the candidate individual to the observer by determining a weighted combination of the personal appeal values for the proxy individuals, wherein the weighted combination uses weighting coefficients that are determined responsive to the similarity values between the candidate individual and the corresponding proxy individual.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Andrew C. Blose, Peter O. Stubler, Joseph A. Manico
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Patent number: 8315463Abstract: A method of organizing an image collection includes detecting faces in the image collection, extracting features from the detected faces, determining a set of unique faces by analyzing the extracted features, wherein each face in the set of unique faces is believed to be from a different person than the other faces in the set; and displaying the unique faces to a user.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2006Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Andrew C. Gallagher, Alexander C. Loui, Cathleen D. Cerosaletti, Stacie L. Hibino, Madirakshi Das, Peter O. Stubler
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Patent number: 8270682Abstract: Segmenting scalp and facial hair of a human subject depicted in an image by identifying from metadata associated with the image or semantic information extracted from the image information indicating a possible distribution of the scalp hair or the facial hair, identifying from hair distribution information an expected-hair region within the image wherein the expected-hair region includes at least a portion of a head area of the subject, and identifying a hair region within the expected hair region.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2008Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Peter O. Stubler
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Publication number: 20120213493Abstract: A method for viewing a collection of images or videos, includes analyzing the collection to determine properties of the images or videos and using the determined properties to produce icons corresponding to such properties; providing a time-varying display of the images or videos in the collection following an ordering of the images or videos in the collection and at least one of the corresponding icons; receiving a user selection of an icon; changing the time-varying display of the images or videos in the collection following a reordering of the images or videos in the collection in response to the user selection; storing the sequence of the user selections and associated timing in a script in a processor accessible memory; and playing back the viewing of the collection of images or videos using the script.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventors: Jiebo Luo, Dhiraj Joshi, Peter O. Stubler, Madirakshi Das, Phoury Lei, Vivek Kumar Singh
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Publication number: 20120213497Abstract: A method for viewing a collection of images or videos, includes analyzing the collection to determine properties of the images or videos and using the determined properties to produce icons corresponding to such properties; providing a time-varying display of the images or videos in the collection following an ordering of the images or videos in the collection and at least one of the corresponding icons; receiving a user selection of an icon; and changing the display of the images or videos in the collection following a reordering of the images or videos in the collection in response to the user selection.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventors: Jiebo Lou, Dhiraj Joshi, Peter O. Stubler, Madirakshi Das, Phoury Lei, Vivek Kumar Singh
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Patent number: 8174555Abstract: A method and device for adapting a display image on a hand-held portable wireless display and digital capture device. The device includes a camera for capturing a digital video and/or still image of a user, means for adjusting the captured digital image in response to poor image capture angle of said image capture device so as to create a modified captured digital image; and means for transmitting said modified captured digital image over a wireless communication network to a second hand-held portable wireless display and digital capture device.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: John N. Border, Ronald S. Cok, Amy D. Enge, Andrew F. Kurtz, Joseph A. Manico, Lynn Schilling-Benz, Peter O. Stubler, Frances C. Williams
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Publication number: 20120081500Abstract: A method and device for adapting a display image on a hand-held portable wireless display and digital capture device. The device includes a camera for capturing a digital video and/or still image of a user, means for adjusting the captured digital image in response to poor image capture angle of said image capture device so as to create a modified captured digital image; and means for transmitting said modified captured digital image over a wireless communication network to a second hand-held portable wireless display and digital capture device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Inventors: John N. Border, Ronald S. Cok, Amy D. Enge, Andrew F. Kurtz, Joseph A. Manico, Lynn Schilling-Benz, Peter O. Stubler, Frances C. Williams
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Publication number: 20110317884Abstract: An appeal estimation system for estimating a personal appeal of a candidate individual to an observer including a digital image capture device and a soft-copy display.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Inventors: Andrew C. Blose, Peter O. Stubler, Joseph A. Manico
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Publication number: 20110317870Abstract: A method for estimating a personal appeal of a candidate individual to an observer, comprising: designating a set of proxy individuals; providing one or more digital images for each proxy individual; determining personal appeal values of each proxy individual to the observer; providing one or more digital images for the candidate individual; determining image similarity metrics between the digital images for the candidate individual and the digital images for each proxy individual; determining similarity values between the candidate individual and each proxy individual responsive to the determined image similarity metrics; and estimating the personal appeal of the candidate individual to the observer by determining a weighted combination of the personal appeal values for the proxy individuals, wherein the weighted combination uses weighting coefficients that are determined responsive to the similarity values between the candidate individual and the corresponding proxy individual.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Inventors: Andrew C. Blose, Peter O. Stubler, Joseph A. Manico
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Publication number: 20110216966Abstract: A method of combining an image with an imaging-related product, comprising: providing an image; forming an image-color histogram of spatially-coherent color clusters within the image, the image-color histogram indicating the frequency of occurrence of spatially-coherent related colors in the image; selecting one or more of the image colors having a frequency of occurrence in the image high enough to be visible to an image observer; selecting an imaging-related product having one or more of the selected high-frequency colors within the imaging-related product or having a color complementary to one or more of the selected high-frequency colors within the imaging-related product; and combining the image and the imaging-related product.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2010Publication date: September 8, 2011Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Anthony Scalise, Peter O. Stubler