Patents by Inventor Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld

Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld 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: 20210406537
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for electric grid modeling using surfel data are enclosed. An electric grid wire identification method includes: obtaining a set of surface elements (surfels), wherein each surfel of the set of surfels represents a portion of a surface of an object in a geographic region; selecting, based on one or more surfel attributes, one or more surfels of the set of surfels that each represent a portion of a surface of an electric grid wire; generating a representation of the electric grid wire from the selected one or more surfels; and adding the representation of the electric grid wire to a virtual model of the electric grid. Obtaining the set of surfels can include obtaining ranging data of the geographic region; and generating the set of surfels from the ranging data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ananya Gupta, Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld
  • Publication number: 20210383113
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predicting locations of utility assets. One of the methods includes receiving an input image of an area in a first geographical region; generating, from the input image and using a generative adversarial network, a corresponding reference image; and generating, by an object detection model and from the reference image, an output that identifies respective locations of one or more utility assets with reference to the input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventor: Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld
  • Publication number: 20210365979
    Abstract: A user verification system is configured to identify likely interactors approaching points of interaction to ensure accurate interactions and to provide loyalty rewards. In an example, a interaction system installs a user verification device with a stereo camera at an interacting device to capture images of the user and to obtain data from the device. The user verification device uses the stereo camera to determine the location of the user to determine if the user is a likely interactor. The user verification device recognizes motions of the user that are indicative of an interactor, such as reaching across the counter or looking at the operator. The user verification device identifies or verifies the interactor based on the record data or the display data. If the user is the likely interactor, then the system conducts a hands-free interaction with the user account or provides loyalty rewards to the user account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: William Setchell, Mallinath Bareddy, Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld, Yichen Zhao, Xiaoyong Chai, Timothy Raymond Zwiebel, Michal Palczewski, Chunxiao Diao, Dennis Yung-Chi Hu, Anuj Batra, Min-Hao Wu
  • Patent number: 11030640
    Abstract: A user verification system is configured to identify likely interactors approaching points of interaction to ensure accurate interactions and to provide loyalty rewards. In an example, a interaction system installs a user verification device with a stereo camera at an interacting device to capture images of the user and to obtain data from the device. The user verification device uses the stereo camera to determine the location of the user to determine if the user is a likely interactor. The user verification device recognizes motions of the user that are indicative of an interactor, such as reaching across the counter or looking at the operator. The user verification device identifies or verifies the interactor based on the record data or the display data. If the user is the likely interactor, then the system conducts a hands-free interaction with the user account or provides loyalty rewards to the user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: William Setchell, Mallinath Bareddy, Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld, Yichen Zhao, Xiaoyong Chai, Timothy Raymond Zwiebel, Michal Palczewski, Chunxiao Diao, Dennis Yung-Chi Hu, Anuj Batra, Min-Hao Wu
  • Publication number: 20200356796
    Abstract: A user establishes an account with an account management system and downloads a service application on a user computing device associated with the user. The user enters a service provider location and signs into a service application. A service camera device captures a video feed of one or more users within a visual field of the service camera device and a service computing device compares movement data received from user computing devices at the service provider location against movement of detected objects in the video feed to identify one or more users in the video feed. After identifying the one or more users within the video feed of the service camera device, in response to a particular user initiating a service request at the service computing device, the service computing device identifies the particular user at the service computing device as being within a service area of the video feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventor: Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld
  • Patent number: 10740635
    Abstract: A user establishes an account with an account management system and downloads a service application on a user computing device associated with the user. The user enters a service provider location and signs into a service application. A service camera device captures a video feed of one or more users within a visual field of the service camera device and a service computing device compares movement data received from user computing devices at the service provider location against movement of detected objects in the video feed to identify one or more users in the video feed. After identifying the one or more users within the video feed of the service camera device, in response to a particular user initiating a service request at the service computing device, the service computing device identifies the particular user at the service computing device as being within a service area of the video feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld
  • Publication number: 20190095736
    Abstract: A user establishes an account with an account management system and downloads a service application on a user computing device associated with the user. The user enters a service provider location and signs into a service application. A service camera device captures a video feed of one or more users within a visual field of the service camera device and a service computing device compares movement data received from user computing devices at the service provider location against movement of detected objects in the video feed to identify one or more users in the video feed. After identifying the one or more users within the video feed of the service camera device, in response to a particular user initiating a service request at the service computing device, the service computing device identifies the particular user at the service computing device as being within a service area of the video feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld
  • Publication number: 20180349939
    Abstract: A user verification system is configured to identify likely interactors approaching points of interaction to ensure accurate interactions and to provide loyalty rewards. In an example, a interaction system installs a user verification device with a stereo camera at an interacting device to capture images of the user and to obtain data from the device. The user verification device uses the stereo camera to determine the location of the user to determine if the user is a likely interactor. The user verification device recognizes motions of the user that are indicative of an interactor, such as reaching across the counter or looking at the operator. The user verification device identifies or verifies the interactor based on the record data or the display data. If the user is the likely interactor, then the system conducts a hands-free interaction with the user account or provides loyalty rewards to the user account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: William Setchell, Mallinath Bareddy, Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld, Yichen Zhao, Xiaoyong Chai, Timothy Raymond Zwiebel, Michal Palczewski, Chunxiao Diao, Dennis Yung-Chi Hu, Anuj Batra, Min-Hao Wu