Patents by Inventor Ramesh Raskar

Ramesh Raskar 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: 12380568
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for computing a prediction on images of a scene includes: receiving one or more polarization raw frames of a scene, the polarization raw frames being captured with a polarizing filter at a different linear polarization angle; extracting one or more first tensors in one or more polarization representation spaces from the polarization raw frames; and computing a prediction regarding one or more optically challenging objects in the scene based on the one or more first tensors in the one or more polarization representation spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Intrinsic Innovation LLC
    Inventors: Agastya Kalra, Vage Taamazyan, Supreeth Krishna Rao, Kartik Venkataraman, Ramesh Raskar, Achuta Kadambi
  • Publication number: 20250191334
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for computing a prediction on images of a scene includes: receiving one or more polarization raw frames of a scene, the polarization raw frames being captured with a polarizing filter at a different linear polarization angle; extracting one or more first tensors in one or more polarization representation spaces from the polarization raw frames; and computing a prediction regarding one or more optically challenging objects in the scene based on the one or more first tensors in the one or more polarization representation spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Agastya Kalra, Vage Taamazyan, Supreeth Krishna Rao, Kartik Venkataraman, Ramesh Raskar, Achuta Kadambi
  • Patent number: 12257393
    Abstract: A system for facilitating stress-adaptive virtual experience station includes a virtual display system and camera system coupled to a kinematic rig. An array of transducers coupled to the station interact with a user based on a feedback signal, configured for user health treatments, audio effects, or computational imaging techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: BRELYON, INC.
    Inventors: Barmak Heshmat Dehkordi, Alok Ajay Mehta, Christopher Barsi, Albert Redo Sanchez, Ramesh Raskar
  • Patent number: 11982775
    Abstract: A multi-modal sensor system includes: an underlying sensor system; a polarization camera system configured to capture polarization raw frames corresponding to a plurality of different polarization states; and a processing system including a processor and memory, the processing system being configured to control the underlying sensor system and the polarization camera system, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: control the underlying sensor system to perform sensing on a scene and the polarization camera system to capture a plurality of polarization raw frames of the scene; extract first tensors in polarization representation spaces based on the plurality of polarization raw frames; and compute a characterization output based on an output of the underlying sensor system and the first tensors in polarization representation spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Intrinsic Innovation LLC
    Inventors: Achuta Kadambi, Ramesh Raskar, Kartik Venkataraman, Supreeth Krishna Rao, Agastya Kalra
  • Patent number: 11842495
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for computing a prediction on images of a scene includes: receiving one or more polarization raw frames of a scene, the polarization raw frames being captured with a polarizing filter at a different linear polarization angle; extracting one or more first tensors in one or more polarization representation spaces from the polarization raw frames; and computing a prediction regarding one or more optically challenging objects in the scene based on the one or more first tensors in the one or more polarization representation spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Intrinsic Innovation LLC
    Inventors: Agastya Kalra, Vage Taamazyan, Supreeth Krishna Rao, Kartik Venkataraman, Ramesh Raskar, Achuta Kadambi
  • Patent number: 11828936
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present application sets forth a wearable device that includes a display comprising a plurality of pixels and configured to emit light, and a micro-lens array located adjacent to the display, and configured to produce a light field by altering the light emitted by the display, where at least one of the display or the micro-lens array is configured to move from a first position to a second position that aligns a first pixel in the plurality of pixels relative to the micro-lens array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ahmad Byagowi, Ramesh Raskar, Andrew Hamilton Coward, Ethan Kroll Gordon
  • Publication number: 20230191077
    Abstract: A system for facilitating stress-adaptive virtual experience station includes a virtual display system and camera system coupled to a kinematic rig. An array of transducers coupled to the station interact with a user based on a feedback signal, configured for user health treatments, audio effects, or computational imaging techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Brelyon, Inc.
    Inventors: Barmak Heshmat Dehkordi, Alok Ajay Mehta, Christopher Barsi, Albert Redo Sanchez, Ramesh Raskar
  • Publication number: 20230184912
    Abstract: A multi-modal sensor system includes: an underlying sensor system; a polarization camera system configured to capture polarization raw frames corresponding to a plurality of different polarization states; and a processing system including a processor and memory, the processing system being configured to control the underlying sensor system and the polarization camera system, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: control the underlying sensor system to perform sensing on a scene and the polarization camera system to capture a plurality of polarization raw frames of the scene; extract first tensors in polarization representation spaces based on the plurality of polarization raw frames; and compute a characterization output based on an output of the underlying sensor system and the first tensors in polarization representation spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Achuta Kadambi, Ramesh Raskar, Kartik Venkataraman, Supreeth Krishna Rao, Agastya Kalra
  • Patent number: 11669737
    Abstract: A deep neural network may be trained on the data of one or more entities, also know as Alices. An outside computing entity, also known as a Bob, may assist in these computations, without receiving access to Alices' data. Data privacy may be preserved by employing a “split” neural network. The network may comprise an Alice part and a Bob part. The Alice part may comprise at least three neural layers, and the Bob part may comprise at least two neural layers. When training on data of an Alice, that Alice may input her data into the Alice part, perform forward propagation though the Alice part, and then pass output activations for the final layer of the Alice part to Bob. Bob may then forward propagate through the Bob part. Similarly, backpropagation may proceed backwards through the Bob part, and then through the Alice part of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Otkrist Gupta, Ramesh Raskar
  • Patent number: 11609328
    Abstract: A light source may illuminate a scene that is obscured by fog. Light may reflect back to a time-resolved light sensor. For instance, the light sensor may comprise avalanche photodiodes that are not single-photon sensitive. The light sensor may perform a raster scan. The imaging system may determine reflectance and depth of the fog-obscured target. The imaging system may perform a probabilistic algorithm that exploits the fact that times of arrival of photons reflected from fog have a Gamma distribution that is different than the Gaussian distribution of times of arrival of photons reflected from the target. The imaging system may adjust frame rate locally depending on local density of fog, as indicated by a local Gamma distribution determined in a prior step. The imaging system may perform one or more of spatial regularization, temporal regularization, and deblurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Guy Satat, Ramesh Raskar
  • Publication number: 20220414928
    Abstract: A system for collecting data for training a computer vision model for shape estimation includes: an imaging system configured to capture one or more images; and a processing system including a processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive one or more input images from the imaging system; estimate a pose of an object depicted in the one or more images; render a shape estimate from a 3-D model of the object posed in accordance with the pose of the object; and generate a data point of a training dataset, the data point including one or more images based on the one or more input images and a label corresponding to the one or more images, the label including the shape estimate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kartik VENKATARAMAN, Agastya KALRA, Achuta KADAMBI, Ramesh RASKAR
  • Patent number: 11525906
    Abstract: A multi-modal sensor system includes: an underlying sensor system; a polarization camera system configured to capture polarization raw frames corresponding to a plurality of different polarization states; and a processing system including a processor and memory, the processing system being configured to control the underlying sensor system and the polarization camera system, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: control the underlying sensor system to perform sensing on a scene and the polarization camera system to capture a plurality of polarization raw frames of the scene; extract first tensors in polarization representation spaces based on the plurality of polarization raw frames; and compute a characterization output based on an output of the underlying sensor system and the first tensors in polarization representation spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Intrinsic Innovation LLC
    Inventors: Achuta Kadambi, Ramesh Raskar, Kartik Venkataraman, Supreeth Krishna Rao, Agastya Kalra
  • Patent number: 11481635
    Abstract: A distributed deep learning network may prevent an attacker from reconstructing raw data from activation outputs of an intermediate layer of the network. To achieve this, the loss function of the network may tend to reduce distance correlation between raw data and the activation outputs. For instance, the loss function may be the sum of two terms, where the first term is weighted distance correlation between raw data and activation outputs of a split layer of the network, and the second term is weighted categorical cross entropy of actual labels and label predictions. Distance correlation with the entire raw data may be minimized. Alternatively, distance correlation with only with certain features of the raw data may be minimized, in order to ensure attribute-level privacy. In some cases, a client computer calculates decorrelated representations of raw data before sharing information about the data with external computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Praneeth Vepakomma, Abhishek Singh, Otkrist Gupta, Ramesh Raskar
  • Publication number: 20220198673
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for computing a prediction on images of a scene includes: receiving one or more polarization raw frames of a scene, the polarization raw frames being captured with a polarizing filter at a different linear polarization angle; extracting one or more first tensors in one or more polarization representation spaces from the polarization raw frames; and computing a prediction regarding one or more optically challenging objects in the scene based on the one or more first tensors in the one or more polarization representation spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Agastya KALRA, Vage TAAMAZYAN, Supreeth Krishna RAO, Kartik VENKATARAMAN, Ramesh RASKAR, Achuta KADAMBI
  • Patent number: 11302012
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for computing a prediction on images of a scene includes: receiving one or more polarization raw frames of a scene, the polarization raw frames being captured with a polarizing filter at a different linear polarization angle; extracting one or more first tensors in one or more polarization representation spaces from the polarization raw frames; and computing a prediction regarding one or more optically challenging objects in the scene based on the one or more first tensors in the one or more polarization representation spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: BOSTON POLARIMETRICS, INC.
    Inventors: Agastya Kalra, Vage Taamazyan, Supreeth Krishna Rao, Kartik Venkataraman, Ramesh Raskar, Achuta Kadambi
  • Patent number: 11181623
    Abstract: A time-of-flight imaging system may output light with a modulation frequency in the gigahertz band, to illuminate a range target. This high-frequency illumination may enable extremely precise—e.g., micron-scale—depth measurements. The system may modulate reflected light from the range target, to create a beat tone that has a frequency in the hertz band. In some cases, the modulated light in the gigahertz band is created by a first modulator and the beat tone in the hertz band is created by a second modulator. In some cases, the modulated light in the gigahertz band is created by an upshift cascade of modulators and the beat tone in the hertz band is created by a downshift cascade of modulators. A photodetector may measure the low-frequency beat tone. From this beat tone, phase of the signal and depth of the range target may be extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Achuta Kadambi, Tomohiro Maeda, Ayush Bhandari, Barmak Heshmat Dehkordi, Ramesh Raskar
  • Publication number: 20210356572
    Abstract: A multi-modal sensor system includes: an underlying sensor system; a polarization camera system configured to capture polarization raw frames corresponding to a plurality of different polarization states; and a processing system including a processor and memory, the processing system being configured to control the underlying sensor system and the polarization camera system, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: control the underlying sensor system to perform sensing on a scene and the polarization camera system to capture a plurality of polarization raw frames of the scene; extract first tensors in polarization representation spaces based on the plurality of polarization raw frames; and compute a characterization output based on an output of the underlying sensor system and the first tensors in polarization representation spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Achuta KADAMBI, Ramesh RASKAR, Kartik VENKATARAMAN, Supreeth Krishna RAO, Agastya KALRA
  • Patent number: 11156828
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present application sets forth a wearable device that includes a display comprising a plurality of pixels and configured to emit light, and a micro-lens array located adjacent to the display, and configured to produce a light field by altering the light emitted by the display, where at least one of the display or the micro-lens array is configured to move from a first position to a second position that aligns a first pixel in the plurality of pixels relative to the micro-lens array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Ahmad Byagowi, Ramesh Raskar, Andrew Hamilton Coward, Ethan Kroll Gordon
  • Publication number: 20210264607
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for computing a prediction on images of a scene includes: receiving one or more polarization raw frames of a scene, the polarization raw frames being captured with a polarizing filter at a different linear polarization angle; extracting one or more first tensors in one or more polarization representation spaces from the polarization raw frames; and computing a prediction regarding one or more optically challenging objects in the scene based on the one or more first tensors in the one or more polarization representation spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Agastya KALRA, Vage TAAMAZYAN, Supreeth Krishna RAO, Kartik VENKATARAMAN, Ramesh RASKAR, Achuta KADAMBI
  • Patent number: 11061977
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data associated with the user from a content rendering device associated with a user of an online social network, where the content rendering device receives signals from a broadcast service provider system, identifying personalized content items that are of interest to the user based at least on the received data associated with the user, sending the identified personalized content items to the content rendering device, where the identified personalized content items are used by the content rendering device to determine which content items to cache, ranking content objects in the online social network based at least on the identified personalized content items, sending one or more content objects that have higher ranks than the other content objects to the broadcast service provider system, where the one or more content objects are sent to the content rendering device by the broadcast service provider system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Ramesh Raskar