Patents by Inventor Riccardo Boscolo

Riccardo Boscolo 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: 8417695
    Abstract: A solution for identifying related concepts of URLs and domain names includes using structural parsing to extract information from user input comprising a URL or domain name. The information includes one or more of a protocol, a location, and a subdirectory. Semantic parsing of the information is used to identify a first one or more concepts represented by one or more tokens within the extracted information. A content association map is queried to retrieve a second one or more concepts related to the first one or more concepts. Each of the concepts represents a unit of thought, expressed by a term, letter, or symbol. The concept association map includes a representation of concepts, concept metadata, and relationships between the concepts. The first one or more concepts and the second one or more concepts are ranked, and the ranked concepts are stored for displaying to one or more users of the computer platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Netseer, Inc.
    Inventors: Qian Zhong, Riccardo Boscolo, Behnam A. Rezaei, Sam Talaie, Vwani P. Roychowdhury
  • Publication number: 20110113032
    Abstract: A method for generating a conceptual association graph from structured content includes grouping content nodes into one or more topically biased clusters, the content nodes comprising structured digital content and unstructured digital content, the grouping based at least in part on the connectedness of each content node member to other content node members in the same cluster. The method also includes, responsive to the grouping, tagging the content nodes with one or more descriptive concepts. The method also includes, responsive to the tagging, establishing one or more associations between the one or more concepts, the one or more associations indicating a relevance of the one or more associations, the indicating based at least in part on patterns of co-occurrence of concepts in the tagged content nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: RICCARDO BOSCOLO, BEHNAM ATTARAN REZAEI, VWANI P. ROYCHOWDHURY, ALBERT CHERN, NIMA KHAJEHNOURI
  • Patent number: 7715591
    Abstract: A vision-based system for automatically detecting the type of object within a specified area, such as the type of occupant within a vehicle is presented. The type of occupant can then be used to determine whether an airbag deployment system should be enabled or not. The system extracts different features, including wavelet features and/or a disparity map from images captured by image sensors. These features are then processed by classification algorithms to produce class confidences for various occupant types. The occupant class confidences are fused and processed to determine occupant type. In a preferred embodiment, image features from image edges, wavelet features, and disparity are used. Various classification algorithms may be implemented to classify the object. Use of the disparity map and/or wavelet features provides greater computational efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Yuri Owechko, Narayan Srinivasa, Swarup Medasani, Riccardo Boscolo
  • Publication number: 20100114879
    Abstract: A solution for identifying related concepts of URLs and domain names includes using structural parsing to extract information from user input comprising a URL or domain name. The information includes one or more of a protocol, a location, and a subdirectory. Semantic parsing of the information is used to identify a first one or more concepts represented by one or more tokens within the extracted information. A content association map is queried to retrieve a second one or more concepts related to the first one or more concepts. Each of the concepts represents a unit of thought, expressed by a term, letter, or symbol. The concept association map includes a representation of concepts, concept metadata, and relationships between the concepts. The first one or more concepts and the second one or more concepts are ranked, and the ranked concepts are stored for displaying to one or more users of the computer platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: NETSEER, INC.
    Inventors: Qian Zhong, Riccardo Boscolo, Behnam A. Rezaei, Sam Talaie, Vwani P. Roychowdhury
  • Publication number: 20090300009
    Abstract: A pre-computed concept map represents concepts, concept metadata, and relationships between the plurality of concepts. Online user behavior may be predicted by correlating one or more online events of a user with one or more features of the concept map, aggregating a concept map history of the user to obtain online behavior over time, aggregating online behavior of the user and one or more other users to obtain aggregated online user behavior, and predicting future online behavior of the user based at least in part on the online behavior of the user and the aggregated online user behavior. The predicted behavior may be used to target ads that the user is likely to find relevant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: NETSEER, INC.
    Inventors: Behnam A. Rezaei, Riccardo Boscolo, Nima Khajehnouri, Vwani P. Roychowdhury, Himawan Gunadhi
  • Publication number: 20090281900
    Abstract: Discovering relevant concepts and context for content nodes to determine a user's intent includes identifying one or more concept candidates in a content node based at least in part on one or more statistical measures, and matching concepts in a concept association map against text in the content node. The concept association map represents concepts, concept metadata, and relationships between the concepts. The one or more concept candidates are ranked to create a ranked one or more concept candidates based at least in part on a measure of relevance. The ranked one or more concept candidates is expanded according to one or more cost functions. The expanded set of concepts is stored in association with the content node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: NETSEER, INC.
    Inventors: Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Riccardo Boscolo, Vwani P. Roychowdhury
  • Patent number: 7561732
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for three-dimensional shape estimation using constrained disparity propagation are presented. An act of receiving a stereoscopic pair of images of an area occupied by at least one object is performed. Next, pattern regions and non-pattern regions are detected in the images. An initial estimate of ?patial disparities between the pattern regions in the images is generated. The initial estimate is used to generate a subsequent estimate of the spatial disparities between the non-pattern regions. The subsequent estimate is used to generate further subsequent estimates of the spatial disparities using the disparity constraints until there is no change between the results of subsequent iterations, generating a final estimate of the spatial disparities. A disparity map of the area occupied by at least one object is generated from the final estimate of the three-dimensional shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Yuri Owechko, Narayan Srinivasa, Swarup Medasani, Riccardo Boscolo
  • Patent number: 7020284
    Abstract: The present invention is a combined encoder and perceptual encrypter for a file of high quality video. The combined encoder and perceptual encrypter includes an encoder and perceptual encrypter. The encoder encodes the file of high quality video as encoded data. The perceptual encryption module perceptually encrypts the encoded data in order to generate restricted video data as perceptually encrypted encoded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Inventors: Patrick Oscar Boykin, Riccardo Boscolo
  • Patent number: 6801662
    Abstract: A vision-based system for automatically detecting the type of object within a specified area, such as the type of occupant within a vehicle. Determination of the type of occupant can then be used to determine whether an airbag deployment system should be enabled or not. The system extracts different features from images captured by image sensors. These features are then processed by classification algorithms to produce occupant class confidences for various occupant types. The occupant class confidences are then fused and processed to determine the type of occupant. In a preferred embodiment, image features derived from image edges, motion, and range are used. Classification algorithms may be implemented by using trained C5 decision trees, trained Nonlinear Discriminant Analysis networks, Hausdorff template matching and trained Fuzzy Aggregate Networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Yuri Owechko, Narayan Srinivasa, Swarup S. Medasani, Riccardo Boscolo
  • Publication number: 20030204384
    Abstract: A vision-based system for automatically detecting the type of object within a specified area, such as the type of occupant within a vehicle is presented. The type of occupant can then be used to determine whether an airbag deployment system should be enabled or not. The system extracts different features, including wavelet features and/or a disparity map from images captured by image sensors. These features are then processed by classification algorithms to produce class confidences for various occupant types. The occupant class confidences are fused and processed to determine occupant type. In a preferred embodiment, image features from image edges, wavelet features, and disparity are used. Various classification algorithms may be implemented to classify the object. Use of the disparity map and/or wavelet features provides greater computational efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Yuri Owechko, Narayan Srinivasa, Swarup Medasani, Riccardo Boscolo
  • Publication number: 20030079222
    Abstract: The present invention is a system for transmitting a digital signal which includes an encoder, a perceptual encrypting system and a transmitter. The encoder band-compression encodes a first digital signal as encoded data defining an image. The perceptual encrypting system is coupled to the and perceptually encrypts the encoded data to generate restricted video data as perceptually encrypted encoded data. The transmitter is coupled to the perceptual encrypting system and transmits the perceptually encrypted encoded data. A combined receiver and decoder for the restricted video data as perceptually encrypted encoded data includes a receiver and a decoder. The receiver receives the perceptually encrypted encoded data. The decoder is coupled to the receiver and decodes the perceptually encrypted encoded data to generate low quality video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Patrick Oscar Boykin, Riccardo Boscolo, Jesse Bridgewater
  • Publication number: 20030063745
    Abstract: The present invention is a combined encoder and perceptual encrypter for a file of high quality video. The combined encoder and perceptual encrypter includes an encoder and perceptual encrypter. The encoder encodes the file of high quality video as encoded data. The perceptual encryption module perceptually encrypts the encoded data in order to generate restricted video data as perceptually encrypted encoded data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventors: Patrick Oscar Boykin, Riccardo Boscolo
  • Publication number: 20020076049
    Abstract: A distributing system includes an encoder, a perceptual encryption module and a server. The encoder encodes the file of high quality video as encoded data in MP3 format. The encoded file has a plurality of frames. Each frame has a header with a sync and side information and main information. The perceptual encryption module perceptually encrypts the encoded data in MP3 format to generate restricted video data as perceptually encrypted encoded data. The server with a memory bank stores and distributes the perceptually encrypted encoded data. A receiving system receiving system includes a receiver with a memory bank, a perceptual decryption module and a decoder. The receiver receives and stores the perceptually encrypted encoded data. The perceptual decryption module perceptually decrypts the perceptually encrypted encoded data to generate encoded data in MP3 format. The decoder decodes the file of encoded data in MP3 format to generate high quality video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Patrick Oscar Boykin, Riccardo Boscolo, Walter Edward Johansen