Patents by Inventor Ron Fridental

Ron Fridental 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: 11070770
    Abstract: A method for multiple sensor calibration and tracking, the method including identifying a non-permanent object in a first field of detection (FOD) of a sensor, wherein the sensor is one of a plurality of sensors positioned in various locations at a site, each sensor has a corresponding FOD; tracking the identified object by single-sensor tracking in the first FOD; predicting appearance of the object, and based on the predictions initiating single-sensor tracking in at least one other FOD where it is predicted that the object will appear; and outputting data captured from the tracked FODs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: ANTS TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED
    Inventors: Ron Fridental, Mica Arie-Nachimson, Assaf Arbelle
  • Publication number: 20210064967
    Abstract: A modular neural network system comprising: a plurality of neural network modules; and a controller configured to select a combination of at least one of the neural network modules to construct a neural network, dedicated for a specific task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Pavel NOSKO, Alex Rosen, Ilya Blayvas, Gal Perets, Ron Fridental
  • Publication number: 20210056393
    Abstract: A modular neural network system comprising: a plurality of neural network modules; and a controller configured to select a combination of at least one of the neural network modules to construct a neural network, dedicated for a specific task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Pavel NOSKO, Alex Rosen, Ilya Blayvas, Gal Perets, Ron Fridental
  • Publication number: 20210056392
    Abstract: A modular neural network system comprising: a plurality of neural network modules; and a controller configured to select a combination of at least one of the neural network modules to construct a neural network, dedicated for a specific task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Pavel NOSKO, Alex ROSEN, Ilya BLAYVAS, Gal Perets, Ron Fridental
  • Publication number: 20210042611
    Abstract: A modular neural network system comprising: a plurality of neural network modules; and a controller configured to select a combination of at least one of the neural network modules to construct a neural network, dedicated for a specific task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Pavel Nosko, Alex Rosen, llya Blayvas, Gal Perets, Ron Fridental
  • Publication number: 20210035019
    Abstract: A method for AI training at an end device placed in an end-user premises, the method comprising: receiving by a processor of the end device sensor data captured by a sensor bundle of the end device; deciding if the sensor data included a data unit that requires external feedback, and in case external feedback is required obtaining external feedback about classification of the data unit; updating a decision module controlled by the processor of the end device based on the obtained feedback; and making a decision about the received sensor data, by the decision module. The external feedback is obtained from an end user or from another device. The method includes obtaining instructions about the type of decision to make, from a user or by pre-configuration. External feedback about the decision is obtained and the decision module is updated based on the feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Ron Fridental, Pavel Nosko, Alex Rosen
  • Publication number: 20200380842
    Abstract: A system for dependent monitoring and caregiving, the system comprising: an image sensor for capturing image data of a scene in which a dependent is situated; a controller configured to control various modules in the environment of the dependent; and a processor configured to tun a decision module configured to detect a state of the dependent based on image data and to execute code instructions for: receiving image data from the image sensor; analyzing the received image data by the decision module and detect a state of the dependent based on the analysis; instruct the controller to control various modules in the environment of the dependent in response to the detected state; and generate and output a report about the dependent state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Ron Fridental, Ori Tal, Masha Zeldin-Melamed, Oranit Dror, Idit Diamant
  • Patent number: 10661438
    Abstract: A robotic system (“new robot”) operative for performing at least one task in an environment, the system comprising: learn-from-predecessor functionality governed by a data exchange protocol, which controls short-range wireless knowledge transfer from a short-range wireless transmitter in a predecessor robot system (“old robot”) to a short-range wireless receiver in said robotic system, said knowledge comprising at least one environment-specific datum previously stored by the predecessor robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: ANTS TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED
    Inventors: Gal Perets, Ilya Blayvas, Ron Fridental, Pavel Nosko, Alex Rosen, Ophir Gvirtzer
  • Patent number: 10565455
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and devices for facilitating audiovisual communication. According to embodiments, there may be provided a communication device including or otherwise functionally associated with a video camera to acquire visual information from a scene and to convert the visual information into a video stream. A video processing circuit may (a) receive the video stream, (b) extract user related features from the video stream; and (c) detect and characterize one or more user actions. A controller to receive the video processing circuit output and responsive to an indication of one or more detected events within the video stream to trigger a communication session between said communication device and an addressee device, wherein different addressee devices may be associated with different detected actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: ANTS TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED
    Inventors: Ron Fridental, Ilya Blayvas, Lili Zhao
  • Patent number: 10446136
    Abstract: A system and method for accent invariant speech recognition comprising: maintaining a database scoring a set of language units in a given language, and for each of the language units, scoring audio samples of pronunciation variations of the language unit pronounced by a plurality of speakers; extracting and storing m the database a feature vector for locating each of the audio samples in a feature space; identifying pronunciation variation distances, which are distances between locations of audio samples of the same language unit in the feature space, and inter-unit distances, which are distances between locations of audio samples of different language units in the feature space; calculating a transformation applicable on the feature space to reduce the pronunciation variation distances relative to the inter-unit distances; and based on the calculated transformation, training a processor to classify as a same language unit pronunciation variations of the same language unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ANTS TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED
    Inventors: Ron Fridental, Ilya Blayvas, Pavel Nosko
  • Patent number: 10366122
    Abstract: This application discloses to methods, circuits, devices, assemblies and systems for generating a searchable real-scene database including records indicating entities and physical events occurring within the real-scene. The said system may include a camera feed interface to receive a camera feed from each of one or more cameras observing the real-scene. It may also include image processing circuitry including a static scene analysis unit to: (a) extract features of entities appearing in a camera feed, (b) recognize entity types of entities appearing in the one or more camera feeds, (c) assign an entity designator to a specific entity appearing in the camera feeds, (d) generate an entity designator record for a uniquely identifiable entity, and generate an attribute record for a uniquely identifiable entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: ANTS TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED.
    Inventors: Ron Fridental, Ilya Blayvas
  • Patent number: 10229322
    Abstract: A computerized method for providing no-configuration object recognition video analytics, the method comprising generating a database stored in computer memory and including labelled images of recognized objects imaged at an initial set of sites including at least one site; using the database as a training set to train a pattern recognition engine; uploading images of additional site/s including at least one additional site which is not a member in the initial set of sites; providing object recognition results for the additional site/s by using the pattern recognition engine on the images as uploaded; verifying the object recognition results; and using a processor for operating the pattern recognition engine on images generated at each the additional site/s including modifying the pattern recognition engine according to and when indicated by the verifying, thereby to provide no-configuration object recognition video analytics at the additional site/s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: ANTS TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED
    Inventors: Ron Fridental, Ilya Blayvas
  • Publication number: 20180261023
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for automatically navigating a vehicle, which system comprises: a data storage containing one or more maps of one or more areas; electronic interfaces for: (i) receiving data relating to the one or more areas from external data sources; (ii) receiving parameters relating to motion of the vehicle from physical sensors; and (iii) receiving a location of the vehicle from a positioning device; a navigation processor comprising processing circuitry adapted to determine an initial optimal route for traversing the vehicle from a given point in the one or more areas to another point in the one or more areas by computationally resolving a constrained minimization problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Ilya Blayvas, Ron Fridental, Shengwei Da
  • Patent number: 10007854
    Abstract: The present invention includes computer vision based driver assistance devices, systems, methods and associated computer executable code (hereinafter collectively referred to as: “ADAS”). According to some embodiments, an ADAS may include one or more fixed image/video sensors and one or more adjustable or otherwise movable image/video sensors, characterized by different dimensions of fields of view. According to some embodiments of the present invention, an ADAS may include improved image processing. According to some embodiments, an ADAS may also include one or more sensors adapted to monitor/sense an interior of the vehicle and/or the persons within. An ADAS may include one or more sensors adapted to detect parameters relating to the driver of the vehicle and processing circuitry adapted to assess mental conditions/alertness of the driver and directions of driver gaze. These may be used to modify ADAS operation/thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: ANTS TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED
    Inventors: Ilya Blayvas, Pavel Nosko, Mica Arie Nachimson, Oranit Dror, Ron Fridental, Ophir Gvirzer, Gal Perets, Alex Rosen, Denis Simakov, Masha Zeldin
  • Patent number: 10002471
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for automatically navigating a vehicle, which system comprises: a data storage containing one or more maps of one or more areas; electronic interfaces for: (i) receiving data relating to the one or more areas from external data sources; (ii) receiving parameters relating to motion of the vehicle from physical sensors; and (iii) receiving a location of the vehicle from a positioning device; a navigation processor comprising processing circuitry adapted to determine an initial optimal route for traversing the vehicle from a given point in the one or more areas to another point in the one or more areas by computationally resolving a constrained minimization problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: ANTS TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED
    Inventors: Ilya Blayvas, Ron Fridental, Shengwei Da
  • Patent number: 9971153
    Abstract: A method and devices for displaying images, the method comprising: receiving an image, the image comprising depth information; determining at least a first group of pixels and a second group of pixels, based on the depth information; and displaying the first group of pixels at a first focus position of the projection device, and the second group of pixels at a second focus position of the projection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: FRIMORY TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventor: Ron Fridental
  • Publication number: 20180075142
    Abstract: This application discloses to methods, circuits, devices, assemblies and systems for generating a searchable real-scene database including records indicating entities and physical events occurring within the real-scene. The said system may include a camera feed interface to receive a camera feed from each of one or more cameras observing the real-scene. It may also include image processing circuitry including a static scene analysis unit to: (a) extract features of entities appearing in a camera feed, (b) recognize entity types of entities appearing in the one or more camera feeds, (c) assign an entity designator to a specific entity appearing in the camera feeds, (d) generate an entity designator record for a uniquely identifiable entity, and generate an attribute record for a uniquely identifiable entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Ron Fridental, Ilya Blayvas
  • Publication number: 20180012085
    Abstract: The present invention includes computer vision based driver assistance devices, systems, methods and associated computer executable code (hereinafter collectively referred to as: “ADAS”). According to some embodiments, an ADAS may include one or more fixed image/video sensors and one or more adjustable or otherwise movable image/video sensors, characterized by different dimensions of fields of view. According to some embodiments of the present invention, an ADAS may include improved image processing. According to some embodiments, an ADAS may also include one or more sensors adapted to monitor/sense an interior of the vehicle and/or the persons within. An ADAS may include one or more sensors adapted to detect parameters relating to the driver of the vehicle and processing circuitry adapted to assess mental conditions/alertness of the driver and directions of driver gaze. These may be used to modify ADAS operation/thresholds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Ilya Blayvas, Pavel Nosko, Mica Arie Nachimson, Oranit Dror, Ron Fridental, Ophir Gvirzer, Gal Perets, Alex Rosen, Denis Simakov, Masha Zeldin
  • Publication number: 20170289504
    Abstract: According to some embodiments of the present invention there may be provided one or more video surveillance units including: (i) video capturing equipment (e.g. a video camera), (ii) processing circuitry adapted to modify/sanitize video streams captured by the video capturing equipment to generate sanitized video streams devoid of privacy infringing data/images, and (iii) communication circuitry for transmitting sanitized video streams to one or more monitoring units for analysis. The monitoring units, in turn, may analyze the sanitized video streams to identify security events occurring within the area being captured by the surveillance units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Ron Fridental, Ilya Blayvas, Gal Perets
  • Publication number: 20170090478
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for automatically navigating a vehicle, which system comprises: a data storage containing one or more maps of one or more areas; electronic interfaces for: (i) receiving data relating to the one or more areas from external data sources; (ii) receiving parameters relating to motion of the vehicle from physical sensors; and (iii) receiving a location of the vehicle from a positioning device; a navigation processor comprising processing circuitry adapted to determine an initial optimal route for traversing the vehicle from a given point in the one or more areas to another point in the one or more areas by computationally resolving a constrained minimization problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Ilya Blayvas, Ron Fridental, Shengwei Da