Patents by Inventor Ronald Duarte

Ronald Duarte 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: 11676389
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for locating an object detected in a video. The system detects a bounding box at least partially around an object in a first frame at a first time in the video and a second frame in the video corresponding to a second time. The system determines whether there is no motion within the bounding box of the second frame. The system compares edge information, or color information, or intensity information associated with one or more pixels in the first frame, to edge information, or color information, or intensity information associated with one or more pixels within the bounding box. The system generates a score based on the comparison. The system further determines based on the score if the object is present in the second frame. The system also determines an estimated timeframe window of a first appearance of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Marianne A. DeAngelus, Jason R. Thornton, Ronald Duarte, Aaron Z. Yahr, Christine M. Russ, Zach Elko
  • Patent number: 11586875
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for selecting an optimized data model architecture subject to resource constraints. One or more resource constraints for target deployment are identified, and random model architectures are generated from a set of model architecture production rules subject to the one or more resource constraints. Each random model architecture is defined by randomly chosen values for one or more meta parameters and one or more layer parameters. One or more of the random model architectures are adaptively refined to improve performance relative to a metric, and the refined model architecture with the best performance relative to the metric is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jason R. Thornton, Luke Skelly, Michael Chan, Ronald Duarte, Daniel Scarafoni
  • Publication number: 20200374491
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for locating an object detected in a video. The system detects a bounding box at least partially around an object in a first frame at a first time in the video and a second frame in the video corresponding to a second time. The system determines whether there is no motion within the bounding box of the second frame. The system compares edge information, or color information, or intensity information associated with one or more pixels in the first frame, to edge information, or color information, or intensity information associated with one or more pixels within the bounding box. The system generates a score based on the comparison. The system further determines based on the score if the object is present in the second frame. The system also determines an estimated timeframe window of a first appearance of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Marianne A. DeAngelus, Jason R. Thornton, Ronald Duarte, Aaron Z. Yahr, Christine M. Russ, Zach Elko
  • Publication number: 20200354079
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein incorporate autonomous navigation using a vision-based guidance system. The vision-based guidance system enables autonomous trajectory planning and motion execution by the described systems and methods without feedback or communication with external operators. The systems and methods described herein can autonomously track an object of interest while seeking to obtain a diversity of views of the object of interest to aid in object identification. The systems and methods described include a robust reacquisition methodology. By handling navigation and tracking autonomously, systems described herein can react more quickly to non-cooperative moving objects of interest and can operate in situations where communications with external operators is compromised or absent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Chan, Ronald Duarte
  • Patent number: 10618673
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein incorporate autonomous navigation using a vision-based guidance system. The vision-based guidance system enables autonomous trajectory planning and motion execution by the described systems and methods without feedback or communication with external operators. The systems and methods described herein can autonomously track an object of interest while seeking to obtain a diversity of views of the object of interest to aid in object identification. The systems and methods described include a robust reacquisition methodology. By handling navigation and tracking autonomously, systems described herein can react more quickly to non-cooperative moving objects of interest and can operate in situations where communications with external operators is compromised or absent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Michael T. Chan, Ronald Duarte
  • Publication number: 20190156178
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for selecting an optimized data model architecture subject to resource constraints. One or more resource constraints for target deployment are identified, and random model architectures are generated from a set of model architecture production rules subject to the one or more resource constraints. Each random model architecture is defined by randomly chosen values for one or more meta parameters and one or more layer parameters. One or more of the random model architectures are adaptively refined to improve performance relative to a metric, and the refined model architecture with the best performance relative to the metric is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Jason R. Thornton, Luke Skelly, Michael Chan, Ronald Duarte, Daniel Scarafoni
  • Publication number: 20170301109
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein incorporate autonomous navigation using a vision-based guidance system. The vision-based guidance system enables autonomous trajectory planning and motion execution by the described systems and methods without feedback or communication with external operators. The systems and methods described herein can autonomously track an object of interest while seeking to obtain a diversity of views of the object of interest to aid in object identification. The systems and methods described include a robust reacquisition methodology. By handling navigation and tracking autonomously, systems described herein can react more quickly to non-cooperative moving objects of interest and can operate in situations where communications with external operators is compromised or absent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Michael T. Chan, Ronald Duarte