Patents by Inventor Ruei-Cheng Wu

Ruei-Cheng Wu 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: 9058744
    Abstract: An image-based detecting system for traffic parameters first sets a range of a vehicle lane for monitoring control, and sets an entry detection window and an exit detection window in the vehicle lane. When the entry detection window detects an event of a vehicle passing by using the image information captured at the entry detection window, a plurality of feature points are detected in the entry detection window, and will be tracked hereafter. Then, the feature points belonging to the same vehicle are grouped to obtain at least a location tracking result of single vehicle. When the tracked single vehicle moves to the exit detection window, according to the location tracking result and the time correlation through estimating the information captured at the entry detection window and the exit detection window, at least a traffic parameter is estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chung-Hsien Huang, Ruei-Cheng Wu
  • Patent number: 8542276
    Abstract: An object tracking method for a non-overlapping-sensor network works in a sensor network. The method may comprise a training phase and a detection phase. In the training phase, a plurality of sensor information measured by the sensors in the sensor network is used as training samples. At least an entrance/exit is marked out within the measurement range of each sensor. At least three characteristic functions including sensor spatial relation among the sensors in the sensor network, difference of movement time and similarity in appearance, are estimated by an automatically learning method. The at least three characteristic functions are used as the principles for object tracking and relationship linking in the detection phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chung-Hsien Huang, Cheng-Chuan Chou, Ruei-Cheng Wu
  • Publication number: 20120148094
    Abstract: An image-based detecting system for traffic parameters first sets a range of a vehicle lane for monitoring control, and sets an entry detection window and an exit detection window in the vehicle lane. When the entry detection window detects an event of a vehicle passing by using the image information captured at the entry detection window, a plurality of feature points are detected in the entry detection window, and will be tracked hereafter. Then, the feature points belonging to the same vehicle are grouped to obtain at least a location tracking result of single vehicle. When the tracked single vehicle moves to the exit detection window, according to the location tracking result and the time correlation through estimating the information captured at the entry detection window and the exit detection window, at least a traffic parameter is estimated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: CHUNG-HSIEN HUANG, Ruei-Cheng Wu
  • Patent number: 8189913
    Abstract: A method for detecting a shadow of an object in an image is provided. A moving object in a plurality of continuous images is detected. A histogram of a color variation of the moving object in each of the images is calculated. The histograms of the color variation are accumulated to obtain a cumulative histogram. A distribution of the color variation in the cumulative histogram is estimated to obtain a shadow distribution function. Whether each pixel in a received image belongs to the shadow is determined by using the shadow distribution function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chung-Hsien Huang, Ruei-Cheng Wu
  • Patent number: 8059864
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method of image-based space detection. The system includes an image selection module, a 3-layer detection mechanism and an optimization module. At least one image processing area that may affect space-status judgment is selected from plural image processing areas. The 3-layer detection mechanism having an observation layer, a labeling layer, and a semantic layer observes the information about the selected image processing area, associates with a local classification model, and adjacent local constraint model and a global semantics model to completely describe the probability distribution of the links among the three layers, and provide global label constraint information. The optimization module analyzes the probability distribution and global label constraint information, and generates an image-based optimized space detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ching-Chun Huang, Yao-Jen Chang, Ruei-Cheng Wu, Cheng-Peng Kuan
  • Publication number: 20110141288
    Abstract: An object tracking method for a non-overlapping-sensor network works in a sensor network. The method may comprise a training phase and a detection phase. In the training phase, a plurality of sensor information measured by the sensors in the sensor network is used as training samples. At least an entrance/exit is marked out within the measurement range of each sensor. At least three characteristic functions including sensor spatial relation among the sensors in the sensor network, difference of movement time and similarity in appearance, are estimated by an automatically learning method. The at least three characteristic functions are used as the principles for object tracking and relationship linking in the detection phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Chung-Hsien Huang, Cheng-Chuan Chou, Ruei-Cheng Wu
  • Publication number: 20100111362
    Abstract: A method for detecting a shadow of an object in an image is provided. A moving object in a plurality of continuous images is detected. A histogram of a color variation of the moving object in each of the images is calculated. The histograms of the color variation are accumulated to obtain a cumulative histogram. A distribution of the color variation in the cumulative histogram is estimated to obtain a shadow distribution function. Whether each pixel in a received image belongs to the shadow is determined by using the shadow distribution function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chung-Hsien Huang, Ruei-Cheng Wu
  • Publication number: 20090085772
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method of image-based space detection. The system includes an image selection module, a 3-layer detection mechanism and an optimization module. At least one image processing area that may affect space-status judgment is selected from plural image processing areas. The 3-layer detection mechanism having an observation layer, a labeling layer, and a semantic layer observes the information about the selected image processing area, associates with a local classification model, and adjacent local constraint model and a global semantics model to completely describe the probability distribution of the links among the three layers, and provide global label constraint information. The optimization module analyzes the probability distribution and global label constraint information, and generates an image-based optimized space detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventors: Ching-Chun Huang, Yao-Jen Chang, Ruei-Cheng Wu, Cheng-Peng Kuan