Patents by Inventor Sachit Menon

Sachit Menon 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).

  • Publication number: 20230298199
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting occluded objects are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of determining a shape and pose of an object occluded by an occlusion object includes receiving, by a generative model, a latent vector, and iteratively performing an optimization routine until a loss is less than a loss threshold. The optimization routine includes generating, by the generative model, a predicted object having a shape and a pose from the latent vector, generating a predicted shadow cast by the predicted object, calculating the loss by comparing the predicted shadow with an observed shadow, and modifying the latent vector when the loss is greater than the loss threshold. The method further includes selecting the predicted object as the object when the loss is less than the loss threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Columbia University, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Simon A.I. Stent, Ruoshi Liu, Sachit Menon, Chengzhi Mao, Dennis Park, Carl M. Vondrick