Patents by Inventor Shuangjun LIU

Shuangjun LIU 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: 12288360
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a dataset of human in-bed poses include simultaneously gathered images of in-bed poses of humans from imaging modalities including red-green-blue (RGB) and one or more of long wavelength infrared (LWIR), depth imaging, and pressure mapping. The images are obtained under a lighting condition and a cover condition. The dataset can be used to train a model of estimating human in-bed poses and for methods of estimating human in-bed poses. Methods and systems of estimating three-dimensional human poses from two-dimensional input images are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Sarah Ostadabbas, Shuangjun Liu, Xiaofei Huang, Nihang Fu
  • Patent number: 12226203
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for estimating contact pressure of a human lying on a surface including one or more imaging devices having imaging sensors oriented toward the surface, a processor and memory, including a trained model for estimating human contact pressure trained with a dataset including a plurality of human lying poses including images generated from at least one of a plurality of imaging modalities including at least one of a red-green-blue modality, a long wavelength infrared modality, a depth modality, or a pressure map modality, wherein the processor can receive one or more images from the imaging devices of the human lying on the surface and a source of one or more physical parameters of the human to determine a pressure map of the human based on the one or more images and the one or more physical parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Sarah Ostadabbas, Shuangjun Liu
  • Publication number: 20240378890
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for in-bed pose and posture determination and tracking for a human subject including an imaging device, the imaging device positioned proximate to a bed and oriented to capture images of the subject lying in the bed, and a processing unit operative to receive the captured images, the captured images including a plurality of image frames, the processing unit including a pose estimation module trained with a dataset of lying poses and operative to estimate poses of the subject lying in the bed based the image frames, and a posture classification module trained with the dataset of lying poses and operative to classify positions of the subject lying in the bed based on the image frames, the processing unit operative to determine a pose and posture of the subject lying in the bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Sarah OSTADABBAS, Shuangjun LIU
  • Publication number: 20240193809
    Abstract: Methods are provided for estimating a pose of an infant using image analysis and artificial intelligence. A classifier is trained using a dataset containing hybrid synthetic and real infant pose data. Multi-stage invariant representation machine learning strategies are employed that transfer knowledge from adjacent domains of adult poses and synthetic infant images into a fine-tuned domain-adapted infant pose estimation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Sarah OSTADABBAS, Xiaofei HUANG, Nihang FU, Shuangjun LIU
  • Publication number: 20220386898
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for estimating contact pressure of a human lying on a surface including one or more imaging devices having imaging sensors oriented toward the surface, a processor and memory, including a trained model for estimating human contact pressure trained with a dataset including a plurality of human lying poses including images generated from at least one of a plurality of imaging modalities including at least one of a red-green-blue modality, a long wavelength infrared modality, a depth modality, or a pressure map modality, wherein the processor can receive one or more images from the imaging devices of the human lying on the surface and a source of one or more physical parameters of the human to determine a pressure map of the human based on the one or more images and the one or more physical parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Sarah OSTADABBAS, Shuangjun LIU
  • Publication number: 20220051437
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a dataset of human in-bed poses include simultaneously gathered images of in-bed poses of humans from imaging modalities including red-green-blue (RGB) and one or more of long wavelength infrared (LWIR), depth imaging, and pressure mapping. The images are obtained under a lighting condition and a cover condition. The dataset can be used to train a model of estimating human in-bed poses and for methods of estimating human in-bed poses. Methods and systems of estimating three-dimensional human poses from two-dimensional input images are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Sarah OSTADABBAS, Shuangjun LIU, Xiaofei HUANG, Nihang FU
  • Patent number: 11222437
    Abstract: Non-contact methods and systems are disclosed for estimating an in-bed human pose. The method includes the steps of: (a) capturing thermal imaging data of a human subject lying on a bed using a long wavelength infrared camera positioned above the human subject; (b) transmitting the thermal imaging data to a computer system; and (c) processing the thermal imaging data by the computer system using a model to estimate the pose of the human subject, the model comprising a machine learning inference model trained on a training dataset of a plurality of in-bed human poses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Sarah Ostadabbas, Shuangjun Liu
  • Publication number: 20200265602
    Abstract: Non-contact methods and systems are disclosed for estimating an in-bed human pose. The method includes the steps of: (a) capturing thermal imaging data of a human subject lying on a bed using a long wavelength infrared camera positioned above the human subject; (b) transmitting the thermal imaging data to a computer system; and (c) processing the thermal imaging data by the computer system using a model to estimate the pose of the human subject, the model comprising a machine learning inference model trained on a training dataset of a plurality of in-bed human poses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Sarah Ostadabbas, Shuangjun Liu
  • Patent number: 8884482
    Abstract: A centrifugal switch actuator including a junction box, a cover, a first static and dynamic contact combination, a second static and dynamic contact combination, an outer swing arm, an inner swing arm, and a reset elastic element. The first static and dynamic contact combination, the second static and dynamic contact combination, and the reset elastic element are located in the junction box. The outer swing arm includes a first outer swing arm and a second outer swing arm. The inner swing arm includes a first inner swing arm and a second inner swing arm. The length of the first static and dynamic contact combination is different from that of the second static and dynamic contact combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Changzhou Xinya Electromotor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Boran Zhou, Shuangjun Liu, Jianming Lu
  • Publication number: 20120280584
    Abstract: A centrifugal switch actuator including a junction box, a cover, a first static and dynamic contact combination, a second static and dynamic contact combination, an outer swing arm, an inner swing arm, and a reset elastic element. The first static and dynamic contact combination, the second static and dynamic contact combination, and the reset elastic element are located in the junction box. The outer swing arm includes a first outer swing arm and a second outer swing arm. The inner swing arm includes a first inner swing arm and a second inner swing arm. The length of the first static and dynamic contact combination is different from that of the second static and dynamic contact combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: CHANGZHOU XINYA ELECTROMOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Boran ZHOU, Shuangjun LIU, Jianming LU