Patents by Inventor Simon Kozlov
Simon Kozlov 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).
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Publication number: 20240087104Abstract: One variation of a method for monitoring manufacture of assembly units includes: receiving selection of a target location hypothesized by a user to contain an origin of a defect in assembly units of an assembly type; accessing a feature map linking non-visual manufacturing features to physical locations within the assembly type; for each assembly unit, accessing an inspection image of the assembly unit recorded by an optical inspection station during production of the assembly unit, projecting the target location onto the inspection image, detecting visual features proximal the target location within the inspection image, and aggregating non-visual manufacturing features associated with locations proximal the target location and representing manufacturing inputs into the assembly unit based on the feature map; and calculating correlations between visual and non-visual manufacturing features associated with locations proximal the target location and the defect for the set of assembly units.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Samuel Bruce Weiss, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Simon Kozlov, Tilmann Bruckhaus, Shilpi Kumar, Isaac Sukin, Ian Theilacker, Brendan Green
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Publication number: 20230368368Abstract: One variation of a method for predicting manufacturing defects includes: accessing a first set of inspection images of a first set of assembly units recorded by an optical inspection station over a first period of time; generating a first set of vectors representing features extracted from the first set of inspection images; grouping neighboring vectors in a multi-dimensional feature space into a set of vector groups; accessing a second inspection image of a second assembly recorded by the optical inspection station at a second time succeeding the first period of time; detecting a second set of features in the second inspection image; generating a second vector representing the second set of features in the multi-dimensional feature space; and, in response to the second vector deviating from the set of vector groups by more than a threshold difference, flagging the second assembly unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Samuel Bruce Weiss, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Simon Kozlov, Ana Ulin, Mikhail Okunev, Isaac Sukin
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Patent number: 11763443Abstract: One variation of a method for monitoring manufacture of assembly units includes: receiving selection of a target location hypothesized by a user to contain an origin of a defect in assembly units of an assembly type; accessing a feature map linking non-visual manufacturing features to physical locations within the assembly type; for each assembly unit, accessing an inspection image of the assembly unit recorded by an optical inspection station during production of the assembly unit, projecting the target location onto the inspection image, detecting visual features proximal the target location within the inspection image, and aggregating non-visual manufacturing features associated with locations proximal the target location and representing manufacturing inputs into the assembly unit based on the feature map; and calculating correlations between visual and non-visual manufacturing features associated with locations proximal the target location and the defect for the set of assembly units.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Instrumental, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Bruce Weiss, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Simon Kozlov, Tilmann Bruckhaus, Shilpi Kumar, Isaac Sukin, Ian Theilacker, Brendan Green
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Publication number: 20230237247Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods that efficiently and effectively generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document in an image frame captured from a live image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein apply a document enhancement process to a displayed document in an image frame that result in an enhanced document image that is cropped, rectified, un-shadowed, and with dark text against a mostly white background. Additionally, systems and method described herein determine whether a stored digital content item includes a displayed document. In response to determining that a stored digital content item does include a displayed document, systems and methods described herein generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document included in the stored digital content item.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Nils Peter Welinder, Peter N Belhumeur, Ying Xiong, Jongmin Baek, Simon Kozlov, Thomas Berg, David J Kriegman
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Publication number: 20230237246Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods to quickly and accurately identify boundaries of a displayed document in a live camera image feed, and provide a document boundary indicator within the live camera image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein utilize different display document detection processes in parallel to generate and provide a document boundary indicator that accurately corresponds with a displayed document within a live camera image feed. Thus, a user of the mobile computing device can easily see whether the document identification system has correctly identified the displayed document within the camera viewfinder feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Nils Peter Welinder, Peter N Belhumeur, Ying Xiong, Jongmin Baek, Simon Kozlov, Thomas Berg, David J Kriegman
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Patent number: 11688056Abstract: One variation of a method for predicting manufacturing defects includes: accessing a first set of inspection images of a first set of assembly units recorded by an optical inspection station over a first period of time; generating a first set of vectors representing features extracted from the first set of inspection images; grouping neighboring vectors in a multi-dimensional feature space into a set of vector groups; accessing a second inspection image of a second assembly recorded by the optical inspection station at a second time succeeding the first period of time; detecting a second set of features in the second inspection image; generating a second vector representing the second set of features in the multi-dimensional feature space; and, in response to the second vector deviating from the set of vector groups by more than a threshold difference, flagging the second assembly unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Instrumental, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Bruce Weiss, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Simon Kozlov, Ana Ulin, Mikhail Okunev, Isaac Sukin
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Patent number: 11620439Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods that efficiently and effectively generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document in an image frame captured from a live image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein apply a document enhancement process to a displayed document in an image frame that result in an enhanced document image that is cropped, rectified, un-shadowed, and with dark text against a mostly white background. Additionally, systems and method described herein determine whether a stored digital content item includes a displayed document. In response to determining that a stored digital content item does include a displayed document, systems and methods described herein generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document included in the stored digital content item.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Inventors: Nils Peter Welinder, Peter N. Belhumeur, Ying Xiong, Jongmin Baek, Simon Kozlov, Thomas Berg, David J. Kriegman
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Patent number: 11620438Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods to quickly and accurately identify boundaries of a displayed document in a live camera image feed, and provide a document boundary indicator within the live camera image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein utilize different display document detection processes in parallel to generate and provide a document boundary indicator that accurately corresponds with a displayed document within a live camera image feed. Thus, a user of the mobile computing device can easily see whether the document identification system has correctly identified the displayed document within the camera viewfinder feed.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: Nils Peter Welinder, Peter N. Belhumeur, Ying Xiong, Jongmin Baek, Simon Kozlov, Thomas Berg, David J. Kriegman
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Publication number: 20220335589Abstract: One variation of a method for monitoring manufacture of assembly units includes: receiving selection of a target location hypothesized by a user to contain an origin of a defect in assembly units of an assembly type; accessing a feature map linking non-visual manufacturing features to physical locations within the assembly type; for each assembly unit, accessing an inspection image of the assembly unit recorded by an optical inspection station during production of the assembly unit, projecting the target location onto the inspection image, detecting visual features proximal the target location within the inspection image, and aggregating non-visual manufacturing features associated with locations proximal the target location and representing manufacturing inputs into the assembly unit based on the feature map; and calculating correlations between visual and non-visual manufacturing features associated with locations proximal the target location and the defect for the set of assembly units.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Samuel Bruce Weiss, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Simon Kozlov, Tilmann Bruckhaus, Shilpi Kumar, Isaac Sukin, Ian Theilacker, Brendan Green
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Publication number: 20220020139Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically generating a common measurement across multiple assembly units includes: displaying a first image—recorded at an optical inspection station—within a user interface; receiving manual selection of a particular feature in a first assembly unit represented in the first image; receiving selection of a measurement type for the particular feature; extracting a first real dimension of the particular feature in the first assembly unit from the first image according to the measurement type; for each image in a set of images, identifying a feature—analogous to the particular feature—in an assembly unit represented in the image and extracting a real dimension of the feature in the assembly unit from the image according to the measurement type; and aggregating the first real dimension and a set of real dimensions extracted from the set of images into a digital container.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Samuel Bruce Weiss, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, John James Shedletsky, III, Isaac Sukin, Simon Kozlov
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Publication number: 20210390678Abstract: One variation of a method for monitoring manufacture of assembly units includes: receiving selection of a target location hypothesized by a user to contain an origin of a defect in assembly units of an assembly type; accessing a feature map linking non-visual manufacturing features to physical locations within the assembly type; for each assembly unit, accessing an inspection image of the assembly unit recorded by an optical inspection station during production of the assembly unit, projecting the target location onto the inspection image, detecting visual features proximal the target location within the inspection image, and aggregating non-visual manufacturing features associated with locations proximal the target location and representing manufacturing inputs into the assembly unit based on the feature map; and calculating correlations between visual and non-visual manufacturing features associated with locations proximal the target location and the defect for the set of assembly units.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Samuel Bruce Weiss, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Simon Kozlov, Tilmann Bruckhaus, Shilpi Kumar, Isaac Sukin, Ian Theilacker, Brendan Green
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Patent number: 11164304Abstract: A method includes: displaying a first image of a first assembly unit within a user interface; locating a first virtual origin at a first feature on the first assembly unit; displaying a first subregion of the first image within the user interface responsive to a change in a view window of the first image; recording a geometry and a position of the first subregion relative to the first virtual origin; locating a second virtual origin at a second feature—analogous to the first feature—on a second assembly unit represented in the second image; projecting the geometry and the position of the first subregion onto the second image according to the second virtual origin to define a second subregion of the second image; and, in response to receipt of a command to advance from the first image to the second image, displaying the second subregion within the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Instrumental, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Bruce Weiss, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, John James Shedletsky, III, Isaac Sukin, Simon Kozlov
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Patent number: 11132787Abstract: One variation of a method for monitoring manufacture of assembly units includes: receiving selection of a target location hypothesized by a user to contain an origin of a defect in assembly units of an assembly type; accessing a feature map linking non-visual manufacturing features to physical locations within the assembly type; for each assembly unit, accessing an inspection image of the assembly unit recorded by an optical inspection station during production of the assembly unit, projecting the target location onto the inspection image, detecting visual features proximal the target location within the inspection image, and aggregating non-visual manufacturing features associated with locations proximal the target location and representing manufacturing inputs into the assembly unit based on the feature map; and calculating correlations between visual and non-visual manufacturing features associated with locations proximal the target location and the defect for the set of assembly units.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Instrumental, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Bruce Weiss, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Simon Kozlov, Tilmann Bruckhaus, Shilpi Kumar, Isaac Sukin, Ian Theilacker, Brendan Green
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Publication number: 20210271807Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods that efficiently and effectively generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document in an image frame captured from a live image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein apply a document enhancement process to a displayed document in an image frame that result in an enhanced document image that is cropped, rectified, un-shadowed, and with dark text against a mostly white background. Additionally, systems and method described herein determine whether a stored digital content item includes a displayed document. In response to determining that a stored digital content item does include a displayed document, systems and methods described herein generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document included in the stored digital content item.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Nils Peter Welinder, Peter N. Belhumeur, Ying Xiong, Jongmin Baek, Simon Kozlov, Thomas Berg, David J. Kriegman
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Publication number: 20210264098Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods to quickly and accurately identify boundaries of a displayed document in a live camera image feed, and provide a document boundary indicator within the live camera image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein utilize different display document detection processes in parallel to generate and provide a document boundary indicator that accurately corresponds with a displayed document within a live camera image feed. Thus, a user of the mobile computing device can easily see whether the document identification system has correctly identified the displayed document within the camera viewfinder feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Nils Peter Welinder, Peter N. Belhumeur, Ying Xiong, Jongmin Baek, Simon Kozlov, Thomas Berg, David J. Kriegman
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Publication number: 20210201462Abstract: One variation of a method for predicting manufacturing defects includes: accessing a first set of inspection images of a first set of assembly units recorded by an optical inspection station over a first period of time; generating a first set of vectors representing features extracted from the first set of inspection images; grouping neighboring vectors in a multi-dimensional feature space into a set of vector groups; accessing a second inspection image of a second assembly recorded by the optical inspection station at a second time succeeding the first period of time; detecting a second set of features in the second inspection image; generating a second vector representing the second set of features in the multi-dimensional feature space; and, in response to the second vector deviating from the set of vector groups by more than a threshold difference, flagging the second assembly unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Samuel Bruce Weiss, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Simon Kozlov, Ana Ulin, Mikhail Okunev, Isaac Sukin
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Patent number: 11017158Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods to quickly and accurately identify boundaries of a displayed document in a live camera image feed, and provide a document boundary indicator within the live camera image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein utilize different display document detection processes in parallel to generate and provide a document boundary indicator that accurately corresponds with a displayed document within a live camera image feed. Thus, a user of the mobile computing device can easily see whether the document identification system has correctly identified the displayed document within the camera viewfinder feed.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: Nils Peter Welinder, Peter N. Belhumeur, Ying Xiong, Jongmin Baek, Simon Kozlov, Thomas Berg, David J. Kriegman
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Patent number: 11017159Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods that efficiently and effectively generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document in an image frame captured from a live image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein apply a document enhancement process to a displayed document in an image frame that result in an enhanced document image that is cropped, rectified, un-shadowed, and with dark text against a mostly white background. Additionally, systems and method described herein determine whether a stored digital content item includes a displayed document. In response to determining that a stored digital content item does include a displayed document, systems and methods described herein generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document included in the stored digital content item.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: Nils Peter Welinder, Peter N. Belhumeur, Ying Xiong, Jongmin Baek, Simon Kozlov, Thomas Berg, David J. Kriegman
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Patent number: 11003841Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods that efficiently and effectively generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document in an image frame captured from a live image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein apply a document enhancement process to a displayed document in an image frame that result in an enhanced document image that is cropped, rectified, un-shadowed, and with dark text against a mostly white background. Additionally, systems and method described herein determine whether a stored digital content item includes a displayed document. In response to determining that a stored digital content item does include a displayed document, systems and methods described herein generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document included in the stored digital content item.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.Inventors: Nils Peter Welinder, Peter N. Belhumeur, Ying Xiong, Jongmin Baek, Simon Kozlov, Thomas Berg, David J. Kriegman
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Patent number: 10984526Abstract: One variation of a method for predicting manufacturing defects includes: accessing a first set of inspection images of a first set of assembly units recorded by an optical inspection station over a first period of time; generating a first set of vectors representing features extracted from the first set of inspection images; grouping neighboring vectors in a multi-dimensional feature space into a set of vector groups; accessing a second inspection image of a second assembly recorded by the optical inspection station at a second time succeeding the first period of time; detecting a second set of features in the second inspection image; generating a second vector representing the second set of features in the multi-dimensional feature space; and, in response to the second vector deviating from the set of vector groups by more than a threshold difference, flagging the second assembly unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Instrumental, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Bruce Weiss, Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Simon Kozlov, Ana Ulin, Mikhail Okunev, Isaac Sukin