Patents by Inventor Sung Chun Lee

Sung Chun Lee 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: 20230030884
    Abstract: Methods, systems, an apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for tracking human movement in video images. A method includes obtaining a first image of a scene captured by a camera; identifying a bounding box around a human detected in the first image; determining a scale amount that corresponds to a size of the bounding box; obtaining a second image of the scene captured by the camera after the first image was captured; and detecting the human in the second image based on both the first image scaled by the scale amount and the second image scaled by the scale amount. Detecting the human in the second image can include identifying a second scaled bounding box around the human detected in the second image scaled by the scale amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Sung Chun Lee, Gang Qian, Sima Taheri, Sravanthi Bondugula, Allison Beach
  • Patent number: 11544505
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for semi-supervised training of an object recognition model. The methods, systems, and apparatus include a monitoring system including a camera located at a property and configured to generate images and one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform actions of determining a cluster of images meets a threshold for number of included images and a threshold for cluster tightness. A representative image of the cluster is selected and a query including the representative image of the cluster is provided. User feedback responsive to the query is received and an object recognition model is updated based on the user feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Allison Beach, Benjamin Asher Berg, Sung Chun Lee, Sima Taheri, Sravanthi Bondugula, Nafiseh Salmani Niyasar, Gang Qian
  • Patent number: 11494935
    Abstract: Methods, systems, an apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for tracking human movement in video images. A method includes obtaining a first image of a scene captured by a camera; identifying a bounding box around a human detected in the first image; determining a scale amount that corresponds to a size of the bounding box; obtaining a second image of the scene captured by the camera after the first image was captured; and detecting the human in the second image based on both the first image scaled by the scale amount and the second image scaled by the scale amount. Detecting the human in the second image can include identifying a second scaled bounding box around the human detected in the second image scaled by the scale amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ObjectVideo Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Sung Chun Lee, Gang Qian, Sima Taheri, Sravanthi Bondugula, Allison Beach
  • Patent number: 11495054
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for motion-based human video detection are disclosed. A method includes generating a representation of a difference between two frames of a video; providing, to an object detector, a particular frame of the two frames and the representation of the difference between two frames of the video; receiving an indication that the object detector detected an object in the particular frame; determining that detection of the object in the particular frame was a false positive detection; determining an amount of motion energy where the object was detected in the particular frame; and training the object detector based on penalization of the false positive detection in accordance with the amount of motion energy where the object was detected in the particular frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ObjectVideo Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Sima Taheri, Gang Qian, Sung Chun Lee, Sravanthi Bondugula, Allison Beach
  • Publication number: 20220254037
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an event detector. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of identifying a portion of a first interframe difference image that represents motion of an OI, determining that a second interframe difference image represents motion by a non-OI, combining the portion of the first interframe difference image and the second interframe difference image as a third interframe difference image labeled as motion of both an OI and a non-OI, and training an event detector with the third interframe difference image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Narayanan Ramanathan, Gang Qian, Sima Taheri, Sung Chun Lee, Sravanti Bondugula, Allison Beach
  • Patent number: 11409989
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for model co-occurrence object detection. One of the methods includes accessing, for a training image, first data that indicates a detected bounding box for a first object depicted in the training image and a predicted type label, accessing, for the training image, ground truth data for one or more ground truth objects, determining, using the first data and the ground truth data, that i) the detected bounding box represents an object that is not a ground truth object represented by the ground truth data or ii) the predicted type label for the first object does not match a ground truth label for the first object identified by the ground truth data, determining a penalty to adjust the model using a distance between the detected bounding box and the labeled bounding box, and training the model using the penalty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: ObjectVideo Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Sima Taheri, Gang Qian, Sung Chun Lee, Sravanthi Bondugula, Allison Beach
  • Publication number: 20220101066
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reducing camera false detections. One of the methods includes providing, to a neural network of an image classifier that is trained to detect objects of two or more classification types, a feature vector for a respective training image; receiving, from the neural network, an output vector that indicates, for each of the two or more classification types, a likelihood that the respective training image depicts an object of the corresponding classification type; accessing, from two or more ground truth vectors each for one of the two or more classification types, a ground truth vector for the classification type of an object depicted in the training image; and adjusting one or more weights in the neural network using the output vector and the ground truth vector; and storing, in a memory, the image classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Sravanthi Bondugula, Gang Qian, Sung Chun Lee, Sima Taheri, Allison Beach
  • Publication number: 20220083782
    Abstract: Methods and systems, including computer programs encoded on a storage medium, are described for implementing item monitoring using a doorbell camera. A system generates an input video stream that has image frames corresponding to detection of activity at a property. Timing information is generated for the video stream and includes a timestamp for each image frame of the stream. Using the timing information, the system processes a pre-event image frame that precedes detection of the activity and a post-event image frame that coincides with detection of the activity. An image score is computed with respect to placement of a candidate item at the property in response to processing the pre-event and post-event image frames. The image score is used to determine that a first item was delivered to the property or that a second item was removed after being delivered to the property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Gang Qian, Allison Beach, Sima Taheri, Sravanthi Bondugula, Sung Chun Lee, Narayanan Ramanathan
  • Publication number: 20210407107
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for tracking moving objects depicted in multiple images. One of the methods includes determining, for an image captured by a camera, a first bounding box that represents a first moving object depicted in the image, determining that the first bounding box and a second bounding box overlap in an overlap area, determining that the first moving object represented by the first bounding box was farther from the camera that captured the image than a second moving object represented by the second bounding box, generating a mask for the first bounding box based on the overlap area, and determining, using data from the image that is associated with the mask, that the first moving object matches an appearance of another moving object depicted in another image captured by the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Sung Chun Lee, Gang Qian, Sima Taheri, Sravanthi Bondugula, Allison Beach
  • Publication number: 20210406547
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using feature descriptors to track objects depicted in images. One of the methods includes receiving hue, saturation, value data for an image and data that indicates an object detected in the image, generating a feature descriptor that includes hue data and saturation data, determining, for each of two or more tracked objects that each have a historical feature descriptor that includes historical hue data and historical saturation data, a distance between (i) the respective historical feature descriptor and (ii) the feature descriptor, associating the feature descriptor for the object with a tracked object from the two or more tracked objects, and tracking the tracked object in one or more images from a video sequence using the feature descriptor and the historical feature descriptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Sung Chun Lee, Gang Qian, Sima Taheri, Sravanthi Bondugula, Narayanan Ramanathan, Allison Beach
  • Patent number: 11048958
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining a foreground occupancy map for a camera view. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of determining an area of an image in which there is a false detection of an object, determining a likely contribution of the area to the false detection based on the foreground occupancy map, generating a modified object detector based on the likely contribution of the area, and detecting an object using the modified object detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: ObjectVideo Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Gang Qian, Sung Chun Lee, Sima Taheri, Sravanthi Bondugula, Allison Beach
  • Publication number: 20210142114
    Abstract: Methods, systems, an apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for training an image classifier. A method includes receiving an image that includes a depiction of an object; generating a set of poorly localized bounding boxes; and generating a set of accurately localized bounding boxes. The method includes training, at a first learning rate and using the poorly localized bounding boxes, an object classifier to classify the object; and training, at a second learning rate that is lower than the first learning rate, and using the accurately localized bounding boxes, the object classifier to classify the object. The method includes receiving a second image that includes a depiction of an object; and providing, to the trained object classifier, the second image. The method includes receiving an indication that the object classifier classified the object in the second image; and performing one or more actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Sravanthi Bondugula, Gang Qian, Sung Chun Lee, Sima Taheri, Allison Beach
  • Publication number: 20210117658
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for motion-based human video detection are disclosed. A method includes generating a representation of a difference between two frames of a video; providing, to an object detector, a particular frame of the two frames and the representation of the difference between two frames of the video; receiving an indication that the object detector detected an object in the particular frame; determining that detection of the object in the particular frame was a false positive detection; determining an amount of motion energy where the object was detected in the particular frame; and training the object detector based on penalization of the false positive detection in accordance with the amount of motion energy where the object was detected in the particular frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Sima Taheri, Gang Qian, Sung Chun Lee, Sravanthi Bondugula, Allison Beach
  • Publication number: 20210117724
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for model co-occurrence object detection. One of the methods includes accessing, for a training image, first data that indicates a detected bounding box for a first object depicted in the training image and a predicted type label, accessing, for the training image, ground truth data for one or more ground truth objects, determining, using the first data and the ground truth data, that i) the detected bounding box represents an object that is not a ground truth object represented by the ground truth data or ii) the predicted type label for the first object does not match a ground truth label for the first object identified by the ground truth data, determining a penalty to adjust the model using a distance between the detected bounding box and the labeled bounding box, and training the model using the penalty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Sima Taheri, Gang Qian, Sung Chun Lee, Sravanthi Bondugula, Allison Beach
  • Publication number: 20210118169
    Abstract: Methods, systems, an apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for tracking human movement in video images. A method includes obtaining a first image of a scene captured by a camera; identifying a bounding box around a human detected in the first image; determining a scale amount that corresponds to a size of the bounding box; obtaining a second image of the scene captured by the camera after the first image was captured; and detecting the human in the second image based on both the first image scaled by the scale amount and the second image scaled by the scale amount. Detecting the human in the second image can include identifying a second scaled bounding box around the human detected in the second image scaled by the scale amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Sung Chun Lee, Gang Qian, Sima Taheri, Sravanthi Bondugula, Allison Beach
  • Patent number: 10857074
    Abstract: A method of preparing a stable stick-type cosmetic composition includes separately stabilizing a clay mineral dispersion and a moisturizing component, thereby uniformly dispersing components in the composition. In a typical stick-type composition, components are not uniformly dispersed, and thus a stick formulation prepared using the same is easily broken upon external impact or the like, but the stick formulation prepared by the method of the present invention is maintained in spreadability and sensation of use, and is not easily broken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: KOLMAR KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Sung Lee, Jin Mo Kim, Sung Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20190231652
    Abstract: A method of preparing a stable stick-type cosmetic composition includes separately stabilizing a clay mineral dispersion and a moisturizing component, thereby uniformly dispersing components in the composition. In a typical stick-type composition, components are not uniformly dispersed, and thus a stick formulation prepared using the same is easily broken upon external impact or the like, but the stick formulation prepared by the method of the present invention is maintained in spreadability and sensation of use, and is not easily broken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Jin Sung LEE, Jin Mo KIM, Sung Chun LEE
  • Publication number: 20110189301
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a contact lens-shaped amniotic dressing and a contact lens-shaped amniotic dressing prepared therefrom for treating ocular surface diseases, which does not require the use of sutures or an adhesion material. The inventive contact lens-shaped amniotic dressing is capable of solving the problems associated with suturing an amniotic membrane, e.g., highly delicate surgical techniques of suturing, long surgery time, stitch abscess, granuloma formation, tissue necrosis, and discomfort of patients; and the problems associated with the use of a support, e.g., the elimination of the support by eye blinking, breaking of the support, and discomfort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: BIOLAND LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Kyung YANG, Sam Hyun Jung, Sung Po Kim, Ji Hoon Joo, Jong Won Lee, Jong Myoung Hong, Jae Chan Kim, Yeoun Sook Chun, Sung Chun Lee, Kwang III Baik