Patents by Inventor Tim Noest

Tim Noest 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: 20210264132
    Abstract: 3D objects in the form of human faces are recognised at or adjacent an entrance to a building. Cameras are spaced horizontally from one another in an array to provide multiple viewpoints of a common scene with overlapping fields of view. For each of the cameras, a sequence of images of a face is generated and each of those images is normalised to a canonical view. One or more best normalised image for each camera is selected and feature data is extracted from the selected image. A recognition processor compares the extracted feature data of each selected image with stored, corresponding feature data of known 3D objects. A recognition result is output when the extracted feature data of at least one of the selected images corresponds to stored, corresponding feature data of at least one of the known 3D objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Tim Noest, Nicholas Pears
  • Publication number: 20210142045
    Abstract: Images A of faces at a first location are captured and compared with images B of known subjects . A match result is output when one of the captured images A matches one of the images B of the known subjects. The match result , comprising matching images A,B as captured and known, is transmitted to a second location that is remote from the first . The matching images A,B are displayed at the second location , where a visual comparison of the displayed matching images A,B is carried out by a human viewer. A manual confirmation of matching is provided when the human viewer decides that the displayed matching images A,B are a true match. The result of the manual confirmation is transmitted to a third location that is remote from the second location . Thus, positive recognition results can be provided with a higher degree of certainty, as a result of interaction of both machine and human recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Tim Noest, Nicholas Pears