Patents by Inventor Tobias Pfaff

Tobias Pfaff 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: 20230359788
    Abstract: This specification describes a simulation system that performs simulations of physical environments using a graph neural network. At each of one or more time steps in a sequence of time steps, the system can process a representation of a current state of the physical environment at the current time step using the graph neural network to generate a prediction of a next state of the physical environment at the next time step. Some implementations of the system are adapted for hardware GLOBAL acceleration. As well as performing simulations, the system can be used to predict physical quantities based on measured real-world data. Implementations of the system are differentiable and can also be used for design optimization, and for optimal control tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Alvaro Sanchez, Jonathan William Godwin, Rex Ying, Tobias Pfaff, Meire Fortunato, Peter William Battaglia
  • Patent number: 11663441
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an action selection policy neural network, wherein the action selection policy neural network is configured to process an observation characterizing a state of an environment to generate an action selection policy output, wherein the action selection policy output is used to select an action to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining an observation characterizing a state of the environment subsequent to the agent performing a selected action; generating a latent representation of the observation; processing the latent representation of the observation using a discriminator neural network to generate an imitation score; determining a reward from the imitation score; and adjusting the current values of the action selection policy neural network parameters based on the reward using a reinforcement learning training technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Scott Ellison Reed, Yusuf Aytar, Ziyu Wang, Tom Paine, Sergio Gomez Colmenarejo, David Budden, Tobias Pfaff, Aaron Gerard Antonius van den Oord, Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Novikov
  • Publication number: 20220366247
    Abstract: A reinforcement learning system and method that selects actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. The system uses a combination of reinforcement learning and a look ahead search: Reinforcement learning Q-values are used to guide the look ahead search and the search is used in turn to improve the Q-values. The system learns from a combination of real experience and simulated, model-based experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Jessica Blake Chandler Hamrick, Victor Constant Bapst, Alvaro Sanchez, Tobias Pfaff, Theophane Guillaume Weber, Lars Buesing, Peter William Battaglia
  • Patent number: 11164381
    Abstract: An improved system to provide a clothing model in augmented reality and/or virtual reality is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system provides a fully simulated garment, on the user's device, in an augmented reality or virtual reality display. In one embodiment, the process uses a parameterized smart garment model which enables real-time interaction with the garment on a device such as a mobile phone or tablet, with limited memory and processing power. In one embodiment, the system permits nearly instantaneous alteration of garment sizes. Because the garment is modeled to accurately reflect physical details, the lay of the garment changes as the size of the garment or body changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: GERBER TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: James F O'Brien, David T Jackson, Carlo Camporesi, Daniel Ram, David Macy, Edilson de Aguiar, James L. Andrews, Justin Lee, Karen M Stritzinger, Kevin Armin Samii, Nathan Mitchell, Tobias Pfaff, Scott M Frankel
  • Publication number: 20210326955
    Abstract: The present invention relates to building a computer model of a garment based on a physical sample garment, and to the process of using the computer model of a garment to determine the garment's appearance on a human body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: James F. O'Brien, David T. Jackson, Edilson de Aguiar, James L. Andrews, Carlo Camporesi, Scott M. Frankel, Zoran Kacic-Alesic, David Macy, Nathan Mitchell, Tobias Pfaff, Daniel Ram, Kevin Armin Samii
  • Publication number: 20200250892
    Abstract: The present invention relates to building a computer model of a garment based on a physical sample garment, and to the process of using the computer model of a garment to determine the garment's appearance on a human body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: James F. O'Brien, David T. Jackson, Edilson de Aguiar, James L. Andrews, Carlo Camporesi, Scott M. Frankel, Zoran Kacic-Alesic, David Macy, Nathan Mitchell, Tobias Pfaff, Daniel Ram, Kevin Armin Samii
  • Publication number: 20200104680
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an action selection policy neural network, wherein the action selection policy neural network is configured to process an observation characterizing a state of an environment to generate an action selection policy output, wherein the action selection policy output is used to select an action to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining an observation characterizing a state of the environment subsequent to the agent performing a selected action; generating a latent representation of the observation; processing the latent representation of the observation using a discriminator neural network to generate an imitation score; determining a reward from the imitation score; and adjusting the current values of the action selection policy neural network parameters based on the reward using a reinforcement learning training technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Scott Ellison Reed, Yusuf Aytar, Ziyu Wang, Tom Paine, Sergio Gomez Colmenarejo, David Budden, Tobias Pfaff, Aaron Gerard Antonius van den Oord, Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Novikov
  • Publication number: 20190130649
    Abstract: An improved system to provide a clothing model in augmented reality and/or virtual reality is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system provides a fully simulated garment, on the user's device, in an augmented reality or virtual reality display. In one embodiment, the process uses a parameterized smart garment model which enables real-time interaction with the garment on a device such as a mobile phone or tablet, with limited memory and processing power. In one embodiment, the system permits nearly instantaneous alteration of garment sizes. Because the garment is modeled to accurately reflect physical details, the lay of the garment changes as the size of the garment or body changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: James F O'Brien, David T Jackson, Carlo Camporesi, Daniel Ram, David Macy, Edilson de Aguiar, James L Andrews, Justin Lee, Karen M Stritzinger, Kevin Armin Samii, Nathan Mitchell, Tobias Pfaff, Scott M Frankel
  • Publication number: 20170046769
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to provide a depiction of a garment model of a body shape is described. The garment model takes into account the visual and mechanical characteristics of the fabric, as well as the drape of the fabric on a body shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: David T. Jackson, Zoran Kacic-Alesic, Scott M. Frankel, James F. O'Brien, Tobias Pfaff, James L. Andrews, Robert A. Backman, Edilson de Aguiar, Carlo Camporesi, Tyler N. Martin, Gregory R. Piesco-Putnam, Karen M. Stritzinger