Patents by Inventor Wenhai Gao

Wenhai Gao 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: 11935257
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising an interface, a structured light projector and a processor. The interface may receive pixel data. The structured light projector may generate a structured light pattern. The processor may process the pixel data arranged as video frames, perform operations using a convolutional neural network to determine a binarization result and an offset value and generate disparity and depth maps in response to the video frames, the structured light pattern, the binarization result, the offset value and a removal of error points. The convolutional neural network may perform a partial block summation to generate a convolution result, compare the convolution result to a speckle value to determine the offset value, generate an adaptive result in response to performing a convolution operation, compare the video frames to the adaptive result to generate the binarization result for the video frames, and remove the error points from the binarization result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ambarella International LP
    Inventors: Liangliang Wang, Wenhai Gao, Bo Yu
  • Publication number: 20230072702
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising an interface, a light projector and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data. The light projector may be configured to generate a structured light pattern. The processor may be configured to process the pixel data arranged as video frames and generate disparity and depth maps. The processor may comprise convolutional neural network hardware that may arrange reference images into a tensor, perform logical operations on one of the video frames in a depth direction of the tensor to generate a tensor of feature maps of the video frames, use a convolution to reduce an amount of calculations performed in the depth direction of the tensor of feature maps, perform convolution filtering on the tensor of the feature maps, determine an index map location, and search lookup data based on the index map location to determine the disparity and depth maps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Wenhai Gao, Liangliang Wang, Bo Yu
  • Publication number: 20230052553
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising an interface, a structured light projector and a processor. The interface may receive pixel data. The structured light projector may generate a structured light pattern. The processor may process the pixel data arranged as video frames, perform operations using a convolutional neural network to determine a binarization result and an offset value and generate disparity and depth maps in response to the video frames, the structured light pattern, the binarization result, the offset value and a removal of error points. The convolutional neural network may perform a partial block summation to generate a convolution result, compare the convolution result to a speckle value to determine the offset value, generate an adaptive result in response to performing a convolution operation, compare the video frames to the adaptive result to generate the binarization result for the video frames, and remove the error points from the binarization result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Liangliang Wang, Wenhai Gao, Bo Yu