Patents by Inventor William Thomas Calvert

William Thomas Calvert 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: 12711750
    Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for object classification, including executing a multi-class object classification model (OCM) on an input image depicting an object, wherein the multi-class OCM is configured to output, for each respective class of a plurality of classes, a respective confidence score indicative of a likelihood of the object being of a member the respective class. The implementations further include detecting a plurality of confidence scores outputted by the multi-class OCM that are within a threshold range, wherein classes associated with the plurality of confidence scores are candidate classes of the object. Additionally, the implementations further include executing, on the input image, a single-class OCM for each of the candidate classes and outputting a final class for the object in the input image based on a result of each single-class OCM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Terence Neill, William Thomas Calvert, Peter Lawrence
  • Publication number: 20240386708
    Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for object classification, including executing a multi-class object classification model (OCM) on an input image depicting an object, wherein the multi-class OCM is configured to output, for each respective class of a plurality of classes, a respective confidence score indicative of a likelihood of the object being of a member the respective class. The implementations further include detecting a plurality of confidence scores outputted by the multi-class OCM that are within a threshold range, wherein classes associated with the plurality of confidence scores are candidate classes of the object. Additionally, the implementations further include executing, on the input image, a single-class OCM for each of the candidate classes and outputting a final class for the object in the input image based on a result of each single-class OCM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Terence NEILL, William Thomas Calvert, Peter Lawrence