Patents by Inventor Xavier Baele
Xavier Baele 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).
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Publication number: 20220076426Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented segmentation method of an image comprising a segmentation by watershed applied to an evaluation of a curvature at pixels of the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventor: Xavier BAELE
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Patent number: 9578310Abstract: Described herein is a method of calibrating a three-dimensional imaging system. During calibration, a position and an orientation of the three-dimensional imaging system is determined with respect to a first parameter comprising a real world vertical direction (Vw) and to a second parameter comprising an origin of a three-dimensional scene captured by the imaging system. The first and second parameters are used to derive a calibration matrix (MC2w) which is used to convert measurements from a virtual coordinate system (Mc) of the three-dimensional imaging system into a real coordinate system (Mw) related to the real world. The calibration matrix (MC2w) is used to rectify measurements prior to signal processing. An inverse calibration matrix (Mw2c) is also determined. Continuous monitoring and adjustment of the setup of the three-dimensional imaging system is carried out and the calibration matrix (Mc2w) and its inverse (Mw2c) are adjusted accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2013Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: SoftKinetic SoftwareInventors: Xavier Baele, Javier Martinez Gonzalez
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Patent number: 9092863Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for stabilizing a series of measurements of a physical variable captured by a digital sensor. This method comprises the steps of: capturing at least a first measurement, a second measurement, and a third measurement of said physical variable and storing each measurement in a digital memory. The first and second measurements are compared and, if a difference between the first measurement and the second measurement is below a predetermined threshold, the second measurement is replaced in the memory by a corrected second measurement where the difference with respect to said first measurement has been reduced using a first filtering strength.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: SOFTKINETIC SOFTWAREInventors: Xavier Baele, Julien Thollot
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Patent number: 9081999Abstract: Described herein is a method for recognizing a human head in a source image. The method comprises detecting a contour of at least part of a human body in the source image, calculating a depth of the human body in the source image. From the source image, a major radius size and a minor radius size of an ellipse corresponding to a human head at the depth is calculated, and, for at least several of a set of pixels of the detected contour, generating in an accumulator array at least one segment of an ellipse centered on the position of the contour pixel and having the major and minor radius sizes. Positions of local intensity maxima in the accumulator array are selected as corresponding to positions of the human head candidates in the source image.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: SOFTKINETIC SOFTWAREInventors: Xavier Baele, Julien Thollot, Javier Martinez Gonzalez, Kevin Simons
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Patent number: 9081419Abstract: Described herein is a user interface that provides contextual feedback, controls and interface elements on a display screen of an interactive three-dimensional imaging system. A user interacts with the interface to provide control signals in accordance with those recognized by the system to a makes use of at least one POI in a three-dimensional scene that is imaged by the imaging system to provide control signals for the user interface. Control signals are provided by means of gestures which are analyzed in real-time by gesture recognition processes that analyze statistical and geometrical properties of POI motion and trajectories.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Softkinetic SoftwareInventors: Juan Carlos Tocino Diaz, Kevin Simons, Gilles Pinault, Xavier Baele, Julien Thollot, David Dal Zot
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Publication number: 20150181198Abstract: Described herein is a method of calibrating a three-dimensional imaging system. During calibration, a position and an orientation of the three-dimensional imaging system is determined with respect to a first parameter comprising a real world vertical direction (Vw) and to a second parameter comprising an origin of a three-dimensional scene captured by the imaging system. The first and second parameters are used to derive a calibration matrix (MC2w) which is used to convert measurements from a virtual coordinate system (Mc) of the three-dimensional imaging system into a real coordinate system (Mw) related to the real world. The calibration matrix (MC2w) is used to rectify measurements prior to signal processing. An inverse calibration matrix (Mw2c) is also determined. Continuous monitoring and adjustment of the setup of the three-dimensional imaging system is carried out and the calibration matrix (Mc2w) and its inverse (Mw2c) are adjusted accordingly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: Softkinetic SoftwareInventors: Xavier Baele, Javier Martinez Gonzalez
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Patent number: 8891825Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for tracking at least one object in a sequence of frames, each frame comprising a pixel array, wherein a depth value is associated to each pixel. The method comprises grouping at least some of said pixels of each frame into several regions, grouping said regions into clusters (B1, . . . , B5) of interconnected regions; and determining that a cluster (B2, . . . , B5) which is adjacent to another cluster (B1) in a two-dimensional projection belongs to an object partially occluded by said other cluster (B1) if it has a different depth value than said other cluster (B1).Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2010Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Softkinetic SoftwareInventors: Xavier Baele, Laurent Guigues, Javier Martinez Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20140007022Abstract: Described herein is a user interface that provides contextual feedback, controls and interface elements on a display screen of an interactive three-dimensional imaging system. A user interacts with the interface to provide control signals in accordance with those recognised by the system to a makes use of at least one POI in a three-dimensional scene that is imaged by the imaging system to provide control signals for the user interface. Control signals are provided by means of gestures which are analysed in real-time by gesture recognition processes that analyse statistical and geometrical properties of POI motion and trajectories.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: Softkinetic SoftwareInventors: JUAN CARLOS TOCINO DIAZ, Kevin Simons, Gilles Pinault, Xavier Baele, David Dal Zot
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Publication number: 20130027293Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for stabilising a series of measurements of a physical variable captured by a digital sensor. This method comprises the steps of: capturing at least a first measurement, a second measurement, and a third measurement of said physical variable and storing each measurement in a digital memory. The first and second measurements are compared and, if a difference between the first measurement and the second measurement is below a predetermined threshold, the second measurement is replaced in the memory by a corrected second measurement where the difference with respect to said first measurement has been reduced using a first filtering strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2010Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: SOFTKINETIC SOFTWAREInventors: Xavier Baele, Julien Thollot
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Publication number: 20130022262Abstract: Described herein is a method for recognising a human head in a source image. The method comprises detecting a contour of at least part of a human body in the source image, calculating a depth of the human body in the source image. From the source image, a major radius size and a minor radius size of an ellipse corresponding to a human head at the depth is calculated, and, for at least several of a set of pixels of the detected contour, generating in an accumulator array at least one segment of an ellipse centred on the position of the contour pixel and having the major and minor radius sizes. Positions of local intensity maxima in the accumulator array are selected as corresponding to positions of the human head candidates in the source image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2010Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: SOFTKINETIC SOFTWAREInventors: Xavier Baele, Julien Thollot, Javier Martinez Gonzalez, Kevin Simons
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Publication number: 20130016879Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for tracking at least one object in a sequence of frames, each frame comprising a pixel array, wherein a depth value is associated to each pixel. The method comprises grouping at least some of said pixels of each frame into several regions, grouping said regions into clusters (B1, . . . , B5) of interconnected regions; and determining that a cluster (B2, . . . , B5) which is adjacent to another cluster (B1) in a two-dimensional projection belongs to an object partially occluded by said other cluster (B1) if it has a different depth value than said other cluster (B1).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2010Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: SOFTKINETICInventors: Xavier Baele, Laurent Guigues, Javier Martinez Gonzalez
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Patent number: 8175374Abstract: The present invention relates to a volume recognition method comprising the steps of: a) capturing three-dimensional image data using a 3D imaging system 3, wherein said image data represent a plurality of points 5, each point 5 having at least a set of coordinates in a three-dimensional space; b) grouping at least some of the points 5 in a set of clusters 6; c) selecting, according to a first set of parameters such as position and size, a cluster 6 corresponding to an object of interest 1 located in range of said imaging system 3; d) grouping at least some of the points 5 of the selected cluster 6 in a set of sub-clusters according to a second set of parameters comprising their positions in the three-dimensional space, wherein each sub-cluster has a centroid 11 in the three-dimensional space; and e) associating a volume 12 to each of at least some of said sub-clusters, wherein said volume 12 is fixed to the centroid 11 of said sub-cluster.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Softkinetic SoftwareInventors: Gilles Pinault, Jeremie Roy, Laurent Desmecht, Xavier Baele
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Publication number: 20100208035Abstract: The present invention relates to a volume recognition method comprising the steps of: a) capturing three-dimensional image data using a 3D imaging system 3, wherein said image data represent a plurality of points 5, each point 5 having at least a set of coordinates in a three-dimensional space; b) grouping at least some of the points 5 in a set of clusters 6; c) selecting, according to a first set of parameters such as position and size, a cluster 6 corresponding to an object of interest 1 located in range of said imaging system 3; d) grouping at least some of the points 5 of the selected cluster 6 in a set of sub-clusters according to a second set of parameters comprising their positions in the three-dimensional space, wherein each sub-cluster has a centroid 11 in the three-dimensional space; and e) associating a volume 12 to each of at least some of said sub-clusters, wherein said volume 12 is fixed to the centroid 11 of said sub-cluster.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2007Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: SOFTKINETIC S.A.Inventors: Gilles Pinault, Jeremie Roy, Laurent Desmecht, Xavier Baele