Patents by Inventor YOHANNES BERHANU KIFLE

YOHANNES BERHANU KIFLE 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).

  • AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF ZONES OF INTEREST IN A VIDEO
    Publication number: 20200211347
    Abstract: A method at a computing system includes obtaining video of an environment including a plurality of objects; defining a zone including a portion of the environment; subsequent to the defining, detecting a motion event captured in the video occurring at least partially within the zone, wherein the motion event is associated with a first object of the plurality of objects; identifying an object type of the first object; and based on the object type of the first object, causing a notification of the motion event to be issued or not issued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: James Edward Stewart, George Alban Heitz, III, Joe Delone Venters, Seungho Yang, Mehul Nariyawala, Cameron Hill, Yohannes Berhanu Kifle, Sayed Yusef Shafi, Sahana Mysore
  • Automatic detection of zones of interest in a video
    Patent number: 10586433
    Abstract: A method at a computing system includes: obtaining video of an environment including a plurality of objects, wherein the video has a field of view; identifying one or more objects of the plurality of objects within the field of view; defining a zone of interest associated with a first object of the one or more objects, including identifying the zone of interest as one of an alerting zone or a suppression zone; subsequent to the defining, detecting one or more motion events captured in the video occurring at least partially within the zone of interest; when the zone of interest is an alerting zone, causing one or more notifications of the one or more motion events to be issued; and when the zone is a suppression zone, suppressing notifications of the one or more motion events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: James Edward Stewart, George Alban Heitz, III, Joe Delone Venters, Seungho Yang, Mehul Nariyawala, Cameron Hill, Yohannes Berhanu Kifle, Sayed Yusef Shafi, Sahana Mysore
  • AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF ZONES OF INTEREST IN A VIDEO
    Publication number: 20180232592
    Abstract: A method at a computing system includes: obtaining video of an environment including a plurality of objects, wherein the video has a field of view; identifying one or more objects of the plurality of objects within the field of view; defining a zone of interest associated with a first object of the one or more objects, including identifying the zone of interest as one of an alerting zone or a suppression zone; subsequent to the defining, detecting one or more motion events captured in the video occurring at least partially within the zone of interest; when the zone of interest is an alerting zone, causing one or more notifications of the one or more motion events to be issued; and when the zone is a suppression zone, suppressing notifications of the one or more motion events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: JAMES EDWARD STEWART, GEORGE ALBAN HEITZ, III, JOE DELONE VENTERS, SEUNGHO YANG, MEHUL NARIYAWALA, CAMERON HILL, YOHANNES BERHANU KIFLE, SAYED YUSEF SHAFI, SAHANA MYSORE