Patents Issued in August 1, 2023
  • Patent number: 11715153
    Abstract: The system and methods provide an account holder with a mobile spend feed. The systems and methods include a database that stores information associated with at least one previous financial transaction performed via a financial account held by the account holder, a transaction processor that receives transaction data associated with a financial transaction performed by the account holder using the financial account, and stores the transaction data in the database, and a purchase history processor creates a spend feed based at least in part on the transaction data and the previous transaction information, and provides the spend feed to the account holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Rephlo, Gagan Kanjlia
  • Patent number: 11715154
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating accounts at a plurality of payment processors include a method that receives a first request to create a new account, and identifies a payment processor of the plurality of payment processors to handle the first request. The method determines whether a proxy for the new account exists in a local storage and sends a second request to the identified payment processor to create the new account, where the second request includes the proxy when the proxy for the new account exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Green Dot Corporation
    Inventors: Kuan Archer, Harish Malhotra, Keith Stropus, Naveen Razdhan, Royce Hamano, John Salib
  • Patent number: 11715155
    Abstract: Examples described herein include systems, methods, instructions, and other implementations for data security with integrated installment payment systems. In one example, account security system receives a checkout communication that includes data describing a validated checkout system of a merchant system. A client token is transmitted in response to an authentication that the checkout communication is from the validated checkout system, and an account communication including the client token and secure client information is received from a client device. An installment payment communication associated with the secure transaction is received from a system other than a merchant system involved in the transaction. The secure transaction is then facilitated following receipt of the installment payment communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SYNCHRONY BANK
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Schmidt, Viveka Vardhan Ravi, Tushar Divecha, Jennifer E. Muller, Taylor Young, Gregory Schultz, Seamus Sullivan, Prakash Kothandapani
  • Patent number: 11715156
    Abstract: This present disclosure provides a risk assessment method and system for affordable housing application in a smart city based on Internet of Things. The risk assessment method is executed by the management platform, and the risk assessment method includes obtaining a query request for a risk of the affordable housing application from the service platform, wherein the query request is generated by the user platform based on an input of the affordable housing application by an applicant through the user platform; in response to the query request, through a management sub-platform corresponding to the management platform and a service sub-platform corresponding to the service platform, obtaining relevant information of the applicant and his/her related persons thereof, and determining the risk of the affordable housing application of the applicant; and sending the risk of the affordable housing application to the service platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua Shao, Bin Liu, Yaqiang Quan, Yong Li, Xiaojun Wei
  • Patent number: 11715157
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for presenting and interacting with electronic trading related information on a display screen of a computer system are provided. According to one or more embodiments, buttons are positioned and compressed along an axis, where each button corresponds to a function. A button can be selected through an action of a user input device. A button is removed from the region when a function corresponding to the button is no longer current and when the cursor is not positioned within the region. The remaining buttons, if any, in the region are compressed subsequent to removing the button from the region. A button is not removed from the region when the cursor is positioned within the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
    Inventors: Patricia A. Messina, Bharat Mittal, Dejan M. Srdjevic
  • Patent number: 11715158
    Abstract: Systems and methods involving a hub platform, communication network, and memory configured for processing data involving time-stamped/time-sensitive aspects and other features are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ClearingBid, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Luby
  • Patent number: 11715159
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for receiving information relating to a financial account of an individual from at least one first data provider; receiving information relating to at least one of an identity theft expense reimbursement insurance policy of the individual, a public information relating to the individual, an identity theft risk score of the individual, a credit card registry of the individual, a backup data relating to the individual, a background information of the individual, and a business report relating to the individual, from at least one second data provider; and preparing a report relating to the individual's identity theft based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Aura Sub LLC
    Inventors: Mark Andringa, Lisa Glau, Jonathan Slaton
  • Patent number: 11715160
    Abstract: Systems and methods to process overhead imagery received from overhead image sources are described herein. Examples include accessing an aerial image including a property, determining an owner of the property, determining whether the owner of the property is eligible to be a member of a financial institution, determining whether the owner of the property has property insurance with the financial institution for the property type of the property in the aerial image, and presenting an offer for insurance to insure the property in the aerial image when the owner is determined to be eligible for the financial institution and does not already have insurance with the financial institution. Examples include accessing an aerial image of properties, determining damage estimates, and reserving resources to repair the properties based on the damage estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: John Chandler Hopkins, III, Michael Patrick Bueche', Jr., Andre Rene Buentello, James Philip Hillman, Bradly Jay Billman
  • Patent number: 11715161
    Abstract: An automated safety notification system is proposed herein in which one or more safe zone access points may be physically deployed to one or more safe zones associated with a disaster area. If a person with a mobile phone or other mobile device enters the safe zone, the safe zone access point may detect the presence of the mobile device and perform certain functions in response to the detection. For example, the safe zone access point may initiate contact of a predetermined plurality of contacts that the person may have already designated before the disaster. The safe zone access point may also be used to initiate an insurance claim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: David R. Sander, Philip Peter Ramirez, William Loo
  • Patent number: 11715162
    Abstract: Systems and methods for capturing digital image data associated with a property for an insurance quote are described. According to certain aspects, a mobile device may enable a user to capture digital image data and/or a video stream and other information of house features and characteristics that may be used to determine insurability and estimated replacement cost of the property. The mobile device may enable the user to capture the information at the property location, which may eliminate the need for a manual assessment or characterization of home features by a homeowner. A back-end server may receive the data, analyze the data to generate an insurance quote (and/or insurance application) for the property, and transmit the insurance quote (and/or application) to the mobile device for presentation to the user. The mobile device may enable the user to select terms, deductibles, limits, and/or coverages, and ultimately approve a homeowner's insurance policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Timothy Joel Davis, Amy Engelhorn, Colby S. Kornelis
  • Patent number: 11715163
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using social network data to validate a loan guarantee are disclosed. An example system may include a social networking input circuit to interpret a loan guarantee parameter; a social network data collection circuit to collect data using a plurality of algorithms that is configured to monitor social network information about an entity involved in a loan in response to the loan guarantee parameter; and a guarantee validation circuit to validate a guarantee for the loan in response to the monitored social network information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Howard Cella
  • Patent number: 11715164
    Abstract: Systems and methods of robotic process automation system for negotiation are disclosed. An example system for negotiating refinancing of a loan includes a data collection and monitoring circuit for collecting a training set of interactions between entities for at least one loan refinancing activity; an automated loan classification circuit that is trained on the training set of interactions to classify at least one loan refinancing action; and a robotic process automation circuit that is trained on a plurality of loan refinancing actions classified by the automated loan classification circuit and a plurality of loan refinancing outcomes to undertake a loan refinancing activity on behalf of a party to a loan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Strong Force TX Portfolio 2018, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Howard Cella
  • Patent number: 11715165
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are provided for facilitating a following of a content sponsor in a social network. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of identifying a creative for presentation to users in response to requests for content, and receiving selection criteria from a sponsor associated with the creative, the selection criteria for use in determining when to present the creative. The creative is augmented to include a control that enables a user to follow the content sponsor automatically upon interaction with the control, and the augmented creative is presented in response to received requests for content in accordance with the selection criteria. The sponsor is charged when the creative is presented and a user initiates an action to follow the sponsor in a social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christian Oestlien, Cinthya Rossana Urasaki, Rafael M. Borges, Richard D. Borovoy, Marcus A. Leal, Julia H. Farago, Fred Bertsch, Elena Kon
  • Patent number: 11715166
    Abstract: A routing processor implements a multi-stage prescriptive routing model engine based on harvest input data relating to the harvesting of crops at a plurality of locations by a plurality of combines and based on a harvest characteristic representing an attribute of the crops to be harvested by the combines. The multi-stage prescriptive routing model engine generates a combine routing program prescribing the movement of each combine between the locations and includes a demand stage configured to identify combine harvesting demand as a function of the harvest input data and the harvest characteristic and a scheduling stage configured to generate the combine routing program as a function of the harvesting demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Sambarta Dasgupta, Anand Pramod Deshmukh, Jesse B. Grote, Hongwei Luo, Aviral Shukla, Zi Wang, Yiduo Zhan, Hui Zhang, Xiaobo Zhou
  • Patent number: 11715167
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for storing data representing respective sub-elements of a complex task. Data representing one or more links between two or more sub-elements is stored, the links indicating a dependency between said sub-elements. A work order is calculated based on the identified links. A graphical representation of the calculated work order which indicates said sub-elements and their dependencies is provided. The links may indicate a temporal dependency of a second sub-element on a first sub-element and in which the provided graphical representation presents the temporal relationship of the sub-elements. Historical data may be received for association with one or more selected links or sub-elements, the historical data related to a prior event and which affects the temporal relationship between the sub-elements. An updated work order modified by the historical data may be calculated. An updated graphical representation of the work order may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Thouzeau, Ankit Shankar, Bianca Rahill-Marier, Casey Patton, Geoff Stowe, Spencer Tank
  • Patent number: 11715168
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method including providing an aerial drone coupled wirelessly to a social distancing application on a user digital device, wherein the drone is coupled to solar cell panels for recharging its batteries, providing a strobe light coupled to the drone for signaling an S.O.S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventors: Edmond A. DeFrank, Allen Mark Jones, William Hart, Nicolas DeFrank, Antonio DeFrank, Mark Phillip Jones, Melissa Marie Jones
  • Patent number: 11715169
    Abstract: A system comprising; analyzing a building model, wherein a set of floor joists are isolated from other assemblies; processing a first set of data associated with the coordinates of the floor joists; processing a second set of data associated with the assembly of the floor joists; creating a set of data associated with the assembly of the floor joist and the coordinates of a set of floor joist members; formulating an assembly of the floor joist, wherein the assembly is a predetermined organization of the floor joists based on the first set of data and the second set of data; calculating the assembly based on a set of limitations, wherein the limitations are based on the shipping vessel; manipulating the assembly, wherein the manipulated assembly is within the limitations of the shipping vessel; and generating a graphical representation of the manipulated assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Maharaj Jalla
  • Patent number: 11715170
    Abstract: A system comprising; analyzing a building model, wherein a set of roof trusses are isolated from other assemblies; processing a first set of data associated with the coordinates of the roof trusses; processing a second set of data associated with the assembly of the roof trusses; creating a set of data associated with the assembly of the roof truss and the coordinates of a set of roof truss members; formulating an assembly of the roof truss, wherein the assembly is a predetermined organization of the roof trusses based on the first set of data and the second set of data; calculating the assembly based on a set of limitations, wherein the limitations are based on the shipping vessel; manipulating the assembly, wherein the manipulated assembly is within the limitations of the shipping vessel; and generating a graphical representation of the manipulated assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Maharaj Jalla
  • Patent number: 11715171
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture (e.g., computer readable media) to detect watermark modifications are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include means for encoding a first watermark in a first media signal obtained from an output of a media device to obtain a second media signal encoded with the first watermark and a second watermark, the second watermark already encoded in the first media signal obtained from the output of the media device. Disclosed example apparatus also include means for decoding the first watermark and the second watermark from the second media signal to determine a first metric corresponding to the first watermark and a second metric corresponding to the second watermark. Disclosed example apparatus further include means for outputting, based on the first metric and the second metric, an indication of whether the second watermark has been modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventor: Venugopal Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 11715172
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to advanced signal processing technology including steganographic embedding and digital watermarking. One combination disclosed in the description includes an image processing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventors: Vahid Sedighianaraki, Vojtech Holub, Yang Bai
  • Patent number: 11715173
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a mask buffer to store a mask, a shader communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a first shader pass, and a resolver communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a resolve pass. The resolver may be configured to exclude a sample location not covered by the mask in the resolve pass. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hugues Labbe, Tomer Bar-On, Kai Xiao, Ankur N. Shah, John G. Gierach
  • Patent number: 11715174
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide techniques enable a graphics processor to continue processing operations during the reset of a compute unit that has experienced a hardware fault. Threads and associated context state for a faulted compute unit can be migrated to another compute unit of the graphics processor and the faulting compute unit can be reset while processing operations continue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Murali Ramadoss, Balaji Vembu, Eric C. Samson, Kun Tian, David J. Cowperthwaite, Altug Koker, Zhi Wang, Joydeep Ray, Subramaniam M. Maiyuran, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Patent number: 11715175
    Abstract: Tiling engines and methods for hierarchically tiling a plurality of primitives. A chain of sorting units includes a top level sorting unit followed by lower level sorting units, the top level sorting unit determining which of a plurality of regions of a render space each of the plurality of primitives at least partially falls within. For each region a primitive at least partially falls within an identifier of that primitive is stored in a queue. Each of the lower level sorting units selects queues of a preceding sorting unit in the chain to process, and determines which of a plurality of sub-regions of the region associated with that queue each of the primitives at least partially falls within. For each such sub-region an identifier of that primitive is stored in a queue of the lower level sorting unit that is associated with that sub-region. An output unit outputs the primitives identified in the queues of the last lower level sorting unit in the chain on a queue by queue basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Robert Brigg, Lorenzo Belli
  • Patent number: 11715176
    Abstract: A foveated rendering method of a Virtual Reality (VR) system based on monocular eyeball tracking is provided. A first monocular mapping position, corresponding to a monocular eyeball of a user, on a display screen of the VR system is obtained, and then an Inter Pupilary Distance (IPD) corresponding to a binocular pupil distance of the user is obtained, so as to calculate a second monocular mapping position, corresponding to the other monocular eyeball of the user, on the display screen of the VR system according to the IPD and the first monocular mapping position. Then, main rendering regions are determined by taking the first monocular mapping position and the second monocular mapping position as circle centers and preset thresholds as radiuses respectively. High-resolution main rendering is performed in the main rendering regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Qingdao Pico Technology Co, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tao Wu
  • Patent number: 11715177
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and method, an electronic device and computer readable medium. According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to compare environment data acquired by a user equipment with reference data; determine, based on the comparison, an adjustment for an acquisition manner of the environment data; and perform a control to notify the user equipment of indication information related to the adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen Sun, Xin Guo, Lingming Kong
  • Patent number: 11715178
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for generating an image. The apparatus includes at least one processor and a memory. The processor is configured to obtain a wide image of an entire region, obtain one or more teleimages of one or more regions of interest (ROIs) of the entire region using a telecamera according to a capturing order of the telecamera determined for the one or more ROIs based on the wide image, match the wide image and the one or more teleimages, warp the one or more teleimages to the wide image based on a result of the matching, and stitch the one or more warped teleimages based on the wide image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sungkwang Cho, Dongkyung Nam, Byungin Yoo, Yangho Cho
  • Patent number: 11715179
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for improving image quality with shortened acquisition time. The method comprises: determining an accelerated image acquisition scheme for imaging a subject using a medical imaging apparatus; acquiring a medical image of the subject according to the accelerated image acquisition scheme using the medical imaging apparatus; applying a deep network model to the medical image to improve the quality of the medical image; and outputting an improved quality image of the subject, for analysis by a physician.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Subtle Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Enhao Gong
  • Patent number: 11715180
    Abstract: An apparatus including an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive video frames generated by a plurality of capture devices. The processor may be configured to perform operations to detect objects in the video frames received from a first of the capture devices, determine depth information corresponding to the objects detected, determine blending lines in response to the depth information, perform video stitching operations on the video frames from the capture devices based on the blending lines and generate panoramic video frames in response to the video stitching operations. The blending lines may correspond to gaps in a field of view of the panoramic video frames. The blending lines may be determined to prevent the objects from being in the gaps in the field of view. The panoramic video frames may be generated to fit a size of a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Ambarella International LP
    Inventors: I-Hsuan Chen, Hung-Ling Lu, Yen-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11715181
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, performing, by a processing system, image fusion using two or more groups of images to generate predicted images, wherein each group of the two or more groups has one of a different resolution, a different frequency temporal pattern or a combination thereof than another of the two or more groups. Gap filling can be performed by the processing system to correct images of the two or more groups. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Kaiyu Guan, Jian Peng, Yunan Luo
  • Patent number: 11715182
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a plurality of image frames captured by one or more cameras, classifying one or more first objects detected in one or more first image frames of the plurality of image frames as undesirable, applying a pixel filtering to the one or more first image frames to replace one or more first pixel sets associated with the one or more first objects with pixels from one or more second image frames of the plurality of image frames to generate a final image frame, providing the final image frame for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Peri, Euisuk Chung, Yingen Xiong, Lu Luo
  • Patent number: 11715183
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed herein for performing tone mapping and/or contrast enhancement. In some examples, a block mapping curve is low-pass filtered with block mapping curves of surrounding blocks to form a smoothed block mapping curve. In some examples, overlapped curve mapping of block mapping curves, including smoothed block mapping curves, is performed, including weighting, based on a pixel location, block mapping curves of a group of blocks to generate an interpolated block mapping curve and applying the interpolated block mapping curve to a pixel to perform ton mapping and/or contrast enhancement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Ying-Ru Chen
  • Patent number: 11715184
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and program storage devices for creating and/or displaying backwards-compatible High Dynamic Range (HDR) images are disclosed, comprising: obtaining two or more exposures of a scene; creating a gain map based on at least one of the two or more exposures, wherein the gain map comprises a plurality of pixels each corresponding to a portion of the scene, and wherein values of the pixels in the gain map comprise indications of a brightness level of the corresponding portions of the scene; combining the two or more exposures to form a first image; tone mapping the first image based on a Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) format to generate a first SDR image of the scene; and storing the first SDR image and created gain map in a first enhanced image file. The first enhanced image file may be, e.g., a HEIF, HEIC, PNG, GIF, JPEG, or other suitable file format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Garrett M. Johnson, Paul M Hubel
  • Patent number: 11715185
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a map obtaining unit configured to obtain image evaluation value distribution corresponding to an image as an image evaluation value map, a map generation unit configured to generate a first subject region map including a subject region extracted from the image using the image evaluation value map, and a processing unit configured to perform correction processing on the image using at least any one of the first subject region map and a second subject region map generated without using the image evaluation value map, wherein the processing unit calculates a difference between the first subject region map and the second subject region map and performs correction processing on the image using the second subject region map more than the first subject region map as the difference is higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Asahi Suzuki, Takashi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11715186
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multi-image-based image enhancement method and device, an electronic device and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The method includes: aligning a low-resolution target image and a reference image in an image domain; performing, an alignment in a feature domain; and synthesizing features corresponding to the low-resolution target image and features corresponding to the reference image to generate a final output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lu Fang, Yinheng Zhu, Qionghai Dai
  • Patent number: 11715187
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving soft tissue contrast, characterizing tissue, classifying phenotype, stratifying risk, and performing multi-scale modeling aided by multiple energy or contrast excitation and evaluation are provided. The systems and methods can include single and multi-phase acquisitions and broad and local spectrum imaging to assess atherosclerotic plaque tissues in the vessel wall and perivascular space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ELUCID BIOIMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Buckler, Changguo Ji, Murali Ayyapillai
  • Patent number: 11715188
    Abstract: An electronic device may be configured to detect a fault in imaging and vision hardware accelerators. The electronic device may include a controller configured to select a first golden input frame of multiple golden input frames to perform a first self-test, and retrieve a first reference image signature corresponding to the first golden input frame. The electronic device may include a hardware accelerator module configured to obtain the first golden input frame, and generate a first output frame based on the first golden input frame. The electronic device may include a signature generator configured to generate a first generated image signature based on the first output frame. The electronic device may include a signature comparison module configured to compare the first generated image signature to the first reference image signature in order to determine whether the hardware accelerator module includes a fault at a first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Mihir Narendra Mody, Veeramanikandan Raju, Niraj Nandan, Samuel Paul Visalli, Jason A. T. Jones, Kedar Satish Chitnis, Gregory Raymond Shurtz, Prithvi Shankar Yeyyadi Anantha, Sriramakrishnan Govindarajan
  • Patent number: 11715189
    Abstract: A semiconductor image processing apparatus has an image input unit inputs a first semiconductor image, an exposure condition input unit configured to input exposure conditions, a generator performs a process of extracting a feature amount in consideration of the exposure conditions while reducing resolution of the first semiconductor image and thereafter use the extracted feature amount to increase the resolution to generate a second semiconductor image, and a discriminator configured to discriminate whether the input image is the second semiconductor image or a third semiconductor image provided in advance. The generator performs learning so that the discriminator erroneously discriminates the second semiconductor image as the third semiconductor image based on a result discriminated by the discriminator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakajima, Youyang Ng, Yuko Kono, Takuji Ohashi, Chihiro Ida
  • Patent number: 11715190
    Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of generating a discriminator having high inference precision at low cost. An inspection system according to one aspect of the present invention generates, from first image data, plural pieces of second image data of a product; determines, by a first discriminator, whether to adopt each piece of the second image data as learning data; generates a learning data set by the second image data that is determined to be adopted as learning data; constructs, by applying machine learning using the generated learning data set, a second discriminator that determines the acceptability of a product; and uses the constructed second discriminator to determine the acceptability of a product in target image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Ijiri
  • Patent number: 11715191
    Abstract: A method and a system for automated plant surveillance and manipulation are provided. Pursuant to the method and the system, images of target plants are obtained through a machine vision system having multiple cameras. The obtained images of the target plants are processed to determine tissue candidates of the target plants and to determine a position and an orientation of each tissue candidate. A tool is manipulated, based on the position and the orientation of each tissue candidate, to excise each tissue candidate to obtain tissue samples. The tissue samples are transported for subsequently manipulation including live processing of the tissue samples or destructive processing of the tissue samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLC
    Inventors: Udaya C. Kalluri, Andrzej Nycz, Lonnie J. Love, Vincent C. Paquit, Xiaohan Yang, Samuel C. Leach, Harold Walters
  • Patent number: 11715192
    Abstract: A processor identifies an original drawing part that is originally drawn in a test image. Furthermore, the processor identifies a noise point in the test image. Furthermore, the processor determines which of predetermined two types of cause candidates is a cause of the noise point by determining a degree of overlapping between the original drawing part and the noise point. The two types of cause candidates are: waste toner dropping in which waste toner that has adhered to a transfer body that transfers a toner image to a sheet, is transferred to the sheet in the image forming device; and carrier developing in which magnetic carrier that has been mixed with toner is transferred to a sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kanako Morimoto, Kazunori Tanaka, Koji Sato, Takuya Miyamoto, Rui Hamabe
  • Patent number: 11715193
    Abstract: A metrology technique for analyzing a substrate includes storing data indicating a boundary of an area in a 2-dimensional color space having a pair of color channels including a first color channel and a second color channel as axes of the color space, receiving color data of a substrate from a camera, generating a color image of the substrate from the color data, performing a comparison of a pair of color values for the pair of color channels for the pixel to the boundary of the area in the 2-dimensional color space for each pixel of a plurality of pixels of the color image to determine whether the pair of color values meet thresholds provided by the boundary, and generating a signal to an operator based on results of the comparison for the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Dominic J. Benvegnu, Robert D. Tolles, Boguslaw A. Swedek, Abraham Ravid
  • Patent number: 11715194
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus has an acquisitor configured to acquire an entire area image obtained by capturing an entire area of a processing surface of a wafer including at least one defect, a training image selector configured to select, as a training image, a partial image including at least one defect from the entire area image, a model constructor configured to construct a calculation model of generating a label image obtained by extracting and binarizing the defect included in the partial image, and a learner configured to update a parameter of the calculation model based on a difference between the label image generated by inputting the training image to the calculation model and a reference label image obtained by extracting and binarizing the defect of the training image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Youyang Ng, Bo Wang, Takuji Ohashi, Osamu Yamane, Takeshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11715195
    Abstract: Circuit board inspection by receiving a near infrared (NIR) image of at least a portion of a circuit board, analyzing the NIR image using a machine learning model, and detecting anomalous circuit board portions according to the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Franco Stellari, Peilin Song, Cyril Cabral, Jr., Steven G. Shevach
  • Patent number: 11715196
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus for deriving multi-dimensional images of an object and an according system and method. The image processing apparatus comprises an interface configured to provide 3D image data of an object and to provide a sequence of images of the object. The image processing apparatus further comprises a processing unit configured to obtain a personalized 3D model of the object by applying a model-based segmentation to the 3D image data of the object and to adapt the personalized 3D model based on at least a part of the images of the sequence of images of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Arne Ewald, Frank Michael Weber, Rolf Jurgen Weese
  • Patent number: 11715197
    Abstract: An image segmentation method according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed in a computing device having one or more processors and memory for storing one or more programs executed by means of the one or more processors, and includes the steps of: (a) receiving the input of an image; (b) generating a first-generation image segment set by dividing the input image in an overlapped manner; and (c) generating a second or higher-generation image segment set from the first-generation image segment set, wherein a subsequent-generation image segment set is generated by dividing in an overlapped manner at least one of a plurality of image segments included in the previous-generation image segment set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyo-Seob Song, Joon-Ho Lee, Ji-Eun Song
  • Patent number: 11715198
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an artificial neural network-based medical image analysis apparatus for analyzing a medical image based on a medical artificial neural network. The artificial neural network-based medical image analysis apparatus includes a computing system, and the computing system includes at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to acquire or receive a first analysis result obtained through the inference of a first artificial neural network from a first medical image, to input the first analysis result to a second artificial neural network, to acquire a first evaluation result obtained through the inference of the second artificial neural network from the first analysis result, and to provide the first evaluation result to a user as an evaluation result for the first medical image and the first analysis result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Coreline Soft Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Kook Kim, Jaeyoun Yi, Hyun Gi Seo, Donghoon Yu
  • Patent number: 11715199
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting, characterizing, and addressing surgical smoke are disclosed. In some embodiments, a surgical system receives image data representing an image of a surgical environment and generates sets of values based on the received image. The sets of values may include representations of atmospheric light in the image and representations of contrast values in the image. The system may determine from the sets of values whether predetermined smoke severity criteria are met, and may responsively automatically engage and/or disengage one or more surgical devices, such as a surgical smoke evacuation system and/or an image processing system (e.g., a video enhancement feature) configured to improve quality of smoky surgical images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Wenjing Li, Kundan Krishna, Amit A. Mahadik, Hannes Rau
  • Patent number: 11715200
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to classification of process cycle images to predict success or failure of process cycles. The technology disclosed includes capturing and processing images of sections arranged on an image generating chip in genotyping process. Image description features of production cycle images are created and given as input to classifiers. A trained classifier separates successful production images from unsuccessful or failed production images. The failed production images are further classified by a trained root cause classifier into various categories of failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Naghmeh Rezaei, Pedro Miguel Filipe Cruz
  • Patent number: 11715201
    Abstract: Provided is a capsule endoscope. The capsule endoscope includes: an imaging device configured to perform imaging on a digestive tract in vivo to generate an image; an artificial neural network configured to determine whether there is a lesion area in the image; and a transmitter configured to transmit the image based on a determination result of the artificial neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kwang Il Oh, Tae Wook Kang, Sung Eun Kim, Mi Jeong Park, Seong Mo Park, Hyung-Il Park, Jae-Jin Lee, In Gi Lim
  • Patent number: 11715202
    Abstract: An analyzing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate a tissue characteristic parameter value with respect to each of a plurality of positions within a region of interest, by analyzing a result of a scan performed on a patient. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a measurement region in the region of interest by performing an analysis while using the tissue characteristic parameter values. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate a statistic value of the tissue characteristic parameter values in the measurement region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Honjo, Yu Igarashi, Masaki Watanabe