Patents Issued in March 12, 2024
  • Patent number: 11928803
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a receiver (201) for receiving an image signal which comprises at least an encoded image and a target display reference. The target display reference is indicative of a dynamic range of a target display for which the encoded image is encoded. A dynamic range processor (203) generates an output image by applying a dynamic range transform to the encoded image in response to the target display reference. An output (205) then outputs an output image signal comprising the output image, e.g. to a suitable display. The dynamic range transform may furthermore be performed in response to a display dynamic range indication received from a display. The invention may be used to generate an improved High Dynamic Range (HDR) image from e.g. a Low Dynamic Range (LDR) image, or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Charles Leonardus Cornelius Maria Knibbeler, Renatus Josephus Van Der Vleuten, Wiebe De Haan
  • Patent number: 11928804
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a computing device, device information for a user device and user environment devices; sending, by the computing device, image templates to the user device using the device information; adjusting, by the computing device, device settings on the user device and the user environment devices in response to a selection of an image template of the image templates; receiving, by the computing device, an image from the user device; comparing, by the computing device, the image to a target image; determining, by the computing device, the image is acceptable; and in response to determining the image is acceptable, sending, by the computing device, the acceptable image to a third party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.
    Inventors: Laurence John Plant, Jorge Andres Moros Ortiz, Mahtab Mirmomeni, Shaila Pervin, Rahil Garnavi
  • Patent number: 11928805
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to making it possible to reduce a possibility of image stitching failures. An information processing apparatus includes a feature extraction unit configured to extract feature points from each of a plurality of images of an object to be inspected captured from a plurality of viewpoints, an image quality evaluation unit configured to, for each of the plurality of images, evaluate whether an image quality based on a predetermined index satisfies allowable conditions for inspection works of the object, and an image stitching unit configured to stitch at least a part of the images, among the plurality of images, having the image quality that satisfies the allowable conditions according to a positional relation based on the feature points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Kuwabara, Satoru Mamiya
  • Patent number: 11928806
    Abstract: A computer system is structured to determine a density of particulate matter in a diesel particulate filter (DPF) sample. The computer system includes a processing circuit having a processor and a memory. The processing circuit is structured to generate a computed tomography (CT) scan-based image of the DPF sample; and, segment the CT scan-based image of the DPF sample into a plurality of regions. For at least one region from the plurality of regions, the processing circuit is structured to determine a density of a portion of the DPF sample corresponding to the at least one region of the CT scan-based image of the DPF sample and cause an electronic display of a user device to display the CT scan-based image including the at least one region and an indication of the density for the at least one region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Yujun Wang, Ben Wang, Carl Justin Kamp, Leigh Anne Rogoski, Rafael Ernesto Vasquez Lombardo, Michael J. Cunningham, Krishna Pradeep Chilumukuru, Neal W. Currier
  • Patent number: 11928807
    Abstract: A system and method to partition pores and throats in 2D or 3D scanned tomographic representations. To achieve partitioning, the methods employ a series of techniques that include the Maximum Inscribed Ball technique, Connected Component Labelling technique, and the 3D Binary Morphology technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonas Toelke, Andre de Almeida Maximo, Jacob Michael Proctor
  • Patent number: 11928808
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a wafer detection method, device, apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: an original wafer picture to be detected is received; picture segmentation is performed on the original wafer picture to acquire a plurality of first pictures; picture zooming is performed on the original wafer picture and the first pictures to respectively acquire a second picture and a plurality of third pictures, the second picture and the third pictures meet an input size requirement of the wafer detection model to an input picture; the second picture and the third pictures are sequentially input into a wafer detection model to acquire a first detection result corresponding to the second picture and a second detection result corresponding to each third picture; and a total detection result of the original wafer picture is determined according to the first detection result and the second detection results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Deqing Qu
  • Patent number: 11928809
    Abstract: A device for generating an image of an object by electromagnetic waves has a transmission device which is set up to radiate electromagnetic waves in the direction of the object, a receiving device which is set up to receive electromagnetic waves from the object, and a digital processing and control unit which is set up to generate image data of the object from the measured data. Here, the transmission device and the receiving device are arranged in at least one modular unit. The digital processing and control unit has an interface via which different modular units can be exchangeably coupled to the digital processing and control unit. Here, the interface is set up to transmit data to the modular unit and to receive from this, to transmit control signals to the transmission device and to the receiving device, and to supply the modular unit with energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Balluff GmbH
    Inventor: Mark Eberspaecher
  • Patent number: 11928810
    Abstract: An abnormality detection apparatus is provided. The abnormality detection apparatus includes a first generation part configured to generate pseudo-abnormal image data by synthesizing a substantially circular image at a random position of an image of normal image data obtained by photographing equipment that includes a liquid supply and supplies a liquid from the liquid supply without an abnormality, a second generation part configured to generate a determination model for determining whether the equipment is normal or abnormal by performing learning of the normal image data and the pseudo-abnormal image data, an acquisition part configured to acquire image data obtained by photographing the equipment, and a detection part configured detect an abnormality in the equipment from the image data acquired by the acquisition part using the determination model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventor: Motoi Okada
  • Patent number: 11928811
    Abstract: A method for determining structural vibration mode characteristics includes preparing a digital image correlation (DIC) dataset for the component, applying a dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) technique to the DIC dataset to determine a plurality of DMD modes, selecting at least one dominant DMD mode from the plurality of DMD modes, classifying each of the at least one selected dominant DMD mode as a standing wave or a traveling wave, and determining structural vibration mode characteristics of the component by extracting the structural vibration mode characteristics from each of the at least one selected dominant DMD mode having a standing wave classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Amit Surana, Sudarshan N. Koushik, Kenji Homma
  • Patent number: 11928812
    Abstract: The present technology is generally directed to systems and methods for inspecting an asset in a communication-denied environment. The present technology can include receiving, via an electronic device, an image of a dashboard of the asset; determining, based on the image, a working mode and one or more status identifiers of the asset; transmitting the working mode and the one or more status identifiers to an inspection system; and/or receiving information regarding the status of the asset based on the working mode and one or more status identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoly Belkin, Arnold Sheynman
  • Patent number: 11928813
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for an image analysis server to detect a change to a structure by using a drone. The method for an image analysis server to detect a change to a structure by using a drone includes: receiving images of a specific inspection target structure taken at different time points by a drone; detecting the difference between an image taken at a first time point and an image taken at a second time point based on the received images; and detecting a change to the inspection target structure via the detected difference, and generating a risk signal and then transmitting it to an administrator terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SMARTINSIDE AI INC.
    Inventors: Joo Ho Shin, Seung Hee Park
  • Patent number: 11928814
    Abstract: A method for generating a module configured to determine concentration of an analyte in a sample of a body fluid is disclosed. The method includes providing a first set of measurement data derived from images of one or more test strips indicating a color transformation in response to a body fluid containing an analyte. The images can be recorded by multiple devices with differing cameras, software and/or hardware device configurations for image recording and image data processing. A neural network model can be generated in a machine learning process applying an artificial neural network and a module configured to determine concentration of an analyte in a second sample of a body fluid can be generated. Further, the present disclosure includes a system for generating the module as well as a method and a system for determining concentration of an analyte in a sample of a bodily fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
    Inventors: Max Berg, Fredrik Hailer, Bernd Limburg, Daniel Sieffert, Herbert Wieder, Peter Seelig, Benhur Aysin, Siva Chittajallu
  • Patent number: 11928815
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a medical image analysis method and apparatus. The medical image analysis method according to an exemplary embodiment includes: receiving a frontal image of a spine; separating vertebral bodies from a vertebrae constituting the spine in the frontal image and extracting a contour of each of the vertebral bodies; deforming a 3D vertebral body model prepared in advance to match with the contour of each vertebral body; detecting an upper plane and a lower plane of each vertebral body in a matched 3D vertebral body model; determining an inclination of each vertebral body based on the upper plane and the lower plane of each vertebral body; and calculating a Cobb's angle based on the inclination of the vertebral body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Hang Kee Kim
  • Patent number: 11928816
    Abstract: An image processing method includes: obtaining DCE magnetic resonance images corresponding to a plurality of time points for a same detection target; determining average pixel grayscale values of images of a same lesion region in the DCE magnetic resonance images of the plurality of time points respectively; determining a time to peak according to the average pixel grayscale values corresponding to the plurality of time points; and generating a first-stage time-intensity image before the time to peak and a second-stage time-intensity image after the time to peak respectively according to the DCE magnetic resonance images and the time to peak. The first-stage time-intensity image and the second-stage time-intensity image are 3D images. A pixel grayscale value of each pixel in the first-stage time-intensity image and the second-stage time-intensity image represents a change rate of blood supply intensity and reflects a severity level of a lesion corresponding to the lesion region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Liang Wang, Jun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11928817
    Abstract: A method of reading a medical image by a computing device operated by at least one processor is provided. The method includes obtaining an abnormality score of the input image using an abnormality prediction model, filtering the input image so as not to be subsequently analyzed when the abnormality score is less than or equal to a cut-off score based on the cut-off score which makes a specific reading sensitivity; and obtaining an analysis result of the input image using a classification model that distinguishes the input image into classification classes when the abnormality score is greater than the cut-off score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LUNIT INC.
    Inventor: Jongchan Park
  • Patent number: 11928818
    Abstract: Computer-implemented method and system automatically detects an out-of-view CT scan by receiving a voxel density file, determining a threshold iso-value of density between air density and a material density of one or more scanned objects in the voxel density file, and evaluating, using the threshold iso-value of density, one or more horizontal slices of the voxel density file to determine whether at least a portion of the one or more scanned objects is out of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Nikolskiy, Fedor Chelnokov, Grant Karapetyan
  • Patent number: 11928819
    Abstract: A method for approximating image data is disclosed. The method includes obtaining initial image data formed by imaging at least part of a sample and analysing the initial image data to form one or more portions of image data. The method also includes accessing a set of predefined stereotype elements, determining one or more of the stereotype elements as a visual approximation for the at least one object within the sample, selecting one or more of the determined stereotype elements to be associated with at least one object within the sample, and forming instruction data based on and/or including the one or more selected stereotype elements, the instruction data including instructions on how to arrange the one or more selected stereotype elements, to a processing system for approximating image data and to a system comprising such processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Sieckmann, Frederik Nitschke
  • Patent number: 11928820
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving a digital image corresponding to a target specimen associated with a pathology category, determining a quality control (QC) machine learning model to predict a quality designation based on one or more artifacts, providing the digital image as an input to the QC machine learning model, receiving the quality designation for the digital image as an output from the machine learning model, and outputting the quality designation of the digital image. A quality assurance (QA) machine learning model may predict a disease designation based on one or more biomarkers. The digital image may be provided to the QA model which may output a disease designation. An external designation may be compared to the disease designation and a comparison result may be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Paige.AI, Inc.
    Inventors: Jillian Sue, Razik Yousfi, Peter Schueffler, Thomas Fuchs, Leo Grady
  • Patent number: 11928821
    Abstract: A method and system based on the image processing technology and robotic technologies are used for planning and evaluating the processes of the hair transplant operations. This method allows a rapid detection of the follicle, the hair number in each follicle and the hair thickness on the images obtained by the scanning of the scalp of the patient before the operation through the image processing technology. Considering these data, “Coverage Value” calculation is automatically carried out; maximum hair number to be harvested in each area is automatically analyzed and calculated. As a result, more reliable and healthy results relative to the present operations are obtained for evaluating the whole operational process through the systematic data, and a system facilitating the method is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KEBOT BILISIM TEKNOLOJILERI SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI
    Inventors: Koray Erdogan, Oguzhan Urhan
  • Patent number: 11928822
    Abstract: In various examples, live perception from sensors of a vehicle may be leveraged to detect and classify intersection contention areas in an environment of a vehicle in real-time or near real-time. For example, a deep neural network (DNN) may be trained to compute outputs—such as signed distance functions—that may correspond to locations of boundaries delineating intersection contention areas. The signed distance functions may be decoded and/or post-processed to determine instance segmentation masks representing locations and classifications of intersection areas or regions. The locations of the intersections areas or regions may be generated in image-space and converted to world-space coordinates to aid an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle in navigating intersections according to rules of the road, traffic priority considerations, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Trung Pham, Berta Rodriguez Hervas, Minwoo Park, David Nister, Neda Cvijetic
  • Patent number: 11928823
    Abstract: A method in a server includes receiving sensor data from an edge computing device, the sensor data generated by a sensor array disposed on a support surface carrying items; detecting, from the sensor data, a set of regions of the sensor array corresponding to respective items carried on the support surface; generating, for each region, a corresponding monitoring definition, each monitoring definition containing: a location of the region within the array, a noise compensation indicator, and an item presence indicator; sending the monitoring definitions to the edge computing device; subsequent to sending the monitoring definitions, receiving item count data from the edge computing device, the item count data derived at the edge computing device from further sensor data generated by the sensor array, based on the monitoring definitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Russell Calvarese, Sean Connolly, Michael B. Miller
  • Patent number: 11928824
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which the approach receives an image that includes multiple image points and constructs a plane in the image based on a first subset of the plurality of image points. The approach identifies a second subset of the image points that belong to the plane and are not part of the first subset of image points, and removes the first subset of image points and the second subset of image points form the image points. The approach annotates the remaining subset of image points in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xue Ping Liu, Dan Zhang, Yuan Yuan Ding, Chao Xin, Fan Li, Hong Bing Zhang, Xu Min
  • Patent number: 11928825
    Abstract: An unsupervised image segmentation method includes: performing a superpixel segmentation on an image containing a target object to acquire a plurality of superpixel sets, each superpixel set corresponding to a respective superpixel node; generating an undirected graph according to superpixel nodes; determining foreground superpixel nodes and background superpixel nodes in the undirected graph according to a first label set corresponding to the plurality of superpixel nodes; generating a minimization objective function according to the foreground superpixel nodes and the background superpixel nodes; segmenting the undirected graph according to the minimization objective function to acquire a foreground part and a background part and to generate a second label set; and performing an image segmentation on the image according to a comparison result of the first label set and the second label set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yuezhi Zhou, Quanwei Huang
  • Patent number: 11928826
    Abstract: In various examples, optical flow estimate (OFE) quality is improved when employing a hint-based algorithm in multi-level hierarchical motion estimation by using different scan orders at different resolution levels. A scan of an image performed with a scan order may initially leverage OFEs from a previous scan of the image, where the previous scan was performed using a different scan order. The OFEs leveraged from the previous scan are more likely to be of high accuracy until sufficient spatial hints are available to the hint-based algorithm for the scan to reduce the impact of potentially lower quality OFEs resulting from the different scan order of the previous scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Manindra Parhy
  • Patent number: 11928827
    Abstract: Applicants have discovered a new low-cost and accessible method and apparatus that allowing for quicker and more precise state determinations based on medical images. The method and apparatus are non-intrusive and require providing a medical image of a subject and determining a state based on a comparison to a training image set comprising two or more states. There is provided, according to the present invention, a computer-implemented method for processing medical images comprising calculating non-local means patch-based weights comparing patches surrounding pixels of interest in a test image with a number of patches of pixels surrounding a corresponding number of pixels in reference images; and calculating for the pixels of interest at least one state estimation using a given state assigned to said reference images and said weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventors: Donald Louis Collins, Pierrick Coupe
  • Patent number: 11928828
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of determining a spatial relationship between planning image data and current surface data which leads to improved surface registration accuracy by considering the elasticity and deformability of the tissue. The knowledge about the tissue can be estimated based on type of tissue and atlas information. For the process of generating surface registration points on specific anatomical regions, e.g. the face or forehead, are acquired with a classical navigated pointer or laser pointer. It is also possible to acquire points with surface scanners. Confidence values defining a probability for certain parts of the surface registration points being deformed in comparison to a planning image are read from atlas data and used to compensate for the deformation in the registration between the surface registration points and the planning image in order to render the registration valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BRAINLAB AG
    Inventor: Sebastian Stopp
  • Patent number: 11928829
    Abstract: An information processing device acquires an image captured by a transmission electron microscope. The information processing device, for each partial region in the image, executes a two-dimensional Fourier transform on an image of the partial region. The information processing device, based on results obtained by executing the two-dimensional Fourier transform on each of the partial regions, performs clustering of frequency strengths obtained from the results of the two-dimensional Fourier transform. The information processing device determines regions of different crystallinity in the image, based on results of the clustering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Sakamoto, Masao Yano, Tetsuya Shoji
  • Patent number: 11928830
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for generating three-dimensional reconstructions of environments. A system, for example, may include a housing having an image sensor directed in a first direction and a distance sensor directed in a second direction and a control unit including a processor and a memory storing instructions. The processor may be configured to execute the instructions to: generate a first 3D model of an environment; generate a plurality of revolved 3D models by revolving the first 3D model relative to the image sensor to a plurality of positions within a predetermined angular range; match a set of distance values to one of the revolved 3D models; determine an angular position of the second direction relative to the first direction; and generate a 3D reconstruction of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiguo Ren, Alberto Speranzon, Carl Dins, Juan Hu, Zhiyong Dai, Vijay Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 11928831
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates shape data on an object included in a first partial space based on one or more captured images obtained from one or more of a plurality of imaging apparatuses and a first parameter corresponding to the first partial space, the first partial space being included in a plurality of partial spaces in an imaging space which is an image capturing target for the plurality of imaging apparatuses, and generates shape data on an object included in a second partial space based on one or more captured images obtained from one or more of the plurality of imaging apparatuses and a second parameter corresponding to the second partial space, the second partial space being included in the plurality of partial spaces, the second parameter being different from the first parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasufumi Takama
  • Patent number: 11928832
    Abstract: An intraoral scanning system comprises an intraoral scanner and a computing device. The computing device receives intraoral scans of a dental site from the intraoral scanner, the intraoral scans comprising at least a first intraoral scan and a second intraoral scan. The computing device determines, for each point in the second intraoral scan based on a first comparison of the first intraoral scan to the second intraoral scan, whether the point is a back-face point or an uncovered point. The computing device determines a region comprising a plurality of points in the second intraoral scan that are uncovered points, determines whether the region satisfies one or more removal criteria, and removes the region from the second intraoral scan responsive to determining that the region satisfies the one or more removal criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikhail Minchenkov, Pavel Agniashvili, Konstantin Kryzhanovskiy, Evgeniy Chelishchev, Tatiana Kurilova
  • Patent number: 11928833
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium on which is stored instructions that the processor may execute to determine displacement levels of multiple locations of an image and to select a sampling density for the multiple locations. The processor may execute the instructions to generate an array of points according to the selected sampling density, the array of points identifying displaced portions of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Nathan Moroney
  • Patent number: 11928834
    Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods for performing three-dimensional measurements of a surgical space using two-dimensional endoscopic images. According to an aspect, video data taken from an endoscopic imaging device can be used to generate a three-dimensional model of the surgical space represented by the video data. In one or more examples, two-dimensional images from the video data can be used to generate a three-dimensional model of the surgical space. In one or more examples, the one or more two-dimensional images of the surgical space can include a fiducial marker as part of the image. Using both the depth information and a size reference provided by the fiducial marker, the systems and methods herein can generate a three-dimensional model of the surgical space. The generated three-dimensional model can then be used to perform a variety of three-dimensional measurements in a surgical cavity in an accurate and efficient manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Cole Kincaid Hunter, Brian Fouts, Sanskruti Maske
  • Patent number: 11928835
    Abstract: It is possible to realize navigation that employs map representation data acquired using a captured map photograph, with a map representation data processing device including: a photograph reception unit that receives a map photograph from a terminal device; a determination unit that searches a navigation information group that contains two or more pieces of navigation information that contain map representation data and two or more pieces of correspondence information that are each a set of coordinate information and position information on the map representation data, and determines a piece of navigation information that has a relationship that satisfies a first condition, with the map photograph; and a navigation information transmission unit that transmits the piece of navigation information determined by the determination unit, to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: STROLY INC.
    Inventors: Varela Enrique Javier Arriaga, Toru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11928836
    Abstract: An electronic device mounted on a fixed or a movable apparatus is provided. The electronic device may comprise a neural processing unit (NPU), including a plurality of processing elements (PEs), configured to process an operation of an artificial neural network model trained to detect or track at least one object and output an inference result based on at least one image acquired from at least one camera; and a signal generator generating a signal applicable to the at least one camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DEEPX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ha Joon Yu, You Jun Kim, Lok Won Kim
  • Patent number: 11928837
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for determining a list of geographic location candidates from an image of an environment are described. Open source data indicative of the earth's surface may be obtained and combined into grids to create region data to gain a representation of the earth's surface within each grid cell. An image of an environment may be obtained from an unknown camera. Image characteristics may be compared to the region data to determine error between the image characteristics and projections of the region data. A list of lowest error geographic location candidates may be determined and provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Research Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Dirk B. Warnaar
  • Patent number: 11928838
    Abstract: A calibration platform may obtain measurements for aligning a real-world coordinate system and a display coordinate system. For example, the calibration platform may display, via an optical see-through head-mounted display (OST-HMD), a three-dimensional virtual object and receive, from a positional tracking device, information that relates to a current pose of a three-dimensional real-world object to be aligned with the three-dimensional virtual object. The calibration platform may record a three-dimensional position of a plurality of points on the three-dimensional real-world object based on the current pose of the three-dimensional real-world object, based on an indication that the plurality of points on the three-dimensional real-world object respectively corresponds with a plurality of points on the three-dimensional virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Ehsan Azimi, Long Qian, Peter Kazanzides, Nassir Navab
  • Patent number: 11928839
    Abstract: A method for photogrammetric measurement includes providing a bedsheet having one or more patterns printed thereon in accordance with a pattern template, which defines respective locations of the one or more patterns in a template coordinate frame. An image is received, in an image coordinate frame, of a person lying on a bed, which is covered by the bedsheet. The image is processed in order to identify the one or more patterns in the image and to match the one or more patterns identified in the image to the one or more patterns in the pattern template. A transformation is computed, based on the matched patterns, between the image coordinate frame and the template coordinate frame. A dimension of the person is measured by applying the computed transformation to the image of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: UDISENSE INC.
    Inventors: Assaf Glazer, Tor Ivry, Amnon Karni, Dror Porat, Yanai Victor Ankri, Sivan Hurvitz, Natalie Barnett
  • Patent number: 11928840
    Abstract: A method for analysis of an image comprises: receiving (402) the image to be analyzed; processing (404) the image with a machine-learned model, wherein the machine-learned model is configured to predict at least an intrinsic parameter of the image using at least a first variable of the machine-learned model, wherein the first variable defines a relation between a radial distortion of the image and a focal length of the image; and outputting (406) the intrinsic parameter of the image. Also, methods for forming a 3D reconstruction of a scenery, for training a machine-learned model for analysis of an image and for generating a dataset of images for training a machine-learned model are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Yubin Kuang, Pau Gargallo Piracés, Manuel Antonio López Antequera, Roger Marí Molas, Jan Erik Solem
  • Patent number: 11928841
    Abstract: An optical scanning system for measuring and/or controlling a vehicle and/or parts of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle is arranged on a support surface. The optical scanning system comprises two optical reader apparatuses, which are arranged on said support surface, on opposite sides of the vehicle, and are provided with respective optical image capturing devices configured to provide respective data/signals encoding one or more images of the vehicle, an electronic system, which is designed to process the data/signals in order to construct one or more three-dimensional images of the vehicle. The optical image reader apparatuses each comprise a calibration target, which lies on an approximately horizontal support surface and is arranged immediately adjacent to the optical image capturing device of the relative optical image reader apparatus at a predetermined distance from it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: TEXA S.P.A., Ravaglioli S.P.A.
    Inventors: Bruno Vianello, Massimo Mambrilla
  • Patent number: 11928842
    Abstract: A method of measuring chromaticity of a target object is implemented using a computer device that stores a plurality of light source spectrum datasets each associated with a specific object. The method includes: obtaining a captured color image of the target object; generating a spectral image based on the captured color image using a spectral transformation matrix; obtaining one of the plurality of light source spectrum datasets that is associated with the target object; and calculating a chromaticity dataset of the target object based on the spectral image and the one of the plurality of light source spectrum datasets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: National Chung Cheng University
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chen Wang, Yu-Ming Tsao, Yu-Lin Liu
  • Patent number: 11928843
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus comprises a decoding unit configured to generate a decoded image by decoding lossy compressed image data, and a restoration processing unit configured to perform image restoration processing on the decoded image. The restoration processing unit determines whether or not to perform the restoration processing for each of blocks in the decoded image in accordance with specific image information, and for a block on which it is determined that the restoration processing is to be performed, performs the restoration processing on the basis of an inference made using a coefficient learned in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Dai Miyauchi
  • Patent number: 11928844
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding geometry information of each of three-dimensional points based on one of a first geometry information encoding method of encoding using octree division and a second geometry information encoding method of encoding without using octree division; and generating a bitstream including the geometry information encoded and a geometry information flag indicating whether the encoding was performed based on the first geometry information encoding method or the second geometry information encoding method. In the generating of the bitstream: when the encoding is performed based on the first geometry information encoding method, the bitstream including a parameter set used in octree division is generated; and when the encoding is performed based on the second geometry information encoding method, the bitstream not including the parameter set used for octree division is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Noritaka Iguchi, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 11928845
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate real-time playback of point cloud sequence data is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors to receive point cloud data of a captured scene, decompose the point cloud data into a plurality of point cloud patches, wherein each point cloud patch is associated with an object in the scene and includes contextual information regarding the point cloud patch, encode each of the point cloud patches via a deep-learning based algorithm to generate encoded point cloud patches, receive a viewpoint selection from a client, assign a priority to data chunks within each encoded point cloud patch based on the viewpoint selection and the contextual information and transmit the data chunks to the client based on the assigned priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Fai Yeung, Wayne Cochran, Pratibha Pandhare
  • Patent number: 11928846
    Abstract: A method is provided for detecting presence and absence of a creature. The method includes, receiving an input signal from a radiation sensor; applying a first low-pass filter to the received input signal with a first time constant and generating a first filter output; applying a second low-pass filter to the received input signal with a second time constant and generating a second filter output. The method also includes determining a presence of a creature by comparing a slope of the first filter output to a predetermined value; and determining an absence of the creature based on further processing. A corresponding device for detecting presence and absence of a creature is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Daniel Lindstedt, Maria Zevgren Sundberg, Annie Thorburn, Maciej Walesiak
  • Patent number: 11928847
    Abstract: Provided are computer-implemented technologies of authenticating documents. The technologies use a set of photo images (or videos), taken under a certain illumination condition and from a set of distinct tilting angles, on one or more security/ID features of one or more documents of a document genre whose authenticity is ascertained, to train an Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine learning program to build a learned model. The learned model, through the said training, attains a set of angular responses of the document genre under the illumination condition which encode a set of descriptive information about each of the one or more security/ID features of the document genre under the illumination condition. The learned model, then, is applied to authenticate, one by one, a number of target documents of the document genre whose authenticity is unknown and to be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ELM COMPANY
    Inventors: Syed Adnan Yusuf, Abdulmalik Ali Aldawsari, Riad Souissi
  • Patent number: 11928848
    Abstract: Higher-speed image recognition processing can be implemented. A light receiving device according to an embodiment includes: a plurality of first filters (130) each transmitting an edge component in a predetermined direction in an incident image; a plurality of second filters (150) each transmitting light of a predetermined wavelength band in incident light; and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements (PD) each photoelectrically converting light transmitted through one of the plurality of convolution filters and one of the plurality of color filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seigo Hanada
  • Patent number: 11928849
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided to implement an action-object interaction detection mechanism for recognizing actions in cluttered video scenes. An object bounding box is computed around an object of interest identified in a corresponding label in an initial frame where the object of interest appears in the frame. The object bounding box is propagated from the initial frame to a subsequent frame. For the initial frame and the subsequent frame: the object bounding boxes of the initial frame and the subsequent frame are refined and cropped based on the associated refined object bounding boxes. The set of cropped frames are processed to determine a probability that an action that is to be verified from the corresponding label is being performed. Responsive to determining the probability is equal to or exceeds a verification threshold, a confirmation is provided that the action-object interaction video performs the action that is to be verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anupama Jagannathan, Anne Elizabeth Gattiker
  • Patent number: 11928850
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to evaluation of similar content-based images. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a first image, where the first image includes at least one first object. The method further includes receiving a second image, where the second image includes at least one second object. The method further includes computing a structural similarity index measure (SSIM) value based on the at least one first object and the at least one second object. The method further includes computing a scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) value based on the at least one first object and the at least one second object. The method further includes computing a histogram value based on the at least one first object and the at least one second object. The method further includes computing a similarity score based on the SSIM value, the SIFT value, and the histogram value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jong Hwa Lee, Praggya Garg
  • Patent number: 11928851
    Abstract: A method for determining the reflectance behavior of a surface of an object includes: providing a plurality of images of the object which differ in terms of a recording direction and/or in terms of an illumination direction during the recording; creating data sets with entries which each describe a reflectance value derived from the images and an assigned recording direction and an assigned illumination direction, with each data set being assigned to a point on the surface of the object; and determining missing entries in the data sets on the basis of entries of already created data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventor: Tobias Noell
  • Patent number: 11928852
    Abstract: A system for digitizing gauges, lights and other human-readable machine gauges and functions and status without interfering with the operation of the machine or requiring re-working or interfering with the existing machine wiring, signaling, electrical or mechanical elements or operating modes, or adding new digitizing equipment to the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Theia Group, Incorporated
    Inventor: Erlend Olson