Patents Issued in December 17, 2024
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Patent number: 12169902Abstract: In one implementation, a method of displaying content is performed at a device including a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes scanning a first physical environment to detect a first physical object in the first physical environment and a second physical object in the first physical environment, wherein the first physical object meets at least one first object criterion and the second physical object meets at least one second object criterion. The method includes displaying, in association with the first physical environment, a virtual object moving along a first path from the first physical object to the second physical object.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Mark E. Drummond, Daniel L Kovacs, Shaun D. Budhram, Edward Ahn, Behrooz Mahasseni, Aashi Manglik, Payal Jotwani, Mu Qiao, Bo Morgan, Noah Gamboa, Michael J. Gutensohn, Dan Feng, Siva Chandra Mouli Sivapurapu
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Patent number: 12169903Abstract: Cell-based augmented reality (AR) content positioning systems may include a reference grid of cells, each of which includes a 32-bit intracellular coordinate system based on a respective reference point of the cell. Cell topology is selected such that the intracellular coordinate systems may utilize single-precision floating point numbers while retaining the ability to define content positions with, e.g., millimeter-level precision. Accordingly, rendering of AR content may be performed at a high precision using 32-bit devices and methods.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: YouAR INC.Inventors: Brandon P. Farrell, Carlo J. Calica
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Patent number: 12169904Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for displaying augmented reality content. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first application running on a device, a request to switch to a second application on the device, the request identifying augmented reality content to display with image data captured by a camera of the device; providing, in response to receiving the request, for switching from the first application to the second application; providing for the second application to activate the camera to capture the image data; and providing for the second application to display the image data captured by the camera with the augmented reality content.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Kaveh Anvaripour, Ebony James Charlton, Patrick Mandia, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis
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Patent number: 12169905Abstract: Systems and methods enable users to engage in meaningful, authentic, online interactions by extracting objects (virtual or real) from an image or video and transferring the extracted objects into a real-world environment of another user in three-dimensional augmented reality. An object to be sent from the first user to the second user is generated using a drawing application, extracted from an image or a video, or an AR object is captured. A video is recorded showing the object responding to an action of the first user and metadata is generated relating to the response of the object to the action of the first user. The video and metadata are sent to the second user. Upon receipt, the video is watched by the second user and the object is selected for presentation in a display environment of the second user. The state of the object is preserved by the metadata.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Fannie Liu, Rajan Vaish
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Patent number: 12169906Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a position processing unit, a correction unit, and a display control unit. The position processing unit estimates a head position of a user and estimates a position of a predetermined part of a body of the user based on the estimated head position. The correction unit corrects the position of the predetermined part estimated by the position processing unit based on the head position and an angle of inclination of a head of the user. The display control unit executes processing of displaying an image operated by the user to be overlapped with a space visually recognized by the user based on the position corrected by the correction unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Miwa Ichikawa, Daisuke Tajima, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Keijiroh Nagano, Shin Shiroma
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Patent number: 12169907Abstract: Methods and systems for generating a texturized image are disclosed. Some examples may include: receiving an input image, receiving an exemplar texture image, generating, using an encoder, a first latent code vector representation based on the input image, generating, using a generative adversarial network generator, a second latent code vector representation based on the exemplar texture image, blending the first latent code vector representation and the second latent code vector representation to obtain a blended latent code vector representation, generating, by the GAN generator, a texturized image based on the blended latent code vector representation and providing the texturized image as an output image.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Lemon Inc.Inventors: Guoxian Song, Jing Liu, Chunpong Lai, Linjie Luo
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Patent number: 12169908Abstract: One embodiment provides a method comprising acquiring 3D content comprising a 3D object in 3D space. The 3D object has object information indicative of a location of the 3D object in the 3D space. The method further comprises projecting the 3D object to a 2D object in 2D space based on the object information. The 2D object has one or more 2D vertices indicative of a location of the 2D object in the 2D space. The method further comprises determining one or more latent variables in the 2D space based on the object information and the one or more 2D vertices, and generating a 2D feature database including the one or more latent variables.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hunsop Hong, Seongnam Oh
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Patent number: 12169909Abstract: Digital synthesis techniques are described to synthesize a digital image at a target time between a first digital image and a second digital image. To begin, an optical flow generation module is employed to generate optical flows. The digital images and optical flows are then received as an input by a motion refinement system. The motion refinement system is configured to generate data describing many-to-many relationships mapped for pixels in the plurality of digital images and reliability scores of the many-to-many relationships. The reliability scores are then used to resolve overlaps of pixels that are mapped to a same location by a synthesis module to generate a synthesized digital image.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Simon Niklaus, Ping Hu
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Patent number: 12169910Abstract: An image processing method includes receiving an input image and a guide image corresponding to the input image, extracting informative features from the input image and the guide image to enhance the input image, selectively obtaining a first feature for the input image from among the informative features, and processing the input image based on the first feature.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jihye Kim, Seon Min Rhee, Jongseok Kim, Heewon Kim, Seungju Han, Jaejoon Han
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Patent number: 12169911Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying a personalized prior within a generative model's latent vector space based on a set of images of a given subject. In some examples, the present technology may further include using the personalized prior to confine the inputs of a generative model to a latent vector space associated with the given subject, such that when the model is tasked with editing an image of the subject (e.g., to perform inpainting to fill in masked areas, improve resolution, or deblur the image), the subject's identifying features will be reflected in the images the model produces.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Kfir Aberman, Yotam Nitzan, Orly Liba, Yael Pritch Knaan, Qiurui He, Inbar Mosseri, Yossi Gandelsman, Michal Yarom
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Patent number: 12169912Abstract: An image processor receives first image data representing an image. The first image data comprising a plurality of color values corresponding to a plurality of pixels in the image. The image processor determines, using a trained machine learning model, second image data based on the first image data. The second image data comprises surface spectral reflection values corresponding to the plurality of pixels in the image, where the surface spectral reflection values are distributed across a plurality of wavelengths of visible light in the image. The image processor then performs at least one image processing operation with respect to the image using the second image data.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Hamidreza Vaezi Joze
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Method and system for a high-frequency attention network for efficient single image super-resolution
Patent number: 12169913Abstract: Example aspects include techniques for implementing a high-frequency attention network for single image super-resolution. These techniques may include extracting a plurality of features from an original image input into a CNN to generate a feature map, and restoring one or more high-frequency details of the original image via an efficient residual block (ERB) and a high-frequency attention block (HFAB) configured to assign a scaling factor to one or more high-frequency areas. In addition, the techniques may include generating reconstruction input information by performing an element-wise operation on the one or more high-frequency details and cross-connection information from the feature map and performing, by the CNN, an enhancement operation on the reconstruction input information to generate an enhanced image.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: LEMON INC.Inventor: Ding Liu -
Patent number: 12169914Abstract: A modular architecture is provided for denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks. The temporal approach extracts and combines feature representations from neighboring frames rather than building a temporal context using recurrent connections. A multiscale architecture includes separate single-frame or temporal denoising modules for individual scales, and one or more scale compositor neural networks configured to adaptively blend individual scales. An error-predicting module is configured to produce adaptive sampling maps for a renderer to achieve more uniform residual noise distribution. An asymmetric loss function may be used for training the neural networks, which can provide control over the variance-bias trade-off during denoising.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignees: PIXAR, DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Thijs Vogels, Fabrice Rousselle, Jan Novak, Brian McWilliams, Mark Meyer, Alex Harvill
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Patent number: 12169915Abstract: A computer-implemented method for processing electronic medical images, the method including receiving a plurality of electronic medical images of a medical specimen. Each of the plurality of electronic medical images may be divided into a plurality of tiles. A plurality of sets of matching tiles may be determined, the tiles within each set corresponding to a given region of a plurality of regions of the medical specimen. For each tile of the plurality of sets of matching tiles, a blur score may be determined corresponding to a level of image blur of the tile. For each set of matching tiles, a tile may be determined with the blur score indicating the lowest level of blur. A composite electronic medical image, comprising a plurality of tiles from each set of matching tiles with the blur score indicating the lowest level of blur, may be determined and provided for display.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Paige.AI, Inc.Inventors: Rodrigo Ceballos Lentini, Christopher Kanan
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Patent number: 12169916Abstract: An inpainting method includes obtaining an image including an object having a delicate shape and identifying a target region within the image, where the target region is adjacent to the object. The method also includes using a first mask to separate the image into a number of semantic categories and aggregating neighboring contexts for the target region based on the semantic categories. The method further includes restoring, based on the aggregated contexts, textures in the target region without affecting the delicate shape of the object. In addition, the method includes displaying a refined image including the restored textures in the target region and the object.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wenbo Li, Hongxia Jin
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Patent number: 12169917Abstract: A processor-implemented method with data processing using a neural network includes: determining a first translated image by translating a first image based on a second image, the first image and a second image that having different distortions, such that a distortion of the first image corresponds to a distortion of the second image; determining a first retranslated image by translating the first translated image such that a distortion of the first translated image corresponds to a distortion of the first image; and training a first deformation field generator configured to determine a first relative deformation field that represents a relative deformation from the first image to the second image and a second deformation field generator configured to determine a second relative deformation field that represents a relative deformation from the second image to the first image, based on a loss between the first retranslated image and the first image.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sujin Jang, Joohan Na, Dokwan Oh
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Patent number: 12169918Abstract: An AR calibration system for correcting AR headset distortions. A calibration image is provided to a screen and viewable through a headset reflector, and an inverse of the calibration image is provided to a headset display, reflected off the reflector and observed by a camera of the system while it is simultaneously observing the calibration image on the screen. One or more cameras are located to represent a user's point of view and aligned to observe the inverse calibration image projected onto the reflector. A distortion mapping transform is created using an algorithm to search through projection positions of the inverse calibration image until the inverse image observed by the camera(s) cancels out an acceptable portion of the calibration image provided to the screen as observed through the reflector by the camera, and the transform is used by the headset, to compensate for distortions.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two LimitedInventors: Johnathon Scott Selstad, David Samuel Holz
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Patent number: 12169919Abstract: A vessel image, which maps a vessel structure, and a device image, which maps a device, are created. A processor, depending on the device image and the vessel image, creates an overlaying image. At least one filter algorithm is applied to the device image, creating a filtered device image. The overlaying image is created by overlaying of the vessel image with the filtered device image.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AGInventors: Stefan Böhm, Boris Stowasser
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Patent number: 12169920Abstract: A method of detecting a deformation in a lattice structure comprises capturing first image data of the lattice structure via a first image capturing device with a first telecentric lens and a second image capturing device with a second telecentric lens. The first telecentric lens is directed toward the lattice structure, and the second telecentric lens is spaced apart from the first telecentric lens and also directed toward the lattice structure. The method includes compressing the lattice structure; capturing second image data of the lattice structure via the first and second image capturing devices; and detecting the deformation based at least in part on the first and second image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLCInventors: Eric Michael Brannigan, Benjamin Ross Brown
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Patent number: 12169921Abstract: Systems and methods for automated detection and classification of objects in a fluid of a receptacle such as, for example, a soft-sided receptacle such as a flexible container. The automated detection may include initiating movement of the receptacle to move objects in the fluid contained by the receptacle. Sequential frames of image data may be recorded and processed to identify moving objects in the image data. In turn, at least one motion parameter of the objects may be determined and utilized to classify the object into at least one of a predetermined plurality of object classes. For example, the object classes may at least include a predetermined class corresponding to bubbles and a predetermined class corresponding to particles.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignees: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC., BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYInventors: Armin Kappeler, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Georgios Andrea Bertos, Kirk Andrew Ashline, Neal Anthony Zupec
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Patent number: 12169922Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for generating synthetic images, include: obtaining a captured image of a symbol that encodes data; producing a synthetic image from the captured image using a trained machine learning model, wherein the trained machine learning model has been trained using first images and second images of examples of symbols, wherein the second images have a second image quality that is different than a first image quality of first images, and wherein parameters of the machine learning model have been adjusted responsive to image features to tradeoff content loss versus style loss using measurements of information content correlation between third images produced during training and each of the first images and the second images, the measurements being from a comparison metric; and providing the synthetic image for use by a program configured to identify information in images of symbols.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Sys-Tech Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Michael Soborski, Bodhayan Dev, Matthias Voigt, Atish P. Kamble, Prem Swaroop
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Patent number: 12169923Abstract: A method of detecting an abnormality includes: acquiring an image of an inspection target as a captured image; generating a restored image by inputting the captured image into a first learning model, wherein the first learning model has learned with a normal image, wherein the normal image obtained by capturing a normal inspection target; generating a difference image between the captured image and the restored image; generating a restored difference image by inputting the generated difference image into a second learning model, wherein the second learning model has learned with a normal difference image; and detecting abnormality of the inspection target using the difference image and the restored difference image.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomohiro Matsuda
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Patent number: 12169924Abstract: An automatic inspection process for detecting visible defects on a manufactured item, the process including a set up mode in which images of same-type defect free items, but not images of same-type defected items, are obtained, and an inspection mode in which images of both same-type defect free items and same-type defected items, are obtained and defects are detected, where images of the same-type defect free items are analyzed and based on the analysis the process switches to the inspection mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Yonatan Hyatt, Joel Koenka, Harel Boren
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Patent number: 12169925Abstract: A neural network is trained for use in a substrate thickness measurement system by obtaining ground truth thickness measurements of a top layer of a calibration substrate at a plurality of locations, each location at a defined position for a die being fabricated on the substrate. A plurality of color images of the calibration substrate are obtained, each color image corresponding to a region for a die being fabricated on the substrate. A neural network is trained to convert color images of die regions from an in-line substrate imager to thickness measurements for the top layer in the die region. The training is performed using training data that includes the plurality of color images and ground truth thickness measurements with each respective color image paired with a ground truth thickness measurement for the die region associated with the respective color image.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Sivakumar Dhandapani, Arash Alahgholipouromrani, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Jun Qian, Kiran Lall Shrestha
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Patent number: 12169926Abstract: A system for disease diagnosis includes a patch neural network for generating a patch-level diagnostic result of whether or not a disease is present in each of predetermined patches formed by dividing a slide into a predetermined size; a heat map generation module for generating a patch-level heat map image corresponding to the biometric image obtained from the slide on the basis of the patch diagnostic results of the respective multiple patches included in the slide; a tissue mask generation module for generating a tissue mask image corresponding to the biometric image obtained from the slide on the basis of a hue-saturation-value (HSV) model corresponding to the slide; and a visualization module for generating a disease diagnostic visualization image corresponding to the biometric image obtained from the slide on the basis of the patch-level heat map image and the tissue mask image.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: DEEP BIO INC.Inventors: Joon Young Cho, Sun Woo Kim
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Patent number: 12169927Abstract: The present invention discloses a technique for alerting on vision impairment. The system comprises a processing unit configured and operable for receiving scene data being indicative of a scene of at least one consumer in an environment, identifying in the scene data a certain consumer, identifying an event being indicative of a behavioral compensation for vision impairment, and, upon identification of such an event, sending a notification relating to the vision impairment.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SHAMIR OPTICAL INDUSTRY LTD.Inventor: Amnon Kanter
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Patent number: 12169928Abstract: The current invention concerns a method, a computer system, and a computer program product for blood vessel image extraction from ultrasound signals, and a method and apparatus for ultrasound imaging A set of ultrasound signals at successive times in a plurality of spatial points is obtained. The ultrasound signals are decomposed as a sum of terms. Each term consists of a time-independent spatial component image factor and a space-independent temporal component signal. The spatial component images are mutually orthonormal. The temporal component signals are mutually orthogonal. A sharpened spatial image for each of multiple spatial component images is determined. A processed image being a bilinear combination of multiple sharpened spatial images is generated.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignees: IMEC VZW, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven R&DInventors: Alan Urban, Gabriel Montaldo
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Patent number: 12169929Abstract: A configuration that analyzes reflection light of light emitted to a user face and executes both facial-expression analysis and biometric-signal analysis together is realized. The configuration has a light-receiving section that receives reflection light of light emitted to a user face, and a light-reception-signal analyzing section that analyzes a light-reception signal of the light-receiving section. The light-reception-signal analyzing section has a facial-expression analyzing section that analyzes user-skin-surface reflection light and generates facial-expression analysis information, and a biometric-signal analyzing section that analyzes subepidermal reflection light and generates bioanalysis information.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Sayaka Ogawa, Kota Aizawa
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Patent number: 12169930Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain medical images taken at a plurality of points in time. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain structures of a plurality of tissues, from medical images taken at a first point in time and at a second point in time different from the first point in time among the plurality of points in time. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate a measurement value related to a contact part between the plurality of tissues at the first point in time, on the basis of the obtained structures of the plurality of tissues at the second point in time and the obtained structures of the plurality of tissues at the first point in time.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yukiteru Masuda, Gakuto Aoyama
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Patent number: 12169931Abstract: An apparatus for magnetic resonance imaging includes processing circuitry to obtain a set of sequence instructions for performing a magnetic resonance scan; partition the obtained set of sequence instructions into a plurality of kernels by determining partition time points defining boundaries of the plurality of kernels, wherein the partition time points are not equally spaced in time; convert a first kernel of the plurality of kernels into a first hardware instruction set; transmit the first hardware instruction set to a hardware board controller for execution; and reconstruct a magnetic resonance image from received data, including data obtained by executing the first kernel.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew James Wheaton, Joseph Manak, Bradley Stephens
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Patent number: 12169932Abstract: Provided are an information processing device, a program, a trained model, a diagnostic support device, a learning device, and a prediction model generation method that can perform prediction with high accuracy using images. An information processing device includes: an information acquisition unit that receives an input of image data and non-image data related to a target matter; and a prediction unit that predicts an aspect related to the matter at a time different from a time when the image data is captured on the basis of the image data and the non-image data input through the information acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tsubasa Goto, Caihua Wang
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Patent number: 12169933Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for quantifying severity of infectious disease based on a vision transformer using a chest X-ray (CXR) image. Here, a method of quantifying severity of infectious disease based on a vision transformer includes receiving an input CXR image; extracting a feature map from the received input CXR image using a pretrained neural network; classifying a lesion in the input CXR image using the vision transformer based on the extracted feature map; and quantifying severity of the input CXR image based on the extracted feature map and the classified lesion.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: JongChul Ye, Sangjoon Park, Gwanghyun Kim
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Patent number: 12169934Abstract: A system, device and method of imaging using a real-time, AI-enabled analysis device coupled to an imaging device during an image scan of a subject includes: receiving data corresponding to a plurality of image frames from the imaging device and user input identifying a region of interest (ROI) in a first image frame; providing data corresponding to the first image frame, including the identified ROI and data corresponding to the remaining image frames to the AI-enabled data processing system; accepting a plurality of valid image frames from the plurality of image frames based on a predefined set of computer vision rules and a minimum accepted frame threshold; calculating, frame by frame, an ROI function value of the plurality of valid image frames; determining whether a predetermined ROI function value has been reached; and alerting an operator of the imaging device that the predetermined ROI function value has been reached.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher EducationInventors: Nghi Nguyen, Shandong Wu
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Patent number: 12169935Abstract: A system for determining a bacterial load of a target is provided. The system includes an adaptor for configuring a mobile communication device for tissue imaging and a mobile communication device. The adaptor includes a housing configured to be removably coupled to a mobile communication device and, an excitation light source for fluorescent imaging. The excitation light source is configured to emit light in one of ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, and infrared ranges.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORKInventor: Ralph Dacosta
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Patent number: 12169936Abstract: A system, method and apparatus of image segmentation with semi supervised training of an artificial neural network using coarse labels. For example, a first artificial neural network is trained to perform image segmentation on first images according to fine labels of image segmentation for the first images and to perform image segmentation on second images according to coarse labels of image segmentation for the second images. After the training, the first artificial neural network is used to perform image segmentation of the second images to identify improved labels of image segmentation for the second images. Subsequently, a supervised machine learning technique can be used to train a second artificial neural network to perform image segmentation on the first images according to fine labels and on the second images according to the improved labels.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Chaurasia, Katya B. Giannios
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Patent number: 12169937Abstract: The invention provides methods and apparatus for image processing that perform image segmentation on data sets in two- and/or three-dimensions so as to resolve structures that have the same or similar grey values (and that would otherwise render with the same or similar intensity values) and that, thereby, facilitate visualization and processing of those data sets.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2024Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: PME IP PTY LTDInventors: Malte Westerhoff, Detlev Stalling, Martin Seebass
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Patent number: 12169938Abstract: Embodiments of this specification provide methods and apparatuses for processing images, devices, and storage media. A method includes: obtaining an image for processing; generating a first mask image corresponding to the image based on a machine-learning model and determining whether the image has a foreground object; in response to determining that the image has the foreground object, setting pixels corresponding to the foreground object to a first grayscale value range, and setting pixels corresponding to non-foreground objects in the first mask image to a second grayscale value range; determining an outline corresponding to the foreground object in the image according to a grayscale value range difference between the first grayscale value range of the foreground object and the second grayscale value range of the non-foreground objects in the first mask image; and sending, to a client device for display, the image with the determined outline for interaction by a user.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITEDInventors: Jian Cao, Bang Zhang, Yinghui Xu, Pan Pan
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Patent number: 12169939Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a 3D image including an object depicted in the image, the 3D image comprising an ordered set of 2D images; determining a contour around the object in a first of said 2D images; and determining a contour around the object in a second of said 2D images, the second 2D image being non-contiguous with the first in said ordered set, having an intermediate region comprising one or more intermediate ones of said 2D images between the first and second 2D images within said ordered set. In each of the first and second 2D images, inside of the contour is classified as foreground and outside of the contour is classified as background. The method further comprises performing a 3D geodesic distance computation to classify points in the intermediate region as foreground of background.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Javier Alvarez-Valle, Richard W. Lowe
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Patent number: 12169940Abstract: In one example, a method of motion detection includes producing a first image based on a plurality of previous images, the first image including pixels having intensity values that approximate a difference in intensity values between a pair of pixels within the previous images, and the pair of pixels being one pixel from each of first and second previous images and present at the same locations within their respective images, generating a second image by applying a threshold to the first image, the second image including one or more pixels with intensity values above the threshold, the threshold being derived from intensity values of pixels within the first image and a number of pixels in the first image with a respective intensity value, and determining a region of the second image indicating motion based on a location of the one or more pixels in the second image.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2024Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SimpliSafe, Inc.Inventors: Monica Xu, Shekhar Bangalore Sastry, Nicholas Setzer
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Patent number: 12169941Abstract: A system and method for determining a position an object moving along a trajectory crosses a target plane, by obtaining a plurality of images of an object moving along a trajectory in an environment, the plurality of images capturing the object at different positions along the trajectory, obtaining a plurality of images of an object moving along a trajectory in an environment, the plurality of images capturing the object at different positions along the trajectory, the plurality of images being obtained from two or more cameras positioned at different positions in the environment, each of the two or more cameras having a field of view (FOV) that includes the trajectory of the moving object and a target plane, the target plane being a plane that the moving object crosses during movement along the trajectory, each of the two or more cameras obtaining the images at a different timing.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2024Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Rapsodo PTE. LTD.Inventors: Evgeny Lipunov, Osman Murat Teket, Kelvin Soon Keat Yeo, Batuhan Okur
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Patent number: 12169942Abstract: A method for training an image depth estimation model. A sample environmental image, sample environmental point cloud data and sample edge information of the sample environmental image are input into a to-be-trained model; initial depth information of each of pixel points in the sample environmental image and a feature relationship between each of the pixel points and a corresponding neighboring pixel point of each of the pixel points are determined through the to-be-trained model, the initial depth information of each of the pixel points is optimized according to the feature relationship to obtain optimized depth information of each of the pixel points, and a parameter of the to-be-trained model is adjusted according to the optimized depth information to obtain the image depth estimation model.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Inventors: Minyue Jiang, Xipeng Yang, Xiao Tan, Hao Sun
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Patent number: 12169943Abstract: Depth information is extracted from a stereoscopic image pait by an image processing system. For each pixel of a target image of the stereoscopic image pair, a final disparity cost vector is computed having cost components corresponding to different disparities. The final disparity cost vector is stored in association with that pixel. That pixel is assigned the disparity corresponding to the lowest cost component of the final disparity cost vector, wherein the extracted depth information comprises the disparities assigned to the pixels of the target image. For at least a subset of the pixels of the target image, the final disparity cost vector is computed for each of those pixels by computing, with respect to the reference image, a set of matching costs for that pixel and the different disparities, and combining the matching costs with the one or more final disparity cost vectors stored in association with one or more of the adjacent pixels of the target image.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Five AI LimitedInventor: Oscar Rahnama
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Patent number: 12169944Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable reconstruction of synthetic images of a scene from the perspective of a virtual camera having a selected virtual camera position, based on images of the scene captured by a number of actual, physical cameras.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: MINE ONE GMBHInventors: James A. McCombe, Christoph Birkhold
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Patent number: 12169945Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of artificial intelligence technology, and to a method of estimating a pose of a device and a related device. The method of estimating a pose of a device includes identifying a similar key frame that is similar to a current frame collected by the device from a key frame set, based on a vector distance between the similar key frame and the current frame; obtaining data-related information between image frames based on a feature matching relationship between the current frame and the similar key frame; and obtaining the pose of the device based on the data-related information.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhihua Liu, Hongseok Lee, Qiang Wang, Yuntae Kim, Kuan Ma
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Patent number: 12169946Abstract: An angular direction identifying device includes: a photographed image acquiring unit configured to acquire a photographed image by a camera provided in a movable body; an angular direction information acquiring unit configured to acquire angular direction information in a case where a predetermined physical object suggesting an angular direction is shown in the photographed image, the angular direction information indicating the angular direction suggested by the predetermined physical object; and a view-axis angular direction identifying unit configured to identify an angular direction in which a view axis of the camera is pointed, based on the angular direction information and a position relation between the predetermined physical object in the photographed image and the view axis of the camera.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Ryusuke Tamanaha
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Patent number: 12169947Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for generating body pose information for a person in a physical environment. In various implementations, a device includes an environmental sensor, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the environmental sensor and the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining, via the environmental sensor, spatial data corresponding to a physical environment. The physical environment includes a person and a fixed spatial point. The method includes identifying a portion of the spatial data that corresponds to a body portion of the person. In some implementations, the method includes determining a position of the body portion relative to the fixed spatial point based on the portion of the spatial data. In some implementations, the method includes generating pose information for the person based on the position of body portion in relation to the fixed spatial point.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Stefan Auer, Sebastian Bernhard Knorr
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Patent number: 12169948Abstract: A processor for an endoscope according to an aspect is characterized by including: a controller executing program code to perform: acquiring, by the controller, an endoscopic image captured using first system information; discriminating a part of a subject using a first learning model that outputs a discrimination result of discriminating the part of the subject in a case in which the acquired endoscopic image is input; acquiring, by the controller, a setting image associated with the discrimination result output by the first learning model; and outputting second system information using a second learning model that outputs the second system information in a case in which the acquired setting image and the part of the subject are input.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: HOYA CORPORATIONInventor: Kenta Kosugi
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Patent number: 12169949Abstract: Examples disclosed herein involve a computing system configured to (i) obtain first image data captured by a first camera of a vehicle during a given period of operation of the vehicle, (ii) obtain second image data captured by a second camera of the vehicle during the given period of operation, (iii) based on the obtained first and second image data, determine (a) a candidate extrinsics transformation between the first camera and the second camera and (b) a candidate time offset between the first camera and the second camera, and (iv) based on (a) the candidate extrinsics transformation and (b) the candidate time offset, apply optimization to determine a combination of (a) an extrinsics transformation and (b) a time offset that minimizes a reprojection error in the first image data, where the reprojection error is defined based on a representation of at least one landmark that is included in both the first and second image data.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Lyft, Inc.Inventors: Luca del Pero, Karim Tarek Mahmoud Elsayed Ahmed Shaban
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Patent number: 12169950Abstract: Provided are an image sensor module, an image processing system, and an image compression method. The image compression method of compressing image data generated by an image sensor includes: receiving pixel values of a target pixel group of image data on which compression is to be performed, and reference values of reference pixels to be used in compression of the target pixel group; determining an averaging direction in which an averaging calculation is to be performed on target pixel values; averaging the pixel values of target pixels in the averaging direction; generating balance information including compensation values to be applied to the average values based on the reference pixels; and generating a bitstream based on the average values, the balance information, and compression information.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Wonseok Lee, Seongwook Song, Yunseok Choi
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Patent number: 12169951Abstract: At least one embodiment relates to the transfer, between two processing units or memories, of a three-channels texture image and at least two image-structured data used for reconstructing the geometry of the point cloud. Such transfer comprises copying the three channels of the three-channels texture image into the three channels of a four-channels image, and storing, in the fourth channel of the four-channels image, a combined information obtained by combining altogether the at least two image-structured data. The four-channel image is then transferred.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SASInventors: Julien Ricard, Timothee Guillerm, Pierre Andrivon, Celine Guede, Yannick Olivier