Applications Patents (Class 382/100)
  • Patent number: 10885411
    Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying a machine-readable image having data encoded therein and embedded with a graphic, the machine-readable image adapted to be detected by a reader for decoding said encoded data, including: the graphic associated with an image descriptor calculated based on a chosen area of the graphic, the image descriptor being used in a reading process of said machine-readable image; a plurality of function patterns; and a plurality of dot modules having decoded values corresponding to at least said encoded data, the dot modules being positioned in one or more encoding regions of the machine-readable image relative to the function patterns and the chosen area of the graphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventor: Itamar Friedman
  • Patent number: 10885531
    Abstract: A counterfeit detection system provides an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that implements a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to classify an image as one of a fake or genuine item and integrates a Classification Activation Module (CAM) to refine counterfeit detection. The GAN may include a generator that generates simulated counterfeit images for a discriminator. The discriminator may be trained to identify faked items by learning from the simulated counterfeit images and/or images of actual faked items. The discriminator may implement a deep neural network of convolutional layers that each analyze a region of an image and produce a weighted output that contributes to the classification based on the analyzed region. The CAM may identify the regions and weights relied upon by the discriminator, provide corresponding heatmaps to subject matter experts, receive annotations from the subject matter experts, and use the annotations as feedback to refine the classifier of the discriminator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Edward Philip Burgin, Milad Alucozai, Laura Alvarez Jubete, Gaurav Kaila, Victor Oliveira Antonino
  • Patent number: 10887598
    Abstract: A decoding device and a decoding method for decoding a target information from a bitstream of video data are provided, wherein the bitstream comprises a prediction parameter encoded in the bitstream. The decoding device is configured to calculate a randomized host signal based on the prediction parameter and a pseudo-random signal, and to apply a check function to the randomized host signal and thereby obtain the target information. An encoding device and an encoding method, and computer-readable storage media for encoding and for decoding are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov, Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy
  • Patent number: 10885645
    Abstract: In various exemplary embodiments a method for determining the waviness index of hair is provided. The method may comprise the steps of determining and/or establishing at least one hair examination region in at least one digital image, in which hair is depicted, determining a plurality of different brightness values in the hair examination region, and determining the waviness index of hair on the basis of the plurality of brightness values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Burkhard Mueller, Torsten Lechner
  • Patent number: 10885319
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a posture control system containing a posture control unit that changes a direction of a user's body and a display unit mounted on a user's head. The posture control system includes: a posture data acquiring unit configured to acquire posture data indicating the direction of the user's body; a motion sensor data acquiring unit configured to acquire motion sensor data indicating a direction of a user's face in a real space which is detected by a motion sensor; a camera image data acquiring unit configured to acquire camera image data indicating the face direction with reference to the direction of the user's body which is specified based on a camera image; and a face direction specifying unit configured to specify the direction of the user's face based on the posture data, the motion sensor data, and the camera image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Onuki
  • Patent number: 10887530
    Abstract: To prevent deterioration in image quality in mixing a visible light signal and an infrared light signal to generate a color image signal. A signal processing device includes a mixture ratio creator and a mixer. The mixture ratio creator is configured to create a mixture ratio that is a ratio in mixing a low frequency visible light signal that is a low frequency component of a visible light signal and a low frequency invisible light signal that is a low frequency component of an invisible light signal together on a basis of the low frequency visible light signal and the low frequency invisible light signal. The mixer is configured to mix the low frequency visible light signal and the low frequency invisible light signal together on a basis of the mixture ratio to generate a mixed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Sato
  • Patent number: 10880588
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for a transmission apparatus in a multimedia system. The method comprises a step of transmitting a message including a priority order of media source location information, and three or more pieces of media source location information, wherein the three or more pieces of media source location information include primary media source location information, alternative media source location information and original media source location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hyeon Bae, Dong-Yeon Kim, Young-Wan So, Hyun-Koo Yang, Kyung-Mo Park, Hyeon-Cheol Pu
  • Patent number: 10873679
    Abstract: Certainty of detecting watermarks embedded in a color image is increased. Image date acquisition means of an image processing device acquires image data on a color image having a plurality of color channels. Numerical value acquisition means acquires respective numerical values in the plurality of color channels contained in a pixel value of the color image based on the image data acquired by the image data acquisition means. Image processing means embed a watermark in each of the plurality of color channels by changing the numerical value acquired by the numerical value acquisition means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Tony Tung
  • Patent number: 10871302
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence air conditioner may include a camera to obtain an image, an area recognition module for recognizing an area in which an occupant is located in an indoor space divided into a plurality of areas from the image obtained by the camera and distinguishing a living area with respect to the plurality of areas based on a result of recognizing a location of the occupant, and an airflow controller controlling airflow based on the distinguished living area, whereby airflow optimized for each living area of the indoor space may be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Taeyup Song, Jaeyong Song, Dongwoo Han
  • Patent number: 10873699
    Abstract: The invention provides a device (10) for acquiring images of a plant, which device comprises: i) a first structure (60) defining a cavity (33) for receiving a portion to be imaged of the plant, the cavity presenting a longitudinal axis (13) and an opening (65) at one of its ends, the cavity being defined by at least one transparent wall forming a window (12) for observing the portion to be imaged; ii) a second structure (61) extending around the window (12) and mounted to move in translation along the longitudinal axis (13) relative to the first structure, and comprising: hollow reflective optics (11, 19) extending around the window and including a reflecting surface (19) directed towards the longitudinal axis; and a plurality of image sensors (18) regularly distributed around the window (12), the field of view (77) of each sensor including at least a portion of the reflective optics so as to capture images of the portion of the plant that is surrounded by the window, which images are reflected by the refl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: ARVALIS INSTITUT DU VEGETAL, BIOGEMMA, SHAKTI
    Inventors: Frederic Chazallet, Herve Lassagne
  • Patent number: 10872619
    Abstract: A system processes data signals consisting of sums of independent signal terms, zero or more of which signal terms may already have been identified, in order to generate one or more additional terms. Deflated versions of the data signals are created by subtracting from the data signals any previously identified signal terms. Additional independent signal terms are computed using a set of reference signals organized into mutually independent partioning support sets. The images of each support set are computed on the data signals. Computed images on a data signal that are non-zero are identified as additional independent signal terms of that data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Speech Technology & Applied Research Corporation
    Inventors: Richard S. Goldhor, Keith Gilbert, Joel MacAuslan
  • Patent number: 10872396
    Abstract: The present invention is related to an image stitching method. It is further related to an image stitching device and to a computer readable medium carrying instructions for performing such method. The method according to the invention includes determining a pixel value of a pixel at an interpolation position in the region to be stitched using pixel values of corresponding pixels in a plurality of sub-images. According to the invention, the interpolation position corresponds to a weighted sum of positions of the corresponding pixels. The weighting factor for the position of a corresponding pixel in a given sub-image depends on a relative distance of at said interpolation position to a border of the region to be stitched associated with that sub-image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: CycloMedia Technology B.V.
    Inventors: Christian Leonard Lucien Bartels, Bart Johannes Beers
  • Patent number: 10863834
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for completing a transaction using a shelf and interactive tablet. The systems and methods may include receiving, at an interactive tablet comprising a processor, a captured image associated with an item; identifying, by the interactive tablet, a known image of the item based on the captured image of the item; and retrieving, by the interactive tablet, product information associated with the item based on the known image of the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Phil Noel Day, Steven James Birnie, Marshall Munro, Andrew William Douglas Smith
  • Patent number: 10868620
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed selectively generating and storing hashed reference signatures. An example method disclosed herein determining whether watermark coverage of a first media segment satisfies a dropout constraint, the first media segment corresponding to a first monitoring time interval of a media source feed and, when the watermark coverage of the first media segment does not satisfy the dropout constraint hashing first media signatures associated with the first media segment to generate corresponding first hashed signatures and generating first reference data for the first media segment, the first reference data including the first hashed signatures and the first media signatures. The example method further includes, when the watermark coverage of the first media segment satisfies the dropout constraint, generating second reference data for the first media segment, the second reference data including the first media signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: James Petro, Dan Nelson, Deborah Cross, Raghuram Ranganathan
  • Patent number: 10868849
    Abstract: The unique watermark system comprising: identifying a presenter attendee, a first recipient attendee, and a second recipient attendee through a video conferencing session; detecting the presenter attendee sharing the visual content with the first recipient attendee and the second recipient attendee; selecting a first unique watermark and a second unique watermark from the plurality of unique watermarks and assigning them to a first recipient attendee and a second recipient attendee, respectively; inserting the first unique watermark into the visual content for the first recipient attendee and the second unique watermark into the visual content for the second recipient attendee; and transmitting the visual content with the first unique watermark to the first recipient attendee and the visual content with the second unique watermark to the second recipient attendee, wherein the method is performed by one or more special-purpose computing devices for hosting the video conferencing session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Zheng Yuan
  • Patent number: 10863043
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming device forming an image indicated by print data on a recording sheet; and a control device including a processor and functioning, through the processor executing a control program, as a controller configured to: extract text contained in the print data to determine a kind of a language of the text extracted; determine, for each determined kind of the language, whether to record the text consisting of the language of the determined kind; and when determining that the text is to be recorded, cause the image forming device to image form the text consisting of the language of the determined kind on the recording sheet, and, when determining that the text is not to be recorded, not to cause the image forming device to image form the text consisting of the language of the determined kind on the recording sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiya Miyai
  • Patent number: 10856779
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical measurement system (10) and measurement method for coaching an individual. The optical measurement system comprises a cloud database (8), a wireless communication device (7) and a vertical self-supporting equipment box (2) comprising a data processing device (20) comprising a computer program configured to measure ground contact and/or reaction time and position of a body part (1a) of a person (1) within a predetermined reaction area (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Arto Ruokonen
  • Patent number: 10860755
    Abstract: A method for modelling age-related traits of a face, from a picture of the face is provided, wherein the age-related traits are either wrinkles or age spots, the method including: for each age-related trait of the face of the same nature, generating a vector including parameters of shape and appearance of the trait; and generating, from the generated vectors, a single representation vector modeling the age-related traits of the same nature in the face. The single representation vector stores information regarding the number of traits in the face and joint probabilities, over the face, of the shape and appearance features of the traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: CHANEL PARFUMS BEAUTE
    Inventors: Victor Martin, Renaud Séguier, Aurélie Porcheron
  • Patent number: 10863202
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including steps of obtaining the source image having a plurality of modules, where a module corresponds to a smallest element that can be encoded in the source image; obtaining input data to be encoded; and encoding the input data in one or more modules of the plurality of modules of the source image. For each respective module of the one or more modules, the encoding includes determining, based on a corresponding value of the input data to be encoded in the respective module, a particular intensity level of multiple intensity levels associated with a particular color, where a number of the multiple intensity levels is greater than two; and encoding the particular color having the particular intensity level in the respective module of the source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Shaoher Pan
  • Patent number: 10853682
    Abstract: A method for processing an acquired image (IA) showing a structured personal document (D) including a visual inspection zone (VIZ). The method includes determination of a first character string from an automatic reading zone or of barcode type (MRZ) of predetermined format, the first character string representing personalised information specific to the owner of the document (D), generation from the first character string of an intermediate image (IS) showing a second character string representing the same personalised information, detection in the acquired image of a third character string in the visual inspection zone (VIZ), representing the same personalised information, the detection comprising an overall comparison of the intermediate image (IS) with the acquired image, location in the visual inspection zone (VIZ) of a region of interest containing the third character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: IDEMIA IDENTIFY & SECURITY FRANCE
    Inventors: Jeremy Nicolas Laurent Dura, Laurent Rostaing, Thibault Berger
  • Patent number: 10853327
    Abstract: Systems and methods of mobile database management and sharing are provided which include at least one mobile database and a first electronic circuit in communication with the mobile database. The system segments the mobile database into a plurality of database segments and indexes the plurality of database segments. The system sends one or more of the plurality of database segments to a second electronic circuit over a private secured communication protocol. One or both of the first and second electronic circuit may be housed within one or more mobile devices. Disclosed systems and methods include processing a database sharing request received from at least one mobile device wherein the database sharing request requests sharing of one or more of the plurality of database segments. A mobile device containing a database management and sharing system is also provided which includes a shared mobile database and one or more proxy entities related to the shared mobile database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: GBT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Danny Rittman, Aliza Schnapp
  • Patent number: 10853456
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices that support determining whether media data has been altered are described. Captured media data may be segmented into one or more subsets, and cryptographic representations (e.g., hashes) based on the subsets may be written to an immutable ledger, possibly along with metadata and other related data. A block of a blockchain may be created for each entry in the immutable ledger. A set of media data may be validated, if a corresponding immutable ledger exists, based on segmenting the set of media data into one or more subsets in accordance with the segmenting upon capture, creating candidate cryptographic representations (e.g., hashes) based on the subsets, and comparing the candidate cryptographic representations with contents of the corresponding immutable ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: DeepTruth, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Lealand Crawforth, Michael Robert Blood
  • Patent number: 10854077
    Abstract: A technique for managing parking of vehicles at a lower cost is disclosed. A parking management system includes a terminal device and a server device. The terminal device includes: a storage unit that stores user information; a reading unit that reads identification information of a parking space from a code associated with the parking space, and a transmission unit that transmits, to the server device, parking position information which includes the stored user information and the read identification information. The server device includes: a receiving unit that receives the parking position information from the terminal device; and an identifying unit that identifies a position where a vehicle is parked and a user of the parked vehicle, based on the received parking position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Jun Koreishi
  • Patent number: 10852911
    Abstract: Functionality is described for creating objects that represent respective items provided in a store. The objects can be embedded in various hosts, such as network-accessible pages (e.g., web pages), network-accessible journals (e.g., blogs), messages (e.g., Emails), and so on. Consumers can activate the objects in the hosts to retrieve information associated with the corresponding items. According to one illustrative feature, the functionality provides a general interface for creating objects for different types of items stored in the store, including file items of various kinds (e.g., text files, image files, audio files, spreadsheet files, video files, etc.), list items, folder items, and so on. According to another illustrative feature, the functionality provides an interface for allowing users to customize various aspects of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason F. Moore, David Citron
  • Patent number: 10846328
    Abstract: Digital asset association techniques with search query data are described. In one example, A first digital asset is displayed at a location within digital content in a user interface. The location is specified using placeholder data of the digital content. An input is received via selection of an option as part of the user interface to initiate a search. Search query data associated with the placeholder data is obtained in response to the input. A search is initiated for a second digital asset using the search query data. The second digital asset is displayed at the location within the digital content in the user interface as specified by the placeholder data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Le Bleis, Sachin Soni, Ajay Jain
  • Patent number: 10846570
    Abstract: Systems, and method and computer readable media that store instructions for scale invariant object detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Cortica Ltd.
    Inventors: Igal Raichelgauz, Karina Odinaev
  • Patent number: 10846966
    Abstract: A system includes a biometric sensor that detects biometric data of a person in a first region and a presuming unit that presumes that the person is a person to be tracked based on the biometric data. The system also includes a first camera acquiring first image data of the person in the first region and a second camera acquiring second image data of the person in a second region. The system further includes a monitoring unit that tracks the target person in the second region by checking the second image data with the first image data corresponding to the target person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Saso, Takamichi Matsusako, Naomi Tomiyama, Akira Asai, Mikiko Matsuo, Yuichi Aoki, Motoji Ohmori, Eiichiro Okuda
  • Patent number: 10845511
    Abstract: In one example, a smart mirror. The smart mirror includes a display adjacent one side of a half-mirror, sensors to acquire biometric information of a user facing an opposite side of the half-mirror, and a controller coupled to the sensors and the display. The controller determines from the biometric information a focal distance of the user. If the focal distance corresponds to the display, the controller presents a user interface on the smart mirror in a highly-visible manner and a reflection of the user in a less-visible manner. If the focal distance corresponds to the reflection of the user, the controller presents the user interface on the smart mirror in a less-visible manner and the reflection of the user in a highly-visible manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Zheng Cao, Dimitre Mehandjiysky, Kevin Luke Massaro, Michael Christopher Bartha, Brandon James Lee-Haist
  • Patent number: 10839510
    Abstract: Various arrangements for identifying and grading cancer in tissue samples are presented. A digital image of a stained tissue sample may be acquired. A Shearlet transform may be performed on the digital image of the stained tissue sample. Shearlet coefficients may be calculated based on the performed Shearlet transform of the normalized digital RGB image of the stained tissue sample. A trained neural network may be applied to create a plurality of feature maps using the digital image and Shearlet coefficients, wherein the trained neural network was trained using a plurality of images and Shearlet coefficients of a plurality of digital images. A classifier may be applied to an output of the trained neural network to identify whether cancer is present in the stained tissue sample. A notification may be output that is indicative of a grade of detected cancer in the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Colorado Seminary, which owns and operates the University of Denver
    Inventors: Mohammad H. Mahoor, Hadi Rezaeilouyeh, Ali Mollahosseini
  • Patent number: 10839234
    Abstract: A system and method for three-dimensional (3D) object detection is disclosed. A particular embodiment can be configured to: receive image data from at least one camera associated with an autonomous vehicle, the image data representing at least one image frame; use a trained deep learning module to determine pixel coordinates of a two-dimensional (2D) bounding box around an object detected in the image frame; use the trained deep learning module to determine vertices of a three-dimensional (3D) bounding box around the object; use a fitting module to obtain geological information related to a particular environment associated with the image frame and to obtain camera calibration information associated with the at least one camera; and use the fitting module to determine 3D attributes of the object using the 3D bounding box, the geological information, and the camera calibration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
    Inventor: Panqu Wang
  • Patent number: 10839853
    Abstract: Some examples include receiving audio content through a microphone of an electronic device and determining whether embedded data is included in the received audio content. The electronic device may decode the received audio content to extract the embedded data. In addition, the electronic device may perform at least one of: sending a communication to a computing device over a network based on the extracted embedded data, or presenting information on a display of the electronic device based on the extracted embedded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: ADORI LABS, INC.
    Inventors: Viswanathan Iyer, Kartik Parija
  • Patent number: 10839817
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for media content marking and tracking are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SPARCQ, INC.
    Inventor: Mohammed Umair Mufti
  • Patent number: 10839462
    Abstract: A damage assessment module operating on a computer system automatically evaluates a roof, estimating damage to the roof by analyzing a point cloud of a roof. The damage assessment module identifies individual shingles from the point cloud and detects potentially damaged areas on each of the shingles. The damage assessment module then maps the potentially damaged areas of each shingle back to the point cloud to determine which areas of the roof are damaged. Based on the estimation, the damage assessment module generates a report on the roof damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Bryan Allen Plummer, Drew Cross, Nathan L. Tofte
  • Patent number: 10838105
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the movement of people through a passageway comprising two or more time of flight sensors deployed across the passageway in a direction substantially transverse to the direction of movement of a person or object through the passageway. The system further comprises means to determine data regarding people or objects passing through the passageway based on the time of flight of a signal measured by the two or more sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTEGRATED DESIGN LIMITED
    Inventor: Derek Huff
  • Patent number: 10837770
    Abstract: A measuring device for measuring an object. The measuring device includes a distance measuring unit having a beam emission unit generating a measurement radiation having a defined wavelength spectrum and a detector detecting the measurement radiation reflected on the object surface, the detector having at least one first sensor. The distance measuring unit generates distance measured data and reflection measured data as first distance measured data by emitting the measurement radiation and detecting the reflected measurement radiation according to the principle of triangulation. The measurement radiation is generated using a wavelength spectrum such that a fluorescence is excitable by an interaction of the measurement radiation with the object material to emit fluorescent light, wherein a spectrum of the fluorescent light and the wavelength spectrum of the measurement radiation are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Jensen, Zheng Yang, Johan Stigwall
  • Patent number: 10839034
    Abstract: High-precision local search is performed on the Internet. A map image-rendering software provider embeds spatial keys into maps, which are then provided to producers of Internet content such as map providers. For example, a homeowner may post a message on a web bulletin board advertising his house for sale, and including a map showing the location of the house. When a search engine's web crawler encounters a page having a spatial key embedded in an image, the spatial key is indexed with the other content on the page. Because the spatial key identifies a small geographic area, indexing the content with the spatial key allows search queries to be limited by area and still provide useful results. Thus, a user of a search engine searching for “house for sale” in a specific area will be directed to web pages that meet the geographic and content search terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard F. Poppen, Geoffrey Rummens Hendrey
  • Patent number: 10839211
    Abstract: The systems, methods, and computer program products disclosed herein pertain to image analysis techniques that may exploit computer vision, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, and deep neural network models in order to detect change and determine spatio-temporal attention regions of relevant change in multi-spectral and multi-resolution satellite images. In some embodiments, the automatic detection of changes in regions over large scales of satellite imagery data may be further used to generate alerts in the context of a monitoring and alerting system. In some embodiments, the input to the system may be provided through an analytics web interface or an application programming interface (API), and the output may also be served through the web interface or API.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Inventors: Michal Reinstein, Jakub Simanek, Pavel Machalek, Jan Zikes
  • Patent number: 10841289
    Abstract: A person's smartphone serves as a security token—used variously to establish the user's authorization, and to test the bona fides of the counter-party system. In one illustrative ATM arrangement, a bank's computer system and the user's smartphone share secret information across a network. The smartphone employs this shared secret to generate a corresponding image, which is displayed on its screen. The displayed image is sensed by a camera in the ATM, which sends corresponding data back to the bank computer system. The bank computer system analyzes the received data and responds by sending information to the ATM authorizing a transaction. By such arrangement, authentication of the transaction involves one-way optical communication of visual information between the ATM and the smartphone, and two-way network communication of information between the ATM and the bank computer system. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventor: Ajith Kamath
  • Patent number: 10832097
    Abstract: A device for image classification comprising a convolutional neural network configured to generate a plurality of probability values, each probability value being linked to a respective one of a plurality of predetermined classes and indicating the probability that the image or a pixel of the image is associated with the respective class, and the convolutional neural network comprises a plurality of convolutional blocks and each of the convolutional blocks comprises: a first convolutional layer configured to perform a pointwise convolution using a first kernel, a second convolutional layer configured to perform a depthwise convolution using a second kernel, wherein the second kernel has one of a single row and a single column, a third convolutional layer configured to perform a depthwise convolution using a third kernel, wherein the third kernel has a single column if the second kernel has a single row, and the third kernel has a single row if the second kernel has a single column, and a fourth convolutional
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Ido Freeman, Lutz Roese-Koerner, Christof Petig, Peet Cremer
  • Patent number: 10832054
    Abstract: A guidance seeking device for a satellite and a method of enhancing the performance of the same. The device includes a seeking device, at least one image-capturing device and a processing device. The seeking device and the at least one image-capturing device are for capturing an image to produce an image data. The processing device is configured to analyze the image data to determine a target and/or an obstacle therein, to produce an image-capturing path according to the target and/or the obstacle in the image data, and to produce a control signal to control the at least one image-capturing device to capture an image corresponding to one part of the image-capturing path. The method includes a seeking step, an analyzing step, a determination step and a controlling step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIES
    Inventors: Pei Hsuan Wu, Jer Ling, Po-Yen Huang
  • Patent number: 10834475
    Abstract: A video packaging and origination service can include one or more encoder components that receive content for encoding and transmitting to requesting entities. Responsive to a request for content, an encoder can be configured with a set of adjustable parameters that depend on the specific format of encoding. To implement watermarking, the encoder dynamically modifies or biases one or more of the parameter values such that the modified parameter values can represent watermarking data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy Prins
  • Patent number: 10832332
    Abstract: A structural analysis computing device may generate a proposed insurance claim and/or generate a proposed insurance quote for an object pictured in a three-dimensional (3D) image. The structural analysis computing device may be coupled to a drone configured to capture exterior images of the object. The structural analysis computing device may include a memory, a user interface, an object sensor configured to capture the 3D image, and a processor in communication with the memory and the object sensor. The processor may access the 3D image including the object, and analyze the 3D images to identify features of the object—such as by inputting the 3D image into a trained machine learning or pattern recognition program. The processor may generate a proposed claim form for a damaged object and/or a proposed quote for an uninsured object, and display the form to a user for their review and/or approval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Timothy J. Spader, George T. Dulee, Jr., Donald Yuhas, Aaron Brucker, Chris Stroh, Jeffrey Mousty
  • Patent number: 10832070
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising acquiring a frame with taking a photograph, acquiring document image data of a document from the frame, detecting shine on the document image data, determining whether the shine is equal to or smaller than a shine baseline, and acquiring a frame with retaking a photograph when the shine is neither equal to nor smaller than the shine baseline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki Tanizaki, Mitsuru Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 10834161
    Abstract: Systems and methods relating to delivery of an alternate representation of a requested segment of a media content item to a terminal device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system comprises a terminal device and a network node. The terminal device is configured to send a request for a first representation of requested media content, and receive a response to the request comprising a second representation of the requested media content, where the second representation of the requested media content is different than the first representation of the requested media content. The network node is configured to receive the request from the terminal device for the first representation of the requested media content, select the second representation of the requested media content, and send the response to the terminal device comprising the second representation of the requested media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Frederic Gabin, Thorsten Lohmar, Joseph Eric Turcotte, Cyril Iskander
  • Patent number: 10832098
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to image prediction. According to one aspect disclosed herein, an image prediction system can receive a training data set that includes a plurality of training images. The image prediction system can define N-dimensional feature vectors corresponding to the plurality of training images in the training data set, parameterize the N-dimensional feature vectors to obtain a plurality of parameterized curves corresponding the plurality of training images in the training data set, obtain a square root velocity representation for each parameterized curve of the plurality of parameterized curves, rescale the plurality of parameterized curves to remove scaling variability among the plurality of parameterized curves, define a pre-shape space for the plurality of parameterized curves, and obtain shape space points pertaining to each parameterized curve of the plurality of parameterized curves on a shape space that inherits a structure from the pre-shape space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Raghuraman Gopalan
  • Patent number: 10827209
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for watermark outage detection. Example methods include evaluating an onset time and duration of a detected watermark outage based on a model of expected watermark outages to determine whether the detected watermark outage corresponds to at least one of the expected watermark outages represented in the model. Example methods further include generating an alert in response to determining the detected watermark outage does not correspond to at least one of the expected watermark outages included in the model, and suppressing the alert in response to determining the detected watermark outage corresponds to the at least one of the expected watermark outages represented in the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Albert Hennacy, Girish Khavasi
  • Patent number: 10827180
    Abstract: A decoding device and a decoding method for decoding a target information from a bitstream of video data are provided, wherein the bitstream comprises a prediction parameter encoded in the bitstream. The decoding device is configured to calculate a randomized host signal based on the prediction parameter and a pseudo-random signal, and to apply a check function to the randomized host signal and thereby obtain the target information. An encoding device and an encoding method, and computer-readable storage media for encoding and for decoding are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov, Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy
  • Patent number: 10824900
    Abstract: In order to acquire recognition environment information impacting the recognition accuracy of a recognition engine, an information processing device 100 comprises a detection unit 101 and an environment acquisition unit 102. The detection unit 101 detects a marker, which has been disposed within a recognition target zone for the purpose of acquiring information, from an image captured by means of an imaging device which captures images of objects located within the recognition target zone. The environment acquisition unit 102 acquires the recognition environment information based on image information of the detected marker. The recognition environment information is information representing the way in which a recognition target object is reproduced in an image captured by the imaging device when said imaging device captures an image of the recognition target object located within the recognition target zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroo Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10825148
    Abstract: Systems and methods for removing objects from images are disclosed. An image processing application identifies a boundary of each object of a set of objects in an image. In some cases, the identification uses deep learning. The image processing application identifies a completed boundary for each object of the set of objects by providing the object to a trained model. The image processing application determines a set of masks. Each mask corresponds to an object of the set of objects and represents a region of the image defined by an intersection of the boundary of the object and the boundary of a target object to be removed from the image. The image processing application updates each mask by separately performing content filling on the corresponding region. The image processing application creates an output image by merging each of the updated masks with portions of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjeev Tagra, Ajay Jain, Sachin Soni, Ajay Bedi
  • Patent number: 10824826
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for detecting anomalies, for instance, user-caused scanning anomalies, which occur during scanning transactions. Scanning-related events may be detected by a scanning device and notifications of such events may be transmitted from the scanning device to a point-of-sale (POS) host device coupled therewith. In aspects, the notifications transmitted to the POS host device include a unique code (e.g., a barcode or label) that is indicative of the corresponding event. Responsive to receipt of the event notifications and the nature thereof, the POS host device may initiate one or more anomaly detection actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Datalogic USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Guess, Moses Tam