Template Matching (e.g., Specific Devices That Determine The Best Match) Patents (Class 382/209)
  • Patent number: 12217432
    Abstract: Assessment of pulmonary function in coronavirus patients includes use of a computer aided diagnostic (CAD) system to assess pulmonary function and risk of mortality in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The CAD system processes chest X-ray data from a patient, extracts imaging markers, and grades disease severity based at least in part on the extracted imaging markers, thereby distinguishing between higher risk and lower risk patients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayman S. El-Baz, Ahmed Shalaby, Mohamed Elsharkawy, Ahmed Sharafeldeen, Ahmed Soliman, Ali Mahmoud, Harpal Sandhu, Guruprasad A. Giridharan
  • Patent number: 12217495
    Abstract: A learning processing device that is based on a neural network model and image data obtained by capturing an image of the object to be inspected, and constructs the neural network model used for inspecting the object to be inspected. The learning processing device is provided with a learning unit which performs a learning process under a prescribed learning condition on the basis of a list of the image data including a plurality of learning images and constructs the neutral network model. The learning unit embeds unique model identification data in the neural network model, whenever the neural network model is constructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Syntegon Technology K.K.
    Inventor: Ken Wada
  • Patent number: 12211092
    Abstract: A front-end image acquisition component acquires photographs and/or videos of the exterior of a vehicle traveling on a path between a first predefined location and a second predefined location. In one aspect, an image acquisition system comprises a first camera support structure, a second camera support structure, an image processor, and a memory. Cameras are affixed to each of the camera support structures for acquiring image data of a subject vehicle. Image data is controlled by the image processor and the memory. In another aspect, an image acquisition system comprises a first camera tower, a second camera tower, a camera boom. Cameras are affixed to each of the camera towers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: BWI Acquisition, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Hauk
  • Patent number: 12211173
    Abstract: This disclosure addresses the single-image compressive sensing (CS) and reconstruction problem. A scalable Laplacian pyramid reconstructive adversarial network (LAPRAN) facilitates high-fidelity, flexible and fast CS image reconstruction. LAPRAN progressively reconstructs an image following the concept of the Laplacian pyramid through multiple stages of reconstructive adversarial networks (RANs). At each pyramid level, CS measurements are fused with a contextual latent vector to generate a high-frequency image residual. Consequently, LAPRAN can produce hierarchies of reconstructed images and each with an incremental resolution and improved quality. The scalable pyramid structure of LAPRAN enables high-fidelity CS reconstruction with a flexible resolution that is adaptive to a wide range of compression ratios (CRs), which is infeasible with existing methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Fengbo Ren, Kai Xu, Zhikang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12204512
    Abstract: Setting or verification of a monitoring rule in response to a monitoring target environment is supported. An information processing system includes a situation information receiving unit that receives an input of situation information indicating a situation in a monitoring target environment. The information processing system further includes a normal situation storage unit. The normal situation storage unit stores environment information indicating the monitoring target environment in association with a set of situation information indicating a situation that is not abnormal in the monitoring target environment. The information processing system further includes a retrieval unit. The retrieval unit refers to the normal situation storage unit upon receiving the input of the situation information indicating the information in the monitoring target environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio Ishizawa, Satoshi Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 12190539
    Abstract: A system and method for tracking an object comprising: an image input gateway arranged to receive a series of image frames from a stream of images, wherein the stream of images includes representations of the object being spatially displaced over the series of image frames; an object tracker arranged to process the series of image frames to track the object with a first object location process arranged to locate the object in the series of image frames; and, when upon the object is unable to be located by the first object location process in any of the image frames within the series of image frames, use a second object location process to locate the object in the image frames or subsequent image frames for tracking the object through the remaining series of image frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CENTRE FOR INTELLIGENT MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA ANALYSIS LIMITED
    Inventors: Muyu Li, Hong Yan
  • Patent number: 12182070
    Abstract: In a system for efficiently organizing, storing, and/or accessing project data, and for visualizing project progress, for a specified project, a fractal-based or bioinspired reference structure is selected. A file organization and storage structure is generated based on the reference structure. The reference structure includes tags that can indicate the appropriate storage locations for different types of project-related data based on the nature of the data. To storage a file, the name and/or contents of the file are analyzed and matched with one or more tags, so that the file can be stored at the location identified by the best matching tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventor: Peter Antony Gish
  • Patent number: 12182197
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including: an image acquisition unit acquiring a candidate of a query image; a skeletal structure detection unit detecting a two-dimensional skeletal structure of a person included in a candidate of the query image; a query evaluation unit computing an evaluation value of a candidate of the query image, based on a detection result of the two-dimensional skeletal structure; a selection unit selecting a query image out of candidates of the query image, based on the evaluation value; a feature value computation unit computing a feature value of the two-dimensional skeletal structure detected from the query image; and a retrieval unit retrieving an analysis target image including a person in a pose similar to a pose of a person included in the query image out of analysis target images, based on a degree of similarity of the computed feature value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Yoshida, Yadong Pan, Ryo Kawai, Jianquan Liu, Shoji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 12158987
    Abstract: User interaction concepts, principles and algorithms for gestures involving facial expressions, motion or orientation of body parts, eye gaze, tightening muscles, mental activity, and other user actions are disclosed. User interaction concepts, principles and algorithms for enabling hands-free and voice-free interaction with electronic devices are disclosed. Apparatuses, systems, computer implementable methods, and non-transient computer storage media storing instructions, implementing the disclosed concepts, principles and algorithms are disclosed. Gestures for systems using eye gaze and head tracking that can be used with augmented, mixed or virtual reality, mobile or desktop computing are disclosed. Use of periods of limited activity and consecutive user actions in orthogonal axes is disclosed. Generation of command signals based on start and end triggers is disclosed. Methods for coarse as well as fine modification of objects are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Perceptive Devices LLC
    Inventor: Uday Parshionikar
  • Patent number: 12160517
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an efficient system for cancelable biometric template protection which is not available in the conventional systems. Initially, the system receives a biometric template from a user. The biometric template is one of, a face image, a fingerprint, an iris image and a palmprint. Further, a vector embedding is computed based on the biometric template using a pretrained neural network. After computing the vector embedding, a key based permutation is computed based on the vector embedding and a permutation key. The permutation key is generated based on an Identification number (ID) associated with the user using a random number based key generation technique. Finally, a protected biometric template is generated by computing a permuted embedding corresponding to the biometric template based on the key based permutation using a plurality of fully connected layers pretrained using a weight based center triplet loss function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Surabhi Garg, Arun Kumar Jindal, Rajan Mindigal Alasingara Bhattachar, Srinivasa Rao Chalamala, Sachin Premsukh Lodha
  • Patent number: 12159434
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of reducing an increase in a load imposed by processing of multispectral image data. Multispectral image data including components in four or more wavelength bands is simple-coded at a fixed compression rate. Alternatively, coded data generated by simple coding at a fixed compression rate for multispectral image data including components in four or more wavelength bands is simple-decoded. For example, the present disclosure is applicable to an image processing apparatus, an image coding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, an imaging element, an imaging apparatus, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinori Ihara, Takuya Kitamura, Takefumi Nagumo
  • Patent number: 12155855
    Abstract: A decoder includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to obtain first information from a bitstream, the first information indicating a number of first points in a current picture. The processor is also configured to determine second information provided for each of the first points based on the first information, the second information indicating a difference between a coordinate value of a first point and a coordinate value of a corresponding second point, the corresponding second point being included in a reference picture. The processor is further configured to generate a prediction image of a current block by performing an affine prediction according to the determined second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshikawa, Hisao Sasai, Kengo Terada
  • Patent number: 12154382
    Abstract: An eye state detecting method, applied to an electronic apparatus with an image sensor, which comprises: (a) acquiring a detecting image via the image sensor; (b) defining a face range on the detecting image; (c) defining a determining range on the face range; and (d) determining if the determining range comprises an open eye image or a close eye image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventor: Guo-Zhen Wang
  • Patent number: 12148213
    Abstract: An object recognition ingestion system is presented. The object ingestion system captures image data of objects, possibly in an uncontrolled setting. The image data is analyzed to determine if one or more a priori know canonical shape objects match the object represented in the image data. The canonical shape object also includes one or more reference PoVs indicating perspectives from which to analyze objects having the corresponding shape. An object ingestion engine combines the canonical shape object along with the image data to create a model of the object. The engine generates a desirable set of model PoVs from the reference PoVs, and then generates recognition descriptors from each of the model PoVs. The descriptors, image data, model PoVs, or other contextually relevant information are combined into key frame bundles having sufficient information to allow other computing devices to recognize the object at a later time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Kamil Wnuk, David McKinnon, Jeremi Sudol, Bing Song, Matheen Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 12135840
    Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for controlling the presentation of one or more virtual or graphical elements on a display in response to bimanual hand gestures detected by an eyewear device that is capturing frames of video data with its camera system. An image processing system detects a first hand and defines an input plane relative to a surface of the detected first hand. The image processing system also detects a series of bimanual hand shapes, including the detected first hand and at least one fingertip of a second hand. In response, the system presents a first movable element on the display at a location that is correlated with the current fingertip location. In addition, the image processing system determines whether the detected series of bimanual hand shapes matches a predefined hand gesture. In response to a matching gesture, the system executes a selecting action of an element nearest the current fingertip location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Karen Stolzenberg
  • Patent number: 12137290
    Abstract: Disclosed are a face image and iris image acquisition method and device, a computer-readable readable storage medium and an apparatus. The method includes rotating the first tripod head to force the face lens and the iris lens to be in acquisition positions; capturing a first face image and a first iris image simultaneously by the face lens and the iris lens; and locating the iris in the first iris image, and if no iris is located, determining whether a condition of light-avoiding rotation is satisfied, and if the condition is satisfied, rotating the second tripod head to adjust an angle or a position of the supplementary light source to enable a light spot region to avoid an iris region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: EYECOOL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., EYECOOL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., EYECOOL SHENZHEN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng Peng, Jun Zhou
  • Patent number: 12131404
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes an inference unit that infers, on the basis of a result of checking a first image against a plurality of images taken in the past, a third image that is an image taken in the past at a position corresponding to a second image to be taken at a next timing of the first image, and a generation unit that generates a fourth image that is an image obtained by correcting the second image on the basis of the third image in a case where the second image is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Kamio, Toshiyuki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12123719
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for lighting adaptive navigation. In some implementations, a method includes receiving map data associated with a property; obtaining sensor data; based on the map data and the sensor data, determining a lighting scenario; and based on the lighting scenario, configuring the robotic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmad Seyfi, Timon Meyer, Donald Gerard Madden, Babak Rezvani
  • Patent number: 12124962
    Abstract: The technology of this application related to an image processor comprising a plurality of modules, the plurality of modules comprising a first module and a second module, wherein the image processor is configured to receive an input image and output a plurality of mathematical descriptors for characteristic regions of the input image. The first module is configured to implement a first trained artificial intelligence model to detect a set of characteristic regions in the input image; and the second module is configured to implement a second trained artificial intelligence model to determine a mathematical descriptor for each of said set of characteristic regions. The first and second trained artificial intelligence models are collectively trained end to end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Axel Barroso Laguna, Yannick Verdie, Benjamin Busam, Ales Leonardis, Gregory Slabaugh
  • Patent number: 12117403
    Abstract: A method of determining an optimal target gemstone to be obtained from a rough gemstone comprises obtaining a first series of 2D images of the rough gemstone; providing a 3D model of a target gemstone to be obtained from the rough gemstone; and generating a second series of 2D images of the target gemstone from the 3D model thereof. The method then comprises comparing the first and second series of 2D images to determine an optimal transformation to be applied to the 3D model of the target gemstone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: De Beers UK Ltd
    Inventor: Qi He Hong
  • Patent number: 12111889
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system for automatically updating item image information stored in an item images data store and used for processing captured images to identify items represented in those images. In one implementation, once an identity of an item has been verified, captured images of that item are associated with the item and stored in the item images data store. As a result, the item images data store is updated each time an image of the item is captured and the identity of the item is verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dilip Kumar, Jon Robert Ducrou, Joseph Xavier, Ramanathan Palaniappan, Michel Leonard Goldstein, Michael Lee Brundage
  • Patent number: 12111180
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to calibrating multi-view triangulation systems that perceive surfaces and objects based on reflections of one or more scanned laser beams that are continuously sensed by two or more sensors. In addition to sampling and triangulating points from a spline formed by an unbroken line trajectory of a laser beam, the calibration system samples and triangulates a corresponding velocity vector. Iterative reduction is performed on velocity vectors instead of points or splines. The velocity vector includes directions and magnitudes along a trajectory of a scanning laser beam which are used to determine the actual velocities. Translation and rotation vectors are based on the velocity vectors for matching trajectories determined for two or more sensors having offset physical positions, which are used to calibrate sensor offset errors associated with the matching trajectories provided to a modeling engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Summer Robotics, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Alexander Paden
  • Patent number: 12112536
    Abstract: A camera apparatus includes control circuitry, where in a training phase, the control circuitry is configured to generate a set of binary images of foliage masks, where each binary image comprises one or more foliage regions demarcated from a non-foliage region. A modified training dataset of color images is generated and a custom neural network model for foliage detection is trained. The control circuitry causes the custom neural network model to not only learn a plurality of features related to foliage but also learn a color variation range of predefined color associated with the plurality of features and utilize combination of the plurality of features related to foliage and the color variation range to obtain trained custom neural network model. The control circuitry is configured to operate the trained custom neural network model to detect one or more foliage regions in a new color image in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Tartan Aerial Sense Tech Private Limited
    Inventors: Dhivakar Kanagaraj, Pranav M P, Raghul Raghu, Prakash Mathews Pothen
  • Patent number: 12106545
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a training method and device for an image identifying model, and an image identifying method. The training method comprises: obtaining image samples of a plurality of categories; inputting image samples of each category into a feature extraction layer of the image identifying model to extract a feature vector of each image sample; calculating a statistical characteristic information of an actual distribution function corresponding to each category according to the feature vector of each image sample of the each category; establishing an augmented distribution function corresponding to the each category according to the statistical characteristic information; obtaining augmented sample features of the each category based on the augmented distribution function; and inputting feature vectors of the image samples and the augmented sample features into a classification layer of the image identifying model for supervised learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: LEMON INC.
    Inventors: Jingna Sun, Peibin Chen, Weihong Zeng, Xu Wang, Jing Liu, Chunpong Lai, Shen Sang
  • Patent number: 12102464
    Abstract: Disclosed are a bone age estimation method and a bone age estimation apparatus. The bone age estimation method may comprise the steps of: extracting a region of interest including a cervical spine region from a lateral cephalometric radiographic image obtained by imaging a subject's cervical spine, by using a first deep learning model; extracting landmarks from the extracted region of interest by using a second deep learning model; calculating a landmark numerical value on the basis of the extracted landmarks; and providing maturity information of a maturation stage of the cervical spine on the basis of the calculated landmark numerical value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Byung Duk Ahn, In Seok Song, Yoon-Ji Kim, Jae Gul Choo, Jin Hee Kim, Tae Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 12100214
    Abstract: A method and system for improving prediction of an incident affecting public safety is described. At a machine learning analytics system, the method includes obtaining a real-time video for a location of a public safety emergency call and predicting a public safety incident therefrom. At a learning processor, the method includes: receiving information related to the public safety emergency call; identifying a public safety incident type based thereon; receiving the prediction of the public safety incident; using a first public safety incident machine learning model based on the identified public safety incident type and comparing the public safety incident prediction with the information related to the public safety emergency call and identifying an incident prediction mismatch therefrom. The learning processor identifies an artifact in the real-time video that is a contributing factor for the incident prediction mismatch; and implements a model improvement action associated with the artifact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Janusz Szuba, Krzysztof Jasinski, Piotr Matejanka, Pawel Wilkosz
  • Patent number: 12093835
    Abstract: Unsupervised, deep learning of eye-landmarks in a user-specific eyes' image data by capturing an unlabeled image comprising an eye region of a user, using an initial geometrically regularized loss function, training a plurality of convolutional autoencoders on the unlabeled image comprising the eye region of the user to recover a plurality of user-specific eye landmarks, training a convolutional neural network for autoencoded landmarks-based recovery from the unlabeled image, and where the initial geometrically regularized loss function is represented by the formula LAE=?reconLrecon+?concLconc+?sepLsep+?eqvLeqv where LAE is total AutoEncoder Loss, ?reconLrecon is ?-weighted reconstruction loss, ?concLconce is ?-weighted concentration loss, ?sepLsep is ?-weighted separation loss, and ?eqvLeqv is ?-weighted equivalence loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventors: Oren Haimovitch-Yogev, Tsahi Mizrahi, Andrey Zhitnikov, Almog David, Artyom Borzin, Gilad Drozdov
  • Patent number: 12094184
    Abstract: Feature descriptor matching is reformulated into a graph-matching problem. Keypoints from a query image and a reference image are initially matched and filtered based on the match. For a given keypoint, a feature graph is constructed based on neighboring keypoints surrounding the given keypoint. The feature graph is compared to a corresponding feature graph of a reference image for the matched keypoint. Relocalization data is obtained based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chen Huang, Seyed Hesameddin Najafi Shoushtari, Frankie Lu, Shih-Yu Sun, Joshua M. Susskind
  • Patent number: 12094075
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one processor, and a memory functionally connected to the at least one processor. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, enable the electronic device to obtain a plurality of images, generate a first basic extended image based on first images among the plurality of images, identify at least one first masking area included in the first basic extended image, and generate a first inference image by modifying the at least one first masking area using at least one first inference result, based on the first images and the first basic extended image. An angle of view of the first inference image may be larger than an angle of view of each of the first images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sanghun Lee, Sungoh Kim, Dasom Lee
  • Patent number: 12080085
    Abstract: A meter readout on a meter has digits including a first digit, a second digit, etc. A sequence of images of the meter is obtained. The images include images of the digits in the meter readout. Automated recognition of the digits in the images result in likelihood arrays indicating the likelihoods for the digit values for the digits imaged in the meter images. Short chains of digit values are identified and spliced together to form a series of single digit, two-digit, three-digits, etc. paths that are built up based on the likelihood arrays. Various criteria are used to discard most of the chains and thereby avoid the combinatorial explosion of possible paths and thereby produce reliable meter readings without consuming considerable computational resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Yuri P. Garbuzov
  • Patent number: 12076134
    Abstract: Example posture analysis systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a computing system identifies a deviation of a user's posture from a predetermined posture based on visual data associated with the user. The user is informed of the deviation via a graphical image displayed on a display device. The user is then provided with instructions for correcting the deviation via the graphical image displayed on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Brightday Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard William Bow Gray, Jens-Peter Jungclaussen, Jonas P. Cleveland, James Morris
  • Patent number: 12079266
    Abstract: Processes and systems for displaying information received in a query response. One system includes a communication device including a user interface and an electronic processor. The electronic processor transmits a query, and receives a response to the query including stored information in each of a plurality of fields of information about an object of interest. The electronic processor receives an image of the object from a camera, identifies visually descriptive text information describing the object, and categorizes at least a portion of the visually descriptive text information into the plurality of fields of information. The electronic processor determines a confidence level for each field of information based on a comparison of the stored information and the visually descriptive text information in each field, and displays the stored information in one or more fields for which the confidence level of the comparison is below a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yong Tian, Lee M. Proctor
  • Patent number: 12074722
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for delivering assistance to impaired users within a virtual conferencing system, and more particularly, to providing assistance to hearing-impaired users to control the virtual conferencing system while using sign language. The systems and methods for providing assistance to impaired users includes initiating a virtual meeting, detecting one or more hand gestures within a predefined area, interpreting the one or more hand gestures to determine one or more commands, and updating one or more controls for the virtual meeting based on the one or more commands. These steps can be implemented to assist hearing-impaired users to manage controls when communicating within a virtual meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Dean Legatski, Thanh Le Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12075092
    Abstract: A video data encoding method for encoding an array of video data values comprises the steps of: frequency-transforming the video data values according to a frequency transform, to generate an array of frequency-transformed values by a matrix-multiplication process using a transform matrix having a data precision of fourteen bits, the frequency transform being a discrete cosine transform; defining a 64×64 transform matrix M64 for a 64×64 DCT transform, the matrix M64 being defined by the accompanying FIGS. 10a-10e and 11; for an N×N transform where N is 2, 4, 8 or 16, subsampling the 64×64 transform matrix M64 to select a subset of N×N values, the subset MN[x][y] of values being defined by: MN[x][y]=M64[x][(2(6-log2(N)))y] for x,y=0 . . . (N?1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Karl James Sharman, Adrian Richard Browne, Stephen Mark Keating
  • Patent number: 12067728
    Abstract: A heterogeneous image registration method includes: performing edge detection on collected images, in combination with a curvature scale space strategy to extract contour curved segments in an edge image. Implementing a feature point detection strategy based on global and local curvature detecting feature points in the contour curved segments, and obtaining the nearest minimum local curvature of the feature points pointing to starting and end points of the contour, respectively. Calculating the number of neighborhood sampling points and neighborhood auxiliary feature points of neighborhoods on both edges of each of the feature points according to the nearest minimum local curvature. Using neighborhood auxiliary feature points and feature points to form a feature triangle, calculating an angle bisector vector and a main direction corresponding to the feature point in the feature triangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Yadong Liu, Yingjie Yan, Qian Jiang, Ling Pei, Zhe Li, Peng Xu, Lei Su, Xiaofei Fu, Xiuchen Jiang
  • Patent number: 12056212
    Abstract: An illustrative image descriptor generation system determines a subset of image descriptors from a plurality of image descriptors that each correspond to a different feature point included within an image. The subset of image descriptors is determined based on geometric proximity, within the image, of respective feature points of the subset of image descriptors to a feature point of a primary image descriptor. The image descriptor generation system then selects a secondary image descriptor from the subset of image descriptors and combines the primary image descriptor and the secondary image descriptor to form a composite image descriptor. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Virodov, Vinaya Kumar Polavarapu
  • Patent number: 12056223
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of fusing at least two different candidate lists into a single candidate list, said at least two different candidate lists being generated by matching biometric data captured from an individual to be identified and biometric data enrolled from candidates to calculate match scores of candidates and ranking said match scores, the method comprising steps of: normalizing the match scores of the candidates of said at least two different candidate lists; ranking at least part of the candidates of said at least two different candidate lists in a single candidate list according to said normalized match scores to fuse said at least two different candidate lists; identifying at least one candidate belonging to multiple lists of said at least two different candidate lists; and raising said identified at least one candidate's rank in said single candidate list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: THALES DIS FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Li Songtao, Amit Pandey
  • Patent number: 12053146
    Abstract: An endoscope system comprising: a light source device configured to emit illumination light; an electronic endoscope; a processor that includes an image processing unit; and a monitor. The image processing unit includes: a detection unit configured to generate a first blood vessel detection image and a second blood vessel detection image; a separation unit configured to separate the first blood vessel detection image and the second blood vessel detection image into a shallow blood vessel image and a deep blood vessel image; a feature amount calculation unit configured to calculate a shallow blood vessel feature amount regarding the shallow blood vessel image and a deep blood vessel feature amount regarding the deep blood vessel image; and an evaluation unit configured to calculate severity of a lesion of a biological tissue by using the shallow blood vessel feature amount and the deep blood vessel feature amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takao Makino
  • Patent number: 12056792
    Abstract: Systems and methods herein describe a motion retargeting system. The motion retargeting system accesses a plurality of two-dimensional images comprising a person performing a plurality of body poses, extracts a plurality of implicit volumetric representations from the plurality of body poses, generates a three-dimensional warping field, the three-dimensional warping field configured to warp the plurality of implicit volumetric representations from a canonical pose to a target pose, and based on the three-dimensional warping field, generates a two-dimensional image of an artificial person performing the target pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Ren, Menglei Chai, Oliver Woodford, Kyle Olszewski, Sergey Tulyakov
  • Patent number: 12034906
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for generating three-dimensional (3D) images of a scene. According to an aspect, a method includes capturing a real-time image and a first still image of a scene. Further, the method includes displaying the real-time image of the scene on a display. The method also includes determining one or more properties of the captured images. The method also includes calculating an offset in a real-time display of the scene to indicate a target camera positional offset with respect to the first still image. Further, the method includes determining that a capture device is in a position of the target camera positional offset. The method also includes capturing a second still image. Further, the method includes correcting the captured first and second still images. The method also includes generating the three-dimensional image based on the corrected first and second still images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: 3DMedia Corporation
    Inventors: Michael McNamer, Marshall Robers, Tassos Markas, Jason Hurst
  • Patent number: 12033285
    Abstract: A virtual window configuration method includes the following steps. A processor generates a virtual window. A depth detection sensor generates depth information based on an image. The processor analyzes the depth information to generate a depth matrix. The processor finds a depth configuration block in the image using the depth matrix. A feature point detection sensor generates feature point information for the image. The processor analyzes the feature point information to generate a feature point matrix. The processor finds a feature point configuration block in the image using the feature point matrix. The processor moves the virtual window to the depth configuration block or the feature point configuration block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wistron Corp.
    Inventors: Wei-Chou Chen, Ming-Fong Yeh, Yu-Chi Chang, Lee-Chun Ko
  • Patent number: 12026769
    Abstract: A front-end image acquisition component acquires photographs and/or videos of the exterior of a vehicle traveling on a path between a first predefined location and a second predefined location. In one aspect, an image acquisition system comprises a first camera support structure, a second camera support structure, an image processor, and a memory. Cameras are affixed to each of the camera support structures for acquiring image data of a subject vehicle. Image data is controlled by the image processor and the memory. In another aspect, an image acquisition system comprises a first camera tower, a second camera tower, a camera boom. Cameras are affixed to each of the camera towers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: BWI Acquisition, LLC
    Inventor: Jason Hauk
  • Patent number: 12026860
    Abstract: System and method for detecting the authenticity of products by detecting a unique chaotic signature. Photos of the products are taken at the plant and stored in a database/server. The server processes the images to detect for each authentic product a unique authentic signature which is the result of a manufacturing process, a process of nature etc. To detect whether the product is genuine or not at the store, the user/buyer may take a picture of the product and send it to the server (e.g. using an app installed on a portable device or the like). Upon receipt of the photo, the server may process the receive image in search for a pre-detected and/or pre-stored chaotic signature associated with an authentic product. The server may return a response to the user indicating the result of the search. A feedback mechanism may be included to guide the user to take a picture at a specific location of the product where the chaotic signature may exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventor: Guy Le Henaff
  • Patent number: 12020503
    Abstract: A fingerprint processing device includes a match processing unit configured to determine, based on a first degree, a plurality of feature points having a large value of the first degree among the feature points of a fingerprint specified in a fingerprint image of a matching source, the first degree representing a first distance to other feature points, as representative feature points used in match processing of the fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Hirokawa
  • Patent number: 12019844
    Abstract: In one implementation, a computing device to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) for presenting content includes one or more processors; a network interface to establish a network connection with a remote server system; a display to output a plurality of graphical elements as part of the GUI; one or more input devices to receive user input related to the plurality of graphical elements; and memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including selecting a first content element; selecting second content elements; detecting a third content element comprising a content summary of the second content elements; and outputting, in the GUI on the display, a first graphical element for the first content element and a third graphical element for the third content element, wherein second graphical elements for the second content elements are hidden or collapsed in the GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Caitlin Sicora, Priya Rajendran, Westley M. Stringfellow
  • Patent number: 12015876
    Abstract: An in-vehicle monitoring device includes a first imaging member, a second imaging member, and a controller. The first imaging member is configured to perform first imaging to capture a first image of one or more occupants in a passenger compartment of the vehicle. The second imaging member is configured to capture a second image of the one or more occupants. The controller is configured to execute a monitoring process on the first image and the second image. The first imaging member and the second imaging member are disposed in a center portion of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle so as to be arranged side-by-side in the vehicle width direction such that at least a portion of an imaging range of the first imaging member and at least a portion of an imaging range of the second imaging member overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryota Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12013985
    Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for controlling the presentation of a series of virtual or graphical elements on a display in response to hand gestures detected by an eyewear device that is capturing frames of video data with its camera system. An image processing system detects a series of hand shapes in the video data and determines whether it matches a predefined hand gesture. Each predefined hand gesture is associated with an action; for example, a leafing gesture is associated with a scrolling action. The system controls the display of a series of virtual elements, in accordance with the associated action. In an example series of hand shapes that includes flexing and extending the fingers of a single hand severally and continually in a leafing motion, the matching predefined leafing gesture is associated with a scrolling action, which displays the series of items in a display order, sequentially and in accordance with the detected speed of the moving fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Karen Stolzenberg, Ilteris Canberk
  • Patent number: 12014570
    Abstract: A face authentication apparatus includes a face image acquisition unit that acquires a face image of an authentication target, a collation unit that performs face authentication by calculating similarity between face information of the face image of the authentication target and reference face image of each registered user and comparing the similarity with a threshold, a prediction unit that predicts a change in the similarity on the basis of similarity history on authentication success, and a threshold change unit that changes the threshold on the basis of the prediction result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taketo Kochi, Kenji Saito
  • Patent number: 12007697
    Abstract: A method of evaluating a patterning process, the method including: obtaining the result of a first measurement of a first metrology target; obtaining the result of a second measurement of a second metrology target, the second metrology target having a structural difference from the first metrology target that generates a sensitivity difference and/or an offset, of a process parameter of the patterning process between the first and second metrology targets; and determining a value pertaining to the patterning process based on the results of the first and second measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Bert Verstraeten, Hugo Augustinus Joseph Cramer, Thomas Theeuwes
  • Patent number: 12002236
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatus and systems for gesture recognition based on neural network processing. One exemplary method for identifying a gesture communicated by a subject includes receiving a plurality of images associated with the gesture, providing the plurality of images to a first 3-dimensional convolutional neural network (3D CNN) and a second 3D CNN, where the first 3D CNN is operable to produce motion information, where the second 3D CNN is operable to produce pose and color information, and where the first 3D CNN is operable to implement an optical flow algorithm to detect the gesture, fusing the motion information and the pose and color information to produce an identification of the gesture, and determining whether the identification corresponds to a singular gesture across the plurality of images using a recurrent neural network that comprises one or more long short-term memory units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: AVODAH, INC.
    Inventors: Trevor Chandler, Dallas Nash, Michael Menefee