Ben A Miller

US Patent:

7443916, Oct 28, 2008

Filed:

Nov 24, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/721445

Inventors:

Hossein Sedarat - San Jose CA, US
Ben Miller - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

2Wire, Inc. - San Jose CA

International Classification:

H04L 27/28
H04B 1/10
H03D 1/04

US Classification:

375260, 375254, 375346

Abstract:

A method, system and apparatus for reliable multicarrier communication in the presence of periodic impulsive interference is disclosed. A power level of noise in a signal is determined. An impulse noise in the signal is detected. A gain factor associated with the impulse noise is determined and applied to the noise power of the signal to calculate an equivalent noise power. In one aspect, the equivalent noise power is used to determine a signal-noise-ratio.

US Patent:

7898576, Mar 1, 2011

Filed:

Aug 27, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/845439

Inventors:

Ben A. Miller - Minneapolis MN, US
Isaac Cohen - Minnetonka MN, US
Yunqian Ma - Roseville MN, US
Roland Miezianko - Plymouth MN, US

Assignee:

Honeywell International Inc. - Morristown NJ

International Classification:

H04N 5/228
H04N 5/76

US Classification:

3482221, 3482313

Abstract:

A seed search of a subset of analytical data corresponding to video objects displayable in a plurality of video frames is carried out to identify video objects that most closely match a selected video object and then complete searches of the analytical data may be carried out so as to identify video objects that most closely match each video object identified during the seed search. The video objects having the greatest number of occurrences of being identified during the complete searches may be displayed by a graphical user interface (GUI). In this way, the GUI may display the video objects in an order based on how closely each video object matches the selected video object and/or a video object identified during the seed search, which may an order different than an order based on a time when each video object was captured.

US Patent:

7925112, Apr 12, 2011

Filed:

Feb 28, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/680347

Inventors:

Yunqian Ma - Roseville MN, US
Isaac Cohen - Minnetonka MN, US
Ben A. Miller - Minneapolis MN, US

Assignee:

Honeywell International Inc. - Morristown NJ

International Classification:

G06K 9/64
G06K 9/62

US Classification:

382278, 382225

Abstract:

Video data matching includes both a single region of data and sequences of regions of data. In an embodiment, a video processing system selects, from a first matrix row corresponding to a test appearance model, one or more other appearance models as a function of similarity measures populating the first matrix row. After selection of the one or more other appearance models, the system then selects, from other matrix rows corresponding to the one or more other appearance models selected in the first step, one or more additional appearance models as a function of the similarity measures populating the other matrix rows. The system then ranks the appearance models selected from the first matrix row and the other matrix rows.

US Patent:

8160371, Apr 17, 2012

Filed:

Dec 3, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/949519

Inventors:

Yunqian Ma - Roseville MN, US
Ben A. Miller - Minneapolis MN, US
Andrew H. Johnson - New Brighton MN, US
Thomas R. Markham - Fridley MN, US

Assignee:

Honeywell International Inc. - Morristown NJ

International Classification:

G06K 9/00
G06K 9/70
G06K 9/60

US Classification:

382226, 382103, 382305

Abstract:

A system includes a motion detection processor, a motion tracking processor, a people detection processor, a controller, a fusion processor, an appearance model generator processor, a database, a fast search processor, and a matching processor. The motion detection processor, the motion tracking processor, the controller, the people detection processor, the fusion processor, and the appearance model generator processor comprise an analytics pipeline, and the database and the fast search processor comprise a data index pipeline.

US Patent:

8275205, Sep 25, 2012

Filed:

Jul 23, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/495557

Inventors:

Michael Ray Elgersma - Plymouth MN, US
Saad J. Bedros - West St. Paul MN, US
Michael Janssen - Minneapolis MN, US
Ben Miller - Minneapolis MN, US

Assignee:

Honeywell International Inc. - Morristown NJ

International Classification:

G06K 9/62
H04N 5/225

US Classification:

382209, 348169

Abstract:

A system having an approach for prioritizing targets for an order of capturing the targets photographically or otherwise. Prioritizing is based on cost of obtaining or capturing the target for viewing or photographing in high resolution. One acquisition mechanism is for obtaining a wide field of view of a scene of targets and another acquisition mechanism is for obtaining a narrow field of view of a target for capture. The cost for prioritizing is based on the time that the narrow field of view acquisition mechanism takes to pan and tilt to get a close-up image of a target divided by the width of the target. The targets may be faces of people.

US Patent:

8442977, May 14, 2013

Filed:

Feb 16, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/706177

Inventors:

Scott McCloskey - Minneapolis MN, US
Ben A. Miller - Minneapolis MN, US

Assignee:

Honeywell International Inc. - Morristown NJ

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707728, 707749, 707769, 707794

Abstract:

A process includes receiving an archive of video data comprising a plurality of archive descriptor types, and applying a query to the archive. The query includes a number of N query descriptor types for a query object. The process further includes determining a difference between each query descriptor type and corresponding descriptor types of the archive, and storing each difference as a point in an N dimensional space. The process further includes identifying an archive object that is similar to the query object as a function of proximities of the differences to an origin of the N dimensional space.

US Patent:

8634601, Jan 21, 2014

Filed:

May 11, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/105071

Inventors:

Saad J. Bedros - West St. Paul MN, US
Ben A. Miller - Minneapolis MN, US

Assignee:

Honeywell International Inc. - Morristown NJ

International Classification:

G06K 9/00

US Classification:

382118, 382115, 382299

Abstract:

Various embodiments illustrated and described herein include at least one of systems, methods, and software that utilizes imagery from a single high-resolution camera to capture images, locate individuals, and provide images to a facial recognition process. Some embodiments also include prioritization and filtering that choose which captured images from a stream of images to process and when to process them when there are many images to be processed.

US Patent:

20110128385, Jun 2, 2011

Filed:

Dec 2, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/629733

Inventors:

Saad J. Bedros - West St. Paul MN, US
Ben Miller - Minneapolis MN, US
Michael Janssen - Minneapolis MN, US

Assignee:

Honeywell International Inc. - Morristown NJ

International Classification:

H04N 5/33
H04N 5/225
H04N 5/262
H04N 5/228

US Classification:

348164, 348262, 34824099, 3482221, 348E05024, 348E05055, 348E0509, 348E05031

Abstract:

A multi-camera arrangement for capturing a high resolution image of a target. A first camera may be for capturing a wide field of view low resolution image having a target. The target or a component of it may be border-boxed with a marking. The target may be a human being component, such as a face, having approximately the same size among virtually all humans. A distance of the target may be determined from a known size of a component of the target. The target may be other items of similar size. Coordinates of pixels of the image portion containing the target may be mapped to a pan, tilt and zoom (PTZ) camera. The pan and tilt of the PTZ camera may be adjusted according to image information from the wide field of view camera. Then the PTZ camera may zoom in on the target to obtain a high resolution image of the target.