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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Utopiacompression Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Inventors:
Hieu Tat Nguyen, Cypress, CA (US);
Prakash Ramu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hai Wei, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Xiaoqing Liu, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Jacob Yadegar, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Assignee:
UtopiaCompression Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 9/083 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/0063 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for detecting floating objects in maritime video is disclosed. The horizon is detected within the video. Modeling of the sky and water is performed on the video. Objects are detected that are not water and sky within the video.