Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Using images of a monitored scene to identify windows
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Application No.: US15432871Application Date: 2017-02-14
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Publication No.: US10306157B2Publication Date: 2019-05-28
- Inventor: Dongeek Shin , Michael Dixon
- Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/33
- IPC: H04N5/33 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N5/235 ; G06K9/00 ; G06K9/46 ; G08B13/196 ; G08B17/10 ; H04N5/232 ; G06T7/586 ; G06T7/514 ; G06T7/254 ; G06K9/20 ; G06T7/20 ; H04N5/247 ; H04N13/271

Abstract:
A camera system includes memory, image sensors, illuminators, and a processor. The processor operates the illuminators and the image sensors in a first mode to capture a two-dimensional image of the scene using light transmitted by the illuminators and reflected from the scene. The processor operates in a second mode to capture a plurality of images of the scene, including capturing a first image of the scene while one or more of the illuminators are activated and capturing a second image of the scene is while none of the illuminators are activated. The images are transmitted to a remote cloud computing system. The remote system constructs a light intensity map for the scene using the first and second images, and identifies a first region in the light intensity map as a glass surface when the light intensity values for the first region are below a threshold value corresponding to glass.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170163910A1 Using Images of a Monitored Scene to Identify Windows Public/Granted day:2017-06-08
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