Patents

Patents Granted

• Method and apparatus for determining similarity between surfaces, with A.M. Bronstein, and M.M. Bronstein, US Patent 8280150 April 27, 2011.
• Method for segmentation of IVUS image sequences, with Y. Petrank, O. Sudarsky, and A. Sidlesky, US Patent 7773792, August 10, 2010.
• Three-dimensional video scanner, US Patent 7756323, July 13,2010.
• Facial recognition and the open mouth problem, with A.M. Bronstein, and M.M. Bronstein, US Patent 8155400, April  10, 2010.
• Bilateral filtering in a demosaicing process, with R. Keshet, D. Barash, D. Shaked and M. Elad, EP Patent 1371015, June 2, 2010.
• Facial recognition and the open mouth problem, with A.M. Bronstein, and M.M. Bronstein, EP Patent 1849122, April 14, 2010.
• Three-dimensional face recognition, with A.M. Bronstein, and M.M. Bronstein,  EP Patent 1550082, January 6, 2010.
• Three-dimensional face recognition, with  A.M. Bronstein, and M.M.Bronstein, US Patent 7623687, November 24, 2009.
• Facial recognition and the open mouth problem, with A.M. Bronstein, and M.M. Bronstein, US Patent 7421098, September 2, 2008 .
• Method for segmentation of IVUS image sequences, with Y. Petrank, O. Sudarsky, and A. Sidlesky, US Patent 7397935, July 8, 2008.
• Method for computing sub-pixel Euclidean distance maps, with Ron Maurer, US Patent 7113617, June 1, 2010.
• Three-dimensional face recognition, with A.M. Bronstein, and M.M. Bronstein, US Patent 6947579, September 20, 2005.
• Data filtering apparatus and method, with J. Gil, US Patent 6952502, October 4, 2005.
• Detecting halftone modulations embedded in an image, with J. Yen, and D. Tretter, US Patent 6839450, January 4, 2005.
• Space varying gamut mapping, with M. Elad, D. Shaked, and I. Sobel, US Patent 6882449, April 19, 2005.
• Machine learning by construction of a decision function, with I. Blayvas and A.M. Bruckstein, US Patent 6886008, April 26, 2005.
• System and method for image enhancement, dynamic range compensation and illumination correction, with M. Elad, D. Shaked, R. Keshet,and I. Sobel, US Patent 6941028, September 6, 2005.
• Method and apparatus for filtering images having insufficient tonal precision, with I. Sobel, US Patent 6731822, May 4, 2004.
• Bilateral filtering in a demosaicing process with R. Keshet, D. Barash, D. Shaked, and M. Elad, US Patent 6816197, November 9, 2004.

Patent Applications

Method and system for structured light 3D camera, with S. Ben-moshe, M. Bronstein, US Patent App. 2012/0218464, August 30, 2012.

Imaging and projecting devices and methods , with A. Bronstein and M. Bronstein, US Patent App.2012/0200829, September 8, 2012.

Method and system for acquisition, representation, compression, and transmission of three-dimensional data, with M. Bronstein and S. Ben Moshe, WO Patent App.  2012/101582, August 3, 2012.

Devices and methods of generating three dimensional (3d) colored models, with Y. Honen, US Patent App. 2011/0050859, March 3, 2011.

Surgery planning based on predicted results, with M. Bronstein, A. Bronstein and E. Zeiler, US Patent App. 2011/0270044, May 3, 2011.

Parallel Approximation of Distance Maps, with A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, Y. S. Dvir, and O. Weber, US Patent App. 2010/0119120 , May 13, 2010.

Over-Parameterized Variational Optical Flow Method, with T. Nir, and A. M. Bruckstein, US Patent App. 2010/0272311, October 28, 2010.

System and method for user object selection in geographic relation to a video display, A. Bronstein, M. and Bronstein, WO Patent App. 2009/131950, October 30, 2009.

Acceleration of multidimensional scaling by vector extrapolation techniques, with G. Rosman, A. Bronstein, and M. Bronstein, US Patent App. 2009/0037507, February 5, 2009.

Method And Apparatus For Determining Similarity Between Surfaces, with A. Bronstein, and M. Bronstein, US Patent App. 2009/0028442, January 29, 2009.

Parallel processing motion estimation for H.264 video codec, with A. Bronstein, M. Bronstein, and S.S. Rakib, US Patent App. 2008/0126278, May 29, 2008.

Parallel deblocking filter for H.264 video codec, with M. Bronstein, A. Bronstein, and S.S. Rakib, US Patent App. 2008/0123750, May 29, 2008.

Three-dimensional video scanner, US Patent App. 2007/0165246, July 19, 2007.