Advanced Technology Solutions  

 

The basis for Facet’s market strategy has been technology driven, since day one. We encourage you to visit this area frequently, as updates are made to our growing patent portfolio.

Our patented object search techniques required software development that was second to none. The result is a flexible, multi-purpose object search engine that is revolutionizing several industries.

When setting out to develop a new paradigm in object search technology, our search of existing technology covered countless unsuccessful and semi-successful approaches. None of the prior art, however, fully addressed the difficult problems that we felt needed to be solved. In the quest to deal with these problems, we developed several innovative techniques that are in various stages of approval in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The categories below list information on various technology areas. We hope you'll share our enthusiasm for the technology that has become a cornerstone of our company.

Navigation Technologies

Pending - System for Using Images with Pre-processed Routing Data in a Vehicle Navigation System

Pending - Navigation System Having Virtual Drive-thur Advertisements with Imagery from Along a Physical Route

Automated 3D Model Creation

US 6,363,161 - Automated Generation of a Database of Objects of Interest

US 6,449,384 - Multi-filter Object Search System

US 6,625,315 - Fuzzy Logic Color Filter for Multi-image Analysis

US 7,092,548 - Method and Apparatus for Multi-image Analysis

Pending - System for Multi-image Analysis

Transportation Technologies

US 6,266,442 - Fuzzy Logic Color Filter

US 6,453,056 - Database of Road Sign Images and Positions

US 6,674,878 - Automated Retroreflectivity Measurement from a Moving Vehicle

US 6,891,960 - System for Road Sign Sheeting Classification

US 7,043,057 - Automated Retroreflectivity Measurement with an Active Sensor

US 7,173,707 - System for Display and Analysis of Retrorelectivity Data Collected from a Roadway


Food Processing Technology

Food producers that utilize meat, poultry or grain in their operations have not had access to computer vision techniques that fit the unique attributes of this industry. Because natural products are not well defined, typical computer vision techniques cannot be adapted for their inspection.

Facet’s patented techniques were designed specifically for these difficult inspection tasks. Our object identification technologies can locate natural objects within a factory setting.

Applicable Patents

US 6,609,423 - System for Content Analysis of Comestible Products Using Volumetric Determination

US 6,829,927 - System for Content Analysis of Comestible Products Using Volumetric Determination

US 7,060,981 - System for Automated Detection of Embedded Objects

 

 

Trademark Visual Search Technology

Protecting your brand requires defending the use of your brand on many fronts. Moreover, in today’s market that means the Internet. You must actively protect how your logos and trademarks are used by finding comprehensive use of your brand on the Internet. If left unwatched and the brand is misused, it will be damaged. The only way to effectively monitor where and how a mark may or may not be used by others on the Internet is with a visual search engine.

Applicable Patents

Pending - Automated Object-Based Image Analysis and Retrieval