Software and Services

Preference Metrics, LLC

Brief Description

The company's proprietary numerical method, called a principal component analysis, delivered computer-based recommendations of selective information based on an individual's personal preferences such as books, invoices, stocks, or toys. Preference Metrics, LLC was founded by UC Berkeley Professor Ken Goldberg, based on his filtering algorithm, named Eigentaste, that uses universal queries to elicit real-valued user ratings on a common set of items, and applies principal component analysis (PCA) to the resulting dense subset of the ratings matrix.

Timeline 1999...

FuelFX, Inc.

Brief Description

FuelFX is a multimedia studio which produces an array of bespoke solutions from websites, mobile applications, and 3D animations to interactive training, augmented reality, and virtual reality.

Timeline

2007. Company founded

Inventors

Jennifer Edwards, Daniel Kammen, Timothy Lipman

Software Disclosures

UC Berkeley Office of Technology Licensing assists inventors and authors in licensing software under a variety of distribution strategies. In addition to licensing software code for commercial development and distribution, OTL licenses research code for non-commercial and/or academic purposes and assists authors in offering software via open source licenses.

UrbanScan

Brief Description

UrbanScan developed technologies for producing 3D virtual models with LiDar and video camera data. The technology was originally developed in the lab of Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Professor Avideh Zakhor, who co-founded UrbanScan in 2005.

Google acquired the UrbanScan technology in 2007, and used the software for web-based 3D reconstruction of urban landscapes as the basis for Google Earth.

Timeline 2005. Company founded 2007. Google acquires the UrbanScan technology,...

AudioFocus

Brief Description

The company designs state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms that focus on sounds using binaural cues, just like the human brain. AudioFocus uses deep learning to selectively amplify nearby sounds, filtering out other sounds and voices that don't match this fingerprint, and then plays the edited audio stream back, enabling the users to hear friends and family clearly in noisy environments, like restaurants and conferences.

Timeline 2019. Company founded Inventors

Shariq Aman Mobin, Bruno Olshausen

Kuro Labs Inc.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Kuro Labs measures more of the world than ever before, with instrumentation in mobile devices, laptops, desktops, datacenters, vehicles, and even our own bodies. Kuro Labs developed Normal, a battery diagnosis service that suggests personalized actions that can be taken to extend the battery life.

INVENTOR Eemil Lagerspetz, Adam Oliner, Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Sasu Tarkoma