Patents by Inventor Genki Cho

Genki Cho has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240007734
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus, including an imaging unit configured to capture an image for an examination, and a communication unit configured to communicate with a predetermined system, includes a selection unit configured to select an examination purpose, an acquisition unit configured to acquire image capturing control information corresponding to the selected examination purpose from the system via the communication unit, and a control unit configured to set at least one of a setting value of an image capturing condition, display content to be displayed on a display unit together with an image to be captured by the imaging unit, and an item of information to be associated with an image captured by the imaging unit based on the image capturing control information acquired in accordance with the examination purpose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: CHIAKI MIKAWA, SHO ICHIKAWA, GENKI CHO
  • Publication number: 20230410964
    Abstract: A first obtainment unit of a control apparatus obtains first information pertaining to a first patient from an electronic medical record terminal in response to a patient for display of an electronic medical record changing to the first patient in the electronic medical record terminal. The control apparatus is capable of communicating with the electronic medical record terminal. An association unit associates the first information with a first image captured between when the patient for display is changed to the first patient and when the patient for display is changed to another patient. The first image is captured by a specific image capturing apparatus capable of communicating with the control apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Genki CHO, Satoshi ISHIZU
  • Patent number: 11839980
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of analyzing a cause of an abnormality of a system efficiently. The image processing apparatus includes a monitoring unit and an analysis unit. The monitoring unit monitors a monitoring object to detect occurrence of an abnormality in the monitoring object by applying an image process to a first area in each of images of the monitoring object that are photographed at different time points. The analysis unit analyzes a cause of an abnormality detected by the monitoring unit by applying an image process to a second area that is different from the first area in an image of a time point preceding a time point at which the abnormality is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Genki Cho, Hiroto Oka
  • Patent number: 11800230
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus communicates an image capture device having panning, tilting, and zooming function. A code area is detected by performing a matching process on a whole object image area acquired by photographing an area including a whole predetermined object on which codes are attached, by an image capture device. Grouped areas are generated by grouping detected code areas, based on an angle of view to be set when performing photographing with zooming. The image capture device performs panning, tilting, and zooming operations, such that the generated grouped areas are sequentially photographed at a zoom magnification setting value. An image processing area set with respect to a group image obtained by performing the panning, tilting, and zooming operations and photographing each of the generated grouped area. Information on each code area included in the set image processing area is read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuuya Miyake, Genki Cho, Hiroto Oka, Shunsuke Noami
  • Patent number: 11710250
    Abstract: An electronic device for setting a processing procedure for controlling an apparatus, the electronic device comprising: at least one processor configured to cause the electronic device to perform operations of: obtaining a captured image; determining a type of an object included in the captured image; notifying an item indicating target processing corresponding to the object included in the captured image, among a plurality of analysis processing; notifying a result obtained by applying the target processing to the captured image; and receiving a user instruction for adding the processing corresponding to the item to a processing procedure for controlling the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Genki Cho
  • Patent number: 11590657
    Abstract: The image processing device according to the invention includes: a first acquisition unit to acquire a captured image; a display control unit to display a setting screen to allow to user to set an image processing area, which is an area where predetermine image processing is performed, in the image acquired by the first acquisition unit on a display device; and a second acquisition unit configured to acquire movable range information indicating a movable range of a working device, operations of which are controlled on the basis of a result of the predetermined image processing. The display control unit controls the display of the setting screen so as to cause the user to identify a range in which the working device is not able to operate in the image, on the basis of the movable range information acquired by the second acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Noami, Genki Cho, Hiroto Oka
  • Publication number: 20220377241
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus communicates an image capture device having panning, tilting, and zooming function. A code area is detected by performing a matching process on a whole object image area acquired by photographing an area including a whole predetermined object on which codes are attached, by an image capture device. Grouped areas are generated by grouping detected code areas, based on an angle of view to be set when performing photographing with zooming. The image capture device performs panning, tilting, and zooming operations, such that the generated grouped areas are sequentially photographed at a zoom magnification setting value. An image processing area set with respect to a group image obtained by performing the panning, tilting, and zooming operations and photographing each of the generated grouped area. Information on each code area included in the set image processing area is read.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Yuuya Miyake, Genki Cho, Hiroto Oka, Shunsuke Noami
  • Publication number: 20220261943
    Abstract: In order to provide an image processing device capable of supporting installation of an imaging unit, an image processing device includes: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image; a feature information extracting unit configured to extract feature information from the image; and a first generation unit configured to generate installation support feature information used for supporting installation of the imaging unit on the basis of the feature information extracted by the feature information extracting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: Genki Cho
  • Publication number: 20220254041
    Abstract: To provide an image processing device capable of obtaining support information for optimizing a matching model when the matching model is generated, the image processing device includes: an image acquisition unit; a matching model acquisition unit configured to acquire an image processing matching model based on an image acquired by the image acquisition unit; an image transformation unit configured to perform predetermined transformation on the image to acquire a transformed image; a comparison unit configured to compare the matching model acquired by the matching model acquisition unit with the transformed image acquired by the image transformation unit; and a display unit configured to display support information for optimizing the matching model based on a result of the comparison unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Naoki Tsukabe, Kazuki Udono, Genki Cho
  • Patent number: 11373263
    Abstract: A work system includes a robot control device, a robot, an image processing device, and an imaging device. The robot control device controls an operation of the robot using a teaching point. The image processing device acquires an image by controlling the imaging device and capturing an image of a workpiece at the teaching point, and stores image data after imaging in association with data of an operation position of the robot corresponding to the teaching point. When a user performs work restoration, the image processing device performs a process of assisting with setting of work restoration by performing control for acquiring an image captured by the imaging device at the operation position of the robot during work restoration and displaying a difference between the image and the stored image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Genki Cho, Yuuya Miyake
  • Patent number: 11336831
    Abstract: An image processing device adjusts an imaging direction and an imaging magnification by performing driving control of an imaging device for each image processing process and sets an imaging position of a measurement target. The image processing device calculates an evaluation value of set feature parts in a captured image input at the time of measurement on the basis of captured image data and compares the evaluation value with determination conditions. If the determination condition is satisfied, the image processing device performs predetermined image processing and outputs a result of the image processing to a control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Asanuma, Genki Cho, Hiroto Oka
  • Publication number: 20210323150
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of analyzing a cause of an abnormality of a system efficiently. The image processing apparatus includes a monitoring unit and an analysis unit. The monitoring unit monitors a monitoring object to detect occurrence of an abnormality in the monitoring object by applying an image process to a first area in each of images of the monitoring object that are photographed at different time points. The analysis unit analyzes a cause of an abnormality detected by the monitoring unit by applying an image process to a second area that is different from the first area in an image of a time point preceding a time point at which the abnormality is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Genki Cho, Hiroto Oka
  • Publication number: 20210065399
    Abstract: An electronic device for setting a processing procedure for controlling an apparatus, the electronic device comprising: at least one processor configured to cause the electronic device to perform operations of: obtaining a captured image; determining a type of an object included in the captured image; notifying an item indicating target processing corresponding to the object included in the captured image, among a plurality of analysis processing; notifying a result obtained by applying the target processing to the captured image; and receiving a user instruction for adding the processing corresponding to the item to a processing procedure for controlling the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventor: Genki Cho
  • Publication number: 20200210700
    Abstract: A control device is connected to cameras each of which performs an event detecting process on an obtained image. The control device includes a CPU that obtains information about an event detection result from each of the cameras and that performs an error determining process of determining whether an image that is obtained from each of the cameras satisfies an error determination condition in a case that the event detection result satisfies a trigger condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroto Oka, Kazuki Udono, Tomohiko Haraguchi, Genki Cho, Shinya Omori
  • Publication number: 20200167886
    Abstract: A work system includes a robot control device, a robot, an image processing device, and an imaging device. The robot control device controls an operation of the robot using a teaching point. The image processing device acquires an image by controlling the imaging device and capturing an image of a workpiece at the teaching point, and stores image data after imaging in association with data of an operation position of the robot corresponding to the teaching point. When a user performs work restoration, the image processing device performs a process of assisting with setting of work restoration by performing control for acquiring an image captured by the imaging device at the operation position of the robot during work restoration and displaying a difference between the image and the stored image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Genki Cho, Yuuya Miyake
  • Publication number: 20200164520
    Abstract: The image processing device according to the invention includes: a first acquisition unit to acquire a captured image; a display control unit to display a setting screen to allow to user to set an image processing area, which is an area where predetermine image processing is performed, in the image acquired by the first acquisition unit on a display device; and a second acquisition unit configured to acquire movable range information indicating a movable range of a working device, operations of which are controlled on the basis of a result of the predetermined image processing. The display control unit controls the display of the setting screen so as to cause the user to identify a range in which the working device is not able to operate in the image, on the basis of the movable range information acquired by the second acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Shunsuke Noami, Genki Cho, Hiroto Oka
  • Publication number: 20200014856
    Abstract: An image processing device adjusts an imaging direction and an imaging magnification by performing driving control of an imaging device for each image processing process and sets an imaging position of a measurement target. The image processing device calculates an evaluation value of set feature parts in a captured image input at the time of measurement on the basis of captured image data and compares the evaluation value with determination conditions. If the determination condition is satisfied, the image processing device performs predetermined image processing and outputs a result of the image processing to a control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoya Asanuma, Genki Cho, Hiroto Oka
  • Patent number: 10311325
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs an image recognition process, such as pattern matching or contour detection, on image data supplied from an image pickup device, and stores history data of the image recognition process in an external storage apparatus. In this case, an extraction image is extracted from an extraction region determined in accordance with the image recognition process performed on the input image data and is stored in the external storage device as history data. Furthermore, the history data logged in the external storage device may include a compressed image that is obtained by compressing, using lossy compression, the entire image data subjected to the image processing performed by the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Genki Cho, Toshihiko Mimura
  • Publication number: 20180260654
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs an image recognition process, such as pattern matching or contour detection, on image data supplied from an image pickup device, and stores history data of the image recognition process in an external storage apparatus. In this case, an extraction image is extracted from an extraction region determined in accordance with the image recognition process performed on the input image data and is stored in the external storage device as history data. Furthermore, the history data logged in the external storage device may include a compressed image that is obtained by compressing, using lossy compression, the entire image data subjected to the image processing performed by the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Genki Cho, Toshihiko Mimura
  • Patent number: 9996762
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs an image recognition process, such as pattern matching or contour detection, on image data supplied from an image pickup device, and stores history data of the image recognition process in an external storage apparatus. In this case, an extraction image is extracted from an extraction region determined in accordance with the image recognition process performed on the input image data and is stored in the external storage device as history data. Furthermore, the history data logged in the external storage device may include a compressed image that is obtained by compressing, using lossy compression, the entire image data subjected to the image processing performed by the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Genki Cho, Toshihiko Mimura