Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Tanie

Hiroaki Tanie 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).

  • Motion capture system and method for three-dimensional reconfiguring of characteristic point in motion capture system
    Patent number: 8698899
    Abstract: In an optical motion capture system, it is possible to measure spatially high-dense data by increasing the number of measuring points. In the motion capture system using a mesh marker, intersections of lines for the mesh marker are called nodes and the lines connecting the nodes are called edges. The system includes a plurality of cameras for capturing a two-dimensional image of the mesh marker by imaging a subject having the mesh marker, a node/edge detecting section for detecting node/edge information on the mesh marker from the two-dimensional image captured by the respective cameras, and a three-dimensional reconstructing section for acquiring three-dimensional position information of the nodes by using the node/edge information detected from the plurality of two-dimensional images captured by different cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Nakamura, Katsu Yamane, Hiroaki Tanie
  • MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONFIGURING OF CHARACTERISTIC POINT IN MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20090295711
    Abstract: In an optical motion capture system, it is possible to measure spatially high-dense data by increasing the number of measuring points. In the motion capture system using a mesh marker, intersections of lines for the mesh marker are called nodes and the lines connecting the nodes are called edges. The system includes a plurality of cameras for capturing a two-dimensional image of the mesh marker by imaging a subject having the mesh marker, a node/edge detecting section for detecting node/edge information on the mesh marker from the two-dimensional image captured by the respective cameras, and a three-dimensional reconstructing section for acquiring three-dimensional position information of the nodes by using the node/edge information detected from the plurality of two-dimensional images captured by different cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Nakamura, Katsu Yamane, Hiroaki Tanie