Patents by Inventor Makoto Yonaha

Makoto Yonaha 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: 20200349694
    Abstract: A repair length determination method that can accurately calculate a repair region (repair length) in which repair is to be performed in a structure and an apparatus are provided. The repair length determination method has: an image acquiring step of acquiring an image obtained by imaging a repair target region; a detection step of detecting a crack from the image; a display step of displaying a crack; a pointing step of pointing a plurality of points including two points at both ends of the crack; an interpolation curve creating step of creating an interpolation curve by using the pointed points; and a repair length determining step of measuring a length of the interpolation curve and determining a repair length. The apparatus is used for the determination method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto YONAHA
  • Patent number: 10664887
    Abstract: A search system specifies an image of a product according to a preference of a user conveniently and accurately using a sensibility word and displays the product image so that information of the product image is intuitively understood by the user. In a client terminal, sensibility word data is specified by a user and sent to a server system. In the server system, the sensibility word data is received, a physical amount of a product associated with the sensibility word data is acquired, image data of the product associated with the physical amount of the product is acquired, and display information data indicating a display aspect for the image is generated. The image data of the product and the display information data are transmitted from the server system to the client terminal, and the image data of the product is displayed based on the display information data in the client terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Yonaha
  • Publication number: 20200162626
    Abstract: Provided are a damage diagram creation method, a damage diagram creation device, a damage diagram creation system, and a recording medium capable of detecting damage with high accuracy based on a plurality of images acquired by subjecting a subject to split imaging. In a damage diagram creation method, damage of a subject is detected from each image (each image in a state of being not composed) constituting a plurality of images (a plurality of images acquired by subjecting the subject to split imaging), and thus, damage detection performance is not deteriorated due to deterioration of image quality in an overlapping area. Therefore, it is possible to detect damage with high accuracy based on a plurality of images acquired by subjecting the subject to split imaging. Detection results for the respective images can be composed using a composition parameter calculated based on correspondence points between the images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto YONAHA
  • Publication number: 20200118247
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image composition method, an image composition device, and a recording medium that enable rapid and easy designation of correspondence points and image composition based on the designated correspondence points. In an image composition method according to an aspect of the invention, in a case where all of a plurality of images are unable to be composed into one image, a plurality of images are divided into composable image groups, whereby correspondence points may be designated for one image group and another image group (that is, image groups not subjected to automatic composition) without need of designating correspondence points for all images. A plurality of images are displayed on a display device by composable image group, whereby it is possible to allow ascertainment of image groups for which correspondence points are designated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto YONAHA
  • Patent number: 10565545
    Abstract: A drug inspection support apparatus inspects drugs that are prepared based on prescription information and are packaged in a prescription bag. A drug database stores drug master images of drugs that can be prepared. A first drug determination section compares drug master images from the drug database with a captured image obtained by capturing an image of prepared drugs, and determines drugs present in the captured image and the number of drugs. A list creation section creates a list displaying drug master images of drugs, which are prepared according to a prescription, and drug area images, which are determined to be respective drugs in a captured image, so that the positions thereof are aligned with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM TOYAMA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Yonaha, Tetsuya Takamori, Ippei Takahashi, Seigo Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20190378245
    Abstract: Provided are an image correction device, an image correction method, and a program capable of canceling accumulated error at the time of connection from a wide field-of-view image in which a plurality of partial images are connected. An image correction device includes an image acquisition unit 22 that acquires a combined image including a plurality of partial images obtained by performing division imaging on a rectangular area in a real space using an imaging device 12, an area specifying unit 34 that specifies a correction target area in the combined image corresponding to the rectangular area in the real space, a division unit 36 that divides the correction target area into a plurality of divided areas, and a geometric conversion unit 40 that converts each of the plurality of divided areas into a rectangle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto YONAHA
  • Publication number: 20190378252
    Abstract: An image composition apparatus includes an image obtaining unit 22 that obtains a first image and a second image obtained by imaging a target object and an obstacle from a first direction and a second direction, a region specifying unit 34 that specifies a target object region by receiving a region designation indicating the target object region in which the target object is captured and the obstacle is not captured on the first image and the second image displayed on a display screen of a display unit 24, a correspondence point information obtaining unit 36 that obtains correspondence point information indicating correspondence points between the first image and the second image, a geometric transformation information obtaining unit 38 that obtains geometric transformation information based on the correspondence point information, a geometric transformation unit 40 that geometrically transforms the target object region of the second image based on the geometric transformation information, and an image compos
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto YONAHA
  • Publication number: 20190379829
    Abstract: An imaging control device includes a wide-angle image acquisition unit 401, an imaging information acquisition unit 405, a margin information acquisition unit 407, a region information acquisition unit 409, an imaging region calculation unit 413 that calculates an imaging region of each of divided images constituting a composite image as each imaging region in a wide-angle image, in which a margin is secured, based on imaging information, margin information, and imaging target region information, and a control unit 411 that moves a moving object, makes the moving object image each calculated imaging region in a closed-up imaging mode with a camera, and acquires captured closed-up images as the divided images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto YONAHA, Masashi KURANOSHITA
  • Patent number: 10438267
    Abstract: The present invention provides a product search device, system, method and program capable of causing a customer who searches for products to be confident that even if more products are searched for, there will be no better products. In a preferred aspect of the present invention, a representative design selection unit receives an instruction to select a desired representative design via a user interface of an information terminal or directly. A first display image search and formation unit searches for products adopting the selected representative design from a product database and creates first product list data. A product image selection unit receives an instruction to select a desired product from the first product list data. A second display image search and formation unit searches for products having a second feature amount near a second feature amount of the selected product from the product database and creates second product list data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yonaha, Yukinori Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20190051397
    Abstract: Provided are a one-packaging medicine audit apparatus, a one-packaging medicine audit system, a method of outputting one-packaging medicine information, and a one-packaging medicine information output program capable of outputting medicine information having a format capable of being acquired by a medicine notebook application installed in a mobile terminal apparatus. A one-packaging medicine information J4 that is related to medicines actually subjected to one-packaging processing by using a one-packaging processing apparatus 26 and is acquired by using one-packaging medicine audit apparatuses 10 and 20 is output as information having a format capable of being acquired by a mobile terminal apparatus 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto YONAHA, Yuki OKABE
  • Publication number: 20180322545
    Abstract: A store design assistance device and a store design assistance method for assisting in various designs of a real store according to a trend of consumers who are targets of a real store are provided. A store design assistance device includes a database, an attribute information acquisition unit that acquires second consumer attribute information indicating an attribute of a second consumer at a real store, a history information acquisition unit that acquires information on an action history of the first consumer having the first consumer attribute information matching the second consumer attribute information from the database, and an output unit that outputs information on design assistance of the real store on the basis of the information on the action history acquired by the history information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto YONAHA
  • Publication number: 20180322223
    Abstract: A product design device includes a product database, a design feature amount acquisition unit, a search unit that searches for a first product having a first design feature amount similar to a second design feature amount from a product database and acquires information on a sales record of the first product that has been searched for, and an output unit that statistically processes product attribute information including at least one of the first design feature amount of the first product that has been searched for or the information on the sales record of the first product that has been searched for, and outputs the statistically processed product attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto YONAHA
  • Patent number: 10083371
    Abstract: A feature point is a point at which a correlation value is greater than a threshold value, wherein the correlation value is calculated between a template and partial image within an area that is one portion of each genuine tablet image. With regard to a cross-check image, which represents a tablet the authenticity of which is to be verified, a correlation value is calculated between a partial image within an area that is one portion of the cross-check image and the template image, and multiple feature points of the cross-check image at which the calculated correlation value is greater than a predetermined threshold value are extracted. The degree of similarity between the cross-check image and the genuine tablet image is calculated using a geometric characteristic of the extracted multiple feature points and a geometric characteristic of the stored multiple feature points of the genuine tablet image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsurou Ebata, Makoto Yonaha
  • Publication number: 20180218424
    Abstract: A first product ID indicating a first product relevant to purchase action history information of one user and a second product ID indicating a second product handled by a store are acquired. Based on the first product corresponding to the acquired first product ID and the second product corresponding to the acquired second product ID, the preference suitability between the preference of the user and the preference of the store is calculated for each store. The preference suitability is calculated by calculating the similarity between a first design feature amount obtained by analyzing a product image showing the first product and a second design feature amount obtained by analyzing a product image showing the second product. Then, a store having a high preference suitability among the preference suitabilities calculated for respective stores is searched for as a store handling a large number of his or her favorite products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto YONAHA
  • Patent number: 9851873
    Abstract: A family electronic album is created. Representative face images of a family are displayed. The representative face images are dragged and dropped onto corresponding areas among areas that identify family attributes (“father”, “mother”, etc.). Since the family attributes of the representative face images can be ascertained, the family attributes of face images that resemble these face images can be determined. Since images that include all family members and images that include some family members can be determined from among images that include face images the family attributes of which have been determined, these images are laid out in the electronic album.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Yonaha
  • Patent number: 9773171
    Abstract: Disclosed are an event-specific taken picture arrangement device, a control method thereof and a control program thereof capable of efficiently observing the status of a change of a specific object by event. Multiple pictures P are divided into event picture groups ga1, gb1, gc1, and the like by event using a picture-taking date. The event picture groups ga1 and the like are further grouped into a plurality of groups of taken picture Ev1 to Ev6 by identical event. The taken pictures P of the identical event are consecutively arranged in an electronic album by identical event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Yonaha
  • Publication number: 20170206580
    Abstract: The merchandise retrieval device includes a first retrieval unit (41) that analyzes a retrieval condition image to acquire first retrieval condition data indicating a design feature of a retrieval condition image, and retrieves a plurality of first retrieval images from a plurality of merchandise images stored in a database (32) based on first retrieval condition data, and a second retrieval unit (42) that retrieves second retrieval images from the first retrieval images based on second retrieval condition data designated as being related to the design feature through a user terminal. The first retrieval unit (41) retrieves the first retrieval images included in a first retrieval range in a feature space representing the design feature. The second retrieval unit (42) retrieves the second retrieval images included in a second retrieval range in the feature space. The first retrieval range is larger than the second retrieval range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto YONAHA
  • Publication number: 20170103436
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a coordination server, a coordination system, and a coordination method capable of reflecting an intention of a providing source of a first product in search for a second product to be combined with the first product. In a preferred aspect of the present invention, a coordination server (10) is a coordination server (10) that performs coordination of a second product for a first product, and includes a coordination condition acquisition unit (25) that acquires a coordination condition that is information on a product that is combinable with the first product, which is set by a providing source of the first product, and a product group generation unit (27) that generates a first product group consisting of candidate products of the second product on the basis of the coordination conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto YONAHA
  • Publication number: 20170103405
    Abstract: A statistical data generation server device includes a server reception unit, an accumulation unit that accumulates an operation history of products corresponding to a user operation received by the server reception unit, a population generation unit that generates a population for generating statistical data, the population being a population consisting of the products, on the basis of the operation history accumulated in the accumulation unit, a design feature amount acquisition unit that acquires a design feature amount obtained by analyzing an image of the product for each product included in the population generated by the population generation unit, and a statistical data generation unit that generates statistical data obtained by classifying the products on the basis of the design feature amount acquired for each product, the statistical data being statistical data indicating a frequency distribution obtained by classifying the products according to the design feature amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto YONAHA
  • Publication number: 20160321733
    Abstract: The present invention provides a product search device, system, method and program capable of causing a customer who searches for products to be confident that even if more products are searched for, there will be no better products. In a preferred aspect of the present invention, a representative design selection unit receives an instruction to select a desired representative design via a user interface of an information terminal or directly. A first display image search and formation unit searches for products adopting the selected representative design from a product database and creates first product list data. A product image selection unit receives an instruction to select a desired product from the first product list data. A second display image search and formation unit searches for products having a second feature amount near a second feature amount of the selected product from the product database and creates second product list data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto YONAHA, Yukinori NOGUCHI