Patents by Inventor Michio Miwa
Michio Miwa 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).
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Patent number: 10051244Abstract: A display image formation device enables, in an intuitive manner, designation of a location which the user wishes to see when multiple panoramic images obtained by multiple panoramic cameras are present, and enables display of the image for a designated site in a suitable state. One panoramic camera is selected from multiple panoramic cameras on the basis of the positional relationship between a designated position on a planar map and the multiple panoramic cameras. An extracted image region, which is extracted from the image photographed by the selected panoramic camera, is determined. A display image is generated such that the extracted image is arranged on the planar map.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Michio Miwa
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Patent number: 10015448Abstract: A display image formation device enables, in an intuitive manner, designation of a location which the user wishes to see when multiple panoramic images obtained by multiple panoramic cameras are present, and enables display of the image for a designated site in a suitable state. One panoramic camera is selected from multiple panoramic cameras on the basis of the positional relationship between a designated position on a planar map and the multiple panoramic cameras. An extracted image region, which is extracted from the image photographed by the selected panoramic camera, is determined. A display image is generated such that the extracted image is arranged on the planar map.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Michio Miwa
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Patent number: 9760808Abstract: An image pickup device transmits to a server a transmission sample including a detection image detected by a first detection section from a transmitting/receiving section under the control of a transmission sample control section. The server performs detection processing that requires more resources than those of the first detection section on the detection image transmitted by a second detection section from the image pickup device, and determines whether or not the detection image in question is spurious, based on a second detection score which is thereby obtained. A transmission frequency deciding section generates transmission frequency control information such as to raise the transmission frequency by an image pickup device that has a high frequency of spurious detection; a transmitting/receiving section transmits the transmission frequency control information to the image pickup device.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Sumio Yokomitsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Masataka Sugiura, Michio Miwa
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Patent number: 9560321Abstract: Each camera comprises an image generation unit for generating an image by capturing the image, a moving object detection unit for detecting a moving object from the image and transmitting information on the position of the moving object to the server, and an image transmission unit for, when the camera is selected by the server, transmitting an image. The server comprises an image delivery camera selection unit for selecting some cameras as image delivery cameras from among the cameras based on the information on the position of the moving object transmitted from each of the cameras, an image delivery camera notification unit for notifying the selection result to the cameras, and an image input unit for inputting the images transmitted from the image delivery cameras.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Hirofumi Fujii, Takayuki Matsukawa, Sumio Yokomitsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Yuichi Matsumoto, Katsunori Waragai, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Patent number: 9374528Abstract: A panoramic image display device divides a panoramic expansion image into at least two panoramic images and displays the panoramic images. The panoramic expansion image display device including: a clipping reference position setting unit that sets a clipping reference position for the panoramic expansion image; an object detection unit that detects an object as a display target from the panoramic expansion image; a clipping position determination unit that determines a clipping position of the panoramic image according to a relationship between a detected object position and the clipping reference position; and a display image generation unit that displays the panoramic image clipped from the panoramic expansion image at the clipping position.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2011Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Watanabe, Sumio Yokomitsu, Hirofumi Fujii, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Yuichi Matsumoto, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Publication number: 20150208043Abstract: A computer system for managing an in-store aisle, the computer system including a camera that captures a video in a retail store, and a computer connected to the camera, wherein the computer extracts a position of at least one customer who appears in the video captured by the camera and one or more kinds of emotion of the at least one customer at the position based on the video captured by the camera, and stores and manages a most-extracted emotion of the at least one customer in an aisle in which the at least one customer is positioned as information on the aisle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuo-Chu LEE, Michio MIWA, Hasan Timucin OZDEMIR, Lipin LIU, Jannite YU
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Publication number: 20150206081Abstract: A computer system for managing a workforce includes a camera that captures a video in a retail store, and a computer connected to the camera, wherein when the computer determines that there is a customer not being assisted by an employee and lingering in a particular place in the store based on the video captured by the camera in the store, the computer directs the employee or another employee to assist the customer lingering in the particular place while prioritizing the customer lingering in the particular place over another customer lingering in a place other than the particular place.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuo-Chu LEE, Michio MIWA, Hasan Timucin OZDEMIR, Lipin LIU, Jannite YU
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Patent number: 9025875Abstract: A people counting device includes: a person presence region extraction unit which extracts a region in which a person is present by performing person detection in relation to an input image; a person presence state estimation unit which estimates a person presence state from an extraction result; a portion detector selection unit which selects a type of portion detector to be used for people count measurement based on the estimation result, and outputs portion detector information. The people counting device further includes: a portion detection process unit which performs a portion detection process for detecting a portion of a person based on the portion detector information; and a people counting unit which obtains a number of people within the input image from a portion detection process result.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Matsumoto, Sumio Yokomitsu, Katsunori Waragai, Hirofumi Fujii, Takayuki Matsukawa, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Publication number: 20150109452Abstract: Provided is a display image formation device with which it is possible to designate in an intuitive manner a location which the user wishes to see when multiple panoramic images obtained by multiple panoramic cameras exist, and with which the image for a designated site can be displayed in a suitable state. A camera selection unit (12) selects one panoramic camera (20) from multiple panoramic cameras (20) on the basis of the positional relationship between a designated position on a planar map and the multiple panoramic cameras (20). An extraction parameter determination unit (14) determines an extracted image region, which is extracted from the image photographed by the panoramic camera (20) selected by the camera selection unit (12). A drawing unit (15) forms a display image wherein the extracted image is arranged on the planar map.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Michio Miwa
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Publication number: 20150071548Abstract: An image pickup device transmits to a server a transmission sample including a detection image detected by a first detection section from a transmitting/receiving section under the control of a transmission sample control section. The server performs detection processing that requires more resources than those of the first detection section on the detection image transmitted by a second detection section from the image pickup device, and determines whether or not the detection image in question is spurious, based on a second detection score which is thereby obtained. A transmission frequency deciding section generates transmission frequency control information such as to raise the transmission frequency by an image pickup device that has a high frequency of spurious detection; a transmitting/receiving section transmits the transmission frequency control information to the image pickup device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Sumio Yokomitsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Masataka Sugiura, Michio Miwa
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Patent number: 8907985Abstract: An image display device is configured to cut out and display a moving object within an omnidirectional image. The image display device includes: a moving object position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of the moving object within the omnidirectional image; a determination unit configured to determine whether to correct an upward direction of a cutout image; a parameter correction unit configured to correct a cutout parameter when the determination unit determines to correct the upward direction of the cutout image; a cutout unit configured to cut images including the moving object out of the omnidirectional image based on the cutout parameter corrected by the parameter correction unit; and a display unit configured to display the images including the moving object, which are cut out by the cutout unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Sumio Yokomitsu, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Yuichi Matsumoto, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Patent number: 8639045Abstract: An image processing device comprises a region dividing unit which divides a captured image obtained by a camera unit into a plurality of regions, and an image compressing unit which compresses each of region images obtained by the division by the region dividing unit while changing the compression rate according to the distance from a predetermined point in the captured image to each of the region images and the distance from the camera unit to a target included in each of the regions. For example, the image compressing unit compresses the region image having a larger angle from the optical axis at a larger compression rate, thereby achieving compression in which the amount of data in low-quality regions is greatly reduced and the quality of high-quality regions is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Sumio Yokomitsu, Hirofumi Fujii, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Yuichi Matsumoto, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Publication number: 20130278774Abstract: Each camera comprises an image generation unit for generating an image by capturing the image, a moving object detection unit for detecting a moving object from the image and transmitting information on the position of the moving object to the server, and an image transmission unit for, when the camera is selected by the server, transmitting an image. The server comprises an image delivery camera selection unit for selecting some cameras as image delivery cameras from among the cameras based on the information on the position of the moving object transmitted from each of the cameras, an image delivery camera notification unit for notifying the selection result to the cameras, and an image input unit for inputting the images transmitted from the image delivery cameras.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Hirofumi Fujii, Takayuki Matsukawa, Sumio Yokomitsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Yuichi Matsumoto, Katsunori Waragai, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Publication number: 20130230245Abstract: A people counting device includes: a person presence region extraction unit which extracts a region in which a person is present by performing person detection in relation to an input image; a person presence state estimation unit which estimates a person presence state from an extraction result; a portion detector selection unit which selects a type of portion detector to be used for people count measurement based on the estimation result, and outputs portion detector information. The people counting device further includes: a portion detection process unit which performs a portion detection process for detecting a portion of a person based on the portion detector information; and a people counting unit which obtains a number of people within the input image from a portion detection process result.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2011Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Matsumoto, Sumio Yokomitsu, Katsunori Waragai, Hirofumi Fujii, Takayuki Matsukawa, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Publication number: 20130057546Abstract: A panoramic image display device divides a panoramic expansion image into at least two panoramic images and displays the panoramic images. The panoramic expansion image display device including: a clipping reference position setting unit that sets a clipping reference position for the panoramic expansion image; an object detection unit that detects an object as a display target from the panoramic expansion image; a clipping position determination unit that determines a clipping position of the panoramic image according to a relationship between a detected object position and the clipping reference position; and a display image generation unit that displays the panoramic image clipped from the panoramic expansion image at the clipping position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Watanabe, Sumio Yokomitsu, Hirofumi Fujii, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Yuichi Matsumoto, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Publication number: 20130027561Abstract: A system for improving site operations by detecting abnormalities includes a first sensor abnormality detector connected to a first sensor and configured to learn a first normal behavior sequence, a second sensor abnormality detector connected to a second sensor and configured to learn a second normal behavior sequence, an abnormality correlation server configured to receive abnormally scored first sensor data and abnormally scored second sensor data, the abnormality correlation server further configured to correlate the received abnormally scored first sensor data and abnormally scored second sensor data sensed at the same time by the first and second sensors and determine an abnormal event; and an abnormality report generator configured to generate an abnormality report based on the correlated the received abnormally scored first sensor data and abnormally scored second sensor data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kuo-Chu LEE, Michio MIWA, Hasan Timucin OZDEMIR, Lipin LIU, Jannite YU
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Publication number: 20130002712Abstract: An image display device is configured to cut out and display a moving object within an omnidirectional image. The image display device includes: a moving object position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of the moving object within the omnidirectional image; a determination unit configured to determine whether to correct an upward direction of a cutout image; a parameter correction unit configured to correct a cutout parameter when the determination unit determines to correct the upward direction of the cutout image; a cutout unit configured to cut images including the moving object out of the omnidirectional image based on the cutout parameter corrected by the parameter correction unit; and a display unit configured to display the images including the moving object, which are cut out by the cutout unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2010Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Sumio Yokomitsu, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Yuichi Matsumoto, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Publication number: 20120236024Abstract: Disclosed are a method for forming a display image and a display control device for displaying an image in which the position of a target is significantly easier to find. In a display control device (100), a clipped region setting unit (140) sets a clipped region candidate including both a target and a characterized area which characterizes a position in a region to be imaged as the clipped region. When a characterized area is not included in the clipped region candidate, a clipped region candidate modification unit (130) modifies either the size or the position of the clipped region candidate until said clipped region candidate includes both the target and the characterized area.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2010Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Sumio Yokomitsu, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Yuichi Matsumoto, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Publication number: 20120155769Abstract: An image processing device comprises a region dividing unit which divides a captured image obtained by a camera unit into a plurality of regions, and an image compressing unit which compresses each of region images obtained by the division by the region dividing unit while changing the compression rate according to the distance from a predetermined point in the captured image to each of the region images and the distance from the camera unit to a target included in each of the regions. For example, the image compressing unit compresses the region image having a larger angle from the optical axis at a larger compression rate, thereby achieving compression in which the amount of data in low-quality regions is greatly reduced and the quality of high-quality regions is maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Sumio Yokomitsu, Hirofumi Fujii, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Yuichi Matsumoto, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Patent number: 7352388Abstract: Herein disclosed is a camera calibrating apparatus for calibrating an optical parameter of a camera mounted on an automotive vehicle, comprising: a first housing position information storing section (115) for storing first housing position information, a second housing position information storing section (116) for storing second housing position information, a first optical position information producing section (117) for producing first optical position information, a first optical position information storing section (118) for storing the first optical position information, a second optical position information producing section (120) for producing second optical position information, a second optical position information storing section (130) for storing the second optical position information, and a calibrating section (160) for calibrating the second optical position information stored in the second optical position information storing section (130) on the basis of image information obtained by a cameraType: GrantFiled: April 21, 2003Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michio Miwa, Ryuichi Mato, Masaki Sato, Satoru Masuda