Patents by Inventor Osamu Hoshuyama

Osamu Hoshuyama 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: 20210223389
    Abstract: A synthetic aperture radar signal analysis device 20 includes: an extraction unit 21 that extracts a stable reflection point from time-series data acquired through observation, by a synthetic aperture radar, of a region to be observed from a predetermined observing direction; a generation unit 22 that generates a cluster which is a collection of stable reflection points on the basis of the extracted stable reflection point corresponding to the predetermined observing direction; an association unit 23 that associates the generated cluster corresponding to the predetermined observing direction with a structure indicated by map data corresponding to the region to be observed; and a synthesis unit 24 that performs vector-synthesis of displacement rates for a plurality of the clusters each corresponding to the observing direction associated with the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke IKEFUJI, Taichi TANAKA, Osamu HOSHUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11043228
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing apparatus that obtains a speech signal with sufficiently reduced wind noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Hoshuyama, Ryoji Miyahara, Akihiko Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20210181336
    Abstract: Persistent scatterers on images and a target object are readily associated with each other. There is provided an image processing apparatus including a persistent scatterer specifier, a phase acquirer, and a clustering unit. The persistent scatterer specifier of the image processing apparatus specifies persistent scatterers at which reflection is stable in a plurality of images. The phase acquirer of the image processing apparatus acquires phases of the specified persistent scatterers. The clustering unit of the image processing apparatus clusters the persistent scatterers based on the positions of the persistent scatterers and the phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Taichi TANAKA, Osamu HOSHUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210132214
    Abstract: A synthetic aperture radar image analysis system 20 includes: a phase correlation determination means 21 which determines a strength of the phase correlation between a plurality of pixels in an image selected from among a plurality of images on the basis of the plurality of images that have been photographed by a synthetic aperture radar and show the same point; a shape determination means 22 which determines a degree of similarity between the shape of the distribution of the plurality of pixels and an object shape indicated by geospatial information; and an association means 23 which associates the plurality of pixels with the object on the basis of the determined strength of the phase correlation and the determined degree of similarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Taichi TANAKA, Daisuke IKEFUJI, Osamu HOSHUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210072376
    Abstract: A synthetic aperture radar signal processing device 10 includes a persistent scatterer extraction unit 11 which extracts, from time-series observation data related to an observation target observed from a plurality of observation directions by a radar, a plurality of persistent scatterers in respective observation directions; a persistent scatterer grouping unit 12 which groups the plurality of persistent scatterers in each of the observation directions; a group selection unit 13 which selects, in each of the observation directions, a persistent scatterer group that includes the persistent scatterers included in an analysis target from among groups generated by grouping; and a displacement speed processing unit 14 which synthesize displacement speeds of the selected persistent scatterer groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke IKEFUJI, Taichi TANAKA, Osamu HOSHUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200348411
    Abstract: This invention is directed to an image processing apparatus that generates an evaluation index of a persistent scatterer likelihood without any influence of a large phase change with respect to a target whose displacement is nonlinear, a target whose elevation is high, or a target whose displacement is large. The image processing apparatus includes a phase array accumulator that accumulates phase arrays of respective pixels over a plurality of images, a clustering unit that classifies the respective pixels into a plurality of clusters based on the phase arrays, and a phase correlation calculator that calculates a correlation between a phase change in each of the plurality of clusters and the phase array at the respective pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Taichi TANAKA, Osamu HOSHUYAMA
  • Patent number: 10746863
    Abstract: To acquire a beat frequency necessary for target extraction, target speed estimation, and Doppler influence detection by preventing the necessary beat frequency from overlapping unnecessary frequencies in a heterodyne processing result, an apparatus includes a wave receiver that receives a reflected wave of a chirp wave reflected from a target, and outputs a reception wave signal, a dual-sweep signal generator that generates a dual-sweep signal of the chirp wave, having a frequency which does not overlap that of the chirp wave, and a heterodyne processor that generates a beat frequency by multiplying the reception wave signal and the dual-sweep signal as a heterodyne signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Hoshuyama
  • Publication number: 20200096628
    Abstract: An image analysis device that ease association between an SAR image and an object is provided. The image analysis device includes: a stable reflection point identification unit that identifies, based on a plurality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, stable reflection points at which reflection is stable in the plurality of SAR images; a phase identification unit that identifies a phase at each of the stable reflection points, based on the plurality of SAR images and a location of the stable reflection point in the plurality of SAR images; and a clustering means that clusters the stable reflection points, based on a Euclidian distance between each of the stable reflection points and a correlation of the phases at each of the stable reflection points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Taichi TANAKA, Osamu HOSHUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200081109
    Abstract: In order to achieve object detection that does not detect an object moving at a speed within a prescribed speed range, the present invention comprises at least two cross-correlation calculation units which each calculate a cross correlation function between a waveform of a reflection signal obtained when a transmission signal having changing frequencies is reflected by a target object, and a different correlation waveform generated from the waveform of the transmission signal, and a synthesis unit that synthesizes at least two cross-correlation functions from at least the two cross-correlation calculation units so as to make detection of a target object moving at a speed within the prescribed speed range less likely, and that outputs the synthesis results to a post-processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu HOSHUYAMA, Kentarou KUDOU, Shohei IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20200081111
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a signal processing device for accurately detecting a moving object without being influenced by the speed of the moving object. This signal processing device is provided with: at least two cross-correlation calculation units for calculating cross-correlation functions for the waveform of a reflection signal obtained through the reflection, by an object, of a transmission signal having a varying frequency and different correlation waveforms generated from the waveform of the transmission signal; a combination unit for combining the at least two cross-correlation functions from the at least two cross-correlation calculation units so as not to be separated in the frequency shift direction; and a detection unit for detecting the object on the basis of the cross-correlation function resulting from the combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu HOSHUYAMA, Kentarou KUDOU, Shohei IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190353768
    Abstract: The present invention is a signal processing device that efficiently removes multiple types of interference waves mixed in with a received signal. This signal processing device is provided with: a first extraction unit that performs deconvolution with respect to a cross-correlation of a reference signal and a received signal and to an autocorrelation of the reference signal, and extracts a channel response to the reference signal; a second extraction unit that extracts a main channel response corresponding to the reference signal from the channel response; and a removal unit that restores a signal by performing convolution with respect to the reference signal and the main channel response, and removes the restored signal from the received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu HOSHUYAMA, Manabu ARIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10261052
    Abstract: An anchor bolt diagnosing system includes a vibration sensing clip that clips an anchor bolt, and senses a vibration power of the anchor bolt, a blow sensing hammer that gives a blow to the anchor bolt clipped by the vibration sensing clip, and senses blow strength, and a diagnoser that obtains the vibration power and the blow strength output from the vibration sensing clip and the blow sensing hammer, and diagnoses soundness of the anchor bolt in accordance with whether a ratio of the vibration power to the blow strength is higher than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Miki, Osamu Hoshuyama
  • Patent number: 9961460
    Abstract: A vibration source estimation device, method and computer-readable medium are provided. The vibration source estimation device comprises a processor configured to execute instructions to receive data samples of a plurality of vibration signals generated at a vibration position, the data samples being associated with a plurality of frames. The processor is also configured to execute instructions to calculate a cross correlation function for each frame based on the data samples, calculate a weight for each frame based on a signal-to-noise ratio calculated from the cross correlation function, multiply the cross correlation function for each frame by the weight, calculate a sum of weighted cross correlation functions for respective frames as a weighted-cross-correlation function, and estimate the vibration position based on the weighted-cross-correlation function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yumi Arai, Yuzo Senda, Osamu Hoshuyama
  • Patent number: 9961511
    Abstract: A position detection system, including a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to receive measured waveform signals sent out from an object to be measured via a first sensor and a second sensor, receive the broadcasting radio wave signals sent out from the first sensor and the second sensor, separate the measured waveform signals and the broadcasting radio wave, for each sensor, estimate an offset between the sampling frequencies of the measured waveform signal of the first sensor and the measured waveform signal of the second sensor based on the broadcasting radio wave signals respectively sent out from the first sensor and the second sensor, correct the measured waveform signal sent out from the second sensor based on the estimated offset between the sampling frequencies, and detect a position of the object to be measured based on the measured waveform signal sent out from the first sensor and a signal obtained by correcting the measured waveform sign
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Hoshuyama
  • Publication number: 20180090153
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing apparatus that obtains a speech signal with sufficiently reduced wind noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu HOSHUYAMA, Ryoji MIYAHARA, Akihiko SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9909949
    Abstract: The present invention is a leakage determination method comprising: comparing a correlation profile including a cross-correlation function obtained from measurement data measured at at least a pair of measurement positions and position information for the measurement positions, and a correlation profile at the time of the leakage determination including the cross-correlation function obtained from the measurement data measured at the pair of measurement positions and the position information for the measurement positions; and determining leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Osamu Hoshuyama
  • Patent number: 9766151
    Abstract: A measurement terminals include: a sensor that measures pipe vibration in a pipe; a measurement information acquisition unit that acquires measurement position information and measurement time information; a transmitter that transmits the pipe vibration, the measurement position information and the measurement time information to an analyzer; a receiver that receives an analysis result from the analyzer; and an output unit that outputs the analysis result from the analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Hoshuyama, Yumi Ono
  • Publication number: 20170138908
    Abstract: An anchor bolt diagnosing system includes a vibration sensing clip that clips an anchor bolt, and senses a vibration power of the anchor bolt, a blow sensing hammer that gives a blow to the anchor bolt clipped by the vibration sensing clip, and senses blow strength, and a diagnoser that obtains the vibration power and the blow strength output from the vibration sensing clip and the blow sensing hammer, and diagnoses soundness of the anchor bolt in accordance with whether a ratio of the vibration power to the blow strength is higher than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyokazu MIKI, Osamu HOSHUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170016983
    Abstract: To acquire a beat frequency necessary for target extraction, target speed estimation, and Doppler influence detection by preventing the necessary beat frequency from overlapping unnecessary frequencies in a heterodyne processing result, an apparatus includes a wave receiver that receives a reflected wave of a chirp wave reflected from a target, and outputs a reception wave signal, a dual-sweep signal generator that generates a dual-sweep signal of the chirp wave, having a frequency which does not overlap that of the chirp wave, and a heterodyne processor that generates a beat frequency by multiplying the reception wave signal and the dual-sweep signal as a heterodyne signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu HOSHUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160171965
    Abstract: A vibration source estimation device, method and computer-readable medium are provided. The vibration source estimation device comprises a processor configured to execute instructions to receive data samples of a plurality of vibration signals generated at a vibration position, the data samples being associated with a plurality of frames. The processor is also configured to execute instructions to calculate a cross correlation function for each frame based on the data samples, calculate a weight for each frame based on a signal-to-noise ratio calculated from the cross correlation function, multiply the cross correlation function for each frame by the weight, calculate a sum of weighted cross correlation functions for respective frames as a weighted-cross-correlation function, and estimate the vibration position based on the weighted-cross-correlation function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Yumi ARAI, Yuzo SENDA, Osamu HOSHUYAMA