Patents by Inventor Ryuichi Mato

Ryuichi Mato 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: 20180286078
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted camera calibration system is provided. This system automatically calibrates camera images during the transfer of vehicles on an assembly line of the vehicles without stopping the vehicles on the assembly line. This system includes a camera mounted to each one of the vehicles for sequentially shooting an image of a road surface, a memory for chronologically storing the images shot with the camera, a featuring-point extractor for extracting a featuring point from each of the shot images stored in the memory, a tracking-point extractor for extracting a tracking point that represents a position to which the featuring point has been transferred after a lapse of a given time, and a camera-calibration parameter calculator for calculating a calibration parameter to be used for calibrating images shot by the camera, from the featuring point and the tracking point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: DAISUKE KIMOTO, RYUICHI MATO
  • Patent number: 7352388
    Abstract: 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 camera
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Miwa, Ryuichi Mato, Masaki Sato, Satoru Masuda
  • Publication number: 20050179801
    Abstract: 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 camera
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Michio Miwa, Ryuichi Mato, Masaki Sato, Satoru Masuda