Patents by Inventor TOMOYA HONJO

TOMOYA HONJO 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: 20240073521
    Abstract: There is provided with an image capturing control apparatus. A first storing unit configured to store, in advance, first signal information that is obtained by processing a captured first image. A first processing unit configured to send the first image to a second storing unit that is different from the first storing unit. A second processing unit configured to process the first image stored in the second storing unit. A determination unit configured to determine whether or not at least one of the second processing unit and the second storing unit is anomalous based on whether the first signal information matches second signal information obtained by the second processing unit processing the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Tomoya HONJO
  • Patent number: 11843856
    Abstract: There is provided with an image capturing control apparatus. A first storing unit configured to store, in advance, first signal information that is obtained by processing a captured first image. A first processing unit configured to send the first image to a second storing unit that is different from the first storing unit. A second processing unit configured to process the first image stored in the second storing unit. A determination unit configured to determine whether or not at least one of the second processing unit and the second storing unit is anomalous based on whether the first signal information matches second signal information obtained by the second processing unit processing the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Patent number: 11810221
    Abstract: A device that can at least store a captured image and is attached/detached to/from an image capturing apparatus which includes a mounting part to/from which the device can be attached/detached is provided. The device has functions of obtaining image data related to an image captured by the image capturing apparatus, executing analysis processing on the image data, storing the image data and a result of the analysis processing on the image data. The device executes control not to store the first result in a case in which a first result of the analysis processing is the same as a second result of previously executed analysis processing that is stored, and to store the first result in a case in which the first result is different from the second result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Patent number: 11778313
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus, which includes a mounting part capable of attaching/detaching a device capable of holding at least an image captured by the image capturing apparatus and capable of communicating with the mounted device in accordance with a predetermined standard, obtains, from the device, information of communication specifications used to perform predetermined communication, in accordance with the predetermined standard, with the device mounted in the mounting part, and performs, using the obtained information of the communication specifications, the predetermined communication with the device mounted in the mounting part in accordance with the predetermined standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Publication number: 20230126046
    Abstract: From an input image, a candidate area in which an object exists is acquired. Furthermore, a confidence score indicating a possibility that the object exists and a class probability are acquired. An overlap ratio between candidate areas is calculated for each combination of two arbitrary detection results, and a combination of detection results with an overlap ratio equal to or larger than a threshold value is output as an overlap-detected group. A candidate area used as a representative area is determined from detection results included in the overlap-detected group based on a confidence score. Each class index is calculated based on the overlap ratio with respect to the representative area, and a class with the highest class index is determined as the class of the representative area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Ritsuko Otake, Hidetoshi Izawa, Tomoya Honjo
  • Publication number: 20220294976
    Abstract: There is provided with an image capturing control apparatus. A first storing unit configured to store, in advance, first signal information that is obtained by processing a captured first image. A first processing unit configured to send the first image to a second storing unit that is different from the first storing unit. A second processing unit configured to process the first image stored in the second storing unit. A determination unit configured to determine whether or not at least one of the second processing unit and the second storing unit is anomalous based on whether the first signal information matches second signal information obtained by the second processing unit processing the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Patent number: 11343461
    Abstract: A device that is attached/detached to/from an image capturing apparatus and that is configured to obtain image data related to an image captured by the image capturing apparatus, to execute analysis processing on the image data, and to store, in a storage of the device, at least a result of the analysis processing on the image data and information designating specific data is provided. The device deletes, based on the information, data stored in the storage when power supply to the device is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Patent number: 11205258
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an identification unit configured to execute identification processing for associating an object included in a first captured image captured by a first image-capturing apparatus with an object included in a second captured image captured by a second image-capturing apparatus different from the first image-capturing apparatus, a recording unit configured to record a result of the identification processing executed by the identification unit, and a determination unit configured to determine a state of a restriction condition based on the result of the identification processing recorded by the recording unit and the restriction condition relating to the identification processing set between the first image-capturing apparatus and the second image-capturing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Publication number: 20210306548
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus, which includes a mounting part capable of attaching/detaching a device capable of holding at least an image captured by the image capturing apparatus and capable of communicating with the mounted device in accordance with a predetermined standard, obtains, from the device, information of communication specifications used to perform predetermined communication, in accordance with the predetermined standard, with the device mounted in the mounting part, and performs, using the obtained information of the communication specifications, the predetermined communication with the device mounted in the mounting part in accordance with the predetermined standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Publication number: 20210092319
    Abstract: A device that is attached/detached to/from an image capturing apparatus and that is configured to obtain image data related to an image captured by the image capturing apparatus, to execute analysis processing on the image data, and to store, in a storage of the device, at least a result of the analysis processing on the image data and information designating specific data is provided. The device deletes, based on the information, data stored in the storage when power supply to the device is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Publication number: 20210090206
    Abstract: A device that can at least store a captured image and is attached/detached to/from an image capturing apparatus which includes a mounting part to/from which the device can be attached/detached is provided. The device has functions of obtaining image data related to an image captured by the image capturing apparatus, executing analysis processing on the image data, storing the image data and a result of the analysis processing on the image data. The device executes control not to store the first result in a case in which a first result of the analysis processing is the same as a second result of previously executed analysis processing that is stored, and to store the first result in a case in which the first result is different from the second result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Patent number: 10860846
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detecting unit, an extracting unit, a managing unit, and a deriving unit. The detecting unit detects an object from an image. The extracting unit extracts a feature amount of the object detected by the detecting unit. The managing unit manages an element in the object detected by the detecting unit in association with the feature amount of the object in the element. The deriving unit derives a reliability indicative of a certainty for identifying an object with respect to the feature amount of the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Tomoya Honjo, Hiroshi Tojo
  • Patent number: 10769800
    Abstract: A moving object detection apparatus has a generation unit that generates a background model based on a feature of a background region of a captured image that is captured by image capturing unit, a detection unit that detects a moving object region from an image input using an input unit, based on the background model, and a determination unit that determines whether to cause the generation unit to newly generate a background model, based on an amount of change in the moving object region detected by the detection unit for a first image and a second image captured at different times and input using the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Publication number: 20200226739
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an identification unit configured to execute identification processing for associating an object included in a first captured image captured by a first image-capturing apparatus with an object included in a second captured image captured by a second image-capturing apparatus different from the first image-capturing apparatus, a recording unit configured to record a result of the identification processing executed by the identification unit, and a determination unit configured to determine a state of a restriction condition based on the result of the identification processing recorded by the recording unit and the restriction condition relating to the identification processing set between the first image-capturing apparatus and the second image-capturing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Patent number: 10430457
    Abstract: A captured image obtained by capturing a surface on which a color chart is disposed such that color information representing a color included in the color chart can be derived is acquired, the color information is derived from the captured image, and the color of the color chart that is contained in the captured image is extracted. Then, the derived color information and the extracted color are registered in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Publication number: 20190034715
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detecting unit, an extracting unit, a managing unit, and a deriving unit. The detecting unit detects an object from an image. The extracting unit extracts a feature amount of the object detected by the detecting unit. The managing unit manages an element in the object detected by the detecting unit in association with the feature amount of the object in the element. The deriving unit derives a reliability indicative of a certainty for identifying an object with respect to the feature amount of the element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Tomoya Honjo, Hiroshi Tojo
  • Patent number: 10181075
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an evaluation unit configured to evaluate whether a partial region of a photographing range of an imaging unit is a region suitable for analysis processing to be performed based on feature quantities of an object, with reference to a track of the object in an image captured by the imaging unit, and an output control unit configured to control the information processing apparatus to output information reflecting an evaluation result obtained by the evaluation unit. Accordingly, the information processing apparatus can support a user to improve the accuracy of the analysis processing to be performed based on the feature quantities of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tojo, Tomoya Honjo, Shinji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10121068
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detecting unit, an extracting unit, a managing unit, and a deriving unit. The detecting unit detects an object from an image. The extracting unit extracts a feature amount of the object detected by the detecting unit. The managing unit manages an element in the object detected by the detecting unit in association with the feature amount of the object in the element. The deriving unit derives a reliability indicative of a certainty for identifying an object with respect to the feature amount of the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Tomoya Honjo, Hiroshi Tojo
  • Publication number: 20180308242
    Abstract: A moving object detection apparatus has a generation unit that generates a background model based on a feature of a background region of a captured image that is captured by image capturing unit, a detection unit that detects a moving object region from an image input using an input unit, based on the background model, and a determination unit that determines whether to cause the generation unit to newly generate a background model, based on an amount of change in the moving object region detected by the detection unit for a first image and a second image captured at different times and input using the input unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Tomoya Honjo
  • Patent number: 10043313
    Abstract: To appropriately superimpose and display a virtual object on an image of a real space, an information processing apparatus according to exemplary embodiment of the present invention determines the display position of the virtual object based on information indicating an allowable degree of superimposition of a virtual object on each real object in the image of the real space, and a distance from a real object for which a virtual object is to be displayed in association with the real object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoya Honjo, Masakazu Matsugu, Yasuhiro Komori, Yoshinori Ito, Hideo Noro, Akira Ohno