Patents Assigned to OPTiM Corporation
  • Patent number: 11916961
    Abstract: Provided are a computer system which suggests an appropriate security set to a user for user information and statistical information related to collected statistical security parameters, a security setting suggestion method, and a program. The computer system, which is arranged in communication connection to at least one user terminal (10) and which is provided with a security statistics database (250), acquires, from the user terminal (10), a suggestion request for a security set, and user information at least including an attribute, uses the suggestion request and the acquired user information to extract, from the security setting statistics database (250), a security set associated with user information which is identical to the acquired user information or similar to the acquired user information within a specific extent, and provides the user terminal (10) with at least one extracted security set as a suggested security set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11823227
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a computer system, and a method and a program for managing an advertising medium that easily identify an advertising medium. The computer system for managing an advertising medium outputs an identification image embedding the identification information of the advertising medium to the advertising medium, analyzes the shot image of the advertising medium outputting the identification image and reads the identification information of the advertising medium, and registers the identification information in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunji Sugaya, Keishi Murai
  • Patent number: 11774969
    Abstract: Provided are a computer system and method using image analysis for controlling a flight path of a surface inspection unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein the computer system is configured to: acquire an image captured by a drone; perform image analysis on the acquired image; extract, in a result of the image analysis, a point whose an edge variation amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold; acquire a position coordinate of the extracted point; in a case where there are a plurality of points, set a flight path of the drone in a manner of flying in an order of edge variation amounts of the plurality of points from large to small; and control the drone to fly towards the acquired position coordinate and perform capturing with a camera using light other than visible light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11543836
    Abstract: Provided are an action plan making system and method for an unmanned aerial vehicle, and a storage medium. The action plan making system (1) includes: an unmanned aerial vehicle (10), provided with an aerial shooting device; and a computer (30). A control unit of the computer (30) executes a making module (324), which makes an action plan including a flight plan and a shooting plan of the unmanned aerial vehicle (10) according to a region accepted by executing a region acceptance module (322) and a purpose accepted by executing a purpose acceptance module (323). A control unit (14) of the unmanned aerial vehicle (10) executes a control module (141), and controls the aerial shooting of a camera (17) and flying of the unmanned aerial vehicle (10) based on the action plan made by executing the making module (324) by the control unit (32) of the computer (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11361463
    Abstract: Provided is a computer system for estimating an absolute position of a photographed object by just photographing the object with a camera, a position estimation method, and a program. The computer system acquires an image obtained by photographing an object, acquires three-dimensional position data of a camera which photographed the object, and estimates an absolute position of the object on the basis of the three-dimensional position data of the camera. Further, the computer system enables the camera to be tilted a specified angle in a direction of the object, and estimates the absolute position of the object on the basis of the three-dimensional position data of the camera and the tilted specified angle. Moreover, the computer system stores the position of the object and an altitude at the position in association with each other, and estimates an altitude associated with the estimated position of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11335044
    Abstract: A problem to be solved is to identify a person from an image of the visual field of a wearable terminal, and display personal information collected according to the person as augmented reality on a display board of the wearable terminal. Provided is a display system of a wearable terminal that displays personal information about a person on a display board of the wearable terminal, the display system of a wearable terminal including: an image acquisition unit for acquiring an image of a person who enters the visual field of the wearable terminal; an identification unit for identifying the person by performing image parsing on the image; a collection unit for collecting personal information about the person; and a personal information display unit for displaying the personal information about the person seen through the display board as augmented reality on the display board of the wearable terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11328727
    Abstract: Provided is a system for recording a voice about a working state, etc., linking the recorded voice to position information, and converting the recorded voice into a text. In a voice detail recording system (1), a control unit (10) executes an acquisition module (11) to acquire a voice and a position where the voice is uttered. In addition, the control unit (10) executes a voice recognition module (12) to perform voice recognition on the acquired voice. In addition, the control unit (10) executes a specification module (13) to specify Web content linked to the position acquired by executing the acquisition module (11). In addition, the control unit (10) executes a recording module (14) to record details obtained by executing the voice recognition module (12) to perform the voice recognition in the Web content specified by executing the specification module (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11263464
    Abstract: Provided is a system protecting privacy or the like of a land owner when providing an image taken by an unmanned flying object to the public (1) includes an unmanned aerial vehicle (10) and a computer (30). A control unit (14) in the unmanned aerial vehicle (10) executes an image acquisition module (141) to acquire an aerial image including positional information. A control unit (32) in the computer (30) executes a region designation module (321) to set a region where viewing is to be restricted. The control unit (32) executes a condition setting module (332) to set conditions for canceling the viewing restriction and set the conditions in a viewing authorization database (332). The control unit (32) executes a provision module (323) to provide an aerial image which includes the region where viewing is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11250582
    Abstract: Provided is an image analysis distance information provision system, and the system includes: a computer and an imaging device. The control unit of the computer is configured to perform the following steps according to an image of an object captured by the imaging device: determining the type of the captured object; calculating the actual length of the captured object per unit length of the image of the captured object; calculating the shooting range of the image of the captured object according to the calculation result; and estimating the distance from the imaging device to the captured object according to the calculated shooting range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11210335
    Abstract: A system for judging a situation of an object includes a component analysis unit that extracts a feature point in an image and analyzes at least two components selected from an object contained in the image, a posture, a shape, an orientation, and an expression of the object, a type and a location of a part of the object, and a background in the image; a situation acquisition unit that acquires situation data indicating the situation of the object from an image search computer; a learning unit that associates and learns a combination of the components with the acquired situation data; and an object situation judgement unit that judges the situation of the object based on the learning result of the situation data when a result of analysis for a predetermined image is same as or similar to the combination of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11188053
    Abstract: Provided are a computer system, and a method and a program for operation verification that easily know the operation of a machine tool more exactly. The computer system acquires operating data while a machine tool operates for a predetermined time, generates computer graphics virtually showing that the machine tool operates for the predetermined time from the acquired data, acquires an image of the machine tool that has taken for the predetermined time, and compares the image with the computer graphics for the predetermined time. The computer system also notifies the abnormality if an abnormality has been detected as the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11184184
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a computer system, a sound assistance method for a Web conference, and a program which can easily perform a conversation without setting a dedicated microphone. The computer system, which performs sound assistance for a Web conference system by using a microphone of a user terminal other than a terminal used in a Web conference, is configured to connect the Web conference system to the user terminal for a data communication, acquire a sound from the microphone of the user terminal, synthesize Web conference data from the Web conference system and the acquired sound, and output synthetic data after synthesizing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11164222
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic book display system, an electronic book display method, and a program in which an electronic book, evaluation information of a product and purchase information necessary for purchasing the product can be visually recognized in the same display area, and a computer automatically associates product information with its evaluation information and purchase information. An electronic book display system includes a display module 141 that displays an electronic book on which product information is described, and a search module 121 that searches for evaluation information associated with the product information or purchase information for purchasing a product corresponding to the product information. The display module 141 displays at least one of the searched evaluation information and purchase information in association with the product information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11100642
    Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a computer system, an animal diagnosis method, and a program in which the accuracy of animal diagnosis can be improved. The computer system acquires a visible light image of an animal imaged by a camera, compares the acquired visible light image with a normal visible light image of the animal and performs image analysis, identifies a species of the animal according to the result of the image analysis, identifies an abnormal portion of the animal according to the result of the image analysis, acquires environmental data of the animal, and diagnoses a condition of the animal according to the identified species, the identified abnormal portion and the acquired environmental data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11061995
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a computer system, a license management method, and a program capable of effectively using owned licenses and improving the convenience. A computer system that manages licenses of an application acquires a number of owned licenses, calculates a number of unused licenses which are not currently used, determines a number of rentable licenses from the calculated number of unused licenses, and provides the determined rentable licenses. Further, the computer system stores the number of rentable licenses and a rental period of the rentable licenses in association with each other, and provides the rentable licenses during the rental period. Furthermore, the computer system provides a minimum number of licenses among numbers of rentable licenses in the rental period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 10913533
    Abstract: A control target device 30 is, for example, an agricultural machine for performing various processes such as watering, additional fertilization, agrochemical spreading, and harvesting on a plant grown in a field. A moving image-capturing device 20 is a device that is movable and has an image-capturing function, and is, for example, a rotary-wing aircraft called a drone or a multicopter. A remote control device 10 analyzes an image of the field captured by the moving image-capturing device 30, determines what process should be performed on the plant according to the analysis result, and instructs the control target device 30 to perform the determined process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 10895491
    Abstract: It is an object to provide an animal weight estimation system, an animal weight estimation method, and a program, for suppressing increase of cost and improving safety when measuring a weight of an animal. An animal weight estimation system 1 for estimating a weight of an animal captures the animal, acquires outline data or a feature amount of the animal from a captured image which is captured, measures a distance between the animal and an image capturing position of the animal and estimates a weight of the animal from the acquired outline data and the measured distance when the outline data are acquired, and estimates the weight of the animal form the acquired feature amount when the feature amount is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 10887195
    Abstract: Provided are a computer system, a remote control notification method and a program. This computer system acquires an image of an IoT device, determines, from the acquired image, the IoT device which is capable of being remotely controlled by a user who visually confirms the image, and, in a position where the image of the IoT device determined to be remotely controllable is captured, displays with augmented reality that remote control is possible. Further, the computer system pre-stores images of the remotely controllable IoT device, and, on the basis of the pre-stored images of the IoT device, determines that the IoT device is remotely controllable through image recognition which involves comparing the pre-stored images with the acquired image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 10880476
    Abstract: Provided is a long image generation system. In the long image generation system, even when the moving vehicle and an imaging object are separated by a predetermined distance or more, a continuous long image can be generated through obtaining as few images as possible. The long image generation system (1) of the present disclosure includes: a moving vehicle carrying an imaging device; and a computer (30). The control unit (32) of the computer (30) obtains images at time intervals that changes in accordance with the view angle of the imaging device and the moving speed of the moving vehicle, records the images in the image data storage region (332), and synthesizes the images stored in the image data storage region (332) to generate the long image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 10846326
    Abstract: The present invention is to improve the detection and the identification accuracy of an object in image analysis in a camera control system that controls a camera used to take an image to be analyzed by artificial intelligence. The image analysis system that performs machine learning by using a plurality of teacher data associating a label that indicates what the object is with image data to which the label is attached, includes an imaging condition analysis module 211 that analyzes the imaging condition of teacher data; and a camera control module 212 that controls a camera to take an image under the analyzed imaging condition, to analyze the image taken under the imaging condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya