Patents Assigned to Panasonic I-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20200372257
    Abstract: A vehicle monitoring system includes at least one camera, and a server that is communicably connected to a client terminal. The camera performs capturing a vehicle while switching a first capturing condition including an image parameter for capturing a number of the vehicle entering an angle of view of the camera and a second capturing condition including an image parameter for capturing an occupant's face of the vehicle, and transmits a first captured video under the first capturing condition and a second captured video under the second capturing condition to the server. The server arranges reproduction screens for the first captured video and the second captured video that are reproduceable in the client terminal and displays the reproduction screens on the client terminal based on the first captured video and the second captured video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimasa FUNAKI, Michinori KISHIMOTO, Hiroaki JODAN, Toshiyuki SANO, Masahiro YAMASHITA, Yuma KOBAYASHI, Yuji ARIMA, Hideaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200372258
    Abstract: A vehicle monitoring system includes at least one camera, and a server that is communicably connected to the camera and a client terminal. The camera captures a license plate and an occupant's face of a vehicle entering an angle of view of the camera, and transmits a captured video to the server. The server acquires an analysis result of the license plate, analysis results of a type and a color of the vehicle, an analysis result of the occupant's face, and an analysis result of the number of occupants based on the captured video, and accumulates the acquired analysis results as analysis results of the captured video, and sends the analysis result to the client terminal in correlation with a snapshot of the captured video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuma KOBAYASHI, Hiromichi SOTODATE, Akihiro NAWATA, Toshimasa FUNAKI, Yuji ARIMA, Hideaki TAKAHASHI, Jyouji WADA, Hideaki YAMADA, Akito OMATA
  • Patent number: 10838460
    Abstract: A monitoring video analysis system includes a wearable camera that is held or possessed by a user, and a back end server that receives a captured video. The wearable camera records a captured video by capturing a video of a scene for each ten minutes. The back end server determines a face of a person appearing in n (n is an integer of two or more) captured videos by using a plurality of captured videos of the scene for each 10 minutes, and displays a thumbnail list UI in which the determined face of the person is registered, on a monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Wakako, Youhei Koide
  • Patent number: 10839197
    Abstract: There is provided a monitoring system which includes a plurality of monitoring cameras and a management device. The management device transmits feature information relevant to a person to one or more first monitoring cameras and receives check results, and transmits time information in which the person is captured to second monitoring cameras based on the check results. The management device specifies the person based on a check result acquired in such a way that the second monitoring cameras perform a check using the time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Sotodate, Hideo Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20200358947
    Abstract: A wearable camera includes: a storage section that stores therein video data of captured moving image; and a controller that adds a bookmark signal to the video data when an event included in the video data is detected, in which the bookmark signal indicates a location at which playback of the video data starts when the video data is played back.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru HAGIO, Shinichi ARAI, Takae OGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10820789
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes a first light source that emits visible light, a second light source that emits non-visible light, an image sensor that generates a first image including a subject through first photoelectric conversion using the visible light and generates a second image including a subject that emits fluorescence emission light due to excitation by the non-visible light through second photoelectric conversion using the non-visible light, and an output device that alternately switches between and outputs the first image and the second image. The second light source starts light emission by a predetermined time before start of the second photoelectric conversion due to driving of the driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Ogata, Yoshitaka Kitaoka, Naoto Matsuo, Haruhiko Kohno, Kunihiko Hara
  • Publication number: 20200327347
    Abstract: A server analyzes feature information including a whole body and a face of a person reflected in each of video images from a plurality of monitoring cameras and stores a whole body image and a face image as an analysis result. In response to designation of the whole body image and the face image of a person of interest, a client terminal sends a request for execution of each of first collation processing and second collation processing to the server. When a person matching at least one of the whole body image and the face image of the person of interest is specified by at least one of the first collation processing and the second collation processing, the server sends an alarm notification to the client terminal that the person of interest is found to the client terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamitsu Arai, Takashi Kamio, Koji Kawamoto, Yuumi Miyake, Eisaku Miyata
  • Patent number: 10791395
    Abstract: A flying object detection system includes a sensor including a microphone array configured to collect a sound in a first detection area of a monitoring area, a radar configured to measure a distance to a flying object by detecting the flying object in flight in a second detection area of the monitoring area, and a control device configured to detect presence or absence of the flying object based on sound data on the sound in the first detection area collected by the microphone array, and configured to receive the distance to the flying object. The control device is configured to display information on a position of the flying object viewed from arrangement places of the sensor and the radar based on the distance to the flying object and a detection output of the flying object by the radar on a first monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kamio, Norio Saitou, Eisuke Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20200288948
    Abstract: An endoscope includes a scope provided with a hard portion at a distal end of a long flexible portion having flexibility; an image capturing portion housed in the hard portion and having an image sensor; a transmission cable inserted into the scope and conductively connected to the image sensor at a distal end via a substrate, and a voltage conversion device mounted on the substrate and outputting a constant voltage to the image sensor with respect to a input voltage input to the transmission cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki OGATA, Naomi SHIRAI
  • Patent number: 10769448
    Abstract: In a surveillance system, a server and a plurality of cameras provided in a surveillance area are communicably connected to each other. The server includes a table memory that retains information on free resources of each of cameras. The server determines for each camera, a process to be executed by the camera, based on the information on the free resources of the camera, and transmits an instruction to execute the determined process to each camera. Each of the cameras executes a process corresponding to the instruction to execute, based on an instruction to execute the process transmitted from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shinohara, Yoshito Touzawa, Toru Terada
  • Publication number: 20200272826
    Abstract: An investigation assist system includes a server communicably connected to a first camera, one or more second cameras and a third camera; and a client terminal communicably connected to the server. The first camera captures a wide range of an intersection, the one or more second cameras capture identification information of a license plate and a face of a person in a vehicle entering the intersection, and the third camera captures outdoors. The server acquires and performs video analysis on videos thereby holding a video analysis result. The client terminal receives input of notified information including a date and a location on and at which an incident has occurred, determines to start a first investigation process, or a second investigation process, and tracks a suspect with the first investigation process or an escaping vehicle with the second investigation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki HASEGAWA, Ryutaro SEN, Keiichi FUJIWARA, Kosuke SHINOZAKI
  • Patent number: 10755541
    Abstract: A dome type surveillance camera includes a base, a plurality of cameras, a first connecting section, a plurality of second connecting sections, a hemispherical cover fixed to the base, and a circular rail. The first connecting section is connected on the base and connected with one first camera out of the plurality of cameras. The second connecting sections are connected on the base and connected with each of a plurality of second cameras excluding the first camera out of the plurality of cameras. The cover is disposed to cover the first connecting section, the second connecting sections, and the plurality of cameras. The rail is provided on the base and of which a center is immediately below a top of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kondou, Yuki Yoshikuni, Yu Jojima, Takashi Saito
  • Publication number: 20200252601
    Abstract: An imaging system includes first and second light source devices configured to irradiate a subject with lights having different wavelength bands, first and second imaging devices configured to image the subject, and first and second video processing devices configured to process an imaged video of the subject imaged by either of the corresponding imaging devices and to output the processed video to an output unit. The first and second light source devices alternately perform lighting in synchronization with a frame period of the imaged video or an integer multiple thereof based on a genlock signal. The first imaging device performs imaging in synchronization with the lighting of each of the first and second light source devices. The second imaging device performs imaging in synchronization with the lighting of each of the first and second light source devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsushi HIRANO, Yuji KINIWA, Haruo KOGANE
  • Publication number: 20200244926
    Abstract: A monitoring device includes a receiver, configured to receive a fisheye image of a bird's eye viewpoint captured by a plurality of monitoring cameras, an image transformer, configured to transform the fisheye image into a rectangular image of the bird's eye viewpoint or a different viewpoint image which is an image of a viewpoint different from the bird's eve viewpoint, and a controller, configured to provide a user interface which arranges a plurality of image windows respectively corresponding to the plurality of monitoring cameras, displays the rectangular image in the image windows, and switches a displayed image to the different viewpoint image for each image window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi KINOSHITA
  • Patent number: 10726274
    Abstract: Provided is an investigation assist system including a server communicably connected to a first camera and one or more second cameras; and a client terminal communicably connected to the server. The first camera captures a wide range of an intersection, and the one or more second cameras capture a license plate and a face of a person in a vehicle entering the intersection, and the first camera and the one or more second cameras are arranged at each intersection. The server searches for vehicles using videos captured by the first camera and the one or more second cameras corresponding to an intersection at the location on the date included in the search conditions, specifies a captured image of the escaping vehicle, a license plate of the escaping vehicle and an face of a person in the escaping vehicle, and stores a specified result as investigation information of the suspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Hasegawa, Ryutaro Sen, Keiichi Fujiwara, Kosuke Shinozaki
  • Publication number: 20200236272
    Abstract: A camera device includes a first IR illuminator that is configured to irradiate a first irradiation range in a capturing area with first IR light, a second IR illuminator that is configured to irradiate a second irradiation range narrower than the first irradiation range in the capturing area with second IR light, and a controller that is configured to obtain a zoom magnification of the lens and controls the irradiation of the first IR light and the second IR light in a case where the zoom magnification is equal to a predetermined zoom magnification. The controller changes a supplied current of the first IR illuminator for the irradiation of the first IR light over a first predetermined time period, and changes a supplied current of the second IR illuminator for the irradiation of the second IR light over a second predetermined time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya TAMARU, Satoshi KATAOKA, Daisuke HARA, Hiroki YAMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200236305
    Abstract: There is provided a camera apparatus including: a capturing unit that includes a lens to which light, from a capturing area including IR light and visible light is incident, and that performs capturing based on the light; an IR lighting unit that irradiates the capturing area with IR light; and a controller that generates an instruction to change a focal position of the lens and an instruction to adjust a quantity of the IR light, in which the controller calculates an IR light ratio which indicates a ratio of the quantity of the IR light to the light included in a captured image of the capturing area, and selects and performs any one of a first focusing processing to change the focal position of the lens corresponding to the IR light, a second focusing processing to change the focal position of the lens corresponding to the visible light, and an IR light quantity adjustment determination processing to determine whether or not to adjust the quantity of the IR light, based on the IR light ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya TAMARU, Jun IKEDA, Kazuhiko NAKAMURA, Satoshi KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20200234553
    Abstract: An information processing device and a determination method for determining whether a person other than the persons determined to be permitted to enter each zone has entered the zone is provided. The information processing device has a communication section for receiving face image data from cameras for photographing respective plurality of zones in a building and a control section for collating the face image data with the registered face image data of the persons permitted to enter each zone and for determining whether the entry of the person corresponding to the face image data is permitted or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi KAMIO, Kosuke SHINOZAKI, Koji KAWAMOTO, Hiromichi SOTODATE, Yuiko TAKASE, Masashige TSUNENO, Eisaku MIYATA, Nobuhito SEKI
  • Patent number: 10719547
    Abstract: An image retrieval assist device that is communicably connected to an investigation assist device for recording captured images of cameras installed at a plurality of intersections respectively in correlation with camera information and intersection information. The image retrieval assist device has a processor, a communication unit; and a storage that stores an extraction condition of an image for each type of event that has occurred at the intersection, the image indicating a situation at a time of occurrence of the event. The processor accepts an input of event information including the type of event. The processor generates an image retrieval key including the extraction condition according to the input event information. The communication unit transmits the generated image retrieval key to the investigation assist device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Yoshida, Mikio Morioka
  • Patent number: 10716463
    Abstract: An endoscope includes: an aperture portion having an opening to which light from an observation target site is incident; a filter unit that has a plurality of filters and selectively transmits light based on any one of the filters; a color separation prism that is formed by a plurality of separation prisms which separate light, which has transmitted through the filter unit, into beams of light having different color components from each other; a plurality of image sensors that are provided so as to respectively correspond to the separation prisms and capture an image based on the beams of light; a signal output unit that outputs image signals captured by the image sensors respectively; and a filter disposing unit that disposes any one of the plurality of filters so that the light is incident to the disposed one of the plurality of filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Higashiyama, Yuuichi Takenaga, Haruyasu Katahira