Patents by Inventor Akio Nishimura
Akio Nishimura 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).
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Publication number: 20250024091Abstract: A system comprises television equipment and a number of portable electronic devices. The television equipment includes a large display and control circuitry. The control circuitry receives media content and media guidance data for display on the display. The control circuitry also includes communication components for communicating with the portable electronic devices. The portable electronic devices are operable for displaying video and communicating with the television equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Akitaka Nishimura, Akio Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 11042726Abstract: A skin analyzer includes a facial part recognition unit that recognizes a facial part from a face image of a user captured by a camera; a UI unit that causes a display to display a UI in which a facial part mark indicating the facial part is disposed on a face image, and that accepts an operation with respect to the facial part mark; an analysis region setting unit that sets a skin analysis region for the face image based on a position of the operated facial part mark; and a skin analysis performing unit that performs a skin analysis on the set skin analysis region.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Matsumoto, Hiroki Taoka, Ichiro Takei, Akio Nishimura
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Publication number: 20200143147Abstract: A skin analyzer includes a facial part recognition unit that recognizes a facial part from a face image of a user captured by a camera; a UI unit that causes a display to display a UI in which a facial part mark indicating the facial part is disposed on a face image, and that accepts an operation with respect to the facial part mark; an analysis region setting unit that sets a skin analysis region for the face image based on a position of the operated facial part mark; and a skin analysis performing unit that performs a skin analysis on the set skin analysis region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: HIROSHI MATSUMOTO, HIROKI TAOKA, ICHIRO TAKEI, AKIO NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 10178081Abstract: An authentication system according to an embodiment is provided with a service providing apparatus, an IDaaS corporation apparatus, and an authentication providing apparatus. Based on the user ID and SSO request transmitted from the user terminal, the authentication providing apparatus executes authentication processing for the user. If the result of the authentication processing indicates success, the IDaaS corporation apparatus having SSO account information including the SSO account identifier identical to the user ID, permits SSO authentication to be executed for the service identified by the service account identifier included in the service account information associated with the SSO account information. The service providing apparatus transmits information related to the service to the user terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Rieko Tsurumi, Akio Nishimura, Tatsuro Ikeda
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Publication number: 20160248759Abstract: An authentication system according to an embodiment is provided with a service providing apparatus, an IDaaS corporation apparatus, and an authentication providing apparatus. Based on the user ID and SSO request transmitted from the user terminal, the authentication providing apparatus executes authentication processing for the user. If the result of the authentication processing indicates success, the IDaaS corporation apparatus having SSO account information including the SSO account identifier identical to the user ID, permits SSO authentication to be executed for the service identified by the service account identifier included in the service account information associated with the SSO account information. The service providing apparatus transmits information related to the service to the user terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Rieko Tsurumi, Akio Nishimura, Tatsuro Ikeda
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Patent number: 9244258Abstract: To enable an image with no blind spot area to be obtained while ensuring a wide field of view, an omnidirectional imaging system includes: a primary mirror (101) including a hyperbolic mirror; a plurality of secondary mirrors (102) arranged around the primary mirror and each including a hyperbolic mirror; and a camera (104) that captures an image reflected by the primary mirror and images reflected by the plurality of secondary mirrors. A hyperboloid of the primary mirror and hyperboloids of the plurality of secondary mirrors have a substantially coincident outer focal point, and the camera (104) is placed so that a viewpoint of the camera substantially coincides with the outer focal point of the hyperboloid of the primary mirror (101) and the hyperboloids of the plurality of secondary mirrors (102), the viewpoint of the camera being an entrance pupil position of a lens attached to the camera (104).Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Akio Nishimura, Tetsuro Okuyama, Yasushi Yagi
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Patent number: 8903164Abstract: A disparity calculating apparatus which calculates a disparity value from a stereo image including first and second images includes: an image dividing unit which divides the first image into segments; a reference point determining unit which sets reference points to the first image; a corresponding point detecting unit which (i) calculates, for each reference point, a corresponding point which is included in the second image and corresponds to the reference point, based on phase information of images obtained by performing Fourier transform on the first image and the second image, (ii) calculates a disparity value using the reference point and each corresponding point, and (iii) calculates a reliability of the disparity value; and a disparity assigning unit which assigns each of the segments which includes a corresponding one of the reference points the disparity value and the reliability calculated by the corresponding point detecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2013Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Akio Nishimura, Tomohide Ishigami, Koichi Ito, Takafumi Aoki
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Patent number: 8731311Abstract: A decoding device improves a cache hit rate in a decoding process of compressed encoded image data. The decoding device, before the decoding process, generates a sort table for each reference picture for a plurality of MPEG data streams included in a GOP and having a frame type of P- or B-picture. The decoding device, by using the generated sort table, selects a group of pictures composed of a plurality of decoding target macro blocks that refer to the same reference macro block. The decoding device obtains, from the reference picture, four macro blocks including the same reference macro block referred to by the selected picture group, and stores the four macro blocks into the cache memory. The decoding device sequentially decodes each decoding target macro block included in the selected picture group, by using the four macro blocks stored in the cache memory.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Jun Ohmiya, Akio Nishimura, Tadashi Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki
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Patent number: 8705846Abstract: A position measuring apparatus which measures a position of a position measurement target easily and accurately without using any parameter inside a camera in the measurement, based on images captured from mutually different viewpoints. The position measuring apparatus which measures the three-dimensional position of the position measurement target, based on the input images captured from the mutually different viewpoints, and the position measuring apparatus includes: a ray information storage unit configured to store ray information in which each of ray vectors is associated with a corresponding one of pixels in one of the input images, each of the ray vectors indicating a forward direction of a light incident onto an optical system for a corresponding one of the input images; and a position measuring unit configured to measure the three-dimensional position of the position measurement target, using the ray information stored in the ray information storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tomohide Ishigami, Akio Nishimura, Tetsuro Okuyama
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Patent number: 8675090Abstract: An image generating apparatus which generates a second image that is an image converted from a first image captured by an imaging apparatus placed to be oriented downward at an angle of depression with respect to a horizontal direction includes: a specifying unit which specifies a straight line included in the first image and passing through an intersection between an imaging plane and a vertical vector; and an image extension processing unit which generates the second image by sampling pixels of the first image along the specified straight line.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tetsuro Okuyama, Akio Nishimura
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Publication number: 20140071255Abstract: A light source control device comprises a light source unit which emits parallel beams from an arbitrary position along a second axial direction which is orthogonal to a first axial direction, a light source control unit which controls an emitting position of the parallel beams of the light source unit, one or more deflectors which deflects the parallel beams emitted from the light source unit, and a first diffuser which diffuses the light beam, deflected by the deflector, in a third axial direction which is orthogonal to the first axial direction and the second axial direction, wherein the deflector is disposed to be tilted relative to the first axial direction, and yields a different deflection operation in a first element direction which is orthogonal to the deflector's own optical axis direction and in a second element direction which is orthogonal to both the optical axis direction and the first element direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuro Okuyama, Akio Nishimura, Toshikazu Ohtsuki, Daisuke Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20120154643Abstract: An image generating apparatus which generates a second image that is an image converted from a first image captured by an imaging apparatus placed to be oriented downward at an angle of depression with respect to a horizontal direction includes: a specifying unit which specifies a straight line included in the first image and passing through an intersection between an imaging plane and a vertical vector; and an image extension processing unit which generates the second image by sampling pixels of the first image along the specified straight line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventors: Tetsuro Okuyama, Akio Nishimura
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Publication number: 20120147183Abstract: To enable an image with no blind spot area to be obtained while ensuring a wide field of view, an omnidirectional imaging system includes: a primary mirror (101) including a hyperbolic mirror; a plurality of secondary mirrors (102) arranged around the primary mirror and each including a hyperbolic mirror; and a camera (104) that captures an image reflected by the primary mirror and images reflected by the plurality of secondary mirrors. A hyperboloid of the primary mirror and hyperboloids of the plurality of secondary mirrors have a substantially coincident outer focal point, and the camera (104) is placed so that a viewpoint of the camera substantially coincides with the outer focal point of the hyperboloid of the primary mirror (101) and the hyperboloids of the plurality of secondary mirrors (102), the viewpoint of the camera being an entrance pupil position of a lens attached to the camera (104).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventors: Akio Nishimura, Tetsuro Okuyama, Yasushi Yagi
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Publication number: 20120045100Abstract: A position measuring apparatus which measures a position of a position measurement target easily and accurately without using any parameter inside a camera in the measurement, based on images captured from mutually different viewpoints. The position measuring apparatus which measures the three-dimensional position of the position measurement target, based on the input images captured from the mutually different viewpoints, and the position measuring apparatus includes: a ray information storage unit configured to store ray information in which each of ray vectors is associated with a corresponding one of pixels in one of the input images, each of the ray vectors indicating a forward direction of a light incident onto an optical system for a corresponding one of the input images; and a position measuring unit configured to measure the three-dimensional position of the position measurement target, using the ray information stored in the ray information storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Inventors: Tomohide ISHIGAMI, Akio Nishimura, Tetsuro Okuyama
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Patent number: 7911478Abstract: A display device includes a wavelet transform unit for transforming an original image into wavelet coefficients using a Harr wavelet transform formula, a level obtaining unit for obtaining a mipmap level of a mipmap image. The display device also includes an inverse wavelet transform unit for receiving and subjecting at least a portion of the wavelet coefficients obtained by the transformation by the wavelet transform unit, to an inverse transform using an inverse Harr wavelet transform formula until an order having a value equal to the mipmap level is obtained, and outputting an image represented by at least a portion of a low-frequency component of wavelet coefficients having the order having the value equal to the mipmap level. Additionally, the display device includes a polygon drawing unit for drawing the image output by the inverse wavelet transform unit, as a mipmap image, on the polygon image.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Akio Nishimura, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20090279801Abstract: A decoding device that improves the cache hit rate in the decoding process of compressed encoded image data. The decoding device, before the decoding process, generates a sort table for each reference picture for a plurality of MPEG data streams included in a GOP and having a frame type of P- or B-picture. The decoding device, by using the generated sort table, selects a group of pictures composed of a plurality of decoding target macro blocks that refer to the same reference macro block. The decoding device obtains, from the reference picture, four macro blocks including the same reference macro block referred to by the selected picture group, and stores the four macro blocks into the cache memory. The decoding device sequentially decodes each decoding target macro block included in the selected picture group, by using the four macro blocks stored in the cache memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2007Publication date: November 12, 2009Inventors: Jun Ohmiya, Akio Nishimura, Tadashi Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki
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Patent number: 7340199Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming device, which facilitates maintenance and replacement of an intermediate transfer body and an image carrier, and prevents a deterioration in image quality which accompanies the formation of the intermediate transfer body and the image carrier as separate structures, having an image carrier on which a toner image is formed, and an intermediate transfer body conveying the toner image, which is formed on the image carrier, to a transfer medium, the image forming device including a supporting frame in which the intermediate transfer body is mounted, a suspension portion suspending the image carrier at the supporting frame to face the image carrier to the intermediate transfer body, and an attaching/removing portion at which the supporting frame is installed, and which is for attaching and removing the supporting frame to and from a device main body of the image forming device.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2004Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Isao Ito, Iwao Kuriki, Hiroki Shiba, Katsumi Harumoto, Kazuhiro Saito, Akio Nishimura
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Publication number: 20080049041Abstract: A display device according to the present invention includes a wavelet transform unit for transforming an original image into wavelet coefficients using a Harr wavelet transform formula, a level obtaining unit for obtaining a mipmap level of a mipmap image, an inverse wavelet transform unit for receiving and subjecting at least a portion of the wavelet coefficients obtained by the transformation by the wavelet transform unit, to an inverse transform using an inverse Harr wavelet transform formula until an order having a value equal to the mipmap level is obtained, and outputting an image represented by at least a portion of a low-frequency component of wavelet coefficients having the order having the value equal to the mipmap level, and a polygon drawing unit for drawing the image output by the inverse wavelet transform unit, as a mipmap image, on the polygon image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2007Publication date: February 28, 2008Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Akio Nishimura, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki
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Patent number: 7212205Abstract: A curved surface image processing apparatus 100 according to the present invention that can render an object at higher speed and in higher quality by performing image processing using NURBS data includes: a data input unit 101 for receiving NURBS data; a coordinate transformation unit 102 for performing coordinate transformation on NURBS data; an animation control unit 103 for controlling animation data of each frame to be rendered; a data transformation unit 104 for transforming NURBS data into rational Bezier data; a patch division unit 105 for subdividing a rational Bezier surface patch; a normal determination unit 106 for calculating normals of control points of a divided surface patch; a perspective transformation unit 107 for performing perspective transformation on a divided surface patch; and a rendering unit 108 for rendering a surface patch.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Uesaki, Akio Nishimura, Tadashi Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki, Kazu Segawa, Makoto Yamakura, Kazutaka Nishio, Hitoshi Araki, Kenji Nishimura
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Patent number: 7015917Abstract: A subdivision level determination unit (13) in a curved surface subdivision apparatus (10) accepts an input of information about control points that define a shape of a curved surface and determines the subdivision level for the surface. Next, it sets, for a subdivision processing operation control unit (16), a control table corresponding to the determined subdivision level. The subdivision processing operation control unit (16) executes the subdivision processing while controlling a work memory unit (14) and a subdivision processing operation unit (15) based on the set control table.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2004Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Uesaki, Tadashi Kobayashi, Kazutaka Nishio, Akio Nishimura, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki