Patents by Inventor Akito OMATA
Akito OMATA 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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Patent number: 11953708Abstract: A camera device includes a first filter configured to restrict a transverse wave component of incident light having light of a plurality of different wavelength bands generated based on birefringence in a car film from a vehicle to which the car film is adhered, a lens on which a vertical wave component of the incident light transmitted through the first filter is incident, a second filter configured to restrict a vertical wave component of the incident light in a visible region among the vertical wave component of the incident light imaged by the lens, and an imaging element configured to image the vehicle as a subject based on a vertical wave component of the incident light in a near-infrared region transmitted through the second filter.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Yamada, Jyouji Wada, Toshiyuki Sano, Akito Omata, Yuma Kobayashi, Naoaki Tomisaka
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Patent number: 11846874Abstract: A camera apparatus includes a disk-shaped base portion having a hook portion and fixed to a fixed surface and, an apparatus main body mounting a camera portion and a connector, having a base hinge to be locked to the hook portion, and suspended from the base portion by locking the base hinge to the hook portion, an engagement mechanism engaging the apparatus main body and the base portion such that the apparatus main body and the base portion are not able to be separated from each other in a state that the apparatus main body is rotated in a direction approaching the base portion with the hook portion locking the base hinge as a fulcrum and the apparatus main body is parallel to the base portion, and a dome cover assembly watertightly covering the camera portion and the connector and attached to the apparatus main body.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Akito Omata, Hirokazu Tasaka, Satoshi Kataoka
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Patent number: 11704930Abstract: 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 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 results of an attribute 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: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma Kobayashi, Hiromichi Sotodate, Akihiro Nawata, Toshimasa Funaki, Yuji Arima, Hideaki Takahashi, Jyouji Wada, Hideaki Yamada, Akito Omata
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Publication number: 20230114363Abstract: A monitoring camera includes a plurality of camera units mounted in a circumferential direction of a device body, and a dome cover assembly including a dome cover collectively covering the plurality of camera units. The dome cover includes a water droplet guide surface continuous with an R surface and tilted downward as approaching an axis of the dome cover, and a water droplet receiving portion continuous with the water droplet guide surface. The camera unit includes a camera rotating a lens center axis on the virtual plane about a tilt rotation center in a direction perpendicular to the virtual plane. The water droplet receiving portion is provided outside of a field angle boundary of a field angle of the camera close to the axis in a state where the camera is tilted toward the axis side at a maximum tilt angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: i-PRO Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akito OMATA, Hirokazu TASAKA, Satoshi KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20230098781Abstract: A camera apparatus includes a disk-shaped base portion having a hook portion and fixed to a fixed surface and, an apparatus main body mounting a camera portion and a connector, having a base hinge to be locked to the hook portion, and suspended from the base portion by locking the base hinge to the hook portion, an engagement mechanism engaging the apparatus main body and the base portion such that the apparatus main body and the base portion are not able to be separated from each other in a state that the apparatus main body is rotated in a direction approaching the base portion with the hook portion locking the base hinge as a fulcrum and the apparatus main body is parallel to the base portion, and a dome cover assembly watertightly covering the camera portion and the connector and attached to the apparatus main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Akito OMATA, Hirokazu TASAKA, Satoshi KATAOKA
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Patent number: 11523089Abstract: A surveillance camera system includes a surveillance camera having a plurality of cameras for capturing images in a plurality of different image capturing ranges, and a terminal device capable of communicating with the surveillance camera. The terminal device transmits to the surveillance camera arrangement pattern information and image capturing range information of the plurality of cameras that are input by an operation of a user. The surveillance camera calculates camera parameters of the plurality of cameras based on the arrangement pattern information and the image capturing range information of the plurality of cameras transmitted from the terminal device, respectively set the plurality of cameras based on the camera parameters, and transmits to the terminal device images respectively captured by the plurality of cameras after the setting. The terminal device displays the images captured by the plurality of cameras and transmitted from the surveillance camera.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru Tamura, Ryutaro Sen, Akito Omata, Michinori Kishimoto, Akihiro Nawata
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Patent number: 11423749Abstract: A surveillance camera is equipped with a capturing unit to capture a subject; an illumination unit that applies illumination light to the subject; a main body that is approximately formed in a cuboid that is long in a top-bottom direction and has an internal housing space that is partitioned by a partition plate into a lower space that houses the capturing unit and an upper space that houses the illumination unit; a visor that projects from a front surface of the main body so as to be inclined forward and covers a light-receiving space formed in front of the capturing unit; and a water repelling portion that is formed in step form in a tip portion of the visor.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Akito Omata, Hirokazu Tasaka, Yusuke Mamiya, Masashi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20220157065Abstract: 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 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 results of an attribute 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: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: 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
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Patent number: 11281914Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: 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
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Publication number: 20220014715Abstract: A surveillance camera system includes a surveillance camera having a plurality of cameras for capturing images in a plurality of different image capturing ranges, and a terminal device capable of communicating with the surveillance camera. The terminal device transmits to the surveillance camera arrangement pattern information and image capturing range information of the plurality of cameras that are input by an operation of a user. The surveillance camera calculates camera parameters of the plurality of cameras based on the arrangement pattern information and the image capturing range information of the plurality of cameras transmitted from the terminal device, respectively set the plurality of cameras based on the camera parameters, and transmits to the terminal device images respectively captured by the plurality of cameras after the setting. The terminal device displays the images captured by the plurality of cameras and transmitted from the surveillance camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru TAMURA, Ryutaro SEN, Akito OMATA, Michinori KISHIMOTO, Akihiro NAWATA
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Publication number: 20210272432Abstract: A surveillance camera is equipped with a capturing unit to capture a subject; an illumination unit that applies illumination light to the subject; a main body that is approximately formed in a cuboid that is long in a top-bottom direction and has an internal housing space that is partitioned by a partition plate into a lower space that houses the capturing unit and an upper space that houses the illumination unit; a visor that projects from a front surface of the main body so as to be inclined forward and covers a light-receiving space formed in front of the capturing unit; and a water repelling portion that is formed in step form in a tip portion of the visor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Akito OMATA, Hirokazu TASAKA, Yusuke MAMIYA, Masashi NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20210223446Abstract: A camera device includes a first filter configured to restrict a transverse wave component of incident light having light of a plurality of different wavelength bands generated based on birefringence in a car film from a vehicle to which the car film is adhered, a lens on which a vertical wave component of the incident light transmitted through the first filter is incident, a second filter configured to restrict a vertical wave component of the incident light in a visible region among the vertical wave component of the incident light imaged by the lens, and an imaging element configured to image the vehicle as a subject based on a vertical wave component of the incident light in a near-infrared region transmitted through the second filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki YAMADA, Jyouji WADA, Toshiyuki SANO, Akito OMATA, Yuma KOBAYASHI, Naoaki TOMISAKA
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Publication number: 20200372258Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: 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
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Patent number: 9716816Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a dome cover whose inside is a housing space for housing a lens module, an apparatus main body that is attached with the dome cover, a first support member that is supported at the apparatus main body in a free pan rotation manner inside the dome cover, a second support member that is supported at the first support member in a free tilt rotation manner and supports the lens module, an illumination mount that is provided with an illumination member and is supported at the second support member, and a ring-shaped light shielding cover that is provided on the illumination mount, surrounds the illumination member, and comes into close contact with an inner surface of the dome cover.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji Urano, Hirokazu Tasaka, Akito Omata
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Patent number: 9699359Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a lens module having a lens at a front thereof, a dome cover including a lens module housing space, an apparatus main body attached with the dome cover, a first support member supported at the apparatus main body in a free pan rotation manner inside the dome cover, a second support member supported at the first support member in a free tilt rotation manner and supports the lens module, a ring-shaped light shielding cover that surrounds the front of the lens module and comes into contact with an inner surface of the dome cover, an illumination mount that includes an illumination member provided further outward than an inner circumference of the light shielding cover and the light shielding cover disposed thereon and supported at the second support member, and a first elastic member that biases the illumination mount toward the dome cover.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji Urano, Hirokazu Tasaka, Akito Omata
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Publication number: 20160255255Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a dome cover whose inside is a housing space for housing a lens module, an apparatus main body that is attached with the dome cover, a first support member that is supported at the apparatus main body in a free pan rotation manner inside the dome cover, a second support member that is supported at the first support member in a free tilt rotation manner and supports the lens module, an illumination mount that is provided with an illumination member and is supported at the second support member, and a ring-shaped light shielding cover that is provided on the illumination mount, surrounds the illumination member, and comes into close contact with an inner surface of the dome cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji URANO, Hirokazu TASAKA, Akito OMATA
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Publication number: 20160255251Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a lens module having a lens at a front thereof, a dome cover including a lens module housing space, an apparatus main body attached with the dome cover, a first support member supported at the apparatus main body in a free pan rotation manner inside the dome cover, a second support member supported at the first support member in a free tilt rotation manner and supports the lens module, a ring-shaped light shielding cover that surrounds the front of the lens module and comes into contact with an inner surface of the dome cover, an illumination mount that includes an illumination member provided further outward than an inner circumference of the light shielding cover and the light shielding cover disposed thereon and supported at the second support member, and a first elastic member that biases the illumination mount toward the dome cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji URANO, Hirokazu TASAKA, Akito OMATA
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Patent number: D973120Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Takehito Katori, Akito Omata, Hirokazu Tasaka, Yusuke Mamiya