Patents by Inventor Daijiroh Ichimura

Daijiroh Ichimura 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).

  • Patent number: 12347203
    Abstract: A moving object detection system detecting moving objects based on a captured image comprising: cameras capturing images to generate image data; image recognition circuitries each performing image recognition on the image data generated by each camera to detect a moving object in a captured image indicated by the image data; and an information management apparatus managing image data supplied from each camera to a corresponding image recognition circuitry. The information management apparatus includes a communication interface performing data communication with the cameras and the image recognition circuitries, and a controller managing congestion information on the number of moving objects localized within a range of a captured image indicated by image data for each camera, and controlling the communication interface to supply the image data generated by the cameras to each image recognition circuitry, distributing the image data according to the congestion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Miyata, Daijiroh Ichimura, Hidehiko Shin
  • Publication number: 20250200935
    Abstract: A server according to an aspect of the present disclosure is used in an identity determination system. The identity determination system includes a sender terminal and a recipient terminal. The server includes a processor configured to: receive, from the sender terminal, first feature information indicating a first object to be sent by a sender to a recipient; receive, from the recipient terminal, second feature information indicating a second object received by the recipient; perform matching processing that matches the first feature information with the second feature information; and determine whether the first object corresponds to the second object based on a result of the matching processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daijiroh ICHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20250139812
    Abstract: A position analysis device includes: an input interface that acquires the captured image obtained by the camera; a processor that calculates coordinate transformation from a first coordinate system to a second coordinate system with respect to the target position in the acquired captured image; and a memory that stores a correction model to generate a correction amount of a position in the second system, wherein the processor corrects a transformed position from the target position, based on the correction model wherein the correction model is constructed by machine learning to minimize an error at each reference position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Daijiroh ICHIMURA, Hidehiko Shin
  • Patent number: 12217452
    Abstract: A position analysis device includes: an input interface that acquires the captured image obtained by the camera; a processor that calculates coordinate transformation from a first coordinate system to a second coordinate system with respect to the target position in the acquired captured image; and a memory that stores a correction model to generate a correction amount of a position in the second coordinate system, wherein the processor corrects a transformed position from the target position, based on the correction model including weight functions corresponding to reference positions, the transformed position being a position obtained by the coordinate transformation on the target position in the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system, the weight functions each producing a larger weighting in the correction amount as the transformed position is closer to a corresponding reference position, the reference positions being different from each other in the second coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daijiroh Ichimura, Hidehiko Shin
  • Publication number: 20240345715
    Abstract: A data analysis device for controlling generation of at least one data string indicating a detection result of an object detected in time sequence in a field, including: a display to display information; an input interface to receive a user operation; and a processor to control a data controller that manages the detection result of the object to generate the data string. The processor causes the display to display display information including an adjacency range in which ends of a plurality of fragments of the data string are adjacent to each other in the field, receives, via the input interface, the user operation to adjust a parameter indicating a condition for the plurality of fragments of the data string to be connected to each other in the adjacency range, and controls the data controller to apply the adjusted parameter in the adjacency range according to the user operation on the input interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daijiroh ICHIMURA, Hidehiko SHIN, Tomoaki ITOH
  • Publication number: 20240185702
    Abstract: An alert device for alerting an irregularity in equipment installed in an environment to users, including: a communication interface performing data communication with terminal devices respectively associated with the users; a controller controlling the communication interface; a state information obtainer acquiring state information indicating a state of the equipment; and a position information obtainer acquiring position information indicating a position of each user in the environment, wherein the controller: upon specifying that the equipment is in an irregular state based on the state information, transmits an irregularity notification, indicating that the equipment is in the irregular state, to the terminal devices; then detects a moving user to the irregular equipment based on the position information; and when the moving user is detected, transmits a cancellation notification indicating cancellation of the irregularity notification to a part or all of the terminal devices to which the irregularity no
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshihiro NAKAMINAMI, Daijiroh ICHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240112498
    Abstract: An image analysis device including: an input interface to acquire image data indicating a captured image of a site in which a plurality of operators performs a plurality of tasks; a controller to generate, based on the image data, task history information indicating the tasks performed in the site by respective operators; and a storage to store the task history information, the controller successively recognizes the tasks and positions of the operators, based on the image data at each time in the site; and detects crossing caused between a plurality of trajectories each including successive positions for each of the operators; generates the task history information associating tasks recognized at each time with the respective operators, based on the trajectories, when the crossing is not detected; and associates the recognized tasks with the respective operators, based on the recognized tasks and past task history information, when the crossing is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Atsushi MIYATA, Hidehiko SHIN, Tomokazu ICHIRIKI, Daijiroh ICHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240112499
    Abstract: An image analysis device comprising: an input interface to acquire image data indicating an image of an operator performing task; and a controller to detect the task performed by the operator sequentially, based on the image data, to generate task detection information indicating a detection result of the task, wherein the task includes a plurality of processes performed by the operator, and the controller compensates the task detection information by interpolating a detection result of the task within an undetected period, in accordance with a pre process and/or a post process of the undetected period, the undetected period being a period in which the task is not detected, the pre process being a process of the task detected previously to the undetected period, and the post process being a process of the task detected subsequently to the undetected period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoaki Itoh, Tomokazu Ichiriki, Hidehiko Shin, Daijiroh Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20240070894
    Abstract: An object detection device for detecting a position of an object on an imaging plane imaged by a camera, including: a processor to acquire image data generated by the camera and perform coordinate transformation, with respect to a position of the object, from first coordinates associated with an image indicated by the image data to second coordinates associated with the imaging plane; and a memory to store setting information used for the coordinate transformation, wherein the setting information includes a set value indicating a height from the imaging plane for each type among a plurality of types of objects, and the processor acquires a position of the object in the first coordinates and a type of the object based on the image data and calculates a position of the object in the second coordinates by performing the coordinate transformation using the set value corresponding to the type of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro TANAKA, Daijiroh ICHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240005256
    Abstract: A work analysis device for generating information on a plurality of works performed by one or more workers in a workplace, the work analysis device comprising: a storage that stores map information indicating an area associated with each of the works in the workplace; an acquisition circuitry that acquires position information including positions of the workers at each time in the workplace: and a controller that performs arithmetic processing to discriminate the works of the workers at each time based on the position information and the map information, wherein the controller generates probability information indicating a probability that a work associated with an area including positions of the workers at each time in the map information is performed by the workers based on the position information, and adjusts the probability information according to work tendency information indicating a tendency for the workers to perform the works in the workplace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Daijiroh ICHIMURA, Hidehiko SHIN, Tomokazu ICHIRIKI
  • Publication number: 20230083876
    Abstract: A data analysis device, for analyzing efficiency of an assembly line operation including processes, includes: an input interface configured to acquire log data indicating a history of the processes respectively performed for each time of the assembly line operation; and a control circuit configured to generate analysis information indicating an analysis result of the history indicated by the log data, based on information generated by a probability model to calculate probability distribution for the assembly line operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki OKIMOTO, Daijiroh ICHIMURA, Akira MINEGISHI, Yosuke TAJIKA
  • Publication number: 20230015683
    Abstract: A moving object detection system detecting moving objects based on a captured image comprising: cameras capturing images to generate image data; image recognition circuitries each performing image recognition on the image data generated by each camera to detect a moving object in a captured image indicated by the image data; and an information management apparatus managing image data supplied from each camera to a corresponding image recognition circuitry. The information management apparatus includes a communication interface performing data communication with the cameras and the image recognition circuitries, and a controller managing congestion information on the number of moving objects localized within a range of a captured image indicated by image data for each camera, and controlling the communication interface to supply the image data generated by the cameras to each image recognition circuitry, distributing the image data according to the congestion information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi MIYATA, Daijiroh ICHIMURA, Hidehiko SHIN
  • Publication number: 20230005175
    Abstract: A position analysis device includes: an input interface that acquires the captured image obtained by the camera; a processor that calculates coordinate transformation from a first coordinate system to a second coordinate system with respect to the target position in the acquired captured image; and a memory that stores a correction model to generate a correction amount of a position in the second coordinate system, wherein the processor corrects a transformed position from the target position, based on the correction model including weight functions corresponding to reference positions, the transformed position being a position obtained by the coordinate transformation on the target position in the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system, the weight functions each producing a larger weighting in the correction amount as the transformed position is closer to a corresponding reference position, the reference positions being different from each other in the second coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Daijiroh ICHIMURA, Hidehiko SHIN
  • Publication number: 20220327806
    Abstract: It selects learning data that is effective for learning a learning model. An identification information assignment device comprising: a processor; and memory, wherein, using the memory, the processor: acquiring a plurality of image data; selecting a part of the plurality of image data as learning data; assigning identification information to the selected image data by using a learning model which is recorded in the memory; and updating the learning model by using the selected image data to which the identification information is assigned, wherein identification information is assigned to a rest of the plurality of image data by using the updated learning model, the rest of the plurality of image data being different from the selected image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoaki ITOH, Hidehiko SHIN, Daijiroh ICHIMURA, Atsushi MIYATA, Yoshiyuki OKIMOTO, Akihiro TANAKA, Kaito MIZUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220300883
    Abstract: A quality estimation device for generating information on quality with which a plurality of unit products are obtained by using a plurality of facilities to pass at least one step, includes: a memory that stores quality control data associating the facilities passed for each of the unit products in the step when the unit products are obtained, with quality for the obtained unit products; and a circuit that controls calculation processing based on the quality control data stored in the memory. The circuit extracts a plurality of pass records from the quality control data, the plurality of pass records each indicating a series of facilities passed by a unit product in the plurality of unit products and quality for the unit product, and generates facility quality information indicating quality with respect to a facility in the plurality of facilities by the calculation processing, based on the extracted pass records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Daijiroh ICHIMURA, Yoshiyuki OKIMOTO, Hidehiko SHIN, Akira MINEGISHI, Yosuke TAJIKA
  • Publication number: 20220114299
    Abstract: A layout design device that designs a new layout obtained by changing an existing layout related to arrangement of a facility in a certain space, the layout design device including: a generator that generates a new layout according to stay data related to a stay specified from flow line data representing a motion of a target in a case of a existing layout in a space; and an output processor that outputs the new layout generated by the generator, wherein the generator generates the stay data by extracting a stay portion where the target stays from the flow line data, and generates the new layout by using auxiliary information that associates the facility arranged in the space with the stay portion and the stay data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Daijiroh ICHIMURA, Hidehiko SHIN
  • Publication number: 20210374634
    Abstract: A method evaluating a decrease in production performance for a target work. A work efficiency evaluation method includes the steps of: reading, from a storage, model data used for evaluating work efficiency and generated based on operation data related to work including a predetermined work time and a predetermined work amount; calculating an degree of impact of a decrease in work efficiency on the basis of data related to time required for work and a work amount by the model data; and evaluating a decrease in production performance in accordance with the degree of impact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki OKIMOTO, Daijiroh ICHIMURA, Hidehiko SHIN
  • Patent number: 11061236
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a head-mounted display that achieves smooth communication that allows a wearer of the head-mounted display and an outside person to understand their intentions with each other, and a control method of controlling the head-mounted display. Head-mounted display includes: sound receiver that receives a sound coming from a specific direction; voice detector that detects a voice from the sound received by sound receiver; head movement detector that detects movement of the head of the wearer of head-mounted display; external display that displays externally visible information; and response detector that, when voice detector detects the voice, and head movement detector detects movement of the head of the wearer facing toward the specific direction, displays information indicating that the wearer has responded to the voice on external display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daijiroh Ichimura, Kazuhiro Tsuga
  • Patent number: 10604111
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a start information acquisition unit that acquires start information including detection information about a key to a vehicle and a start instruction to start an engine, a first authentication unit that acquires, in accordance with the start information, sensing information about a user detected by a sensor of the vehicle and information about a preregistered user corresponding to the sensing information and authenticates whether the detected user is the preregistered user, a second authentication unit that acquires, in accordance with the start information, authentication information input by the user and preregistered authentication information corresponding to the authentication information and authenticates whether the input authentication information is the same as the preregistered authentication information, and a control information output unit that outputs control information regarding start of the engine based on at least one of the authentication results receive
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tsuyoki Nishikawa, Daijiroh Ichimura, Misaki Tsujikawa
  • Patent number: 10453472
    Abstract: A parameter prediction device includes: an environmental characteristic acquirer that acquires an environmental characteristic quantity set which quantifies one or more characteristics of a sound collection environment for an acoustic signal; a target setter that sets a target evaluation value set which provides one or more values obtained by quantifying one or more performances of processing of the acoustic signal, or one or more evaluation values of a processed acoustic signal; and a first predictor that inputs the environmental characteristic quantity set and the target evaluation value set as independent variables to a first prediction model, and predicts a control parameter set for controlling the acoustic signal processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Daijiroh Ichimura