Patents by Inventor Daisuke Kotake

Daisuke Kotake 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).

  • Publication number: 20240116500
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus capable of improving the efficiency of operation of a movable apparatus, an information processing apparatus comprises: a passing region calculation unit configured to calculate a passing region through which a movable apparatus passes; an object detection unit configured to detect an object around the movable apparatus by a sensor; and an object detection range setting unit configured to set an object detection range in which the object is detected by the object detection unit based on the passing region calculated by the passing region calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: YOSHIHIRO NAGANAWA, KOHEI IWABUCHI, MASAKAZU FUJIKI, DAISUKE KOTAKE
  • Publication number: 20240079345
    Abstract: A conductive member includes an adhesive layer and a metal foil layer. The adhesive layer consists of an adhesive composition containing conductive particles. The metal foil layer is disposed on the adhesive layer. The conductive member can be used to form, for example, a predetermined metal film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Masashi OHKOSHI, Nozomu TAKANO, Daisuke FUJIMOTO, Hiroyuki IZAWA, Tomohiko KOTAKE, Kunihiko AKAI, Yuka ITOH, Shunsuke TAKAGI
  • Patent number: 11830216
    Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus. From an image capturing apparatus which can move, a captured image of an object is obtained. The position of the image capturing apparatus is derived using the captured image and a three-dimensional map. The three-dimensional map is corrected using information indicating a reliability of: information indicating the three-dimensional position of the feature included in a predefined area in the three-dimensional map held by the holding unit; and information indicating a three-dimensional position of another feature of the object, the information obtained based on the captured image from an expanded area of the predefined area in the three-dimensional map held by the holding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Kotake, Akihiro Katayama, Makoto Tomioka, Nozomu Kasuya, Takayuki Yamada, Masahiro Suzuki, Masakazu Fujiki
  • Publication number: 20230168103
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one or more computer-readable storage media and one or more processors in communication with the one or more computer-readable storage media. The one or more processors and the one or more computer-readable storage media are configured to acquire a plurality of map elements from a storage unit configured to store three-dimensional map information based on the plurality of map elements, each of which includes an image captured by an imaging apparatus mounted on a vehicle and also includes position information indicating a position of the imaging apparatus by which the image is captured, make a determination to detect a map element including an image captured at a position where wrong position is likely to be estimated in a localization of the imaging apparatus, and generate display data for distinguishably displaying the position indicated by the position information included in the detected map element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Sonoko Miyatani, Masakazu Fujiki, Daisuke Kotake, Akiteru Naka
  • Patent number: 11657319
    Abstract: As learning data, an image of a virtual space corresponding to a physical space and geometric information of the virtual space is generated. Learning processing of a learning model is performed using the learning data. A position and/or orientation of an image capturing device is calculated based on geometric information output from the learning model when a captured image of the physical space captured by the image capturing device is input to the learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Daisuke Kotake, Kazuhiko Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230032367
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including at least one memory storing instructions and at least one processor that, upon execution of the instructions, is configured to acquire, based on a measurement value measured by a sensor attached to a moving object, information about a position and an orientation of the moving object and a reliability of position/orientation estimation, generates, based on the position and the orientation and the reliability, a reliability map including the reliability for each orientation of the sensor, and determines the orientation of the moving object with the sensor such that the reliability increases, based on the generated reliability map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Shinji Ohira, Masakazu Fujiki, Daisuke Kotake
  • Publication number: 20220379903
    Abstract: An information processing device measures a position of the moving object, acquires success or failure information relating to success or failure of the position measurement, acquires at least one of histories, determines to interrupt driving control of the moving object, and decides, if the driving control of the moving object is determined to be interrupted, a restart method. The histories include a history of the position of the moving object, a driving history of the moving object, a history of illuminance around the moving object, and a history of a direction of an imaging element mounted in the moving object. The driving control of the moving object is interrupted on the basis of the success or failure information. The restart method restarts the driving control of the moving object on the basis of at least one of the histories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Shoko Miura, Makoto Tomioka, Daisuke Kotake, Ayato Imai
  • Patent number: 11393123
    Abstract: An information processing device finds a position/orientation of an image capturing unit including first and second cameras whose image capturing fields are partially overlapped, the information processing device comprises an input unit that inputs first and second images from the first and second cameras a holding unit holding a learning model; a first estimating unit that estimates first provisional geometric information from the first and second images; a second estimating unit that estimates second provisional geometric information on the basis of the first image and the learning model; a third estimating unit that estimates third provisional geometric information on the basis of the second image and the learning model; and a generating unit that, on the basis of the first, second, and third provisional geometric information, generates the position/orientation information of the image capturing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoaki Higo, Daisuke Kotake, Masahiro Suzuki, Nozomu Kasuya, Makoto Tomioka
  • Patent number: 11348323
    Abstract: Based on a three-dimensional map in which three-dimensional information of a scene captured by an image capturing apparatus and a position and orientation of the apparatus are associated with each other and an image captured by the apparatus, a first position and orientation of the apparatus at the time of capturing the image is derived. The map is updated based on the captured image and the first position and orientation. A relative position and orientation between the first position and orientation and a second position and orientation of the apparatus derived by a method different from a method of deriving the first position and orientation or at a point of time different from a point of time of deriving the first position and orientation is derived. The map is corrected based on the relative position and orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daisuke Kotake, Makoto Tomioka, Nozomu Kasuya
  • Publication number: 20220137626
    Abstract: Difference information between a first element of a vehicle estimated in accordance with measurement information acquired by a first sensor and a second element of the vehicle acquired simultaneously with the first element is acquired. The difference information is according to the same coordinate system as the first element and the second element. An element for controlling movement of the vehicle is selected from the first element and the second element. When the element for controlling movement of the vehicle is switched to another element of the first element and the second element, the other element selected is corrected by using the difference information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Shinji Ohira, Makoto Tomioka, Daisuke Kotake, Masakazu Fujiki
  • Patent number: 11144786
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising: a holding unit configured to hold a plurality of learning models for estimating geometric information based on an input image captured by an image capturing apparatus; a selection unit configured to calculate, for each of the learning models, an evaluation value that indicates suitability of the learning model to a scene of the input image, and select a learning model from the plurality of learning models based on the evaluation values; and an estimation unit configured to estimate first geometric information using the input image and the selected learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Tomioka, Daisuke Kotake, Nozomu Kasuya, Masahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11108964
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus presenting information to an operator operating an image pickup device includes an image-pickup range setting portion setting an image pickup range over which an image can be taken by the image pickup device, a position and orientation calculation portion calculating a position and orientation of the image pickup device by using the image taken by the image pickup device, an evaluation portion evaluating an image pickup situation in the image pickup range, set by the image-pickup range setting portion, on the basis of the position and orientation calculated by the position and orientation calculation portion, and a guide information presentation portion presenting, in accordance with evaluation by the evaluation portion, guide information for guiding an operation of the image pickup device on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nozomu Kasuya, Makoto Tomioka, Daisuke Kotake, Masahiro Suzuki, Takayuki Yamada, Masakazu Fujiki, Akihiro Katayama
  • Patent number: 11094082
    Abstract: A plurality of verification position/orientation candidates for a target object is set. A common structure model including a geometric feature of a part, among geometric features of a reference model representing a three-dimensional shape of the target object, that is common among the candidates is generated. An image including the target object is obtained. A position/orientation of the target object is estimated by verifying the common structure model and the reference model arranged at the plurality of verification position/orientation candidates, against the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fukashi Yamazaki, Daisuke Kotake
  • Publication number: 20210232845
    Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus. From an image capturing apparatus which can move, a captured image of an object is obtained. The position of the image capturing apparatus is derived using the captured image and a three-dimensional map. The three-dimensional map is corrected using information indicating a reliability of: information indicating the three-dimensional position of the feature included in a predefined area in the three-dimensional map held by the holding unit; and information indicating a three-dimensional position of another feature of the object, the information obtained based on the captured image from an expanded area of the predefined area in the three-dimensional map held by the holding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Daisuke Kotake, Akihiro Katayama, Makoto Tomioka, Nozomu Kasuya, Takayuki Yamada, Masahiro Suzuki, Masakazu Fujiki
  • Patent number: 11037325
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus has a hold unit for holding a plurality of features of a physical space as a plurality of held features, each of the plurality of held features being related with a position in a first image captured by an image capturing apparatus at a first time, and information of an availability for a position/orientation calculation of the image capturing apparatus. The information processing apparatus associates a plurality of detected features, which are detected in a second image captured by the image capturing apparatus at a second time after the first time, with the plurality of held features, and, based on the availabilities related with the associated held features, adjusts a detected feature, among the plurality of detected features, to be used in the calculation of the position/orientation of the image capturing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Tomioka, Daisuke Kotake, Nozomu Kasuya
  • Patent number: 11003939
    Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus. From an image capturing apparatus which can move, a captured image of an object is obtained. The position of the image capturing apparatus is derived using the captured image and a three-dimensional map. The three-dimensional map is corrected using information indicating a reliability of: information indicating the three-dimensional position of the feature included in a predefined area in the three-dimensional map held by the holding unit; and information indicating a three-dimensional position of another feature of the object, the information obtained based on the captured image from an expanded area of the predefined area in the three-dimensional map held by the holding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Kotake, Akihiro Katayama, Makoto Tomioka, Nozomu Kasuya, Takayuki Yamada, Masahiro Suzuki, Masakazu Fujiki
  • Patent number: 10979694
    Abstract: To perform a high-accuracy three-dimensional measurement by performing an appropriate calibration in accordance with various temperature changes, an information processing apparatus that decides a temperature-dependent parameter of a projection apparatus configured to project a pattern onto a measurement target object to perform a three-dimensional measurement includes a holding unit configured to hold a relationship in which the temperature-dependent parameter of the projection apparatus is set as a temperature function, a temperature input unit configured to input a temperature of the projection apparatus, and a temperature-dependent parameter decision unit configured to decide the temperature-dependent parameter of the projection apparatus based on the temperature of the projection apparatus which is input by the temperature input unit and the relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daisuke Kotake, Masakazu Tohara, Hiroshi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10957068
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus has a hold unit for holding a plurality of features of a physical space as a plurality of held features, each of the plurality of held features being related with a position in a first image captured by an image capturing apparatus at a first time, and information of an availability for a position/orientation calculation of the image capturing apparatus. The information processing apparatus associates a plurality of detected features, which are detected in a second image captured by the image capturing apparatus at a second time after the first time, with the plurality of held features, and, based on the availabilities related with the associated held features, adjusts a detected feature, among the plurality of detected features, to be used in the calculation of the position/orientation of the image capturing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Tomioka, Daisuke Kotake, Nozomu Kasuya
  • Publication number: 20200334843
    Abstract: This invention provides an information processing apparatus comprising a first acquiring unit configured to acquire first distance information from a distance sensor, a second acquiring unit configured to acquire an image from an image capturing device, a holding unit configured to hold a learning model for estimating distance information from images, an estimating unit configured to estimate second distance information corresponding to the image acquired by the second acquiring unit using the learning model, and a generating unit configured to generate third distance information based on the first distance information and the second distance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Nozomu Kasuya, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Masahiro Suzuki, Daisuke Kotake, Makoto Tomioka
  • Publication number: 20200334855
    Abstract: An information processing device finds a position/orientation of an image capturing unit including first and second cameras whose image capturing fields are partially overlapped, the information processing device comprises an input unit that inputs first and second images from the first and second cameras a holding unit holding a learning model; a first estimating unit that estimates first provisional geometric information from the first and second images; a second estimating unit that estimates second provisional geometric information on the basis of the first image and the learning model; a third estimating unit that estimates third provisional geometric information on the basis of the second image and the learning model; and a generating unit that, on the basis of the first, second, and third provisional geometric information, generates the position/orientation information of the image capturing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoaki Higo, Daisuke Kotake, Masahiro Suzuki, Nozomu Kasuya, Makoto Tomioka