Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Fujii
Hirofumi Fujii 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: 20150136029Abstract: A rotary table unit in a film deposition system according to the present invention includes a rotary table and first interchangeable units and second interchangeable units detachably attachable to the rotary table. A workpiece to be mounted on each second interchangeable unit differs in diameter from a workpiece to be mounted on each first interchangeable unit. To keep constant a distance between each of the workpieces of different sizes and a target, a distance between a position, where the workpiece mounted on each first workpiece mount plate faces an evaporation surface of the target, and a rotation center of the rotary table is set equal to a distance between a position, where the workpiece mounted on each second workpiece mount plate faces the evaporation surface of the target, and the rotation center.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventor: Hirofumi FUJII
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Patent number: 9025875Abstract: A people counting device includes: a person presence region extraction unit which extracts a region in which a person is present by performing person detection in relation to an input image; a person presence state estimation unit which estimates a person presence state from an extraction result; a portion detector selection unit which selects a type of portion detector to be used for people count measurement based on the estimation result, and outputs portion detector information. The people counting device further includes: a portion detection process unit which performs a portion detection process for detecting a portion of a person based on the portion detector information; and a people counting unit which obtains a number of people within the input image from a portion detection process result.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Matsumoto, Sumio Yokomitsu, Katsunori Waragai, Hirofumi Fujii, Takayuki Matsukawa, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Publication number: 20150071548Abstract: An image pickup device transmits to a server a transmission sample including a detection image detected by a first detection section from a transmitting/receiving section under the control of a transmission sample control section. The server performs detection processing that requires more resources than those of the first detection section on the detection image transmitted by a second detection section from the image pickup device, and determines whether or not the detection image in question is spurious, based on a second detection score which is thereby obtained. A transmission frequency deciding section generates transmission frequency control information such as to raise the transmission frequency by an image pickup device that has a high frequency of spurious detection; a transmitting/receiving section transmits the transmission frequency control information to the image pickup device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Sumio Yokomitsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Masataka Sugiura, Michio Miwa
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Patent number: 8964290Abstract: A microscope includes an illumination system, a stage, and an objective lens that forms an image of a specimen. The stage includes a fixed member whose position and inclination are fixed, a specimen holding member at least one of whose position and inclination is changeable, and a supporting member that supports the specimen holding member. A connection between the supporting member and the specimen holding member and a connection between the supporting member and the fixed member reside near sides of the specimen holding member. The microscope further includes an actuator that changes at least one of the position and the inclination of the specimen holding member with respect to the fixed member, and a buffer mechanism that suppresses transmission of any changes in the inclination of the specimen holding member to the actuator. The actuator and the specimen holding member are connected with the buffer mechanism interposed therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Michio Yanagisawa
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Patent number: 8907985Abstract: An image display device is configured to cut out and display a moving object within an omnidirectional image. The image display device includes: a moving object position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of the moving object within the omnidirectional image; a determination unit configured to determine whether to correct an upward direction of a cutout image; a parameter correction unit configured to correct a cutout parameter when the determination unit determines to correct the upward direction of the cutout image; a cutout unit configured to cut images including the moving object out of the omnidirectional image based on the cutout parameter corrected by the parameter correction unit; and a display unit configured to display the images including the moving object, which are cut out by the cutout unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Sumio Yokomitsu, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Yuichi Matsumoto, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Publication number: 20140341472Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to increase accuracy in detecting a person on the basis of the size of an object detection region in an omni-directional image. A height-and-width switching section for switching between the height and the width of the object detection region on the basis of the position of the object detection region in the omni-directional image is provided. It is determined on the basis of the height and the width of the object detection region for which the height and the width are switched by the height-and-width switching section whether the object detection region is a person detection region. As a result, the person detection region and a shadow detection region can be correctly separated in the omni-directional image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2013Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Hirofumi Fujii, Takeshi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20140313415Abstract: An image monitoring system that efficiently utilizes a network band and decrease the processing load of a server is provided. A second image decision processor analyzes an extracted image transmitted from a monitoring terminal, and evaluates the quality (reliability) of the extracted image. A reliability decision unit outputs an individual ID of the analyzed extracted image to a load estimation unit when the numerical value from the analysis output by the second decision processor becomes less than the preset threshold. The load estimation unit estimates the server processor load of a server and the network load. A resend request unit controls the resend request for an individual ID output from the negative load estimation unit corresponding to the server processor load and the network load.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Inventors: Sumio YOKOMITSU, Hirofumi FUJII, Takeshi FUJIMATSU, Takeshi WATANABE, Yuichi MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20140219503Abstract: A thronging determination device for determining occurrence of a thronging state in which persons are gathered locally, includes an image receiving unit that receives a moving image, an image dividing unit that divides an input image received by the image receiving unit into local regions, and a degree-of-congestion estimating unit that judges the degree of congestion in plural ones of the local regions. If the degree-of-congestion estimating unit judges that the degree of congestion in the plural ones of the local regions is lower than a prescribed value, a thronging determination is performed using local regions that are smaller in number than the local regions that have been used in estimating the degree of congestion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi WATANABE, Hirofumi FUJII, Sumio YOKOMITSU
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Publication number: 20140204195Abstract: A microscope includes an objective optical system including an imaging optical system configured to form an image of an object, a re-imaging optical system configured to re-form an image of the object image formed by the imaging optical system, and a reflection unit arranged on an optical path between the imaging optical system and the re-imaging optical system and configured to be locally changeable in at least one of a position thereof in an optical axis direction and an inclination thereof relative to an optical axis, and an image sensor configured to capture the image re-formed by the objective optical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuji Katashiba, Kazuhiko Kajiyama, Hirofumi Fujii, Toshiaki Ikoma
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Patent number: 8728705Abstract: A negative photosensitive material is provided which has a lower linear expansion coefficient and a lower hygroscopic expansion coefficient and is excellent in gradational patternability and PI etchability in patterning.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Katsutoshi Hirashima, Hirofumi Fujii, Yasushi Tamura, Ryouji Suezaki
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Publication number: 20140036143Abstract: An image acquisition apparatus includes an imaging optical system configured to image an object, a reimaging optical system configured to reimage the object imaged by the imaging optical system, a reflecting member disposed in an optical path between the imaging optical system and the reimaging optical system, an image sensor configured to capture an image of the object reimaged by the reimaging optical system, and to output the image, a first driving unit configured to change a tilt of the reflecting member relative to an optical axis of the imaging optical system, and a correction unit configured to correct a positional deviation of the image in a rotational direction, wherein the positional deviation of the image is generated according to a change in the tilt of the reflecting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Inventors: Yuji Katashiba, Kazuhiko Kajiyama, Hirofumi Fujii
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Patent number: 8639045Abstract: An image processing device comprises a region dividing unit which divides a captured image obtained by a camera unit into a plurality of regions, and an image compressing unit which compresses each of region images obtained by the division by the region dividing unit while changing the compression rate according to the distance from a predetermined point in the captured image to each of the region images and the distance from the camera unit to a target included in each of the regions. For example, the image compressing unit compresses the region image having a larger angle from the optical axis at a larger compression rate, thereby achieving compression in which the amount of data in low-quality regions is greatly reduced and the quality of high-quality regions is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Sumio Yokomitsu, Hirofumi Fujii, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Yuichi Matsumoto, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Publication number: 20130314778Abstract: A microscope includes a stage that holds an object, an objective optical system that forms an image of the object, a light receiving unit that receives the image of the object, and a driving unit that moves the stage between a first position where the image of the object is taken and a second position that is different from the first position. The stage includes a nozzle from which a gas is ejected. The nozzle is provided such that the gas is ejected from the nozzle toward the objective optical system when the stage is at the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Michio Yanagisawa, Yuji Sudoh
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Publication number: 20130278774Abstract: Each camera comprises an image generation unit for generating an image by capturing the image, a moving object detection unit for detecting a moving object from the image and transmitting information on the position of the moving object to the server, and an image transmission unit for, when the camera is selected by the server, transmitting an image. The server comprises an image delivery camera selection unit for selecting some cameras as image delivery cameras from among the cameras based on the information on the position of the moving object transmitted from each of the cameras, an image delivery camera notification unit for notifying the selection result to the cameras, and an image input unit for inputting the images transmitted from the image delivery cameras.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Hirofumi Fujii, Takayuki Matsukawa, Sumio Yokomitsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Yuichi Matsumoto, Katsunori Waragai, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Patent number: 8541099Abstract: The present invention provides a low-modulus low-stress resin which has such heat resistance that cohesive force and reliability can be retained even at high temperatures and which is applicable as various functional materials. The resin is a thermoplastic resin having a modulus of elasticity at room temperature, 25° C., of 1 GPa or lower and a modulus of elasticity at 250° C. of 1 MPa or higher, or a precursor resin thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Yoshio Terada, Kazumasa Igarashi
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Publication number: 20130230245Abstract: A people counting device includes: a person presence region extraction unit which extracts a region in which a person is present by performing person detection in relation to an input image; a person presence state estimation unit which estimates a person presence state from an extraction result; a portion detector selection unit which selects a type of portion detector to be used for people count measurement based on the estimation result, and outputs portion detector information. The people counting device further includes: a portion detection process unit which performs a portion detection process for detecting a portion of a person based on the portion detector information; and a people counting unit which obtains a number of people within the input image from a portion detection process result.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2011Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Matsumoto, Sumio Yokomitsu, Katsunori Waragai, Hirofumi Fujii, Takayuki Matsukawa, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Takeshi Watanabe, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka
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Publication number: 20130169788Abstract: A microscope 1 includes an illumination device 10 for illuminating a object 30, an optical system 40 for forming an image of the object 30, and an imaging device 50 for capturing the image of the object 30. The imaging device 50 includes a plurality of imaging units. Each of the imaging units includes an image sensor and a movement mechanism for moving the image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiko Tsuji, Hirofumi Fujii, Shun Mochizuki
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Publication number: 20130141562Abstract: A microscope according to the present invention includes an imaging unit including a first illuminating unit, an imaging element, and a projection optical system, the first illuminating unit including a light source that illuminates a first object, the imaging element performing imaging of the first object, the projection optical system projecting an image of the first object onto the imaging element; a measuring unit configured to measure a second object for setting an imaging condition used when performing imaging of the second object at the imaging unit; and a controller configured to concurrently perform the imaging of the first object at the imaging unit and the measurement of the second object at the measuring unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masashi Yano, Hirofumi Fujii, Michio Yanagisawa, Yukio Tokuda
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Publication number: 20130083317Abstract: An image acquisition apparatus includes an image-forming optical system configured to form an image of an observation area in a plane of a subject, an image sensor including a light receiving surface configured to capture an image of the observation area formed by the image-forming optical system, and a rotation unit configured to rotate at least one of the subject and the image sensor within a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the image-forming optical system. By driving of the rotation unit, the image acquisition apparatus changes a relative position of the observation area and the light receiving surface within the plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the image-forming optical system, to capture an image of an area in the observation area not captured at a time of image capturing before driving of the rotation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Michio Yanagisawa
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Publication number: 20130057546Abstract: A panoramic image display device divides a panoramic expansion image into at least two panoramic images and displays the panoramic images. The panoramic expansion image display device including: a clipping reference position setting unit that sets a clipping reference position for the panoramic expansion image; an object detection unit that detects an object as a display target from the panoramic expansion image; a clipping position determination unit that determines a clipping position of the panoramic image according to a relationship between a detected object position and the clipping reference position; and a display image generation unit that displays the panoramic image clipped from the panoramic expansion image at the clipping position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Watanabe, Sumio Yokomitsu, Hirofumi Fujii, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Yuichi Matsumoto, Michio Miwa, Masataka Sugiura, Mikio Morioka