Patents by Inventor Hiromatsu Aoki

Hiromatsu Aoki 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: 11129539
    Abstract: A pulse measuring device includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires plural pieces of time-series photographed image data obtained by photographing a living body; an image processor that generates plural pieces of transformed image data corresponding to the plural pieces of photographed image data by performing a multiple resolution analysis on each of the plural pieces of photographed image data a plurality of times, each of the plural pieces of photographed image data being decomposed into a high-resolution component and a low-resolution component on the multiple resolution analysis; and a pulse measuring unit that calculates a feature quantity indicating luminance of a predetermined area in each of the plural pieces of transformed image data, calculates a variation period of the feature quantity by analyzing time-series data of the feature quantity, and calculates a pulse of the living body based on the variation period of the feature quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromatsu Aoki, Masao Hiramoto, Tomoaki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20170347898
    Abstract: A pulse measuring device includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires plural pieces of time-series photographed image data obtained by photographing a living body; an image processor that generates plural pieces of transformed image data corresponding to the plural pieces of photographed image data by performing a multiple resolution analysis on each of the plural pieces of photographed image data a plurality of times, each of the plural pieces of photographed image data being decomposed into a high-resolution component and a low-resolution component on the multiple resolution analysis; and a pulse measuring unit that calculates a feature quantity indicating luminance of a predetermined area in each of the plural pieces of transformed image data, calculates a variation period of the feature quantity by analyzing time-series data of the feature quantity, and calculates a pulse of the living body based on the variation period of the feature quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromatsu AOKI, Masao HIRAMOTO, Tomoaki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20170311864
    Abstract: A health care assisting device includes: an image acquisition part that acquires a plurality of images in which a target person is photographed in time series; an expression recognizer that recognizes a feature of an expression of the target person from the plurality of images acquired by the image acquisition part; a storage in which expression recognition results of the plural images are stores as time-series data; a health state estimator that detects a feature associated with a temporal change of the expression of the target person from the time-series data stored in the storage, and estimates a mental health state of the target person based on the detected feature; and an output part that outputs information on the mental health state of the target person based on an estimation result of the health state estimator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi MANABE, Hiromatsu AOKI
  • Patent number: 9715627
    Abstract: An area information estimating device has a camera that photographs an image within a sensing area, a person detector that detects a person from the image from the camera, and a position calculator that calculates an existence position of the person in the sensing area based on a coordinate on the image in which the person is detected by the person detector. The person detector excludes the person in whom a relationship between the coordinate and a size on the image does not satisfy a predetermined condition from a detection target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Chujo, Seriya Iguchi, Seiichi Manabe, Hiromatsu Aoki, Shun Sakai
  • Patent number: 9679397
    Abstract: An image-processing device for performing processing of coloring a skin of an image of a person with a pattern in a certain color, comprising a color-correction unit that corrects the color of the pattern to determine a color for each region such that the color of the pattern applied to each region varies in a plurality of regions colored with the pattern in the image of the person; and a coloring unit that colors the image of the person with the pattern by superimposing the color for each region on a color of each region of the image of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromatsu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20160110602
    Abstract: An area information estimating device has a camera that photographs an image within a sensing area, a person detector that detects a person from the image from the camera, and a position calculator that calculates an existence position of the person in the sensing area based on a coordinate on the image in which the person is detected by the person detector. The person detector excludes the person in whom a relationship between the coordinate and a size on the image does not satisfy a predetermined condition from a detection target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Chujo, Seriya Iguchi, Seiichi Manabe, Hiromatsu Aoki, Shun Sakai
  • Patent number: 9280830
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for extracting an area of a detection target from an image includes an image input section that acquires an image, an image generation section that generates a plurality of images with different resolutions from the image, and a segmentation section that performs segmentation using the plurality of images with the different resolutions. The segmentation section segments an image with a low resolution and then segmenting an image with a high resolution using, as a processing target area, an area in the image with the high resolution corresponding to an area near a boundary resulting from processing of the segmentation of the image with the low resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Irie, Hiromatsu Aoki, Takahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9245330
    Abstract: An image processing device for performing image processing on a facial image including a mouth of a person is provided, comprising a first organ likelihood identification unit configured to identify, based on a difference between a color of a location and a first representative color which is a representative color of an organ to be processed, a likelihood of the location being the organ as a first organ likelihood for each location of a first region including at least a part of the mouth; a first weight determination unit configured to determine a first weight which becomes smaller the greater a distance from a first location of the first region for each location; a correction degree determination unit configured to determine a correction degree of the location which becomes greater the greater the first organ likelihood and the first weight; and an image correction unit configured to correct an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiromatsu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20150262368
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for extracting an area of a detection target from an image includes an image input section that acquires an image, an image generation section that generates a plurality of images with different resolutions from the image, and a segmentation section that performs segmentation using the plurality of images with the different resolutions. The segmentation section segments an image with a low resolution and then segmenting an image with a high resolution using, as a processing target area, an area in the image with the high resolution corresponding to an area near a boundary resulting from processing of the segmentation of the image with the low resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Irie, Hiromatsu Aoki, Takahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9111132
    Abstract: An image processing device that identifies a characteristic of a lip from a face image including a mouth of a person has a representative skin color determination unit that determines a representative color of a skin in the face image, a candidate color determination unit that sets a plurality of regions in the face image such that at least one of the regions contains a part of the lip, and determines representative colors of the regions as candidate colors, and a representative lip color determination unit that determines a representative color of the lip from the plurality of candidate colors, in accordance with a difference in hue and saturation between the representative color of the skin and each candidate color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromatsu Aoki
  • Patent number: 8831378
    Abstract: An image transforming device transforms a part of a captured image of an object based on a predetermined type of transformation. The image transforming device includes an obtaining unit that obtains the captured image of the object, a detecting unit that detects characteristic information from the captured image of the object, a grid point setting unit that sets grid points for the captured image, and setting movement information of the grid points based on the control points and the movement information of the control points, and an image transforming unit that transforms an image area by moving the grid points based on the movement information of the grid points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignees: OMRON Corporation, The Ritsumeikan Trust
    Inventors: Hiromatsu Aoki, Yen-Wei Chen, Masataka Seo, Mizuho Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20140185931
    Abstract: An image processing device for performing image processing on a facial image including a mouth of a person is provided, comprising a first organ likelihood identification unit configured to identify, based on a difference between a color of a location and a first representative color which is a representative color of an organ to be processed, a likelihood of the location being the organ as a first organ likelihood for each location of a first region including at least a part of the mouth; a first weight determination unit configured to determine a first weight which becomes smaller the greater a distance from a first location of the first region for each location; a correction degree determination unit configured to determine a correction degree of the location which becomes greater the greater the first organ likelihood and the first weight; and an image correction unit configured to correct an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiromatsu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20130343647
    Abstract: An image processing device that identifies a characteristic of a lip from a face image including a mouth of a person has a representative skin color determination unit that determines a representative color of a skin in the face image, a candidate color determination unit that sets a plurality of regions in the face image such that at least one of the regions contains a part of the lip, and determines representative colors of the regions as candidate colors, and a representative lip color determination unit that determines a representative color of the lip from the plurality of candidate colors, in accordance with a difference in hue and saturation between the representative color of the skin and each candidate color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiromatsu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20130271485
    Abstract: An image-processing device for performing processing of coloring a skin of an image of a person with a pattern in a certain color, comprising a skin-identification unit that specifies a spot that is of a skin in the image of the person, and a coloring unit that colors the spot, which is of the specified skin, with the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiromatsu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20130271484
    Abstract: An image-processing device for performing processing of coloring a skin of an image of a person with a pattern in a certain color, comprising a color-correction unit that corrects the color of the pattern to determine a color for each region such that the color of the pattern applied to each region varies in a plurality of regions colored with the pattern in the image of the person; and a coloring unit that colors the image of the person with the pattern by superimposing the color for each region on a color of each region of the image of the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiromatsu Aoki
  • Publication number: 20130039599
    Abstract: An image transforming device transforms a part of a captured image of an object based on a predetermined type of transformation. The image transforming device includes an obtaining unit that obtains the captured image of the object, a detecting unit that detects characteristic information from the captured image of the object, a grid point setting unit that sets grid points for the captured image, and setting movement information of the grid points based on the control points and the movement information of the control points, and an image transforming unit that transforms an image area by moving the grid points based on the movement information of the grid points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicants: THE RITSUMEIKAN TRUST, OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromatsu Aoki, Yen-Wei Chen, Masataka Seo, Mizuho Ohmura