Patents by Inventor Hiromichi Sotodate

Hiromichi Sotodate 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: 20230267630
    Abstract: An image processing device 20 includes a communication unit 21 and a controller 22(processor). The communication unit 21 acquires a standard image and a reference image captured by a stereo camera 10. The controller 22 calculates a disparity based on the standard image and the reference image. The controller 22 calculates, at each pixel position, a cost value representing a degree of difference for each pixel position between the standard image and each of multiple images obtained by displacing the reference image by multiple different deviation amounts in a direction corresponding to a baseline length direction of the stereo camera 10. The processor aggregates the cost values using dynamic programming and calculates a disparity for each pixel position based on the aggregated cost values for each different deviation amount. The multiple different deviation amounts are discrete values at uneven intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Eijiro SHIBUSAWA, Hiromichi SOTODATE
  • Patent number: 11704930
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuma Kobayashi, Hiromichi Sotodate, Akihiro Nawata, Toshimasa Funaki, Yuji Arima, Hideaki Takahashi, Jyouji Wada, Hideaki Yamada, Akito Omata
  • Publication number: 20220157065
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: 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
  • Patent number: 11281914
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 11113798
    Abstract: A camera device communicably connected to a server device includes an imaging unit that images an outdoor monitoring target area, a detection unit that detects an object appearing in a captured image of the imaged monitoring target area and generates a cut-out image of the object, an image correction unit that generates a sharpened image to be used for collating processing of the object in the server device by using the cut-out image of the object and an image correction model, and a communication unit that sends the cut-out image of the object and the sharpened image to the server device in association with identification information of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiromichi Sotodate
  • Patent number: 11062578
    Abstract: An information processing device and a determination method for determining whether a person other than the persons determined to be permitted to enter each zone has entered the zone is provided. The information processing device has a communication section for receiving face image data from cameras for photographing respective plurality of zones in a building and a control section for collating the face image data with the registered face image data of the persons permitted to enter each zone and for determining whether the entry of the person corresponding to the face image data is permitted or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kamio, Kosuke Shinozaki, Koji Kawamoto, Hiromichi Sotodate, Yuiko Takase, Masashige Tsuneno, Eisaku Miyata, Nobuhito Seki
  • Publication number: 20210209909
    Abstract: An information processing device receives face image data from cameras for photographing respective plurality of zones in a building and includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores first information in which camera identification information of respective plurality of cameras is associated with the plurality of zones, and second information in which registered face image data is associated with a zone into which an entry of a person corresponding to the registered face image data is permitted. The processor refers to the first information and the second information, determines a photographing zone in which a person corresponding to the received face image data has been photographed, and determines whether or not the entry of the person corresponding to the face image data is permitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi KAMIO, Kosuke SHINOZAKI, Koji KAWAMOTO, Hiromichi SOTODATE, Yuiko TAKASE, Masashige TSUNENO, Eisaku MIYATA, Nobuhito SEKI
  • Patent number: 11017646
    Abstract: An information processing device and a determination method for determining whether a person other than the persons determined to be permitted to enter each zone has entered the zone is provided. The information processing device has a communication section for receiving face image data from cameras for photographing respective plurality of zones in a building and a control section for collating the face image data with the registered face image data of the persons permitted to enter each zone and for determining whether the entry of the person corresponding to the face image data is permitted or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kamio, Kosuke Shinozaki, Koji Kawamoto, Hiromichi Sotodate, Yuiko Takase, Masashige Tsuneno, Eisaku Miyata, Nobuhito Seki
  • Publication number: 20200372258
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: 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
  • Patent number: 10839197
    Abstract: There is provided a monitoring system which includes a plurality of monitoring cameras and a management device. The management device transmits feature information relevant to a person to one or more first monitoring cameras and receives check results, and transmits time information in which the person is captured to second monitoring cameras based on the check results. The management device specifies the person based on a check result acquired in such a way that the second monitoring cameras perform a check using the time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Sotodate, Hideo Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20200234553
    Abstract: An information processing device and a determination method for determining whether a person other than the persons determined to be permitted to enter each zone has entered the zone is provided. The information processing device has a communication section for receiving face image data from cameras for photographing respective plurality of zones in a building and a control section for collating the face image data with the registered face image data of the persons permitted to enter each zone and for determining whether the entry of the person corresponding to the face image data is permitted or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi KAMIO, Kosuke SHINOZAKI, Koji KAWAMOTO, Hiromichi SOTODATE, Yuiko TAKASE, Masashige TSUNENO, Eisaku MIYATA, Nobuhito SEKI
  • Publication number: 20200219234
    Abstract: A camera device communicably connected to a server device includes an imaging unit that images an outdoor monitoring target area, a detection unit that detects an object appearing in a captured image of the imaged monitoring target area and generates a cut-out image of the object, an image correction unit that generates a sharpened image to be used for collating processing of the object in the server device by using the cut-out image of the object and an image correction model, and a communication unit that sends the cut-out image of the object and the sharpened image to the server device in association with identification information of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiromichi SOTODATE
  • Publication number: 20190340417
    Abstract: There is provided a monitoring system which includes a plurality of monitoring cameras and a management device. The management device transmits feature information relevant to a person to one or more first monitoring cameras and receives check results, and transmits time information in which the person is captured to second monitoring cameras based on the check results. The management device specifies the person based on a check result acquired in such a way that the second monitoring cameras perform a check using the time information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Hiromichi Sotodate, Hideo Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10438049
    Abstract: There is provided a monitoring system which includes a plurality of monitoring cameras and a management device. The management device transmits feature information relevant to a person to one or more first monitoring cameras and receives check results, and transmits time information in which the person is captured to second monitoring cameras based on the check results. The management device specifies the person based on a check result acquired in such a way that the second monitoring cameras perform a check using the time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Sotodate, Hideo Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20180018504
    Abstract: There is provided a monitoring system which includes a plurality of monitoring cameras and a management device. The management device transmits feature information relevant to a person to one or more first monitoring cameras and receives check results, and transmits time information in which the person is captured to second monitoring cameras based on the check results. The management device specifies the person based on a check result acquired in such a way that the second monitoring cameras perform a check using the time information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Hiromichi Sotodate, Hideo Noguchi
  • Patent number: 8698913
    Abstract: A color correction device (1) including: color set information storage portions (11) which store color set information inclusive of source colors and reference colors; region selection portions (6) which select specific source regions from source images picked up by two cameras 2 respectively; region color decision portions (7) which decide source region colors as colors representative of the source regions; color set update portions (10) which update source colors in color sets by using the source region colors; and color correction portions (8) which calibrate colors in ranges similar to the source colors in the two source images to reference colors by using the color sets. It is possible to eliminate the necessity of holding information of color sets unnecessary for color correction, so that it is possible to reduce the load imposed on calculation and adapt to a change of lighting environment in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Sumio Yokomitsu, Hiromichi Sotodate, Hailin Yan, Chak Joo Lee
  • Patent number: 8355045
    Abstract: The monitor recording device (10) can allow an operator to identify an object with ease by comprising a frame control unit (11) for receiving a video signal of a monitor area at a specific frame rate such as for example one frame per second. A compression/expansion unit (12) compresses video data indicative of the video signal. A moving object area detecting unit (15) receives an image of a monitor area at sixty frames per second, dividing the image into a plurality of sections, and detecting one or more sections including an image of a person going in and out of the monitor area. A person extracting unit (16) extracts an image of his/her face from the sections. An optimum image judging unit (17) determines an optimum image of his/her face. A picture-in-picture synthesizing unit (20) synthesizes the optimum image and the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromichi Sotodate
  • Publication number: 20110267491
    Abstract: A color correction device (1) including: color set information storage portions (11) which store color set information inclusive of source colors and reference colors; region selection portions (6) which select specific source regions from source images picked up by two cameras 2 respectively; region color decision portions (7) which decide source region colors as colors representative of the source regions; color set update portions (10) which update source colors in color sets by using the source region colors; and color correction portions (8) which calibrate colors in ranges similar to the source colors in the two source images to reference colors by using the color sets. It is possible to eliminate the necessity of holding information of color sets unnecessary for color correction, so that it is possible to reduce the load imposed on calculation and adapt to a change of lighting environment in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sumio Yokomitsu, Hiromichi Sotodate, Hailin Yan, Chak Joo Lee
  • Patent number: 8018494
    Abstract: A color correction device (1) including: color set information storage portions (11) which store color set information inclusive of source colors and reference colors; region selection portions (6) which select specific source regions from source images picked up by two cameras 2 respectively; region color decision portions (7) which decide source region colors as colors representative of the source regions; color set update portions (10) which update source colors in color sets by using the source region colors; and color correction portions (8) which calibrate colors in ranges similar to the source colors in the two source images to reference colors by using the color sets. It is possible to eliminate the necessity of holding information of color sets unnecessary for color correction, so that it is possible to reduce the load imposed on calculation and adapt to a change of lighting environment in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Sumio Yokomitsu, Hiromichi Sotodate, Hailin Yan, Chak Joo Lee
  • Publication number: 20090009598
    Abstract: The monitor recording device (10) can allow an operator to identify an object with ease by comprising a frame control unit (11) for receiving a video signal of a monitor area at a specific frame rate such as for example one frame per second, a compression/expansion unit (12) for performing compression of video data indicative of the video signal, a storage unit (14) for recording the compressed video data therein, a moving object area detecting unit (15) for receiving an image of a monitor area at sixty frames per second, dividing the image into a plurality of sections, and detecting one or more sections including an image of a person going in and out of the monitor area, a person extracting unit (16) for extracting an image of his/her face from the sections detected by the moving object area detecting unit (15), an optimum image judging unit (17) for judging whether or not the image of his/her face is clear in comparison with previous image of his/her face, and deciding an optimum image of his/her face when
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiromichi Sotodate