Patents by Inventor Hiroo Harada
Hiroo Harada 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: 20240104956Abstract: An object is to provide an image accumulation apparatus, a method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium capable of extracting a characteristic video based on an individual emotion. An image accumulation apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an image acquisition unit, an expression classification unit, and an image accumulation unit. The image acquisition unit acquires image data. The expression classification unit classifies face image data included in the image data into a predetermined emotion. The image acquisition unit accumulates the image data associated with emotion identifiers for identifying the classified emotions so that the image data is distributable to a terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shin NORIEDA, Hiroo HARADA, Haruki MIZUTANI, Hirotaka MAESHIMA, Masami SAKAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240105072Abstract: Provided is an analysis apparatus or the like capable of appropriately determining emotions of a learner or an examinee in online learning or an online examination. An analysis apparatus includes: an emotion data acquisition unit that acquires emotion data regarding learning of each learner, the emotion data being obtained by performing emotion analysis on face image data of a plurality of learners in online learning; and an analysis data generation unit that aggregates emotion data regarding the plurality of learners, compares the emotion data of the plurality of learners, and generates analysis data in which the emotion data of one or more learners is identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Shin Norieda, Hiroo HARADA, Haruki MIZUTANI, Hirotaka MAESHIMA, Masami SAKAGUCHI
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Patent number: 10762467Abstract: Provided is an art of registration and management of the placement positions of objects to be managed can be easily and reliably performed. A device includes an identification information receiving unit 11 that receives identification information that can identify an object to be managed and acquisition time of the identification information; a position information receiving unit 12 that receives position information relating to a position of a person who moves around in a target floor while carrying equipment configured to acquire the identification information; and a placement information registration unit 13 that registers the placement information of the object to be managed by registering the position information received by the unit 12 at the same time or almost at the same time as the acquisition time of the identification information that is received by the unit 11 in association with the identification information.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroo Harada, Ryoma Oami, Yuusuke Konishi, Hiroo Ikeda
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Patent number: 10650264Abstract: An image recognition apparatus (100) includes: an object specifying unit (102) that specifies a position, in a captured image, of a detection target object which is set in a predetermined arrangement according to a processing target object in an imaging target and has a feature depending on the processing target object, by image recognition; and a processing unit (104) that specifies, based on object position data indicating a relative position between the detection target object in the imaging target and the processing target object which is set in a predetermined arrangement according to the imaging target and has a feature depending on the imaging target, the processing target object in the captured image which is present at the relative position from the position, in the captured image, of the detection target object specified by the object specifying unit (102), and executes a process allocated to the specified processing target object.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Hiroo Harada
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Patent number: 9690983Abstract: A task assistance system includes: a location detection unit (101) for setting a sensing plane in a first face side of a display means capable of displaying a plurality of articles and calculating location information of a hand located on the sensing plane or location information of an object different from the hand; a region setting unit (102) for setting a plurality of sensing regions on the sensing plane using the location information of the hand or the location information of the object calculated by the location detection unit (101); and a pass-through region determination unit (104) for determining which one of the plurality of sensing regions a hand extended to the display means from the first face side has passed through using the location information of the hand calculated by the location detection unit (101), after the region setting unit (102) sets the plurality of sensing regions.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignees: NEC Corporation, NEC Solution InnovatorsInventors: Hiroo Harada, Katsuyuki Nagai, Kenichi Kaneko, Teppei Takasugi
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Patent number: 9489702Abstract: This information processing device (100) comprises: a video data acquisition unit (102) that sequentially acquires video data resulting from at least a portion of an imaging subject presenting a plurality of items being imaged by an imaging unit; an image recognition unit (104) that detects that at least a portion of a pre-registered image is contained in the video data, and recognizes the image; an appended data extraction unit (108) that extracts the respective appended data of each image from an appended data storage unit (106) that stores appended data corresponding to each of a plurality of recognized images; and an appended data display unit (110) that displays the extracted appended data of each image.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Hiroo Harada
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Patent number: 9491368Abstract: This information processing device (100) comprises: a video data acquisition unit (102) that sequentially acquires video data resulting from a portion of an imaging subject being imaged by an imaging unit; an image recognition unit (104) that detects that a portion of a pre-registered image is included in the video data, and recognizes the images therein; an appended data extraction unit (108) that extracts the respective appended data of each image from an appended data storage unit (106) that stores appended data corresponding to each of a plurality of recognized images; an appended data display unit (110) that displays the extracted appended data of each image at each relevant image position of the video data; and a display control unit (112) that, in accordance with a user operation, switches from a process that successively displays a synthesized video, which is on the basis of synthesized video data, at the display unit of a portable terminal, to a process that, as a still image at the display unit of tType: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Hiroo Harada
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Publication number: 20160125252Abstract: An image recognition apparatus (100) includes: an object specifying unit (102) that specifies a position, in a captured image, of a detection target object which is set in a predetermined arrangement according to a processing target object in an imaging target and has a feature depending on the processing target object, by image recognition; and a processing unit (104) that specifies, based on object position data indicating a relative position between the detection target object in the imaging target and the processing target object which is set in a predetermined arrangement according to the imaging target and has a feature depending on the imaging target, the processing target object in the captured image which is present at the relative position from the position, in the captured image, of the detection target object specified by the object specifying unit (102), and executes a process allocated to the specified processing target object.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventor: HIROO HARADA
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Publication number: 20150213400Abstract: Provided is an art of registration and management of the placement positions of objects to be managed can be easily and reliably performed. A device includes an identification information receiving unit 11 that receives identification information that can identify an object to be managed and acquisition time of the identification information; a position information receiving unit 12 that receives position information relating to a position of a person who moves around in a target floor while carrying equipment configured to acquire the identification information; and a placement information registration unit 13 that registers the placement information of the object to be managed by registering the position information received by the unit 12 at the same time or almost at the same time as the acquisition time of the identification information that is received by the unit 11 in association with the identification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Hiroo Harada, Ryoma Oami, Yuusuke Konishi, Hiroo Ikeda
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Publication number: 20150206257Abstract: This information processing device (100) comprises: a video data acquisition unit (102) that sequentially acquires video data resulting from at least a portion of an imaging subject presenting a plurality of items being imaged by an imaging unit; an image recognition unit (104) that detects that at least a portion of a pre-registered image is contained in the video data, and recognizes the image; an appended data extraction unit (108) that extracts the respective appended data of each image from an appended data storage unit (106) that stores appended data corresponding to each of a plurality of recognized images; and an appended data display unit (110) that displays the extracted appended data of each image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2013Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventor: Hiroo Harada
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Patent number: 9070040Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes a first storage means unit which stores, in correspondence to a viewer, frame feature values to characterize each frame of scenes constituted by a series of frames in a video content viewed by the viewer; a second storage means unit which stores, as scene groups classified by attributes of the scenes, the frame feature values of scenes constituted by the series of frames; an interest level accumulation means unit which compares the frame feature values stored in the first storage means unit with the frame feature values stored in the second storage means unit, and in case the compared frame feature values match, increases a score about the viewer which represents the interest level with respect to the scene group of which the frame feature values match; and a viewer preference determination means unit which determines that the scene groups of the which the scores are higher are the scene groups preferred by the viewer.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroo Harada, Naotake Fujita
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Publication number: 20150181126Abstract: This information processing device (100) comprises: a video data acquisition unit (102) that sequentially acquires video data resulting from a portion of an imaging subject being imaged by an imaging unit; an image recognition unit (104) that detects that a portion of a pre-registered image is included in the video data, and recognizes the images therein; an appended data extraction unit (108) that extracts the respective appended data of each image from an appended data storage unit (106) that stores appended data corresponding to each of a plurality of recognized images; an appended data display unit (110) that displays the extracted appended data of each image at each relevant image position of the video data; and a display control unit (112) that, in accordance with a user operation, switches from a process that successively displays a synthesized video, which is on the basis of synthesized video data, at the display unit of a portable terminal, to a process that, as a still image at the display unit of tType: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2013Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventor: Hiroo Harada
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Publication number: 20150139489Abstract: A task assistance system includes: a location detection unit (101) for setting a sensing plane in a first face side of a display means capable of displaying a plurality of articles and calculating location information of a hand located on the sensing plane or location information of an object different from the hand; a region setting unit (102) for setting a plurality of sensing regions on the sensing plane using the location information of the hand or the location information of the object calculated by the location detection unit (101); and a pass-through region determination unit (104) for determining which one of the plurality of sensing regions a hand extended to the display means from the first face side has passed through using the location information of the hand calculated by the location detection unit (101), after the region setting unit (102) sets the plurality of sensing regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroo Harada, Katsuyuki Nagai, Kenichi Kaneko, Teppei Takasugi
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Publication number: 20150066550Abstract: A flow line analysis device according to the present invention includes: a log storage unit which stores work log including key information which encompasses at least one of worker information, slip information and work item, and work information associated with key information; a flow line storage unit which stores a plurality of partial flow line data associated with the worker; and a control unit, wherein the control unit extracts work information associated with a specific key information from the work log, determines whether each of the plurality of partial flow line data which includes flow line work information which satisfies a predetermined condition defined by work information, and associates the key information with the flow line data when it is determined that the flow line data includes the flow line work information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Hiroo Harada
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Publication number: 20150066551Abstract: A flow line analysis device includes a log storage unit that stores work log including key information which encompasses at least one of worker information, slip information and work item, and work information associated with the key information, a flow line storage unit that stores flow line data of the worker, and a control unit, wherein the control unit extracts work information associated with a specific key information from the work log, and determines whether the flow line data which includes flow line work information which satisfies predetermined condition defined by work information, and associates the key information with the flow line data when it is determined that the flow line data includes the flow line work information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventor: Hiroo Harada
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Publication number: 20150058170Abstract: The present invention is digital signage comprising: an article information database in which a feature of an article and article information for the article associated with each other are stored; feature extracting means for extracting a feature from a wearing image that is an image of a customer wearing an article; comparison means for comparing the extracted feature with features stored in the article information database and identifying the article the customer is wearing; article information retrieving means for retrieving article information for the identified article from the article information database; and output control means for outputting the retrieved article information and the wearing image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Tomoyuki Osaka, Toshihiko Hiroaki, Toshiyuki Nomura, Hiroo Harada
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Patent number: 8964126Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes a storage unit, an input unit, and a determining unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of scenes included in a scene group and characteristic amounts which are extracted from a series of plural frames included in the respective scenes in the scene group, in association with each other, defining one scene out of the plurality of scenes included in the scene group as a typical scene and the other scenes as a derived scene, the scene group being a group of a plurality of scenes derived from a common scene. The input unit inputs a characteristic amount which is extracted from each of the frames of a new scene. The determining unit determines whether the new scene represented by the inputted characteristic amount is the derived scene of the scene group or not by verifying the inputted characteristic amount with the characteristic amount of the typical scene of the scene group stored in the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroo Harada, Naotake Fujita
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Publication number: 20140169679Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes a first storage means unit which stores, in correspondence to a viewer, frame feature values to characterize each frame of scenes constituted by a series of frames in a video content viewed by the viewer; a second storage means unit which stores, as scene groups classified by attributes of the scenes, the frame feature values of scenes constituted by the series of frames; an interest level accumulation means unit which compares the frame feature values stored in the first storage means unit with the frame feature values stored in the second storage means unit, and in case the compared frame feature values match, increases a score about the viewer which represents the interest level with respect to the scene group of which the frame feature values match; and a viewer preference determination means unit which determines that the scene groups of the which the scores are higher are the scene groups preferred by the viewer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Inventors: Hiroo Harada, Naotake Fujita
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Publication number: 20140115618Abstract: A variety of advertisement information is associated with a scene being played back and the advertisement information is provided. An advertisement information database, which can search for advertisement information corresponding to a frame feature quantity, associates a frame included in a video with a characteristic frame feature quantity, and stores the advertisement information. A frame feature quantity extraction unit extracts a frame feature quantity from a frame of a video being played back. An advertisement information acquisition unit acquires, from the advertisement information database, advertisement information corresponding to the frame feature quantity extracted by the frame feature quantity extraction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroo Harada, Naotake Fujita
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Publication number: 20140092313Abstract: A video processing apparatus includes a storage unit, an input unit, and a determining unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of scenes included in a scene group and characteristic amounts which are extracted from a series of plural frames included in the respective scenes in the scene group, in association with each other, defining one scene out of the plurality of scenes included in the scene group as a typical scene and the other scenes as a derived scene, the scene group being a group of a plurality of scenes derived from a common scene. The input unit inputs a characteristic amount which is extracted from each of the frames of a new scene. The determining unit determines whether the new scene represented by the inputted characteristic amount is the derived scene of the scene group or not by verifying the inputted characteristic amount with the characteristic amount of the typical scene of the scene group stored in the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroo Harada, Naotake Fujita