Patents by Inventor Hiroshige AOYAMA

Hiroshige AOYAMA 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: 20220375080
    Abstract: A determination device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image information of a target image in which excrement is captured and a determination unit configured to determine a characteristic of the excrement in the target image, select a part of the excrement specified according to a time series of excretion, and confirm a representing characteristic for representing the excrement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige AOYAMA, Kenta TANAKA, Hiroto MIWA
  • Publication number: 20220237906
    Abstract: A determination device includes an image information acquirer configured to acquire image information of a subject image obtained by photographing an internal space of a toilet bowl in excretion; an estimator configured to perform estimation regarding a determination matter relating to excretion by inputting the image information to a learned model, the learned model having learned a correspondence relationship between an image for learning and a determination result of the determination matter relating to excretion, the learned model learned by machine learning using a neural network, the image for learning representing an internal space of a toilet bowl in excretion; and a determiner configured to perform determination regarding the determination matter of the subject image based on an estimation result obtained by the estimator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: LIXIL Corporation
    Inventors: Emi UEDA, Nobuhiro TAKI, Kenta TANAKA, Yasuhiro SHIRAI, Hiroshige AOYAMA, Toshiaki SHIMAZU