Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Furushou

Hiroyuki Furushou 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: 10397544
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object detection device 1 includes a camera 10 and a calculator 20. The calculator 20 performs viewpoint conversion processing on an image captured by the camera 10 to create a bird's eye view image, calculates, for each of a plurality of positions along a vertical imaginary line extending in a vertical direction in an actual space, a luminance difference between two pixels near the position, and detects a three-dimensional object on the basis of continuities of the calculated luminance differences of the respective positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chikao Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Furushou, Shinya Tanaka, Yasuhisa Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 8903133
    Abstract: A periodic stationary object detection system extracts a feature point of a three-dimensional object from image data on a predetermined region of a bird's eye view image for each of multiple sub regions included in the predetermined region, calculates waveform data corresponding to a distribution of the feature points in the predetermined region on the bird's eye view image, and judges whether or not the three-dimensional object having the extracted feature point is a periodic stationary object candidate on the basis of whether or not peak information of the waveform data is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chikao Tsuchiya, Yasuhisa Hayakawa, Shinya Tanaka, Hiroyuki Furushou, Osamu Fukata
  • Patent number: 8854456
    Abstract: A travel distance detection device includes: an image-capturing unit configured to capture an image; an alignment unit configured to align images in position of bird's-eye view image, the images captured at different times by the image-capturing unit; and a solid object detection unit configured to detect a solid object based on difference image data between data of the images captured at the different times and aligned by the alignment unit. The solid object detection unit counts the number of pixels which each express a certain difference on the difference image data and which are arranged in a direction in which the solid object is inclined when the image of the predetermined region is converted into the bird's-eye view image, then produces a frequency distribution of the counted pixels to generate a difference waveform, and calculates a travel distance of the solid object based on time variation of the difference waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chikao Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Furushou, Shinya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130322688
    Abstract: A periodic stationary object detection system extracts a feature point of a three-dimensional object from image data on a predetermined region of a bird's eye view image for each of multiple sub regions included in the predetermined region, calculates waveform data corresponding to a distribution of the feature points in the predetermined region on the bird's eye view image, and judges whether or not the three-dimensional object having the extracted feature point is a periodic stationary object candidate on the basis of whether or not peak information of the waveform data is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: Chikao Tsuchiya, Yasuhisa Hayakawa, Shinya Tanaka, Hiroyuki Furushou, Osamu Fukata
  • Publication number: 20130141542
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object detection device 1 includes a camera 10 and a calculator 20. The calculator 20 performs viewpoint conversion processing on an image captured by the camera 10 to create a bird's eye view image, calculates, for each of a plurality of positions along a vertical imaginary line extending in a vertical direction in an actual space, a luminance difference between two pixels near the position, and detects a three-dimensional object on the basis of continuities of the calculated luminance differences of the respective positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventors: Chikao Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Furushou, Shinya Tanaka, Yasuhisa Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20110310245
    Abstract: A travel distance detection device includes: an image-capturing unit configured to capture an image; an alignment unit configured to align images in position of bird's-eye view image, the images captured at different times by the image-capturing unit; and a solid object detection unit configured to detect a solid object based on difference image data between data of the images captured at the different times and aligned by the alignment unit. The solid object detection unit counts the number of pixels which each express a certain difference on the difference image data and which are arranged in a direction in which the solid object is inclined when the image of the predetermined region is converted into the bird's-eye view image, then produces a frequency distribution of the counted pixels to generate a difference waveform, and calculates a travel distance of the solid object based on time variation of the difference waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Chikao Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Furushou, Shinya Tanaka