Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Uchiyama

Hiroyuki Uchiyama 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: 20230168579
    Abstract: There are provided a printer device, a printing method, and a program that can appropriately output an exposure start signal without requiring a film detection device. A printer device includes a loading chamber into which a film cartridge is to be loaded, an exposure head device that is disposed to face a photosensitive surface of a film discharged from the film cartridge and exposes the film to light, a spreading roller that splits a developer pod of the film to spread a developer to the film, a transport roller that transports the film, and a load measuring device that measures a change in load occurring in a case where the film enters at least the spreading roller or the transport roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220207904
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect, from an image in which an object including a plurality of parts is captured, first feature points corresponding to the parts of the object, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a reliability indicating a likelihood that a position indicated by a feature point is a part corresponding to the feature point for each of the first feature points detected by the first detection unit, a second detection unit configured to detect a second feature point based on some of the first feature points for a part corresponding to a first feature point with the low reliability, and a determination unit configured to determine an area including the object based on some of the first feature points and the second feature point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Hiroshi Tojo, Shinji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11341669
    Abstract: A people flow analysis apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire positions of persons from each of a plurality of images captured by a plurality of image capturing devices, a counting unit configured to integrate the positions of the persons in each of the plurality of images and count the number of persons on a region-by-region basis, and a display unit configured to display on a map an image expression based on the number of persons counted on the region-by-region basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kotaro Yano, Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Yasuo Bamba
  • Patent number: 11263042
    Abstract: A control processing device includes a determining unit that determines whether a write of a transaction is to be executed using a write lock or without using the write lock upon receiving a write command of the transaction, a writing unit that acquires the write lock for the transaction and executes the write of the transaction when the determining unit has determined that the write of the transaction is to be executed using the write lock, an optimizing unit that discards the write command of the transaction when the determining unit has determined that the write of the transaction is to be executed without using the write lock, and a return unit that returns to a command source that the write of the transaction has succeeded after the write by the writing unit or after the discarding of the write command by the optimizing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Nakazono, Hiroki Kumazaki, Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11087169
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image feature extraction unit configured to extract an image feature from an input image, a region extraction unit configured to extract a foreground region from the input image based on the image feature, an acquisition unit configured to acquire correction information based on the image feature, a correction unit configured to correct the foreground region using the correction information, an identification feature extraction unit configured to extract a feature for identification from the foreground region corrected by the correction unit, and an identification unit configured to identify an object in the input image based on the feature for the identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Hiroshi Tojo, Kotaro Yano
  • Patent number: 11055572
    Abstract: A system and method of training an appearance signature extractor using a training data set, the training data set including input images associated with a plurality of domains. The method comprises inputting an input image of the training data set, an identity label, and a domain label to the appearance signature extractor, the identity label providing identity information of the input image, and the domain label providing domain information of the input image, the domain information corresponding to one of the domains; determining an appearance signature from the input image using the appearance signature extractor; determining an identity score from the appearance signature; determining a loss value between the identity score and the identity label according to the domain label, wherein the loss value relates to an error between the identity score and the identity label; and updating the appearance signature extractor using the determined loss value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20210117226
    Abstract: A control processing device includes a determining unit that determines whether a write of a transaction is to be executed using a write lock or without using the write lock upon receiving a write command of the transaction, a writing unit that acquires the write lock for the transaction and executes the write of the transaction when the determining unit has determined that the write of the transaction is to be executed using the write lock, an optimizing unit that discards the write command of the transaction when the determining unit has determined that the write of the transaction is to be executed without using the write lock, and a return unit that returns to a command source that the write of the transaction has succeeded after the write by the writing unit or after the discarding of the write command by the optimizing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho NAKAZONO, Hiroki KUMAZAKI, Hiroyuki UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10900813
    Abstract: An encoder signal processing device, a printer, a printer-equipped imaging apparatus, and an encoder signal processing method that can remove the effect of a noise signal mixed with an encoder signal and favorably deal with a case where an original pulse signal is lost from the encoder signal are provided. An effective detection period setting unit 523 sets an effective detection period for detecting a subsequent pulse signal, each time a pulse signal detection unit 522 detects a pulse signal from an encoder signal. The pulse signal detection unit 522 detects the pulse signal only within the set effective detection period. In a case where the pulse signal detection unit 522 does not detect the pulse signal within the effective detection period, a pulse signal generation unit 524 generates the pulse signal after the effective detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujii, Hirofumi Katsura, Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10872262
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit to acquire an input image including an object, an extraction unit to extract a region that has been changed from a background image in the input image, as a changing region, a generating unit to generate a change region image in which a pixel value of each pixel represents whether or not a corresponding pixel in the input image belongs to the changing region, an extraction unit to extract a plurality of feature images from the input image as an output of a neural network by inputting a combination of the input image and the change region image to the neural network, and a detection unit to detect a position of the object from the plurality of feature images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kotaro Yano, Ichiro Umeda, Muling Guo, Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10766274
    Abstract: A pulse signal is detected from an encoder signal of a rotary encoder. The detected pulse signal is used as a signal for controlling a light exposure timing of a line type light exposure head and is used for detecting a transport speed of an instant film. The light exposure head sequentially performs light exposure for a line image on the transported instant film in synchronization with each pulse signal detected from the encoder signal, and a density correction unit corrects an amount of light emission of the light exposure head depending on the transport speed of the instant film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujii, Hirofumi Katsura, Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20200272860
    Abstract: A system and method of training an appearance signature extractor using a training data set, the training data set including input images associated with a plurality of domains. The method comprises inputting an input image of the training data set, an identity label, and a domain label to the appearance signature extractor, the identity label providing identity information of the input image, and the domain label providing domain information of the input image, the domain information corresponding to one of the domains; determining an appearance signature from the input image using the appearance signature extractor; determining an identity score from the appearance signature; determining a loss value between the identity score and the identity label according to the domain label, wherein the loss value relates to an error between the identity score and the identity label; and updating the appearance signature extractor using the determined loss value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10706499
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system of analysing an object in an image. The system comprises a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory has application programs that are executable by the processor, wherein the processor executes the application programs to perform a method of analysing the object in the image. The method comprises the steps of determining an image tensor of the image; determining context information of the image; determining a context tensor of the determined context information; combining the image tensor and the context tensor to form a combined tensor; and estimating an attribute of the object based on the combined tensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10572736
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire multiple tracking results about an object tracked in multiple video images captured by multiple imaging units. The tracking results correspond one-to-one to the video images. Each of the tracking results contains a position of the object detected from an image frame of the corresponding video image and a tracking label that identifies the object in the video image. The apparatus further includes a relating unit configured to relate objects, detected from image frames of the video images, based on the tracking results acquired by the acquiring unit to obtain relations and an object label generating unit configured to generate an object label based on the relations obtained by the relating unit. The object label uniquely identifies the object across the video images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Ichiro Umeda, Muling Guo, Kotaro Yano
  • Publication number: 20190392550
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system of analysing an object in an image. The system comprises a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory has application programs that are executable by the processor, wherein the processor executes the application programs to perform a method of analysing the object in the image. The method comprises the steps of determining an image tensor of the image; determining context information of the image; determining a context tensor of the determined context information; combining the image tensor and the context tensor to form a combined tensor; and estimating an attribute of the object based on the combined tensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10515459
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect positions of an index of which an arrangement is sequentially changed from respective images captured by two imaging devices, a calibration unit configured to calibrate a position of at least one of the two imaging devices based on the positions of the index arranged at an identical position detected from the respective images captured by the two imaging devices, a determination unit configured to determine a candidate position where the index is to be newly arranged based on the positions where the index has already been detected, and a presentation unit configured to present the candidate position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Kotaro Yano, Ichiro Umeda, Muling Guo
  • Publication number: 20190333241
    Abstract: A people flow analysis apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire positions of persons from each of a plurality of images captured by a plurality of image capturing devices, a counting unit configured to integrate the positions of the persons in each of the plurality of images and count the number of persons on a region-by-region basis, and a display unit configured to display on a map an image expression based on the number of persons counted on the region-by-region basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Kotaro Yano, Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Yasuo Bamba
  • Publication number: 20190220685
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image feature extraction unit configured to extract an image feature from an input image, a region extraction unit configured to extract a foreground region from the input image based on the image feature, an acquisition unit configured to acquire correction information based on the image feature, a correction unit configured to correct the foreground region using the correction information, an identification feature extraction unit configured to extract a feature for identification from the foreground region corrected by the correction unit, and an identification unit configured to identify an object in the input image based on the feature for the identification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Hiroshi Tojo, Kotaro Yano
  • Publication number: 20190205688
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires an input image including an object, extracts, from the input image, a change region image which is an image of a changing region by using a background image, extracts a plurality of feature images by combining the input image and the change region image and using a convolutional neural network, and detects a position of the object from the plurality of feature images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Kotaro Yano, Ichiro Umeda, Muling Guo, Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20190107416
    Abstract: An encoder signal processing device, a printer, a printer-equipped imaging apparatus, and an encoder signal processing method that can remove the effect of a noise signal mixed with an encoder signal and favorably deal with a case where an original pulse signal is lost from the encoder signal are provided. An effective detection period setting unit 523 sets an effective detection period for detecting a subsequent pulse signal, each time a pulse signal detection unit 522 detects a pulse signal from an encoder signal. The pulse signal detection unit 522 detects the pulse signal only within the set effective detection period. In a case where the pulse signal detection unit 522 does not detect the pulse signal within the effective detection period, a pulse signal generation unit 524 generates the pulse signal after the effective detection period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi FUJII, Hirofumi KATSURA, Hiroyuki UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10255517
    Abstract: A feature amount, and context information representing a context regarding an image are obtained from the image. The first likelihood indicating the likelihood at which the image is an image of a specific object is obtained from the feature amount. The second likelihood indicating the likelihood at which the image is an image of the specific object is obtained from the context information. Whether the image is an image of the specific object is identified using the first likelihood and the second likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Uchiyama