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).

  • 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
  • Publication number: 20190084317
    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: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi FUJII, Hirofumi KATSURA, Hiroyuki UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10212324
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a detection unit configured to detect an object from an image captured by each of a plurality of image capturing devices, a determination unit configured to determine whether the object is detected by two image capturing devices or more in the image capturing devices, a first estimation unit configured to estimate, when the object have been detected by the two image capturing devices or more, a three-dimensional position and information on a height of the object based on a detected position where the object is detected in an image captured for each of the two image capturing devices and positions and orientations of the two image capturing devices, and a second estimation unit configured to estimate, when the object have been detected by a single image capturing device, the three-dimensional position of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Kotaro Yano, Ichiro Umeda, Muling Guo
  • Patent number: 10140726
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a detecting unit to detect, respectively from plural images obtained by imaging with plural imaging units a space in which plural persons exist, positions of the persons on the images; an associating unit to perform association of a same person in the plural images; a person position estimating unit to estimate positions of the persons in the space, based on the positions of the persons on the images detected from the plural images and a result of the association by the associating unit; a direction estimating unit to estimate eye directions of the persons, based on the plural images; and a distribution estimating unit to estimate a spatial distribution of positions gazed by the plural persons, based on the estimated positions of the plural persons in the space and the estimated eye directions of the plural persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishino, Kotaro Yano, Yuji Kaneda, Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10063843
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an association unit, a storage unit, a first estimation unit, and a second estimation unit. The association unit associates detection results of a first object and a second object. The storage unit stores a positional relationship between respective fields of view of a first image capturing unit and a second image capturing unit. The first estimation unit estimates a three-dimensional position of the first object based on the positional relationship and the first object detected in respective images captured by the first image capturing unit and the second image capturing unit. The second estimation unit estimates a three-dimensional position of the second object based on the three-dimensional position of the first object associated by the association unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kotaro Yano, Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20180101732
    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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Ichiro Umeda, Muling Guo, Kotaro Yano
  • Publication number: 20180047184
    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: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Kotaro Yano, Ichiro Umeda, Muling Guo
  • Patent number: 9877012
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold a positional relationship of a plurality of image capturing units, an acquisition unit configured to detect objects from respective images captured by the plurality of image capturing units and acquire positions of the objects on the captured images and geometric attributes of the objects, an associating unit configured to associate the detected objects, based on the positional relationship, the positions and the geometric attributes, and an estimation unit configured to estimate a three-dimensional position of the objects based on the positional relationship and the positions of the detected objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Muling Guo, Kotaro Yano, Ichiro Umeda
  • Patent number: 9837543
    Abstract: The invention provides an oxide semiconductor target including an oxide sintered body including zinc, tin, oxygen, and aluminum in a content ratio of from 0.005% by mass to 0.2% by mass with respect to the total mass of the oxide sintered body, in which the content ratio of silicon to the total mass of the oxide sintered body is less than 0.03% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Hideko Fukushima
  • Patent number: 9773322
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of dictionaries configured to store a feature of an object and information on an imaging direction in a scene for each kind of imaged scene, a detecting unit configured to detect an object with reference to at least one of the plurality of dictionaries in the scene in which the object has been imaged and which is to be learned, an estimating unit configured to estimate the imaging direction the detected object, a selecting unit configured to select one dictionary from the plurality of dictionaries based on the imaging direction estimated by the estimating unit and the information on the imaging direction in each of the plurality of dictionaries, and a learning unit configured to learn the dictionary selected by the selecting unit, based on a detection result produced by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Ichiro Umeda, Muling Guo, Kotaro Yano
  • Publication number: 20170154424
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a detection unit configured to detect an object from an image captured by each of a plurality of image capturing devices, a determination unit configured to determine whether the object is detected by two image capturing devices or more in the image capturing devices, a first estimation unit configured to estimate, when the object have been detected by the two image capturing devices or more, a three-dimensional position and information on a height of the object based on a detected position where the object is detected in an image captured for each of the two image capturing devices and positions and orientations of the two image capturing devices, and a second estimation unit configured to estimate, when the object have been detected by a single image capturing device, the three-dimensional position of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Kotaro Yano, Ichiro Umeda, Muling Guo
  • Publication number: 20170076454
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an association unit, a storage unit, a first estimation unit, and a second estimation unit. The association unit associates detection results of a first object and a second object. The storage unit stores a positional relationship between respective fields of view of a first image capturing unit and a second image capturing unit. The first estimation unit estimates a three-dimensional position of the first object based on the positional relationship and the first object detected in respective images captured by the first image capturing unit and the second image capturing unit. The second estimation unit estimates a three-dimensional position of the second object based on the three-dimensional position of the first object associated by the association unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Kotaro Yano, Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20170017859
    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: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160292533
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold a positional relationship of a plurality of image capturing units, an acquisition unit configured to detect objects from respective images captured by the plurality of image capturing units and acquire positions of the objects on the captured images and geometric attributes of the objects, an associating unit configured to associate the detected objects, based on the positional relationship, the positions and the geometric attributes, and an estimation unit configured to estimate a three-dimensional position of the objects based on the positional relationship and the positions of the detected objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Muling Guo, Kotaro Yano, Ichiro Umeda
  • Publication number: 20160247272
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a detecting unit to detect, respectively from plural images obtained by imaging with plural imaging units a space in which plural persons exist, positions of the persons on the images; an associating unit to perform association of a same person in the plural images; a person position estimating unit to estimate positions of the persons in the space, based on the positions of the persons on the images detected from the plural images and a result of the association by the associating unit; a direction estimating unit to estimate eye directions of the persons, based on the plural images; and a distribution estimating unit to estimate a spatial distribution of positions gazed by the plural persons, based on the estimated positions of the plural persons in the space and the estimated eye directions of the plural persons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishino, Kotaro Yano, Yuji Kaneda, Hiroyuki Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 9293597
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for suppressing fluctuation of device characteristics in thin film transistors using an oxide semiconductor film as a channel layer. In a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor film as a channel layer (4), said channel layer (4) is configured from an oxide semiconductor having as main materials a zinc oxide and tin oxide with introduced group IV elements or group V elements, wherein the ratio (A/B) of the impurity concentration (A) of the group IV elements or group V elements contained in the channel layer (4) and the impurity concentration (B) of the group III elements contained in the channel layer (4) satisfies A/B?1.0, and ideally A/B?0.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Hironori Wakana
  • Patent number: 9276123
    Abstract: There are provided an oxide semiconductor material, capable of attaining stability of a threshold voltage (Vth) (threshold voltage shift amount ?Vth within a range of ±3 V in PDS and NBIS) and field-effect mobility of 5 cm2/Vs or more necessary for the operation of an OLED display device. An oxide semiconductor target in which an oxide semiconductor material with one or more of oxides of W, Ta, and Hf of 5d transition metal added each by 0.07 to 3.8 at %, 0.5 to 4.7 at %, and 0.32 to 6.4 at % to a semiconductor material with Zn—Sn—O as a main ingredient is sintered; a semiconductor channel layer formed by using the target, and an oxide semiconductor material for TFT protective film, as well as a semiconductor device having the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Wakana, Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Hideko Fukushima
  • Patent number: 9275956
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate includes scribe and product regions, with grooves formed in the scribe region. The grooves are embedded with an insulating film to provide an isolation region, and an active region, including semiconductor elements, is formed in the product region. Dummy patterns are formed in the scribe region, which include a first dummy pattern and second dummy patterns for preventing dishing of the insulating film. The second dummy patterns are surrounded and defined by the isolation region. A target pattern for optical pattern recognition is arranged over the first dummy pattern, and includes a first conductive film. A plane area of the first dummy pattern is larger than a plane area of each of the second dummy patterns, and the first dummy pattern and the second dummy patterns are arranged in order from an edge of the semiconductor substrate toward the product region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Hiraku Chakihara, Teruhisa Ichise, Michimoto Kaminaga
  • Publication number: 20160035895
    Abstract: The invention provides an oxide semiconductor target including an oxide sintered body including zinc, tin, oxygen, and aluminum in a content ratio of from 0.005% by mass to 0.2% by mass with respect to the total mass of the oxide sintered body, in which the content ratio of silicon to the total mass of the oxide sintered body is less than 0.03% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki UCHIYAMA, Hideko FUKUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 9240490
    Abstract: There are provided an oxide semiconductor material, capable of attaining stability of a threshold voltage (Vth) (threshold voltage shift amount ?Vth within a range of ±3 V in PDS and NBIS) and field-effect mobility of 5 cm2/Vs or more necessary for the operation of an OLED display device. An oxide semiconductor target in which an oxide semiconductor material with one or more of oxides of W, Ta, and Hf of 5d transition metal added each by 0.07 to 3.8 at %, 0.5 to 4.7 at %, and 0.32 to 6.4 at % to a semiconductor material with Zn—Sn—O as a main ingredient is sintered; a semiconductor channel layer formed by using the target, and an oxide semiconductor material for TFT protective film, as well as a semiconductor device having the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Wakana, Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Hideko Fukushima