Patents by Inventor Junichi Abe

Junichi Abe 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: 12339367
    Abstract: A detection device (10) according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit (11) that acquires point cloud data indicating a distance from a measurement device to an object and luminance information obtained from reflected light of a beam emitted when the point cloud data is measured, an edge detection unit (12) that performs edge detection based on the luminance information, and a crack determination unit (13) that determines whether an area indicates a crack by using a shape of the area in which, of a plurality of points indicated by the point cloud data, points having luminance within a predetermined range of difference from luminance of a point detected as an edge are distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tsuji, Yoshimasa Ono, Junichi Abe, Jiro Abe
  • Publication number: 20250182287
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an example embodiment includes: a two-dimensional data acquisition unit that acquires an image that is two-dimensional data; a three-dimensional data acquisition unit that acquires three-dimensional data for at least a partial region of a range captured as the image; an extraction target region setting unit that outputs two-dimensional coordinates of a region including point cloud data in which distance information of the three-dimensional data is within a preset recognition section as extraction target region coordinates; and an object image extraction unit that extracts an image of the region corresponding to the extraction target region coordinates from the image as an object image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya FUJIMOTO, Junichi Abe, Akira Tsuji, Hidemi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20250168740
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system that adaptively performs optimal routing in a network formed by linking communication stations to each other. A routing control device monitors a traffic amount of links between communication stations including a satellite and a flight vehicle, calculates a cost used for routing in the communication stations including the satellite and the flight vehicle, and performs routing based on the cost. The calculation of the cost includes at least two of a process of calculating the congestion level of each of the links, a process of calculating a delay time of each of the links, and a process of calculating reliability of each of the links. The cost is calculated by combining results obtained by applying a weight to each of at least two elements obtained in the foregoing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Munehiro MATSUI, Fumihiro YAMASHITA, Junichi ABE, Hisayoshi KANO
  • Publication number: 20250124723
    Abstract: Provided is a point cloud processing system including: a sensing information acquisition means for acquiring sensing information including a sensing point cloud generated by a sensing means, which is mounted on a moving body traveling on any one of a plurality of travel tracks extending in parallel to one another, for sensing an area ahead in a heading direction of the moving body, and track identification information identifying a travel track on which the moving body travels while performing sensing; and a first registration means for registering the sensing point cloud with respect to a travel track point cloud associated with the travel track on which the moving body travels while performing sensing, among a travel environment point cloud being a known point cloud of a travel environment including the plurality of travel tracks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Abe
  • Publication number: 20250091623
    Abstract: An obstacle monitoring system includes: a sensing means; a first obstacle detection means; and a control means for selectively executing a plurality of control modes including a first control mode in which a moving speed of a moving body is a first moving speed and a sensing field of view of the sensing means is a first field of view, and a second control mode in which a moving speed of the moving body is a second moving speed and a sensing field of view of the sensing means is a second field of view. When the first obstacle detection means detects the obstacle while the control means is executing the first control mode, the control means executes the second control mode in such a way as to capture the obstacle within the second field of view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo YAMANOUCHI, Toshiyuki NOMURA, Junichi ABE, Hidemi NOGUCHI, Yoshimasa ONO, Tatsuya FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250069263
    Abstract: An object detection system includes: a point cloud missing region extraction means for extracting a point cloud missing region being a region where a point cloud is missing in a three-dimensional point cloud; and an object estimation means for estimating presence of an object, based on the point cloud missing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya FUJIMOTO, Junichi ABE, Hidemi NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250054208
    Abstract: Provided is a processing apparatus capable of obtaining a 2D image from 3D tomographic images, extracting an image for accurate authentication, and extracting an image at a high speed. A processing apparatus includes: means for calculating, from three-dimensional luminance data indicating an authentication target, depth dependence of striped pattern sharpness in a plurality of regions on a plane perpendicular to a depth direction of the target; means for calculating a depth at which the striped pattern sharpness is the greatest in the depth dependence of striped pattern sharpness; rough adjustment means for correcting the calculated depth on the basis of depths of other regions positioned respectively around the plurality of regions; fine adjustment means for selecting a depth closest to the corrected depth and at which the striped pattern sharpness is at an extreme; and means for extracting an image with a luminance on the basis of the selected depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa ONO, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Atsufumi SHIBAYAMA, Junichi ABE
  • Patent number: 12222293
    Abstract: A detection device (20) according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit (11) that acquires point cloud data indicating a distance to an object and luminance information obtained from reflected light of a beam emitted when the point cloud data is measured, an edge detection unit (12) that performs edge detection based on the luminance information, a classification unit (21) that classifies, based on distribution of points contained in a crack candidate being a set of points detected as an edge, a plurality of the crack candidates into one of groups, and a label assignment unit (23) that accepts input of a label regarding the group from a user having visually recognized a shape of the crack candidate belonging to the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tsuji, Junichi Abe, Taisuke Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20250045985
    Abstract: Provided is a processing apparatus capable of obtaining a 2D image from 3D tomographic images, extracting an image for accurate authentication, and extracting an image at a high speed. A processing apparatus includes: means for calculating, from three-dimensional luminance data indicating an authentication target, depth dependence of striped pattern sharpness in a plurality of regions on a plane perpendicular to a depth direction of the target; means for calculating a depth at which the striped pattern sharpness is the greatest in the depth dependence of striped pattern sharpness; rough adjustment means for correcting the calculated depth on the basis of depths of other regions positioned respectively around the plurality of regions; fine adjustment means for selecting a depth closest to the corrected depth and at which the striped pattern sharpness is at an extreme; and means for extracting an image with a luminance on the basis of the selected depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa ONO, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Atsufumi SHIBAYAMA, Junichi ABE
  • Patent number: 12217482
    Abstract: A processing apparatus (10) includes classification means (12) for classifying three-dimensional point group data acquired based on a reflected light from a structure to be inspected illuminated by light into clusters, which are units of a shape that corresponds to the structure to be inspected, based on positional information at each point of the data; and cluster association means (13) for determining whether a first cluster and a second cluster included in the classified clusters correspond to one structure to be inspected based on a positional relation between the classified clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Ono, Akira Tsuji, Junichi Abe
  • Publication number: 20250011569
    Abstract: Provided is a colored resin product which contains a fluorescent dye and in which color fading over time is suppressed. A resin composition includes: a polycarbonate resin (A) containing a structural unit (a) derived from a specific dihydroxy compound represented by formula (1); and a fluorescent dye (B). A laminate (10) is configured in which the film (11) composed of the resin composition, the retroreflective element layer (12), and the substrate (13) are layered in this order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi ABE
  • Patent number: 12175593
    Abstract: A display device (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a detection unit (11) that detects, in a three-dimensional space including measurement point group data measured by a three-dimensional optical sensor, intermediate point group data of an intermediate region from a viewpoint for two-dimensionally displaying the measurement point group data to target point group data within the measurement point group data; a setting unit (12) that sets, based on the detected intermediate point group data, a display aspect of the measurement point group data or the target point group data in such a way that the target point group data become visually recognizable from the viewpoint; and a display unit (13) that two-dimensionally displays the measurement point group data and the target point group data according to the set display aspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Ono, Akira Tsuji, Shigeo Suzuki, Junichi Abe, Jiro Abe
  • Patent number: 12170544
    Abstract: An optical signal processing circuit (1) includes: an FDE-MIMO equalizer (2) configured to generate, based on continuous subcarrier signals including a target subcarrier signal in an optical multicarrier signal to be received, the continuous subcarrier signals that have been subjected to frequency-domain MIMO equalization processing; and a TDE-MIMO equalizer (3) configured to generate, based on the continuous subcarrier signals that have been subjected to the frequency-domain MIMO equalization processing, the target subcarrier signal that has been subjected to time-domain MIMO equalization processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Sato, Hidemi Noguchi, Junichi Abe
  • Publication number: 20240396640
    Abstract: When a frequency deviation compensation amount is compensated for by use of frequency shift, a phase offset occurs between adjacent input blocks included in a plurality of input blocks as divided, with the result that an error occurs in a reconstructed bit sequence. A frequency deviation compensation system of the invention is characterized by comprising: a frequency deviation compensation means for compensating for a frequency deviation occurring in a signal by use of frequency shift; and a phase offset compensation means for compensating for a phase offset occurring, in the signal, due to the frequency shift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daisaku OGASAHARA, Junichi ABE
  • Patent number: 12154258
    Abstract: There is provided a surface abnormality detection device, and a system, capable of detecting an abnormal portion having a displacement below the distance measurement accuracy when detecting the abnormal portion on the surface of a structure. A surface abnormality detection device includes a classification means for classifying an object under measurement into one or more clusters having the same structure, based on position information at a plurality of points on a surface of the object under measurement; a determination means for determining a reflection brightness normal value of the cluster based on a distribution of reflection brightness values at a plurality of points on a surface of the cluster; and an identification means for identifying an abnormal portion on the surface of the cluster based on a difference between the reflection brightness normal value and the reflection brightness value at each of the plurality of points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Ono, Akira Tsuji, Hidemi Noguchi, Junichi Abe
  • Publication number: 20240377417
    Abstract: A reagent composition that is used as a first reagent composition for a method of quantifying small dense LDL cholesterol (sdLDL-C) in a sample, the method including causing the first reagent composition to act on the sample, and after the causing the first reagent composition to act on the sample, applying a second reagent composition for quantifying the sdLDL-C to quantify cholesterol in a remaining lipoprotein, in which the reagent composition has one or two or more activities selected from the group including cholesterol esterase activity, cholesterol oxidase activity, and sphingomyelinase activity, and contains polyoxyethylene monostyrenated phenyl ether.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasuki ITO, Junichi ABE, Hiromasa OKADA
  • Publication number: 20240371130
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a classifying unit that classifies three-dimensional point cloud data including distance values to a target in a specified region into one or more clusters based on the distance values; and a determining unit that determines the cluster to adopt based on the distribution of the distance values of the three-dimensional point cloud data included by the cluster obtained by the classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya FUJIMOTO, Hidemi Noguchi, Junichi Abe
  • Patent number: 12126385
    Abstract: If a configuration is employed in which modulation schemes used for an optical communication system can be switched depending on transmission conditions, the power consumption increases and the control becomes complex; therefore, an optical transmitter according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes an encoding means for encoding digital signals to be transmitted under a predetermined transmission condition over an optical carrier wave by using one of a plurality of encoding methods; an encoding control means for selecting a predetermined encoding method corresponding to the predetermined transmission condition from among the plurality of encoding methods and causing the encoding means to operate in accordance with the predetermined encoding method; a mapping means for mapping output bit signals output from the encoding means to modulation symbols; and an optical modulation means for modulating the optical carrier wave based on symbol signals output from the mapping means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: NEC ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Abe, Tatsuya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12088350
    Abstract: When a frequency deviation compensation amount is compensated for by use of frequency shift, a phase offset occurs between adjacent input blocks included in a plurality of input blocks as divided, with the result that an error occurs in a reconstructed bit sequence. A frequency deviation compensation system of the invention is characterized by comprising: a frequency deviation compensation means for compensating for a frequency deviation occurring in a signal by use of frequency shift; and a phase offset compensation means for compensating for a phase offset occurring, in the signal, due to the frequency shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisaku Ogasahara, Junichi Abe
  • Patent number: 12009865
    Abstract: If a configuration is employed in which modulation schemes used for an optical communication system can be switched depending on transmission conditions, the power consumption increases and the control becomes complex; therefore, an optical transmitter according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes an encoding means for encoding digital signals to be transmitted under a predetermined transmission condition over an optical carrier wave by using one of a plurality of encoding methods; an encoding control means for selecting a predetermined encoding method corresponding to the predetermined transmission condition from among the plurality of encoding methods and causing the encoding means to operate in accordance with the predetermined encoding method; a mapping means for mapping output bit signals output from the encoding means to modulation symbols; and an optical modulation means for modulating the optical carrier wave based on symbol signals output from the mapping means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: NEC ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Abe, Tatsuya Nakamura