Patents by Inventor Jyouji Wada
Jyouji Wada 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).
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Patent number: 11953708Abstract: A camera device includes a first filter configured to restrict a transverse wave component of incident light having light of a plurality of different wavelength bands generated based on birefringence in a car film from a vehicle to which the car film is adhered, a lens on which a vertical wave component of the incident light transmitted through the first filter is incident, a second filter configured to restrict a vertical wave component of the incident light in a visible region among the vertical wave component of the incident light imaged by the lens, and an imaging element configured to image the vehicle as a subject based on a vertical wave component of the incident light in a near-infrared region transmitted through the second filter.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Yamada, Jyouji Wada, Toshiyuki Sano, Akito Omata, Yuma Kobayashi, Naoaki Tomisaka
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Patent number: 11889205Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a lens on which light from one subject is incident, a spectral prism including a first surface reflecting, at a first reflectance, first light having a first wavelength, and a second surface reflecting, at a second reflectance, having a second wavelength, a first imaging unit capturing a first image of the subject at a first depth of field based on the first light reflected by the first surface, a second imaging unit capturing a second image of the subject at a second depth of field based on the second light reflected by the second surface, a third imaging unit capturing a third image of the subject at a third depth of field based on third light transmitted through the first surface or the second surface, and a signal processing unit synthesizing the first image, the second image, and the third image, and outputting the synthesized image.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Jyouji Wada, Yota Hashimoto, Hayato Wachi, Yuuichi Takenaga
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Patent number: 11704930Abstract: A vehicle monitoring system includes at least one camera, and a server that is communicably connected to the camera and a client terminal. The camera captures an occupant's face of a vehicle entering an angle of view of the camera, and transmits a captured video to the server. The server acquires an analysis results of an attribute of the vehicle, an analysis result of the occupant's face, and an analysis result of the number of occupants based on the captured video, and accumulates the acquired analysis results as analysis results of the captured video, and sends the analysis result to the client terminal in correlation with a snapshot of the captured video.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma Kobayashi, Hiromichi Sotodate, Akihiro Nawata, Toshimasa Funaki, Yuji Arima, Hideaki Takahashi, Jyouji Wada, Hideaki Yamada, Akito Omata
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Patent number: 11640718Abstract: A capturing device has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a subject during a daytime, the subject includes a vehicle. The capturing device further includes an image sensor that captures an image based on light from the subject focused by the lens, and a processor that generates a face image of an occupant riding in the vehicle based on a first number of captured imaged of the subject which are captured by the image sensor at different times. The processor generates the face image of the occupant further based on a second number of captured images in which a luminance value of a region of interest is equal to or smaller than a threshold value among the first number of captured images of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma Kobayashi, Tetsuo Tanaka, Toshiaki Ito, Shinichi Murakami, Michinori Kishimoto, Hiroshi Mitani, Jyouji Wada
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Publication number: 20220408712Abstract: A monitoring camera includes a housing having a tip end cylindrical portion in which a lens is disposed, the tip end cylindrical portion being covered with a front glass, an eave member that is provided on an upper surface of the housing and that has a tip end flange portion protruding forward from the front glass, and a repellent member that is provided at the tip end flange portion and contains a drug for repelling a pest such as a spider.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: i-PRO Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jyouji WADA, Hideki YASUDA, Masahito OKA, Toshiaki ITO, Eiji TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11418685Abstract: It is intended to increase the efficiency of heating of a cover by a heater. A monitoring camera is equipped with a capturing unit, a cover that has a dome-shaped curved portion and a flange portion and configured to cover the capturing unit, a transparent conductive film provided on an inner surface of the dome-shaped curved portion and the flange portion, and a pair of electrodes configured to supply power to the conductive film.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jyouji Wada, Daisuke Hara, Hideki Yasuda, Hideaki Yamada, Hiroki Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20220247937Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a lens on which light from one subject is incident, a spectral prism including a first surface reflecting, at a first reflectance, first light having a first wavelength, and a second surface reflecting, at a second reflectance, having a second wavelength, a first imaging unit capturing a first image of the subject at a first depth of field based on the first light reflected by the first surface, a second imaging unit capturing a second image of the subject at a second depth of field based on the second light reflected by the second surface, a third imaging unit capturing a third image of the subject at a third depth of field based on third light transmitted through the first surface or the second surface, and a signal processing unit synthesizing the first image, the second image, and the third image, and outputting the synthesized image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jyouji WADA, Yota HASHIMOTO, Hayato WACHI, Yuuichi TAKENAGA
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Publication number: 20220157065Abstract: A vehicle monitoring system includes at least one camera, and a server that is communicably connected to the camera and a client terminal. The camera captures an occupant's face of a vehicle entering an angle of view of the camera, and transmits a captured video to the server. The server acquires an analysis results of an attribute of the vehicle, an analysis result of the occupant's face, and an analysis result of the number of occupants based on the captured video, and accumulates the acquired analysis results as analysis results of the captured video, and sends the analysis result to the client terminal in correlation with a snapshot of the captured video.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuma KOBAYASHI, Hiromichi SOTODATE, Akihiro NAWATA, Toshimasa FUNAKI, Yuji ARIMA, Hideaki TAKAHASHI, Jyouji WADA, Hideaki YAMADA, Akito OMATA
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Patent number: 11281914Abstract: A vehicle monitoring system includes at least one camera, and a server that is communicably connected to the camera and a client terminal. The camera captures a license plate and an occupant's face of a vehicle entering an angle of view of the camera, and transmits a captured video to the server. The server acquires an analysis result of the license plate, analysis results of a type and a color of the vehicle, an analysis result of the occupant's face, and an analysis result of the number of occupants based on the captured video, and accumulates the acquired analysis results as analysis results of the captured video, and sends the analysis result to the client terminal in correlation with a snapshot of the captured video.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma Kobayashi, Hiromichi Sotodate, Akihiro Nawata, Toshimasa Funaki, Yuji Arima, Hideaki Takahashi, Jyouji Wada, Hideaki Yamada, Akito Omata
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Publication number: 20210370847Abstract: A capturing device has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a subject during a daytime, the subject includes a vehicle. The capturing device further includes an image sensor that captures an image based on light from the subject focused by the lens, and a processor that generates a face image of an occupant riding in the vehicle based on a first number of captured imaged of the subject which are captured by the image sensor at different times. The processor generates the face image of the occupant further based on a second number of captured images in which a luminance value of a region of interest is equal to or smaller than a threshold value among the first number of captured images of the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Panasonic i-PRO Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuma KOBAYASHI, Tetsuo TANAKA, Toshiaki ITO, Shinichi MURAKAMI, Michinori KISHIMOTO, Hiroshi MITANI, Jyouji WADA
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Patent number: 11163977Abstract: A capturing camera has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a subject including a face of a person riding in a vehicle and a license plate of the vehicle, an image sensor that performs a capturing process based on the light from the subject focused by the lens, and a processor that generates a face image of the person riding in the vehicle and a license plate image of the vehicle, corresponding to a same vehicle, based on a captured image of the subject generated by the capturing process. The processor has the image sensor perform the capturing process using a plurality of capturing conditions at a time of capturing based on the light from the subject.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Yamada, Yuki Yoshikuni, Toshimasa Funaki, Osamu Nakashima, Masahiro Yamashita, Satoshi Kiyomatsu, Jyouji Wada
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Patent number: 11117529Abstract: A capturing camera has a lens block that includes a lens for focusing light from a vehicle as a subject, an image sensor that captures an image based on light from the vehicle focused by the lens, a filter unit that rotatably supports a polarization filter which limits the light from the vehicle received by the image sensor, a sensor that detects a daytime mode or a night mode, a processor that disposes the polarization filter on a front side of the image sensor in the daytime mode, and disposes a band pass filter on the front side of the image sensor in the night mode, and an illuminator that irradiates the subject with IR light in the night mode. The filter unit switchably supports the polarization filter and the band pass filter that transmits the IR light.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma Kobayashi, Tetsuo Tanaka, Toshiaki Ito, Shinichi Murakami, Michinori Kishimoto, Hiroshi Mitani, Jyouji Wada
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Publication number: 20210223446Abstract: A camera device includes a first filter configured to restrict a transverse wave component of incident light having light of a plurality of different wavelength bands generated based on birefringence in a car film from a vehicle to which the car film is adhered, a lens on which a vertical wave component of the incident light transmitted through the first filter is incident, a second filter configured to restrict a vertical wave component of the incident light in a visible region among the vertical wave component of the incident light imaged by the lens, and an imaging element configured to image the vehicle as a subject based on a vertical wave component of the incident light in a near-infrared region transmitted through the second filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki YAMADA, Jyouji WADA, Toshiyuki SANO, Akito OMATA, Yuma KOBAYASHI, Naoaki TOMISAKA
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Patent number: 10904411Abstract: An electronic equipment includes an attachment fixed to an object; and a main body. The attachment has a first fitting portion provided on an outer face of a first housing of the attachment and having a first glass, and a power transmitting coil to wirelessly transmit power. The main body has a second fitting portion provided on an outer face of a second housing of the main body and having a second glass, which is attachable to and detachable from the first fitting portion, and a power receiving coil to wirelessly receive the power transmitted from the power transmitting coil.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jyouji Wada, Hideaki Yamada
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Publication number: 20210014397Abstract: It is intended to increase the efficiency of heating of a cover by a heater. A monitoring camera is equipped with a capturing unit, a cover that has a dome-shaped curved portion and a flange portion and configured to cover the capturing unit, a transparent conductive film provided on an inner surface of the dome-shaped curved portion and the flange portion, and a pair of electrodes configured to supply power to the conductive film.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: PANASONIC i-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jyouji WADA, Daisuke HARA, Hideki YASUDA, Hideaki YAMADA, Hiroki YAMANAKA
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Publication number: 20200372258Abstract: A vehicle monitoring system includes at least one camera, and a server that is communicably connected to the camera and a client terminal. The camera captures a license plate and an occupant's face of a vehicle entering an angle of view of the camera, and transmits a captured video to the server. The server acquires an analysis result of the license plate, analysis results of a type and a color of the vehicle, an analysis result of the occupant's face, and an analysis result of the number of occupants based on the captured video, and accumulates the acquired analysis results as analysis results of the captured video, and sends the analysis result to the client terminal in correlation with a snapshot of the captured video.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuma KOBAYASHI, Hiromichi SOTODATE, Akihiro NAWATA, Toshimasa FUNAKI, Yuji ARIMA, Hideaki TAKAHASHI, Jyouji WADA, Hideaki YAMADA, Akito OMATA
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Publication number: 20200288044Abstract: An electronic equipment includes an attachment fixed to an object; and a main body. The attachment has a first fitting portion provided on an outer face of a first housing of the attachment and having a first glass, and a power transmitting coil to wirelessly transmit power. The main body has a second fitting portion provided on an outer face of a second housing of the main body and having a second glass, which is attachable to and detachable from the first fitting portion, and a power receiving coil to wirelessly receive the power transmitted from the power transmitting coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Jyouji WADA, Hideaki YAMADA
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Patent number: 10708502Abstract: A camera device includes a lens on which subject light is incident, an imaging element that images an image based on the subject light, a shake sensor that detects shake of the camera device, a shake correction mechanism that holds a holder which holds the imaging element and performs shake correction on a captured image captured by the imaging element through driving of the holder, a characteristic estimator that estimates characteristics of the lens based on a detection value of the shake sensor and a shake correction amount of the shake correction mechanism, and a controller that causes the shake correction mechanism to drive the holder by using the detection value of the shake sensor and an estimation result of the characteristics of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jyouji Wada, Masaomi Iiizumi, Hideaki Yamada, Masamichi Ohara, Takayuki Shimaoka
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Patent number: 10616485Abstract: A camera device includes an image sensor which images a subject, a lens unit that includes a lens for forming an image of the subject on a light receiving surface of the image sensor, a shaking corrector that includes a movable portion that includes the image sensor and moves the movable portion in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens unit according to shaking of the camera device to correct shaking, and a gravity support that supports the movable portion in a direction opposite to a direction of a component force of the gravity with a force equal to a component force of gravity applied to the movable portion along a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jyouji Wada, Masaomi Iiizumi, Hideaki Yamada, Masamichi Ohara, Yuichi Hatase, Izumi Sato
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Patent number: D993306Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Jyouji Wada, Hideaki Yamada, Akihiro Iizuka