Patents by Inventor Kazuhide Umeda

Kazuhide Umeda 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: 11816923
    Abstract: An apparatus for face image candidate determination for authentication, including a storage and at least one processor wherein the storage stores a reference face image in association with an attribute of the image for each registered person and a score threshold value for each combination of attributes of face images to be collated. The processor configured to: acquire a face image of a person to be determined as a face image for determination, determine an attribute of the face image, collate the reference face image with the face image and calculates a score indicating a degree of matching, and select a reference face image satisfying the score threshold value as a face image candidate for authentication and selects the face image candidate and the score thereof as authentication information of the face image for determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhide Umeda
  • Publication number: 20230073728
    Abstract: A determination device includes an acquisition unit that acquires image data captured by using a flash in a state of being controlled such that a shape of the flash becomes a predetermined flash pattern, and a determination unit that determines whether or not an imaging object is a living body on the basis of the acquired image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhide UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20230041725
    Abstract: A determination device includes an acquisition unit that acquires image data with a flash and an image data without a flash, the image data with a flash being captured in a state of using a flash, the image data without a flash being image data of an imaging object that is the same as the imaging object shown in the image data with a flash and being captured in a state of not using a flash, and a determination unit that determines whether or not the imaging object is a living body by comparing an eye area of the imaging object included in the image data with a flash with an eye area of the imaging object included in the image data without a flash.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhide UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20220309829
    Abstract: A face authentication apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires face image data of a person from image capturing apparatuses, a determination unit that determines whether registration data, having degree of matching with the face image data that is equal to or more than a threshold value, is registered in a storage device, a prompting unit that prompts the person to input identifying information when the determination unit determines that the registration data is not registered in the storage device, a reception unit that receives the identifying information input, a registration after input reception unit that registers the face image data as registration data in the storage device when the reception unit successfully receives an input of the identifying information, and a setting unit that sets a threshold value, to be used by the determination unit, in association with the registration data registered by the registration after input reception unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhide UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20220067348
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a new system for suppressing false authentication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhide UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20210345885
    Abstract: An apparatus for biological information management including a storage and at least one processor. The processor is configured to: acquire a face image of a subject and a sensed biological information value of the subject, which are acquired at the same time, in association with each other, and perform face image authentication for the face image to identify the subject of the face image. The storage stores the biological information value associated with the face image in association with the subject. The processor is also configured to: determine a normal range of biological information values by cluster analysis from accumulated biological information values stored in the storage for each subject, determine whether or not a latest biological information value stored in the storage falls within the normal range, and output that the latest biological information value is abnormal when the latest biological information value falls outside the normal range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhide UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20210334520
    Abstract: An apparatus for face image candidate determination for authentication, including a storage and at least one processor wherein the storage stores a reference face image in association with an attribute of the image for each registered person and a score threshold value for each combination of attributes of face images to be collated. The processor configured to: acquire a face image of a person to be determined as a face image for determination, determine an attribute of the face image, collate the reference face image with the face image and calculates a score indicating a degree of matching, and select a reference face image satisfying the score threshold value as a face image candidate for authentication and selects the face image candidate and the score thereof as authentication information of the face image for determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhide UMEDA
  • Patent number: 10994932
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new stock control system that can grasp the stock status of objects to be controlled and is excellent in convenience. The stock control system of the present invention includes a shelf 10; a marker 11; an image acquisition unit 12; a storage unit; an analysis unit; and an alert unit. The shelf 10 is a shelf on which an object to be controlled 20 is placed. The marker 11 is disposed in the shelf 10 at a position where it is shielded from the image acquisition unit 12 due to the placed object to be controlled 20. The image acquisition unit 12 acquires an image of the marker 11. The storage unit updates and stores on-time stock information of the object to be controlled 20 placed on the shelf 10 based on sales information of the object to be controlled 20. The analysis unit analyzes, upon acquisition of the image of the marker 11 by the image acquisition unit 12, the on-time stock information in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Umeda, Suguru Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20190161275
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new stock control system that can grasp the stock status of objects to be controlled and is excellent in convenience. The stock control system of the present invention includes a shelf 10; a marker 11; an image acquisition unit 12; a storage unit; an analysis unit; and an alert unit. The shelf 10 is a shelf on which an object to be controlled 20 is placed. The marker 11 is disposed in the shelf 10 at a position where it is shielded from the image acquisition unit 12 due to the placed object to be controlled 20. The image acquisition unit 12 acquires an image of the marker 11. The storage unit updates and stores on-time stock information of the object to be controlled 20 placed on the shelf 10 based on sales information of the object to be controlled 20. The analysis unit analyzes, upon acquisition of the image of the marker 11 by the image acquisition unit 12, the on-time stock information in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhide UMEDA, Suguru EGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10114936
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first acquisition unit that acquires first biological data, a collation unit that refers to a collation data storage unit that stores a plurality of pieces of second biological data, and collates the first biological data with each piece of the second biological data, a second acquisition unit that acquires attribute information for each piece of the second biological data from an attribute information storage unit that stores attribute information associated with each piece of the second biological data, and a specification unit that compares the attribute information acquired together with the first biological data with the attribute information associated with each piece of the second biological data, and specifies at least one of the pieces of second biological data corresponding to the first biological data, on the basis of a result of the comparison and a result of the collation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, NEC SOLUTION INNOVATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Moriya, Kazuhide Umeda
  • Publication number: 20160188858
    Abstract: An information processing device (10) includes a first acquisition unit (110) that acquires first biological data which is biological feature data of a collated object and attribute information relating to the first biological data, a collation unit (120) that refers to a collation data storage unit (210) that stores a plurality of pieces of second biological data which are biological feature data for use in collating the first biological data, and collates the first biological data with each piece of the second biological data, a second acquisition unit (130) that acquires attribute information for each piece of the second biological data from an attribute information storage unit (220) that stores attribute information associated with each piece of the second biological data, and a specification unit (140) that compares the attribute information acquired together with the first biological data with the attribute information associated with each piece of the second biological data, and specifies at least one
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: ATSUSHI MORIYA, KAZUHIDE UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20110208593
    Abstract: An electronic advertisement apparatus includes: a facial image extraction device (5) that extracts a facial image, which is an image of a facial region of a viewer, from an image of the viewer captured while the viewer views an advertising image displayed on a display device (2); a feature value extraction device (6) that calculates a feature value of the appearance of the viewer by analyzing the extracted facial image; an image storage device (9) that stores a plurality of content images having key information; and a main control device (8) that compares the extracted feature value of the viewer with the stored key information in order to extract a content image having key information that corresponds to the feature value of the viewer from the image storage device (9), and displays the extracted image on the display device (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Rika Nishida, Kazuhide Umeda