Patents by Inventor Kazuhiko Iwai
Kazuhiko Iwai 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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Publication number: 20230064953Abstract: A surveillance device of the present disclosure includes an image analysis server that generates an alarm when detecting an alarm generation target that has entered an intrusion detection area, based on a camera image captured by a camera. The image analysis server acquires the camera image (basic image) to set a fixed object area (basic area) corresponding to a fixed object included in the basic image, acquires a camera image (live image) to extract a fixed object area (reference area) corresponding to a fixed object included in the live image, calculates a deviation amount of an angle of view based on a result of a comparison in standard position between the basic area and the reference area, and generates a surveillance screen including an adjustment screen for guidance on an operation for cancelling the deviation amount of the angle of view to display the surveillance screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko IWAI, Shin YAMADA
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Patent number: 11011004Abstract: A server collects measurement data of a camera to efficiently generate statistical data relating to the number of entering and exiting persons, and present the data to a user.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masashi Oozono, Kazuhiko Iwai
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Publication number: 20210042859Abstract: To allow a user to determine a destination easily and quickly with intuitive determination when the user uses a facility. In a communicator of a server device, congestion detection information for each usage area, detected from a captured image obtained by a camera capturing the image of the usage area is acquired, in a required time acquisitor and a congestion presentation information acquisitor, a time required for the user to use the usage area is calculated for each usage area and congestion presentation information representing a congestion level of the usage area is acquired for each usage area based on the congestion presentation information, and in a browsing screen generator, a browsing screen including the required time and the congestion presentation information for each of a plurality of the usage areas where the use of the user is assumed is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiko IWAI
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Publication number: 20200302188Abstract: An activity information acquirer that acquires the activity information representing an activity level of the moving object for each of a plurality of predetermined detection elements acquired through division performed on the captured image, a target area setter that sets respectively target areas on at least two facility map images acquired by drawing a layout on the inside of the facility, an activity information integrator that generates the activity information for each target area by integrating activity information for each detection element in units of a target area, and an output information generator that generates display information, which is acquired by visualizing the activity information for each target area, by changing a display shape of an image representing the target area on the facility map images, for two facility map images, and generates output information which includes the display information relevant to the two facility map images.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2017Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiko IWAI
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Publication number: 20190392661Abstract: A server collects measurement data of a camera to efficiently generate statistical data relating to the number of entering and exiting persons, and present the data to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2017Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masashi OOZONO, Kazuhiko IWAI
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Patent number: 10474972Abstract: A facility management assistance device includes an image extractor that extracts an image of a target area from an image of the interior of the facility, an image presenter that presents the image of the target area to a first user, an individual evaluation information acquirer that acquires individual evaluation information on an evaluation result of the target area, in response to an input by the first user, an evaluation aggregation information generator that aggregates the individual evaluation information in a designated period, and generates evaluation aggregation information for listing an evaluation result for the designated period, an evaluation aggregation information presenter that presents the evaluation aggregation information to a second user, an improvement implementation information acquirer that acquires improvement implementation information on the implementation situation of an improvement measure, in response to an input by a second user, and an improvement implementation information presType: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiko Iwai
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Patent number: 10387897Abstract: A commodity monitoring device includes a visitor number acquirer that acquires the number of visitors, a purchasing customer number acquirer that acquires the number of purchasing customers who purchase a commodity, a statistical information generator that generates statistical information, based on the number of visitors and the number of purchasing customers, a commodity detector that detects commodity, based on a captured image of a display area, a sales opportunity loss analyzer that analyzes a cause of the sales opportunity loss from a commodity detection result, and a display screen generator that generates a monitoring screen in which a display image representing the cause of the sales opportunity loss is superimposed on the image of the display area.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshifumi Sakata, Kazuhiko Iwai, Yuichiro Takemoto
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Patent number: 10334965Abstract: A monitoring device includes a fixed area setter that sets an area of a part of a display shelf to be monitored as a fixed area, based on a captured image of the display shelf in a store, a shelf detector that detects the display shelf, by determining a similarity between an image of the fixed area set by the fixed area setter and an image at the same position as the fixed area, from the captured image of the store, and an alert notifier that notifies a user that the display shelf to be monitored is not detected, when it is determined that there is no similarity.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshifumi Sakata, Yuichiro Takemoto, Kazuhiko Iwai
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Patent number: 10304015Abstract: The number of entering customers and number of paying customers in a store are obtained, statistical information indicating temporal change in status of the number of entering customers and the number of paying customers in a store is generated, the statistical information is displayed along a time axis, the number of a timeslot which is a selection point is displayed on the time axis, and the video of the inside of the store corresponding to the selected timeslot is displayed in response to the user's operation to select the timeslot.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiko Iwai
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Patent number: 10304032Abstract: To enable a notification instructing a goods management work to be made at an appropriate and effective timing, a goods monitoring device for monitoring a display state of goods based on captured images of a display area in a store includes: a goods detection unit that detects goods in the display area based on captured images of the display area; a goods state detection unit that detects a goods display state in the display area; a person detection unit that detects persons staying in the store; a person state detection unit that detects a person staying state in the store; a notification determination unit that determines propriety of a notification instructing a store staff member to perform a goods management work; and a notification unit that makes the notification based on a result of determination by the notification determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Iwai, Tetsurou Kakizawa
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Patent number: 10235574Abstract: A positional information acquirer acquires positional information for every person from a video, an attribute information acquirer acquires attribute information for every person from the video, and an activity information acquirer restricts activity information to an attribute designated by a user based on the attribute information and the positional information, and acquires the activity information of which the attribute is restricted. An activity map generator generates an activity map of which an attribute is restricted based on the activity information, and a video output outputs a video acquired by superimposing the activity map. A controller determines appropriateness indicating whether or not the video output from the imager is appropriate, enables a function of outputting the activity map of which the attribute is restricted, and disables the function of outputting the activity map of which the attribute is restricted where the video output from the imager does not have the appropriateness.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiko Iwai
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Patent number: 10178356Abstract: A monitoring apparatus includes a processor, wherein the monitoring apparatus images a monitoring area and outputs a moving image of the monitoring area, and the processor detects all persons appearing in the moving image, performs mask processing of changing inner portions of outlines of all persons into translucent mask images, and superposes the mask images on a background image, to generate a mask-processed moving image, and outputs the mask-processed moving image to a browsing apparatus through a network.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Fujii, Kazuhiko Iwai, Tetsurou Kakizawa, Kosuke Hosoi, Marie Kuwahara, Kazuma Yoshida
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Patent number: 10121160Abstract: To enable a user such as a store manager to easily grasp movement of persons at a location within a monitored area, a PC for analyzing the movement of persons within the monitored area is provided with a measurement condition setter that causes a user to perform an input operation of specifying a measurement area in a region in the monitored area and specifying an entry zone and an exit zone of a person relative to the measurement area, and sets the measurement area and the entry and exit zones as a measurement condition; a traffic line acquirer that acquires traffic line information of each person detected; a moving person detector that detects, in the measurement area, persons matching movement patterns defined by the entry and exit zones; and a screen generator that generates output information representing a state of movement of persons in relation to the measurement area.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiko Iwai
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Patent number: 10115140Abstract: A customer management device for managing states of customers visiting a commercial establishment that provides articles or services to the customers in response to orders from the customers, includes: a first image obtainer that obtains customer images of customers captured at some point from when the customers enter the commercial establishment till when the customers go through reception procedures; a second image obtainer that obtains customer images of customers captured at least either when the customers receive the articles or services or when the customers make payment; a customer information manager that, based on the customer images obtained by the first image obtainer and the second image obtainer, generates and manages customer information relating to customers in a state of waiting for provision of the articles or services; and a customer information provider that provides a user with the customer information managed by the customer information manager.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsurou Kakizawa, Kazuhiko Iwai
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Patent number: 10049333Abstract: Provided is a sales clerk operation management apparatus including: an operation contents setter which sets operation contents of each operation executed by the sales clerk; an operation schedule setter which sets the operation schedule relating to each operation set by the operation contents setter; an operation detector which detects that the sales clerk has performed each operation with the set operation contents, based on the image; an execution information generator which generates information relating to the execution situations for each operation condition set in the operation schedule, based on the detected result of the operation detector; and a display information generator which generates and outputs display information showing the information relating to the execution situations for each operation condition generated by the execution information generator to be compared with the operation schedule.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiko Iwai
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Publication number: 20180025233Abstract: A positional information acquirer acquires positional information for every person from a video, an attribute information acquirer acquires attribute information for every person from the video, and an activity information acquirer restricts activity information to an attribute designated by a user based on the attribute information and the positional information, and acquires the activity information of which the attribute is restricted. An activity map generator generates an activity map of which an attribute is restricted based on the activity information, and a video output outputs a video acquired by superimposing the activity map. A controller determines appropriateness indicating whether or not the video output from the imager is appropriate, enables a function of outputting the activity map of which the attribute is restricted, and disables the function of outputting the activity map of which the attribute is restricted where the video output from the imager does not have the appropriateness.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuhiko IWAI
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Patent number: 9852345Abstract: An activity map creating device creates an activity situation of a moving object, and outputs an activity map visualizing the activity situation of the moving object. The device includes a moving object detector that detects the moving object from a captured image, and a first activity value obtainer that obtains a moving object activity value for each of a plurality of detection elements. The device further includes a target area setter that sets a target area, a second activity value obtainer that aggregates, in the target area, moving object activity values of the respective detection elements, and a map generator that creates the activity map for the target area based on the aggregation. The device further includes an output information generator that creates output information on the activity map.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Iwai, Kazuma Yoshida
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Publication number: 20170308843Abstract: A facility management assistance device includes an image extractor that extracts an image of a target area from an image of the interior of the facility, an image presenter that presents the image of the target area to a first user, an individual evaluation information acquirer that acquires individual evaluation information on an evaluation result of the target area, in response to an input by the first user, an evaluation aggregation information generator that aggregates the individual evaluation information in a designated period, and generates evaluation aggregation information for listing an evaluation result for the designated period, an evaluation aggregation information presenter that presents the evaluation aggregation information to a second user, an improvement implementation information acquirer that acquires improvement implementation information on the implementation situation of an improvement measure, in response to an input by a second user, and an improvement implementation information presType: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LT D.Inventor: Kazuhiko IWAI
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Publication number: 20170300938Abstract: A commodity monitoring device includes a visitor number acquirer that acquires the number of visitors, a purchasing customer number acquirer that acquires the number of purchasing customers who purchase a commodity, a statistical information generator that generates statistical information, based on the number of visitors and the number of purchasing customers, a commodity detector that detects commodity, based on a captured image of a display area, a sales opportunity loss analyzer that analyzes a cause of the sales opportunity loss from a commodity detection result, and a display screen generator that generates a monitoring screen in which a display image representing the cause of the sales opportunity loss is superimposed on the image of the display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshifumi SAKATA, Kazuhiko IWAI, Yuichiro TAKEMOTO
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Publication number: 20170295953Abstract: A monitoring device includes a fixed area setter that sets an area of a part of a display shelf to be monitored as a fixed area, based on a captured image of the display shelf in a store, a shelf detector that detects the display shelf, by determining a similarity between an image of the fixed area set by the fixed area setter and an image at the same position as the fixed area, from the captured image of the store, and an alert notifier that notifies a user that the display shelf to be monitored is not detected, when it is determined that there is no similarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshifumi SAKATA, Yuichiro TAKEMOTO, Kazuhiko IWAI