Patents by Inventor Kazumine Ogura

Kazumine Ogura 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).

  • Publication number: 20240144624
    Abstract: An object is to construct an accurate correspondence relation between points included in 3D data and pixels that form an image. An alignment unit receives image data acquired by capturing an image of an object, and 3D data of the object, performs alignment between the image data and the 3D data, and outputs data after the alignment. A pixel selection unit selects a target pixel from a plurality of pixels included in the image data. The pixel point association unit selects, from a plurality of point data items of 3D data included in the data after the alignment, three or more point data items near the target pixel as neighboring point data, estimates one surface based on the neighboring point data, and performs association for calculating a position of the target pixel on the one surface in a space which the plurality of point data items belong to.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumine OGURA, Tatsuya SUMIYA, Jiro ABE, Nagma Samreen KHAN, Yuya MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240127475
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: generate, for each of a plurality of virtual cameras in a three-dimensional space, a virtual camera image shot by the respective one of the virtual cameras on the basis of point cloud data of the three-dimensional space; and estimate, on the basis of similarity between the virtual camera image generated by having the processor execute the generation instruction and a camera image shot by a camera, location and orientation of the camera when it shot the camera image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya MATSUMOTO, Jiro ABE, Tatsuya SUMIYA, Kazumine OGURA
  • Publication number: 20240125929
    Abstract: A target object detection apparatus (20) includes an acquisition unit (210), a likelihood information generation unit (220), and a determination unit (230). The acquisition unit (210) acquires an IF signal from an irradiation apparatus (10) at a plurality of timings. The likelihood information generation unit (220) executes, by processing the IF signal, processing of generating, with respect to each of a plurality of IF signals, likelihood information for a region (hereinafter, referred to as a target object region) having a possibility in that an accompaniment, i.e., a target object is present. The likelihood information indicates a distribution of presence probabilities of a target object in at least a height direction in a target object region. Then, the determination unit (230) determines a presence or absence of a target object, by using likelihood information generated for each of a plurality of target object regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya SUMIYA, Masayuki ARIYOSHI, Kazumine OGURA, Nagma Samreen KHAN, Shingo YAMANOUCHI, Toshiyuki NOMURA
  • Patent number: 11933885
    Abstract: A radar signal imaging device 30 includes: a transmission unit 31 which transmits a radar signal toward an object to be imaged that is a non-rigid body; a position estimation unit 32 which estimates the position of the object; an oscillation degree estimation unit 33 which estimates an oscillation degree which is a degree of change within a predetermined period in the relative positions of feature points constituting the object; and a synthetic aperture processing unit 34 which performs synthetic aperture processing on the radar signal reflected by the object on the basis of the estimated position of the object and the estimated oscillation degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumine Ogura, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Yuzo Senda, Osamu Hoshuyama, Taichi Tanaka, Daisuke Ikefuji, Shingo Yamanouchi
  • Patent number: 11914035
    Abstract: To shorten a waiting time for a belongings inspection, the present invention provides an inspection system 10 including an acquisition unit 11 that acquires material information including at least either one of a piece of personal unique information unique to each of inspection target persons, and a piece of environment information indicating a state value of an environment that changes at each inspection timing, and a determination unit 12 that determines a content of an inspection for the each inspection target person and/or at the each inspection timing, based on the material information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sumiya, Shingo Yamanouchi, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Shinichi Morimoto, Masanori Sekido, Kazumine Ogura
  • Publication number: 20230417901
    Abstract: A radar signal transmission/reception unit (103) acquires a radar signal generated by using a plurality of transmission antennas Tx and a plurality of reception antennas Rx. A projection direction/imaging policy control unit (107) holds an imaging policy. The imaging policy includes a projection direction representing a direction in which an inspection target is viewed, an imaging area indicating an area of which a three-dimensional radar image is to be generated, and set information being information on a set of pairs of a transmission antenna Tx and a reception antenna Rx for use in generation of the three-dimensional radar image. An imaging unit (104) generates the three-dimensional radar image from the radar signal in accordance with the imaging policy. A projection processing unit (106) forms the three-dimensional radar image into a two-dimensional image by projecting the three-dimensional radar image in the projection direction indicated by the imaging policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya SUMIYA, Kazumine Ogura, Masayuki Ariyoshi
  • Patent number: 11815597
    Abstract: To shorten a waiting time for a belongings inspection, the present invention provides an inspection system 10 including an acquisition unit 11 that acquires personal unique information unique to each of inspection target persons, and a determination unit 12 that determines a content of a belongings inspection based on a signal of a reflection wave of an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength of equal to or more than 30 micrometers and equal to or less than one meter for the each inspection target person, based on the personal unique information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Yamanouchi, Shinichi Morimoto, Kazumine Ogura, Tatsuya Sumiya, Masaru Eto, Toshiyuki Nomura, Masayuki Ariyoshi
  • Publication number: 20230342879
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus (100) includes a target object position determination unit (103) that determines, based on a picture image acquired by a first camera, a position of a target object in the picture image, a target object depth distance extraction unit (104) that extracts the depth distance from the first camera to the target object, a coordinate transformation unit (105) that transforms the position of the target object in the picture image into a position of the target object in a world coordinate system by using the depth distance, and a label transformation unit (106) that transforms, by using a position of the first camera in the world coordinate system and imaging information used when an image is generated from a measurement result of a sensor, the position of the target object in the world coordinate system into a label of the target object in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumine OGURA, Nagma Samreen KHAN, Tatsuya SUMIYA, Shingo YAMANOUCHI, Masayuki ARIYOSHI, Toahiyuki NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20230288560
    Abstract: To shorten a waiting time for a belongings inspection, the present invention provides an inspection system 10 including an acquisition unit 11 that acquires material information including at least either one of a piece of personal unique information unique to each of inspection target persons, and a piece of environment information indicating a state value of an environment that changes at each inspection timing, and a determination unit 12 that determines a content of an inspection for the each inspection target person and/or at the each inspection timing, based on the material information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sumiya, Shingo Yamanouchi, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Shinichi Morimoto, Masanori Sekido, Kazumine Ogura
  • Patent number: 11733350
    Abstract: There is provided an object identification apparatus for identifying a stationary object and a moving object. The object identification apparatus includes a phase difference calculator that calculates phase difference information between a transmission signal and a reception signal obtained by reflecting, by surfaces of the moving object and the stationary object in a space, the transmission signal emitted to the space and receiving the reflected transmission signal, a distance calculator that calculates distance information using the phase difference information, a distance information separator that separates the distance information into moving object distance information as distance information about the moving object and stationary object distance information as distance information about the stationary object, and an identifier that identifies the stationary object and the moving object based on the stationary object distance information and the moving object distance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Matsuo, Akihiko Sugiyama, Kazumine Ogura, Shingo Yamanouchi, Masayuki Ariyoshi
  • Publication number: 20230237803
    Abstract: A peak label object detection system (PLODS) includes an object size database configured to store information related to object size for a plurality of objects. The PLODS further includes a three-dimensional (3D) sensor database configured to store information related to parameters of a 3D sensor. The PLODS further includes an annotation database configured to store ground truth annotation information for images. The PLODS further includes a peak shape parameter calculator configured to determine a peak label size based on object size from the object size database and the parameters of the 3D sensor. The PLODS further includes a label generator configured to generate a peak labels map based on label size and the ground truth annotation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Nagma Samreen KHAN, Kazumine OGURA, Masayuki ARIYOSHI, Eric COSATTO
  • Patent number: 11644556
    Abstract: A position measurement device which includes: a storage unit that stores area information for setting a first region along a boundary of the specific area; an area setting unit that acquires the area information from the storage unit and sets the first region on the basis of the acquired area information; and a position measurement unit that acquires the first region from the area setting unit, sets the acquired first region as a verification region, measures the position of the object located in the verification region, and updates the area information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumine Ogura, Shingo Yamanouchi, Masayuki Ariyoshi
  • Publication number: 20230123120
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing system (10) including: an electromagnetic wave reception unit (11) that receives an electromagnetic wave from a target person passing through a predetermined region; a determination unit (12) that determines, based on a signal of the received electromagnetic wave, whether the target person carries a previously-specified object; a route decision unit (13) that decides, based on a result of the determination, an inspection route where the target person proceeds from among a plurality of the previously-determined inspection routes; and a guidance unit (14) that executes guidance processing of guiding the target person to the decided inspection route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Ariyoshi, Toshiyuki Nomura, Toshiaki Tanaka, Takeshi Moribe, Tetsuaki Suzuki, Kazumine Ogura, Shingo Yamanouchi, Tatsuya Sumiya, Nagma Samreen Khan
  • Publication number: 20230057701
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including an electromagnetic wave transmission/reception unit (11) that irradiates an electromagnetic wave from a transmission antenna, and receives a reflection wave by a reception antenna; a label determination image generation unit (12) that generates a label determination image, based on a signal of the received reflection wave; a learning image generation unit (13) that generates a learning image, based on a signal being a part of a signal of the receive reflection wave, and less than a signal to be used in generation of the label determination image; a label determination unit (14) that determines a label, based on the label determination image; and a training data generation unit (15) that generates training data in which the learning image and the label are associated, and causing a training data storage unit (16) to store the generated training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumine OGURA, Masayuki ARIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20230045129
    Abstract: A receiver receives a radio wave transmitted to a target and scattered by the target to acquire a signal. An imaging unit generates a 3D complex image of the target based on the signal. A value extraction unit extracts intensity information and phase in including an intensity matrix and a phase matrix, the extracted intensity information constituting the intensity matrix and the extracted phases information constituting the phase matrix. A subset selection unit selects a subset from the value set. A transformation unit changes a representation of the subset to generate a 2D real image. A detection unit detects whether there is an undesired object on the target based on the 2D real image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Nagma Samreen KHAN, Kyota Higa, Kazumine Ogura, Taichi Tanaka, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Tatsuya Sumiya
  • Publication number: 20220366614
    Abstract: A image processing apparatus (20) includes at least an acquisition unit (210), a processing unit (220), and an image generation unit (230). The acquisition unit (210) acquires an intermediate frequency signal from an irradiation apparatus (10). The processing unit (220) generates three-dimensional positional information about a subject by processing the intermediate frequency signal. The image generation unit (230) generates at least a first two-dimensional image and a second two-dimensional image, and displays the two-dimensional images on a display apparatus (30). The first two-dimensional image is, for example, an image when viewed from a direction in which the subject moves, and the second two-dimensional image is, for example, an image when viewed from an opposite direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki ARIYOSHI, Kazumine OGURA, Tatsuya SUMIYA, Shingo YAMANOUCHI, Nagma Samreen KHAN, Toshiyuki NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20220350016
    Abstract: Provided is a method for movement estimation and movement compensation of a target object that can be applied without introducing restrictions on antenna placement. The present invention provides a radar apparatus including: a radar signal transmission-reception unit acquiring a radar signal acquired by measurement using a transmission antenna and a reception antenna, and a measurement time of the radar signal; a velocity candidate control unit holding a setting of a velocity candidate set of a target object; a velocity estimation imaging unit generating a radar image applied with movement compensation by using each velocity candidate; a velocity estimation unit selecting an estimated velocity from a velocity candidate set, based on comparison of each generated radar image; and an output image imaging unit generating a final output image applied with movement compensation using an estimated velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya SUMIYA, Kazumine Ogura, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Toshiyuki Nomura
  • Publication number: 20220335724
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing system (20) including an image capturing unit (21) that captures an image of a person passing through a first area and generates a person image indicating an appearance of the person, an electromagnetic wave transmission/reception unit (22) that emits an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength of 30 micrometers or more and 1 meter or less toward the person passing through the first area, and receives a reflected wave, a determination unit (23) that determines whether the person possesses a pre-designated object, based on a signal of the received reflected wave, and a registration unit (24) that registers, in a first list, the person image of the person determined to possess the pre-designated object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki ARIYOSHI, Kazumine OGURA, Tatsuya SUMIYA, Toshiyuki NOMURA, Shingo YAMANOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220299602
    Abstract: For increasing measurement precision while suppressing cost increase when measuring a permittivity of an object using a radio wave, an object detection apparatus includes a transmission unit projecting a radio wave toward a target object by using a transmission antenna, a reception unit receiving the radio wave reflected by the target object by a reception antenna and generating an intermediate frequency signal, and an arithmetic apparatus. The arithmetic apparatus computes a reflection amplitude of the target object from the intermediate frequency signal, computes a reflectance from the reflection amplitude, computes a complex permittivity absolute value of the target object from the computed reflectance, computes a depth position of the target object from the reflection amplitude, computes a thickness of the target object from the depth and the reflection amplitude, and computes a permittivity of the target object from the reflection amplitude, the complex permittivity absolute value, and the thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shingo YAMANOUCHI, Toshiyuki Nomura, Masayuki Arlyoshi, Kazumine Ogura, Tatsuya Sumiya
  • Publication number: 20220301316
    Abstract: To shorten a waiting time for a belongings inspection, the present invention provides a detection system 1 including a plurality of detection apparatuses 20 and a control apparatus 10. The control apparatus 10 includes a setting unit 11 that sets, for each of the detection apparatuses 20, at least one piece of pre-registered referrable data as reference data. The detection apparatus 20 includes an electromagnetic wave transmission/reception unit 22 that irradiates an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength of equal to or more than 30 micrometers and equal to or less than one meter and receives a reflection wave, and a detection unit 21 that performs, based on a signal of the reflection wave, detection processing based on the reference data being set for each of the detection apparatuses 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi MORIMOTO, Masanori Sekido, Masaru Eto, Kazumine Ogura, Masayuki Ariyoshi