Patents by Inventor Kazunari Iwamoto

Kazunari Iwamoto 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: 11765312
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which extracts a region of a foreground object in a captured image obtained by an imaging unit, and controls a display unit to display an output image formed by superimposing, on a predetermined image, a first image formed by anonymizing the extracted region, and a second image formed by anonymizing a region designated by a user on the captured image, wherein an appearance of the second image is different from an appearance of the first image, a region of a foreground object is extracted from a region other than at least the designated region in the captured image, and even when the designated region contains the foreground object, the first image in the designated region is not displayed on the output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Aramaki, Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 11308342
    Abstract: When a subject in a captured image is detected by using a whole search and a local search, a computation cost is reduced by reducing an area on which the whole search is to be performed within the captured image, and degradation in accuracy of counting the number of subjects having passed a line in the captured image is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20220030180
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which extracts a region of a foreground object in a captured image obtained by an imaging unit, and controls a display unit to display an output image formed by superimposing, on a predetermined image, a first image formed by anonymizing the extracted region, and a second image formed by anonymizing a region designated by a user on the captured image, wherein an appearance of the second image is different from an appearance of the first image, a region of a foreground object is extracted from a region other than at least the designated region in the captured image, and even when the designated region contains the foreground object, the first image in the designated region is not displayed on the output image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji Aramaki, Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 11165974
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which extracts a region of a foreground object in a captured image obtained by an imaging unit, and controls a display unit to display an output image formed by superimposing, on a predetermined image, a first image formed by anonymizing the extracted region, and a second image formed by anonymizing a region designated by a user on the captured image, wherein an appearance of the second image is different from an appearance of the first image, a region of a foreground object is extracted from a region other than at least the designated region in the captured image, and even when the designated region contains the foreground object, the first image in the designated region is not displayed on the output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Aramaki, Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 11048929
    Abstract: When detecting object areas, it is possible to appropriately evaluate each detection area regardless of the overlapping relationship and positional relationship between detection areas. A human body detection apparatus obtains an image captured by an imaging unit, detects, as detection areas, predetermined object areas from the captured image, and evaluates an evaluation target detection area by comparing, among the detection areas, the evaluation target detection area and other detection areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10970551
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a detection unit, an association unit, and an output control unit. The detection unit detects a person from an image which includes a plurality of persons. The association unit associates the persons included in the image with each other based on at least one of a position of the person detected by the detection unit, directions of faces of the persons included in the image, and distances between the persons included in the image. The output control unit causes an output unit to output information that is indicative of a relation of the detected person with respect to other persons included in the image based on a result of association performed by the association unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Iwamoto, Yoshitaka Nagao
  • Patent number: 10909402
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects an object in an image, a processing unit that executes predetermined processing based on the detected object, a setting unit that sets a size range of the object to be subjected to the predetermined processing, and a display control unit that identifies an object to be excluded from the predetermined processing based on a setting set by the setting unit, among the objects detected by the detection unit as a target object of a size included in a range larger than the size range, and displays information indicating the identified object on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10885348
    Abstract: An information processing device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image; and an output unit that outputs a detection result of a subject detection process based on an image feature, which is for a region where subject detection based on an image feature of the captured image is performed, and a detection result of a subject detection process based on a factor other than an image feature, which is for a region other than the region where the subject detection based on the image feature of the captured image is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10713797
    Abstract: It is determined, when a region of a moving object detected from an image overlaps a fixed region in the image, whether to superimpose a first mask image to be drawn in the region of the moving object on a second mask image to be drawn in the fixed region, based on an image feature amount of the region of the moving object. The drawing of the first mask image is controlled in accordance with this determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20200104622
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects an object in an image, a processing unit that executes predetermined processing based on the detected object, a setting unit that sets a size range of the object to be subjected to the predetermined processing, and a display control unit that identifies an object to be excluded from the predetermined processing based on a setting set by the setting unit, among the objects detected by the detection unit as a target object of a size included in a range larger than the size range, and displays information indicating the identified object on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20200045243
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which extracts a region of a foreground object in a captured image obtained by an imaging unit, and controls a display unit to display an output image formed by superimposing, on a predetermined image, a first image formed by anonymizing the extracted region, and a second image formed by anonymizing a region designated by a user on the captured image, wherein an appearance of the second image is different from an appearance of the first image, a region of a foreground object is extracted from a region other than at least the designated region in the captured image, and even when the designated region contains the foreground object, the first image in the designated region is not displayed on the output image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Aramaki, Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20200005066
    Abstract: When a subject in a captured image is detected by using a whole search and a local search, a computation cost is reduced by reducing an area on which the whole search is to be performed within the captured image, and degradation in accuracy of counting the number of subjects having passed a line in the captured image is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventor: Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190311200
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a detection unit, an association unit, and an output control unit. The detection unit detects a person from an image which includes a plurality of persons. The association unit associates the persons included in the image with each other based on at least one of a position of the person detected by the detection unit, directions of faces of the persons included in the image, and distances between the persons included in the image. The output control unit causes an output unit to output information that is indicative of a relation of the detected person with respect to other persons included in the image based on a result of association performed by the association unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Kazunari Iwamoto, Yoshitaka Nagao
  • Patent number: 10372989
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a detection unit, an association unit, and an output control unit. The detection unit detects a person from an image which includes a plurality of persons. The association unit associates the persons included in the image with each other based on at least one of a position of the person detected by the detection unit, directions of faces of the persons included in the image, and distances between the persons included in the image. The output control unit causes an output unit to output information that is indicative of a relation of the detected person with respect to other persons included in the image based on a result of association performed by the association unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Iwamoto, Yoshitaka Nagao
  • Publication number: 20190171887
    Abstract: An information processing device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image; and an output unit that outputs a detection result of a subject detection process based on an image feature, which is for a region where subject detection based on an image feature of the captured image is performed, and a detection result of a subject detection process based on a factor other than an image feature, which is for a region other than the region where the subject detection based on the image feature of the captured image is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventor: Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20190114783
    Abstract: It is determined, when a region of a moving object detected from an image overlaps a fixed region in the image, whether to superimpose a first mask image to be drawn in the region of the moving object on a second mask image to be drawn in the fixed region, based on an image feature amount of the region of the moving object. The drawing of the first mask image is controlled in accordance with this determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20180376058
    Abstract: An image reproducing apparatus includes a display processing unit configured to process display of a timeline indicating a time period during which an image captured by a camera capable of changing an imaging direction is recorded. The display of the time period on the timeline is processed depending on the imaging direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventor: Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10089726
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information for identifying a position of a plane in a captured image, where the captured image includes a structure composed of a plurality of planes as an object, a determination unit configured to determine a correspondence relationship between a region corresponding to the plane in the captured image and a region in an overhead image to be created, according to the information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a generation unit configured to correct an image of the region corresponding to the plane in the captured image so that the corrected image corresponds to the region in the overhead image to be created, according to the correspondence relationship determined by the determination unit, and generate an overhead image composed of a plurality of corrected images that are combined with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20180107870
    Abstract: When detecting object areas, it is possible to appropriately evaluate each detection area regardless of the overlapping relationship and positional relationship between detection areas. A human body detection apparatus obtains an image captured by an imaging unit, detects, as detection areas, predetermined object areas from the captured image, and evaluates an evaluation target detection area by comparing, among the detection areas, the evaluation target detection area and other detection areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Kazunari Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20170124387
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a detection unit, an association unit, and an output control unit. The detection unit detects a person from an image which includes a plurality of persons. The association unit associates the persons included in the image with each other based on at least one of a position of the person detected by the detection unit, directions of faces of the persons included in the image, and distances between the persons included in the image. The output control unit causes an output unit to output information that is indicative of a relation of the detected person with respect to other persons included in the image based on a result of association performed by the association unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Kazunari Iwamoto, Yoshitaka Nagao