Patents by Inventor Kei Yamaji
Kei Yamaji 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: 20220130090Abstract: In an image processing device, an image processing method and a recording medium, individual images and common images are selected from a plurality of images based an analysis result of images, a specific individual, and association of a person with a group of an image of the person. The individual images are laid out on an individual page, and the common images are laid out on a common page. Images in which two or less persons including a person corresponding to the specific individual appear are preferentially selected as the individual image, and images which are other than the individual images and in which three or more persons appear are selected as the common images such that the number of appearances of each person becomes an average of the numbers of appearances of a plurality of persons.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kei YAMAJI
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Patent number: 11250605Abstract: In an image processing device, an image processing method and a recording medium, individual images and common images are selected from a plurality of images based an analysis result of images, a name of a specific individual, and association of a name of a person with a group of an image of the person. The individual images are laid out on an individual page, and the common images are laid out on a common page. Images in which two or less persons including a person corresponding to the name of the specific individual appear are preferentially selected as the individual image, and images which are other than the individual images and in which three or more persons appear are selected as the common images such that the number of appearances of each person becomes an average of the numbers of appearances of a plurality of persons.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kei Yamaji
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Publication number: 20210248661Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and an image processing system capable of performing recommendation suggesting an appropriate product item for an image group based on a classification of the image group on time. At least one processor of an image processing apparatus is configured to acquire a first image group, group the first image group into one or more groups according to image content of images included in the first image group, decide a recommended product item according to classifications of the groups based on date-of-acquisition information of the first image group and content of a second image group of the grouped groups, decide one or more images for use in creating the recommended product item from the second image group and a layout to create a candidate image corresponding to the recommended product item, and provide recommendation information regarding the recommended product item.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kei YAMAJI
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Patent number: 11036378Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, an image processing program, and a recording medium thereof, capable of performing output in accordance with an output format depending on a user's preference. A plurality of images are read, and a question relating to a user's preference is notified during analysis of the images. A user answers the question. On the basis of an image analysis result and a received answer to the question, an output format of an album in which images are laid out is determined. The album of the determined output format is preview-displayed, and the user performs change as necessary. In accordance with an order command from the user, the laid-out album is created.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kei Yamaji
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Publication number: 20210004890Abstract: There are provided an information suggestion system, an information suggestion method, a program, and a recording medium capable of suggesting, to a user, information on a product matching a hobby and the preference of the user from an image group of the user. In the information suggestion system, the information suggestion method, the program, and the recording medium, an image group acquisition unit acquires an image group of a user, and an image analysis unit detects an attribute of each image. An imaging number count unit counts an imaging number of same-attribute images, and an imaging frequency calculation unit calculates an imaging frequency of the same-attribute images. An imaging purpose estimation unit estimates an imaging purpose of the same-attribute images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Kei YAMAJI
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Publication number: 20210004401Abstract: Provided are an information suggestion system, an information suggestion method, a program, and a recording medium capable of suggesting information of interest to many users to a product provider related to the information from an image group of a plurality of users. In the information suggestion system, the information suggestion method, the program, and the recording medium, an image group acquisition unit acquires an image group of a plurality of users, and an image analysis unit detects an imaging location of each image and an object appearing in each image. An imaging number count unit counts an imaging number of same-type images which are captured at the same imaging location and in which the same object appears, and an imaging frequency calculation unit calculates an imaging frequency of the same-type images.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Kei YAMAJI
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Publication number: 20210004596Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, an image processing program, and a recording medium for the program, which make it possible to understand a unique way of spending time of a certain user at an event. A first attribute obtained from images captured by a first user and a second attribute obtained from images, captured by many second users whose number is larger than the number of the first user, among images of the same event are detected. The first attribute represents a feature of the first user having a unique way of spending time at the event. According to the first attribute, information on products or the like suitable for the first user is notified to the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Kei YAMAJI, Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
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Patent number: 10884594Abstract: A user can simply edit a common page while securing equality between the numbers of appearances of persons on the common page. In an image processing device, an image processing method, a program, and a recording medium according to the present invention, individual images and common images are selected from a plurality of images based an analysis result of images, a name of a specific individual, and association of a name of a person with a group of an image of the person. The individual images are laid out on an individual page, and the common images are laid out on a common page. One common image selected according to a command of the user is deleted as a deletion common image from a display common page, and images in which the same person as one or more persons of three or more persons appearing in the deletion common image appears are selected as addition candidate images from the plurality of images, and one addition candidate image of the addition candidate images is added to the display common page.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kei Yamaji
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Publication number: 20200410680Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, an image processing program, and a recording medium that stores the program, capable of finding images of different persons captured in the same age. An image is specified as a first image, a user in the image is recognized as a first person, and an age thereof is estimated. An image is specified as a second image, a user in the image is recognized as a second person, and an age thereof is estimated. In a case where the user recognized as the first person and the user recognized as the second person are not the same person and a difference between the age of the user and the age of the user is within a range of a threshold value, the first image and the second image are detected as an image combination.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Kei YAMAJI, Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20200410569Abstract: Provided are an image processing system, an image processing method, and a program that can provide recommendation information according to a disposable income estimated on the basis of an analysis result of an image group. The image processing system, the image processing method, and the program include recognizing an object of an analysis target image of a user (44), converting information on the object into disposable income range information of the user (50), acquiring accessory information including imaging date information of the analysis target image, and deriving an appearance frequency of the object on the basis of the imaging date information (52), deriving a weighting coefficient on the basis of the appearance frequency information of the object (54), estimating the disposable income of the user using the disposable income range information and the weighting coefficient (56), and transmitting recommendation information corresponding to the disposable income of the user (58).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kei YAMAJI, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20200409991Abstract: There are provided information processing apparatus and method, and a program which can more accurately estimate user's preference. An information processing apparatus comprises an image information acquisition unit that acquires an image associated with a user and accessory information including information on at least an imaging date of the image; a news information acquisition unit that acquires news information indicating contents of news distributed by a news site; an image analysis unit that analyzes image contents from the image; and an estimation unit that estimates a preference of the user on the basis of the image contents grasped by processing of the image analysis unit and the news information at a time corresponding to the imaging date.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kei YAMAJI, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20200302666Abstract: In an image processing device, an image processing method and a recording medium, individual images and common images are selected from a plurality of images based an analysis result of images, a name of a specific individual, and association of a name of a person with a group of an image of the person. The individual images are laid out on an individual page, and the common images are laid out on a common page. Images in which two or less persons including a person corresponding to the name of the specific individual appear are preferentially selected as the individual image, and images which are other than the individual images and in which three or more persons appear are selected as the common images such that the number of appearances of each person becomes an average of the numbers of appearances of a plurality of persons.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kei YAMAJI
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Publication number: 20200234053Abstract: In the image processing device, the method and the recording medium according to the present invention, the characteristic information extractor extracts the number of times the same subject appears in the still images. The target object detector detects the target subject which appears the number of times not less than the threshold value. The image analysis condition determiner sets the image analysis condition for the portion of the moving image where the target subject is absent to be rougher than that where the target subject is present. The frame image analyzer extracts frame images from the moving image in accordance with the image analysis condition. The frame image output section calculates the evaluation value of the frame images based on the result of the image analysis and output the frame image having the evaluation value not less than the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kei YAMAJI
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Publication number: 20200233569Abstract: A user can simply edit a common page while securing equality between the numbers of appearances of persons on the common page. In an image processing device, an image processing method, a program, and a recording medium according to the present invention, individual images and common images are selected from a plurality of images based an analysis result of images, a name of a specific individual, and association of a name of a person with a group of an image of the person. The individual images are laid out on an individual page, and the common images are laid out on a common page. One common image selected according to a command of the user is deleted as a deletion common image from a display common page, and images in which the same person as one or more persons of three or more persons appearing in the deletion common image appears are selected as addition candidate images from the plurality of images, and one addition candidate image of the addition candidate images is added to the display common page.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kei YAMAJI
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Publication number: 20200226282Abstract: A medical information anonymizing system includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires medical information generated in a format based on a communication standard for a medical image and including a medical image and supplementary information. The processing circuitry adds the anonymization reference information indicating an anonymizing method for anonymizing the medical information to the supplementary information in the medical information. The processing circuitry configured to receive the medical information in which the anonymization reference information is added to the supplementary information and, based on the anonymization reference information added to the medical information, anonymize at least one of the medical image and the supplementary information included in the medical information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Shingo TAKAGI, Kei YAMAJI, Shinichi NAKANO, Hideki TADA, Satoshi OKUYAMA, Hidetoshi ISHIGAMI, Seiji MIKAMI, Norimasa MUROI, Hiroshi KUROSAWA, Takumi KANEKO
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Patent number: 10650243Abstract: In the image processing device, the method and the recording medium according to the present invention, the characteristic information extractor extracts the number of times the same subject appears in the still images. The target object detector detects the target subject which appears the number of times not less than the threshold value. The image analysis condition determiner sets the image analysis condition for the portion of the moving image where the target subject is absent to be rougher than that where the target subject is present. The frame image analyzer extracts frame images from the moving image in accordance with the image analysis condition. The frame image output section calculates the evaluation value of the frame images based on the result of the image analysis and output the frame image having the evaluation value not less than the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kei Yamaji
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Publication number: 20200090369Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of creating an image product by extracting an image having a theme matching an interest and taste of a user are provided. A plurality of images are classified into a plurality of image groups using feature amounts of the images such that images having a similarity greater than or equal to a threshold are grouped. An image is extracted from the plurality of classified image groups. An album is created using the extracted image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kei YAMAJI
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Publication number: 20200075143Abstract: A medical information management system according to an embodiment includes a storage device and a medical information management apparatus. The storage device stores therein pieces of medical information of patients acquired by an extra-order device that acquires medical information without following medical orders issued by a hospital. The medical information management apparatus is configured to obtain medical information of a patient who is to use the hospital, from among the pieces of medical information stored in the storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Sayaka TAKIKAWA, Kei Yamaji, Takayuki Kojima, Yo Sasaki, Sinya Sato, Daisuke Suzuki, Mitsuo Sekine
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Patent number: 10573041Abstract: The first rear image candidate determination unit determines a first rear image candidate from among first object determination images on the basis of a first evaluation value calculated by the first evaluation value calculation unit and a first evaluation criterion stored in the first evaluation criterion storage unit. For example, the first rear image candidate determination unit determines a first object determination image (which may be one or a plurality of object determination images) in which a first evaluation value equal to or greater than a first evaluation criterion has been calculated, to be the first rear image candidate.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kei Yamaji, Kenichi Sonoda
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Publication number: 20190377484Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, an image processing program, and a recording medium thereof, capable of performing output in accordance with an output format depending on a user's preference. A plurality of images are read, and a question relating to a user's preference is notified during analysis of the images. A user answers the question. On the basis of an image analysis result and a received answer to the question, an output format of an album in which images are laid out is determined. The album of the determined output format is preview-displayed, and the user performs change as necessary. In accordance with an order command from the user, the laid-out album is created.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventor: Kei YAMAJI