Patents by Inventor Keiichi Chono

Keiichi Chono 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: 20240281810
    Abstract: An accounting system according to the present invention include: an information display device including a first memory; and at least one first processor coupled to the first memory. The first processor performs first operations. The first operations includes: causing a first camera to image a person, and causes a display to display a code based on physical characteristics peculiar to the imaged person. An information processing device includes a second memory; and at least one second processor coupled to the second memory. The second processor performs second operations. The second operations includes: causing a second camera to image the code displayed by the information display device, acquiring accounting information of the person using the imaged code, and executing accounting processing using the accounting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi SHIBATA, Shoji Yachida, Chisato Funayama, Masato Tsukada, Yuka Ogino, Keiichi Chono, Emi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Yusuke Mori, Toru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12059249
    Abstract: An authentication device includes an image acquisition unit, an identification unit, and an authentication unit. The image acquisition unit acquires an image of an eye of a subject. The identification unit identifies the colored pattern of a colored contact lens worn by the subject by comparing a reference image with the image of the eye. The authentication unit identifies the subject, using a feature in a region other than a colored region of the colored pattern in the iris region of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Shibata, Shoji Yachida, Chisato Funayama, Masato Tsukada, Yuka Ogino, Keiichi Chono, Emi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Yusuke Mori
  • Publication number: 20240267617
    Abstract: An imaging system (1) includes an imaging unit (2) configured to capture an eye of a target person, and a mode control unit (4) configured to select one of imaging modes including a first imaging mode that sets a capture volume for which a greatest distance from the imaging unit (2) in an optical axis direction of the imaging unit (2) is a first distance, and a second imaging mode that sets the capture volume for which the greatest distance from the imaging unit is a second distance, in which the second distance is greater than the first distance. With the imaging system (1), a balance between an image quality matching a purpose of use and a capturing time may be easily achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Keiichi CHONO
  • Publication number: 20240267610
    Abstract: An imaging system is provided with: a first imaging apparatus (2) that captures an image of an imaging target (T, TP) that is located at a first point (P1); a second imaging apparatus (3) a focus position of which is set at a second point (P2) that is located at a forward side along a moving direction of the imaging target than the first point; and a control apparatus (6) that controls the second imaging apparatus to capture an image of the imaging target that is located at the second point on the basis of the image (200) captured by the first imaging apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuka OGINO, Keiichi Chono
  • Patent number: 12058440
    Abstract: To provide a system, a method and the like for acquiring more images or more quickly focused images. A control device acquires information regarding a situation of a range captured by an imaging device, determines a mode according to an assumed situation of the range captured by the imaging device among a plurality of focusing modes, and transmits designation information specifying the determined mode to the imaging device. The imaging device receives the designation information from the control device, and captures an image using the mode specified by the received designation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Chono, Masato Tsukada, Chisato Funayama, Ryuichi Akashi, Yuka Ogino, Takashi Shibata, Shoji Yachida, Hiroshi Imai, Emi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Yusuke Mori
  • Patent number: 12056955
    Abstract: An information providing device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: receive a face image; determine whether a person in the face image is unsuitable for iris data acquisition based on the face image; and output information based on determining that the person is unsuitable for the iris data acquisition when the person is determined to be unsuitable for the iris data acquisition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Chono, Masato Tsukada, Chisato Funayama, Ryuichi Akashi, Yuka Ogino, Takashi Shibata, Shoji Yachida, Hiroshi Imai, Emi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Yusuke Mori
  • Patent number: 12039817
    Abstract: Provided is a gate system arranged between a first region and a second region, including a guide that defines a movement path of a user from the first region to the second region and an imaging device that photographs the user to acquire an image used for biometric authentication. The movement path includes a first portion in which the user is photographed and a second portion through which the user passes after being photographed. The first portion extends from the first region toward the imaging device in a first direction that is parallel to an optical axis of the imaging device. The second portion extends from an end of the first portion in a second direction that is not parallel to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuka Ogino, Keiichi Chono, Kazuya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12033433
    Abstract: An iris recognition apparatus for performing recognition of a target person based on an iris pattern of the target person, is provided with: an imaging device that performs an imaging processing for sequentially outputting imaged images while changing a focal position; and a determining device that starts a focusing determination for determining whether or not an image is a focused image before the imaging device completes the imaging processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Chono, Masato Tsukada, Chisato Funayama, Takahiro Toizumi, Yuka Ogino, Ryuichi Akashi, Ryo Yamakabe
  • Patent number: 12026981
    Abstract: Iris image pick-up devices perform image pick-up of an iris of a moving subject. Images from the iris image pick-up devices are written to storage areas for transfer in a memory. A readout device reads out an image stored in the storage areas for transfer to a storage area for image processing at a frame interval corresponding to the movement speed of the subject. An image processing unit executes processing using the image read out to the storage area for image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Chono, Masato Tsukada
  • Patent number: 12020252
    Abstract: An accounting system according to the present invention include: an information display device including a first memory; and at least one first processor coupled to the first memory. The first processor performs first operations. The first operations includes: causing a first camera to image a person, and causes a display to display a code based on physical characteristics peculiar to the imaged person. An information processing device includes a second memory; and at least one second processor coupled to the second memory. The second processor performs second operations. The second operations includes: causing a second camera to image the code displayed by the information display device, acquiring accounting information of the person using the imaged code, and executing accounting processing using the accounting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Shibata, Shoji Yachida, Chisato Funayama, Masato Tsukada, Yuka Ogino, Keiichi Chono, Emi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Yusuke Mori, Toru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12014573
    Abstract: In order to determine whether a color contact lens is being worn on an iris, this image processing device includes: a first feature amount calculation means for using an image of the iris in a first wavelength band to calculate a first feature amount in the first wavelength band, said iris being used in authentication of a person; a second feature amount calculation means for using an image of the iris in a second wavelength band to calculate a second feature amount in the second wavelength band; and a covering determination means for determining, on the basis of the first feature amount and the second feature amount, whether a color contact lens is present on the iris.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Tsukada, Chisato Funayama, Yuka Ogino, Hiroshi Imai, Keiichi Chono, Emi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Hiroshi Yamada, Takashi Shibata, Shoji Yachida, Ryuichi Akashi
  • Patent number: 12014578
    Abstract: The disclosure is detecting an authentication target who is moving in a predetermined direction in a video; inputting a first image in which an entire body of the target; calculating characteristic information from an image of the entire body in the first image, comparing the calculated characteristic information with characteristic information of the entire body stored in first memory that stores characteristic information of entire bodies of targets, and extracting candidate information of the targets from the first memory based on a first authentication result; inputting a second image in which an iris of the target; and comparing characteristic information of irises stored in second memory that stores the characteristic information of the irises of targets with characteristic information of an iris from the second image, calculating a verification score, executing second authentication on the target in the second image based on the verification score, and outputting an authentication result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Shibata, Shoji Yachida, Chisato Funayama, Masato Tsukada, Yuka Ogino, Keiichi Chono, Emi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Yusuke Mori
  • Patent number: 12010422
    Abstract: The image acquiring device 10 includes the voltage control unit 30 which generates first voltage information that can identify voltage applied to the first variable-focus lens 20A included in the first imaging unit 20 installed in a position where a subject can be photographed and whose focal length changes in accordance with an applied voltage, and generates second voltage information that can identify voltage applied to the second variable-focus lens 21A included in the second imaging unit 21 installed in the position where the subject can be photographed and whose focal length changes in accordance with an applied voltage, and the image judgment unit 40 which inputs images from the first imaging unit 20 and the second imaging unit 21, and selects one image taken at an in-focus position among input images, wherein the voltage control unit 30 generates information, as the first voltage information, that can identify each voltage in a time series of voltages whose values change with time, and generates inform
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Yamakabe, Yuka Ogino, Keiichi Chono
  • Publication number: 20240187579
    Abstract: In order to achieve improved compression efficiency while controlling implementation costs, an adaptive loop filter includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire statistical information on a picture to be coded, an allocation unit configured to allocate a single filter set common to a plurality of blocks included in the picture, based on the statistical information on the picture, and a filter processing unit configured to execute adaptive loop filter processing on each of the plurality of blocks, by using the single filter set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta Tokumitsu, Keiichi Chono, Tomonori Yanagita
  • Patent number: 11997377
    Abstract: An imaging system is provided with: a first imaging apparatus (2) that captures an image of an imaging target (T, TP) that is located at a first point (P1); a second imaging apparatus (3) a focus position of which is set at a second point (P2) that is located at a forward side along a moving direction of the imaging target than the first point; and a control apparatus (6) that controls the second imaging apparatus to capture an image of the imaging target that is located at the second point on the basis of the image (200) captured by the first imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuka Ogino, Keiichi Chono
  • Patent number: 11997381
    Abstract: An imaging system (1) includes an imaging unit (2) configured to capture an eye of a target person, and a mode control unit (4) configured to select one of imaging modes including a first imaging mode that sets a capture volume for which a greatest distance from the imaging unit (2) in an optical axis direction of the imaging unit (2) is a first distance, and a second imaging mode that sets the capture volume for which the greatest distance from the imaging unit is a second distance, in which the second distance is greater than the first distance. With the imaging system (1), a balance between an image quality matching a purpose of use and a capturing time may be easily achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiichi Chono
  • Patent number: 11989975
    Abstract: The disclosure is inputting a first image captured an image of an authentication target; inputting a second image captured an image of a right eye or a left eye of the target; determining whether the second image is of a left eye or a right eye of the target based on information including the first image, and outputting a determination result as left/right information in association with the second image; detecting an overlap between a region including the second image and a predetermined region in the first image; calculating a verification score by comparing characteristic information that are related to the left/right information with iris characteristic information calculated from the second image, and calculating a first weighted verification score obtained by weighting the verification score with a detection result; and authenticating a target in the second image based on the first weighted verification score, and outputting an authentication result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Shibata, Shoji Yachida, Chisato Funayama, Masato Tsukada, Yuka Ogino, Keiichi Chono, Emi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Yusuke Mori
  • Publication number: 20240163452
    Abstract: The video encoding device includes a predictor which performs a prediction process using intra-prediction or inter-prediction, and a coding controller which controls the predictor so that under a predetermined condition that pictures in the later display order are not coded before pictures in the earlier display order and that pictures in lower layers do not refer to pictures in upper layers, the predictor uses a picture closest in the display order to a picture to be coded as a reference picture when coding the picture referring to a picture in the lower layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta TOKUMITSU, Keiichi Chono
  • Publication number: 20240163449
    Abstract: The video encoding device for encoding video using inter prediction includes a unit which determines to perform an entropy-encoding process of encoding a PU (Prediction Unit) partition type syntax of a CU (Coding Unit) to be encoded, based on a prediction mode of the CU to be encoded being an inter prediction mode and a size of the CU to be encoded being equal to a predetermined minimum inter-PU size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta SENZAKI, Yuzo Senda, Keiichi Chono, Hirofumi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20240163448
    Abstract: In a video decoding device for decoding video using inter prediction, decoding control means sets capable values of an inter-PU (Prediction Unit) partition type of a CU (Coding Unit) to be decoded, based on whether or not a size of the CU to be decoded is equal to a minimum inter-PU size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta SENZAKI, Yuzo SENDA, Keiichi CHONO, Hirofumi AOKI