Patents by Inventor Kohei Iwabuchi

Kohei Iwabuchi 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: 20260260332
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a display control unit that displays defect information detected from an image in which an inspection target is captured, on a display unit in association with the image. The display control unit controls a method of displaying the defect information based on a display size of at least one of the image and the defect information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2026
    Publication date: September 3, 2026
    Inventors: KOHEI IWABUCHI, YUUICHI NITTO
  • Patent number: 12679342
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires control-related information that includes dynamically changing environment information used for control of a movable apparatus, and adjusts, based on the acquired control-related information, a traveling rule that is followed by the movable apparatus. In addition, the information processing apparatus controls driving of the movable apparatus based on travel control information including the adjusted traveling rule. The control-related information includes, for example, map information, behavioral information of the movable apparatus, behavioral information of an obstacle, movable apparatus-specific information, road surface configuration information, traveling history information, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kohei Iwabuchi
  • Patent number: 12632949
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a display control unit that displays defect information detected from an image in which an inspection target is captured, on a display unit in association with the image. The display control unit controls a method of displaying the defect information based on a display size of at least one of the image and the defect information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohei Iwabuchi, Yuuichi Nitto
  • Patent number: 12552369
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus capable of improving the efficiency of operation of a movable apparatus, an information processing apparatus comprises: a passing region calculation unit configured to calculate a passing region through which a movable apparatus passes; an object detection unit configured to detect an object around the movable apparatus by a sensor; and an object detection range setting unit configured to set an object detection range in which the object is detected by the object detection unit based on the passing region calculated by the passing region calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Naganawa, Kohei Iwabuchi, Masakazu Fujiki, Daisuke Kotake
  • Publication number: 20250234097
    Abstract: There is provided with an information processing apparatus. An outputting unit outputs an image capture instruction signal instructing that image capturing is performed, to an image capture apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains an image capture timing signal indicating a timing for performing image capturing, from the image capture apparatus. A control unit performs lighting control of a light source in accordance with the image capture timing signal being obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: KOHEI IWABUCHI, KOJI FUSE
  • Publication number: 20250225000
    Abstract: An information processing device that determines a second device which takes over execution of a first task from a first device for executing the first task and which executes a second task different from the first task performs: detecting that the first task is a handover target; acquiring handover target task information on the first task; acquiring handover partner candidate information on candidates for the second device; acquiring an additional time required for executing the first task when the first task is handed over and executed for each candidate for the second device on the basis of the handover target task information and the handover partner candidate information; and determining the second device to which the first task is handed over out of the candidates for the second device on the basis of the additional times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventor: KOHEI IWABUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250086506
    Abstract: Provided are an information selection system, an information selection method, and an information selection program for efficiently and appropriately selecting information for use in information processing. A control unit of an assistance server generates a plurality of analysis models, using one or more pieces of information among information constituted by a plurality of pieces of training data, and calculates the accuracy of each of the analysis models. The control unit assigns distribution values according to each accuracy to information used for generating the analytical models, calculates statistics of the distribution values, for each piece of information used for generating the analytical models, and selects, using the statistics, information for use in generating the analytical models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Takeshi NAGATA, Kosuke TAKEDA, Hidemasa MAEKAWA, Chihiro SEKO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI, Makiko SUITANI, Yuya NEMOTO, Daiki HASHIMOTO, Yuji MORI, Yuki TAMAGAKI, Kohei IWABUCHI, Kenta KONAGAYOSHI, Taishi SHINOBU
  • Publication number: 20250077968
    Abstract: A control unit of a support server identifies, with respect to input data, a nearby node among existing nodes. The control unit calculates the distance between the input data and the nearby node. If the distance is greater than a maximum distance, the control unit uses the input data to add a new node to the existing nodes, and updates the activity value and the age of the new node and the nearby node in accordance with the distance to the nearby node. The control unit generates a self-organizing map by using the activity value of each node and the activity value of each path to calculate an age-based degree of activity, and by determining the presence or absence of each node and each path according to the degree of activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Takeshi NAGATA, Kosuke TAKEDA, Hidemasa MAEKAWA, Chihiro SEKO, Hiroshi KOIZUMI, Makiko SUITANI, Yuya NEMOTO, Daiki HASHIMOTO, Yuji MORI, Yuki TAMAGAKI, Kohei IWABUCHI, Kenta KONAGAYOSHI, Taishi SHINOBU
  • Patent number: 12211268
    Abstract: There is provided with an information processing system including a server apparatus, and a first apparatus and a second apparatus that are able to communicate with the server apparatus. A management unit collects, based on a predetermined reference, each piece of data that is acquired from the first apparatus and is associated with each of a plurality of images and manage the collected data. An image identification unit identifies at least a portion of the plurality of images based on the collected data. A sending unit sends the at least a portion of the plurality of images that is identified by the image identification unit, to the second apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuuichi Nitto, Kohei Iwabuchi, Kentaro Saito, Masaji Munekuni, Satoru Mamiya, Tatsuya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240416897
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires control-related information that includes dynamically changing environment information used for control of a movable apparatus, and adjusts, based on the acquired control-related information, a traveling rule that is followed by the movable apparatus. In addition, the information processing apparatus controls driving of the movable apparatus based on travel control information including the adjusted traveling rule. The control-related information includes, for example, map information, behavioral information of the movable apparatus, behavioral information of an obstacle, movable apparatus-specific information, road surface configuration information, traveling history information, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventor: Kohei IWABUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240116500
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus capable of improving the efficiency of operation of a movable apparatus, an information processing apparatus comprises: a passing region calculation unit configured to calculate a passing region through which a movable apparatus passes; an object detection unit configured to detect an object around the movable apparatus by a sensor; and an object detection range setting unit configured to set an object detection range in which the object is detected by the object detection unit based on the passing region calculated by the passing region calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: YOSHIHIRO NAGANAWA, KOHEI IWABUCHI, MASAKAZU FUJIKI, DAISUKE KOTAKE
  • Patent number: 11830177
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus acquires a first image which captures a scene including an object from a first viewpoint position and a second image which captures a scene including the object from a second viewpoint position, and associates a coordinate position corresponding to a position of a feature of the object on the first image with a coordinate position corresponding to a position of a feature of the object on the second image. The image processing apparatus determines a partial region in the second image corresponding to a give region in the first image based on the association, generates a synthesized image by replacing an image of the given region using an image of the determined partial region, and superimposing variation data on the synthesized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohei Iwabuchi, Mahoro Anabuki, Nobuaki Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20230368364
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a display control unit that displays defect information detected from an image in which an inspection target is captured, on a display unit in association with the image. The display control unit controls a method of displaying the defect information based on a display size of at least one of the image and the defect information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: KOHEI IWABUCHI, YUUICHI NITTO
  • Patent number: 11729494
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors that function as a first acquisition unit configured to acquire information about an image-capturing environment including a physical relationship between an imaging apparatus and an object plane, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a condition about image quality of an image to be captured by the imaging apparatus, a decision unit configured to decide an image-capturing parameter with which the object plane is fit in a depth of field in a case where the image-capturing parameter is set in the imaging apparatus, based on the information acquired by the first acquisition unit, and a presentation unit configured to present to a user a range on the object plane in which an image obtained by image capturing with the image capturing apparatus in which the decided image-capturing parameter is set satisfies the condition about image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohei Iwabuchi, Yuuichi Nitto
  • Publication number: 20220327687
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus acquires a first image which captures a scene including an object from a first viewpoint position and a second image which captures a scene including the object from a second viewpoint position, and associates a coordinate position corresponding to a position of a feature of the object on the first image with a coordinate position corresponding to a position of a feature of the object on the second image. The image processing apparatus determines a partial region in the second image corresponding to a give region in the first image based on the association, generates a synthesized image by replacing an image of the given region using an image of the determined partial region, and superimposing variation data on the synthesized image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kohei Iwabuchi, Mahoro Anabuki, Nobuaki Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 11430107
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for supporting a user's task for identifying a defect in an object based on a target image that is a photographed image of the object, includes: a selecting unit that selects, based on an user's input, one from one or more reference images to which is referred by the user for identifying a defect in the object; a display unit that comparably displays the target image and the selected reference image on a certain display device; a specifying unit that receives an user's operation for specifying a defect in the target image displayed by the display unit; and a generating unit that generates a new reference image based on a partial area, of the target image, including the specified defect. A new reference image generated by the generating unit is added to the one or more reference images selectable by the selecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kohei Iwabuchi
  • Patent number: 11416978
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus acquires a first image which captures a scene including an object from a first viewpoint position and a second image which captures a scene including the object from a second viewpoint position, and associates a coordinate position corresponding to a position of a feature of the object on the first image with a coordinate position corresponding to a position of a feature of the object on the second image. The image processing apparatus determines a partial region in the second image corresponding to a give region in the first image based on the association, generates a synthesized image by replacing an image of the given region using an image of the determined partial region, and superimposing variation data on the synthesized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohei Iwabuchi, Mahoro Anabuki, Nobuaki Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20220180631
    Abstract: There is provided with an information processing system including a server apparatus, and a first apparatus and a second apparatus that are able to communicate with the server apparatus. A management unit collects, based on a predetermined reference, each piece of data that is acquired from the first apparatus and is associated with each of a plurality of images and manage the collected data. An image identification unit identifies at least a portion of the plurality of images based on the collected data. A sending unit sends the at least a portion of the plurality of images that is identified by the image identification unit, to the second apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Yuuichi Nitto, Kohei Iwabuchi, Kentaro Saito, Masaji Munekuni, Satoru Mamiya, Tatsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11335047
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a unit that acquires observation data indicating an observation value representing a state of a crop, the observation value being associated with any of a plurality of observation types representing types of observation objects, the observation value being obtained by observing a crop; and a control unit that visualizes and displays the observation value at a position on a map where the observation has been performed, the observation value being indicated by the acquired observation data, wherein when displaying the observation values simultaneously or in a switchable manner, in a case where the control unit visualizes the observation value exceeding or less than a predetermined value specified for each of the plurality of observation types, it visualizes and displays the observation value on the map by using an identical display form for each of the plurality of observation types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohei Iwabuchi
  • Publication number: 20220107299
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to display results of measurement for a plurality of items about an agricultural crop as a graph, acquires measurement information including an item for which the measurement is performed and a measured value obtained by the measurement, acquires information about a reference value set for each of the plurality of items, performs conversion of the measured value into a display coordinate value on a graph for each of the plurality of items to make reference values agree with each other on the graph, and displays a graph including a plurality of pieces of series data corresponding to the respective plurality of items and having display coordinate values converted by the conversion unit, and an index indicating the reference values for the plurality of items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventor: Kohei Iwabuchi