Patents by Inventor Kosuke Tono

Kosuke Tono 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: 20260268703
    Abstract: An image processing device comprises an image acquisition unit that acquires an image, a person region detection unit that detects a person region presumed to be a person from the image, a person likelihood calculation unit that calculates a likelihood for the person detected at detection of the person region, a first masking unit that masks at least a portion of the person region when the calculated likelihood for the person is at or above a threshold value, a face region detection unit that detects a face region presumed to be the face of the person from the image for which the person region was detected, and a second masking unit that masks at least a portion of the person region and the face region when the calculated likelihood for the person is below the threshold value and the person region and the face region satisfy a prescribed condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito SAKAI, Kosuke TONO, Daisuke MORI, Hisahiro OBA
  • Publication number: 20260260510
    Abstract: An image processing device is provided with: an image acquisition unit that acquires an image captured by an imaging device installed in a vehicle; a person area detection unit that detects, from the image, a person area estimated to represent a person; a face area detection unit that detects, from the image, a face area estimated to represent a face of the person; a first masking unit that masks at least a portion of the person area and the face area if the person area and the face area are detected from the image; a body part estimation unit that estimates a body part of the person from the face area if the face area is detected and the person area is not detected from the image; and a second masking unit that masks at least a portion of the detected face area and the estimated body part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 3, 2026
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito SAKAI, Kosuke TONO, Daisuke MORI, Hisahiro OBA
  • Publication number: 20260245335
    Abstract: An image processing device comprises: an image acquisition unit that acquires an image; a person region detection unit that detects, from the image, a person region presumed to be a person; a parameter acquisition unit that acquires an imaging environment parameter when the image was imaged by an imaging device; a first masking unit that masks at least a portion of the region if the imaging environment parameter satisfies a prescribed condition; and a second masking unit that masks a range resulting from at least partially expanding the person region, if the imaging environment parameter does not satisfy the prescribed condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 20, 2026
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito SAKAI, Kosuke TONO, Daisuke MORI, Hisahiro OBA
  • Publication number: 20260237221
    Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a moving body detection device capable of accurately detecting a moving body. A moving body detection device (100) comprises an acquisition unit (110) that acquires a captured video, a first setting unit (120) that sets moving body detection conditions on the basis of related information containing information related to the video, and a detection unit (130) that detects a moving body from frames constituting the video on the basis of the moving body detection conditions. The moving body detection device (100) adjusts the moving body detection conditions on the basis of the related information, and thus can accurately detect a moving body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 13, 2026
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hisahiro OBA, Kosuke TONO, Masahito SAKAI, Daisuke MORI
  • Publication number: 20260237222
    Abstract: A mobile object detection device comprises: an acquisition unit for acquiring video including a plurality of frames captured; a detection unit for detecting a mobile object from each of the plurality of frames on the basis of a threshold value of a prescribed mobile object detection score; and an adjustment unit that, if a mobile object is detected from at least one frame among the plurality of frames, causes the detection unit to detect the mobile object in at least one frame of a frame before and a frame after the frame where the mobile object was detected, in a state where the threshold value for the mobile object detection score in a region corresponding to a region where the mobile object was detected has been lowered below the threshold value of the prescribed mobile object detection score, in the at least one frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 13, 2026
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahito SAKAI, Kosuke TONO, Daisuke MORI, Hisahiro OBA
  • Publication number: 20260229042
    Abstract: A person detection device comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured video image; an object detection unit that detects a prescribed object to be detected from the video image on the basis of a threshold value of a prescribed object detection score; an adjustment unit that lowers a threshold value of a person detection score in a region of a prescribed range which includes the object to be detected in the video image to a value lower than threshold values of person detection scores in other regions; and a person detection unit that detects a person from the video image on the basis of the threshold value of the person detection score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hisahiro OBA, Kosuke TONO, Masahito SAKAI, Daisuke MORI
  • Patent number: 8166105
    Abstract: A portable terminal, capable of accessing to software executing server having a hardware access layer in which the hardware of a predetermined portable terminal is virtualized, wherein the server executes a virtual portable terminal program realizing a predetermined function of a portable terminal in response to a request from the portable terminal. The portable terminal comprises: a terminal-end hardware access layer that receives a hardware access instruction issued by a virtual portable terminal program executed by the software executing server to the hardware access layer in a hardware access command capable of containing a plurality of hardware access instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Tono
  • Publication number: 20100325328
    Abstract: A portable terminal, capable of accessing to a software executing server having a hardware access layer in which the hardware of a predetermined portable terminal is virtualized, wherein the server executes a virtual portable terminal program realizing a predetermined function of a portable terminal in response to a request from the portable terminal. The portable terminal comprises: a terminal-end hardware access layer that receives a hardware access instruction issued by a virtual portable terminal program executed by the software executing server to the hardware access layer in a hardware access command capable of containing a plurality of hardware access instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kosuke Tono