Patents by Inventor Kouichi Nakagome

Kouichi Nakagome 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: 10382704
    Abstract: An image processing device having a CPU which functions as units including an image acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of images indicative of a sequence of actions of a subject; a selecting unit that selects, in accordance with an operation by a user, one of a partial action from among a plurality of kinds of partial actions included in the sequence of actions of the subject; an image selecting unit that selects a plurality of images corresponding to the specific kind of partial action selected by the selecting unit from among the plurality of images acquired by the image acquiring unit; and an image composition unit that generates a composite image wherein the composite image includes the plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawamura, Kouichi Nakagome
  • Patent number: 10255487
    Abstract: A speech determiner determines whether or not a target individual is speaking when facial images of the target individual are captured. An emotion estimator estimates the emotion of the target individual using the facial images of the target individual, on the basis of the determination results of the speech determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaya, Kouichi Nakagome, Katsuhiko Satoh
  • Publication number: 20180374494
    Abstract: A voice input unit has predetermined directivity for acquiring a voice. A sound source arrival direction estimation unit operating as a first direction detection unit detects a first direction, which is an arrival direction of a signal voice of a predetermined target, from the acquired voice. Moreover, a sound source arrival direction estimation unit operating as a second direction detection unit detects a second direction, which is an arrival direction of a noise voice, from the acquired voice. A sound source separation unit, a sound volume calculation unit, and a detection unit having an S/N ratio calculation unit detect a sound source separation direction or a sound source separation position, based on the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi YAMAYA, Kouichi NAKAGOME
  • Publication number: 20180370039
    Abstract: A more endearing robot includes an operation unit that causes the robot to operate, a viewing direction determiner that determines whether a viewing direction of a predetermined target is toward the robot or not, and an operation controller that controls the operation unit based on a result of determination by the viewing direction determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi NAKAGOME, Takashi YAMAYA, Keisuke SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20180365483
    Abstract: A determination result is easily obtained even in expression determination on a face image that is not a front view. A Robot includes a camera, a face detector, a face angle estimator, and an expression determiner. The camera acquires image data. The face detector detects a face of a person from the image data acquired by the camera. The face angle estimator estimates an angle of the face detected by the face detector. The expression determiner determines an expression of the face based on the angle estimated by the face angle estimator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi NAKAGOME, Keisuke SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20180288609
    Abstract: A mobile apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a voice input unit configured to detect a signal from a user. In a case where the voice input unit detects a signal from the user and as a detection result of the signal from the user, it is determined that there is a signal from the user, the mobile apparatus performs sound source localization and specifies a location or direction in which the detected signal from the user is given. In a case where it is determined that the mobile apparatus is not able to move to the location where the signal from the user is given, a voice output unit configured to output a voice signal, a driving unit configured to move the mobile apparatus, and a light emitting unit configured to emit light performs predetermined control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaya, Kouichi Nakagome, Keisuke Shimada
  • Publication number: 20180286432
    Abstract: A robot determines whether a voice is a voice emanated directly from an actual person or is a voice output from a speaker of an electronic device. A controller of a robot detects a voice by means of microphones, determines whether or not a voice generating source of the detected voice is a specific voice generating source, and controls, based on a result of the determination, the robot by means of a neck joint and a chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke SHIMADA, Kouichi NAKAGOME, Takashi YAMAYA
  • Publication number: 20180285672
    Abstract: The present invention is to reduce the time required to detect an object after completion of the rotation of a head or a body of a robot. A robot 100 includes a camera 111, and a control unit 127 which determines an overlapping area between a first image captured with the camera 111 at first timing and a second image captured with the camera 111 at second timing later than the first timing to detect an object included in an area of the second image other than the determined overlapping area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi YAMAYA, Kouichi NAKAGOME, Keisuke SHIMADA
  • Publication number: 20180277111
    Abstract: A feature extractor extracts feature quantities from a digitized speech signal and outputs the feature quantities to a likelihood calculator. A distance determiner determines the distance between a user providing speech and a speech input unit. The likelihood calculator selects registered expressions for speech recognition from a recognition target table based on the determined distance, to be used in calculation of likelihoods at the likelihood calculator. The likelihood calculator calculates likelihoods for the selected registered expressions based on the feature quantities extracted by the feature extractor, and outputs one of the registered expressions having the maximum likelihood as a result of speech recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi NAKAGOME, Takashi YAMAYA, Keisuke SHIMADA
  • Patent number: 9961321
    Abstract: A video is generated from multi-aspect images. For each frame of the output video, a provisional video is created with provisional images which are used to designate a position of a target object on which to focus and to acquire a depth map showing a depth of the object, and which are reconstructed using default values from LFIs as the frames. Then, information designating coordinates of focal positions of the target object on the provisional video is acquired. A list creator acquires the depth value of the target object using a depth map created from the LFI of the current frame, and records this in a designation list after obtaining the reconstruction distance from the depth value. A corrector corrects the designation list. A main video creator creates and outputs a main video with reconstructed images focused at a focal length designated by the post-correction designation list as frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kouichi Nakagome
  • Patent number: 9943154
    Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes a drawing unit that forms a nail design on a nail of an object by performing a plurality of processes and a processor that extracts a feature value of the object and controls the drawing unit. The processor acquires information on a performed process with respect to the nail of one object, whose nail is provided to be formed with the nail design, based on process management information in which the feature value with respect to each of a plurality of the objects and an information on the performed process with respect to the nail of each of the plurality of the objects are registered in association with each other and the feature value with respect to the one object, and determines a specific process to be performed to the nail of the one object, and causes the drawing unit to perform the specific process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Teshima, Kouichi Nakagome
  • Patent number: 9946346
    Abstract: A notification control apparatus is provided with a moving image acquisition unit 41 that acquires a moving image, an identification unit 44 that identifies a frame according to forwarding operation, out of a plurality of frames constituting the moving image, a determination unit 46 that determines whether or not the identified frame is a predetermined frame, and a notification control unit 49 that notifies determination result by the determination unit 46.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawamura, Kouichi Nakagome, Tomohiko Murakami
  • Patent number: 9830069
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus of the present application includes a drawing unit that draws a line on an image in a drawing area displayed in a fixed mode, which displays an image by fixing a position of the image; a judgment unit that judges whether a position of the line during drawing by the drawing unit is positioned on a boundary indicating the drawing area; a mode switching unit that switches from the fixed mode to a predetermined mode other than the fixed mode in a case in which the position during drawing is judged as being positioned on the boundary indicating the drawing area by the judgment unit; and a display control unit that executes control to display the image based on the mode switched by the mode switching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Makino, Kouichi Nakagome
  • Publication number: 20170215549
    Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes a drawing unit that forms a nail design on a nail of an object by performing a plurality of processes and a processor that extracts a feature value of the object and controls the drawing unit. The processor acquires information on a performed process with respect to the nail of one object, whose nail is provided to be formed with the nail design, based on process management information in which the feature value with respect to each of a plurality of the objects and an information on the performed process with respect to the nail of each of the plurality of the objects are registered in association with each other and the feature value with respect to the one object, and determines a specific process to be performed to the nail of the one object, and causes the drawing unit to perform the specific process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro TESHIMA, Kouichi NAKAGOME
  • Publication number: 20170185827
    Abstract: A speech determiner determines whether or not a target individual is speaking when facial images of the target individual are captured. An emotion estimator estimates the emotion of the target individual using the facial images of the target individual, on the basis of the determination results of the speech determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi YAMAYA, Kouichi NAKAGOME, Katsuhiko SATOH
  • Patent number: 9679383
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus 1 is equipped with: a CPU 11 that acquires a plurality of images; a normalization unit 54 that performs normalization such that an area of at least one of a plurality of acquired images satisfies a predetermined criterion; and a display control unit 56 that performs control such that a plurality of images including the images normalized by the normalization unit 54 are displayed in an output unit 19.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Nakagome, Yoshihiro Kawamura, Tomohiko Murakami, Yuichi Onumata
  • Patent number: 9600735
    Abstract: An image processing device is provided with an acquiring unit configured to acquire a face image and, a control unit configured to specify a face direction in the face image acquired by the acquiring unit and add, based on the specified face direction, a picture expressing a contour of a face component to the face image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichi Nakagome, Shigeru Kafuku
  • Publication number: 20170048466
    Abstract: An image processing device having a CPU which functions as units including an image acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of images indicative of a sequence of actions of a subject; a selecting unit that selects, in accordance with an operation by a user, one of a partial action from among a plurality of kinds of partial actions included in the sequence of actions of the subject; an image selecting unit that selects a plurality of images corresponding to the specific kind of partial action selected by the selecting unit from among the plurality of images acquired by the image acquiring unit; and an image composition unit that generates a composite image wherein the composite image includes the plurality of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro KAWAMURA, Kouichi NAKAGOME
  • Patent number: 9386297
    Abstract: A reconstructed image which further reflects the photo shooting information of a main object is generated. A layer determiner defines a layer of a reconstructed image. A layer image generator reconstructs an image of an object included in the allocated depth range from a light field image and the depth map of the light field image for each layer. A conversion pixel extractor extracts corresponding pixels on a conversion layer which corresponds to an object to be modified. The object to be modified is designated by an operation acquired by a modification operation acquirer. A reconstructed image generator converts layer images using a conversion matrix defined by a conversion matrix determiner and generates an image whose composition has been modified by superimposing the layer images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nagasaka, Kouichi Nakagome
  • Publication number: 20150269423
    Abstract: An image processing device is provided with an acquiring unit configured to acquire a face image and, a control unit configured to specify a face direction in the face image acquired by the acquiring unit and add, based on the specified face direction, a picture expressing a contour of a face component to the face image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Kouichi Nakagome, Shigeru Kafuku