Patents by Inventor Kozo Baba

Kozo Baba 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: 20240177306
    Abstract: A method implemented by a computer for detecting a lesion, the method including: calculating, by using a first lesion detection process configured to detect a specific lesion region from three-dimensional volume data generated based on a plurality of tomographic images obtained by imaging an inside of a human body, a probability of being the specific lesion region for each of unit image areas included in each of the plurality of tomographic images; and executing, based on one tomographic image of the plurality of tomographic images and the probability calculated for each of the unit image areas included in the one tomographic image, a second lesion detection process configured to detect the specific lesion region from the one tomographic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroaki TAKEBE, Nobuhiro MIYAZAKI, Kozo BABA, Takayuki BABA
  • Publication number: 20240070859
    Abstract: A lesion detection method for a computer to execute a process includes detecting a first lesion region that indicates a certain lesion from each of a plurality of tomographic images obtained by imaging an inside of a human body, by using a first machine learning model that detects a lesion region from an input image that has image data of a two-dimensional space; detecting a second lesion region that indicates the certain lesion from three-dimensional volume data generated based on the plurality of tomographic images, by using a second machine learning model that detects a lesion region from input volume data that has image data of a three-dimensional space; and detecting a third lesion region that indicates the certain lesion from each of the plurality of tomographic images, based on an overlapping state between the first lesion region and the second lesion region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kozo BABA, Hiroaki TAKEBE, Nobuhiro MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220309691
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a counting program for causing a computer to execute a process including: obtaining a captured image that includes a plurality of objects; identifying a shape of an object included in a specific region of the captured image; and counting a number of the plurality of objects included in the captured image based on the identified shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinji Shigeno, Kozo Baba
  • Publication number: 20220207267
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a detection program for causing a computer to execute processing including, detecting a person included in a plurality of first captured images captured by a camera, determining a threshold value on the basis of a size in a height direction in the plurality of first captured images of the detected person, and detecting a target from the first captured image captured by the camera on the basis of the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinji Shigeno, Kozo Baba
  • Patent number: 10616570
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit and a determining unit. For example, the acquiring unit acquires an imaging image captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle and registers the acquired imaging image in drive recorder information. When a vanishing point is detected from the imaging image, the determining unit determines that the imaging direction of the imaging device is normal such that the front of the vehicle is normally imaged. When the vanishing point is not detected from the acquired the imaging image, the determining unit determines that the imaging direction of the imaging device is abnormal such that the front of the vehicle is not normally imaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Norio Hashiguchi
  • Patent number: 10230946
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an acquisition unit, an extraction unit, and a detection unit. The acquisition unit acquires image data for each of frame numbers from a drive recorder or the like. The extraction unit extracts a plurality of straight lines from the image data on the basis of drive recorder information. The detection unit detects a tilt of an image capturing direction of a camera according to a magnitude of an angle between a vertical axis direction of the image data and the extracted plurality of lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Norio Hashiguchi
  • Patent number: 10185886
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of images that are continuously captured, detecting a first region indicating a feature value corresponding to a license plate, in a region that indicates a feature value corresponding to a vehicle and that is included in a first image among the plurality of images, based on a feature value of each of the plurality of images, determining a second region in the plurality of images, the second region indicating a feature value corresponding to a license plate, at least a part of the second region overlapping the first region in an image different from the first image, and outputting the second region as a license plate region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kozo Baba
  • Patent number: 10027953
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit and a determining unit. For example, the acquiring unit acquires an imaging image captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle and registers the acquired imaging image in drive recorder information. When a vanishing point is detected from the imaging image, the determining unit determines that the imaging direction of the imaging device is normal such that the front of the vehicle is normally imaged. When the vanishing point is not detected from the acquired the imaging image, the determining unit determines that the imaging direction of the imaging device is abnormal such that the front of the vehicle is not normally imaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Norio Hashiguchi
  • Patent number: 10026178
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit, and determining unit. The acquiring unit acquires captured images from an imaging device mounted on a vehicle. The determining unit determines the normality of the imaging direction of the imaging device in accordance with whether an appearance pattern of a combination of a portion in which a variation is detected and a portion in which a variation is not detected among the acquired captured images corresponds to a predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Norio Hashiguchi
  • Patent number: 9928429
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a calculating unit and a detecting unit. The calculating unit calculates an additional value of a luminance values for each coordinate value in a first direction. The calculating unit calculates an additional value of the luminance values for each coordinate value in a second direction. The detecting unit detects a region of the image in which additional values of the luminance values for each coordinate value in the first direction are equal or a region in which additional values of the luminance values for each coordinate value in the second direction are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Norio Hashiguchi, Syoji Kita, Kunikazu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170337445
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of images that are continuously captured, detecting a first region indicating a feature value corresponding to a license plate, in a region that indicates a feature value corresponding to a vehicle and that is included in a first image among the plurality of images, based on a feature value of each of the plurality of images, determining a second region in the plurality of images, the second region indicating a feature value corresponding to a license plate, at least a part of the second region overlapping the first region in an image different from the first image, and outputting the second region as a license plate region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kozo Baba
  • Publication number: 20170230652
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit and a determining unit. For example, the acquiring unit acquires an imaging image captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle and registers the acquired imaging image in drive recorder information. When a vanishing point is detected from the imaging image, the determining unit determines that the imaging direction of the imaging device is normal such that the front of the vehicle is normally imaged. When the vanishing point is not detected from the acquired the imaging image, the determining unit determines that the imaging direction of the imaging device is abnormal such that the front of the vehicle is not normally imaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Norio HASHIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9639763
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus 10 according to an embodiment includes a detection unit 11 and an identification unit 12. The detection unit 11 included in the image processing apparatus 10 detects a region in which a pixel value is changed between frames included in moving image data. The detection unit 11 outputs a detected result to the identification unit 12. The identification unit 12 sets a circumscribed rectangle to the region detected by the detection unit 11. The identification unit 12 specifies a frame including a detection target based on a filling ratio of the region to the circumscribed rectangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Norio Hashiguchi, Kunikazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9454704
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute a process including creating an average image of difference images in moving picture data based on a difference between a first frame and a second frame adjacent to the first frame, the first frame and the second frame included in the moving picture data, calculating a sum total of luminance values arranged in a lateral direction of the average image for each point in a longitudinal direction of the average image, selecting a predetermined number of points that are higher in value of a secondary differential value of the sum total of luminance values, from among points located in a downward direction from a position of a vanishing point in the average image, and firstly specifying a point that is on a boundary between a hood and a road from among the predetermined number of selected points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Kunikazu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20160086031
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor that executes a process. The process includes converting an input image into multiple types of images based on values of pixels in the input image, and selecting at least one image from the multiple types of images based on luminance information of the multiple types of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinji Shigeno, Teruo Shimomura, Kozo Baba
  • Publication number: 20150302588
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit, and determining unit. The acquiring unit acquires captured images from an imaging device mounted on a vehicle. The determining unit determines the normality of the imaging direction of the imaging device in accordance with whether an appearance pattern of a combination of a portion in which a variation is detected and a portion in which a variation is not detected among the acquired captured images corresponds to a predetermined pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Norio HASHIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150304651
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an acquisition unit, an extraction unit, and a detection unit. The acquisition unit acquires image data for each of frame numbers from a drive recorder or the like. The extraction unit extracts a plurality of straight lines from the image data on the basis of drive recorder information. The detection unit detects a tilt of an image capturing direction of a camera according to a magnitude of an angle between a vertical axis direction of the image data and the extracted plurality of lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Norio HASHIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150304650
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit and a determining unit. For example, the acquiring unit acquires an imaging image captured by a camera mounted on a vehicle and registers the acquired imaging image in drive recorder information. When a vanishing point is detected from the imaging image, the determining unit determines that the imaging direction of the imaging device is normal such that the front of the vehicle is normally imaged. When the vanishing point is not detected from the acquired the imaging image, the determining unit determines that the imaging direction of the imaging device is abnormal such that the front of the vehicle is not normally imaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Norio HASHIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150220794
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a calculating unit and a detecting unit. The calculating unit calculates an additional value of a luminance values for each coordinate value in a first direction. The calculating unit calculates an additional value of the luminance values for each coordinate value in a second direction. The detecting unit detects a region of the image in which additional values of the luminance values for each coordinate value in the first direction are equal or a region in which additional values of the luminance values for each coordinate value in the second direction are equal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Norio HASHIGUCHI, Syoji Kita, Kunikazu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150178577
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment has an identification unit, a detection unit, and a determination unit. The image processing apparatus according to the embodiment identifies moving image data taken by a camera in the night-time and detects a high-brightness region from frames of the identified moving image data. The image processing apparatus determines whether or not the high-brightness region is a subject to be detected, in a switchable manner depending on whether the moving image data has been taken during curve running or straight running.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Kozo Baba, Norio HASHIGUCHI, Kunikazu Takahashi