Patents by Inventor Masahiro Matsushita

Masahiro Matsushita 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: 10217010
    Abstract: The present invention suppresses feature amounts of faces to be registered in a collation database, thereby preventing the collation database from being bloated. An information processing apparatus of the present invention includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a video, a detection unit configured to detect at least one face of the same person from a plurality of frames of the acquired video, a classification unit configured to classify the detected faces into a plurality of predetermined groups, a selection unit configured to select, from the faces classified into the groups, not more than a first predetermined number of faces for each group, wherein the first predetermined number is an integer of not less than 2, and a registration unit configured to register feature amounts of the selected faces in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 10147018
    Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. An evaluation is set for each of the pairs. The evaluation is set based on at least one of the number of feature points in the first image where local feature amounts are similar to a local feature amount at one of the pair or the number of feature points in the second image where local feature amounts are similar to a local feature amount at one of the pair, in such a manner that the smaller the number of feature points, the higher the evaluation. A similarity between the first image and the second image is determined using a RANSAC method. A pair having a high evaluation is used with priority in derivation of a function for transforming coordinates using the RANSAC method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita, Hideki Sorakado
  • Publication number: 20180341803
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes first and second acquisition units and first and second search units. The first acquisition unit acquires a first feature amount from a search source image including a search object. The first search unit searches for the search object from a plurality of video images based on the first feature amount acquired by the first acquisition unit. The second acquisition unit acquires a second feature amount from the search object searched by the first search unit. The second feature amount is different from the first feature amount. The second search unit searches, based on the second feature amount acquired by the second acquisition unit, the search object from a video image, among the plurality of video images, in which the search object is not searched by at least the first search unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
  • Publication number: 20180287467
    Abstract: In a grounding structure for a driving unit of a motor-driven vehicle, the grounding structure includes an coupling portion provided to an machine casing and being coupled to a mechanism casing; a coupling portion provided to the mechanism casing and being coupled to the coupling portion of the machine casing; a circumference wall that forms a space by arranging the coupling portion of the machine casing and the coupling portion of the mechanism casing so as to face each other between machine casing and the mechanism casing; a casing hole through which the space communicates with an inside of the mechanism casing; a pressure release hole that releases a pressure of the space by causing the space to communicate with an outside of the mechanism casing; and a grounding object that is disposed in the space and that grounds the rotating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA ENGINEERING KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daizo OGINO, Masahiro MATSUSHITA
  • Patent number: 10055822
    Abstract: A tint of an object according to a second image capturing device is corrected by a first parameter for correcting a tint of a second object that the second image capturing device captured in a first time zone to a tint of a first object that a first image capturing device captured in a first time zone. If a third object captured by a third image capturing device corresponds to the first object, a parameter for correcting a tint of the third object to the tint of the first object is used for correcting a tint of an object according to a third image capturing device. If the third object corresponds to the second object, the first parameter and a third parameter for correcting the tint of the third object to the tint of the second object is used for the foregoing tint correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama, Hideki Sorakado
  • Patent number: 9916521
    Abstract: A feature point is extracted from an input image including an image region for which depth values of pixels change consecutively. A transformation that normalizes depth values of pixels of a vicinity of the feature point with respect to a region of at least a portion of the input image is set as a normalization transformation, and an image for a feature amount calculation is generated by performing the normalization transformation on a pixel position of the feature point. A feature amount is calculated from the image for the feature amount calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama, Hideki Sorakado
  • Patent number: 9849736
    Abstract: A tire position determination system is provided with: a plurality of tire air pressure transmitters each capable of transmitting a first radio signal including air pressure data and a tire ID; a plurality of axle rotation detection units each generating axle rotation information; and a receiver mounted to a vehicle body and capable of receiving the first radio signal. Each of the plurality of tire air pressure transmitters includes a specific position detection unit capable of detecting the arrival of the tire air pressure transmitter at a specific position on a trajectory of rotation of the tire, and a transmission control unit that, based on a result of detection, generates a second radio signal including data indicating the arrival of the tire air pressure transmitter at the specific position on the trajectory of rotation of the tire and the ID. The receiver includes a position determination unit that determines a tire position of the plurality of tires based on the second radio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Naoki Watanabe, Yuta Tsuchikawa, Katsuhide Kumagai, Masahiro Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20170300569
    Abstract: A first retriever performs, based on a person feature of a person extracted from a video image before an acceptance time point of a retrieval instruction of a target person and stored and a feature extracted from the target person related to the retrieval instruction, a first retrieving process of retrieving the target person from the video image stored, a second retriever performs, based on a feature of a person extracted from a video image after the acceptance time point and the feature of the target person extracted from a query image of the retrieval instruction, a second retrieving process of retrieving the target person from the video image input after the acceptance time point, and the first retriever performs the first retrieving process to the video image input during a period from the acceptance time point to preparation completion of the second retrieving process and second retrieving process start.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20170220895
    Abstract: When searching for a registered image similar to a query image, an image processing apparatus estimates an area having a difference by comparing images determined to be similar if a plurality of similar images is found at the time of search of a similar image using an image feature amount in order to enhance search accuracy. Then, the image processing apparatus compares the query image with the plurality of images similar to the query image based on the difference area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
  • Patent number: 9663066
    Abstract: A registration device includes a processor that writes an ID code to an invalid ID code storage region in accordance with management data, updates the management data after the ID code is safely written, and validates the invalid ID code storage region storing the ID code. After the ID code is written, when an ID code is stored in every one of the ID code storage regions, the processor updates the management data to invalidate the ID code storage region excluding the invalid ID code storage region storing the ID code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Shinichi Koga, Tomohiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20170132493
    Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. An evaluation is set for each of the pairs. The evaluation is set based on at least one of the number of feature points in the first image where local feature amounts are similar to a local feature amount at one of the pair or the number of feature points in the second image where local feature amounts are similar to a local feature amount at one of the pair, in such a manner that the smaller the number of feature points, the higher the evaluation. A similarity between the first image and the second image is determined using a RANSAC method. A pair having a high evaluation is used with priority in derivation of a function for transforming coordinates using the RANSAC method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita, Hideki Sorakado
  • Publication number: 20170116714
    Abstract: A tint of an object according to a second image capturing device is corrected by a first parameter for correcting a tint of a second object that the second image capturing device captured in a first time zone to a tint of a first object that a first image capturing device captured in a first time zone. If a third object captured by a third image capturing device corresponds to the first object, a parameter for correcting a tint of the third object to the tint of the first object is used for correcting a tint of an object according to a third image capturing device. If the third object corresponds to the second object, the first parameter and a third parameter for correcting the tint of the third object to the tint of the second object is used for the foregoing tint correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro MATSUSHITA, Hirotaka SHIIYAMA, Hideki SORAKADO
  • Publication number: 20170091308
    Abstract: One or more embodiments relate to an object indexing method, object indexing device and object indexing system. An object indexing method may include an initializing step of dividing at least one first data container and at least one second data container, and initializing respectively the first and the second data containers by using a first data indexer and a second data indexer; a first indexing step of adding the input feature vector of a specific object into a first data container currently being filled by using the first data indexer; and a second indexing step, when the data size in the first data container being filled has reached a threshold, selecting another first data container as the first data container currently being filled, and in the case of executing the first indexing step, converting bulk data in the first data container previously being filled into one available second data container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Cheng Tan, Yaohai Huang, Rongjun Li, Sen Na, Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20170075993
    Abstract: This invention prevents a collation database from becoming bulky and shortening the delay time needed from person detection to registration in the collation database. An information processing apparatus comprises an acquiring unit which acquires a video, a detecting unit which detects a whole body or a part of a person from at least one frame of the acquired video, a tracking unit which tracks the whole body or the part of the person detected, and a registering unit which registers, in a database, a feature amount extracted from the whole body or the part of the person tracked during a first period from a timing of a start of tracking of the whole body or the part of the person by the tracking unit to a timing before an end of the tracking by the tracking unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Hirotaka Shiiyama
  • Patent number: 9594981
    Abstract: This invention suppresses bloating of indices for an image search. To accomplish this, when a target image to be registered is given, an apparatus described in this specification executes partial image search processing using the target image to be registered as a query image. As a result, if a corresponding image is found, and an already registered image includes the query image, the target image to be registered is registered as an image linked to the already registered image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Sorakado, Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 9582518
    Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. An evaluation is set for each of the pairs. The evaluation is set based on at least one of the number of feature points in the first image where local feature amounts are similar to a local feature amount at one of the pair or the number of feature points in the second image where local feature amounts are similar to a local feature amount at one of the pair, in such a manner that the smaller the number of feature points, the higher the evaluation. A similarity between the first image and the second image is determined using a RANSAC method. A pair having a high evaluation is used with priority in derivation of a function for transforming coordinates using the RANSAC method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita, Hideki Sorakado
  • Publication number: 20170039419
    Abstract: The present invention suppresses feature amounts of faces to be registered in a collation database, thereby preventing the collation database from being bloated. An information processing apparatus of the present invention includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a video, a detection unit configured to detect at least one face of the same person from a plurality of frames of the acquired video, a classification unit configured to classify the detected faces into a plurality of predetermined groups, a selection unit configured to select, from the faces classified into the groups, not more than a first predetermined number of faces for each group, wherein the first predetermined number is an integer of not less than 2, and a registration unit configured to register feature amounts of the selected faces in a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Hirotaka SHIIYAMA, Masahiro MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20160364883
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect at least one identical object or at least one object of an identical type from images captured by a plurality of imaging apparatuses, a selection unit configured to select at least one object from among at least one detected object based on color information of each object, and a determination unit configured to determine color correction information related to a plurality of the imaging apparatuses based on color information of at least one selected object. The image processing apparatus enables restricting the degradation of the color matching accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiiyama, Masahiro Matsushita, Hideki Sorakado
  • Publication number: 20160297263
    Abstract: A tire position determination system is provided with: a plurality of tire air pressure transmitters respectively attached to a plurality of tires and each capable of transmitting a first radio wave signal including air pressure data and a tire ID; a plurality of axle rotation detection units that are respectively installed in association with a plurality of axles and that generate axle rotation information by detecting rotation of a corresponding one of the plurality of axles; and a receiver mounted to a vehicle body and capable of receiving the first radio wave signal from each of the plurality of tire air pressure transmitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Naoki WATANABE, Yuta TSUCHIKAWA, Katsuhide KUMAGAI, Masahiro MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20160288595
    Abstract: A tire position determination system is provided with: a plurality of tire air pressure transmitters each capable of transmitting a first radio signal including air pressure data and a tire ID; a plurality of axle rotation detection units each generating axle rotation information; and a receiver mounted to a vehicle body and capable of receiving the first radio signal. Each of the plurality of tire air pressure transmitters includes a specific position detection unit capable of detecting the arrival of the tire air pressure transmitter at a specific position on a trajectory of rotation of the tire, and a transmission control unit that, based on a result of detection, generates a second radio signal including data indicating the arrival of the tire air pressure transmitter at the specific position on the trajectory of rotation of the tire and the ID. The receiver includes a position determination unit that determines a tire position of the plurality of tires based on the second radio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Naoki WATANABE, Yuta TSUCHIKAWA, Katsuhide KUMAGAI, Masahiro MATSUSHITA