Patents by Inventor Masayuki Hirohama
Masayuki Hirohama 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).
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Publication number: 20220406279Abstract: A method of determining a data output timing, performed by at least one processor in an information processing device for an electronic musical instrument includes, via the at least one processor: obtaining data of a first performance operation on the electronic musical instrument by a user; obtaining data of a second performance operation on the electronic musical instrument by the user; and determining the data output timing for outputting a data to the user based on a time interval between the first and second performance operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki HIROHAMA, Shigeru KAFUKU
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Publication number: 20220310046Abstract: A method performed by one or more processors in an information processing device for an electronic musical instrument includes, via the one or more processors: receiving performance data generated by a user performance of the electronic musical instrument; extracting time-series characteristics of a sequence of notes from the performance data; detecting a performance technique from the extracted characteristics; and generating an image data reflecting the detected performance technique and outputting the generated image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeru KAFUKU, Hiroko OKUDA, Masayuki HIROHAMA
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Patent number: 10694980Abstract: An exercise support device and an exercise support method are provided by which a judgment regarding the landing of the left and right feet of a user can be accurately made with low power consumption, so that the user can appropriately grasp and judge the balance of the use of the body in an exercise. First, based on changes in acceleration in a vertical direction with respect to the ground which has been acquired by a sensor section worn on the body during a running exercise, landing timing at which one of the left and right feet is landed is detected. Then, based on whether a difference between angular velocities around a traveling direction axis immediately after the latest landing timing and the preceding landing timing has a positive or negative value, whether the landed foot is the left foot or the right foot is judged.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Hirohama, Ryohei Yamamoto, Mitsuyasu Nakajima
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Publication number: 20160367853Abstract: An exercise support device and an exercise support method are provided by which a judgment regarding the landing of the left and right feet of a user can be accurately made with low power consumption, so that the user can appropriately grasp and judge the balance of the use of the body in an exercise. First, based on changes in acceleration in a vertical direction with respect to the ground which has been acquired by a sensor section worn on the body during a running exercise, landing timing at which one of the left and right feet is landed is detected. Then, based on whether a difference between angular velocities around a traveling direction axis immediately after the latest landing timing and the preceding landing timing has a positive or negative value, whether the landed foot is the left foot or the right foot is judged.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki HIROHAMA, Ryohei YAMAMOTO, Mitsuyasu NAKAJIMA
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Patent number: 9299180Abstract: An image creation method, includes: first obtaining a subject image including a subject region; second obtaining skeleton information related to a skeleton of a subject in the subject image obtained by the first obtaining; specifying, based on the skeleton information obtained by the second obtaining, color information of a contour portion of the subject region; and creating a back-side-image, based on the color information of the contour portion of the subject region specified by the specifying, by drawing a subject correspondent region of the back-side image showing a back side of the subject in a pseudo manner.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Hirohama, Masaaki Sasaki, Shinichi Matsui, Tetsuji Makino, Mitsuyasu Nakajima
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Patent number: 9098775Abstract: A multi-class identifier identifies a kind of an imager, and identifies in detail with respect to a specified kind of a group. The multi-class identifier includes: an identification fault counter providing the image for test that includes any of class labels to the kind identifiers so that the kind identifiers individually identify the kind of the provided image, and counting, for a combination of arbitrary number of kinds among the plurality of kinds, the number of times of incorrect determination in the arbitrary number of kinds that belongs to the combination; a grouping processor, for a group of the combination for which count result is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, adding a group label corresponding to the group to the image for learning that includes the class label corresponding to any of the arbitrary number of kinds that belongs to the group.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhisa Matsunaga, Masayuki Hirohama, Kouichi Nakagome, Michihiro Nihei
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Patent number: 9076081Abstract: A multi-class discriminating device for judging to which class a feature represented by data falls. The device has a first unit for generating plural first hierarchical discriminating devices for discriminating one from N, and a second unit for combining score values output respectively from the plural first hierarchical discriminating devices to generate a second hierarchical feature vector and for entering the second hierarchical feature vector to generate plural second hierarchical discriminating devices for discriminating one from N. When data is entered, the plural first hierarchical discriminating devices output score values, and these score values are combined together to generate the second hierarchical feature vector. When the second hierarchical feature vector is entered, the second hierarchical discriminating device which outputs the maximum score value is selected.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhisa Matsunaga, Kouichi Nakagome, Michihiro Nihei, Masayuki Hirohama
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Patent number: 9002071Abstract: In the present invention, a database has feature information stored in association with flower sample images flower names, leaf sample images, and images indicating attention points for narrowing down the flower names. An extracting section extracts flower sample images having a high similarity to the image of the imaged flower as candidate images by comparing feature information of the image of the imaged flower and feature information stored in the database. A control section causes the image of the imaged flower, the extracted candidate images, flower names corresponding to the candidate images, and attention points for narrowing down the candidate images to be arranged and displayed on a display section, and changes the candidate images to their respective leaf sample images for display. The control section also changes the candidate images to images indicating their respective attention points and causes them to be displayed on the display section.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouichi Nakagome, Masayuki Hirohama, Kazuhisa Matsunaga, Michihiro Nihei
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Publication number: 20140119646Abstract: A multi-class discriminating device for judging to which class a feature represented by data falls. The device has a first unit for generating plural first hierarchical discriminating devices for discriminating one from N, and a second unit for combining score values output respectively from the plural first hierarchical discriminating devices to generate a second hierarchical feature vector and for entering the second hierarchical feature vector to generate plural second hierarchical discriminating devices for discriminating one from N. When data is entered, the plural first hierarchical discriminating devices output score values, and these score values are combined together to generate the second hierarchical feature vector. When the second hierarchical feature vector is entered, the second hierarchical discriminating device which outputs the maximum score value is selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Inventors: Kazuhisa MATSUNAGA, Kouichi NAKAGOME, Michihiro NIHEI, Masayuki HIROHAMA
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Publication number: 20140029806Abstract: In an object searching apparatus for searching through a database of objects, an image pickup unit repeatedly shoots a subject with the optical axis moved to obtain plural pieces of image data. A distance from the image pickup unit to the subject is calculated based on the plural pieces of image data, and a main object of the subject is clipped from the obtained image data. A calculating unit calculates a real size of the main object of the subject based on a size of the clipped main object on the image data, the calculated distance from the image pickup unit to the subject and a focal length of the image pickup unit. A searching unit accesses the database to search for a sort of the main object of the subject, using the calculated real size of the main object.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Inventors: Michihiro NIHEI, Kazuhisa MATSUNAGA, Masayuki HIROHAMA, Kouichi NAKAGOME
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Publication number: 20130322743Abstract: A multi-class identifier identifies a kind of an imager, and identifies in detail with respect to a specified kind of a group. The multi-class identifier includes: an identification fault counter providing the image for test that includes any of class labels to the kind identifiers so that the kind identifiers individually identify the kind of the provided image, and counting, for a combination of arbitrary number of kinds among the plurality of kinds, the number of times of incorrect determination in the arbitrary number of kinds that belongs to the combination; a grouping processor, for a group of the combination for which count result is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, adding a group label corresponding to the group to the image for learning that includes the class label corresponding to any of the arbitrary number of kinds that belongs to the group.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Kazuhisa MATSUNAGA, Masayuki HIROHAMA, Kouichi NAKAGOME, Michihiro NIHEI
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Publication number: 20130251266Abstract: In the present invention, a database has feature information stored in association with flower sample images flower names, leaf sample images, and images indicating attention points for narrowing down the flower names. An extracting section extracts flower sample images having a high similarity to the image of the imaged flower as candidate images by comparing feature information of the image of the imaged flower and feature information stored in the database. A control section causes the image of the imaged flower, the extracted candidate images, flower names corresponding to the candidate images, and attention points for narrowing down the candidate images to be arranged and displayed on a display section, and changes the candidate images to their respective leaf sample images for display. The control section also changes the candidate images to images indicating their respective attention points and causes them to be displayed on the display section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouichi NAKAGOME, Masayuki HIROHAMA, Kazuhisa MATSUNAGA, Michihiro NIHEI
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Publication number: 20130050241Abstract: An image creation method, includes: first obtaining a subject image including a subject region; second obtaining skeleton information related to a skeleton of a subject in the subject image obtained by the first obtaining; specifying, based on the skeleton information obtained by the second obtaining, color information of a contour portion of the subject region; and creating a back-side-image, based on the color information of the contour portion of the subject region specified by the specifying, by drawing a subject correspondent region of the back-side image showing a back side of the subject in a pseudo manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki HIROHAMA, Masaaki Sasaki, Shinichi Matsui, Tetsuji Makino, Mitsuyasu Nakajima
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Publication number: 20120237186Abstract: A moving image generating method, a moving image generating apparatus and a storage medium for generating a moving image from a still image. According to one application, a moving image generating method uses a moving image generating apparatus which stores in advance a plurality of pieces of movement information showing movements of a plurality of movable points. The method includes, an obtaining step which obtains a still image; a setting step which sets a plurality of movement control points in the still image; a frame image generating step which moves the plurality of control points based on movements of movement information and deforms the still image to generate a plurality of frame images; and a moving image generating step which generates a moving image from a plurality of frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuji MAKINO, Mitsuyasu Nakajima, Masayuki Hirohama, Akira Hamada, Yasushi Maeno, Satoru Kakegawa, Katsunori Ishii, Yoshihiro Teshima, Masatoshi Watanuki, Hyuta Tanaka, Michihiro Nihei, Masaaki Sasaki, Shinichi Matsui