Patents by Inventor Naohiro Shibuya

Naohiro Shibuya 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: 11200683
    Abstract: An image processing device (100) includes an object detecting unit (103a) that detects objects each appearing in a corresponding one of pieces of image data; an object tracking unit (103b) that tracks the detected objects in a time direction; a descriptor generating unit (104) that generates feature descriptors of the respective objects on the basis of results of the detection and results of the tracking of the objects; a data recording control unit (105) that forms a database from the generated feature descriptors and the pieces of image data of the objects corresponding to the feature descriptors; an image retrieving unit (108a) that retrieves, from the database, object groups that match a retrieval condition and form a pair of object groups appearing in pieces of image data obtained by capturing different regions, each of the object groups corresponding to a corresponding one of the regions; a feature extracting unit (108b) that extracts a feature to be used for checking, from pieces of image data and feat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimi Moriya, Naohiro Shibuya, Kazuo Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11074698
    Abstract: A congestion degree estimating unit (12) which estimates, for each image frame, a congestion degree of an area in which each object detected by an object detecting unit (11) is present is provided. An object selecting unit (13) refers to an estimation result of the congestion degree by the congestion degree estimating unit (12) for each image frame, and selects an object present in an area the congestion degree of which is equal to or lower than a first threshold out of one or more objects detected by the object detecting unit (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohiro Shibuya, Yoshimi Moriya, Kazuo Sugimoto, Akira Minezawa, Mengxiong Wang
  • Patent number: 10943141
    Abstract: An image feature map generating unit (3) generates, on the basis of feature amounts extracted from a plurality of images successively captured by a camera (109), an image feature map which is an estimated distribution of the object likelihood on each of the images. An object detecting unit (4) detects an object on the basis of the image feature map generated by the image feature map generating unit (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Sawada, Hidetoshi Mishima, Hideaki Maehara, Yoshimi Moriya, Kazuyuki Miyazawa, Akira Minezawa, Momoyo Hino, Mengxiong Wang, Naohiro Shibuya
  • Publication number: 20200242782
    Abstract: An image processing device (100) includes an object detecting unit (103a) that detects objects each appearing in a corresponding one of pieces of image data; an object tracking unit (103b) that tracks the detected objects in a time direction; a descriptor generating unit (104) that generates feature descriptors of the respective objects on the basis of results of the detection and results of the tracking of the objects; a data recording control unit (105) that forms a database from the generated feature descriptors and the pieces of image data of the objects corresponding to the feature descriptors; an image retrieving unit (108a) that retrieves, from the database, object groups that match a retrieval condition and form a pair of object groups appearing in pieces of image data obtained by capturing different regions, each of the object groups corresponding to a corresponding one of the regions; a feature extracting unit (108b) that extracts a feature to be used for checking, from pieces of image data and feat
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimi MORIYA, Naohiro SHIBUYA, Kazuo SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200013172
    Abstract: A congestion degree estimating unit (12) which estimates, for each image frame, a congestion degree of an area in which each object detected by an object detecting unit (11) is present is provided. An object selecting unit (13) refers to an estimation result of the congestion degree by the congestion degree estimating unit (12) for each image frame, and selects an object present in an area the congestion degree of which is equal to or lower than a first threshold out of one or more objects detected by the object detecting unit (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro SHIBUYA, Yoshimi MORIYA, Kazuo SUGIMOTO, Akira MINEZAWA, Mengxiong WANG
  • Publication number: 20190193659
    Abstract: An information processing unit (32) collects accident information from a vehicle-mounted device (2) existing in a periphery of a site of an accident indicated by accident information stored in a storage unit (31), by controlling a communication unit (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki MIYAZAWA, Shunichi SEKIGUCHI, Hideaki MAEHARA, Yoshimi MORIYA, Akira MINEZAWA, Ryoji HATTORI, Momoyo HINO, Tomoya SAWADA, Naohiro SHIBUYA
  • Publication number: 20190197345
    Abstract: An image feature map generating unit (3) generates, on the basis of feature amounts extracted from a plurality of images successively captured by a camera (109), an image feature map which is an estimated distribution of the object likelihood on each of the images. An object detecting unit (4) detects an object on the basis of the image feature map generated by the image feature map generating unit (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya SAWADA, Hidetoshi MISHIMA, Hideaki MAEHARA, Yoshimi MORIYA, Kazuyuki MIYAZAWA, Akira MINEZAWA, Momoyo HINO, Mengxiong WANG, Naohiro SHIBUYA
  • Patent number: D573876
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Wright Medical Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Naohiro Shibuya