Patents by Inventor Norimichi Tsumura

Norimichi Tsumura 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: 12078543
    Abstract: When relation between a color of a color chip (a patch) in a color chart and a color of a color chip in an image-captured color chart is calculated, the color chip of the image-captured color chart was manually extracted by operating a keyboard or a mouse. Such an operation had a problem that an extraction error may occur, and that it takes time to manually extract all color chips in the color chart. The present invention solved the problem by a color chart in which recognition can be easily and automatically executed. The color chart includes a plurality of patches, and an automatic recognition marker configured to automatically recognize at least one of the plurality of patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Takahashi, Yasuhiro Morihara, Norimichi Tsumura, Ryo Takahashi, Keiko Ogawa, Isseki Kin
  • Patent number: 12022048
    Abstract: A display unit color-correction method includes: a first step of displaying a prescribed image on a display unit of a portable communication terminal that includes an imaging unit and the display unit; a second step of acquiring imaging data by imaging a color chart, which is a printed matter, and the display unit with the prescribed image displayed thereon together or individually by the imaging unit; and a third step of correcting a color of the display unit by using color information on the prescribed image in the imaging data and color information on a color in the color chart in the imaging data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Takahashi, Norimichi Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20230403365
    Abstract: A display unit color-correction method includes: a first step of displaying a prescribed image on a display unit of a portable communication terminal that includes an imaging unit and the display unit; a second step of acquiring imaging data by imaging a color chart, which is a printed matter, and the display unit with the prescribed image displayed thereon together or individually by the imaging unit; and a third step of correcting a color of the display unit by using color information on the prescribed image in the imaging data and color information on a color in the color chart in the imaging data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Takahashi, Norimichi Tsumura
  • Publication number: 20230258501
    Abstract: When relation between a color of a color chip (a patch) in a color chart and a color of a color chip in an image-captured color chart is calculated, the color chip of the image-captured color chart was manually extracted by operating a keyboard or a mouse. Such an operation had a problem that an extraction error may occur, and that it takes time to manually extract all color chips in the color chart. The present invention solved the problem by a color chart in which recognition can be easily and automatically executed. The color chart includes a plurality of patches, and an automatic recognition marker configured to automatically recognize at least one of the plurality of patches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Takahashi, Yasuhiro Morihara, Norimichi Tsumura, Ryo Takahashi, Keiko Ogawa, Isseki Kin
  • Publication number: 20230245488
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to acquire biometric information on small animals without being affected by the movements of the small animals and also without giving stress to the small animals. The present invention comprises the steps of: acquiring pieces of image information on a hand and/or a foot of a quadrupedal small animal; extracting a predetermined piece of signal information from among the pieces of image information that have been acquired; and processing the predetermined piece of the signal information which has been extracted so as to acquire biometric information on the small animal. The present invention further comprises the step of capturing an image of an abdominal side of the small animal, and the step of capturing an image of the small animal from below a location of the small animal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Masato TAKAHASHI, Norimichi TSUMURA, Norio IIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230239419
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an image display system and the like useful for a remote diagnosis and treatment using color information such as a skin color and a tongue color of a patient. There is provided an image display system including: a color chart including a plurality of patches that include at least three patches selected from a group consisting of first to seventh patches having specific colors; an imaging device configured to simultaneously image the color chart and a person to be imaged and acquire image data; and a display device configured to receive the image data and display the image data as an image on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Takahashi, Yasuhiro Morihara, Norimichi Tsumura, Ryo Takahashi, Keiko Ogawa, Isseki Kin
  • Patent number: 11642834
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a colored product, where using inkjet heads which are a plurality of color ink heads, and an inkjet head, which is a colorless ink head, a plurality of coloring regions are formed in an overlapping manner in a normal direction, a surface side colored region, which is a region located closest to the surface of the colored product is formed using at least the color ink ejected from any of the inkjet heads, and an inner colored region, which is a region located farther from the surface of the colored product than the surface side colored region is formed using at least the color ink ejected from any of the inkjet heads and the colorless ink ejected from the inkjet head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wataru Arai, Kunio Hakkaku, Norimichi Tsumura, Keita Hirai, Junki Yoshii
  • Patent number: 11573538
    Abstract: A layer configuration prediction method is provided and includes: a specimen production step of producing multiple specimens by depositing layers of a material in configurations different from each other; a specimen measurement step of performing, on each specimen, measurement to acquire a texture parameter corresponding to a texture; a learning step of causing a computer to perform machine learning of a relation between each of the specimens and the texture parameter; a setting parameter calculation step of calculating a setting parameter corresponding to the texture set to a computer graphics image; and a layer configuration acquisition step of providing the setting parameter as an input to the computer having been caused to perform the machine learning, and acquiring an output representing the layering pattern of layers of the material corresponding to the setting parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Norimichi Tsumura, Junki Yoshii, Keita Hirai, Wataru Arai
  • Patent number: 11304611
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to: acquire video data; estimate a spatial distribution of a predetermined biological component for which a component spectrum temporally varies with respect to image data of a predetermined frame among a plurality of frames included in the video data; generate biological component video data in which the biological component is extracted from the video data based on the estimated spatial distribution of the biological component in the image data of the predetermined frame; and generate periodic variation video data of the biological component by applying, to the biological component video data, a filter for extracting a predetermined frequency component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Munenori Fukunishi, Norimichi Tsumura, Koki Kurita
  • Publication number: 20210229341
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a colored product, where using inkjet heads which are a plurality of color ink heads, and an inkjet head, which is a colorless ink head, a plurality of coloring regions are formed in an overlapping manner in a normal direction, a surface side colored region, which is a region located closest to the surface of the colored product is formed using at least the color ink ejected from any of the inkjet heads, and an inner colored region, which is a region located farther from the surface of the colored product than the surface side colored region is formed using at least the color ink ejected from any of the inkjet heads and the colorless ink ejected from the inkjet head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicants: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wataru ARAI, Kunio Hakkaku, Norimichi Tsumura, Keita Hirai, Junki Yoshii
  • Publication number: 20200310366
    Abstract: A layer configuration prediction method is provided and includes: a specimen production step of producing multiple specimens by depositing layers of a material in configurations different from each other; a specimen measurement step of performing, on each specimen, measurement to acquire a texture parameter corresponding to a texture; a learning step of causing a computer to perform machine learning of a relation between each of the specimens and the texture parameter; a setting parameter calculation step of calculating a setting parameter corresponding to the texture set to a computer graphics image; and a layer configuration acquisition step of providing the setting parameter as an input to the computer having been caused to perform the machine learning, and acquiring an output representing the layering pattern of layers of the material corresponding to the setting parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicants: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Norimichi Tsumura, Junki Yoshii, Keita Hirai, Wataru Arai
  • Publication number: 20200121192
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to: acquire video data; estimate a spatial distribution of a predetermined biological component for which a component spectrum temporally varies with respect to image data of a predetermined frame among a plurality of frames included in the video data; generate biological component video data in which the biological component is extracted from the video data based on the estimated spatial distribution of the biological component in the image data of the predetermined frame; and generate periodic variation video data of the biological component by applying, to the biological component video data, a filter for extracting a predetermined frequency component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicants: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Munenori FUKUNISHI, Norimichi TSUMURA, Koki KURITA
  • Patent number: 9965834
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a transformation unit that is configured to deform images so that corresponding points in a plurality of images obtained from several viewpoints with respect to the same subject are matched; a separating unit that is configured to separate specular-reflection components from the plurality of images transformed by the transformation unit and create an image from which the specular-reflection component is removed; and an image reconstructing unit that is configured to combine at least one of the specular-reflection components of the plurality of images, separated by the separating unit, and the image from which the specular-reflection component is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Masao Sambongi, Norimichi Tsumura, Mayu Yokoya
  • Patent number: 9948865
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is intended to find, even when shooting a subject having a depth, respective reflection characteristics of portions of the subject with high accuracy, and includes a high-luminance region extraction unit which extracts high-luminance regions having a higher luminance than a predetermined threshold value in a plurality of image signals obtained by irradiating the subject with light emitted from a known light source and shooting reflected light from the subject at a plurality of viewpoints, a local region extraction unit which extracts local regions respectively most focused on in the portions of the subject using the plurality of high-luminance regions, and a reflection characteristic estimation unit which estimates a reflection characteristic of the subject using respective light source characteristics of the high-luminance regions in the local regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Masao Sambongi, Norimichi Tsumura, Kaori Baba
  • Publication number: 20170195540
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is intended to find, even when shooting a subject having a depth, respective reflection characteristics of portions of the subject with high accuracy, and includes a high-luminance region extraction unit which extracts high-luminance regions having a higher luminance than a predetermined threshold value in a plurality of image signals obtained by irradiating the subject with light emitted from a known light source and shooting reflected light from the subject at a plurality of viewpoints, a local region extraction unit which extracts local regions respectively most focused on in the portions of the subject using the plurality of high-luminance regions, and a reflection characteristic estimation unit which estimates a reflection characteristic of the subject using respective light source characteristics of the high-luminance regions in the local regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicants: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Masao SAMBONGI, Norimichi TSUMURA, Kaori BABA
  • Publication number: 20170046819
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a transformation unit that is configured to deform images so that corresponding points in a plurality of images obtained from several viewpoints with respect to the same subject are matched; a separating unit that is configured to separate specular-reflection components from the plurality of images transformed by the transformation unit and create an image from which the specular-reflection component is removed; and an image reconstructing unit that is configured to combine at least one of the specular-reflection components of the plurality of images, separated by the separating unit, and the image from which the specular-reflection component is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicants: OLYMPUS CORPORATION, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Masao SAMBONGI, Norimichi TSUMURA, Mayu YOKOYA
  • Patent number: 9355466
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a skin information obtaining unit that extracts a skin area from an image and obtains skin information from the skin area; an independent component extracting unit that extracts independent components constituting the skin area from the skin information; and a bias calculation unit that calculates, based on the independent components, a bias representing color information of a light source used to illuminate the skin area when the image is captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Chiba University
    Inventors: Akihiro Kakinuma, Hiroshi Takahashi, Naohiro Kamijo, Norimichi Tsumura, Satomi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150178950
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a skin information obtaining unit that extracts a skin area from an image and obtains skin information from the skin area; an independent component extracting unit that extracts independent components constituting the skin area from the skin information; and a bias calculation unit that calculates, based on the independent components, a bias representing color information of a light source used to illuminate the skin area when the image is captured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicants: Chiba University, RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro KAKINUMA, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Naohiro KAMIJO, Norimichi TSUMURA, Satomi TANAKA
  • Patent number: 7643183
    Abstract: The imaging apparatus includes a light application unit that applies light to an object to be imaged, a first converging unit that converges diffuse reflection rays from the object to be imaged, a second converging unit that converges specular reflection rays from the object to be imaged, an image pickup unit that receives the rays converged by the first converging unit and by the second converging unit, and generates image signals corresponding to each rays, an image data generating unit that generates image data by combining first image signals corresponding to the rays converged by the first converging unit with second image signals corresponding to the rays converged by the second converging unit, and an image data output unit that outputs the image data generated by the image data generating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Nakaya, Hirokazu Ichikawa, Yoichi Miyake, Norimichi Tsumura
  • Patent number: 7356192
    Abstract: An enhancing degree for sharpness enhancing is determined as a parameter for enhancing the sharpness of the input image by using at least one of information about a subject included in the input image and information about the display for displaying the input image. By using the enhancing degree determined, color distribution is controlled on a first principal component analysis axis obtained by analysis based on a principal component analysis in a color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mutsuko Nichogi, Katsuhiro Kanamori, Makoto Oishi, Norimichi Tsumura, Yoichi Miyake