Patents by Inventor Ryuji Honda

Ryuji Honda 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: 11948319
    Abstract: A structure detection device according to an embodiment includes: a reading processing unit that reads, as three-dimensional point group data on an object present in a three-dimensional space, data including three-dimensional position information and color information at a point on a surface of the object; a filtering processing unit that performs filtering processing for extracting three-dimensional point group data on a detection-target structure from the three-dimensional point group data on the object present in the three-dimensional space based on the color information; and a generation processing unit that generates three-dimensional model data in which the detection-target structure is represented as a three-dimensional model based on the three-dimensional point group data on the detection-target structure, the three-dimensional point group data being extracted by the filtering processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Inoue, Tomoya Shimizu, Ryuji Honda, Hiroyuki Oshida
  • Patent number: 11823330
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique for creating a three-dimensional model of a line-like structure from a point cloud obtained using three-dimensional laser measuring equipment and detecting a three-dimensional model of a cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Inoue, Hitoshi Niigaki, Yukihiro Goto, Shigehiro Matsuda, Toshiya Ohira, Ryuji Honda, Tomoya Shimizu, Hiroyuki Oshida
  • Patent number: 11715225
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a ground boundary estimation method, a ground boundary estimation apparatus, and a program that can acquire the elevation of the ground boundary of the electrical pole quickly and accurately even when the base of the electrical pole is shielded by any shield at observation of the electrical pole. According to the ground boundary estimation method of the present invention, a difference in height between the columnar shape of a three-dimensional model of a columnar object such as an observed electrical pole and a standard shape of the columnar object at a position in which the three-dimensional model and the standard shape are equal to each other in the horizontal dimension is determined, and a penetration depth prescribed by the standard is subtracted from the difference in height, to find a height of a shielded portion of the ground boundary of the columnar object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Goto, Ryuji Honda
  • Patent number: 11709049
    Abstract: Even when a missing portion occurs in a solid data set on a columnar structure, an estimator for a deflection value and an accuracy of the deflection value are correctly estimated according to an extent of the missing portion and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiro Matsuda, Takashi Goto, Ryuji Honda, Yoshiyuki Kajihara
  • Publication number: 20220398357
    Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to make it possible to determine owners of cables from a positional relationship between the cables in an off-site equipment model acquired through a mobile mapping system (MMS). The present disclosure acquires cable models serving as solid models of cables extracted from three-dimensional point group data (S11), identifies a positional relationship of the cables from the cable models and determines owners of the cables from the positional relationship in accordance with a determination table defining a vertical relationship of the cables (S22), links information of the owners determined to the solid models, and creates a line diagram by using the cable models to which the information of the owners is linked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Shigehiro MATSUDA, Yukihiro GOTO, Ryuji HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220327779
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique for creating a three-dimensional model of a line-like structure from a point cloud obtained using three-dimensional laser measuring equipment and detecting a three-dimensional model of a cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki INOUE, Hitoshi NIIGAKI, Yukihiro GOTO, Shigehiro MATSUDA, Toshiya OHIRA, Ryuji HONDA, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220283309
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a ground-based height measurement method, a ground-based height measurement device, and a program capable of measuring the lowest height of a cable above a ground even when three-dimensional point cloud data of the cable is insufficient. The ground-based height measurement method according to the present disclosure can acquire three-dimensional point cloud data that seems to be a cable by forming a measurement range of a predetermined size above a travel trajectory of MMS (at an arrangement height of the cable). Then, the number of three-dimensional point clouds included in the measurement range is counted and when the number is equal to or larger than a threshold value, the height is measured as a measurement object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihiro GOTO, Ryuji HONDA, Masaki WAKI, Takashi GOTO
  • Publication number: 20220268566
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program, which are capable of determining an owner of an attachment attached to a facility using a solid model of a facility extracted from three-dimensional point group data. The present invention determines the owner of the attachment from a planar positional relationship between the solid model of a columnar structure and the solid model of the attachment in the solid model. For example, a distance between a utility pole and a center of a point (a center of a ground boundary) at which a branch line or a post reaches a ground is acquired, and whether the branch line or the post is owned by a communication company or an electric power company is determined based on whether the distance exists in a constant threshold determined by the communication company or the electric power company.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya OHIRA, Yukihiro GOTO, Ryuji HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220215572
    Abstract: Provided is a point cloud analysis device that curbs a decrease in model estimation accuracy due to a laser measurement point cloud. A clustering unit (30) clusters a point cloud representing a three-dimensional point on an object obtained by a measurement unit mounted on a moving body and performing measurement while scanning a measurement position, within a scan line, to obtain a point cloud cluster. A central axis direction estimation unit (32) estimates a central axis direction based on the point cloud cluster. A direction-dependent local effective length estimation unit (34) estimates a local effective length based on an estimated central axis direction and an interval of scan lines, the local effective length being a length when a length of projection of the point cloud cluster in a central axis direction for each of the point cloud clusters is interpolated by an amount of a loss part of the point cloud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi NIIGAKI, Yasuhiro YAO, Masaaki INOUE, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Yukihiro GOTO, Shigehiro MATSUDA, Ryuji HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA, Kana KURATA, Shingo ANDO, Atsushi SAGATA
  • Publication number: 20220172389
    Abstract: A structure detection device according to an embodiment includes: a reading processing unit that reads, as three-dimensional point group data on an object present in a three-dimensional space, data including three-dimensional position information and color information at a point on a surface of the object; a filtering processing unit that performs filtering processing for extracting three-dimensional point group data on a detection-target structure from the three-dimensional point group data on the object present in the three-dimensional space based on the color information; and a generation processing unit that generates three-dimensional model data in which the detection-target structure is represented as a three-dimensional model based on the three-dimensional point group data on the detection-target structure, the three-dimensional point group data being extracted by the filtering processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki INOUE, Tomoya SHIMIZU, Ryuji HONDA, Hiroyuki OSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220163672
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is, in performing three-dimensionalization of an object point cloud by a laser or a radar, to reduce an amount of calculation in the axial direction of three-dimensional space coordinates, into which the object point cloud is to be mapped, while increasing accuracy in the three-dimensionalization of the object point cloud. The present disclosure calculates an absolute value of a difference between vehicle attitude data with a high sampling frequency and vehicle attitude data with a low sampling frequency. When the absolute value of the difference is small, the vehicle attitude data with the high sampling frequency is decimated and the vehicle attitude data with the low sampling frequency is outputted, to thereby reduce the amount of calculation in the axial direction of the three-dimensional space coordinates, into which the object point cloud is to be mapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiro MATSUDA, Yukihiro GOTO, Ryuji HONDA
  • Patent number: 11255661
    Abstract: A columnar object state detection device according to an embodiment is a device for detecting a state of a columnar object including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire central axis data that is an array of coordinate values of center points of the columnar object in a horizontal direction at a plurality of predetermined heights of the columnar object; an approximation equation calculating unit configured to calculate a correction approximation equation for correcting the coordinate values of the central axis data acquired by the acquisition unit through curve fitting for the array of coordinate values of the central axis data acquired by the acquisition unit; and correction unit configured to correct the coordinate values of the acquired central axis data using the correction approximation equation calculated by the approximation equation calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Goto, Ryuji Honda, Yukihiro Goto, Yoshiyuki Kajihara
  • Publication number: 20210374984
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a ground boundary estimation method, a ground boundary estimation apparatus, and a program that can acquire the elevation of the ground boundary of the electrical pole quickly and accurately even when the base of the electrical pole is shielded by any shield at observation of the electrical pole. According to the ground boundary estimation method of the present invention, a difference in height between the columnar shape of a three-dimensional model of a columnar object such as an observed electrical pole and a standard shape of the columnar object at a position in which the three-dimensional model and the standard shape are equal to each other in the horizontal dimension is determined, and a penetration depth prescribed by the standard is subtracted from the difference in height, to find a height of a shielded portion of the ground boundary of the columnar object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi GOTO, Ryuji HONDA
  • Publication number: 20210364630
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is an equipment state diagnosis device including a classification unit that classifies an equipment state of a utility pole into an equipment configuration pattern based on equipment configuration information of the utility pole obtained from a database in which the equipment configuration information and a deflection amount of the utility pole are stored, and a diagnosis method determination unit that determines a diagnosis method for the utility pole from the equipment configuration pattern of the utility pole classified by the classification unit and the deflection amount of the utility pole obtained from the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya IWADO, Yoshiyuki KAJIHARA, Ryuji HONDA
  • Publication number: 20210025696
    Abstract: A columnar object state detection device according to an embodiment is a device for detecting a state of a columnar object including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire central axis data that is an array of coordinate values of center points of the columnar object in a horizontal direction at a plurality of predetermined heights of the columnar object; an approximation equation calculating unit configured to calculate a correction approximation equation for correcting the coordinate values of the central axis data acquired by the acquisition unit through curve fitting for the array of coordinate values of the central axis data acquired by the acquisition unit; and correction unit configured to correct the coordinate values of the acquired central axis data using the correction approximation equation calculated by the approximation equation calculating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi GOTO, Ryuji HONDA, Yukihiro GOTO, Yoshiyuki KAJIHARA
  • Publication number: 20210003390
    Abstract: Even when a missing portion occurs in a solid data set on a columnar structure, an estimator for a deflection value and an accuracy of the deflection value are correctly estimated according to an extent of the missing portion and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiro MATSUDA, Takashi GOTO, Ryuji HONDA, Yoshiyuki KAJIHARA
  • Patent number: 5972799
    Abstract: There is provided a dry etching method which does not contribute to earth anathermal due to the green house effect and which has a good etching characteristics. According to the present invention, the flow rates of Ar, O.sub.2, and C.sub.3 F.sub.6 supplied from gas sources 152, 154 and 156 are regulated by a mass flow controller MFC 146, 148 and 150 and valves 140, 142 and 144, respectively, to be mixed. The mixed gas is introduced onto a wafer W via a gas introducing pipe 138, a gas inlet 134, a space 130 and through holes 124a while the flow ratio of O.sub.2 to C.sub.3 F.sub.6 is set to be 0.1.ltoreq.O.sub.2 /C.sub.3 F.sub.6 .ltoreq.1.0 and the partial pressure of C.sub.3 F.sub.6 is set to be in the range of from 0.5 mTorr to 2.0 mTorr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Akira Koshiishi, Ryuji Honda