Patents by Inventor Satoru Mamiya

Satoru Mamiya 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: 11928805
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to making it possible to reduce a possibility of image stitching failures. An information processing apparatus includes a feature extraction unit configured to extract feature points from each of a plurality of images of an object to be inspected captured from a plurality of viewpoints, an image quality evaluation unit configured to, for each of the plurality of images, evaluate whether an image quality based on a predetermined index satisfies allowable conditions for inspection works of the object, and an image stitching unit configured to stitch at least a part of the images, among the plurality of images, having the image quality that satisfies the allowable conditions according to a positional relation based on the feature points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Kuwabara, Satoru Mamiya
  • Publication number: 20230177667
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires first defect data and second defect data generated on a basis of images imaged of an identical target, obtains, on a basis of the first defect data and the second defect data, a common portion that is common between the first defect data and the second defect data and a different portion that exists in either the first defect data or the second defect data and calculate position data corresponding a boundary between the common portion and the different portion, and generates state change data indicating a change in a defect included in the common portion and the different portion using the position data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Shinichi Mitsumoto, Satoru Mamiya
  • Publication number: 20220180631
    Abstract: There is provided with an information processing system including a server apparatus, and a first apparatus and a second apparatus that are able to communicate with the server apparatus. A management unit collects, based on a predetermined reference, each piece of data that is acquired from the first apparatus and is associated with each of a plurality of images and manage the collected data. An image identification unit identifies at least a portion of the plurality of images based on the collected data. A sending unit sends the at least a portion of the plurality of images that is identified by the image identification unit, to the second apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Yuuichi Nitto, Kohei Iwabuchi, Kentaro Saito, Masaji Munekuni, Satoru Mamiya, Tatsuya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220148149
    Abstract: An image quality determination is performed on a captured image based on at least one of an in-focus degree, a frequency analysis result, and imaging resolution. Whether the image is unsuitable for combining processing or processing for detecting a deformation occurring in an object to be imaged is determined based on a result of the image quality determination. An image unsuitable for the combination processing or the processing for detecting a deformation occurring in the object to be imaged is identified to be an image to be recaptured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichi Mitsumoto, Satoru Mamiya, Tomoyuki Shigeta, Nobuo Oshimoto, Yumiko Kuno
  • Publication number: 20220129675
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a first selection unit configured to select, as at least one candidate learning model, at least one learning model from a plurality of learning models learned under learning environments different from each other based on information concerning image capturing of an object, a second selection unit configured to select at least one candidate learning model from the at least one candidate learning model based on a result of object detection processing by the at least one candidate learning model selected by the first selection unit, and a detection unit configured to perform the object detection processing for a captured image of the object using at least one candidate learning model of the at least one candidate learning model selected by the second selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Masafumi Takimoto, Tatsuya Yamamoto, Eita Ono, Satoru Mamiya, Shigeki Hirooka
  • Publication number: 20220084189
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to making it possible to reduce a possibility of image stitching failures. An information processing apparatus includes a feature extraction unit configured to extract feature points from each of a plurality of images of an object to be inspected captured from a plurality of viewpoints, an image quality evaluation unit configured to, for each of the plurality of images, evaluate whether an image quality based on a predetermined index satisfies allowable conditions for inspection works of the object, and an image stitching unit configured to stitch at least a part of the images, among the plurality of images, having the image quality that satisfies the allowable conditions according to a positional relation based on the feature points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Nobuaki Kuwabara, Satoru Mamiya
  • Patent number: 11210773
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to making it possible to reduce a possibility of image stitching failures. An information processing apparatus includes a feature extraction unit configured to extract feature points from each of a plurality of images of an object to be inspected captured from a plurality of viewpoints, an image quality evaluation unit configured to, for each of the plurality of images, evaluate whether an image quality based on a predetermined index satisfies allowable conditions for inspection works of the object, and an image stitching unit configured to stitch at least a part of the images, among the plurality of images, having the image quality that satisfies the allowable conditions according to a positional relation based on the feature points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuaki Kuwabara, Satoru Mamiya
  • Publication number: 20200250806
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to making it possible to reduce a possibility of image stitching failures. An information processing apparatus includes a feature extraction unit configured to extract feature points from each of a plurality of images of an object to be inspected captured from a plurality of viewpoints, an image quality evaluation unit configured to, for each of the plurality of images, evaluate whether an image quality based on a predetermined index satisfies allowable conditions for inspection works of the object, and an image stitching unit configured to stitch at least a part of the images, among the plurality of images, having the image quality that satisfies the allowable conditions according to a positional relation based on the feature points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Nobuaki Kuwabara, Satoru Mamiya
  • Patent number: 10571382
    Abstract: A water vapor concentration in a test gas in a first space of a measurement space in which a sample is disposed is adjusted, and a water vapor concentration m a earlier gas in a second space separated from the first space by the sample is measured by a measurement unit. When the water vapor concentration in the test gas is changed, a shift B in charge of the water vapor concentration in the carrier gas from the change of the water vapor concentration in the test gas is calculated. The calculated shift B in the change of the water vapor concentration in the carrier gas corresponds to ease of moisture accumulation in the sample. Thus, it is possible to analyze not only the amount of moisture permeating the sample but also the ease of moisture accumulation, so that characteristics of the sample can be widely analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kishi, Yasutaka Ishihara, Satoru Mamiya
  • Patent number: 10536625
    Abstract: When a first frame included in a moving image satisfies a predetermined condition about a predetermined feature quantity, a second frame is analyzed and a candidate frame is selected from the first frame and the second frame as a candidate of an output target based on a result of analysis of the first frame and a result of analysis of the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Hirooka, Satoru Mamiya, Sammy Chan
  • Publication number: 20180167552
    Abstract: When a first frame included in a moving image satisfies a predetermined condition about a predetermined feature quantity, a second frame is analyzed and a candidate frame is selected from the first frame and the second frame as a candidate of an output target based on a result of analysis of the first frame and a result of analysis of the second frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Shigeki Hirooka, Satoru Mamiya, Sammy Chan
  • Publication number: 20180088019
    Abstract: A water vapor concentration in a test gas in a first space of a measurement space in which a sample is disposed is adjusted, and a water vapor concentration m a earlier gas in a second space separated from the first space by the sample is measured by a measurement unit. When the water vapor concentration in the test gas is changed, a shift B in charge of the water vapor concentration in the carrier gas from the change of the water vapor concentration in the test gas is calculated. The calculated shift B in the change of the water vapor concentration in the carrier gas corresponds to ease of moisture accumulation in the sample. Thus, it is possible to analyze not only the amount of moisture permeating the sample but also the ease of moisture accumulation, so that characteristics of the sample can be widely analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kishi, Yasutaka Ishihara, Satoru Mamiya
  • Publication number: 20180088015
    Abstract: A water vapor concentration in a test gas in a measurement chamber in which a sample is disposed is adjusted, and a moisture amount of the sample in the measurement chamber is measured by a measurement unit. When the water vapor concentration in the test gas in the measurement chamber is changed, a shift B in change of the moisture amount of the sample measured by the measurement unit, from change of the water vapor concentration in the test gas, is calculated. The calculated shift B in the change of the moisture amount of the sample corresponds to an adsorption-desorption rate of the sample. Thus, it is possible to analyze not only the moisture amount of the sample but also the adsorption-desorption rate of the sample, so that characteristics of the sample can be widely analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kishi, Yasutaka Ishihara, Satoru Mamiya
  • Publication number: 20170039428
    Abstract: An information processing method comprises: inputting information of an image group to which one or more of images belong; setting a target range when selecting an image group; if a range identified by the information of the image group input in the inputting straddles a limit of the target range, determining based on the information of the image group and the target range whether to select the image group as an output target candidate; and selecting one or more image groups corresponding to the target range as the output target candidate, in accordance with the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Nobuaki Kuwabara, Satoru Mamiya
  • Patent number: 9305327
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and its control method receives a drawing command including a moving image drawing command and a graphics drawing command and performs drawing processing. A drawing command is received, and the moving image drawing command is separated from the graphics drawing command. A graphics drawing unit obtains the result of graphics drawing in accordance with the graphics drawing command. A moving image drawing unit generates moving image data processed in accordance with the moving image drawing command. A composition unit composes the result of graphics drawing by the graphics drawing unit with the moving image data generated by the moving image drawing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeru Sakamoto, Satoru Mamiya, Jun Fujisawa, Shuichi Okamura, Shinya Takeichi, Atsushi Date, Takeshi Suzuki, Akihiro Takamura, Waki Midorikawa, Toru Nomakuchi
  • Patent number: 9019304
    Abstract: According to an image processing apparatus and a control method thereof of the present invention, a graphics drawing result is obtained in accordance with one or more graphics drawing commands included in drawing commands, a clipping command is generated from one or more moving image drawing commands included in the drawing commands, and clipped graphics is obtained by clipping the graphics drawing result using the clipping command. Further, moving image data processed in accordance with the one or more moving image drawing commands included in the drawing commands is generated, and the generated moving image data and the clipped graphics are composed and output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Takeichi, Waki Murakami, Satoru Mamiya, Jun Fujisawa, Shuichi Okamura, Atsushi Date, Takeshi Suzuki, Akihiro Takamura, Toru Nomakuchi, Shigeru Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20140198115
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and its control method receives a drawing command including a moving image drawing command and a graphics drawing command and performs drawing processing. A drawing command is received, and the moving image drawing command is separated from the graphics drawing command. A graphics drawing unit obtains the result of graphics drawing in accordance with the graphics drawing command. A moving image drawing unit generates moving image data processed in accordance with the moving image drawing command. A composition unit composes the result of graphics drawing by the graphics drawing unit with the moving image data generated by the moving image drawing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeru Sakamoto, Satoru Mamiya, Jun Fujisawa, Shuichi Okamura, Sgubta Takeichi, Atsushi Date, Takeshi Suzuki, Akihiro Takamura, Waki Murakami, Toru Nomakuchi
  • Patent number: 8717380
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and its control method receives a drawing command including a moving image drawing command and a graphics drawing command and performs drawing processing. A drawing command is received, and the moving image drawing command is separated from the graphics drawing command. A graphics drawing unit obtains the result of graphics drawing in accordance with the graphics drawing command. A moving image drawing unit generates moving image data processed in accordance with the moving image drawing command. A composition unit composes the result of graphics drawing by the graphics drawing unit with the moving image data generated by the moving image drawing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeru Sakamoto, Satoru Mamiya, Jun Fujisawa, Shuichi Okamura, Shinya Takeichi, Atsushi Date, Takeshi Suzuki, Akihiro Takamura, Waki Murakami, Toru Nomakuchi
  • Patent number: 8633941
    Abstract: An image-processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a determining unit determining a type of image data; a holding unit holding color value for the still images, and holding a ratio for the moving image for each moving image, an updating unit updating the color value and the ratio, and a display unit displaying composite image data. For each piece of image data to be drawn, the updating unit updates each ratio based on a transmittance of the image data, updates the color value and a transmittance of a still image when it is a still image, and updates the color value data based on a transmittance of a moving image, and causes the transmittance to be further held as a ratio of the moving image when it is a moving image. The display unit displays the composite image data using the color value and the ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Asuka Wada, Toru Nomakuchi, Satoru Mamiya, Jun Fujisawa, Shinya Takeichi, Shuichi Okamura, Atsushi Date, Takeshi Suzuki, Akihiro Takamura, Waki Murakami, Shigeru Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20110025708
    Abstract: According to an image processing apparatus and a control method thereof of the present invention, a graphics drawing result is obtained in accordance with one or more graphics drawing commands included in drawing commands, a clipping command is generated from one or more moving image drawing commands included in the drawing commands, and clipped graphics is obtained by clipping the graphics drawing result using the clipping command. Further, moving image data processed in accordance with the one or more moving image drawing commands included in the drawing commands is generated, and the generated moving image data and the clipped graphics are composed and output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Takeichi, Waki Murakami, Satoru Mamiya, Jun Fujisawa, Shuichi Okamura, Atsushi Date, Takeshi Suzuki, Akihiro Takamura, Toru Nomakuchi, Shigeru Sakamoto