Patents by Inventor Satoshi Ihara

Satoshi Ihara 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: 12657708
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising: a processor and a memory connected to or incorporated in the processor, in which the processor acquires an analysis target image in which a plurality of contiguous target objects of the same type appear, receives an input of a marker indicating positions of the target objects in the analysis target image, generates a marker position display map indicating a position of the marker in the analysis target image, inputs the analysis target image and the marker position display map to a semantic segmentation model, and outputs, from the semantic segmentation model, an output image in which the target objects are identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Ihara
  • Patent number: 12632920
    Abstract: A processor is configured to convert a size of a target image to derive a size-converted image, segment the size-converted image into regions of at least one class by using a segmentation model constructed by machine-learning a neural network to derive a plurality of class images in which a pixel value of each pixel represents class-likeness for the at least one class, convert a size of at least one class image into the size of the target image to derive at least one converted class image, and segment the target image based on a pixel value in each pixel of the at least one converted class image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Ihara
  • Publication number: 20260073526
    Abstract: A processor uses a semantic segmentation model that has been trained using an annotation image in which a first pixel corresponding to at least any one of one point corresponding to an object, a plurality of discrete points corresponding to a plurality of objects, or a line corresponding to an object having a line structure is set as a first pixel value and a second pixel other than the first pixel is set as a second pixel value different from the first pixel value, the model having been trained by assigning a greater weight to the first pixel than to the second pixel to calculate a loss, inputs an image to the model and outputs a feature amount map having a feature amount related to the one point, etc. in the image from the model, and identifies the one point, etc. in the image based on the map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi IHARA
  • Patent number: 12561968
    Abstract: A processor is configured to: acquire training data that consists of a learning expression medium and a correct answer label for at least one of a plurality of types of classes included in the learning expression medium; input the learning expression medium to a neural network such that probabilities that each class included in the learning expression medium will be each of the plurality of types of classes are output; integrate the probabilities that each class will be each of the plurality of types of classes on the basis of classes classified by the correct answer label of the training data; and train the neural network on the basis of a loss derived from the integrated probability and the correct answer label of the training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Ihara
  • Patent number: 12511756
    Abstract: A processor uses a semantic segmentation model that has been trained using an annotation image in which a first pixel corresponding to at least any one of one point corresponding to an object, a plurality of discrete points corresponding to a plurality of objects, or a line corresponding to an object having a line structure is set as a first pixel value and a second pixel other than the first pixel is set as a second pixel value different from the first pixel value, the model having been trained by assigning a greater weight to the first pixel than to the second pixel to calculate a loss, inputs an image to the model and outputs a feature amount map having a feature amount related to the one point, etc. in the image from the model, and identifies the one point, etc. in the image based on the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Ihara
  • Patent number: 12505686
    Abstract: A processor extracts, from an image including a plurality of structures that spatially continuously present and whose corresponding labels have a hierarchy, respective key points of the plurality of structures in association with labels of a first layer; uses the key points as nodes to derive a graph structure in which the labels of the first layer are associated with the nodes; and associates the nodes with labels of a second layer lower than the first layer by analyzing the graph structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Masuzawa, Satoshi Ihara
  • Publication number: 20250200943
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus has at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to perform division processing of dividing an image into a plurality of partial images, the division processing being processing of dividing the image such that each of the plurality of partial images has an overlapping area that overlaps another partial image adjacent to the partial image at an edge part of the partial image; perform, individually for each of the plurality of partial images, calculation processing of calculating numerical values for respective pixels of the partial image, the numerical values being for use in class classification and each being related to a probability of a corresponding pixel among the pixels belonging to a specific class; and perform integration processing of integrating the numerical values individually calculated for the plurality of partial images to achieve a size which the image had before the division processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Satoshi IHARA, Mitsuki FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240139907
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus capable of more easily determining a maintenance timing by using event data. The information processing apparatus includes a state estimation unit that estimates a state of a grindstone by using event data supplied from an event sensor that outputs, as event data, a temporal change of an electrical signal obtained by photoelectrically converting an optical signal, and outputs a result of the estimation. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an information processing system or the like that tells a maintenance timing of a grindstone of a machine tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuya Higashisaka, Satoshi Ihara, Masaru Ozaki, Yasuyuki Sato, Tomohiro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240037927
    Abstract: A processor is configured to: acquire training data that consists of a learning expression medium and a correct answer label for at least one of a plurality of types of classes included in the learning expression medium; input the learning expression medium to a neural network such that probabilities that each class included in the learning expression medium will be each of the plurality of types of classes are output; integrate the probabilities that each class will be each of the plurality of types of classes on the basis of classes classified by the correct answer label of the training data; and train the neural network on the basis of a loss derived from the integrated probability and the correct answer label of the training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventor: Satoshi IHARA
  • Publication number: 20230394661
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising: a processor and a memory connected to or incorporated in the processor, in which the processor acquires an analysis target image in which a plurality of contiguous target objects of the same type appear, receives an input of a marker indicating positions of the target objects in the analysis target image, generates a marker position display map indicating a position of the marker in the analysis target image, inputs the analysis target image and the marker position display map to a semantic segmentation model, and outputs, from the semantic segmentation model, an output image in which the target objects are identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi IHARA
  • Publication number: 20230394673
    Abstract: A processor uses a semantic segmentation model that has been trained using an annotation image in which a first pixel corresponding to at least any one of one point corresponding to an object, a plurality of discrete points corresponding to a plurality of objects, or a line corresponding to an object having a line structure is set as a first pixel value and a second pixel other than the first pixel is set as a second pixel value different from the first pixel value, the model having been trained by assigning a greater weight to the first pixel than to the second pixel to calculate a loss, inputs an image to the model and outputs a feature amount map having a feature amount related to the one point, etc. in the image from the model, and identifies the one point, etc. in the image based on the map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi IHARA
  • Publication number: 20230306556
    Abstract: A processor is configured to convert a size of a target image to derive a size-converted image, segment the size-converted image into regions of at least one class by using a segmentation model constructed by machine-learning a neural network to derive a plurality of class images in which a pixel value of each pixel represents class-likeness for the at least one class, convert a size of at least one class image into the size of the target image to derive at least one converted class image, and segment the target image based on a pixel value in each pixel of the at least one converted class image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi IHARA
  • Publication number: 20230306608
    Abstract: A processor is configured to: reduce a target image to derive a reduced image; extract a region of a target structure from the reduced image to derive a reduced structure image including the region of the target structure; extract a corresponding image corresponding to the reduced structure image from the target image; and input the corresponding image and the reduced structure image into an extraction model constructed by machine-learning a neural network to extract a region of the target structure included in the corresponding image from the extraction model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi IHARA
  • Publication number: 20230206662
    Abstract: A processor extracts, from an image including a plurality of structures that spatially continuously present and whose corresponding labels have a hierarchy, respective key points of the plurality of structures in association with labels of a first layer; uses the key points as nodes to derive a graph structure in which the labels of the first layer are associated with the nodes; and associates the nodes with labels of a second layer lower than the first layer by analyzing the graph structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto MASUZAWA, Satoshi IHARA
  • Publication number: 20220382544
    Abstract: A processor determines an exponent common to a plurality of numerical values, determines a mantissa for each of the plurality of numerical values based on the determined exponent, and performs four arithmetic operations using a sign, the determined exponent, and the determined mantissa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi IHARA
  • Patent number: 11308670
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program that are capable of more facilitating editing. The image processing apparatus includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect an operation input by an operation unit; and a display control unit configured to output, to an immersive presentation device, part or entirety of a spherical image on which an image of the operation unit is superimposed, as a presentation image, to cause the immersive presentation device to display the presentation image, the display control unit being configured to control, in a case where the operation input has been detected, the display of the presentation image such that the operation input is reflected. The present technology is applicable to an editing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Satoshi Ihara, Cody Poultney
  • Patent number: 11070724
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method that are capable of more facilitating editing. The image processing apparatus includes an operation detection unit that detects an operation input by an operation unit and a display control unit that outputs, to an immersive presentation device, part or entirety of a spherical image on which an image of the operation unit is superimposed, as a presentation image, to cause the immersive presentation device to display the presentation image, the display control unit being configured to control, in a case where the operation input has been detected, the display of the presentation image such that the operation input is reflected, in which the operation detection unit detects coordinates at a position pointed by a pointer of the operation unit, in the spherical image. The present technology is applicable to an editing system that edits spherical images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Ihara, Kenji Tanaka, Cody Poultney
  • Publication number: 20210125388
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program that are capable of more facilitating editing. The image processing apparatus includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect an operation input by an operation unit; and a display control unit configured to output, to an immersive presentation device, part or entirety of a spherical image on which an image of the operation unit is superimposed, as a presentation image, to cause the immersive presentation device to display the presentation image, the display control unit being configured to control, in a case where the operation input has been detected, the display of the presentation image such that the operation input is reflected. The present technology is applicable to an editing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: KENJI TANAKA, SATOSHI IHARA, CODY POULTNEY
  • Patent number: 10846853
    Abstract: The medical image processing apparatus includes a medical image acquisition unit that acquires a medical image; and a lesion detection unit that detects a lesion region in the medical image. The lesion detection unit includes a first identifier that identifies a lesion region candidate in the medical image and a second identifier that identifies whether the lesion region candidate identified by the first identifier is a blood vessel region, and detects the lesion region candidate that is not identified as the blood vessel region by the second identifier as the lesion region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Ihara
  • Publication number: 20200077021
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program that are capable of more facilitating editing. The image processing apparatus includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect an operation input by an operation unit; and a display control unit configured to output, to an immersive presentation device, part or entirety of a spherical image on which an image of the operation unit is superimposed, as a presentation image, to cause the immersive presentation device to display the presentation image, the display control unit being configured to control, in a case where the operation input has been detected, the display of the presentation image such that the operation input is reflected, in which the operation detection unit detects coordinates at a position pointed by a pointer of the operation unit, in the spherical image. The present technology is applicable to an editing system that edits spherical images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: SATOSHI IHARA, KENJI TANAKA, CODY POULTNEY