Patents by Inventor Shin Tominaga
Shin Tominaga 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).
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Publication number: 20250087368Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to process an image of a target region, and thereby compute a proximity index being an index relating to a proximity state of a plurality of persons captured in the image, and cause a predetermined apparatus to execute predetermined control, when the proximity index satisfies a criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Gaku NAKANO, Shoji NISHIMURA, Yoshitaka HIGETA, Youtarou NODA, Shigeki SHINODA, Yuzo SENDA, Shin TOMINAGA, Masumi ISHIKAWA, Daisuke IKEFUJI, Kana TAKIZAWA, Kenichi ISHII, Yoshiyuki SATOU, Eishi ARITA, Shota YAMAMOTO, Shinya YAMASAKI, Narumitsu NOTOMI, Aki NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 12211332Abstract: An activity support apparatus supports an activity of a worker at a disaster site. The activity support apparatus comprises a position acquisition unit that acquires a position of the worker, a boundary data acquisition unit that acquires boundary data that indicates a boundary of a building at the disaster site, and an entry determination unit that determines whether the worker has entered the building based on the positions of the worker acquired at different timings and the boundary data.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki Shinoda, Yoshihiro Sato, Shin Tominaga, Daisuke Ikefuji
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Patent number: 12211361Abstract: An activity support apparatus supports an activity of a worker at a disaster site. The activity support apparatus comprises a vibration data acquisition unit that acquires vibration data of vibrations generated by the worker, an activity level estimation unit that estimates an activity level of the worker based on the vibration data acquired by the vibration data acquisition unit, and a notification unit that notifies the activity level estimated by the activity level estimation unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki Shinoda, Yoshihiro Sato, Shin Tominaga, Daisuke Ikefuji
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Patent number: 12176112Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to process an image of a target region, and thereby compute a proximity index being an index relating to a proximity state of a plurality of persons captured in the image, and cause a predetermined apparatus to execute predetermined control, when the proximity index satisfies a criterion.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Gaku Nakano, Shoji Nishimura, Yoshitaka Higeta, Youtarou Noda, Shigeki Shinoda, Yuzo Senda, Shin Tominaga, Masumi Ishikawa, Daisuke Ikefuji, Kana Takizawa, Kenichi Ishii, Yoshiyuki Satou, Eishi Arita, Shota Yamamoto, Shinya Yamasaki, Narumitsu Notomi, Aki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20240212470Abstract: An activity support apparatus supports an activity of a worker at a disaster site. The activity support apparatus comprises a vibration data acquisition unit that acquires vibration data of vibrations generated by the worker, an activity level estimation unit that estimates an activity level of the worker based on the vibration data acquired by the vibration data acquisition unit, and a notification unit that notifies the activity level estimated by the activity level estimation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shigeki SHINODA, Yoshihiro SATO, Shin TOMINAGA, Daisuke IKEFUJI
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Patent number: 11983967Abstract: A control apparatus (2000) computes a waiting time index value for each of a plurality of gates (20) for entering an area (10). The control apparatus (2000) detects, from among the plurality of gates (20), a first gate (20) and a second gate (20) of which relation between the waiting time index values satisfies a first criterion. Herein, the waiting time index value of the first gate (20) is greater than the waiting time index value of the second gate (20). The control apparatus (2000) causes a terminal (30) associated with the first gate (20) to output priority use information, which allows prioritized use of the second gate (20).Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi Inoue, Shin Tominaga, Shigeki Shinoda, Yuzo Senda, Shigeru Sekine
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Patent number: 11946603Abstract: A facility state analyzing device includes: a measurement unit that measures a load on a facility and generates, based on a measurement condition, load information representing the load being measured; an extraction unit that extracts, from the load information generated by the measurement unit, dynamic load information representing a dynamic component of the load whose dynamic fluctuation degree with a lapse of time is equal to or more than a reference; a measurement condition determination unit that determines, based on temporal transition of the dynamic load information, the measurement condition indicating a time zone during which the load information is generated; and an analysis unit that analyzes the load applied on the facility, by using the load information generated based on the measurement condition, to efficiently increase accuracy in estimating the state of the facility on the basis of a situation of the load applied to the facility.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Masatake Takahashi, Shin Tominaga
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Publication number: 20240105053Abstract: To improve efficiency of road surveillance, a road surveillance system includes a detection unit 122 and a processing unit 134. The detection unit 122 detects a road state being a state of an object on a road by processing an image in which the road is captured. The processing unit 134 performs, when the road state satisfies a first criterion, any of notification processing of making a notification of the road state that satisfies the first criterion according to notification setting related to the notification, and change-related processing related to a change in the notification setting, based on whether a second criterion is satisfied. The second criterion is a criterion related to a determination result of whether the road state satisfies the first criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Shin Tominaga, Yusuke Imai, Kazutoshi Sagi, Yuzo Senda
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Publication number: 20240104931Abstract: A road surveillance system includes a video acquisition unit, a target determination unit, and a display control unit. The video acquisition unit acquires a video that captures a road. The target determination unit determines, based on a result of comparison between at least one frame image constituting the video and a reference image, and a first criterion, whether the at least one frame image is an analysis target. The display control unit causes a display unit to display information based on a result of the determination. The display control unit includes a first control unit and a second control unit. The first control unit causes the display unit to display an analysis result of at least one frame image being determined to be an analysis target. The second control unit causes the display unit to display detection information indicating that a frame image not being an analysis target is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shin Tominaga, Yusuke Imai, Kazutoshi Sagi, Yuzo Senda
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Publication number: 20240104680Abstract: To improve accuracy of a result acquired by analyzing, by using a machine learning model, an image in which a road is captured, an information processing system 100 is an information processing system for collecting a machine learning image, and includes a generation unit 122 and a storage processing unit 123. The generation unit 122 processes an image in which a road is captured, and generates capturing situation information indicating a situation related to capturing of the image. The storage processing unit 123 performs processing for storing an image, based on the capturing situation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shin TOMINAGA, Yusuke IMAI, Kazutoshi SAGI, Yuzo SENDA
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Publication number: 20240020837Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) includes an image processing unit (110) and a risk information generation unit (120). The image processing unit (110) acquires and processes an image generated by an image capture apparatus (20), that is, an image including a plurality of persons. As an example, the image processing unit (110) sets a person being at least part of the plurality of persons as a reference person and computes a distance (first distance) between the reference person and the closest person to the reference person. By using the first distance, the risk information generation unit (120) generates infection risk information in a target region being an image capture target of the image capture apparatus (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Gaku NAKANO, Shoji NISHIMURA, Yoshitaka HIGETA, Youtarou NODA, Shigeki SHINODA, Yuzo SENDA, Shin TOMINAGA, Masumi ISHIKAWA, Daisuke IKEFUJI, Kana TAKIZAWA, Kenichi ISHII, Yoshiyuki SATOU, Eishi ARITA, Shota YAMAMOTO, Shinya YAMASAKI, Narumitsu NOTOMI, Aki NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11847592Abstract: A required time prediction apparatus (2000) acquires utilization facility information and assumed date and time information. The utilization facility information is information enabling to determine a departure facility and a destination facility. The assumed date and time information is information enabling to determine an assumed departure date and time assuming departure from the departure facility or an assumed arrival date and time assuming arrival at the destination facility. The apparatus (2000) estimates a waiting time at each facility being present between the departure facility and the destination facility, regarding a case of assuming departure from the departure facility at the assumed departure date and time, or a case of assuming arrival at the destination facility at the assumed arrival date and time. Then, the apparatus (2000) computes, based on the estimated waiting time, a predicted required time from departure from the departure facility to arrival at the destination facility.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi Inoue, Shin Tominaga, Shigeki Shinoda, Yuzo Senda, Shigeru Sekine
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Publication number: 20230307138Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to process an image of a target region, and thereby compute a proximity index being an index relating to a proximity state of a plurality of persons captured in the image, and cause a predetermined apparatus to execute predetermined control, when the proximity index satisfies a criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Gaku Nakano, Shoji Nishimura, Yoshitaka Higeta, Youtarou Noda, Shigeki Shinoda, Yuzo Senda, Shin Tominaga, Masumi Ishikawa, Daisuke Ikefuji, Kana Takizawa, Kenichi Ishii, Yoshiyuki Satou, Eishi Arita, Shota Yamamoto, Shinya Yamasaki, Narumitsu Notomi, Aki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20230298166Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) includes an image processing unit (110) and a risk information generation unit (120). The image processing unit (110) acquires and processes an image generated by an image capture apparatus (20), that is, an image including a plurality of persons. As an example, the image processing unit (110) sets a person being at least part of the plurality of persons as a reference person and computes a distance (first distance) between the reference person and the closest person to the reference person. By using the first distance, the risk information generation unit (120) generates infection risk information in a target region being an image capture target of the image capture apparatus (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Gaku Nakano, Shoji Nishimura, Yoshitaka Higeta, Youtarou Noda, Shigeki Shinoda, Yuzo Senda, Shin Tominaga, Masumi Ishikawa, Daisuke Ikefuji, Kana Takizawa, Kenichi Ishii, Yoshiyuki Satou, Eishi Arita, Shota Yamamoto, Shinya Yamasaki, Narumitsu Notomi, Aki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20230274553Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus (10) that includes: a feature value extraction unit (11) that, by processing an image including a plurality of persons, extracts an external appearance feature value of each of the persons; and a determination unit (12) that, by processing the image, determines another of the persons who satisfies an infection condition between him/her and each of the persons, and registers relevant information relating to the determined another person in association with the external appearance feature value of each of the persons.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Gaku Nakano, Shoji Nishimura, Yoshitaka Higeta, Youtarou Noda, Shigeki Shinoda, Yuzo Senda, Shin Tominaga, Masumi Ishikawa, Daisuke Ikefuji, Kana Takizawa, Kenichi Ishii, Yoshiyuki Satou, Eishi Arita, Shota Yamamoto, Shinya Yamasaki, Narumitsu Notomi, Aki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20230238149Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus (10) including: a companion determination unit (12) that determines a companion of each of a plurality of persons detected from an image, based on the image; a distance computation unit (13) that computes a first distance being a distance to the nearest person among the persons other than a companion, for the each person; and a risk information generation unit (14) that generates, with use of the first distance, infection risk information being information related to a risk of getting an infectious disease or a safety rate of not getting an infectious disease within a target region being a region included in the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Gaku Nakano, Shoji Nishimura, Yoshitaka Higeta, Youtarou Noda, Shigeki Shinoda, Yuzo Senda, Shin Tominaga, Masumi Ishikawa, Daisuke lkefuji, Kana Takizawa, Kenichi lshi, Yoshiyuki Satou, Eishi Arita, Shota Yammoto, Shinya Yamasaki, Narumitsu Notomi, Aki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20230230380Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit and a risk information generation unit. By processing at least one image, the image processing unit identifies a caution-requiring location being a location where a proximity indicator being an indicator related to a proximity state between a plurality of persons satisfies a criterion. The risk information generation unit outputs information indicating the caution-requiring location. For example, the information is displayed on a display unit through a display control unit. For each person, the image processing unit computes a first distance being the distance to the closest person to the person. Then, for each of a plurality of locations, the image processing unit counts the number of times the first distance has a reference value or less. Then, the proximity indicator is set by using the number of times the first distance has the reference value or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Gaku Nakano, Shoji Nishimura, Yoshitaka Higeta, Youtarou Noda, Shigeki Shinoda, Yuzo Senda, Shin Tominaga, Masumi Ishikawa, Daisuke Ikefuji, Kana Takizawa, Kenichi Ishii, Yoshiyuki Satou, Eishi Arita, Shota Yamamoto, Shinya Yamasaki, Narumitsu Notomi, Aki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20230115168Abstract: An activity support apparatus supports an activity of a worker at a disaster site. The activity support apparatus comprises a position acquisition unit that acquires a position of the worker, a boundary data acquisition unit that acquires boundary data that indicates a boundary of a building at the disaster site, and an entry determination unit that determines whether the worker has entered the building based on the positions of the worker acquired at different timings and the boundary data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shigeki SHINODA, Yoshihiro SATO, Shin TOMINAGA, Daisuke IKEFJI
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Patent number: 11614205Abstract: A piping diagnostic device according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: criteria distribution generating means for generating a criteria distribution that is statistical data of criteria data of piping based on construction information about the piping, design information about the piping, and material information about the piping; changed-state distribution generating means for generating a changed-state distribution that is statistical data of changed-state data of the piping that have changed due to aging based on at least either vibration or dynamic pressure of the piping that have changed due to aging; measurement means for measuring at least either vibration or dynamic pressure of the piping; and determining means for determining deterioration of the piping based on the criteria distribution, the changed-state distribution, and at least either vibration or dynamic pressure of the piping.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Soichiro Takata, Takahiro Kumura, Kanta Miyake, Shin Tominaga, Hirofumi Inoue, Shigeki Shinoda
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Publication number: 20230046797Abstract: A required time prediction apparatus (2000) acquires utilization facility information and assumed date and time information. The utilization facility information is information enabling to determine a departure facility and a destination facility. The assumed date and time information is information enabling to determine an assumed departure date and time assuming departure from the departure facility or an assumed arrival date and time assuming arrival at the destination facility. The apparatus (2000) estimates a waiting time at each facility being present between the departure facility and the destination facility, regarding a case of assuming departure from the departure facility at the assumed departure date and time, or a case of assuming arrival at the destination facility at the assumed arrival date and time. Then, the apparatus (2000) computes, based on the estimated waiting time, a predicted required time from departure from the departure facility to arrival at the destination facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hirofumi INOUE, Shin TOMINAGA, Shigeki SHINODA, Yuzo SENDA, Shigeru SEKINE