Patents by Inventor Shingo Ando

Shingo Ando 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).

  • Publication number: 20250045875
    Abstract: An input processing unit receives an image and a three-dimensional point cloud including three-dimensional points having reflection intensity on a surface of an object for which at least a relationship between an image capturing position and a measurement position is obtained in advance, and obtains pixel positions on the image corresponding to the respective three-dimensional points of the three-dimensional point cloud. A shadow region estimation unit performs clustering on pixels of the image on the basis of pixel values and pixel positions, obtains an average reflection intensity and an average value of quantified color information for each of clusters, and estimates a shadow region by performing comparison in the average reflection intensity and the average value of the color information between the clusters. A shadow correction unit corrects pixel values of the shadow region from the shadow region estimated and the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo SATO, Yasuhiro YAO, Shingo ANDO, Jun SHIMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20250037402
    Abstract: A position and posture estimation device acquires three-dimensional point cloud data at each of times and position data at each of times, the three-dimensional point cloud data being measured every time a first time elapses, the position data being measured every time a second time longer than the first time elapses. The position and posture estimation device estimates a local position in a local coordinate system and a local posture in the local coordinate system. The position and posture estimation device estimates an estimated absolute position and an estimated absolute posture in an absolute coordinate system every time the position data is acquired. The position and posture estimation device generates provisional three-dimensional point cloud data in the absolute coordinate system every time the position data is acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro YAO, Kana KURATA, Shingo ANDO, Jun SHIMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240383142
    Abstract: A robot system includes: a first link that is a part of a robotic arm; a first motor that moves according to a rotation of the first link; a first sensor having a fixed location with respect to the first motor; and a memory configured to store first position information indicating a relative position of the first sensor with respect to a first reference position of the first motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMAMOTO, Shingo ANDO, Masaru ADACHI, Keita SHIMAMOTO, Jiro MURAOKA
  • Publication number: 20240371093
    Abstract: A point cloud complementing device 100 receives a colored three-dimensional point cloud of each point including a missing region and the number of points to be complemented as inputs. A CPU 11 of the point cloud complementing device 100 extracts a feature vector of the three-dimensional point cloud using a feature extractor learned in advance. The CPU 11 uses a point cloud complementing model learned in advance in consideration of an error between color information and brightness information, has the feature vector and the number of points to be complemented as inputs, and outputs a point cloud obtained by complementing the input three-dimensional point cloud up to the number of points to be complemented by performing correction on point at which the brightness does not change among adjacent points of a predicted point cloud such that the points have close brightness information assuming that the points are on the same plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke TSUKATANI, Shingo ANDO, Jun SHIMAMURA
  • Patent number: 12136252
    Abstract: A point group including a small number of points that have been assigned labels is taken as an input to assign labels to points that have not been assigned labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yao, Kazuhiko Murasaki, Shingo Ando, Atsushi Sagata
  • Patent number: 12106438
    Abstract: Annotation can be easily performed on a three-dimensional point cloud and a working time can be reduced. An interface unit 22 displays a point cloud indicating a three-dimensional point on an object, and receives designation of a three-dimensional point indicating an annotation target object and designation of a three-dimensional point not indicating the annotation target object. A candidate cluster calculation unit 32 calculates a value of a predetermined evaluation function indicating a likelihood of a point cloud cluster being the annotation target object based on the designation of a three-dimensional point for point cloud clusters obtained by clustering the point clouds. A cluster selection and storage designation unit 34 causes the interface unit 22 to display the point cloud clusters in descending order of the value of the evaluation function, and receives a selection of a point cloud cluster to be annotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Niigaki, Yasuhiro Yao, Shingo Ando, Kana Kurata, Atsushi Sagata
  • Patent number: 12094153
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: 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: 20240281711
    Abstract: There is provided a class label estimation device that estimates a class label of input data and estimates a cause of an estimation error, the class label estimation device including: a distribution estimation unit that estimates a distribution followed by a training set; a distance estimation unit that estimates a distance of the input data from the training set based on the distribution; an unknown degree estimation unit that estimates an unknown degree of the input data based on the distance; an unknown degree correction unit that corrects the unknown degree based on the distribution; and an error cause estimation unit that estimates a cause of an estimation error using the corrected unknown degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Mihiro UCHIDA, Takayuki UMEDA, Shingo ANDO, Jun SHIMAMURA
  • Patent number: 12067763
    Abstract: A three-dimensional point cloud label learning and estimation device includes: a clustering unit that clusters a three-dimensional point cloud into clusters; a learning unit that makes a neural network learn to estimate a label corresponding to an object to which points contained in each of the clusters belong; and an estimation unit that estimates a label for the cluster using the neural network learned at the learning unit. In the three-dimensional point cloud label learning and estimation device, the neural network uses a total sum of sigmoid function values (sum of sigmoid) when performing feature extraction on the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yao, Hitoshi Niigaki, Kana Kurata, Kazuhiko Murasaki, Shingo Ando, Atsushi Sagata
  • Patent number: 12039736
    Abstract: Labels can be accurately identified even for an image with a resolution not used in training data. Based on an input image, a resolution of the input image, and a resolution of a training image used for training a trained model of assigning labels to pixels of an image, a plurality of low-resolution images are generated from the input image by using a plurality of shift amounts for a pixel correspondence between the input image and the respective low-resolution images with a resolution corresponding to the training image, the low-resolution images are input to the trained model, a plurality of low-resolution label images is output in which pixels of the respective low-resolution images are assigned labels, and a label image is output in which labels for pixels of the input image are obtained, based on the shift amounts used for generating the low-resolution images and the low-resolution label images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tsukatani, Kazuhiko Murasaki, Shingo Ando, Atsushi Sagata
  • Patent number: 12013345
    Abstract: The disclosed technology describes determining and registering dictionary data to diagnose a deteriorating state of a surface of a diagnose object. The method comprises receiving spectral distribution information of deteriorating surface regions of a target object. Given the spectral distribution information and a predetermined spectral distribution information of a reference object, the present technology determines a reference reflectance value of the target object and registers the reference reflectance value of the target object as dictionary data. The reference reflectance value is approximately the same regardless of a progressing state of deterioration of a surface of the target object. Given the dictionary data, the present invention estimates a deterioration state of a surface of a diagnose object under a variety of type of light sources with accuracy, without measuring spectral distribution information about a light source used at the time of measuring spectral data of the diagnose object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tsukatani, Shingo Ando, Tetsuya Kinebuchi
  • Patent number: 11989929
    Abstract: An object is to make it possible to train an image recognizer by efficiently using training data that does not include label information. A determination unit 180 causes repeated execution of the followings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Murasaki, Shingo Ando, Atsushi Sagata
  • Patent number: 11922650
    Abstract: It is possible to estimate a slack level accurately in consideration of a shape of a deformed cable. A point cloud analysis device sets a plurality of regions of interest obtained by window-searching a wire model including a quadratic curve model representing a cable obtained from a point cloud consisting of three-dimensional points on an object, the region of interest being divided into a first region and a second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Niigaki, Masaki Waki, Masaaki Inoue, Yasuhiro Yao, Tomoya Shimizu, Hiroyuki Oshida, Kana Kurata, Shingo Ando, Atsushi Sagata
  • Patent number: 11900622
    Abstract: Dense depth information can be generated using only a monocular image and sparse depth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yao, Shingo Ando, Kana Kurata, Hitoshi Niigaki, Atsushi Sagata
  • Patent number: 11887387
    Abstract: A mesh structure facility detection device detects data corresponding to a mesh structure facility from three-dimensional structure data representing a space including an outer shape of an object, and projects the three-dimensional structure data in a predetermined direction to obtain two-dimensional structure data; and detects a point included in a region in which the two-dimensional structure data has a density of more than or equal to a predetermined threshold value as a point corresponding to the mesh structure facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yao, Hitoshi Niigaki, Kana Kurata, Shingo Ando, Atsushi Sagata
  • Publication number: 20240005655
    Abstract: A learning apparatus includes: a data generation unit that learns generation of data based on a class label signal and a noise signal; an unknown degree estimation unit that learns estimation of a degree to which input data is unknown using a training set and the data generated by the data generation unit; a first class likelihood estimation unit that learns estimation of a first likelihood of each class label for input data using the training set; a second class likelihood estimation unit that learns estimation of a second likelihood of each class label for input data using the training set and the data generated by the data generation unit; a class likelihood correction unit that generates a third likelihood by correcting the first likelihood on the basis of the unknown degree and the second likelihood; and a class label estimation unit that estimates a class label of data related to the third likelihood on the basis of the third likelihood, thereby automatically estimating a cause of an error by a deep mod
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Mihiro UCHIDA, Jun SHIMAMURA, Shingo ANDO, Takayuki UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20230409964
    Abstract: An identification device acquires a plurality of identification target points by sampling a target point group that is a set of three-dimensional target points. The identification device calculates relative coordinates of a neighboring point of the identification target point with respect to the identification target point. The identification device inputs coordinates of the plurality of identification target points and relative coordinates of neighboring points with respect to each of the plurality of identification target points into a class label assigning learned model to acquire class labels of the plurality of identification target points and validity of the class labels with respect to the neighboring points for each of the plurality of identification target points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kana KURATA, Yasuhiro YAO, Naoki ITO, Shingo ANDO, Jun SHIMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11797845
    Abstract: Simultaneous learning of a plurality of different tasks and domains, with low costs and high precision, is enabled. A learning unit 160, on the basis of learning data, uses a target encoder that takes data of a target domain as input and outputs a target feature expression, a source encoder that takes data of a source domain as input and outputs a source feature expression, a common encoder that takes data of the target domain or the source domain as input and outputs a common feature expression, a target decoder that takes output of the target encoder and the common encoder as input and outputs a result of executing a task with regard to data of the target domain, and a source decoder that takes output of the source encoder and the common encoder as input and outputs a result of executing a task with regard to data of the source domain, to learn so that the output of the target decoder matches training data, and the output of the source decoder matches training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Umeda, Kazuhiko Murasaki, Shingo Ando, Tetsuya Kinebuchi
  • Publication number: 20230260216
    Abstract: Annotation can be easily performed on a three-dimensional point cloud and a working time can be reduced. An interface unit 22 displays a point cloud indicating a three-dimensional point on an object, and receives designation of a three-dimensional point indicating an annotation target object and designation of a three-dimensional point not indicating the annotation target object. A candidate cluster calculation unit 32 calculates a value of a predetermined evaluation function indicating a likelihood of a point cloud cluster being the annotation target object based on the designation of a three-dimensional point for point cloud clusters obtained by clustering the point clouds. A cluster selection and storage designation unit 34 causes the interface unit 22 to display the point cloud clusters in descending order of the value of the evaluation function, and receives a selection of a point cloud cluster to be annotated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi NIIGAKI, Yasuhiro YAO, Shingo ANDO, Kana KURATA, Atsushi SAGATA
  • Publication number: 20230245438
    Abstract: A training unit 24 performs leaning of a recognizer that recognizes labels of data based on a plurality of training data to which training labels are given. A score calculation unit 28 calculates a score output by the recognizer for each of the plurality of training data by using the trained recognizer. A threshold value determination unit 30 determines a threshold value for the score for determining the label, based on a shape of an ROC curve representing a correspondence between a true positive rate and a false positive rate, which is obtained based on the score calculated for each of the plurality of training data. A selection unit 32 selects the training data difficult to recognize by the recognizer based on the threshold value determined and the score calculated for each of the plurality of training data. The process of each unit described above is repeated until a predetermined iteration termination condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko MURASAKI, Shingo ANDO, Jun SHIMAMURA