Patents by Inventor Shoji Nishimura

Shoji Nishimura 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: 20230307138
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20230298166
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20230274553
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20230259547
    Abstract: An image selection apparatus (10) includes a selection unit (110) and a display processing unit (120). The selection unit (110) acquires query information, sets a selection condition of an image by using the query information, and performs processing (hereinafter, described as selection processing) of selecting a plurality of images by using the selection condition. The display processing unit (120) displays the plurality of images selected by the selection unit (110) on a display unit (130), for example, a display. Herein, after the display unit (130) displays the plurality of images, the selection unit (110) acquires a selection input indicating a result of selecting at least one image from the plurality of images. Then, the selection unit (110) changes the selection condition by using the image indicated by the selection input, and performs the selection processing again by using the selection condition after the change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shoji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230244713
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus (100) including: an image acquisition unit (101) that acquires an image; a selection unit (109) that selects at least one person included in the image, based on a user input; a skeleton structure detection unit (102) that detects a two-dimensional skeleton structure of a person included in the image; a feature value computation unit (103) that computes a feature value of the detected two-dimensional skeleton structure; and a search unit (105) that searches, from analysis target images, for the analysis target image including a person in a state similar to a state of the selected person, based on a degree of similarity to a feature value of the two-dimensional skeleton structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo KAWAI, Noboru YOSHIDA, Yadong PAN, Shoji NISHIMURA, Jianquan LIU
  • Publication number: 20230238149
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20230230380
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20230214421
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including: an image acquisition unit acquiring a candidate of a query image; a skeletal structure detection unit detecting a two-dimensional skeletal structure of a person included in a candidate of the query image; a query evaluation unit computing an evaluation value of a candidate of the query image, based on a detection result of the two-dimensional skeletal structure; a selection unit selecting a query image out of candidates of the query image, based on the evaluation value; a feature value computation unit computing a feature value of the two-dimensional skeletal structure detected from the query image; and a retrieval unit retrieving an analysis target image including a person in a pose similar to a pose of a person included in the query image out of analysis target images, based on a degree of similarity of the computed feature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru YOSHIDA, Yandong PAN, Ryo KAWAI, Jianquan LIU, Shoji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230214024
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) includes an image processing unit and an execution unit. The image processing unit processes a video generated by a surveillance camera (20), and thereby determines whether a person included in the video performs a first gesture. The execution unit executes first processing on a necessary condition that the first gesture is detected. As described above, a plurality of types of the first gestures exist, and the first processing is determined for each of a plurality of types of the first gestures. Then, the execution unit executes the first processing being associated with a type of the detected first gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shoji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20230215135
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus (100) including an image acquisition unit (101) that acquires a query image, based on an input keyword, a skeleton structure detection unit (102) that detects a two-dimensional skeleton structure of a person included in the query image, a feature value computation unit (103) that computes a feature value of the detected two-dimensional skeleton structure, and a search unit (105) that searches, based on a degree of similarity of the computed feature value, for an analysis target image including a person in a state similar to a state of a person included in the query image from the analysis target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo KAWAI, Noboru YOSHIDA, Yadong PAN, Shoji NISHIMURA, Jianquan LIU
  • Publication number: 20230206468
    Abstract: A tracking device including a designation range acquisition unit that acquires a designation range designated for each of a plurality of image frames constituting video data, a tracking unit that extracts the image frame to be verified from the video data, detect a tracking target for each of the extracted image frames, set a collation range for the detected tracking target, and adjust the collation range based on the designation range set for each of the image frames, and a display information generation unit that generates, for each of the image frames, a tracking image in which the collation range is associated with the tracking target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru YOSHIDA, Shoji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230206482
    Abstract: A search information acquisition unit acquires a plurality of pieces of search pose information generated for each of a plurality of target images and indicate a pose of a person included in the target image. An exclusion information acquisition unit acquires exclusion pose information indicating a pose of a person included in an exclusion query image. The exclusion query image is an image to be a query of an image needed to be excluded from a search result, and includes at least a person. An exclusion score computation unit computes an exclusion score for each of the plurality of pieces of search pose information. The exclusion score indicates a degree of similarity of the search pose information to the exclusion pose information. An exclusion image selection unit selects, from the plurality of target images by using the exclusion score, an image needed to be excluded from a search result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru YOSHIDA, Yadong PAN, Ryo KAWAI, Jianquan LIU, Shoji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230186635
    Abstract: A flow line display apparatus (10) includes an acquisition unit (110) and a display processing unit (120). The acquisition unit (110) acquires at least one piece of flow line information. The flow line information includes a flow line of a person, and action information indicating an action performed when the person moves along the flow line and a location where the action is performed. The flow line information is generated with respect to each person. The display processing unit (120) displays, on a display unit (130), a flow line indicated by flow line information, action content information indicating an action indicated by action information, and action location information indicating a location where the action is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shoji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230186597
    Abstract: A query acquisition unit (610) acquires a plurality of pieces of query information. The query information is information generated for each of a plurality of query images, and indicates a feature of the query image. A similar image selection unit (620) selects, as a similar image by using the plurality of pieces of query information, an image whose degree of similarity to at least one of the query images satisfies a reference. A display control unit (630) displays the similar image selected by the similar image selection unit (620) on a display unit. When the similar image selection unit (620) selects a plurality of the similar images, the display control unit (630) sets a display position or a display order of each of the plurality of similar images on the display unit by using the number of the query images in which the similar image satisfies a reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo KAWAI, Noboru YOSHIDA, Yadong PAN, Shoji NISHIMURA, Jianquan LIU
  • Publication number: 20230185845
    Abstract: A query acquisition unit (610) acquires pose information (hereinafter, described as query pose information) that is information to be a query and indicates a pose of a person. A search information acquisition unit (620) acquires a plurality of pieces of search pose information. The search pose information is pose information about an image (hereinafter, described as a target image) to be a search target, and is stored in a database by a plurality of target images. A selection unit (630) selects, from among the plurality of pieces of search pose information, two or more pieces of the search pose information whose degree of similarity to the query pose information satisfies a reference. The selection processing becomes substantially processing of selecting a target image similar to an image (hereinafter, described as a query image) associated with the query pose information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo KAWAI, Noboru YOSHIDA, Yadong PAN, Shoji NISHIMURA, Jianquan LIU
  • Patent number: 11663184
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (100) includes an input unit (102) that inputs a first threshold value and a second threshold value which are threshold values related to a degree of similarity of a feature value of each of a plurality of pieces of data, the first threshold value being for regarding data as belonging to an identical group and the second threshold value being smaller than the first threshold value, and a grouping unit (104) that groups the data by using the degree of similarity, the first threshold value, and the second threshold value, in which the grouping unit (104) causes data of which the degree of similarity with representative data is greater than the first threshold value to be included in the same group, and selects new representative data from among pieces of data of which the degree of similarity with the representative data already present is less than the second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoji Nishimura, Jianquan Liu
  • Patent number: 11544276
    Abstract: To provide search results to be presented in accordance with changes in the state of search performed by a user. A search device includes: a search means that searches a storage means storing records for records that match an input search condition to not less than a set relevance level and outputs search results; and a specificity inference means that, when a user operation is input after the search means has output search results corresponding to a first search condition, infers whether or not specificity of the search results is acceptable on the basis of the user operation, and, when the specificity is inferred to be acceptable, raises a relevance level that the search means uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20220395193
    Abstract: A height estimation apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit (11) for acquiring a two-dimensional image obtained by capturing an animal, a detection unit (12) for detecting a two-dimensional skeletal structure of the animal based on the two-dimensional image acquired by the acquisition unit (11), and an estimation unit (13) for estimating a height of the animal in a three-dimensional real world based on the two-dimensional skeletal structure detected by the detection unit (12) and an imaging parameter of the two-dimensional image acquired by the acquisition unit (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru YOSHIDA, Shoji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220383653
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a skeleton detection unit (11) configured to detect two-dimensional skeleton structures of a plurality of persons based on an acquired two-dimensional image; a feature calculation unit (12) configured to calculate features of the plurality of two-dimensional skeleton structures that have been detected by the skeleton detection unit (11); and a recognition unit (13) configured to perform processing of recognizing states of the plurality of persons based on a degree of similarity among the plurality of features that have been calculated by the feature calculation unit (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru YOSHIDA, Shoji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20220366716
    Abstract: A person state detection apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit (11) for acquiring a two-dimensional image obtained by capturing a person, a skeletal structure detection unit (12) for detecting a two-dimensional skeletal structure of the person based on the acquired two-dimensional image, an estimation unit (13) for estimating a height of the person standing upright in a two-dimensional image space based on the detected two-dimensional skeletal structure, and a state detection unit (14) for detecting the state of the person based on a height of an area where the person is present in the two-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru YOSHIDA, Shoji NISHIMURA