Patents by Inventor Shozo Yoshimura

Shozo Yoshimura 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: 12511778
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that performs control related to movement of a moving object configured to measure its own position includes a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor that, upon execution of the instructions, is configured to operate as a first acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental information about an environment where the moving object moves, an estimation unit configured to estimate first positional information indicating that a region subjected to measurement accuracy degradation is below a threshold value based on the environmental information, and a determination unit configured to determine content of control information based on the first positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shozo Yoshimura, Masakazu Fujiki
  • Publication number: 20250306598
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes at least one memory storing a program, and at least one processor that when executing the program causes the information processing apparatus to acquire at least one plan assigned to at least one autonomous mobile object, detect, based on the at least one plan, an obstruction factor that is likely to cause an obstruction to execution of the at least one plan, predict the obstruction with respect to the at least one plan based on the at least one plan and the obstruction factor, determine a modification content for the at least one plan based on the obstruction, and update the at least one plan based on the modification content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2025
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Inventors: SHOZO YOSHIMURA, MASAKAZU FUJIKI
  • Publication number: 20250139744
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an information processing unit and an output unit, wherein the information processing unit, when in operation and history information held in a history information holding unit is available, processes an input image using the history information to generate an information-processed image, updates the history information, and the output unit outputs the information-processed image, and if the history information is unavailable, the information processing unit regenerates it based on the input image, processes the input image and the regenerated history information to generate an information-processed image, updates the history information, and the output unit outputs the information-processed image, and when the information processing unit is suspended, the output unit outputs the input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: HAJIME MUTA, SHO SAITO, MASAHIRO MATSUSHITA, HITOSHI FUKAMACHI, SHOZO YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20250077912
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor that, upon execution of the stored instructions cause the at least one processor to set up, in an input image, an inference target region subjected to an inference by a model established based on machine learning and decide, according to a size of the set inference target region, a model to be applied to an inference in which the input image is set as input data from among a plurality of models which have mutually different sizes of input data and on which an initialization for initiating a state in which the inference is executable on the input data is implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Sho SAITO, Masahiro MATSUSHITA, Hajime MUTA, Shozo YOSHIMURA, Hitoshi FUKAMACHI
  • Publication number: 20250069198
    Abstract: A restored image in which degradation in an image quality has been sufficiently reduced is generated. An image processing apparatus which generates a data of a restored image to be obtained by reducing degradation in an image quality contained in an input image by a method of inference using a neural network, according to the present disclosure, estimates a degree of the degradation in the image quality contained in the input image, and determines an adjustment parameter to be used in image restoration processing of reducing the degradation in the image quality, based on the estimated degree of the degradation in the image quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: HITOSHI FUKAMACHI, SHO SAITO, MASAHIRO MATSUSHITA, HAJIME MUTA, SHOZO YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20250022166
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to perform position and orientation measurement by using sensor data from a sensor is provided, comprising a first characteristic acquisition unit configured to acquire object variation characteristics that indicate characteristics that influence the accuracy of the position and orientation measurement for each object within the measurement range of the sensor, a proximity object determination unit configured to determine a proximity object that interferes with an object from which the object variation characteristics have been acquired, a second characteristic acquisition unit configured to acquire object variation factor characteristics that indicate characteristics that influence the accuracy of the position and orientation measurement by interfering with other objects with respect to each of the proximity objects, and a position and orientation measurement control unit configured to control the position and orientation measurement processing so as to restrict
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: SHOZO YOSHIMURA, MASAKAZU FUJIKI, KAZUHIKO KOBAYASHI, MAKOTO TOMIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240412403
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a disposition knowledge acquisition unit configured to acquire disposition knowledge information including type information that indicates types of two or more observation targets observed by an observer and positional relationship information between the observation targets; an inter-object positional relationship recognition unit configured to recognize an object type and a positional relationship in the disposition knowledge information; an observation position and orientation recognition unit configured to recognize an observation position and orientation that are a position and an orientation of observation at a time point at which the disposition knowledge information is generated; and a spatial positional relationship calculation unit configured to calculate spatial positional information between two or more of the observation targets based on the positional relationship and the observation position and orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: SHOZO YOSHIMURA, MASAKAZU FUJIKI, KAZUHIKO KOBAYASHI, MAKOTO TOMIOKA
  • Publication number: 20230034076
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that performs control related to movement of a moving object configured to measure its own position includes a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor that, upon execution of the instructions, is configured to operate as a first acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental information about an environment where the moving object moves, an estimation unit configured to estimate first positional information indicating that a region subjected to measurement accuracy degradation is below a threshold value based on the environmental information, and a determination unit configured to determine content of control information based on the first positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Shozo Yoshimura, Masakazu Fujiki
  • Patent number: 4510207
    Abstract: Described is a composite aluminum foil for use as an electrode in an electrolytic capacitor, having an aluminum core layer of purity greater than 99.995% clad on each side with an aluminum outer layer of purity 99.0 to 99.99%, which has a rich proportion of a cubic texture, i.e., a predominant occupancy of the crystallographic plane of Miller indices (100) substantially parallel to the surface of the foil. The core layer may contain both or either of copper and iron in an amount of 10 to 40 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: Toyo Aluminium Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Mehada, Shozo Yoshimura, Kenshiro Yamaguchi, Osamu Iwao