Patents by Inventor Shunichiro Nonaka

Shunichiro Nonaka 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: 11100258
    Abstract: A structural object information search unit (18) acquires structural object specification information of the target structural object from the inspection result information, and searches for structural object information of a reference structural object stored in a structural object information DB (50). The structural object information search unit (18) specifies similar reference structural object similar to the target structural object. An inspection result similarity determination unit (24) acquires inspection and/or repair information of the similar reference structural object from the structural object information DB (50), compares the inspection and/or repair information of the similar reference structural object with a inspection result of the target structural object, and specifies inspection result information of the reference structural object used in generation of a repair plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunichiro Nonaka, Masayuki Negoro, Satoshi Kubota
  • Patent number: 11093877
    Abstract: A structural object data input unit receives an input of structural data of a target structural object to be inspected, and an attribute information input unit receives an input of attribute information of the target structural object. Next, an inspection location determination unit specifies a location having stress applied thereto in the target structural object, and determines an inspection required location of the target structural object on the basis of a result of the determination. Next, an inspection plan creation unit creates an inspection plan on the basis of the specification result for the inspection required location, and outputs the created inspection plan to a display unit. Thereby, the inspection plan is displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunichiro Nonaka, Masayuki Negoro, Satoshi Kubota
  • Patent number: 10963988
    Abstract: An image processing device, an image processing system, an image processing method, and a program capable of suppressing unnaturalness of color of an object extracted from a color image are provided. An image processing device includes an object area determination unit that determines an object area, a mask image generation unit that generates a mask image, an object image generation unit that generates an object image on the basis of the object area, a color determination unit that determines a color to be subtracted from colors to be applied to the object area and sets a smaller number of colors than those of the object area as colors of the object image, and a probability calculation unit that calculates a probability of pixels of the mask image being pixels of the object area, and the object image generation unit sets the colors set using the color determination unit as colors of an edge area of the object image on the basis of the probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10877475
    Abstract: The robot device includes a spatial information recording unit where first spatial information about an area in which the movement of a robot device to be self-propelled with respect to a structure is supposed and which is associated with the structure is recorded, a spatial information acquisition section that is mounted on the robot device and acquires second spatial information about a peripheral area of the robot device with the movement of the robot device, and a spatial information updating unit that updates the first spatial information recorded in the spatial information recording unit with the second spatial information acquired by the spatial information acquisition section. The first spatial information recorded in the spatial information recording unit is used in a case in which the robot device is moved with respect to the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10762619
    Abstract: An imaging support device (10) includes an imaging point specification unit (22) that specifies an imaging point of a structure on the basis of drawing information, an imaging planning unit (24) that generates imaging plan information including at least one of imaging position information or imaging range information of an imaging device at each imaging of the structure on the basis of the specified imaging point and image quality information, an actual imaging information-acquisition unit (28) that acquires actual imaging information including at least one of actual imaging position information or actual imaging range information of the imaging device at each imaging of the structure, and an imaging support information-generation unit (30) that combines the imaging plan information and the actual imaging information with the drawing information and allows a display unit (13) to display combined information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10739274
    Abstract: The imaging support device includes: a distance information-acquisition unit (20) that acquires distance information on a distance between an imaging device (200) and the surface to be imaged of a structure; an inclination angle information-acquisition unit (22) that acquires inclination angle information on an inclination angle of the surface to be imaged of the structure; an actual pixel density-calculation unit (24) that calculates actual pixel density of the surface to be imaged of the structure on the basis of imaging performance information of the imaging device (200) (including information on the number of pixels of an imaging element, size information of the imaging element, and information on a focal length), distance information, and inclination angle information; and a pixel density-determination unit (26) that determines whether or not the calculated actual pixel density matches required pixel density information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10740892
    Abstract: A measurement support apparatus includes an image acquisition unit; a scale image generation unit, the scale image representing a scale assigned at least one of gradations for measuring a length of the crack or line drawings and numerals for measuring a width of the crack; and an image display unit that displays the image of the structure and the scale image in a superimposed manner in a display area, in which the scale image generation unit generates a scale image in accordance with a distance between the image acquisition unit and the measurement surface and an orientation of the measurement surface, and the image display unit displays the generated scale image in the superimposed manner at a position according to a position of the crack in the image of the structure in a direction according to a direction of the crack in the image of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunichiro Nonaka, Masashi Kuranoshita
  • Publication number: 20200098090
    Abstract: An image processing device, an image processing system, an image processing method, and a program capable of suppressing unnaturalness of color of an object extracted from a color image are provided. An image processing device includes an object area determination unit that determines an object area, a mask image generation unit that generates a mask image, an object image generation unit that generates an object image on the basis of the object area, a color determination unit that determines a color to be subtracted from colors to be applied to the object area and sets a smaller number of colors than those of the object area as colors of the object image, and a probability calculation unit that calculates a probability of pixels of the mask image being pixels of the object area, and the object image generation unit sets the colors set using the color determination unit as colors of an edge area of the object image on the basis of the probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20180322624
    Abstract: An imaging support device (10) includes an imaging point specification unit (22) that specifies an imaging point of a structure on the basis of drawing information, an imaging planning unit (24) that generates imaging plan information including at least one of imaging position information or imaging range information of an imaging device at each imaging of the structure on the basis of the specified imaging point and image quality information, an actual imaging information-acquisition unit (28) that acquires actual imaging information including at least one of actual imaging position information or actual imaging range information of the imaging device at each imaging of the structure, and an imaging support information-generation unit (30) that combines the imaging plan information and the actual imaging information with the drawing information and allows a display unit (13) to display combined information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20180300867
    Abstract: A measurement support apparatus includes an image acquisition unit; a scale image generation unit, the scale image representing a scale assigned at least one of gradations for measuring a length of the crack or line drawings and numerals for measuring a width of the crack; and an image display unit that displays the image of the structure and the scale image in a superimposed manner in a display area, in which the scale image generation unit generates a scale image in accordance with a distance between the image acquisition unit and the measurement surface and an orientation of the measurement surface, and the image display unit displays the generated scale image in the superimposed manner at a position according to a position of the crack in the image of the structure in a direction according to a direction of the crack in the image of the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunichiro NONAKA, Masashi KURANOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20180299387
    Abstract: The imaging support device includes: a distance information-acquisition unit (20) that acquires distance information on a distance between an imaging device (200) and the surface to be imaged of a structure; an inclination angle information-acquisition unit (22) that acquires inclination angle information on an inclination angle of the surface to be imaged of the structure; an actual pixel density-calculation unit (24) that calculates actual pixel density of the surface to be imaged of the structure on the basis of imaging performance information of the imaging device (200) (including information on the number of pixels of an imaging element, size information of the imaging element, and information on a focal length), distance information, and inclination angle information; and a pixel density-determination unit (26) that determines whether or not the calculated actual pixel density matches required pixel density information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro NONAKA
  • Patent number: 10091408
    Abstract: The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging optical system that is formed of a wide-angle optical system and a telephoto optical system having a common optical axis; a directional sensor; a panning/tilting mechanism that rotates an imaging section, which includes the imaging optical system and the directional sensor, in horizontal and vertical directions; and an image acquisition section that respectively acquires a wide-angle image, and a telephoto image, and a first target object is detected from a wide-angle image, the panning/tilting mechanism is controlled on the basis of information about a position of the detected first target object within the wide-angle image, and image recognition is performed on a telephoto image, when the first target object is positioned at the center of the wide-angle image, thereby recognizing the first target object or a second target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20180189705
    Abstract: A structural object data input unit receives an input of structural data of a target structural object to be inspected, and an attribute information input unit receives an input of attribute information of the target structural object. Next, an inspection location determination unit specifies a location having stress applied thereto in the target structural object, and determines an inspection required location of the target structural object on the basis of a result of the determination. Next, an inspection plan creation unit creates an inspection plan on the basis of the specification result for the inspection required location, and outputs the created inspection plan to a display unit. Thereby, the inspection plan is displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunichiro NONAKA, Masayuki NEGORO, Satoshi KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20180189750
    Abstract: An input unit (14) receives an input of structural object specification information of a structural object which is a drafting target of a maintenance plan, and a data input and output unit (16) acquires inspection result data (current data) including positional information and an image of a structural object corresponding to the structural object specification information from a data storage unit (50). A captured image analysis unit (18) analyzes an image included in the current data, and detects a damaged portion of the structural object. A priority level calculation unit (20) calculates a damage level based on a degree of damage of each damaged portion, predicts a future damage progression by referring to damage history data from the positional information of each damaged portion, and determines maintenance priority level by using the damage level and the prediction result of the future damage progression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunichiro NONAKA, Masayuki NEGORO, Satoshi KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20180189423
    Abstract: A structural object information search unit (18) acquires structural object specification information of the target structural object from the inspection result information, and searches for structural object information of a reference structural object stored in a structural object information DB (50). The structural object information search unit (18) specifies similar reference structural object similar to the target structural object. An inspection result similarity determination unit (24) acquires inspection and/or repair information of the similar reference structural object from the structural object information DB (50), compares the inspection and/or repair information of the similar reference structural object with a inspection result of the target structural object, and specifies inspection result information of the reference structural object used in generation of a repair plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shunichiro Nonaka, Masayuki Negoro, Satoshi Kubota
  • Publication number: 20180074500
    Abstract: The robot device includes a spatial information recording unit where first spatial information about an area in which the movement of a robot device to be self-propelled with respect to a structure is supposed and which is associated with the structure is recorded, a spatial information acquisition section that is mounted on the robot device and acquires second spatial information about a peripheral area of the robot device with the movement of the robot device, and a spatial information updating unit that updates the first spatial information recorded in the spatial information recording unit with the second spatial information acquired by the spatial information acquisition section. The first spatial information recorded in the spatial information recording unit is used in a case in which the robot device is moved with respect to the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20170280045
    Abstract: The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging optical system that is formed of a wide-angle optical system and a telephoto optical system having a common optical axis; a directional sensor; a panning/tilting mechanism that rotates an imaging section, which includes the imaging optical system and the directional sensor, in horizontal and vertical directions; and an image acquisition section that respectively acquires a wide-angle image, and a telephoto image, and a first target object is detected from a wide-angle image, the panning/tilting mechanism is controlled on the basis of information about a position of the detected first target object within the wide-angle image, and image recognition is performed on a telephoto image, when the first target object is positioned at the center of the wide-angle image, thereby recognizing the first target object or a second target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro NONAKA
  • Patent number: 9361528
    Abstract: The distance to a target vehicle is calculated. To achieve this, a target vehicle traveling ahead is imaged and it is determined to what vehicle group, such as a light-duty vehicle group, standard passenger car group or heavy-duty vehicle group, the image of the target vehicle belongs. Representative vehicle widths are stored in a vehicle group table on a per-vehicle-group basis. The distance from one's own vehicle to a target vehicle is calculated using the vehicle width that corresponds to the vehicle group decided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichiro Nonaka, Yuko Matsui
  • Patent number: 9135709
    Abstract: The distance to a target vehicle is calculated comparatively accurately. To achieve this, a target vehicle traveling ahead of one's own vehicle is imaged by a camera and it is determined to what vehicle group the image of the target vehicle belongs. A first distance from one's own vehicle to the target vehicle is calculated by a circuit using the representative vehicle width of the vehicle group decided. A vanishing point is detected from the captured image by a vanishing point detection circuit and a second distance from one's own vehicle to the target vehicle is calculated utilizing the vanishing point. The distance to the target vehicle is decided from the first and second distances by a distance decision circuit, wherein the shorter the distance to the vanishing point, the more the value of a weighting coefficient of the second distance is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichiro Nonaka, Yuko Matsui
  • Patent number: 8952989
    Abstract: A viewer unit, comprising a display control device configured to control to shift the position of the display range sequentially within the page image in accordance with the positional line determined by the determination device in order to display the images of each display range sequentially on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichiro Nonaka