Patents by Inventor Shunji Sugaya

Shunji Sugaya 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: 20210311986
    Abstract: Provided are a system and a method for judging the situation of an object, and a program that can save time preparing a number of images for efficiently learning and judge the situation of an object in a new image based on the learning result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA
  • Publication number: 20210312654
    Abstract: Provided is a computer system, and a method and a program that easily judge the situation of an object from an image. The computer system acquires an image; extracts a feature point in the image and analyzes at least two components selected from an object contained in the acquired image, the posture, the shape, and the orientation of the object, and the background in the image; acquires situation data indicating the situation of the object; associates and learns the combination of the components with the acquired situation data; and judges the situation of the object based on the learning result of the situation data when the result of analysis for a predetermined image is the same as or similar to the combination of the components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA
  • Publication number: 20210294986
    Abstract: Provided are a computer system, a method, and a program for sharing a screen that more easily deliver instruction appropriately. The computer system that shares a screen and receives instruction remotely extracts a language used by an instructed person from a database previously registered, acquires a text or voice message from an instructing person, generates translation data by translating the acquired message into the extracted language, and outputs the generated translation data in text or voice to the instructed person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA
  • Publication number: 20210278242
    Abstract: Provided is a wearable terminal display system for displaying the guide map of the guidance target on the display board of the wearable terminal. The wearable terminal display system includes: an image acquisition unit for acquiring an image of a guidance target entering a visual field of the wearable terminal; an determination unit for determining the guidance target by performing an image analysis on the image; a collection unit for collecting a guide map of the guidance target; and a guide map display unit for displaying the guide map of the guidance target seen through the display board on the display board of the wearable terminal by using augmented reality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA
  • Patent number: 11100642
    Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a computer system, an animal diagnosis method, and a program in which the accuracy of animal diagnosis can be improved. The computer system acquires a visible light image of an animal imaged by a camera, compares the acquired visible light image with a normal visible light image of the animal and performs image analysis, identifies a species of the animal according to the result of the image analysis, identifies an abnormal portion of the animal according to the result of the image analysis, acquires environmental data of the animal, and diagnoses a condition of the animal according to the identified species, the identified abnormal portion and the acquired environmental data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11061995
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a computer system, a license management method, and a program capable of effectively using owned licenses and improving the convenience. A computer system that manages licenses of an application acquires a number of owned licenses, calculates a number of unused licenses which are not currently used, determines a number of rentable licenses from the calculated number of unused licenses, and provides the determined rentable licenses. Further, the computer system stores the number of rentable licenses and a rental period of the rentable licenses in association with each other, and provides the rentable licenses during the rental period. Furthermore, the computer system provides a minimum number of licenses among numbers of rentable licenses in the rental period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Publication number: 20210208604
    Abstract: Provided are a computer system, a drone control method, and a program that can obtain information about the object while reducing the power consumption. When the computer system acquires an image captured by a drone, the computer system performs image analysis on the acquired image, extract, in a result of the image analysis, a point whose an edge variation amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, acquires a position coordinate of the extracted point; and controls the drone to fly towards the acquired position coordinate and perform capturing with a camera using light other than visible light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA
  • Publication number: 20210142807
    Abstract: Provided is a system that reduces the number of inquiries made to the call center and lightens the burden on the customer service staff. In this call center conversational content display system, a control unit executes an acquisition module to acquire voice data of conversational content between a user and a customer service staff. Next, the control unit executes a conversion module to convert the voice data into text. Then, the control unit executes a disclosure module to enable the text to be displayed on a user terminal in the form of a chat between the user and the customer service staff.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA
  • Publication number: 20210142071
    Abstract: Provided is a system protecting privacy or the like of a land owner when providing an image taken by an unmanned flying object to the public (1) includes an unmanned aerial vehicle (10) and a computer (30). A control unit (14) in the unmanned aerial vehicle (10) executes an image acquisition module (141) to acquire an aerial image including positional information. A control unit (32) in the computer (30) executes a region designation module (321) to set a region where viewing is to be restricted. The control unit (32) executes a condition setting module (332) to set conditions for canceling the viewing restriction and set the conditions in a viewing authorization database (332). The control unit (32) executes a provision module (323) to provide an aerial image which includes the region where viewing is restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA
  • Publication number: 20210090134
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic book display system, an electronic book display method, and a program in which an electronic book, evaluation information of a product and purchase information necessary for purchasing the product can be visually recognized in the same display area, and a computer automatically associates product information with its evaluation information and purchase information. An electronic book display system includes a display module 141 that displays an electronic book on which product information is described, and a search module 121 that searches for evaluation information associated with the product information or purchase information for purchasing a product corresponding to the product information. The display module 141 displays at least one of the searched evaluation information and purchase information in association with the product information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA
  • Publication number: 20210073458
    Abstract: Provided is a system for displaying bins of an arbitrarily comic in sequence on a terminal in a manner of scrollable display. In a comic data display system (1), a control unit (10) executes a comic data acquisition module (11) to acquire comic capture data. The control unit (10) executes a bin display module (12), and arranges and displays the bins included in the acquired comic capture data in sequence according to a bin order database (31) which stores a learning result related to a conversion of bins of the comic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA
  • Patent number: 10913533
    Abstract: A control target device 30 is, for example, an agricultural machine for performing various processes such as watering, additional fertilization, agrochemical spreading, and harvesting on a plant grown in a field. A moving image-capturing device 20 is a device that is movable and has an image-capturing function, and is, for example, a rotary-wing aircraft called a drone or a multicopter. A remote control device 10 analyzes an image of the field captured by the moving image-capturing device 30, determines what process should be performed on the plant according to the analysis result, and instructs the control target device 30 to perform the determined process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 10895491
    Abstract: It is an object to provide an animal weight estimation system, an animal weight estimation method, and a program, for suppressing increase of cost and improving safety when measuring a weight of an animal. An animal weight estimation system 1 for estimating a weight of an animal captures the animal, acquires outline data or a feature amount of the animal from a captured image which is captured, measures a distance between the animal and an image capturing position of the animal and estimates a weight of the animal from the acquired outline data and the measured distance when the outline data are acquired, and estimates the weight of the animal form the acquired feature amount when the feature amount is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Patent number: 10887195
    Abstract: Provided are a computer system, a remote control notification method and a program. This computer system acquires an image of an IoT device, determines, from the acquired image, the IoT device which is capable of being remotely controlled by a user who visually confirms the image, and, in a position where the image of the IoT device determined to be remotely controllable is captured, displays with augmented reality that remote control is possible. Further, the computer system pre-stores images of the remotely controllable IoT device, and, on the basis of the pre-stored images of the IoT device, determines that the IoT device is remotely controllable through image recognition which involves comparing the pre-stored images with the acquired image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Publication number: 20200412946
    Abstract: Provided is a long image generation system. In the long image generation system, even when the moving vehicle and an imaging object are separated by a predetermined distance or more, a continuous long image can be generated through obtaining as few images as possible. The long image generation system (1) of the present disclosure includes: a moving vehicle carrying an imaging device; and a computer (30). The control unit (32) of the computer (30) obtains images at time intervals that changes in accordance with the view angle of the imaging device and the moving speed of the moving vehicle, records the images in the image data storage region (332), and synthesizes the images stored in the image data storage region (332) to generate the long image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA
  • Patent number: 10880476
    Abstract: Provided is a long image generation system. In the long image generation system, even when the moving vehicle and an imaging object are separated by a predetermined distance or more, a continuous long image can be generated through obtaining as few images as possible. The long image generation system (1) of the present disclosure includes: a moving vehicle carrying an imaging device; and a computer (30). The control unit (32) of the computer (30) obtains images at time intervals that changes in accordance with the view angle of the imaging device and the moving speed of the moving vehicle, records the images in the image data storage region (332), and synthesizes the images stored in the image data storage region (332) to generate the long image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Publication number: 20200380093
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a computer system, a license management method, and a program capable of effectively using owned licenses and improving the convenience. A computer system that manages licenses of an application acquires a number of owned licenses, calculates a number of unused licenses which are not currently used, determines a number of rentable licenses from the calculated number of unused licenses, and provides the determined rentable licenses. Further, the computer system stores the number of rentable licenses and a rental period of the rentable licenses in association with each other, and provides the rentable licenses during the rental period. Furthermore, the computer system provides a minimum number of licenses among numbers of rentable licenses in the rental period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA
  • Publication number: 20200380678
    Abstract: The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a computer system, an animal diagnosis method, and a program in which the accuracy of animal diagnosis can be improved. The computer system acquires a visible light image of an animal imaged by a camera, compares the acquired visible light image with a normal visible light image of the animal and performs image analysis, identifies a species of the animal according to the result of the image analysis, identifies an abnormal portion of the animal according to the result of the image analysis, acquires environmental data of the animal, and diagnoses a condition of the animal according to the identified species, the identified abnormal portion and the acquired environmental data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA
  • Patent number: 10846326
    Abstract: The present invention is to improve the detection and the identification accuracy of an object in image analysis in a camera control system that controls a camera used to take an image to be analyzed by artificial intelligence. The image analysis system that performs machine learning by using a plurality of teacher data associating a label that indicates what the object is with image data to which the label is attached, includes an imaging condition analysis module 211 that analyzes the imaging condition of teacher data; and a camera control module 212 that controls a camera to take an image under the analyzed imaging condition, to analyze the image taken under the imaging condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: OPTIM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunji Sugaya
  • Publication number: 20200364954
    Abstract: Provided are a maintenance device control system, a maintenance device control method and a storage medium. The maintenance device control system controls a maintenance device to perform maintenance, and is provided with: an image acquisition unit for acquiring an image photographed by an unmanned aerial vehicle; a failure determination unit for analyzing the image to determine a failure of a photographed object; a position estimation unit for estimating a position of the photographed object for which the failure has been determined; and a device control unit for controlling the maintenance device to perform maintenance on the failure of the photographed object in the estimated position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventor: Shunji SUGAYA