Patents by Inventor Soma Shiraishi

Soma Shiraishi 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: 20220036042
    Abstract: Provided is an information acquisition system including: an image capture apparatus including a camera that captures a target object to generate an image; and a control apparatus including a control unit that controls the image capture apparatus so that a plurality of images in accordance with a plurality of different environment conditions are generated and an information acquisition unit that acquires target object information input to a discriminator that identifies an object, in which the target object information includes the plurality of images or a plurality of feature amounts obtained from the plurality of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tsugunori TAKATA, Hideo YOKOI, Kota IWAMOTO, Soma SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20210343026
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2000) analyzes a captured image (12) generated by a camera (10) to determine a motion of a person. The camera (10) is a camera that images a display place where an item is displayed. The information processing apparatus (2000) detects a reference position (24) from the captured image (12). The reference position (24) indicates a position of a hand of the person. The information processing apparatus (2000) decides an analysis target region (30) to be analyzed in the captured image (12) using the reference position (24). The information processing apparatus (2000) analyzes the analysis target region (30) to determine the motion of the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Soma SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20210232840
    Abstract: The object recognition system comprises: a detection unit for detecting a moving target object as an object to be recognized; an imaging unit for capturing a moving image of the target object; a control unit for controlling the state of objects, the state of which can be changed in a capturing area of the imaging unit, on the basis of the output of the detection unit such that a change in light quantity or hue between captured images due to the change in the state of the objects falls within a predetermined range; an identification unit for, upon detecting the change in the state of the objects included in the moving images, identifying a captured image to be recognized; and a recognition unit for recognizing the target object included in the identified captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Soma SHIRAISHI, Shoji YACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210174540
    Abstract: According to the some non-limiting embodiments, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit 13 that causes a display provided on a surface on which an object is placed, to display a first image including a predetermined display element, and a conversion rule generation unit 15 that acquires a second image generated by an imaging apparatus having an imaging range including the display and generates a conversion rule for converting coordinates in the image of the imaging apparatus into coordinates in the display, by using a detection result of the display element in the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kota IWAMOTO, Soma SHIRAISHI, Hideo YOKOI, Tsugunori TAKATA
  • Publication number: 20210142490
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (2000) analyzes a captured image (12) generated by a camera (10) to determine a motion of a person. The camera (10) is a camera that images a display place where an item is displayed. The information processing apparatus (2000) detects a reference position (24) from the captured image (12). The reference position (24) indicates a position of a hand of the person. The information processing apparatus (2000) decides an analysis target region (30) to be analyzed in the captured image (12) using the reference position (24). The information processing apparatus (2000) analyzes the analysis target region (30) to determine the motion of the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Soma SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20210117676
    Abstract: Provided is an object type identifying apparatus that is capable of correctly identifying the types of objects held in a hand of a person. This object type identifying apparatus is provided with: a memory storing instructions; a storage device storing information indicating a type of an object at a position of each object; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to: acquire a position of an object; determine whether an object is picked up or an object is placed, based on sensor information; when determined that an object is picked up, identify a type of the picked-up object, based on the position of the object acquired and information stored in the storage device; and when determined that an object is placed, update information stored in the storage device, using an image captured by a camera that captures arrangement of each object from a front side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Soma SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20210097279
    Abstract: The invention addresses the problem of improving labor of a registration operation of a product and enabling a checkout operator to recognize a recognition result. In order to solve the problem, the invention provides a registration apparatus (10) including: an image acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image obtained by imaging a placement surface of a table, on which a product is placed; an analysis unit (12) that recognizes the product included in the image, a registration unit (14) that registers the recognized product as a checkout target, and an output unit (13) that outputs a name of the recognized product by voice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soma SHIRAISHI, Kota IWAMOTO, Hideo YOKOI, Tsugunori TAKATA, Emi KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210097355
    Abstract: The invention provides a registration apparatus (10) including: an image acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image obtained by imaging a placement surface of a table, on which a product is placed; an analysis unit (12) that recognizes the product included in the image; a registration unit (14) that registers the recognized product as a checkout target; and an output unit (13) that outputs sound corresponding to a progress of analysis of the image in the analysis unit (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soma SHIRAISHI, Kota IWAMOTO, Hideo YOKOI, Tsugunori TAKATA, Emi KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210058586
    Abstract: An information processing system (2000) includes a camera (10), a polarization filter (20), a display device (30), and an information processing apparatus (200). The display device (30) includes a display screen (32), and an object (40) is placed on the display screen (32). The camera (10) has an image area in which the display screen (32) is included. The information processing apparatus (200) displays, on the display screen (32), a first display based on a captured image (12) generated by the camera (10). The polarization filter (20) is located between a lens of the camera (10) and the display screen (32) when the lens of the camera (10) faces the display screen (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soma SHIRAISHI, Kota IWAMOTO, Hideo YOKOI, Tsugunori TAKATA, Emi KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20210049574
    Abstract: An image identification register system (1) includes an image identification register apparatus (10), an image capturing apparatus (30), and a touch panel display (40). The touch panel display (40) is also used as a placement surface of a product. The image capturing apparatus (30) captures a product (P) placed on the touch panel display (40), and generates an image of the product (P). The image identification register apparatus (10) includes an image acquisition unit (110) that acquires an image of the product (P) placed on the touch panel display (40), a product identification unit (120) that identifies the product captured in the image, a display control unit (130) that causes a user interface that receives an input needed for checkout processing of the product to be displayed on the touch panel display according to an identification result of the product, and a processing execution unit (140) that executes processing based on an input to the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soma SHIRAISHI, Kota IWAMOTO, Hideo YOKOI, Tsugunori TAKATA, Emi KITAGAWA
  • Patent number: 10922541
    Abstract: Provided is an object type identifying apparatus that is capable of correctly identifying the types of objects held in a hand of a person. This object type identifying apparatus is provided with: a memory storing instructions; a storage device storing information indicating a type of an object at a position of each object; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to: acquire a position of an object; determine whether an object is picked up or an object is placed, based on sensor information; when determined that an object is picked up, identify a type of the picked-up object, based on the position of the object acquired and information stored in the storage device; and when determined that an object is placed, update information stored in the storage device, using an image captured by a camera that captures arrangement of each object from a front side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Soma Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20210042571
    Abstract: An image collection system includes an image collection apparatus, an image capturing apparatus, and a display. The display includes a display surface that is also used as a placement surface of an object. The image capturing apparatus captures the object placed on the display surface of the display. The image collection apparatus includes a display control unit and an image acquisition unit. The display control unit switches and displays a plurality of first images each having a different content on the display surface of the display when the object is captured. The image acquisition unit acquires a plurality of second images generated by capturing the object on the display surface of the display while the plurality of first images are switched and displayed, and stores the plurality of second images in a storage apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Soma SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20210012305
    Abstract: There is provided a settlement system (10) including an acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image including a product, generated by an imaging unit, an image analysis unit (12) that recognizes a product and a first pattern or a second pattern attached to the product, and a registration unit (13) that registers the product without changing a price of the product in a case where the first pattern is recognized, and registers the product by changing the price of the product in a case where the second pattern is recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tsugunori TAKATA, Hideo YOKOI, Kota IWAMOTO, Soma SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20210004644
    Abstract: A store system (1) includes a store apparatus (10), an image capturing apparatus (30), and a display (40) that is also used as a placement surface of a product (P). The image capturing apparatus (30) generates an image in which the product (P) placed on a display surface of the display (40) is captured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soma SHIRAISHI, Kota IWAMOTO, Tsugunori TAKATA, Hideo YOKOI, Emi KITAGAWA, Saiprasad Chandrakant KOTURWAR
  • Patent number: 10878581
    Abstract: A determination unit determines whether or not a first foreground area extracted from a first captured image represents a moving object. A warning unit outputs warning when the first foreground area is determined to be not representing the moving object. The first foreground area is determined to be not representing the moving object when the object represented by the first foreground area is not moving. First, the determination unit determines whether or not the object represented by the first foreground area is moving by comparing the first foreground area with a second foreground area extracted from a second captured image generated before the first captured image. Then, the determination unit determines whether or not the object is moving at time before the first captured image is generated based on information of the object at time before the first captured image is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Soma Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20200394404
    Abstract: The present invention provides a processing system 10 which includes a display 2 in which an object is placed on a display surface on which information is displayed, and an arithmetic operation apparatus 5 that detects a placement position of the object, which is placed on the display surface, on the display surface based on image data generated by a camera 4 capturing an image of the display surface of the display 2, and causes the display 2 to display information indicating the placement position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kota IWAMOTO, Soma SHIRAISHI, Hideo YOKOI, Tsugunori TAKATA
  • Publication number: 20200394637
    Abstract: The invention provides a registration apparatus (10) including: an image acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image obtained by imaging a placement surface of a table, on which a product is placed; an analysis unit (12) that recognizes the product included in the image; a registration unit (14) that registers the recognized product as a checkout target; and an output unit (13) that displays information corresponding to progress of analysis of the image in the analysis unit (12) on the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soma SHIRAISHI, Kota IWAMOTO, Hideo YOKOI, Tsugunori TAKATA, Emi KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200394460
    Abstract: An image analysis device 10 includes: a generation unit 11 which generates a similar set, which is a set of similar pieces of learning data selected from among a plurality of pieces of learning data, each including an image and information that represents an object to be recognized that is displayed in the image; and a learning unit 12 which uses the generated similar set to learn parameters for a predetermined recognition model that allow the predetermined recognition model to recognize the object to be recognized that is displayed in each image included in the generated similar set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Soma SHIRAISHI
  • Publication number: 20200342264
    Abstract: This learning data generation device (10) is provided with: an identification unit (11) which identifies a subject included in a first captured image, and generates an identification result in which information indicating the type and existence of the identified subject or the motion of the identified subject is associated with the first captured image; and a generation unit (12) which generates learning data on the basis of the identification result and a second captured image, which is associated with the first captured image but is different in type from the first captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Soma SHIRAISHI
  • Patent number: 10740653
    Abstract: This learning data generation device (10) is provided with: an identification unit (11) which identifies a subject included in a first captured image, and generates an identification result in which information indicating the type and existence of the identified subject or the motion of the identified subject is associated with the first captured image; and a generation unit (12) which generates learning data on the basis of the identification result and a second captured image, which is associated with the first captured image but is different in type from the first captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Soma Shiraishi