Patents by Inventor Sonoko HIRASAWA

Sonoko HIRASAWA 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: 20240112139
    Abstract: A system and a method for managing presence information on a person's presence in a free address office, which can be updated and adjusted with less time and effort for adaptation to a change in the office layout, and can efficiently collect information about the person's health. The system includes an in-room camera and an information collection robot. Upon detection of a seated person, the robot moves toward an area where the seated person is detected and captures a face image of the seated person with a face camera therein. Then, the system performs a face verification operation based on the face image to identify the seated person and generates the person's presence information. The system may also generate information on whether a person is wearing a mask or not, and/or acquire a person's vital information from a vital sensor in the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sonoko HIRASAWA, Noriyuki KUGOU
  • Publication number: 20230142101
    Abstract: Provided is a lifelog providing system for providing a user with a lifelog of a child that enables the user to systematically recognize a level of growth of the child. The system is configured to detect a specific event related to a level of growth of the child in images captured by a camera, by using image recognition; extract a scene image including the detected specific event, from the images captured by the camera; and generate, as a lifelog, a growth map in which a thumbnail of the scene image is overlaid on a reference map image including a timeline of child growth and an indicator showing a normal pace of growth for each specific event, such that the thumbnail of the scene image is located at a point in the reference map image corresponding to date and time of the detection of the specific event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko HIRASAWA, Takeshi FUJIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20230134665
    Abstract: Provided is a system that enables inexpensive and accurate identification of the seating position of each user in a free address office without incurring additional equipment costs. The system identifies a user who has entered an office by performing a face verification operation which involves comparing a face image of an entering person who is entering the office acquired from an image captured by a first entrance camera, with the face image of each registered user for matching, and identifies the seating position of the user in the office by performing a person verification operation which involves comparing a first person image acquired from an image captured by a second entrance camera, with a second person image acquired from an image captured by an in-area camera to thereby associate a person who has entered the office with a corresponding person who is seated in the office.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko HIRASAWA, Takeshi FUJIMATSU
  • Patent number: 11461736
    Abstract: To present to a user whether a person to be visited is staying in a target area and whether the person to be visited is in a state where the person is unable to deal with a visitor, the present invention detects whether there is any person staying in the target area based on images from a camera, detects whether each person staying in the target area is in a state where the person is unable to deal with a visitor, and generates display information displaying state information regarding whether each person is in the state where the person is unable to deal with a visitor, together with stay information regarding whether there is any person staying in the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko Hirasawa, Takeshi Fujimatsu
  • Publication number: 20220237970
    Abstract: A visitor management system, which can accurately determine if a visitor presents a proper ticket for the visitor's personal attribute, includes: a reader configured to read ticket information in a ticket medium; a camera configured to capture an image of the visitor; a control device configured to acquire a personal attribute of the visitor from the captured image, determine if consistency is achieved between the ticket information from the reader and the acquired personal attribute, and generate a management screen including determination result information; and a display configured to display the management screen. The determination result information generated by the control device may include a number of persons for each ticket type and a number of persons for each personal attribute, and inconsistency information indicating that consistency is not achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko HIRASAWA, Takayuki MATSUKAWA
  • Patent number: 11335173
    Abstract: Tracking assistance to reduce a burden on a monitoring person, includes search condition setter setting a search condition by user operation, tracking target setter setting, as a tracking target, a person designated by monitoring person's operation to select a tracking mark on a tracking target search screen displaying a video conforming to the search condition, confirmation video presentor displaying tracking target confirmation screen displaying video of a person having a highest possibility of being the tracking target from each camera as a confirmation video, video display period setter that in a case where the tracking mark is not displayed in the tracking target on the tracking target search screen, sets a video display period by the user's operation, and in-camera tracking information corrector correcting the tracking information to display the confirmation video on the tracking target confirmation screen based on the video display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko Hirasawa, Takeshi Fujimatsu
  • Patent number: 11212487
    Abstract: Information having an appropriate content corresponding to an area in which a person stays can be presented to a user as information related to a staying state of the person in each area inside a facility. In a target area such as an office and a conference room, a processor of a facility management apparatus executes each process of seat occupancy detection, area determination, and screen control, obtains staying information related to the staying state of the person, and generates display information on which the staying information is reflected in accordance with a display item for each target area based on a video of a camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko Hirasawa, Takeshi Fujimatsu
  • Publication number: 20210281803
    Abstract: Information having an appropriate content corresponding to an area in which a person stays can be presented to a user as information related to a staying state of the person in each area inside a facility. In a target area such as an office and a conference room, a processor of a facility management apparatus executes each process of seat occupancy detection, area determination, and screen control, obtains staying information related to the staying state of the person, and generates display information on which the staying information is reflected in accordance with a display item for each target area based on a video of a camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicants: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko HIRASAWA, Takeshi FUJIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20210174652
    Abstract: Tracking assistance to reduce a burden on a monitoring person, includes search condition setter setting a search condition by user operation, tracking target setter setting, as a tracking target, a person designated by monitoring person's operation to select a tracking mark on a tracking target search screen displaying a video conforming to the search condition, confirmation video presentor displaying tracking target confirmation screen displaying video of a person having a highest possibility of being the tracking target from each camera as a confirmation video, video display period setter that in a case where the tracking mark is not displayed in the tracking target on the tracking target search screen, sets a video display period by the user's operation, and in-camera tracking information corrector correcting the tracking information so as to display the confirmation video on the tracking target confirmation screen based on the video display period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko HIRASAWA, Takeshi FUJIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20210097488
    Abstract: To present to a user whether a person to be visited is staying in a target area and whether the person to be visited is in a state where the person is unable to deal with a visitor, the present invention detects whether there is any person staying in the target area based on images from a camera, detects whether each person staying in the target area is in a state where the person is unable to deal with a visitor, and generates display information displaying state information regarding whether each person is in the state where the person is unable to deal with a visitor, together with stay information regarding whether there is any person staying in the target area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko HIRASAWA, Takeshi FUJIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20210089973
    Abstract: To present workspaces taking into account the demand of uses while preventing the workspaces from becoming fixed, a processor of a facility management device is configured: to acquire images taken by a camera installed in a work area; to detect an occupancy status of each workspace based on the images; to extract unoccupied workspaces based on a result of detection; to select, in response to an operation of a user of specifying a selection condition regarding work environment, a workspace matching the selection condition specified by the user as a workspace candidate from among the unoccupied workspaces; and to generate workspace presentation information to present the workspace candidate to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sonoko HIRASAWA, Takeshi FUJIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20200404222
    Abstract: The present application enables improved tracking assistance of an object and includes a link score calculator that calculates a link score from tracking information based on an image captured by cameras, a tracking target setter that sets the object to be tracked in accordance with designation by a monitor, a confirmation image presenter that displays an image of an object having a highest evaluation value as a confirmation image, a thumbnail generator that generates a thumbnail of each object, a candidate image presenter that displays a thumbnail of each object having a lower evaluation value than an object of an erroneous confirmation image and allows the monitor to select a candidate image corresponding to the object to be tracked, and a tracking information corrector that corrects inter-camera tracking information such that the object of the selected candidate image is associated with the object to be tracked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko HIRASAWA, Takeshi FUJIMATSU
  • Patent number: 10321747
    Abstract: Provided is a cosmetic assist device that can extract a cosmetic technique for making a user's face look like a target face image. The device includes an image capturing unit for capturing a face image of a user, an input unit for inputting a target face image, a synthesized face image generating unit for generating a plurality of synthesized face images obtained by applying mutually different cosmetic techniques on the face image of the user, a similarity determination unit for determining a degree of similarity between each synthesized face image and the target face image, and a cosmetic technique extraction unit for extracting one of the cosmetic techniques that was used to obtain the synthesized face image determined to have a highest degree of similarity by the similarity determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Tamura, Hiroaki Yoshio, Katsuji Aoki, Kaori Mori, Sonoko Hirasawa, Shin Yamada, Takayuki Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 10181197
    Abstract: Included are tracking target setter that sets a person as a tracking target in response to designation by a monitoring person, confirmation video presenter that extracts a video of a moving object with the highest possibility of being the moving object which is the target, based on tracking information, and displays only the videos as confirmation videos, candidate video presenter that displays as a candidate video, a video of a moving object that may be the moving object set as the tracking target is the next highest of the moving object of the confirmation video having an error, where there is an error in the confirmation video, and causes selection of a corresponding candidate video by the monitoring person, and tracking information corrector that corrects the tracking information so that the moving object corresponding to the selected candidate video is associated with the moving object set as the tracking target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko Hirasawa, Takeshi Fujimatsu
  • Publication number: 20180139416
    Abstract: Tracking support apparatus includes: a tracking target setter that sets a moving object to be tracked by letting a monitoring person specify the moving object to be tracked on a video from a camera; a camera searcher that searches for a current tracing camera currently imaging the moving object to be tracked; a camera predictor that predicts a successive camera subsequently imaging the moving object to be tracked; a camera position presenter that displays a monitoring area map indicating a position of the current tracing camera; and a camera video presenter that displays a live video of each camera and highlights each live video of the current tracing camera and the successive camera. The camera position presentation unit and the camera video presentation unit display the monitoring area map and the live video of the camera in different display windows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko HIRASAWA, Takeshi FUJIMATSU
  • Publication number: 20180033153
    Abstract: Included are tracking target setter that sets a person as a tracking target in response to designation by a monitoring person, confirmation video presenter that extracts a video of a moving object with the highest possibility of being the moving object which is the target, based on tracking information, and displays only the videos as confirmation videos, candidate video presenter that displays as a candidate video, a video of a moving object that may be the moving object set as the tracking target is the next highest of the moving object of the confirmation video having an error, where there is an error in the confirmation video, and causes selection of a corresponding candidate video by the monitoring person, and tracking information corrector that corrects the tracking information so that the moving object corresponding to the selected candidate video is associated with the moving object set as the tracking target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko HIRASAWA, Takeshi FUJIMATSU
  • Patent number: 9357181
    Abstract: A tracking assistance device includes: a target-to-be-tracked setting unit that, in response to an input operation performed by a monitoring person on one of display views to designate a moving object to be tracked, sets the designated moving object as a target to be tracked, the display views displaying captured images taken by respective cameras and stored in a recorder; a camera selection unit that, based on tracing information obtained by processing the captured images, selects any of the cameras inferred to have taken an image of the moving object designated as the target to be tracked from among the cameras other than the camera corresponding to the display view on which the target to be tracked was designated; and a playback unit that causes the captured images taken by each camera selected by the camera selection unit to be displayed in a corresponding one of the display views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Sonoko Hirasawa, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9251599
    Abstract: A tracking assistance device includes: a target-to-be-tracked setting unit that causes captured images stored in a recorder to be displayed on a monitor and, in response to an input operation performed by a monitoring person to designate a moving object to be tracked, sets the designated moving object as a target to be tracked; a candidates selection unit that selects, as a candidate(s), a moving object(s) highly relevant with the moving object set as the target to be tracked; a candidate image presenting unit that extracts, as a candidate image(s), a captured image(s) in which the candidate moving object(s) is(are) included, and causes the monitor to display the candidate image(s) is(are) such that the monitoring person selects an appropriate candidate image; and a tracing information correction unit that changes the target to be tracked to the moving object associated with the selected candidate image and corrects the tracing information accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sonoko Hirasawa, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150366328
    Abstract: Provided is a cosmetic assist device that can extract a cosmetic technique for making a user's face look like a target face image. The device includes an image capturing unit for capturing a face image of a user, an input unit for inputting a target face image, a synthesized face image generating unit for generating a plurality of synthesized face images obtained by applying mutually different cosmetic techniques on the face image of the user, a similarity determination unit for determining a degree of similarity between each synthesized face image and the target face image, and a cosmetic technique extraction unit for extracting one of the cosmetic techniques that was used to obtain the synthesized face image determined to have a highest degree of similarity by the similarity determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime TAMURA, Hiroaki YOSHIO, Katsuji AOKI, Kaori MORI, Sonoko HIRASAWA, Shin YAMADA, Takayuki MATSUKAWA
  • Patent number: 9191633
    Abstract: A tracking assistance device for assisting a monitoring person in tracking a moving object by displaying on a display device a monitoring screen in which display views for displaying in real time captured images taken by respective cameras are arranged on a map image representing a monitored area in accordance with an actual arrangement of the cameras, includes: a target-to-be-tracked setting unit that, in response to an input operation performed by the monitoring person on one of the display views to designate a moving object to be tracked, sets the designated moving object as a target to be tracked; a prediction unit that predicts a next display view in which the moving object set as the target to be tracked will appear next based on tracing information obtained by processing the captured images; and a display view indicating unit that indicates the next display view on the monitoring screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Sonoko Hirasawa, Hiroyuki Yamamoto