Patents by Inventor Taichi Murase

Taichi Murase 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: 8902161
    Abstract: A finger position detection device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, detecting a hand region that includes a plurality of fingers from an image captured by an image capturing unit that captures an image of the plurality of fingers from in front of the fingers; dividing a first region that is at least a part of the hand region into a plurality of first cells of a first size and extracting, from each of the plurality of first cells, a first feature value that represents a feature of a position of one of the plurality of fingers in a depth direction with respect to the image capturing unit; dividing a second region that is at least a part of the hand region into a plurality of second cells of a second size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Taichi Murase, Nobuyuki Hara, Atsunori Moteki
  • Publication number: 20140294233
    Abstract: An information processing device includes, a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, acquiring images which includes a target object, and the images captured by a plurality of cameras on a time series basis; calculating a plurality of distance from the plurality of each cameras to a target object by using the images; and correcting, in a case where the target object has reached a predetermined x-y plane and a difference in an area of the target object between the images is equal to or less than a predetermined first threshold, the distance that has been calculated to a distance from the cameras to the x-y plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuki OSAMURA, Taichi MURASE, Takahiro MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20140292644
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a processor a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: detecting a first candidate group and a second candidate group contained in the image, the first candidate group being one or more candidates for a first part of a user, the second candidate group being one or more candidates for a second part of the user; and selecting at least one of the first part in the first candidate group and the second part in the second candidate group, on the basis of a human-body's positional relationship of the first part and the second part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichiro NIINUMA, Taichi Murase
  • Publication number: 20140292648
    Abstract: An information operation display system includes a camera, a projector, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image taken by the camera, a measurement unit configured to measure a 3-dimensional coordinate position of an operation object included in the image acquired by the acquisition unit, and a display unit configured to control the projector such that an image indicating a point on which a selection operation is performed by the operation object is displayed on an operation target object according to the 3-dimensional coordinate position of the operation object measured by the measurement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takahiro Matsuda, Taichi Murase
  • Publication number: 20140292647
    Abstract: An interactive projector includes: a base placed on a projection surface; a leg configured to raise with tilting from the base towards the projection surface; a projecting unit, mounted on the leg on the side of a projection surface, configured to project first image; a reflector, provided at a free-end portion of the leg, configured to reflect the image projected from the projecting unit towards the projection surface; and an image pickup unit, mounted on the reflector, configured to photograph the projection surface and output second image to an electronic device that outputs, to the projecting unit, the first image that is generated based on the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Taichi MURASE, Takahiro MATSUDA, Kazuki OSAMURA, Masafumi TADA
  • Publication number: 20140204018
    Abstract: An input method that is executed by a computer includes obtaining a first image of an object using an imaging device, detecting a first feature point of the object based on a shape of the object in the first image, calculating a first angle of the object with respect to a plane on which a pressing operation is performed based on the first feature point and information on a first area of the object in the first image, and selecting a first input item from a plurality of input items based on the first angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Taichi MURASE, Takahiro MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20140204120
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: acquiring an image including a first object captured by an image sensor; computing, from the image, flatness information on flatness of a projection plane of the first object on which a superimposed image is displayed; and defining a display position of the superimposed image on the basis of the flatness information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsunori MOTEKI, Takahiro Matsuda, Taichi Murase
  • Publication number: 20140169625
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: store information on a reference area that has been extracted from a first image not including a target object by using a condition regarding color, generate, by using the condition, information on a target area in a second image that has been captured at a point in time different from a point in time at which the first image has been captured, determine, by using the target area and the reference area, whether or not there is an overlap between the reference area and the target object, when the overlap exists, identify an overlap area, and extract, by using the difference area between the reference area and the target area, and the overlap area, the target object from the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Taichi MURASE, Takahiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20140105455
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image capturing section to capture an image of a hand; an extracting section to extract a hand area from the captured image; a reference line determining section to determine a reference pushdown line in the image on the hand area; a determining section to determine a pushdown move if the bottom part of the hand area comes below the reference pushdown line; a first position determining section to determine a depth position based on an aspect ratio of the hand area if the pushdown move is determined; a second position determining section to determine a lateral position based on a position of the bottom part of the hand area if the pushdown move is determined; and an input key determining section to determine an input key from the determined depth position and lateral position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Taichi MURASE, Katsuhito FUJIMOTO, Nobuyuki HARA, Noriaki OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20140086488
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: acquiring a picked image; selecting pixels, which are adjacent to each other, to be connected based on value of the pixels in the image; generating a pixel connected area which includes the connected pixels; extracting a feature point from an outer edge of the pixel connected area; and calculating a moved amount of the feature point on the basis of the feature point of a plurality of images that have been picked at the first time and the second time by the acquiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsunori Moteki, Takahiro Matsuda, Taichi Murase, Genta Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140064557
    Abstract: An image processing method includes recognizing a first object that is included in the image data, calculating a positional variation amount of a feature point that corresponds to the first object and is moving in an image center direction so as to calculate a moving speed of the first object on the basis of the positional variation amount, determining whether or not the first object is a gaze target object of the user, in accordance with a behavior of the first object, the behavior being obtained on the basis of the positional variation amount of the first object among the plurality of image data, of which acquisition time is respectively different and whether or not the object continuingly exists in a second region, the second region being positioned in an inside of the first region and including a center point of the image data, for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Nobuyuki HARA, Katsuhito FUJIMOTO, Taichi MURASE, Atsunori MOTEKI
  • Publication number: 20130342441
    Abstract: A character input method to be executed by a computer, the character input method includes: acquiring a first image from an imaging device; detecting an object from the first image; specifying a character group corresponding to a first position of the object detected from the first image, based on correspondence information in which each of a plurality of character groups including a plurality of characters is associated with each of a plurality of regions set for the first image; acquiring a second image acquired from the imaging device at a time different from a time at which the first image is acquired; detecting the object from the second image; and designating one character from the specified character group, based on a second position of the object detected from the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Taichi MURASE, Nobuyuki HARA, Atsunori MOTEKI, Takahiro MATSUDA, Katsuhito FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130342463
    Abstract: A method for inputting a character executed by a computer that inputs a character, the method includes: obtaining a first pressed position at which the pressing operation has been performed and a first key corresponding to the first pressed position; detecting deletion of a character input using the first key; obtaining, when the deletion is detected, a second pressed position at which a next pressing operation has been performed and a second key corresponding to the second pressed position; determining whether or not a distance between the first pressed position and the second key is smaller than or equal to a threshold; and correcting, when the distance is smaller than or equal to the threshold, a range that is recognized as the second key in the region on the basis of the first pressed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Taichi MURASE, Nobuyuki HARA, Atsunori MOTEKI, Takahiro MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20120099526
    Abstract: A decoding device includes a decoder that conducts decoding on transmission data sent a predetermined number of transmissions from respective communication partners; and a scheduler that identifies transmission data to be decoded by the decoder at a certain decoding timing among decoding timings that occur periodically and that determines whether to decode the identified transmission data at the certain decoding timing, based on a number of transmissions in which the identified transmission data has been sent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Taichi MURASE
  • Publication number: 20050272373
    Abstract: An SIR calculation section 130 calculates an SIR value D4 after RAKE combining from a desired signal power value for each finger calculated by an RSCP calculation section 110 and an interference signal power value for each finger calculated by an ISCP calculation section 120. An SIR correction section 140 corrects the SIR value D4 using the number of discrete signals used to calculate RSCP, the number of discrete signals used to calculate ISCP and the number of fingers L used for RAKE combining. As a result, even when the number of discrete signals used to calculate RSCP is different from the number of discrete signals used to calculate ISCP, it is possible to realize an SIR measuring apparatus 100 capable of resolving a static error with respect to a theoretical value and realizing measurements at a high degree of accuracy and freedom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventor: Taichi Murase