Patents by Inventor Takayuki Kodaira

Takayuki Kodaira 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: 20230349711
    Abstract: A movement route estimation device (50) includes an object search unit (504) and a movement route estimation unit (505). The object search unit (504) searches for, as a search feature value, each feature value of two or more feature values from among a plurality of object feature values, based on a similarity between a feature value corresponding to a movable object, which is an object that has moved in a target space in a target period, and a target feature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji HATTORI, Seiji OKUMURA, Takayuki KODAIRA, Hirofumi NISHIKAWA, Akito ARAI, Fuminori NAGASAWA, Eiji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180263223
    Abstract: The present invention provides a same fish easy identification device, a fish counting device, a mobile terminal for counting fish, a same fish identification method, a fish counting method, a fish count prediction device, a fish count prediction method, a same fish identification system, a fish counting system, and a fish count prediction system. The same fish identification device of the present invention includes: a measurement image acquisition unit 11; a fish position information acquisition unit 131; a predicted fish position information acquisition unit 132; and a same fish identification unit 133. The measurement image acquisition unit 11 acquires, over time, n measurement images of a region to be measured in a passage region where a fluid containing fish passes through. The fish position information acquisition unit 131 acquires fish position information in the n measurement images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki KODAIRA, Masato TAGUCHI, Takako NAKATANI, Jou AKITOMI
  • Publication number: 20170290306
    Abstract: To provide a easily fish counting device, a fish counting method, a fish count prediction device, a fish count prediction method, a fish counting system, and a fish count prediction system. The fish counting device of the present invention includes: a measurement image acquisition unit 11 configured to acquire, over time, a plurality of measurement images of a region to be measured in a passage region where a fluid containing fish passes through; a fish position acquisition unit 21 configured to acquire positions of the fish in the measurement images; a fish movement line calculation unit 22 configured to calculate movement line(s) of the fish as tracks of movements of the fish on the basis of the acquired positions; and a fish counting unit 23 configured to count the fish on the basis of the movement line(s) of the fish in the measurement images to obtain a fish count.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: NEC SOLUTION INNOVATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Jou AKITOMI, Takayuki KODAIRA, Masato TAGUCHI, Takako NAKATANI
  • Patent number: 8971635
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including an upper body feature data storage unit (110) which stores upper body directional feature data, which indicates the upper body of a person and indicates that the upper body is facing a specific direction, for each of a plurality of directions in conjunction with directional data indicative of the direction of the upper body directional feature data; and an upper body detection unit (140) which extracts upper body image data indicative of the upper body of the person from image data by reading the plurality of upper body directional feature data stored in the upper body feature data storage unit (110) in conjunction with the directional data and using each of the plurality of upper body directional feature data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kodaira, Satoshi Imaizumi
  • Publication number: 20120321197
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including an upper body feature data storage unit (110) which stores upper body directional feature data, which indicates the upper body of a person and indicates that the upper body is facing a specific direction, for each of a plurality of directions in conjunction with directional data indicative of the direction of the upper body directional feature data; and an upper body detection unit (140) which extracts upper body image data indicative of the upper body of the person from image data by reading the plurality of upper body directional feature data stored in the upper body feature data storage unit (110) in conjunction with the directional data and using each of the plurality of upper body directional feature data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: NEC SOFT, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kodaira, Satoshi Imaizumi