Patents by Inventor Takeaki Sugimura

Takeaki Sugimura 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: 20240126065
    Abstract: Provided are stackable slide holders and a stage on which the slide holders can be placed. A slide holder that can hold a plurality of glass slides has: a first longer side portion that has elastic portions that fix glass slides, and has a tapered surface on the inner periphery side of the bottom surface; a second longer side portion that is positioned opposite the first longer side portion; and a first shorter side portion and a second shorter side portion that connect ends of the first longer side portion and second longer side portion, and are positioned opposite to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Nao NITTA, Takeaki SUGIMURA, Miki KANEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20230221110
    Abstract: A detection device includes: a detector that detects an object from a first viewpoint; an information calculator that calculates first model information including shape information on the object from the first viewpoint by using detection results of the detector; a light source calculator that calculates light source information on the light source by using a first taken image obtained by imaging a space including a light source that irradiates the object with illumination light and including the object; and a position calculator that calculates a positional relation between the first viewpoint and the object by using the light source information as information used to integrate the first model information and second model information including shape information obtained by detecting the object from a second viewpoint different from the first viewpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro NAKAGAWA, Takeaki SUGIMURA, Yoshiyuki YAMARIKU
  • Patent number: 11682134
    Abstract: A detection device including: a detector that detects an object from one viewpoint; a reliability calculator that calculates reliability information on the object at the one viewpoint by using a detection result of the detector; and an information calculator that calculates shape information on the object at the one viewpoint by using the detection result of the detector and the reliability information and calculates texture information on the object at the one viewpoint by using the detection result, the information calculator generates model information on the object at the one viewpoint based on the shape information and the texture information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki Sugimura, Yoshihiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11629950
    Abstract: A detection device includes: a detector that detects an object from a first viewpoint; an information calculator that calculates first model information including shape information on the object from the first viewpoint by using detection results of the detector; a light source calculator that calculates light source information on the light source by using a first taken image obtained by imaging a space including a light source that irradiates the object with illumination light and including the object; and a position calculator that calculates a positional relation between the first viewpoint and the object by using the light source information as information used to integrate the first model information and second model information including shape information obtained by detecting the object from a second viewpoint different from the first viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakagawa, Takeaki Sugimura, Yoshiyuki Yamariku
  • Publication number: 20230039539
    Abstract: An imaging flow cytometer includes: a laser unit that emits first and second laser light to first and second spots; a first and second imaging sections that image the first and second spots; first and second detection devices that detect a particle that passes through the first and second spots; a first particle detection section that issues an imaging timing instruction signal to the first and second imaging sections; an image storage section that receives an image imaged by the first and second imaging sections; and a sorting determination section that determines whether the particle is an objective particle. The first and second imaging sections clip an image of the particle based on the imaging timing instruction signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Nao NITTA, Takeaki SUGIMURA
  • Patent number: 11151783
    Abstract: An imaging device, including: a main body; a detector including: an imager that images an object; and a distance measurer that detects a distance from each point on a surface of the object; an information calculator that is provided in the main body and uses a detection result of the detector to calculate at least one of shape information or texture information on the object; and a communicator that transmits a calculation result of the information calculator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki Sugimura, Yoshihiro Nakagawa, Kazuyuki Kazami
  • Patent number: 11151733
    Abstract: A detection device includes: a detector that detects an object from one viewpoint; an reliability calculator that calculates reliability information on the object from the one viewpoint; an information calculator that uses detection results of the detector to calculate model information including at least one of shape information and texture information, on the object, from the one viewpoint; and an information processor that uses first object information including the model information or source data used for generation of the model information, and the reliability information, so as to generate second object information having a reduced data amount of the model information or the source data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakagawa, Takeaki Sugimura
  • Publication number: 20210232869
    Abstract: A display control device and a display control program can present classification performance of an artificial neural network in a form interpretable by humans. The display control device includes a probability obtainer that obtains a probability of a classification result of an input image from a probability calculator that calculates the probability, and a display controller that displays a distribution of probabilities obtained by the probability obtainer for input images using at least one of display axes of a graph as a probability axis to indicate the probabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Keisuke GODA, Nao NITTA, Takeaki SUGIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210209786
    Abstract: A detection device including: a detector that detects an object from one viewpoint; a reliability calculator that calculates reliability information on the object at the one viewpoint by using a detection result of the detector; and an information calculator that calculates shape information on the object at the one viewpoint by using the detection result of the detector and the reliability information and calculates texture information on the object at the one viewpoint by using the detection result, the information calculator generates model information on the object at the one viewpoint based on the shape information and the texture information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki SUGIMURA, Yoshihiro NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 10964042
    Abstract: A detection device including: a detector that detects an object from one viewpoint; a reliability calculator that calculates reliability information on the object at the one viewpoint by using a detection result of the detector; and an information calculator that calculates shape information on the object at the one viewpoint by using the detection result of the detector and the reliability information and calculates texture information on the object at the one viewpoint by using the detection result, the information calculator generates model information on the object at the one viewpoint based on the shape information and the texture information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki Sugimura, Yoshihiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10706571
    Abstract: To easily process model information or information from which the model information is generated, provided is an imaging device including: an imager that images an object from a predetermined viewpoint; a distance measurer that measures distances from the predetermined viewpoint to points on the object; an object data generator that uses an image taken by the imager and measurement results of the distance measurer to generate object data in which unit data including pairs each having a pixel value in the taken image and a distance from a point on the object corresponding to the pixel value to the predetermined viewpoint is arranged in a first arrangement order; and a point cloud data generator that calculates positional information on points on the object based on the object data and arranges point data including the positional information in the first arrangement order to generate point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki Sugimura, Yoshihiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10638113
    Abstract: An imaging system, including: a first body; a first imager that is provided in the first body and images an object; a first information calculator that is provided in the first body and calculates first model information including at least one of shape information and texture information of the object based on an imaging result of the first imager; a pattern setter that sets a reference pattern indicating at least a part of the first model information calculated by the first information calculator; a first projector that projects the reference pattern toward the object; a second body; a second imager that is provided in the second body and images the object onto which the reference pattern is projected; a second information calculator that is provided in the second body and calculates second model information including at least one of shape information and texture information of the object based on an imaging result of the second imager; and a pattern extractor that extracts the reference pattern projected by
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki Sugimura, Yoshihiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10495450
    Abstract: An imaging system, including: a first body; a first detector that is provided in the first body and includes a first imager that images an object; a first information calculator that is provided in the first body and uses a detection result of the first detector to calculate at least one of shape information and texture information of the object; a second body that is arranged at a position separate from the first body and has identification information detected by the first imager; a second detector that is provided in the second body and includes a second imager that images the object; and a position acquirer that acquires position information including a positional relation between the first detector and the second detector based on the identification information detected by the first imager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakagawa, Takeaki Sugimura
  • Patent number: 10268406
    Abstract: An information storage device is a device that communicates over a network with another device that is used by another user different from an own user who uses an own device, and includes a storage unit including a first storage area available to the own user and a second storage area available to the other user, an information output unit that outputs information of the own user stored in the first storage area to the other device over the network, an information writing unit that stores information of the other user output by the other device over the network, in the second storage area, and a use control unit that controls whether the second storage area is available to the own user on the basis of an instruction of the other user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki Sugimura, Kazuyuki Kazami, Atsushi Tanaka, Soichiro Tsuboi, Genshi Yoshioka, Daisuke Yuki
  • Publication number: 20190043212
    Abstract: A detection device including: a detector that detects an object from one viewpoint; a reliability calculator that calculates reliability information on the object at the one viewpoint by using a detection result of the detector; and an information calculator that calculates shape information on the object at the one viewpoint by using the detection result of the detector and the reliability information and calculates texture information on the object at the one viewpoint by using the detection result, the information calculator generates model information on the object at the one viewpoint based on the shape information and the texture information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki SUGIMURA, Yoshihiro NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190017812
    Abstract: A detection device includes: a detector that detects an object from a first viewpoint; an information calculator that calculates first model information including shape information on the object from the first viewpoint by using detection results of the detector; a light source calculator that calculates light source information on the light source by using a first taken image obtained by imaging a space including a light source that irradiates the object with illumination light and including the object; and a position calculator that calculates a positional relation between the first viewpoint and the object by using the light source information as information used to integrate the first model information and second model information including shape information obtained by detecting the object from a second viewpoint different from the first viewpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro NAKAGAWA, Takeaki SUGIMURA, Yoshiyuki YAMARIKU
  • Publication number: 20190005668
    Abstract: To easily process model information or information from which the model information is generated, provided is an imaging device including: an imager that images an object from a predetermined viewpoint; a distance measurer that measures distances from the predetermined viewpoint to points on the object; an object data generator that uses an image taken by the imager and measurement results of the distance measurer to generate object data in which unit data including pairs each having a pixel value in the taken image and a distance from a point on the object corresponding to the pixel value to the predetermined viewpoint is arranged in a first arrangement order; and a point cloud data generator that calculates positional information on points on the object based on the object data and arranges point data including the positional information in the first arrangement order to generate point cloud data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki SUGIMURA, Yoshihiro NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190005666
    Abstract: A detection device includes: a detector that detects an object from one viewpoint; an reliability calculator that calculates reliability information on the object from the one viewpoint; an information calculator that uses detection results of the detector to calculate model information including at least one of shape information and texture information, on the object, from the one viewpoint; and an information processor that uses first object information including the model information or source data used for generation of the model information, and the reliability information, so as to generate second object information having a reduced data amount of the model information or the source data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro NAKAGAWA, Takeaki SUGIMURA
  • Publication number: 20180017380
    Abstract: An imaging system, including: a first body; a first imager that is provided in the first body and images an object; a first information calculator that is provided in the first body and calculates first model information including at least one of shape information and texture information of the object based on an imaging result of the first imager; a pattern setter that sets a reference pattern indicating at least a part of the first model information calculated by the first information calculator; a first projector that projects the reference pattern toward the object; a second body; a second imager that is provided in the second body and images the object onto which the reference pattern is projected; a second information calculator that is provided in the second body and calculates second model information including at least one of shape information and texture information of the object based on an imaging result of the second imager; and a pattern extractor that extracts the reference pattern projected by
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki SUGIMURA, Yoshihiro NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: D980888
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventors: Nao Nitta, Takeaki Sugimura, Miki Kanematsu