Patents by Inventor Takeshi Fujimatsu

Takeshi Fujimatsu 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: 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
  • 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: 11244488
    Abstract: A video processing device includes: an object detector configured to detect an object included in a video so that a type of the object can be identified; an event detector configured to detect a focusing event which occurs to the detected object; a masking target setter configured to simultaneously set all objects of a selected type as masking targets, and to exclude from the masking targets, one or more objects to which occurrence of the selected focusing event has been detected by the event detector; and a masking process controller configured to generate a masking-processed video in which each video area which corresponds to the object set as the masking target by the masking target setter, has been changed to a masking image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Watanabe, 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
  • Patent number: 11162162
    Abstract: A steel with high hardness and excellent toughness contains, in mass %, 0.40-1.00% C, 0.10-2.00% Si, 0.10-1.00% Mn, 0.030% or less P, 0.030% or less S, 1.10-3.20% Cr, 0.010-0.10% Al, and 0.15-0.50% V, and further contains at least one or two of 2.50% or less Ni and 1.00% or less Mo, with an amount of (C+V) being 0.60% or more in mass %, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities. The steel has a microstructure which is a martensitic structure with finely dispersed Fe-based ? carbides, with its prior austenite grain size being 20 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yoritoshi Minamino, Koji Hagihara, Koji Yamamoto, Shohei Ikurumi, Yusuke Hiratsuka, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Toshiyuki Sugimoto
  • 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: 20210192816
    Abstract: A video processing device includes: an object detector configured to detect an object included in a video so that a type of the object can be identified; an event detector configured to detect a focusing event which occurs to the detected object; a masking target setter configured to simultaneously set all objects of a selected type as masking targets, and to exclude from the masking targets, one or more objects to which occurrence of the selected focusing event has been detected by the event detector; and a masking process controller configured to generate a masking-processed video in which each video area which corresponds to the object set as the masking target by the masking target setter, has been changed to a masking image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi WATANABE, 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
  • Patent number: 10949657
    Abstract: A person's behavior monitoring device includes a processor for acquiring a captured image of each of a plurality of cameras, acquiring information relating to a person requiring special attention by analyzing the captured image, and generating a monitoring image including the information, in which the processor determines, for each of the cameras, whether or not a person detected from the captured image is a long-time stayer who stays for a long-time in a capturing area of one of the cameras based on a result of tracking the person, and superimposes and displays a person rectangle that enables identification of a degree of stay on the captured image in correspondence with a person corresponding to the long-time stayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Sato, Takeshi Fujimatsu, Masamoto Tanabiki
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20200080180
    Abstract: A steel with high hardness and excellent toughness contains, in mass %, 0.40-1.00% C, 0.10-2.00% Si, 0.10-1.00% Mn, 0.030% or less P, 0.030% or less S, 1.10-3.20% Cr, 0.010-0.10% Al, and 0.15-0.50% V, and further contains at least one or two of 2.50% or less Ni and 1.00% or less Mo, with an amount of (C+V) being 0.60% or more in mass %, with the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities. The steel has a microstructure which is a martensitic structure with finely dispersed Fe-based ? carbides, with its prior austenite grain size being 20 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yoritoshi MINAMINO, Koji HAGIHARA, Koji YAMAMOTO, Shohei IKURUMI, Yusuke HIRATSUKA, Takeshi FUJIMATSU, Toshiyuki SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190332856
    Abstract: A person's behavior monitoring device includes a processor for acquiring a captured image of each of a plurality of cameras, acquiring information relating to a person requiring special attention by analyzing the captured image, and generating a monitoring image including the information, in which the processor determines, for each of the cameras, whether or not a person detected from the captured image is a long-time stayer who stays for a long-time in a capturing area of one of the cameras based on a result of tracking the person, and superimposes and displays a person rectangle that enables identification of a degree of stay on the captured image in correspondence with a person corresponding to the long-time stayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji SATO, Takeshi FUJIMATSU, Masamoto TANABIKI
  • Patent number: 10445887
    Abstract: To improve, when performing tracking of moving objects by using captured images taken by multiple cameras, the accuracy of the tracking process across the cameras, a tracking processing device includes: a storage unit that stores, for each camera, a plurality of pieces of intra-camera tracking information including image information of persons obtained from the captured images; a refining unit that performs refining of the plurality of pieces of intra-camera tracking information and thereby extracts pieces of inter-camera tracking information to be used in a process of tracking the persons across the multiple cameras; and an associating unit that, on the basis of the pieces of inter-camera tracking information, associates the persons in the captured images across the multiple cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Takeshi Fujimatsu
  • Publication number: 20190041723
    Abstract: There is provided a monitoring camera having an exposure control function, the camera appropriately executing exposure control even in a case where a deviation occurs in a reference area for exposure control that is set in a part of an imaging range due to an unintended viewing angle deviation. The monitoring camera includes: an exposure controller that executes exposure control by referring to a reference area which is set in a part of an imaging range; a change detector that detects a change in the reference area; and an area setter that sets a replacement area for replacing the reference area in a case where a change in the reference area is detected. The exposure controller executes the exposure control by referring to the replacement area in a case where the replacement area is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi FUJIMATSU
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10060013
    Abstract: There is provided a steel, having an excellent rolling fatigue life, wherein an oxygen content in the steel is 8 ppm or less, a sulfur content is 0.008 mass % or less, and an Al content is 0.005 to 0.030 mass %, the number of non-metallic inclusions having an inclusion diameter of 20 ?m or more and less than 100 ?m, detected per steel material volume of 1000 mm3 by ultrasonic flaw detection, is 12.0 or less, the number of non-metallic inclusions having an inclusion diameter of 100 ?m or more, detected per steel material weight of 2.5 kg by the ultrasonic flaw detection, is 2.0 or less, the mass % ratio of (MgO)/(Al2O3) in the average composition of MgO—Al2O3-based oxides present in the steel is regulated into a range of 0.25 to 1.50, and the number ratio of the MgO—Al2O3-based oxides to all oxide-based inclusions is 70% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Norimasa Tsunekage, Ichiro Takasu