Patents by Inventor Tetsuhiro Funagi

Tetsuhiro Funagi 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: 10817727
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus estimates a waiting time in a waiting line configured by a plurality of objects and includes at least one processor coupled to a memory, serving as a first obtaining unit to obtain a number of objects detected in an image in which the waiting line is captured, a second obtaining unit to obtain a number of objects that leave the waiting line per unit time, a correcting unit to correct the first obtained number by multiplying a correction coefficient with the first obtained number, in a case when the first obtained number is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, and an estimation unit to estimate the waiting time in the waiting line based on the corrected number and the second obtained number, when the first obtained number is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Patent number: 10762355
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a number of objects included in a queue as a group of objects and an estimation unit that executes estimation processing of estimating a waiting time of the queue based on the acquired number of objects included in the queue and history information relating to a number of objects having moved out of the queue, where the estimation unit executes the estimation processing based on a previous estimated waiting time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Patent number: 10674095
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to identify a protection region for protecting privacy, a setting unit configured to set, as an image to be used as a background image, an image selected from existing images based on a user operation, and an image combining unit configured to combine a protection image with the protection region identified by the identifying unit and included in the background image set by the setting unit to generate a privacy protection image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Publication number: 20200045242
    Abstract: Causing display of an image captured by an image capturing device. An acquisition unit acquires a classification of an event occurring in a capturing area in which the image capturing device performs capturing. A display control unit causes a display unit to display an image generated by enlargement processing such that a size of a portion of a human figure included in the image of the capturing area is identical to a predetermined size, the portion of the human figure corresponding to the classification of the event acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Patent number: 10410063
    Abstract: A setting apparatus for making a setting to detect that a moving object in an image has passed a line set in the image accepts designation of one of a position and a partial region in an object region in the image, and makes a setting to detect that the designated position or partial region in the object region of the moving object in the image has passed the line set in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Publication number: 20190213422
    Abstract: To enable higher accuracy estimation of a waiting time in a waiting line configured by a plurality of objects, an information processing apparatus obtains a first number of objects detected in an image in which the waiting line is captured; obtains a second number of objects that leave the waiting line per unit time; corrects the first number by multiplying a correction coefficient with the first number in a case where the first number is a predetermined threshold or more; and estimates a waiting time in the waiting line based on the corrected first number and the second number in the case where the first number is the predetermined threshold or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Publication number: 20180255249
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to identify a protection region for protecting privacy, a setting unit configured to set, as an image to be used as a background image, an image selected from existing images based on a user operation, and an image combining unit configured to combine a protection image with the protection region identified by the identifying unit and included in the background image set by the setting unit to generate a privacy protection image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Publication number: 20180144198
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a number of objects included in a queue as a group of objects and an estimation unit that executes estimation processing of estimating a waiting time of the queue based on the acquired number of objects included in the queue and history information relating to a number of objects having moved out of the queue, where the estimation unit executes the estimation processing based on a previous estimated waiting time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Publication number: 20170039430
    Abstract: A setting apparatus for making a setting to detect that a moving object in an image has passed a line set in the image accepts designation of one of a position and a partial region in an object region in the image, and makes a setting to detect that the designated position or partial region in the object region of the moving object in the image has passed the line set in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Patent number: 9536164
    Abstract: A setting apparatus for making a setting to detect that a moving object in an image has passed a line set in the image accepts designation of one of a position and a partial region in an object region in the image, and makes a setting to detect that the designated position or partial region in the object region of the moving object in the image has passed the line set in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Publication number: 20160372157
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires recording period information about recording periods of images captured by a plurality of imaging apparatuses, a determination unit that determines a designated time, an identification unit that identifies one or more imaging apparatuses recording periods of which include the designated time determined by the determination unit from among the plurality of imaging apparatuses based on the recording period information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a display control unit that displays identification information of the one or more imaging apparatuses identified from among the plurality of imaging apparatuses by the identification unit on a display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Patent number: 9196138
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to simplify an operation of reproducing, on a single window, pieces of image information of different image capturing apparatuses or pieces of image information captured at different times. A display apparatus manages a camera apparatus (1) serving as the image capturing source of image information to be reproduced in each image region in association with a plurality of image regions on a single window. The display apparatus manages whether the image information to be reproduced in each image region is recorded image information or image information which is currently being captured. On the basis of the pieces of management information, the display apparatus acquires image information from a desired one of camera apparatuses and recording apparatuses and reproduces the pieces of acquired image information on the plurality of image regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Publication number: 20150326831
    Abstract: A management apparatus managing a plurality of network cameras receives, via a communication network, video shot by a plurality of network cameras, and controls to display, in accordance with information representing network cameras which shoot video to be displayed in accordance with a plurality of display layouts, information based on a number of times the video shot by the network cameras are displayed or a time of period for which the video shot by the network cameras are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi
  • Publication number: 20140003657
    Abstract: A setting apparatus for making a setting to detect that a moving object in an image has passed a line set in the image accepts designation of one of a position and a partial region in an object region in the image, and makes a setting to detect that the designated position or partial region in the object region of the moving object in the image has passed the line set in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Funagi