Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Nomura
Toshiyuki Nomura 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).
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Publication number: 20240125929Abstract: A target object detection apparatus (20) includes an acquisition unit (210), a likelihood information generation unit (220), and a determination unit (230). The acquisition unit (210) acquires an IF signal from an irradiation apparatus (10) at a plurality of timings. The likelihood information generation unit (220) executes, by processing the IF signal, processing of generating, with respect to each of a plurality of IF signals, likelihood information for a region (hereinafter, referred to as a target object region) having a possibility in that an accompaniment, i.e., a target object is present. The likelihood information indicates a distribution of presence probabilities of a target object in at least a height direction in a target object region. Then, the determination unit (230) determines a presence or absence of a target object, by using likelihood information generated for each of a plurality of target object regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tatsuya SUMIYA, Masayuki ARIYOSHI, Kazumine OGURA, Nagma Samreen KHAN, Shingo YAMANOUCHI, Toshiyuki NOMURA
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Publication number: 20240071322Abstract: An electro-optical device is provided with a plurality of data lines, a plurality of potential lines supplied with a predetermined potential, a driving transistor controlling a current level according to the voltage between the gate and the source, a first storage capacitor which holds the voltage between the gate and a source of the driving transistor, and a light-emitting element. One data line among the plurality of data lines and one potential line among the plurality of potential lines are arranged to be adjacent to each other, and a second storage capacitor holding the potential of the one data line is formed by the one data line and the one potential line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki KASAI, Takeshi NOMURA
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Patent number: 11860112Abstract: To shorten a waiting time for a belongings inspection, the present invention provides an inspection system 10 including: an electromagnetic wave transmission/reception unit 11 that irradiates an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength of equal to or more than 30 micrometers and equal to or less than one meter, and receives a reflection wave; a detection unit 12 that performs detection processing of detecting an abnormal state, based on a signal of the reflection wave; a decision unit 13 that decides, for an inspection target person from which the abnormal state is detected, whether to perform a secondary inspection at a place or perform a secondary inspection later; and a registration unit 16 that registers, in association with a result of the detection processing, identification information about the inspection target person decided that a secondary inspection is performed later.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Naoya Nakayama, Masanori Sekido, Shinichi Morimoto, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Tatsuya Sumiya, Toshiyuki Nomura, Toshinori Takemura
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Patent number: 11815597Abstract: To shorten a waiting time for a belongings inspection, the present invention provides an inspection system 10 including an acquisition unit 11 that acquires personal unique information unique to each of inspection target persons, and a determination unit 12 that determines a content of a belongings inspection based on a signal of a reflection wave of an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength of equal to or more than 30 micrometers and equal to or less than one meter for the each inspection target person, based on the personal unique information.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Yamanouchi, Shinichi Morimoto, Kazumine Ogura, Tatsuya Sumiya, Masaru Eto, Toshiyuki Nomura, Masayuki Ariyoshi
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Publication number: 20230123120Abstract: The present invention provides a processing system (10) including: an electromagnetic wave reception unit (11) that receives an electromagnetic wave from a target person passing through a predetermined region; a determination unit (12) that determines, based on a signal of the received electromagnetic wave, whether the target person carries a previously-specified object; a route decision unit (13) that decides, based on a result of the determination, an inspection route where the target person proceeds from among a plurality of the previously-determined inspection routes; and a guidance unit (14) that executes guidance processing of guiding the target person to the decided inspection route.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Masayuki Ariyoshi, Toshiyuki Nomura, Toshiaki Tanaka, Takeshi Moribe, Tetsuaki Suzuki, Kazumine Ogura, Shingo Yamanouchi, Tatsuya Sumiya, Nagma Samreen Khan
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Publication number: 20230003884Abstract: A target object detection apparatus (20) includes an image generation unit (220) that generates, from three-dimensional information acquired by processing a reflection wave of an electromagnetic wave irradiated toward an inspection target, a two-dimensional image of the inspection target viewed from a predetermined direction; an area detection unit (230) that detects, from the two-dimensional image, each of at least two detection areas of detection target objects recognized by using at least two recognition means; and an identification unit (240) that identifies the detection target object, based on a positional relationship between the detected at least two detection areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Toshiyuki NOMURA
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Publication number: 20220413115Abstract: An object detection apparatus 1000 includes: a transmission unit 1101, having a transmission antenna, configured to emit a radio wave toward an object using the transmission antenna; a reception unit 1102, having a reception antenna, configured to receive the radio wave reflected by the object as a reception signal and generate an intermediate frequency signal from the reception signal received; and a processing device 1211. The processing device 1211 calculates an amplitude distribution of the radio wave reflected by the object on the basis of the placement of the transmission antenna, the placement of the reception antenna, the frequency of the radio wave emitted from the transmission antenna, and the intermediate frequency signal, and furthermore, using a correction operator calculated from a point spread function indicating characteristics of the transmission unit 1101 and the reception unit 1102, corrects the amplitude distribution calculated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2019Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shingo YAMANOUCHI, Toshiyuki NOMURA, Taichi TANAKA, Tatsuya SUMIYA
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Patent number: 11527054Abstract: An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that effectively counts, on a type basis, articles of a plurality of types displayed in a depth direction on a display shelf. The information processing apparatus includes a display count acquirer that acquires display count information of articles using article presence/absence sensors provided on the display shelf on which the articles are placed, an article identifier that acquires article identification information capable of identifying the types of articles based on an image acquired by capturing the display shelf, and a display recognizer that recognizes, based on the display count information and the article identification information, display count of each type of the articles.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Nomura, Kota Iwamoto, Kyota Higa, Keishi Ohashi, Wataru Hattori
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Publication number: 20220366614Abstract: A image processing apparatus (20) includes at least an acquisition unit (210), a processing unit (220), and an image generation unit (230). The acquisition unit (210) acquires an intermediate frequency signal from an irradiation apparatus (10). The processing unit (220) generates three-dimensional positional information about a subject by processing the intermediate frequency signal. The image generation unit (230) generates at least a first two-dimensional image and a second two-dimensional image, and displays the two-dimensional images on a display apparatus (30). The first two-dimensional image is, for example, an image when viewed from a direction in which the subject moves, and the second two-dimensional image is, for example, an image when viewed from an opposite direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Masayuki ARIYOSHI, Kazumine OGURA, Tatsuya SUMIYA, Shingo YAMANOUCHI, Nagma Samreen KHAN, Toshiyuki NOMURA
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Publication number: 20220350016Abstract: Provided is a method for movement estimation and movement compensation of a target object that can be applied without introducing restrictions on antenna placement. The present invention provides a radar apparatus including: a radar signal transmission-reception unit acquiring a radar signal acquired by measurement using a transmission antenna and a reception antenna, and a measurement time of the radar signal; a velocity candidate control unit holding a setting of a velocity candidate set of a target object; a velocity estimation imaging unit generating a radar image applied with movement compensation by using each velocity candidate; a velocity estimation unit selecting an estimated velocity from a velocity candidate set, based on comparison of each generated radar image; and an output image imaging unit generating a final output image applied with movement compensation using an estimated velocity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tatsuya SUMIYA, Kazumine Ogura, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Toshiyuki Nomura
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Publication number: 20220335724Abstract: The present invention provides a processing system (20) including an image capturing unit (21) that captures an image of a person passing through a first area and generates a person image indicating an appearance of the person, an electromagnetic wave transmission/reception unit (22) that emits an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength of 30 micrometers or more and 1 meter or less toward the person passing through the first area, and receives a reflected wave, a determination unit (23) that determines whether the person possesses a pre-designated object, based on a signal of the received reflected wave, and a registration unit (24) that registers, in a first list, the person image of the person determined to possess the pre-designated object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Masayuki ARIYOSHI, Kazumine OGURA, Tatsuya SUMIYA, Toshiyuki NOMURA, Shingo YAMANOUCHI
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Publication number: 20220299637Abstract: To shorten a waiting time for a belongings inspection, the present invention provides an inspection system 10 including an acquisition unit 11 that acquires personal unique information unique to each of inspection target persons, and a determination unit 12 that determines a content of a belongings inspection based on a signal of a reflection wave of an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength of equal to or more than 30 micrometers and equal to or less than one meter for the each inspection target person, based on the personal unique information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shingo YAMANOUCHI, Shinichi MORIMOTO, Kazumine OGURA, Tatsuya SUMIYA, Masaru ETO, Toshiyuki NOMURA, Masayuki ARIYOSHI
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Publication number: 20220299602Abstract: For increasing measurement precision while suppressing cost increase when measuring a permittivity of an object using a radio wave, an object detection apparatus includes a transmission unit projecting a radio wave toward a target object by using a transmission antenna, a reception unit receiving the radio wave reflected by the target object by a reception antenna and generating an intermediate frequency signal, and an arithmetic apparatus. The arithmetic apparatus computes a reflection amplitude of the target object from the intermediate frequency signal, computes a reflectance from the reflection amplitude, computes a complex permittivity absolute value of the target object from the computed reflectance, computes a depth position of the target object from the reflection amplitude, computes a thickness of the target object from the depth and the reflection amplitude, and computes a permittivity of the target object from the reflection amplitude, the complex permittivity absolute value, and the thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shingo YAMANOUCHI, Toshiyuki Nomura, Masayuki Arlyoshi, Kazumine Ogura, Tatsuya Sumiya
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Publication number: 20220299631Abstract: To shorten a waiting time for a belongings inspection, the present invention provides an inspection system 10 including an acquisition unit 11 that acquires target person identification information identifying an inspection target person, a determination unit 12 that determines, based on target person information stored in association with the target person identification information, reference data referred to in a belongings inspection for the inspection target person, an electromagnetic wave transmission/reception unit 14 that emits an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength of equal to or more than 30 micrometers and equal to or less than one meter and receives a reflection wave, and a detection unit 13 that executes, based on a signal of the reflection wave and the reference data, detection processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Shinichi MORIMOTO, Masanori SEKIDO, Masaru ETO, Tatsuya SUMIYA, Shingo YAMANOUCHI, Toshiyuki NOMURA, Masayuki ARIYOSHI
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Publication number: 20220299454Abstract: To shorten a waiting time for a belongings inspection, the present invention provides an inspection system 10 including: an electromagnetic wave transmission/reception unit 11 that irradiates an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength of equal to or more than 30 micrometers and equal to or less than one meter, and receives a reflection wave; a detection unit 12 that performs detection processing of detecting an abnormal state, based on a signal of the reflection wave; a decision unit 13 that decides, for an inspection target person from which the abnormal state is detected, whether to perform a secondary inspection at a place or perform a secondary inspection later; and a registration unit 16 that registers, in association with a result of the detection processing, identification information about the inspection target person decided that a secondary inspection is performed later.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Naoya NAKAYAMA, Masanori Sekido, Shinichi Morimoto, Masayuki Ariyoshi, Tatsuya Sumiya, Toshiyuki Nomura, Toshinori Takemura
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Publication number: 20210064909Abstract: An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that effectively counts, on a type basis, articles of a plurality of types displayed in a depth direction on a display shelf. The information processing apparatus includes a display count acquirer that acquires display count information of articles using article presence/absence sensors provided on the display shelf on which the articles are placed, an article identifier that acquires article identification information capable of identifying the types of articles based on an image acquired by capturing the display shelf, and a display recognizer that recognizes, based on the display count information and the article identification information, display count of each type of the articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki NOMURA, Kota IWAMOTO, Kyota HIGA, Keishi OHASHI, Wataru HATTORI
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Patent number: 10885374Abstract: An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that effectively counts, on a type basis, articles of a plurality of types displayed in a depth direction on a display shelf. The information processing apparatus includes a display count acquirer that acquires display count information of articles using article presence/absence sensors provided on the display shelf on which the articles are placed, an article identifier that acquires article identification information capable of identifying the types of articles based on an image acquired by capturing the display shelf, and a display recognizer that recognizes, based on the display count information and the article identification information, display count of each type of the articles.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: NEC CoporationInventors: Toshiyuki Nomura, Kota Iwamoto, Kyota Higa, Keishi Ohashi, Wataru Hattori
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Publication number: 20190392244Abstract: An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that effectively counts, on a type basis, articles of a plurality of types displayed in a depth direction on a display shelf. The information processing apparatus includes a display count acquirer that acquires display count information of articles using article presence/absence sensors provided on the display shelf on which the articles are placed, an article identifier that acquires article identification information capable of identifying the types of articles based on an image acquired by capturing the display shelf, and a display recognizer that recognizes, based on the display count information and the article identification information, display count of each type of the articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Toshiyuki NOMURA, Kota IWAMOTO, Kyota HIGA, Keishi OHASHI, Wataru HATTORI
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Patent number: 10438084Abstract: An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that effectively counts, on a type basis, articles of a plurality of types displayed in a depth direction on a display shelf. The information processing apparatus includes a display count acquirer that acquires display count information of articles using article presence/absence sensors provided on the display shelf on which the articles are placed, an article identifier that acquires article identification information capable of identifying the types of articles based on an image acquired by capturing the display shelf, and a display recognizer that recognizes, based on the display count information and the article identification information, display count of each type of the articles.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Nomura, Kota Iwamoto, Kyota Higa, Keishi Ohashi, Wataru Hattori
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Patent number: 10115127Abstract: Advertisement information relating to an object is provided in real time, while capturing images of the object. m first local features which are respectively feature vectors from one dimension to i dimensions are stored in association with an object, n feature points are extracted from a video picture, n second local features which are respectively feature vectors from one dimension to j dimensions are generated, the smaller number of dimensions is selected, of the number of dimensions i and the number of dimensions j, and an object is recognized to be present in the video picture and advertisement information relating to that object is provided when determination is made that at least a prescribed ratio of the m first local features of the selected number of dimensions corresponds to the n second local features of the selected number of dimensions.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Nomura, Akio Yamada, Kota Iwamoto, Ryota Mase