Patents by Inventor Toyohisa Matsuda

Toyohisa Matsuda 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: 11966990
    Abstract: A construction management system includes a geological data acquisition unit configured to acquire geological data of a work target, and a three-dimensional data acquisition unit configured to acquire three-dimensional data of the work target, where the three-dimensional data acquisition unit is configured to acquire, based on the geological data, three-dimensional data including a boundary between geologies of the work target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11873948
    Abstract: A management system includes a position detection unit which obtains a position of a work machine, a posture detection unit which obtains a posture of the work machine, an object detection unit which obtains a three-dimensional shape of a buried object, a position calculation unit which obtains a position of the buried object by using the position of the work machine obtained by the position detection unit, the posture of the work machine obtained by the posture detection unit, and the three-dimensional shape of the buried object obtained by the object detection unit, and an information acquisition unit which acquires buried object information including at least the position of the buried object obtained by the position calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20230151930
    Abstract: A management system includes a position detection unit which obtains a position of a work machine, a posture detection unit which obtains a posture of the work machine, an object detection unit which obtains a three-dimensional shape of a buried object, a position calculation unit which obtains a position of the buried object by using the position of the work machine obtained by the position detection unit, the posture of the work machine obtained by the posture detection unit, and the three-dimensional shape of the buried object obtained by the object detection unit, and an information acquisition unit which acquires buried object information including at least the position of the buried object obtained by the position calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11585490
    Abstract: A management system includes a position detection unit which obtains a position of a work machine, a posture detection unit which obtains a posture of the work machine, an object detection unit which obtains a three-dimensional shape of a buried object, a position calculation unit which obtains a position of the buried object by using the position of the work machine obtained by the position detection unit, the posture of the work machine obtained by the posture detection unit, and the three-dimensional shape of the buried object obtained by the object detection unit, and an information acquisition unit which acquires buried object information including at least the position of the buried object obtained by the position calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11195351
    Abstract: A work machine measurement system includes an image acquisition unit that acquires an image of a work target captured, while a swinging body of a work machine is swinging, by an image capturing device mounted on the swinging body, a three-dimensional position calculation unit that calculates a three-dimensional position of the work target based on the image, a swing data acquisition unit that acquires swing data about the swinging body, a determination unit that determines whether or not the swing data satisfies a predefined swinging condition and an output unit that outputs a swinging instruction signal based on a result of the determination by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Shun Kawamoto, Toyohisa Matsuda, Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200394726
    Abstract: A construction management system includes a geological data acquisition unit configured to acquire geological data of a work target, and a three-dimensional data acquisition unit configured to acquire three-dimensional data of the work target, where the three-dimensional data acquisition unit is configured to acquire, based on the geological data, three-dimensional data including a boundary between geologies of the work target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20200325656
    Abstract: A management system includes a position detection unit which obtains a position of a work machine, a posture detection unit which obtains a posture of the work machine, an object detection unit which obtains a three-dimensional shape of a buried object, a position calculation unit which obtains a position of the buried object by using the position of the work machine obtained by the position detection unit, the posture of the work machine obtained by the posture detection unit, and the three-dimensional shape of the buried object obtained by the object detection unit, and an information acquisition unit which acquires buried object information including at least the position of the buried object obtained by the position calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20200058177
    Abstract: A work machine measurement system includes an image acquisition unit that acquires an image of a work target captured, while a swinging body of a work machine is swinging, by an image capturing device mounted on the swinging body, a three-dimensional position calculation unit that calculates a three-dimensional position of the work target based on the image, a swing data acquisition unit that acquires swing data about the swinging body, a determination unit that determines whether or not the swing data satisfies a predefined swinging condition and an output unit that outputs a swinging instruction signal based on a result of the determination by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Shun Kawamoto, Toyohisa Matsuda, Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20190253641
    Abstract: A detection processing device, of a work machine, includes a measurement data acquisition unit which acquires measurement data of a target that is measured by a measurement device provided at a work machine, a working equipment position data calculation unit which calculates working equipment position data indicating a position of a working equipment of the work machine, and a three-dimensional data calculation unit which calculates target data that is three-dimensional data in which at least a part of the working equipment is removed, based on the measurement data and the working equipment position data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Toyohisa Matsuda, Taiki Sugawara, Toshihiko Kouda
  • Patent number: 9288363
    Abstract: A television receiver includes: an edge gradient direction setting section configured to set an edge gradient direction of an interpolation pixel by use of input pixels within a reference block; a temporary reference coordinate setting section (65) configured to set four reference pixels to be vertices of a parallelogram having two sides perpendicular to the edge gradient direction; a reference pixel value setting section (66) configured to set, by use of the input pixels within the reference block regardless of whether a first reference pixel and/or a second reference pixel of the four reference pixels is/are located inside or outside the reference block, reference pixel values which are pixel values of the respective four reference pixels; and an interpolation pixel value calculating section (67) configured to calculate a pixel value of the interpolation pixel by use of the reference pixel values of the respective four reference pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Takashima, Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20150288851
    Abstract: A television receiver includes: an edge gradient direction setting section configured to set an edge gradient direction of an interpolation pixel by use of input pixels within a reference block; a temporary reference coordinate setting section (65) configured to set four reference pixels to be vertices of a parallelogram having two sides perpendicular to the edge gradient direction; a reference pixel value setting section (66) configured to set, by use of the input pixels within the reference block regardless of whether a first reference pixel and/or a second reference pixel of the four reference pixels is/are located inside or outside the reference block, reference pixel values which are pixel values of the respective four reference pixels; and an interpolation pixel value calculating section (67) configured to calculate a pixel value of the interpolation pixel by use of the reference pixel values of the respective four reference pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Takashima, Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20150055018
    Abstract: A detail improvement processing section (13) includes (i) a maximum value calculation processing section (17) configured to calculate a maximum value of pixel values of respective of a target pixel and peripheral pixels around the target pixel, (ii) a minimum value calculation processing section (18) configured to calculate a minimum value of the pixel values, (iii) a high-frequency component generation processing section (19) configured to calculate a high-frequency component on the basis of the pixel value of the target pixel, the maximum value, and the minimum value, and (iv) a mixing processing section (20) configured to correct the pixel value of the target pixel using the high-frequency component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8630498
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for detection of pictorial regions in an image using a masking condition, an entropy measure, and region growing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard John Campbell, Ahmet Mufit Ferman, Toyohisa Matsuda, Lawrence Shao-hsien Chen
  • Patent number: 8606014
    Abstract: A foreground pixel block extraction process section divides input image data into a plurality of pixel blocks, and classifies each pixel block as a uniform density pixel block or foreground pixel block. By performing above process, the foreground pixel block extraction process section extracts foreground pixel blocks. A foreground color calculation process section calculates the foreground colors from the extracted foreground pixel blocks as color information. A labeling process section extracts connected foreground pixel block areas as foreground pixel areas by giving the same label to a plurality of adjacent foreground pixel blocks. From these processing results, a foreground pixel extraction process section calculates a representative color for each foreground pixel area, and extracts pixels having pixel values close to the representative color as foreground pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8509530
    Abstract: The compression processing unit 30 of the image processing apparatus makes the color conversion process section 50 to the layout analysis processing section 53 extract the text string region, and makes the foreground layer generating section 54 extract the foreground pixel from the text string region to generate the foreground layer. The line detection process section 52 extracts the line art from the input image data, and removes the pixel block configuring the line art from the foreground pixel-block mask generated by the foreground extracting section 51. The layout analysis processing section 53 estimates the direction of the text string in accordance with the distance of the foreground regions and the number of connected foreground regions, and merges the foreground regions connected in the estimated direction, to extract the text string region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8502875
    Abstract: A captured image processing system includes a portable terminal apparatus and an image output apparatus. The portable terminal apparatus captures images consecutively while detecting a change in position of the portable terminal apparatus during the image capture, and transmits, to the image output apparatus, (i) a plurality of captured image data and (ii) motion information on the change in position detected for each of the plurality of captured image data. The output apparatus receives, from the portable terminal apparatus, the plurality of captured image data and the motion information, carries out, in accordance with the motion information, a positioning process in which the plurality of captured image data are positionally adjusted, prepares, by use of the plurality of captured image data subjected to the positioning process, high resolution image data, and outputs the high resolution image data prepared or an image displayed based on the high resolution image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toyohisa Matsuda, Makoto Hayasaki
  • Patent number: 8437054
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for identifying uniformly colored regions in a digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard John Campbell, Toyohisa Matsuda, Lawrence Shao-hsien Chen
  • Patent number: 8428395
    Abstract: With the use of a vector quantization technique, an index image, which is obtained by replacing an image on a block-by-block basis, each block consisting of a predetermined number of pixels, with any of a plurality of different pixel patterns and representing the pixel patterns by index values of the respective pixel patterns, is decoded by referring to a code book containing the pixel patterns and the index values of the pixel patterns in association with each other. When decoding an index image on the block-by-block basis into pixel patterns corresponding to the index values, the pixel pattern of each block is scaled, and additionally pixels near a contour in the pixel pattern after scaling are redrawn based on contour vector information corresponding to the pixel pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8390888
    Abstract: A foreground layer generating unit generates a foreground layer on the basis of a foreground mask generated by a foreground mask generating unit and an original image. A binary image processing unit generates N binary images corresponding to N kinds of foreground identifiers on the basis of the foreground layer, and sets a plurality of tiles for each of the N binary images. Further, the binary image processing unit determines whether or not adjacent tiles are to be merged, and then sets tiles obtained by merging tiles determined to be merged, and leaving tiles determined not to be merged as they are. An image compressing unit cuts out rectangular regions from the individual set tiles by employing the binary images, and compresses the rectangular regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toyohisa Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8368956
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for segmenting a digital image into regions. A frequency-of-occurrence of image values may be determined excluding a portion of pixels in a digital image. An image value associated with a peak in the frequency-of-occurrence of image values may be identified and associated with an image label. Pixel locations may be labeled based on the associated labels and image values. Additionally, unreliable pixels may be determined and labeled based on the associated labels and image values, and an unreliable pixel may be assigned a label after multiple scan passes of a classification map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard John Campbell, Toyohisa Matsuda, Lawrence Shao-hsien Chen