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).
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Patent number: 11966990Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
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Patent number: 11873948Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
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Publication number: 20230151930Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
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Patent number: 11585490Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
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Patent number: 11195351Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Shun Kawamoto, Toyohisa Matsuda, Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20200394726Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2017Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
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Publication number: 20200325656Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2017Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicants: Komatsu Ltd., Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Ichiro Nakano, Toyohisa Matsuda
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Publication number: 20200058177Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Shun Kawamoto, Toyohisa Matsuda, Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20190253641Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Toyohisa Matsuda, Taiki Sugawara, Toshihiko Kouda
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Patent number: 9288363Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiko Takashima, Toyohisa Matsuda
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Publication number: 20150288851Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2013Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiko Takashima, Toyohisa Matsuda
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Publication number: 20150055018Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventor: Toyohisa Matsuda
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Patent number: 8630498Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 15, 2006Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Richard John Campbell, Ahmet Mufit Ferman, Toyohisa Matsuda, Lawrence Shao-hsien Chen
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Patent number: 8606014Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 26, 2010Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toyohisa Matsuda
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Patent number: 8509530Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toyohisa Matsuda
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Patent number: 8502875Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 11, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toyohisa Matsuda, Makoto Hayasaki
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Patent number: 8437054Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for identifying uniformly colored regions in a digital image.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2006Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Richard John Campbell, Toyohisa Matsuda, Lawrence Shao-hsien Chen
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Patent number: 8428395Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toyohisa Matsuda
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Patent number: 8390888Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toyohisa Matsuda
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Patent number: 8368956Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Richard John Campbell, Toyohisa Matsuda, Lawrence Shao-hsien Chen