Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Taniguchi

Yasuhiro Taniguchi 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: 6049875
    Abstract: A security apparatus. A service is supplied to a user while maintaining the security of the service. A person discrimination section discriminates the user to be supplied the service. A user situation decision section decides whether the user is under a situation to use the service. An infringement situation decision section detects whether a non-user intrudes into a use area of the service in order to decide whether the security of the service is infringed. A service control section supplies the service to the user in case the person discrimination section discriminates the user, and controls a supply of the service if the use situation decision section decides the user is not under the situation to use the service or the infringement situation decision section decides that the security of the service is infringed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kaoru Suzuki, Kazuhiro Fukui, Hisashi Kazama, Osamu Yamaguchi, Eiji Tanaka, Yasuhiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 5991428
    Abstract: A moving object detection apparatus includes a movable input section to input a plurality of images in a time series, in which a background area and a moving object are included. A calculation section divides each input image by unit of predetermined area, and calculates the moving vector between two images in a time series and a corresponding confidence value of the moving vector by unit of the predetermined area. A background area detection section detects a group of the predetermined areas, each of which moves almost equally as the background area from the input image according to the moving vector and the confidence value by unit of the predetermined area. A moving area detection section detects the area other than the background area as the moving area from the input image according to the moving vector of the background area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Taniguchi