Patents by Inventor Yoichi Kigawa

Yoichi Kigawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20230108969
    Abstract: An abnormality detecting system for detecting an abnormality of an animal that is a monitoring target is provided. The abnormality detecting system includes a inferring unit configured to infer on a per-predeterinined-time-period basis whether a ruminating action of an animal that is a monitoring target occurs, by inputting time-series data from a motion sensor placed on a predetermined portion of the animal into a time-series model; and a determining unit configured to calculate a rumination rate that is a rate at which the inferring unit infers that the ruminating action occurs, and, in response to the rumination rate satisfying a predetermined condition, determine that an abnormality of the animal is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Nobuyuki KOZONOI, Yoichi KIGAWA, Wenjing LI, Yugo KASEDA, Hiromi YOKOYAMA, Ryosuke HIRAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230102979
    Abstract: An abnormality detecting system includes a first identification unit configured to identify a state of an animal that is a monitoring target in each time range, based on time-series data from a motion sensor placed on a predetermined portion of the animal that is a monitoring target; a first calculation unit configured to calculate a transition probability from the state at a predetermined timing of each time range identified by the first identification unit to a next state; and a determining unit configured to determine that an abnormality of the animal that is a monitoring target is detected when a score calculated based on the transition probability to the next state satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Nobuyuki KOZONOI, Yoichi KIGAWA, Wenjing LI, Yugo KASEDA, Hiromi YOKOYAMA, Ryosuke HIRAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11410409
    Abstract: Provided is an image classification system for classifying an input image including: a network constructed so that feature amount extraction processing and fully connected processing are executed on input image data; a path extracting means configured to extract a processing path in the network; and a determination module configured to compare the processing path extracted by the path extracting means and a plurality of setting paths set in advance in association with classes to set a class associated with a matched path as a class of the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Kigawa
  • Publication number: 20220237895
    Abstract: A class determination system includes a memory and a processor to execute classifying image data of an object to be inspected into one of a predetermined number of classes; extracting, in association with a classification target, a feature value by processing the image data classified by the classifying; determining whether the feature value of the image data of the object is included in a distribution region of the classification target into which the image data of the object is classified, from among distribution regions of feature values of image data items whose classification targets are known, where in each distribution region, a feature value space is defined for a corresponding classification target; and outputting, when the feature value of the image data of the object is determined not included in the distribution region, a determination result that the image data of the object belongs to a new class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yatfei Chan, Yoichi Kigawa
  • Publication number: 20220236192
    Abstract: An inspection system includes a memory; and a processor, wherein the memory is configured to hold an image reproducing model trained to reproduce, from a first masked image generated by masking part, of a first image determined as including no defect from among images that capture an object to be inspected, the first image before being masked, and wherein the processor is configured to determine, based on a reproduced image reproduced by inputting a second masked image generated by masking part of a second image that captures a new object to be inspected into the image reproducing model, and the second image, whether the second image includes a defect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Kigawa, Yatfei Chan
  • Publication number: 20220053737
    Abstract: A BRDC sign detecting system includes: a processor, and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to obtain, with respect to a bovine developing bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC) within a time period required for a fattening process, data indicating a condition of the bovine during a predetermined time period in which the bovine did not yet develop the BRDC, and obtain data indicating a condition, during a predetermined time period, of a bovine that has not developed BRDC perform machine learning with respect to a correspondence relation between the obtained data indicating the condition during the predetermined time period and information indicating whether BRDC is developed, and infer, by inputting data indicating a condition of a new bovine during the predetermined time period into a learned model generated by performing the machine learning, information indicating whether the new bovine will develop BRDC and output an inference result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Nobuyuki KOZONOI, Yoichi KIGAWA, Kazumasa OKADA, Tatsuya KITAHARA, Naruyoshi ITADANI
  • Patent number: 10891725
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus configured to inspect a target for defects, including: an image capturing unit capable of capturing an image of the target as image information having color information including RGB values; and a determination unit configured to determine presence or absence of defects in the target based on the color information of the image information of the image captured by the image capturing unit, wherein the determination unit is configured to define, for each pixel, criteria for determining presence or absence of defects in each pixel of the image information, based on the color information in a defect-free region of the target captured by the image capturing unit, and to filter all pixels in the image information of the image captured by the image capturing unit so as to determine presence or absence of defects in each pixel, based on the defined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Kigawa
  • Publication number: 20180341829
    Abstract: Provided is an image classification system for classifying an input image including: a network constructed so that feature amount extraction processing and fully connected processing are executed on input image data; a path extracting means configured to extract a processing path in the network; and a determination module configured to compare the processing path extracted by the path extracting means and a plurality of setting paths set in advance in association with classes to set a class associated with a matched path as a class of the input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Kigawa
  • Publication number: 20180144461
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus configured to inspect a target for defects, including: an image capturing unit capable of capturing an image of the target as image information having color information including RGB values; and a determination unit configured to determine presence or absence of defects in the target based on the color information of the image information of the image captured by the image capturing unit, wherein the determination unit is configured to define, for each pixel, criteria for determining presence or absence of defects in each pixel of the image information, based on the color information in a defect-free region of the target captured by the image capturing unit, and to filter all pixels in the image information of the image captured by the image capturing unit so as to determine presence or absence of defects in each pixel, based on the defined criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Kigawa