Patents by Inventor Youji Morishita

Youji Morishita 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: 10176594
    Abstract: An in-vehicle camera calibrator is provided. The in-vehicle camera calibrator includes a targeted camera selector for selecting a targeted camera requiring the calibration, an intermediate camera selector for selecting an intermediate camera which is the in-vehicle camera that intervenes between the targeted camera and a criterial camera, a first calibrator for, when the intermediate camera is not selected, calibrating the targeted camera based on a captured image of an overlapping region between the criterial camera and the targeted camera, and a second calibrator for, when the intermediate camera is selected, calibrating the intermediate camera based on a captured image of an overlapping region between the criterial camera and the targeted camera, and then calibrating the targeted camera based on a captured image between the calibrated intermediate camera and the targeted camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tanaka, Youji Morishita, Muneaki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10166923
    Abstract: An image generation device for referencing a correspondence relationship and generating a line-of-sight-converted image from a captured image of an in-vehicle camera mounted to a vehicle is provided. The image generation device includes a first region updating unit that, upon sensing deviation of at least one of the mounting position and the mounting angle of the in-vehicle camera and calculating a new mounting position and mounting angle, updates a correspondence relationship of a predetermined first region in the line-of-sight-converted image in accordance with the new mounting position and mounting angle, and a second region updating unit that, upon satisfaction of a predetermined updating condition after updating the correspondence relationship of the first region, updates the correspondence relationship for a second region in the line-of-sight-converted image in accordance with the new mounting position and mounting angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tanaka, Youji Morishita, Muneaki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170309042
    Abstract: An in-vehicle camera calibrator is provided. The in-vehicle camera calibrator includes a targeted camera selector for selecting a targeted camera requiring the calibration, an intermediate camera selector for selecting an intermediate camera which is the in-vehicle camera that intervenes between the targeted camera and a criterial camera, a first calibrator for, when the intermediate camera is not selected, calibrating the targeted camera based on a captured image of an overlapping region between the criterial camera and the targeted camera, and a second calibrator for, when the intermediate camera is selected, calibrating the intermediate camera based on a captured image of an overlapping region between the criterial camera and the targeted camera, and then calibrating the targeted camera based on a captured image between the calibrated intermediate camera and the targeted camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tanaka, Youji Morishita, Muneaki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170297491
    Abstract: An image generation device for referencing a correspondence relationship and generating a line-of-sight-converted image from a captured image of an in-vehicle camera mounted to a vehicle is provided. The image generation device includes a first region updating unit that, upon sensing deviation of at least one of the mounting position and the mounting angle of the in-vehicle camera and calculating a new mounting position and mounting angle, updates a correspondence relationship of a predetermined first region in the line-of-sight-converted image in accordance with the new mounting position and mounting angle, and a second region updating unit that, upon satisfaction of a predetermined updating condition after updating the correspondence relationship of the first region, updates the correspondence relationship for a second region in the line-of-sight-converted image in accordance with the new mounting position and mounting angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tanaka, Youji Morishita, Muneaki Matsumoto