Patents by Inventor Yuichiro Hirota

Yuichiro Hirota 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: 11285603
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes an estimation unit to estimate information indicating a holding success possibility from an image of a plurality of the target objects by using a pre-trained model that estimates the information indicating the holding success possibility in at least one or more partial regions, a determination unit to determine a holding region for the robot to hold the target object among the partial regions based on the information indicating the holding success possibility, and a control unit to move the robot based on the holding region and cause the robot to perform a holding operation on the target object. In a case where the holding operation performed on the target object by the robot is failed, the determination unit determines a partial region, among the partial regions, satisfying a predetermined condition as a next holding region based on the information indicating the holding success possibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamada, Masahiro Suzuki, Tomoaki Higo, Yuichiro Hirota
  • Publication number: 20210072734
    Abstract: The invention provides an information processing apparatus comprising a first acquiring unit which acquires, from an external apparatus which can communicate with the information processing apparatus via a network, a first learning model which outputs recognition information in response to input of image information; a learning unit which causes the first model to learn a result of control by the information processing apparatus using recognition information that is output from a second learning model in response to input of the image information in an execution environment; and an output unit which causes the first learning model learned by the learning unit to output recognition information by inputting image information in the execution environment to the first learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventor: Yuichiro Hirota
  • Publication number: 20200284573
    Abstract: There is provided a position and orientation measurement apparatus, information processing apparatus, and an information processing method, capable of performing robust measurement of a position and orientation. In order to achieve the apparatuses and method, at least one coarse position and orientation of a target object is acquired from an image including the target object, at least one candidate position and orientation is newly generated as an initial value used for deriving a position and orientation of the target object based on the acquired coarse position and orientation, and the position and orientation of the target object in the image is derived by using model information of the target object and by performing at least once of fitting processing of the candidate position and orientation generated as the initial value with the target object in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirota, Keisuke Tateno
  • Patent number: 10684116
    Abstract: There is provided a position and orientation measurement apparatus, information processing apparatus, and an information processing method, capable of performing robust measurement of a position and orientation. In order to achieve the apparatuses and method, at least one coarse position and orientation of a target object is acquired from an image including the target object, at least one candidate position and orientation is newly generated as an initial value used for deriving a position and orientation of the target object based on the acquired coarse position and orientation, and the position and orientation of the target object in the image is derived by using model information of the target object and by performing at least once of fitting processing of the candidate position and orientation generated as the initial value with the target object in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirota, Keisuke Tateno
  • Patent number: 10573073
    Abstract: Whether a reference map can be changed is determined based on an index for evaluating a user's unlikeliness to notice a change in an appearance of a virtual object in an image captured by a camera, the change occurring when the reference map is changed to another map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirota, Akihiro Katayama, Masakazu Fujiki, Daisuke Kotake
  • Patent number: 10535194
    Abstract: Whether a reference map can be changed is determined based on an index for evaluating a user's unlikeliness to notice a change in an appearance of a virtual object in an image captured by a camera, the change occurring when the reference map is changed to another map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirota, Akihiro Katayama, Masakazu Fujiki, Daisuke Kotake
  • Patent number: 10497111
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: a generating unit which generates, based on model information including a feature of an object, a model feature indicating the feature of the object to be acquired by observing the object respectively from a plurality of candidate viewpoints; an acquiring unit which acquires an image feature indicating features of images acquired by photographing the object respectively from the plurality of candidate viewpoints; an evaluating unit which evaluates each of the plurality of candidate viewpoints, based on a correspondence relation between the model feature and the image feature; and a selecting unit which selects, from the plurality of candidate viewpoints, one or more measurement viewpoints from which the object should be measured, on the basis of evaluation by the evaluating unit for each of the plurality of candidate viewpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirota, Masakazu Fujiki, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Masahiro Suzuki, Keisuke Tateno
  • Publication number: 20190329409
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes an estimation unit to estimate information indicating a holding success possibility from an image of a plurality of the target objects by using a pre-trained model that estimates the information indicating the holding success possibility in at least one or more partial regions, a determination unit to determine a holding region for the robot to hold the target object among the partial regions based on the information indicating the holding success possibility, and a control unit to move the robot based on the holding region and cause the robot to perform a holding operation on the target object. In a case where the holding operation performed on the target object by the robot is failed, the determination unit determines a partial region, among the partial regions, satisfying a predetermined condition as a next holding region based on the information indicating the holding success possibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamada, Masahiro Suzuki, Tomoaki Higo, Yuichiro Hirota
  • Patent number: 10430967
    Abstract: In order to shorten the time required for a setting operation of features, an information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire features used for deriving a positional attitude of an imaging device from an image captured by the imaging device, a setting unit configured to set a plurality of partial regions included in the image as a plurality of candidate regions to which a feature is to be added, an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the plurality of set candidate regions, a determination unit configured to determine a position and/or an orientation of a feature to be newly added based on the plurality of evaluated candidate regions, and an output unit configured to output the determined position and/or the orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirota, Keisuke Tateno, Masahiro Suzuki, Daisuke Kotake, Akihiro Katayama, Masakazu Fujiki
  • Patent number: 10203197
    Abstract: A region projected with pattern light in an image sensed by an image sensing unit which senses an image of a target object projected with pattern light is specified. Geometric features of the target object are searched for from a region other than the region projected with the pattern light in the sensed image based on the specified region. A position and orientation of the target object are derived based on the searched geometric features of the target object and geometric features of a model of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirota, Hisayoshi Furihata, Yusuke Nakazato
  • Patent number: 10059002
    Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. A captured image of a target object that is captured by an image capturing apparatus is obtained. Information that indicates a deterioration degree of the captured image is obtained for a position in the captured image. A feature of the target object is extracted from the captured image based on the deterioration degree. The feature of the target object and a feature of the three-dimensional model observed when the three-dimensional model is arranged in accordance with a predetermined position and orientation are associated. A position and orientation of the target object with respect to the image capturing apparatus are derived by correcting the predetermined position and orientation based on a result of association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sonoko Miyatani, Tatsuya Suzuki, Masakazu Fujiki, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Masahiro Suzuki, Yuichiro Hirota, Daisuke Kotake
  • Publication number: 20180144497
    Abstract: In order to shorten the time required for a setting operation of features, an information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire features used for deriving a positional attitude of an imaging device from an image captured by the imaging device, a setting unit configured to set a plurality of partial regions included in the image as a plurality of candidate regions to which a feature is to be added, an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the plurality of set candidate regions, a determination unit configured to determine a position and/or an orientation of a feature to be newly added based on the plurality of evaluated candidate regions, and an output unit configured to output the determined position and/or the orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirota, Keisuke Tateno, Masahiro Suzuki, Daisuke Kotake, Akihiro Katayama, Masakazu Fujiki
  • Publication number: 20170372466
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: a generating unit which generates, based on model information including a feature of an object, a model feature indicating the feature of the object to be acquired by observing the object respectively from a plurality of candidate viewpoints; an acquiring unit which acquires an image feature indicating features of images acquired by photographing the object respectively from the plurality of candidate viewpoints; an evaluating unit which evaluates each of the plurality of candidate viewpoints, based on a correspondence relation between the model feature and the image feature; and a selecting unit which selects, from the plurality of candidate viewpoints, one or more measurement viewpoints from which the object should be measured, on the basis of evaluation by the evaluating unit for each of the plurality of candidate viewpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Yuichiro HIROTA, Masakazu FUJIKI, Kazuhiko KOBAYASHI, Masahiro SUZUKI, Keisuke TATENO
  • Publication number: 20170307354
    Abstract: There is provided a position and orientation measurement apparatus, information processing apparatus, and an information processing method, capable of performing robust measurement of a position and orientation. In order to achieve the apparatuses and method, at least one coarse position and orientation of a target object is acquired from an image including the target object, at least one candidate position and orientation is newly generated as an initial value used for deriving a position and orientation of the target object based on the acquired coarse position and orientation, and the position and orientation of the target object in the image is derived by using model information of the target object and by performing at least once of fitting processing of the candidate position and orientation generated as the initial value with the target object in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirota, Keisuke Tateno
  • Patent number: 9704248
    Abstract: There is provided a position and orientation measurement apparatus, information processing apparatus, and an information processing method, capable of performing robust measurement of a position and orientation. In order to achieve the apparatuses and method, at least one coarse position and orientation of a target object is acquired from an image including the target object, at least one candidate position and orientation is newly generated as an initial value used for deriving a position and orientation of the target object based on the acquired coarse position and orientation, and the position and orientation of the target object in the image is derived by using model information of the target object and by performing at least once of fitting processing of the candidate position and orientation generated as the initial value with the target object in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirota, Keisuke Tateno
  • Publication number: 20170186237
    Abstract: Whether a reference map can be changed is determined based on an index for evaluating a user's unlikeliness to notice a change in an appearance of a virtual object in an image captured by a camera, the change occurring when the reference map is changed to another map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirota, Akihiro Katayama, Masakazu Fujiki, Daisuke Kotake
  • Publication number: 20160155235
    Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. A captured image of a target object that is captured by an image capturing apparatus is obtained. Information that indicates a deterioration degree of the captured image is obtained for a position in the captured image. A feature of the target object is extracted from the captured image based on the deterioration degree. The feature of the target object and a feature of the three-dimensional model observed when the three-dimensional model is arranged in accordance with a predetermined position and orientation are associated. A position and orientation of the target object with respect to the image capturing apparatus are derived by correcting the predetermined position and orientation based on a result of association.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Sonoko Miyatani, Tatsuya Suzuki, Masakazu Fujiki, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Masahiro Suzuki, Yuichiro Hirota, Daisuke Kotake
  • Patent number: 8970621
    Abstract: When two objects have overlapping without the intervention of another object, it is determined that the two objects are in contact with each other. Then, a second object, which reaches a state having overlapping with a first object and then reaches a state having overlapping again via a state without any overlapping during movement of the first object, is detected. When it is determined that the first and second objects are in contact with each other before and after the state without any overlapping, an information processing apparatus interchanges a hierarchical relation in Z-orders of the first and second objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichiro Hirota
  • Patent number: 8878778
    Abstract: One of the aspects of the disclosure is directed to displaying an image according to attribute information thereof in a display area having a time axis based on an item of predetermined attribute information, and when changing a display range on the time axis, allowing a user to easily designate a point to be a reference thereof. An information processing apparatus according to the present invention displays an image in the display area having the time axis according to date and time information of the image. The information processing apparatus moves a mouse cursor on the display area according to a user's operation, and sets a reference after the display range is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichiro Hirota
  • Publication number: 20140219502
    Abstract: There is provided a position and orientation measurement apparatus, information processing apparatus, and an information processing method, capable of performing robust measurement of a position and orientation. In order to achieve the apparatuses and method, at least one coarse position and orientation of a target object is acquired from an image including the target object, at least one candidate position and orientation is newly generated as an initial value used for deriving a position and orientation of the target object based on the acquired coarse position and orientation, and the position and orientation of the target object in the image is derived by using model information of the target object and by performing at least once of fitting processing of the candidate position and orientation generated as the initial value with the target object in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichiro Hirota, Keisuke Tateno