Patents by Inventor Yuki Maruyama

Yuki Maruyama 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: 20210104035
    Abstract: An inspection device includes: an obtainer that obtains at least one captured image of a plurality of sound insulation plates; a deriver that derives a displacement of each of the plurality of sound insulation plates in the image; and an extractor that, based on the displacements of the plurality of sound insulation plates, extracts, from the plurality of sound insulation plates, a sound insulation plate of interest that moves differently from another sound insulation plate included in the plurality of sound insulation plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki MARUYAMA, Hiroya KUSAKA, Taro IMAGAWA, Akihiro NODA
  • Publication number: 20210104031
    Abstract: An information presentation method according to the present disclosure includes: acquiring two or more monochrome images obtained by image-capturing a structure using a monochrome camera and one or more first color images obtained by image-capturing the structure using a color camera, the one or more first color images having a less amount of information than an amount of information of the two or more monochrome images; detecting a displacement that indicates a movement of the structure based on the two or more monochrome images; generating presentation information that includes one or more second color images that present information that indicates the displacement based on the two or more monochrome images and the one or more first color images; and outputting the presentation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Taro IMAGAWA, Akihiro NODA, Yuki MARUYAMA, Hiroya KUSAKA
  • Publication number: 20210104033
    Abstract: An inspection device inspects fastening members that fasten a structure. The inspection device includes an obtainer that obtains images including a first image and a second image of the fastening members at times different from each other; a detector that detects first displacements that are respective displacements of the fastening members based on the first image and the second image; and an identifier that identifies, out of the fastening members based on the first displacements, a target fastening member behaving differently from other fastening members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Taro IMAGAWA, Akihiro NODA, Yuki MARUYAMA, Hiroya KUSAKA
  • Publication number: 20210104032
    Abstract: A displacement measurement device includes: a first machine learning model trained to generate, from one image which contains a subject and has noise, at least one image which contains the subject and which has noise or has had noise removed; a first obtainer that obtains a first image which contains the subject and has noise and a second image which contains the subject and has noise; a first generator that, using the first machine learning model, generates M template images containing the subject from the first image and generates M target images containing the subject from the second image, M being an integer of 2 or higher; a hypothetical displacement calculator that calculates M hypothetical displacements of the subject from the M template images and the M target images; and a displacement calculator that calculates a displacement of the subject by performing statistical processing on the M hypothetical displacements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Akihiro NODA, Taro IMAGAWA, Hiroya KUSAKA, Yuki MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210099718
    Abstract: An encoding device that compression-encodes a plurality of images to measure local displacement of the structure includes: a determiner that determines, as a first region in the plurality of images to be used to measure local displacement of the structure; and an encoder that encodes the first region using a first parameter and encodes a second region different from the first region using a second parameter. The first parameter is a coding parameter yielding less loss of image information due to lossy compression than the second parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki MARUYAMA, Hiroya KUSAKA, Taro IMAGAWA, Akihiro NODA
  • Patent number: 10862977
    Abstract: A method controls access permission to an image including receiving session information from a first camera at a first position, the session information indicating a subject to be photographed and a session in which the first camera joins, receiving an image of the subject from the first camera, updating the session information such that a second camera, at a second position, joins the session, and monitoring whether the second camera joins the session. A first period is calculated in which the second camera joins the session, a second period is calculated based on the first period, and access permission to a shared image is controlled such that the second camera downloads the shared image during the second period and does not download the shared image outside of the second period, the shared image being one of the image and an image generated based on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youji Shibahara, Toshiyasu Sugio, Toru Matsunobu, Yuki Maruyama, Takahiro Nishi
  • Publication number: 20200201029
    Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a mirror that includes a mirror reflection surface, and torsion bars that support the corresponding sides of the mirror and cause the mirror to rotate. The torsion bars are formed of a silicon active layer whose surface is exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 10602047
    Abstract: A photographing method in which a terminal device performs photographing is provided. The photographing method includes synchronizing a clock of the terminal device with a reference clock, and acquiring photographing clock time information indicating a photographing clock time which is based on the reference clock through a communication network. The photographing method also includes specifying a photographing delay time until the photographing is performed since photographing start in the terminal device, and photographing a subject at the photographing clock time indicated by the photographing clock time information. The photographing clock time being based on the clock of the terminal device already synchronized with the reference clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youji Shibahara, Toshiyasu Sugio, Toru Matsunobu, Yuki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10481390
    Abstract: An optical scanning device is provided. The optical scanning device includes a mirror having an optical reflection surface, a movable frame supporting the mirror, a pair of drive beams supporting the movable frame from both sides, a drive source, disposed on the drive beams, that causes the movable frame to be swung around a predetermined axis, a fixed frame supporting the drive beams. Each of the drive source includes a lower electrode formed on the drive beams, a piezoelectric thin film formed on the lower electrode, an upper electrode formed on the piezoelectric thin film, and a stress counter film, formed on the upper electrode or formed between the piezoelectric thin film and the upper electrode, that generates a compressive stress on the drive beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Maruyama, Tsukasa Yamada
  • Publication number: 20190347609
    Abstract: A component ordering system that is efficient in component ordering work is provided, in which component ordering information read from a Kanban is transmitted to a server so that the server transmits the component ordering information to a component supplier. A bar-code reading device determines whether the component ordering information is registered in the server based on reply information transmitted from a server in response to information transmitted to the server after the Kanban is inserted into a Kanban insertion slot. When it is determined that the component ordering information is not registered in the server, the bar-code reading device notifies that the component ordering information is not registered while holding the Kanban without discharging it to the Kanban receiving part. Thus, it is possible to maintain reliability in component order as well as to improve efficiency in component ordering work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190289081
    Abstract: A method controls access permission to an image including receiving session information from a first camera at a first position, the session information indicating a subject to be photographed and a session in which the first camera joins, receiving an image of the subject from the first camera, updating the session information such that a second camera, at a second position, joins the session, and monitoring whether the second camera joins the session. A first period is calculated in which the second camera joins the session, a second period is calculated based on the first period, and access permission to a shared image is controlled such that the second camera downloads the shared image during the second period and does not download the shared image outside of the second period, the shared image being one of the image and an image generated based on the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youji SHIBAHARA, Toshiyasu SUGIO, Toru MATSUNOBU, Yuki MARUYAMA, Takahiro NISHI
  • Patent number: 10356183
    Abstract: An image photographing method for sharing a shared image, which is a plurality of images obtained by photographing an identical subject 103 with a plurality of cameras or an image generated from the plurality of images, between a plurality of users of the plurality of cameras, the image photographing method including: judging whether a target camera that is one of the plurality of cameras photographs subject 103 (S401); and allowing a user of the target camera to browse the shared image according to a period in which the target camera photographs subject 103 (S403) when the judgement that the target camera photographs subject 103 is made (Yes in S402).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youji Shibahara, Toshiyasu Sugio, Toru Matsunobu, Yuki Maruyama, Takahiro Nishi
  • Patent number: 10277832
    Abstract: An image processing method for processing a plurality of images is provided. The image processing method includes: acquiring a plurality of first images, each of the plurality of first images taken with each of a plurality of imaging devices; acquiring first imaging clock times, each of the first imaging clock times corresponding to each of the plurality of first images; selecting a plurality of second images from the plurality of first images; and generating an image set constructed with the plurality of second images. Each of second imaging clock times correspond to each of the plurality of second images. The second imaging clock times are (i) substantially matched with each other and (ii) included in the first imaging clock times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Matsunobu, Toshiyasu Sugio, Youji Shibahara, Yuki Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20190124254
    Abstract: A photographing method in which a terminal device performs photographing is provided. The photographing method includes synchronizing a clock of the terminal device with a reference clock, and acquiring photographing clock time information indicating a photographing clock time which is based on the reference clock through a communication network. The photographing method also includes specifying a photographing delay time until the photographing is performed since photographing start in the terminal device, and photographing a subject at the photographing clock time indicated by the photographing clock time information. The photographing clock time being based on the clock of the terminal device already synchronized with the reference clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youji SHIBAHARA, Toshiyasu SUGIO, Toru MATSUNOBU, Yuki MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 10271082
    Abstract: A video distribution method is a video distribution method to be performed by a server that distributes a plurality of videos captured by a plurality of users from different viewpoints to a terminal apparatus. The video distribution method includes distributing, from a server to a terminal apparatus, a first video that is one of a plurality of videos captured by a plurality of users from different viewpoints and that is requested by the terminal apparatus, selecting a second video that is one of the plurality of videos and that is likely to be next requested next time by the terminal apparatus, and starting transmission of the second video to the terminal apparatus during distribution of the first video to the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Youji Shibahara, Yuki Maruyama, Toru Matsunobu, Yoichi Sugino, Mikihiro Ouchi, Hisao Sasai, Kuniaki Isogai, Ryuji Muta, Takako Hori, Tomoaki Itoh
  • Patent number: 10212442
    Abstract: The image encoding apparatus which encodes, on a per block basis, a current picture included in a moving picture includes: an encoder which outputs a first encoded stream including, in the following arrangement order, (i) slice data obtained by encoding a slice included in the current picture and including a plurality of block lines and (ii) a slice header including information indicating a code amount of each of the plurality of block lines; and an exchanger which exchanges arrangement positions of the slice data and the slice header in the first encoded stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Kusakabe, Kiyofumi Abe, Hideyuki Ohgose, Shinji Kitamura, Takashi Hashimoto, Yuki Maruyama, Tatsuro Juri
  • Patent number: 10205867
    Abstract: In a photographing method in which a terminal device performs photographing, a clock of the terminal device is synchronized with a clock of a server that is a reference, photographing clock time information indicating a photographing clock time based on the clock is acquired through a network, and the photographing is performed at the photographing clock time indicated by the photographing clock time information based on the clock of the terminal device already synchronized with the clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youji Shibahara, Toshiyasu Sugio, Toru Matsunobu, Yuki Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10116945
    Abstract: A moving picture encoding apparatus encodes a moving picture having an interlaced structure, and includes: a storage which stores fields as reference pictures; and an encoder which encodes a current field as a B-picture, using a first reference picture list which includes only one field in a same parity as the current field, and a second reference picture list which includes only one field in an opposite parity to the current field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Hideyuki Ohgose, Shinji Kitamura, Takashi Hashimoto, Toshihiko Kusakabe, Yuki Maruyama, Tatsuro Juri
  • Publication number: 20180088321
    Abstract: An optical scanning device is provided. The optical scanning device includes a mirror having an optical reflection surface, a movable frame supporting the mirror, a pair of drive beams supporting the movable frame from both sides, a drive source, disposed on the drive beams, that causes the movable frame to be swung around a predetermined axis, a fixed frame supporting the drive beams. Each of the drive source includes a lower electrode formed on the drive beams, a piezoelectric thin film formed on the lower electrode, an upper electrode formed on the piezoelectric thin film, and a stress counter film, formed on the upper electrode or formed between the piezoelectric thin film and the upper electrode, that generates a compressive stress on the drive beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki MARUYAMA, Tsukasa YAMADA
  • Patent number: 9883162
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image inspection device configured to determine that a stereoscopic image or part of the stereoscopic image is horizontally reversed is provided. A depth obtaining unit obtains depth information of the stereoscopic image. An occlusion detection unit detects an occlusion area of the stereoscopic image. A determination unit evaluates image continuity between the occlusion area and adjacent areas adjacent to the occlusion area, and identifies a first area to which the occlusion area belongs among the adjacent areas based on the evaluated image continuity, and determines whether or not the stereoscopic image has a depth contradiction based on a depth position of the first area included in the depth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Matsumoto, Yuki Kobayashi, Yuki Maruyama, Yasunobu Ogura