Patents by Inventor Yuma Sano
Yuma Sano 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).
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Patent number: 11953708Abstract: A camera device includes a first filter configured to restrict a transverse wave component of incident light having light of a plurality of different wavelength bands generated based on birefringence in a car film from a vehicle to which the car film is adhered, a lens on which a vertical wave component of the incident light transmitted through the first filter is incident, a second filter configured to restrict a vertical wave component of the incident light in a visible region among the vertical wave component of the incident light imaged by the lens, and an imaging element configured to image the vehicle as a subject based on a vertical wave component of the incident light in a near-infrared region transmitted through the second filter.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: I-PRO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Yamada, Jyouji Wada, Toshiyuki Sano, Akito Omata, Yuma Kobayashi, Naoaki Tomisaka
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Patent number: 11754417Abstract: An information generating device according to an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors: acquire environmental information indicating a state of environment around a vehicle; acquire abnormality information indicating an abnormality on a road, the abnormality having possibility of affecting traveling of the vehicle; acquire vehicle information including at least one of information on a traveling operation of the vehicle and information on specifications of the vehicle; and generate notification information indicating an operation to be performed by the vehicle against the abnormality on the road, the notification information being generated based on the environmental information, the abnormality information, and the vehicle information.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yuma Sano, Akihito Seki
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Patent number: 11548387Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a map defining a target in a coordinate space in which a direction along a traveling direction of a moving object is one of coordinate axes, and approximate a movement route of the moving object with a specified shape area along a coordinate axis in the coordinate space, the specified shape area being a basic unit of collision determination.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Yuma Sano, Rie Katsuki
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Patent number: 11536833Abstract: An information processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtain target information that indicates at least one of a distance to a target object or a position of the target object. The processing circuitry generate, based on the target information, map information of a space including a plurality of areas, the map information indicating presence or absence of the target object in a first area included in the plurality of areas, and a detailed position of the target object in the first area.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Yuma Sano, Rie Katsuki
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Publication number: 20220215576Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device is configured to: estimate, based on target image data, target position data representing an image-capturing position at which the target image data is captured; estimate, based on the target image data, target depth data representing a distance to an object from the image-capturing position; register new image-capturing information including the target image data, the target position data, and the target depth data; display, on a display device, map data representing a map of an environment in which the image data is captured; and display at least one of image data and depth data included in designated image-capturing information that is designated from among a plurality of pieces of image-capturing information, in association with a pixel position in the map data, the pixel position corresponding to position data included in the designated image-capturing information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yuma SANO, Ryo NAKASHIMA, Masako KASHIWAGI, Nao MISHIMA, Akihito SEKI
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Publication number: 20220074761Abstract: An information generating device according to an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors: acquire environmental information indicating a state of environment around a vehicle; acquire abnormality information indicating an abnormality on a road, the abnormality having possibility of affecting traveling of the vehicle; acquire vehicle information including at least one of information on a traveling operation of the vehicle and information on specifications of the vehicle; and generate notification information indicating an operation to be performed by the vehicle against the abnormality on the road, the notification information being generated based on the environmental information, the abnormality information, and the vehicle information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yuma SANO, Akihito SEKI
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Patent number: 11250288Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an attribute determiner and a setter. Each of acquired first sets indicates a combination of observation information indicating a result of observation of an area surrounding a moving body and position information. The attribute determiner is configured to determine, based on the observation information, an attribute of each of areas into which the area surrounding the moving body is divided, and to generate second sets, each indicating a combination of attribute information indicating the attribute of each area and the position information. The setter is configured to set, based on the second sets, reliability of the attribute of the area of a target second set, from correlation between the attribute of the area of the target second set and the attribute of corresponding areas each indicating the area corresponding to the target area in the areas of the other second sets.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yuma Sano, Tomoki Watanabe
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Patent number: 11222438Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to one embodiment includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit calculates a first presence probability of an object present around a moving body with positional information measured by each of a plurality of sensors having different characteristics, acquires non-measurement information indicating that the positional information on the object has not been obtained for each of the sensors, and determines a second presence probability of the object based on the first presence probability and the non-measurement information.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yuma Sano, Manabu Nishiyama, Tomoki Watanabe
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Patent number: 11204610Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a memory having computer executable components stored therein; and a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the memory. The processing circuit acquires a plurality of pieces of observation information of surroundings of a moving body, generates a plurality of pieces of attribute information of the surroundings of the moving body on the basis of the plurality of pieces of observation information, and sets a reliability of the attribute information of the surroundings of the moving body on the basis of correlation of the plurality of pieces of attribute information.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yuma Sano, Tomoki Watanabe
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Patent number: 11132611Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to one embodiment includes a memory having computer executable components stored therein; and processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to: acquire, for each of a plurality of sensors installed in a vehicle, positional information of an object present around the vehicle measured by the sensor; calculate a probability that the object is present for each of a plurality of areas obtained by dividing surroundings of the vehicle based on the positional information measured by the sensors; record non-measurement information indicating that the positional information was not obtained for an area corresponding to a direction in which the positional information was not obtained for each of the sensors; and determine a final probability that the object is present based on the probability calculated for each of the sensors and the non-measurement information.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yuma Sano, Manabu Nishiyama
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Publication number: 20210082140Abstract: According to an embodiment, an estimation device includes one or more hardware processors configured to function as an acquisition unit, a first estimation unit, a first calculation unit, a second estimation unit, a second calculation unit, and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires an image captured by a camera. The first estimation unit estimates first estimation information from the image. The first calculation unit calculates first reliability of the first estimation information. The second estimation unit estimates second estimation information. The second calculation unit calculates second reliability of the second estimation information. The determination unit decides at least the position or pose of the camera from the first and second estimation information, based on the first and second reliability, and outputs at least the decided position or pose as a determination result. The second estimation unit estimates the second estimation information based on a past determination result.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke TAZOE, Yuma SANO, Akihito SEKI
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Patent number: 10909411Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire three-dimensional position information of a detection point, acquire target surface shape information indicating a shape of a target surface, and calculate state information of an object according to a first distance of the detection point from the target surface on the basis of the three-dimensional position information and the target surface shape information.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yuma Sano, Tomoki Watanabe
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Patent number: 10885353Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a position acquiring unit, and an occupancy level calculating unit. The position acquiring unit is configured to acquire position information representing a position where a target exists or no target exists, the position being measured by a sensor. The occupancy level calculating unit is configured to calculate an occupancy level distribution representing a level of occupancy, by the target, of each of a plurality of regions existing along a direction from the position of the sensor to the position indicated by the position information, based on the position information and measurement accuracy of the sensor, the occupancy level distribution being based on a non-measurement probability distribution representing a probability that measurement is not performed by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tomoki Watanabe, Yuma Sano
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Patent number: 10817734Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes one or more processors configured to: acquire an image and three-dimensional point information on a three-dimensional point of acquired surroundings of the image; assign an attribute to each region in the image; set, to the three-dimensional point, the attribute assigned to the corresponding region in the image; and generate an obstacle map based on the three-dimensional point information and the attribute that is set to the three-dimensional point.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Yuma Sano, Tomoki Watanabe
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Patent number: 10769420Abstract: According to an embodiment, a detection device includes a camera, a memory, and processor circuitry. The camera is connected to an internal bus and configured to acquire an image including an area in which a mobile body is movable. The memory is connected to the internal bus and configured to store data and a program. The processor circuitry is connected to the internal bus and configured to detect at least the area, a mark on the area, and a person, from the image, calculate a first distance between the person and a position of the device when the person is in the area, and set a range according to a result of the detection and the first distance.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tsuyoshi Takatani, Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Mayu Okumura, Manabu Nishiyama, Yuma Sano
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Patent number: 10628917Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a memory and one or more processors configured to function as a map acquisition unit, a filtering unit and a converting unit. The map acquisition unit acquires a polar coordinate map specifying first occupancy of a target in a polar coordinate space. The filtering unit performs filtering on the polar coordinate map using filtering windows of sizes corresponding to a distance from a reference position. The converting unit converts the filtered polar coordinate map into a rectangular coordinate space.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tomoki Watanabe, Yuma Sano, Tsuyoshi Tasaki
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Publication number: 20200003898Abstract: An information processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtain target information that indicates at least one of a distance to a target object or a position of the target object. The processing circuitry generate, based on the target information, map information of a space including a plurality of areas, the map information indicating presence or absence of the target object in a first area included in the plurality of areas, and a detailed position of the target object in the first area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tsuyoshi TASAKI, Yuma SANO, Rie KATSUKI
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Patent number: 10451735Abstract: An information processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtain target information that indicates at least one of a distance to a target object or a position of the target object. The processing circuitry generate, based on the target information, map information of a space including a plurality of areas, the map information indicating presence or absence of the target object in a first area included in the plurality of areas, and a detailed position of the target object in the first area.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Yuma Sano, Rie Katsuki
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Publication number: 20190318176Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes one or more processors configured to: acquire an image and three-dimensional point information on a three-dimensional point of acquired surroundings of the image; assign an attribute to each region in the image; set, to the three-dimensional point, the attribute assigned to the corresponding region in the image; and generate an obstacle map based on the three-dimensional point information and the attribute that is set to the three-dimensional point.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Yuma SANO, Tomoki WATANABE
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Publication number: 20190050649Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a position acquiring unit, and an occupancy level calculating unit. The position acquiring unit is configured to acquire position information representing a position where a target exists or no target exists, the position being measured by a sensor. The occupancy level calculating unit is configured to calculate an occupancy level distribution representing a level of occupancy, by the target, of each of a plurality of regions existing along a direction from the position of the sensor to the position indicated by the position information, based on the position information and measurement accuracy of the sensor, the occupancy level distribution being based on a non-measurement probability distribution representing a probability that measurement is not performed by the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tomoki WATANABE, Yuma Sano