Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.

Keio University

Kazuhiro Mimura

Masato Nakajima

Yasuhiro Takemura

Kei Katou

Toshiharu Takesue

Isao Sato

Hirooki Aoki

Tomofumi Nishiura

A 3-D shape measurement apparatus for grasping the state of an object with ease and accuracy is provided. The 3-D shape measurement apparatus includes: a first 3-D sensorhaving a projecting devicefor projecting a light pattern on a target area, and a (first) image capturing apparatusplaced at a first interval dfrom the projecting deviceto capture an image of the target area on which the light pattern is projected; a second 3-D sensorhaving a projecting device, and a (second) image capturing apparatusplaced at a second interval dlonger than the first interval dfrom the projecting deviceto capture an image of the target area on which the light pattern is projected; 3-D information computing meansfor obtaining external shape information on an objectbased on the shift of the pattern on the image acquired with the first 3-D sensor; variation information computing meansfor obtaining variation information on the objectbased on the shift of the pattern on the image acquired with the second 3-D sensor; and information composing meansfor composing the external shape information and the variation information.

Three-dimensional shape-measuring device

A condition analysis apparatus capable of grasping the condition of an object easily and accurately is provided. The condition analysis apparatusincludes a three-dimensional sensorfor measuring sampling-point-moves in the height direction of an objectexisting in a target area at a plurality of sampling points, and area definition meansfor defining an area where a plurality of the sampling-point-moves are in the generally same phase. The thus constructed condition analysis apparatuscan grasp the condition of the objecteasily and accurately. Preferably, the condition analysis apparatusincludes information output meansfor outputting information of an area including the area defined by the area definition means

Condition-analyzing device

A monitor which can detect respiration of a sleeping person without being affected by the attitude of the sleeping person or the indoor illumination light and can easily evaluate detected respiration quantitatively through image measurement. The monitor comprises means () for projecting a specified illumination pattern, means () for picking up the image of projected light continuously, means () for calculating inter-frame moving amount of the illumination pattern from the image of two frames acquired by the image pickup means at different times, means () for generating a moving amount waveform data comprising inter-frame moving amounts arranged in time series, and means () for detecting the movement of an object from the moving amount waveform data.

Body movement and respiration monitor

To provide a monitoring device which can detect conditions of a sleeping person reliably and which is simple. A monitoring device comprising: multiple independent distance sensorsinstalled facing different positions in a monitored target areato be monitored for measuring a distance to a monitored targeta calculating unitfor calculating changes over time in the outputs of the distance sensorsand a detection processorfor detecting changes in shape of the monitored targetbased on the calculated changes over time in one or multiple distance sensoramong the multiple distance sensors

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuhiro Mimura