Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toru Tanigawa

Katsuyoshi Yamagami

Yukie Shoda

Tomonobu Naruoka

Shusaku Okamoto

Kento Ogawa

Osamu Yamada

Eiichi Naito

Ryuji Inoue

Yoshihiro Kojima

Junichi Imoto

Yusuke Tsukamoto

Seiya Imomoto

Jun Ozawa

Masaki Takahashi

Tetsuji Fuchikami

Kazuki Kozuka

Yoshihiko Matsukawa

Masahiko Saito

Yumi Wakita

Jeffry Fernando

Katsufumi Inoue

Satoshi Sato

Yasunobu Tagusa

Junichi Tanaka

Hidetsugu Maekawa

Masatsugu Hatanaka

Hideshi Makita

Speed of first work is compared with speed of second work based on a first working period when a worker is caused to perform the first work of setting annotation data to first image data and a second working period when the worker is caused to perform the second work of correcting advance annotation data set based on a recognition result obtained by causing a predetermined recognizer to recognize the first image data, and, in a case where the first work is faster than the second work, the worker is requested to correct second image data in which advance annotation data is not set, while, in a case where the second work is faster than the first work, the worker is requested to correct advance annotation data set based on a recognition result obtained by causing the recognizer to recognize the second image data.

Annotation assisting method, annotation assisting device, and recording medium having annotation assisting program recorded thereon

An annotation device includes: a similarity information obtainer that obtains similarity information indicating whether or not a plurality of labels to be added as annotation data to images are similar to each other; a determiner that determines a layout of the plurality of labels to be displayed on an operation screen for an annotation operation based on the similarity information; a data obtainer communicator that obtains the annotation data added to the images using the operation screen; and an inspector that inspects the annotation data obtained by the second communicator for an erroneously added label.

Annotation device, annotation method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A learning data creation method acquires items of still image data or moving image data as event data and non-event data, presents first data that is still image data or moving image data that is of a predetermined time before an event and included in the event data and still image data or moving image data, presents non-event data as second data, receives a judgment result as to whether the first data and second data are similar, (a) stores the event data as positive data, (b) stores the non-event data as positive data if the first data and second data are similar, and (c) stores the non-event data as negative data if the first data and second data are not similar.

Learning data creation method, learning method, risk prediction method, learning data creation device, learning device, risk prediction device, and recording medium

An orientation identification method for identifying an orientation of a device installed by being mounted on a moving body includes: obtaining a certain amount of acceleration in three mutually orthogonal directions detected by an acceleration sensor included in the device; and identifying the orientation of the device expressed in a coordinate system from acceleration data indicating the certain amount of acceleration obtained in the obtaining, according to movement characteristics indicated by statistics of acceleration during movement of the moving body expressed in the coordinate system, the coordinate system including a gravitational acceleration direction as an axis.

Orientation identification method and recording medium

An identification method includes acquiring image data, acquiring a photography condition for the image data, selecting a classifier corresponding to the acquired photography condition from a plurality of classifiers, each of which was created for one of a plurality of different photography conditions, and identifying a target in the acquired image data by using the selected classifier.

Identification method, identification apparatus, classifier creating method, and classifier creating apparatus

In an information collection method of the present disclosure, a processor of an information collection system acquires event sensor data and identification information from an on-vehicle terminal or a passenger terminal, the event sensor data being output, in response to an event trigger, from an on-vehicle sensor mounted on the on-vehicle terminal or a passenger sensor mounted on the passenger terminal, the identification information identifying an output source of the event sensor data, identifies the passenger terminal associated with the identification information when the identification information indicates the on-vehicle terminal, identifies the on-vehicle terminal associated with the identification information when the identification information indicates the passenger terminal, requests sensor data from the identified passenger terminal or on-vehicle terminal, acquires the sensor data from a request destination, and stores the event sensor data and the sensor data in association with each other in a second memory as dangerous driving information.

Information collection method, information collection system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing information collection program

A parking position identification method includes acquiring input data as an image that is generated by photographing a parking region by a camera which is installed in a target vehicle, and identifying a parking position of the target vehicle in the photographed parking region by inputting the input data to a learning model that indicates a relationship between the parking region which has a width in which parking of at least one vehicle is feasible and a parking position for one vehicle in the parking region.

Parking position identification method, parking position learning method, parking position identification system, parking position learning device, and non-transitory recording medium for recording program

An image processing method includes acquiring consecutive time-series images captured by an onboard camera of a vehicle, having a first annotation indicating two or more first regions, and at least including one or more images in which the two or more first regions are on a path of the vehicle and a distance therebetween is smaller than or equal to a threshold; determining, in reverse chronological order from an image of the last time point, positions of the two or more regions in each consecutive time-series image; identifying, from among the consecutive time-series images, the first image of a first time point in which none of the two or more first regions are located on the path, and setting, as a second region, a region between the two or more first regions in the identified first image; and attaching a second annotation to the first image corresponding to the first time point, the second annotation indicating the second region.

Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and recording medium for reducing variation in quality of training data items

A remote-operated working device includes a movement controller that controls movement of the remote-operated working device; a working unit that performs a predetermined work on the work target; a first detector that detects contact between the working unit and the target; and a communicator that transmits a signal for vibrating the remote control to the remote control in a case where contact between the working unit and the work target is detected by the first detector.

Remote-operated working device and control method

An image processing method includes acquiring consecutive time-series images captured by an onboard camera and including at least one image having a first annotation indicating a first region; determining, for each of the images, in reverse chronological order from an image of the last time point, whether the first region exists in the image based on whether the first annotation is attached; identifying the first image of a first time point for which the first region is determined not to exist, and setting a second region including a partial region of an object in the identified first image, indicating the moving object that is obstructed by the object before appearing on the path, and having dimensions based on dimensions of the first region in an image of a second time point immediately after the first time point; and attaching a second annotation to the image corresponding to the second time point, the second annotation indicating the second region.

Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and recording medium

An MD management device manages action statistics associated with each of a plurality of shelving units. Action statistics for one shelving unit indicate actions that store visitors make near the shelving unit. An information terminal device acquires, from the MD management device merchandising information for each shelving unit. Merchandising information for one shelving unit includes a value of statistics for the shelving unit. The information terminal device displays a store screen including one or more shelving unit icons each representing one of one or more shelving units located in a store. Further, the information terminal device displays a graphic item in the vicinity of each shelving unit icon. The graphic item is displayed in a display state that is in accordance with the value of statistics for the corresponding shelving unit.

Control method for displaying merchandising information on information terminal

An information display method is disclosed in a control system in which a lighting mode is selected from among a plurality of lighting modes, and lighting equipment is controlled at a lighting target area in accordance with the selected lighting mode. The method comprising: generating each of the merchandising values representing an index for evaluating a performance of at least one store; classifying each of the merchandising values in according with each of time periods; obtaining lighting mode information from the control system, the lighting mode information indicating the lighting mode selected in each of the time periods; and transmitting to the terminal device, each of the classified merchandising values and each pieces of the obtained lighting mode information corresponding to each of the classified merchandising values, in each of the time periods.

Information display method for store work relating to lighting control system, and lighting control method

When there are no customers in a store, a laser is scanned along an aisle between product shelving units installed in the store, and if that laser is reflected midway in the optical path, it is determined that there is an object in the sensing range according to the laser. The determination result is then notified to a user by a site that corresponds to the position where the laser has been reflected being marked in a layout image that represents the product shelving units, displayed on a terminal device.

Control method, and control system

A method for controlling a communications terminal is provided. The method includes causing a computer included in the communications terminal to store first illumination setting information and second illumination setting information in the memory; causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, at a certain illumination start time at which the illumination device is to be turned on, a first control signal corresponding to the first illumination setting information to the illumination device such that the illumination device is set to the first illumination state; and causing the computer of the communications terminal to transmit, in a case where the sensor senses a motion of the communications terminal after the certain illumination start time has passed, a second control signal corresponding to the second illumination setting information to the illumination device such that the illumination device is set to the second illumination state.

Method for controlling communications terminal and program

In a running control method of a running apparatus, person moving direction and speed are estimated based on a person position history for predetermined time. It is decided whether contact with a person is likely to be made based on the estimation and running information about the running apparatus. When it is decided that the contact is likely to be made, a first route where the running apparatus avoids the person is generated for controlling running of the running apparatus therealong. It is decided whether the person has the intention to contact with the running apparatus based on the decision in the contact possibility deciding unit after the running along the first route. When it is decided that the person has the contact intention, a second route where the running apparatus approaches the person is generated for controlling the running of the running apparatus therealong.

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Toru Tanigawa