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MICWARE CO., LTD.

MICWARE CO., LTD. demonstrates a surprising patent strategy with a strong focus on Image Processing (36.0% of portfolio) and Navigation & Geodesy (34.0%), despite both categories showing significant year-over-year declines in 2026 so far (-69.2% and -50.0% respectively). While many categories saw declines in 2026, the company had an emerging focus in Input/Output & User Interfaces, which grew by 500.0% in 2025 before a -66.7% decline so far in 2026, indicating a dynamic and potentially shifting R&D landscape.

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Yearly patent publications since 2023

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Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.

50 US filings (since 2023) · 12 categories · 8 themes

Video Enhancement & Object Tracking

Methods and systems for improving the quality of video streams, generating intermediate frames, or continuously locating and following objects within a sequence of images, even under occlusion.

Image Processing
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19since 2023
new
Video Quality & Encoding Optimization

Methods and apparatus for improving the visual fidelity, resolution, or compression efficiency of video signals, often through advanced processing, up-scaling, or neural network-based filters.

Computer VisionPictorial / Video Communications
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13since 2023
new
Lane-Level Mapping & Localization

Techniques for generating, updating, and utilizing highly detailed digital maps that include lane-specific information, and for precisely determining a vehicle's position within these lanes, often using sensor data.

Navigation & Geodesy
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7since 2023
-33.3%YoY
Smart Parking Systems

Integrated systems for managing parking facilities, guiding vehicles to available spots, and providing notifications, often leveraging sensors, communication, and remote control.

Traffic Control Systems
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3since 2023
new
Generative AI for Images

Techniques utilizing deep learning models like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or diffusion models to create new images, modify existing ones, or generate synthetic data based on various inputs or conditions.

Image Processing
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1since 2023
new
Wearable & Mobile Interaction

Designing user interfaces and interaction methods specifically for mobile or wearable devices, enabling control of external systems, monitoring user states, or facilitating real-world transactions.

Input/Output & User Interfaces
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1since 2023
new
Vision-Based Object & Pose Estimationfiltered

Methods and apparatus for detecting objects and determining their three-dimensional position and orientation (pose) using imagery or point cloud data, often for navigation, surveying, or environmental understanding.

Computer Vision
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1since 2023
new
Road Hazard & Weather Warning

Technologies for detecting adverse weather conditions or road hazards and providing timely alerts and adaptive control strategies to vehicles and drivers to enhance safety.

Traffic Control Systems
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1since 2023
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Patents

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Vision-Based Object & Pose Estimation
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US 20250068323 A1APPLICATION
G06F3/0487

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

Filed:2024-08-09Pub:2025-02-27
Applicant:Kwansei Gakuin Educational Foundation

An image processing apparatus includes a correspondence manager that stores two or more pieces of correspondence information each indicating a correspondence between an operation-string definition that defines a set of operation identifiers corresponding respectively to two or more operations and an intention identifier that identifies an intention of the operations; a first output unit that outputs a first image associated with positional information; an operation-string acceptor that accepts input of an operation string that is a set of operation identifiers that respectively identify two or more operations performed on the first image; an intention-string acquirer that acquires, from the correspondence manager, an intention string corresponding to the operation string accepted by the operation-string acceptor; a second output unit that outputs a second image; and an operation unit that performs, on the second image, operations corresponding to the intention string acquired by the intention-string acquirer.

US 11481924 B2GRANTED
H04N9/47

Position estimation system and position estimation method

Filed:2020-10-01Pub:2022-10-25
Applicant:MICWARE CO., LTD.

An acquisition circuit acquires first position information indicating a position and a first image captured by a camera at the position indicated by the first position information. A memory stores second position information indicating a prescribed position on a map and feature information extracted from a second image corresponding to the prescribed position. The second position information is associated with the feature information. A processor estimates the position indicated by the first position information on the basis of the second position information in the case that the position indicated by the first position information falls within a prescribed range from the prescribed position indicated by the second position information and the first image corresponds to the feature information.

US 20210110573 A1APPLICATION
G06T7/73

POSITION ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD

Filed:2020-10-01Pub:2021-04-15
Applicant:MICWARE CO., LTD.

An acquisition circuit acquires first position information indicating a position and a first image captured by a camera at the position indicated by the first position information. A memory stores second position information indicating a prescribed position on a map and feature information extracted from a second image corresponding to the prescribed position. The second position information is associated with the feature information. A processor estimates the position indicated by the first position information on the basis of the second position information in the case that the position indicated by the first position information falls within a prescribed range from the prescribed position indicated by the second position information and the first image corresponds to the feature information.

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