Patents by Inventor Akihiro Ouchi

Akihiro Ouchi 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).

  • Patent number: 10469812
    Abstract: A projection control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of a projection plane on which a first image is projected by a projection unit, a specification unit configured to specify an image projection area of the projection unit within the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit, an association unit configured to, in the captured image of the projection plane on which a second image different from the first image is projected by the projection unit, associate coordinates on the image projection area specified by the specification unit with coordinates managed by the projection unit, and a control unit configured to calculate distortion correction parameter for the projection unit by using an association result of the between the coordinates by the association unit. The projection control apparatus can reduce the time for adjustment of a projection image shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 10218948
    Abstract: It aims to enable to uniform synthesized luminance in an image overlap region of a projection image by a simple process, by means of a mechanism of: performing display control to project a black image as the projection image to be projected from a first projection-type image displaying apparatus to a screen, and project, as the projection image to be projected from a second projection-type image displaying apparatus to the screen, an image in which dimming correction to the overlap region of the projection images respectively projected by the first and second projection-type image displaying apparatuses has been enabled; measuring a luminance characteristic of the second projection-type image displaying apparatus based on a photographed image obtained by photographing the overlap region; and setting a dimming correction characteristic for the overlap region by the first projection-type image displaying apparatus, based on the measured luminance characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 10209943
    Abstract: A display control apparatus causes a plurality of images to be arranged and projected by a plurality of projection units. An obtaining unit obtains an overlap value for indicating a width at which a portion of a first image and a portion of a second image overlap. A control unit causes the plurality of projection units to project the plurality of images which includes at least the first image and the second image by overlapping the portion of the first image and the portion of the second image by a width based on the overlap value. Also, the control unit causes the portion of the first image and the portion of the second image to overlap by the width based on the overlap value by changing a size of a projected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 10205922
    Abstract: A display control apparatus which projects and displays at least one image on a screen, converts a frame frequency for a display of the at least one image to N times (N>1), generates an added image by adding a predetermined pattern to the converted frame and a subtracted image by subtracting the predetermined pattern from the converted frame as a first frame and a second frame following the first frame, projects the generated first frame and the second frame for an image on the screen at the N-times frequency, acquires the image projected on the screen, extracts the pattern from the acquired image, and corrects a shape of the image based on the extracted pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20180220114
    Abstract: A system includes a control unit configured to change a gradation value of an image to be projected by a projection unit according to a gradation value detected from a captured image acquired by capturing a screen on which an image is projected by the projection unit and a generation unit configured to generate an adjustment image for adjusting a projection image shape projected by the projection unit based on the gradation value changed by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20180220113
    Abstract: A projection control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of a projection plane on which a first image is projected by a projection unit, a specification unit configured to specify an image projection area of the projection unit within the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit, an association unit configured to, in the captured image of the projection plane on which a second image different from the first image is projected by the projection unit, associate coordinates on the image projection area specified by the specification unit with coordinates managed by the projection unit, and a control unit configured to calculate distortion correction parameter for the projection unit by using an association result of the between the coordinates by the association unit. The projection control apparatus can reduce the time for adjustment of a projection image shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 9983841
    Abstract: A multiscreen display is formed in which changes in luminance between an image overlap area and areas outside the image overlap area are less visible across a range of low to high gradations. An offset correction value Doffset that is linearly decreased at the lowest gradation of the input image signal so that the offset correction value becomes 0 at gradations higher than the predetermined gradation Lset, is added to an input image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 9930306
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit, a size changing unit, and a determining unit. The detection unit detects, from a first captured image obtained by capturing a projection image projected by a projection unit, a vertex of the projection image. The size changing unit reduces a size of the projection image in response to the detection unit not detecting a predetermined number of vertexes of the projection image from the first captured image. The determining unit determines a distortion correction parameter to be used for correcting a distortion of a projection image projected by the projection unit, in accordance with a detection result of vertexes by the detection unit for a second captured image obtained by capturing the size-reduced projection image in a case where the detection unit detects the predetermined number of vertexes of the size-reduced projection image from the second captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20180054602
    Abstract: A display control apparatus which projects and displays at least one image on a screen, converts a frame frequency for a display of the at least one image to N times (N>1), generates an added image by adding a predetermined pattern to the converted frame and a subtracted image by subtracting the predetermined pattern from the converted frame as a first frame and a second frame following the first frame, projects the generated first frame and the second frame for an image on the screen at the N-times frequency, acquires the image projected on the screen, extracts the pattern from the acquired image, and corrects a shape of the image based on the extracted pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 9838656
    Abstract: A display control apparatus which projects and displays at least one image on a screen, converts a frame frequency for a display of the at least one image to N times (N>1), generates an added image by adding a predetermined pattern to the converted frame and a subtracted image by subtracting the predetermined pattern from the converted frame as a first frame and a second frame following the first frame, projects the generated first frame and the second frame for an image on the screen at the N-times frequency, acquires the image projected on the screen, extracts the pattern from the acquired image, and corrects a shape of the image based on the extracted pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 9761158
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a specification unit configured to, from a multi-screen display corresponding to multi-screen displays performed by a plurality of projection apparatuses, specify an overlapping region in which first and second projection regions for first and second projection apparatuses overlap; a determination unit configured to, based on the positions of the overlapping regions in the first and second projection regions, determine luminance correction coefficients corresponding to the overlapping region such that the luminance correction coefficient at a coordinate corresponding to a first vertex in the overlapping region and a luminance correction coefficient at a coordinate corresponding to a second vertex located diagonally opposite to the first vertex in the overlapping region are different; and a correction unit configured to correct luminance of image data for the multi-screen display, based on the determined correction coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 9653010
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, which generates low gradation luminance correction values with respect to an overlap region and a non-overlap region of a plurality of images constituting a multi-screen display, generates the low gradation luminance correction values so as to make the values gradually change from the overlap region throughout the non-overlap region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20170094237
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit, a size changing unit, and a determining unit. The detection unit detects, from a first captured image obtained by capturing a projection image projected by a projection unit, a vertex of the projection image. The size changing unit reduces a size of the projection image in response to the detection unit not detecting a predetermined number of vertexes of the projection image from the first captured image. The determining unit determines a distortion correction parameter to be used for correcting a distortion of a projection image projected by the projection unit, in accordance with a detection result of vertexes by the detection unit for a second captured image obtained by capturing the size-reduced projection image in a case where the detection unit detects the predetermined number of vertexes of the size-reduced projection image from the second captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 9551918
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an analyzing unit, a changing unit, and a control unit. The analyzing unit analyzes a projection image projected by a projection unit. The changing unit changes, depending on an analysis result obtained by the analyzing unit for the projection image, dimensions of the projection image projected by the projection unit so as to obtain a resized projection image. The control unit performs control for correcting a distortion of the projection image projected by the projection unit, in accordance with an analysis result obtained by the analyzing unit for the resized projection image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20160162246
    Abstract: A display control apparatus causes a plurality of images to be arranged and projected by a plurality of projection units. An obtaining unit obtains an overlap value for indicating a width at which a portion of a first image and a portion of a second image overlap. A control unit causes the plurality of projection units to project the plurality of images which includes at least the first image and the second image by overlapping the portion of the first image and the portion of the second image by a width based on the overlap value. Also, the control unit causes the portion of the first image and the portion of the second image to overlap by the width based on the overlap value by changing a size of a projected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20160165198
    Abstract: It aims to enable to uniform synthesized luminance in an image overlap region of a projection image by a simple process, by means of a mechanism of: performing display control to project a black image as the projection image to be projected from a first projection-type image displaying apparatus to a screen, and project, as the projection image to be projected from a second projection-type image displaying apparatus to the screen, an image in which dimming correction to the overlap region of the projection images respectively projected by the first and second projection-type image displaying apparatuses has been enabled; measuring a luminance characteristic of the second projection-type image displaying apparatus based on a photographed image obtained by photographing the overlap region; and setting a dimming correction characteristic for the overlap region by the first projection-type image displaying apparatus, based on the measured luminance characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20160127704
    Abstract: A display control apparatus which projects and displays at least one image on a screen, converts a frame frequency for a display of the at least one image to N times (N>1), generates an added image by adding a predetermined pattern to the converted frame and a subtracted image by subtracting the predetermined pattern from the converted frame as a first frame and a second frame following the first frame, projects the generated first frame and the second frame for an image on the screen at the N-times frequency, acquires the image projected on the screen, extracts the pattern from the acquired image, and corrects a shape of the image based on the extracted pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 9191638
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus corrects a luminance level of an overlap region of projection screens projected by a plurality of image display apparatuses. The image processing apparatus includes: a coordinate conversion unit configured to convert a coordinate value of the overlap region into a coordinate value of an overlap region of not less than a maximum overlap region width; an interpolation calculation unit configured to select two luminance correction data using the converted coordinate value, and to calculate a luminance correction coefficient by interpolating the luminance correction data using the selected luminance correction data and the converted coordinate value; and a correction unit configured to correct the luminance level of the overlap region using the luminance correction coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 9092879
    Abstract: An image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a moving unit configured to move a display position of an image displayed on a display screen; a setting unit configured to set a compressed image display area in the image; and a compression unit configured to, when a nondisplay area that is not displayed on the display screen is created in the image by the moving unit, compress the nondisplay area so that the nondisplay area fits within the compressed image display area and is displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20150170559
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a specification unit configured to, from a multi-screen display corresponding to multi-screen displays performed by a plurality of projection apparatuses, specify an overlapping region in which first and second projection regions for first and second projection apparatuses overlap; a determination unit configured to, based on the positions of the overlapping regions in the first and second projection regions, determine luminance correction coefficients corresponding to the overlapping region such that the luminance correction coefficient at a coordinate corresponding to a first vertex in the overlapping region and a luminance correction coefficient at a coordinate corresponding to a second vertex located diagonally opposite to the first vertex in the overlapping region are different; and a correction unit configured to correct luminance of image data for the multi-screen display, based on the determined correction coefficients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi