Patents by Inventor Hidenobu Nagata

Hidenobu Nagata 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).

  • Publication number: 20240119600
    Abstract: A video processing device includes a foreground region estimation unit that determines whether a pixel of an input image is a foreground or a background, and a blinking correction unit that determines, for a target pixel on which a foreground and a background have been switched, whether switching between the foreground and the background is a color change in the foreground or in the background by using a lookup table capable of determining whether switching is in the foreground or in the background from a temporal change of a pixel value, and corrects a result of determination as to whether it is the foreground or the background that has been performed for the target pixel in a case where the switching between the foreground and the background is the color change in the foreground or in the background.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokazu KAKINUMA, Shota YAMADA, Hidenobu NAGATA, Kota HIDAKA
  • Publication number: 20240112384
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an extraction unit, an inverse sampling unit, a mapping unit, a generation unit, and a correction unit. The extraction unit is to extract a first feature value of a first image. The inverse sampling unit is to generate a second image having a resolution lower than that of the first image based on the first image and first information indicating a lighting environment different from that of the first image. The mapping unit generates a vector representing a latent space based on the second image. The generation unit is configured to generate a second feature value of a third image having a resolution higher than that of the second image based on the vector. The correction unit is configured to generate a fourth image obtained by correcting the third image based on the first feature value and the second feature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota YAMADA, Hirokazu KAKINUMA, Hidenobu NAGATA
  • Patent number: 11881005
    Abstract: It is possible to inhibit deterioration of extraction precision of a subject and reliably extract the subject even when colors of the subject and a background are the same or similar. An image processing device 1 includes an input unit 11 configured to input a first invisible light image of only a background in which a subject is not included and a second invisible light image in which the subject and the background are included and a subject region extraction unit 15 configured to calculate a difference between a pixel value of each pixel of the second invisible light image and a pixel value of a corresponding pixel of the first invisible light image, determine whether the pixel is in a subject region or a background region in accordance with whether the difference is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, and extract the subject region from the second invisible light image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Jiro Nagao, Mariko Yamaguchi, Hidenobu Nagata, Kota Hidaka
  • Patent number: 11461903
    Abstract: Accurate and rapid identification can be performed even when feature vectors of input pixels and background pixels are close.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kakinuma, Yoshihide Tonomura, Hiromu Miyashita, Hidenobu Nagata, Kota Hidaka
  • Publication number: 20210327069
    Abstract: It is possible to inhibit deterioration of extraction precision of a subject and reliably extract the subject even when colors of the subject and a background are the same or similar. An image processing device 1 includes an input unit 11 configured to input a first invisible light image of only a background in which a subject is not included and a second invisible light image in which the subject and the background are included and a subject region extraction unit 15 configured to calculate a difference between a pixel value of each pixel of the second invisible light image and a pixel value of a corresponding pixel of the first invisible light image, determine whether the pixel is in a subject region or a background region in accordance with whether the difference is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, and extract the subject region from the second invisible light image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Jiro Nagao, Mariko Yamaguchi, Hidenobu Nagata, Kota HIDAKA
  • Publication number: 20210158534
    Abstract: Accurate and rapid identification can be performed even when feature vectors of input pixels and background pixels are close.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kakinuma, Yoshihide TONOMURA, Hiromu Miyashita, Hidenobu Nagata, Kota HIDAKA