Patents by Inventor Hirosuke Nagano

Hirosuke Nagano 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: 11924546
    Abstract: Provided is a reception apparatus that includes an information processing section configured to generate an image at least either in a first mode for reading out a whole captured region or in a second mode for reading out a partial region in the captured region. At the time of readout in the second mode, the image processing section varies a readout rate depending on the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Hirosuke Nagano
  • Publication number: 20230239570
    Abstract: Provided is a reception apparatus that includes an information processing section configured to generate an image at least either in a first mode for reading out a whole captured region or in a second mode for reading out a partial region in the captured region. At the time of readout in the second mode, the image processing section varies a readout rate depending on the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventor: Hirosuke Nagano
  • Patent number: 11606500
    Abstract: Provided is a reception apparatus that includes an information processing section configured to generate an image at least either in a first mode for reading out a whole captured region or in a second mode for reading out a partial region in the captured region. At the time of readout in the second mode, the image processing section varies a readout rate depending on the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Hirosuke Nagano
  • Publication number: 20230007146
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program that are able to effectively reduce noise. The image processing device according to the present technology includes a feedback rate setting section, a blending section, and a calculation section. The feedback rate setting section sets a feedback rate for pixels in a current line on the basis of a count that is set for pixels in a previous line. The current line and the previous line are among a plurality of lines forming an image. The pixels in the current line are to be subjected to a blending process of blending inputted pixels in the current line and already outputted pixels in the previous line. The blending section blends the pixels in the current line and the pixels in the previous line in accordance with the feedback rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: HIROSUKE NAGANO, SHIN YOSHIMURA, ATSURO KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220245828
    Abstract: A transmitter according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a detection section, a generation section, and a transmission unit. The detection section detects ROI image data on a basis of ROI instruction information. The generation section generates ROI information from the ROI image data detected by the detection section. The transmission unit transmits the ROI image data and the ROI information to an external device. The detection section detects motion information on the detected ROI image data on a basis of one of a plurality of pieces of image data obtained at different imaging timings and a plurality of pieces of the ROI image data obtained at different imaging timings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshimochi, Yasushi Sato, Hirosuke Nagano
  • Publication number: 20220006954
    Abstract: Provided is a reception apparatus that includes an information processing section configured to generate an image at least either in a first mode for reading out a whole captured region or in a second mode for reading out a partial region in the captured region. At the time of readout in the second mode, the image processing section varies a readout rate depending on the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: Hirosuke Nagano
  • Patent number: 10560638
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program capable of obtaining a color image even in a case where photographing is performed in a dark place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirosuke Nagano, Yasushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20180284576
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program capable of obtaining a color image even in a case where photographing is performed in a dark place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: HIROSUKE NAGANO, YASUSHI SATO
  • Patent number: 9794452
    Abstract: Noise is sufficiently reduced in a moving image. A determination section determines, each time an input image is input, whether a change amount of a pixel value distribution in the input image and an output image that is output is smaller than a predetermined threshold value. A mixing ratio supply section supplies a value that becomes larger as the number of times the change amount is sequentially determined to be smaller than the predetermined threshold value becomes larger, the value serving as a mixing ratio of the output image in mixing of the input image and the output image. A mixing section mixes, each time the input image is input, the input image and the output image based on the supplied mixing ratio and outputs the input image and the output image to serve as a new output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Hirosuke Nagano
  • Publication number: 20160080613
    Abstract: Noise is sufficiently reduced in a moving image. A determination section determines, each time an input image is input, whether a change amount of a pixel value distribution in the input image and an output image that is output is smaller than a predetermined threshold value. A mixing ratio supply section supplies a value that becomes larger as the number of times the change amount is sequentially determined to be smaller than the predetermined threshold value becomes larger, the value serving as a mixing ratio of the output image in mixing of the input image and the output image. A mixing section mixes, each time the input image is input, the input image and the output image based on the supplied mixing ratio and outputs the input image and the output image to serve as a new output image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hirosuke NAGANO
  • Patent number: 8300954
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first classification unit configured to set each of pixels forming a first image as a pixel of interest and classify the pixels of interest into one of a plurality of provided classes of a first type in accordance with a predetermined rule; a feature amount generation unit configured to generate a shifted waveform whose phase is shifted with respect to a waveform of the first image containing the pixels of interest and configured to generate a feature amount; a second classification unit configured to be provided with a plurality of classes of a second type in accordance with the feature amount for each of the plurality of classes of the first type and configured to classify the pixels of interest; and a prediction calculation unit configured to predictively calculate pixels forming a second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Aoki, Takuo Morimura, Shinobu Yamada, Hirosuke Nagano, Kentaro Fukazawa, Hideki Mori, Yasuhiko Suga, Shunsuke Harasaki, Seiichi Inomata, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 8208735
    Abstract: An image processing device, to convert a first image data into a second image data having a higher image quality, includes: a predicted tap extracting unit to extract multiple pixels as a predicted tap for prediction computing; a level limit class tap extracting unit to extract multiple pixels as a level limit class tap for level limit classifying processing; a waveform class tap extracting unit to extract multiple pixels as a waveform class tap; a level limit classifying unit to classify the pixel of interest, based on a ratio between a level width and a dynamic range of the pixels making up the level limit class tap; a waveform pattern classifying unit to classify the pixel of interest; a prediction coefficient output unit to output a prediction coefficient corresponding to a combination of a level limit class and a waveform pattern class; and a prediction computing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Fukazawa, Takuo Morimura, Shinobu Yamada, Hirosuke Nagano, Hideki Mori, Yuya Aoki, Yasuhiko Suga, Shunsuke Harasaki, Seiichi Inomata, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20090257661
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first classification unit configured to set each of pixels forming a first image as a pixel of interest and classify the pixels of interest into one of a plurality of provided classes of a first type in accordance with a predetermined rule; a feature amount generation unit configured to generate a shifted waveform whose phase is shifted with respect to a waveform of the first image containing the pixels of interest and configured to generate a feature amount; a second classification unit configured to be provided with a plurality of classes of a second type in accordance with the feature amount for each of the plurality of classes of the first type and configured to classify the pixels of interest; and a prediction calculation unit configured to predictively calculate pixels forming a second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Aoki, Takuo Morimura, Shinobu Yamada, Hirosuke Nagano, Kenataro Fukazawa, Hideki Mori, Yasuhiko Suga, Shunsuke Harasaki, Seiichi Inomata, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20090232390
    Abstract: An image processing device, to convert a first image data into a second image data having a higher image quality, includes: a predicted tap extracting unit to extract multiple pixels as a predicted tap for prediction computing; a level limit class tap extracting unit to extract multiple pixels as a level limit class tap for level limit classifying processing; a waveform class tap extracting unit to extract multiple pixels as a waveform class tap; a level limit classifying unit to classify the pixel of interest, based on a ratio between a level width and a dynamic range of the pixels making up the level limit class tap; a waveform pattern classifying unit to classify the pixel of interest; a prediction coefficient output unit to output a prediction coefficient corresponding to a combination of a level limit class and a waveform pattern class; and a prediction computing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro FUKAZAWA, Takuo MORIMURA, Shinobu YAMADA, Hirosuke NAGANO, Hideki MORI, Yuya AOKI, Yasuhiko SUGA, Shunsuke HARASAKI, Seiichi INOMATA, Tetsujiro KONDO
  • Patent number: 7385650
    Abstract: A device for processing an image signal that can improve an image quality of a zoom image, in which based on an input image signal, an image-signal-processing section produces an output image signal to display the zoom image with an expansion rate of an image being changed consecutively around an arbitrary center point specified by the user. Each pixel data of the output image signal is calculated by using coefficient data produced by a coefficient production circuit that produces the coefficient data based on not only phase information of each pixel but also resolution adjustment information and noise suppression degree adjustment information that the image quality adjustment information generation circuit generates based on the expansion rate of the image, a change rate (K) of the expansion rate of the image, and characteristics information of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Nobuyuki Asakura, Takeharu Nishikata, Takuo Morimura, Kei Hiraizumi, Hirosuke Nagano, Sakon Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20060038920
    Abstract: A device for processing an image signal that can improve an image quality of a zoom image in which based on an input image signal, an image-signal-processing section produces an output image signal to display the zoom image with an expansion rate of an image being changed consecutively around an arbitrary center point specified by the user. Each pixel data of the output image signal is calculated by using coefficient data produced by a coefficient production circuit that produces the coefficient data based on not only phase information of each pixel but also resolution adjustment information and noise suppression degree adjustment information that the image quality adjustment information generation circuit generates based on the expansion rate of the image, a change rate (K) of the expansion rate of the image, and characteristics information of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Nobuyuki Asakura, Takeharu Nishikata, Takuo Morimura, Kei Hirazumi, Hirosuke Nagano, Sakon Yamamoto