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).
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Patent number: 11924546Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Hirosuke Nagano
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Publication number: 20230239570Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventor: Hirosuke Nagano
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Patent number: 11606500Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Hirosuke Nagano
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Publication number: 20230007146Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: HIROSUKE NAGANO, SHIN YOSHIMURA, ATSURO KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220245828Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Naoki Yoshimochi, Yasushi Sato, Hirosuke Nagano
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Publication number: 20220006954Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventor: Hirosuke Nagano
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Patent number: 10560638Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hirosuke Nagano, Yasushi Sato
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Publication number: 20180284576Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: HIROSUKE NAGANO, YASUSHI SATO
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Patent number: 9794452Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Hirosuke Nagano
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Publication number: 20160080613Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2014Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Hirosuke NAGANO
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Patent number: 8300954Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuya Aoki, Takuo Morimura, Shinobu Yamada, Hirosuke Nagano, Kentaro Fukazawa, Hideki Mori, Yasuhiko Suga, Shunsuke Harasaki, Seiichi Inomata, Tetsujiro Kondo
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Patent number: 8208735Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 10, 2009Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kentaro Fukazawa, Takuo Morimura, Shinobu Yamada, Hirosuke Nagano, Hideki Mori, Yuya Aoki, Yasuhiko Suga, Shunsuke Harasaki, Seiichi Inomata, Tetsujiro Kondo
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Publication number: 20090257661Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya Aoki, Takuo Morimura, Shinobu Yamada, Hirosuke Nagano, Kenataro Fukazawa, Hideki Mori, Yasuhiko Suga, Shunsuke Harasaki, Seiichi Inomata, Tetsujiro Kondo
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Publication number: 20090232390Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kentaro FUKAZAWA, Takuo MORIMURA, Shinobu YAMADA, Hirosuke NAGANO, Hideki MORI, Yuya AOKI, Yasuhiko SUGA, Shunsuke HARASAKI, Seiichi INOMATA, Tetsujiro KONDO
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Patent number: 7385650Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Nobuyuki Asakura, Takeharu Nishikata, Takuo Morimura, Kei Hiraizumi, Hirosuke Nagano, Sakon Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20060038920Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2003Publication date: February 23, 2006Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Nobuyuki Asakura, Takeharu Nishikata, Takuo Morimura, Kei Hirazumi, Hirosuke Nagano, Sakon Yamamoto