Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Shioya
Hiroyuki Shioya 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: 10182189Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes an ambient-light image obtaining section, a cumulative image generation section, and a high-quality image generation section. The ambient-light image obtaining section obtains an ambient-light image in a first time range, the ambient-light image being an image of an object captured with a predetermined exposure time. The cumulative image generation section generates a cumulative image in a second time range, the cumulative image being obtained by cumulative addition of each pixel value in a plurality of images, the plurality of images being of the object sequentially captured with the predetermined exposure time. The high-quality image generation section generates a high-quality image, the high-quality image being obtained by subtracting a pixel value in the ambient-light image from a corresponding pixel value in a normalized image, the normalized image being the cumulative image normalized based on a total sum of the exposure time.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Shioya
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Patent number: 9973720Abstract: There is provided a solid state imaging device including a first analog-to-digital converting unit that compares a level of an analog reference signal with a first inclination with a level of an analog pixel signal output from a pixel array unit, and converts the analog pixel signal into a first digital pixel signal, a second analog-to-digital converting unit that compares a level of an analog reference signal with a second inclination that is different in inclination from the analog reference signal with the first inclination with a level of the analog pixel signal, and converts the analog pixel signal into a second digital pixel signal, and a digital compositing unit that composites the first digital pixel signal with the second digital pixel signal, and outputs a composite result.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Shioya
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Publication number: 20180035037Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes an ambient-light image obtaining section, a cumulative image generation section, and a high-quality image generation section. The ambient-light image obtaining section obtains an ambient-light image in a first time range, the ambient-light image being an image of an object captured with a predetermined exposure time. The cumulative image generation section generates a cumulative image in a second time range, the cumulative image being obtained by cumulative addition of each pixel value in a plurality of images, the plurality of images being of the object sequentially captured with the predetermined exposure time. The high-quality image generation section generates a high-quality image, the high-quality image being obtained by subtracting a pixel value in the ambient-light image from a corresponding pixel value in a normalized image, the normalized image being the cumulative image normalized based on a total sum of the exposure time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventor: HIROYUKI SHIOYA
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Patent number: 9800797Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes an ambient-light image obtaining section, a cumulative image generation section, and a high-quality image generation section. The ambient-light image obtaining section obtains an ambient-light image in a first time range, the ambient-light image being an image of an object captured with a predetermined exposure time. The cumulative image generation section generates a cumulative image in a second time range, the cumulative image being obtained by cumulative addition of each pixel value in a plurality of images, the plurality of images being of the object sequentially captured with the predetermined exposure time. The high-quality image generation section generates a high-quality image, the high-quality image being obtained by subtracting a pixel value in the ambient-light image from a corresponding pixel value in a normalized image, the normalized image being the cumulative image normalized based on a total sum of the exposure time.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyuki Shioya
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Publication number: 20160150147Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes an ambient-light image obtaining section, a cumulative image generation section, and a high-quality image generation section. The ambient-light image obtaining section obtains an ambient-light image in a first time range, the ambient-light image being an image of an object captured with a predetermined exposure time. The cumulative image generation section generates a cumulative image in a second time range, the cumulative image being obtained by cumulative addition of each pixel value in a plurality of images, the plurality of images being of the object sequentially captured with the predetermined exposure time. The high-quality image generation section generates a high-quality image, the high-quality image being obtained by subtracting a pixel value in the ambient-light image from a corresponding pixel value in a normalized image, the normalized image being the cumulative image normalized based on a total sum of the exposure time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventor: HIROYUKI SHIOYA
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Publication number: 20160080677Abstract: There is provided a solid state imaging device including a first analog-to-digital converting unit that compares a level of an analog reference signal with a first inclination with a level of an analog pixel signal output from a pixel array unit, and converts the analog pixel signal into a first digital pixel signal, a second analog-to-digital converting unit that compares a level of an analog reference signal with a second inclination that is different in inclination from the analog reference signal with the first inclination with a level of the analog pixel signal, and converts the analog pixel signal into a second digital pixel signal, and a digital compositing unit that composites the first digital pixel signal with the second digital pixel signal, and outputs a composite result.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Shioya
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Patent number: 9286666Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes an ambient-light image obtaining section, a cumulative image generation section, and a high-quality image generation section. The ambient-light image obtaining section obtains an ambient-light image in a first time range, the ambient-light image being an image of an object captured with a predetermined exposure time. The cumulative image generation section generates a cumulative image in a second time range, the cumulative image being obtained by cumulative addition of each pixel value in a plurality of images, the plurality of images being of the object sequentially captured with the predetermined exposure time. The high-quality image generation section generates a high-quality image, the high-quality image being obtained by subtracting a pixel value in the ambient-light image from a corresponding pixel value in a normalized image, the normalized image being the cumulative image normalized based on a total sum of the exposure time.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Shioya
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Patent number: 9225917Abstract: There is provided a solid state imaging device including a first analog-to-digital converting unit that compares a level of an analog reference signal with a first inclination with a level of an analog pixel signal output from a pixel array unit, and converts the analog pixel signal into a first digital pixel signal, a second analog-to-digital converting unit that compares a level of an analog reference signal with a second inclination that is different in inclination from the analog reference signal with the first inclination with a level of the analog pixel signal, and converts the analog pixel signal into a second digital pixel signal, and a digital compositing unit that composites the first digital pixel signal with the second digital pixel signal, and outputs a composite result.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Shioya
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Publication number: 20140126835Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes an ambient-light image obtaining section, a cumulative image generation section, and a high-quality image generation section. The ambient-light image obtaining section obtains an ambient-light image in a first time range, the ambient-light image being an image of an object captured with a predetermined exposure time. The cumulative image generation section generates a cumulative image in a second time range, the cumulative image being obtained by cumulative addition of each pixel value in a plurality of images, the plurality of images being of the object sequentially captured with the predetermined exposure time. The high-quality image generation section generates a high-quality image, the high-quality image being obtained by subtracting a pixel value in the ambient-light image from a corresponding pixel value in a normalized image, the normalized image being the cumulative image normalized based on a total sum of the exposure time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: HIROYUKI SHIOYA
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Publication number: 20130256512Abstract: There is provided a solid state imaging device including a first analog-to-digital converting unit that compares a level of an analog reference signal with a first inclination with a level of an analog pixel signal output from a pixel array unit, and converts the analog pixel signal into a first digital pixel signal, a second analog-to-digital converting unit that compares a level of an analog reference signal with a second inclination that is different in inclination from the analog reference signal with the first inclination with a level of the analog pixel signal, and converts the analog pixel signal into a second digital pixel signal, and a digital compositing unit that composites the first digital pixel signal with the second digital pixel signal, and outputs a composite result.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Shioya
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Patent number: 8493480Abstract: A signal conversion apparatus which converts an input signal x from an image sensor into an output signal y by a function relation represented by Expression 1: y = f ? ( x ) = ? b x ? [ 1 / r ? ( ? ) ] ? ? ? ( 1 ) where b is a predetermined constant, ? is an integration variable corresponding to a value of the input signal x, and r(?) is a quantization step function before removal of a noise of the input signal x, which determines an increment of the input signal x to an increment of the output signal y.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Shioya
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Publication number: 20130090152Abstract: To provide a portable wireless device in which the portability is excellent, a decrease in a size or a closed call is enabled, and a bandwidth can be increased with a reduction in an SAR value, There is employed a structure which includes a housing forming an outer packaging of the portable telephone, a circuit board provided in the housing, an antenna element provided close to one of short sides of the circuit board, and a metal plate connected to at least one of long sides of the circuit board and the antenna element side along a side wall of the housing, and in which a side of the metal plate that is not connected to the circuit board is opened.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yukari Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Uejima, Hiroyuki Shioya, Mitsuru Saitou, Kenya Nagano
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Patent number: 8264559Abstract: This invention makes it possible to produce a high quality synthesized panoramic image when it is difficult to highly precisely shift the image pickup direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Shioya, Mitsuharu Ohki
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Patent number: 8073260Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a pattern generating unit that generates a plurality of two-dimensional array patterns, a radiating unit that emits light in each of the two-dimensional array patterns generated by the pattern generating unit to irradiate an object with the light, a spectrum measuring unit that measures the spectrum of the light, which is emitted from the radiating unit and is reflected by the object, in a plurality of frequency bands to generate spectral data, a transmission-rate calculating unit that calculates the transmission rate of each frequency band on the basis of the two-dimensional array patterns and spectral data blocks associated with the respective two-dimensional array patterns, and an image generating unit that generates an image in a desired frequency band on the basis of the transmission rates calculated by the transmission-rate calculating unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Shioya
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Publication number: 20110096184Abstract: A signal conversion apparatus which converts an input signal x from an image sensor into an output signal y by a function relation represented by Expression 1: y=f(x)=?bx[1/r(?)]d???(1) where b is a predetermined constant, ? is an integration variable corresponding to a value of the input signal x, and r(?) is a quantization step function before removal of a noise of the input signal x, which determines an increment of the input signal x to an increment of the output signal y.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Inventor: Hiroyuki SHIOYA
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Publication number: 20100253763Abstract: This invention makes it possible to produce a high quality synthesized panoramic image when it is difficult to highly precisely shift the image pickup direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki SHIOYA, Mitsuharu Ohki
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Publication number: 20100173600Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a diversity receiver and a reception system switching method capable of controlling diversity reception start and stop according to the switch condition responsive to person's liking and the use environment. An input section (109) allows the user to select and specify any of a diversity reception mode using two reception channels at all times, a single reception mode using a single reception channel at all times, or an automatic control reception mode for switching between the diversity reception and the single reception in response to the reception state of each mode, and a control section (107) determines a switching determination condition used in the automatic control reception mode according to mode selection information of other two modes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2006Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiko Izumi, Yasumi Imagawa, Makoto Sasaki, Satoshi Kaga, Hiroyuki Shioya, Hiroyuki Yokonaga
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Publication number: 20100149358Abstract: A whole image showing the entire range of the object of shooting is generated by picking up unit images, each constituting a part of the scenic range to be imaged, by sequentially shifting the image pickup direction, cutting out image regions of a predetermined size, each constituting a part of each of the unit images picked up in the image pickup step, so as to produce overlapping areas and sequentially and partly superposing the image region. The noise components of the image regions are uniformized to improve the image quality by cutting out image regions as to make two or more than two image regions overlap each other in average for the position of each unit image of the whole image to be generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Hiroyuki SHIOYA, Mitsuharu Ohki
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Patent number: 7724286Abstract: This invention makes it possible to produce a high quality synthesized panoramic image when it is difficult to highly precisely shift the image pickup direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2005Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Shioya, Mitsuharu Ohki
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Publication number: 20090080580Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a diversity receiver that detects differences in reception qualities for reception branches, and that controls the starting and halting of a diversity operation in accordance with the difference in the reception qualities, so that power saving is enabled and battery operating periods can be extended. A difference in reception levels (A, B) which are reception qualities for reception branches (13a, 13b), is employed to determine whether desired diversity effects are available or not. In a case wherein it is determined that desired diversity effects are not available, the diversity operation is halted and the supply of power to a reception branch that is not to be used is halted, and the combining operation is also halted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2006Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Shioya, Makoto Sasaki, Hiroyuki Yokonaga