Patents by Inventor Junichi Tanaka

Junichi Tanaka 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: 11290698
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method by which three-dimensional data can be generated with high accuracy on the basis of two-dimensional image data and depth image data. A coordinate transformation data generation unit generates, on the basis of two-dimensional image data of a first viewpoint group and two-dimensional image data of a second viewpoint group, coordinate transformation data for converting a three-dimensional position in a first three-dimensional coordinate system of the first viewpoint group into a three-dimensional position in a second three-dimensional coordinate system of the second viewpoint group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11283036
    Abstract: This organic electroluminescent element comprises a light emission unit between a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the relational expression nEML>nETL is satisfied in a light emission layer of the light emission unit that is closest to the first electrode, when a maximum emission wavelength (?max) is the wavelength at which an emission intensity (PINT(?)) that includes spectral luminous efficiency is maximized, said emission intensity (PINT(?)) that includes spectral luminous efficiency being calculated from formula (1), nEML is the refractive index of the light emission layer at the maximum emission wavelength (?max), and nETL is the refractive index of an electron transport layer. Formula (1): PINT(?)=P(?)×V(?) (Where PINT(?): emission intensity that includes spectral luminous efficiency, P(?): emission intensity, and V(?): spectral luminous efficiency are all functions of the wavelength ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: XIANYANG CHVT NEW DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220078426
    Abstract: An image processing device including an acquiring section configured to acquire quantization matrix parameters from an encoded stream in which the quantization matrix parameters defining a quantization matrix are set within a parameter set which is different from a sequence parameter set and a picture parameter set, a setting section configured to set, based on the quantization matrix parameters acquired by the acquiring section, a quantization matrix which is used when inversely quantizing data decoded from the encoded stream, and an inverse quantization section configured to inversely quantize the data decoded from the encoded stream using the quantization matrix set by the setting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Junichi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220032455
    Abstract: An estimation apparatus includes: an acquisition section that acquires a measurement result of a measurement unit that measures an object to be an estimation target of a contact sense in a contactless manner; a determination section that makes a determination as to an aspect of the object or a measurement condition of the object on a basis of the measurement result of the measurement unit; a selection section that selects, on a basis of a result of the determination, an estimation scheme to be used for estimation of the contact sense of the object from among a plurality of estimation schemes; and an estimation section that estimates the contact sense of the object using the selected estimation scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: SHINICHIRO GOMI, MASANORI IWASAKI, KEN HAYAKAWA, NAOKI FUJIWARA, TSUKASA YOSHIMURA, AKINORI SHINGYOUCHI, JUNICHI TANAKA, AKIRA TANGE
  • Publication number: 20220014746
    Abstract: An image processing device including an acquiring section configured to acquire quantization matrix parameters from an encoded stream in which the quantization matrix parameters defining a quantization matrix are set within a parameter set which is different from a sequence parameter set and a picture parameter set, a setting section configured to set, based on the quantization matrix parameters acquired by the acquiring section, a quantization matrix which is used when inversely quantizing data decoded from the encoded stream, and an inverse quantization section configured to inversely quantize the data decoded from the encoded stream using the quantization matrix set by the setting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventor: Junichi TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11223812
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method by which three-dimensional data can be generated with high accuracy on the basis of two-dimensional image data and depth image data. A color shift correction data generation unit generates color shift correction data for correcting a color shift between two-dimensional image data of a base viewpoint and two-dimensional image data of a reference viewpoint. A metadata addition unit transmits color shift correction information including the color shift correction data generated by the color shift correction data generation unit, encoded data of the two-dimensional image data of the base viewpoint and depth image data indicative of a position of each of pixels in a depthwise direction of an image pickup object and encoded data of the two-dimensional image data of the reference viewpoint and depth image data. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a synthesis apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11192593
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes: a front lateral ring-shaped vehicle body framework (FWC) having a substantially ring shape in a vehicle lateral direction, disposed near suspension towers (65), and constituted by front subframes (66), suspension tower reinforcing members (65b), and a cowl box (62); and longitudinal ring-shaped vehicle body frameworks (SLC) disposed along side door openings (Es). The vehicle body structure includes: cowl side frames (64) coupling upper ends of hinge pillars (45) constituting the longitudinal ring-shaped vehicle body frameworks (SLC) to the suspension towers (65) in a vehicle longitudinal direction; and side part panels (71) connected to the cowl box (62) and coupled to the suspension towers (65).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Tanaka, Takehiro Kamei
  • Patent number: 11196996
    Abstract: An image processing device including an acquiring section configured to acquire quantization matrix parameters from an encoded stream in which the quantization matrix parameters defining a quantization matrix are set within a parameter set which is different from a sequence parameter set and a picture parameter set, a setting section configured to set, based on the quantization matrix parameters acquired by the acquiring section, a quantization matrix which is used when inversely quantizing data decoded from the encoded stream, and an inverse quantization section configured to inversely quantize the data decoded from the encoded stream using the quantization matrix set by the setting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Velos Media, LLC
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11185924
    Abstract: A metal powder for additive manufacturing includes: not less than 0.2 mass % and not more than 1.3 mass % of aluminum; and a balance including copper and an incidental impurity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignees: DAIHEN CORPORATION, FUKUDA METAL FOIL & POWDER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryusuke Tsubota, Junichi Tanaka, Yohei Oka, Akira Okamoto, Masato Kikukawa, Hiroaki Okubo, Yoshito Nishizawa, Takeshi Maruyama, Motonori Nishida
  • Patent number: 11166024
    Abstract: An image processing device including an acquiring section configured to acquire quantization matrix parameters from an encoded stream in which the quantization matrix parameters defining a quantization matrix are set within a parameter set which is different from a sequence parameter set and a picture parameter set, a setting section configured to set, based on the quantization matrix parameters acquired by the acquiring section, a quantization matrix which is used when inversely quantizing data decoded from the encoded stream, and an inverse quantization section configured to inversely quantize the data decoded from the encoded stream using the quantization matrix set by the setting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: VELOS MEDIA, LLC
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11127194
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that are capable of improving the accuracy of a depth image of a 3D model. A depth image generation unit generates a depth image of a plurality of viewpoints for each object included in a 3D model. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, an encoding device or the like configured to generate a color image and a depth image of each object of each of a plurality of viewpoints on the basis of 3D data of a 3D model, generate an encoded stream by encoding the images, and generate object range information indicating the range of each object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Goh Kobayashi, Junichi Tanaka, Yuichi Araki
  • Patent number: 11081664
    Abstract: This organic EL element has one blue light emitting unit, and has a continuous emission spectrum. The organic EL element has one or two peak wavelengths in a blue light wavelength range of 440 nm-490 nm within this emission spectrum, the correlated color temperature of white light is 3300K or greater, and according to a special color rendering index (Ri) of white light, R6 is 60 or greater and R12 is 30 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: XIANYANG CHVT NEW DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Tanaka, Mitsuru Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11077495
    Abstract: A metal powder contains not less than 0.10 mass % and not more than 1.00 mass % of at least one of chromium and silicon, and a balance of copper. The total content of the chromium and the silicon is not more than 1.00 mass %. In accordance with an additive manufacturing method for this metal powder, an additively-manufactured article made from a copper alloy is provided. The additively-manufactured article has both an adequate mechanical strength and an adequate electrical conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: DAIHEN CORPORATION, Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ryusuke Tsubota, Junichi Tanaka, Yohei Oka, Takayuki Nakamoto, Takahiro Sugahara, Mamoru Takemura, Sohei Uchida
  • Publication number: 20210211670
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method that enable suppression of an increase in the amount of coding of a quantization matrix. An image processing device of the present disclosure includes an up-conversion unit configured to up-convert a quantization matrix limited to a size less than or equal to a transmission size that is a maximum size allowed for transmission, from the transmission size to a size that is identical to a block size that is a processing unit of quantization or dequantization. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, an image processing device for processing image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi TANAKA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Yoshitaka MORIGAMI
  • Patent number: 11043359
    Abstract: Provided are a charged particle beam apparatus and a charged particle beam inspection system capable of estimating electrical characteristics of a sample including capacitance characteristics. The charged particle beam apparatus estimates electrical characteristics of the sample using the correspondence data representing the correspondence between the node of the netlist and the coordinate on the sample and the pulsing condition when the sample is irradiated with the charged particle beam in a pulsed manner. The charged particle beam optical system irradiates a predetermined coordinate on the sample with a charged particle beam based on a pulsing condition, and the detector actually measures an emission amount of electrons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Nakamura, Natsuki Tsuno, Heita Kimizuka, Takafumi Miwa, Muneyuki Fukuda, Junichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11024822
    Abstract: This organic EL element has two blue light emitting units, and has, in the emission spectrum thereof, one or two peak wavelengths in a blue light wavelength range of 440 nm-490 nm. In this organic EL element, the correlated color temperature of white light is 3300K or greater, R6 is 60 or greater, and R12 is 30 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: XIANYANG CHVT NEW DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210157218
    Abstract: A projection type display apparatus which includes an optical system having an adjuster configured to adjust a field curvature of an in-focus plane of a projection image includes at least one processor or circuit configured to execute a plurality of tasks including an acquisition task configured to acquire position information of a predetermined position in an imaging area of an image generator and an optical axis of the optical system, and a control task configured to acquire an adjusting amount of a tilt unit configured to tilt the in-focus plane, using information from the acquisition task, a field curvature amount of the in-focus plane based on a position of the adjuster, and information on a projection target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10999498
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that make it possible to generate a high picture quality texture image of a predetermined viewpoint using an omnidirectional image. A reception section receives a texture image and a depth image as well as a guide image to be referred to upon generation of a display image in which the texture image and the depth image are used. A drawing section compares a pixel value of the display image generated using the texture image and the depth image and a corresponding pixel value of the guide image with each other and executes a process for changing the pixel value in response to a result of the comparison. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a home server or the like that generates a display image of a predetermined viewpoint from an omnidirectional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kikukawa, Junichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10991144
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes an ML3D model generation section, which are applicable to a home server that generates a display image of a predetermined viewpoint from an omnidirectional image or the like. The ML3D model generation section receives transmission information in which auxiliary information is added to at least one of texture information of a first layer, depth information of the first layer, texture information of a second layer or depth information of the second layer, and executes predetermined image processing using the auxiliary information for at least one of the texture information of the first layer, the depth information of the first layer, the texture information of the second layer or the depth information of the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Araki, Junichi Tanaka, Hiroshi Oryoji, Yuichi Hasegawa, Tooru Masuda, Tetsuya Fukuyasu
  • Patent number: 10973441
    Abstract: A display control device (10) comprises an image acquisition component (11), an orientation estimation component (12), and a controller (13). The image acquisition component (11) acquires an infrared image (G1) sensed by infrared array sensors (21a and 21b) installed in a room. The orientation estimation component (12) estimates the orientation of a care receiver (P1) in a room (30) on the basis of the infrared image (G1) acquired by the image acquisition component (11). The controller (13) controls a display device (22) so that a dummy image (D1), which shows a simplified view of the orientation of the care receiver (P1) estimated by the orientation estimation component (12), is displayed superimposed over the infrared image (G1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Tanaka, Masatoshi Oba, Fumiji Aita