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).

  • Publication number: 20200307695
    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: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi TANAKA, Takehiro KAMEI
  • Patent number: 10785504
    Abstract: An image processing device including a decoding section configured to decode an image from an encoded stream, a horizontal filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to a vertical block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, a vertical filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to a horizontal block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, and a control section configured to cause the horizontal filtering section to filter in parallel a plurality of vertical block boundaries included in a processing unit containing a plurality of coding units and cause the vertical filtering section to filter in parallel a plurality of horizontal block boundaries included in the processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Ikeda, Junichi Tanaka, Yoshitaka Morigami
  • Patent number: 10764594
    Abstract: There is provided an image encoding device and an image encoding method, and an image processing device and an image processing method that enable easier bitstream concatenation. A structure according to the present disclosure includes: a setting unit that sets header information related to a hypothetical reference decoder in accordance with information about a position and information about reference, the information about a position and the information about reference being of the current picture of image data to be processed; and an encoding unit that encodes the image data and generates a bitstream containing the encoded data of the image data and the header information set by the setting unit. The present disclosure can be applied to image processing devices or image encoding devices, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Tanaka, Akihiro Imamura, Ohji Nakagami, Takefumi Nagumo, Yuichi Araki, Yuji Fujimoto, Shinobu Hattori, Masakazu Kouno
  • Publication number: 20200252612
    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: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventor: Junichi TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10734261
    Abstract: A search apparatus receives an input target value, which indicates a condition to be set in a semiconductor processing apparatus or a result obtained by processing the semiconductor using the processing apparatus, a reference value of the condition inside a search area, and the result, wherein the reference value is indicated by the target value. A prediction model indicating a relation between the condition and the result based on a setting value of the condition inside the search area is generated and, a measured value of the result is obtained. A prediction value is acquired by assigning the target value to the prediction model. The prediction value is set to the reference value when it is determined that the prediction value is closer to the target value, and a prediction value satisfying an achievement condition is set when the prediction value satisfies the achievement condition of the target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ohmori, Junichi Tanaka, Hikaru Koyama, Masaru Kurihara
  • Patent number: 10735702
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus to which a lens apparatus includes a storage configured to store information about a reference panel pitch size is detachably attachable and an image generator configured to generate an image, and a controller configured to set a driving condition for the lens apparatus in accordance with a size of one pixel in the image generator and the reference panel pitch size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200241398
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes a controller provided inside a projection optical system that projects an image on a projection surface and configured to control driving of a focus unit that provides focusing of a projection image on the projection surface, a shifter configured to move the projection optical system on a plane orthogonal to an optical axis of the projection optical system, and an acquirer configured to acquire positional information of the shift unit. The controller sets a driving condition of the focus unit using positional information of the shift unit and a relationship between an image height and a depth of field of the projection optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200221977
    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: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi TANAKA, Masatoshi OBA, Fumiji AITA
  • Publication number: 20200221126
    Abstract: In a sample adaptive offset (SAO), the coding efficiency is improved by selecting an optimum mode among a plurality of modes based on a technique called a band offset and an edge offset. However, a processing amount of the SAO tends to increase when an optimum mode and an offset value are set, and this may result in an increase in a circuit size or power consumption. In this regard, the present disclosure proposes to enable reducing a processing amount of a cost calculation of the sample adaptive offset. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an image processing apparatus, including: a control unit configured to set an offset value to be applied to a pixel of an image, from among candidates of the offset value restricted according to a bit depth of the image; and a filter processing section configured to perform a filter process of applying the offset value set by the control unit to the pixel of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MORIGAMI, Takefumi NAGUMO, Junichi TANAKA, Hironari SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20200196503
    Abstract: ‘Kiyoka’ is a new variety of tea plant bred by crossbreeding FYZ-41 (‘Yabukita’ x ‘Shizuinzatsu 131’), a hybrid, as the female parent and ‘Saemidori’ as the male parent. The plant may be used, e.g., for cultivation of tea leaves and leaf buds for consumption. The steamed leaves and leaf buds of ‘Kiyoka’ have a distinctive floral aroma, and excellent taste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Yoshida, Akiko Ogino, Atsushi Nesumi, Tetsuji Saba, Junichi Tanaka, Fumiya Taniguchi, Shuya Yamashita, Hiroshi Yorozuya, Akiko Matsunaga, Yoshiyuki Takeda, Tsuyoshi Okamoto, Hitoshi Yoshitomi
  • Patent number: 10674941
    Abstract: A position identifying unit is configured to identify the location of a monitored person in the horizontal direction and maximum height of the monitored person in the vertical direction on the basis of top-down image data acquired by an upper image sensor provided above a monitored area capturing an image of the monitored area and lateral image data acquired by a lateral image sensor provided along a side of the monitored area capturing an image of the monitored area. An event determining unit assesses a fall-related event for the monitored person on the basis of a location in the horizontal direction, a maximum height in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Tanaka, Fumiji Aita
  • Patent number: 10674153
    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: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Velos Media, LLC
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200169758
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing device and method enabling deterioration in encoding efficiency to be suppressed. A control information adding unit 184 embeds one picture worth of control information held in a control information holding unit 183 into a slice header of a predetermined slice, in encoded data held in an encoded data holding unit 182. For example, the control information adding unit 184 embeds one picture worth of control information in the slice header of the first-transmitted slice in the frame to be processed in the encoded data. The control information adding unit 184 outputs encoded data to which the control information has been added, in a predetermined order. The present invention can be applied to, for example, an image processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Kondo, Junichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10666975
    Abstract: In a sample adaptive offset (SAO), the coding efficiency is improved by selecting an optimum mode among a plurality of modes based on a technique called a band offset and an edge offset. However, a processing amount of the SAO tends to increase when an optimum mode and an offset value are set, and this may result in an increase in a circuit size or power consumption. In this regard, the present disclosure proposes to enable reducing a processing amount of a cost calculation of the sample adaptive offset. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an image processing apparatus, including: a control unit configured to set an offset value to be applied to a pixel of an image, from among candidates of the offset value restricted according to a bit depth of the image; and a filter processing section configured to perform a filter process of applying the offset value set by the control unit to the pixel of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Morigami, Takefumi Nagumo, Junichi Tanaka, Hironari Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20200112723
    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: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi TANAKA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Yoshitaka MORIGAMI
  • Publication number: 20200099931
    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 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Junichi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200099005
    Abstract: The organic electroluminescent element comprises, between a first electrode and a second electrode, a light-emitting unit including at least a light-emitting layer made from an organic compound. The organic electroluminescent element comprises at least one light-emitting unit including a light-emitting layer formed of a red light-emitting layer which emits red light having a peak wavelength in the red wavelength range. The red light obtained by light emission from the light-emitting unit has a peak wavelength in the red wavelength range of 590-640 nm. The difference between the peak wavelength of the red light and the dominant wavelength of the red light is 10 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: LUMIOTEC INC.
    Inventor: Junichi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200092568
    Abstract: An image processing device including a decoding section configured to decode an image from an encoded stream, a determination section configured to perform determination processes of determining whether to apply a deblocking filter to neighboring blocks neighboring across a block boundary within an image to be decoded by the decoding section, a filtering section configured to apply a deblocking filter to neighboring blocks to which the determination section has determined to apply a deblocking filter, and a control section configured to allow the determination section to perform the determination processes for a vertical block boundary and a horizontal block boundary using pixels of the neighboring blocks of a reconstruct image as reference pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru IKEDA, Junichi TANAKA, Yoshitaka MORIGAMI
  • Publication number: 20200083472
    Abstract: This organic electroluminescent element has a structure in which, between a first electrode and a second electrode, a plurality of light-emitting units are layered with a charge generation layer 14 interposed therebetween, and comprises a red light-emitting unit and a green light-emitting unit. In the organic electroluminescent element, yellow or orange light obtained by light emission from the two light-emitting units has a peak wavelength in each of a red wavelength range of 590-640 nm and a green wavelength range of 500-560 nm, and the difference between the peak wavelength of the yellow or orange light and the dominant wavelength of the yellow or orange light is 15-25 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: LUMIOTEC INC.
    Inventor: Junichi TANAKA
  • Patent number: D883929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: DAIHEN Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka