Patents by Inventor Kiyoto SOMEYA
Kiyoto SOMEYA 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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Publication number: 20230291877Abstract: A present disclosure relates to an information processing device and method capable of more easily correcting a color shift. A color shift is corrected on the basis of three-dimensional (3D) projection position of each of optical devices of a projection unit that projects red, green, and blue (RGB) light using the optical devices different from each other. For example, a color shift amount indicating magnitude and a direction of the color shift is derived, and correction is performed in such a manner that the derived color shift amount is reduced. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing device, a projection device, an imaging device, a projection imaging device, a projection imaging control device, an image projection imaging system, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Kiyoto SOMEYA
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Patent number: 11240475Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and method that allow an image projection position to be controlled with more ease. Correction information of an image is generated such that the image is projected onto a desired region of a real space. For example, the correction information is generated such that the projected image is located at a desired position as seen from a given viewpoint position. Also, for example, a correction vector is generated that corrects each pixel position of the image as the correction information. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to an information processing apparatus, a projection apparatus, an imaging apparatus, a projection imaging apparatus, a projection imaging control apparatus, an image projection imaging system, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yugo Katsuki, Kiyoto Someya, Naoki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11218662Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, a program, and a projection system that facilitate the adjustment of the position and tilt of a camera. An image processing device according to one aspect of the present technology estimates, on the basis of a taken image taken by a camera installed at a predetermined tilt, the tilt of the camera, the camera being configured to photograph a projection surface of a screen on which a pattern image that is an image having a predetermined pattern has been projected from a projector, and performs control to display the taken image rotated depending on the tilt of the camera. The present technology is applicable to computers configured to control a plurality of projectors to project video.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kiyoto Someya
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Publication number: 20210152795Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and method that allow an image projection position to be controlled with more ease. Correction information of an image is generated such that the image is projected onto a desired region of a real space. For example, the correction information is generated such that the projected image is located at a desired position as seen from a given viewpoint position. Also, for example, a correction vector is generated that corrects each pixel position of the image as the correction information. The present disclosure is applicable, for example, to an information processing apparatus, a projection apparatus, an imaging apparatus, a projection imaging apparatus, a projection imaging control apparatus, an image projection imaging system, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2019Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: YUGO KATSUKI, KIYOTO SOMEYA, NAOKI KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20210067732Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, a program, and a projection system that facilitate the adjustment of the position and tilt of a camera. An image processing device according to one aspect of the present technology estimates, on the basis of a taken image taken by a camera installed at a predetermined tilt, the tilt of the camera, the camera being configured to photograph a projection surface of a screen on which a pattern image that is an image having a predetermined pattern has been projected from a projector, and performs control to display the taken image rotated depending on the tilt of the camera. The present technology is applicable to computers configured to control a plurality of projectors to project video.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventor: KIYOTO SOMEYA
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Patent number: 10839553Abstract: A camera captures a projection image projected from a projector and generates a captured image and a disturbance detection section detects a disturbance of the projector by using the generated captured image. A posture estimation section compares, when the disturbance is detected, posture information before and after a disturbance detection and a presenting position update section performs an update of a presenting position on only the projector in which there is a change in the compared posture information before and after the disturbance detection.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kiyoto Someya
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Publication number: 20200021787Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a projector, a projection method, an image processing system, and a method that make it possible to realize hand shake correction. A projection imaging apparatus includes a geometric correction section, a corresponding point detection section, a posture estimation section, a screen reconfiguration section, a projector, and a camera. An input video is input to the geometric correction section. The projector houses an IMU (inertial measurement apparatus) and a delay compensation circuit. For example, the present disclosure can be applied to the projection imaging apparatus that projects an image by using the projector, captures the image projected by the projector, and performs correction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventor: KIYOTO SOMEYA
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Patent number: 10536677Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and a method capable of performing on-line sensing without synchronizing and without using a specialized device. An image corner corresponding point detection unit detects an image corner of an input image from a captured image captured by a camera, and associates four image corner points of a corrected image to be projected by a projector with four image corner points of the detected captured image, thereby detecting four image corner corresponding points. An attitude estimation unit estimates a relative attitude of the projector and the camera from the four image corner corresponding points. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a projection imaging device that projects an image with a projector, captures the image projected by the projector, and updates a presentation position.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kiyoto Someya
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Publication number: 20190110032Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and a method capable of performing on-line sensing without synchronizing and without using a specialized device. An image corner corresponding point detection unit detects an image corner of an input image from a captured image captured by a camera, and associates four image corner points of a corrected image to be projected by a projector with four image corner points of the detected captured image, thereby detecting four image corner corresponding points. An attitude estimation unit estimates a relative attitude of the projector and the camera from the four image corner corresponding points. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a projection imaging device that projects an image with a projector, captures the image projected by the projector, and updates a presentation position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2017Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: KIYOTO SOMEYA
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Publication number: 20190102907Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and a method that are aimed at enabling a comfortable viewing experience to be provided. A camera captures a projection image projected from a projector and generates a captured image and a disturbance detection section detects a disturbance of the projector by using the generated captured image. A posture estimation section compares, when the disturbance is detected, posture information before and after a disturbance detection and a presenting position update section performs an update of a presenting position on only the projector in which there is a change in the compared posture information before and after the disturbance detection. For example, the present disclosure is capable of projecting an image by the projector, capturing the image projected by the projector, and applying the captured image to a projection image-capturing apparatus that updates a presenting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2017Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventor: KIYOTO SOMEYA
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Publication number: 20170309055Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an information obtaining unit configured to obtain parallax adjustment information with regard to a parallax-adjusted three-dimensional display material and an image transform unit configured to perform an inverse transform processing on the parallax-adjusted three-dimensional display material to be restored to a material before the parallax adjustment on the basis of the parallax adjustment information obtained by the information obtaining unit and generate a two-dimensional display material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Kiyoto Someya
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Patent number: 9161015Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of images, which are images of the same subject captured from different viewpoints; an image offset correction unit configured to modify the plurality of images obtained by the image obtaining unit on the basis of parameters for correcting image offset and generate a correction image for each of the obtained images; an evaluation value calculation unit configured to calculate, as an evaluation value, an integration value, for an entire screen, of an error amount indicating a degree at which association in a parallax direction among the plurality of correction images generated by the image offset correction unit is not possible; and an update unit configured to change a parameter that is necessary for association in the parallax direction among the parameters so as to update the parameter so that the evaluation value becomes a minimum.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Myokan, Takayuki Yoshigahara, Kiyoto Someya
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Publication number: 20150030235Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including a disparity detector configured to receive a plurality of 3D images and detect disparity of each of the 3D images, a disparity analyzer configured to generate statistical information about disparity of each 3D image using the disparity of each 3D image detected by the disparity detector, and a disparity controller configured to convert the disparity using the statistical information about disparity of each 3D image generated by the disparity analyzer in such a manner that the 3D images are not overlapped so that a range of the disparity is within a predetermined range.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2012Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kiyoto Someya, Kohei Miyamoto, Nobuaki Izumi, Satoru Kuma, Yuji Ando
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Publication number: 20130039416Abstract: Provided is an image encoding apparatus including a characteristic quantity generation unit that generates a characteristic quantity showing a correlation between pictures for each candidate of a reference picture, with a first viewpoint picture different in time direction from the first viewpoint picture and a second viewpoint picture different from the first viewpoint picture being set as the candidates of the reference picture, and a reference picture list generation unit that generates a reference picture list by selecting as many reference pictures for the first viewpoint picture as the reference pictures for the second viewpoint picture from the candidates of the reference pictures based on the characteristic quantity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2012Publication date: February 14, 2013Inventor: Kiyoto Someya
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Publication number: 20120207219Abstract: A picture encoding apparatus includes a feature quantity generation unit and a reference picture list creation unit. The feature quantity generation unit generates feature quantity indicative of dominant one of parallax prediction using reference pictures the viewpoints of which are different from each other and temporal prediction using reference pictures in the temporal direction when a picture is encoded. When an encoding target picture is encoded, the reference picture list creation unit updates a reference picture list including the reference pictures based on the feature quantity generated in a picture which was encoded before the corresponding encoding target picture is encoded.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Inventor: Kiyoto SOMEYA
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Publication number: 20120194652Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of images, which are images of the same subject captured from different viewpoints; an image offset correction unit configured to modify the plurality of images obtained by the image obtaining unit on the basis of parameters for correcting image offset and generate a correction image for each of the obtained images; an evaluation value calculation unit configured to calculate, as an evaluation value, an integration value, for an entire screen, of an error amount indicating a degree at which association in a parallax direction among the plurality of correction images generated by the image offset correction unit is not possible; and an update unit configured to change a parameter that is necessary for association in the parallax direction among the parameters so as to update the parameter so that the evaluation value becomes a minimum.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Inventors: Yoshihiro Myokan, Takayuki Yoshigahara, Kiyoto Someya
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Publication number: 20110317758Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: an encoding section encoding image data including images from a plurality of viewpoints; an amount-of-code calculation section determining a viewpoint and a picture type of the image data encoded by the encoding section, and calculating an average amount of code using information on a past amount of code for each viewpoint and for each picture type; and an average-rate calculation section calculating an average bit rate using the average amount of code calculated by the amount-of-code calculation section for each viewpoint and for each picture type.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Inventor: Kiyoto SOMEYA