Patents by Inventor Kondo KENJI

Kondo KENJI 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: 9712821
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus which includes a setting unit assigning a control block, which is a control unit of a filter process that is locally performed with respect to an image, to an initial position of the image determined based on a predetermined reference point; a movement unit moving the control block, which has been assigned to the initial position of the image by the setting unit, up to a position in which the result of the filter process is improved; and a filter processing unit performing the filter process for the respective control blocks which has been moved by the movement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kondo Kenji
  • Publication number: 20130108185
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program capable of reducing the amount of processing required for ROT and DCT or inverse DCT and inverse ROT. Image information obtained by decoding an encoded image is dequantized to obtain a low frequency component of the image information, which is obtained by a first orthogonal transform unit, and to obtain a frequency component higher than the low frequency component of the image information, which is obtained by a second orthogonal transform unit. The low frequency component and the high frequency component are subjected to an inverse orthogonal transform according to the same method. The present technology can be applied when encoding and decoding images, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kondo Kenji
  • Publication number: 20120121188
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing device and method whereby deterioration of effects of filter processing due to local control of filter processing when encoding or decoding can be suppressed. A boundary control flag generating unit 132 of a control information generating unit 112 generates boundary control flags based on system specification information which a system specification managing unit 141 manages. A control unit 171 of a adaptive filter processing unit 113 determines a processing method for filter processing to be performed as to pixels nearby a slice boundary following the value of the boundary control flag. For example, selection is made to perform filter processing straddling slices or to perform filter processing closed at the present slice. The present invention can be applied to an image processing device, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kondo Kenji
  • Publication number: 20110026611
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including: area determination unit configured to determine whether or not an area of a control block functioning as control unit for filtering of an image includes a processing-target slice area of a plurality of slices formed in a frame of an encoded image; control information creation unit configured to create filter control information representing whether or not the filtering is performed for the area of the control block including a processing-target slice for each area of the control block including the processing-target slice when the area determination unit determines that the area of the control block includes the area of the processing-target slice; and filter unit configured to perform filtering for the image based on the filter control information created by the control information creation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kondo KENJI
  • Publication number: 20110026600
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus which includes a setting unit assigning a control block, which is a control unit of a filter process that is locally performed with respect to an image, to an initial position of the image determined based on a predetermined reference point; a movement unit moving the control block, which has been assigned to the initial position of the image by the setting unit, a to a position in which the result of the filter process is improved; and a filter processing unit performing the filter process for the respective control blocks which has been moved by the movement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kondo KENJI