Patents by Inventor Piergiorgio Sartor

Piergiorgio Sartor 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: 11756282
    Abstract: A system including circuitry configured to process image data of a meal to obtain information on the contents of the meal; generate, based on the obtained information, a query with guidance to change image capture settings: and guide a user to pick up at least a part of the meal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Gatto, Piergiorgio Sartor, Ralf Müller, Mori Hironori, Oliver Erdler
  • Patent number: 11659223
    Abstract: It is disclosed a system comprising a display characteristics evaluation unit configured to evaluate display characteristics of a display of an electronic device, a media access unit configured to receive a source media file from a media storage, and a display-dependent processing unit configured to perform, based on the display characteristics, a display-dependent processing of the source media file to obtain a display-dependent media file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piergiorgio Sartor, Klaus Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20230034139
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to a polarization imaging system having: an imaging portion having a color channel element of a first color type and a color channel element of a second color type; and a light polarization portion configured to: provide a first light polarization of a first polarization type for the first color type and a second light polarization of the first polarization type for the second color type; and convert a second polarization type into the first polarization type, whereby the second polarization type is detectable in the imaging portion
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Piergiorgio SARTOR, Alexander GATTO, Zoltan FACIUS, Matthias SCHINZEL, Markus KAMM
  • Publication number: 20220405972
    Abstract: An image processing device has circuitry, which is configured to obtain global image data including image data and spectral data, the global image data representing a global image area and to input the global image data to machine learning model for generating output spectral data, wherein the neural network is configured to transform the obtained image data into the output spectral data based on the obtained spectral data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Piergiorgio SARTOR, Alexander GATTO, Vincent PARRET, Adriano SIMONETTO
  • Publication number: 20220163673
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to time-of-flight simulation data training circuitry, configured to: obtain time-of-flight camera model data based on a time-of-flight camera model modelling a real time-of-flight camera of a real time-of-flight camera type; obtain real time-of-flight data from at least one real time-of-flight camera of the real time-of-flight camera type; determine a difference between the real time-of-flight data and the time-of-flight camera model data; and update, based on the determined difference, the time-of-flight camera model for generating simulated time-of-flight data representing the real time-of-flight camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Gianluca Agresti, Henrik Schäfer, Yalcin Incesu, Piergiorgio Sartor, Pietro Zanuttigh
  • Patent number: 11335078
    Abstract: A system including circuitry configured to determine a reflectance feature of a liquid based on reflectance image data generated based on multispectral image data of the liquid; determine a structural feature of the liquid based on image data of the liquid; and to provide quality information of the liquid based on the reflectance feature and the structural feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Gatto, Piergiorgio Sartor, Ralf Müller, Mori Hironori, Oliver Erdler
  • Publication number: 20220130036
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having circuitry which performs object recognition on image data in order to recognize individual fruits and determines a harvest point of time for each recognized individual fruit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander GATTO, Ralf MUELLER, Hironori MORI, Piergiorgio SARTOR
  • Publication number: 20220012515
    Abstract: A system including circuitry configured to process multispectral image data of a meal to obtain information on the contents of the meal; and generate, based on the obtained information, a query with guidance to change image capture settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander GATTO, Piergiorgio SARTOR, Ralf MÜLLER, Mori HIRONORI, Oliver ERDLER
  • Patent number: 11132571
    Abstract: A system including circuitry configured to process multispectral image data of a meal to obtain information on the contents of the meal; and generate, based on the obtained information, a query with guidance to change image capture settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Gatto, Piergiorgio Sartor, Ralf Müller, Mori Hironori, Oliver Erdler
  • Publication number: 20210219007
    Abstract: It is disclosed a system comprising a display characteristics evaluation unit configured to evaluate display characteristics of a display of an electronic device, a media access unit configured to receive a source media file from a media storage, and a display-dependent processing unit configured to perform, based on the display characteristics, a display-dependent processing of the source media file to obtain a display-dependent media file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piergiorgio SARTOR, Klaus ZIMMERMANN
  • Patent number: 10965974
    Abstract: It is disclosed a system comprising a display characteristics evaluation unit configured to evaluate display characteristics of a display of an electronic device, a media access unit configured to receive a source media file from a media storage, and a display-dependent processing unit configured to perform, based on the display characteristics, a display-dependent processing of the source media file to obtain a display-dependent media file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piergiorgio Sartor, Klaus Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 10900836
    Abstract: A reflectometer has a depth sensor which obtains distance information between the depth sensor and an object, a light source which emits light having a calibrated light spectrum, a spectral sensor which collects spectral information from light reflected from the object, and a circuitry. The circuitry calculates a reflectance spectrum for the object based on the distance information and the spectral information collected from light being reflected from the object, wherein the light originates from the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Gatto, Piergiorgio Sartor, Ralf Müller
  • Patent number: 10853624
    Abstract: An apparatus has a circuitry which detects a first biometric feature of a user; detects a second biometric feature of the user, wherein the second biometric feature is detected based on image data representing the second biometric feature, and wherein the second biometric feature differs from the first biometric feature; and estimates an illumination indication for the second biometric feature, based on the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piergiorgio Sartor, Mori Hironori, Alexander Gatto, Ralf Müller
  • Publication number: 20200042817
    Abstract: A system including circuitry configured to determine a reflectance feature of a liquid based on reflectance image data generated based on multispectral image data of the liquid; determine a structural feature of the liquid based on image data of the liquid; and to provide quality information of the liquid based on the reflectance feature and the structural feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander GATTO, Piergiorgio SARTOR, Ralf MÜLLER, Mori HIRONORI, Oliver ERDLER
  • Publication number: 20200042816
    Abstract: A system including circuitry configured to process multispectral image data of a meal to obtain information on the contents of the meal; and generate, based on the obtained information, a query with guidance to change image capture settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander GATTO, Piergiorgio SARTOR, Ralf MÜLLER, Mori HIRONORI, Oliver ERDLER
  • Patent number: 10504228
    Abstract: In an image processing system a processor is configured to perform an image processing method. The method performs receiving a spectral image of a person's skin and identifying the person based on the received spectral image of the person's skin and skin reflectance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Gatto, Piergiorgio Sartor, Matthias Wilde, Ralf Mueller
  • Patent number: 10410366
    Abstract: An imaging system includes an optical unit that captures, from a scene, sets of first images as well as sets of second images. The scene is illuminated with non-structured light when the sets of first images are captured and illuminated with structured light when the sets of second images are captured. A pattern processing unit generates, from the second images, a recovered shadow pattern from a shadow pattern projected onto the scene during illumination with structured light, wherein at least one motion-compensated reference image is used. A depth processing unit obtains depth information on the basis of the recovered shadow pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Francesco Michielin, Paul Springer, Thimo Emmerich, Zoltan Facius, Piergiorgio Sartor
  • Publication number: 20190114469
    Abstract: An apparatus has a circuitry which detects a first biometric feature of a user; detects a second biometric feature of the user, wherein the second biometric feature is detected based on image data representing the second biometric feature, and wherein the second biometric feature differs from the first biometric feature; and estimates an illumination indication for the second biometric feature, based on the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piergiorgio Sartor, Mori Hironori, Alexander Gatto, Ralf Müller
  • Publication number: 20190086263
    Abstract: A reflectometer has a depth sensor which obtains distance information between the depth sensor and an object, a light source which emits light having a calibrated light spectrum, a spectral sensor which collects spectral information from light reflected from the object, and a circuitry. The circuitry calculates a reflectance spectrum for the object based on the distance information and the spectral information collected from light being reflected from the object, wherein the light originates from the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Gatto, Piergiorgio Sartor, Ralf Müller
  • Patent number: 10176555
    Abstract: It is disclosed a method for displaying input image data on a display device. The display device comprises a main display and a border display which at least partly surrounds the main display. The method comprises extrapolating the input image data to obtain extrapolated image data, displaying at least part of the input image data on the main display, and displaying at least part of the extrapolated image data on the border display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piergiorgio Sartor, Klaus Zimmermann