Patents by Inventor Ryohsuke TAMURA

Ryohsuke TAMURA 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: 10104359
    Abstract: A disparity value deriving device includes a calculator configured to calculate costs of candidates for a corresponding region in a comparison image that corresponds to a reference region in a reference image, based on luminance values of the regions. The device also includes a changer configured to change a cost exceeding a threshold to a value higher than the threshold; a synthesizer configured to synthesize a cost of a candidate for a corresponding region for one reference region after the change and a cost of a candidate for a corresponding region for another reference region after the change; and a deriving unit configured to derive a disparity value based on a position of the one reference region and a position of the corresponding region in the comparison image for which the cost after the synthesis is smallest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kiichiroh Saitoh, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Soichiro Yokota, Ryohsuke Tamura, Wei Zhong
  • Patent number: 9747524
    Abstract: A disparity value deriving device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a degree of matching between a reference region in a reference image captured from a first imaging position and each of a plurality of region in a designated range including a corresponding region to the reference region in a comparison image captured from a second imaging position; a synthesizer configured to synthesize the degree of matching of a reference region in neighborhood of a predetermined reference region in the reference image and the degree of matching of the predetermined reference region in the reference image; and a deriving unit configured to derive a disparity value of an object whose image is being captured in the predetermined reference region and a corresponding region to the predetermined reference region, based on a synthesized degree of matching obtained by the synthesizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Zhong, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Soichiro Yokota, Kiichiroh Saitoh, Ryohsuke Tamura
  • Publication number: 20160301912
    Abstract: A disparity value deriving device includes a calculator configured to calculate costs of candidates for a corresponding region in a comparison image that corresponds to a reference region in a reference image, based on luminance values of the regions. The device also includes a changer configured to change a cost exceeding a threshold to a value higher than the threshold; a synthesizer configured to synthesize a cost of a candidate for a corresponding region for one reference region after the change and a cost of a candidate for a corresponding region for another reference region after the change; and a deriving unit configured to derive a disparity value based on a position of the one reference region and a position of the corresponding region in the comparison image for which the cost after the synthesis is smallest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Kiichiroh SAITOH, Yoshikazu WATANABE, Soichiro YOKOTA, Ryohsuke TAMURA, Wei ZHONG
  • Publication number: 20150248594
    Abstract: A disparity value deriving device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a degree of matching between a reference region in a reference image captured from a first imaging position and each of a plurality of region in a designated range including a corresponding region to the reference region in a comparison image captured from a second imaging position; a synthesizer configured to synthesize the degree of matching of a reference region in neighborhood of a predetermined reference region in the reference image and the degree of matching of the predetermined reference region in the reference image; and a deriving unit configured to derive a disparity value of an object whose image is being captured in the predetermined reference region and a corresponding region to the predetermined reference region, based on a synthesized degree of matching obtained by the synthesizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Wei ZHONG, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Soichiro Yokota, Kiichiroh Saitoh, Ryohsuke Tamura
  • Publication number: 20140168463
    Abstract: An image-processing device that adjusts white balance of an image includes a region setter that classifies the image by color temperature and sets a plurality of regions thereto; and a white balance controller that generates a white-balance-adjusted image based on color temperature of a target region of the regions from the image, wherein by targeting all of the regions set by the region setter, the white balance controller generates white-balance-adjusted images as many as the number equal to the number of the regions set by the region setter from the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventor: Ryohsuke TAMURA