Patents by Inventor Sho Son

Sho Son 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: 8467624
    Abstract: A disclosed image processing apparatus divides an image into code-blocks of different levels by a wavelet transform, generates information codes of code-block-related information items related to the code-blocks of the different levels using separate tag trees corresponding to the different levels, and generates code data in which the image is encoded. The image processing apparatus comprises a coordinate generating unit that generates an x coordinate and a y coordinate of each of the code-blocks of each of the levels wherein a unit in an x direction and in a y direction is defined by a size of the individual code-blocks of the corresponding level; and an address generating unit that generates a multiple so a combination value of a bit combination of the y coordinate and the x coordinate of each code-block as an address for storing the information code of the code-block in a first storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Sho Son
  • Patent number: 8320684
    Abstract: An image compressing apparatus carrying out code amount control upon JPEG2000 coding, in which the number of coding passes and a code amount for each code block generated by a MQ (arithmetic) coder are input, and the number of coding passes and the code amount are determined based on a first code amount control standard and a second code amount control standard given for each code block. For a specific code block, the second code amount control standard is used to determine the number of coding passes and the code amount, while, for the other code blocks, the first code amount control standard is used to determine the number of coding passes and the code amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Sho Son
  • Publication number: 20080279463
    Abstract: A disclosed image processing apparatus divides an image into code-blocks of different levels by a wavelet transform, generates information codes of code-block-related information items related to the code-blocks of the different levels using separate tag trees corresponding to the different levels, and generates code data in which the image is encoded. The image processing apparatus comprises a coordinate generating unit that generates an x coordinate and a y coordinate of each of the code-blocks of each of the levels wherein a unit in an x direction and in a y direction is defined by a size of the individual code-blocks of the corresponding level; and an address generating unit that generates a multiple so a combination value of a bit combination of the y coordinate and the x coordinate of each code-block as an address for storing the information code of the code-block in a first storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventor: Sho Son
  • Publication number: 20070217698
    Abstract: An image compressing apparatus carrying out code amount control upon JPEG2000 coding, in which the number of coding passes and a code amount for each code block generated by a MQ (arithmetic) coder are input, and the number of coding passes and the code amount are determined based on a first code amount control standard and a second code amount control standard given for each code block. For a specific code block, the second code amount control standard is used to determine the number of coding passes and the code amount, while, for the other code blocks, the first code amount control standard is used to determine the number of coding passes and the code amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventor: Sho Son