Patents by Inventor Shohei NOGUCHI

Shohei NOGUCHI 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: 11785346
    Abstract: An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes an exposure section and a controller. The controller controls, at an exposure timing based on a predicted exposure timing at which a state of a subject shot at a first frame rate is predicted to satisfy a predetermined condition, the exposure section at a second frame rate. The second frame rate is different from the first frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Noguchi, Daisuke Nakao, Jiro Takatori, Hiroaki Ebi
  • Publication number: 20230269499
    Abstract: A method for optimization of alignment of pixels of X different types on a sensor array for the performance of N different camera tasks, where X and N are integers greater than 1, includes obtaining an output of each of the X types of pixel on the sensor array for an input image; evaluating the quality of the output for each of the N different camera tasks; and obtaining an optimal pixel alignment pattern by adjustment of a potential pixel alignment pattern with respect to performance of the N different camera tasks subject to a user-determined balance of priorities among the N different camera tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Corporation of America
    Inventors: Owen Mayer, Shohei Noguchi, Jiro Takatori, Alexander Berestov
  • Publication number: 20220337735
    Abstract: An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes an exposure section and a controller. The controller controls, at an exposure timing based on a predicted exposure timing at which a state of a subject shot at a first frame rate is predicted to satisfy a predetermined condition, the exposure section at a second frame rate. The second frame rate is different from the first frame rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: SHOHEI NOGUCHI, DAISUKE NAKAO, JIRO TAKATORI, HIROAKI EBI
  • Publication number: 20220232160
    Abstract: A camera of the present disclosure includes an imaging section, a zooming section, a framing section, and a controller. The controller controls, in a case where one of the zooming section and the framing section is operated by a user operation, another of the zooming section and the framing section that is not operated by the user operation, in accordance with a movement of a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakao, Shohei Noguchi, Jiro Takatori, Hiroaki Ebi
  • Publication number: 20220217276
    Abstract: Provided are a device and a method that execute movement prediction of a moving subject included in an input image from an imaging unit, generate a future prediction image, and display the image on a display unit. An image processing unit that executes movement prediction of a moving subject included in an input image from an imaging unit, generates a future prediction image, and displays the image on a display unit is provided. The future prediction image to be displayed is an image in which a delay time based on a delay factor that occurs between a subject photographing start preparation operation by a user and completion of image photographing is taken into consideration, and is, for example, a future prediction image ahead by a total delay time of a display delay for the display unit and a delay time between a shutter operation and image recording.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: JIRO TAKATORI, SHOHEI NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10972710
    Abstract: A control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a control apparatus that controls an imaging device including a variable optical lowpass filter and an imaging element that generates image data from light incident via the variable optical lowpass filter. This control apparatus includes a first deriving unit and a second deriving unit. The first deriving unit derives a resolution deterioration amount and a false color generation amount on the basis of a plurality of pieces of image data generated by the imaging element through driving the imaging element while changing an effect of the variable optical lowpass filter. The second deriving unit derives a set value of the variable optical lowpass filter on the basis of the resolution deterioration amount and the false color generation amount derived by the first deriving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shohei Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10911681
    Abstract: A display control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a display controller that performs enhancement on a region where resolution is changed in response to changing of lowpass characteristics or a region where false color is generated or changed in response to changing of the lowpass characteristics in image data generated on the basis of light incident via a lowpass filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shohei Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20200059602
    Abstract: A display control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a display controller that performs enhancement on a region where resolution is changed in response to changing of lowpass characteristics or a region where false color is generated or changed in response to changing of the lowpass characteristics in image data generated on the basis of light incident via a lowpass filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shohei NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190132562
    Abstract: A control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a control apparatus that controls an imaging device including a variable optical lowpass filter and an imaging element that generates image data from light incident via the variable optical lowpass filter. This control apparatus includes a first deriving unit and a second deriving unit. The first deriving unit derives a resolution deterioration amount and a false color generation amount on the basis of a plurality of pieces of image data generated by the imaging element through driving the imaging element while changing an effect of the variable optical lowpass filter. The second deriving unit derives a set value of the variable optical lowpass filter on the basis of the resolution deterioration amount and the false color generation amount derived by the first deriving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shohei NOGUCHI