Patents by Inventor Shunji Okada

Shunji Okada 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: 10623653
    Abstract: An image adjustment apparatus includes a boundary calculation unit that calculates a boundary between a follow light region and a back light region in an image based on a position of a light source and an image adjustment unit that adjusts a state of the follow light region or the back light region with the boundary being a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Yamamoto, Masanori Mikami, Shunji Okada
  • Publication number: 20180309940
    Abstract: There is described an imaging method and an imaging device including first imaging circuitry that captures at least near infrared (NIR) light and outputs an NIR image, second imaging circuitry that captures far infrared (FIR) light and outputs an FIR image, wherein the FIR light has a longer wavelength than the NIR light, and processing circuitry configured to adjust color of the NIR image based on the FIR image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: SHUNJI OKADA, RYOTA KOSAKAI, SHINJI UKITA, EIJI OBA, TSUYOSHI MASUZAWA, MASAKAZU EBIHARA, KAZUHIRO SHIMAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180227477
    Abstract: An image adjustment apparatus includes a boundary calculation unit that calculates a boundary between a follow light region and a back light region in an image based on a position of a light source and an image adjustment unit that adjusts a state of the follow light region or the back light region with the boundary being a reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: EIJI YAMAMOTO, MASANORI MIKAMI, SHUNJI OKADA
  • Patent number: 9998676
    Abstract: An image adjustment apparatus includes a boundary calculation unit that calculates a boundary between a follow light region and a back light region in an image based on a position of a light source and an image adjustment unit that adjusts a state of the follow light region or the back light region with the boundary being a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Yamamoto, Masanori Mikami, Shunji Okada
  • Patent number: 9762786
    Abstract: There is provided an image pickup device including an image pickup unit, and a beam light control unit configured to control a state of a beam light based on living body detection information given by a living body detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunji Okada, Kentaro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160088207
    Abstract: An image adjustment apparatus includes a boundary calculation unit that calculates a boundary between a follow light region and a back light region in an image based on a position of a light source and an image adjustment unit that adjusts a state of the follow light region or the back light region with the boundary being a reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: EIJI YAMAMOTO, MASANORI MIKAMI, SHUNJI OKADA
  • Patent number: 9167170
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including an imaging element that acquires a captured image of a subject, a light emission unit that emits light to the subject, and a control unit that is capable of controlling a timing of exposure performed by the imaging element and a timing of light emission performed by the light emission unit. In a mode in which imaging is performed with a plurality of times of consecutive light emission by the light emission unit, the control unit controls at least one of a timing of the exposure and a timing of the light emission so that light amounts effective for exposure in each imaging are substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunji Okada, Kazuaki Iguchi, Satoshi Shinohara, Yoshitsugu Nomiyama, Naoya Katoh, Yukio Isobe, Yuuji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150264236
    Abstract: There is provided an image pickup device including an image pickup unit, and a beam light control unit configured to control a state of a beam light based on living body detection information given by a living body detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: SHUNJI OKADA, KENTARO TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9071830
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a depth-information detecting section, a comparison/detection section, and a control unit. The depth-information detecting section is provided for detecting a peak position of an object in a depth direction, at which the object is displayed at the front in an additional information display area. The comparison/detection section is provided for making a comparison between depth information of the additional information and the peak value of the stereoscopic video data to detect a positional relationship between the stereoscopic data and the display position of the additional information in the depth direction. The control unit is provided for controlling the stereoscopic video data and the display position of the additional information in response to the positional relationship between the stereoscopic video data and the display position of the additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunji Okada, Takashi Kuwabara, Kazuya Yokoyama, Kenichiro Aridome, Atsushi Mae, Kenichiro Nagao, Shinya Kano
  • Publication number: 20150130963
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires stability state information for an image capturing apparatus indicating whether the image capturing apparatus is stable or not, and a processor that rotates an image, captured by the image capturing apparatus, based on the stability state information of the image capturing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro Tanaka, Kazuhiro Uchida, Masataka Suzuki, Shunji Okada, Yoshitsugu Nomiyama, Naoya Katoh
  • Publication number: 20140253761
    Abstract: A control device includes: a detection section configured to detect setting to a predetermined imaging mode; and a control section configured to set a predetermined method of zooming in response to the setting to the imaging mode, and to perform zoom control with a subject distance fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunji Okada, Yuuji Watanabe, Kentaro Tanaka, Yoshitsugu Nomiyama, Katsunori Ogawa, Tomoyuki Mizutani, Takaya Konishi
  • Publication number: 20140226040
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging section and a light-emitting section, and an imaging direction of the imaging section and a direction in which a light is projected by light emission of the light-emitting section are different directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunji Okada, Kumiko Matsuno, Katsunori Ogawa, Tomoyuki Mizutani, Fumito Hiwatashi, Takaya Konishi
  • Patent number: 8698877
    Abstract: An image information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a scene change detection unit that detects a scene change in content. The information processing apparatus also includes a depth value correction unit that corrects a depth value for stereoscopic display so as to allow a change of the depth value to transition at a predetermined display speed before and after the scene change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Tadokoro, Shunji Okada
  • Publication number: 20140063286
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including an imaging element that acquires a captured image of a subject, a light emission unit that emits light to the subject, and a control unit that is capable of controlling a timing of exposure performed by the imaging element and a timing of light emission performed by the light emission unit. In a mode in which imaging is performed with a plurality of times of consecutive light emission by the light emission unit, the control unit controls at least one of a timing of the exposure and a timing of the light emission so that light amounts effective for exposure in each imaging are substantially the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunji OKADA, Kazuaki Iguchi, Satoshi Shinohara, Yoshitsugu Nomiyama, Naoya Katoh, Yukio Isobe, Yuuji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8599243
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to generate an imaged image by imaging a subject; a depth information generating unit configured to generate depth information relating to the imaged image; an image processing unit configured to extract, from the imaged image, an image of an object region including a particular subject out of subjects included in the imaged image and a surrounding region of the subject, based on the depth information, and generate a difference image to display a stereoscopic image in which the subjects included in the imaged image are viewed stereoscopically based on the extracted image; and a recording control unit configured to generate a data stream in which data corresponding to the imaged image and data corresponding to the difference image are correlated, and record the data stream as a moving image file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunji Okada, Yukio Isobe, Naoki Morimoto, Atsushi Mae, Eiji Tadokoro, Hideo Obata
  • Patent number: 8565543
    Abstract: A video recording apparatus optimally records partial images made up of a partial area from an original image and containing a feature point such as person's face. An imaging unit acquires the original image by imaging at a resolution higher than the pixel count used for video recording. A feature point detector detects one or more feature points from the original image. A partial image clipper clips, from the original image, a partial image containing a feature point selected by the user. An encoder encodes the clipped partial image. A recording unit then records the encoded partial image to a recording medium. In so doing, the user is able to select a recording subject from a summary of detected feature points before or during video recording, and thus record a desired face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Kano, Shunji Okada
  • Patent number: 8275241
    Abstract: A data management device manages a recording medium, on which a partition table having information regarding a partition is recorded and on which a plurality of drives are assigned using partition description, by referring to the partition table. The plurality of drives include a recording drive on which a basic playback unit included in a file is recorded and a management drive on which a property file having access information for the basic playback unit is recorded. The data management device includes an accessing section for accessing the basic playback unit included in the file recorded on the recording drive by referring to the property file recorded on the management drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunji Okada, Ryogo Ito
  • Patent number: 8270813
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for recording data in a file by first unit on a recording medium in accordance with a predetermined file system, which may include a recording control unit performing a recording control operation to record a predetermined file on the recording medium, the recording control operation including data recording control for recording successively the data on the recording medium by first unit and management information updating control for updating management information of the predetermined file system on the recording medium, a generating unit successively generating difference information of the management information by second unit during the recording control operation of the recording control unit, the second unit being an integer multiple of the least common multiple of the first unit and a minimum unit of the predetermined file system, and a backup storage unit storing as backup information the difference information generated by the generating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunji Okada, Ryogo Ito
  • Patent number: 8260118
    Abstract: A lateral shake prevention when a video picked up by a digital camera is reproduced is realized, and viewing on a large screen television set is made comfortable. At the time of the image pickup recording, face detection position center coordinate data is recorded in an attribute information unit of a stream as ARI data for each VOBU (GOP) in units of 0.5 seconds. At the time of the reproduction, the ARI data of GOP stream is collectively read ahead in units of RUV at the time of the reproduction of the video included in detection data of the face center position coordinate to read a large number of VOBUs in advance, an interpolation of missing times in units of GOP with respect to the face center position coordinate is performed, and a screen shift amount is subjected to a time axis smoothing computation through a time moving average computation in a frame unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunji Okada, Kenichiro Aridome, Yukio Isobe
  • Patent number: 8165454
    Abstract: The present invention efficiently executes a transfer process from a flash memory to an optical disc. A recording control apparatus includes a UDF file system section that configures a UDF file system on the flash file system of a flash memory and an application format section that converts video and audio data into a file group conforming to the DVD application format and manages it on the UDF file system. When copying the data recorded in the flash memory to a DVD, a management information switching section of the apparatus converts the logical addresses of the flash memory into the logical addresses of the DVD. A DVD buffer control section converts the data recorded in an array of 64 Kbytes that is the recording unit of the flash memory into an array of 32 Kbytes that is the recording unit of the DVD and transfers them to the DVD drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shunji Okada, Katsumi Matsuno