Patents by Inventor Suzuko Fukao

Suzuko Fukao 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: 8654118
    Abstract: In order to perform pseudo-three-dimensional display for analyzing color distribution, there are provided a color-distribution-information input step of inputting color-distribution information indicating color coordinate values that sample points in a first color system can have in a second color system, a user's-instruction input step of inputting an instruction of a user relating to an operation of generating object-surface information, and a generation step of generating three-dimensional-object-surface information in accordance with the instruction of the user, based on the color-distribution information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirochika Matsuoka, Suzuko Fukao
  • Patent number: 7706605
    Abstract: Color reproducibility is improved by enabling one to control a smoothing condition for each of plural positions on color space. When a color correction table is formed by using smoothing, the smoothing conditions respectively corresponding to the plural positions on the color space are set, and then the smoothing is performed according to the smoothing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suzuko Fukao, Shigeyasu Nagoshi, Okinori Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 7623138
    Abstract: The analysis and evaluation techniques of a gamut mapping technique, which can reflect the determination result of the quality of gamut mapping in the gamut mapping technique, are demanded. Hence, a color distribution information file and image file are loaded, initial 3D object data is generated based on color distribution data, and initial image object data is generated based on image data. The image object data and 3D object data are displayed on a monitor. When the user inputs a message, a process corresponding to the input message is executed, and the updated image object data and 3D object data are displayed on the monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suzuko Fukao, Hirochika Matsuoka, Kimitaka Arai
  • Patent number: 7440136
    Abstract: When tetrahedral interpolation is used in correction of color reproduction upon color adjustment, image disturbances such as pseudo edges and the like may occur since the surfaces of each tetrahedron satisfy the boundary condition. Hence, a pixel position of digital image data is calculated, RGB values at that pixel position are acquired, and the acquired RGB values are displayed on RGB value display area. L*a*b* values are calculated based on basis functions and coefficient values of a color calculation B-spline solid, and the calculated L*a*b* values are displayed on an L*a*b* value display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirochika Matsuoka, Suzuko Fukao
  • Patent number: 7427992
    Abstract: Color values of a color space are stored in a color correction table. A smoothing process is performed on achromatic color values to remove artifacts and prevent image degradation caused by the correction process. The color values obtained from the smoothing process may also be adjusted for projection onto the achromatic axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suzuko Fukao, Kimitaka Arai
  • Patent number: 7379204
    Abstract: If only a specific color and its nearby colors of image data are adjusted, density discontinuation occurs in the image as a whole. If masking is performed to avoid this problem, the adjustment range cannot be bounded, so the processing time increases. On an adjustment parameter designating unit, a user designates, as parameters, a reference color, the adjusted value of the reference color, and an adjustment region in a color space. A coordinate transformer transforms the coordinates of image data as an element of a color correction table, on the basis of a transformation matrix for transformation to an object color space. This transformation matrix is formed on the basis of the parameters by a transformation matrix calculator. If a region determinator determines that the image data is in the adjustment region, an adjusted value calculator calculates an adjusted value on the basis of the parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Suzuko Fukao
  • Publication number: 20080111827
    Abstract: In order to perform pseudo-three-dimensional display for analyzing color distribution, there are provided a color-distribution-information input step of inputting color-distribution information indicating color coordinate values that sample points in a first color system can have in a second color system, a user's-instruction input step of inputting an instruction of a user relating to an operation of generating object-surface information, and a generation step of generating three-dimensional-object-surface information in accordance with the instruction of the user, based on the color-distribution information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Hirochika Matsuoka, Suzuko Fukao
  • Patent number: 7315309
    Abstract: In order to perform pseudo-three-dimensional display for analyzing color distribution, there are provided a color-distribution-information input step of inputting color-distribution information indicating color coordinate values that sample points in a first color system can have in a second color system, a user's-instruction input step of inputting an instruction of a user relating to an operation of generating object-surface information, and a generation step of generating three-dimensional-object-surface information in accordance with the instruction of the user, based on the color-distribution information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirochika Matsuoka, Suzuko Fukao
  • Patent number: 7136523
    Abstract: It aims to improve color reproducibility by enabling to control a smoothing condition for each of plural positions on color space. When a color correction table is formed by using smoothing, the smoothing conditions respectively corresponding to the plural positions on the color space are set, and then the smoothing is performed according to the smoothing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suzuko Fukao, Shigeyasu Nagoshi, Okinori Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20060245016
    Abstract: Color reproducibility is improved by enabling one to control a smoothing condition for each of plural positions on color space. When a color correction table is formed by using smoothing, the smoothing conditions respectively corresponding to the plural positions on the color space are set, and then the smoothing is performed according to the smoothing conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: SUZUKO FUKAO, SHIGEYASU NAGOSHI, OKINORI TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20060238543
    Abstract: The analysis and evaluation techniques of a gamut mapping technique, which can reflect the determination result of the quality of gamut mapping in the gamut mapping technique, are demanded. Hence, a color distribution information file and image file are loaded, initial 3D object data is generated based on color distribution data, and initial image object data is generated based on image data. The image object data and 3D object data are displayed on a monitor. When the user inputs a message, a process corresponding to the input message is executed, and the updated image object data and 3D object data are displayed on the monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Suzuko Fukao, Hirochika Matsuoka, Kimitaka Arai
  • Patent number: 7116338
    Abstract: The analysis and evaluation techniques of a gamut mapping technique, which can reflect the determination result of the quality of gamut mapping in the gamut mapping technique, are demanded. Hence, a color distribution information file and image file are loaded, initial 3D object data is generated based on color distribution data, and initial image object data is generated based on image data. The image object data and 3D object data are displayed on a monitor. When the user inputs a message, a process corresponding to the input message is executed, and the updated image object data and 3D object data are displayed on the monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suzuko Fukao, Hirochika Matsuoka, Kimitaka Arai
  • Patent number: 7081972
    Abstract: In order to acquire a good binary image at all levels of gray scale, an image processing apparatus for quantizing input multivalued image data by a multivalued error diffusion method, selecting a predetermined dot pattern based on the quantized image data and outputting a binary image is configured to have an error calculation division for calculating corrected value from a pixel value and a processed pixel diffusion error of an input image, and calculating a quantization error from an output density level corresponding to the corrected value, an image generation division for first acquiring a diffusion coefficient corresponding to a pixel value of the input image, and distributing the quantization error to surrounding pixels according to a weight assignment by the diffusion coefficient to generate the binary image, a diffusion coefficient generation division for generating a plurality of candidate diffusion coefficients, a computing division for acquiring an evaluation value for the binary image generated by
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Suzuko Fukao
  • Publication number: 20050146736
    Abstract: When tetrahedral interpolation is used in correction of color reproduction upon color adjustment, image disturbances such as pseudo edges and the like may occur since the surfaces of each tetrahedron satisfy the boundary condition. Hence, a pixel position of digital image data is calculated, RGB values at that pixel position are acquired, and the acquired RGB values are displayed on RGB value display area. L*a*b* values are calculated based on basis functions and coefficient values of a color calculation B-spline solid, and the calculated L*a*b* values are displayed on an L*a*b* value display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirochika Matsuoka, Suzuko Fukao
  • Publication number: 20040091148
    Abstract: Color values of a color space are stored in a color correction table. A smoothing process is performed on achromatic color values to remove artifacts and prevent image degradation caused by the correction process. The color values obtained from the smoothing process may also be adjusted for projection onto the achromatic axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suzuko Fukao, Kimitaka Arai
  • Publication number: 20030081831
    Abstract: It aims to improve color reproducibility by enabling to control a smoothing condition for each of plural positions on color space. When a color correction table is formed by using smoothing, the smoothing conditions respectively corresponding to the plural positions on the color space are set, and then the smoothing is performed according to the smoothing conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Suzuko Fukao, Shigeyasu Nagoshi, Okinori Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20030076336
    Abstract: The analysis and evaluation techniques of a gamut mapping technique, which can reflect the determination result of the quality of gamut mapping in the gamut mapping technique, are demanded. Hence, a color distribution information file and image file are loaded, initial 3D object data is generated based on color distribution data, and initial image object data is generated based on image data. The image object data and 3D object data are displayed on a monitor. When the user inputs a message, a process corresponding to the input message is executed, and the updated image object data and 3D object data are displayed on the monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Suzuko Fukao, Hirochika Matsuoka, Kimitaka Arai
  • Publication number: 20020126302
    Abstract: If only a specific color and its nearby colors of image data are adjusted, density discontinuation occurs in the image as a whole. If masking is performed to avoid this problem, the adjustment range cannot be bounded, so the processing time increases. On an adjustment parameter designating unit, a user designates, as parameters, a reference color, the adjusted value of the reference color, and an adjustment region in a color space. A coordinate transformer transforms the coordinates of image data as an element of a color correction table, on the basis of a transformation matrix for transformation to an object color space. This transformation matrix is formed on the basis of the parameters by a transformation matrix calculator. If a region determinator determines that the image data is in the adjustment region, an adjusted value calculator calculates an adjusted value on the basis of the parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Suzuko Fukao
  • Publication number: 20020101456
    Abstract: In order to perform pseudo-three-dimensional display for analyzing color distribution, there are provided a color-distribution-information input step of inputting color-distribution information indicating color coordinate values that sample points in a first color system can have in a second color system, a user's-instruction input step of inputting an instruction of a user relating to an operation of generating object-surface information, and a generation step of generating three-dimensional-object-surface information in accordance with the instruction of the user, based on the color-distribution information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventors: Hirochika Matsuoka, Suzuko Fukao
  • Publication number: 20020054354
    Abstract: In order to acquire a good binary image at all levels of gray scale, an image processing apparatus for quantizing input multivalued image data by a multivalued error diffusion method, selecting a predetermined dot pattern based on the quantized image data and outputting a binary image is configured to have an error calculation division for calculating corrected value from a pixel value and a processed pixel diffusion error of an input image, and calculating a quantization error from an output density level corresponding to the corrected value, an image generation division for first acquiring a diffusion coefficient corresponding to a pixel value of the input image, and distributing the quantization error to surrounding pixels according to a weight assignment by the diffusion coefficient to generate the binary image, a diffusion coefficient generation division for generating a plurality of candidate diffusion coefficients, a computing division for acquiring an evaluation value for the binary image generated by
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Inventor: Suzuko Fukao