Patents by Inventor Takeshi Tsukuba

Takeshi Tsukuba 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: 11627337
    Abstract: Memory required during decoding is reduced. A video image decoding device (1) is equipped with main direction deriving means (1453A) that references a prediction mode definition DEFPM(1), and from a prediction mode number, derives a main direction of a prediction direction corresponding to a prediction mode, and a gradient deriver (1453B) that references a gradient definition table DEFANG(1), and derives a gradient of the prediction direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Tomohiro Ikai, Yukinobu Yasugi, Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Publication number: 20230045106
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method capable of suppressing an increase in load of inverse adaptive color transform processing while suppressing an increase in distortion of coefficient data subjected to inverse adaptive color transform. The coefficient data subjected to the lossless adaptive color transform is clipped at a level based on a bit depth of the coefficient data, and the coefficient data clipped at the level is subjected to lossless inverse adaptive color transform. The present disclosure may be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image coding device, an image decoding device, a transmission device, a reception device, a transmission/reception device, an information processing device, an imaging device, a reproduction device, an electronic device, an image processing method, an information processing method, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20230007255
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method for enabling control of a value of a quantization parameter within a desired range. A quantization parameter is corrected on the basis of a parameter regarding adaptive color transform and further correcting the quantization parameter on the basis of a parameter regarding transform skip, and coefficient data of an image to be encoded is quantized using a corrected quantization parameter that is the quantization parameter that has been corrected. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, a transmission device, a reception device, a transmission/reception device, an information processing device, an imaging device, a reproduction device, an electronic device, an image processing method, an information processing method, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20230007265
    Abstract: In encoding an image, a transform skip flag that is flag information indicating, for each component, whether or not to skip transform processing of transforming a residual between an image and a predicted image of the image into coefficient data is generated, the transform skip flag generated is encoded, coded data of the transform skip flag is generated, and a bit stream including the generated coded data of the transform skip flag is generated. The present encoding/decoding can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, a transmission device, a reception device, a transmission-reception device, an information processing device, an imaging device, a reproduction device, a bit stream generation method, a coefficient data generation method, a quantization coefficient generation method, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Patent number: 11546635
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and method that make it possible to suppress degradation of the encoding efficiency. In the case where primary transform that is a transform process for a prediction residual that is a difference between an image and a prediction image of the image is to be skipped, also secondary transform, which is a transform process for a primary transform coefficient obtained by the primary transform of the prediction residual, is skipped. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Publication number: 20220417499
    Abstract: An image of a fixed subpicture being a subpicture in which a position of a reference pixel is fixed in a time direction, in subpictures that are partial areas obtained by dividing a picture, is encoded with a resolution variable in a time direction. Furthermore, coded data obtained by encoding an image of a fixed subpicture being a subpicture in which a position of a reference pixel is fixed in a time direction, in subpictures that are partial areas obtained by dividing a picture, with a resolution variable in a time direction is decoded to generate the image of the resolution of the fixed subpicture. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, an information processing apparatus, an image processing method, an information processing method, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru KATSUMATA, Mitsuhiro HIRABAYASHI, Masaru IKEDA, Yoichi YAGASAKI, Yuji FUJIMOTO, Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20220408092
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device capable of efficiently performing communication in a communication system in which a base station device and the terminal device communicate with each other. The terminal device that communicates with the base station device by using a plurality of aggregated cells recognizes that a serving cell is stopped in a first state, recognizes that the serving cell is started in a second state, and switches from the first state to the second state based on a received PDCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Tomohiro IKAI, Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Patent number: 11533471
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method make it possible to suppress increase of the load of template matching. For each of motion vector candidates of accuracy rougher than accuracy of a motion vector candidate list, template matching between a template of a current block and a template of a reference block is performed to derive a cost, and elements of the motion vector candidate list are sorted on the basis of the derived costs of the motion vector candidates. Alternatively, for each of motion vector candidates of accuracy rougher than accuracy of a motion vector candidate list, template matching between a template of a current block and a template of a search point is performed to derive a cost, and a modification motion vector candidate is derived on the basis of the derived costs of the motion vector candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Publication number: 20220400285
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method for enabling suppression of an increase in a memory capacity required for orthogonal transform and inverse orthogonal transform. A second transformation matrix is derived using a first transformation matrix, a prediction residual of an image is orthogonally transformed using the derived second transformation matrix, and coefficient data obtained by orthogonally transforming the prediction residual is encoded to generate a bit stream. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20220394299
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and method that can curb deterioration in coding efficiency. An inverse orthogonal transform of chrominance is performed using information regarding the inverse orthogonal transform of chrominance derived on the basis of information regarding an inverse orthogonal transform of luminance. For example, information regarding the orthogonal transform includes an adaptive primary transform flag indicating whether an adaptive primary transform of adaptively selecting one from a plurality of different orthogonal transforms and using the selected transform as a primary transform is to be applied to a transform block to be processed. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20220394256
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method for enabling suppression of an increase in encoding load. An encoding mode of encoding of an image is set by setting a transform type with a minimum encoding cost in a non-joint chrominance encoding mode as a transform type in a joint chrominance encoding mode, and deriving an encoding cost in the joint chrominance encoding mode. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an image encoding device, an information processing device, an electronic device, an image processing method, an information processing method, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20220385904
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method for enabling suppression of reduction in encoding efficiency. Encoding of secondary transform control information that is control information related to secondary transform is omitted in a case where a transform skip flag of at least one component among valid components in image encoding is true, and the secondary transform control information is encoded in a case where the transform skip flags of all the components among the valid components in image encoding are false. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, a transmission device, a reception device, a transmission/reception device, an information processing device, an imaging device, a reproduction device, an electronic device, an image processing method, an information processing method, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Patent number: 11509898
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device capable of efficiently performing communication in a communication system in which a base station device and the terminal device communicate with each other. The terminal device that communicates with the base station device by using a plurality of aggregated cells recognizes that a serving cell is stopped in a first state, recognizes that the serving cell is started in a second state, and switches from the first state to the second state based on a received PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Velos Media, LLC
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikai, Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Publication number: 20220345708
    Abstract: An image processing device is provided. The image processing device includes a decoding unit that decodes scaling list data to generate a first quantizing matrix of a first size, a generating unit that generates a second quantizing matrix for a transform block of a second size to which zeroing of a high-frequency component is applied, by referring to only a partial matrix of the first quantizing matrix generated by the decoding unit, and an inverse quantizing unit that inversely quantizes a quantized transform coefficient of the transform block of the second size, using the second quantizing matrix generated by the generating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Patent number: 11445218
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method for enabling suppression of an increase in a memory capacity required for orthogonal transform and inverse orthogonal transform. A second transformation matrix is derived using a first transformation matrix, a prediction residual of an image is orthogonally transformed using the derived second transformation matrix, and coefficient data obtained by orthogonally transforming the prediction residual is encoded to generate a bit stream. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Publication number: 20220286693
    Abstract: In a conventional art, an output layer set having no output layer is sometimes defined. Consequently, even if the decoder decodes a bit stream to obtain each layer in the output layer set without the output layer, there is no picture to be outputted. There is a possibility that such coded data causes the decoder expecting an output to operate unexpectedly. Output layer sets having the same configuration may be defined. Consequently, the amount of code pertaining to the output layer sets defined in an overlapping manner is redundant. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a specification of a bit stream conformance pertaining to the output layer set prevents occurrence of an output layer set without an output layer and a redundant output layer set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Takeshi TSUKUBA, Tomohiro IKAI, Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220286699
    Abstract: A reference picture information decoding unit (13) omits decoding of a reference list sorting presence or absence flag and/or a reference list sorting order based on the number of current picture referable pictures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Tomohiro Ikai, Yukinobu Yasugi, Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Publication number: 20220286681
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and method capable of curbing an increase in the load of coding processing/decoding processing. A fixed context variable is set for a first bin of a bin string of secondary transform control information, which is control information about secondary transformation, and each bin of the secondary transform control information is arithmetically coded with reference to the set fixed context variable. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an image coding device, an image decoding device, a transmitting device, a receiving device, a transmitting/receiving device, an information processing device, an imaging device, a reproduction device, an electronic apparatus, an image processing method, an information processing method, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20220256151
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method capable of curbing an increase in a coding/decoding load. A maximum transform block size in a lossless coding mode is set to the same size as a transform coefficient group corresponding to a maximum transform block size in a non-lossless coding mode. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an image coding device, an image decoding device, a transmitting device, a receiving device, a transmitting/receiving device, an information processing device, an imaging device, a reproducing device, an electronic apparatus, an image processing method, an information processing method, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20220224903
    Abstract: Inverse quantization is performed on a quantization coefficient using a quantization parameter depending on whether a transform skip is to be applied, inverse coefficient transformation is performed on a transform coefficient generated by inverse quantization to generate a predicted residual that is a residual between an image and a predicted image of the image when the transform skip is not to be applied, and the inverse coefficient transformation is skipped when the transform skip is to be applied. This can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an image coding device, an image decoding device, a transmission device, a reception device, a transmission/reception device, an information processing device, an imaging device, a reproduction device, an electronic apparatus, an image processing method, an information processing method, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi TSUKUBA