Patents by Inventor Yoko YOSHIZUKA

Yoko YOSHIZUKA 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: 9734840
    Abstract: A signal-processing device includes a determination section that compares a frequency spectrum and a floor spectrum of an input audio signal to each other for each frequency bin and determines whether the input audio signal should be subjected to noise reduction processing or not for each of the frequency bins; and a noise reduction-processing section that subtracts a noise frequency spectrum from the frequency spectrum of the input audio signal for each of the frequency bins on the basis of the result determined by the determination section for each of the frequency bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko Yoshizuka, Mitsuhiro Okazaki, Kosuke Okano
  • Patent number: 9153243
    Abstract: Provided are an imaging device, program, memory medium, and noise reduction method capable of appropriately reducing noise without causing degradation in a target sound such as voice. The imaging device of the present invention has: a video imaging unit for capturing video; a signal converter for converting a sound generated during video capture to a sound signal; subject determination units that predict or recognize a specific subject; a noise detector for detecting noise included in the sound generated during video capture; a noise reduction unit for reducing the noise signal from the sound signal; a voice detector for detecting non-noise signals in the sound signal; and a noise reduction performance change unit that lowers the noise signal reduction performance of the noise reduction unit when the subject determination units predict or recognize the specific subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko Yoshizuka, Mitsuhiro Okazaki, Kosuke Okano
  • Publication number: 20130293747
    Abstract: Provided are an imaging device, program, memory medium, and noise reduction method capable of appropriately reducing noise without causing degradation in a target sound such as voice. The imaging device of the present invention has: a video imaging unit for capturing video; a signal converter for converting a sound generated during video capture to a sound signal; subject determination units that predict or recognize a specific subject; a noise detector for detecting noise included in the sound generated during video capture; a noise reduction unit for reducing the noise signal from the sound signal; a voice detector for detecting non-noise signals in the sound signal; and a noise reduction performance change unit that lowers the noise signal reduction performance of the noise reduction unit when the subject determination units predict or recognize the specific subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko Yoshizuka, Mitsuhiro Okazaki, Kosuke Okano
  • Publication number: 20120250885
    Abstract: A signal-processing device includes a determination section that compares a frequency spectrum and a floor spectrum of an input audio signal to each other for each frequency bin and determines whether the input audio signal should be subjected to noise reduction processing or not for each of the frequency bins; and a noise reduction-processing section that subtracts a noise frequency spectrum from the frequency spectrum of the input audio signal for each of the frequency bins on the basis of the result determined by the determination section for each of the frequency bins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko YOSHIZUKA, Mitsuhiro OKAZAKI, Kosuke OKANO