Patents by Inventor Yuji UMEZU

Yuji UMEZU 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).

  • Publication number: 20240073390
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory and a processor configured to separate first image data obtained by an image sensor having a Bayer arrangement, into second image data that includes brightness information, and third image data that includes color information and has a lower resolution than the first image data and the second image data, wherein a pixel arrangement of the third image data includes two pixels in each of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, among which two pixels on one diagonal are of a same type, two pixels on another diagonal are of types different from each other, and the two pixels on said another diagonal are of the types different from the two pixels on the one diagonal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji UMEZU, Soichi HAGIWARA
  • Publication number: 20240037900
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an extracting part and a prediction part. The extracting part extracts an unsaturated area, in which pixel values are not saturated, and a saturated area, in which pixel values are saturated, from image data that is captured by an imaging device and that shows an image including a plurality of pixels. The prediction part predicts a pixel value of a pixel of interest in the saturated area based on pixel values of a plurality of border pixels in a border area, the border area being located in the unsaturated area and bordering the saturated area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Soichi HAGIWARA, Yuji UMEZU
  • Publication number: 20230289938
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory and a processor configured to execute: obtaining a first image captured by an imaging device installed on a mobile object; generating a second image in which brightness of a second area located below a first area of the first image in a vertical direction with respect to a traveling surface of the mobile object, is corrected based on brightness of the first area; and outputting the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yuji UMEZU, Soichi HAGIWARA, Junzo SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20230283912
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging element including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a matrix, and configured to be driven in units of a plurality of lines each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in one direction; a memory; and a processor. The processor is configured to execute detecting an occurrence of a flicker, based on image data generated by the imaging element; and increasing a number of times of exposures in one-frame period of the photoelectric conversion elements included in a line in which the flicker is detected by the detecting, compared with a number of times of exposures in the one-frame period of the photoelectric conversion elements included in a line in which a flicker is not detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HIGUCHI, Yuji UMEZU
  • Publication number: 20220318968
    Abstract: An image processing device for performing correction processing on original image data generated by an image-capturing element configured to receive light with a plurality of pixels through a color filter including segments of a red color and at least one complementary color includes a processing circuitry being configured to perform operations including converting the original image data into primary color-based image data represented in a primary color-based color space, acquiring a statistical value of a plurality of pieces of pixel data corresponding to the plurality of pixels from the primary color-based image data, calculating a correction parameter by using the statistical value, and correcting the original image data based on the correction parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Soichi HAGIWARA, Yuji UMEZU, Junzo SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 9489591
    Abstract: A haze image discriminating apparatus has a first calculator to calculate a difference between a color difference component of an image signal of each of a plurality of pixels in an image and a gray value, and calculate a first ratio of pixels in which the difference is lower than a first reference value, to the plurality of pixels, a second calculator to calculate a second ratio of pixels in which a luminance component of the pixel signal of each of the plurality of pixels is lower than a second reference value, to the plurality of pixels, and a haze-degree determining unit to determine that a degree of haze of the image is higher as the first ratio is higher and the second ratio is lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Socionext, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryuhei Hoya, Yuji Umezu, Yusuke Ogata
  • Publication number: 20160026893
    Abstract: A haze image discriminating apparatus has a first calculator to calculate a difference between a color difference component of an image signal of each of a plurality of pixels in an image and a gray value, and calculate a first ratio of pixels in which the difference is lower than a first reference value, to the plurality of pixels, a second calculator to calculate a second ratio of pixels in which a luminance component of the pixel signal of each of the plurality of pixels is lower than a second reference value, to the plurality of pixels, and a haze-degree determining unit to determine that a degree of haze of the image is higher as the first ratio is higher and the second ratio is lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Ryuhei HOYA, Yuji UMEZU, Yusuke OGATA
  • Patent number: 9247153
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a histogram computation section that for a plurality of images with different light exposure amounts captured, computes for each of the images a histogram of the number of pixels a light exposure amount ratio computation section that, based on a degree of similarity between a profile of a first histogram computed from a first image out of the plurality of images and a profile of a second histogram computed from a second image out of the plurality of images, computes as a light exposure amount ratio a ratio between a light exposure amount for the first image and a light exposure amount for the second image, and a pixel value adjustment section that adjusts the pixel values of pixels contained in one image out of the first image and the second image based on the light exposure amount ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventor: Yuji Umezu
  • Patent number: 9208546
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an extraction section that extracts a first high brightness region from a source image where brightness is a first threshold value or greater, a mask generation section that performs blur processing and binarization processing on the first high brightness region and generates a mask containing the first high brightness region, a mask application section that based on the mask performs elimination processing, thinning processing, or both on the first high brightness region, a bright line generation section that generates a bright line based on a second high brightness region contained in output of the mask application section, and a synthesizing section that synthesizes the bright line onto the source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Maruta, Senshu Igarashi, Yuji Umezu
  • Publication number: 20140212032
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an extraction section that extracts a first high brightness region from a source image where brightness is a first threshold value or greater, a mask generation section that performs blur processing and binarization processing on the first high brightness region and generates a mask containing the first high brightness region, a mask application section that based on the mask performs elimination processing, thinning processing, or both on the first high brightness region, a bright line generation section that generates a bright line based on a second high brightness region contained in output of the mask application section, and a synthesizing section that synthesizes the bright line onto the source image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
    Inventors: Daisuke Maruta, Senshu Igarashi, Yuji Umezu
  • Publication number: 20140205193
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a histogram computation section that for a plurality of images with different light exposure amounts captured, computes for each of the images a histogram of the number of pixels a light exposure amount ratio computation section that, based on a degree of similarity between a profile of a first histogram computed from a first image out of the plurality of images and a profile of a second histogram computed from a second image out of the plurality of images, computes as a light exposure amount ratio a ratio between a light exposure amount for the first image and a light exposure amount for the second image, and a pixel value adjustment section that adjusts the pixel values of pixels contained in one image out of the first image and the second image based on the light exposure amount ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuji UMEZU