Patents by Inventor Yuki Asukabe

Yuki Asukabe 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: 11985420
    Abstract: An object is to cause a distribution of defocus amounts in a certain arbitrary region of a captured image to be displayed. A map data generation unit configured to generate defocus map data representing defocus amounts at a plurality of positions in a captured image obtained by an imaging element unit, calculated from phase difference information detected by a phase difference detection unit, and a display control unit configured to generate a defocus map image representing a distribution of defocus amounts of the captured image using the defocus map data generated by the map data generation unit and to perform display control are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Asukabe, Takahiro Kosugi
  • Publication number: 20220191401
    Abstract: In order to perform imaging operation control in which a defocus amount and a depth of field in any certain region of a captured image are taken into consideration, a map data generation unit configured to generate defocus map data which is calculated from phase difference information detected by a phase difference detection unit and indicates defocus amounts at a plurality of positions of a captured image by an imaging element unit; and an operation control unit configured to perform imaging operation control using the defocus map data generated by the map data generation unit are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: YUKI ASUKABE, TAKAHIRO KOSUGI
  • Publication number: 20220159190
    Abstract: An object is to cause a distribution of defocus amounts in a certain arbitrary region of a captured image to be displayed. A map data generation unit configured to generate defocus map data representing defocus amounts at a plurality of positions in a captured image obtained by an imaging element unit, calculated from phase difference information detected by a phase difference detection unit, and a display control unit configured to generate a defocus map image representing a distribution of defocus amounts of the captured image using the defocus map data generated by the map data generation unit and to perform display control are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Asukabe, Takahiro Kosugi
  • Patent number: 10917555
    Abstract: An imaging unit is configured with use of an imaging element including an image output pixel and a phase difference detection pixel. A control unit performs focus control based on image-plane phase difference information obtained using the phase difference detection pixel over a predetermined period, generates focus state change information indicating whether or not a change in a focus state is a monotonous change, and continues the focus control based on the image-plane phase difference information on the assumption of a large blur state in a case where the focus state change information indicates that a change in the focus state is a monotonous change. The control unit switches from the image-plane phase difference auto-focus operation to an auto-focus operation in a case where a change in the focus state is not a monotonous change. Thus, it becomes possible to perform a high-speed and high-quality auto-focus operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Asukabe, Tomoyuki Minami
  • Patent number: 10868978
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including an adjustment unit that adjusts any one of a background image which is a far-infrared image showing a background that does not include an object and a target image which is a far-infrared image showing the object, on the basis of a time change model of an observation pixel value, and an extraction unit that extracts a target region including the object in the target image on the basis of a result of comparison between the background image and the target image after the adjustment is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Hideki Oyaizu, Yuki Asukabe, Masayuki Yokoyama, Makibi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10853648
    Abstract: State information corresponding to a subject on a visible light image, such as temperature information and sound field information, is acquired from state information indicating a subject state not indicated on the visible light image by an information acquisition unit. An effect processing unit performs an effect process on the visible light image on the basis of the state information acquired by the information acquisition unit. In the effect process, an effect component image is superimposed or a subject image is modified based on the type and temperature of the subject and an effect component image is superimposed or a subject image is modified based on the type of a sound source and the volume of a sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Oyaizu, Makibi Nakamura, Atsushi Ito, Yuki Asukabe, Masayuki Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20200077030
    Abstract: An imaging unit 31 is configured with use of an imaging element including an image output pixel and a phase difference detection pixel. A control unit 50 performs focus control based on image-plane phase difference information obtained using the phase difference detection pixel over a predetermined period, generates focus state change information indicating whether or not a change in a focus state is a monotonous change, and continues the focus control based on the image-plane phase difference information on the assumption of a large blur state in a case where the focus state change information indicates that a change in the focus state is a monotonous change. Furthermore, the control unit switches from the image-plane phase difference auto-focus operation to an auto-focus operation of, for example, a contrast method, on the assumption of a low-contrast state in a case where a change in the focus state is not a monotonous change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: YUKI ASUKABE, TOMOYUKI MINAMI
  • Publication number: 20190316966
    Abstract: [Object] To improve detection precision of a subject at a lower cost. [Solution] Provided is an image processing device including: a plurality of detection units configured to detect respective detection regions indicating temperatures within mutually different setting temperature ranges from a far-infrared image; and a determination unit configured to determine whether a predetermined subject is shown in the far-infrared image on the basis of a positional relation between the plurality of detected detection regions and modeling which regulates the positional relation in a case in which the predetermined subject is shown in the far-infrared image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: MASAYUKI YOKOYAMA, YUKI ASUKABE, ATSUSHI ITO, HIDEKI OYAIZU
  • Publication number: 20190313035
    Abstract: [Object] To extract a target region for a far-infrared image with a high level of accuracy. [Solution] Provided is an image processing device including: an adjustment unit that adjusts any one of a background image which is a far-infrared image showing a background that does not include an object and a target image which is a far-infrared image showing the object, on the basis of a time change model of an observation pixel value; and an extraction unit that extracts a target region including the object in the target image on the basis of a result of comparison between the background image and the target image after the adjustment is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: ATSUSHI ITO, HIDEKI OYAIZU, YUKI ASUKABE, MASAYUKI YOKOYAMA, MAKIBI NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190171882
    Abstract: State information corresponding to a subject on a visible light image, such as temperature information and sound field information, is acquired from state information indicating a subject state not indicated on the visible light image by an information acquisition unit 21. An effect processing unit 22 performs an effect process on the visible light image on the basis of the state information acquired by the information acquisition unit 21. In the effect process, an effect component image is superimposed or a subject image is modified based on the type and temperature of the subject and an effect component image is superimposed or a subject image is modified based on the type of a sound source and the volume of a sound. The effect process according to the state information is performed on the visible light image, such that the reality can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: HIDEKI OYAIZU, MAKIBI NAKAMURA, ATSUSHI ITO, YUKI ASUKABE, MASAYUKI YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9392183
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels; a first curtain that travels to block incidence of light on the imaging device; a second curtain that permits the incidence of light on the imaging device earlier than the traveling of the first curtain; a reset unit that sequentially reset-scans lines of the pixels earlier than the traveling of the first curtain; and an operation selecting unit that selects one of a mechanical shutter operation performed by the traveling of the first curtain and the second curtain and an electronic shutter operation performed by the first curtain and the reset unit depending on a slit width formed by the first curtain and the second curtain or a slit width formed by the first curtain and the reset-scanning of the reset unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Asukabe
  • Publication number: 20150116584
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels; a first curtain that travels to block incidence of light on the imaging device; a second curtain that permits the incidence of light on the imaging device earlier than the traveling of the first curtain; a reset unit that sequentially reset-scans lines of the pixels earlier than the traveling of the first curtain; and an operation selecting unit that selects one of a mechanical shutter operation performed by the traveling of the first curtain and the second curtain and an electronic shutter operation performed by the first curtain and the reset unit depending on a slit width formed by the first curtain and the second curtain or a slit width formed by the first curtain and the reset-scanning of the reset unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki ASUKABE
  • Patent number: 8964075
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels; a first curtain that travels to block incidence of light on the imaging device; a second curtain that permits the incidence of light on the imaging device earlier than the traveling of the first curtain; a reset unit that sequentially reset-scans lines of the pixels earlier than the traveling of the first curtain; and an operation selecting unit that selects one of a mechanical shutter operation performed by the traveling of the first curtain and the second curtain and an electronic shutter operation performed by the first curtain and the reset unit depending on a slit width formed by the first curtain and the second curtain or a slit width formed by the first curtain and the reset-scanning of the reset unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki Asukabe
  • Patent number: 8786743
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels; a first curtain that travels to block incidence of light on the imaging device; a reset unit that sequentially reset-scans lines of the imaging device earlier than the traveling of the first curtain; and a correction controller that corrects a line reset-scanning time of the reset unit on the basis of a movement amount of the imaging device having been made to move on the basis of a camera shake detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki Asukabe
  • Patent number: 8325268
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing circuit. The image processing circuit is configured by an image processing portion for performing an image process on a first image so as to generate a third image, an image composing portion for composing the first image and the third image, and an addition-ratio calculating portion for calculating a degree of composition of a composing process between the first image and the third image by the image composing portion based on a difference signal from a difference calculating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Asukabe, Yukio Mori, Yasuhachi Hamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120147234
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels; a first curtain that travels to block incidence of light on the imaging device; a second curtain that permits the incidence of light on the imaging device earlier than the traveling of the first curtain; a reset unit that sequentially reset-scans lines of the pixels earlier than the traveling of the first curtain; and an operation selecting unit that selects one of a mechanical shutter operation performed by the traveling of the first curtain and the second curtain and an electronic shutter operation performed by the first curtain and the reset unit depending on a slit width formed by the first curtain and the second curtain or a slit width formed by the first curtain and the reset-scanning of the reset unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki ASUKABE
  • Publication number: 20120147201
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels; a first curtain that travels to block incidence of light on the imaging device; a reset unit that sequentially reset-scans lines of the imaging device earlier than the traveling of the first curtain; and a correction controller that corrects a line reset-scanning time of the reset unit on the basis of a movement amount of the imaging device having been made to move on the basis of a camera shake detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki ASUKABE
  • Publication number: 20090167928
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing circuit. The image processing circuit is configured by an image processing portion for performing an image process on a first image so as to generate a third image, an image composing portion for composing the first image and the third image, and an addition-ratio calculating portion for calculating a degree of composition of a composing process between the first image and the third image by the image composing portion based on a difference signal from a difference calculating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Asukabe, Yukio Mori, Yasuhachi Hamamoto