Patents by Inventor Yuki Imatoh

Yuki Imatoh 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: 20240177282
    Abstract: A video processing device includes: a local histogram generation part, generating a histogram showing a brightness distribution per pixel for each segmented region of a video including multiple segmented regions, each of which includes multiple pixels; a local tone curve generation part, generating a tone curve for adjusting a brightness of an input video for each segmented region based on the histogram for each segmented region; a luminance boundary region detection part, comparing tone curves between adjacent segmented regions, specifying a boundary between adjacent segmented regions for which a comparison result of the tone curves becomes a predetermined condition as a luminance boundary, and specifying a region within a predetermined range including the luminance boundary as a luminance boundary region; and an video correction part, performing correction processing to correct a luminance of the video based on the tone curve and a specified result of the luminance boundary region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki NISHITANI, Yuki IMATOH
  • Publication number: 20240112307
    Abstract: An image processing device has an emphasis processing unit configured to generate an emphasized image yielded by performing an emphasis process on an image captured of surroundings of a vehicle, a smoothing unit configured to generate a smoothed image yielded by performing a smoothing process on the image, and a combination unit configured to generate, for each region of the image, a display image to be displayed in a display using any of the smoothed image, emphasized image, and the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki NISHITANI, Yuki IMATOH
  • Patent number: 11798140
    Abstract: A head-up display installed in a movable body includes an image acquisition unit that acquires an image including a graphic, a vibration information acquisition unit that acquires vibration information indicating vibration of the moving body, an image correction unit that generates a corrected image by performing, on the image, a blurring correction for blurring a contour of the graphic in the image based on the vibration information, and a display unit that displays the corrected image in a space as a virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: LAPIS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Imatoh
  • Patent number: 11756504
    Abstract: A video processing device includes a receiver that successively receives input images, each having a prescribed overlapping image superimposed in one or more areas thereof, a compositing image generation unit that successively generates compositing images based on the external information, a video compositing unit that successively generates composite images, a compositing abnormality detection unit that determines whether one or more areas of the composite image have abnormality or not, a comparison unit that compares the one or more areas of the input image with those of the composite image to determine whether or not the respective areas match, if it is determined that the composite image have no abnormalities, and an output control unit that outputs the input image if it is determined that the respective areas match, and outputs the composite image when it is determined that the respective areas do not match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LAPIS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuto Obara, Yuki Imatoh, Takuya Motohashi
  • Patent number: 11741999
    Abstract: A video processing device includes: a frame number generating unit that generates frame numbers representing respective frames to which successively supplied video data belongs, the frame numbers differing between one frame and a next frame; a writing unit that writes a data block including a piece of the video data and the frame number corresponding thereto in a frame memory for every frame; a reading unit that reads out the data block written in the frame memory in the order of frames; and a video freezing determination unit that generates an abnormality determination signal that indicates video freezing when a current value of the frame number of the data block read stays the same as a previous value over a prescribed number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: LAPIS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Imatoh
  • Patent number: 11659270
    Abstract: An imaging device and a horizontal direction detection method capable of detecting a horizontal angle of a camera with high accuracy in a simple configuration are provided. The imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to obtain image data by photographing a predetermined subject, an image rotation unit configured to cause a display image based on the image data to be rotated on a display plane step by step, a count unit configured to count the number of pixels of a specific color included in the display image in a scanning line direction within the display plane and obtain a count value for each of rotated display images, and a determination unit configured to determine a horizontal direction of a photographing angle of the imaging unit based on the count value for each of the rotated display images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Imatoh
  • Patent number: 11587211
    Abstract: An image distortion correction circuit according to the present invention comprises; a first distortion correction circuit that performs a mapping process on an input image signal to generate a distortion-corrected image signal; an inspection region defining circuit that defines an inspection image region in the one-frame image; an inspection region extraction circuit that extracts a part corresponding to the inspection image region from the distortion-corrected image signal and outputs the part of the distortion-corrected image signal as a first inspection image signal; a second distortion correction circuit that outputs a second inspection signal, the second inspection signal being generated by performing the mapping process on the part of the input image signal corresponding to the inspection image region; and a failure determination circuit that determines that a failure occurs and outputs a failure detection signal when the first inspection image signal and the second inspection image signal are mutually
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Imatoh
  • Patent number: 11526002
    Abstract: An image distortion correction circuit performs a distortion correction process on an image signal on the basis of distortion correction data to generate a distortion-corrected image signal. The distortion correction data is for correcting coordinate positions of display data fragments corresponding to respective N coordinate positions in the display image to first to N-th distortion correction coordinate positions. The image distortion correction circuit determines a distortion correction coordinate position where abnormality occurs as an abnormal coordinate position among the first to N-th distortion correction coordinate positions on the basis of respective intervals between the adjacent first to N-th distortion correction coordinate positions indicated by the distortion correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Imatoh
  • Publication number: 20220319464
    Abstract: A video processing device includes a receiver that successively receives input images, each having a prescribed overlapping image superimposed in one or more areas thereof, a compositing image generation unit that successively generates compositing images based on the external information, a video compositing unit that successively generates composite images, a compositing abnormality detection unit that determines whether one or more areas of the composite image have abnormality or not, a comparison unit that compares the one or more areas of the input image with those of the composite image to determine whether or not the respective areas match, if it is determined that the composite image have no abnormalities, and an output control unit that outputs the input image if it is determined that the respective areas match, and outputs the composite image when it is determined that the respective areas do not match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuto OBARA, Yuki IMATOH, Takuya MOTOHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220301116
    Abstract: A head-up display installed in a movable body includes an image acquisition unit that acquires an image including a graphic, a vibration information acquisition unit that acquires vibration information indicating vibration of the moving body, an image correction unit that generates a corrected image by performing, on the image, a blurring correction for blurring a contour of the graphic in the image based on the vibration information, and a display unit that displays the corrected image in a space as a virtual image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki IMATOH
  • Patent number: 11429470
    Abstract: A signal processing circuit has: n+1 (n being an integer of 2 or greater) operation circuits, each of which is configured to execute a prescribed operation process on inputted data; a signal supply unit that is configured to receive n pieces of input data extracted from one input signal and receive test data inputted separately from the n pieces of input data, sequentially select one operation circuit among the n+1 operation circuits and supply the test data to the one selected operation circuit, and supply the n pieces of input data to n operation circuits other than the one operation circuit among the n+1 operation circuits; and an anomaly determination unit that is configured to determine whether an anomaly has occurred in the one operation circuit on the basis of an operation result of an operation on the test data by the one operation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naohiro Fujii, Yuki Imatoh
  • Publication number: 20220182550
    Abstract: An imaging device and a horizontal direction detection method capable of detecting a horizontal angle of a camera with high accuracy in a simple configuration are provided. The imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to obtain image data by photographing a predetermined subject, an image rotation unit configured to cause a display image based on the image data to be rotated on a display plane step by step, a count unit configured to count the number of pixels of a specific color included in the display image in a scanning line direction within the display plane and obtain a count value for each of rotated display images, and a determination unit configured to determine a horizontal direction of a photographing angle of the imaging unit based on the count value for each of the rotated display images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Imatoh
  • Publication number: 20220148625
    Abstract: A video processing device includes: a frame number generating unit that generates frame numbers representing respective frames to which successively supplied video data belongs, the frame numbers differing between one frame and a next frame; a writing unit that writes a data block including a piece of the video data and the frame number corresponding thereto in a frame memory for every frame; a reading unit that reads out the data block written in the frame memory in the order of frames; and a video freezing determination unit that generates an abnormality determination signal that indicates video freezing when a current value of the frame number of the data block read stays the same as a previous value over a prescribed number of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: LAPIS Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki IMATOH
  • Patent number: 11284004
    Abstract: An imaging device and a horizontal direction detection method capable of detecting a horizontal angle of a camera with high accuracy in a simple configuration are provided. The imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to obtain image data by photographing a predetermined subject, an image rotation unit configured to cause a display image based on the image data to be rotated on a display plane step by step, a count unit configured to count the number of pixels of a specific color included in the display image in a scanning line direction within the display plane and obtain a count value for each of rotated display images, and a determination unit configured to determine a horizontal direction of a photographing angle of the imaging unit based on the count value for each of the rotated display images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Imatoh
  • Patent number: 11151059
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of a peripheral device control system includes one or more management blocks that are provided in association with a device to be controlled. The management blocks each include a plurality of registers that store information pertaining to each operation of the device to be controlled, and a first generation unit that performs a predetermined aggregation process on values of the plurality of registers included in the management block to generate an aggregation value that is a value formed by aggregating the values of the plurality of registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Imatoh
  • Publication number: 20210302724
    Abstract: An image distortion correction circuit performs a distortion correction process on an image signal on the basis of distortion correction data to generate a distortion-corrected image signal. The distortion correction data is for correcting coordinate positions of display data fragments corresponding to respective N coordinate positions in the display image to first to N-th distortion correction coordinate positions. The image distortion correction circuit determines a distortion correction coordinate position where abnormality occurs as an abnormal coordinate position among the first to N-th distortion correction coordinate positions on the basis of respective intervals between the adjacent first to N-th distortion correction coordinate positions indicated by the distortion correction data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki IMATOH
  • Publication number: 20210304372
    Abstract: An image distortion correction circuit according to the present invention comprises; a first distortion correction circuit that performs a mapping process on an input image signal to generate a distortion-corrected image signal; an inspection region defining circuit that defines an inspection image region in the one-frame image; an inspection region extraction circuit that extracts a part corresponding to the inspection image region from the distortion-corrected image signal and outputs the part of the distortion-corrected image signal as a first inspection image signal; a second distortion correction circuit that outputs a second inspection signal, the second inspection signal being generated by performing the mapping process on the part of the input image signal corresponding to the inspection image region; and a failure determination circuit that determines that a failure occurs and outputs a failure detection signal when the first inspection image signal and the second inspection image signal are mutually
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki IMATOH
  • Publication number: 20210092298
    Abstract: An imaging device and a horizontal direction detection method capable of detecting a horizontal angle of a camera with high accuracy in a simple configuration are provided. The imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to obtain image data by photographing a predetermined subject, an image rotation unit configured to cause a display image based on the image data to be rotated on a display plane step by step, a count unit configured to count the number of pixels of a specific color included in the display image in a scanning line direction within the display plane and obtain a count value for each of rotated display images, and a determination unit configured to determine a horizontal direction of a photographing angle of the imaging unit based on the count value for each of the rotated display images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Imatoh
  • Publication number: 20210019216
    Abstract: A signal processing circuit has: n+1 (n being an integer of 2 or greater) operation circuits, each of which is configured to execute a prescribed operation process on inputted data; a signal supply unit that is configured to receive n pieces of input data extracted from one input signal and receive test data inputted separately from the n pieces of input data, sequentially select one operation circuit among the n+1 operation circuits and supply the test data to the one selected operation circuit, and supply the n pieces of input data to n operation circuits other than the one operation circuit among the n+1 operation circuits; and an anomaly determination unit that is configured to determine whether an anomaly has occurred in the one operation circuit on the basis of an operation result of an operation on the test data by the one operation circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohiro FUJII, Yuki IMATOH
  • Patent number: 10880484
    Abstract: An imaging device and a horizontal direction detection method capable of detecting a horizontal angle of a camera with high accuracy in a simple configuration are provided. The imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to obtain image data by photographing a predetermined subject, an image rotation unit configured to cause a display image based on the image data to be rotated on a display plane step by step, a count unit configured to count the number of pixels of a specific color included in the display image in a scanning line direction within the display plane and obtain a count value for each of rotated display images, and a determination unit configured to determine a horizontal direction of a photographing angle of the imaging unit based on the count value for each of the rotated display images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: LAPIS SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Imatoh