Patents by Inventor Yukihiro Kinoshita

Yukihiro Kinoshita 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: 11943873
    Abstract: A management device includes a management control section configured to create rearrangement disposition information for rearranging recovery feeders in a recovery storage region and rearranging provision feeders in a provision storage region among feeders temporarily stored in a storage section by using storage position information regarding storage positions of the provision feeders and the recovery feeders temporarily stored in the storage section and region information including the recovery storage region and the provision storage region set in the storage section, and output the created rearrangement disposition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Kinoshita, Fumiya Mizutani, Yukihiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11676242
    Abstract: Provided is an image analysis unit that receives an image to be a down-conversion processing target as an input and generate adjacent pixel difference information used to select a pixel to be output to a down-converted image, and an output image generation unit that selects a pixel pair to be an adjacent pixel used for the down-converted image on the basis of the adjacent pixel difference information and generate the down-converted image by executing an adjustment of the selected pixel pair. The image analysis unit calculates a difference of an adjacent pixel pair of a processing block constituent pixel, generates a sorting result of arranging the differences in descending order, and the output image generation unit selects the pixel pair to be used for the down-converted image in descending order of difference values on the basis of the sorting result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukihiro Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11039067
    Abstract: This image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup unit including an image pickup element; a first video signal processing unit that generates a first video signal having a first resolution from a pixel signal obtained by the image pickup unit; a second video signal processing unit that sets a plurality of divided areas for spatially segmenting the first video signal generated by the first video signal processing unit, cuts out the first video signal in a region smaller than a size of the corresponding divided area as a block from the first video signal in each of the individual divided areas, and connects them to one another, to thereby generate a second video signal having a second resolution lower than the first resolution; and a view finder that displays the second video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kamiya, Yukihiro Kinoshita, Yasutaka Nakashima
  • Patent number: 10778889
    Abstract: This image pickup apparatus includes a VF signal processing unit 15 that downconverts a first video signal having a 4K resolution to thereby generate an downconverted video signal having an HD resolution, calculates each of pieces of differential data from an average luminance value of luminance values of 2 horizontal×2 vertical pixels of a center portion in a region of 4 horizontal×4 vertical pixels of a first video signal, which correspond to 2 horizontal×2 vertical pixels of the downconverted video signal, calculates an addition value for each pixel of 2 horizontal×2 vertical pixels of the center portion on the basis of each piece of differential data, and individually adds the luminance values of 2 horizontal×2 vertical pixels of the downconverted video signal to thereby generate a second video signal having the HD resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kamiya, Yukihiro Kinoshita, Yasutaka Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20200112670
    Abstract: This image pickup apparatus includes a VF signal processing unit 15 that downconverts a first video signal having a 4K resolution to thereby generate an downconverted video signal having an HD resolution, calculates each of pieces of differential data from an average luminance value of luminance values of 2 horizontal×2 vertical pixels of a center portion in a region of 4 horizontal×4 vertical pixels of a first video signal, which correspond to 2 horizontal×2 vertical pixels of the downconverted video signal, calculates an addition value for each pixel of 2 horizontal×2 vertical pixels of the center portion on the basis of each piece of differential data, and individually adds the luminance values of 2 horizontal×2 vertical pixels of the downconverted video signal to thereby generate a second video signal having the HD resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: KOJI KAMIYA, YUKIHIRO KINOSHITA, YASUTAKA NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20190394395
    Abstract: This image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup unit including an image pickup element; a first video signal processing unit that generates a first video signal having a first resolution from a pixel signal obtained by the image pickup unit; a second video signal processing unit that sets a plurality of divided areas for spatially segmenting the first video signal generated by the first video signal processing unit, cuts out the first video signal in a region smaller than a size of the corresponding divided area as a block from the first video signal in each of the individual divided areas, and connects them to one another, to thereby generate a second video signal having a second resolution lower than the first resolution; and a view finder that displays the second video signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: KOJI KAMIYA, YUKIHIRO KINOSHITA, YASUTAKA NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 9451176
    Abstract: Provided is an image signal processor, including: an integrator configured to integrate each frame of an image signal; a first flicker corrector configured to extract a flicker component from the integrated value obtained by the integrator, the flicker component depending on a frequency of a light source, and to reduce a flicker component from the integrated value sequentially; and a second flicker corrector configured to generate a reference image without a flicker component based on the correction result of the integrated value corrected by the first flicker corrector, and to correct a flicker of the image signal based on the reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sohhei Okada, Yoshiaki Nishide, Yukihiro Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20150281546
    Abstract: Provided is an image signal processor, including: an integrator configured to integrate each frame of an image signal; a first flicker corrector configured to extract a flicker component from the integrated value obtained by the integrator, the flicker component depending on a frequency of a light source, and to reduce a flicker component from the integrated value sequentially; and a second flicker corrector configured to generate a reference image without a flicker component based on the correction result of the integrated value corrected by the first flicker corrector, and to correct a flicker of the image signal based on the reference image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sohhei OKADA, Yoshiaki Nishide, Yukihiro Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8233737
    Abstract: A noise correction circuit that detects and corrects noise included in an image signal output from an image sensor is provided. The noise correction circuit includes a noise determining unit, a noise removing unit, and a random number adding unit. The noise determining unit is configured to calculate an average value of a signal level in a predetermined range of the image signal output from the image sensor and use the calculated average value to calculate a noise component in a predetermined direction. The noise removing unit is configured to remove noise from the image signal output from the image sensor in response to the noise component determined by the noise determining unit. The random number adding unit is configured to add a random number at a level not determined by quantization of the image signal to the image signal after removal of the noise by the noise removing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushige Takahashi, Hiromasa Ikeyama, Manabu Hara, Yukihiro Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 7982785
    Abstract: A streaking correction signal generating circuit includes a light-shield waveform detecting unit configured to detect signal levels of respective lines in a horizontal light shield by using an output signal of the horizontal light shield of an image sensor; a black level detecting unit configured to detect a black level by using an output signal of a vertical light shield of the image sensor; and a subtracting unit configured to subtract the black level detected by the black level detecting unit from each of the signal levels of the respective lines in the horizontal light shield detected by the light-shield waveform detecting unit so as to generate streaking correction signals of the respective lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kinoshita, Kazushige Takahashi, Manabu Hara
  • Publication number: 20090103829
    Abstract: A noise correction circuit that detects and corrects noise included in an image signal output from an image sensor is provided. The noise correction circuit includes a noise determining unit, a noise removing unit, and a random number adding unit. The noise determining unit is configured to calculate an average value of a signal level in a predetermined range of the image signal output from the image sensor and use the calculated average value to calculate a noise component in a predetermined direction. The noise removing unit is configured to remove noise from the image signal output from the image sensor in response to the noise component determined by the noise determining unit. The random number adding unit is configured to add a random number at a level not determined by quantization of the image signal to the image signal after removal of the noise by the noise removing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushige Takahashi, Hiromasa Ikeyama, Manabu Hara, Yukihiro Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20080231732
    Abstract: A streaking correction signal generating circuit includes a light-shield waveform detecting unit configured to detect signal levels of respective lines in a horizontal light shield by using an output signal of the horizontal light shield of an image sensor; a black level detecting unit configured to detect a black level by using an output signal of a vertical light shield of the image sensor; and a subtracting unit configured to subtract the black level detected by the black level detecting unit from each of the signal levels of the respective lines in the horizontal light shield detected by the light-shield waveform detecting unit so as to generate streaking correction signals of the respective lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kinoshita, Kazushige Takahashi, Manabu Hara
  • Patent number: 5702159
    Abstract: A cushion body (10) for forming a car seat, which facilitates attachment of a skin material (15) to a cushion material (11).The cushion body (10) is made by attaching a planar fastening body (12) in a cushion material molding die (20) and unifying with the cushion material (11) along a three-dimensional curved surface shape of an interior surface of the die by an internal foamed molding pressure of the cushion material (11). The planar fastening body (12) is made of a planar fastening material (13) connecting with a supporting material (14) which is basically the same composition as the cushion material (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Inventors: Chikara Matsuoka, Takeshi Watadani, Kunihisa Wakimoto, Yukihiro Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 5654069
    Abstract: A cushion body structure (1) is connected to a planar fastening body (4) with a cushion material (6), by spacing in a proper distance at least a part along a side end (7) of the planar fastener (4) from the cushion material (2, 3) positioned in proximity of it through a space (11). When a skin material (12) fastened to the planar fastener (4) is tensioned, it is not moved to separate from and fasten to the skin material again and thereby does not produce noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Inventors: Chikara Matsuoka, Takeshi Watadani, Kunihisa Wakimoto, Yukihiro Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 5630240
    Abstract: In a cushion body structure of a car seat, which is made by fastening a skin material to a cushion material by using a planar fastening material, an impregnation layer made of a foamed body is not produced. In the cushion body structure, a planar fastening body (4) is integrally molded with a cushion material by shielding and clamping walls (22, 23) for preventing entry of a foaming solution in a molding die (20) of the cushion material (2,3), so that an opening is provided between the periphery of the planar fastening body and the side (3) of the cushion material, and a non-impregnation layer (7) is formed in the periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1997
    Inventors: Chikara Matsuoka, Takeshi Watadani, Kunihisa Wakimoto, Yukihiro Kinoshita