Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Peter Zura
  • Patent number: 6445814
    Abstract: A three-dimensional information processing apparatus for obtaining three-dimensional information from an object having a three-dimensional shape, and performing predetermined information processing, comprises: a camera for sensing images of the object from a plurality of coordinate positions using an image sensing system having one or a plurality of optical systems. A plurality of depth information are extracted from image sensing related information sensed by the camera at the plurality of coordinate positions, and the plurality of extracted depth information are converted and unified into depth information expressed by a unified coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsumi Iijima, Shigeki Okauchi, Masakazu Matsugu, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Tatsushi Katayama, Katsuhiko Mori, Motohiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 6404936
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of extracting the region of a subject image from an input image including the subject image. A subject region mask for masking the region of the subject image is generated, and the contour of the subject region mask is shaped. After local regions for correcting the contour shaped by contour shaping are set on the basis of information of the contour of the subject region mask before and after contour shaping, the contour of the shaped subject region mask is corrected within the set local regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsushi Katayama, Masakazu Matsugu, Koji Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 6389179
    Abstract: There is disclosed an image combining apparatus for generating a single image by combining a plurality of sensed images. When the panoramic image sensing mode is set, the image sensing angle is detected, and is stored together with a plurality of sensed image obtained in the panoramic image sensing mode. Upon combining the plurality of sensed images, a combining method is adaptively selected on the basis of the angle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsushi Katayama, Hideo Takiguchi, Kotaro Yano, Kenji Hatori