Patents by Inventor Asako Seki

Asako Seki 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: 20180078123
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a processor including hardware, the processor implements an image acquisition process for acquiring a plurality of images including a first image and a second image; a filter process for extracting first to N-th frequency components using first to N-th bandpass filters; correlation calculation for obtaining first to N-th correlation calculation results at a target pixel by performing correlation calculation with an i-th frequency component in the first image and the i-th frequency component in the second image; a reliability calculation process for obtaining reliability of each of the correlation calculation results obtained; a weight setting process for setting a weight of each of the correlation calculation results using the reliability; and amount of disparity calculation for obtaining an amount of disparity using the weight and the first to the N-th correlation calculation results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Asako SEKI
  • Patent number: 9842275
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to calculate comparison result information through a comparison process performed on the results of a census transform process performed on a first image and the results of the census transform process performed on a second image, set weight information, calculate a cost using the comparison result information and the weight information, calculate the amount of disparity using the cost, set a first weight having as low degree of contribution to the cost on a neighboring pixel which is determined to be affected by noise to a large extent among a plurality of neighboring pixels, and set a second weight having a high degree of contribution to the cost on a neighboring pixel which is determined to be affected by noise to a small extent among the plurality of neighboring pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Asako Seki
  • Publication number: 20160364875
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to calculate comparison result information through a comparison process performed on the results of a census transform process performed on a first image and the results of the census transform process performed on a second image, set weight information, calculate a cost using the comparison result information and the weight information, calculate the amount of disparity using the cost, set a first weight having as low degree of contribution to the cost on a neighboring pixel which is determined to be affected by noise to a large extent among a plurality of neighboring pixels, and set a second weight having a high degree of contribution to the cost on a neighboring pixel which is determined to be affected by noise to a small extent among the plurality of neighboring pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Asako Seki