Patents by Inventor Haruko Terai

Haruko Terai 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: 20240067206
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage that stores first detection object information; and a processor that acquires second detection object information, in which the processor determines whether an undetected object that has not been detected in the first parking is present, based on the first detection object information and the second detection object information, and changes an aspect of the notification when the undetected object is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruko TERAI, Akira MATSUBARA, Gentaro TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 11663069
    Abstract: A processing system sets up two or more circuits of a plurality of circuits as two or more processing circuits. The two or more processing circuits subject respective input signals from a sensor to signal processing. The processing system sets up at least one circuit of the plurality of circuits to serve as a reference circuit. The at least one circuit being smaller in number than the two or more processing circuits and being other than the processing circuits. The determination circuit is configured to perform abnormality determination for a determination target circuit which is any one of the two or more processing circuits based on a comparison result between an output signal of the determination target circuit and an output signal of the reference circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruko Terai, Gentaro Takeda
  • Publication number: 20200387420
    Abstract: A processing system sets up two or more circuits of a plurality of circuits as two or more processing circuits. The two or more processing circuits subject respective input signals from a sensor to signal processing. The processing system sets up at least one circuit of the plurality of circuits to serve as a reference circuit. The at least one circuit being smaller in number than the two or more processing circuits and being other than the processing circuits. The determination circuit is configured to perform abnormality determination for a determination target circuit which is any one of the two or more processing circuits based on a comparison result between an output signal of the determination target circuit and an output signal of the reference circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruko TERAI, Gentaro TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190306509
    Abstract: The frame vector calculator calculates a frame vector indicating a change in a position of a target object between frames of video data captured by a video capturing apparatus mounted on a vehicle. The low-frequency component extractor extracts low-frequency components of the frame vector, the low-frequency components indicating temporal variations of the frame vector equal to or less than a predetermined frequency. The high-frequency component extractor extracts high-frequency components of the frame vector, the high-frequency components indicating temporal variations of the frame vector higher than the predetermined frequency, based on the low-frequency components of the frame vector. The compensation vector calculator calculates a compensation vector compensating for the variations of the high-frequency components of the frame vector. The video compensator compensates the video data based on the compensation vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haruko TERAI
  • Publication number: 20160027354
    Abstract: A display unevenness correction apparatus for use in the manufacture of an LCD display including an LCD panel having display pixels arranged in rows and columns, the apparatus including: a luminance meter which measures a luminance of the LCD panel while the LCD panel is being illuminated to obtain a luminance; a block luminance calculation unit which segments the luminance map into first blocks and calculate, for each of the first blocks, a block luminance of the first block using luminances included in the first block, the block luminance representing the luminances included in the first block; an interpolation unit which calculates a target luminance for each of the display pixels, using a corresponding one of the block luminances; and a correction gain calculation unit which calculates a correction coefficient for each display pixel using the target luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Haruko TERAI, Kazuhiro FUNAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150002624
    Abstract: A video signal processing device includes: an extraction unit which extracts, from each frame of an input video including a right-eye image and a left-eye image, one of the right-eye image and the left-eye image as an extracted image; and an image enlargement processing unit which (i) forms an interpolated image by enlarging the extracted image extracted by the extraction unit, through pixel interpolation using a pixel included in a previous frame, and (ii) outputs the interpolated image, the previous frame being a frame previous to the frame including the extracted image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruko Terai, Chikara Gotanda, Ryuichi Shibutani
  • Patent number: 8558875
    Abstract: The video signal processing device has a parallax detection unit for detecting the parallax between a right-eye video signal and a left-eye video signal and outputting the detected parallax as a parallax detection signal. The video signal processing device has an encoding noise detection unit for detecting an encoding noise generated by encoding processing, outputting an encoding noise detection signal corrected by using a detection result of the detected encoding noise based on the parallax detection signal. The video signal processing device has an encoding noise removing unit for performing at least one of reducing the encoding noise by filtering processing using the encoding noise detection signal, and reducing, based on the parallax detection signal, the encoding noise by replacing the data of a noise generating pixel in the right-eye video signal and the left-eye video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Morino, Ryuichi Shibutani, Haruko Terai, Nobutoshi Fujinami
  • Publication number: 20130120529
    Abstract: A video signal processing device includes: a stereo conversion unit which generates a stereo superimposed signal by performing stereo conversion processing on a superimposed signal obtained by superimposing, on a two-dimensional video signal, an additional information signal indicating additional information to be combined with a two-dimensional video and displayed, and shifts a first locating signal indicating a position of the additional information in the two-dimensional video, according to an amount of shift caused by the stereo conversion processing on the additional information signal, to generate a second locating signal indicating a position of the additional information in a video indicated by the stereo superimposed signal; and a correction unit performs, on the stereo superimposed signal, quality correction for an area other than an area located by the second locating signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Yutaka Nio, Haruko Terai, Daisuke Kase
  • Publication number: 20110169824
    Abstract: Multiplication coefficients K1 and K2 in a first multiplying section and a second multiplying section are controlled based on the correlation in a parallax adjusted right-eye signal and a parallax adjusted left-eye signal output from a first parallax adjusting section respectively or based on the parallax calculated by the first parallax adjusting section. Thus, a 3D image processing device is provided that efficiently reduces the noise of a 3D video signal without using frame memory and without being affected by a scene change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Nobutoshi Fujinami, Ryuichi Shibutani, Haruko Terai, Hideki Morino
  • Publication number: 20110074775
    Abstract: An image signal processing device is a stereoscopic image display device displaying a stereoscopic image on a screen with right- and left-eye image signals including parallax therebetween, the device including a parallax detecting unit for detecting information about parallax between right- and left-eye image signals; a non-parallax signal generating unit generating a signal produced by eliminating parallax between right- and left-eye image signals according to the parallax information; a right-left level difference detecting unit generating information about a level difference between non-parallax, right- and left-eye image signals free from parallax therebetween; and a level difference correcting unit correcting right- and left-eye image signals for each given level according to the level difference information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Ryuichi Shibutani, Hideki Morino, Haruko Terai, Nobutoshi Fujinami
  • Publication number: 20110037835
    Abstract: The video signal processing device has a parallax detection unit for detecting the parallax between a right-eye video signal and a left-eye video signal and outputting the detected parallax as a parallax detection signal. The video signal processing device has an encoding noise detection unit for detecting an encoding noise generated by encoding processing, outputting an encoding noise detection signal corrected by using a detection result of the detected encoding noise based on the parallax detection signal. The video signal processing device has an encoding noise removing unit for performing at least one of reducing the encoding noise by filtering processing using the encoding noise detection signal, and reducing, based on the parallax detection signal, the encoding noise by replacing the data of a noise generating pixel in the right-eye video signal and the left-eye video signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Hideki Morino, Ryuichi Shibutani, Haruko Terai, Nobutoshi Fujinami
  • Patent number: 7483084
    Abstract: In an image display apparatus, a video signal is divided for each field into a plurality of sub-fields, each of which is weighted according to the duration of time or number of pulses. The plurality of sub-fields are temporally superimposed for display, so that a grayscale representation is provided. A video signal for the current field is delayed by one field, and output as a video signal for the previous field. Based on the video signal for the current field and the video signal for the previous field, a luminance gradient of an image is detected. A difference between the video signal for the current field and the video signal for the previous field is calculated. Based on the calculated difference and the detected gradient, the amount of motion of the image is calculated by a detecting circuit. Based on the calculated amount of motion of the image, dynamic false contours are reduced by an image data processing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Kawamura, Haruko Terai, Junta Asano, Mitsuhiro Kasahara
  • Patent number: 7443365
    Abstract: The combination patterns of emissions and non-emissions from the n-th sub-field to the m-th sub-field (where m and n are integers smaller than the total number of sub-fields, and m is greater than n) for a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and a fourth pixel that are vertically and horizontally adjacent in each of the areas in a display panel are different from one another. Among the first pixel to the fourth pixel vertically and horizontally adjacent in each area of the display panel, the grayscale value displayed by each of the first pixel and the second pixel arranged in one diagonal positions is lower than the average of the grayscale values displayed by the first pixel to the fourth pixel, while the grayscale value displayed by each of the third pixel and the fourth pixel arranged in the other diagonal positions is higher than the average of the grayscale values displayed by the first pixel to the fourth pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruko Terai, Hideaki Kawamura, Junta Asano, Mitsuhiro Kasahara
  • Patent number: 7106379
    Abstract: The scan conversion apparatus of the present invention comprises a video signal discriminating circuit for discriminating the kind of input video signal based on an interlaced scanning system; a telecine scan conversion circuit for converting input video signal into a video signal based on a progressive scanning system by processing suited for telecine video signal; a scan conversion circuit for converting input video signal into a video signal based on a progressive scanning system suited for signals other than telecine video signal; and a selector which selects and delivers the output from the telecine scan conversion circuit and the output from the scan conversion circuit in accordance with the result of discrimination executed by the video signal discriminating circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruko Terai
  • Publication number: 20060170619
    Abstract: The combination patterns of emissions and non-emissions from the n-th sub-field to the m-th sub-field (where m and n are integers smaller than the total number of sub-fields, and m is greater than n) for a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and a fourth pixel that are vertically and horizontally adjacent in each of the areas in a display panel are different from one another. Among the first pixel to the fourth pixel vertically and horizontally adjacent in each area of the display panel, the grayscale value displayed by each of the first pixel and the second pixel arranged in one diagonal positions is lower than the average of the grayscale values displayed by the first pixel to the fourth pixel, while the grayscale value displayed by each of the third pixel and the fourth pixel arranged in the other diagonal positions is higher than the average of the grayscale values displayed by the first pixel to the fourth pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Haruko Terai, Hideaki Kawamura, Junta Asano, Mitsuhiro Kasahra
  • Publication number: 20060072044
    Abstract: In an image display apparatus, a video signal is divided for each field into a plurality of sub-fields, each of which is weighted according to the duration of time or number of pulses. The plurality of sub-fields are temporally superimposed for display, so that a grayscale representation is provided. A video signal for the current field is delayed by one field, and output as a video signal for the previous field. Based on the video signal for the current field and the video signal for the previous field, a luminance gradient of an image is detected. A difference between the video signal for the current field and the video signal for the previous field is calculated. Based on the calculated difference and the detected gradient, the amount of motion of the image is calculated by a detecting circuit. Based on the calculated amount of motion of the image, dynamic false contours are reduced by an image data processing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Hideaki Kawamura, Haruko Terai, Junta Asano, Mitsuhiro Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20040061803
    Abstract: The scan conversion apparatus of the present invention comprises a video signal discriminating circuit for discriminating the kind of input video signal based on an interlaced scanning system; a telecine scan conversion circuit for converting input video signal into a video signal based on a progressive scanning system by processing suited for telecine video signal; a scan conversion circuit for converting input video signal into a video signal based on a progressive scanning system suited for signals other than telecine video signal; and a selector which selects and delivers the output from the telecine scan conversion circuit and the output from the scan conversion circuit in accordance with the result of discrimination executed by the video signal discriminating circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Haruko Terai