Patents by Inventor Hideo Hoshuyama
Hideo Hoshuyama 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).
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Publication number: 20240087571Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo HOSHUYAMA, Hiroyuki AKIYA, Kazuya UMEYAMA, Keiichi NITTA, Hiroki UWAI, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11575825Abstract: A control apparatus that access first cameras capturing a first subject of a first area, and second cameras capturing a second subject of a second area, detects a viewing direction of a spectator group in the first subject on the basis of image data of the first subject captured by any one of first cameras, identifies a focus area in the second area that is focused on by the spectator group on the basis of the viewing direction of the spectator group, identifies a focus subject, focused on by the spectator group, that is present in the focus area on the basis of image data of the second subject captured by each of the second cameras, determines a specific second camera to be a transmission source of image data from among the second cameras on the basis of the focus subject, and transmits image data from the specific second camera.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke Otsubo, Satoshi Takahashi, Yuuya Takayama, Kazuhiro Abe, Hideo Hoshuyama, Marie Shoda, Sho Somiya, Tetsuya Koike, Naoya Otani
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Patent number: 11568516Abstract: A solution to the problem of image and video stitching is disclosed that compensates for the effects of lens distortion, camera misalignment, and parallax in combining multiple images. The disclosed image stitching technique includes depth or disparity estimation, alignment, and blending processes configured to be computationally efficient and produce quality results by limiting the presence of noticeable seams and artifacts in the final stitched image. An inter-frame approach applies image stitching to video frames to maintain temporal continuity between successive frames across a stitched video output having a 360-degree viewing perspective. A temporal adjustment is configured to improve temporal continuity between a subsequent frame and a previous frame in a sequence of video frames.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Tanmay Nitin Bichu, Ikuya Saito, Hideo Hoshuyama
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Publication number: 20210203837Abstract: A control apparatus that access first cameras capturing a first subject of a first area, and second cameras capturing a second subject of a second area, detects a viewing direction of a spectator group in the first subject on the basis of image data of the first subject captured by any one of first cameras, identifies a focus area in the second area that is focused on by the spectator group on the basis of the viewing direction of the spectator group, identifies a focus subject, focused on by the spectator group, that is present in the focus area on the basis of image data of the second subject captured by each of the second cameras, determines a specific second camera to be a transmission source of image data from among the second cameras on the basis of the focus subject, and transmits image data from the specific second camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2018Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke OTSUBO, Satoshi TAKAHASHI, Yuuya TAKAYAMA, Kazuhiro ABE, Hideo HOSHUYAMA, Marie SHODA, Sho SOMIYA, Tetsuya KOIKE, Naoya OTANI
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Publication number: 20210082086Abstract: A solution to the problem of image and video stitching is disclosed that compensates for the effects of lens distortion, camera misalignment, and parallax in combining multiple images. The disclosed image stitching technique includes depth or disparity estimation, alignment, and blending processes configured to be computationally efficient and produce quality results by limiting the presence of noticeable seams and artifacts in the final stitched image. An inter-frame approach applies image stitching to video frames to maintain temporal continuity between successive frames across a stitched video output having a 360-degree viewing perspective. A temporal adjustment is configured to improve temporal continuity between a subsequent frame and a previous frame in a sequence of video frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Tanmay Nitin Bichu, Ikuya Saito, Hideo Hoshuyama
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Publication number: 20190392835Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo HOSHUYAMA, Hiroyuki AKIYA, Kazuya UMEYAMA, Keiichi NITTA, Hiroki UWAI, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20170193994Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo HOSHUYAMA, Hiroyuki AKIYA, Kazuya UMEYAMA, Keiichi NITTA, Hiroki UWAI, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 9626151Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Hoshuyama, Hiroyuki Akiya, Kazuya Umeyama, Keiichi Nitta, Hiroki Uwai, Masakazu Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20150145770Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2015Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo HOSHUYAMA, Hiroyuki AKIYA, Kazuya UMEYAMA, Keiichi NITTA, Hiroki UWAI, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 9013399Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Hideo Hoshuyama, Hiroyuki Akiya, Kazuya Umeyama, Keiichi Nitta, Hiroki Uwai, Masakazu Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 8587658Abstract: An imaging device includes a main photography means for photographing a photographic subject and acquires a photographic image, a preparatory image acquisition means for performing preparatory photography before or after the main photography means acquires the photographic image and acquiring preparatory images, a photographic information acquisition means for acquiring photographic information related to a circumstance of photography when the preparatory images are acquired by the preparatory image acquisition means, and a recording means for recording the photographic information and the photographic image upon a recording medium in mutual correlation.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2008Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Keiichi Nitta, Yuko Hattori, Go Watanabe, Hiroyuki Tomita, Hideo Hoshuyama, Kenji Suzuki, Saeko Samejima, Mikiya Tanaka, Setsu Mitsuhashi, Takeshi Nishi
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Patent number: 8520097Abstract: An image processing device of the present invention includes a color-gamut determining part, a color-space determining part, and a color-space conversion part. The color-gamut determining part determines a color gamut as a range of color distribution from input image data. The color-space determining part determines a color space substantially covering the color gamut determined by the color-gamut determining part. The color-space conversion part converts the input image data into such image data that is rendered in the determined color space. The colors of the subject can thus be reproduced accurately from the converted image data.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hideo Hoshuyama
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Publication number: 20120299824Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Hoshuyama, Hiroyuki Akiya, Kazuya Umeyama, Keiichi Nitta, Hiroki Uwai, Masakazu Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 8274580Abstract: The present invention includes a color converting section carrying out color conversion processing and a coefficient correcting section setting a correcting coefficient group to a coefficient group of the color conversion. The coefficient correcting section sets a local area containing a pixel to be processed, and calculates “feature information of the local area” containing at least one of averaged color information, averaged luminance information, and flatness on the basis of the pixel signals of the local area. The coefficient correcting section determines a correcting coefficient group to be used for the pixel to be processed on the basis of the feature information of the local area. With this construction, the present invention suppresses influence of noise when changing the color conversion processing for each pixel.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2011Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hideo Hoshuyama
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Patent number: 8089537Abstract: An image processing system can realize a more accurate and high-quality correction of defective pixels by including an image pickup device, an obtaining unit obtaining information showing positions of defective pixels occurred at the image pickup device, a creating unit creating discrimination information showing the positions of the defective pixels in an image generated via the image pickup device, a detecting unit detecting a correlativity with neighborhood pixels by each defective pixel, and an estimating unit estimating a pixel value by each defective pixel in accordance with a detected result by the detecting unit. Incidentally, the image processing system is configured by an imaging device and a computer recording an image processing program, in which the imaging device includes the image pickup device, the obtaining unit, and the creating unit, and the image processing program may make the computer function as the detecting unit and the estimating unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2006Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Hideo Hoshuyama, Masato Takeishi, Keiichi Nitta
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Patent number: 8059904Abstract: An image-processing device of the invention can appropriately correct a gradation of an image to be processed in accordance with the image. Thus, it divides the image into plural small areas; generates image information indicating a characteristic of the image for each small area; determines an evaluation value indicating luminosity of each pixel constituting the image, according to the image information generated for each small area and image information generated for each of adjacent small areas to the each small area; and performs an image processing on each pixel of the image according to the determined evaluation value. A digital still camera of the invention can appropriately correct a gradation of an image created by shooting in accordance with the image. Moreover, an image-processing program and an image-processing method of the invention realize appropriate gradation correction in accordance with an image to be processed.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hideo Hoshuyama
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Publication number: 20110234843Abstract: The present invention includes a color converting section carrying out color conversion processing and a coefficient correcting section setting a correcting coefficient group to a coefficient group of the color conversion. The coefficient correcting section sets a local area containing a pixel to be processed, and calculates “feature information of the local area” containing at least one of averaged color information, averaged luminance information, and flatness on the basis of the pixel signals of the local area. The coefficient correcting section determines a correcting coefficient group to be used for the pixel to be processed on the basis of the feature information of the local area. With this construction, the present invention suppresses influence of noise when changing the color conversion processing for each pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hideo Hoshuyama
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Patent number: 7982782Abstract: The present invention includes a color converting section carrying out color conversion processing and a coefficient correcting section setting a correcting coefficient group to a coefficient group of the color conversion. The coefficient correcting section sets a local area containing a pixel to be processed, and calculates “feature information of the local area” containing at least one of averaged color information, averaged luminance information, and flatness on the basis of the pixel signals of the local area. The coefficient correcting section determines a correcting coefficient group to be used for the pixel to be processed on the basis of the feature information of the local area. With this construction, the present invention suppresses influence of noise when changing the color conversion processing for each pixel.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2010Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hideo Hoshuyama
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Publication number: 20110141302Abstract: An image processing device of the present invention includes a color-gamut determining part, a color-space determining part, and a color-space conversion part. The color-gamut determining part determines a color gamut as a range of color distribution from input image data. The color-space determining part determines a color space substantially covering the color gamut determined by the color-gamut determining part. The color-space conversion part converts the input image data into such image data that is rendered in the determined color space. The colors of the subject can thus be reproduced accurately from the converted image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hideo Hoshuyama
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Patent number: 7777800Abstract: A digital still camera includes an image-capturing unit capturing a subject image via an image-capturing lens to create an image, a focus detecting unit detecting focus in accordance with the image created by the image-capturing unit, an image-capturing lens driving unit driving the image-capturing lens in accordance with a result of the focus detection provided by the focus detecting unit, and a receiving unit receiving an instruction to initiate image capture by the image-capturing unit. When the receiving unit receives the instruction to initiate image capture, the image-capturing unit captures the subject image successively to create a plurality of images, while the image-capturing lens driving unit drives the image-capturing lens successively. Accordingly, it is possible to provide an image in a high in-focus state while shortening the time required until an image is actually captured after an instruction is provided to initiate the capture of the image.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2005Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hideo Hoshuyama