Patents by Inventor Hideshi Yamada
Hideshi Yamada 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: 20220414713Abstract: Provided are an information collection system, an electronic shelf label, an electronic POP advertising, and a character information display device that allow information with higher accuracy to be collected. An information collection device that collects information associated with a customer or a product is included for each product type. Alternatively, an information processing device that supplies information associated with a product and an information display terminal that displays information associated with a product supplied from the information processing device are included.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: KYOKO ISHIDA, NAOKI KUZUYA, TAKESHI MASUURA, HIROSHI SUMIHIRO, MITSUHARU OHKI, HIROAKI ONO, HIDESHI YAMADA
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Patent number: 11403672Abstract: The present technology relates to an information collection system, an electronic shelf label, an electronic POP advertising, and a character information display device that allow information with higher accuracy to be collected. An information collection device that collects information associated with a customer or a product is included for each product type. Alternatively, an information processing device that supplies information associated with a product and an information display terminal that displays information associated with a product supplied from the information processing device are included. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an electronic shelf label, an image pickup device, a communication device, an information processing device, electronic equipment, a computer, a storage medium, a system, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kyoko Ishida, Naoki Kuzuya, Takeshi Masuura, Hiroshi Sumihiro, Mitsuharu Ohki, Hiroaki Ono, Hideshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20210304256Abstract: The present technology relates to an information collection system, an electronic shelf label, an electronic POP advertising, and a character information display device that allow information with higher accuracy to be collected. An information collection device that collects information associated with a customer or a product is included for each product type. Alternatively, an information processing device that supplies information associated with a product and an information display terminal that displays information associated with a product supplied from the information processing device are included. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an electronic shelf label, an image pickup device, a communication device, an information processing device, electronic equipment, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: KYOKO ISHIDA, NAOKI KUZUYA, TAKESHI MASUURA, HIROSHI SUMIHIRO, MITSUHARU OHKI, HIROAKI ONO, HIDESHI YAMADA
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Patent number: 10866321Abstract: To improve a distance measurement accuracy by combining a plurality of distance measuring methods while avoiding interference of projection light. A light source projection unit projects intensity-modulated spatial pattern light. A time-of-flight distance measurement camera measures a distance to an object on the basis of a time of flight of a modulated component included in reflected light of the spatial pattern light from the object. A spatial information distance measurement camera measures a distance to the object on the basis of spatial information included in the reflected light. A depth synthesizing unit synthesizes measurement results of the distances in the time-of-flight distance measurement camera and the spatial information distance measurement camera to determine a depth value of each pixel position of an image imaged by the time-of-flight distance measurement camera or the spatial information distance measurement camera.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Hideshi Yamada
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Patent number: 10638035Abstract: An information processing system that acquires first image data captured by a first camera unit disposed on a first side of a housing; acquires second image data captured by a second camera unit disposed on a second side of the housing, which is opposite to the first side of the housing; and modifies the second image data based on the first image data.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotaka Shinozaki, Shinichi Yoshimura, Shuichi Konami, Mayuko Maruyama, Masayuki Tachi, Mitsuharu Ohki, Hideshi Yamada
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Patent number: 10542217Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a shooting device, a shooting method, and a program capable of suppressing shooting of an image including large blurring due to motion of a camera such that an image with less blurring may be shot. The camera motion is detected, a distribution degree of a trajectory of the camera motion based on a camera motion detection result is calculated to be compared with a predetermined threshold, and start and finish of exposure is controlled on the basis of a comparison result. The present disclosure may be applied to the shooting device.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hideshi Yamada, Daisuke Iso, Teppei Kurita, Shun Li
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Patent number: 10498962Abstract: A camera module includes an image pickup portion, a motion detector, and a coordinate transformation processor. The motion detector detects a motion of the image pickup portion while an image of a subject is captured in the image pickup portion. The coordinate transformation processor executes coordinate transformation processing for collectively transforming coordinates of the image captured by the image pickup portion in such a way that effects on the image caused by camera shake of the image pickup portion, and by a distortion of an optical system used to obtain the image, are suppressed based on the motion of the image pickup portion detected by the motion detector, and based on a correction coefficient with which the distortion of the optical system is corrected. Technology used for the camera module may be applied to a CMOS image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Daisuke Iso, Soichi Kuwahara, Hideshi Yamada
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Patent number: 10277812Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing device and method, and program, whereby a high-quality loop moving image can be obtained more easily. Upon continuous shot images of multiple frames serving as material of a loop moving image being input, the continuous shot images are divided into multiple segments including motion segments including a moving subject and a still segment including a subject with no motion. An image of the motion segment region of the continuous shot images is formed into a loop moving image, and a segment loop moving image is generated. Also, an image of a still segment region of the continuous shot images is clipped out, and a segment image which is a still image is generated. Further, these segment loop moving image and segment image are integrated, to form one loop moving image. The present invention can be applied to an image processing device.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hideshi Yamada, Mitsuharu Ohki
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Patent number: 10275854Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a solid-state image sensor, an imaging device, an electronic device, and a program capable of generating an interpolated pixel such that occurrence of jaggies may be inhibited without blurring an image with a small calculation amount. Two candidate lines are set in each of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction in positional relationship symmetrical about a current pixel. The candidate lines are narrowed to two lines in the horizontal direction or in the vertical direction according to a pattern to which the current pixel belongs. Furthermore, searched pixels on the candidate line are narrowed according to the pattern. A weight value is calculated on the basis of similarity between a current block and a block in the same phase at the same distance from the block by block matching by a block to which the current pixel belongs.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Teppei Kurita, Hideshi Yamada, Daisuke Iso
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Publication number: 20190109980Abstract: An information processing system that acquires first image data captured by a first camera unit disposed on a first side of a housing; acquires second image data captured by a second camera unit disposed on a second side of the housing, which is opposite to the first side of the housing; and modifies the second image data based on the first image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Hirotaka Shinozaki, Shinichi Yoshimura, Shuichi Konami, Mayuko Maruyama, Masayuki Tachi, Mitsuharu Ohki, Hideshi Yamada
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Patent number: 10254938Abstract: An apparatus includes a mode determination circuit configured to determine an input mode from at least a first mode and a second mode; an input circuit configured to receive a signal based on a user input; and an image processing circuit configured to determine a subset of an image including a desired image area based on the user input of a first line in the first mode, and to determine the desired image area based on the user input of a second line on the subset of the image in the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasutaka Fujii, Manabu Yasumi, Hideshi Yamada, Mitsuharu Ohki
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Patent number: 10171728Abstract: An information processing system that acquires first image data captured by a first camera unit disposed on a first side of a housing; acquires second image data captured by a second camera unit disposed on a second side of the housing, which is opposite to the first side of the housing; and modifies the second image data based on the first image data.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hirotaka Shinozaki, Shinichi Yoshimura, Shuichi Konami, Mayuko Maruyama, Masayuki Tachi, Mitsuharu Ohki, Hideshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20180324358Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a shooting device, a shooting method, and a program capable of suppressing shooting of an image including large blurring due to motion of a camera such that an image with less blurring may be shot. The camera motion is detected, a distribution degree of a trajectory of the camera motion based on a camera motion detection result is calculated to be compared with a predetermined threshold, and start and finish of exposure is controlled on the basis of a comparison result. The present disclosure may be applied to the shooting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: HIDESHI YAMADA, DAISUKE ISO, TEPPEI KURITA, SHUN LI
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Patent number: 10104336Abstract: [Object] To provide an image processing device capable of outputting audio acquired as an audio data signal by capturing an arbitrary image. [Solution] Provided is an image processing device, including: a separation unit that separates a flicker pattern from an image obtained by capturing, at multiple exposure times, an image containing a scene that emits light on a basis of a flicker pattern converted from an audio signal; and a conversion unit that converts the separated flicker pattern to an original audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hideshi Yamada, Tomoo Mitsunaga, Kensei Jo, Tohru Kurata
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Publication number: 20180275278Abstract: A light source projection unit projects intensity-modulated spatial pattern light. A time-of-flight distance measurement camera measures a distance to an object on the basis of a time of flight of a modulated component included in reflected light of the spatial pattern light from the object. A spatial information distance measurement camera measures a distance to the object on the basis of spatial information included in the reflected light. A depth synthesizing unit synthesizes measurement results of the distances in the time-of-flight distance measurement camera and the spatial information distance measurement camera to determine a depth value of each pixel position of an image imaged by the time-of-flight distance measurement camera or the spatial information distance measurement camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2017Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Hideshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20180213153Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a camera module, a solid-state image pickup element, an electronic apparatus, and an image pickup method each of which is capable of effectively correcting camera shake and a lens distortion. An image pickup portion receives light, from a subject, made incident thereto through an optical system to image the subject, and a detection portion detects a motion of the image pickup portion while the image for at least one frame is captured in the image pickup portion. Then, there is executed coordinate transformation processing for collectively transforming coordinates on the image captured by the image pickup portion in such a way that an influence which both camera shake of the image pickup portion and a distortion of the optical system exert on the image is suppressed based on the motion of the image pickup portion detected by a motion detecting portion, and a correction coefficient with which the distortion of the optical system is corrected.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Daisuke Iso, Soichi Kuwahara, Hideshi Yamada
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Patent number: 10003745Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method and a program, and a reproduction apparatus according to which an image sensor is divided into a plurality of areas and exposure control may be performed for each area according to the amount of camera shake. An imaging apparatus which is an aspect of the present disclosure includes an image sensor unit for generating pixel data of a pixel constituting a frame by photoelectric conversion, a calculation unit for calculating an amount of camera shake in each of areas obtained by dividing the frame, and a control unit for controlling exposure time of the image sensor for each of the areas according to the amount of camera shake calculated for each of the areas. The present disclosure is applicable to an electronic device such as a camera including an area ADC type image sensor, for example.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Daisuke Iso, Hideshi Yamada, Teppei Kurita
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Patent number: 10002436Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a solid-state imaging device capable of detecting image information with high accuracy by using images with different shooting conditions. A difference detection unit detects difference information of a short exposure image of a current frame and a past frame shot in a short exposure time. The difference detection unit detects difference information of a long exposure image of a current frame and a past frame shot in a long exposure time. The combining unit combines the difference information of the short exposure image and the difference information of the long exposure image on the basis of the short exposure image or the long exposure image and generates a motion vector of the current frame on the basis of the combined difference information. The present disclosure may be applied to the image processing apparatus and the like, for example.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Hideshi Yamada
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Publication number: 20170256067Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a solid-state imaging device capable of detecting image information with high accuracy by using images with different shooting conditions. A difference detection unit detects difference information of a short exposure image of a current frame and a past frame shot in a short exposure time. The difference detection unit detects difference information of a long exposure image of a current frame and a past frame shot in a long exposure time. The combining unit combines the difference information of the short exposure image and the difference information of the long exposure image on the basis of the short exposure image or the long exposure image and generates a motion vector of the current frame on the basis of the combined difference information. The present disclosure may be applied to the image processing apparatus and the like, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventor: HIDESHI YAMADA
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Publication number: 20170256030Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a solid-state image sensor, an imaging device, an electronic device, and a program capable of generating an interpolated pixel such that occurrence of jaggies may be inhibited without blurring an image with a small calculation amount. Two candidate lines are set in each of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction in positional relationship symmetrical about a current pixel. The candidate lines are narrowed to two lines in the horizontal direction or in the vertical direction according to a pattern to which the current pixel belongs. Furthermore, searched pixels on the candidate line are narrowed according to the pattern. A weight value is calculated on the basis of similarity between a current block and a block in the same phase at the same distance from the block by block matching by a block to which the current pixel belongs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Teppei KURITA, Hideshi YAMADA, Daisuke ISO