Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Urabe

Hirofumi Urabe 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: 20230274714
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a position acquiring unit, and a control unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire an image. The position acquiring unit is configured to acquire a position of a display item which is displayed at a currently selected position in the image. The control unit, in a case where the image includes a plurality of feature regions, selects one of the plurality of feature regions based on a distance between each of the plurality of feature regions and the display item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: TAKUYA KOSUGE, HIROFUMI URABE, MASAHIRO SATO, ATSUSHI ISHII
  • Publication number: 20230244432
    Abstract: A display control device includes an acquiring unit, a selecting unit and a display control unit. The acquiring unit acquires a first image that is an image having a first dynamic range, and a second image that is an image having a second dynamic range that is narrower than the first dynamic range, and is an image representing content that is same as content represented by the first image. The selecting unit selects, in a case where the first image and the second image include one or a plurality of feature regions, at least one of the one or plurality of feature regions as an attention region, on the basis of a count of gradient values used in the first or plurality of feature regions. The display control unit controls a display to display the first image and the second image, and indicate the attention region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: MASAHIRO SATO, HIROFUMI URABE
  • Patent number: 11594198
    Abstract: A display controller includes a processor and a memory storing a program. The program is executed to cause the processor to function as a detecting unit and a control unit. The detecting unit is configured to detect, based on a brightness distribution of an input image, a region satisfying predetermined conditions from the input image. The control unit is configured to display a display image based on the input image and control a value of representative brightness of the region detected by the detecting unit such that the value is displayed in association with the detected region in the displayed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime Kajita, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Patent number: 11574607
    Abstract: A display device comprising: a display; and an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an image; and a display control unit configured to perform control such that a pixel having a brightness gradation value that is included within a setting range, which is a range of brightness gradation values and which is a range set to include at least a certain number of pixels in a target frame of the image, is displayed in the display in a display appearance different from that of a pixel having a brightness gradation value that is not included within the setting range in the target frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Patent number: 11508335
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as a processing unit, a display control unit, and a setting unit. The processing unit is configured to perform first image processing and second image processing. The display control unit is configured to perform control to perform a first display based on a result of the first image processing and a second display based on a result of the second image processing, together. The setting unit is configured to set upper-limit brightness of the second display. An Electro-Optical Transfer Function (EOTF) type of the first display and an EOTF type of the second display are EOTF types dealing with high dynamic range (HDR). The processing unit converts brightness of an image according to the upper-limit brightness and the EOTF type of the first display in the second image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Patent number: 11410343
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information related to a brightness level of each pixel in an image; a determining unit configured to determine, on a basis of the information, a ratio of a number of corresponding pixels in the image with respect to at least one of Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) and a brightness range obtained by excluding SDR from High Dynamic Range (HDR); and an outputting unit configured to output the ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Urabe, Masahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11315290
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor Which function as: a setting unit configured to he capable of setting any of a plurality of processing modes which include a first processing mode to display an image having a first brightness range and a second processing mode to display an image having a second brightness range which is narrower than the first brightness range and a processing unit configured to generate frame image data, which is a display target, in a first state in which image processing in accordance with a currently set processing mode is performed, and generates a capture image data corresponding to the frame image data in a second state after changing the first state in accordance with the currently set processing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Patent number: 11194993
    Abstract: A display apparatus performs predetermined image processing on at least one image data item among the plurality of image data items, does not perform the predetermined image processing on at least another one image data item among the plurality of image data items, and to cause a display unit to display the plurality of image data items, if (A) it is determined, on the basis of meta-information associated with the plurality of image data items, that the plurality of image data items are image data items that have been output from a single image output apparatus, or if (B) it is determined that a display mode is set in which a plurality of image data items are to be displayed, the plurality of image data items including a first image data item and a second image data item generated by duplicating the first image data item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sosuke Kagaya, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Patent number: 11189064
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a luminance level of each pixel at each time position of a moving image; and a generation unit configured to generate, based on the information, a graph that includes a first axis which indicates the time position and a second axis which intersects with the first axis and indicates the luminance level, and indicates the presence/absence of corresponding pixels or a number of corresponding pixels in each coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Urabe, Masahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11184545
    Abstract: A display control apparatus, includes: at least one processor and/or at least one circuit to perform the operations of the following units: an input unit configured to acquire an input image which is an image captured by an imaging apparatus; a generation unit configured to generate at least one zoom image which is an image generated by magnifying a part of the regions of the input image; an acquisition unit configured to acquire focus information of the imaging apparatus; and a determination unit configured to determine which one of (1) the input image, (2) the zoom image and (3) both of the input image and the zoom image are to be displayed as a display image on a display unit on the basis of the focus information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sosuke Kagaya, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Publication number: 20210335323
    Abstract: A display controller includes a processor and a memory storing a program. The program is executed to cause the processor to function as a detecting unit and a control unit. The detecting unit is configured to detect, based on a brightness distribution of an input image, a region satisfying predetermined conditions from the input image. The control unit is configured to display a display image based on the input image and control a value of representative brightness of the region detected by the detecting unit such that the value is displayed in association with the detected region in the displayed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Hajime Kajita, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Patent number: 11144273
    Abstract: A display apparatus that includes an acquisition interface for acquiring a plurality of image data, a communication interface for communicating with another display apparatus, a reception interface for receiving an operation relating to an image to be displayed on a display, and a processor which selects image data to be used for displaying an image on the display, from the plurality of image data, based on an operation received by the reception interface, controls the display to display an image based on selected image data, and controls communication with the other display apparatus via the communication interface so that the other display apparatus displays an image based on the selected image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatsugu Sasaki, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Publication number: 20210304702
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as a processing unit, a display control unit, and a setting unit. The processing unit is configured to perform first image processing and second image processing. The display control unit is configured to perform control to perform a first display based on a result of the first image processing and a second display based on a result of the second image processing, together. The setting unit is configured to set upper-limit brightness of the second display. An Electro-Optical Transfer Function (EOTF) type of the first display and an EOTF type of the second display are EOTF types dealing with high dynamic range (HDR). The processing unit converts brightness of an image according to the upper-limit brightness and the EOTF type of the first display in the second image processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Publication number: 20210225306
    Abstract: A display device comprising: a display; and an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an image; and a display control unit configured to perform control such that a pixel having a brightness gradation value that is included within a setting range, which is a range of brightness gradation values and which is a range set to include at least a certain number of pixels in a target frame of the image, is displayed in the display in a display appearance different from that of a pixel having a brightness gradation value that is not included within the setting range in the target frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Patent number: 11062642
    Abstract: A display apparatus, comprising: a memory that stores correspondence to convert an image quality of an image signal; and at least one processor that operates as: an input unit that inputs a first image signal having a first image quality; a generation unit; and a display unit that displays the first image signal and the image signal generated by the generation unit, wherein in the case of the memory storing correspondence to generate a second image signal having a second image quality from the first image signal, the generation unit generates the second image signal from the first image signal in accordance with the correspondence, and in the case of the memory not storing the correspondence to generate the second image signal from the first image signal, the generation unit generates a third image signal by performing a predetermined luminance conversion on the first image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Urabe, Masahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 11051008
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: at least one processor and/or at least one circuit to perform operations of the following units: an acquisition unit configured to acquire luminance information that indicates characteristic value of luminance of inputted image data; and a conversion unit configured to convert colors of the image data into conversion colors which are respectively associated with sub-ranges determined by dividing a luminance range of the image data using thresholds, wherein a first threshold of the thresholds is the characteristic value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo Nakagawa, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Patent number: 11042985
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus which generates a display image, includes: terminals; and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit to perform the operations of the following units: obtaining unit configured to obtain second images each having a second number of pixels from the terminals, wherein the second images form a first image having a first number of pixels, setting unit configured to set a region of the first image corresponding to the display image based on user input, and generating unit configured to generate the display image on the basis of one of the second images in a case where the number of pixels in the region is greater than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken Yanagibashi, Hirofumi Urabe, Takushi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11030727
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit; an acquiring unit configured to acquire brightness information that is information related to display brightness; and a correcting unit configured to, in a case where a first image that is an image based on first image data having a first dynamic range and a second image that is an image based on second image data having a second dynamic range narrower than the first dynamic range are displayed on a screen, correct the second image data so that the first image is displayed in accordance with the display brightness related to the brightness information and the second image is displayed in accordance with display brightness that is lower than the display brightness related to the brightness information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Hirofumi Urabe, Takehito Fukushima
  • Patent number: 10944889
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a converting unit configured to convert a color of input image data based on information representing a correspondence between a brightness level and a color, and generate converted image data; and a setting unit configured to set a gradation characteristic of the input image data, wherein the converting unit converts the color of the input image data based on information representing a first correspondence in a case where the gradation characteristic set by the setting unit is a first gradation characteristic, and converts the color of the input image data based on information representing a second correspondence in a case where the gradation characteristic set by the setting unit is a second gradation characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Sato, Hirofumi Urabe
  • Patent number: 10944910
    Abstract: A display apparatus configured to display an input image and a graphics image on a display unit, wherein the graphics image is displayed together with the input image, the display apparatus includes: at least one processor that operates as: obtaining unit configured to receive a setting value relating to display luminance of the display apparatus; detection unit configured to detect a characteristic value of the input image; and control unit configured to display the graphics image on the display unit with a luminance gradation based on the setting value and the characteristic value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo Nakagawa, Hirofumi Urabe