Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Kakinuma

Hirokazu Kakinuma 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: 20240119600
    Abstract: A video processing device includes a foreground region estimation unit that determines whether a pixel of an input image is a foreground or a background, and a blinking correction unit that determines, for a target pixel on which a foreground and a background have been switched, whether switching between the foreground and the background is a color change in the foreground or in the background by using a lookup table capable of determining whether switching is in the foreground or in the background from a temporal change of a pixel value, and corrects a result of determination as to whether it is the foreground or the background that has been performed for the target pixel in a case where the switching between the foreground and the background is the color change in the foreground or in the background.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokazu KAKINUMA, Shota YAMADA, Hidenobu NAGATA, Kota HIDAKA
  • Publication number: 20240112384
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an extraction unit, an inverse sampling unit, a mapping unit, a generation unit, and a correction unit. The extraction unit is to extract a first feature value of a first image. The inverse sampling unit is to generate a second image having a resolution lower than that of the first image based on the first image and first information indicating a lighting environment different from that of the first image. The mapping unit generates a vector representing a latent space based on the second image. The generation unit is configured to generate a second feature value of a third image having a resolution higher than that of the second image based on the vector. The correction unit is configured to generate a fourth image obtained by correcting the third image based on the first feature value and the second feature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota YAMADA, Hirokazu KAKINUMA, Hidenobu NAGATA
  • Patent number: 11461903
    Abstract: Accurate and rapid identification can be performed even when feature vectors of input pixels and background pixels are close.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kakinuma, Yoshihide Tonomura, Hiromu Miyashita, Hidenobu Nagata, Kota Hidaka
  • Publication number: 20210158534
    Abstract: Accurate and rapid identification can be performed even when feature vectors of input pixels and background pixels are close.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kakinuma, Yoshihide TONOMURA, Hiromu Miyashita, Hidenobu Nagata, Kota HIDAKA
  • Patent number: 7411078
    Abstract: A method for producing furan-2,5-dicarboxylic acid (FDCA) is provided which can efficiently and quantitatively producing FDCA under mild conditions, without employing an expensive catalyst and with a reduced energy consumption. A furan ring compound having two functional groups selected from a hydroxymethyl group, a formyl group and a carboxyl group in the 2- and 5-positions of the furan ring, is oxidized with a metal permanganate in an alkaline environment to produce furan-2,5-dicarboxylic acid. Advantageously, the alkaline environment contains at least one of alkali metal hydroxides and alkali earth metal hydroxides, and the oxidation is performed at a temperature of from 1 to 50° C. by adding the permanganate metal salt to the alkaline aqueous solution containing the furan ring compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinari Miura, Hirokazu Kakinuma, Takenobu Kawano, Hirohide Matsuhisa
  • Publication number: 20070232815
    Abstract: A method for producing furan-2,5-dicarboxylic acid (FDCA) is provided which can efficiently and quantitatively producing FDCA under mild conditions, without employing an expensive catalyst and with a reduced energy consumption. A furan ring compound having two functional groups selected from a hydroxymethyl group, a formyl group and a carboxyl group in the 2- and 5-positions of the furan ring, is oxidized with a metal permanganate in an alkaline environment to produce furan-2,5-dicarboxylic acid. Advantageously, the alkaline environment contains at least one of alkali metal hydroxides and alkali earth metal hydroxides, and the oxidation is performed at a temperature of from 1 to 50° C. by adding the permanganate metal salt to the alkaline aqueous solution containing the furan ring compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshinari Miura, Hirokazu Kakinuma, Takenobu Kawano, Hirohide Matsuhisa