Patents by Inventor Hironaga SANO

Hironaga SANO 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: 20220357155
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a distance measuring device, a distance measuring method, a program, an electronic apparatus, a learning model generating method, a manufacturing method, and a depth map generating method that are designed to enable distance measurement with higher precision. The distance measuring device includes: a first determination unit that determines whether or not the difference in depth value between a first pixel in a depth map and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel is larger than a first threshold; and a second determination unit that determines whether or not the difference in confidence between the first pixel and the second pixel is larger than a second threshold, in a case where the first determination unit determines that the difference in distance between the first pixel and the second pixel is larger than the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi Fujita, Hiroaki Ono, Hironaga Sano, Tomoharu Mukasa
  • Publication number: 20220155459
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a distance measuring sensor, a signal processing method, and a distance measuring module that enable calculation of distance information and outdoor judgment to be performed by the distance measuring sensor alone. The distance measuring sensor includes a distance measuring unit that calculates distance information to an object from a signal obtained by a light receiving unit that receives reflected light obtained by reflection of irradiation light emitted from a predetermined light emitting source by the object, an ambient light calculation unit that calculates an ambient light component included in the signal obtained by the light receiving unit, and an outdoor information calculation unit that calculates outdoor information on the basis of the ambient light component. The present technology can be applied to, for example, for example, a distance measuring module or the like that measures the distance to a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: HIROAKI ONO, HIRONAGA SANO
  • Publication number: 20220146648
    Abstract: A distance measuring device of the present disclosure includes: a light source that irradiates a subject with light; a light detection unit that receives reflected light from the subject based on irradiation light from the light source; and a control unit that performs exposure control according to a distance between the distance measuring device and the subject. Furthermore, an electronic device of the present disclosure includes the distance measuring device having the configuration described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: HIRONAGA SANO, YASUHIRO OKAMOTO, HIROAKI ONO, YUKINAO KENJO, TAKASHI KUSAKARI
  • Publication number: 20200175693
    Abstract: A threshold map generation unit 412 partitions a captured image into a crowded region and an uncrowded region on a basis of a manipulation signal from an input device 30, acquires a human determination threshold in accordance with a level of crowdedness for each region from the threshold storage unit 411, and generates a threshold map. A human detection unit 421 performs human detection using the human determination threshold corresponding to the region for each of the plurality of regions on the basis of the threshold map. A tracking unit 422 performs tracking of detected humans. A human detection reliability calculation unit 441 calculates human detection reliability for each of the detected humans using a human detection result and a tracking result. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain human detection information with high reliability and high precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: SHINICHI TAKADA, KENICHIRO OI, HIRONAGA SANO
  • Patent number: 10157327
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a plurality of object feature amount calculation units to calculate an object feature amount related to an object on an image, from a current frame of a moving image based on different standards, a feature amount selection unit to select an object feature amount to be used from the plurality of object feature amounts, which is calculated based on the different standards, using object attribute information related to an object on a previous frame of the moving image, an object information calculation unit to calculate object information related to an object on the current frame using the selected feature amount and object information related to the object on the previous frame, and an object attribute information calculation unit to calculate object attribute information related to the object on the current frame based on the calculated object information related to the object on the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kuzuya, Kenichiro Oi, Hironaga Sano, Nana Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170220894
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program to make it possible to continuously track an object on a moving image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kuzuya, Kenichiro Oi, Hironaga Sano, Nana Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9473746
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire image data of a captured image; a dividing section configured to divide the acquired image data into divisional regions; a characteristic-amount calculation section configured to calculate a characteristic amount of the image data in each of the divisional regions; a characteristic-amount storage section configured to update the calculated characteristic amount and store the updated characteristic amount sequentially; and a change determination section configured to perform first and second processings, the first processing being provided to calculate a change amount or an agreement amount between the characteristic amounts, the second processing being provided to calculate a difference value between the characteristic amounts, and the change determination section being configured to determine, based on processing contents of the first and second processings, whether or not the update region is a changed region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Masuura, Naoki Kuzuya, Hironaga Sano, Sho Ogura
  • Patent number: 9367747
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit which detects an object which is included in an image; and a determination unit which determines a positional relationship between a detected object and a protective barrier region in a depth direction of the image based on a feature amount relating to at least one of the detected object and the protective barrier region, when the detected object and the protective barrier region overlap with each other in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironaga Sano
  • Publication number: 20140348381
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit which detects an object which is included in an image; and a determination unit which determines a positional relationship between a detected object and a protective barrier region in a depth direction of the image based on a feature amount relating to at least one of the detected object and the protective barrier region, when the detected object and the protective barrier region overlap with each other in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironaga Sano
  • Publication number: 20140267821
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire image data of a captured image; a dividing section configured to divide the acquired image data into divisional regions; a characteristic-amount calculation section configured to calculate a characteristic amount of the image data in each of the divisional regions; a characteristic-amount storage section configured to update the calculated characteristic amount and store the updated characteristic amount sequentially; and a change determination section configured to perform first and second processings, the first processing being provided to calculate a change amount or an agreement amount between the characteristic amounts, the second processing being provided to calculate a difference value between the characteristic amounts, and the change determination section being configured to determine, based on processing contents of the first and second processings, whether or not the update region is a changed region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Masuura, Naoki Kuzuya, Hironaga Sano, Sho Ogura
  • Publication number: 20090193139
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a physical layer to perform signal transmission/reception with another communication end, and a data transfer section (DTL) to connect an upper level user application and the physical layer. The DTL includes a profile ID addition section to add a profile ID indicating the type of a data file to a transmission data file based on an instruction from the user application and continuously transmits the data file with the profile ID through the physical layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: Hironaga SANO, Hiroyuki FUJINAGA, Tetsuo UMEDA