Patents by Inventor Hironori Mori
Hironori Mori 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: 20160105660Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that enable high-precision generation of parallax images of viewpoints with a small amount of calculation. A correlation generating unit calculates correlation values of captured images of pairs of viewpoints, using captured images of viewpoints. A generating unit generates parallax images of different hierarchical levels of a reference viewpoint based on the correlation values. The parallax images are a parallax image formed with the disparity value of the reference viewpoint, and a parallax image formed with the disparity value of an occlusion region. The reference viewpoint is one of the viewpoints. The present disclosure can be applied to the image processing apparatus of a light field camera, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2014Publication date: April 14, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhisa ITO, Kengo HAYASAKA, Hironori MORI
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Publication number: 20160089687Abstract: Provided that a process for manufacturing an elastic roller having a mandrel and a coating film. The process comprise a first step of forming a coating film on an outer peripheral surface of a first mandrel, and a second step of forming a coating film on an outer peripheral surface of a second mandrel. The process further comprises a cleaning step between the steps. The cleaning step comprising: making a cleaning member arranged coaxially with the central axis of a circular coating head, in a downstream side in a moving direction of the first mandrel with respect to the circular coating head, making the cleaning member relatively approach the circular coating head; bringing a surface to be cleaned into contact with the cleaning member; rotating the cleaning member while the surface comes in contact with the cleaning member; and inserting the cleaning member into the center hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventors: Akinori Sato, Katsumi Otani, Yosuke Ata, Masahiro Inami, Hironori Mori
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Patent number: 9262839Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a depth generation unit configured to generate, based on an image of a current frame and an image of a preceding frame of the current frame, a depth image indicating a position of a subject in a depth direction in the image of the preceding frame as a depth image of the current frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hironori Mori, Katsuhisa Ito, Kengo Hayasaka
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Patent number: 9197873Abstract: A stereoscopic display device includes: a parallax adjustment section performing a parallax adjustment on each of a left-eye image and a right-eye image which are inputted; and a display section displaying the left-eye image and the right-eye image which are resultant of the parallax adjustment by the parallax adjustment section. The parallax adjustment section performs the parallax adjustment only on a region other than an OSD image region with an OSD image superposed therein in each of the left-eye image and the right-eye image.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2011Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hironori Mori
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Patent number: 9071832Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including a congruence degree detecting unit which detects a degree of congruence of each of multiple scenes with respect to an input image made of a two-dimensional image, a depth image generating unit which generates, with respect to the input image, depth images each obtained by a technique corresponding to each of the scenes, a blending unit which blends the depth images, which are generated by the depth image generating unit and each generated by a technique corresponding to each of the scenes, at a blending ratio based on the degree of congruence of each of the scenes, to generate a blended depth image, and a three-dimensional image generating unit which generates a three-dimensional image, which can be viewed three-dimensionally, made of a left-eye image and a right-eye image generated by shifting each pixel of the input image using the blended depth image.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobuo Ueki, Hironori Mori, Takashi Kojima, Yuki Tokizaki, Kazuhiko Nishibori, Seiji Kimura
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Patent number: 9026012Abstract: A developer carrying member is provided the surface layer of which can make a developer stable by controlling its triboelectric charging strongly and which can maintain a high image quality over a long period of time even where a developer made highly spherical-particle or a small-particle developer is used. The developer carrying member has a substrate and a surface layer. The surface layer is a cured product of a resin composition containing a binder resin, conductive particles, a quaternary ammonium salt and an azo metal complex compound, the binder resin has in the molecular structure at least one structure selected from the group consisting of an —NH2 group, an ?NH group and an —NH— linkage, and the azo metal complex compound is a compound represented by the formula (1) as defined in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Otake, Masayoshi Shimamura, Yasutaka Akashi, Takuma Matsuda, Minoru Ito, Kazuhito Wakabayashi, Atsushi Noguchi, Hironori Mori
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Publication number: 20150016517Abstract: Provided is an encoding device including a non-occlusion region encoding unit configured to encode a difference between an image of a neighboring viewpoint, which is a viewpoint different from a criterion viewpoint, and a predicted image of the neighboring viewpoint of a non-occlusion region of the image of the neighboring viewpoint according to a first encoding scheme, and an occlusion region encoding unit configured to encode an occlusion region of the image of the neighboring viewpoint according to a second encoding scheme different from the first encoding scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: HIRONORI MORI, KATSUHISA ITO, KENGO HAYASAKA
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Publication number: 20150016713Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a depth generation unit configured to generate, based on an image of a current frame and an image of a preceding frame of the current frame, a depth image indicating a position of a subject in a depth direction in the image of the preceding frame as a depth image of the current frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: HIRONORI MORI, KATSUHISA ITO, KENGO HAYASAKA
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Patent number: 8792810Abstract: A developer carrying member is provided which can maintain a high image quality over a long period of time even where a highly triboelectrically chargeable developer is used. The developer carrying member has a substrate and a surface layer. The surface layer is a cured product of a resin composition containing a binder resin, conductive particles, a quaternary phosphonium salt and an azo metal complex compound, the binder resin has in the molecular structure at least one structure selected from the group consisting of an —NH2 group, an ?NH group and an —NH— linkage, and the azo metal complex compound is a compound represented by the formula (1) as defined in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Minoru Ito, Masayoshi Shimamura, Yasutaka Akashi, Satoshi Otake, Takuma Matsuda, Kazuhito Wakabayashi, Atsushi Noguchi, Hironori Mori
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Patent number: 8628846Abstract: Provided is a developer carrying member that can stably provide a negatively chargeable developer with triboelectric charge and whose surface hardly wears even after its long-term use. The developer carrying member is a developer carrying member, comprising: a substrate; and a surface layer, wherein: the surface layer contains a matrix resin and electro-conductive particles; and the matrix resin contains a crosslinked product of a polymer chain having units represented by the following structural formula (1) and the following structural formula (2), and a polymer chain represented by the following structural formula (3).Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2013Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhito Wakabayashi, Masayoshi Shimamura, Yasutaka Akashi, Satoshi Otake, Takuma Matsuda, Minoru Ito, Atsushi Noguchi, Hironori Mori
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Patent number: 8538303Abstract: A developer carrying member having less environmental dependence is provided. The developer carrying member has a substrate and a resin layer, which resin layer contains an acrylic resin; the acrylic resin having a unit (1) represented by the following formula (1) and a unit (2) represented by the following formula (2). In the formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 represents an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and an asterisk * represents the part of linkage to the part shown by a double asterisk ** in the formula (2). In the formula (2), R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R4 represents an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atom(s); R5, R6 and R7 each represent an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms; A? represents an anion.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takuma Matsuda, Masayoshi Shimamura, Yasutaka Akahashi, Satoshi Otake, Minoru Ito, Kazuhito Wakabayashi, Atsushi Noguchi, Hironori Mori
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Publication number: 20130063424Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including a congruence degree detecting unit which detects a degree of congruence of each of multiple scenes with respect to an input image made of a two-dimensional image, a depth image generating unit which generates, with respect to the input image, depth images each obtained by a technique corresponding to each of the scenes, a blending unit which blends the depth images, which are generated by the depth image generating unit and each generated by a technique corresponding to each of the scenes, at a blending ratio based on the degree of congruence of each of the scenes, to generate a blended depth image, and a three-dimensional image generating unit which generates a three-dimensional image, which can be viewed three-dimensionally, made of a left-eye image and a right-eye image generated by shifting each pixel of the input image using the blended depth image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Inventors: Nobuo UEKI, Hironori MORI, Takashi KOJIMA, Yuki TOKIZAKI, Kazuhiko NISHIBORI, Seiji KIMURA
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Publication number: 20110316991Abstract: A stereoscopic display device includes: a parallax adjustment section performing a parallax adjustment on each of a left-eye image and a right-eye image which are inputted; and a display section displaying the left-eye image and the right-eye image which are resultant of the parallax adjustment by the parallax adjustment section. The parallax adjustment section performs the parallax adjustment only on a region other than an OSD image region with an OSD image superposed therein in each of the left-eye image and the right-eye image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Hironori MORI
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Publication number: 20110051004Abstract: A video signal processing device includes: a first video signal processing section performing a first process on an input video signal for displaying a composite image that is a combination of a natural image and an artificial image, the first process being performed on pixels in a region larger than an artificial image combining region and being a process on which pixels within the combining region have influence; a second video signal processing section performing a second process on the input video signal, the second process being performed on pixels in a region larger than the combining region and being a process on which pixels within the combining region have no influence; and a process restricting section restricting the first process in a first region overlapping and encompassing the combining region and restricting the second process in a second region which is identical to the artificial image combining region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hironori MORI, Yosuke YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20100318723Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of memory controllers. Each of the memory controllers has an aggregation processing part and an aggregation synchronization part. Based on a signal from the aggregation synchronization part, the aggregation processing part aggregates valid data of a temporary physical block into another physical block. When one of the memory controllers requires an aggregation process, the aggregation synchronization part sends a synchronization signal to the other memory controller, so that the aggregation process is simultaneously carried out by the other memory controller. Thus, in the nonvolatile memory device having a plurality of memory controllers, it is possible to reduce the time required for the aggregation process and carry out a high-speed writing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Masahiro Nakanishi, Tetsushi Kasahara, Takefumi Sugai, Hironori Mori, Kunihiro Maki, Kazuaki Tamura
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Publication number: 20100082878Abstract: Used is a nonvolatile memory such as a multi-level NAND flash memory having memory cells for holding data of a plurality of pages. When the data is to be written in the nonvolatile memory 110, a physical unit is consisted in units of a plurality of paired pages. When all the physical units cannot be written, the data is copied from an old physical block holding an already written effective data, and is written in a new physical block till the written, from the first section of a new physical unit, so that an error can be prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2006Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Masahiro Nakanichi, Tomoaki Izumi, Hironori Mori, Kunihiro Maki, Toshiyuki Honda