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).

  • Publication number: 20160105660
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhisa ITO, Kengo HAYASAKA, Hironori MORI
  • Publication number: 20160089687
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Akinori Sato, Katsumi Otani, Yosuke Ata, Masahiro Inami, Hironori Mori
  • Patent number: 9262839
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Mori, Katsuhisa Ito, Kengo Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 9197873
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironori Mori
  • Patent number: 9071832
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Ueki, Hironori Mori, Takashi Kojima, Yuki Tokizaki, Kazuhiko Nishibori, Seiji Kimura
  • Patent number: 9026012
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Otake, Masayoshi Shimamura, Yasutaka Akashi, Takuma Matsuda, Minoru Ito, Kazuhito Wakabayashi, Atsushi Noguchi, Hironori Mori
  • Publication number: 20150016517
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: HIRONORI MORI, KATSUHISA ITO, KENGO HAYASAKA
  • Publication number: 20150016713
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: HIRONORI MORI, KATSUHISA ITO, KENGO HAYASAKA
  • Patent number: 8792810
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Ito, Masayoshi Shimamura, Yasutaka Akashi, Satoshi Otake, Takuma Matsuda, Kazuhito Wakabayashi, Atsushi Noguchi, Hironori Mori
  • Patent number: 8628846
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhito Wakabayashi, Masayoshi Shimamura, Yasutaka Akashi, Satoshi Otake, Takuma Matsuda, Minoru Ito, Atsushi Noguchi, Hironori Mori
  • Patent number: 8538303
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuma Matsuda, Masayoshi Shimamura, Yasutaka Akahashi, Satoshi Otake, Minoru Ito, Kazuhito Wakabayashi, Atsushi Noguchi, Hironori Mori
  • Publication number: 20130063424
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Nobuo UEKI, Hironori MORI, Takashi KOJIMA, Yuki TOKIZAKI, Kazuhiko NISHIBORI, Seiji KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20110316991
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironori MORI
  • Publication number: 20110051004
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori MORI, Yosuke YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20100318723
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Masahiro Nakanishi, Tetsushi Kasahara, Takefumi Sugai, Hironori Mori, Kunihiro Maki, Kazuaki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20100082878
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Masahiro Nakanichi, Tomoaki Izumi, Hironori Mori, Kunihiro Maki, Toshiyuki Honda