Patents by Inventor Hiroshi KINTOU

Hiroshi KINTOU 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).

  • Patent number: 11170213
    Abstract: There is provided an ocular image capturing device comprising an ocular image generating module operable to generate an image of a subject's eye based on light reflected from the eye, and a determination module arranged to determine whether or not at least a portion of a pupil region of the generated image is within a predetermined permissible region within the generated image, and to generate a signal that is indicative of the determination, the pupil region being an image of at least a portion of the pupil of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: OPTOS PLC
    Inventors: Alan Anderson, Praveen Ashok, Tomoharu Fujiwara, Yasushi Tanabe, Hiroshi Kintou, Mariko Hirokawa, Tadashi Umezaki
  • Publication number: 20190278972
    Abstract: There is provided an ocular image capturing device comprising an ocular image generating module operable to generate an image of a subject's eye based on light reflected from the eye, and a determination module arranged to determine whether or not at least a portion of a pupil region of the generated image is within a predetermined permissible region within the generated image, and to generate a signal that is indicative of the determination, the pupil region being an image of at least a portion of the pupil of the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Alan ANDERSON, Praveen ASHOK, Tomoharu FUJIWARA, Yasushi TANABE, Hiroshi KINTOU, Mariko HIROKAWA, Tadashi UMEZAKI
  • Patent number: 9563967
    Abstract: A photographic subject tracking device includes: a first degree-of-similarity calculation unit that calculates degree of similarity between a template image for tracking and an image in search area; a photographic subject position identification unit that identifies a tracked photographic subject position in the input image based on calculated degree of similarity; a second degree-of-similarity calculation unit that calculates a degree of similarity between each of multiple template images for resizing determination, which are generated based on template image for tracking, and image in search area; a matching position identification unit that identifies matching positions of the multiple template images for resizing determination, respectively, in the input image based on calculated degrees of similarity; and a size changing unit that changes an image size of template image for tracking and template images for resizing determination based on a density of the plurality of matching positions identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kintou
  • Publication number: 20150356743
    Abstract: A photographic subject tracking device includes: a first degree-of-similarity calculation unit that calculates degree of similarity between a template image for tracking and an image in search area; a photographic subject position identification unit that identifies a tracked photographic subject position in the input image based on calculated degree of similarity; a second degree-of-similarity calculation unit that calculates a degree of similarity between each of multiple template images for resizing determination, which are generated based on template image for tracking, and image in search area; a matching position identification unit that identifies matching positions of the multiple template images for resizing determination, respectively, in the input image based on calculated degrees of similarity; and a size changing unit that changes an image size of template image for tracking and template images for resizing determination based on a density of the plurality of matching positions identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventor: Hiroshi KINTOU
  • Patent number: 8649561
    Abstract: A subject designating device includes: a representative value calculation unit that calculates a representative value for each image of a brightness image and chrominance images based upon pixel values indicated at pixels present within a first subject area; a second image generation unit that creates a differential image by subtracting the representative value from pixel values indicated at pixels present within a second subject area; a binarizing unit that binarizes the differential image; a synthesizing unit that creates a synthetic image by combining binary images in correspondence to the brightness image and the chrominance images; a mask extraction unit that extracts a mask constituted with a white pixel cluster from the synthetic image; an evaluation value calculation unit that calculates an evaluation value indicating a likelihood of the mask representing the subject; and a subject designating unit that designates the subject in the target image based upon the evaluation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kintou, Ryuichi Ohmiya
  • Publication number: 20120213406
    Abstract: A subject designating device includes: a representative value calculation unit that calculates a representative value for each image of a brightness image and chrominance images based upon pixel values indicated at pixels present within a first subject area; a second image generation unit that creates a differential image by subtracting the representative value from pixel values indicated at pixels present within a second subject area; a binarizing unit that binarizes the differential image; a synthesizing unit that creates a synthetic image by combining binary images in correspondence to the brightness image and the chrominance images; a mask extraction unit that extracts a mask constituted with a white pixel cluster from the synthetic image; an evaluation value calculation unit that calculates an evaluation value indicating a likelihood of the mask representing the subject; and a subject designating unit that designates the subject in the target image based upon the evaluation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi KINTOU, Ryuichi OHMIYA