Patents by Inventor Hisashi Sano
Hisashi 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).
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Publication number: 20180204537Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a luminance/chromaticity calculation unit that calculates a luminance and a chromaticity for each pixel of pixels making up image data, based upon a value indicated for the pixel; a plane calculation unit that determines through arithmetic operation a plane containing coordinates of the pixel in a raw data space; an intersection point calculation unit that ascertains, through calculation, an intersection point at which an achromatic locus and the plane intersect each other in the raw data space; an intersection point chromaticity calculation unit that calculates a chromaticity at the intersection point; and a conversion unit that converts the chromaticity at the pixel to a chromaticity close to a chromaticity of achromatic color if the chromaticity at the pixel is close to the chromaticity at the intersection point.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hisashi SANO
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Patent number: 9609235Abstract: A digital camera includes: a RAW data conversion unit that converts pixel values of respective colors of RAW data into values corresponding to predetermined spectral characteristics; and an output image conversion unit that converts the values corresponding to the spectral characteristics converted in the RAW data conversion unit, into predetermined output image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hisashi Sano
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Publication number: 20150350564Abstract: A digital camera includes: a RAW data conversion unit that converts pixel values of respective colors of RAW data into values corresponding to predetermined spectral characteristics; and an output image conversion unit that converts the values corresponding to the spectral characteristics converted in the RAW data conversion unit, into predetermined output image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventor: Hisashi SANO
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Patent number: 8836817Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a data conversion part converting first data into second data, an identification data generation part generating identification data which depends on the first data, and a data processing part relating the identification data to the second data. Specifically, the data processing part adds the identification data to the second data.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2009Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hisashi Sano
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Publication number: 20130293568Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a luminance/chromaticity calculation unit that calculates a luminance and a chromaticity for each pixel of pixels making up image data, based upon a value indicated for the pixel; a plane calculation unit that determines through arithmetic operation a plane containing coordinates of the pixel in a raw data space; an intersection point calculation unit that ascertains, through calculation, an intersection point at which an achromatic locus and the plane intersect each other in the raw data space; an intersection point chromaticity calculation unit that calculates a chromaticity at the intersection point; and a conversion unit that converts the chromaticity at the pixel to a chromaticity close to a chromaticity of achromatic color if the chromaticity at the pixel is close to the chromaticity at the intersection point.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2012Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hisashi Sano
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Patent number: 8385686Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing method, image processing device and program which make it possible to shorten the processing time, and which also make it possible to set tile regions in appropriate ranges, by dividing one image into a plurality of regions and performing a transformation for each of these regions. The post-transformation image is divided into a plurality of tile regions, and transformation processing and the like are successively performed, with each of these tile regions as the object. In cases where a given tile region that is the object of processing contains a central axis that passes through the origin of the post-transformation image, the tile size of this region is altered by the tile size determining part 41 so that this region does not contain a central axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2004Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hisashi Sano
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Patent number: 8294777Abstract: A proposition is to perform a high accurate chromatic coordinate conversion of a chromaticity value generated by a color sensor into a chromaticity value of a predetermined chromaticity coordinate system, and to perform an accurate color-reproduction. A chromatic coordinate converting apparatus includes a recording unit recording information representing a chromaticity coordinate system unique to the color sensor in advance, and a converting unit performing a chromatic coordinate conversion of a first chromaticity value being a chromaticity value generated by the color sensor into a second chromaticity value of the predetermined chromatic coordinate system based on the information recorded by the recording unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hisashi Sano
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Publication number: 20120229661Abstract: Conventional apparatuses did not pay enough attention to assisting operations when the user is in a state differing from the normal, state. Therefore, provided is a photography lens that comprises a first biometric detection apparatus that is capable of detecting change in biometric information of a photographer, or a photographing apparatus that captures an image and comprises a holding section, an operating section for performing an image capturing operation, and a second biometric detection apparatus that is capable of detecting change in biometric information of a photographer and that is disposed in at least one of the holding section and the operating section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu SEKIGUCHI, Toshiaki MAEDA, Toshikazu MORIKAWA, Hisashi SANO, Misa KAWAMURA
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Patent number: 8224080Abstract: An image pickup apparatus is provided that allows image data to represent colors within the human visible region adequately. The apparatus includes an encoding part which encodes a color of each of pixels forming an image represented by image data that are input from an image pickup part, using an excitation purity and either a dominant wavelength or a complementary wavelength that are determined in a color space capable of representing an entire visible region based on a predetermined reference point within a visible region and a locus of a visible light spectrum in the color space, and which outputs obtained encoded data.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hisashi Sano
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Patent number: 7876373Abstract: A camera includes a first image pickup section that photographs a recording-purpose image, a viewfinder optical system, a second image pickup section, a mounting section, a display processing section, a displaying section, and a controlling section. The viewfinder optical system has an eyepiece section that can observe an optical image of a subject with a light flux from a photographing optical path of the first image pickup section. The second image pickup section photographs a view confirming image from an optical path different from that of the first image pickup section. The mounting section acquires focal-length information of an interchangeable lens. The display processing section executes display processing that superimposes a frame indicating a range of a field angle of the first image pickup section, onto the view confirming image. The displaying section provides the eyepiece section with the view confirming image having been processed with the display processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Masahito Ochi, Hisashi Sano, Toshiaki Maeda, Kazuma Hosoi, Akira Ohmura
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Patent number: 7843505Abstract: An image-capturing device includes: an image-capturing element that includes a first color filter that allows first color component light corresponding to a first color component to be transmitted and a second color filter that allows second color component light corresponding to a second color component different from the first color component to be transmitted, each formed in correspondence to one of light receiving pixels, and captures an image of a subject; an image-capturing control unit that engages the image-capturing element in a first image-capturing operation while the subject is illuminated with the first color component light and engages the image-capturing element in a second image-capturing operation while the subject is illuminated with the second color component light; and a pixel signal generating unit that generates a pixel signal corresponding to the first color component or the second color component at each pixel position based upon spectral characteristics of the first color filter, specType: GrantFiled: November 9, 2005Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hisashi Sano
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Publication number: 20090185051Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a data conversion part converting first data into second data, an identification data generation part generating identification data which depends on the first data, and a data processing part relating the identification data to the second data. Specifically, the data processing part adds the identification data to the second data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hisashi Sano
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Publication number: 20090021638Abstract: A proposition is to perform a high accurate chromatic coordinate conversion of a chromaticity value generated by a color sensor into a chromaticity value of a predetermined chromaticity coordinate system, and to perform an accurate color-reproduction. A chromatic coordinate converting apparatus includes a recording unit recording information representing a chromaticity coordinate system unique to the color sensor in advance, and a converting unit performing a chromatic coordinate conversion of a first chromaticity value being a chromaticity value generated by the color sensor into a second chromaticity value of the predetermined chromatic coordinate system based on the information recorded by the recording unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hisashi Sano
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Publication number: 20080170794Abstract: An image pickup apparatus is provided that allows image data to represent colors within the human visible region adequately. The apparatus includes an encoding part which encodes a color of each of pixels forming an image represented by image data that are input from an image pickup part, using an excitation purity and either a dominant wavelength or a complementary wavelength that are determined in a color space capable of representing an entire visible region based on a predetermined reference point within a visible region and a locus of a visible light spectrum in the color space, and which outputs obtained encoded data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Hisashi Sano
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Publication number: 20080084484Abstract: A camera includes a first image pickup section that photographs a recording-purpose image, a viewfinder optical system, a second image pickup section, a mounting section, a display processing section, a displaying section, and a controlling section. The viewfinder optical system has an eyepiece section that can observe an optical image of a subject with a light flux from a photographing optical path of the first image pickup section. The second image pickup section photographs a view confirming image from an optical path different from that of the first image pickup section. The mounting section acquires focal-length information of an interchangeable lens. The display processing section executes display processing that superimposes a frame indicating a range of a field angle of the first image pickup section, onto the view confirming image. The displaying section provides the eyepiece section with the view confirming image having been processed with the display processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2007Publication date: April 10, 2008Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Masahito Ochi, Hisashi Sano, Toshiaki Maeda, Kazuma Hosoi, Akira Ohmura
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Patent number: 7254240Abstract: An active noise control system is capable of canceling out noise in the passenger compartment of a vehicle based on low-frequency road noise. The active noise control system has a feed-forward control unit for being supplied with reference signals highly correlated to noise from a noise source and generating a noise cancellation signal which is out of phase to noise in the passenger compartment of the vehicle, and a canceling sound generating unit disposed in the passenger compartment for generating a noise canceling sound in response to the noise cancellation signal from said feed-forward control unit. The active noise control system also has microphones for generating reference signals which are positioned respectively near the base of the front seat, near the center of a roof, and within a trunk compartment, i.e., respectively at vibrational antinodes of a primary or secondary acoustic normal mode of the passenger compartment in the longitudinal direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignees: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Inoue, Hisashi Sano, Akira Takahashi, Kenichi Terai, Hiroyuki Hashimoto, Isao Kakuhari
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Publication number: 20070065043Abstract: The present invention relates to an image processing method, image processing device and program which make it possible to shorten the processing time, and which also make it possible to set tile regions in appropriate ranges, by dividing one image into a plurality of regions and performing a transformation for each of these regions. The post-transformation image is divided into a plurality of tile regions, and transformation processing and the like are successively performed, with each of these tile regions as the object. In cases where a given tile region that is the object of processing contains a central axis that passes through the origin of the post-transformation image, the tile size of this region is altered by the tile size determining part 41 so that this region does not contain a central axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2004Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Hisashi Sano
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Publication number: 20060188107Abstract: An active noise control system is capable of canceling out noise in the passenger compartment of a vehicle based on low-frequency road noise. The active noise control system has a feed-forward control unit for being supplied with reference signals highly correlated to noise from a noise source and generating a noise cancellation signal which is out of phase to noise in the passenger compartment of the vehicle, and a canceling sound generating unit disposed in the passenger compartment for generating a noise canceling sound in response to the noise cancellation signal from said feed-forward control unit. The active noise control system also has microphones for generating reference signals which are positioned respectively near the base of the front seat, near the center of a roof, and within a trunk compartment, i.e., respectively at vibrational antinodes of a primary or secondary acoustic normal mode of the passenger compartment in the longitudinal direction thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2006Publication date: August 24, 2006Inventors: Toshio Inoue, Hisashi Sano, Akira Takahashi, Kenichi Terai, Hiroyuki Hashimoto, Isao Kakuhari
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Patent number: 7062049Abstract: An active noise control system is capable of canceling out noise in the passenger compartment of a vehicle based on low-frequency road noise. The active noise control system has a feed-forward control unit for being supplied with reference signals highly correlated to noise from a noise source and generating a noise cancellation signal which is out of phase to noise in the passenger compartment of the vehicle, and a canceling sound generating unit disposed in the passenger compartment for generating a noise canceling sound in response to the noise cancellation signal from said feed-forward control unit. The active noise control system also has microphones for generating reference signals which are positioned respectively near the base of the front seat, near the center of a roof, and within a trunk compartment, i.e., respectively at vibrational antinodes of a primary or secondary acoustic normal mode of the passenger compartment in the longitudinal direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2000Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignees: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Inoue, Hisashi Sano, Akira Takahashi, Kenichi Terai, Hiroyuki Hashimoto, Isao Kakuhari
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Publication number: 20060103738Abstract: An image-capturing device includes: an image-capturing element that includes a first color filter that allows first color component light corresponding to a first color component to be transmitted and a second color filter that allows second color component light corresponding to a second color component different from the first color component to be transmitted, each formed in correspondence to one of light receiving pixels, and captures an image of a subject; an image-capturing control unit that engages the image-capturing element in a first image-capturing operation while the subject is illuminated with the first color component light and engages the image-capturing element in a second image-capturing operation while the subject is illuminated with the second color component light; and a pixel signal generating unit that generates a pixel signal corresponding to the first color component or the second color component at each pixel position based upon spectral characteristics of the first color filter, specType: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2005Publication date: May 18, 2006Applicant: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hisashi Sano