Patents by Inventor Jun Yokono

Jun Yokono 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: 9275305
    Abstract: A learning device includes: a generating unit configured to generate an image having different resolution from an input image; an extracting unit configured to extract a feature point serving as a processing object from an image generated by the generating unit; a calculating unit configured to calculate the feature amount of the feature point by subjecting the feature point to filter processing employing a predetermined filter; and an identifier generating unit configured to generate an identifier for detecting a predetermined target object from the image by statistical learning employing the feature amount; with the filter including a plurality of regions, and the calculating unit taking the difference value of difference within the regions as the feature amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Yokono
  • Patent number: 9261966
    Abstract: A natural user interface system and method of operation thereof including: a display device having a display screen and a display device camera; a mobile device having a mobile device camera, an optical axis of the mobile device camera positioned at an angle to an optical axis of the display device camera; wherein: the mobile device includes a first device pairing module for pairing the mobile device with the display device; the mobile device camera and the display device camera are for: detecting a user's hand, and determining posture and movement of the user's hand; and the display device includes a motion translation module for translating the posture and movement of the user's hand into a gesture for controlling an element of a user interface on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Berestov, Jun Yokono
  • Publication number: 20160034039
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that is configured to provide a user interface to control a plurality of controllable objects. The user interface is associated with a gesture recognition area that is defined by a predetermined detection area of a sensor. The gesture recognition area is divided into a plurality of gesture recognition sub-areas based on a number of the controllable objects to be controlled by the user interface. The circuitry is further configured to detect a predetermined gesture within the predetermined detection area, determine the gesture recognition sub-area in which the predetermined gesture is detected, and perform an operation on one of the controllable objects based on the detected predetermined gesture and the determined gesture recognition sub-area in which the predetermined gesture is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshinori MAEDA, Jun YOKONO, Katsuki MINAMINO
  • Patent number: 9208405
    Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing a hierarchical image recognition framework for classifying digital images are provided. The provided hierarchical image recognition framework utilizes a multi-layer approach to model training and image classification tasks. A first layer of the hierarchical image recognition framework generates first layer confidence scores, which are utilized by the second layer to produce a final recognition score. The provided hierarchical image recognition framework permits model training and image classification tasks to be performed more accurately and in a less resource intensive fashion than conventional single-layer image recognition frameworks. In some embodiments real-time operator guidance is provided for an image classification task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shengyang Dai, Su Wang, Akira Nakamura, Takeshi Ohashi, Jun Yokono
  • Publication number: 20150347505
    Abstract: An information processing unit includes: a diagnostic image input section that inputs the diagnostic image; an operation information obtaining section that obtains display operation history information representing an operation history of a user who controls displaying of the diagnostic image; a query image generation section that extracts a predetermined region of the input diagnostic image to generate a query image; a diagnosed image obtaining section that supplies the generated query image and the display operation history information to a diagnosed image search unit and obtains the diagnosed image obtained as a search result by the diagnosed image search unit; and a display control section that displays the diagnostic image and the obtained diagnosed image for comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicants: JAPANESE FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH, SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi OHASHI, Jun YOKONO, Takuya NARIHIRA
  • Patent number: 9202281
    Abstract: An integrated interactive segmentation with spatial constraint method utilizes a combination of several of the most popular online learning algorithms into one and implements a spatial constraint which defines a valid mask local to the user's given marks. Additionally, both supervised learning and statistical analysis are integrated, which are able to compensate each other. Once prediction and activation are obtained, pixel-wised multiplication is conducted to fully indicate how likely each pixel belongs to the foreground or background.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Su Wang, Shengyang Dai, Xun Xu, Akira Nakamura, Takeshi Ohashi, Jun Yokono
  • Patent number: 9165181
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a difference image generation unit which generates a difference image by obtaining a difference between frames of a cutout image which is obtained by cutting out a predetermined region on a photographed image; a feature amount extracting unit which extracts a feature amount from the difference image; and a recognition unit which recognizes a specific movement of an object on the photographed image based on the feature amount which is obtained from the plurality of difference images which are aligned in time sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Maeda, Jun Yokono, Katsuki Minamino
  • Publication number: 20150235079
    Abstract: Disclosed is a learning device. A feature-quantity calculation unit extracts a feature quantity from each feature point of a learning image. An acquisition unit acquires a classifier already obtained by learning as a transfer classifier. A classifier generation unit substitutes feature quantities into weak classifiers constituting the transfer classifier, calculates error rates of the weak classifiers on the basis of classification results of the weak classifiers and a weight of the learning image, and iterates a process of selecting a weak classifier of which the error rate is minimized a plurality of times. In addition, the classifier generation unit generates a classifier for detecting a detection target by linearly coupling a plurality of selected weak classifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventor: JUN YOKONO
  • Patent number: 9105239
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a movement section which scrolls a medical image on a screen, and a display control section which, in a case where the medical image is scrolled on the screen, controls a display section to display the medical image in a manner that an observation reference position of a diagnosis region of the medical image passes through a display reference position of a display region of the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Japanese Foundation For Cancer Research
    Inventors: Takeshi Ohashi, Jun Yokono, Takuya Narihira
  • Publication number: 20150199563
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a storing section that stores a database in which specific pose data representing each of specific poses of a human, and effect manipulation data specifying each of manipulations applied to an image are registered in association with each other, a human region detecting section that detects a human region that is a region where a human appears in an image on which to perform image processing, a human pose recognizing section that recognizes a pose of the human in the human region detected by the human region detecting section, a matching section that finds the specific pose data matching the pose recognized by the human pose recognizing section, by referencing the database, and a manipulating section that applies a manipulation to the image on the basis of the effect manipulation data associated with the specific pose data found by the matching section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Yuichi Hasegawa, Jun Yokono, Keisuke Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20150178564
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a feature amount extraction unit configured to extract each feature amount from a connected image generated by connecting images photographed from different viewpoints; and a specific object recognition unit configured to perform a process of determining a position of a specific object based on the feature amount extracted by the feature amount extraction unit. The feature amount extraction unit performs a feature amount extraction process to which a separated filter in which filter-formed regions are set to be separated is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventor: Jun YOKONO
  • Publication number: 20150178934
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a data processing unit that executes analysis of images which are captured from different viewpoints. The data processing unit executes an object distance calculation process in which pattern-irradiated images of a plurality of different viewpoints are applied, and an object detection process in which non-pattern-irradiated images are applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventor: JUN YOKONO
  • Publication number: 20150161481
    Abstract: A learning device includes: a generating unit configured to generate an image having different resolution from an input image; an extracting unit configured to extract a feature point serving as a processing object from an image generated by the generating unit; a calculating unit configured to calculate the feature amount of the feature point by subjecting the feature point to filter processing employing a predetermined filter; and an identifier generating unit configured to generate an identifier for detecting a predetermined target object from the image by statistical learning employing the feature amount; with the filter including a plurality of regions, and the calculating unit taking the difference value of difference within the regions as the feature amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventor: Jun YOKONO
  • Patent number: 9053358
    Abstract: Disclosed is a learning device. A feature-quantity calculation unit extracts a feature quantity from each feature point of a learning image. An acquisition unit acquires a classifier already obtained by learning as a transfer classifier. A classifier generation unit substitutes feature quantities into weak classifiers constituting the transfer classifier, calculates error rates of the weak classifiers on the basis of classification results of the weak classifiers and a weight of the learning image, and iterates a process of selecting a weak classifier of which the error rate is minimized a plurality of times. In addition, the classifier generation unit generates a classifier for detecting a detection target by linearly coupling a plurality of selected weak classifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Yokono
  • Patent number: 9031327
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a predetermined part of a body of a person from an input image including the person; an evaluator configured to evaluate a difference between a recognized input part and a reference part serving as a basis; and a notifying unit configured to notify information relating to the difference of the input part from the reference part based on an evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Yokono, Takuya Narihira
  • Publication number: 20150120624
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a sorting unit configured to sort a second data set as evaluation data with a sorter generated by learning through supervised learning that uses a first data set as teacher data, an input unit configured to receive label correction for the second data set in accordance with a sorting result from the sorting unit, and an update unit configured to update the second data set to reflect the correction received by the input unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Jun YOKONO, Yoshiaki IWAI, Ryuichi NAWA
  • Patent number: 9020210
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a storing section that stores a database in which specific pose data representing each of specific poses of a human, and effect manipulation data specifying each of manipulations applied to an image are registered in association with each other, a human region detecting section that detects a human region that is a region where a human appears in an image on which to perform image processing, a human pose recognizing section that recognizes a pose of the human in the human region detected by the human region detecting section, a matching section that finds the specific pose data matching the pose recognized by the human pose recognizing section, by referencing the database, and a manipulating section that applies a manipulation to the image on the basis of the effect manipulation data associated with the specific pose data found by the matching section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Hasegawa, Jun Yokono, Keisuke Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20150054740
    Abstract: A natural user interface system and method of operation thereof including: a display device having a display screen and a display device camera; a mobile device having a mobile device camera, an optical axis of the mobile device camera positioned at an angle to an optical axis of the display device camera; wherein: the mobile device includes a first device pairing module for pairing the mobile device with the display device; the mobile device camera and the display device camera are for: detecting a user's hand, and determining posture and movement of the user's hand; and the display device includes a motion translation module for translating the posture and movement of the user's hand into a gesture for controlling an element of a user interface on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Alexander Berestov, Jun Yokono
  • Publication number: 20150054820
    Abstract: A natural user interface system and method of operation thereof including: providing a display screen having a range camera connected to the display screen in a known location relative to the display screen; determining a user's pointing vector as pointing towards the display screen; determining the user's pointing vector as motionless; and initializing a cursor in the center of the display screen and simultaneously calibrating the user's pointing vector as an initial pointing vector pointing at the center of the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Wei Ji, Alexander Berestov, Daniel Usikov, Golnaz Abdollahian, Keisuke Yamaoka, Jun Yokono
  • Patent number: 8849017
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image feature outputting unit that outputs each of image features in correspondence with a time of the frame; a foreground estimating unit that estimates a foreground image at a time s by executing a view transform as a geometric transform on a foreground view model and outputs an estimated foreground view; a background estimating unit that estimates a background image at the time s by executing a view transform as a geometric transform on a background view model and outputs an estimated background view; a synthesized view generating unit that generates a synthesized view by synthesizing the estimated foreground and background views; a foreground learning unit that learns the foreground view model based on an evaluation value; and a background learning unit that learns the background view model based on the evaluation value by updating the parameter of the foreground view model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Ito, Kohtaro Sabe, Jun Yokono