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).

  • Publication number: 20110228982
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a learning image input unit configured to input a learning image, in which a tracked object is captured on different shooting conditions, together with the shooting conditions, a feature response calculation unit configured to calculate a response of one or more integrated features, with respect to the learning image while changing a parameter in accordance with the shooting conditions, a feature learning unit configured to recognize spatial distribution of the one or more integrated features in the learning image based on a calculation result of the response and evaluate a relationship between the shooting conditions and the parameter and a spatial relationship among the integrated features so as to learn a feature of the tracked object, and a feature storage unit configured to store a learning result of the feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ning ZHOU, Keisuke Yamaoka, Jun Yokono, Yuichi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20110222759
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a characteristic amount calculating unit calculating a characteristic amount for each of a plurality of n different image patterns, a specifying unit specifying a best-matching image pattern among the plurality of n image patterns for each of frames forming a learning moving picture and having temporal continuity, a computing unit computing a collocation probability Pij indicating a probability that, for a frame located at a position where a temporal distance to a frame for which a first image pattern Xi is specified among the plurality of n image patterns is within a predetermined threshold ?, a second image pattern Xj is specified among the plurality of n image patterns, and a grouping unit grouping the plurality of n image patterns by using the computed collocation probability Pij.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Jun YOKONO
  • Publication number: 20110211233
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a scanning unit configured to scan a search window on an image to be detected, and a discrimination unit configured to apply one or more rectangle filters for detecting a desired object to an image of the search window at each scan position so as to calculate one or more rectangle features and to discriminate whether or not the object is detected based on the obtained one or more rectangle features. The scanning unit generates integral images corresponding to a size of the search window at every scan position and holds the integral images in a predetermined memory buffer, and the discrimination unit calculates the rectangle features with respect to the image of the search window at each scan position using the integral images held in the memory buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Jun YOKONO
  • Publication number: 20110188771
    Abstract: An image processing device that recognizes an object present in an image includes a filter calculation unit configured to obtain a plurality of filter outputs by applying a plurality of directional selectivity filters, which respectively correspond to different directions, to the image, and a feature amount calculation unit configured to calculate a plurality of feature amounts with respect to the image based on the filter outputs, which respectively correspond to adjacent angles, of the plurality of directional selectivity filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Jun YOKONO
  • Publication number: 20110135192
    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 9, 2011
    Inventor: Jun YOKONO
  • Publication number: 20110110594
    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: November 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Yuichi HASEGAWA, Jun Yokono, Keisuke Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20110029465
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain time-series data from a wearable sensor, an activity model learning unit configured to learn an activity model representing a user activity state as a stochastic state transition model from the obtained time-series data, a recognition unit configured to recognize a current user activity state by using the activity model of the user obtained by the activity model learning unit, and a prediction unit configured to predict a user activity state after a predetermined time elapses from a current time from the current user activity state recognized by the recognition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Masato ITO, Kohtaro Sabe, Hirotaka Suzuki, Jun Yokono, Kazumi Aoyama, Takashi Hasuo
  • Publication number: 20100290700
    Abstract: An information processing device including an extraction unit and a detection unit. If both a parameter set extracting features from an image and a classifier performing predetermined classification by using the extracted features are statistically learned in advance, the extraction unit extracts features of a recognition target object from an input image by using the parameter set, and the detection unit performs the predetermined classification by using the classifier, which uses the features extracted by the extraction unit, and, on the basis of the result of the classification, determines whether or not the object is included in the input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventor: Jun Yokono
  • Publication number: 20100245394
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus detects a representative frame of a moving image. The image processing apparatus includes a holding section configured to hold the moving image which is inputted, a detecting section configured to detect a peak of zooming that occurs in the inputted moving image, and an extracting section configured to extract the representative frame corresponding to the detected peak from a plurality of frames constituting the held moving image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventor: Jun Yokono
  • Publication number: 20100246908
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus identifies tissues in respective parts of a tissue image. A tissue image subdivider subdivides a tissue image for identification into local regions. A detector detects texture feature values of the local regions. A determining unit compares the detected texture feature value of a local region to a learned feature value for identification associated with a predetermined tissue, and on the basis of the comparison result, determines whether or not the local region belongs to the predetermined tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventor: Jun YOKONO
  • Patent number: 7801354
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a learning device generating, in advance, a recognizer for recognizing a recognition target; and a recognition device recognizing, using the recognizer, whether a recognition image includes the recognition target. The learning device includes model feature point generator for generating model feature points, model feature quantity generator for generating model-feature quantities, learning feature point generator for generating learning feature points, learning feature quantity generator for generating learning feature quantities, learning correlation feature quantity generator for generating a learning correlation feature quantity, and recognizer generator for generating the recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Yokono
  • Patent number: 7783585
    Abstract: A data processing device for processing time-sequence data includes a learning unit for performing self-organizing learning of a SOM (self-organization map) making up a hierarchical SOM in which a plurality of SOMs are connected so as to construct a hierarchical structure, using, as SOM input data which is input to the SOM, a time-sequence of node information representing a winning node of a lower-order SOM which is at a lower hierarchical level from the SOM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kohtaro Sabe, Kazumi Aoyama, Jun Yokono, Kenichi Hidai, Kuniaki Noda
  • Publication number: 20100188519
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an outline extraction unit extracting an outline of a subject from a picked-up image of the subject; a characteristic amount extraction unit extracting a characteristic amount, by extracting sample points from points making up the outline, for each of the sample points; an estimation unit estimating a posture of a high degree of matching as a posture of the subject by calculating a degree of the characteristic amount extracted in the characteristic amount extraction unit being matched with each of a plurality of characteristic amounts that are prepared in advance and represent predetermined postures different from each other; and a determination unit determining accuracy of estimation by the estimation unit using a matching cost when the estimation unit carries out the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Keisuke YAMAOKA, Jun Yokono
  • Publication number: 20100086176
    Abstract: A learning apparatus includes an image generator, a feature point extractor, a feature value calculator, and a classifier generator. The image generator generates, from an input image, images having differing scale coefficients. The feature point extractor extracts feature points from each image generated by the image generator. The feature value calculator calculates feature values for the feature points by filtering the feature points using a predetermined filter. The classifier generator generates one or more classifiers for detecting a predetermined target object from an image by means of statistical learning using the feature values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Jun YOKONO, Yuichi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20100086175
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detector, a setting unit, and an image generator. The detector detects a target object image region from a first image. When one or more predetermined parameters are applicable to a target object within the region detected by the detector, the setting unit sets the relevant target object image region as a first region. The image generator then generates a second image by applying predetermined processing to either the image portion within the first region, or to the image portions in a second region containing image portions within the first image that are not contained in the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Jun YOKONO, Yuichi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20100055654
    Abstract: A learning apparatus includes a feature extractor for extracting a feature at a feature point in a plurality of training images including training images that contains a target object to be recognized and that does not contain the target object, a tentative learner generator for generating a tentative learner for detecting the target object in an image, where the tentative learner is formed from a plurality of weak learners through statistical learning using the training images and the feature obtained from the training images, and a learner generator for generating a final learner that is formed from at least one of the weak learners and that detects the target object in an image by substituting the feature into a feature function formed from some of the weak learners of the tentative learner so as to obtain a new feature and performing statistical learning using the new feature and training images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Jun YOKONO, Yuichi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20090202145
    Abstract: A learning apparatus includes: first feature quantity calculating means for pairing a predetermined pixel and a different pixel in each of a plurality of learning images, which includes a learning image containing a target object to be recognized and a learning image not containing the target object, and calculating a first feature quantity of the pair by calculating a texture distance between an area including the predetermined pixel and an area including the different pixel; and first discriminator generating means for generating a first discriminator for detecting the target object from an image by a statistical learning using a plurality of the first feature quantities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Jun YOKONO, Yuichi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20090150317
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a target storage means, a control means, a decision means, a prediction means and a generating means, in which the decision means, when determining that the system state makes a transition to a state represented by the target value in accordance with the output of the time series of motor signals generated by the generating means, updates a parameter representing the relationship between input and output, which is used by the control means for controlling the system based on the time series of motor signals generated by the generating means and a time series of sensor signals observed in accordance with the output of the time series of motor signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuki Minamino, Hideki Shimomura, Jun Yokono, Kenta Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20090060290
    Abstract: A face image processing apparatus selects feature points and feature for identifying a person through statistical learning. The apparatus includes input means for inputting a face image detected by arbitrary face detection means, face parts detection means for detecting the positions of face parts in several locations from the input face image, face pose estimation means for estimating face pose based on the detected positions of face parts, feature point position correcting means for correcting the position of each feature point used for identifying the person based on the result of estimation of face pose by the face pose estimation means, and face identifying means for identifying the person by calculating a feature of the input face image at each feature point after position correction is performed by the feature point position correcting means and checking the feature against a feature of a registered face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kohtaro SABE, Atsushi Okubo, Jun Yokono
  • Publication number: 20080137917
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including combination generating means for getting a first feature quantity of N dimensions, N being an integer of at least two, from first information prepared for execution of learning and use the first feature quantity of N dimensions to generate at least two of a first feature quantity combination that are not greater than N dimensions of the first feature quantity; and learning processing executing means for computing a correlation coefficient between the plurality of first feature quantity combinations generated by the combination generating means and a learning model feature quantity matching each dimension of the plurality of first feature quantity combinations and, by use of the first correlation coefficient, classify the first information, thereby executing learning processing for classifying predetermined second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Atsushi OKUBO, Jun Yokono