Patents by Inventor Katsuaki NISHINO
Katsuaki NISHINO 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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Patent number: 11032622Abstract: Display information that indicates the communication status of network-connected instruments, and makes it possible to easily know an error-detected position, error contents, the extent of influence of an error and the like is generated. Display information that allows identification of data of inter-group communication between a transmission data group constituted by a plurality of pieces of transmission data, and a reception data group constituted by a plurality of pieces of reception data is generated. Information is displayed such that it becomes possible to identify whether communication of each piece of data among a plurality of pieces of communication data of each group is underway or stopped. Furthermore, at a time of occurrence of an error, warning information including an error level or contents is displayed on a connection line.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuaki Nishino, Susumu Matsushita
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Publication number: 20200162794Abstract: Display information that indicates the communication status of network-connected instruments, and makes it possible to easily know an error-detected position, error contents, the extent of influence of an error and the like is generated. Display information that allows identification of data of inter-group communication between a transmission data group constituted by a plurality of pieces of transmission data, and a reception data group constituted by a plurality of pieces of reception data is generated. Information is displayed such that it becomes possible to identify whether communication of each piece of data among a plurality of pieces of communication data of each group is underway or stopped. Furthermore, at a time of occurrence of an error, warning information including an error level or contents is displayed on a connection line.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Katsuaki NISHINO, Susumu MATSUSHITA
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Patent number: 9594973Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a moving object detection unit configured to detect a moving object which is an image different from a background in a current image, a temporary pause determination unit configured to determine whether the moving object is paused for a predetermined time period or more, a reliability processing unit configured to calculate non-moving object reliability for a pixel of the current image using the current image and a temporarily paused image including a temporarily paused object serving as the moving object which is paused for a predetermined time period or more, the non-moving object reliability representing likelihood of being a non-moving object which is an image different from the background that does not change for a predetermined time period or more, and a non-moving object detection unit configured to detect the non-moving object from the current image based on the non-moving object reliability.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Katsuaki Nishino
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Patent number: 9105104Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a generation unit configured to generate a background model of a multinomial distribution from an acquired image, and generate a background, and a determination unit configured to determine whether a background with high reliability can be generated from the background model generated by the generation unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Katsuaki Nishino
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Patent number: 8787617Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a moving body detecting section that detects if an object in an image is a moving body which makes a motion between frames; and an attribute determining section that determines a similarity indicating whether or not the object detected as the moving body is similar among a plurality of frames, and a change in luminance of the object based on a texture and luminance of the object, and, when determining that the object is a light/shadow-originated change in luminance, adds attribute information indicating the light/shadow-originated change in luminance to the object detected as the moving body.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2010Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Katsuaki Nishino
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Patent number: 8630453Abstract: Provided is an image processing device which includes an optical flow computation unit computing optical flow within an image with reference to a past image, an optical flow detection unit setting multiple reference points in a partial region of the image and detecting whether or not optical flow is generated at the reference points, a feature point data storage unit storing, when optical flow is generated at the reference points, as a feature point a set of pixels of pixel data that generated the optical flow, a feature point tracking unit tracking a motion position of the feature point, a feature point deletion unit deleting the tracked feature point in accordance with a variation in motion position of the feature point, and a passage determination unit determining whether or not passage of an object is detected within the image based on multiple remaining undeleted feature points.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuaki Nishino, Nobuhiro Tsunashima
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Publication number: 20140003669Abstract: An apparatus for detecting movement of an object captured by an imaging device, the apparatus includes a moving object detection unit, that is (1) operable to detect movement of an object based on a first moving object detecting process, and (2) operable to detect movement of the object based on a second moving object detecting process. The apparatus also includes an output unit operable to generate an output based on the detection by the moving object detection unit based on at least one of the first and second moving object detecting processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuaki NISHINO, Nobuhiro TSUNASHIMA
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Patent number: 8548202Abstract: An apparatus for detecting movement of an object captured by an imaging device, the apparatus includes a moving object detection unit, that is (1) operable to detect movement of an object based on a first moving object detecting process, and (2) operable to detect movement of the object based on a second moving object detecting process. The apparatus also includes an output unit operable to generate an output based on the detection by the moving object detection unit based on at least one of the first and second moving object detecting processes.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuaki Nishino, Nobuhiro Tsunashima
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Publication number: 20130188826Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a moving object detection unit configured to detect a moving object which is an image different from a background in a current image, a temporary pause determination unit configured to determine whether the moving object is paused for a predetermined time period or more, a reliability processing unit configured to calculate non-moving object reliability for a pixel of the current image using the current image and a temporarily paused image including a temporarily paused object serving as the moving object which is paused for a predetermined time period or more, the non-moving object reliability representing likelihood of being a non-moving object which is an image different from the background that does not change for a predetermined time period or more, and a non-moving object detection unit configured to detect the non-moving object from the current image based on the non-moving object reliability.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Katsuaki NISHINO
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Patent number: 8467575Abstract: Disclosed herein is a moving-object detection apparatus having a plurality of moving-object detection processing devices configured to detect a moving object on the basis of a motion vector computed by making use of a present image and a past image wherein the moving-object detection processing devices are set to operate differently from each other in at least one of the resolution of the present and past images, the time distance between the present and past images and the search area of the motion vector in order to detect the moving object.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuaki Nishino, Nobuhiro Tsunashima
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Publication number: 20130071032Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a generation unit configured to generate a background model of a multinomial distribution from an acquired image, and generate a background, and a determination unit configured to determine whether a background with high reliability can be generated from the background model generated by the generation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuaki NISHINO
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Publication number: 20110243385Abstract: Disclosed herein is a moving object detection apparatus including: an image input processing section configured to input an analysis image composed of an image taken by a camera in order to establish a designated region inside the analysis image; a first detection processing section configured to detect an image of a moving object which moves within the designated region established by the image input processing section and which is at a distance in a first range from the camera; and a second detection processing section configured to detect an image of the moving object which moves within the designated region established by the image input processing section and which is at a distance in a second range from the camera, the second range being farther than the first range.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuaki Nishino, Nobuhiro Tsunashima
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Publication number: 20110228979Abstract: Disclosed herein is a moving-object detection apparatus having a plurality of moving-object detection processing devices configured to detect a moving object on the basis of a motion vector computed by making use of a present image and a past image wherein the moving-object detection processing devices are set to operate differently from each other in at least one of the resolution of the present and past images, the time distance between the present and past images and the search area of the motion vector in order to detect the moving object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuaki Nishino, Nobuhiro Tsunashima
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Publication number: 20110135158Abstract: Provided is an image processing device which includes an optical flow computation unit computing optical flow within an image with reference to a past image, an optical flow detection unit setting multiple reference points in a partial region of the image and detecting whether or not optical flow is generated at the reference points, a feature point data storage unit storing, when optical flow is generated at the reference points, as a feature point a set of peaces of pixel data that generated the optical flow, a feature point tracking unit tracking a motion position of the feature point, a feature point deletion unit deleting the tracked feature point in accordance with a variation in motion position of the feature point, and a passage determination unit determining whether or not passage of an object is detected within the image based on multiple remaining undeleted feature points.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: Katsuaki Nishino, Nobuhiro Tsunashima
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Publication number: 20100290672Abstract: An apparatus for detecting movement of an object captured by an imaging device, the apparatus includes a moving object detection unit, that is (1) operable to detect movement of an object based on a first moving object detecting process, and (2) operable to detect movement of the object based on a second moving object detecting process. The apparatus also includes an output unit operable to generate an output based on the detection by the moving object detection unit based on at least one of the first and second moving object detecting processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2010Publication date: November 18, 2010Inventors: Katsuaki Nishino, Nobuhiro Tsunashima
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Publication number: 20100232648Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a moving body detecting section that detects if an object in an image is a moving body which makes a motion between frames; and an attribute determining section that determines a similarity indicating whether or not the object detected as the moving body is similar among a plurality of frames, and a change in luminance of the object based on a texture and luminance of the object, and, when determining that the object is a light/shadow-originated change in luminance, adds attribute information indicating the light/shadow-originated change in luminance to the object detected as the moving body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventor: Katsuaki NISHINO