Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Shimauchi
Kazuhiro Shimauchi 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: 20240223883Abstract: An information processing device (10) includes a target composition calculation unit (16) and a composition transition determination unit (17). The target composition calculation unit (16) calculates a target composition based on a state of a subject. The composition transition determination unit (17) switches a transition mode for transition to the target composition between a smooth composition transition mode and an instantaneous composition transition mode based on a situation of a change in state of the subject. The smooth composition transition mode is a transition mode in which a composition gradually transitions to the target composition. The instantaneous composition transition mode is a transition mode in which the composition instantaneously transitions to the target composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventors: HIDETOSHI NAGANO, KAZUHIRO SHIMAUCHI
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Patent number: 11818454Abstract: The present technology relates to a controller and a control method capable of providing an imaging system which achieves cost reduction. A control unit controls a first imaging direction of a first imaging unit and a second imaging direction of a second imaging unit as a direction different from the first imaging direction in accordance with a situation of an object associated with a first image captured by the first imaging unit or a second image captured by the second imaging unit. For example, the present technology is applicable to a lecture capture system.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Hidetoshi Nagano
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Publication number: 20230215038Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a recording medium capable of appropriately determining a direction in which a subject being imaged faces. The present technology includes a detector that detects a face and a predetermined part of a subject in a captured image, a face direction determiner that determines a direction in which the face detected by the detector faces, a part direction determiner that determines a direction in which the predetermined part detected by the detector faces, and a first direction decider that decides a direction in which the subject faces by using a determination result by the face direction determiner and a determination result by the part direction determiner. The present technology can be applied to an image processing apparatus that controls framing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: KAZUHIRO SHIMAUCHI, TAKASHI KOHASHI
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Publication number: 20230122083Abstract: An image processing apparatus (100) includes a determination unit configured to determine, on the basis of color information of a detected writing target, color information of an output image generated from a writing content image that is an image of a writing content written on the writing target.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiro SHIMAUCHI
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Publication number: 20230124466Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to generate display control information used as information regarding display control of a display image corresponding to scene information indicating a scene of a seminar.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiro SHIMAUCHI
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Publication number: 20230044707Abstract: An information processor according to the present technology includes a presentation processing section configured to perform a process to present a list of objects recognized in an object recognition process of a captured image to a user, and a tracking processing section configured to set a tracking range of a subject corresponding to an object selected by the user from the list presented by the presentation processing section and perform a tracking process of the subject on the basis of the set tracking range.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiro SHIMAUCHI
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Publication number: 20220327732Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a controller that identifies a non-processing target subject, among multiple subjects in a frame included in a dynamic image, as a non-processing target that is not subjected to predetermined image processing , on a basis of positional relationships between multiple subject areas corresponding to the respective multiple subjects and a specific area in the frame; and an image processor that performs the predetermined image processing on a processing target area corresponding to a processing target subject other than the non-processing target subject, among the multiple subjects.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventor: KAZUHIRO SHIMAUCHI
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Patent number: 11425298Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program capable of setting a resolution based on a distance to a subject. A control unit which changes a resolution of a captured image on the basis of distance information, corresponding to the captured image, regarding a detected distance to a subject included in the image is included. The control unit changes a resolution of a portion of a region of the captured image on the basis of the distance information. The portion of the region is a region distant from another region. The control unit changes the resolution of the portion of the region such that the portion of the region becomes higher than a resolution of another region.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Kenzaburo Seki, Tetsuya Shimoda, Yasuyoshi Kuwazoe, Yuta Nakao, Takashi Kohashi
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Patent number: 11381740Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus and corresponding program and method are disclosed. In one example, a second captured image acquired from another apparatus is aligned with a first captured image. Image stabilization is carried out in response to a positional relation between the captured images. For example, when overlapping between the captured images is equal to or smaller than an image stabilization limitation threshold value, the image stabilization is stopped or a correction range is limited for at least one of the captured images. When the amount of overlapping is larger than the image stabilization limitation threshold value, the image stabilization for both of the captured images is carried out without limitation. The captured images are aligned with each other by using the captured image with limited image stabilization, or both captured images where stabilization is carried out without limitation, thereby producing a panoramic image.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Daisuke Tahara, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura
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Publication number: 20220150402Abstract: The present technology relates to a controller and a control method capable of providing an imaging system which achieves cost reduction. A control unit controls a first imaging direction of a first imaging unit and a second imaging direction of a second imaging unit as a direction different from the first imaging direction in accordance with a situation of an object associated with a first image captured by the first imaging unit or a second image captured by the second imaging unit. For example, the present technology is applicable to a lecture capture system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro SHIMAUCHI, Hidetoshi NAGANO
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Patent number: 11265461Abstract: The present technology relates to a controller and a control method capable of providing an imaging system which achieves cost reduction. A control unit controls a first imaging direction of a first imaging unit and a second imaging direction of a second imaging unit as a direction different from the first imaging direction in accordance with a situation of an object associated with a first image captured by the first imaging unit or a second image captured by the second imaging unit. For example, the present technology is applicable to a lecture capture system.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Hidetoshi Nagano
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Patent number: 11151409Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that are designed to enable easy generation of a path for successively displaying characteristic images. The information processing device includes a setting unit that sets a path for connecting characteristic portions in at least one image by referring to metadata including at least information about feature points detected from the image. The setting unit sets the path by determining a regression curve, using the feature points. In a case where the feature points include a feature point at a distance equal to or longer than a predetermined threshold value from the regression curve, the setting unit redetermines the regression curve after removing a feature point detected from an image including a feature point having a low score among the feature points. The present technology can be applied to information processing devices that process still images and moving images.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda, Shuichi Asajima, Yuki Ono
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Patent number: 11132538Abstract: A pre-determination process is executed for setting a person determination detection frame in a moving body detection frame surrounding a moving body region detected from an image and determining whether the image in the person determination detection frame is a person and a final determination process of analyzing a distribution state in a moving body detection frame determined to include a person in the pre-determination process and finally determining whether the image in the person determination detection frame is a person based on an analysis result. In the final determination process, an occupancy rate in a specific region in the moving body detection frame determined to include a person in the pre-determination process is calculated, and the image in the person determination detection frame is determined to be a person based on the occupancy rate.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Takashi Kohashi, Masakazu Ebihara, Yuji Ono, Hidetoshi Nagano
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Patent number: 11128811Abstract: An information processing apparatus including circuitry that connects a reference image and a target image with at least one of a plurality of complement images based on a reference viewpoint of a subject and a target viewpoint of the subject in response to an identification of the target viewpoint. Each of the plurality of complement images corresponds to a complementary viewpoint of the subject between the reference viewpoint and the target viewpoint. At least one of the plurality of complement images is an interpolation image, which is an image corresponding to a virtual viewpoint along the virtual path.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda, Seijiro Inaba, Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Yuki Ono, Shuichi Asajima
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Patent number: 11093739Abstract: A pre-determination process is executed for setting a person determination detection frame in a moving body detection frame surrounding a moving body region detected from an image and determining whether the image in the person determination detection frame is a person and a final determination process of analyzing a distribution state in a moving body detection frame determined to include a person in the pre-determination process and finally determining whether the image in the person determination detection frame is a person based on an analysis result. In the final determination process, an occupancy rate in a specific region in the moving body detection frame determined to include a person in the pre-determination process is calculated, and the image in the person determination detection frame is determined to be a person based on the occupancy rate.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Takashi Kohashi, Masakazu Ebihara, Yuji Ono, Hidetoshi Nagano
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Publication number: 20210203845Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus and corresponding program and method are disclosed. In one example, a second captured image acquired from another apparatus is aligned with a first captured image. Image stabilization is carried out in response to a positional relation between the captured images. For example, when overlapping between the captured images is equal to or smaller than an image stabilization limitation threshold value, the image stabilization is stopped or a correction range is limited for at least one of the captured images. When the amount of overlapping is larger than the image stabilization limitation threshold value, the image stabilization for both of the captured images is carried out without limitation. The captured images are aligned with each other by using the captured image with limited image stabilization, or both captured images where stabilization is carried out without limitation, thereby producing a panoramic image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Daisuke Tahara, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura
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Patent number: 11044419Abstract: [Object] To reproduce an image to which an effect desired by a user is added. [Solution] There is provided an image processing device including: an image reverse stabilization processing unit configured to add an effect of expressing shaking to an image on the basis of shaking information on shaking of the image. In addition, there is provided an image processing device including: an image reverse stabilization processing unit configured to decide a degree of an effect of expressing shaking to be added to an image, on the basis of an expectation value of an immersed feeling of an observer with respect to the image.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Legong Sun, Kouji Yamamoto, Masafumi Wakazono, Yoichiro Sato, Kazuhiro Shimauchi
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Publication number: 20210185221Abstract: The present technology relates to a controller and a control method capable of providing an imaging system which achieves cost reduction. A control unit controls a first imaging direction of a first imaging unit and a second imaging direction of a second imaging unit as a direction different from the first imaging direction in accordance with a situation of an object associated with a first image captured by the first imaging unit or a second image captured by the second imaging unit. For example, the present technology is applicable to a lecture capture system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro SHIMAUCHI, Hidetoshi NAGANO
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Patent number: 10984248Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors configured to analyze content of a plurality of input images, extract one or more unit images from the plurality of input images based on the analysis and set a position of each of the one or more unit images adopted in a summary image based on an input music.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura
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Patent number: 10917567Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus and corresponding program and method are disclosed. In one example, a second captured image acquired from another apparatus is aligned with a first captured image. Image stabilization is carried out in response to a positional relation between the captured images. For example, when overlapping between the captured images is equal to or smaller than an image stabilization limitation threshold value, the image stabilization is stopped or a correction range is limited for at least one of the captured images. When the amount of overlapping is larger than the image stabilization limitation threshold value, the image stabilization for both of the captured images is carried out without limitation. The captured images are aligned with each other by using the captured image with limited image stabilization, or both captured images where stabilization is carried out without limitation, thereby producing a panoramic image.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Daisuke Tahara, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura