Patents by Inventor Kazumi Fukuda

Kazumi Fukuda 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: 20230283979
    Abstract: An information processing device (100) according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit (141) configured to acquire a first image including a content image of an ear of a user; and a calculation unit (142) configured to calculate, based on the first image acquired by the acquisition unit (141), a head-related transfer function corresponding to the user by using a learned model having learned to output a head-related transfer function corresponding to an ear when an image including a content image of the ear is input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumi Fukuda, Tetsu Magariyachi
  • Patent number: 11595772
    Abstract: An information processing device (100) according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit (141) configured to acquire a first image including a content image of an ear of a user; and a calculation unit (142) configured to calculate, based on the first image acquired by the acquisition unit (141), a head-related transfer function corresponding to the user by using a learned model having learned to output a head-related transfer function corresponding to an ear when an image including a content image of the ear is input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumi Fukuda, Tetsu Magariyachi
  • Publication number: 20210385600
    Abstract: An information processing device (100) according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit (141) configured to acquire a first image including a content image of an ear of a user; and a calculation unit (142) configured to calculate, based on the first image acquired by the acquisition unit (141), a head-related transfer function corresponding to the user by using a learned model having learned to output a head-related transfer function corresponding to an ear when an image including a content image of the ear is input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumi Fukuda, Tetsu Magariyachi
  • Patent number: 10944942
    Abstract: In a case where it is determined by a reliability determination section 501 that retention aberration information of an in-apparatus aberration information retention section 31 is unreliable, a control section 50 sets detection aberration information generated by performing aberration detection processing by a lens aberration detection processing section 32 as application aberration information for correcting an aberration of a captured image. In a case where it is determined that the retention aberration information is reliable, the control section 50 sets the retention aberration information as the application aberration information. Aberration information can be generated if necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Wakazono, Yoshimi Tsuboi, Tadashi Yamaguchi, Haruka Asai, Kazumi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20190259138
    Abstract: In a case where it is determined by a reliability determination section 501 that retention aberration information of an in-apparatus aberration information retention section 31 is unreliable, a control section 50 sets detection aberration information generated by performing aberration detection processing by a lens aberration detection processing section 32 as application aberration information for correcting an aberration of a captured image. In a case where it is determined that the retention aberration information is reliable, the control section 50 sets the retention aberration information as the application aberration information. Aberration information can be generated if necessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi WAKAZONO, Yoshimi TSUBOI, Tadashi YAMAGUCHI, Haruka ASAI, Kazumi FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 10181182
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method whereby a point spread function can be estimated with high precision. An exclusion unit excludes a repetitive pattern from a degraded image. An estimation unit estimates a point spread function by use of the degraded image from which the repetitive pattern has been excluded by the exclusion unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus or the like that estimates a point spread function (PSF) from a degraded image and that performs a blind deconvolution using the point spread function to generate a restored image from the degraded image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazumi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20170161883
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method whereby a point spread function can be estimated with high precision. An exclusion unit excludes a repetitive pattern from a degraded image. An estimation unit estimates a point spread function by use of the degraded image from which the repetitive pattern has been excludedby the exclusion unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus or the like that estimates a point spread function (PSF) from a degraded image and that performs a blind deconvolution using the point spread function to generate a restored image from the degraded image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventor: KAZUMI FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 5294785
    Abstract: A cards processor (100) including a gateway (101) for the insertion and discharging of cards (104) on one end side of a cabinet (2), a transport line disposed in the cabinet (2) in almost a straight line from the gateway (101) for transporting the cards in a reciprocating manner in a transport direction, read/write devices (115, 116) for reading and writing information on the cards during transporting, and a standby portion (117) where the card transporting direction is reversed and for holding the cards in standby temporarily between operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazumi Fukuda, Hideo Urata, Koichi Kanehara
  • Patent number: 5026972
    Abstract: An improved automatic toll receiving apparatus of the throwing-in type installed so as to allow a driver sitting in an automotive vehicle to pay a specified rate of toll, which apparatus includes a large hopper into which the driver can easily throw coins, a determining mechanism for determining whether the received coins are true coins or false coins and discriminating the kind of coins, a counting unit for counting a value of the coins which are determined as true coins, a returning unit for returning to the driver the coins which are determined as false coins, a temporary coin holder for temporarily holding the coins at shortest for a period of time until a processing for the preceding vehicle is completed, so as to allow him to visually confirm the coins through a transparent side wall of the temporary coin holder by the driver while they are arranged side by side, and an actuator for rotating the partition of the temporary coil holder at the bottom thereof 45 degrees as to enable a processing for the nex
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Kanehara, Kazumi Fukuda, Kouichi Uenishi
  • Patent number: 4960196
    Abstract: An automatic toll collector of a throw-in type is installed in toll roads, parking places and other tollgates so that a driver can pay a toll while the driver sits on a driver's seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Kanehara, Kazumi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 4955532
    Abstract: An automatic toll collector for a toll road includes a cashbox receiving a toll thrown into a toll receiving inlet. Trigger holes, address holes and identification number holes are disposed on the bottom surface of the cashbox in a predetermined pattern in an insertion direction of the cashbox and are detected by proximity sensors disposed in the direction perpendicular to the insertion direction of the cashbox to recognize the identification number of the cashbox. Since the identification number is recognized by the correspondence between data of the address holes and data of the identification number, the identification number can be recognized exactly even if the cashbox is retried to be inserted several times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo K.K.
    Inventors: Koichi Kanehara, Kazumi Fukuda, Masashi Sato, Toshiaki Shimeno
  • Patent number: 4262312
    Abstract: A magnetic recording and printing device for card mediums, having a magnetic recording section and a printing section, wherein the card mediums are transferred along the peripheral surface of a rotary cylinder which serves as a platen for printing, and during the transfer of the card mediums, data are magnetically recorded and read out by a magnetic head stationarily disposed close to but separated from the peripheral surface of the rotary cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1981
    Assignees: Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Limited
    Inventors: Kazumi Fukuda, Takeshi Horino, Katsuhiro Komorida