Patents by Inventor Kei Ichiji

Kei Ichiji 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: 10504225
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a probability distribution of luminance of a pixel in a plurality of perspective images including the luminance of the pixel which is superposition of luminance components resulting from respective objects, based on an occurrence frequency of a perspective image in which the luminance of the pixel has respective values of a plurality of values; a distribution estimation unit that estimates a mixture distribution indicating the acquired probability distribution; a component estimation unit that estimates a component corresponding to a smallest expectation value distribution of which an expectation value is the smallest among a plurality of partial distributions that form the estimated mixture distribution, and forming at least a portion of the luminance of the pixel; a removal unit that removes the estimated component from the luminance of the pixel included in the perspective image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignees: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Noriyasu Homma, Masao Sakai, Kei Ichiji, Naoki Shibusawa, Xiaoyong Zhang, Makoto Abe, Norihiro Sugita, Makoto Yoshizawa, Yoshihiro Takai
  • Publication number: 20180025493
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a probability distribution of luminance of a pixel in a plurality of perspective images including the luminance of the pixel which is superposition of luminance components resulting from respective objects, based on an occurrence frequency of a perspective image in which the luminance of the pixel has respective values of a plurality of values; a distribution estimation unit that estimates a mixture distribution indicating the acquired probability distribution; a component estimation unit that estimates a component corresponding to a smallest expectation value distribution of which an expectation value is the smallest among a plurality of partial distributions that form the estimated mixture distribution, and forming at least a portion of the luminance of the pixel; a removal unit that removes the estimated component from the luminance of the pixel included in the perspective image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Noriyasu HOMMA, Masao SAKAI, Kei ICHIJI, Naoki SHIBUSAWA, Xiaoyong ZHANG, Makoto ABE, Norihiro SUGITA, Makoto YOSHIZAWA, Yoshihiro TAKAI
  • Patent number: 8837863
    Abstract: A signal-processing device, which processes transparent images each expressed by transparent superimposition of a target such as an affected part and a background, includes a transparent image acquiring unit that acquires the transparent images each including the target at a plurality of times; a calculating unit that calculates a component of the transparent image originating from the target and a component of the transparent image originating from the background at a given time t among the plurality of times in association with estimated values of at least one of a distribution originating from the target and a distribution originating from the background and that evaluates consistency with the transparent images; and an updating unit that updates the estimated values of at least one of a distribution originating from the target and a distribution originating from the background at the time t based on the evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Tohoku University
    Inventors: Noriyasu Homma, Yoshihiro Takai, Haruna Endo, Kei Ichiji, Masao Sakai, Makoto Yoshizawa