Patents by Inventor Kei Imada

Kei Imada 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: 9607359
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to: receive first image data for displaying a first image that comprises a plurality of regions, modify a first region of the first image by adding at least a high-frequency component based on second image data, the first region of the first image including fewer noise components than a first threshold, and output third image data for displaying the first image that comprises the plurality of regions and the modified first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yukie Takahashi, Kei Imada, Go Ito, Toshimitsu Kaneko, Kanako Saito
  • Publication number: 20160189346
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to: receive first image data for displaying a first image that comprises a plurality of regions, modify a first region of the first image by adding at least a high-frequency component based on second image data, the first region of the first image including fewer noise components than a first threshold, and output third image data for displaying the first image that comprises the plurality of regions and the modified first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Yukie TAKAHASHI, Kei IMADA, Go ITO, Toshimitsu KANEKO, Kanako SAITO
  • Publication number: 20160131905
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus in which user can see through at least a transparent part of a first display area when the electronic apparatus is worn on a body of the user is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a camera configured to take an image of surroundings comprising a region which the user cannot see through at least a transparent part of the first display area when the electronic apparatus is worn on a body of the user, and circuitry configured to perform controlling display of the first display area by using the image of surroundings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Yukie Takahashi, Go Ito, Kosuke Haruki, Kei Imada, Masahiro Baba, Yoshiyuki Kokojima, Akihisa Moriya
  • Patent number: 8817191
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes: an enlarged-image generation module configured to generate enlarged image information that is enlarged with a predetermined magnification ratio from input image information; a depth characteristic calculator configured to calculate, from the input image information, a depth characteristic amount indicating a change level of depth of field for each a plurality of areas comprised in the input image information; and a generation module configured to compose image information comprising a predetermined high-frequency component onto the enlarged image information, based on the depth characteristic amount calculated by the depth characteristic calculator to generate output image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yukie Takahashi, Kei Imada
  • Patent number: 8712178
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition module configured to acquire a moving image configured by a plurality of frames; an estimation module configured to estimate an amount of motion of a processing frame in the moving image with respect to a reference frame other than the processing frame in the moving image; a fine image generator configured to produce a generated fine image serving as a fine image of the processing frame by performing, according to the amount of motion, motion compensation on a fine image by increasing a spatial frequency of texture components included in the reference frame; and a combining module configured to combine the processing frame and the generated fine image, wherein the fine image generator puts a limit to an interval between the reference frame in a future direction and the processing frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kei Imada
  • Publication number: 20130120461
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing method includes: generating reduced information obtained by reducing input image information with a reduction ratio; calculating a moving amount in a unit of a first display area based on the reduced information and reduced previous information obtained by reducing image information input prior to the input image information with the reduction ratio; calculating a moving amount in a unit of a second display area of the input image information by magnifying the moving amount in the unit of a first display area calculated with a first magnification ratio that is an inverse of the reduction ratio, and calculate an adjustment level in the unit of the second display area based on the moving amount in the unit of the second display area, which indicates a level of high frequency component image information to be blended on the input image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Yukie Takahashi, Kei Imada
  • Publication number: 20130121605
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing method includes: calculating in a unit of a display area, characteristic information indicating a characteristic included in the display area of first frame image information; searching for motion of a pixel between the first frame image information and second frame image information that is contained in the moving image information and that is posterior to the first frame image information; estimating characteristic information in the unit of the display area of the second frame image information based on the motion of the pixel and the characteristic information in the unit of the display area of the first frame image information; generating high-frequency image information in which a high-frequency component varies depending on the characteristic information in the unit of the display area of the second frame image information; and blending the high-frequency image information on the second frame image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Kei Imada, Yukie Takahashi, Ryuji Sakai
  • Publication number: 20120269453
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition module configured to acquire a moving image configured by a plurality of frames; an estimation module configured to estimate an amount of motion of a processing frame in the moving image with respect to a reference frame other than the processing frame in the moving image; a fine image generator configured to produce a generated fine image serving as a fine image of the processing frame by performing, according to the amount of motion, motion compensation on a fine image by increasing a spatial frequency of texture components included in the reference frame; and a combining module configured to combine the processing frame and the generated fine image, wherein the fine image generator puts a limit to an interval between the reference frame in a future direction and the processing frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventor: Kei Imada
  • Publication number: 20110283093
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises a storage storing program modules and parallel execution control description describing relationships of the program modules, a conversion module extracting a part relating to the program module from the parallel execution control description, and creating graph data structure creation information including preceding and succeeding information of the program module, an adding module extracting graph data structure creation information to which the input data is given, creating a node, and adding the created node to a formerly created graph data structure, and an execution module subjecting the graph data structure to at least one of first search and second search with a restricted breadth, selecting one node from nodes stored in the node memory, and executing a program module corresponding to the selected node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kei Imada, Ryuji Sakai
  • Publication number: 20090327669
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises a storage storing program modules and parallel execution control description describing relationships of the program modules, a conversion module extracting a part relating to the program module from the parallel execution control description, and creating graph data structure creation information including preceding and succeeding information of the program module, an adding module extracting graph data structure creation information to which the input data is given, creating a node, and adding the created node to a formerly created graph data structure, and an execution module subjecting the graph data structure to at least one of depth-first search and breadth-first search with a restricted breadth, selecting one node from nodes stored in the node memory, and executing a program module corresponding to the selected node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kei Imada, Ryuji Sakai