Patents by Inventor Koji Yano
Koji Yano 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: 11657539Abstract: 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure is divided into a plurality of pieces and encoded, an obtained plurality of divided bitstreams is multiplexed, and one bitstream including a separator indicating a position of a joint between the divided bitstreams is generated. Furthermore, a separator indicating a position of a joint between divided bitstreams obtained by dividing 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure into a plurality of pieces and encoding the plurality of divided pieces of the 3D data, which is included in a bitstream obtained by multiplexing a plurality of the divided bitstreams, is analyzed, and the bitstream is divided into every divided bitstream on the basis of information included in the analyzed separator, and decoded. Applications of the technology include being implemented in, for example, an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an information processing method, a program, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ohji Nakagami, Koji Yano, Satoru Kuma, Tsuyoshi Kato
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Publication number: 20230126000Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that are capable of suppressing an increase in loads when a point cloud is generated from a mesh. Point cloud data is generated by positioning points at intersection points between a surface of a mesh and vectors each including, as a start origin, position coordinates corresponding to a specified resolution. For example, intersection determination is performed between the surface of the mesh and each of the vectors, and in a case where the surface and the vector are determined to intersect each other, the coordinates of the intersection point are calculated. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an image processing method, a program, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ohji NAKAGAMI, Koji YANO, Satoru KUMA, Tsuyoshi KATO, Hiroyuki YASUDA
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Publication number: 20230113736Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and a method that enable suppression of an increase in load of decoding of a point cloud. Auxiliary patch information being information regarding a patch obtained by projecting a point cloud representing a three-dimensional shaped object as an aggregate of points, onto a two-dimensional plane for each partial region is generated in such a manner as to correspond to all of a plurality of frames included in a predetermined section in a time direction of the point cloud, a patch is generated using the generated auxiliary patch information for each frame in the section, and a frame image in which the generated patch is arranged is encoded. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an electronic device, an image processing method, a program, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Koji YANO, Satoru KUMA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Kao HAYASHI, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Tsuyoshi KATO
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Patent number: 11611774Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of suppressing a reduction in encoding efficiency. A bit stream is generated which contains: information indicating a correspondence relation between at least one of a geometry image obtained by projecting position information regarding 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure onto a two-dimensional plane or a texture image obtained by projecting attribute information regarding the 3D data onto a two-dimensional plane, and an occupancy map that is map information indicating whether or not data is present at each position; and encoded data regarding the geometry image, encoded data regarding the texture image, and encoded data regarding the occupancy map. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, an electronic apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Yano, Ohji Nakagami, Tsuyoshi Kato, Satoru Kuma
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Patent number: 11568602Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that are capable of suppressing an increase in loads when a point cloud is generated from a mesh. Point cloud data is generated by positioning points at intersection points between a surface of a mesh and vectors each including, as a start origin, position coordinates corresponding to a specified resolution. For example, intersection determination is performed between the surface of the mesh and each of the vectors, and in a case where the surface and the vector are determined to intersect each other, the coordinates of the intersection point are calculated. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an image processing method, a program, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ohji Nakagami, Koji Yano, Satoru Kuma, Tsuyoshi Kato, Hiroyuki Yasuda
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Publication number: 20230023219Abstract: There is provided an information processing device and method capable of suppressing a reduction in encoding efficiency. When performing, for attribute information of each point of a point cloud that represents an object having a three-dimensional shape as a set of points, hierarchization of the attribute information by recursively repeating classification of a prediction point for deriving a difference value between the attribute information and a predicted value of the attribute information and a reference point used for deriving the predicted value with respect to the reference point, the reference point is set on the basis of a centroid of points. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing device, an image processing device, an encoding device, a decoding device, an electronic device, an information processing method, a program, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tsuyoshi KATO, Satoru KUMA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Koji YANO
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Publication number: 20220414940Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and a method capable of controlling the number of the points to be obtained by decoding. A bitstream is generated, the bitstream including encoded data of 3D data having a plane expressing points in a point cloud that expresses a three-dimensional object as a set of the points, and control information for controlling the number of the points to be derived from the 3D data to be obtained by decoding the encoded data. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, an encoding device, a decoding device, an electronic apparatus, an information processing method, a program, or the like, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki YASUDA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Tsuyoshi KATO, Koji YANO, Satoru KUMA
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Publication number: 20220375136Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and method for reducing a decrease in coding efficiency. The information processing apparatus encodes information regarding the luminance of a point corresponding to the lowest hierarchical level in hierarchized geometry data, and information regarding the color of a point corresponding to a predetermined hierarchical level higher than the lowest hierarchical level in the geometry data, in a point cloud expressing a three-dimensional object as a set of points. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, an encoding device, a decoding device, an electronic apparatus, an information processing method, a program, or the like, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: TSUYOSHI KATO, SATORU KUMA, OHJI NAKAGAMI, HIROYUKI YASUDA, KOJI YANO
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Patent number: 11508096Abstract: The present disclosure relates to information processing apparatus and method that makes it possible to suppress a reduction in encoding efficiency. Information relating to quantization of a three-dimensional position of an encoding target is generated. For example, the information relating to the quantization includes information relating to a coordinate system to be subjected to the quantization, information relating to a bounding box for normalization of position information of the encoding target, or information relating to a voxel for quantization of position information of the encoding target. In addition, three-dimensional information of the encoding target is restored from a signal string on the basis of the information relating to the quantization of the three-dimensional position of the encoding target.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Kuma, Ohji Nakagami, Koji Yano, Tsuyoshi Kato
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Publication number: 20220353493Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and a method for achieving scalability of the number of points in point cloud data. Encoded data of a point cloud representing a three-dimensional object as a point group is decoded, a tree structure using the positional information about the respective points constituting the point cloud is generated, and the number of nodes corresponding to the depth of the level of detail is selected for some or all of the levels of detail constituting the tree structure. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing apparatus, an electronic apparatus, an information processing method, a program, or the like, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tsuyoshi KATO, Satoru KUMA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Koji YANO
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Publication number: 20220353492Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and a method capable of suppressing a reduction in encoding efficiency of point cloud data. As for a point cloud representing an object having a three-dimensional shape as a point group, position information of a point to be processed is predicted on the basis of position information of a reference point, position information of a prediction point is generated, a difference between the generated position information of the prediction point and the position information of the point to be processed is derived, the derived difference is encoded, and a bitstream is generated. The present disclosure may be applied to, for example, an information processing device, an electronic device, an information processing method, a program or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Koji YANO, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Tsuyoshi KATO, Satoru KUMA, Ohji NAKAGAMI
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Patent number: 11468603Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and a method that allows for suppression of a decrease in encoding efficiency. In comparison of voxel data resulting from quantization of point cloud data, a correlation degree of a distribution pattern between voxel data to be compared is calculated on the basis of a subjective feature of the distribution pattern of values of the voxel data. The present disclosure is applicable to an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, an electronic device, an information processing method, a program, or the like, for example.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Yano, Ohji Nakagami, Satoru Kuma, Tsuyoshi Kato
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Publication number: 20220303578Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus and a method designed to be capable of reducing degradation of the subjective quality of a point cloud. Encoded data of a frame image in which a projection image of a point cloud representing a three-dimensional object as a set of points on a two-dimensional plane is placed is decoded, the frame image obtained by decoding the encoded data is unpacked to extract the projection image, and the respective points included in the extracted projection image are arranged in a three-dimensional space. When the coordinates of a point are not integer values in a basic coordinate system that is a predetermined coordinate system of the three-dimensional space, the point is moved in a direction perpendicular to the two-dimensional plane so that the coordinates of the point become integer values. Thus, the point cloud is reconstructed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru KUMA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Koji YANO, Tsuyoshi KATO, Hiroyuki YASUDA
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Patent number: 11450186Abstract: There is provided a person monitoring system including at least one camera and a server that is communicably connected to the at least one camera. The server, based on reception of detection information of a predetermined event from a gate that regulates passage in response to a detection of the predetermined event, requests a first camera, that captures an image of a capturing area including the gate, for a face image of a person near the gate when the predetermined event occurs. The first camera captures an image of the person near the gate when the predetermined event occurs and transmits, to the server, a face image obtained by cutting out a range having a face of the person from the image of the person. The server outputs alarm information based on the face image and register the face image in a database.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kamio, Eisaku Miyata, Koji Yano, Norio Saitou
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Publication number: 20220286679Abstract: There is provided an information processing device and method capable of inhibiting deterioration in encoding efficiency. Attribute information of a point cloud in which 3-dimensional shaped objects are expressed as a set of points is hierarchized to generate a reference relation of the attribute information between layers, and the attribute information of a layer in the layer of the generated attribute information is sub-hierarchized to generate a reference relation of the attribute information between sub-layers. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing device, an image processing device, an encoding device, a decoding device, an electronic device, an information processing method, a program, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru KUMA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Koji YANO, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Tsuyoshi KATO
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Publication number: 20220277517Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and method capable of curbing coding efficiency reduction. On the basis of position information indicating positions of points of a point cloud in units of first regions, for each second region composed of a plurality of first regions, a neighboring pattern of each first region including the points is specified by identifying whether or not each neighboring region adjacent to a processing target region includes the points or is positioned outside the second region including the processing target region, a context is selected according to the specified neighboring pattern, and the position information is coded using the selected context. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing device, an image processing device, a coding device, a decoding device, an electronic apparatus, an information processing method, a program, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Koji YANO, Tsuyoshi KATO, Satoru KUMA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Hiroyuki YASUDA
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Publication number: 20220262043Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and method which enable an increase in a load of decoding processing of coded data of a point cloud to be suppressed. Positional information of a point cloud expressing an object with a three-dimensional shape as a set of points is encoded in an order which causes a decoding result of coded data of the positional information to be output in a processing order of attribute information of the point cloud, and coded data thereof is generated. In addition, coded data of positional information of a point cloud expressing an object with a three-dimensional shape as a set of points is decoded and a decoding result thereof is to be output in a processing order of attribute information of the point cloud. For example, the present disclosure can be applied to an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, a coding apparatus, a decoding apparatus, an electronic device, an information processing method, a program, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Ohji NAKAGAMI, Koji YANO, Satoru KUMA, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Tsuyoshi KATO
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Publication number: 20220245863Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and method capable of curbing reduction in encoding efficiency. In an information processing device for processing attribute information of each point of a point cloud representing an object in a three-dimensional shape as a set of points, a first level is hierarchized using a first hierarchization method and a second level different from the first level is hierarchized using a second hierarchization method different from the first hierarchization method at the time of performing hierarchization of attribute information by recursively repeating processing of, among points classified as a predictive point or a reference point, deriving a difference value between a predictive value of attribute information of the predictive point derived using attribute information of the reference point and the attribute information of the predictive point for the reference point to perform hierarchization of the attribute information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru KUMA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Koji YANO, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Tsuyoshi KATO
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Patent number: 11405644Abstract: An image processing apparatus and a method comprises generating a video frame that includes a patch obtained by projecting, onto a two dimensional plane, a point cloud that represents an object having a three-dimensional shape as a group of points; generating a thumbnail two-dimensional image, the thumbnail two-dimensional image being generated independently from the patch; embedding the thumbnail two-dimensional image into the video frame; and encoding the video frame to generate a bitstream.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ohji Nakagami, Koji Yano, Tsuyoshi Kato, Satoru Kuma
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Publication number: 20220236352Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit acquires a measurement field corresponding to a spatial distribution of a predetermined physical quantity in a subject of measurement. The processing circuit calculates an unknown quantity in the subject of measurement based on a first equation between the measurement field and the unknown quantity having spatial dependence, and on the acquired measurement field. The first equation is one that is acquired based on a second equation expressing a dual field divergence of which can be expressed using the measurement field, by using the measurement field and the unknown quantity, and on the Helmholtz decomposition of the dual field.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicants: The University of Tokyo, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Takaaki NARA, Motofumi FUSHIMI, Naohiro EDA, Seiichi SHIN, Hitoshi YAMAGATA, Koji YANO, Hiroyuki FUJITA