Patents by Inventor Kousei Sugimoto
Kousei Sugimoto 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: 20190320148Abstract: A projection apparatus, among a plurality of projection apparatuses configured to project a plurality of projection images side by side as a single image, includes a light emission unit, a control unit configured to control the light emission unit to emit a light amount based on brightness of a first image, and a projection unit configured to modulate light emitted from the light emission unit based on the first image and project an image onto a projection plane, wherein the control unit is configured to control the light amount of the light emission unit based on the brightness of a first region of the first image, the first region adjoining a second image projected by another projection apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventor: Kousei Sugimoto
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Patent number: 10356255Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that outputs projection image data to a projection unit configured to display an image by projecting a projection image onto a print image at a projection plane. A first acquisition unit acquires image data. A second acquisition unit acquires parameters related to reflectances at a plurality of positions on the print image. A setting unit sets an offset value for performing offset adjustment of at least one color of the image at the projection plane. A correction unit configured to generate the projection image data by correcting a pixel value of a pixel in the image data based on the offset value and the parameter at a position in the print image that corresponds to the pixel.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kousei Sugimoto
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Patent number: 10192495Abstract: A display apparatus includes light-emitting units, a liquid crystal panel, a representative luminance acquisition unit for acquiring luminance values of the light-emitting units, an HPF processing unit for acquiring HPF luminance values of the light-emitting units by increasing the luminance value of a target light-emitting unit, which is greater than that of a neighboring light-emitting unit, according to a difference of the luminance value of the target light-emitting unit and that of the neighboring light-emitting unit, a smoothing processing unit for acquiring correction luminance values of the light-emitting units by increasing the HPF luminance value of a target light-emitting unit, which is smaller than that of a neighboring light-emitting unit, according to a difference of the HPF luminance value of the target light-emitting unit and that of the neighboring light-emitting unit, and a light-emission control unit for controlling light emission of the light-emitting units using the correction luminance vType: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Ikeda, Takushi Kimura, Kousei Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20180376010Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that outputs projection image data to a projection unit configured to display an image by projecting a projection image onto a print image at a projection plane. A first acquisition unit acquires image data. A second acquisition unit acquires parameters related to reflectances at a plurality of positions on the print image. A setting unit sets an offset value for performing offset adjustment of at least one color of the image at the projection plane. A correction unit configured to generate the projection image data by correcting a pixel value of a pixel in the image data based on the offset value and the parameter at a position in the print image that corresponds to the pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventor: Kousei Sugimoto
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Patent number: 9773458Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a light emission unit; a display unit configured to display an image on a screen by modulating light from the light emission unit; an acquisition unit configured to acquire base image data and difference data used in an expansion process for expanding at least one of a dynamic range and a color gamut of image data; a control unit configured to control light emission of the light emission unit, based on the difference data; and a generation unit configured to generate display image data outputted to the display unit, based on the base image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kousei Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20170110070Abstract: A display apparatus includes light-emitting units, a liquid crystal panel, a representative luminance acquisition unit for acquiring luminance values of the light-emitting units, an HPF processing unit for acquiring HPF luminance values of the light-emitting units by increasing the luminance value of a target light-emitting unit, which is greater than that of a neighboring light-emitting unit, according to a difference of the luminance value of the target light-emitting unit and that of the neighboring light-emitting unit, a smoothing processing unit for acquiring correction luminance values of the light-emitting units by increasing the HPF luminance value of a target light-emitting unit, which is smaller than that of a neighboring light-emitting unit, according to a difference of the HPF luminance value of the target light-emitting unit and that of the neighboring light-emitting unit, and a light-emission control unit for controlling light emission of the light-emitting units using the correction luminance vType: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: Takeshi Ikeda, Takushi Kimura, Kousei Sugimoto
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Patent number: 9558688Abstract: An image display device includes: a light transmitting unit having transmission wavelength characteristics corresponding to each of a plurality of colors; an illuminating unit configured to emit light corresponding to each of the plurality of colors, the illuminating unit being configured to emit, with respect to at least one predetermined color, light including first light and second light whose emission peak wavelengths are both within a range of the transmission wavelength characteristics corresponding to the predetermined color and whose emission peak wavelengths differ from one another; and a control unit configured to control an intensity of each of the light of the plurality of emission spectra corresponding to the predetermined color in accordance with a color distribution of the image.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Muneki Ando, Kousei Sugimoto, Toshiki Nakatani
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Patent number: 9501962Abstract: An image display device includes: a color gamut determining unit configured to determine a color gamut of pixels constituting an image; an image separating unit configured to separate the image into a low chroma image component and a high chroma image component based on a color gamut determination result; and a display unit configured to divide one frame period into subframe periods and temporally separate the low chroma image component and the high chroma image component in each subframe period to form an image. A backlight driving unit causes a broadband light source to emit light when the low chroma image component is being displayed and causes a narrowband light source to emit light when the high chroma image component is being displayed.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Muneki Ando, Yoshiki Ishii, Kousei Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20150213766Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a light emission unit; a display unit configured to display an image on a screen by modulating light from the light emission unit; an acquisition unit configured to acquire base image data and difference data used in an expansion process for expanding at least one of a dynamic range and a color gamut of image data; a control unit configured to control light emission of the light emission unit, based on the difference data; and a generation unit configured to generate display image data outputted to the display unit, based on the base image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventor: Kousei Sugimoto
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Patent number: 9042710Abstract: A video processing apparatus that can be connected to a video playback apparatus includes an input unit configured to input video data from the video playback apparatus, an interpolation unit configured to generate interpolated frame image data of input video data, and an output unit configured to output the interpolated frame image data as interpolated video data, wherein the interpolation unit generates different interpolated frame image data according to a playback mode of the video playback apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kousei Sugimoto, Kohei Inamura, Toshiki Nakatani, Mitsuru Tada, Masaharu Yamagishi, Eiichi Matsuzaki
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Patent number: 9019433Abstract: Gradation transform considering a scene transitional direction is executed for a video signal. The statistic of the luminance distribution of the input video signal is detected. The transitional direction of brightness of a scene of the input video signal is detected. A transform characteristic in transforming the gradation characteristic of the input video signal is set based on the detection results of the statistic and transitional direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2007Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kousei Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20140292834Abstract: An image display device includes: a color gamut determining unit configured to determine a color gamut of pixels constituting an image; an image separating unit configured to separate the image into a low chroma image component and a high chroma image component based on a color gamut determination result; and a display unit configured to divide one frame period into subframe periods and temporally separate the low chroma image component and the high chroma image component in each subframe period to form an image. A backlight driving unit causes a broadband light source to emit light when the low chroma image component is being displayed and causes a narrowband light source to emit light when the high chroma image component is being displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Muneki Ando, Yoshiki Ishii, Kousei Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20140267456Abstract: An image display device includes: a light transmitting unit having transmission wavelength characteristics corresponding to each of a plurality of colors; an illuminating unit configured to emit light corresponding to each of the plurality of colors, the illuminating unit being configured to emit, with respect to at least one predetermined color, light including first light and second light whose emission peak wavelengths are both within a range of the transmission wavelength characteristics corresponding to the predetermined color and whose emission peak wavelengths differ from one another; and a control unit configured to control an intensity of each of the light of the plurality of emission spectra corresponding to the predetermined color in accordance with a color distribution of the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Muneki Ando, Kousei Sugimoto, Toshiki Nakatani
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Patent number: 8774548Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an unit that performs second-order differentiation on an inputted image signal, and outputs the result as an edge enhancement signal; an unit that calculates a first difference value in a form of an absolute value of a difference between pixel values of two first pixels; an unit that calculates a second difference value in a form of an absolute value of a difference between pixel values of two second pixels; an unit that multiplies the second difference value by a first value; an unit that subtracts the multiplication result from the first difference value, limits a lower-limit value of the result to 0, and outputs the result as an edge adjustment coefficient; an unit that corrects the edge enhancement signal through multiplication by the edge adjustment coefficient; and an unit that adds the corrected edge enhancement signal to the image signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kousei Sugimoto
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Patent number: 8675051Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a unit that detects a motion vector from a first video image and a second video image; a unit that detects a disparity vector between a frame of the first video image and a frame of the second video image; a unit that, when there exists a non-detection position at which no motion vector is detected in a frame of one video image, performs correction by detecting a corresponding position included in a frame of the other video image that corresponds to the non-detection position using the disparity vector, and setting a motion vector of the frame of the other video image at the corresponding position, to the non-detection position; and a unit that generates respective interpolation frames of the first video image and the second video image using the motion vector after correction.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kousei Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20120275760Abstract: A video processing apparatus that can be connected to a video playback apparatus includes an input unit configured to input video data from the video playback apparatus, an interpolation unit configured to generate interpolated frame image data of input video data, and an output unit configured to output the interpolated frame image data as interpolated video data, wherein the interpolation unit generates different interpolated frame image data according to a playback mode of the video playback apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kousei Sugimoto, Kohei Inamura, Toshiki Nakatani, Mitsuru Tada, Masaharu Yamagishi, Eiichi Matsuzaki
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Patent number: 8244112Abstract: A video processing apparatus that can be connected to a video playback apparatus includes an input unit configured to input video data from the video playback apparatus, an interpolation unit configured to generate interpolated frame image data of input video data, and an output unit configured to output the interpolated frame image data as interpolated video data, wherein the interpolation unit generates different interpolated frame image data according to a playback mode of the video playback apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kousei Sugimoto, Kohei Inamura, Toshiki Nakatani, Mitsuru Tada, Masaharu Yamagishi, Eiichi Matsuzaki
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Publication number: 20110293198Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an unit that performs second-order differentiation on an inputted image signal, and outputs the result as an edge enhancement signal; an unit that calculates a first difference value in a form of an absolute value of a difference between pixel values of two first pixels; an unit that calculates a second difference value in a form of an absolute value of a difference between pixel values of two second pixels; an unit that multiplies the second difference value by a first value; an unit that subtracts the multiplication result from the first difference value, limits a lower-limit value of the result to 0, and outputs the result as an edge adjustment coefficient; an unit that corrects the edge enhancement signal through multiplication by the edge adjustment coefficient; and an unit that adds the corrected edge enhancement signal to the image signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kousei Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20110254930Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a unit that detects a motion vector from a first video image and a second video image; a unit that detects a disparity vector between a frame of the first video image and a frame of the second video image; a unit that, when there exists a non-detection position at which no motion vector is detected in a frame of one video image, performs correction by detecting a corresponding position included in a frame of the other video image that corresponds to the non-detection position using the disparity vector, and setting a motion vector of the frame of the other video image at the corresponding position, to the non-detection position; and a unit that generates respective interpolation frames of the first video image and the second video image using the motion vector after correction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kousei Sugimoto
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Patent number: 7606438Abstract: To obtain an excellent edge enhancement effect even when dynamic ? correction processing is executed for an edge-enhanced image signal, and to obtain an excellent edge enhancement effect for various ?-characteristics. An edge component is detected from an input image signal. A ? correction curve is calculated based on characteristics of an image scene detected by a scene characteristic detector, and its data is stored in a dynamic ? correction RAM table and an inverse gradient RAM table. A gain controller multiplies the edge component by a control signal from the inverse gradient RAM table to generate an edge enhancement signal which is in turn added to the image signal to obtain an edge-enhanced signal. The inverse gradient RAM table sends an inverse number of a gradient of a ? correction curve corresponding to a signal level of the inputted image signal as the control signal to the gain controller.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2005Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kousei Sugimoto