Patents by Inventor Kumi Jinzenji

Kumi Jinzenji 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).

  • Method for separating background sprite and foreground object and method for extracting segmentation mask and the apparatus
    Patent number: 6977664
    Abstract: A method is provided for extracting a foreground object and a background sprite, wherein a provisional sprite is generated, the foreground and the background is separated on the basis of the provisional sprite, and the background sprite is generated. Another method is provided for extracting a segmentation mask by using a difference image, including a first step of regarding each of first macro-blocks as the foreground when an value of the first macro-block is larger than a first predetermined value and a second step of regarding each of second macro-blocks as the foreground when an value of the second macro-block is larger than a second predetermined value, the second macro-block being close to a macro-block which is determined as the foreground in the first step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kumi Jinzenji, Shigeki Okada, Hiroshi Watanabe, Naoki Kobayashi