Patents by Inventor Manabu Yata

Manabu Yata 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: 7961961
    Abstract: It is an object to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing program in which motion information detected from an image is used for a different image processing corresponding to image information so that the detected motion information capable of easily synchronizing the image with the motion information to reduce a circuit scale is shared in a signal processing requiring a plurality of motion information. Motion information is detected by a motion detecting portion (102) from an image signal input to an image acquiring portion (101) and an image signal stored in a memory (104), a noise is reduced by a noise reducing portion (103) using the motion information which is detected, a moving object is detected by a motion detector portion (105), and an interlace progressive conversion is carried out in an IP converting portion (106), and furthermore, an image is coded in a coding portion (107).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tarou Hizume, Manabu Yata, Kazunori Sumiya, Toshiyuki Sano
  • Patent number: 7936941
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus capable of obtaining a sharp image having less noise, comprising: a horizontal edge strength calculating unit 22 for calculating an edge strength along a horizontal direction of a concerned pixel; and a prefilter 24 for carrying out a filter processing based on the horizontal edge strength, and performing noise reduction and edge enhancement, a vertical edge strength calculating unit 23 for calculating an edge strength along a vertical direction of the concerned pixel; and a prefilter 25 for carrying out a filter processing based on the vertical edge strength, and performing noise reduction and edge enhancement, thereby enabling to sharpen image data in the vicinity of the concerned pixel respectively along horizontal and vertical directions, and obtain an image having less noises as well as sharp for edge directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Sumiya, Manabu Yata, Taro Hizume, Toshiyuki Sano
  • Publication number: 20090232395
    Abstract: An image signal inputted from an image signal input unit (10) is passed through LPFs (14 and 16) having different frequency response characteristics to remove a color signal component. A feature value calculator (20) calculates an edge value, saturation, and hue from pixels surrounding a target pixel, and a weighting coefficient calculator (22) determines a weighting coefficient k from the feature values calculated by the feature value calculator (20) and from the amounts of changes therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori Sumiya, Manabu Yata, Taro Hizume, Makoto Sube, Masayuki Serizawa, Takeshi Nakajima, Hideki Iwata
  • Publication number: 20090022408
    Abstract: It is an object to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing program in which motion information detected from an image is used for a different image processing corresponding to image information so that the detected motion information capable of easily synchronizing the image with the motion information to reduce a circuit scale is shared in a signal processing requiring a plurality of motion information. Motion information is detected by a motion detecting portion (102) from an image signal input to an image acquiring portion (101) and an image signal stored in a memory (104), a noise is reduced by a noise reducing portion (103) using the motion information which is detected, a moving object is detected by a motion detector portion (105), and an interlace progressive conversion is carried out in an IP converting portion (106), and furthermore, an image is coded in a coding portion (107).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tarou Hizume, Manabu Yata, Kazunori Sumiya, Toshiyuki Sano
  • Publication number: 20080199101
    Abstract: [PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED] It is an object of the present invention to provide an image processing apparatus capable of obtaining a sharp image having less noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori Sumiya, Manabu Yata, Taro Hizume, Toshiyuki Sano
  • Publication number: 20070248332
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an image processing device which can reduce time required to eliminate noises in motion pixels, in an image signal processing device using image signals composed of a plurality of frames to enhance a noise eliminating effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Yata, Kazunori Sumiya, Taro Hizume, Toshiyuki Sano
  • Publication number: 20060177148
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus, comprising: an image signal inputting unit 11 for inputting a plurality of image signals different from one another in exposure time, first and second level converting factor calculating units 12, 13 for calculating a level converting factor for each of the image signals, a weighting factor calculating unit 14 for calculating a weighting factor for each of the image signals; and an adding unit 17 for adding up the image signals respectively multiplied by the level converting factors multiplied by the weighting factors. The image processing apparatus thus constructed can obtain images of wide dynamic range in a simply manner as well as reduce loss of minute image information due to accumulated processing delays and computing errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Sumiya, Manabu Yata, Tarou Hizume, Makoto Sube