Patents by Inventor Masahiko Sugimoto

Masahiko 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).

  • Patent number: 9906732
    Abstract: A restoration filter based on a point spread function of an optical system is applied to source image data acquired through photographing using the optical system to acquire restored image data (S13: filter application step). Adjustment of an amplification factor of the difference between source image data and restored image data is performed, and recovered image data is acquired from the difference after adjustment and source image data (S15: gain adjustment step). In the filter application step, a common filter determined regardless of a value of a magnification of an optical zoom of the optical system is used as the restoration filter, and in the gain adjustment step, the amplification factor is determined based on the magnification of the optical zoom of the optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke Irie, Masahiko Sugimoto, Yousuke Naruse, Kenkichi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9898807
    Abstract: The image processing device includes a gradation correction unit (gamma correction processing unit 33) which performs gradation correction, a restoration processing unit, a sharpening processing unit, a sharpening and recovery control unit 37 which is able to adjust a restoration rate of restoration processing and a sharpening rate of sharpening processing by controlling the restoration processing unit and the sharpening processing unit, a sharpening and recovery control unit 37 which acquires a total sharpening and restoration rate based on the restoration rate and the sharpening rate and one rate of the restoration rate and the sharpening rate and calculates the other rate of the restoration rate and the sharpening rate based on the total sharpening and restoration rate, and a brightness information acquisition unit. The sharpening and recovery control unit adjusts the restoration rate and the sharpening rate according to acquired brightness information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenkichi Hayashi, Masahiko Sugimoto, Yousuke Naruse, Kosuke Irie
  • Patent number: 9892495
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image processing device, an imaging device, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of, when recovering a deteriorated image due to a point spread function of an optical system, effectively performing phase recovery and suppressing the occurrence of artifact due to frequency recovery processing. The image processing device includes a phase recovery processing unit which subjects image data acquired from an imaging element by capturing an object image using an optical system to phase recovery processing using a phase recovery filter based on a point spread function of the optical system, a gradation correction processing unit which subjects image data subjected to the phase recovery processing to nonlinear gradation correction, and a frequency recovery processing unit which subjects image data subjected to the gradation correction to frequency recovery processing using a frequency recovery filter based on the point spread function of the optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke Naruse, Masahiko Sugimoto, Kenkichi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180040107
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing device, an imaging device, an image processing method, and a program capable of effectively performing a point image restoration process on a visible light image and a near-infrared ray image, and improving accuracy of a point image restoration process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenkichi HAYASHI, Junichi TANAKA, Yousuke NARUSE, Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180041714
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing device, an imaging device, an image processing method, and a program which are capable of accurately correcting blurring caused in first image data of an image using a near-infrared ray as a light source and, accurately performing a point image restoration process on second image data of an image using visible light and a near-infrared ray as a light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenkichi HAYASHI, Junichi TANAKA, Yousuke NARUSE, Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180040109
    Abstract: An image processing device and an image processing method capable of satisfactorily performing a point image restoration process of a visible light image and a point image restoration process of a near-infrared light image are provided. A point image restoration process is performed on luminance data Y indicating a visible light image and IR data indicating a near-infrared light image using a first point image restoration filter based on a first point spread function with respect to visible light of an optical system and a second point image restoration filter based on a second point spread function with respect to near-infrared light of the optical system. An appropriate point image restoration process is performed on the IR data so that restoration strength (second gain ?) in the point image restoration process for the IR data captured with radiation of near-infrared light is higher than restoration strength (first gain ?) in the point image restoration process for the luminance data Y.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenkichi HAYASHI, Junichi TANAKA, Yousuke NARUSE, Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Kousuke IRIE
  • Patent number: 9881362
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a point-image restoration processing unit 40 which receives a photographic image as input, and subjects the photographic image to a point-image restoration process based on point-image restoration information to generate a restored image, an area information output unit 45 which outputs area information relating to a specific area in the restored image where restoration strength of the point-image restoration process based on the point-image restoration information is equal to or greater than a threshold value, a display control unit 50 which receives the restored image and the area information as input and performs display control to highlight the specific area in the restored image based on the area information, and a display unit 55 which highlights at least the specific area based on the display control by the display control unit 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenkichi Hayashi, Masahiko Sugimoto, Yousuke Naruse
  • Patent number: 9866750
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image processing device, an imaging device, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of, when recovering a deteriorated image due to a point spread function of an optical system, suppressing the occurrence of artifact and color gradation and achieving reduction in computational costs. The image processing device includes a frequency recovery processing unit which subjects image data acquired from an imaging element by capturing an object image using an optical system to frequency recovery processing using a frequency recovery filter based on a point spread function of the optical system, a gradation correction processing unit which subjects image data subjected to the frequency recovery processing to nonlinear gradation correction, and a phase recovery processing unit which subjects image data subjected to the gradation correction to phase recovery processing using a phase recovery filter based on the point spread function of the optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke Naruse, Masahiko Sugimoto, Kenkichi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9865039
    Abstract: A restoration filter generation device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires information showing a difference that depends on a color of an optical transfer function of an optical system; and a restoration filter generation unit that generates a restoration filter, which weakens restoration strength according to the difference that depends on the color of the optical transfer function on the basis of the information acquired by the information acquisition unit, and makes the restoration strength of the restoration filter weaker than the restoration strength of an ideal filter decided assuming that the difference that depends on the color of the optical transfer function does not exist. As a result, the overcorrection is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke Naruse, Kenkichi Hayashi, Masahiko Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20180007292
    Abstract: An imaging device 10 according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a subject distance acquisition section 115; a movement amount acquisition section 120 that acquires an amount of movement of the subject on the basis of the subject distance; a restoration processing determination section 125 that determines, on the basis of the amount of movement acquired by the movement amount acquisition section 120, whether the restoration processing should be performed on the images through a restoration filter, a restoration strength of the restoration processing should be adjusted and the restoration processing should be performed on the images, or the restoration processing should not be performed on the images; and a restoration processing execution section 105 that performs the restoration processing on the images through the restoration filter or with the adjusted restoration strength, on the basis of the determination of the restoration processing determination section 125.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenkichi HAYASHI, Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Yousuke NARUSE, Kosuke IRIE
  • Publication number: 20170310898
    Abstract: The image display apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an image input device which inputs an image signal; a particular target detection device which detects a particular target included in the image signal based on a particular target evaluation value indicating the feature of the particular target; a frame display information generation device which generates frame display information indicating a frame surrounding the detected particular target and which causes the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the particular target evaluation value; and a display device which displays the frame based on the generated frame display information. That is, by causing the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the evaluation value of a particular target, it is possible to avoid sudden change in the frame display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi MISAWA, Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9799105
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image processing device, an imaging device, an image processing method, and a program capable of acquiring a moving image with excellent image quality while maintaining continuity of a restoration process between frames even if there is a rapid change of a photographing environment in a moving image. An image processing device includes a restoration control processing unit 36 which subjects a moving image including a plurality of frames acquired by photographing using an optical system to a restoration process based on a point spread function of the optical system to acquire recovered image data. The restoration control processing unit 36 controls the restoration process for a frame to be processed among a plurality of frames based on imaging information of a reference frame including a frame after the frame to be processed in a time series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Sugimoto, Kenkichi Hayashi, Yousuke Naruse, Kosuke Irie
  • Patent number: 9800774
    Abstract: A first restoration processing section 110 and a second restoration processing section 120 perform restoration processing on images (luminance data Y), which are successively captured by an image capture section, using a first filter 102, which is a restoration filter generated corresponding to a point spread function of an optical system, and a second filter 104 of which a restoration strength is weaker than that of the first filter 102. Depending on a result of determination which is input from an in-focus determination section 150 and indicates whether or not the image at the current time point is in a target in-focus state, a selection section 122 selects and outputs either luminance data YA which is processed using the first filter 102 or luminance data YB which is processed using the second filter 104.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke Naruse, Kenkichi Hayashi, Masahiko Sugimoto, Kosuke Irie
  • Patent number: 9799101
    Abstract: A restoration filter generation device that generates a restoration filter to perform restoration processing on luminance system image data that is image data related to luminance, which is generated based on image data of respective colors of multiple colors obtained by an imaging device having an optical system, includes an information acquisition device acquiring transfer function information corresponding to point image distribution in the optical system, for each color of the multiple colors, and a restoration filter generation device generating the restoration filter based on the transfer function information acquired by the information acquisition device and generating the restoration filter that performs phase correction of the luminance system image data according to the transfer function information on a single color of the multiple colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke Naruse, Kenkichi Hayashi, Masahiko Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9794500
    Abstract: An imaging device 10 according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a subject distance acquisition section 115; a movement amount acquisition section 120 that acquires an amount of movement of the subject on the basis of the subject distance; a restoration processing determination section 125 that determines, on the basis of the amount of movement acquired by the movement amount acquisition section 120, whether the restoration processing should be performed on the images through a restoration filter, a restoration strength of the restoration processing should be adjusted and the restoration processing should be performed on the images, or the restoration processing should not be performed on the images; and a restoration processing execution section 105 that performs the restoration processing on the images through the restoration filter or with the adjusted restoration strength, on the basis of the determination of the restoration processing determination section 125.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenkichi Hayashi, Masahiko Sugimoto, Yousuke Naruse, Kosuke Irie
  • Publication number: 20170294005
    Abstract: A restoration filter generation device which generates a restoration filter for performing a restoration process on luminance system image data, the restoration process being based on a point-image distribution in an optical system, the luminance system image data being image data relevant to luminance and being generated based on image data for each color of multiple colors, the restoration filter generation device including an MTF acquisition device which acquires a modulation transfer function MTF for the optical system; and a restoration filter generation device which generates the restoration filter based on the modulation transfer function MTF, the restoration filter suppressing an MTF value of image data for each color of the multiple colors to 1.0 or less at least in a region of a particular spatial frequency or less, the image data for each color of the multiple colors corresponding to the luminance system image data after the restoration process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke NARUSE, Kenkichi HAYASHI, Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170294004
    Abstract: A restoration filter generation device which generates a restoration filter for performing a restoration process on luminance system image data, the restoration process being based on a point-image distribution in an optical system, the luminance system image data being image data relevant to luminance and being generated based on image data for each color of multiple colors, the restoration filter generation device including an MTF acquisition device which acquires a modulation transfer function MTF for the optical system; and a restoration filter generation device which generates the restoration filter based on the modulation transfer function MTF, the restoration filter suppressing an MTF value of image data for each color of the multiple colors to 1.0 or less at least in a region of a particular spatial frequency or less, the image data for each color of the multiple colors corresponding to the luminance system image data after the restoration process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke NARUSE, Kenkichi HAYASHI, Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170294003
    Abstract: A restoration filter generation device which generates a restoration filter for performing a restoration process on luminance system image data, the restoration process being based on a point-image distribution in an optical system, the luminance system image data being image data relevant to luminance and being generated based on image data for each color of multiple colors, the restoration filter generation device including an MTF acquisition device which acquires a modulation transfer function MTF for the optical system; and a restoration filter generation device which generates the restoration filter based on the modulation transfer function MTF, the restoration filter suppressing an MTF value of image data for each color of the multiple colors to 1.0 or less at least in a region of a particular spatial frequency or less, the image data for each color of the multiple colors corresponding to the luminance system image data after the restoration process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke NARUSE, Kenkichi HAYASHI, Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9736379
    Abstract: The image display apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an image input device which inputs an image signal; a particular target detection device which detects a particular target included in the image signal based on a particular target evaluation value indicating the feature of the particular target; a frame display information generation device which generates frame display information indicating a frame surrounding the detected particular target and which causes the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the particular target evaluation value; and a display device which displays the frame based on the generated frame display information. That is, by causing the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the evaluation value of a particular target, it is possible to avoid sudden change in the frame display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Misawa, Masahiko Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9727955
    Abstract: A restoration filter generation device which generates a restoration filter for performing a restoration process on luminance system image data, the restoration process being based on a point-image distribution in an optical system, the luminance system image data being image data relevant to luminance and being generated based on image data for each color of multiple colors, the restoration filter generation device including an MTF acquisition device which acquires a modulation transfer function MTF for the optical system; and a restoration filter generation device which generates the restoration filter based on the modulation transfer function MTF, the restoration filter suppressing an MTF value of image data for each color of the multiple colors to 1.0 or less at least in a region of a particular spatial frequency or less, the image data for each color of the multiple colors corresponding to the luminance system image data after the restoration process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke Naruse, Kenkichi Hayashi, Masahiko Sugimoto