Patents by Inventor Masahiro Sekine

Masahiro Sekine 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).

  • Publication number: 20150139558
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a searching device includes an acquiring unit, a receiver, a calculator, and a determining unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire a first image. The receiver is configured to receive selection of a first area contained in the first image. The calculator is configured to calculate, for each of a plurality of second images to be searched, a first similarity with the first area and a second similarity with a second area that has been received by the receiver before the first area. The determining unit is configured to determine a third image or third images to be presented from among the second images on the basis of a result of a logical operation of the first similarity and the second similarity for each of the second images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masashi NISHIYAMA, Hidetaka OHIRA, Masahiro SEKINE, Yusuke TAZOE, Kaoru SUGITA
  • Publication number: 20150084959
    Abstract: A medical image diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a controller. The controller generates a plurality of candidates for a first cross-sectional image from three-dimensional image data obtained by taking images of a heart. The controller generates, from the three-dimensional image data, one or more second cross-sectional images each of which intersects the candidates for the first cross-sectional image. The controller displays in parallel on a display, the candidates for the first cross-sectional image, as well as the second cross-sectional images on each of which information is superimposed. The information indicates positional relationships between the candidates for the first cross-sectional image and the second cross-sectional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shuhei NITTA, Tomoyuki TAKEGUCHI, Nobuyuki MATSUMOTO, Masahiro SEKINE
  • Publication number: 20150036932
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an obtainer, a setter, a first calculator, a second calculator, and a third calculator. The obtainer obtains an image. The setter sets a plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions on the image. Each of the first regions and the second regions includes two or more pixels, and at least one of the second regions is different in position or size from the first regions. The first calculator calculates first feature data representing an image feature of the first regions. The second calculator calculates second feature data which is a luminance gradient between the second regions. The third calculator calculates relative feature data representing a relative relationship between the first feature data and the second feature data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hidetaka OHIRA, Yusuke TAZOE, Masahiro SEKINE, Masashi NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150034725
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a detection unit, an extraction unit, and a reading unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire an input image including a marker having a position detection pattern. The detection unit is configured to detect the position detection pattern using identification data used for detecting the position detection pattern included in the input image, the identification data being from a plurality of position detection patterns having different forms from each other. The extraction unit is configured to extract, from the input image, the marker corresponding to the detected position detection pattern. The reading unit is configured to read data associated with the extracted marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yusuke TAZOE, Masahiro SEKINE, Masashi NISHIYAMA, Goh ITOH
  • Patent number: 8949741
    Abstract: A first content is selected by a user as a processing object. A change of at least a part of the first content is detected based on a time information from a timer. After the change is detected, a second content as a next processing object, a third content related to the first content, and a fourth content related to the second content, are acquired from a content information database. The second content, the third content and the fourth content, are symbolically laid out in a virtual space. The virtual space is visually presented to the user via a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Isao Mihara, Yasunobu Yamauchi, Masahiro Sekine, Yasukazu Higuchi, Norihiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8904437
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a phrase similarity is reduced when a common genre characteristic word is included in a program of interest interested by a user and a similar phrase program including the same phrase. A genre similarity is increased when a common genre characteristic word is included in the program of interest and a similar genre program including the same genre as the program of interest. The similar phrase program is presented based on the phrase similarity, and the similar genre program is presented based on the genre similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Wataru Nakano, Masaru Suzuki, Masayuki Okamoto, Tomohiro Yamasaki, Isao Mihara, Masahiro Sekine, Junya Takakura
  • Publication number: 20140293092
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a first image acquisition unit, a first information acquisition unit, a reception unit, a generation unit, and a writing unit. The first image acquisition unit is configured to acquire a first image obtained by imaging by an imaging unit. The first information acquisition unit is configured to acquire any of multiple pieces of information capable of being associated with the first image. The reception unit is configured to receive a first input. The generation unit is configured to associate the first image acquired in the first image acquisition unit with the information piece acquired in the first information acquisition unit to generate an association data piece when the reception unit receives the first input. The writing unit is configured to write the association data piece into a storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiro SEKINE, Masashi NISHIYAMA, Kaoru SUGITA, Hidetaka OHIRA, Yusuke TAZOE, Goh ITOH
  • Publication number: 20140286530
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a setting unit, and a calculator. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire an image. The setting unit is configured to set a plurality of sampling points in a sampling area of the image, each sampling point being associated with a calculation area. The calculator is configured to calculate feature values of the image in the calculation area. The setting unit is configured to set the sampling points to provide at least one of an arrangement in which distances between the adjacent sampling points change with distances from a center of the sampling area, and an arrangement in which the sampling points exist on circumferences of a plurality of circles different in diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hidetaka OHIRA, Masahiro SEKINE, Masashi NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140247997
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing system includes a determination unit, a selection unit, and a display control unit. The determination unit is configured to determine whether a first feature value extracted from a first image and a second feature value extracted from a second image are identical or similar. The selection unit is configured to select content data from a plurality of content data so that the selected content data is different between when it is determined that the first feature value and the second feature value are identical or similar and when it is determined that the first feature value and the second feature value are not identical or similar. The display control unit is configured to display the selected content data on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masashi NISHIYAMA, Masahiro SEKINE, Hidetaka OHIRA, Kaoru SUGITA, Yusuke TAZOE, Goh ITOH
  • Publication number: 20140240222
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a photographing image including a user region is acquired. The user region is detected from the photographing image. The user region in the photographing image is changed so that a user's direction in the user region cannot be decided, and the photographing image in which the user region is changed is acquired as a change image. A position of the user region in the photographing image is calculated. An image of a back side-cloth is compounded with the user region in the change image at the position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kaoru SUGITA, Masahiro SEKINE, Masashi NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140152851
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an image capturing module, an estimation module, a content obtaining module, and a display module. The image capturing module is configured to capture a subject to be captured. The estimation module is configured to estimate a state of the subject to be captured based on a capturing method for the subject to be captured by the image capturing module. The content obtaining module is configured to obtain the content based on the state of the subject to be captured and relating to the subject to be captured. The display module is configured to display the obtained content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hidetaka Ohira, Kazuhide Sawa, Masayuki Okamoto, Masaru Sakai, Masahiro Sekine, Masashi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 8730319
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an image data generating unit and a display unit. The image data generating unit generates image data on an image. The display unit presents a video including the image data to an image viewer on a moving body to superimpose the video on an actual outside scene. The image data includes a first display object and a second display object. The first display object includes a lower part object. The lower part object has a lower part, an upper right part and an upper left part. A length of the lower part along a normal direction is longer than lengths of the upper right and upper left parts. The second display object is disposed in the image with reference to a display position of the first display object. The second display object includes information on the moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiro Sekine, Takashi Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Haruhiko Okumura, Noriko Odate, Shigeo Morimoto, Takahisa Yoneyama, Yugo Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20140129329
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a server includes a first acquiring unit, a second acquiring unit, an analyzing unit, and an output unit. The first acquiring unit is configured to acquire recognition information includes a product identification information for identifying the product. The second acquiring unit is configured to acquire combination information including the product identification information of the product to be combined with an object image including an object. The analyzing unit is configured to calculate product priorities for respective products by analyzing the recognition information and the combination information. The output unit is configured to output information based on the product priorities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiro Sekine, Masashi Nishiyama, Kaoru Sugita, Hidetaka Ohira, Goh Itoh
  • Publication number: 20140118396
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes a first obtaining unit to obtain a first image which contains a clothing image to be superimposed; a second obtaining unit to obtain a second image which contains a photographic subject image on which the clothing image is to be superimposed; a third obtaining unit to obtain, of an image outline of the clothing image, a first outline that is the image outline other than openings formed in clothing; a setting unit to set, as a drawing restriction area, at least some area that is on the outside of the clothing image in the first image and that is continuous to the first outline; and a generating unit to generate a synthetic image by synthesizing the photographic subject image, from which is removed an area corresponding to the drawing restriction area, with the clothing image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Kaoru SUGITA, Masahiro SEKINE, Shihomi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20140085330
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes a first calculator to calculate, when a photographic subject image is determined to satisfy a first condition, a first position of the clothing image such that the position of a feature area matches with the position of the feature area; a second calculator to calculate a second position of the clothing image in the photographic subject image such that the position of a feature point in the clothing image matches with the position of the feature point in the photographic subject image; a deciding unit to decide, when the photographic subject image is determined to satisfy the first condition, on the first position as a superimposition position, and decide, when the photographic subject image is determined not to satisfy the first condition, on the superimposition position based on the difference between the first position and the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Kaoru SUGITA, Masahiro SEKINE, Masashi NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140064556
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an object detection system includes an obtaining unit, an estimating unit, a setting unit, a calculating unit, and a detecting unit. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain an image in which an object is captured. The estimating unit is configured to estimate a condition of the object. The setting unit is configured to set, in the image, a plurality of areas that have at least one of a relative positional relationship altered according to the condition and a shape altered according to the condition. The calculating unit is configured to calculate a feature value of an image covering the areas. The detecting unit is configured to compare the calculated feature value with a feature value of a predetermined registered object, and detect the registered object corresponding to the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hidetaka OHIRA, Masahiro SEKINE, Masashi NISHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 8667300
    Abstract: Encrypted video data is decrypted as first image data. If a first image processing module includes an output processing to an outside of a first secure memory which an access from an outside of an apparatus is restricted, the first image processing module is converted to a second image processing module including the output processing invalidated. The first image data is processed using the second image processing module, by accessing the first secure memory, and second image data is generated. If a first rendering module includes an output processing to an outside of a second secure memory which an access from the outside of the apparatus is restricted, the first rendering module is converted to a second rendering module including the output processing invalidated. The second image data is rendered using the second rendering module, by accessing the second secure memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Isao Mihara, Yasunobu Yamauchi, Masahiro Sekine, Yasukazu Higuchi, Norihiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8527899
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an display processing apparatus includes, an operation receiver, a relation calculator, a display information generator, and a display controller. The operation receiver receives operation to select a key content of a first type. The relation calculator calculates relation between the key content and each of second contents of a plurality of types including the first type. The display information generator generates first display information of the key content and second display information of the second contents. The display controller displays list information including the first display information and relation item information indicating a plurality of items involved in calculating the relation and display areas each corresponding to one of the items. In the list information, pieces of the second display information are arranged such that second display information of second content with higher relation to the key content is closer to the first display information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mieko Miyazawa, Takahisa Yoneyama, Takashi Nakamura, Yasunobu Yamauchi, Isao Mihara, Masahiro Sekine, Yasukazu Higuchi, Yoshihisa Kizuka, Hitoshi Saijo, Sayoko Tanaka, Toshihiro Fujibayashi
  • Publication number: 20130176455
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit. The calculation unit calculates a reliability for each of pixel areas in such a manner that the reliability increases with increasing at least one of (1) a first evaluation value which increases with increasing planarity, in a color space, of a distribution of pixel values in each of the pixel areas, (2) a second evaluation value which increases with increasing wideness of pixel values in each of the pixel areas on an estimated plane approximating the distribution of the pixel values in each of the pixel areas in the color space, and (3) a third evaluation value which increases with decreasing distance between the estimated plane and an origin of the color space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kyoka KOBUNA, Toshiyuki ONO, Masahiro SEKINE, Yasunori TAGUCHI, Nobuyuki MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 8466961
    Abstract: The video input unit inputs video data. The reference data input unit inputs a plurality of reference data relating to the video data. The extraction condition determining unit determines, from the identification information of the plurality of reference data, an item of identification information in correspondence with a period of time elapsed after receipt of an output request. The reference data extracting unit extracts the reference data having the determined identification information. The analyzing unit calculates the level of similarity between the frames in the input video data and the reference data, and extracts frames whose level of similarity is greater than a first threshold value. The video generating unit generates output video data that includes the extracted frames. The output unit outputs the generated output video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiro Sekine, Yasunobu Yamauchi, Isao Mihara, Yasukazu Higuchi