Patents by Inventor Masahito YOKOUCHI

Masahito YOKOUCHI 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: 10867410
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a first gain calculation circuit configured to extract only color component of infrared light and multiply it by a gain of a predetermined multiplication factor; a first color adjustment circuit configured to perform output by allocating the color component of the infrared light into green component and blue component; a second gain calculation circuit configured to set gains of the green component and blue component to equivalent multiplication and multiply the color component of the infrared light by a gain of a multiplication factor smaller than the predetermined multiplication factor; a second color adjustment circuit configured to convert the color component of the infrared light into the green component and convert the green component into a red component; and a switching unit configured to perform a switching process of inputting a captured image to one of the first and the second gain calculation circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahito Yokouchi
  • Patent number: 10542866
    Abstract: A medical imaging device includes: a first and a second imaging units configured to capture a first and a second optical images having parallax, respectively; a first and a second imaging optical systems configured to form the first and the second optical images on light receiving surfaces of the first and the second imaging units, respectively; a dirt detecting unit configured to detect dirt adhered to at least one of the first and the second imaging optical systems; an image generation unit configured to generate a three-dimensional image based on a first captured image based on the first image signal and a second captured image based on the second image signal; and an image selector configured to select a captured image to be output from the first captured image and the second captured image based on a detection result of the dirt by the dirt detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Masahito Yokouchi, Yuichi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20190167071
    Abstract: A medical imaging device includes: a first and a second imaging units configured to capture a first and a second optical images having parallax, respectively; a first and a second imaging optical systems configured to form the first and the second optical images on light receiving surfaces of the first and the second imaging units, respectively; a dirt detecting unit configured to detect dirt adhered to at least one of the first and the second imaging optical systems; an image generation unit configured to generate a three-dimensional image based on a first captured image based on the first image signal and a second captured image based on the second image signal; and an image selector configured to select a captured image to be output from the first captured image and the second captured image based on a detection result of the dirt by the dirt detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc,
    Inventors: Masahito Yokouchi, Yuichi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20180232911
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a first gain calculation circuit configured to extract only color component of infrared light and multiply it by a gain of a predetermined multiplication factor; a first color adjustment circuit configured to perform output by allocating the color component of the infrared light into green component and blue component; a second gain calculation circuit configured to set gains of the green component and blue component to equivalent multiplication and multiply the color component of the infrared light by a gain of a multiplication factor smaller than the predetermined multiplication factor; a second color adjustment circuit configured to convert the color component of the infrared light into the green component and convert the green component into a red component; and a switching unit configured to perform a switching process of inputting a captured image to one of the first and the second gain calculation circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahito YOKOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170272665
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes an image pickup device that picks up an image of an inside of a subject, and outputs two or more digital signals, an electro-optical conversion section that converts the two or more digital signals outputted from the image pickup device into optical signals, and outputs the optical signals, an optical transmitting section that includes two or more optical transmitting members, and is adapted to transmit, in parallel, by the two or more optical transmitting members, two or more optical signals outputted from the electro-optical conversion section, and an output selection section provided between the image pickup device and the electro-optical conversion section, and being capable of combining, and outputting to one optical transmitting member, the two or more digital signals that are supplied to the two or more optical transmitting members, based on a transmission state of data optically transmitted by the optical transmitting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki KUGIMIYA, Ryo KOSHIDA, Masahito YOKOUCHI
  • Patent number: 9635341
    Abstract: A video processor includes: a judgement section configured to judge whether an input is a 2D or 3D image signal; an LR synthesis section configured to embed left and right image signals into an image signal in a side-by-side format to output the signal if the input is the 3D image signal and configured to embed a 2D image signal into a position corresponding to one of the left and right in an image signal in a side-by-side format to output the signal if the input is the 2D image signal; and an image processing section configured to apply image processing to the image signal in the side-by-side format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Sudo, Kentaro Hase, Masahito Yokouchi, Hitoshi Komine, Hidetaro Kono
  • Publication number: 20170039454
    Abstract: A video processor includes: a judgement section configured to judge whether an input is a 2D or 3D image signal; an LR synthesis section configured to embed left and right image signals into an image signal in a side-by-side format to output the signal if the input is the 3D image signal and configured to embed a 2D image signal into a position corresponding to one of the left and right in an image signal in a side-by-side format to output the signal if the input is the 2D image signal; and an image processing section configured to apply image processing to the image signal in the side-by-side format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru SUDO, Kentaro HASE, Masahito YOKOUCHI, Hitoshi KOMINE, Hidetaro KONO