Patents by Inventor MASAKAZU KOUNO

MASAKAZU KOUNO 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: 10979702
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image encoding apparatus that makes it possible to improve the encoding speed while maintaining the image quality. A statistical information calculation unit supplies calculated statistical information to a table selection unit. Further, a picture type of an image from a screen rearrangement buffer and a quantization parameter Qp from a rate control unit are supplied to the table selection unit. The table selection unit determines a mode table to be used from a plurality of mode tables stored in a table storage unit on the basis of the statistical information and the picture type. For example, the table selection unit selects the mode table according to whether the statistical information is larger or smaller than a predetermined threshold. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that performs encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masakazu Kouno
  • Patent number: 10764594
    Abstract: There is provided an image encoding device and an image encoding method, and an image processing device and an image processing method that enable easier bitstream concatenation. A structure according to the present disclosure includes: a setting unit that sets header information related to a hypothetical reference decoder in accordance with information about a position and information about reference, the information about a position and the information about reference being of the current picture of image data to be processed; and an encoding unit that encodes the image data and generates a bitstream containing the encoded data of the image data and the header information set by the setting unit. The present disclosure can be applied to image processing devices or image encoding devices, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Tanaka, Akihiro Imamura, Ohji Nakagami, Takefumi Nagumo, Yuichi Araki, Yuji Fujimoto, Shinobu Hattori, Masakazu Kouno
  • Publication number: 20190281314
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image encoding device and an image encoding method, and an image processing device and an image processing method that enable easier bitstream concatenation. A structure according to the present disclosure includes: a setting unit that sets header information related to a hypothetical reference decoder in accordance with information about a position and information about reference, the information about a position and the information about reference being of the current picture of image data to be processed; and an encoding unit that encodes the image data and generates a bitstream containing the encoded data of the image data and the header information set by the setting unit. The present disclosure can be applied to image processing devices or image encoding devices, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi TANAKA, Akihiro IMAMURA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Takefumi NAGUMO, Yuichi ARAKI, Yuji FUJIMOTO, Shinobu HATTORI, Masakazu KOUNO
  • Publication number: 20190260988
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image encoding apparatus that makes it possible to improve the encoding speed while maintaining the image quality. A statistical information calculation unit supplies calculated statistical information to a table selection unit. Further, a picture type of an image from a screen rearrangement buffer and a quantization parameter Qp from a rate control unit are supplied to the table selection unit. The table selection unit determines a mode table to be used from a plurality of mode tables stored in a table storage unit on the basis of the statistical information and the picture type. For example, the table selection unit selects the mode table according to whether the statistical information is larger or smaller than a predetermined threshold. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that performs encoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventor: MASAKAZU KOUNO
  • Patent number: 10375406
    Abstract: There is provided an image encoding device and an image encoding method, and an image processing device and an image processing method that enable easier bitstream concatenation. A structure according to the present disclosure includes: a setting unit that sets header information related to a hypothetical reference decoder in accordance with information about a position and information about reference, the information about a position and the information about reference being of the current picture of image data to be processed; and an encoding unit that encodes the image data and generates a bitstream containing the encoded data of the image data and the header information set by the setting unit. The present disclosure can be applied to image processing devices or image encoding devices, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Tanaka, Akihiro Imamura, Ohji Nakagami, Takefumi Nagumo, Yuichi Araki, Yuji Fujimoto, Shinobu Hattori, Masakazu Kouno
  • Patent number: 10321128
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image encoding apparatus that makes it possible to improve the encoding speed while maintaining the image quality. A statistical information calculation unit supplies calculated statistical information to a table selection unit. Further, a picture type of an image from a screen rearrangement buffer and a quantization parameter Qp from a rate control unit are supplied to the table selection unit. The table selection unit determines a mode table to be used from a plurality of mode tables stored in a table storage unit on the basis of the statistical information and the picture type. For example, the table selection unit selects the mode table according to whether the statistical information is larger or smaller than a predetermined threshold. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that performs encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masakazu Kouno
  • Patent number: 10182232
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to store information on a plurality of encoders; and a control unit configured to be capable of transmitting a first instruction signal for instructing the plurality of encoders to encode input video data under first encoding conditions different for each of the plurality of encoders, and obtaining, if an image quality of the video data encoded by the plurality of encoders does not satisfy a predetermined criteria, predetermined information associated with the image quality from the encoded video data and transmitting, based on the predetermined information, a second instruction signal for instructing to encode the input video data under a second encoding condition different from the first encoding conditions to at least one encoder of the plurality of encoders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Kouno, Yuji Ando
  • Publication number: 20180288406
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image encoding apparatus that makes it possible to improve the encoding speed while maintaining the image quality. A statistical information calculation unit supplies calculated statistical information to a table selection unit. Further, a picture type of an image from a screen rearrangement buffer and a quantization parameter Qp from a rate control unit are supplied to the table selection unit. The table selection unit determines a mode table to be used from a plurality of mode tables stored in a table storage unit on the basis of the statistical information and the picture type. For example, the table selection unit selects the mode table according to whether the statistical information is larger or smaller than a predetermined threshold. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that performs encoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventor: MASAKAZU KOUNO
  • Publication number: 20170013267
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image encoding device and an image encoding method, and an image processing device and an image processing method that enable easier bitstream concatenation. A structure according to the present disclosure includes: a setting unit that sets header information related to a hypothetical reference decoder in accordance with information about a position and information about reference, the information about a position and the information about reference being of the current picture of image data to be processed; and an encoding unit that encodes the image data and generates a bitstream containing the encoded data of the image data and the header information set by the setting unit. The present disclosure can be applied to image processing devices or image encoding devices, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi TANAKA, Akihiro IMAMURA, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Takefumi NAGUMO, Yuichi ARAKI, Yuji FUJIMOTO, Shinobu HATTORI, Masakazu KOUNO
  • Publication number: 20150271500
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to store information on a plurality of encoders; and a control unit configured to be capable of transmitting a first instruction signal for instructing the plurality of encoders to encode input video data under first encoding conditions different for each of the plurality of encoders, and obtaining, if an image quality of the video data encoded by the plurality of encoders does not satisfy a predetermined criteria, predetermined information associated with the image quality from the encoded video data and transmitting, based on the predetermined information, a second instruction signal for instructing to encode the input video data under a second encoding condition different from the first encoding conditions to at least one encoder of the plurality of encoders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: MASAKAZU KOUNO, YUJI ANDO
  • Publication number: 20140099039
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a converter configured to obtain, prior to performing an encoding process, image drawing information of an image capable of using upon encoding and to convert the obtained image drawing information into a parameter for encoding, and an encoding processor configured to perform the encoding process by changing contents of the encoding process according to the parameter for encoding converted by the converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu KOUNO, Ryohei OKADA, Yuji FUJIMOTO, Yuichi ARAKI, Yuji ANDO, Hiroyuki YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20120002864
    Abstract: An image processing unit includes a statistical information calculating section which calculates statistical information in macroblock units with regard to image data with a plurality of fields, a region determination section which executes region determination with regard to the image data with the level of recognition of three-dimensional images as a determination standard using the statistical information calculated by the statistical information calculating section, and an encoding processing section which encodes the image data of each field and generates an encoded stream while changing the content of the encoding process for each of the macroblocks according to the result of the region determination executed by the region determination section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: MASAKAZU KOUNO