Patents by Inventor Masanori Mikami

Masanori Mikami 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: 20090219409
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an integrating unit integrating an input image signal over a time interval equal to one horizontal period or longer; a normalizing unit normalizing an integrated value obtained by the integrating unit, or a difference value in the integrated value between adjacent fields or frames; an extracting unit extracting a spectrum of the normalized integrated value or difference value; an estimating unit estimating a flicker component on a field-by-field basis or frame-by-frame basis from the extracted spectrum; a detecting unit detecting a deviation of the latest flicker component, from the estimated latest flicker component and one or more flicker components estimated in the past; a correcting unit correcting the latest flicker component on the basis of the detected deviation of the flicker component; and a computing unit computing a corrected flicker component and the input image signal so as to cancel out the corrected flicker component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Mikami