Patents by Inventor Masao Kuwabara

Masao Kuwabara 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: 8730265
    Abstract: A character generating system (10) includes a pickup image information acquiring unit (14), a texture generating unit (15), and a texture pasting unit (16). The pickup image information acquiring unit (14) acquires face pickup image information corresponding to an image pasting area (51) of a face texture (53) of character (70) from the pickup image information. The texture generating unit (15), on the basis of color information of a difference area (52), sorts pixels in the image pasting area (51), replaces the color information of the selected pixels with the color information of the difference area (52), and generates the face texture (53) from the face pickup image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Altron Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Kuwabara, Naoto Kominato, Yuki Watanabe, Kazumitsu Moriyama
  • Patent number: 8497869
    Abstract: A character generating system (10) includes a pickup image information acquiring unit (14), a face part texture generating unit (15), a shape model generating unit (16), and a texture pasting unit (17). The face part texture generating unit (15) has the function of generating part textures that correspond to face parts and are pasted to a head portion shape model of a character (70), which will become an anime-like portrait based on face pickup image information of an object, and includes a characteristic point extracting unit (151), a part selecting unit (152), a flesh color setting unit (153), and a part arrangement setting unit (154).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Altron Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Kuwabara, Naoto Kominato, Kazumitsu Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20130120425
    Abstract: A character generating system (10) includes a pickup image information acquiring unit (14), a face part texture generating unit (15), a shape model generating unit (16), and a texture pasting unit (17). The face part texture generating unit (15) has the function of generating part textures that correspond to face parts and are pasted to a head portion shape model of a character (70), which will become an anime-like portrait based on face pickup image information of an object, and includes a characteristic point extracting unit (151), a part selecting unit (152), a flesh color setting unit (153), and a part arrangement setting unit (154).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Masao KUWABARA, Masao KUWABARA, Masao KUWABARA
  • Publication number: 20120139920
    Abstract: A character generating system (10) includes a pickup image information acquiring unit (14), a texture generating unit (15), and a texture pasting unit (16). The pickup image information acquiring unit (14) acquires face pickup image information corresponding to an image pasting area (51) of a face texture (53) of character (70) from the pickup image information. The texture generating unit (15), on the basis of color information of a difference area (52), sorts pixels in the image pasting area (51), replaces the color information of the selected pixels with the color information of the difference area (52), and generates the face texture (53) from the face pickup image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: ALTRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao KUWABARA, Naoto KOMINATO, Yuki WATANABE, Kazumitsu MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 4588564
    Abstract: In the process for recovering arsenic trioxide from scrubbing water used to scrub the flue gas of sulfide ore smelting, the crude arsenic trioxide crystals collected from the scrubbing solution which contains plaster as an impurity is purified by treating it with hydrochloric acid of a concentration of 50-150 g/l at a temperature not higher than 30.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: Onahama Smelting and Refining Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kohno, Haruhiko Asao, Masao Kuwabara, Takashi Shimizu