Patents by Inventor Masao Sasaki
Masao Sasaki 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).
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Patent number: 11967013Abstract: An image processing method of holding a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image. The method includes acquiring predetermined information concerning at least one of an observation distance as a distance between a print product on which a target region is printed and an observer observing the print product, a sheet on which the target region is printed, or an environment in which the print product is observed, selecting texture data from the plurality of texture data based on the acquired predetermined information, and applying, to the target region, the texture data selected in the selecting.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshitaka Minami, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Hideki Kubo, Takeru Sasaki, Kazuya Ogasawara, Masao Kato
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Publication number: 20210248756Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a control portion configured to switch, in accordance with a moving speed of a mobile body, different search ranges of a motion vector set in accordance with projection characteristics of a fisheye lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventor: Masao SASAKI
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Publication number: 20200195937Abstract: An image processing device for encoding a video signal including circuitry configured to perform an arithmetic encoding process on a top block of a current block line of the video signal using a context used in the arithmetic encoding process for a previous block of a previous block line.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2020Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Masao SASAKI
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Publication number: 20200162756Abstract: There is provided an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program for enabling obtainment of a prediction pixel in an easier and more prompt manner a lower cost. The image processing device includes a prediction unit configured to generate, in a case of generating a prediction pixel of a current block of an image to be processed by intra prediction, in a case where a pixel in a previous block previous to the current block in a processing order is an adjacent pixel to be used for generating the prediction pixel, the prediction pixel using a pixel value of another adjacent pixel in another block different from the previous block as a pixel value of the adjacent pixel in the previous block. The present technology can be applied to an encoding device and a decoding device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Sinsuke HISHINUMA, Jongdae KIM, Masao SASAKI
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Patent number: 10659792Abstract: An image processing device for encoding a video signal including circuitry configured to perform an arithmetic encoding process on a top block of a current block line of the video signal using a context used in the arithmetic encoding process for a previous block of a previous block line.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masao Sasaki
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Patent number: 10432933Abstract: An encoder for encoding an image signal, the encoder including processing circuitry that sets, as a block setting process and in case that a condition that an operating mode requires resource efficiency higher than that of a normal mode, a depth of block division with more limited variety of pixel sizes of coding units than that of the normal mode; performs cost calculation and divisional determination only with respect to coding units within the set depth; and skips cost calculation and divisional determination with respect to coding units outside the set first depth.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshiharu Tsuchiya, Masao Sasaki
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Patent number: 10412417Abstract: The present technique relates to an image processing device and method capable of performing an encoding process or a decoding process on an image at high speed. Similarly, arithmetic coding parameters arranged together in the syntax are subjected to a variable length (fixed length) decoding process together. Similarly, arithmetic coding parameters arranged together in the syntax are subjected to an arithmetic decoding process together. Accordingly, since the alternations of firmware and hardware are performed together, it is possible to improve the processing efficiency of decoding. As a result, it is possible to perform the process at high speed. The present disclosure can be applied to image processing devices, for example.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Teruhiko Suzuki, Masao Sasaki
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Patent number: 10244573Abstract: Wireless communication devices, systems, and programs perform, via a single antenna: (i) communications in a first wireless communication mode in which processing of searching for other registered devices is repeatedly executed at a predetermined execution interval in order to connect to these other devices, the execution interval being set to a reference interval; and (ii) communications in a second wireless communication mode according to a communication standard other than the first wireless communication mode. The devices, methods, and programs change the execution interval in the first wireless communication mode to a value larger than the reference interval during at least a part of a period during which communication in the second wireless communication mode is being performed or communication in the second wireless communication mode is enabled.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Sasaki, Hirokazu Ishida, Kazushige Hayashi
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Publication number: 20190058888Abstract: An image processing device for encoding a video signal including circuitry configured to perform an arithmetic encoding process on a top block of a current block line of the video signal using a context used in the arithmetic encoding process for a previous block of a previous block line.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masao SASAKI
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Patent number: 10187645Abstract: An image processing device for encoding a video signal including circuitry configured to perform an arithmetic encoding process on a top block of a current block line of the video signal using a context used in the arithmetic encoding process for a previous block of a previous block line.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masao Sasaki
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Patent number: 10056273Abstract: A heating apparatus includes a heater, an electron reflection plate, a filament arranged between the heater and the electron reflection plate, a heating power supply configured to supply an AC voltage between a first terminal and a second terminal of the filament to emit thermoelectrons from the filament, an acceleration power supply configured to supply an acceleration voltage between the filament and the heater, and a resistor arranged so as to form a path which connects the electron reflection plate and the heating power supply.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Canon Anelva CorporationInventors: Masao Sasaki, Kazutoshi Yoshibayashi, Kenji Sato, Kenzou Murata
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Publication number: 20180124403Abstract: An encoder for encoding an image signal, the encoder including processing circuitry that sets, as a block setting process and in case that a condition that an operating mode requires resource efficiency higher than that of a normal mode, a depth of block division with more limited variety of pixel sizes of coding units than that of the normal mode; performs cost calculation and divisional determination only with respect to coding units within the set depth; and skips cost calculation and divisional determination with respect to coding units outside the set first depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshiharu Tsuchiya, Masao Sasaki
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Patent number: 9930353Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image decoding device and method capable of suppressing an increase in an encoding or decoding load. The present disclosure includes: a decoding section configured to decode encoded data obtained by encoding image data for each of a plurality of certain areas obtained by dividing a picture using a plurality of blocks obtained by dividing the area as processing units, for each of the areas; a reordering section configured to reorder decoding results of the encoded data of the respective blocks obtained for the respective areas by the decoding section in a raster scan order of the entire picture; and a transform section configured to transform the decoding results of the respective blocks reordered in the raster scan order of the entire picture by the reordering section and generate decoded image data. The present disclosure can be applied to the image decoding device.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masao Sasaki, Takashi Fukuyama
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Publication number: 20180082865Abstract: A heating apparatus includes a heater, an electron reflection plate, a filament arranged between the heater and the electron reflection plate, a heating power supply configured to supply an AC voltage between a first terminal and a second terminal of the filament to emit thermoelectrons from the filament, an acceleration power supply configured to supply an acceleration voltage between the filament and the heater, and a resistor arranged so as to form a path which connects the electron reflection plate and the heating power supply.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: CANON ANELVA CORPORATIONInventors: Masao SASAKI, Kazutoshi YOSHIBAYASHI, Kenji SATO, Kenzou MURATA
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Patent number: 9894360Abstract: An image processing system, method and device for processing an image signal. The image processing system, method and device receive an operating mode signal indicative of a determined operating mode associated with resource efficiency, and control a depth of block division for a block setting process based on the determined operating mode indicated by the operating mode signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiharu Tsuchiya, Masao Sasaki
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Publication number: 20170208642Abstract: A wireless communication device, a wireless communication method, and a program are provided in which even when communications in a plurality of kinds of wireless communication modes are performed via a single antenna, the communications in these wireless communication modes can coexist and the communications can be appropriately performed. In the case where communications in a BT wireless communication mode in which processing of searching for registered target devices 4 is repeatedly executed at predetermined execution intervals in order to connect to the registered target devices 4 and in a Wi-Fi wireless communication mode are performed via a single antenna 21, the execution intervals of searching for the registered target devices 4 via BT are changed to a value larger than a reference interval during at least a part of a period during which Wi-Fi communication is being performed or Wi-Fi communication is enabled.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: July 20, 2017Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao SASAKI, Hirokazu ISHIDA, Kazushige HAYASHI
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Patent number: 9424557Abstract: A communication unit connects an e-mail data transfer protocol to transfer e-mail data item via near-field wireless communications with an external device. A retrieval unit retrieves the e-mail data item transferred from the external device when the protocol is connected. A storage unit stores the retrieved e-mail data item. A control unit causes the external device to transfer the e-mail data item in each indication unit of the indication device thereby to cause the storage unit to store the retrieved e-mail data item, when the protocol is connected, and even when a user does not implement a browsing operation of an e-mail list. The control unit further causes an indication device to indicate the e-mail list of the stored e-mail data item when the user implements the browsing operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, AISIN AW CO. LTD.Inventors: Ryuji Sakata, Soichi Saito, Suguru Matsushita, Shinichi Yamamoto, Kazushige Hayashi, Masao Sasaki
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Patent number: 9419929Abstract: A communication unit connects an e-mail data transfer protocol to transfer e-mail data items with an external device. An e-mail data storage unit stores the e-mail data items transferred from the external device. The control unit does not cause the external device to transfer the e-mail data items when the e-mail data transfer protocol is connected and when a total number of subjects of the e-mail data items and a data content of a latest e-mail data item stored in the external device respectively coincide with a total number of subjects of the e-mail data items and a data content of a latest e-mail data item stored in the e-mail data storage unit, at the time point when the e-mail data transfer protocol is connected between the communication unit and the external device.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ryuji Sakata, Soichi Saito, Suguru Matsushita, Shinichi Yamamoto, Kazushige Hayashi, Masao Sasaki
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Publication number: 20160044323Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image decoding device and method capable of suppressing an increase in an encoding or decoding load. The present disclosure includes: a decoding section configured to decode encoded data obtained by encoding image data for each of a plurality of certain areas obtained by dividing a picture using a plurality of blocks obtained by dividing the area as processing units, for each of the areas; a reordering section configured to reorder decoding results of the encoded data of the respective blocks obtained for the respective areas by the decoding section in a raster scan order of the entire picture; and a transform section configured to transform the decoding results of the respective blocks reordered in the raster scan order of the entire picture by the reordering section and generate decoded image data. The present disclosure can be applied to the image decoding device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masao SASAKI, Takashi FUKUYAMA
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Publication number: 20160029026Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method enabling suppression of deterioration in encoding efficiency due to high speed image encoding. An image processing device which encodes image data includes: an encoding unit which, with a small region line in which are arrayed in the horizontal direction small regions obtained by dividing large regions arrayed in the vertical direction of an image as an object, performs encoding of image data of the large region, advancing the encoding order of small regions in the same order as with the scan order, and advancing the encoding order of small region lines in an order different from the scan order; and a control unit which controls the encoding unit so as to encode in accordance with a state of a left small region situated at a left periphery of a small region to be processed, and a state of a lower small region situated at a lower periphery of the small region to be processed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Masao SASAKI