Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Takashima

Masatoshi Takashima 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: 11953376
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus including: a splitter that splits incident light into pieces of light of two or more wavelength bands; and two or more detectors that detect the pieces of light of two or more wavelength bands respectively and output signals from which wavelengths can be extracted tunably by post-processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Masatoshi Takashima
  • Patent number: 11930308
    Abstract: Provided are a device and a method for executing gain calculation processing and gain adjustment processing for matching an output of an imaging element of a multispectral camera with an output of a reference machine, on the basis of a reference machine band-corresponding pixel value that is a pixel value within a specific band acquired on the basis of an output value of an imaging element of the reference camera, and an adjustment machine band-corresponding pixel value that is a pixel value within a specific band acquired on the basis of an output value of an imaging element of the adjustment camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi Takashima
  • Patent number: 11910107
    Abstract: Provided is an image pickup apparatus including a multi-band pass filter that selectively transmits band light in a specific band, a color filter that transmits the band light in the specific band per pixel of an image pickup device, the image pickup device that receives light transmitted by the multi-band pass filter and the color filter, and a signal processing section to which a pixel value of the image pickup device is input and which executes a signal process on the pixel value. The multi-band pass filter is configured to selectively transmit band light corresponding to a plurality of color filter elements, and the signal processing section generates a pixel value corresponding to a band, of a pixel to be processed using a raw image base pixel value signal per pixel and a spectral characteristic parameter of the image pickup apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi Takashima
  • Patent number: 11769225
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that can easily execute a stitching process. Provided are: an image generation unit that generates a first reference image regarding a first imaging region on the basis of a plurality of first images regarding the first imaging region and that generates a second reference image regarding a second imaging region at least partially overlapping with the first imaging region on the basis of a plurality of second images regarding the second imaging region; and a processing unit that generates positioning information indicating a correspondence between the first imaging region and the second imaging region on the basis of the first reference image and the second reference image. The present technique can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that executes a stitching process of a plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Miyamaki, Masatoshi Takashima, Yu Kitamura, Hiroshi Mori
  • Patent number: 11656171
    Abstract: Embodiments include a control apparatus, a control method, and a control system that can effectively utilize an index regarding light incident on a measured object by obtaining the index effective for the measured object. The control apparatus can effectively utilize an effective index by controlling improvement of an environment that affects calculation of the effective index on the basis of the effective index representing an index that is related to light incident on a measured object and that is effectively utilized for the measured object. The measured object may be a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Takashima, Tetsu Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11631242
    Abstract: Selection of an evaluation index based upon statistical values of respective evaluation indices is disclosed. In one example, an information processing apparatus comprises an evaluation index unit that determines a plurality of evaluation indices on a basis of imaging data obtained by imaging a subject, wherein the evaluation indices are respectively based upon different wavelength component combinations of the imaging data. An evaluation value unit determines an evaluation value based on a statistical value of each of the evaluation indices, for each of the evaluation indices. A selection unit then determines a selected evaluation index from the evaluation indices on a basis of the evaluation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Takashima, Hideki Date, Yu Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11570371
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that perform appropriate exposure control, to thereby enable a desired object to be appropriately imaged. The present technology includes: an imaging unit including a plurality of pixels having different spectral characteristics; and an exposure control unit setting information associated with exposure control on the plurality of pixels depending on specification information for specifying a kind of a measurement target. Alternatively, the present technology includes: an imaging unit including a plurality of pixels having different spectral characteristics; and an exposure control unit setting information associated with exposure control on the plurality of pixels on the basis of a predicted output value of each of the plurality of pixels based on a spectral characteristic related to a measurement target. The present technology is applicable to an imaging apparatus which senses vegetation, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Masatoshi Takashima
  • Patent number: 11536656
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device capable of obtaining an index effective for a measurement target as an index related to light incident on the measurement target, an information processing method, and a program. The information processing device can obtain an index effective for a measurement target as an index regarding light incident on the measurement target by calculating an effective index representing the degree of light effectively utilized for the measurement target in incident light as an index regarding the light incident on the measurement target, on the basis of a measured value regarding the measurement target which is obtained by sensing performed by a sensor. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an apparatus calculating an index of plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsu Ogawa, Masatoshi Takashima
  • Publication number: 20220408068
    Abstract: Provided are a device and a method for executing gain calculation processing and gain adjustment processing for matching an output of an imaging element of a multispectral camera with an output of a reference machine. As the gain calculation processing for matching an output of an adjustment camera with an output of a reference camera at the time of manufacturing the multispectral camera, a band-corresponding gain is calculated that matches the output of the adjustment camera with the output of the reference camera, on the basis of: a reference machine band-corresponding pixel value that is a pixel value within a specific band acquired on the basis of an output value of an imaging element of the reference camera; and an adjustment machine band-corresponding pixel value that is a pixel value within a specific band acquired on the basis of an output value of an imaging element of the adjustment camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: MASATOSHI TAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11475550
    Abstract: Vegetation change information properly indicating a time series change of a vegetation state can be generated. To this end, a data group including vegetation data of multiple time points respectively associated with ratio information which is a component ratio of ambient light is an object to be processed. This device includes an extraction section that extracts, from the data group, vegetation data for use by using ratio information, and a generation section that generates vegetation change information indicating a time series change of a vegetation state by using the vegetation data extracted by the extraction section. By use of ratio information, vegetation data obtained under similar ambient light conditions can be collected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Unno, Masatoshi Takashima
  • Patent number: 11448586
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an inspection apparatus, a sensing apparatus, a sensitivity control apparatus, an inspection method, and a program that perform inspection with improved accuracy. The inspection apparatus includes a detection section for detecting a plurality of different wavelength region components of ambient light reflected from an inspection target to be inspected, and a control section for controlling the sensitivity of each of the different wavelength region components. The control section controls the sensitivity by calculating a histogram indicating the detection level in every wavelength region of light reflected from the inspection target that is detected by the detection section, and determining, based on histograms of particular spectroscopic components, whether or not the sensitivity is properly set for the detection section. The present technology is applicable, for example, to an inspection apparatus that inspects vegetation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Takashima, Yoshihiro Murakami, Hiroshi Mori
  • Publication number: 20220277419
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that can easily execute a stitching process. Provided are: an image generation unit that generates a first reference image regarding a first imaging region on the basis of a plurality of first images regarding the first imaging region and that generates a second reference image regarding a second imaging region at least partially overlapping with the first imaging region on the basis of a plurality of second images regarding the second imaging region; and a processing unit that generates positioning information indicating a correspondence between the first imaging region and the second imaging region on the basis of the first reference image and the second reference image. The present technique can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that executes a stitching process of a plurality of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Hideo Miyamaki, Masatoshi Takashima, Yu Kitamura, Hiroshi Mori
  • Patent number: 11422026
    Abstract: To easily and accurately perform calibration with respect to environment light. In one example, an information processing device includes a memory configured to store detected values of illuminances of environment light; and a color temperature estimation unit configured to estimate a color temperature of the environment light, on a basis of detected values of illuminances of the environment light within a plurality of wavelength bands. The disclosed technology can, for example, be applied to a system that performs remote sensing on an agricultural land, and calculates an evaluation index such as a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Masatoshi Takashima
  • Publication number: 20220264060
    Abstract: Provided is an image pickup apparatus including a multi-band pass filter that selectively transmits band light in a specific band, a color filter that transmits the band light in the specific band per pixel of an image pickup device, the image pickup device that receives light transmitted by the multi-band pass filter and the color filter, and a signal processing section to which a pixel value of the image pickup device is input and which executes a signal process on the pixel value. The multi-band pass filter is configured to selectively transmit band light corresponding to a plurality of color filter elements, and the signal processing section generates a pixel value corresponding to a band, of a pixel to be processed using a raw image base pixel value signal per pixel and a spectral characteristic parameter of the image pickup apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: MASATOSHI TAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220247981
    Abstract: To enable tunable wavelength extraction and detection of a narrow band, while maintaining resolution. Provided is a signal processing device including: an acquisition unit that acquires a signal of a first wavelength band in which wavelength extraction is possible in a tunable manner by means of postprocessing and a signal of a second wavelength band to be used for a special purpose; and a signal processing unit that performs signal processing using the signal of the first wavelength band and the signal of the second wavelength band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Masatoshi Takashima, Tetsu Ogawa, Takayoshi Oomori, Hiroshi Mori
  • Patent number: 11399161
    Abstract: A signal processing device has tunable wavelength extraction and detection of a narrow band, while maintaining resolution. The signal processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a signal of a first wavelength band in which wavelength extraction is possible in a tunable manner by means of postprocessing and a signal of a second wavelength band to be used for a special purpose; and a signal processing unit that performs signal processing using the signal of the first wavelength band and the signal of the second wavelength band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Takashima, Tetsu Ogawa, Takayoshi Oomori, Hiroshi Mori
  • Patent number: 11398060
    Abstract: An object is to provide, for synthetic information such as synthetic images, images with few errors. Thus, for an acquired image including information regarding a specific wavelength region, for example, an image of a specific region corresponding to a specific positional range in a captured image is extracted. A plurality of pieces of information regarding the specific region extracted from respective captured images captured at different points in time is synthesized to generate a synthetic information. By performing synthesis on the captured images captured at the different points in time during movement, synthetic information with few errors is obtained from an object spanning a wide range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Takashima, Tetsu Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20220210380
    Abstract: To enable tunable wavelength extraction and detection of a narrow band, while maintaining resolution. Provided is a signal processing device including: an acquisition unit that acquires a signal of a first wavelength band in which wavelength extraction is possible in a tunable manner by means of postprocessing and a signal of a second wavelength band to be used for a special purpose; and a signal processing unit that performs signal processing using the signal of the first wavelength band and the signal of the second wavelength band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Masatoshi Takashima, Tetsu Ogawa, Takayoshi Oomori, Hiroshi Mori
  • Patent number: 11328388
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that can easily execute a stitching process. Provided are: an image generation unit that generates a first reference image regarding a first imaging region on the basis of a plurality of first images regarding the first imaging region and that generates a second reference image regarding a second imaging region at least partially overlapping with the first imaging region on the basis of a plurality of second images regarding the second imaging region; and a processing unit that generates positioning information indicating a correspondence between the first imaging region and the second imaging region on the basis of the first reference image and the second reference image. The present technique can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that executes a stitching process of a plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Miyamaki, Masatoshi Takashima, Yu Kitamura, Hiroshi Mori
  • Patent number: 11181470
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a sensing system, a sensing method, and a sensing device which are capable of performing measurement with higher accuracy. A sensing system is configured such that a plurality of reference reflection regions having a reflectance corresponding to an inspection target are prepared for each wavelength band which is a target for sensing of the inspection target as reference reflection regions, and is configured to sense the reference reflection region having a reflectance corresponding to the inspection target for each wavelength band which is a target for sensing of the inspection target at the time of sensing a region including the inspection target and the reference reflection region. The present technology can be applied to a system for measuring a vegetation index such as a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Masatoshi Takashima