Patents by Inventor Mitsuyasu Amano

Mitsuyasu Amano 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: 8094230
    Abstract: The present invention is an image processing apparatus for converting an original image into an enlarged image on which enlargement processing has been performed with respect to a reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Hosoi, Mitsuyasu Amano, Kouji Yamamoto, Eiichiro Morinaga
  • Patent number: 8094213
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program in which a special effect that allows a subject to be modified so that the degree of modification increases with increasing distance from a reference point of an original image set on a screen is given to a captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Yamamoto, Takafumi Hosoi, Mitsuyasu Amano, Eiichiro Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20100157101
    Abstract: The present invention includes first setting means for setting, for an original image, a first image region including a reference point and a second image region other than the first image region; reducing means for reducing the original image; second setting means for setting, for a reduced image obtained, a reference point of the reduced image corresponding to the reference point of the original image, a first reduced image region corresponding to the first image region, and a second reduced image region corresponding to the second image region; modifying means for modifying, within the reduced image, an image in the second reduced image region so that the degree of modification increases with increasing distance from the reference point of the reduced image; expanding means for expanding image data of the modified second reduced image region into the second image region; and combining means for combining the image data expanded into the second image region with image data of the original image constituting
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Yamamoto, Takafumi Hosoi, Mitsuyasu Amano, Eiichiro Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20100020225
    Abstract: The present invention is an image processing apparatus for converting an original image into an enlarged image on which enlargement processing has been performed with respect to a reference point, as the center, including: a selection processing unit that treats, as a starting point, a coordinate point which is the farthest from the reference point and selects a processing-target pixel from among pixels constituting the enlarged image; a calculation processing unit that calculates a coordinate point of the original image which is mapped to the coordinate point of the processing-target pixel; a reading processing unit that reads the pixel value of a pixel of the original image from the recording medium in accordance with the coordinate point of the original image; an interpolation processing unit that interpolates the pixel value of the processing-target pixel using the pixel value of the pixel of the original image read by the reading processing unit; and a writing processing unit that writes the pixel value
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Takafumi Hosoi, Mitsuyasu Amano, Kouji Yamamoto, Eiichiro Morinaga
  • Publication number: 20090237549
    Abstract: The present invention is an image processing apparatus for changing the resolution of image data in accordance with the distance from a reference point arbitrarily set within a screen showing the image data, including: selection means for selecting, from the image data, calculation-target pixels that are arranged in such a manner that the spacing between pixels becomes larger as the distance from the reference point increases; smoothing processing means for smoothing the calculation-target pixels selected by the selection means using the pixel values of the calculation-target pixels and the pixel values of pixels positioned around the calculation-target pixels; and interpolation processing means for interpolating the pixel values of pixels which have not been selected as the calculation-target pixels by the selection means, from the pixel values of calculation-target pixels positioned around the pixels, the calculation-target pixels having been smoothed by the smoothing processing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuyasu Amano, Takafumi Hosoi, Kouji Yamamoto, Eiichiro Morinaga
  • Patent number: 7024588
    Abstract: A system monitoring unit uses an external debugging unit to monitor the state of an internal CPU when a control program stored in a memory of a target system controls an internal CPU of the system to operate via an internal bus of the system. The system monitoring unit includes an internal-bus-address comparing circuit for detecting, in real time, based on information on the internal bus, information on the accessing of the internal bus by the internal CPU. By outputting the information on the accessing of the internal bus by the internal CPU to the debugging unit, the system monitoring unit can output the state of the internal bus while controlling the internal CPU to operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichiro Imai, Mitsuyasu Amano
  • Patent number: 6801378
    Abstract: To make the most of the storage capacity of a recording medium for data recording and reproduction, data is provisionally stored in a memory at a second data rate DL2, then data is read from the memory at a first data rate, and the recording medium is driven intermittently according to a change in data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuyasu Amano, Masahiko Nagumo
  • Publication number: 20010008020
    Abstract: A system monitoring unit uses an external debugging unit to monitor the state of an internal CPU when a control program stored in a memory of a target system controls an internal CPU of the system to operate via an internal bus of the system. The system monitoring unit includes an internal-bus-address comparing circuit for detecting, in real time, based on information on the internal bus, information on the accessing of the internal bus by the internal CPU. By outputting the information on the accessing of the internal bus by the internal CPU to the debugging unit, the system monitoring unit can output the state of the internal bus while controlling the internal CPU to operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Publication date: July 12, 2001
    Inventors: Kenichiro Imai, Mitsuyasu Amano