Patents by Inventor Naoki Kuzuya

Naoki Kuzuya 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: 20220414713
    Abstract: Provided are an information collection system, an electronic shelf label, an electronic POP advertising, and a character information display device that allow information with higher accuracy to be collected. An information collection device that collects information associated with a customer or a product is included for each product type. Alternatively, an information processing device that supplies information associated with a product and an information display terminal that displays information associated with a product supplied from the information processing device are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: KYOKO ISHIDA, NAOKI KUZUYA, TAKESHI MASUURA, HIROSHI SUMIHIRO, MITSUHARU OHKI, HIROAKI ONO, HIDESHI YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11403672
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information collection system, an electronic shelf label, an electronic POP advertising, and a character information display device that allow information with higher accuracy to be collected. An information collection device that collects information associated with a customer or a product is included for each product type. Alternatively, an information processing device that supplies information associated with a product and an information display terminal that displays information associated with a product supplied from the information processing device are included. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an electronic shelf label, an image pickup device, a communication device, an information processing device, electronic equipment, a computer, a storage medium, a system, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoko Ishida, Naoki Kuzuya, Takeshi Masuura, Hiroshi Sumihiro, Mitsuharu Ohki, Hiroaki Ono, Hideshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220021816
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a control apparatus, a control method, a program, and an electronic device system that enables achievement of low power consumption. The presence or absence of a preset, predetermined subject is detected from an image having a low resolution output by an image sensor in a low power consumption mode, the image sensor including, as operation modes, the low power consumption mode in which the image having the low resolution is output and a normal mode in which an image having a high resolution as compared with the image having the low resolution is output. Then, in a case where the presence of the predetermined subject is detected, the operation mode of the image sensor is set to the normal mode, and the image sensor outputs the image having the high resolution. The present technology may be applied, for example, to control of the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Iinuma, Naoki Kuzuya
  • Patent number: 11196922
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a control apparatus, a control method, a program, and an electronic device system that enables achievement of low power consumption. The presence or absence of a preset, predetermined subject is detected from an image having a low resolution output by an image sensor in a low power consumption mode, the image sensor including, as operation modes, the low power consumption mode in which the image having the low resolution is output and a normal mode in which an image having a high resolution as compared with the image having the low resolution is output. Then, in a case where the presence of the predetermined subject is detected, the operation mode of the image sensor is set to the normal mode, and the image sensor outputs the image having the high resolution. The present technology may be applied, for example, to control of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Iinuma, Naoki Kuzuya
  • Patent number: 11171164
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image sensor, an image processing method, and an electronic device capable of executing image processing with fewer resources. The image sensor is provided with a pixel region in which pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit which converts light to a charge and an in-pixel memory unit which holds the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion unit are arranged in a matrix manner, a driving unit which drives to read out a pixel signal from the pixel, and an image processing unit which performs image processing based on a plurality of images read out by a plurality of times of readout from the pixel region according to driving of the driving unit. The present technology may be applied to, for example, an image sensor including a logic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Kuzuya, Hiroshi Sumihiro
  • Publication number: 20210304256
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information collection system, an electronic shelf label, an electronic POP advertising, and a character information display device that allow information with higher accuracy to be collected. An information collection device that collects information associated with a customer or a product is included for each product type. Alternatively, an information processing device that supplies information associated with a product and an information display terminal that displays information associated with a product supplied from the information processing device are included. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an electronic shelf label, an image pickup device, a communication device, an information processing device, electronic equipment, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: KYOKO ISHIDA, NAOKI KUZUYA, TAKESHI MASUURA, HIROSHI SUMIHIRO, MITSUHARU OHKI, HIROAKI ONO, HIDESHI YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20200084388
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a control apparatus, a control method, a program, and an electronic device system that enables achievement of low power consumption. The presence or absence of a preset, predetermined subject is detected from an image having a low resolution output by an image sensor in a low power consumption mode, the image sensor including, as operation modes, the low power consumption mode in which the image having the low resolution is output and a normal mode in which an image having a high resolution as compared with the image having the low resolution is output. Then, in a case where the presence of the predetermined subject is detected, the operation mode of the image sensor is set to the normal mode, and the image sensor outputs the image having the high resolution. The present technology may be applied, for example, to control of the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Iinuma, Naoki Kuzuya
  • Patent number: 10198658
    Abstract: To accurately determine whether there is a sharp change in a frame. Provided is an image processing device including: a histogram generating unit configured to generate a previous histogram showing a distribution of pixel values in a previous frame that is generated before a predetermined frame and a current histogram showing a distribution of pixel values in the predetermined frame; a normalizing unit configured to perform normalization to match variations of the pixel values of the previous histogram and the current histogram; and a similarity determining unit configured to acquire a degree of similarity of shapes of the previous histogram and the current histogram after the normalization and determine whether the degree of similarity is greater than a predetermined similarity determining threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Masuura, Naoki Kuzuya
  • Patent number: 10157327
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a plurality of object feature amount calculation units to calculate an object feature amount related to an object on an image, from a current frame of a moving image based on different standards, a feature amount selection unit to select an object feature amount to be used from the plurality of object feature amounts, which is calculated based on the different standards, using object attribute information related to an object on a previous frame of the moving image, an object information calculation unit to calculate object information related to an object on the current frame using the selected feature amount and object information related to the object on the previous frame, and an object attribute information calculation unit to calculate object attribute information related to the object on the current frame based on the calculated object information related to the object on the current frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kuzuya, Kenichiro Oi, Hironaga Sano, Nana Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20180190687
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image sensor, an image processing method, and an electronic device capable of executing image processing with fewer resources. The image sensor is provided with a pixel region in which pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit which converts light to a charge and an in-pixel memory unit which holds the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion unit are arranged in a matrix manner, a driving unit which drives to read out a pixel signal from the pixel, and an image processing unit which performs image processing based on a plurality of images read out by a plurality of times of readout from the pixel region according to driving of the driving unit. The present technology may be applied to, for example, an image sensor including a logic circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: NAOKI KUZUYA, HIROSHI SUMIHIRO
  • Publication number: 20170220894
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program to make it possible to continuously track an object on a moving image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kuzuya, Kenichiro Oi, Hironaga Sano, Nana Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170154236
    Abstract: To accurately determine whether there is a sharp change in a frame. Provided is an image processing device including: a histogram generating unit configured to generate a previous histogram showing a distribution of pixel values in a previous frame that is generated before a predetermined frame and a current histogram showing a distribution of pixel values in the predetermined frame; a normalizing unit configured to perform normalization to match variations of the pixel values of the previous histogram and the current histogram; and a similarity determining unit configured to acquire a degree of similarity of shapes of the previous histogram and the current histogram after the normalization and determine whether the degree of similarity is greater than a predetermined similarity determining threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Masuura, Naoki Kuzuya
  • Patent number: 9558406
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an object setting section that sets an object image indicating an object which is placed in an image generated by an image capturing section; a detection section that detects the object included in a synthetic image in which the object image and the image generated by the image capturing section are synthesized; and an output section that outputs output information for setting a detection parameter used in a detection process performed by the detection section, that is, output information in which the synthetic image and a detection result of the detection process are associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Kuzuya
  • Patent number: 9473746
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire image data of a captured image; a dividing section configured to divide the acquired image data into divisional regions; a characteristic-amount calculation section configured to calculate a characteristic amount of the image data in each of the divisional regions; a characteristic-amount storage section configured to update the calculated characteristic amount and store the updated characteristic amount sequentially; and a change determination section configured to perform first and second processings, the first processing being provided to calculate a change amount or an agreement amount between the characteristic amounts, the second processing being provided to calculate a difference value between the characteristic amounts, and the change determination section being configured to determine, based on processing contents of the first and second processings, whether or not the update region is a changed region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Masuura, Naoki Kuzuya, Hironaga Sano, Sho Ogura
  • Patent number: 9361704
    Abstract: This technique relate to an image processing device, an image processing method, an imaging device, an electronic equipment, and a program which can provide a technique to execute a highly accurate global motion search process which is robust to a local moving subject, an illumination intensity change, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Masuura, Masaru Matsuura, Naoki Kuzuya
  • Patent number: 9117293
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a high-pass filter that extracts a high-frequency component of an input image; an edge judgment unit that judges whether there is an edge based on the high-frequency component and estimates an edge position when there is an edge; a coordinate conversion unit that obtains an edge position in an enlarged image corresponding to the estimated edge position; an interpolation unit that obtains, regarding a position where an edge position of the high-frequency component and the edge position of the enlarged image overlap, a pixel value at each pixel position of an edge circumference of the enlarged image using a pixel value of the high-frequency component; a first enlargement processing unit that generates the enlarged image by enlarging by a desired enlargement factor; and a synthesis unit that synthesizes the interpolated pixel value of the high-frequency component and the pixel value of the enlarged image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki Kuzuya
  • Publication number: 20150016673
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an object setting section that sets an object image indicating an object which is placed in an image generated by an image capturing section; a detection section that detects the object included in a synthetic image in which the object image and the image generated by the image capturing section are synthesized; and an output section that outputs output information for setting a detection parameter used in a detection process performed by the detection section, that is, output information in which the synthetic image and a detection result of the detection process are associated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Naoki KUZUYA
  • Publication number: 20140267821
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire image data of a captured image; a dividing section configured to divide the acquired image data into divisional regions; a characteristic-amount calculation section configured to calculate a characteristic amount of the image data in each of the divisional regions; a characteristic-amount storage section configured to update the calculated characteristic amount and store the updated characteristic amount sequentially; and a change determination section configured to perform first and second processings, the first processing being provided to calculate a change amount or an agreement amount between the characteristic amounts, the second processing being provided to calculate a difference value between the characteristic amounts, and the change determination section being configured to determine, based on processing contents of the first and second processings, whether or not the update region is a changed region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Masuura, Naoki Kuzuya, Hironaga Sano, Sho Ogura
  • Publication number: 20140185882
    Abstract: This technique relate to an image processing device, an image processing method, an imaging device, an electronic equipment, and a program which can provide a technique to execute a highly accurate global motion search process which is robust to a local moving subject, an illumination intensity change, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Masuura, Masaru Matsuura, Naoki Kuzuya
  • Publication number: 20140176751
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a high-pass filter that extracts a high-frequency component of an input image; an edge judgment unit that judges whether there is an edge based on the high-frequency component and estimates an edge position when there is an edge; a coordinate conversion unit that obtains an edge position in an enlarged image corresponding to the estimated edge position; an interpolation unit that obtains, regarding a position where an edge position of the high-frequency component and the edge position of the enlarged image overlap, a pixel value at each pixel position of an edge circumference of the enlarged image using a pixel value of the high-frequency component; a first enlargement processing unit that generates the enlarged image by enlarging by a desired enlargement factor; and a synthesis unit that synthesizes the interpolated pixel value of the high-frequency component and the pixel value of the enlarged image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Kuzuya