Patents by Inventor Nobuho Ikeda
Nobuho Ikeda 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: 11823715Abstract: Cut-out processing for cutting out a portion of a region of a captured image, display control processing of a first screen including a captured image display region for displaying the captured image and a cut-out image display region for displaying a cut-out image cut out in the cut-out processing, display control processing for making display transition from the first screen to a second screen in which a cut-out region obtained from the captured image is set, processing for receiving a first user operation of designating, in the second screen, at least one set of coordinates and a second user operation of designating a subject, and processing for setting a cut-out region on the basis of the first user operation or the second user operation are performed.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda
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Patent number: 11800047Abstract: One image to serve as a main image is selected among a plurality of images and a continuous period length for which a selected image is continued as the main image is set in accordance with an image classification to which the selected image corresponds among a plurality of image classifications.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda
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Patent number: 11749309Abstract: To provide an information processor, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to improve convenience in reproduction of a captured image. There is provided an information processor including a reproduction processing section that reproduces a captured image associated with tag information regarding a subject and identification information indicating relation of a plurality of pieces of the tag information on a basis of a set reproduction condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuta Nakao, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda
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Patent number: 11727642Abstract: Reduction of a work burden relating to generation of a virtual viewpoint image is implemented. An image processing apparatus includes a virtual viewpoint image generation section that generates, on the basis of three-dimensional information that represents an imaged imaging object in a three-dimensional space, an observation image from a viewpoint in the three-dimensional space as a virtual viewpoint image, and the virtual viewpoint image generation section sets the viewpoint that follows movement of the imaging object. This makes it possible to reduce an operation burden relating to setting of a viewpoint.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuta Nakao, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda
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Patent number: 11721026Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a processing unit that tracks a target on the basis of a captured image that has been captured by an imaging device and sensor information obtained by communication from a sensor that senses the target.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Yuta Nakao, Hideyuki Sato
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Patent number: 11528429Abstract: An image processing device includes an evaluation unit configured to evaluate whether a first region of a captured image satisfies a quality condition, and a composition frame setting unit configured to set a different composition frame in the captured image in accordance with an evaluation result of the first region.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda
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Patent number: 11381740Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus and corresponding program and method are disclosed. In one example, a second captured image acquired from another apparatus is aligned with a first captured image. Image stabilization is carried out in response to a positional relation between the captured images. For example, when overlapping between the captured images is equal to or smaller than an image stabilization limitation threshold value, the image stabilization is stopped or a correction range is limited for at least one of the captured images. When the amount of overlapping is larger than the image stabilization limitation threshold value, the image stabilization for both of the captured images is carried out without limitation. The captured images are aligned with each other by using the captured image with limited image stabilization, or both captured images where stabilization is carried out without limitation, thereby producing a panoramic image.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Daisuke Tahara, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura
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Publication number: 20220191406Abstract: One image to serve as a main image is selected among a plurality of images and a continuous period length for which a selected image is continued as the main image is set in accordance with an image classification to which the selected image corresponds among a plurality of image classifications.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi IKEDA, Nobuho IKEDA
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Publication number: 20220172746Abstract: Cut-out processing for cutting out a portion of a region of a captured image, display control processing of a first screen including a captured image display region for displaying the captured image and a cut-out image display region for displaying a cut-out image cut out in the cut-out processing, display control processing for making display transition from the first screen to a second screen in which a cut-out region obtained from the captured image is set, processing for receiving a first user operation of designating, in the second screen, at least one set of coordinates and a second user operation of designating a subject, and processing for setting a cut-out region on the basis of the first user operation or the second user operation are performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: HIROSHI IKEDA, NOBUHO IKEDA
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Publication number: 20210352221Abstract: An image processing device (20) includes: an evaluation unit (240) configured to evaluate whether a first region of a captured image satisfies a quality condition; and a composition frame setting unit (248) configured to set a different composition frame in the captured image in accordance with an evaluation result of the first region.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: NOBUHO IKEDA, HIROSHI IKEDA
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Patent number: 11151409Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that are designed to enable easy generation of a path for successively displaying characteristic images. The information processing device includes a setting unit that sets a path for connecting characteristic portions in at least one image by referring to metadata including at least information about feature points detected from the image. The setting unit sets the path by determining a regression curve, using the feature points. In a case where the feature points include a feature point at a distance equal to or longer than a predetermined threshold value from the regression curve, the setting unit redetermines the regression curve after removing a feature point detected from an image including a feature point having a low score among the feature points. The present technology can be applied to information processing devices that process still images and moving images.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda, Shuichi Asajima, Yuki Ono
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Patent number: 11128811Abstract: An information processing apparatus including circuitry that connects a reference image and a target image with at least one of a plurality of complement images based on a reference viewpoint of a subject and a target viewpoint of the subject in response to an identification of the target viewpoint. Each of the plurality of complement images corresponds to a complementary viewpoint of the subject between the reference viewpoint and the target viewpoint. At least one of the plurality of complement images is an interpolation image, which is an image corresponding to a virtual viewpoint along the virtual path.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda, Seijiro Inaba, Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Yuki Ono, Shuichi Asajima
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Publication number: 20210203845Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus and corresponding program and method are disclosed. In one example, a second captured image acquired from another apparatus is aligned with a first captured image. Image stabilization is carried out in response to a positional relation between the captured images. For example, when overlapping between the captured images is equal to or smaller than an image stabilization limitation threshold value, the image stabilization is stopped or a correction range is limited for at least one of the captured images. When the amount of overlapping is larger than the image stabilization limitation threshold value, the image stabilization for both of the captured images is carried out without limitation. The captured images are aligned with each other by using the captured image with limited image stabilization, or both captured images where stabilization is carried out without limitation, thereby producing a panoramic image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Daisuke Tahara, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura
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Publication number: 20210174520Abstract: There is provided a control apparatus including: a processing unit configured to decide, on a basis of object information indicating a state of an object, a plurality of imaging devices that image the objects such that each of all the objects included in a predetermined area imaged by the plurality of imaging devices falls within an angle of view at which the at least two or more imaging devices perform imaging, and control each of the plurality of imaging devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2021Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: HIROSHI IKEDA, SEIJIRO INABA, NOBUHO IKEDA, HIDEYUKI SATO
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Patent number: 11025808Abstract: There is provided a control apparatus including: a processing unit configured to decide, on a basis of object information indicating a state of an object, a plurality of imaging devices that image the objects such that each of all the objects included in a predetermined area imaged by the plurality of imaging devices falls within an angle of view at which the at least two or more imaging devices perform imaging, and control each of the plurality of imaging devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporartionInventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Hideyuki Sato
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Patent number: 10984248Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors configured to analyze content of a plurality of input images, extract one or more unit images from the plurality of input images based on the analysis and set a position of each of the one or more unit images adopted in a summary image based on an input music.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura
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Publication number: 20210110849Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processor, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to improve convenience in reproduction of a captured image. [Solution] There is provided an information processor including a reproduction processing section that reproduces a captured image associated with tag information regarding a subject and identification information indicating relation of a plurality of pieces of the tag information on a basis of a set reproduction condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2019Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: Sony CorportationInventors: Yuta NAKAO, Nobuho IKEDA, Hiroshi IKEDA
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Patent number: 10917567Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, image processing apparatus and corresponding program and method are disclosed. In one example, a second captured image acquired from another apparatus is aligned with a first captured image. Image stabilization is carried out in response to a positional relation between the captured images. For example, when overlapping between the captured images is equal to or smaller than an image stabilization limitation threshold value, the image stabilization is stopped or a correction range is limited for at least one of the captured images. When the amount of overlapping is larger than the image stabilization limitation threshold value, the image stabilization for both of the captured images is carried out without limitation. The captured images are aligned with each other by using the captured image with limited image stabilization, or both captured images where stabilization is carried out without limitation, thereby producing a panoramic image.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Daisuke Tahara, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura
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Patent number: 10847185Abstract: There is provided an information processing method including analyzing a beat of input music, extracting a plurality of unit images from an input image, and generating, by a processor, editing information for switching the extracted unit images depending on the analyzed beat.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura, Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Nobuho Ikeda
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Publication number: 20200272848Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that are designed to enable easy generation of a path for successively displaying characteristic images. The information processing device includes a setting unit that sets a path for connecting characteristic portions in at least one image by referring to metadata including at least information about feature points detected from the image. The setting unit sets the path by determining a regression curve, using the feature points. In a case where the feature points include a feature point at a distance equal to or longer than a predetermined threshold value from the regression curve, the setting unit redetermines the regression curve after removing a feature point detected from an image including a feature point having a low score among the feature points. The present technology can be applied to information processing devices that process still images and moving images.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda, Shuichi Asajima, Yuki Ono