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).

  • Patent number: 11823715
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11800047
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11749309
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Nakao, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11727642
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Nakao, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11721026
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Yuta Nakao, Hideyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 11528429
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11381740
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Daisuke Tahara, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20220191406
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi IKEDA, Nobuho IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220172746
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: HIROSHI IKEDA, NOBUHO IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20210352221
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: NOBUHO IKEDA, HIROSHI IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11151409
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda, Shuichi Asajima, Yuki Ono
  • Patent number: 11128811
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda, Seijiro Inaba, Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Yuki Ono, Shuichi Asajima
  • Publication number: 20210203845
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Daisuke Tahara, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20210174520
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: HIROSHI IKEDA, SEIJIRO INABA, NOBUHO IKEDA, HIDEYUKI SATO
  • Patent number: 11025808
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporartion
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Hideyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 10984248
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20210110849
    Abstract: [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: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corportation
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAO, Nobuho IKEDA, Hiroshi IKEDA
  • Patent number: 10917567
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Daisuke Tahara, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10847185
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura, Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Nobuho Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20200272848
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda, Shuichi Asajima, Yuki Ono