Patents by Inventor Ryuta Itoh

Ryuta Itoh 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).

  • Method for detecting a human face and an apparatus of the same
    Patent number: 6885760
    Abstract: In an apparatus for detecting a human face from an input image, candidate areas for an eye and candidate areas for an interval between eyes are detected from the image, an area of the interval between eyes is determined from the positional relationship between the candidate areas for an eye and candidate area for an interval between eyes, and a face area is determined so that the face area includes the area of the interval between eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Yamada, Ryuta Itoh, Kenji Nagao, Masaki Souma
  • Method for detecting a human face and an apparatus of the same
    Publication number: 20010036298
    Abstract: In an apparatus for detecting a human face from an input image, candidate areas for an eye and candidate areas for an interval between eyes are detected from the image, an area of the interval between eyes is determined from the positional relationship between the candidate areas for an eye and candidate area for an interval between eyes, and a face area is determined so that the face area includes the area of the interval between eyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Yamada, Ryuta Itoh, Kenji Nagao, Masaki Souma