Patents by Inventor Satoru Kuma

Satoru Kuma 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: 20150030235
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including a disparity detector configured to receive a plurality of 3D images and detect disparity of each of the 3D images, a disparity analyzer configured to generate statistical information about disparity of each 3D image using the disparity of each 3D image detected by the disparity detector, and a disparity controller configured to convert the disparity using the statistical information about disparity of each 3D image generated by the disparity analyzer in such a manner that the 3D images are not overlapped so that a range of the disparity is within a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoto Someya, Kohei Miyamoto, Nobuaki Izumi, Satoru Kuma, Yuji Ando
  • Patent number: 8792720
    Abstract: There is provided a moving image extracting apparatus including a blur value obtaining unit to obtain a blur value which indicates a blur degree of each frame constituting a moving image, a segment determining unit to discriminate the moving image between a stable segment of which variance of the blur values obtained by the blur value obtaining unit is lower than a first value and an unstable segment which is not the stable segment, and an extracting unit to perform segment extraction from the moving image based on the stable segment or the unstable segment obtained by the segment determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Satoru Kuma
  • Publication number: 20140140391
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a generation unit configured to generate a combined stream, which is one encoded stream of a plurality of images generated from encoded streams of the plurality of images, from the encoded streams of the plurality of images according to a method corresponding to a process performed after decoding of the combined stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Eshima, Hiroshi Oryoji, Satoru Kuma
  • Patent number: 8437548
    Abstract: There is provided a moving image extracting apparatus including a blur value obtaining unit to obtain a blur value which indicates a blur degree of each frame constituting a moving image, a segment determining unit to discriminate the moving image between a stable segment of which variance of the blur values obtained by the blur value obtaining unit is lower than a first value and an unstable segment which is not the stable segment, and an extracting unit to perform segment extraction from the moving image based on the stable segment or the unstable segment obtained by the segment determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Satoru Kuma
  • Patent number: 8320744
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method, a video signal encoding apparatus and video signal encoding method, and a program which can solve an EPB problem involved when an encoded video signal is subjected to smart rendering editing. In an extraction process, if EPB problem occurrence prevention countermeasures have been taken in an H.264/AVC stream, smart rendering editing is performed without monitoring the occurrence of an EPB problem. If the countermeasures have not been taken, smart rendering editing is advanced while monitoring the occurrence of an EPB problem. And, in a case where an EPB problem of insertion of an EPB has occurred, a filler or a predetermined parameter corresponding to the inserted EPB is deleted. In a case where an EPB problem of deletion of an EPB has occurred, a filler corresponding to the deleted EPB is inserted. The present invention can be applied to a device that processes a video signal using the H.264/AVC scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kashima, Satoru Kuma, Masashi Eshima, Takuya Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20110013838
    Abstract: There is provided a moving image extracting apparatus including a blur value obtaining unit to obtain a blur value which indicates a blur degree of each frame constituting a moving image, a segment determining unit to discriminate the moving image between a stable segment of which variance of the blur values obtained by the blur value obtaining unit is lower than a first value and an unstable segment which is not the stable segment, and an extracting unit to perform segment extraction from the moving image based on the stable segment or the unstable segment obtained by the segment determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoru Kuma
  • Publication number: 20090202219
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method, a video signal encoding apparatus and video signal encoding method, and a program which can solve an EPB problem involved when an encoded video signal is subjected to smart rendering editing. In an extraction process, if EPB problem occurrence prevention countermeasures have been taken in an H.264/AVC stream, smart rendering editing is performed without monitoring the occurrence of an EPB problem. If the countermeasures have not been taken, smart rendering editing is advanced while monitoring the occurrence of an EPB problem. And, in a case where an EPB problem of insertion of an EPB has occurred, a filler or a predetermined parameter corresponding to the inserted EPB is deleted. In a case where an EPB problem of deletion of an EPB has occurred, a filler corresponding to the deleted EPB is inserted. The present invention can be applied to a device that processes a video signal using the H.264/AVC scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kashima, Satoru Kuma, Masashi Eshima, Takuya Kitamura