Patents by Inventor Seijiro Inaba

Seijiro Inaba 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: 20230353795
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage management unit that stores negative content determined as negative scene contents among material content constituting a story of content to be automatically produced in a state of being distinguishable from other material content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yuta Nakao, Satoru Ishii, Seijiro Inaba, Tadashi Yamaguchi, Masashi Wakatsuki
  • Publication number: 20230260549
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a story generation unit that, based on a plurality of material content recorded in an accessible state, selects material content constituting a story set in story setting processing, and performs automatic content production by editing processing using the selected material content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: YUTA NAKAO, SATORU ISHII, SEIJIRO INABA, TADASHI YAMAGUCHI, MASASHI WAKATSUKI
  • 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: 11523047
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging device including: as assistant control unit that determines, on the basis of user's proficiency level information regarding imaging, an item presented to assist the imaging; and a presentation unit that presents item information, which is information regarding the item, to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamaguchi, Seijiro Inaba, Satoru Ishii
  • Publication number: 20220103746
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging device including: as assistant control unit that determines, on the basis of user's proficiency level information regarding imaging, an item presented to assist the imaging; and a presentation unit that presents item information, which is information regarding the item, to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamaguchi, Seijiro inaba, Satoru ishii
  • Patent number: 11275230
    Abstract: A detection apparatus has a detector for detecting, on the basis of an object area that is an area corresponding to an object in an image, an effective focus area from two or more focus areas set to the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Legong Sun, Seijiro Inaba
  • Patent number: 11272117
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to determine a setting of a light emitting unit according to concept data indicating a characteristic of a desired image and a light emission result of the light emitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamaguchi, Seijiro Inaba, Daisuke Nakao
  • Patent number: 11265525
    Abstract: A method for processing image information has accessing position information associated with images, identifying a position sequence that provides a series of locations along a pathway corresponding to a subject, and displaying the images in an order of the position sequence. The position sequence is adjusted based on movement of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Seijiro Inaba, Ryota Kosakai
  • Patent number: 11165968
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to determine a setting of a light emitting unit according to concept data indicating a characteristic of a desired image and a light emission result of the light emitting unit, and the control unit controls the determined setting to maintain the concept data in a case where change in an object has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamaguchi, Seijiro Inaba, Daisuke Nakao
  • 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: 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: 10798284
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method that enables to correctly obtain an area of a main object at the time of auto focusing. A control block selects a local focus area from information of a taken image and supplies designated focus position information indicative of the selected local focus area to an image processing block. The image processing block executes a control operation related with focusing on the basis of object area information indicative of an area corresponding to two or more objects within an image and designated focus position information indicative of a designated focus position in this image. The present disclosure is applicable to an imaging apparatus, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seijiro Inaba, Legong Sun, Yoichiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20200288053
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to determine a setting of a light emitting unit according to concept data indicating a characteristic of a desired image and a light emission result of the light emitting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Tadashi YAMAGUCHI, Seijiro INABA, Daisuke NAKAO
  • Publication number: 20200288054
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to determine a setting of a light emitting unit according to concept data indicating a characteristic of a desired image and a light emission result of the light emitting unit, and the control unit controls the determined setting to maintain the concept data in a case where change in an object has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamaguchi, Seijiro Inaba, Daisuke Nakao
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10742862
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including an adjustment value determination unit that determines a second image quality adjustment value of each of a plurality of cameras on a basis of a first image quality adjustment value of each of the plurality of cameras and a confidence level of each of the plurality of cameras that are acquired from each of the plurality of cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda, Seijiro Inaba, Hideyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 10635931
    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: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda, Shuichi Asajima, Yuki Ono
  • Patent number: 10628956
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a video processing device, a video processing method, and a program for providing a bullet time video centering on a moving object. The video processing device acquires view point position information indicating the range of movement of a view point position for an object in an input image frame where the object is imaged in chronological order at multiple different view point positions. Time information indicates a time range in the chronological order of imaging the input image frame. The device processes the input image frame such that the object is at a specific position on an output image frame when the view point position moves within the time range indicated by the time information and the view point position movement range indicated by the view point position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda