Patents by Inventor Shigeatsu Yoshioka

Shigeatsu Yoshioka 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: 20110128299
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display device which displays a first image associated with a first observation target object. The first image has a first display range. In one example embodiment, the display device displays a second image associated with a second observation target object. The second image has a second display range. In one example embodiment, the information processing apparatus enables a user to change the first display range of the first image. In response to the first display range being changed, the information processing apparatus simultaneously changes the second display range of the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Wakita, Shigeatsu Yoshioka, Naoki Tagami
  • Publication number: 20110131535
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, an information processing apparatus generates and causes a display device to display a first thumbnail image which is associated with annotation information. Using a size of the first thumbnail image, the information processing apparatus determines a display size of a first annotation which corresponds to the annotation information. Using the determined display size, the information processing apparatus determines a second annotation. In one example embodiment, the information processing apparatus causes a display device to display the determined second annotation overlapping the first thumbnail image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Tagami, Shigeatsu Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20110128295
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, an information processing apparatus causes a display device to display a first image from images associated with an observation target object. The images include the first image and a second image which corresponds to an annotation mark. In this embodiment, the information processing apparatus also causes the display device to display the annotation mark corresponding to the second image. In this embodiment, the displayed annotation mark overlaps the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Kimoto, Shigeatsu Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20110128367
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, an information processing apparatus displays a first image associated with an observation target object. In this example embodiment, the first image has a first zoom magnification and a first display range which has a first center position. In one example embodiment, the information processing apparatus enables a user to change the first zoom magnification by selecting a first position of the displayed first image. In response to the first position being selected, the information processing apparatus displays a second image associated with the observation target image. In this example embodiment, the second image has a second zoom magnification which is different from the first zoom magnification. The second image also has a second display range which has a second center position which is different from the first center position. In this example embodiment, the second center position corresponds to the selected position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeatsu Yoshioka, Masashi Kimoto
  • Publication number: 20110129135
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, an information processing apparatus, for an observed image associated with an observation target object (e.g., a section of biological tissue), associates and stores position information and observation magnification information. In this embodiment, the information processing apparatus causes a display device to: (i) display an image associated with the observation target object; (ii) indicate the first positional information of the first observed image; and (iii) indicate the first observation magnification information of the first observed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Mizutani, Shigeatsu Yoshioka, Yoshihiro Wakita, Masashi Kimoto, Naoki Tagami
  • Publication number: 20100253774
    Abstract: A biological image presentation device includes: an acquisition unit acquiring, at multiple positions on an axis as a standard of a biological region, images of sections orthogonal to the axis; a determination unit determining an image as a standard and an image for comparison with the image as a standard from among a plurality of images acquired by the acquisition unit; an extraction unit extracting, from the image as a standard, a position where a change of luminance value equal to or larger than a defined value is present; a detection unit detecting a position corresponding to the position extracted by the extraction unit from the image for comparison; a division unit dividing the image as a standard on the basis of the position extracted by the extraction unit; a mapping unit mapping the image for comparison to an area corresponding to each divided area of the image as a standard while modifying so as to conform to the shape of the divided area; and a display control unit switching and displaying an image
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeatsu Yoshioka, Gakuho Fukushi
  • Publication number: 20100194921
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup lens; an image pickup device; a microlens array; an image processing section; and a data storage section, in which the image processing section produces a plurality of arbitrary viewpoint images based on image pickup data obtained by the image pickup device by synthesizing pixel data extracted from pixels located at the same position in image regions each of which corresponds to each of microlenses included in the microlens array, and the arbitrary viewpoint images are stored in the data storage section, and a plurality of pixel data recorded at pixel positions adjacent to one another are collectively read out as a read-out unit from each of the arbitrary viewpoint images stored in the data storage section, and a predetermined sorting process and a predetermined integration process are performed on the pixel data read out, thereby the refocus image is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeatsu Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20090027542
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of increasing the number of pixels in a reproduced image without a decline in image quality of a picked up image is provided. The image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup lens section including an aperture stop, the aperture stop including a plurality of aperture sections; an image pickup device obtaining image pickup data on the basis of light received; and a microlens array section being arranged on the focal plane of the image pickup lens section between the image pickup lens and the image pickup device, and including one microlens for a plurality of pixels of the image pickup device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Shigeatsu Yoshioka, Isao Ichimura
  • Patent number: 6720974
    Abstract: Disclosed are an arithmetic unit and an arithmetic processing method. In the arithmetic unit, in linear interpolation of a parameter of a pixel to be used to plot an object in a three-dimensional video, an operation result value can be fixed in response to a particular gradient value of the parameter and power consumption arising from charging and discharging through a clock wiring line can be reduced. The arithmetic unit includes an arithmetic operation element for linearly interpolating a parameter of a pixel in a triangle based on coordinate values of a vertex of the triangle and gradient values of the parameters in X and Y directions, a clock supply element for supplying a clock signal to the arithmetic operation element, a detection element for detecting a particular gradient value of the parameter in the X direction or/and the Y direction, and a control element for controlling the clock supply element in response to a gradient value of the parameter detection signal received from the detection element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeatsu Yoshioka, Hiroyuki Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20020118213
    Abstract: Disclosed are an arithmetic unit and an arithmetic processing method. In the arithmetic unit, in linear interpolation of a parameter of a pixel to be used to plot an object in a three-dimensional video, an operation result value can be fixed in response to a particular gradient value of the parameter and power consumption arising from charging and discharging through a clock wiring line can be reduced. The arithmetic unit includes an arithmetic operation element for linearly interpolating a parameter of a pixel in a triangle based on coordinate values of a vertex of the triangle and gradient values of the parameters in X and Y directions, a clock supply element for supplying a clock signal to the arithmetic operation element, a detection element for detecting a particular gradient value of the parameter in the X direction or/and the Y direction, and a control element for controlling the clock supply element in response to a gradient value of the parameter detection signal received from the detection element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeatsu Yoshioka, Hiroyuki Ozawa