Patents by Inventor Shinobu Hattori

Shinobu Hattori 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: 20240089482
    Abstract: A display device is provided that comprising circuitry configured to transmit, to a reproduction device, an extended display identification data (EDID) that includes the display information representing a performance of the display device. The circuitry further receives HDR video data from the reproduction device including HDR information that includes brightness characteristic information in frame data when the display information includes information representing a display performance of the HDR video, contains the EDID containing information of a 4k resolution or higher, displays an image of the received HDR video data in accordance with brightness designated by the HDR information, and adjusts a brightness of the image of the received HDR video data to a brightness capability for the display of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Toshiya HAMADA, Kuniaki TAKAHASHI, Shinobu HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20230388525
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image decoding device capable of recognizing performance necessary for decoding more accurately and a method. Coded data of image data and decoding load definition information for defining a magnitude of a load of a decoding process of a partial region of an image of the image data are acquired; decoding of the acquired coded data is controlled based on the acquired decoding load definition information; and the acquired coded data is decoded according to the controlling. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing device such as an image coding device that scalably codes image data or an image decoding device that decodes encoded data obtained by scalably coding image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu HATTORI, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Mitsuhiro HIRABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11812046
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display device that enables content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness from a reproduction device. The display comprises circuitry configured to store display information related to high dynamic range (HDR) video and to transmit to the reproduction device an extended display identification data that includes display information representing a performance of the display device. The display device includes a monitor configured to display an image of the HDR video in accordance with brightness designated by HDR information if the monitor is capable of displaying the designated brightness and to adjust a brightness of the image of the HDR video to a brightness capability of the monitor if the monitor is not capable of displaying the designated brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Patent number: 11812042
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image decoding device capable of recognizing performance necessary for decoding more accurately and a method. Coded data of image data and decoding load definition information for defining a magnitude of a load of a decoding process of a partial region of an image of the image data are acquired; decoding of the acquired coded data is controlled based on the acquired decoding load definition information; and the acquired coded data is decoded according to the controlling. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing device such as an image coding device that scalably codes image data or an image decoding device that decodes encoded data obtained by scalably coding image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Hattori, Ohji Nakagami, Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20230267706
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing remastering of video content. The technique includes determining a first input frame corresponding to a first frame included in a first video and a first target frame corresponding to a second frame included in a second video based on one or more alignments between the first frame and the second frame. The technique also includes executing a machine learning model to convert the first input frame into a first output frame. The technique further includes training the machine learning model based on one or more losses associated with the first output frame and the first target frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Abdelaziz DJELOUAH, Shinobu HATTORI, Christopher Richard SCHROERS, Andrew John WAHLQUIST
  • Publication number: 20230153952
    Abstract: Restoration methods and systems are disclosed for video remastering. Techniques disclosed include receiving a video sequence. For each frame of the video sequence, techniques disclosed include encoding, by a degradation encoder, a video content associated with the frame into a latent vector. The latent vector is a representation of the degradation present in the video content; the degradation present in the video content includes one or more degradation types. Based on the latent vector and the video content, techniques disclosed further include generating, by a backbone network, one or more feature maps, and, then, restoring the frame based on the one or more feature maps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Abdelaziz Djelouah, Givi Meishvili, Christopher Richard Schroers, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20230065392
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a system for performing re-noising and neural network (NN) based image enhancement includes a computing platform having a processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code, a noise synthesizer, and an image restoration NN. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive a denoised image component and a noise component extracted from a degraded image, to generate, using the noise synthesizer and the noise component, synthesized noise corresponding to the noise component, and to interpolate, using the noise component and the synthesized noise, an output image noise. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to enhance, using the image restoration NN, the denoised image component to provide an output image component, and to re-noise the output image component, using the output image noise, to produce an enhanced output image corresponding to the degraded image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Abdelaziz Djelouah, Shinobu Hattori, Christopher Richard Schroers
  • Publication number: 20230040490
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device decodes the coded data and converts the extended video obtained by decoding the coded data to the standard video on the basis of the brightness conversion definition information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Toshiya HAMADA, Kuniaki TAKAHASHI, Shinobu HATTORI
  • Patent number: 11570397
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing deinterlacing. The technique includes separating a first interlaced video frame into a first sequence of fields ordered by time, the first sequence of fields including a first field. The technique also includes generating, by applying a deinterlacing network to a first field in the first sequence, a second field that is missing from the first sequence of fields and is complementary to the first field. The technique further includes constructing a progressive video frame based on the first field and the second field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., ETH ZÜRICH, (EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH)
    Inventors: Michael Bernasconi, Daniel Konrad Dorda, Abdelaziz Djelouah, Shinobu Hattori, Christopher Richard Schroers
  • Patent number: 11516428
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device decodes the coded data and converts the extended video obtained by decoding the coded data to the standard video on the basis of the brightness conversion definition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Patent number: 11405634
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an image processing device and method capable of suppressing a decrease in encoding efficiency. The image processing device includes: a predictive vector generating unit that generates a predictive vector of a current parallax vector of a current block used in prediction using correlation in a parallax direction using a reference parallax vector referred when generating a predictive motion vector, when encoding the current parallax vector; and a difference vector generating unit that generates a difference vector between the current parallax vector and the predictive vector generated by the predictive vector generating unit. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitomo Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20220124354
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image decoding device capable of recognizing performance necessary for decoding more accurately and a method. Coded data of image data and decoding load definition information for defining a magnitude of a load of a decoding process of a partial region of an image of the image data are acquired; decoding of the acquired coded data is controlled based on the acquired decoding load definition information; and the acquired coded data is decoded according to the controlling. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing device such as an image coding device that scalably codes image data or an image decoding device that decodes encoded data obtained by scalably coding image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu HATTORI, Ohji NAKAGAMI, Mitsuhiro HIRABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11218710
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image decoding device capable of recognizing performance necessary for decoding more accurately and a method. Coded data of image data and decoding load definition information for defining a magnitude of a load of a decoding process of a partial region of an image of the image data are acquired; decoding of the acquired coded data is controlled based on the acquired decoding load definition information; and the acquired coded data is decoded according to the controlling. The present disclosure can be applied to an information processing device such as an image coding device that scalably codes image data or an image decoding device that decodes encoded data obtained by scalably coding image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Hattori, Ohji Nakagami, Mitsuhiro Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20210329194
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device decodes the coded data and converts the extended video obtained by decoding the coded data to the standard video on the basis of the brightness conversion definition information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Toshiya HAMADA, Kuniaki TAKAHASHI, Shinobu HATTORI
  • Patent number: 11089260
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of one aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range. The reproduction device decodes the coded data and converts the extended video obtained by decoding the coded data to the standard video on the basis of the brightness conversion definition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Publication number: 20210168393
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of an aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Toshiya HAMADA, Kuniaki TAKAHASHI, Shinobu HATTORI
  • Patent number: 10951909
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium that enable content having a wide dynamic range of brightness to be displayed with an appropriate brightness. A recording medium, on which the reproduction device of an aspect of the present technology performs reproduction, records coded data of an extended video that is a video having a second brightness range that is wider than a first brightness range, brightness characteristic information that represents a brightness characteristic of the extended video, and brightness conversion definition information used when performing a brightness conversion of the extended video to a standard video that is a video having the first brightness range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Toshiya Hamada, Kuniaki Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Patent number: 10924813
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus for receiving transmitted AV (Audio/Video) content, including: an extractor configured to extract trigger information associated with control of an application program to be executed in conjugation with the AV content; and a controller configured, in response to a command indicated by the extracted trigger information, to control execution of the application program and, if a video of the AV content is switched, execute any one of continuation and termination of the application program that is active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Shinobu Hattori, Yoshiharu Dewa
  • Publication number: 20200351515
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an image processing device and method capable of suppressing a decrease in encoding efficiency. The image processing device includes: a predictive vector generating unit that generates a predictive vector of a current parallax vector of a current block used in prediction using correlation in a parallax direction using a reference parallax vector referred when generating a predictive motion vector, when encoding the current parallax vector; and a difference vector generating unit that generates a difference vector between the current parallax vector and the predictive vector generated by the predictive vector generating unit. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitomo Takahashi, Shinobu Hattori
  • Patent number: 10798398
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a decoding device, a decoding method, an encoding device, and an encoding method, which are capable of enabling a decoding side to accurately recognize a color gamut of an encoding target image. The decoding device includes circuitry configured to receive an encoded stream including encoded data of an image and color primary information indicating a coordinate of at least one color primary of the image. The circuitry extracts the encoded data and the color primary information from the received encoded stream. The circuitry decodes the encoded data to generate the image. Further, the circuitry adjusts a color space of the generated image based on the extracted color primary information. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a decoding device of a high efficiency video coding (HEVC) scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Hattori, Hiroaki Eto, Takumi Tsuru, Kenichi Kanai, Toshiya Hamada