Patents by Inventor Shoichiro TAKEDA

Shoichiro TAKEDA 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).

  • Patent number: 11983855
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect phase changes in multiple predetermined directions from among phase changes in a luminance image in units of mutually different resolutions, and a reliability estimation unit configured to estimate reliability of the detected phase change based on temporal amplitude change information in the multiple directions determined in the luminance image. The reliability estimation unit may estimate the reliability using an amplitude change of multiple resolutions and using a value of an amplitude change equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value among images having multiple resolutions. The reliability may become a greater value as the amplitude change becomes larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro Takeda, Kazuki Okami, Megumi Isogai, Hideaki Kimata
  • Patent number: 11978182
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect a direction change, which is a temporal fluctuation in a plausible direction orthogonal to an edge determined for each pixel in an edge image indicating a high frequency component in an image that is an image processing target, and a phase change, which is a temporal fluctuation of a phase of the high frequency component according to the direction change, and a reliability estimation unit configured to estimate reliability indicating that the detected phase change is not a change caused by noise based on a variance value of the direction change per unit time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro Takeda, Kazuki Okami, Megumi Isogai, Hideaki Kimata
  • Publication number: 20240024756
    Abstract: Learning model data indicating a relationship between mask video data obtained by arbitrarily masking a part of a region surrounding a player in each of a plurality of image frames included in video data in which actions of the player are recorded, and a mask score obtained by weighting a true value score which is an evaluation value for a game of the player recorded in the video data according to a ratio of the masked region is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takasuke NAGAI, Shoichiro TAKEDA, Shinya SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11734835
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect a phase change having a predetermined amount of change from phase changes in a subregion of an edge image having a predetermined resolution, a change amount adjustment unit configured to adjust the amount of change of the detected phase change, an adjusted image generation unit configured to generate an edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of a motion change is adjusted based on the phase change in which the amount of change of the phase change is adjusted, and a region decision unit configured to decide a new subregion of an edge image having a new predetermined resolution based on the edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of the motion change is not adjusted and the edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of the motion change is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro Takeda, Megumi Isogai, Shinya Shimizu, Hideaki Kimata
  • Publication number: 20230079569
    Abstract: A sound source separation device (10) acquires, from a mixed signal including sounds that came from a plurality of sound sources, a separated signal including an emphasized sound for every sound source. A signal conversion unit (1) converts the mixed signal into the frequency domain. A separated signal estimation unit (2) acquires the separated signals from the mixed signal using an optimized filter. A gradient calculation unit (3) calculates the gradient of a cost function using the mixed signal and the separated signals. A filter update unit (4) optimizes the filter to fulfill separating, for every sound source, a sound emitted from the sound source, and to fulfill having, for every sound source, strong directivity in a direction of the sound source compared with a direction not of the sound source. A signal inverse conversion unit (5) converts the separated signals into the time domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro TAKEDA, Kenta NIWA, Shinya SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20220237825
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect color or luminance change for each of different resolutions among changes in color or luminance in a color or luminance image, and a reliability estimation unit configured to estimate reliability of the detected color or luminance change based on temporal color or luminance change in the color or luminance image. The reliability estimation unit estimates the reliability based on a diffusion result of the temporal color or luminance change in the color or luminance image. The reliability has a greater value when the diffusion result shows anisotropy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro TAKEDA, Kazuki OKAMI, Megumi ISOGAI, Hideaki KIMATA
  • Publication number: 20220198614
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect phase changes in multiple predetermined directions from among phase changes in a luminance image in units of mutually different resolutions, and a reliability estimation unit configured to estimate reliability of the detected phase change based on temporal amplitude change information in the multiple directions determined in the luminance image. The reliability estimation unit may estimate the reliability using an amplitude change of multiple resolutions and using a value of an amplitude change equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value among images having multiple resolutions. The reliability may become a greater value as the amplitude change becomes larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro TAKEDA, Kazuki OKAMI, Megumi ISOGAI, Hideaki KIMATA
  • Publication number: 20220198680
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit that detects phase changes in multiple predetermined directions from among phase changes in a luminance image for each of the mutually different resolutions, and a reliability estimation unit that estimates reliability of the detected phase change based on temporal phase changes in the multiple directions determined in the luminance image. The reliability estimation unit may estimate the reliability based on a diffusion result of the temporal phase changes in the direction. The reliability may become a greater value as the diffusion result indicates more anisotropic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro TAKEDA, Kazuki OKAMI, Megumi ISOGAI, Hideaki KIMATA
  • Publication number: 20220198615
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect a direction change, which is a temporal fluctuation in a plausible direction orthogonal to an edge determined for each pixel in an edge image indicating a high frequency component in an image that is an image processing target, and a phase change, which is a temporal fluctuation of a phase of the high frequency component according to the direction change, and a reliability estimation unit configured to estimate reliability indicating that the detected phase change is not a change caused by noise based on a variance value of the direction change per unit time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro TAKEDA, Kazuki OKAMI, Megumi ISOGAI, Hideaki KIMATA
  • Publication number: 20220138960
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect a phase change having a predetermined amount of change from phase changes in a subregion of an edge image having a predetermined resolution, a change amount adjustment unit configured to adjust the amount of change of the detected phase change, an adjusted image generation unit configured to generate an edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of a motion change is adjusted based on the phase change in which the amount of change of the phase change is adjusted, and a region decision unit configured to decide a new subregion of an edge image having a new predetermined resolution based on the edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of the motion change is not adjusted and the edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of the motion change is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichiro TAKEDA, Megumi ISOGAI, Shinya SHIMIZU, Hideaki KIMATA