Patents by Inventor Shun Kaizu

Shun Kaizu 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: 20120218426
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an intermediate image generating unit configured to input an image which has been shot with differing exposure times set by region, generates a plurality of exposure pattern images corresponding to differing exposure times based on the input image, and generates a plurality of timing images which are difference images of the plurality of exposure pattern images; and a distortion correction processing unit configured to generate a corrected image equivalent to an exposure processing image at a predetermined exposure time by synthesizing processing of the plurality of timing images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shun Kaizu, Tomoo Mitsunaga
  • Publication number: 20110115942
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image correction unit which receives a synthesized image and pseudo color pixel information indicating a pseudo color pixel position included in the synthesized image and executes pixel value correction. The image correction unit selects non-pseudo color pixels as reference pixels from a reference region set in a surrounding region of the pixel to be corrected, sets a similarity weight coefficient in which a large weight is set as a pixel value of the reference pixel that is close to a pixel value of the pixel to be corrected and a pixel position weight coefficient in which a large weight is set as the pixel value of the reference pixel that is near a pixel position of the pixel to be corrected, with respect to the reference pixels, and determines a correction pixel value of the pixel to be corrected by a weighted summation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: TEPPEI KURITA, YOSHIKUNI NOMURA, SHUN KAIZU, SATORU TAKEUCHI, MASANORI KASAI
  • Publication number: 20110069205
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including: an image combination unit which generates combined images by combining photographed images having different exposure times; and a motion area detection unit which performs a comparison process on a plurality of the combined images generated by the image combination unit to acquire a pixel value difference and which performs a motion area detection process of comparing the pixel value difference with a predetermined threshold value and determining a pixel area, of which the pixel value difference is equal to or larger than the threshold value, to be a motion area where motion of a subject is estimated to have occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Masanori Kasai, Satoru Takeuchi, Shun Kaizu