Patents by Inventor Syouzou Fujii
Syouzou Fujii 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).
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Patent number: 8532199Abstract: A deblock filter as defined by the MPEG-4 AVC/H. 264 standard is effectively controlled, and an increase of a compression strain is prevented while the resolution or details are preserved to realize compression of a moving image with high image quality.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Syouzou Fujii, Shinjiro Mizuno, Kiyofumi Abe
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Patent number: 8363720Abstract: A moving image processing device (200) includes a face detector (3) (specific target detector), a compression ratio controller (4), and a quantizer (9) (video compressor). The face detector (3) detects a person's face included in an input image and extracts a face region. The compression ratio controller (4) generates and outputs a compression control instruction for reducing the compression ratio of the face region extracted by the face detector (3) so that a degree of reduction in the compression ratio of the face region is small in the case where the ratio of the area of the face region to the entire area of the input image is relatively large and so that the degree of reduction in the compression ratio of the face region large in the case where the ratio of the area of the face region to the entire area of the input image is relatively small.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Syouzou Fujii, Hidemi Oka
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Patent number: 8179965Abstract: A moving picture coding method includes: determining a luminance change by determining whether it is possible that a luminance change equal to or greater than a predetermined amount has occurred between the reference coded picture and a current picture; determining a flat region by determining whether a degree of non-uniformity in pixel values in a current block is smaller than a predetermined threshold; and determining a quantization width wherein, when it has been determined that it is possible that the luminance change equal to or greater than the predetermined amount has occurred and that the degree of non-uniformity is smaller than the predetermined threshold, a quantization width is determined to be smaller than a quantization width when it has not been determined to be possible that the luminance change equal to or greater than the predetermined amount has occurred or that the non-uniformity degree is smaller than the predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Syouzou Fujii, Shinjiro Mizuno
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Patent number: 8120667Abstract: A video signal processing apparatus includes: an imaging section for imaging a subject to generate a video signal; an outline emphasis processing section for emphasizing an outline portion within the imaged image, the outline emphasis processing section detecting the outline portion based on the video signal which is output from the imaging section and emphasizing the outline portion by using an externally-input outline emphasis control signal; an imaging control section for generating at least one imaging control signal for controlling an imaging operation of the imaging section; and an outline emphasis control section for generating an outline emphasis control signal for determining a level of emphasizing the outline portion in accordance with the at least one imaging control signal, and transmitting the outline emphasis control signal to the outline emphasis processing section.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shinjiro Mizuno, Syouzou Fujii, Kiyofumi Abe
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Publication number: 20100296588Abstract: A deblock filter as defined by the MPEG-4 AVC/H. 264 standard is effectively controlled, and an increase of a compression strain is prevented while the resolution or details are preserved to realize compression of a moving image with high image quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Syouzou Fujii, Shinjiro Mizuno, Kiyofumi Abe
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Publication number: 20100232763Abstract: This invention includes: a menu data recording unit (131) that records a menu file onto a recording medium, the menu file for displaying a menu of contents recorded on the recording medium that is portable; a standard form menu file generation unit (129) that generates the menu file in a standard form; a simple form menu file generation unit (130) that generates the menu file in a simple form that takes shorter time than the generation in the standard form; and a menu file selection unit (128) that selects either the standard form menu file generation unit (129) or the simple form menu file generation unit (130) in order to generate the menu file either in the standard form or in the simple form.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2007Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Shimazaki, Syouzou Fujii, Masafumi Sato
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Publication number: 20100189175Abstract: A moving image processing device (200) includes a face detector (3) (specific target detector), a compression ratio controller (4), and a quantizer (9) (video compressor). The face detector (3) detects a person's face included in an input image and extracts a face region. The compression ratio controller (4) generates and outputs a compression control instruction for reducing the compression ratio of the face region extracted by the face detector (3) so that a degree of reduction in the compression ratio of the face region is small in the case where the ratio of the area of the face region to the entire area of the input image is relatively large and so that the degree of reduction in the compression ratio of the face region large in the case where the ratio of the area of the face region to the entire area of the input image is relatively small.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Syouzou FUJII, Hidemi OKA
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Publication number: 20100104011Abstract: A moving picture coding method for coding a moving picture includes: determining a luminance change (S201) in which whether or not there is a possibility that a luminance change equal to or greater than a predetermined amount has occurred between the coded picture used for a reference and a current picture to be coded; determining a flat region (S202) in which whether or not a degree of non-uniformity in pixel values in a current block to be coded is smaller than a predetermined threshold; and determining a quantization width (S203) in which, when it has been determined that there is the possibility that the luminance change equal to or greater than the predetermined amount has occurred (YES in S201) and that the degree of non-uniformity is smaller than the predetermined threshold (YES in S202), a quantization width is determined to be a smaller value than a quantization width when it has not been determined that there is the possibility that the luminance change equal to or greater than the predetermined amoType: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Syouzou Fujii, Shinjiro Mizuno
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Publication number: 20090268064Abstract: A video signal processing apparatus includes: an imaging section for imaging a subject to generate a video signal; an outline emphasis processing section for emphasizing an outline portion within the imaged image, the outline emphasis processing section detecting the outline portion based on the video signal which is output from the imaging section and emphasizing the outline portion by using an externally-input outline emphasis control signal; an imaging control section for generating at least one imaging control signal for controlling an imaging operation of the imaging section; and an outline emphasis control section for generating an outline emphasis control signal for determining a level of emphasizing the outline portion in accordance with the at least one imaging control signal, and transmitting the outline emphasis control signal to the outline emphasis processing section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinjiro MIZUNO, Syouzou FUJII, Kiyofumi ABE