Patents by Inventor Takahiro Fukuhara

Takahiro Fukuhara 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: 8395634
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for encoding image data, includes a filter unit for performing a filtering operation on the image data in a layer fashion to generate a plurality of subbands including coefficient data segmented on a per frequency band basis, an intermediate data storage unit for storing intermediate data generated in the middle of the filtering operation of the filter unit, a coefficient storage unit for storing the coefficient data generated in the filtering operation of the filter unit, and a coefficient rearranging unit for performing a rearranging operation to rearrange the coefficient data stored on the coefficient storage unit so that the coefficient data is output in a predetermined order. The intermediate data storage unit writes and reads data thereon at a speed higher than the coefficient storage unit and being smaller in storage capacity than the coefficient storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Ando, Takahiro Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 8369635
    Abstract: An information processing device, configured to divide the frequency components of image data into a plurality of frequency bands, includes an analysis filtering unit configured to perform analysis filtering for dividing the frequency components into highband components and lowband components recursively, and a holding unit configured to supply, in sync with timing for holding data supplied as a computation result of the analysis filtering by the analysis filtering unit, the data already held, which is data necessary for computation of next analysis filtering to the analysis filtering unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Fukuhara, Katsutoshi Ando, Yuuki Tanaka, Naoto Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20130028515
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus which includes a histogram generating unit that generates a histogram representing an appearance frequency distribution of a pixel value of an input image, and a quantization table generating unit that generates a quantization table including table information used to perform transform of a bit depth of the pixel value of the input image and table information used to allocate an effective pixel in which an appearance frequency in the histogram generated by the histogram generating unit is not zero to an index value after bit depth transform so that effective pixels are allocated to index values as equally as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Takahiro FUKUHARA, Hitoshi Kiya
  • Publication number: 20120328192
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image processing apparatus, method, and program that can more improve coding efficiency. In step S104, a bit shift changing unit (112) shift-changes depth data (D) acquired in step S103 by using a detected bit depth of image data, and adjust a bit depth of the depth data (D) to match a bit depth of the image data. In step S105, an encoding unit (113) encodes the image data and depth data (D). In step S106, a rate control unit (114) controls a rate of each encoding to be performed in step S105 based on a result of encoding of the image data and a result of encoding of the depth data performed in step S105. This curved face is set as a predictive image. The invention can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Fukuhara
  • Publication number: 20120314964
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including a zero class detecting unit that detects a zero class in which an appearance frequency of a pixel value is zero from among a plurality of classes into which pixel values of an image are classified according to pixel value magnitude, and a non-zero class converting unit that converts the zero class into a non-zero class in which the appearance frequency of the pixel value is one or more, without updating a total number of the classes, by updating a range of the zero class detected by the zero class detecting unit. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Takahiro FUKUHARA, Hitoshi KIYA
  • Patent number: 8320693
    Abstract: An encoding device includes a filter unit that performs a filtering processing as to image data, for a line block including image data of a number of lines for generating coefficient data of one line of a sub-band of at least a lowest band component. The filter unit generates a plurality of sub-bands made up of coefficient data broken down by frequency band. The encoding device also includes a storage unit that stores coefficient data generated by the filter unit, for the line block. The encoding device further includes a coefficient rearranging unit that rearranges the coefficient data, for each line block, in an order in which a synthesizing processing, for generating image data by synthesizing the coefficient data of a plurality of sub-bands which have been divided into frequency bands, is to be executed. An encoding unit encodes the coefficient data rearranged by the coefficient rearranging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Fukuhara, Kazuhisa Hosaka, Katsutoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 8311122
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a coding mechanism for generating hierarchical data hierarchized in descending order of importance with respect to resolution from image data, and coding the hierarchical data for each hierarchy; and a redundancy coding mechanism for blocking the hierarchical data for each of the hierarchies using a block size determined for each of the hierarchies on the basis of dependencies of the hierarchies between pieces of the hierarchical data generated by the coding mechanism or between the hierarchical data and the image data, and performing redundancy coding to generate redundant data of the hierarchical data for each of the blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Kure, Takahiro Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 8306339
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing device including a bitplane expanding section, a coding section, a selecting section, and a selection controlling section. The bitplane expanding section expands image data into bitplanes as sets of bits at identical places in each unit of a predetermined number of pieces of data each having a bit depth of a plurality of bits. The coding section codes the image data expanded by the bitplane expanding section in each the bitplane in predetermined order. The selecting section selects compressed data and non-compressed data as a result of coding of the image data. The selection controlling section controls the coding section to stop a coding process and selecting the non-compressed data for a bitplane situated at a position subsequent to a bitplane for which the non-compressed data is selected by the selecting section in the predetermined order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Fukuhara, Junya Araki
  • Publication number: 20120274952
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image display apparatus that sets a thinning rate, determined according to a designated display magnification ratio, with reference to plural display magnification ratio ranges, and a predetermined thinning rate determined in association with each display magnification ratio range, stores page image data, obtained from an apparatus storing information about the job, into a storage section by thinning page image data, pasts the thinned page image into a frame having a size according to the designated display magnification ratio, and displays the image pasted into the frame. When a display magnification ratio is changed within an identical display magnification ratio range, the image display apparatus pastes, by utilizing page image data according to a thinning rate before the change, the page image after magnifying it to fit into a frame having a size according to a display magnification ratio after the change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventor: Takahiro Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 8281314
    Abstract: An information processing device to execute programs performing encoding processing configured from a plurality of processes, includes: a program storage unit to store a plurality of encoding programs wherein an allocation pattern for a computation processing unit as to each of a plurality of processes comprising the encoding processes or the disposal pattern of memory utilized in the plurality of processes are each different; a program selecting unit to select an encoding program to be utilized in the event of executing encoding processing from a plurality of encoding programs stored with the program storage unit, as a utilized encoding program; and a program executing unit to execute the encoding processing employing a utilized encoding program selected with the program selecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Ando, Takahiro Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 8279932
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a synthesis filter unit configured to execute synthesis filtering for coefficient data of each subband, obtained by decoding a code stream of a reversibly-encoded image and performing band division, in each predetermined number of lines or in each predetermined block to obtain baseband image data on a line basis; a storage unit configured to store the baseband image data obtained by the synthesis filter unit; an analysis filter unit configured to read the baseband image data stored in the storage unit and execute analysis filtering for the image data to divide the image data up to a predetermined division level; and a control unit configured to control the analysis filter unit to execute analysis filtering as soon as the amount of the baseband image data stored in the storage unit reaches a data amount allowing analysis filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Fukuhara, Katsutoshi Ando, Junya Araki
  • Publication number: 20120243784
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device which transforms an image with a bit depth of N into an upper layer with a bit depth of M and a remaining lower layer, including a histogram unit that generates histogram indicating occurrence frequency of each pixel value of an image with a bit depth of N, a table unit that generates a table listing pixel values of which occurrence frequency in the histogram generated by the histogram unit is equal to or more than one, a reordering unit that reorders an arrangement of values in the histogram using the table generated by the table unit, an update unit that updates the table generated by the table unit and the histogram reordered by the reordering unit; and an index image unit that generates an index image with a bit depth of N using the updated table and the updated histogram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Takahiro FUKUHARA, Hitoshi Kiya
  • Publication number: 20120230598
    Abstract: This invention relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method for improving the processing capacity per unit time in encoding and decoding images. A coefficient line sorting portion 104 sorts coefficient lines into an order which is different from that of wavelet inverse transform process as well as from that of transmission and in which the coefficient lines are sorted for an encoding process of which the degree of difficulty of encoding can be estimated by a rate control portion 109 at the earliest possible time. An encoded line sorting portion 108 sorts encoded lines into an order which is different from that of wavelet inverse transform process and in which the encoded lines are transmitted with improved resistance to the instability of the available transmission rate. This invention can be applied to image processing apparatus, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Fukuhara, Kazuhisa Hosaka, Hiroshi Akinaga
  • Patent number: 8260068
    Abstract: An identifying information generating unit that generates shared-process identifying information that identifies by which encoding processing and decoding processing a process shared between the encoding processing of image data and the decoding processing of an encoded stream is to be performed, or generates program identifying information that identifies which decoding program is to be selected from among a plurality of decoding programs that differ from each other in an assignment pattern in which a plurality of processes that constitute the decoding processing are assigned to a plurality of processing units or in an arrangement pattern of memories used by the plurality of processes. A transmitting unit that transmits the shared-process identifying information or the program selection information generated by the identifying information generating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Fukuhara, Katsutoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 8254707
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, an encoding program, a decoding apparatus, a decoding method and a decoding program for encoding and decoding efficiently a video signal in interlace scanning. An adder 12 and a subtractor 13 respectively perform addition and subtraction operations on an odd field and an even field of moving image data in interlace scanning. An intra encoder 14 and an intra encoder 15 wavelet transform addition image data and subtraction image data, quantize transform coefficients W, and entropy encode quantization coefficients q. Encoded data output from the intra encoder 14 and the intra encoder 15 is multiplexed into a single encoded stream to be output. Since data with the addition and subtraction operations performed on the odd field and the even field thereof is encoded, dynamic range is doubled while compression efficiency is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Fukuhara, Akira Sugiyama, Kazuhisa Hosaka
  • Publication number: 20120213434
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a first color transform unit carrying out a color transform on a combination of color components with high correlation out of a plurality of color components included in image data; and a second color transform unit carrying out a color transform on a combination of color components aside from the combination of color components subjected to the color transform by the first color transform unit out of the plurality of color components included in the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Takahiro FUKUHARA, Hitoshi KIYA
  • Patent number: 8249375
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a device for performing horizontal analysis filtering, a device for performing vertical analysis filtering, and a device for horizontal control. The information processing apparatus also includes a first control device. This device allows the device for horizontal control to repetitively perform the horizontal control until the horizontal analysis filtering is performed on all of columns of a processing object line. The information processing apparatus further includes a device for vertical control and a second control device that allows the device for vertical control to repetitively perform the vertical control until the vertical analysis filtering is performed on all of lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Fukuhara, Katsutoshi Ando, Yuuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8243824
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus configured to process a code stream having a first resolution with data having the first resolution scalably encoded, including setting means, first creating means, authoring means, second creating means, and code stream replacing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junya Araki, Kazuhisa Hosaka, Takahiro Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 8238434
    Abstract: An inverse wavelet transformer causes a level-graded buffer to store one of two lines of coefficient data generated through a synthesis filtering operation. In order to adjust an output timing of image data, the inverse wavelet transformer causes an output buffer to store temporarily the other line of the two lines of coefficient data in a period throughout which the output buffer stores no baseband image data and then causes the level-graded buffer to store the other line of the two lines of coefficient data. In this way, the level-graded buffer stores coefficients generated through the synthesis filtering operation on a line-by-line basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Fukuhara, Yuuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20120189223
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a rate control section that performs rate control of output data by preferentially deleting lower-level-side coded data, as necessary, from respective pieces of coded data where respective bit-planes with levels higher than a predetermined level of a bit-plane group, in which coefficient data obtained by orthogonally transforming image data is developed in a bit depth direction, are coded; and a synthesizing section that generates the output data by synthesizing the coded data, from which the lower-level-side coded data is preferentially deleted as necessary by the rate control section, and respective bit-planes with levels lower than the predetermined level of the bit-plane group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventor: Takahiro FUKUHARA