Patents by Inventor Tamaki Kojima
Tamaki Kojima 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: 9710490Abstract: An image processing system may include an imaging device for capturing an image and an image processing apparatus for processing the image. The imaging device may include an imaging unit for capturing the image, a first recording unit for recording information relating to the image, the information being associated with the image, and a first transmission control unit for controlling transmission of the image to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus may include a reception control unit for controlling reception of the image transmitted from the imaging device, a feature extracting unit for extracting a feature of the received image, a second recording unit for recording the feature, extracted from the image, the feature being associated with the image, and a second transmission control unit for controlling transmission of the feature to the imaging device.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tamaki Kojima, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Mikio Sakemoto, Katsuhiro Takematsu
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Publication number: 20170083543Abstract: An image processing system may include an imaging device for capturing an image and an image processing apparatus for processing the image. The imaging device may include an imaging unit for capturing the image, a first recording unit for recording information relating to the image, the information being associated with the image, and a first transmission control unit for controlling transmission of the image to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus may include a reception control unit for controlling reception of the image transmitted from the imaging device, a feature extracting unit for extracting a feature of the received image, a second recording unit for recording the feature, extracted from the image, the feature being associated with the image, and a second transmission control unit for controlling transmission of the feature to the imaging device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tamaki Kojima, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Mikio Sakemoto, Katsuhiro Takematsu
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Patent number: 9507802Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit operable to extract metadata used for recognizing an event associated with a captured image from at least one of the captured image and attribute information concerning the captured image, and a recognition unit operable to recognize, on the basis of the metadata extracted by the extraction unit, the event associated with the captured image from among a plurality of predetermined events.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Chao Xu, Tomohiko Gotoh, Tamaki Kojima
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Publication number: 20160004680Abstract: A content management apparatus includes a content storage section configured to store a piece of content together with a content unique identifier; a content transmitter configured to transmit the piece of content together with the content unique identifier to a Web server; an intra-server management identifier receiver configured to receive an intra-server management identifier corresponding to the content unique identifier from the Web server; a management table for storing the content unique identifier and the intra-server management identifier; a content information updating message receiver configured to receive content information on the piece of content and a content information updating message containing the intra-server management identifier from the Web server; an identifier converter configured to convert the intra-server management identifier contained in the content information updating message into the content unique identifier; and a content management section configured to allow the content sType: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Tamaki KOJIMA
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Patent number: 9172585Abstract: A content management apparatus includes a content storage section configured to store a piece of content together with a content unique identifier; a content transmitter configured to transmit the piece of content together with the content unique identifier to a Web server; an intra-server management identifier receiver configured to receive an intra-server management identifier corresponding to the content unique identifier from the Web server; a management table for storing the content unique identifier and the intra-server management identifier; a content information updating message receiver configured to receive content information on the piece of content and a content information updating message containing the intra-server management identifier from the Web server; an identifier converter configured to convert the intra-server management identifier contained in the content information updating message into the content unique identifier; and a content management section configured to allow the content sType: GrantFiled: August 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Tamaki Kojima
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Publication number: 20150234861Abstract: An image processing system may include an imaging device for capturing an image and an image processing apparatus for processing the image. The imaging device may include an imaging unit for capturing the image, a first recording unit for recording information relating to the image, the information being associated with the image, and a first transmission control unit for controlling transmission of the image to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus may include a reception control unit for controlling reception of the image transmitted from the imaging device, a feature extracting unit for extracting a feature of the received image, a second recording unit for recording the feature, extracted from the image, the feature being associated with the image, and a second transmission control unit for controlling transmission of the feature to the imaging device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tamaki Kojima, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Mikio Sakemoto, Katsuhiro Takematsu
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Patent number: 9104408Abstract: Provided is an image display device provided with an image display unit for displaying a still image or a moving image, an image capturing unit for capturing the image in a direction in which the image display unit displays the image on the image display unit, and a face detection unit for performing, at predetermined intervals, face detection processing for detecting a face included in the image captured by the image capturing unit, wherein the predetermined intervals are variable according to whether or not the face of a user is included in the image captured by the image capturing unit, and when the position of the detected face does not change for a predetermined period of time in the face detection processing, the face detection unit does not detect the face as the face of the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Haruo Oba, Yusuke Sakai, Tamaki Kojima, Kazumoto Kondo, Naoki Okamoto, Satoru Inoue, Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Yasuhisa Nakajima, Masahiro Nakano, Takashi Tsurumoto
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Patent number: 9047287Abstract: An image processing system may include an imaging device for capturing an image and an image processing apparatus for processing the image. The imaging device may include an imaging unit for capturing the image, a first recording unit for recording information relating to the image, the information being associated with the image, and a first transmission control unit for controlling transmission of the image to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus may include a reception control unit for controlling reception of the image transmitted from the imaging device, a feature extracting unit for extracting a feature of the received image, a second recording unit for recording the feature, extracted from the image, the feature being associated with the image, and a second transmission control unit for controlling transmission of the feature to the imaging device.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tamaki Kojima, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Mikio Sakemoto, Katsuhiro Takematsu
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Patent number: 8994813Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: an allocation device configured to allocate each of a plurality of picture display areas to each of a plurality of picture groups each made up of a plurality of pictures, the picture display areas being arrayed in a first direction on a screen for displaying pictures; and a display control device configured to display each of the pictures constituting each of the picture groups in screen locations which correspond to the picture display areas allocated to the picture groups and which are arrayed in a second direction different from the first direction and are determined by times associated with the pictures.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2006Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuka Eura, Ryo Mukaiyama, Takanori Nishimura, Tamaki Kojima, Noriaki Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8988533Abstract: An image management apparatus may include an input image setting information acquiring unit configured to, when image analysis information on an input image is set, acquire setting information as input image setting information, an available setting information acquiring unit configured to acquire setting information as available setting information, an update necessity determining unit configured to determine whether or not an update of the image analysis information is necessary, on the basis of a difference between the input image setting information and the available setting information, and an image analysis information setting unit configured to, when it is determined that an update of the image analysis information is necessary, perform image analysis on the input image using the second image analysis processing unit so as to set new image analysis information.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tomohiko Gotoh, Tamaki Kojima, Takeshi Fukuda, Daisuke Mochizuki
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Patent number: 8762659Abstract: A storage apparatus and method, a program, and a playback apparatus and method, capable of quickly reading a specific part of data among metadata including metadata associated with faces. A storage controller controls storing face metadata in a storage medium, wherein the face metadata includes a content data set added for each content, content data storage location information indicating the storage location of the content data set, a detected face data set associated with each of face images detected from a content, and detected face data storage location information indicating the storage location of the detected face data set, and wherein the face metadata is configured such that the content data storage location information and face block storage location information indicating the storage location of the detected face data storage location information are described in a single data set. The present invention is applicable to a digital camera.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2007Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Osamu Date, Tamaki Kojima, Yasuki Ogiwara, Akira Tokuse
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Patent number: 8761462Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a face detector detecting face images from still-image frames successively extracted from a moving-image stream in accordance with image information items regarding the still-image frames, a face-feature-value calculation unit calculating face feature values of the face images in accordance with image information items regarding the face images, an identity determination unit determining whether a first face image in a current frame and a second face image in a previous frame represent an identical person in accordance with at least face feature values of the first and second face images, and a merging processor which stores one of the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image represent an identical person, and which stores the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image do not represent an identical person.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2013Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yun Sun, Tamaki Kojima, Tomohiko Gotoh, Makoto Murata, Masatomo Kurata
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Patent number: 8635301Abstract: A content management apparatus includes a content storage section configured to store a piece of content together with a content unique identifier; a content transmitter configured to transmit the piece of content together with the content unique identifier to a Web server; an intra-server management identifier receiver configured to receive an intra-server management identifier corresponding to the content unique identifier from the Web server; a management table for storing the content unique identifier and the intra-server management identifier; a content information updating message receiver configured to receive content information on the piece of content and a content information updating message containing the intra-server management identifier from the Web server; an identifier converter configured to convert the intra-server management identifier contained in the content information updating message into the content unique identifier; and a content management section configured to allow the content sType: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Tamaki Kojima
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Publication number: 20130339491Abstract: A content management apparatus includes a content storage section configured to store a piece of content together with a content unique identifier; a content transmitter configured to transmit the piece of content together with the content unique identifier to a Web server; an intra-server management identifier receiver configured to receive an intra-server management identifier corresponding to the content unique identifier from the Web server; a management table for storing the content unique identifier and the intra-server management identifier; a content information updating message receiver configured to receive content information on the piece of content and a content information updating message containing the intra-server management identifier from the Web server; an identifier converter configured to convert the intra-server management identifier contained in the content information updating message into the content unique identifier; and a content management section configured to allow the content sType: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventor: Tamaki KOJIMA
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Publication number: 20130279815Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit operable to extract metadata used for recognizing an event associated with a captured image from at least one of the captured image and attribute information concerning the captured image, and a recognition unit operable to recognize, on the basis of the metadata extracted by the extraction unit, the event associated with the captured image from among a plurality of predetermined events.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Chao XU, Tomohiko Gotoh, Tamaki Kojima
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Patent number: 8538961Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit operable to extract metadata used for recognizing an event associated with a captured image from at least one of the captured image and attribute information concerning the captured image, and a recognition unit operable to recognize, on the basis of the metadata extracted by the extraction unit, the event associated with the captured image from among a plurality of predetermined events.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Chao Xu, Tomohiko Gotoh, Tamaki Kojima
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Publication number: 20130236072Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a face detector detecting face images from still-image frames successively extracted from a moving-image stream in accordance with image information items regarding the still-image frames, a face-feature-value calculation unit calculating face feature values of the face images in accordance with image information items regarding the face images, an identity determination unit determining whether a first face image in a current frame and a second face image in a previous frame represent an identical person in accordance with at least face feature values of the first and second face images, and a merging processor which stores one of the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image represent an identical person, and which stores the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image do not represent an identical person.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yun SUN, Tamaki Kojima, Tomohiko Gotoh, Makoto Murata, Masatomo Kurata
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Patent number: 8462998Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a face detector detecting face images from still-image frames successively extracted from a moving-image stream in accordance with image information items regarding the still-image frames, a face-feature-value calculation unit calculating face feature values of the face images in accordance with image information items regarding the face images, an identity determination unit determining whether a first face image in a current frame and a second face image in a previous frame represent an identical person in accordance with at least face feature values of the first and second face images, and a merging processor which stores one of the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image represent an identical person, and which stores the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image do not represent an identical person.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2011Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yun Sun, Tamaki Kojima, Tomohiko Gotoh, Makoto Murata, Masatomo Kurata
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Publication number: 20130066452Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a feature quantity vector calculation section that, when a plurality of pieces of learning data each configured including input data and an objective variable corresponding to the input data are given, inputs the input data into a plurality of basis functions to calculate feature quantity vectors which include output values from the respective basis functions as elements, a distribution adjustment section that adjusts a distribution of points which are specified by the feature quantity vectors in a feature quantity space so that the distribution of the points becomes closer to a predetermined distribution, and a function generation section that generates an estimation function which outputs an estimate value of the objective variable in accordance with input of the feature quantity vectors with respect to the plurality of pieces of learning data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Tamaki Kojima
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Patent number: 8385606Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes detecting means for detecting the number of face image elements, which are one or more image elements of faces, included in an image, and associating means for associating the image with the detected number of face image elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2006Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Tamaki Kojima