Patents by Inventor Tetsurou Kitashou

Tetsurou Kitashou 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: 8830344
    Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus which performs transformation processing for an input image, and performs filter processing for a transformed image including the transformed input image in an image area, thereby generating an output image, comprising a determination unit configured to determine whether a pixel position to be mapped to a pixel of interest position in the transformed image by a transformation processing is present among pixel positions in the input image; and a calculation unit configured to set a pixel value, obtained by a convolution operation between filter coefficients and pixel values of pixels near a processing pixel position in the transformed image, as the pixel value of the pixel at the processing pixel position in the output image if the pixel position to be mapped is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Patent number: 8743133
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of input units configured to correspond to respective image data items to be obtained, an obtaining unit configured to obtain the image data items corresponding to the input units when the input units are operated, a determination unit configured to determine, when one of the input units is operated within a predetermined period of time, layout for displaying a corresponding one of the image data items in a display unit, and configured to determine, when at least two of the input units are operated within the predetermined period of time, layout for displaying image data items corresponding to the operated input units in the display unit in parallel, and an output unit configured to generate display data for a single screen using at least one of the image data items obtained using the obtaining unit in accordance with the layout determined using the determination unit and output the display data to the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Publication number: 20130329133
    Abstract: An output image obtained by executing an image deformation process for an input image is stored in a memory. In the output image in the memory, a partial image within an effective area set in the memory is specified, and an area including the specified partial image is calculated as a readout area. The partial image is read out by executing a readout process for the readout area in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Patent number: 8606039
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: a division unit dividing input data; a processing unit performing predetermined processing for the divided data; a generation unit generating intermediate data by referencing the processed divided data, and combining the intermediate data; a temporary storage unit storing the processed divided data; and a detection unit selecting a group of divided data that includes the processed divided data, and determining whether or not all processed divided data in the selected group is stored, is provided. As a result of the determination, if it is determined that all the processed divided data is stored, the generation unit generates intermediate data and then deletes all the processed divided data in the selected group, and if it is determined that a part of the processed divided data is not stored, the processing unit preferentially generates the part of the processed divided data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Publication number: 20130315502
    Abstract: This apparatus obtains a mapped position (xo, yo) of (xi, yi), acquires (xi?, yi?) by performing inverse mapping for each reference position being based on (xo, yo), obtains (xi?, yi?) by performing inverse mapping for integer parts xoc and yoc of xo and yo respectively, and performs interpolation using fraction parts of x- and y-coordinates of a position, of (xi?, yi?) and (xi?, yi?), whose integer parts of the x- and y-coordinates respectively coincide with xi and yi, and peripheral pixel values of (xi, yi).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Takamura, Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Publication number: 20130271494
    Abstract: The distance between projection coordinates to which the center of an image are projected and the center coordinates are added to the projection coordinates to obtain projection center coordinates. The distance is added to the coordinates to which the four corners of the image are projected to obtain projection four-corner coordinates. A distance shorter than the minimum of the distances between the projection four-corner coordinates and the projection center coordinates is decided as an output margin distance. Projection source coordinates to be projected to coordinates apart from the projection center coordinates by the output margin distance are obtained. A maximum of the distances between the projection source coordinates and the projection center coordinates is decided as an input margin distance. Divided images decided based on ½ of horizontal size of the image and the input margin distance are deformed and outputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Patent number: 8509568
    Abstract: This apparatus obtains a mapped position (xo, yo) of (xi, yi), acquires (xi?, yi?) by performing inverse mapping for each reference position being based on (xo, yo), obtains (xi?, yi?) by performing inverse mapping for integer parts xoc and yoc of xo and yo respectively, and performs interpolation using fraction parts of x- and y-coordinates of a position, of (xi?, yi?) and (xi?, yi?), whose integer parts of the x- and y-coordinates respectively coincide with xi and yi, and peripheral pixel values of (xi, yi).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Takamura, Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Patent number: 8451191
    Abstract: In a display system which includes a plurality of space management units which are hierarchically connected, and each of which manages a predetermined space region as a management space region, a content management unit which manages one or a plurality of contents, and a plurality of display units which display information on display regions. Wherein each of the plurality of display units displays a content arranged in a subspace corresponding to a self display region in the management space region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Odagawa, Akihiro Takamura, Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Patent number: 8446630
    Abstract: An output control apparatus which performs output control of data displayed on a display unit includes a detection unit configured to detect an output apparatus located near the display unit, an acquisition unit configured to acquire arrangement position information indicating an arrangement position of the output apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine an output layout of the data according to a relationship between the arrangement position of the output apparatus indicated by the arrangement position information and a display position of the data displayed on the display unit, and a control unit configured to perform control to output the data from the output apparatus with the output layout determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Publication number: 20120328214
    Abstract: This apparatus obtains a mapped position (xo, yo) of (xi, yi), acquires (xi?, yi?) by performing inverse mapping for each reference position being based on (xo, yo), obtains (xi?, yi?) by performing inverse mapping for integer parts xoc and yoc of xo and yo respectively, and performs interpolation using fraction parts of x- and y-coordinates of a position, of (xi?, yi?) and (xi?, yi?), whose integer parts of the x- and y-coordinates respectively coincide with xi and yi, and peripheral pixel values of (xi, yi).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Takamura, Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Publication number: 20120287298
    Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus which performs transformation processing for an input image, and performs filter processing for a transformed image including the transformed input image in an image area, thereby generating an output image, comprising a determination unit configured to determine whether a pixel position to be mapped to a pixel of interest position in the transformed image by a transformation processing is present among pixel positions in the input image; and a calculation unit configured to set a pixel value, obtained by a convolution operation between filter coefficients and pixel values of pixels near a processing pixel position in the transformed image, as the pixel value of the pixel at the processing pixel position in the output image if the pixel position to be mapped is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Patent number: 8037507
    Abstract: A video/audio output apparatus comprises a control unit adapted to perform screen management of output video, and generate positional relationship information for each input video data; an extraction unit adapted to generate partial image data from the each input video data; an input unit adapted to input audio source differentiated audio data; and a tile generation unit adapted to configure tile data by compiling the partial image data generated by the extraction unit and the audio source differentiated audio data for each drawing region on a screen, based on the positional relationship information generated by the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Patent number: 8014629
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of reducing frame loss and smoothly playing back vector data-based images is provided. A determination unit determines an intermediate rendering size smaller than a display rendering size by using vector data and its frame rate. A generation unit generates intermediate raster data by rendering at the intermediate rendering size determined by the determination unit. A scaling unit scales up the intermediate raster data generated by the generation unit to the display rendering size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Publication number: 20110197225
    Abstract: A video/audio output apparatus comprises a control unit adapted to perform screen management of output video, and generate positional relationship information for each input video data; an extraction unit adapted to generate partial image data from the each input video data; an input unit adapted to input audio source differentiated audio data; and a tile generation unit adapted to configure tile data by compiling the partial image data generated by the extraction unit and the audio source differentiated audio data for each drawing region on a screen, based on the positional relationship information generated by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Publication number: 20100302583
    Abstract: An output control apparatus which performs output control of data displayed on a display unit includes a detection unit configured to detect an output apparatus located near the display unit, an acquisition unit configured to acquire arrangement position information indicating an arrangement position of the output apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine an output layout of the data according to a relationship between the arrangement position of the output apparatus indicated by the arrangement position information and a display position of the data displayed on the display unit, and a control unit configured to perform control to output the data from the output apparatus with the output layout determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Publication number: 20100302219
    Abstract: A video output apparatus of the present invention includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about display states of a plurality of display devices, a video output unit configured to output video data to the display devices, and a control unit configured to, when a display device to which the video data is output by the video output unit is in a display state of OFF, control the video output unit to output the video data to a display device whose display state is ON based on the information about the display state acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Publication number: 20100086233
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: a division unit dividing input data; a processing unit performing predetermined processing for the divided data; a generation unit generating intermediate data by referencing the processed divided data, and combining the intermediate data; a temporary storage unit storing the processed divided data; and a detection unit selecting a group of divided data that includes the processed divided data, and determining whether or not all processed divided data in the selected group is stored, is provided. As a result of the determination, if it is determined that all the processed divided data is stored, the generation unit generates intermediate data and then deletes all the processed divided data in the selected group, and if it is determined that a part of the processed divided data is not stored, the processing unit preferentially generates the part of the processed divided data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Publication number: 20100019989
    Abstract: In a display system which includes a plurality of space management units which are hierarchically connected, and each of which manages a predetermined space region as a management space region, a content management unit which manages one or a plurality of contents, and a plurality of display units which display information on display regions. Wherein each of the plurality of display units displays a content arranged in a subspace corresponding to a self display region in the management space region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Odagawa, Akihiro Takamura, Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Publication number: 20090322946
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a plurality of input units configured to correspond to respective image data items to be obtained, an obtaining unit configured to obtain the image data items corresponding to the input units when the input units are operated, a determination unit configured to determine, when one of the input units is operated within a predetermined period of time, layout for displaying a corresponding one of the image data items in a display unit, and configured to determine, when at least two of the input units are operated within the predetermined period of time, layout for displaying image data items corresponding to the operated input units in the display unit in parallel, and an output unit configured to generate display data for a single screen using at least one of the image data items obtained using the obtaining unit in accordance with the layout determined using the determination unit and output the display data to the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou
  • Publication number: 20080163329
    Abstract: A video/audio output apparatus comprises a control unit adapted to perform screen management of output video, and generate positional relationship information for each input video data; an extraction unit adapted to generate partial image data from the each input video data; an input unit adapted to input audio source differentiated audio data; and a tile generation unit adapted to configure tile data by compiling the partial image data generated by the extraction unit and the audio source differentiated audio data for each drawing region on a screen, based on the positional relationship information generated by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsurou Kitashou