Patents by Inventor Tomonori Okuwaki

Tomonori Okuwaki 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).

  • Image processing device and method, and transmission medium, transmission method and image format
    Patent number: 6463178
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus 10D for processing image data that composes a dynamic image, wherein pixels are thinned for each frame with respect to the pixels of the respective frames that compose a dynamic image, in such a manner that they become the chessboard-like lattice format in both directions of the spatial direction and the temporal direction, so that the quantity of information can be reduced, maintaining the resolutions of horizontal, vertical and oblique directions of the dynamic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Tomonori Okuwaki