Patents by Inventor Toshinori Ihara
Toshinori Ihara 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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Publication number: 20240244238Abstract: An information processing system (1) includes an information processing device (100) and a plurality of client devices. The information processing device (100) includes an encoder (120) that encodes data to be transmitted to encoded data of a plurality of different amounts of transmission, and a control unit (140) that performs control to transmit the encoded data encoded to a client device determined from among a plurality of client devices based on the amounts of transmission of the encoded data. Each of the client device includes a decoder that is adjusted to an amount of transmission to be decoded and decodes encoded data, and a second control unit that performs a process based on the decoded data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2022Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventor: TOSHINORI IHARA
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Patent number: 11935212Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method that make it possible to suppress increase of a prediction error. Image data is encoded by a method according to a type of pixel. For example, image data is encoded by a method according to whether the pixel is an image plane phase difference detection pixel or a normal pixel. Further, encoded data of image data is decoded by a method according to a type of pixel. For example, encoded data is decoded by a method according to whether the image is an image plane phase difference detection pixel or a normal pixel. The present technology can be applied, for example, to an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, an imaging device, an imaging apparatus, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Toshinori Ihara, Takefumi Nagumo, Makoto Daido
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Patent number: 11930160Abstract: A polarization imaging unit 20 acquires a polarized image including polarization pixels with a plurality of polarization directions. An information compression unit 40 sets reference image information based on polarized image information of reference polarization pixels with at least a plurality of polarization directions in the polarized image and generates difference information between the polarized image information of each of polarization pixels different from the reference polarization pixels in the polarized image and the reference image information. In addition, the information compression unit 40 reduces the amount of information of the difference information generated for each of the polarization pixels with the plurality of polarization directions to generate compressed image information including the reference image information and the difference information with the reduced amount of information.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuhi Kondo, Yasutaka Hirasawa, Takefumi Nagumo, Toshinori Ihara, Teppei Kurita, Legong Sun
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Patent number: 11765468Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and a method thereof, an imaging element, and an imaging device in which a signal value deviation generated through encoding and decoding of an amplified signal group can be restrained. Adaptive processing is executed on an image in which signal amplification has been executed, and the resultant image is encoded. For example, an offset value that is randomly set within a value range that depends on a gain value of the signal amplification executed on the image is added to each pixel value of the image, and then, the resultant image is encoded. The present disclosure is applicable to an image processing device, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, an imaging element, or an imaging device, for example.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshinori Ihara, Takefumi Nagumo
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Patent number: 11758298Abstract: The present disclosure relates to image processing apparatus and method that can suppress the increase in the load of processing multi-wavelength data. A subject is imaged to generate multi-wavelength data that is image data including four or more wavelength components, the generated multi-wavelength data is encoded to generate encoded data of the multi-wavelength data, and the generated encoded data is transmitted. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, an imaging element, an imaging apparatus, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takefumi Nagumo, Toshinori Ihara, Takuya Kitamura
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Publication number: 20220028040Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method that make it possible to suppress increase of a prediction error. Image data is encoded by a method according to a type of pixel. For example, image data is encoded by a method according to whether the pixel is an image plane phase difference detection pixel or a normal pixel. Further, encoded data of image data is decoded by a method according to a type of pixel. For example, encoded data is decoded by a method according to whether the image is an image plane phase difference detection pixel or a normal pixel. The present technology can be applied, for example, to an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, an imaging device, an imaging apparatus, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: TOSHINORI IHARA, TAKEFUMI NAGUMO, MAKOTO DAIDO
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Publication number: 20210375003Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of reducing an increase in a load imposed by processing of multispectral image data. Multispectral image data including components in four or more wavelength bands is simple-coded at a fixed compression rate. Alternatively, coded data generated by simple coding at a fixed compression rate for multispectral image data including components in four or more wavelength bands is simple-decoded. For example, the present disclosure is applicable to an image processing apparatus, an image coding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, an imaging element, an imaging apparatus, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2019Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: TOSHINORI IHARA, TAKUYA KITAMURA, TAKEFUMI NAGUMO
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Publication number: 20210266478Abstract: The present disclosure relates to image processing apparatus and method that can suppress the increase in the load of processing multi-wavelength data. A subject is imaged to generate multi-wavelength data that is image data including four or more wavelength components, the generated multi-wavelength data is encoded to generate encoded data of the multi-wavelength data, and the generated encoded data is transmitted. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, an imaging element, an imaging apparatus, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: TAKEFUMI NAGUMO, TOSHINORI IHARA, TAKUYA KITAMURA
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Publication number: 20210243437Abstract: A polarization imaging unit 20 acquires a polarized image including polarization pixels with a plurality of polarization directions. An information compression unit 40 sets reference image information based on polarized image information of reference polarization pixels with at least a plurality of polarization directions in the polarized image and generates difference information between the polarized image information of each of polarization pixels different from the reference polarization pixels in the polarized image and the reference image information. In addition, the information compression unit 40 reduces the amount of information of the difference information generated for each of the polarization pixels with the plurality of polarization directions to generate compressed image information including the reference image information and the difference information with the reduced amount of information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuhi KONDO, Yasutaka HIRASAWA, Takefumi NAGUMO, Toshinori IHARA, Teppei KURITA, Legong SUN
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Publication number: 20200396381Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and a method thereof, an imaging element, and an imaging device in which a signal value deviation generated through encoding and decoding of an amplified signal group can be restrained. Adaptive processing is executed on an image in which signal amplification has been executed, and the resultant image is encoded. For example, an offset value that is randomly set within a value range that depends on a gain value of the signal amplification executed on the image is added to each pixel value of the image, and then, the resultant image is encoded. The present disclosure is applicable to an image processing device, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, an imaging element, or an imaging device, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: TOSHINORI IHARA, TAKEFUMI NAGUMO
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Patent number: 10841585Abstract: The present disclosure relates to image processing apparatus and method that can suppress a reduction in image quality. An addition order of candidate data that is a candidate for additional data to be added to encoded data including encoded image data in blocks is set on a block-by-block basis in order to set the encoded data to a fixed length. In this case, pseudo-random numbers may be used to set the addition order of the candidate data, or table information indicating the addition order of the candidate data may be used to set the addition order of the candidate data. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshinori Ihara, Takefumi Nagumo
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Patent number: 10645386Abstract: An embedded codec (EBC) circuitry includes encoder circuitry to encode an image block by application of a sequential encoding scheme to generate an encoded image block. The encoder circuitry determines a local pixel value of each pixel of the plurality of pixels in the encoded image block, based on a quantization bin size of each pixel in the encoded image block. The encoder circuitry selects a reconstruction point from a plurality of reconstruction points based on an accumulated difference of the local pixel value and an input pixel value of each pixel in the encoded image block. The encoder circuitry allocates a set of signaling bits that indicates the selected reconstruction point in a bit-stream of the encoded image block. The EBC circuitry further includes decoder circuitry to reconstruct the input pixel value of each pixel in the encoded image block, based on the set of signaling bits.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshinori Ihara, Mohammed Golam Sarwer, Ali Tabatabai
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Patent number: 10595021Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method that can suppress deterioration of the picture quality by encoding. The image processing device includes a decoding unit configured to decode encoded data obtained by lossy encoding an image of a frame encoded already which is used as a reference image in encoding of an image of a current frame and perform rounding of a decoded image obtained by the decoding with a rounding value whose value is changed over in a time direction of the image. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an image processing device, an image encoding device or the like.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuo Ueki, Takefumi Nagumo, Toshinori Ihara
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Publication number: 20190394495Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging element enabling fixed-length compression of image data while avoiding generation of a prohibition code, and an imaging device and method. Image data obtained in a light reception unit that receives incident light and performs photoelectric conversion is Golomb-encoded, and is compressed into encoded data not including a prohibition code by adding an inverse code of encoded data of bit 1 to an LSB. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshinori IHARA, Takefumi NAGUMO
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Publication number: 20190045189Abstract: The present disclosure relates to image processing apparatus and method that can suppress a reduction in image quality. An addition order of candidate data that is a candidate for additional data to be added to encoded data including encoded image data in blocks is set on a block-by-block basis in order to set the encoded data to a fixed length. In this case, pseudo-random numbers may be used to set the addition order of the candidate data, or table information indicating the addition order of the candidate data may be used to set the addition order of the candidate data. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: TOSHINORI IHARA, TAKEFUMI NAGUMO
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Publication number: 20180098069Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method that can suppress deterioration of the picture quality by encoding. The image processing device includes a decoding unit configured to decode encoded data obtained by lossy encoding an image of a frame encoded already which is used as a reference image in encoding of an image of a current frame and perform rounding of a decoded image obtained by the decoding with a rounding value whose value is changed over in a time direction of the image. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an image processing device, an image encoding device or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2016Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: NOBUO UEKI, TAKEFUMI NAGUMO, TOSHINORI IHARA
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Patent number: 9852358Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry (similarity calculation section) configured to calculate a similarity between a posture model and posture data, wherein the posture model being indicative of a posture in a time series gesture, and the posture data being indicative of a posture in a time series of a subject in moving image data.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2013Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Yamaoka, Toshinori Ihara, Goh Kobayashi, Takuro Kawai
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Patent number: 9710955Abstract: This technology relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a program capable of realizing motion parallax closely related to that of the real world. An image processing unit corrects a depth image formed of a depth value indicating a position in a depth direction of each pixel of a color image of a predetermined viewpoint externally input as an input image based on positional information indicating a position of a viewer and the like. This technology is applicable to an image processing device, which performs a process to correct the depth image based on the positional information as an image process, for example.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Goh Kobayashi, Takuro Kawai, Toshinori Ihara, Keisuke Yamaoka
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Patent number: 9635370Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including: an encoder configured to scalably encode image data; a write unit configured to cause storage via a predetermined bus to store encoded data that is the image data scalably encoded by the encoder; a read unit configured to read a desired layer of the encoded data from the storage via the bus; and a decoder configured to scalably decode the encoded data read from the storage by the read unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuo Ueki, Toshinori Ihara, Takefumi Nagumo, Hironari Sakurai, Shuo Lu, Yoshitaka Morigami
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Publication number: 20160373740Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image encoding device and a method that can suppress a decrease in image quality due to encoding. The image encoding device includes: a control unit configured to restrict a mode of generation of a predicted image, based on prediction of image quality of reference image data to be referred to when generating the predicted image; a prediction unit configured to generate the predicted image according to a mode not restricted by the control unit; and an encoding unit configured to encode image data using the predicted image generated by the prediction unit. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing device or an image encoding device, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2015Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: TAKEFUMI NAGUMO, NOBUO UEKI, TOSHINORI IHARA, SHUO LU, HIRONARI SAKURAI, YOSHITAKA MORIGAMI