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).

  • Publication number: 20240244238
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventor: TOSHINORI IHARA
  • Patent number: 11935212
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinori Ihara, Takefumi Nagumo, Makoto Daido
  • Patent number: 11930160
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhi Kondo, Yasutaka Hirasawa, Takefumi Nagumo, Toshinori Ihara, Teppei Kurita, Legong Sun
  • Patent number: 11765468
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinori Ihara, Takefumi Nagumo
  • Patent number: 11758298
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takefumi Nagumo, Toshinori Ihara, Takuya Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20220028040
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: TOSHINORI IHARA, TAKEFUMI NAGUMO, MAKOTO DAIDO
  • Publication number: 20210375003
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: TOSHINORI IHARA, TAKUYA KITAMURA, TAKEFUMI NAGUMO
  • Publication number: 20210266478
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: TAKEFUMI NAGUMO, TOSHINORI IHARA, TAKUYA KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210243437
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuhi KONDO, Yasutaka HIRASAWA, Takefumi NAGUMO, Toshinori IHARA, Teppei KURITA, Legong SUN
  • Publication number: 20200396381
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: TOSHINORI IHARA, TAKEFUMI NAGUMO
  • Patent number: 10841585
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinori Ihara, Takefumi Nagumo
  • Patent number: 10645386
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinori Ihara, Mohammed Golam Sarwer, Ali Tabatabai
  • Patent number: 10595021
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Ueki, Takefumi Nagumo, Toshinori Ihara
  • Publication number: 20190394495
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinori IHARA, Takefumi NAGUMO
  • Publication number: 20190045189
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: TOSHINORI IHARA, TAKEFUMI NAGUMO
  • Publication number: 20180098069
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: NOBUO UEKI, TAKEFUMI NAGUMO, TOSHINORI IHARA
  • Patent number: 9852358
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamaoka, Toshinori Ihara, Goh Kobayashi, Takuro Kawai
  • Patent number: 9710955
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Goh Kobayashi, Takuro Kawai, Toshinori Ihara, Keisuke Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 9635370
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Ueki, Toshinori Ihara, Takefumi Nagumo, Hironari Sakurai, Shuo Lu, Yoshitaka Morigami
  • Publication number: 20160373740
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: TAKEFUMI NAGUMO, NOBUO UEKI, TOSHINORI IHARA, SHUO LU, HIRONARI SAKURAI, YOSHITAKA MORIGAMI