Patents by Inventor Yasunobu Node

Yasunobu Node 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: 8774603
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes reproduction control means for controlling reproduction of a first parameter in order to reproduce an edit applied to a first image, generation means for generating a second parameter from a plurality of first parameters reproduced by the reproduction control means, and edit means for editing the first image based on the second parameter generated by the generation means, and generating a second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Miyake, Kei Hiraizumi, Yoshinori Takagi, Masato Akao, Yasunobu Node, Yoshihito Fujiwara, Kazutaka Ando, Naoki Kobayashi, Michimasa Obana, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Takeyuki Fujii, Masanori Machimura, Toru Nakagawa, Yusuke Kajio, Yasuhiro Fujimori, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 8401302
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus may include a feature quantity extraction unit configured to extract a feature quantity from an image, a setting unit configured to set setting information including a plurality of setting items used to perform processing upon the image so that a designated setting item can be changed among the setting items; and a recording unit configured to associate the setting information with a feature quantity of the image and record them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Machimura, Tetsujiro Kondo, Kazutaka Ando, Yasunobu Node, Michimasa Obana, Kei Hiraizumi, Masato Akao
  • Patent number: 8311267
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain feature quantities of an image; and a detector configured to detect a gazing point at which a user gazes within the image, wherein the gazing point detected by the detector among the feature quantities obtained by the obtaining unit or the feature quantities extracted from the image in a predetermined range containing the gazing point is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Miyake, Kei Hiraizumi, Yoshinori Takagi, Masato Akao, Yasunobu Node, Yoshihito Fujiwara, Kazutaka Ando, Naoki Kobayashi, Michimasa Obana, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Takeyuki Fujii, Masanori Machimura, Toru Nakagawa, Yusuke Kajio, Yasuhiro Fujimori, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20120057793
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus may include a feature quantity extraction unit configured to extract a feature quantity from an image, a setting unit configured to set setting information including a plurality of setting items used to perform processing upon the image so that a designated setting item can be changed among the setting items; and a recording unit configured to associate the setting information with a feature quantity of the image and record them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Machimura, Tetsujiro Kondo, Kazutaka Ando, Yasunobu Node, Michimasa Obana, Kei Hiraizumi, Masato Akao
  • Patent number: 8077978
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus may include a feature quantity extraction unit configured to extract a feature quantity from an image, a setting unit configured to set setting information including a plurality of setting items used to perform processing upon the image so that a designated setting item can be changed among the setting items; and a recording unit configured to associate the setting information with a feature quantity of the image and record them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Machimura, Tetsujiro Kondo, Kazutaka Ando, Yasunobu Node, Michimasa Obana, Kei Hiraizumi, Masato Akao
  • Patent number: 8073274
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus may include a feature value extraction unit adapted to extract a feature value from an image, a setting unit adapted to set setting-information defining a process to be performed on the image, an editing unit adapted to edit the setting-information set by the setting unit, and recording unit adapted to record the setting-information edited by the editing unit, in association with the feature value of the image, on a data recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Hiraizumi, Tetsujiro Kondo, Kazutaka Ando, Yasunobu Node, Michimasa Obana, Masanori Machimura, Masato Akao
  • Patent number: 8068672
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a feature value extractor configured to extract a feature value from an image; a setting unit configured to set setting information for applying a process to the image; and a recorder configured to record the setting information in association with the feature value of the image in a data recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunobu Node, Tetsujiro Kondo, Kazutaka Ando, Kel Hiraizumi, Michimasa Obana, Masanori Machimura, Masato Akao
  • Patent number: 7975085
    Abstract: A signal processing device controls a plurality of signal processing units that process an input signal inputted via a signal line with wide bandwidth, via a control line with narrow bandwidth or the signal line, and includes: a storing unit configured to store correspondence information that associates instruction information indicating an instruction of control with respect to each of the signal processing units, with control information related to all of the plurality of signal processing units, among pieces of control information necessary for each of the signal processing units to execute content of control; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the control information associated with the instruction information by the correspondence information, to the plurality of signal processing units via the signal line, when control is instructed with respect to the plurality of signal processing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Hattori, Tetsujiro Kondo, Hideo Nakaya, Nobuyuki Asakura, Toshihiko Hamamatsu, Yasunobu Node, Masanori Machimura, Hiroto Kimura, Yasuhiko Suga
  • Patent number: 7856145
    Abstract: An image processing system includes an image capturing apparatus, and an image processing apparatus. The image capturing apparatus is configured to capture an image including an object, to obtain status information of the object, and to record the image and the status information of the object. The image processing apparatus is configured to specify details of a modification to be applied to the image according to the recorded image and status information of the object, to set setting information for modifying the image on the basis of the details of the modification, to extract a feature value from the image, and to record the setting information in a setting-information recording medium in association with the extracted feature value of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Ando, Tetsujiro Kondo, Yasunobu Node, Michimasa Obana, Kei Hiraizumi, Masanori Machimura, Masato Akao
  • Publication number: 20090265502
    Abstract: A signal processing device controls a plurality of signal processing units that process an input signal inputted via a signal line with wide bandwidth, via a control line with narrow bandwidth or the signal line, and includes: a storing unit configured to store correspondence information that associates instruction information indicating an instruction of control with respect to each of the signal processing units, with control information related to all of the plurality of signal processing units, among pieces of control information necessary for each of the signal processing units to execute content of control; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the control information associated with the instruction information by the correspondence information, to the plurality of signal processing units via the signal line, when control is instructed with respect to the plurality of signal processing units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Hattori, Tetsujiro Kondo, Hideo Nakaya, Nobuyuki Asakura, Toshihiko Hamamatsu, Yasunobu Node, Masanori Machimura, Hiroto Kimura, Yasuhiko Suga
  • Patent number: 7573939
    Abstract: The invention relates to a memory device and the like. The memory device comprises one or more memory block. The memory block has a memory cell array consists of multiple memory cells (210) arranged in a matrix form. A region of the multiple memory cells (210) includes multiple divisional domains (201a-201e) divided in the direction along word line (WL). Each of the word lines (WL) has multiple divisional selection lines (WLa-WLe) divided corresponding to the multiple divisional domains. The memory block has a switching mechanism (220) for switching the divisional word lines (WL) that are to be simultaneously activated in each of the divisional domains. Multiple memory cells (210) associated with each of the divisional word lines store a horizontal or vertical array of pixel data. The inventive memory device enables simultaneous access to multiple items of pixel data constituting a pixel block having an arbitrary configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Tsutomu Ichikawa, Yasunobu Node
  • Publication number: 20090154566
    Abstract: The invention relates to a memory device and the like. The memory device comprises one or more memory block. The memory block has a memory cell array consists of multiple memory cells (210) arranged in a matrix form. A region of the multiple memory cells (210) includes multiple divisional domains (201a-201e) divided in the direction along word line (WL). Each of the word lines (WL) has multiple divisional selection lines (WLa-WLe) divided corresponding to the multiple divisional domains. The memory block has a switching mechanism (220) for switching the divisional word lines (Wt) that are to be simultaneously activated in each of the divisional domains. Multiple memory cells (210) associated with each of the divisional word lines store a horizontal or vertical array of pixel data. The inventive memory device enables simultaneous access to multiple items of pixel data constituting a pixel block having an arbitrary configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Tsutomu Ichikawa, Yasunobu Node
  • Publication number: 20080310764
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes reproduction control means for controlling reproduction of a first parameter in order to reproduce an edit applied to a first image, generation means for generating a second parameter from a plurality of first parameters reproduced by the reproduction control means, and edit means for editing the first image based on the second parameter generated by the generation means, and generating a second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Miyake, Kei Hiraizumi, Yoshinori Takagi, Masato Akao, Yasunobu Node, Yoshihito Fujiwara, Kazutaka Ando, Naoki Kobayashi, Michimasa Obana, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Takeyuki Fujii, Masanori Machimura, Toru Nakagawa, Yusuke Kajio, Yasuhiro Fujimori, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20080285800
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain feature quantities of an image; and a detector configured to detect a gazing point at which a user gazes within the image, wherein the gazing point detected by the detector among the feature quantities obtained by the obtaining unit or the feature quantities extracted from the image in a predetermined range containing the gazing point is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Miyake, Kei Hiraizumi, Yoshinori Takagi, Masato Akao, Yasunobu Node, Yoshihito Fujiwara, Kazutaka Ando, Naoki Kobayashi, Michimasa Obana, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Takeyuki Fujii, Masanori Machimura, Toru Nakagawa, Yusuke Kajio, Yasuhiro Fujimori, Tetsujiro Kondo
  • Publication number: 20080019594
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus may include a feature value extraction unit adapted to extract a feature value from an image, a setting unit adapted to set setting-information defining a process to be performed on the image, an editing unit adapted to edit the setting-information set by the setting unit, and recording unit adapted to record the setting-information edited by the editing unit, in association with the feature value of the image, on a data recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Hiraizumi, Tetsujiro Kondo, Kazutaka Ando, Yasunobu Node, Michimasa Obana, Masanori Machimura, Masato Akao
  • Publication number: 20070297677
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus may include a feature quantity extraction unit configured to extract a feature quantity from an image, a setting unit configured to set setting information including a plurality of setting items used to perform processing upon the image so that a designated setting item can be changed among the setting items; and a recording unit configured to associate the setting information with a feature quantity of the image and record them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Machimura, Tetsujiro Kondo, Kazutaka Ando, Yasunobu Node, Michimasa Obana, Kei Hiraizumi, Masato Akao
  • Publication number: 20070201107
    Abstract: An image processing system includes an image capturing apparatus, and an image processing apparatus. The image capturing apparatus is configured to capture an image including an object, to obtain status information of the object, and to record the image and the status information of the object. The image processing apparatus is configured to specify details of a modification to be applied to the image according to the recorded image and status information of the object, to set setting information for modifying the image on the basis of the details of the modification, to extract a feature value from the image, and to record the setting information in a setting-information recording medium in association with the extracted feature value of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Ando, Tetsujiro Kondo, Yasunobu Node, Michimasa Obana, Kei Hiraizumi, Masanori Machimura, Masato Akao
  • Publication number: 20070201769
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a feature value extractor configured to extract a feature value from an image; a setting unit configured to set setting information for applying a process to the image; and a recorder configured to record the setting information in association with the feature value of the image in a data recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunobu Node, Tetsujiro Kondo, Kazutaka Ando, Kei Hiraizumi, Michimasa Obana, Masanori Machimura, Masato Akao
  • Patent number: 7085318
    Abstract: A picture processing apparatus for generating an output picture signal with higher quality than the input picture signal. A first signal processor has a storage device for storing a picture signal with the same quality as the output picture signal. The input picture signal and the stored picture signal are added to generate a first picture signal with higher quality than the input picture, which is stored in the storage device. A second signal processor performs a class categorizing adaptive process by extracting a feature of the input picture signal corresponding to the position of a considered pixel of the output picture signal, categorizing the considered pixel as one of a plurality of classes corresponding to the feature, and calculating the input picture signal using a predetermined calculating method corresponding to the categorized class, thereby generating a second picture signal with higher quality than the input picture signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Hisakazu Shiraki, Yasunobu Node, Katsuhisa Shinmei
  • Patent number: 7050633
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, an input image is synthesized with a stored image supplied from a storage unit and having been shifted so that the positions of the pixels in the image areas of the input image and of the stored image, associated with a telop, will coincide. The level distribution of the pixel values of the input image is maintained in the telop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Yasunobu Node, Takayoshi Fujiwara