Patents by Inventor Yoichi Hirota

Yoichi Hirota 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: 20240406369
    Abstract: There is provided a light emitting device (10) including: a light emitting surface configured by arranging a plurality of unit regions (200) in a two-dimensional array, each of the unit regions including a plurality of light emitters (202, 204); and a control unit (400) that drives the light emitters individually. Each of the unit regions includes a first light emitter and a second light emitter that emit lights having wavelengths different from each other in a near-infrared region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ichikawa, Katsuhide Uchino, Toru Nagara, Yoichi Hirota, Hisayuki Tateno, Naomasa Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240371120
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and a technology capable of improving convenience of a user who is allowed to sequentially log in to a plurality of virtual spaces. The information processing apparatus includes a conversion unit that performs conversion of a value used for display of a target object arranged in a virtual space on the basis of the value used for display of the target object and a conversion value determined on the basis of at least scale information in a first virtual space to obtain a converted value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunari IKEDA, Naomasa TAKAHASHI, Yoichi HIROTA, Masamoto HORIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230288622
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging processing system and a three-dimensional (3D) model generation method capable of generating a more accurate 3D model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hisako SUGANO, Hisayuki TATENO, Yoichi HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20230224428
    Abstract: In a subject emphasizing device (20a) (information processing device), a visible-light moving image acquisition unit (31) (first acquisition unit) acquires a moving image including a subject (92) and a background, and a subject region extraction unit (33) extracts a region of the subject (92) from the moving image. Then, a background drawing unit (37) draws background information (94), in a region other than the region of the subject (92) in the moving image. An effect application unit (36) applies a visual effect to the region of the subject (92), on the basis of an intensity of the visual effect to be applied to the region of the subject (92), determined by an effect intensity calculation unit (35) according to a distance from a camera to the subject (92) (information about environment of acquiring the moving image).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: HISAKO SUGANO, YOICHI HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20230196653
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, a generation method, and a rendering method that makes it possible to generate a high-quality image while curbing a rendering load. The information processing device of the present technology is a device including a generation unit that generate a plurality of pieces of texture information corresponding to an image when an object is imaged at a plurality of different viewpoints, from texture information corresponding to 3D shape data indicating a shape of the object. The present technology can be applied to an information processing system that generates and transfers 3D data that is used for rendering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Goh KOBAYASHI, Yoichi HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20230068731
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device and a moving image data generation method capable of easily searching for 3D model data. The image processing device includes: a storage unit that stores a plurality of 3D models and a plurality of 3D model feature amounts respectively corresponding to the plurality of 3D models; a search unit that searches for a 3D model having a feature amount similar to an input feature amount of a subject on the basis of the feature amount of the subject and the 3D model feature amounts stored in the storage unit; and an output unit that outputs the 3D model searched by the search unit. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an image processing device that searches for a 3D model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisako SUGANO, Junichi TANAKA, Yoichi HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20220343583
    Abstract: When an operation detection unit (31) (detection unit) of a mobile terminal (30a) (information processing apparatus) detects an operation instruction given when observing a 3D model (90M) (3D object), a texture information selection unit (33) (decision unit) selects which texture information (Ta or Tb) that expresses the texture of the 3D model (90M) in a plurality of different formats acquired by a 3D model acquisition unit (32) to use when drawing the 3D model (90M) according to the operation instruction detected by the operation detection unit (31). Then, a rendering processing unit (34) (drawing unit) renders the texture information (Ta or Tb) selected by the texture information selection unit (33) on the 3D model (90M) reconstructed on the basis of mesh information (M) (shape information) so as to draw the 3D model (90M).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisako SUGANO, Yoichi HIROTA, Nobuaki IZUMI, Junji OI
  • Publication number: 20220329770
    Abstract: A score map generation unit (83) (image quality prediction unit) included in an information processing apparatus (10a) predicts, for a 3D model (90M) (3D object), a relationship between a position of a virtual viewpoint (V) from which the 3D model (90M) is viewed and image quality of a virtual image (J) obtained when the 3D model (90M) is viewed from the position of the virtual viewpoint (V).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisako SUGANO, Yoichi HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20220014722
    Abstract: An image processing device includes circuitry configured to generate a stroboscopic model including 3D models of a subject arranged in a three-dimensional space, the 3D models being generated from a plurality of viewpoint images captured from a plurality of viewpoints at a plurality of times, and set camerawork of a virtual camera in accordance with a state of the 3D models arranged in the stroboscopic model, the camerawork being set for capturing the stroboscopic model by the virtual camera to generate a stroboscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisako SUGANO, Yoichi HIROTA, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10534428
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an orientation information acquisition unit which acquires orientation information of a head portion of a user that observes a display image of a display device; an angle of view switching unit which switches an angle of view of the display image; a rendering process unit which generates the display image based on the orientation information and the angle of view; and a transmission unit which transmits the generated image to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko Sakuta, Yoichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 10453244
    Abstract: A scalable texture data representation which enables spatio-temporal texture synthesis for occlusion by using a temporally consistent texture UV map, view-dependent texture mapping for seamless/specular color by using an additional multi-layer texture UV map, and view-dependent texture alignment for natural mapping by using an extra flow UV map, is described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 10432902
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method, capable of inhibiting corresponding-point detection accuracy from degrading. The information processing device according to the present technology, allows a projecting unit to project a second pattern including a first pattern including repetition in first cycles in a first direction, inverted in phase in second cycles in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, in order to acquire corresponding relationship in pixel between the projecting unit and a capturing unit. The present technology can be applied to an electronic instrument including the function of a projector or the functions of both a projector and a camera, and a computer that controls the functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 10324523
    Abstract: An image following a movement of a head of a user who observes an image is generated. At a drawing device 300, posture angle data to be received at a certain time after a time series of posture angle data that have already been received are predicted, and rendering processing is performed on an image based on the predicted posture angle data. A prediction algorithm for the posture angle data is roughly divided into two steps: (1) estimating a predicted time to receive the posture angle data; and (2) predicting the posture angle data at the predicted time. By rendering the image at the predicted time from the predicted posture angle data, a sense of delay felt when the image following the movement of the head of the user is presented is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Kenta Kawamoto, Yoichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 10319078
    Abstract: Provided is an image signal processing apparatus including multiple color support distortion correcting units receiving a color signal of a correction target image, performing image distortion correction of a color based on a lens distortion characteristic and generating a correction image supporting the color. Each of the multiple color support distortion correcting units performs processing of receiving a reference signal indicating a pixel position in an input image applied to calculate a pixel value of an output correction image, and setting a pixel value of the pixel position indicated by the reference signal in the input image as an output pixel value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 10185389
    Abstract: An image display system 100 includes an attachment position error measuring function which measures deviation between reference axes of a head action tracking device 200 (x, y, z) and reference axes of the user (xw, yw, zw), i.e., an attachment position error of the head action tracking device 200, and an attachment position error absorbing function which corrects, based on the attachment position error, posture information about a posture of the head of the user detected by the head action tracking device 200. An image drawing device 300 therefore renders, based on precise posture information, an image accurately following a motion of the head of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoichi Hirota, Naomasa Takahashi, Tetsuya Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20180241978
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method, capable of inhibiting corresponding-point detection accuracy from degrading. The information processing device according to the present technology, allows a projecting unit to project a second pattern including a first pattern including repetition in first cycles in a first direction, inverted in phase in second cycles in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, in order to acquire corresponding relationship in pixel between the projecting unit and a capturing unit. The present technology can be applied to an electronic instrument including the function of a projector or the functions of both a projector and a camera, and a computer that controls the functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventor: YOICHI HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20180196508
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an orientation information acquisition unit which acquires orientation information of a head portion of a user that observes a display image of a display device; an angle of view switching unit which switches an angle of view of the display image; a rendering process unit which generates the display image based on the orientation information and the angle of view; and a transmission unit which transmits the generated image to the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: MARIKO SAKUTA, YOICHI HIROTA
  • Patent number: 9990032
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an orientation information acquisition unit which acquires orientation information of a head portion of a user that observes a display image of a display device; an angle of view switching unit which switches an angle of view of the display image; a rendering process unit which generates the display image based on the orientation information and the angle of view; and a transmission unit which transmits the generated image to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko Sakuta, Yoichi Hirota
  • Publication number: 20180101978
    Abstract: A scalable texture data representation which enables spatio-temporal texture synthesis for occlusion by using a temporally consistent texture UV map, view-dependent texture mapping for seamless/specular color by using an additional multi-layer texture UV map, and view-dependent texture alignment for natural mapping by using an extra flow UV map, is described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventor: Yoichi Hirota
  • Patent number: 9813697
    Abstract: To appropriately prevent a burn-in phenomenon when a still image such as an OSD screen is displayed on a display panel. When a menu screen is displayed on a video screen in a superimposed manner, a menu phrase in at least one of a left-eye video and a right-eye video is deleted on a menu background area. A time period in which a brightness difference between still pixels in a boundary between a menu background area and a menu phrase remains large is reduced, and thus the occurrence of the burn-in phenomenon can be prevented. However, the menu background area is constantly displayed without being deleted, so that screen flickering does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Yamamoto, Masaomi Nabeta, Naomasa Takahashi, Yohsuke Kaji, Yoichi Hirota