Patents by Inventor Yoshimitsu Noguchi
Yoshimitsu Noguchi 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: 20230401816Abstract: A detection system includes: an obtainer that obtains image data generated based on an amount of light received by each of a plurality of pixels from a detection target and event data generated based on a change in an amount of light received by each of a plurality of pixels from the detection target; a processor that extracts, from the event data as auxiliary information, information to be used to assist in detecting the detection target from the image data; and a detector that detects the detection target or a state of the detection target based on at least the image data and the auxiliary information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Manabu YUMINE, Shoji SO, Shigeru FURUMIYA, Michihiro YAMAGATA, Yutaka SONODA, Hiroshi IWAI, Tomokuni IIJIMA, Yoshimitsu NOGUCHI, Makoto YARINO, Yusuke NIHEI
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Patent number: 11012630Abstract: An image processor includes: an image sensor which outputs a short exposure image and a long exposure image; a sensor controller which controls first and second exposure sensitivities; a motion blending ratio calculator which calculates a motion blending ratio based on a motion amount of a subject; a motion-adapted image synthesizer which generates a motion-adapted image based on the motion blending ratio; and an HDR image synthesizer which synthesizes the motion-adapted image and the short exposure image, to generate an HDR image. The sensor controller controls the first exposure sensitivity: so that the first exposure time changes from increasing to constant and the first sensor gain changes from constant to increasing, when the brightness of the subject decreases from a first subject brightness; and so that the first exposure time changes to increasing and the first sensor gain changes to constant, when the brightness decreases from a second subject brightness.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshimitsu Noguchi, Tomokuni Iijima, Katsuyuki Morita, Shigeru Furumiya
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Patent number: 10198622Abstract: An electronic mirror device 100 according to an aspect of the present disclosure displays a user's facial mirror image, and can shift, according to the user's facial orientation or line of sight, the location where the facial image is displayed to a location where he or she can view his or her own facial image easily. The electronic mirror device 100 according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an image capturing section 102 which captures the user's facial image, an image data generating section 120 which outputs image data representing the user's facial mirror image based on image data representing the user's facial image that has been captured, a display section 103 which displays the image data representing the user's facial mirror image, and a display location shifting section 130 which shifts a location where the mirror image is displayed on the display section.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naomi Anzue, Norihiro Imamura, Michihiro Yamagata, Yoshimitsu Noguchi
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Patent number: 9992409Abstract: Provided is a digital mirror apparatus including: a camera that captures an image of a user; a display having a display surface located at a position that allows the user to visually identify the display; a controller; a memory; and a control panel operable by the user, wherein the controller: horizontally flips a live image of the user that is being captured by the camera to generate a mirror image; reads a reference image to be compared with the mirror image; superimposes the reference image on the mirror image to display on the display a display image in a region of the display in which the reference image and the mirror image overlap one another; and stores one frame of the live image in the memory, based on an operation performed on the control panel by the user while the display image is displayed on the display.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Naomi Anzue, Michihiro Yamagata, Norihiro Imamura, Yoshimitsu Noguchi
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Patent number: 9253414Abstract: An imaging-observation apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an image capturing section that shoots a subject under multiple different shooting optical conditions at the same time and sequentially generates a plurality of images under those multiple different shooting optical conditions; a display control section that accepts an operator's input; an image synthesizing section that synthesizes together the plurality of images in accordance with the input to the display control section at a synthesis ratio specified by the input and sequentially generates synthetic images one after another; and a display section that presents the synthetic images.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michihiro Yamagata, Norihiro Imamura, Tsuguhiro Korenaga, Takashi Okada, Yoshimitsu Noguchi
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Publication number: 20150373264Abstract: Provided is a digital mirror apparatus including: a camera that captures an image of a user; a display having a display surface located at a position that allows the user to visually identify the display; a controller; a memory; and a control panel operable by the user, wherein the controller: horizontally flips a live image of the user that is being captured by the camera to generate a mirror image; reads a reference image to be compared with the mirror image; superimposes the reference image on the mirror image to display on the display a display image in a region of the display in which the reference image and the mirror image overlap one another; and stores one frame of the live image in the memory, based on an operation performed on the control panel by the user while the display image is displayed on the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Naomi ANZUE, Michihiro YAMAGATA, Norihiro IMAMURA, Yoshimitsu NOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20150154439Abstract: An electronic mirror device 100 according to an aspect of the present disclosure displays a user's facial mirror image, and can shift, according to the user's facial orientation or line of sight, the location where the facial image is displayed to a location where he or she can view his or her own facial image easily. The electronic mirror device 100 according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an image capturing section 102 which captures the user's facial image, an image data generating section 120 which outputs image data representing the user's facial mirror image based on image data representing the user's facial image that has been captured, a display section 103 which displays the image data representing the user's facial mirror image, and a display location shifting section 130 which shifts a location where the mirror image is displayed on the display section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Naomi Anzue, Norihiro Imamura, Michihiro Yamagata, Yoshimitsu Noguchi
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Publication number: 20150029321Abstract: A measuring system includes: a projecting section Q which is configured to project an image in a predetermined pattern as light within multiple regions of an object; an image capturing section A which is configured to capture the object including those multiple regions; and an arithmetic section G which is configured to calculate and output the degree of light propagated through those multiple regions of the object based on the object's image information that has been gotten by the image capturing section A.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2014Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventors: Norihiro IMAMURA, Michihiro YAMAGATA, Yoshimitsu NOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20140028825Abstract: An imaging-observation apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an image capturing section that shoots a subject under multiple different shooting optical conditions at the same time and sequentially generates a plurality of images under those multiple different shooting optical conditions; a display control section that accepts an operator's input; an image synthesizing section that synthesizes together the plurality of images in accordance with the input to the display control section at a synthesis ratio specified by the input and sequentially generates synthetic images one after another; and a display section that presents the synthetic images.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Michihiro YAMAGATA, Norihiro IMAMURA, Tsuguhiro KORENAGA, Takashi OKADA, Yoshimitsu NOGUCHI
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Patent number: 7259780Abstract: A compact, energy efficient image sensor which enables transfer of images to an external system is made compact in size and low in power consumption comprises an image sensor control circuit 20 which operates to drive a CCD image sensor 4 and stores horizontal lines of image data in a line memory 30. An HREF signal is raised in association with the storing operation. The external system monitors the HREF and supplies an external clock EXCLK to an image sensor 2 during an H level period according to its convenience. A memory control circuit 34 sequentially outputs image data from the line memory 30 to a data bus 10 in pixel units and in synchronization with the EXCLK.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2002Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshimitsu Noguchi
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Publication number: 20030063207Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device for generating an image signal. The solid-state imaging device includes light receiving pixels for accumulating information charges. Vertical shift registers transfer the information charges accumulated in the light receiving pixels when receiving a cyclic vertical drive signal. A horizontal shift register outputs the information charges received from the vertical shift registers when receiving a horizontal drive signal. Unnecessary charges stored in the horizontal shift register are drained during at least part of a period in which the output of the image signal is interrupted and the output interruption period is relatively long to prevent the image quality from deteriorating.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Inventors: Yoshimitsu Noguchi, Hiroyuki Yamase
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Publication number: 20020196351Abstract: A compact, energy efficient image sensor which enables transfer of images to an external system is made compact in size and low in power consumption comprises an image sensor control circuit 20 which operates to drive a CCD image sensor 4 and stores horizontal lines of image data in a line memory 30. An HREF signal is raised in association with the storing operation. The external system monitors the HREF and supplies an external clock EXCLK to an image sensor 2 during an H level period according to its convenience. A memory control circuit 34 sequentially outputs image data from the line memory 30 to a data bus 10 in pixel units and in synchronization with the EXCLK.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2002Publication date: December 26, 2002Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshimitsu Noguchi
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Patent number: 5402173Abstract: An image pickup section includes the number of pixels in the vertical direction which is decreased one-half less than the number of scan lines. A signal containing image components is outputted every one horizontal line. The horizontal line containing the image components in an odd field is offset from that in an even field by one line. In both the odd and even fields, leach of these image signals are multiplexed on a signal delayed by one horizontal scan period to form an image signal which contains the same image components for each two horizontal lines. This image signal is then displayed in the non-interlace manner.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1994Date of Patent: March 28, 1995Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimitsu Noguchi, Tomomichi Nakai, Yoshihito Higashitsutsumi