Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Takagi

Yoshinori Takagi 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: 8682078
    Abstract: There is provided a moving image processing apparatus, including a similarity determination unit configured to determine a degree of similarity between a subsequent cut and first and second cut groups based on feature amounts generated from extraction images of the first cut group included in a moving image and feature amounts generated from extraction images of the second cut group included in the moving image, a cut grouping unit configured to group the subsequent cut into a similar cut group similar to the subsequent cut, which is one of the first and second cut groups, when the subsequent cut is similar to the first or second cut group, and group the subsequent cut into a third cut group when the subsequent cut is not similar to either of the first and second cut groups, a feature amount generation unit configured to compare extraction images extracted from the third cut group with the extraction images extracted from the first and second cut groups when the subsequent cut is not similar to either of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi
  • Patent number: 8682143
    Abstract: Provided is a moving image processing apparatus including a cut transition detection unit configured to detect inter-cut transition from a moving image including a plurality of cuts; a cut pair specifying unit configured to specify cut pairs repeated as a series of different cuts based on a feature amount of each cut; and a cut structure image generation unit configured to generate a cut structure image including a representative image of each cut arranged in an order of the cut transition and indicating a boundary between the cut pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi
  • Patent number: 8629918
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including a representative image extraction unit for extracting a predetermined number of representative images from a series of images belonging to each scene, a representative image classification unit for, when two or more representative images are extracted from each scene, classifying the representative images into a main image and a sub-image, a degraded display image generation unit for generating a degraded display image by operating the sub-image in order to degrade and display the sub-image, and a representative image display unit for displaying the representative images of a plurality of scenes side by side in a scene transition sequence, and displaying the main image and the degraded display image when two or more representative images are extracted from each scene and the representative image when one representative image is extracted from each scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi
  • Publication number: 20140009669
    Abstract: There is provide a control device including an imaging element in which, as a plurality of light sensing elements that perform photoelectric conversion to convert incident light entering via a light collecting unit into electric signals, first light sensing elements that sense the incident light in a first light sensing amount and second light sensing elements that sense the incident light in a second light sensing amount that is smaller than the first light sensing amount are provided, an exposure information generation unit that generates exposure information for controlling exposure during imaging of a subject based on electric signals obtained from photoelectric conversion performed by the second light sensing elements, and an exposure control unit that controls exposure based on the exposure information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Hisashi Akiyama, Yoshinori Takagi
  • Publication number: 20140009287
    Abstract: There is provided an information processor apparatus including an obtainment unit obtaining food product information related to a determination target food product that is a subject of contraindication determination, a comparison unit identifying, based at least on a drug, a contraindication database including information indicating a contraindication ingredient that is contraindicated with the drug, and the food product information, whether or not the determination target food product contains the contraindication ingredient of the drug that a user takes, and an alert notifying unit issuing an alert notification of a contraindicated combination of the drug and the contraindication ingredient in response to an identification result of the comparison unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Gakuho Fukushi, Yuya Horiuchi, Yoshinori Takagi, Shinsuke Araya
  • Patent number: 8600114
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a representative image creation block configured to create, as a representative image, a union image with images of screens making up a predetermined scene linked with each other; and a symbol drawing block configured, on the basis of a full-screen movement of each screen in the predetermined scene, to draw a symbol indicative of the full-screen movement on a rim of the representative image created by the representative image creation block, wherein the symbol drawing block draws the symbol indicative of the full-screen movement in accordance with a display size of the representative image to be displayed on an output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi
  • Patent number: 8588475
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: a representative image creating section which creates a representative image on the basis of images of respective screens which form a predetermined scene; and a symbol drawing section which draws, on the basis of a movement of a target portion of each screen in the predetermined scene, a symbol indicating the movement of the target portion in a peripheral section of the representative image created by the representative image creating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi
  • Publication number: 20130259400
    Abstract: There is provided a movement control apparatus including a feature value calculation part calculating, on a basis of a movement direction of a region of interest defined based on input for moving the region and a target in which the region is provided, a feature value of the target in which the region is provided in the movement direction of the region on a per-unit distance basis regarding movement of the region, a movement value calculation part calculating a movement value by which the region is moved, based on the input, and a movement controller moving the region in the movement direction based on the calculated feature value and the calculated movement value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Takagi, Kentaro Fukazawa
  • Patent number: 8531481
    Abstract: There is provided an image display apparatus including an acquisition unit for acquiring image data of an original image and cut frame information for designating a range of a cut image cut from the original image, a calculation unit for calculating a length of a perpendicular line from a corner portion of the cut image to an outer frame serving as a reference facing the corner portion of the cut image among outer frames of the original image, based on the cut frame information, a creation unit for creating an implication line corresponding to the length of the perpendicular line as image data, and a display unit for displaying the implication line extending from the corner portion of the cut image to a side opposite to the outer frame serving as the reference of the original image, together with the cut image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi
  • Patent number: 8472788
    Abstract: There is provided a moving image processing apparatus, including a cut transition detection unit configured to detect inter-cut transition from a moving image including a plurality of cuts, a cut grouping unit configured to group the plurality of cuts into cut groups based on a degree of similarity among the cuts, an inter-cut distance calculation unit configured to calculate inter-cut distances based on inter-cut temporal distances in the moving image, an inter-cut group distance calculation unit configured to calculate inter-cut group distances by summing up the inter-cut distances, which are calculated with respect to the plurality of cuts, in each cut group, and a cut structure image generation unit configured to generate a cut structure image including representative images of the cuts belonging to the cut groups and information indicating the inter-cut group distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi
  • Publication number: 20130156406
    Abstract: Transitions between cuts are detected from a moving picture containing a plurality of cuts, the plurality of cuts are categorized into a plurality of cut groups having mutually different feature amounts, and a plurality of cut pairs including two or more sequential cuts belonging to the mutually different cut groups and being repeated in the moving picture are identified, a predetermined number of the cut pairs, which are less than the plurality of cut pairs in number, are generated from the plurality of cut pairs by combining at least a portion of the plurality of cuts in a manner that two or more cuts constituting each cut pair belong to mutually different cut groups and a context of cut transitions in the moving picture is maintained, and a cut composition image including the generated cut pairs is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi
  • Publication number: 20130067177
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: grouping temporarily consecutive data into a plurality of groups based on a reference defined in advance and storing the grouped data; reading, in response to an access request from an external apparatus, target data to be a target of the request from a first group including the target data and outputting the read target data to the external apparatus; and reading, in response to the reading of the target data, at least part of data from a second group different from the first group as read-ahead target data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kyosuke Yoshida, Yoshihiro Tamura, Ichiro Ogata, Yoshinori Takagi, Hirofumi Hibi, Daisuke Izaki
  • Publication number: 20130063467
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including a cursor position acquisition section which acquires a position of a cursor on a display screen where an image is displayed, and a representative color acquisition section for performing a color reduction process which acquires a region including the position of the cursor acquired by the cursor position acquisition section as a color reduction processing region, and acquires a prescribed number of colors as representative colors, from colors included in the color reduction processing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Fukazawa, Yoshinori Takagi
  • Publication number: 20130067148
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an assignment unit and a determination unit. The assignment unit evaluates physical properties of each of a plurality of semiconductor memories constituting one storage device as a whole and assigns a usage attribute corresponding to an evaluation result to at least a part of the plurality of semiconductor memories. The determination unit determines a semiconductor memory having an optimal usage attribute as a write destination of data with respect to a write command of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Takagi, Ichiro Ogata, Hirofumi Hibi, Yoshihiro Tamura, Daisuke Izaki, Kyosuke Yoshida
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8252557
    Abstract: Disclosed is a culture medium for culturing an animal cell, which is characterized by containing a peptide comprising, as a constituent unit, an amino acid residue selected from the amino acid group consisting of serine, tyrosine and cysteine. The culture medium is suitable for the high level production of a protein by an animal cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Katayama, Shouhei Kishishita, Kunihiko Kodaira, Makoto Sadamitsu, Yoshinori Takagi, Hiroki Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20120201506
    Abstract: A moving image display processing apparatus, method and system is disclosed for displaying a moving image having frames and including additional information related to the moving image. The additional information is a plurality of representative frames from the moving image, each representative frame being a still image representing a group of sequential frames, and an implicative image associated with at least one frame in the group of sequential frames other than the representative frame. The representative frames are displayed in a predetermined sequence such that implicative images are displayed between the representative frames. The moving image and the additional information can be received from different information providers and the additional information may be available for use for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventor: Yoshinori TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20120148107
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a representative image creating section which creates a representative image on the basis of images of respective screens which form a predetermined scene; and a symbol drawing section which draws, on the basis of a movement of a target portion of each screen in the predetermined scene, a symbol indicating the movement of the target portion in a peripheral section of the representative image created by the representative image creating section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventor: Yoshinori TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20120057846
    Abstract: A moving picture processing apparatus including a representative picture selection unit for selecting a predetermined number of representative pictures that are representative of a plurality of pictures from a plurality of pictures of a moving picture, and a configuration image generation unit for generating a configuration image in which the predetermined number of representative pictures are reduced at a fixed ratio and arranged in order of appearance of the representative pictures of the moving picture. The representative pictures are selected as the predetermined number of pictures adjusted to maximize a display occupancy rate of the configuration image in a predetermined range of display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi
  • Publication number: 20120039538
    Abstract: There is provided a moving image processing apparatus, including a similarity determination unit configured to determine a degree of similarity between a subsequent cut and first and second cut groups based on feature amounts generated from extraction images of the first cut group included in a moving image and feature amounts generated from extraction images of the second cut group included in the moving image, a cut grouping unit configured to group the subsequent cut into a similar cut group similar to the subsequent cut, which is one of the first and second cut groups, when the subsequent cut is similar to the first or second cut group, and group the subsequent cut into a third cut group when the subsequent cut is not similar to either of the first and second cut groups, a feature amount generation unit configured to compare extraction images extracted from the third cut group with the extraction images extracted from the first and second cut groups when the subsequent cut is not similar to either of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventor: Yoshinori Takagi