Patents by Inventor Yuichiro Koike

Yuichiro Koike 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: 12088782
    Abstract: A video quality estimation device for estimating quality to be experienced by a user during viewing of a video includes a video quality estimation unit that calculates a video quality estimation value based on a parameter related to video quality of a high image quality region in the video, a parameter related to video quality of a low image quality region in the video, and a parameter related to a time for switching from a low image quality display state to a high image quality display state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Urata, Masanori Koike, Kazuhisa Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 12081786
    Abstract: A VR video encoding parameter calculation device includes a quality estimation unit configured to calculate an overall quality estimation value of a VR video for an individual encoding parameter of a plurality of encoding parameters and a VR video parameter extraction unit configured to extract an encoding parameter corresponding to the overall quality estimation value that satisfies given target quality from the plurality of encoding parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Koike, Yuichiro Urata, Kazuhisa Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 10397579
    Abstract: A position coordinate difference computing unit (5a to 5c) calculates position coordinate differences between position coordinates of the output digital signals and position coordinates of the input digital signals adjacent to the position coordinates. An FIR coefficient memory (13a to 13c) stores FIR coefficients of an FIR-LPF and outputs FIR coefficients corresponding to position coordinate differences between a fixed number of the output digital signals adjacent to the position coordinates of the output digital signals and the output digital signals. A control unit (11) supplies a group of the FIR coefficients and a group of the input digital signals corresponding to the respective position coordinate differences to the parallel FIR calculator (4) in predetermined order when the position coordinate differences corresponding to two or more different output digital signals are concurrently computed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NTT ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichiro Koike, Yasuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 9214921
    Abstract: A position coordinate difference calculation section 5 calculates a position coordinate difference between a position coordinate of an output digital signal and a position coordinate of an input digital signal close to it. AN FIR coefficient memory 9 stores FIR coefficients of an FIR-LPF having such a characteristic as to cut off frequency components equal to or higher than ½ of an output sampling rate. When the position coordinate difference is input, the FIR coefficient memory outputs FIR coefficients corresponding to position coordinate differences between position coordinates of a certain number of input digital signals existing in the vicinity of the position coordinate of the output digital signal and the position coordinate of the output digital signal. AN FIR computation unit 3 performs FIR-LPF interpolation computation by using a certain number of the input digital signals and the FIR coefficients and obtains the output digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: NTT ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamada, Yuichiro Koike
  • Publication number: 20150304660
    Abstract: A position coordinate difference computing unit (5a to 5c) calculates position coordinate differences between position coordinates of the output digital signals and position coordinates of the input digital signals adjacent to the position coordinates. An FIR coefficient memory (13a to 13c) stores FIR coefficients of an FIR-LPF and outputs FIR coefficients corresponding to position coordinate differences between a fixed number of the output digital signals adjacent to the position coordinates of the output digital signals and the output digital signals. A control unit (11) supplies a group of the FIR coefficients and a group of the input digital signals corresponding to the respective position coordinate differences to the parallel FIR calculator (4) in predetermined order when the position coordinate differences corresponding to two or more different output digital signals are concurrently computed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Yuichiro KOIKE, Yasuhiro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20150222248
    Abstract: A position coordinate difference calculation section 5 calculates a position coordinate difference between a position coordinate of an output digital signal and a position coordinate of an input digital signal close to it. AN FIR coefficient memory 9 stores FIR coefficients of an FIR-LPF having such a characteristic as to cut off frequency components equal to or higher than ½ of an output sampling rate. When the position coordinate difference is input, the FIR coefficient memory outputs FIR coefficients corresponding to position coordinate differences between position coordinates of a certain number of input digital signals existing in the vicinity of the position coordinate of the output digital signal and the position coordinate of the output digital signal. AN FIR computation unit 3 performs FIR-LPF interpolation computation by using a certain number of the input digital signals and the FIR coefficients and obtains the output digital signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamada, Yuichiro Koike
  • Publication number: 20150143949
    Abstract: Provided is a semi-fixed type shoe-fixing shaft that includes a shaft rotatably mounted on a crank, a ratchet pawl swingably installed on the shaft, a ratchet engaging tooth fixed to the crank so as to catch the ratchet pawl, a ratchet spring fixed to the shaft so as to swing the ratchet pawl, a ratchet control lever connected to the ratchet spring and slidably installed on the shaft, and a shoe fixing hook fixed to the shaft. The shoe fixing hook and a fastener fixed to a cycling shoe are coupled. Thereby, the cycling shoe and the shaft are fixed, and a force for stretching an ankle is transmitted through the cycling shoe and the shaft as a force for rotating the crank. Muscles around a calf for moving the ankle can be used as a rotational force for the crank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Yuichiro Koike
  • Patent number: 8126060
    Abstract: It is an object to reduce an amount of calculation for motion vector detection and to prevent degradation in image quality. A motion vector detection device (1) includes a first motion vector extraction circuit (142) to extract a predetermined reduced number of first motion vectors from multiple first motion vectors detected by a first motion vector detection circuit (141), and a selection circuit (143) to select the multiple first motion vectors or the extracted first motion vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: NTT Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Koike, Takuro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20090174819
    Abstract: It is an object to reduce an amount of calculation for motion vector detection and to prevent degradation in image quality. A motion vector detection device (1) includes a first motion vector extraction circuit (142) to extract a predetermined reduced number of first motion vectors from multiple first motion vectors detected by a first motion vector detection circuit (141), and a selection circuit (143) to select the multiple first motion vectors or the extracted first motion vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: NTT Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Koike, Takuro Takahashi