Patents by Inventor Yuichiro Nakaya

Yuichiro Nakaya 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: 20020044608
    Abstract: A method of simplifying the arithmetic operation in a global motion compensation process approximates the motion vector field of the whole image without using many parameters. Motion vectors in the global motion compensation are found by the interpolation and/or extrapolation of the motion vectors of a plurality of representative points 602, 603 and 604 having particular features in the spatial distance thereof. Since the shift operation can be substituted for the division for synthesizing a predicted image of global motion compensation, the processing using a computer or a dedicated hardware is simplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20010053186
    Abstract: A computer-readable medium having stored thereon an image decoding program which, when executed by a computer, performs the steps of storing a reference image which is a previously decoded image, receiving information including motion vector information and rounding method information specifying a rounding method used in synthesizing a prediction image, and synthesizing a prediction image by performing motion compensation using the motion vector information and the reference image. The step of synthesizing a prediction image includes the step of performing either a positive rounding method or a negative rounding method for interpolating intensity values of pixels in performing the motion compensation according to the rounding method information, but enables performance of both the positive rounding method and the negative rounding method for interpolating intensity values of pixels in performing the motion compensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventor: Yuichiro Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20010050957
    Abstract: A method of decoding images includes the steps of extracting motion vector information and quantized DCT coefficients from input information to be decoded, synthesizing a prediction image by performing motion compensation using the motion vector information and a reference image which is a previously decoded image, and synthesizing a decoded image by adding the prediction image to an error image obtained by applying dequantization and inverse DCT conversion to the quantized DCT coefficients. The motion compensation is performable using a positive rounding method and a negative rounding method for interpolating intensity values of pixels in performing the motion compensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakaya, Yoshito Nejime
  • Publication number: 20010031090
    Abstract: An image decoder includes a memory which stores a reference image which is a previously decoded image, and a synthesizer which receives motion vector information and rounding method information specifying a rounding method using in synthesizing a prediction image, and synthesizes a prediction image by performing motion compensation using the motion vector information and the reference image. The synthesizer performs either a positive rounding method or a negative rounding method for interpolating intensity values of pixels in performing the motion compensation according to the rounding method information, but enables performance of both the positive rounding method and the negative rounding method for interpolating intensity values of pixels in performing the motion compensation. The rounding method information specifies either the positive rounding method or the negative rounding method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakaya, Yoshito Nejime
  • Publication number: 20010028745
    Abstract: An image decoder includes a demultiplexer which extracts motion vector information and quantized DCT coefficients from input information to be decoded, a dequantizer which dequantizes the quantized DCT coefficients to obtain DCT coefficients, an inverse DCT converter which performs inverse DCT conversion on the DCT coefficients to obtain an error image, a prediction image synthesizer which synthesizes a prediction image by performing motion compensation using the motion vector information and a reference image which is a previously decoded image, and an adder which adds the prediction image to the error image to obtain a decoded image. The motion compensation is performable using a positive rounding method and a negative rounding method for interpolating intensity values of pixels in performing the motion compensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventor: Yuichiro Nakaya
  • Publication number: 20010028682
    Abstract: A computer-readable medium having stored thereon an image decoding program which, when executed by a computer, performs the steps of extracting motion vector information and quantized DCT coefficients from input information to be decoded, synthesizing a prediction image by performing motion compensation using the motion vector information and a reference image which is a previously decoded image, synthesizing a decoded image by adding the prediction image to an error image obtained by applying dequantization and inverse DCT conversion to the quantized DCT coefficients. The motion compensation is performable using a positive rounding method and a negative rounding method for interpolating intensity values of pixels in performing the motion compensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakaya, Yoshito Nejime
  • Publication number: 20010024473
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for coding an image includes calculation of motion vectors of vertices of a patch in an image being encoded and providing an output of horizontal and vertical components of the motion vectors of the vertices and information specifying that values of the horizontal and vertical components of a motion vector for each pixel in the patch are integral multiples of 1/d of a distance between adjacent pixels, where d is an integer not less than 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakaya, Junichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 6295376
    Abstract: In order to prevent accumulation of rounding errors caused by the integer-based bilinear interpolation used in the motion compensation process of image coding and decoding methods, two types of P frames are used for unidirectional motion compensation prediction: P+ frames, which round the results of bilinear interpolation with real number operations to the nearest integer and round half integer values (0.5 added to an integer) away from zero; and P− frames, which differ from P+ frames in that the above mentioned half integer values are rounded towards zero. Utilizing both of these P+ and P− frames enables canceling of rounding errors and prevents the accumulation of rounding errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Nakaya
  • Patent number: 6285713
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for coding an image including calculation of motion vectors of vertices of a patch in an image being encoded and providing an output of horizontal and vertical components of the motion vectors of the vertices and information specifying that values of the horizontal and vertical components of a motion vector for each pixel in the patch are integral multiples of 1/d of a distance between adjacent pixels, where d is an integer not less than 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, LTD
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakaya, Junichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 6205178
    Abstract: Two arbitrary kinds of block images selected from the LMC block image, GMC block image and G-LMC block image, which are respectively synthesized by the local motion compensation, global motion compensation and global-local motion compensation, are averaged to produce an average block image, any one block image is selected from those LMC block image, GMC block image, G-LMC block image and average block image, and a prediction error signal is produced from the difference between this selected block image and the image within a block of the original image. Therefore, the coding characteristics can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Suzuki, Yuichiro Nakaya
  • Patent number: 6178202
    Abstract: A method of simplifying the arithmetic operation in a global motion compensation process approximates the motion vector field of the whole image without using many parameters. Motion vectors in the global motion compensation are found by the interpolation and/or extrapolation of the motion vectors of a plurality of representative points 602, 603 and 604 having particular features in the spatial distance thereof. Since the shift operation can be substituted for the division for synthesizing a predicted image of global motion compensation, the processing using a computer or a dedicated hardware is simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Nakaya
  • Patent number: 6134271
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for coding, decoding. The method and apparatus includes calculation of motion vectors of vertices of a patch in an image being encoded and outputting information of motion vectors of vertices and information that specifies the values of horizontal and vertical components of motion vector for each pixel in the patch which are an integer multiple of 1/d of the distance between adjacent pixels, wherein d is an integer not less than 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakaya, Junichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 6028631
    Abstract: The electric power consumption by a terminal used for communication of multimedia information is controlled by changing the quality of transmitted information. The terminal is provided with input means (101, 102, 106 and 107) through which such information as images and sounds is inputted, channel control sections (123 and 124) which output the input information to channels and receive information from the channels, output means (103, 104, 108, 109 and 105) which output the information received from the channels in the form of images, sounds, etc., a codec means (110) which is provided between the input and output means and the control sections, encodes the input information in one of multiple encoding modes in which electric power is differently consumed, and decodes the information inputted from the channels, and a control section (133) which controls the selection of the encoding mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakaya, Yukio Fujii, Minoru Nagata, Masanori Maruyama
  • Patent number: 6008852
    Abstract: A method of simplifying the arithmetic operation in a global motion compensation process approximates the motion vector field of the whole image without using many parameters. Motion vectors in the global motion compensation are found by the interpolation and/or extrapolation of the motion vectors of a plurality of representative points 602, 603 and 604 having particular features in the spatial distance thereof. Since the shift operation can be substituted for the division for synthesizing a predicted image of global motion compensation, the processing using a computer or a dedicated hardware is simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Nakaya
  • Patent number: 5963259
    Abstract: In a video coding/decoding system, a high-resolution reference image having pixels in closer relation is produced by applying the interpolating operation of a luminance value to a reference image. In the matching process for motion estimation, when the luminance value of a point lacking a pixel in the reference image becomes required, the luminance value of a pixel at a point nearest to the high-resolution reference image is approximated without computing the interpolation. As a result, the number of times the interpolation of the luminance value is computed can be reduced, thereby reducing the circuit scale or the processing time. Also, the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector of each pixel used for synthesizing a predicted image are defined to assume only a value equal to an integer multiple of 1/d1 and 1/d2 (d1 and d2 being position integers) of the distance between adjacent pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakaya, Junichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 5949484
    Abstract: The electric power consumption by a terminal used for communication of multimedia information is controlled by changing the quality of transmitted information. The terminal is provided with input (101, 102, 106 and 107) through which such information as images and sounds is inputted, channel control sections (123 and 124) which output the input information to channels and receive information from the channels, output (103, 104, 108, 109 and 105) which output the information received from the channels in the form of images, sounds, etc., a codec (110) which is provided between the input and output and the control sections, encodes the input information in one of multiple encoding modes in which electric power is differently consumed, and decodes the information inputted from the channels, and a control section (133) which controls the selection of the encoding mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakaya, Yukio Fujii, Minoru Nagata, Masanori Maruyama
  • Patent number: 5820811
    Abstract: A novel optical molding process for forming a three-dimensional article from a photosensitive resin which is liquid at normal temperatures which involves forming a plurality of laminated cured resin layers by a repetition of the step of forming a cured resin layer by selectively irradiating the surface of a photosensitive resin, wherein the photosensitive resin has been coagulated by cooling and the coagulated resin is irradiated to cure it. The process can produce a three-dimensional article having an overhanging part without producing warping in the finished product and without requiring a support for the overhanging part while this part is being optically molded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tamotsu Murakami, Naomasa Nakajima, Yuichiro Nakaya, Taro Takagi
  • Patent number: 5771009
    Abstract: Software is transmitted for decoding a bit stream of coded data prior to transmitting the bit stream of coded data in order to shorten the time taken to start reproduction of the received bit stream of coded data on the reproducing side. The transmitted decoder software is compiled while a bit stream of data coded by a coding method known to the reproducing side is received on the reproducing side and reproduced thereby. Upon completion of compilation of the decoder software reproduction of the bit stream of data coded by the known coding method is switched to the reproduction of the bit stream of data coded by a coding method corresponding to the decoder software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Nakaya
  • Patent number: 5684538
    Abstract: In a video coding/decoding system, a high-resolution reference image having pixels in closer relation is produced by applying the interpolating operation of a luminance value to a reference image. In the matching process for motion estimation, when the luminance value of a point lacking a pixel in the reference image becomes required, the luminance value of a pixel at a point nearest to the high-resolution reference image is approximated without computing the interpolation. As a result, the number of times the interpolation of the luminance value is computed can be reduced, thereby reducing the circuit scale or the processing time. Also, the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector of each pixel used for synthesizing a predicted image are defined to assume only a value equal to an integer multiple of 1/d1 and 1/d2 (d1 and d2 being positive integers) of the distance between adjacent pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakaya, Junichi Kimura