Patents by Inventor Akira Tani
Akira Tani 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: 20240112450Abstract: An information processing device of the present invention is capable of collaboration with a learning device to determine whether an image group that has been obtained in time series by the first endoscope is an image group obtained at a first time or at a second time, and to create a first inference model for image feature determination of images for the first endoscope by performing learning with results of having performed annotation on the image group that was obtained at the second time as training data, the information processing device comprising at least one or a plurality of classifying processors that classify image groups constituting training data candidates, within an image group from the first endoscope that has been newly acquired, or an image group from a second endoscope, using the image group that has been obtained at the first time, when the first inference model was created.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi SHINTANI, Akira TANI, Osamu NONAKA, Manabu ICHIKAWA, Tomoko GOCHO
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Publication number: 20240035319Abstract: An inside handle may include: a handle body disposed in an opening and operated by a user; and a handle base that supports the handle body such that the handle body is capable of swinging around a rotation shaft parallel to the opening between an ordinary position and an operation position. The handle body may include: a design surface disposed along the opening when the handle body is at the ordinary position; an operation surface that extends from a distal end of the design surface relative to the rotation shaft to the interior of the opening, the operation surface forming a concave portion in which a finger of the user that operates the handle body is disposed; a pair of protection walls that is positioned on both sides of the concave portion formed by the operation surface and that extends from the design surface to the interior of the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuki TAKENAKA, Akira TANI
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Publication number: 20230394800Abstract: An inference learning device, comprising an input device for inputting data from a data acquisition device, a learning device for obtaining an inference model by learning using training data that has been obtained by performing annotation of the data, and a data processing device that, for data that has been obtained continuously in time series from the data acquisition device, makes provisional training data by performing the annotation on a plurality of items of data that have been obtained from data that was obtained at a given first time to a second time that has been traced back to a predetermined time, and makes data, among the provisional training data that has a high correlation of causal relationship with the data of the first time, into adopted training data, which is training data used in the learning device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi SHINTANI, Akira TANI, Manabu ICHIKAWA, Kensei ITO, Tomoko GOCHO, Osamu NONAKA
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Publication number: 20220035874Abstract: A user guide method, comprising determining a reference area according to user behavior and target events the user is interested in, acquiring a reference target event heat map representing distribution of the target events within the reference area for a specified time point, and estimating conditions of a target event at a time when time has passed from the specified time, by referencing the reference target event heat map, and a database that shows chronological change of previous heat maps for the same or similar areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Koichi SHINTANI, Akira TANI, Manabu ICHIKAWA, Kensei ITO, Osamu NONAKA, Natsuko SATO
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Patent number: 10798283Abstract: An information apparatus for communicating with a portable information terminal includes a processor including hardware. The processor determines state information regarding a state of the information apparatus when the power state is switched, by the power switch, from the on state to the office state. The processor also determines whether the manually set parameter has been changed before and after the power state is switched from the on state to the off state, based on the use history information of a manually set parameter in the information apparatus. Finally, the information apparatus transmits, to the portable information terminal, the state information indicating that the set parameter in the information apparatus has been changed when the processor determines that the set parameter has been changed while keeping the processor energized after the power state is switched from the on state to the off state.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Koichi Shintani, Akira Tani, Kensei Ito, Yoshiyuki Fukuya, Kazuhiko Osa, Osamu Nonaka
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Publication number: 20190158725Abstract: An information apparatus for communicating with a portable information terminal includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to determine a use situation based on an operating rate per unit time of the information apparatus and transmit the use situation to the portable information terminal at a specific timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Koichi SHINTANI, Akira TANI, Kensei ITO, Yoshiyuki FUKUYA, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA
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Publication number: 20190052798Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, an imaging apparatus includes an imaging section, a user's operation detecting circuit, a control circuit, and an image processing circuit. The imaging section is configured to capture images of an object at different imaging positions and output image signals based on the images. The user's operation detecting circuit is configured to detect a user's operation. The control circuit is configured to change an image display range in accordance with the user's operation, and cause the imaging section to capture the images at the different imaging positions in accordance with the changed image display range. The image processing circuit is configured to generate image data using the image signals acquired at the imaging positions. The image data corresponds to an area of the image display range changed by the user's operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Ko YOKOKAWA, Tetsuya SHIROTA, Osamu ONO, Yoshiyuki FUKUYA, Akira TANI, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA
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Publication number: 20180332253Abstract: An information recording apparatus includes functions of a recording mode configured to acquire and record infonnation and a reproduction mode configured to make recorded information reproducible and is capable of acquiring operation information from an external device through communication and performing a coordinated operation based on the operation information, the information recording apparatus including a communication section configured to perform communication with the external device and a mode control section configured to select the reproduction mode as a mode executed when the information recording apparatus is started in the coordinated operation through the communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Manabu FUNADA, Akira YUKITAKE, Yoshiyuki FUKUYA, Akira TANI
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Patent number: 9787906Abstract: An image pickup device includes a display unit that includes a plurality of display areas, a display control unit that controls the display unit so that an image displayed in one of the plurality of display areas is changed from a live view image to an image obtained by an image pickup unit in accordance with a shooting instruction when a first reception unit has received the shooting instruction and so that an image displayed in a display area specified by a display position changing instruction is changed to a live view image when a second reception unit has received the display position changing instruction, and an image process unit that synthesizes image data of a plurality of images being displayed in the plurality of display areas and generates image data of a combined image in which the plurality of images are laid out as displayed in the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2015Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Shimamura, Kensei Ito, Maki Toida, Akira Tani, Manabu Ichikawa
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Patent number: 9684988Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that images a subject so as to obtain first image data, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the first image data so as to obtain second image data, a first storage unit in which image data including one or both of the first image data and the second image data is stored, an image analysis unit that analyzes a feature of the image data stored in the first storage unit, a scenario generation unit that generates scenario data on the basis of an analysis result of the image analysis unit, a scenario changing unit that performs setting so as to change the scenario data, and an image collage processing unit that combines the plural pieces of image data stored in the first storage unit on the basis of the scenario data so as to generate the image collage data.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Shimamura, Kensei Ito, Maki Toida, Akira Tani, Manabu Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20150348302Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that images a subject so as to obtain first image data, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the first image data so as to obtain second image data, a first storage unit in which image data including one or both of the first image data and the second image data is stored, an image analysis unit that analyzes a feature of the image data stored in the first storage unit, a scenario generation unit that generates scenario data on the basis of an analysis result of the image analysis unit, a scenario changing unit that performs setting so as to change the scenario data, and an image collage processing unit that combines the plural pieces of image data stored in the first storage unit on the basis of the scenario data so as to generate the image collage data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo SHIMAMURA, Kensei ITO, Maki TOIDA, Akira TANI, Manabu ICHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20150326790Abstract: An image pickup device includes a display unit that includes a plurality of display areas, a display control unit that controls the display unit so that an image displayed in one of the plurality of display areas is changed from a live view image to an image obtained by an image pickup unit in accordance with a shooting instruction when a first reception unit has received the shooting instruction and so that an image displayed in a display area specified by a display position changing instruction is changed to a live view image when a second reception unit has received the display position changing instruction, and an image process unit that synthesizes image data of a plurality of images being displayed in the plurality of display areas and generates image data of a combined image in which the plurality of images are laid out as displayed in the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo SHIMAMURA, Kensei ITO, Maki TOIDA, Akira TANI, Manabu ICHIKAWA
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Patent number: 9143683Abstract: A camera according to the present invention comprises: an imaging section converting an object image into image data; a storage section storing still image data of a still image obtained by the imaging section, thumbnail image data of the still image, and moving image data of a moving image which has been photographed at timing at least either before or after photographing of the still image; a display section performing display of one or more thumbnail views according to the thumbnail image data; and a display control section, when one of the thumbnail views is designated in the thumbnail view display, performing display of the still image on the display section according to the still image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail view after having performed display of the moving image according to the moving image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail view stored in the storage section.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Osamu Nonaka, Akira Tani, Satoshi Hara
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Patent number: 9088730Abstract: A shooting device includes: a display unit which is provided with a plurality of display areas; an image pickup unit which acquires an image by capturing a subject; a display control unit which controls the display unit so that an image displayed in a display area in a plurality of display areas is changed from a live view image to an image acquired by the image pickup unit at the shoot instruction when a shoot instruction is received, and an image displayed on the display area specified by the cancel instruction is changed to a specified image when the cancel instruction that specifies the display area is received; and a combined image processing unit which combines image data of the plurality of images displayed on the plurality of display areas, and generates image data of a combined image which is laid out as being displayed on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2013Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.Inventors: Kensei Ito, Maki Toida, Shogo Shimamura, Akira Tani, Manabu Ichikawa
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Patent number: 8970717Abstract: A photographing apparatus according to the present invention comprises: an imaging section converting an object image into image data; a photographing section obtaining the image data from the imaging section in response to release operation and also obtaining the image data of continuous shooting from the imaging section before or after the release operation; a trimming section generating trimming images sequentially for frames in different areas, respectively, using the image data of the continuous shooting; and a control section recording the trimming image generated in the trimming section and the image data obtained in the release operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventors: Yuiko Uemura, Masashi Takahashi, Satoshi Hara, Akira Tani
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Patent number: 8749688Abstract: A portable device includes an imaging unit that captures an image of an object and generates image data of the object, a display unit that displays an image of the image data, an input unit that receives input of an operation instruction on an operation performed by the portable device, a moving-state determining unit that determines a moving state of the portable device when the potable device captures an image, and a control unit that changes a content of the operation instruction received by the input unit, depending on a determination result of the moving-state determining unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventors: Satoshi Hara, Akira Tani, Osamu Nonaka
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Patent number: 8698920Abstract: An image display apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a face detection section detecting a face image within a photographed image; a classification section classifying the photographed image by a pattern of the face image and a color or a pattern under the face image; and a display control section displaying an image of the same face with the different color or pattern according to the classification by the classification section, and displays images of the same person among the plurality of images classified by the classification section at the same time or sequentially in the display of the display control section.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2010Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventors: Yuiko Uemura, Akira Tani, Naohisa Nakada
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Publication number: 20140009643Abstract: A shooting device includes: a display unit which is provided with a plurality of display areas; an image pickup unit which acquires an image by capturing a subject; a display control unit which controls the display unit so that an image displayed in a display area in a plurality of display areas is changed from a live view image to an image acquired by the image pickup unit at the shoot instruction when a shoot instruction is received, and an image displayed on the display area specified by the cancel instruction is changed to a specified image when the cancel instruction that specifies the display area is received; and a combined image processing unit which combines image data of the plurality of images displayed on the plurality of display areas, and generates image data of a combined image which is laid out as being displayed on the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Kensei ITO, Maki TOIDA, Shogo SHIMAMURA, Akira TANI, Manabu ICHIKAWA
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Patent number: 8582918Abstract: An imaging device of the present invention comprises an imaging section for forming a subject image and outputting image data, a face detection section for detecting a person's face based on the image data, a decoration image selection section for selecting a decoration image from a plurality of decoration image data, in accordance with a face detected by the face detection section, and a first combining section for combining the selected decoration image and the face image. Also, an image composition and display device of the present invention comprises a storage section for storing image data, a decoration image selection section for selecting a decoration image from a plurality of decoration image data, in accordance with a face detected from image data, and a first combining section for combining the selected decoration image and the face image.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventors: Naohisa Nakada, Akira Tani, Yuiko Uemura, Masashi Takahashi, Osamu Nonaka
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Publication number: 20130258128Abstract: A camera according to the present invention comprises: an imaging section converting an object image into image data; a storage section storing still image data of a still image obtained by the imaging section, thumbnail image data of the still image, and moving image data of a moving image which has been photographed at timing at least either before or after photographing of the still image; a display section performing display of one or more thumbnail views according to the thumbnail image data; and a display control section, when one of the thumbnail views is designated in the thumbnail view display, performing display of the still image on the display section according to the still image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail view after having performed display of the moving image according to the moving image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail view stored in the storage section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: Osamu Nonaka, Akira Tani, Satoshi Hara