Patents by Inventor Daniel Keith Sasaki

Daniel Keith Sasaki 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: 11966098
    Abstract: A modular lens system for use with a camera system and connected therewith. The lens system including modular sections configured to include one or more lenses and/or an aperture. The one or more lenses are controlled by one or more motors to enhance focus, softness, and/or size and other optical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Panavision International, L.P.
    Inventors: David William Macintosh, Daniel Keith Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240126052
    Abstract: A digital camera comprising a digital image sensor and at least one corrective lens element configured to reduce a blurring of an image in a horizontal or vertical dimension on the digital image sensor. The digital image sensor may be larger than a 28 millimeter diagonal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Haluki Sadahiro
  • Patent number: 11960099
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for producing non-rotationally symmetric optical aberrations. Such aberrations may be created by a removable attachment that may be attached to another lens, such as a spherical lens. Aberrations that appear to reproduce an anamorphic effect may be produced, yet the underlying camera system may remain a spherical camera system, and the capture mode may remain non-anamorphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Panavision International, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Brian Grant Mills, Rick Takeshi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11852791
    Abstract: A digital camera comprising a digital image sensor and at least one corrective lens element configured to reduce a blurring of an image in a horizontal or vertical dimension on the digital image sensor. The digital image sensor may be larger than a 28 millimeter diagonal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Panavision International, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Haluki Sadahiro
  • Patent number: 11822061
    Abstract: A digital camera comprising a digital image sensor and at least one corrective lens element configured to reduce a blurring of an image in a horizontal or vertical dimension on the digital image sensor. Preferably the digital image sensor is a large digital imager such as a Digital 65 imager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Panavision International, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, David William Macintosh, Haluki Sadahiro
  • Publication number: 20220299783
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for producing non-rotationally symmetric optical aberrations. Such aberrations may be created by a removable attachment that may be attached to another lens, such as a spherical lens. Aberrations that appear to reproduce an anamorphic effect may be produced, yet the underlying camera system may remain a spherical camera system, and the capture mode may remain non-anamorphic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Brian Grant Mills, Rick Takeshi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20220166906
    Abstract: Electronic camera filters comprise an electronic display configured for use with a camera system to provide different levels of image filtering, as a neutral density filter, for passage to a camera. The electronic display is programmable so that it may be calibrated to provide different desired filter levels associated with different settings of a camera lens iris, focus, zoom, or light meter measurement. The electronic display may be calibrated manually or by calibration information stored or otherwise downloaded into electronic display memory. The ability to program and calibrate the filter level setting enables the electronic display to be operated in synchrony with the camera lens iris, focus, zoom, or light meter it is calibrated with to provide a desired combined or synergistic optical characteristic. The electronic display may be controlled to provide synchronized operation by the same controller used to control the camera lens iris, focus, and/or or zoom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Edwin Iovanni Galindo, Charles P. Hagmaier, JR., Daniel Keith Sasaki, Guy Hamilton McVicker
  • Patent number: 11237400
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for producing non-rotationally symmetric optical aberrations. Such aberrations may be created by a removable attachment that may be attached to another lens, such as a spherical lens. Aberrations that appear to reproduce an anamorphic effect may be produced, yet the underlying camera system may remain a spherical camera system, and the capture mode may remain non-anamorphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Panavision International, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Brian Grant Mills, Rick Takeshi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20220026689
    Abstract: A digital camera comprising a digital image sensor and at least one corrective lens element configured to reduce a blurring of an image in a horizontal or vertical dimension on the digital image sensor. The digital image sensor may be larger than a 28 millimeter diagonal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Haluki Sadahiro
  • Patent number: 11086109
    Abstract: A digital camera comprising a digital image sensor and at least one corrective lens element configured to reduce a blurring of an image in a horizontal or vertical dimension on the digital image sensor. The digital image sensor may be larger than a 28 millimeter diagonal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Panavision International, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Haluki Sadahiro
  • Publication number: 20200348494
    Abstract: A digital camera comprising a digital image sensor and at least one corrective lens element configured to reduce a blurring of an image in a horizontal or vertical dimension on the digital image sensor. Preferably the digital image sensor is a large digital imager such as a Digital 65 imager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Panavision International, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, David William Macintosh, Haluki Sadahiro
  • Publication number: 20200326516
    Abstract: A digital camera comprising a digital image sensor and at least one corrective lens element configured to reduce a blurring of an image in a horizontal or vertical dimension on the digital image sensor. The digital image sensor may be larger than a 28 millimeter diagonal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Haluki Sadahiro
  • Publication number: 20200292782
    Abstract: A modular lens system for use with a camera system and connected therewith. The lens system including modular sections configured to include one or more lenses and/or an aperture. The one or more lenses are controlled by one or more motors to enhance focus, softness, and/or size and other optical characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: David William Macintosh, Daniel Keith Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20200096777
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for producing non-rotationally symmetric optical aberrations. Such aberrations may be created by a removable attachment that may be attached to another lens, such as a spherical lens. Aberrations that appear to reproduce an anamorphic effect may be produced, yet the underlying camera system may remain a spherical camera system, and the capture mode may remain non-anamorphic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Brian Grant Mills, Rick Takeshi Ishioka
  • Patent number: 10551598
    Abstract: A digital camera comprising a digital image sensor and at least one corrective lens element configured to reduce a blurring of an image in a horizontal or vertical dimension on the digital image sensor. Preferably the digital image sensor is a large digital imager such as a Digital 65 imager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Panavision International, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, David William Macintosh, Haluki Sadahiro
  • Patent number: 10539764
    Abstract: A digital camera comprising a digital image sensor and at least one corrective lens element configured to reduce a blurring of an image in a horizontal or vertical dimension on the digital image sensor. The digital image sensor may be larger than a 28 millimeter diagonal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Panavision International, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Haluki Sadahiro
  • Patent number: 10502927
    Abstract: A modular lens system for use with a camera system and connected therewith. The lens system including modular sections configured to include one or more lenses and/or an aperture. The one or more lenses are controlled by one or more motors to enhance focus, softness, and/or size and other optical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Panavision International, L.P.
    Inventors: David William Macintosh, Daniel Keith Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10401634
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for producing non-rotationally symmetric optical aberrations. Such aberrations may be created by a removable attachment that may be attached to another lens, such as a spherical lens. Aberrations that appear to reproduce an anamorphic effect may be produced, yet the underlying camera system may remain a spherical camera system, and the capture mode may remain non-anamorphic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Panavision International, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Brian Grant Mills, Rick Takeshi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20190250415
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for producing non-rotationally symmetric optical aberrations. Such aberrations may be created by a removable attachment that may be attached to another lens, such as a spherical lens. Aberrations that appear to reproduce an anamorphic effect may be produced, yet the underlying camera system may remain a spherical camera system, and the capture mode may remain non-anamorphic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Keith Sasaki, Brian Grant Mills, Rick Takeshi Ishioka
  • Publication number: 20190094488
    Abstract: A modular lens system for use with a camera system and connected therewith. The lens system including modular sections configured to include one or more lenses and/or an aperture. The one or more lenses are controlled by one or more motors to enhance focus, softness, and/or size and other optical characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: David William Macintosh, Daniel Keith Sasaki