Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Funakura
Hiroyuki Funakura 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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Patent number: 8856149Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Ayumu Isomura, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
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Patent number: 8631322Abstract: There is provided an apparatus and a method for generating an album while adequately allocating images per page in accordance to image capturing-times. The album creating apparatus has an image storing section for storing images correlating with image capturing-times of the images, a distribution-of-image-capturing-time calculating section for calculating a distribution of image capturing-times of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section based on the image capturing-times of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section, an image sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per page in the album based on the distribution of image capturing-times calculated by the distribution-of-image-capturing-time calculating section and a layout determining section for laying out the images sorted by the image sorting section per page to each page of the album.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2006Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Ayumu Isomura, Shuji Ono, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Masahiro Matsushita, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
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Patent number: 8423559Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Ayumu Isomura, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
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Patent number: 8280156Abstract: A color scheme suitable for a captured position is performed on a portion except a captured image based on position information of the captured image. The album creating apparatus according to the present invention includes a captured position specifying section that specifies a captured position at which a captured image constituting an album is taken, an image storing section that stores a captured images in association with a captured position, an image classifying section that classifies a plurality of captured images stored on the image storing section into captured image groups based on the captured position, a color selecting section that selects a color to be used in a portion except the captured image in the album based on the captured position specified by the captured position specifying section, a color adding section that uses the color selected by the color selecting section to add color to the portion except the captured image in the album, and an image arranging section.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Funakura, Shuji Ono
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Patent number: 8260827Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Ayumu Isomura, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
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Publication number: 20120189214Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro MATSUSHITA, Kenji KOJIMA, Yasuhiko KANEKO, Kimiko TACHIKAWA, Ayumu ISOMURA, Shinsuke ZETSU, Yasuyo NENOKI, Hiroyuki FUNAKURA, Hideaki YOSHIHARA
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Patent number: 8098896Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album in which a desirable combination of images is disposed in one and same page.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2007Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Ayumu Isomura, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Masahiro Matsushita, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
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Publication number: 20120008873Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: Masahiro MATSUSHITA, Kenji Kojima, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Ayumu Isomura, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
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Patent number: 8086612Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2006Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Ayumu Isomura, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
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Patent number: 8055080Abstract: An album generating apparatus that stores a plurality of images, sorts the plurality of images stored per event based on image capturing environments, selects a main image that is to be a primary image in the album out of the plurality of images stored per event sorted, selects subsidiary images that are to be images subsidiary to the main image selected in the album out of the plurality of images stored per event sorted based on the contents of the main image and determines a layout of the main image selected and the subsidiary images selected based on the contents of the main image selected and the subsidiary images selected.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2007Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: FujiFilm CorporationInventors: Ayumu Isomura, Shuji Ono, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Masahiro Matsushita, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
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Patent number: 8040551Abstract: There is provided an image album creating system for creating an image album by receiving high image-quality images used for creating the image album after creating an image album sample by using low image-quality images, having a low image-quality image receiving section for receiving the low image-quality images of original images whose image quality has been lowered by an orderer of the image album from an image album orderer's apparatus, an image information receiving section for receiving image information concerning the original image that can be specified from the original image or in capturing the original image and cannot be specified from the low image-quality image by correlating with each one of the low image-quality images received by the low image-quality image receiving section, an image selecting section for selecting the low image-quality image to be allocated to the image album out of the low image-quality images received by the low image-quality image receiving section by analyzing the lowType: GrantFiled: September 13, 2006Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shuji Ono, Hiroyuki Funakura, Tetsuya Sawano
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Patent number: 7882141Abstract: A digital pictorial book system includes an image capturing module for capturing an image; a main object selecting module for selecting a main object out of the image; an inclination measuring module for measuring inclination of the image capturing module in a vertical direction; and a name searching module for searching for a name of the main object in an image database, which stores a name of an object corresponded to a feature of the object, on the basis of the main object selected by the main object selecting module and the inclination measured by the inclination measuring module.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2005Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventors: Shuji Ono, Hiroyuki Funakura
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Publication number: 20100232696Abstract: A color scheme suitable for a captured position is performed on a portion except a captured image based on position information of the captured image. The album creating apparatus according to the present invention includes a captured position specifying section that specifies a captured position at which a captured image constituting an album is taken, an image storing section that stores a captured images in association with a captured position, an image classifying section that classifies a plurality of captured images stored on the image storing section into captured image groups based on the captured position, a color selecting section that selects a color to be used in a portion except the captured image in the album based on the captured position specified by the captured position specifying section, a color adding section that uses the color selected by the color selecting section to add color to the portion except the captured image in the album, and an image arranging section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki FUNAKURA, Shuji Ono
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Patent number: 7773782Abstract: An image output apparatus for automatically laying out a number of captured images in a composition without uncomfortable feeling and outputting the same is provided. The image output apparatus includes: an object orientation identification section for identifying the orientation of an object in an image; an image layout section for laying out the image within an output region based on the object orientation identified by the object orientation identification section; and an image output section for outputting the image laid out within the output region by the image layout section.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2006Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Funakura
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Patent number: 7751614Abstract: A color scheme suitable for a captured position is performed on a portion except a captured image based on position information of the captured image. The album creating apparatus according to the present invention includes a captured position specifying section that specifies a captured position at which a captured image constituting an album is taken, an image storing section that stores a captured images in association with a captured position, an image classifying section that classifies a plurality of captured images stored on the image storing section into captured image groups based on the captured position, a color selecting section that selects a color to be used in a portion except the captured image in the album based on the captured position specified by the captured position specifying section, a color adding section that uses the color selected by the color selecting section to add color to the portion except the captured image in the album, and an image arranging section.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2006Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Funakura, Shuji Ono
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Patent number: 7643060Abstract: The image capturing system includes: a fixed image capturing unit fixedly installed at a predetermined position; a three-dimensional image information storage section for storing a three-dimensional image of the region including the fixed image capturing unit; an image comparison section for comparing a portable captured image captured by a portable image capturing section held by a user with the three-dimensional image stored by the three-dimensional image information storage unit; a position determination section for determining the position and the orientation of the user holding the portable image capturing section based on the comparison result by the image comparison section; and a guiding information presentation section for presenting information for guiding the user to set the user in the frame of a fixed captured image captured by the fixed image capturing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2005Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Funakura
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Patent number: 7512335Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an image capturing apparatus which can easily acquire a sound proper for a captured image. An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing position detecting unit for detecting the position where an image capturing unit captures an image, a recording unit for recording a sound around the image capturing unit, a voice judging unit for judging whether or not the sound recorded by the recording unit includes a human voice, a sound acquiring unit for acquiring the sound recorded by the recording unit in case the voice judging unit judges that a human voice is included and acquiring a sound which a sound database stores correspondingly to the position detected by the image capturing position detecting unit in case the voice judging unit judges that no human voice is included, and an image and sound storing unit for storing the image captured by the image capturing unit and the sound acquired by the sound acquiring unit in a corresponding manner.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2006Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Funakura
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Patent number: 7451084Abstract: A voice discriminating tag for making a reception voice and a transmission voice distinguishable is added to the voice inputted into a cell phone. Further, a volume discriminating tag is added based on a detection result of a volume detector. A CPU converts the voice into character data and image data on the basis of the voice discriminating tag and the volume discriminating tag, referring to various files stored in file devices. The converted data is outputted to a display panel on which the character data corresponding to the transmission voice and the character data corresponding to the reception voice are shown in time series so as to have different colors. The character data is shown in a literal type corresponding to a volume level.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2004Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Funakura
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Patent number: 7440013Abstract: An image pickup device is constituted by a handset of cellular phone, wherein an image pickup unit photographs a user as first object, to output image data of a first image frame. A facial region detecting circuit retrieves a facial image portion of the user as first object according to image data of the first image frame. An image synthesizing circuit is supplied with image data of a second image frame including persons as second object. The facial image portion is synthesized in a background region being defined outside the persons as second object within the second image frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2004Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Funakura
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Publication number: 20080089590Abstract: There is provided an album whose contents of images is well balanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2007Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ayumu Isomura, Shuji Ono, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Masahiro Matsushita, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara