Patents by Inventor Jun Hosoda
Jun Hosoda 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: 11050891Abstract: A data processing system includes a unit which executes predetermined data processing by linking first and second apparatuses, a communication control unit which establishes and maintains a communication connection between the apparatuses even if the connection is not in a predetermined operation state capable of executing data processing, a pairing unit which causes the apparatuses to transition to a pairing state, and a control unit which, if the apparatuses' transition to the pairing state is not in a predetermined operation state, causes transition to the operation state by transmitting predetermined signals between the apparatuses via the communication control unit. The execution unit causes the apparatuses to transition to a pairing state, and then executes data processing by linking them. The communication control unit judges whether to establish a communication connection between the apparatuses by referencing pairing states between them, and of a combination with another first or second apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Otani, Jun Hosoda, Kazuya Nara, Yuji Kuriyama, Yoshinori Tomidokoro, Toshiya Kiso, Takuya Yamada
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Publication number: 20190289195Abstract: A data processing system includes a unit which executes predetermined data processing by linking first and second apparatuses, a communication control unit which establishes and maintains a communication connection between the apparatuses even if the connection is not in a predetermined operation state capable of executing data processing, a pairing unit which causes the apparatuses to transition to a pairing state, and a control unit which, if the apparatuses' transition to the pairing state is not in a predetermined operation state, causes transition to the operation state by transmitting predetermined signals between the apparatuses via the communication control unit. The execution unit causes the apparatuses to transition to a pairing state, and then executes data processing by linking them. The communication control unit judges whether to establish a communication connection between the apparatuses by referencing pairing states between them, and of a combination with another first or second apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke OTANI, Jun HOSODA, Kazuya NARA, Yuji KURIYAMA, Yoshinori TOMIDOKORO, Toshiya KISO, Takuya YAMADA
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Patent number: 10367988Abstract: A data processing system (S) is configured so as mutually register transmission destinations between devices performing communication.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Otani, Jun Hosoda, Kazuya Nara, Yuji Kuriyama, Yoshinori Tomidokoro, Toshiya Kiso, Takuya Yamada
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Patent number: 10063772Abstract: An image processing apparatus sends an image to an external apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes a communication control unit, and a processing unit. The communication control unit, when an image is photographed by an image capture unit, controls the first communication unit to automatically send the photographed image to an external apparatus, and the communication control unit, controls the first communication unit to manually send the photographed image which is stored and is selected by a user to an external apparatus. The processing unit, when sending an image to an external apparatus, processes an image sent based on whether sending the image is the automatic sending or the manual sending.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya Nara, Jun Hosoda, Yuji Kuriyama, Yoshinori Tomidokoro, Toshiya Kiso, Takuya Yamada, Daisuke Otani
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Patent number: 9854162Abstract: A photographing apparatus includes a first processing unit, a second processing unit, and a third processing unit. The first processing unit to the external apparatus, executes a function other than sending of the photographing apparatus. The second processing unit to the external apparatus, executes a function relating to sending of the photographing apparatus. The third processing unit controls to allow exclusive execution of a function other than the sending by the first processing unit and execution of a function relating to the sending by the second processing unit in order to prevent the flaw from being caused by performing execution of a function other than the sending by the first processing unit and execution of a function relating to the sending by the second processing unit in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuya Yamada, Jun Hosoda, Kazuya Nara, Yuji Kuriyama, Yoshinori Tomidokoro, Toshiya Kiso, Daisuke Otani
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Publication number: 20160277674Abstract: A photographing apparatus includes a first processing unit, a second processing unit, and a third processing unit. The first processing unit to the external apparatus, executes a function other than sending of the photographing apparatus. The second processing unit to the external apparatus, executes a function relating to sending of the photographing apparatus. The third processing unit controls to allow exclusive execution of a function other than the sending by the first processing unit and execution of a function relating to the sending by the second processing unit in order to prevent the flaw from being caused by performing execution of a function other than the sending by the first processing unit and execution of a function relating to the sending by the second processing unit in parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuya YAMADA, Jun HOSODA, Kazuya NARA, Yuji KURIYAMA, Yoshinori TOMIDOKORO, Toshiya KISO, Daisuke OTANI
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Publication number: 20160277676Abstract: An image processing apparatus sends an image to an external apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes a communication control unit, and a processing unit. The communication control unit, when an image is photographed by an image capture unit, controls the first communication unit to automatically send the photographed image to an external apparatus, and the communication control unit, controls the first communication unit to manually send the photographed image which is stored and is selected by a user to an external apparatus. The processing unit, when sending an image to an external apparatus, processes an image sent based on whether sending the image is the automatic sending or the manual sending.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuya NARA, Jun HOSODA, Yuji KURIYAMA, Yoshinori TOMIDOKORO, Toshiya KISO, Takuya YAMADA, Daisuke OTANI
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Publication number: 20160227596Abstract: A data processing system (S) is configured so as mutually register transmission destinations between devices performing communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke OTANI, Jun HOSODA, Kazuya NARA, Yuji KURIYAMA, Yoshinori TOMIDOKORO, Toshiya KISO, Takuya YAMADA
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Publication number: 20160227097Abstract: A communication system (S) exchanges data between a plurality of devices to execute a predetermined function. In addition, the communication system (S) connects one device and one other device by a plurality of difference communication methods, and in a case of data transfer being interrupted during data transfer by a first communication method, controls so as to establish the first communication method by way of a second communication method, and then causes data transfer by the first communication method to restart.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hitoshi TANAKA, Kazuaki HAGIWARA, Yuji KURIYAMA, Yoshinori TOMIDOKORO, Jun HOSODA, Kazuya NARA, Toshiya KISO, Takuya YAMADA, Daisuke OTANI
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Patent number: 9014538Abstract: A moving image processing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit (2) that acquires data of a moving image by capturing a plurality of continuous image frames, an audio data attaching unit (14) that attaches more than one kind of audio data to the data of the moving image acquired by the image capturing unit, and a playback information attaching unit (14) that attaches playback information to the data of the moving image to which the audio data is attached by the audio data attaching unit. The playback information indicates a playback mode corresponding to each of the more than one kind of audio data. The playback mode includes a first mode of playing back the data of the moving image by skipping some of the frames and a second mode of playing back the moving image without skipping.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Otani, Jun Hosoda
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Patent number: 8787675Abstract: A method includes specifying an image area which is contained in the subject-present image taken and in which nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value, determining whether or not a range of the specified image area in the subject-present image in which the nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value is greater than or equal to a predetermined range, generating an extraction background image used to extract a subject area in the subject-present image containing the subject, from the image area when the range of the image area in which the nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value is determined to be greater than or equal to the predetermined range, and extracting the subject area from the subject-present image based on information on a difference between each pixel in the extraction background image and a corresponding pixel in the subject-present image.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuji Makino, Jun Hosoda
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Patent number: 8345119Abstract: A method includes specifying an image area which is contained in the subject-present image taken and in which nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value, determining whether or not a range of the specified image area in the subject-present image in which the nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value is greater than or equal to a predetermined range, generating an extraction background image used to extract a subject area in the subject-present image containing the subject, from the image area when the range of the image area in which the nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value is determined to be greater than or equal to the predetermined range, and extracting the subject area from the subject-present image based on information on a difference between each pixel in the extraction background image and a corresponding pixel in the subject-present image.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuji Makino, Jun Hosoda
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Patent number: 8294787Abstract: Disclosed is a digital camera 2 including: a communication control unit 24 that receives album information A transmitted from a display control device and formed of a plurality of JPEG image files and a play list indicating a linkage among the files; a recording medium 25 that records the album information; an image display unit 222 that displays images of the plurality of recorded JPEG image files; and a CPU 261 that performs processing for displaying, on the image display unit, images of JPEG image files associated with one another by image linkage information of the play list among the plurality of JPEG image files based on an input of an image switching instruction from the operation input unit 231.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2007Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jun Hosoda
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Publication number: 20120057843Abstract: A moving image processing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit (2) that acquires data of a moving image by capturing a plurality of continuous image frames, an audio data attaching unit (14) that attaches more than one kind of audio data to the data of the moving image acquired by the image capturing unit, and a playback information attaching unit (14) that attaches playback information to the data of the moving image to which the audio data is attached by the audio data attaching unit. The playback information indicates a playback mode corresponding to each of the more than one kind of audio data. The playback mode includes a first mode of playing back the data of the moving image by skipping some of the frames and a second mode of playing back the moving image without skipping.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke OTANI, Jun Hosoda
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Patent number: 8098292Abstract: According to an electronic camera capable of capturing a still image during capturing of a moving image, by storing the zoom lens position information at that time when capturing of the moving image is temporarily stopped for capturing of the still image and using the field angle information or the like recorded after capturing of the still image is terminated, the zoom lens can be automatically returned to the original zoom position so as to prevent the generation of an uncomfortable feeling between the moving image before capturing of the still image and the moving image of which capturing is restarted just after termination of the still image capturing.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2009Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jun Hosoda
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Patent number: 8004582Abstract: An image file processing apparatus comprises a first storage unit configured to store an image, a first data creating unit configured to create main image data or sub-image data, a second storage unit configured to store the main image data and the sub-image data as one file, a management region setting unit configured to ensure management information of the sub-image data stored in the same file as the main image data in the second storage unit by a predetermined number and set the management information in a management region of the main image data, and a storage control unit configured to control so as to store the file based upon content set by the management region setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kayo Koutaki, Takuya Yamada, Jun Hosoda
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Publication number: 20110157424Abstract: A method includes specifying an image area which is contained in the subject-present image taken and in which nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value, determining whether or not a range of the specified image area in the subject-present image in which the nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value is greater than or equal to a predetermined range, generating an extraction background image used to extract a subject area in the subject-present image containing the subject, from the image area when the range of the image area in which the nonflatness is less than or equal to a predetermined value is determined to be greater than or equal to the predetermined range, and extracting the subject area from the subject-present image based on information on a difference between each pixel in the extraction background image and a corresponding pixel in the subject-present image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuji Makino, Jun Hosoda
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Patent number: 7929020Abstract: A camera device comprises a movable optical system, a driving unit which drives the optical system, and a control unit which makes the driving unit start driving of the optical system to a predetermined state by an initialization of the optical system by using an interrupt processing which is executed by setting an interrupt processing routine before the operating system is started, when the camera device is started up in a state in which an operation mode for photographing is set.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Maeno, Tetsuya Hayashi, Kenji Yoshizawa, Koki Nakamura, Jun Hosoda, Hidetoshi Sumi
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Patent number: 7893968Abstract: Each of the frames forming moving images is decoded in sequence and while a candidate frame is decoded, a decision is made as to whether or not the motion vector variable-length decoded for each macroblock is greater than a threshold, so that if the motion vector is greater than the threshold, the decoded image of the corresponding block is decided as a partial image forming a subject portion that had motion in the candidate frame and then combined with a base image stored in a still memory in a combining unit, whereby, by repeating this process, a composite still image which allows the motion of the subject to be grasped visually is created in the still memory.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2010Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jun Hosoda
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Publication number: 20100201830Abstract: Each of the frames forming moving images is decoded in sequence and while a candidate frame is decoded, a decision is made as to whether or not the motion vector variable-length decoded for each macroblock is greater than a threshold, so that if the motion vector is greater than the threshold, the decoded image of the corresponding block is decided as a partial image forming a subject portion that had motion in the candidate frame and then combined with a base image stored in a still memory in a combining unit, whereby, by repeating this process, a composite still image which allows the motion of the subject to be grasped visually is created in the still memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2010Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Jun HOSODA