Patents by Inventor Kanako Yamakawa
Kanako Yamakawa 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: 11049257Abstract: Provided is a data structure that makes it possible to easily understand a relationship between pre- and post-editing moving image data on a frame-by-frame basis. A data file has an area for moving image data, and an area, different from the area for the moving image data, for associated information related to the moving image data. The associated information includes identification information for identifying a data file for moving image data related to the moving image data, and information specifying a segment of frames of the moving image data.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kanako Yamakawa
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Patent number: 10474734Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an inputting unit for inputting a text to be placed in a template; a storage unit for saving the text whenever a predetermined condition is detected; and a presenting unit for, when the template is switched, selecting the text from the storage unit based on an amount of a text that can be placed in the template after switching, and presenting the selected text as a candidate.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomonobu Hiraishi, Kanako Yamakawa, Satoko Saito, Atsushi Inoue
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Patent number: 10362262Abstract: A data recording apparatus stores, in a data file having a container structure, multiple pieces of image data that have different expression methods, such as moving image data and still image data, along with metadata regarding the pieces of image data, and records the data file. The data recording apparatus stores the pieces of image data having different expression methods in the data file in the same container format. Accordingly, it is possible to generate a data file that stores various formats of data and has versatility.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumiaki Takahashi, Kanako Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20190114782Abstract: Provided is a data structure that makes it possible to easily understand a relationship between pre- and post-editing moving image data on a frame-by-frame basis. A data file has an area for moving image data, and an area, different from the area for the moving image data, for associated information related to the moving image data. The associated information includes identification information for identifying a data file for moving image data related to the moving image data, and information specifying a segment of frames of the moving image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kanako Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20180152662Abstract: A data recording apparatus stores, in a data file having a container structure, multiple pieces of image data that have different expression methods, such as moving image data and still image data, along with metadata regarding the pieces of image data, and records the data file. The data recording apparatus stores the pieces of image data having different expression methods in the data file in the same container format. Accordingly, it is possible to generate a data file that stores various formats of data and has versatility.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2016Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Fumiaki Takahashi, Kanako Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20170337159Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an inputting unit for inputting a text to be placed in a template; a storage unit for saving the text whenever a predetermined condition is detected; and a presenting unit for, when the template is switched, selecting the text from the storage unit based on an amount of a text that can be placed in the template after switching, and presenting the selected text as a candidate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Tomonobu Hiraishi, Kanako Yamakawa, Satoko Saito, Atsushi Inoue
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Publication number: 20160274772Abstract: An information processing apparatus of this invention detects an editing operation for an object, and edits the object using a plurality of adjustment values calculated based on a detected adjustment value in the editing operation, thereby generating a plurality of first editing candidates. When two of the plurality of editing candidates are selected, the object is edited using a plurality of adjustment values calculated by subdividing the range of the adjustment values of the two selected editing candidates, thereby generating a plurality of second editing candidates.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventor: Kanako Yamakawa
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Patent number: 9258471Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of preventing a user who uses another device from knowing the current location of a photographer based on shooting information about an image when an external apparatus distributes the image to the other device. A calculation unit calculates a distance from the shooting location of the image file to the current location of the image pickup apparatus. A distance determination unit determines whether the calculated distance is larger than a predetermined lower limit. A transmission control unit controls to transmit the image file to the external apparatus when the distance determination unit determines that the distance is larger than the lower limit, and not to transmit the image file to the external apparatus when the distance determination unit determines that the distance is not larger than the lower limit.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2011Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Chiaki Mikawa, Kanako Yamakawa, Takuma Mikawa, Yoko Hirotani
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Patent number: 8739069Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including a slider display unit configured to display, on a slider bar, a slider used to change an adjustment value used upon execution of image processing of image data, a thumbnail display unit configured to display a plurality of thumbnail images which respectively indicate results of image processing of the image data using a plurality of different target values, a selection unit configured to select at least one of the plurality of thumbnail images, and a target value display unit configured to display a position indicating the target value corresponding to the thumbnail image on the slider bar to be discriminated from the slider.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2009Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kanako Yamakawa
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Patent number: 8571357Abstract: Image data are each related to identification information on an image-capturing location and an image-capturing apparatus, and a CPU, upon issuance of an image data transfer instruction, determines a non-image-capturing location on the basis of the image-capturing location information for image data captured by a specific image-capturing apparatus and stored in a recording medium. Then, from among image data captured by other image-capturing apparatuses and stored in other recording medium, image data captured in the non-image-capturing location is extracted, so that a user of the specific image-capturing apparatus can easily obtain image data captured by the other apparatuses in a location that the specific image-capturing apparatus did not capture images of.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kanako Yamakawa
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Patent number: 8452102Abstract: The present invention is directed to an image managing apparatus allowing a user to acquire an image shot by other user participated in an event that the user participated in when a user shot images with the user's own camera but there was a period of time in which the user could not shoot due to some reason. The image management apparatus of the present invention is configured to sort a plurality of images shot by the user's camera based on a shooting time, calculate a non-shooting time period, extract an image shot by a camera of other user, which has a shooting time included in the non-shooting time period of the user. Further, the image management apparatus extracts an image having keywords, a shooting position, and object information, which are the same as an image shot by the camera of the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kanako Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20110310259Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of preventing a user who uses another device from knowing the current location of a photographer based on shooting information about an image when an external apparatus distributes the image to the other device. A calculation unit calculates a distance from the shooting location of the image file to the current location of the image pickup apparatus. A distance determination unit determines whether the calculated distance is larger than a predetermined lower limit. A transmission control unit controls to transmit the image file to the external apparatus when the distance determination unit determines that the distance is larger than the lower limit, and not to transmit the image file to the external apparatus when the distance determination unit determines that the distance is not larger than the lower limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chiaki Mikawa, Kanako Yamakawa, Takuma Mikawa, Yoko Hirotani
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Publication number: 20110169982Abstract: An image management apparatus which makes it possible to classify picked-up images according to the occasion of going-out without burdening a user. An information processing apparatus manages a plurality of image files obtained through shooting processing by an image pickup apparatus, and acquires GPS information indicative of a location of the image pickup apparatus and a time when the location was detected. The information processing apparatus sets one record of the GPS information as reference start time information, and retrieves a GPS information record indicative of a location identical to the location indicated by the reference start time information, as reference end information. The information processing apparatus classifies image files of respective shooting times occurring between a time indicated by the reference start time information and a time indicated by the reference end time information, into the same group.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kanako Yamakawa, Takuma Mikawa, Yoko Hirotani
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Publication number: 20110085696Abstract: Image data are each related to identification information on an image-capturing location and an image-capturing apparatus, and a CPU, upon issuance of an image data transfer instruction, determines a non-image-capturing location on the basis of the image-capturing location information for image data captured by a specific image-capturing apparatus and stored in a recording medium. Then, from among image data captured by other image-capturing apparatuses and stored in other recording medium, image data captured in the non-image-capturing location is extracted, so that a user of the specific image-capturing apparatus can easily obtain image data captured by the other apparatuses in a location that the specific image-capturing apparatus did not capture images of.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kanako Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20100232702Abstract: The present invention is directed to an image managing apparatus allowing a user to acquire an image shot by other user participated in an event that the user participated in when a user shot images with the user's own camera but there was a period of time in which the user could not shoot due to some reason. The image management apparatus of the present invention is configured to sort a plurality of images shot by the user's camera based on a shooting time, calculate a non-shooting time period, extract an image shot by a camera of other user, which has a shooting time included in the non-shooting time period of the user. Further, the image management apparatus extracts an image having keywords, a shooting position, and object information, which are the same as an image shot by the camera of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kanako Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20090276731Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including a slider display unit configured to display, on a slider bar, a slider used to change an adjustment value used upon execution of image processing of image data, a thumbnail display unit configured to display a plurality of thumbnail images which respectively indicate results of image processing of the image data using a plurality of different target values, a selection unit configured to select at least one of the plurality of thumbnail images, and a target value display unit configured to display a position indicating the target value corresponding to the thumbnail image on the slider bar to be discriminated from the slider.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kanako Yamakawa