Patents by Inventor Kiichiro Sakamoto

Kiichiro Sakamoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20020063731
    Abstract: The method and system offer a commemorative image on viewing of moving images. The method and system allow a customer who is viewing moving images to designate an image of a desired scene out of the moving images and also allowing the customer to place an order for the image of the thus designated scene as accompanied by orderer information which specifies the customer, pick up first digital image data from video signals for the moving images in response to the designation of the desired scene, the first digital image data corresponding to the image of the designated scene, create the commemorative image, using the picked-up first digital image data, that is commemorative on the viewing of the moving images and reproduces the image of the designated scene and deliver the created commemorative image to the customer after checking it against the orderer information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiichiro Sakamoto, Hiroyasu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5218392
    Abstract: The position of a principal image within a frame is designated manually or in association with the operation of the automatic focussing mechanism. The position information of the principal image is recorded on a photographic film when a subject is photographed. In obtaining a photoprint, the position information is read from the frame to be printed, and the principal image within the frame is identified. A characteristic value used for calculating an exposure amount is derived from the identified principal image, so as to execute an exposure control emphasizing the principal image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiichiro Sakamoto, Takaaki Terashita, Keisuke Shiba, Jin Murayama
  • Patent number: 5106719
    Abstract: A system for providing a personal booklet, such as a passport, with a picture of the face and personal data of the bookholder to thereby provide the booklet holder's identity. The system includes entering a picture of the face of an applicant, the picture being attached to an application form, as a figure image into an image composing device, entering personal data of the applicant entered in the application form as a character image, providing a composite image of the figure and character images, printing the composite image onto a thermal transfer type photosensitive printing paper, transfering the printed composite image onto an image receiving layer coated on a transparent cover sheet bound in the booklet, and sandwiching the image receiving material layer between a supporting sheet bound in the booklet next to the transparent cover sheet and the transparent cover sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Oshikoshi, Yoshimi Suganuma, Hiroshi Hara, Kazuo Shiota, Nobumitsu Takehara, Kiichiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 5089840
    Abstract: A rinsing water supply system for supplying water to a rinsing unit of a developing apparatus in which photosensitive materials are processed and rinsed. The water supply system includes a pipe having a water supply passage through which water is introduced into the rinsing unit from a water source, a solenoid valve for opening and closing the water supply passage, and signal lines arranged along and integrally with the pipe and adapted for transmitting signals for operating the solenoid valve. This arrangement eliminates the necessity for installation of a signal transmission line independently from the water supply passage, for the purpose of transmitting signals for operating the solenoid valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kiichiro Sakamoto, Haruo Takase, Kazushige Uenaka, Junya Nakajima
  • Patent number: 5068742
    Abstract: A system for providing a personal booklet, such as a passport, with a picture of the face and personal data of the bookholder to thereby provide the booklet holder's identity. The system includes entering a picture of the face of an applicant, the picture being attached to an application form, as a figure image into an image composing device, entering personal data of the applicant entered in the application form as an character image, producing a composite image of the figure and character images, printing the composite image onto a thermal transfer type photosensitive printing paper, transfering the printed composite image onto an image receiving layer coated on a transparent cover sheet bound in the booklet, and sandwiching the image receiving material layer between a supporting sheet bound in the booklet next to the transparent cover sheet and the transparent cover sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Oshikoshi, Yoshimi Suganuma, Hiroshi Hara, Kazuo Shiota, Nobumitsu Takehara, Kiichiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 5036353
    Abstract: A photosensitive material magazine for accommodating a photosensitive material, having an information detecting unit for detecting information for setting exposure condition. The information includes at least a type of photosensitive material and set at an end of the accommodated material and in one of reader members disposed continually from the end thereof, and an output unit for detecting the detected information. The photosensitive material accommodated therein can be specified on the part of a photoprinting device, loaded with a magazine, for printing the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiichiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4996558
    Abstract: Disclosed is a collating device for collating the images on a photographic film with those printed on a printing paper from the photographic film while conveying the film and the printing paper. The collating device includes a reading device for reading a frame number for identifying the frame image on the film, and a printing device for printing the frame number which has been read by the reading device on the printing paper on which has been printed the image on the film which corresponds to that frame member. The frame numbers of the film are printed on the printing paper on which have been printed the images on the film. In consequence, the print images on the printing paper are easily made to correspond to the corresponding frame images on the film, and designation of the frames is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kanji Tokuda, Yoshihiko Saeki, Kiichiro Sakamoto, Fumio Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 4959683
    Abstract: A picture display comprising elemental prints having enlarged divisional images with separation arranged in a matrix on a print holder so as to form a single picture, and a printing method and apparatus for making the picture strips as the elemental prints from a single frame of an original film. The printing apparatus has a printing stage movable in two directions perpendicularly intersecting each other so as sequentially to place divisions into which the image frame of the original film is notionally divided in a matrix in printing position for exposing a photographic paper to enlarged divisional images of the divisions in order by column or row, thereby making a picture strip with a row or a column of the enlarged divisional images formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Otake, Kiichiro Sakamoto, Mikio Kogane
  • Patent number: 4935809
    Abstract: A color film analyzing method and apparatus which displays image data of frames of the film as positive images provided by a TV camera, and a plurality of reference images previously provided and stored in a recording member, in a matrix pattern on an image display device. When one of the color images of the picture frames is specified, the image line of the matrix including the specified image is shifted so that the specified image is adjacent to the reference image line on the image display device and a cursor image is displayed overlapping a portion of the specified image. The cursor image is provided as a reversed image of the part of the specified image where the specified image is overlapped by the cursor image. If the reversed image has a color identical or similar to the portion of the specified image surrounding the cursor image, the cursor image is colored differently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Hayashi, Kiichiro Sakamoto, Yoshiaki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4933773
    Abstract: Video images of each frame of a roll of film are stored in a first memory when printing the frames on a photographic material. Thereafter, the images are read out from the first memory for image processing and written in a designated area of a second memory. Video signals for a number N of frames are written in memory area of the second memory designated for the respective frames to provide composite video signals and then are read out to be printed as a composite image on a photographic material as an index print. When printing each frame of the roll of film, a first mirror is removably inserted into a printing path to project an image of the frame to a TV camera in order to provide three color video signals. Video signals for several frames are electrically composed to provide composite video signals which are printed as a single composed image having reduced images inlaid in a matrix on a photographic paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Shiota, Kiichiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4929974
    Abstract: A developing apparatus provided with a circulation apparatus comprising an apparatus for discharging a processing solution for photosensitive material contained in a developing tank, and an apparatus for supplying the discharged processing solution to inside the developing tank. The supply apparatus is made up of a first processing solution supply apparatus that supplies a part of the discharged processing solution to the developing tank through a first apparatus for adjusting a supply amount of the processing solution, and a second processing solution supply apparatus with a processing solution guiding apparatus that flushes a part of the discharged processing solution onto the surface of the photosensitive material while being conveyed inside the developing tank, through a second valve apparatus for adjusting a supply amount of the processing solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiichiro Sakamoto, Hideo Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 4928996
    Abstract: A booklet, such as a passport, for providing the identity of the holder thereof, with a picture of the face and personal data of the bookholder, includes transparent and supporting sheets bound in the booklet separately from and adjacent to each other. Furthermore, an image receiving layer is formed on one surface of one of the separate transparent and supporting sheets and an optically readable data printing section is provided on either one of the transparent and supporting sheets where optically readable personal data of said booklet holder is printed. Also, an adhesive layer is provided for adhering the transparent and supporting sheets together to sandwich the image receiving layer therebetween after having formed a composite image of the picture and personal data in the image receiving layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Oshikoshi, Yoshimi Suganuma, Hiroshi Hara, Kazuo Shiota, Nobumitsu Takehara, Kiichiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4924302
    Abstract: An apparatus for making a color print has a black-and-white CRT for frame-sequentially displaying black-and-white images of three monochromatic images of an image in the form of a brightness pattern thereon, color filters for sequentially changing the black-and-white images to corresponding monochromatic images, a printing lens for projecting each monochromatic image onto a photographic material, and means for changing image size by color through which each monochromatic image is projected on the photographic material by the printing lens, so as to make the three monochromatic images projected onto the photographic material the same size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Shiota, Kiichiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4914471
    Abstract: An original film is provided with main numbers and sub numbers which are alternately located at intervals equivalent to the length of one half-size frame image, as well as bar codes which represent the main numbers and the sub numbers. Since the frame images on the original film can be specified by reading with a reading means the main numbers and/or the sub numbers located at the sides of the frame images to be printed onto the printing paper, the main numbers and/or the sub numbers are provided on the printing paper so as to identify the frame images on the original film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Saeki, Kanji Tokuda, Kiichiro Sakamoto, Fumio Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 4911478
    Abstract: A personal booklet with a picture and personal data of the bookholder, such as a passport for providing the bookholder's identity, comprises transparent and supporting sheets bound in the booklet separately from and adjacent to each other, and an identification data bearing sheet with an image receiving layer formed on a surface thereon. The image receiving layer includes a composite image of the picture and the personal data, and optically readable personal data of the bookholder described by optically readable characters such as font type numbers and/or alphabets. The transparent sheet and the supporting sheet are adhered with adhesive layers to sandwich the identification data bearing sheet therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Oshikoshi, Yoshimi Sugamuma, Hiroshi Hara, Kazuo Shiota, Nobumitsu Takehara, Kiichiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4912502
    Abstract: A photographic printing tape puncher for recording, on a paper tape, information on exposure correction for each of image frames formed on an original picture film before the film is used to perform printing. A frame number reading means reads bar codes which represent frame numbers and which are recorded on a part of the original picture film. The information thereby read is recorded on the paper tape along with items of information on exposure correction for the corresponding image frames. The items of exposure correction information and the frame numbers relating to the image frames are recorded on the paper tape constantly in correspondence with each other. It is therefore possible to easily obtain desired exposure correction information by searching a corresponding image frame number on the paper tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tokuda Kanji, Matsumoto Fumio, Yoshihiko Saeki, Kiichiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4901099
    Abstract: A rinsing water supply system for supplying water to a rinsing unit of a developing apparatus in which photosensitive materials are processed and rinsed. The water supply system includes a pipe having a water supply passage through which water is introduced into the rinsing unit from a water source, a solenoid valve for opening and closing the water supply passage, and signal lines arranged along and integrally with the pipe and adapted for transmitting signals for operating the solenoid valve. This arrangement eliminates the necessity for installation of a signal transmission line independently from the water supply passage, for the purpose of transmitting signals for operating the solenoid valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiichiro Sakamoto, Haruo Takase, Kazushige Uenaka, Junya Nakajima
  • Patent number: 4897944
    Abstract: A picture display comprising elemental prints having enlarged divisional images with separation arranged in a matrix on a print holder so as to form a single picture, and a printing method and apparatus for making the picture strips as the elemental prints from a single frame of an original film. The printing apparatus has a printing stage movable in two directions perpendicularly intersecting each other so as sequentially to place divisions into which the image frame of the original film is notionally divided in a matrix in printing position for exposing a photograhpic paper to enlarged divisional images of the divisions in order by column or row, thereby making a picture strip with a row or a column of the enlarged divisional images formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Otake, Kiichiro Sakamoto, Mikio Kogane
  • Patent number: 4887116
    Abstract: A light-sensitive material feeding rack for feeding a light-sensitive material along a feeding path within a processing tank by holding the material between paired feed rollers. The rack has guide plates extending along the feeding path for guiding the material to the light-sensitive material entrance side of the paired feed rollers. These guide plates are each rotatable about the ends thereof that are closer to the light-sensitive material entrance side. When the rack is to be cleaned, the guide plates are rotated so as to open the interior of the rack, thereby facilitating the cleaning of the rack. After the completion of cleaning, the guide plates are rotated in the opposite direction to be returned to their original condition. Even after the returning of the guide plates, the positional relationship between the feed rollers and the end portions of the guide plates that are closer to the entrance side can be very precisely maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Uchiyama, Tetuya Ishizuka, Kiichiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4876567
    Abstract: A CRT printing method and apparatus for making a print of an image with letters in order to provide, for example, a picture card with a season's complimentary phrase or message comprising a CRT display device for displaying an image on its screen, a letter bearing member with a complimentary phrase provided thereon which is disposed on or close to the CRT screen, and an exposure system for exposing a photographic paper to the CRT image and the letter bearing member. The letter bearing member is disposed, through a diffusing plate, on desired area of the CRT screen. Part of the CRT image is erased and the corresponding area of the screen is caused to emit light for illuminating the letter bearing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Yamaguchi, Azuchi Endo, Kiichiro Sakamoto