Patents by Inventor Makoto Shohara
Makoto Shohara 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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Publication number: 20240008785Abstract: An information processing device connected to a terminal device of a subject and which visualizes emotion of the subject includes a data managing section that acquires at least data related to voice, a facial expression image, and a pulse wave of the subject; an emotion expression engine section which calculates a brain fatigue level based on a frequency of the voice, which calculates a mood level by extracting an emotion of the subject from the facial expression image, and which calculates a stress level by performing a frequency analysis of the pulse wave by fast Fourier transform and extracting a high-frequency section and a low-frequency section; and a three-axes processing section which displays a graph of points plotted at coordinates corresponding to the brain fatigue level, the mood level, and the stress level in a three-dimensional space defined by an X-axis, a Y-axis, and a Z-axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Michio Yokoyama, Tomochika Harada, Daisuke Yoshida, Makoto Shohara, Kenichi Suzuki, Shigeyuki Seko
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Patent number: 11375263Abstract: An image capturing apparatus is provided that is configured to generate an operation screen relating to an image stored in a storage unit, output the generated operation screen to a display apparatus, acquire attitude information relating to an attitude of the image capturing apparatus, converting the acquired attitude information into position information relating to a position of a position display component on the operation screen and display the position display component on the operation screen based on the converted position information, accept an initialization operation of initializing the position of the position display component, and display the position display component at an initial position of the operation screen in response to accepting the initialization operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Makoto Shohara
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Patent number: 11049215Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a tilt detection unit that detects a tilt in the vertical direction, conversion data used for transforming plane coordinates into spherical coordinates, a correction unit that corrects the conversion data according to the tilt, a plurality of image capturing units, a coordinate transformation unit that transforms plane coordinates of a plurality of pixels included in images captured by the image capturing units into spherical coordinates according to the conversion data corrected by the correction unit, and a combining unit that combines the images including the pixels transformed into spherical coordinates by the coordinate transformation unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Takenaka, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Yoichi Ito, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara, Noriyuki Terao, Toru Harada
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Publication number: 20210076091Abstract: An image capturing apparatus is provided that is configured to generate an operation screen relating to an image stored in a storage unit, output the generated operation screen to a display apparatus, acquire attitude information relating to an attitude of the image capturing apparatus, converting the acquired attitude information into position information relating to a position of a position display component on the operation screen and display the position display component on the operation screen based on the converted position information, accept an initialization operation of initializing the position of the position display component, and display the position display component at an initial position of the operation screen in response to accepting the initialization operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2018Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventor: Makoto SHOHARA
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Patent number: 10855919Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging body having an optical system and an imaging element, a power supplier configured to supply power to the imaging element, and a housing configured to hold the imaging body and the power supplier, wherein the optical system includes at least one optical element projecting from the housing, and a distance AP between a gravity center A of a portion including the optical system and a gravity center P of the entire imaging system and a distance BP between a gravity center B of the power supplier and the gravity center P of the entire imaging system satisfy the following condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
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Patent number: 10816778Abstract: An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Satoh, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Makoto Shohara, Yoichi Ito, Shusaku Takasu
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Patent number: 10788652Abstract: An imaging device includes two imaging optical systems each of the imaging optical systems including a wide-angle lens having an angle of view wider than 180 degrees, and an imaging sensor configured to image an image by the wide-angle lens, so as to obtain an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by synthesizing the images by the respective imaging optical systems, wherein the wide-angle lens of each of the imaging optical systems includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front group having a negative power, a reflection surface and a back group having a positive power, and is configured to bend an optical axis of the front group by the reflection surface at 90 degrees toward the back group.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
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Publication number: 20200288059Abstract: An image processor includes a first converter to convert input images into images in a different coordinate system from that of the input images according to first conversion data based on a projection model, a position detector to detect a connecting position of the images converted by the converter, a corrector to correct the first conversion data on the basis of a result of the detection by the position detector, and a data generator to generate second conversion data for image synthesis from the conversion data corrected by the corrector on the basis of coordinate conversion, the second conversion data defining the conversion of the input images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hirokazu TAKENAKA, Noriyuki TERAO, Yoshiaki IRINO, Tomonori TANAKA, Nozomi IMAE, Toru HARADA, Hideaki YAMAMOTO, Kensuke MASUDA, Yoichi ITO, Satoshi SAWAGUCHI, Daisuke BESSHO, Hiroyuki SATOH, Makoto SHOHARA, Shusaku TAKASU
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Patent number: 10750087Abstract: An image processing system is provided that includes an image capturing apparatus configured to generate a plurality of captured images and at least one information processing apparatus connected to the image capturing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to input at least a first captured image and a second captured image from among the plurality of captured images, acquire first conversion data to be used for converting the first captured image and second conversion data to be used for converting the second captured image, and generate an output image by stitching converted images generated by converting the first captured image based on the first conversion data and the second captured image based on the second conversion data.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masato Takada, Makoto Shohara, Hidekazu Suzuki, Koui Sagawa
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Patent number: 10699393Abstract: An image processing apparatus for processing an image includes an image capturing device configured to perform image capturing operations a plurality of times under different image capturing conditions to generate a plurality of captured images; a storage device configured to store coefficient data for each of the image capturing conditions; and a processor configured to implement processes of converting a captured image of the plurality of captured images to generate a converted image indicating a luminance and a color difference, and generating a composite image by compositing a plurality of the converted images based on the coefficient data for each of the image capturing conditions that indicates a coefficient for the luminance indicated by each of the converted images.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Makoto Shohara
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Patent number: 10666860Abstract: An image processor includes a first converter to convert input images into images in a different coordinate system from that of the input images according to first conversion data based on a projection model, a position detector to detect a connecting position of the images converted by the converter, a corrector to correct the first conversion data on the basis of a result of the detection by the position detector, and a data generator to generate second conversion data for image synthesis from the conversion data corrected by the corrector on the basis of coordinate conversion, the second conversion data defining the conversion of the input images.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu Takenaka, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Yoichi Ito, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara, Shusaku Takasu
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Publication number: 20190306423Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging body having an optical system and an imaging element, a power supplier configured to supply power to the imaging element, and a housing configured to hold the imaging body and the power supplier, wherein the optical system includes at least one optical element projecting from the housing, and a distance AP between a gravity center A of a portion including the optical system and a gravity center P of the entire imaging system and a distance BP between a gravity center B of the power supplier and the gravity center P of the entire imaging system satisfy the following condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
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Patent number: 10382681Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging body having an optical system and an imaging element, a power supplier configured to supply power to the imaging element, and a housing configured to hold the imaging body and the power supplier, wherein the optical system includes at least one optical element projecting from the housing, and a distance AP between a gravity center A of a portion including the optical system and a gravity center P of the entire imaging system and a distance BP between a gravity center B of the power supplier and the gravity center P of the entire imaging system satisfy the following condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
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Publication number: 20190243110Abstract: An imaging device includes two imaging optical systems each of the imaging optical systems including a wide-angle lens having an angle of view wider than 180 degrees, and an imaging sensor configured to image an image by the wide-angle lens, so as to obtain an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by synthesizing the images by the respective imaging optical systems, wherein the wide-angle lens of each of the imaging optical systems includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front group having a negative power, a reflection surface and a back group having a positive power, and is configured to bend an optical axis of the front group by the reflection surface at 90 degrees toward the back group.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kensuke MASUDA, Noriyuki TERAO, Yoshiaki IRINO, Tomonori TANAKA, Nozomi IMAE, Toru HARADA, Hirokazu TAKENAKA, Hideaki YAMAMOTO, Satoshi SAWAGUCHI, Daisuke BESSHO, Hiroyuki SATOH, Makoto SHOHARA
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Patent number: 10295797Abstract: An imaging device includes two imaging optical systems each of the imaging optical systems including a wide-angle lens having an angle of view wider than 180 degrees, and an imaging sensor configured to image an image by the wide-angle lens, so as to obtain an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by synthesizing the images by the respective imaging optical systems, wherein the wide-angle lens of each of the imaging optical systems includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front group having a negative power, a reflection surface and a back group having a positive power, and is configured to bend an optical axis of the front group by the reflection surface at 90 degrees toward the back group.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara
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Publication number: 20190086649Abstract: An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Hiroyuki SATOH, Noriyuki TERAO, Yoshiaki IRINO, Tomonori TANAKA, Nozomi IMAE, Toru HARADA, Hirokazu TAKENAKA, Hideaki YAMAMOTO, Kensuke MASUDA, Satoshi SAWAGUCHI, Daisuke BESSHO, Makoto SHOHARA, Yoichi ITO, Shusaku TAKASU
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Publication number: 20190020818Abstract: An image processing system is provided that includes an image capturing apparatus configured to generate a plurality of captured images and at least one information processing apparatus connected to the image capturing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to input at least a first captured image and a second captured image from among the plurality of captured images, acquire first conversion data to be used for converting the first captured image and second conversion data to be used for converting the second captured image, and generate an output image by stitching converted images generated by converting the first captured image based on the first conversion data and the second captured image based on the second conversion data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: Ricoh Company Ltd.Inventors: Masato Takada, Makoto Shohara, Hidekazu Suzuki, Koui Sagawa
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Patent number: 10151905Abstract: An image capture system including two imaging systems of the same structure each having a wide-angle lens, which includes a front group, a reflection surface, and a rear group arranged in order from an object side, has a field angle larger than 180 degrees, and bends an optical axis of the front group toward the rear group by the reflection surface, and an imaging sensor, obtains an image in a solid angle of 4? radian by combining images imaged by the imaging systems. Each of the two wide-angle lenses includes the reflection surface between the front group and the rear group, the reflection surfaces are made to be common to the two imaging systems. This reduces an interval between lenses nearest to the object side in the front groups of the two wide-angle lenses, thereby reducing a distance between maximum field angles of the two wide-angle lenses.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Satoh, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Kensuke Masuda, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Makoto Shohara, Yoichi Ito, Shusaku Takasu
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Publication number: 20180260945Abstract: An image processing apparatus for processing an image includes an image capturing device configured to perform image capturing operations a plurality of times under different image capturing conditions to generate a plurality of captured images; a storage device configured to store coefficient data for each of the image capturing conditions; and a processor configured to implement processes of converting a captured image of the plurality of captured images to generate a converted image indicating a luminance and a color difference, and generating a composite image by compositing a plurality of the converted images based on the coefficient data for each of the image capturing conditions that indicates a coefficient for the luminance indicated by each of the converted images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Makoto SHOHARA
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Publication number: 20180213152Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging body having an optical system and an imaging element, a power supplier configured to supply power to the imaging element, and a housing configured to hold the imaging body and the power supplier, wherein the optical system includes at least one optical element projecting from the housing, and a distance AP between a gravity center A of a portion including the optical system and a gravity center P of the entire imaging system and a distance BP between a gravity center B of the power supplier and the gravity center P of the entire imaging system satisfy the following condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Kensuke Masuda, Noriyuki Terao, Yoshiaki Irino, Tomonori Tanaka, Nozomi Imae, Toru Harada, Hirokazu Takenaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Satoshi Sawaguchi, Daisuke Bessho, Hiroyuki Satoh, Makoto Shohara