Patents by Inventor Naohisa Nakada

Naohisa Nakada 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).

  • Patent number: 10180724
    Abstract: An operating terminal operates an external device for projecting and retracting a part of the external device, and includes: a display unit that displays an image; a touch panel on the display unit, and configured to detect a touched area of an object and to receive a position signal in response to the touched area; a determining unit that determines a change of the touched area on the touch panel, based on the position signal; a detecting unit that detects a boundary of areas having different features in the touched area in the image; and a signal generating unit that generates a drive signal indicating a drive amount for causing the part of the external device to be projected and retracted, based on a determination result by the determining unit and a detection result by the detecting unit, and outputs the drive signal to the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Mishio, Hiroki Koyama, Yoshihisa Ogata, Naohisa Nakada
  • Publication number: 20150316989
    Abstract: An operating terminal operates an external device for projecting and retracting a part of the external device, and includes: a display unit that displays an image; a touch panel on the display unit, and configured to detect a touched area of an object and to receive a position signal in response to the touched area; a determining unit that determines a change of the touched area on the touch panel, based on the position signal; a detecting unit that detects a boundary of areas having different features in the touched area in the image; and a signal generating unit that generates a drive signal indicating a drive amount for causing the part of the external device to be projected and retracted, based on a determination result by the determining unit and a detection result by the detecting unit, and outputs the drive signal to the external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki MISHIO, Hiroki KOYAMA, Yoshihisa OGATA, Naohisa NAKADA
  • Patent number: 8698920
    Abstract: An image display apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a face detection section detecting a face image within a photographed image; a classification section classifying the photographed image by a pattern of the face image and a color or a pattern under the face image; and a display control section displaying an image of the same face with the different color or pattern according to the classification by the classification section, and displays images of the same person among the plurality of images classified by the classification section at the same time or sequentially in the display of the display control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Yuiko Uemura, Akira Tani, Naohisa Nakada
  • Patent number: 8582918
    Abstract: An imaging device of the present invention comprises an imaging section for forming a subject image and outputting image data, a face detection section for detecting a person's face based on the image data, a decoration image selection section for selecting a decoration image from a plurality of decoration image data, in accordance with a face detected by the face detection section, and a first combining section for combining the selected decoration image and the face image. Also, an image composition and display device of the present invention comprises a storage section for storing image data, a decoration image selection section for selecting a decoration image from a plurality of decoration image data, in accordance with a face detected from image data, and a first combining section for combining the selected decoration image and the face image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Naohisa Nakada, Akira Tani, Yuiko Uemura, Masashi Takahashi, Osamu Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20100214442
    Abstract: An image display apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a face detection section detecting a face image within a photographed image; a classification section classifying the photographed image by a pattern of the face image and a color or a pattern under the face image; and a display control section displaying an image of the same face with the different color or pattern according to the classification by the classification section, and displays images of the same person among the plurality of images classified by the classification section at the same time or sequentially in the display of the display control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Yuiko UEMURA, Akira Tani, Naohisa Nakada
  • Publication number: 20100195912
    Abstract: An imaging device of the present invention comprises an imaging section for forming a subject image and outputting image data, a face detection section for detecting a person's face based on the image data, a decoration image selection section for selecting a decoration image from a plurality of decoration image data, in accordance with a face detected by the face detection section, and a first combining section for combining the selected decoration image and the face image. Also, an image composition and display device of the present invention comprises a storage section for storing image data, a decoration image selection section for selecting a decoration image from a plurality of decoration image data, in accordance with a face detected from image data, and a first combining section for combining the selected decoration image and the face image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Naohisa Nakada, Akira Tani, Yuiko Uemura, Masashi Takahashi, Osamu Nonaka