Patents by Inventor Shogo SHIMAMURA

Shogo SHIMAMURA 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: 9787906
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes a display unit that includes a plurality of display areas, a display control unit that controls the display unit so that an image displayed in one of the plurality of display areas is changed from a live view image to an image obtained by an image pickup unit in accordance with a shooting instruction when a first reception unit has received the shooting instruction and so that an image displayed in a display area specified by a display position changing instruction is changed to a live view image when a second reception unit has received the display position changing instruction, and an image process unit that synthesizes image data of a plurality of images being displayed in the plurality of display areas and generates image data of a combined image in which the plurality of images are laid out as displayed in the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Shimamura, Kensei Ito, Maki Toida, Akira Tani, Manabu Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 9684988
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that images a subject so as to obtain first image data, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the first image data so as to obtain second image data, a first storage unit in which image data including one or both of the first image data and the second image data is stored, an image analysis unit that analyzes a feature of the image data stored in the first storage unit, a scenario generation unit that generates scenario data on the basis of an analysis result of the image analysis unit, a scenario changing unit that performs setting so as to change the scenario data, and an image collage processing unit that combines the plural pieces of image data stored in the first storage unit on the basis of the scenario data so as to generate the image collage data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Shimamura, Kensei Ito, Maki Toida, Akira Tani, Manabu Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20150348302
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that images a subject so as to obtain first image data, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the first image data so as to obtain second image data, a first storage unit in which image data including one or both of the first image data and the second image data is stored, an image analysis unit that analyzes a feature of the image data stored in the first storage unit, a scenario generation unit that generates scenario data on the basis of an analysis result of the image analysis unit, a scenario changing unit that performs setting so as to change the scenario data, and an image collage processing unit that combines the plural pieces of image data stored in the first storage unit on the basis of the scenario data so as to generate the image collage data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo SHIMAMURA, Kensei ITO, Maki TOIDA, Akira TANI, Manabu ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150326790
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes a display unit that includes a plurality of display areas, a display control unit that controls the display unit so that an image displayed in one of the plurality of display areas is changed from a live view image to an image obtained by an image pickup unit in accordance with a shooting instruction when a first reception unit has received the shooting instruction and so that an image displayed in a display area specified by a display position changing instruction is changed to a live view image when a second reception unit has received the display position changing instruction, and an image process unit that synthesizes image data of a plurality of images being displayed in the plurality of display areas and generates image data of a combined image in which the plurality of images are laid out as displayed in the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo SHIMAMURA, Kensei ITO, Maki TOIDA, Akira TANI, Manabu ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9088730
    Abstract: A shooting device includes: a display unit which is provided with a plurality of display areas; an image pickup unit which acquires an image by capturing a subject; a display control unit which controls the display unit so that an image displayed in a display area in a plurality of display areas is changed from a live view image to an image acquired by the image pickup unit at the shoot instruction when a shoot instruction is received, and an image displayed on the display area specified by the cancel instruction is changed to a specified image when the cancel instruction that specifies the display area is received; and a combined image processing unit which combines image data of the plurality of images displayed on the plurality of display areas, and generates image data of a combined image which is laid out as being displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
    Inventors: Kensei Ito, Maki Toida, Shogo Shimamura, Akira Tani, Manabu Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20140009643
    Abstract: A shooting device includes: a display unit which is provided with a plurality of display areas; an image pickup unit which acquires an image by capturing a subject; a display control unit which controls the display unit so that an image displayed in a display area in a plurality of display areas is changed from a live view image to an image acquired by the image pickup unit at the shoot instruction when a shoot instruction is received, and an image displayed on the display area specified by the cancel instruction is changed to a specified image when the cancel instruction that specifies the display area is received; and a combined image processing unit which combines image data of the plurality of images displayed on the plurality of display areas, and generates image data of a combined image which is laid out as being displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Kensei ITO, Maki TOIDA, Shogo SHIMAMURA, Akira TANI, Manabu ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 8570391
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that photoelectrically converts an object image to generate image data; a face detecting unit that detects a face in the generated image data; and a number-of-people detecting unit that detects the number of faces detected in the image data based on a face detection result by the face detecting unit. The imaging apparatus also includes a feature determining unit that determines a feature of the detected face based on a face detection result by the face detecting unit; a face selecting unit that selects a face that satisfies a predetermined correction condition set in advance among the detected faces based on at least one of a detection result of the number of people and a determination result of the feature; and a face-image processing unit that performs a predetermined correction process on at least the selected face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Shogo Shimamura, Satoshi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20100157084
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that photoelectrically converts an object image to generate image data; a face detecting unit that detects a face in the generated image data; and a number-of-people detecting unit that detects the number of faces detected in the image data based on a face detection result by the face detecting unit. The imaging apparatus also includes a feature determining unit that determines a feature of the detected face based on a face detection result by the face detecting unit; a face selecting unit that selects a face that satisfies a predetermined correction condition set in advance among the detected faces based on at least one of a detection result of the number of people and a determination result of the feature; and a face-image processing unit that performs a predetermined correction process on at least the selected face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
    Inventors: Shogo SHIMAMURA, Satoshi MIYAZAKI