Patents by Inventor Takayuki Yasuda
Takayuki Yasuda 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: 11911861Abstract: A machining system includes a cover body having an opening and defining a machining area of a workpiece, a door portion provided in the opening, an actuator that operates the door portion between a first position at which the opening is closed and a second position at which the opening is opened, a controller that controls the actuator, and a robot arm that operates through the opening to convey a workpiece between the machining area and an external area outside the machining area. The controller controls the actuator such that the door portion is positioned at a third position when the robot arm conveys the workpiece. An opening area of the opening when the door portion is positioned at the third position is smaller than an opening area of the opening when the door portion is positioned at the second position.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: DMG MORI CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Higuchi, Hiroshi Yasuda, Hideki Nagasue
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Patent number: 11842119Abstract: A display system that makes it possible to obtain high operability while maintaining visibility when a virtual object is displayed. The display system includes a smartphone as an information processing apparatus and smart glasses as a head mounted display that is capable of communicating with the smartphone and has an image capturing section. Information on the smartphone is detected from an image captured by the image capturing section. The smart glasses include a display section that is capable of displaying a virtual object, and a virtual object is displayed on the display section in a position adjacent to the smartphone or in a manner partially superimposing the virtual object on the smartphone, based on the detected information.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takayuki Yasuda
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Patent number: 11461882Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus that generate a plurality of reduced images with different reduction rates from an input image, applies predetermined processing to the reduced images, enlarges the reduced images into their respective original resolutions, and then composes the enlarged images into a composite image. The apparatus applies processing to the input image based on the composite image. The apparatus, depending on a setting, applies the processing to an input image based on the composite image generated from a previous input image.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takayuki Yasuda
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Publication number: 20220244899Abstract: A display system that makes it possible to obtain high operability while maintaining visibility when a virtual object is displayed. The display system includes a smartphone as an information processing apparatus and smart glasses as a head mounted display that is capable of communicating with the smartphone and has an image capturing section. Information on the smartphone is detected from an image captured by the image capturing section. The smart glasses include a display section that is capable of displaying a virtual object, and a virtual object is displayed on the display section in a position adjacent to the smartphone or in a manner partially superimposing the virtual object on the smartphone, based on the detected information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventor: Takayuki Yasuda
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Patent number: 11297269Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor in which a plurality of unit pixels are arranged, each unit pixel including one microlens and at least one light receiving portion that produces a pulse signal when light is incident on the light receiving portion, wherein the unit pixel includes a counting circuit capable of counting the pulse signals of a plurality of the light receiving portions.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki Yasuda, Hiroyasu Katagawa, Tomonaga Iwahara
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Patent number: 11122213Abstract: An apparatus includes an imaging device including a plurality of light receiving units each converting a light beam into a voltage pulse based on an avalanche effect, and a controller having a processor which executes instructions stored in a memory, the controller being configured to function as a generation unit configured to generate image data based on the voltage pulse, a detection unit configured to detect a focus state of an imaging optical system based on the voltage pulse, and a control unit configured to control an exposure time of the light receiving units. The control unit includes a histogram generation unit and a determination unit. The histogram generation unit generates a histogram of the plurality of light receiving units based on the voltage pulse, and the determination unit determines an exposure state of the plurality of light receiving units based on the histogram generated by the histogram generation unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takayuki Yasuda
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Publication number: 20210201457Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus that generate a plurality of reduced images with different reduction rates from an input image, applies predetermined processing to the reduced images, enlarges the reduced images into their respective original resolutions, and then composes the enlarged images into a composite image. The apparatus applies processing to the input image based on the composite image. The apparatus, depending on a setting, applies the processing to an input image based on the composite image generated from a previous input image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventor: Takayuki Yasuda
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Publication number: 20200252534Abstract: An apparatus includes an imaging device including a plurality of light receiving units each converting a light beam into a voltage pulse based on an avalanche effect, and a controller having a processor which executes instructions stored in a memory, the controller being configured to function as a generation unit configured to generate image data based on the voltage pulse, a detection unit configured to detect a focus state of an imaging optical system based on the voltage pulse, and a control unit configured to control an exposure time of the light receiving units. The control unit includes a histogram generation unit and a determination unit. The histogram generation unit generates a histogram of the plurality of light receiving units based on the voltage pulse, and the determination unit determines an exposure state of the plurality of light receiving units based on the histogram generated by the histogram generation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventor: Takayuki Yasuda
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Publication number: 20200252563Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor in which a plurality of unit pixels are arranged, each unit pixel including one microlens and at least one light receiving portion that produces a pulse signal when light is incident on the light receiving portion, wherein the unit pixel includes a counting circuit capable of counting the pulse signals of a plurality of the light receiving portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Takayuki Yasuda, Hiroyasu Katagawa, Tomonaga Iwahara
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Patent number: 10366465Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image capturing unit; an acquisition unit that acquires at least two images having different exposures; a compression unit that acquires at least two compressed images; a transmission unit that transmits the at least two compressed images; a composition unit that generates a composite image by compositing the transmitted at least two compressed images; and a luminance distribution acquisition unit that acquires luminance distribution information of the composite image, the acquisition unit controlling exposure of the at least two images based on the luminance distribution information acquired by the luminance distribution acquisition unit, and the compression unit performing the compression processing of the at least two images based on the luminance distribution information and the exposure of the at least two images.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takayuki Yasuda
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Publication number: 20180276783Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image capturing unit; an acquisition unit that acquires at least two images having different exposures; a compression unit that acquires at least two compressed images; a transmission unit that transmits the at least two compressed images; a composition unit that generates a composite image by compositing the transmitted at least two compressed images; and a luminance distribution acquisition unit that acquires luminance distribution information of the composite image, the acquisition unit controlling exposure of the at least two images based on the luminance distribution information acquired by the luminance distribution acquisition unit, and the compression unit performing the compression processing of the at least two images based on the luminance distribution information and the exposure of the at least two images.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventor: Takayuki Yasuda
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Patent number: 10044956Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor having a plurality of pixels and being capable of outputting a plurality of image signals read out using different methods for individually reading out the signals of the plurality of pixels and correction signals for correcting the plurality of image signals, a processing unit for processing the correction signals so as to handle the reading methods for the plurality of image signals, and a correction unit for correcting the plurality of image signals using the correction signals processed by the processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuya Ino, Takayuki Yasuda
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Publication number: 20170251154Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor having a plurality of pixels and being capable of outputting a plurality of image signals read out using different methods for individually reading out the signals of the plurality of pixels and correction signals for correcting the plurality of image signals, a processing unit for processing the correction signals so as to handle the reading methods for the plurality of image signals, and a correction unit for correcting the plurality of image signals using the correction signals processed by the processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Inventors: Kazuya Ino, Takayuki Yasuda
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Patent number: 9686450Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor having a plurality of pixels and being capable of outputting a plurality of image signals read out using different methods for individually reading out the signals of the plurality of pixels and correction signals for correcting the plurality of image signals, a processing unit for processing the correction signals so as to handle the reading methods for the plurality of image signals, and a correction unit for correcting the plurality of image signals using the correction signals processed by the processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuya Ino, Takayuki Yasuda
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Patent number: 9369626Abstract: An electronic device issues a command for setting a function when the function of the electronic device is set by a user by executing software, executes the function in response to the issued command, stores information relating to an invalid function, detects the fact that the issued command is a command for setting the invalid function based on the stored information, and controls so as not to execute the function set by the user in response to the detection that the issued command is a command for setting the invalid function.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takayuki Yasuda
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Patent number: 9275709Abstract: This invention makes is possible to protect programs and shorten the activation time of an electronic apparatus even if a non-volatile memory such as an MRAM stores the programs including a boot program, and is used as a main memory. Upon power-on or receiving a reset signal, a program stored in bank 102 of the non-volatile memory is transferred to another bank. Upon completion of the transfer operation, to disable access from the outside of the non-volatile memory to the bank 102 to protect the bank 102, the bank is set in a disconnection state in the non-volatile memory. A signal indicating completion of the program transfer operation is output to the outside, and a reset-release signal to a processor is generated using the signal as a trigger.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takayuki Yasuda
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Publication number: 20160037100Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor having a plurality of pixels and being capable of outputting a plurality of image signals read out using different methods for individually reading out the signals of the plurality of pixels and correction signals for correcting the plurality of image signals, a processing unit for processing the correction signals so as to handle the reading methods for the plurality of image signals, and a correction unit for correcting the plurality of image signals using the correction signals processed by the processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2015Publication date: February 4, 2016Inventors: Kazuya Ino, Takayuki Yasuda
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Publication number: 20150138878Abstract: This invention makes is possible to protect programs and shorten the activation time of an electronic apparatus even if a non-volatile memory such as an MRAM stores the programs including a boot program, and is used as a main memory. Upon power-on or receiving a reset signal, a program stored in bank 102 of the non-volatile memory is transferred to another bank. Upon completion of the transfer operation, to disable access from the outside of the non-volatile memory to the bank 102 to protect the bank 102, the bank is set in a disconnection state in the non-volatile memory. A signal indicating completion of the program transfer operation is output to the outside, and a reset-release signal to a processor is generated using the signal as a trigger.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventor: Takayuki Yasuda
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Patent number: 9030579Abstract: A direction being across the defective pixel and along which pixels used to calculate a signal level of a defective pixel are located, is determined. A ratio between signal levels of pixels that are adjacent to the defective pixel and that have a different color from the defective pixel, and signal levels of pixels that are adjacent to pixels being located along the determine direction with respect to the defective pixel and having the same color as the defective pixel and that have a different color from the defective pixel, is acquired. A value obtained by multiplying an average value of the signal levels of the pixels used to calculate the signal level of the defective pixel by the calculated ratio is output as the signal level of the defective pixel.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayuki Yasuda, Hiroshi Ogino, Takeshi Ogawa
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Publication number: 20140125847Abstract: A direction being across the defective pixel and along which pixels used to calculate a signal level of a defective pixel are located, is determined. A ratio between signal levels of pixels that are adjacent to the defective pixel and that have a different color from the defective pixel, and signal levels of pixels that are adjacent to pixels being located along the determine direction with respect to the defective pixel and having the same color as the defective pixel and that have a different color from the defective pixel, is acquired. A value obtained by multiplying an average value of the signal levels of the pixels used to calculate the signal level of the defective pixel by the calculated ratio is output as the signal level of the defective pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki Yasuda, Hiroshi Ogino, Takeshi Ogawa