Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Tamekuni

Yasuhiro Tamekuni 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: 7307599
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit, a time setting unit, a detection unit and an image changing unit. The display unit is configured to display a color image. The time setting unit is configured to set a time. The time to be set by the time setting unit can be changed by a user. The detection unit is configured to detect whether the time set by the time setting unit is passed. The image changing unit is configured to change a color image to be displayed on the display unit to a monochrome image so as to warn the user that the time set by the time setting unit is passed, if the detection unit detects that the time set by the time setting unit is passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Akihiro Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi Morofuji
  • Publication number: 20040025175
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention is arranged to inform a user that the set time of a timer circuit capable of setting an arbitrary time will end shortly, immediately before the end of the set time, or inform the user that the set time has ended, immediately after the end of the set time, thereby preventing the user from using the display apparatus for an excessively long time without noticing the lapse of the use time of the display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Akihiro Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi Morofuji
  • Patent number: 6630914
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention is arranged to inform a user that the set time of a timer circuit capable of setting an arbitrary time will end shortly, immediately before the end of the set time, or inform the user that the set time has ended, immediately after the end of the set time, thereby preventing the user from using the display apparatus for an excessively long time without noticing the lapse of the use time of the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Akihiro Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi Morofuji
  • Patent number: 6249362
    Abstract: In an image read system which reads an image recorded on a film capable of holding incidental information of the image in an area different from the area where the image is recorded, the incidental information of the image recorded on the film is read, and the read image and the incidental information is processed and outputted as data of a single image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidekage Sato, Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Ryoichi Suzuki, Takashi Amikura
  • Patent number: 5905530
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus is disclosed which is provided with a distortional-aberration memorizing element for memorizing distortional-aberration information about an objective lens, a state-of-objective-lens detecting circuit for detecting a state of the objective lens, an image correcting circuit for reading out distortional-aberration information about distortional aberration occurring during photography from the distortional-aberration memorizing element on the basis of information supplied from the state-of-objective-lens detecting circuit, and electrically correcting a distortion of an image due to the objective lens with a predetermined image height in a photographed image selected as a datum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Yokota, Hiroyuki Hamano, Masaharu Suzuki, Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Takashi Kato, Katsumi Azusawa, Hidekage Sato
  • Patent number: 5672862
    Abstract: An optical apparatus or a control device to be used for a light flux deflecting apparatus is arranged to include at least two light flux deflecting portions and a control portion which control the driving actions of the at least two light flux deflecting portions in such a manner that, with the light flux deflecting portions applied as image shake preventing mechanisms to an optical apparatus using a plurality of light fluxes, such as a binocular, the arrangement effectively prevents such inconveniences as the necessity of using a plurality of control portions in controlling each of the light flux deflecting portions and giving a disagreeable feeling to the user due to a discrepancy arising in the amount of deflection between two light fluxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Ohara, Akihiro Fujiwara, Hidefumi Notagashira, Toshimi Iizuka, Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Yoshiki Kino, Tsuyoshi Morofuji, Katsumi Azusawa, Hidekage Sato
  • Patent number: 5649239
    Abstract: A camera includes a focus adjusting circuit for performing focus adjustment of an objective lens, a panning detecting circuit, and a controlling circuit for controlling, on the basis of a detection signal provided by the panning detecting circuit, the focus adjustment of the objective lens which is performed by the focus adjusting circuit, so that a focus adjusting operation can be restrained from being repetitively performed during panning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Tamekuni
  • Patent number: 5291151
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an amplifier for amplifying an input signal. In a sensor amplifier construction according to the present invention, a series arrangement made up of a resistor and a transistor is inserted in a feedback path for an amplifier, and the collector of the transistor is connected to one input of the amplifier and a capacitor is connected between the emitter and the base of the transistor. According to the above-described arrangement, there is provided a sensor amplifier which can eliminate noise with a small-scale construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Fujiwara, Takashi Amikura, Toru Ohara, Yasuhiro Tamekuni
  • Patent number: 5173807
    Abstract: This specification discloses an optical instrument comprising a focusing lens, a zooming lens, first detecting means for detecting the focus state of the focusing lens, and control means for moving the zooming lens in conformity with the output of the first detecting means and making the size of an object which is occupied in the picture plane substantially constant, the control means varying the movement speed of the zooming lens in conformity with the output of the first detecting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoya Kaneda, Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Youichi Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 4977457
    Abstract: Disclosed is an autofocus device, particularly an autofocus device in which focus detection is effected repeatedly. A determination is made as to whether or not a determination of the in-focus state is made continuously for a predetermined duration upon repeated detection of focus after an initial in-focus determination is made. While the determinations of the in-focus state are being made for the predetermined duration after the initial determination on the in-focus state is made, the terminals of the motor are short-circuited to apply brakes to it, and after the aforementioned duration, the motor terminals are opened, thereby stopping the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Takashi Amikura, Toru Ohara