Patents by Inventor Yoji Uchiyama
Yoji Uchiyama 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: 9467642Abstract: An electronic camera is capable of recording image, voice, text, line-drawn information and the like. A release switch in the electronic camera is operated to photograph a subject image. When recording voice with the electronic camera, shutter sound effects are not output with the recorded voice. Further, the photographic operation can be indicated to the user by lighting a light-emitting diode in a finder when the release switch is operated.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Fumio Hiraide, Toshihisa Kuroiwa, Yoji Uchiyama, Akira Ohmura
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Publication number: 20160205339Abstract: An electronic camera is capable of recording image, voice, text, line-drawn information and the like. A release switch in the electronic camera is operated to photograph a subject image. When recording voice with the electronic camera, shutter sound effects are not output with the recorded voice. Further, the photographic operation can be indicated to the user by lighting a light-emitting diode in a finder when the release switch is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro SUZUKI, Fumio HIRAIDE, Toshihisa KUROIWA, Yoji UCHIYAMA, Akira OHMURA
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Publication number: 20150326755Abstract: An electronic camera is capable of recording image, voice, text, line-drawn information and the like. A release switch in the electronic camera is operated to photograph a subject image. When recording voice with the electronic camera, shutter sound effects are not output with the recorded voice. Further, the photographic operation can be indicated to the user by lighting a light-emitting diode in a finder when the release switch is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Masahiro SUZUKI, Fumio HIRAIDE, Toshihisa KUROIWA, Yoji UCHIYAMA, Akira OHMURA
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Patent number: 9049056Abstract: A communication terminal may include a processing unit that includes information identifying another communication terminal as path information in data when the data is directly transmitted from its own communication terminal to the other communication terminal, and a transmitting unit that directly transmits the data in which the path information is included by the processing unit to the other communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki Kawamura, Koji Imaizumi, Yoji Uchiyama, Isao Takahashi
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Publication number: 20130329082Abstract: An electronic camera is capable of recording image, voice, text, line-drawn information and the like. A release switch in the electronic camera is operated to photograph a subject image. When recording voice with the electronic camera, shutter sound effects are not output with the recorded voice. Further, the photographic operation can be indicated to the user by lighting a light-emitting diode in a finder when the release switch is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventors: Masahiro SUZUKI, Fumio HIRAIDE, Toshihisa KUROIWA, Yoji UCHIYAMA, Akira OHMURA
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Patent number: 8532345Abstract: A camera includes: an image-capturing unit that captures images of a photographic subject by image sensors and creates image data of a plurality of shot images based on an instruction for continuous shooting by a user; an identification unit that performs, each time when image data of one shot image from among the plurality of shot images is created, a state judgment whether or not eyes of a person included in the photographic subject appearing in the one shot image are open and identifies image data of the one shot image as identified image data when a result of the state judgment is YES; and a recording unit that records the identified image data in a nonvolatile storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2008Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Yoji Uchiyama
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Publication number: 20120140995Abstract: A communication terminal may include a processing unit that includes information identifying another communication terminal as path information in data when the data is directly transmitted from its own communication terminal to the other communication terminal, and a transmitting unit that directly transmits the data in which the path information is included by the processing unit to the other communication terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki KAWAMURA, Koji IMAIZUMI, Yoji UCHIYAMA, Isao TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20110128409Abstract: An electronic camera is capable of recording image, voice, text, line-drawn information and the like. A release switch in the electronic camera is operated to photograph a subject image. When recording voice with the electronic camera, shutter sound effects are not output with the recorded voice. Further, the photographic operation can be indicated to the user by lighting a light-emitting diode in a finder when the release switch is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2011Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Fumio Hiraide, Toshihisa Kuroiwa, Yoji Uchiyama, Akira Ohmura
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Patent number: 7787027Abstract: An electronic camera is capable of recording image, voice, text, line-drawn information and the like. A release switch in the electronic camera is operated to photograph a subject image. When recording voice with the electronic camera, shutter sound effects are not output with the recorded voice. Further, the photographic operation can be indicated to the user by lighting a light-emitting diode in a finder when the release switch is operated.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2005Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Fumio Hiraide, Toshihisa Kuroiwa, Yoji Uchiyama, Akira Ohmura
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Publication number: 20100033598Abstract: An electronic camera is capable of recording image, voice, text, line-drawn information and the like. A release switch in the electronic camera is operated to photograph a subject image. When recording voice with the electronic camera, shutter sound effects are not output with the recorded voice. Further, the photographic operation can be indicated to the user by lighting a light-emitting diode in a finder when the release switch is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2009Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Fumio Hiraide, Toshihisa Kuroiwa, Yoji Uchiyama, Akira Ohmura
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Publication number: 20090110243Abstract: A camera includes: an image-capturing unit that captures images of a photographic subject by image sensors and creates image data of a plurality of shot images based on an instruction for continuous shooting by a user; an identification unit that performs, each time when image data of one shot image from among the plurality of shot images is created, a state judgment whether or not eyes of a person included in the photographic subject appearing in the one shot image are open and identifies image data of the one shot image as identified image data when a result of the state judgment is YES; and a recording unit that records the identified image data in a nonvolatile storage medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2008Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoji Uchiyama
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Publication number: 20090037123Abstract: The present invention provides an energy supply system evaluation device evaluating a lifecycle of energy conversion processes to be implemented in a pre-determined order by an energy supply system, an energy supply system evaluation method and an energy supply system evaluation program. According to the present invention, it can reduce a work load on an evaluator when the evaluator performs many-sided evaluations on energy supply systems by using a variety of analytical methods, and enable the evaluator to gain actualized output of the evaluation results desired thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Masafumi Noujima, Akiyoshi Komura, Yoji Uchiyama
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Publication number: 20080252753Abstract: An image-capturing apparatus includes: an image-capturing element that captures an image of a subject through a photographic lens and outputs the captured image of the subject as image data; a display device that displays the image of the subject; a recording device that records the image data at a recording medium; a display control device that displays a first image prepared based upon the image data output by the image-capturing element and a second image prepared based upon the image data recorded at the recording medium on the display device; and an instruction device that issues an instruction to the display control device to display the first image and the second image in response to a user instruction operation when the first image is on display at the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2008Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Ejima, Toshiaki Kobayashi, Tomoaki Kawamura, Kazuya Umeyama, Yoji Uchiyama
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Publication number: 20060132621Abstract: An electronic camera is capable of recording image, voice, text, line-drawn information and the like. A release switch in the electronic camera is operated to photograph a subject image. When recording voice with the electronic camera, shutter sound effects are not output with the recorded voice. Further, the photographic operation can be indicated to the user by lighting a light-emitting diode in a finder when the release switch is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2006Publication date: June 22, 2006Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Fumio Hiraide, Toshihisa Kuroiwa, Yoji Uchiyama, Akira Ohmura
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Publication number: 20050231612Abstract: An electronic camera is capable of recording image, voice, text, line-drawn information and the like. A release switch in the electronic camera is operated to photograph a subject image. When recording voice with the electronic camera, shutter sound effects are not output with the recorded voice. Further, the photographic operation can be indicated to the user by lighting a light-emitting diode in a finder when the release switch is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2005Publication date: October 20, 2005Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Suzuki, Fumio Hiraide, Toshihisa Kuroiwa, Yoji Uchiyama, Akira Ohmura
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Publication number: 20030164890Abstract: An image-capturing apparatus includes: an image-capturing element that captures an image of a subject through a photographic lens and outputs the captured image of the subject as image data; a display device that displays the image of the subject; a recording device that records the image data at a recording medium; a display control device that displays a first image prepared based upon the image data output by the image-capturing element and a second image prepared based upon the image data recorded at the recording medium on the display device; and an instruction device that issues an instruction to the display control device to display the first image and the second image in response to a user instruction operation when the first image is on display at the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2003Publication date: September 4, 2003Applicant: Nikon CorporationInventors: Satoshi Ejima, Toshiaki Kobayashi, Tomoaki Kawamura, Kazuya Umeyama, Yoji Uchiyama
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Publication number: 20020057351Abstract: An electronic camera is capable of recording image, voice, text, line-drawn information and the like. A release switch in the electronic camera is operated to photograph a subject image. When recording voice with the electronic camera, shutter sound effects are not output with the recorded voice. Further, the photographic operation can be indicated to the user by lighting a light-emitting diode in a finder when the release switch is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 1997Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventors: MASAHIRO SUZUKI, FUMIO HIRAIDE, TOSHIHISA KUROIWA, YOJI UCHIYAMA, AKIRA OHMURA
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Publication number: 20020008765Abstract: An image-capturing apparatus includes: an image-capturing element that captures an image of a subject through a photographic lens and outputs the captured image of the subject as image data; a display device that displays the image of the subject; a recording device that records the image data at a recording medium; a display control device that displays a first image prepared based upon the image data output by the image-capturing element and a second image prepared based upon the image data recorded at the recording medium on the display device; and an instruction device that issues an instruction to the display control device to display the first image and the second image in response to a user instruction operation when the first image is on display at the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Applicant: Nikon CorporationInventors: Satoshi Ejima, Toshiaki Kobayashi, Tomoaki Kawamura, Kazuya Umeyama, Yoji Uchiyama