Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Okazaki

Yoshinori Okazaki 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: 9444997
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an image processor configured to generate movie data based on image capturing data obtained in response to a shooting instruction that has been given by a user; and a controller configured to write the movie data on a storage medium. When any movie file has already been written on the storage medium, and when the movie data is related to the existent movie file or when the user decides to add the movie data, the controller adds the movie data to the existent movie file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Seto, Yoshinori Okazaki, Tsutomu Mukai
  • Publication number: 20160088223
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus of the disclosure includes a case, an imaging system that captures an object image and generates image data, a displaying unit that displays the image data, a detection sensor that detects the case having been held by a user, a power supply unit that supplies power to the imaging system, the displaying unit, and the detection sensor, and a power supply operation unit that selects turning on or off of supplying power. When the detection sensor detects the case having been held by the user, the power supply unit supplies power to the imaging system, but not to the displaying unit, which is referred to as a tentative startup state. In this state, when the power supply operation unit is turned on, the power supply unit supplies power to the displaying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventor: YOSHINORI OKAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9288830
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a first communicating unit wirelessly communicating with the other electronic device and a controller establishing wireless communication with the other electronic device through the first communicating unit by using setting information. The controller permits the other electronic device to remotely control the operation of the electronic device within a first range if the setting information used for establishing the communication is information not-temporarily issued (for example, a permanent SSID, a permanent PW). The controller permits the other electronic device to remotely control the operation of the electronic device within a second range limited as compared to the first range if the setting information used for establishing the communication is information temporarily issued (for example, a temporary SSID, a temporary PW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Okazaki
  • Patent number: 9281014
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an interface configured to obtain management information that has been generated along with movie data generated; and a controller configured to generate, as a representative picture representing the movie data, image information including characters or an icon to be determined by reference to the management information. When selected by a user, the representative picture is presented on a display device in order to start playing back movie data represented by the representative picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Seto, Yoshinori Okazaki
  • Patent number: 9274402
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging unit that images a subject image and generates image data; a receiving unit that receives a mode setting to either one of a full AF mode of executing auto focus control by referring to data corresponding to an entire region of an image to be indicated by the image data and a partial AF mode of executing the auto focus control by referring to data corresponding to a partial region of the image to be indicated by the image data; and a controller that, in response to whether the mode is the full AF mode or the partial AF mode, generates first distance image data regarding a depth of the entire region of the image to be indicated by the image data or second distance image data regarding a depth of the partial region of the image to be indicated by the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Okamoto, Yoshinori Okazaki
  • Patent number: 9237272
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus which is effective to make it easier to manually adjust a focus is provided. An imaging apparatus has: a display unit; an image capturing unit configured to capture a subject image which is formed on an imaging plane and to output image data; a distance information obtaining unit configured to obtain distance information of a single subject or each of a plurality of subjects in the image data; and a display controller configured to display an image on the display unit. The display controller is configured to associate a plurality of different colors respectively with a plurality of areas partitioned according to distances from the imaging apparatus, determine based on the distance information to which one of the plurality of areas each subject corresponds, and display on the display unit each captured subject with the color associated with the area corresponding to the each captured subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Okazaki
  • Patent number: 9176566
    Abstract: A communication device includes a communicating unit that communicates with another electronic device, and a controller that intermittently controls the supply of power to the communicating unit by keeping the supply of power to the communicating unit during a first time period and stopping the supply of power to the communicating unit during a second time period, and determines whether the other electronic device is connected to the communication device within the first time period. When the other electronic device is connected within the first time period, the controller keeps the supply of power to the communicating unit. When the other electronic device is not connected within the first time period, the controller stops the supply of power to the communicating unit during the second time period after the first time period elapses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20150296554
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a first communicating unit wirelessly communicating with the other electronic device and a controller establishing wireless communication with the other electronic device through the first communicating unit by using setting information. The controller permits the other electronic device to remotely control the operation of the electronic device within a first range if the setting information used for establishing the communication is information not-temporarily issued (for example, a permanent SSID, a permanent PW). The controller permits the other electronic device to remotely control the operation of the electronic device within a second range limited as compared to the first range if the setting information used for establishing the communication is information temporarily issued (for example, a temporary SSID, a temporary PW).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshinori OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20150296118
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a communicating unit, and a controller configured to control communication through the communicating unit. When another communication device comes within a predetermined distance from the communicating unit, the controller receives device identification information for identifying the other device from the other device through the communicating unit, stores correlation information correlating the received device identification information with image identification information identifying image data to be transferred into a predetermined storage device. The controller transfers the image data to be transferred to the other communication device based on the stored correlation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshinori OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20150288873
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an image processor configured to generate movie data based on image capturing data obtained in response to a shooting instruction that has been given by a user; and a controller configured to write the movie data on a storage medium. When any movie file has already been written on the storage medium, and when the movie data is related to the existent movie file or when the user decides to add the movie data, the controller adds the movie data to the existent movie file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Akira SETO, Yoshinori OKAZAKI, Tsutomu MUKAI
  • Patent number: 9077954
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an image processor configured to generate movie data based on image capturing data obtained in response to a shooting instruction that has been given by a user; and a controller configured to write the movie data on a storage medium. When any movie file has already been written on the storage medium, and when the movie data is related to the existent movie file or when the user decides to add the movie data, the controller adds the movie data to the existent movie file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Seto, Yoshinori Okazaki, Tsutomu Mukai
  • Patent number: 9013603
    Abstract: An image processor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a movie generating section which generates movie data based on an image capturing signal that has been generated by an image capturing section, and a controller which determines, by reference to information concerning a shooting condition, whether or not to write the movie data (chapter(s) just before and/or right after a still picture is shot) on a memory in accordance with a shooting instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironobu Nakagawa, Tsutomu Mukai, Yoshinori Okazaki, Akira Seto
  • Patent number: 8937667
    Abstract: An image communication apparatus communicating with an imaging apparatus includes a user interface that receives an instruction for setting a shooting condition in the imaging apparatus, a communication interface that periodically obtains an image captured by the imaging apparatus from the imaging apparatus, and communicates a request to the imaging apparatus in response to the instruction, a display device that displays the obtained captured image, and a controller that executes processes according to the instruction on the captured image obtained from the imaging apparatus, and generates a display image, and that displays the display image on the display device when the request is transmitted to the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20140354837
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display unit, a communication unit configured to read, from another electronic apparatus having a plurality of operation modes, information regarding a current operation mode of the another electronic apparatus, and a controller configured to select a user interface screen which is displayed on the display unit in accordance with the information regarding the operation mode read by the communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshinori OKAZAKI, Koji ISHII
  • Publication number: 20140347541
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus which is effective to make it easier to manually adjust a focus is provided. An imaging apparatus has: a display unit; an image capturing unit configured to capture a subject image which is formed on an imaging plane and to output image data; a distance information obtaining unit configured to obtain distance information of a single subject or each of a plurality of subjects in the image data; and a display controller configured to display an image on the display unit. The display controller is configured to associate a plurality of different colors respectively with a plurality of areas partitioned according to distances from the imaging apparatus, determine based on the distance information to which one of the plurality of areas each subject corresponds, and display on the display unit each captured subject with the color associated with the area corresponding to the each captured subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinori OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140293116
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging unit that images a subject image and generates image data; a receiving unit that receives a mode setting to either one of a full AF mode of executing auto focus control by referring to data corresponding to an entire region of an image to be indicated by the image data and a partial AF mode of executing the auto focus control by referring to data corresponding to a partial region of the image to be indicated by the image data; and a controller that, in response to whether the mode is the full AF mode or the partial AF mode, generates first distance image data regarding a depth of the entire region of the image to be indicated by the image data or second distance image data regarding a depth of the partial region of the image to be indicated by the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi OKAMOTO, Yoshinori OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140244858
    Abstract: The relaying device includes a first receiving unit configured to receive at least one streaming video data from at least one sending device, a second receiving unit configured to receive, from one of at least one receiving device, information about a screen configuration of the one receiving device and information for designating a streaming video data to be sent to the one receiving device, a converting unit configured to dynamically convert at least one designated streaming video data among a plurality of pieces of streaming video data being received from a plurality of sending devices, into streaming video data with lower data volume so that the at least one designated streaming video data fits in the screen, and a sending unit configured to send the converted streaming video data to the one receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140126882
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an interface configured to obtain management information that has been generated along with movie data generated; and a controller configured to generate, as a representative picture representing the movie data, image information including characters or an icon to be determined by reference to the management information. When selected by a user, the representative picture is presented on a display device in order to start playing back movie data represented by the representative picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akira SETO, Yoshinori OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20140098248
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a receiver that receives an instruction to switch off the communication apparatus, an obtaining unit that obtains data from a recording medium, a communication unit that sends the obtained data to an other electronic device, and a controller that controls power supply of the communication apparatus. The controller continuously supplies power at least to a predetermined component which needs power to be supplied to establish communication with the other electronic device for a predetermined period of time when the receiver receives the instruction to switch off the communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori OKAZAKI
  • Patent number: 8666221
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature associated with a case of the imaging apparatus, a moving image recording unit configured to generate moving image data based on one of a plurality of recording methods which determines image quality of a recording image, and records the moving image data in a recording medium, and a controller configured to control the recording method set on the moving image recording unit. The controller changes the recording method to be set on the moving image recording unit, according to a result of the sensing by the temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Okazaki, Yasutoshi Yamamoto, Akira Seto, Tsutomu Mukai