Patents by Inventor Akihiko Kanda

Akihiko Kanda 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: 10924665
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises at least one processor or circuit configured to perform the operations of following units: an obtaining unit configured to obtaining an image signal containing intensity information and angle information of an incident light beam, an operating unit configured to obtain a viewpoint changing operation and a focus position changing operation, and a processing unit configured to generate, based on a plurality of viewpoint images obtained based on the image signal, a display image by changing a viewpoint in accordance with the viewpoint changing operation, and changing a focus position in accordance with the focus position changing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Kanda, Koichi Fukuda, Yuki Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10896737
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to increase a writing speed to a flash memory while suppressing an increase in noise. In the high-speed write mode, the memory controller simultaneously performs a first write operation with a second write current having a current value smaller than the first write current with respect to a second number of memory cells having a larger number than the first write current. At the completion of the first write operation, the memory controller simultaneously performs the second write operation by the third write current having a larger current value than the second write current with respect to the memory cell determined by the sense amplifier to have not completed the write operation in the determination process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Moriyasu, Kazuo Yoshihara, Akihiko Kanda, Yoshihiko Asai, Tomoya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10868953
    Abstract: An image processing device is provided that includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of viewpoint images which are captured at a plurality of different viewpoints by an imaging unit; a detection unit that detects viewpoint-relevant information between the plurality of viewpoint images; a determination unit that determines a second imaging condition in which image change between before and after predetermined image processing is greater than that in a first imaging condition in which the plurality of viewpoint images are captured on the basis of the first imaging condition and the viewpoint-relevant information; and an output unit that outputs the second imaging condition determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Kanda, Yoshihito Tamaki, Hideyuki Hamano
  • Patent number: 10681286
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a memory configured to acquire a plurality of visual point images; a visual point change processing unit configured to perform image processing on image data based on the plurality of visual point images to generate a combination image; an area designation unit configured to designate an area subjected to the image processing using the visual point change processing unit; and an adjustment unit configured to set an adjustable range of the image processing for each area designated by the area designation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Kanda, Koichi Fukuda, Yuki Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20200162718
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus has an image sensor and a mechanical shutter; a generation unit configured to generate a parallax image from signals acquired from the plurality of photoelectric converters, wherein by the image sensor and the mechanical shutter, a first shutter operation by a first front curtain and a first rear curtain, and a second shutter operation by a second front curtain and a second rear curtain are realized, and the generating unit generates more parallax images than the number of the plurality of photoelectric conversion units by using a first signal group acquired by the first shutter operation and a second signal group acquired by the second shutter operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshihito Tamaki, Hideyuki Hamano, Akihiko Kanda
  • Publication number: 20200162673
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus comprises an image sensor, from which a first viewpoint image and a second viewpoint image that share the same charge accumulation period can be read out. The apparatus further comprises a correction circuit that applies correction processing to the images read out from the image sensor. The apparatus controls the image sensor and the correction circuit so that correction processing performed on the first viewpoint image by the correction circuit during continuous shooting is performed in parallel with the readout of the first viewpoint image and the second viewpoint image from the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiko Kanda, Hideyuki Hamano
  • Publication number: 20200135285
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to increase a writing speed to a flash memory while suppressing an increase in noise. In the high-speed write mode, the memory controller simultaneously performs a first write operation with a second write current having a current value smaller than the first write current with respect to a second number of memory cells having a larger number than the first write current. At the completion of the first write operation, the memory controller simultaneously performs the second write operation by the third write current having a larger current value than the second write current with respect to the memory cell determined by the sense amplifier to have not completed the write operation in the determination process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Takanori MORIYASU, Kazuo YOSHIHARA, Akihiko KANDA, Yoshihiko ASAI, Tomoya OGAWA
  • Patent number: 10630883
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor and a focus detector. The focus detector corrects a result of the focus detection by using a difference between a first focus position calculated as a focus position in image capturing by using aberration information of the image capturing optical system and first calculation information according to a spectroscopic characteristic of first light and a second focus position calculated as a focus position in the focus detection by using the aberration information and second calculation information according to the spectroscopic characteristic of the first light, and changes the second calculation information in the focus detection between when second light having a spectroscopic characteristic different from that of the first light is emitted to the object, and when the second light is not emitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hamano, Akihiko Kanda, Yoshihito Tamaki
  • Patent number: 10614895
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device capable of simplifying a trimming operation. A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a power supply circuit and a trimming circuit. The power supply circuit includes a reference voltage generation circuit that generates a plurality of reference voltages used at the time of a trimming operation, and a voltage generation circuit that generates a plurality of power supply voltages used by a semiconductor storage device. The semiconductor device adjusts a specific reference voltage using an external reference voltage at the time of the trimming operation, and then determines trimming codes corresponding to the adjustment amounts of the power supply voltages using a plurality of reference voltages generated using the adjusted specific reference voltage and a plurality of power supply voltages corresponding to the reference voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Okayama, Akihiko Kanda
  • Patent number: 10594922
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor that has a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed pixels, each of the pixels having a first photoelectric conversion portion and a second photoelectric conversion portion, a generation unit that generates a first image signal by connecting, in a pupil divided direction, a first signal obtained by combining signals of the first photoelectric conversion portions, and generate a second image signal, in the pupil divided direction, a second signal obtained by combining signals of the second photoelectric conversion portions. In a case of combing signals of the first photoelectric conversion portions, or combining signals of the second photoelectric conversion portions, the generation unit decreases weighting of a signal of a photoelectric conversion portion in which an effect of crosstalk from a neighboring photoelectric conversion portion is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiko Kanda
  • Patent number: 10582129
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided that includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of viewpoint images having different viewpoint; a calculation unit configured to calculate associated information associated with parallax from the plurality of viewpoint images; an image processing unit configured to generate an output image by performing an image process on image data based on the plurality of viewpoint images; a setting unit configured to set the image process using the image processing unit; and a determination unit configured to acquire the associated information, determine an effect of the image process for each area in the output image, and output the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hamano, Akihiko Kanda, Yoshihito Tamaki
  • Patent number: 10389931
    Abstract: Provided is an image pickup apparatus including pixels each divided into subpixels that receive respective rays of a pencil having passed through different pupil subregions in an optical system, the apparatus having a viewpoint image generation unit that generates viewpoint images based on pixel signals outputted by the subpixels, an image deviation amount calculation unit that calculates an image deviation amount from the viewpoint images, a conversion factor calculation unit that calculates a conversion factor for use in conversion of the image deviation amount into a defocus amount, and a recording unit that records at least two of the conversion factor, the image deviation amount, and the defocus amount in a storage medium as metadata in association with the viewpoint images or an image obtained from the viewpoint images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuki Yoshimura, Koichi Fukuda, Akihiko Kanda
  • Publication number: 20190244672
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device capable of simplifying a trimming operation. A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a power supply circuit and a trimming circuit. The power supply circuit includes a reference voltage generation circuit that generates a plurality of reference voltages used at the time of a trimming operation, and a voltage generation circuit that generates a plurality of power supply voltages used by a semiconductor storage device. The semiconductor device adjusts a specific reference voltage using an external reference voltage at the time of the trimming operation, and then determines trimming codes corresponding to the adjustment amounts of the power supply voltages using a plurality of reference voltages generated using the adjusted specific reference voltage and a plurality of power supply voltages corresponding to the reference voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Shota OKAYAMA, Akihiko KANDA
  • Publication number: 20190141255
    Abstract: The image-capturing apparatus (100) includes an image sensor (14), a focus detector (42) performing focus detection using output from the image sensor; and a controller (50) configured to cause the focus detector to perform the focus detection and configured to control emission of a light emitter for illuminating an object and movement of a focus element for focusing. The controller selectively performs: a first focus detection process that causes the focus detector to perform the focus detection with the focus element being stopped while causing the light emitter to intermittently emit light; and a second focus detection process that causes the focus detector to perform the focus detection with the focus element being moved while causing the light emitter to intermittently emit the light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Hideyuki HAMANO, Akihiko Kanda
  • Publication number: 20190132508
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor and a focus detector. The focus detector corrects a result of the focus detection by using a difference between a first focus position calculated as a focus position in image capturing by using aberration information of the image capturing optical system and first calculation information according to a spectroscopic characteristic of first light and a second focus position calculated as a focus position in the focus detection by using the aberration information and second calculation information according to the spectroscopic characteristic of the first light, and changes the second calculation information in the focus detection between when second light having a spectroscopic characteristic different from that of the first light is emitted to the object, and when the second light is not emitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hamano, Akihiko Kanda, Yoshihito Tamaki
  • Publication number: 20190109996
    Abstract: An image processing device is provided that includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of viewpoint images which are captured at a plurality of different viewpoints by an imaging unit; a detection unit that detects viewpoint-relevant information between the plurality of viewpoint images; a determination unit that determines a second imaging condition in which image change between before and after predetermined image processing is greater than that in a first imaging condition in which the plurality of viewpoint images are captured on the basis of the first imaging condition and the viewpoint-relevant information; and an output unit that outputs the second imaging condition determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiko Kanda, Yoshihito Tamaki, Hideyuki Hamano
  • Publication number: 20190088702
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of viewpoint images, an operation information acquisition unit that acquires imaging conditions when the viewpoint image is captured, and a compression unit that compresses the viewpoint image to be recorded on a flash memory (133), and the compression unit compresses the viewpoint image according to imaging conditions such as ISO sensitivity and an aperture value or a value of contrast information corresponding to a contrast distribution. The compression unit changes a compression rate for compressing the viewpoint image according to the imaging conditions or the value of the contrast information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiko Kanda, Yoshihito Tamaki, Hideyuki Hamano
  • Publication number: 20190075246
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor that has a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed pixels, each of the pixels having a first photoelectric conversion portion and a second photoelectric conversion portion, a generation unit that generates a first image signal by connecting, in a pupil divided direction, a first signal obtained by combining signals of the first photoelectric conversion portions, and generate a second image signal, in the pupil divided direction, a second signal obtained by combining signals of the second photoelectric conversion portions. In a case of combing signals of the first photoelectric conversion portions, or combining signals of the second photoelectric conversion portions, the generation unit decreases weighting of a signal of a photoelectric conversion portion in which an effect of crosstalk from a neighboring photoelectric conversion portion is large.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Akihiko Kanda
  • Publication number: 20190028640
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises at least one processor or circuit configured to perform the operations of following units: an obtaining unit configured to obtaining an image signal containing intensity information and angle information of an incident light beam, an operating unit configured to obtain a viewpoint changing operation and a focus position changing operation, and a processing unit configured to generate, based on a plurality of viewpoint images obtained based on the image signal, a display image by changing a viewpoint in accordance with the viewpoint changing operation, and changing a focus position in accordance with the focus position changing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiko Kanda, Koichi Fukuda, Yuki Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20190014264
    Abstract: An imaging element of an imaging apparatus has a configuration in which a plurality of pixels provided with a plurality of photoelectric conversion units for receiving light fluxes transmitting each of different pupil partial regions of an image forming optical system are arrayed. A CPU performs control to acquire a plurality of viewpoint images corresponding to different pupil partial regions from the imaging element and to generate output images using an image processing unit. The CPU and the image processing unit sets a detection range of an image shift amount using a photographing condition of an input image and a conversion coefficient for a conversion an image shift amount to a defocus amount, generates an image shift amount distribution of the detection range on the basis of a plurality of viewpoint images, and generates an image shift difference amount distribution. Image processing in accordance with the image shift amount distribution is performed to generate refocused images as output images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiko Kanda, Koichi Fukuda