Patents by Inventor Genjiro Shibagami
Genjiro Shibagami 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: 11843852Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes a first camera and a second camera, and performing photography using the first camera and the second camera, and generating a composite image from a plurality of images acquired by the photography, the imaging apparatus comprising at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an acquiring unit configured to acquire two images by performing a first photography and a second photography, which is performed after a time lag from the first photography; and a generating unit configured to generate a composite image having a visual field range of 360 degrees by compositing a first image acquired by performing photography for a first range in the first photography and a second image acquired by performing photography for a second range in the second photography.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Patent number: 11683464Abstract: In an electronic device according to the present invention, on a first screen, a range of a part of a VR content having a first video range is displayed as a display range and the display range is changed in accordance with an orientation change of the electronic device or a display range change operation, and on a second screen, a first image with a second video range that is narrower than the first video range and a second image with a range outside of the second video range in the first video range are displayed side by side; an edited VR content including the second video range is generated; and the second video range is changed in accordance with a video range change operation in a state where the first image and the second image are being displayed on the second screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Genjiro Shibagami, Kiyoto Ueda, Takashi Yoshimi, Shin Murakami, Seiji Ogawa, Kotaro Oguma, Koki Kitaya
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Publication number: 20230171483Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes a first camera and a second camera, and performing photography using the first camera and the second camera, and generating a composite image from a plurality of images acquired by the photography, the imaging apparatus comprising at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an acquiring unit configured to acquire two images by performing a first photography and a second photography, which is performed after a time lag from the first photography; and a generating unit configured to generate a composite image having a visual field range of 360 degrees by compositing a first image acquired by performing photography for a first range in the first photography and a second image acquired by performing photography for a second range in the second photography.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Patent number: 11625948Abstract: An imaging control apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect, from a captured image, subjects belonging to a plurality of types including a first type and a second type a switching unit configured to switch a type, a selection unit configured to select any subject from among a plurality of subjects belonging to the second type, and a control unit configured to perform control so as to display a first subject belonging to the first type in a first display manner and display a second subject belonging to the second type in a second display manner in a case where the type for which the predetermined processing is the first type, and display the second subject in the first display manner in response to switching to the second type by the switching unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabashiki KaishaInventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Patent number: 11595563Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes a first camera and a second camera, and performing photography using the first camera and the second camera, and generating a composite image from a plurality of images acquired by the photography, the imaging apparatus comprising at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an acquiring unit configured to acquire two images by performing a first photography and a second photography, which is performed after a time lag from the first photography; and a generating unit configured to generate a composite image having a visual field range of 360 degrees by compositing a first image acquired by performing photography for a first range in the first photography and a second image acquired by performing photography for a second range in the second photography.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Patent number: 11553170Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: perform control to change a display region of an image in accordance with an orientation change of the electronic device or in accordance with accepting a user operation and display the display region of the image on a screen; and determine a clipping region of the image to be clipped from the image based on a position of the display region of the image, wherein the image includes the display region and the clipping region and the clipping region is wider than the display region.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Seiji Ogawa, Shin Murakami, Takashi Yoshimi, Kiyoto Ueda, Genjiro Shibagami, Kotaro Oguma, Koki Kitaya
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Publication number: 20210321048Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: perform control to change a display region of an image in accordance with an orientation change of the electronic device or in accordance with accepting a user operation and display the display region of the image on a screen; and determine a clipping region of the image to be clipped from the image based on a position of the display region of the image, wherein the image includes the display region and the clipping region and the clipping region is wider than the display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Seiji Ogawa, Shin Murakami, Takashi Yoshimi, Kiyoto Ueda, Genjiro Shibagami, Kotaro Oguma, Koki Kitaya
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Publication number: 20210243359Abstract: An imaging control apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect, from a captured image, subjects belonging to a plurality of types including a first type and a second type a switching unit configured to switch a type, a selection unit configured to select any subject from among a plurality of subjects belonging to the second type, and a control unit configured to perform control so as to display a first subject belonging to the first type in a first display manner and display a second subject belonging to the second type in a second display manner in a case where the type for which the predetermined processing is the first type, and display the second subject in the first display manner in response to switching to the second type by the switching unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Electronic device, control method for electronic device, and non-transitory computer readable medium
Patent number: 11036287Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention includes at least one processor to perform the operations of: a display control unit configured to control a display device to display a part of an image; and a detection unit configured to detect an orientation change of the display device, wherein the display control unit performs first processing relating to changing a position of a part of the image displayed according to the orientation change if the detected orientation change is a pitch or a yaw, and performs second processing relating to reproduction of the image, the second processing being different from the first processing, if the detected orientation change is a roll.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Genjiro Shibagami -
Publication number: 20210144293Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes a first camera and a second camera, and performing photography using the first camera and the second camera, and generating a composite image from a plurality of images acquired by the photography, the imaging apparatus comprising at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an acquiring unit configured to acquire two images by performing a first photography and a second photography, which is performed after a time lag from the first photography; and a generating unit configured to generate a composite image having a visual field range of 360 degrees by compositing a first image acquired by performing photography for a first range in the first photography and a second image acquired by performing photography for a second range in the second photography.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Publication number: 20200213575Abstract: In an electronic device according to the present invention, on a first screen, a range of a part of a VR content having a first video range is displayed as a display range and the display range is changed in accordance with an orientation change of the electronic device or a display range change operation, and on a second screen, a first image with a second video range that is narrower than the first video range and a second image with a range outside of the second video range in the first video range are displayed side by side; an edited VR content including the second video range is generated; and the second video range is changed in accordance with a video range change operation in a state where the first image and the second image are being displayed on the second screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Genjiro Shibagami, Kiyoto Ueda, Takashi Yoshimi, Shin Murakami, Seiji Ogawa, Kotaro Oguma, Koki Kitaya
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ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
Publication number: 20190310702Abstract: An electronic device according to the present invention includes at least one processor to perform the operations of: a display control unit configured to control a display device to display a part of an image; and a detection unit configured to detect an orientation change of the display device, wherein the display control unit performs first processing relating to changing a position of a part of the image displayed according to the orientation change if the detected orientation change is a pitch or a yaw, and performs second processing relating to reproduction of the image, the second processing being different from the first processing, if the detected orientation change is a roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami -
Publication number: 20190222754Abstract: An imaging apparatus, which includes an image sensor configured to perform image capturing of a plurality of images while being panned, sets a focus position in an optical axis direction used for the image sensor to perform image capturing, performs composition of a panoramic image, in at least some areas of which each subject existing in each of the areas is in focus, with use of the plurality of images, determines a foreground from the subjects, sets the focus position in such a way as to focus on any of the subjects while the image sensor is being panned, generates the panoramic image with use of the plurality of images, crops the foreground from the image in which the foreground is in focus, and performs the composition on the image in which the subject surrounding the foreground and different from the foreground is in focus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Patent number: 9979877Abstract: An image capturing apparatus is provided with: a detection unit configured to detect in-focus positions; a storage unit in which focus cam data is stored that indicates a relationship between an object distance and a focus lens position; a calculation unit configured to calculate object distances at the in-focus positions, based on focus lens positions at the in-focus positions and the focus cam data; an estimation unit configured to estimate an object distance in next in-focus position detection; and a determination unit configured to determine a predetermined range in which the focus lens is moved in the next in-focus position detection, based on an estimated value for the object distance in the next in-focus position detection that was estimated by the estimation unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Publication number: 20170244887Abstract: An image capturing apparatus is provided with: a detection unit configured to detect in-focus positions; a storage unit in which focus cam data is stored that indicates a relationship between an object distance and a focus lens position; a calculation unit configured to calculate object distances at the in-focus positions, based on focus lens positions at the in-focus positions and the focus cam data; an estimation unit configured to estimate an object distance in next in-focus position detection; and a determination unit configured to determine a predetermined range in which the focus lens is moved in the next in-focus position detection, based on an estimated value for the object distance in the next in-focus position detection that was estimated by the estimation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Patent number: 9451150Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises: a focus detection unit to obtain an in-focus position for each preset focus detection area; a setting unit to set an object area for a captured image; an acquisition unit to acquire a representative in-focus position of the object area based on in-focus positions contained within a given range where in-focus positions of focus detection areas corresponding to the object area are most concentrated; a determination unit to determine, if a plurality of object areas are set by the setting unit, a priority order of the object areas based on representative in-focus positions of the object areas; and a control unit configured to perform control so as to sequentially drive the focus lens to the representative in-focus positions of the object areas in decreasing order of the priority order and perform shooting.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Patent number: 9300867Abstract: An imaging apparatus is arranged to perform a focus detection in each of focus detection areas set on an image pickup plane; select first area and second areas from among the focus detection areas on the basis of the focus detection result; pick up an optical image which is formed at each of a first focus position at which the selected first area is in focus and a second focus position at which the selected second area is in focus and generate image data; determine an area to be processed on the basis of the image data; execute a predetermined processing to the image data on the basis of a determination result. The second area is selected based on the number of focus detection areas satisfying a predetermined condition from among the focus detection areas each having a depth difference from the first area in a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Patent number: 9060158Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of selecting an image more suited to a user from images that have been continuously taken. A face included in each of a plurality of images is chosen, and with respect to each of the images, an evaluation value for use in selecting one image from the plurality of images is calculated based on the face chosen in each of the images. An image with the highest evaluation value is selected, and when there are a plurality of images with the highest evaluation value, an image taken first is selected. The selected image is then recorded.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Publication number: 20150054978Abstract: An imaging apparatus is arranged to perform a focus detection in each of focus detection areas set on an image pickup plane; select first area and second areas from among the focus detection areas on the basis of the focus detection result; pick up an optical image which is formed at each of a first focus position at which the selected first area is in focus and a second focus position at which the selected second area is in focus and generate image data; determine an area to be processed on the basis of the image data; execute a predetermined processing to the image data on the basis of a determination result. The second area is selected based on the number of focus detection areas satisfying a predetermined condition from among the focus detection areas each having a depth difference from the first area in a predetermined range.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
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Patent number: 8964101Abstract: An apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to photoelectrically convert an object image incident via a focus lens to acquire image data; a detection unit configured to detect a size and a position of an object based on the acquired image data; an adjustment unit configured to execute focus adjustment by acquiring a focus signal indicating a focusing state of the focus lens based on the image data while moving the focus lens, and moving the focus lens based on the focus signal; and a control unit configured to execute an operation if the detected size has changed, and to change the operation if the detected position has changed while the detected size has not changed.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2010Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Genjiro Shibagami