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).

  • Patent number: 11843852
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Patent number: 11683464
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Genjiro Shibagami, Kiyoto Ueda, Takashi Yoshimi, Shin Murakami, Seiji Ogawa, Kotaro Oguma, Koki Kitaya
  • Publication number: 20230171483
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Patent number: 11625948
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabashiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Patent number: 11595563
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Patent number: 11553170
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seiji Ogawa, Shin Murakami, Takashi Yoshimi, Kiyoto Ueda, Genjiro Shibagami, Kotaro Oguma, Koki Kitaya
  • Publication number: 20210321048
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Seiji Ogawa, Shin Murakami, Takashi Yoshimi, Kiyoto Ueda, Genjiro Shibagami, Kotaro Oguma, Koki Kitaya
  • Publication number: 20210243359
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Patent number: 11036287
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Publication number: 20210144293
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Publication number: 20200213575
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Genjiro Shibagami, Kiyoto Ueda, Takashi Yoshimi, Shin Murakami, Seiji Ogawa, Kotaro Oguma, Koki Kitaya
  • Publication number: 20190310702
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Publication number: 20190222754
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Patent number: 9979877
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Publication number: 20170244887
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Patent number: 9451150
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Patent number: 9300867
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Patent number: 9060158
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Publication number: 20150054978
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami
  • Patent number: 8964101
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Genjiro Shibagami