Patents by Inventor Haruhiko Murata

Haruhiko Murata 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).

  • Publication number: 20150172363
    Abstract: A CPU 46p arranged in an RF module 46 detects an ID of an other device transmitted by a Bluetooth communication in a state where a main-power-source switch SW48 is turned of and when the detected ID of the other device is already registered in a registering means 50, the main-power-source switch SW48 is turned on. A camera CPU 22 activated thereby detects a file transfer request transmitted by a WiFi communication so as to transfer an image file stored in a recording medium to a request source in response to the detected file transfer request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: XACTI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidefumi Okada, Haruhiko Murata, Akiomi Kunisa
  • Publication number: 20130293597
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Yukio MORI, Susumu TANASE, Atsuhiro YAMASHITA, Masutaka INOUE, Shigeo KINOSHITA, Haruhiko MURATA, Takashi YABUKAWA, Hiroyuki GOYA, Yuichi TANEYA, Masae ICHINO, Kazuo NAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8477200
    Abstract: An imaging device (1) includes: an imaging element (33) which outputs a signal expressing an optical image of an imaging object upon an imaging process; a particular object detection unit (14) which successively acquires a frame image based on an output signal of the imaging element and detects the position of the particular object contained in the imaging object on the frame image according to the image signal of the frame image; a cut-out unit (15) which sets in the frame image, a cut-out region smaller than the entire region of the frame image according to the detected position and extracts the image in the cut-out region as a cut-out image; and an image quality compensation unit (16) which improves the resolution of the cut-out image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideto Fujita, Yukio Mori, Haruo Hatanaka, Makoto Yamanaka, Akihiro Maenaka, Shigeyuki Okada, Haruhiko Murata
  • Patent number: 8451336
    Abstract: A distortion correction portion includes a distortion calculation portion which calculates a distortion based on a movement of an image sensing apparatus in the image sensing operation, a distortion adjustment value calculation portion which calculates a distortion adjustment value based on a generation situation of an input image, and a distortion correction processing portion which performs a distortion correction process for correcting the distortion in the input image based on the distortion and the distortion adjustment value. The distortion adjustment value calculation portion decreases the distortion adjustment value in accordance with a generation situation of the input image, so that the degree of the correction in the distortion correction process by the distortion correction processing portion is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shimpei Fukumoto, Haruo Hatanaka, Haruhiko Murata
  • Publication number: 20130021502
    Abstract: Sound correction processing is performed for a sound signal obtained from a sound collecting portion. In particular, sound correction processing is performed after determining what is performed as the sound correction processing based on an image signal paired with a sound signal, the image signal obtained from an imaging portion, the sound signal, control data of the imaging portion, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki OKU, Masahiro YOSHIDA, Makoto YAMANAKA, Haruhiko MURATA
  • Publication number: 20120212500
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio MORI, Susumu TANASE, Atsuhiro YAMASHITA, Masutaka INOUE, Shigeo KINOSHITA, Haruhiko MURATA, Takashi YABUKAWA, Hiroyuki GOYA, Yuichi TANEYA, Masae ICHINO, Kazuo NAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8218033
    Abstract: Sound correction processing is performed for a sound signal obtained from a sound collecting portion. In particular, sound correction processing is performed after determining what is performed as the sound correction processing based on an image signal paired with a sound signal, the image signal obtained from an imaging portion, the sound signal, control data of the imaging portion, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Oku, Masahiro Yoshida, Makoto Yamanaka, Haruhiko Murata
  • Patent number: 8194007
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Telecommunications Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Mori, Susumu Tanase, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Masutaka Inoue, Shigeo Kinoshita, Haruhiko Murata, Takashi Yabukawa, Hiroyuki Goya, Yuichi Taneya, Masae Ichino, Kazuo Nakamoto
  • Patent number: 7887193
    Abstract: An illuminating device includes a discharge lamp, a condenser lens, an integrator lens, a polarization conversion system, an electromagnetic wave shielding plate, and an electromagnetic wave shielding wall. A light given out from each lens in the light-incident-side fly's eye lens becomes two light fluxes via respective polarizing beam splitters and the two light fluxes pass through two lenses in the light-exit-side fly's eye lens. The electromagnetic shielding plate has an aperture on an optical axis of each lens in the light-exit-side fly's eye lens. The electromagnetic wave shielding plate is grounded through the electromagnetic wave shielding wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kanayama, Takashi Ikeda, Haruhiko Murata
  • Publication number: 20110007175
    Abstract: An imaging device (1) includes: an imaging element (33) which outputs a signal expressing an optical image of an imaging object upon an imaging process; a particular object detection unit (14) which successively acquires a frame image based on an output signal of the imaging element and detects the position of the particular object contained in the imaging object on the frame image according to the image signal of the frame image; a cut-out unit (15) which sets in the frame image, a cut-out region smaller than the entire region of the frame image according to the detected position and extracts the image in the cut-out region as a cut-out image; and an image quality compensation unit (16) which improves the resolution of the cut-out image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideto Fujita, Yukio Mori, Haruo Hatanaka, Makoto Yamanaka, Akihiro Maenaka, Shigeyuki Okada, Haruhiko Murata
  • Patent number: 7787018
    Abstract: An amplification signal of a difference signal between a sensor signal and an offset signal to be variably set is converted into a digital signal. The sensor signal is in accordance with shake of an imaging device and outputted from a sensor. The first digital signal is obtained while a conversion ratio between the difference signal and the digital signal is set to a first conversion ratio. The second digital signal is obtained while the conversion ratio is set to a second conversion ratio. In relation to a certain difference signal, the value of the second digital signal is smaller than that of the first signal. The offset signal is updated based on the second digital signal. The shake information is generated based on the first digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruo Hatanaka, Shinpei Fukumoto, Hideto Fujita, Haruhiko Murata
  • Publication number: 20100182441
    Abstract: A distortion correction portion includes a distortion calculation portion which calculates a distortion based on a movement of an image sensing apparatus in the image sensing operation, a distortion adjustment value calculation portion which calculates a distortion adjustment value based on a generation situation of an input image, and a distortion correction processing portion which performs a distortion correction process for correcting the distortion in the input image based on the distortion and the distortion adjustment value. The distortion adjustment value calculation portion decreases the distortion adjustment value in accordance with a generation situation of the input image, so that the degree of the correction in the distortion correction process by the distortion correction processing portion is decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shimpei FUKUMOTO, Haruo HATANAKA, Haruhiko MURATA
  • Publication number: 20090263007
    Abstract: If horizontal viewpoint quantity information Nx and vertical viewpoint quantity information Ny are predetermined quantities, a value of the aspect ratio of the output image data to be finally output satisfies a predetermined condition, and a 3D identification mark is contained in the output image data, then an image recording device adds a first extension as general-purpose 3D image data which can also be used in a conventional device and records it. Accordingly, when 3D image data is output (displayed and printed) in a conventional device, image data which can be used as 3D image data (which can be viewed as a stereoscopic image) can be output as general-purpose image data while image data which cannot be used as 3D image data in the conventional device is not output as image data. This prevents a confusion of general users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Olympus Imaging Corp., SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuji Kitaura, Hideaki Yoshida, Ken Mashitani, Haruhiko Murata, Hidehiko Sekizawa
  • Publication number: 20090179995
    Abstract: An image shooting apparatus includes: an image-sensing portion adapted to acquire an image by shooting; a blur correction processing portion adapted to correct blur in a first image obtained by shooting based on the first image and a second image shot with an exposure time shorter than the exposure time of the first image; and a control portion adapted to control whether or not to make the blur correction processing portion execute blur correction processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shimpei FUKUMOTO, Haruo HATANAKA, Yukio MORI, Haruhiko MURATA
  • Patent number: 7561127
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd,
    Inventors: Yukio Mori, Susumu Tanase, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Masutaka Inoue, Shigeo Kinoshita, Haruhiko Murata, Takashi Yabukawa, Hiroyuki Goya, Yuichi Taneya, Masae Ichino, Kazuo Nakamoto
  • Publication number: 20090170564
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio MORI, Susumu TANASE, Atsuhiro YAMASHITA, Masutaka INOUE, Shigeo KINOSHITA, Haruhiko MURATA, Takashi YABUKAWA, Hiroyuki GOYA, Yuichi TANEYA, Masae ICHINO, Kazuo NAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 7525590
    Abstract: A camera apparatus includes an imaging device and a unit for detecting information relating to the movement of an object on the basis of an output of the imaging device. An exposure correction device is provided for making exposure correction on the basis of the detected information relating to the movement of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Murata, Toshiyuki Okino
  • Patent number: 7522172
    Abstract: A display device has: an RGB-RGBW conversion circuit that converts RGB signals fed thereto into RGBW signals; a display panel that has a plurality of dots each composed of four, namely R, G, B, and W, unit pixels and that displays an image based on the RGBW signals; a defect position specifier that specifies, if a unit pixel is found defective, a position of the defective pixel on the display panel; and a conversion rate controller that controls the rate at which, when the RGB signals are converted into the RGBW signals, the RGB signals are converted into a W signal according to the position of the defective pixel. If the defective pixel is a W pixel, the conversion rate for pixels adjacent thereto is made lower than the standard conversion rate set for the entire display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Tanase, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Yukio Mori, Haruhiko Murata, Koji Marumo, Kazunobu Mameno
  • Publication number: 20090086174
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus for acquiring a main image from an image sensing portion and recording the main image on a recording medium has: an image acquirer that acquires, when acquiring the main image from the image sensing portion, also a short-exposure image shot with an exposure time shorter than an exposure time of the main image; a partial image cutter that cuts out a partial image from the short-exposure image; and a recording controller that records, on the recording medium, in association with the main image, a sub image obtained from the partial image, along with the cut-out position of the partial image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shimpei FUKUMOTO, Haruo HATANAKA, Haruhiko MURATA
  • Publication number: 20090066798
    Abstract: Sound correction processing is performed for a sound signal obtained from a sound collecting portion. In particular, sound correction processing is performed after determining what is performed as the sound correction processing based on an image signal paired with a sound signal, the image signal obtained from an imaging portion, the sound signal, control data of the imaging portion, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki OKU, Masahiro YOSHIDA, Makoto YAMANAKA, Haruhiko MURATA