Patents by Inventor Hideaki Matsuoto

Hideaki Matsuoto 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: 20180262721
    Abstract: An observation device observes a sample. The observation device includes an imaging unit, a first moving mechanism, and a cooling unit. The imaging unit is provided in a housing of the observation device. The imaging unit images the sample. The first moving mechanism is provided in the housing. The first moving mechanism moves the imaging unit in a first direction. The cooling unit is arranged in the first moving mechanism. The cooling unit cools the imaging unit along the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki TANAKA, Hideaki MATSUOTO, Osamu NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20180081180
    Abstract: An observation device includes: an image acquisition portion configured to acquire an image in a direction where a culture vessel is mounted; a communication portion configured to communicate with a glasses-type terminal device including a display portion; and a control portion configured to acquire information concerning a sample position at the time of performing work on a sample in the culture vessel from the glasses-type terminal device, control the image acquisition portion to acquire a picked-up image of a position corresponding to the sample position, and cause the glasses-type terminal device to display the image pickup result, and can improve not only observation but also workability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroki AMINO, Hideaki MATSUOTO, Tsuyoshi YAJI, Osamu NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20180013971
    Abstract: An observation system includes: a plurality of imaging sections to image one or more samples; a plurality of driving mechanisms that respectively move the imaging sections to change an imaging position for the samples; and a control circuit that controls operations of the driving mechanisms and the imaging sections to cause the imaging sections to image the samples, while causing the driving mechanisms to respectively move the imaging sections. The control circuit imposes different limitations on movement patterns of the imaging sections depending on a characteristic of the samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki MATSUOTO, Osamu NONAKA
  • Patent number: 9025044
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that images a subject and that continuously creates image data on the subject; a display unit that chronologically displays live view images associated with the image data created by the imaging unit; a face detector that detects the face of a subject included in the live view image; a trimming unit that creates a face image by cutting out, from the live view images, a face area including the face of the subject detected by the face detector; and a display controller that displays the face image created by the trimming unit at a display position specified in a display area of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Fukuya, Kensei Ito, Hideaki Matsuoto, Yuji Miyauchi, Osamu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 8976255
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a first and a second imaging unit, a clipping unit, an image processing control unit. The first imaging unit is provided on a front face of an apparatus main body. The second imaging unit is provided on a back face of the apparatus main body. The clipping unit clips image data of the second main subject from the second acquired image data. The image processing control unit combines the first acquired image data with the image data of the second main subject clipped by the clipping unit to meet combining conditions determined by the first image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Hideaki Matsuoto, Osamu Nonaka, Kenichi Horie, Kensei Ito, Yoshiyuki Fukuya
  • Publication number: 20120307101
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that images a subject and that continuously creates image data on the subject; a display unit that chronologically displays live view images associated with the image data created by the imaging unit; a face detector that detects the face of a subject included in the live view image; a trimming unit that creates a face image by cutting out, from the live view images, a face area including the face of the subject detected by the face detector; and a display controller that displays the face image created by the trimming unit at a display position specified in a display area of the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki FUKUYA, Kensei ITO, Hideaki MATSUOTO, Yuji MIYAUCHI, Osamu NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20120218431
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a first and a second imaging unit, a clipping unit, an image processing control unit. The first imaging unit is provided on a front face of an apparatus main body. The second imaging unit is provided on a back face of the apparatus main body. The clipping unit clips image data of the second main subject from the second acquired image data. The image processing control unit combines the first acquired image data with the image data of the second main subject clipped by the clipping unit to meet combining conditions determined by the first image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Hideaki MATSUOTO, Osamu Nonaka, Kenichi Horie, Kensei Ito, Yoshiyuki Fukuya
  • Patent number: 6574434
    Abstract: In a camera to which the present invention is applied, a camera body having a pop-up ST unit attached thereto is sandwiched between front and back covers. A plugged rubber arranged inside the back cover is pressed by a front cover rib provided on the front cover in the state in which the front and back covers are joined to each other, whereby the front and back covers are kept liquid-tight to each other. Moreover, an ST rubber arranged on the periphery of the ST body is pressed by the front cover rib in the state in which the ST body is sandwiched between the front and back covers, whereby the front cover, the back cover, and the ST body are kept liquid-tight to one another. Simultaneously, the ST rubber is pressed by a cover rib provided on the back cover, whereby the back cover and the ST body are kept liquid-tight to each other. Thus, the water-proofing function can be secured among the three members, that is, the front cover, the back cover, and the ST body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Matsuoto, Toshifumi Nakano, Takashi Muroi
  • Patent number: 6433986
    Abstract: An electrical board is provided which includes a switch pattern disposed in a device or apparatus such as a camera, for example, for receiving an operation input in response to an operation from the exterior, and a connection land portion formed to be continuous with the switch pattern. Further, an electrical board device is provided which uses first electrical board as a first electrical board, and which further includes a second electrical board having a different switch pattern formed in a position different from the switch pattern of the first electrical board and connected to the connection land portion of the first electrical board. Thus, devices having different external appearances can be attained even if the devices require the same specification, and the board space can be efficiently used and the board itself can be made small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Matsuoto, Tatsuya Suzuki, Tatsuo Takanashi
  • Publication number: 20020085841
    Abstract: In a camera to which the present invention is applied, a camera body having a pop-up ST unit attached thereto is sandwiched between front and back covers. A plugged rubber arranged inside the back cover is pressed by a front cover rib provided on the front cover in the state in which the front and back covers are joined to each other, whereby the front and back covers are kept liquid-tight to each other. Moreover, an ST rubber arranged on the periphery of the ST body is pressed by the front cover rib in the state in which the ST body is sandwiched between the front and back covers, whereby the front cover, the back cover, and the ST body are kept liquid-tight to one another. Simultaneously, the ST rubber is pressed by a cover rib provided on the back cover, whereby the back cover and the ST body are kept liquid-tight to each other. Thus, the water-proofing function can be secured among the three members, that is, the front cover, the back cover, and the ST body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Matsuoto, Toshifumi Nakano, Takashi Muroi
  • Patent number: 6102547
    Abstract: An illumination device having a light-emitting tube and a reflector for reflecting rays of light irradiated from the light-emitting tube is designed so that the cross-sectional shape of at least one section of the reflector in a plane perpendicular to the axis direction of the light-emitting tube is different from the cross-sectional shapes of the other sections in the axis direction of the light-emitting tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Matsuoto, Toshifumi Nakano, Hiroaki Miyazaki
  • Patent number: D586349
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignees: Olympus Imaging Co., Ltd., Molex Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Tomita, Yuichi Hasegawa, Yuji Naito, Yoko Takeuchi, Hideaki Matsuoto, Kazuya Igarashi
  • Patent number: D596183
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignees: Olympus Imaging Co., Ltd., Molex Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Tomita, Yuichi Hasegawa, Yuji Naito, Yoko Takeuchi, Hideaki Matsuoto, Kazuya Igarashi
  • Patent number: D599802
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignees: Olympus Imaging Co., Ltd., Molex Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Tomita, Yuichi Hasegawa, Yuji Naito, Yoko Takeuchi, Hideaki Matsuoto, Kazuya Igarashi
  • Patent number: D604738
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignees: Olympus Imaging Co., Ltd., Molex Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Tomita, Yuichi Hasegawa, Yuji Naito, Yoko Takeuchi, Hideaki Matsuoto, Kazuya Igarashi