Patents by Inventor Hideaki Yoshihara

Hideaki Yoshihara 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).

  • Album creating apparatus, album creating method and program therefor
    Patent number: 9030576
    Abstract: An album creating apparatus is provided to insert a title appropriate for the timing at which the image stored in the album is captured. The album creating apparatus includes: an image acquiring section for acquiring a plurality of images in association with image capturing times; a reference time acquiring section for acquiring a reference time indicative of the time and date of a main event in an album; an image capturing timing specifying section for specifying an image capturing timing indicative of a period for the reference time acquired by the reference time acquiring section; a title determining section for determining a title to be inserted into the album; and an album creating section for creating the album by laying out the title determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Album generating apparatus, album generating method and program
    Patent number: 8856149
    Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Ayumu Isomura, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Album creating apparatus facilitating appropriate image allocation, album generating method and program
    Patent number: 8631322
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus and a method for generating an album while adequately allocating images per page in accordance to image capturing-times. The album creating apparatus has an image storing section for storing images correlating with image capturing-times of the images, a distribution-of-image-capturing-time calculating section for calculating a distribution of image capturing-times of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section based on the image capturing-times of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section, an image sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per page in the album based on the distribution of image capturing-times calculated by the distribution-of-image-capturing-time calculating section and a layout determining section for laying out the images sorted by the image sorting section per page to each page of the album.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ayumu Isomura, Shuji Ono, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Masahiro Matsushita, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Album generating apparatus, album generating method and program
    Patent number: 8423559
    Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Ayumu Isomura, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Album creating apparatus, method and program that classify, store, and arrange images
    Patent number: 8411968
    Abstract: An album creating apparatus for crating an album by automatically selecting an appropriate image to be laid out in an image layout frame arranged in a template and laying out the selected image in the image layout frame is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ayumu Isomura, Yasuyo Nenoki, Akira Yoda, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, album creating apparatus, album creating method, album creating system and computer readable medium
    Patent number: 8345118
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing section for capturing an image; a person determining section for determining whether the image captured by the image capturing section includes any person; an input notification section for notifying a user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted when the image determining section determines that the image includes the person; a personal identification information input section for causing the user to input personal identification information indicative of the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section by a predetermined timing after the input notification section notifies the user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted; and an image storage section for storing the personal identification information inputted by the personal identification information input section in association with the image captured by the ima
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Hajime Shirasaka, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Ayumu Isomura, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Album generating apparatus, album generating method and program
    Patent number: 8260827
    Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Ayumu Isomura, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • ALBUM GENERATING APPARATUS, ALBUM GENERATING METHOD AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20120189214
    Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro MATSUSHITA, Kenji KOJIMA, Yasuhiko KANEKO, Kimiko TACHIKAWA, Ayumu ISOMURA, Shinsuke ZETSU, Yasuyo NENOKI, Hiroyuki FUNAKURA, Hideaki YOSHIHARA
  • Album creating apparatus, album creating method and program therefor
    Publication number: 20120127339
    Abstract: An album creating apparatus is provided to insert a title appropriate for the timing at which the image stored in the album is captured. The album creating apparatus includes: an image acquiring section for acquiring a plurality of images in association with image capturing times; a reference time acquiring section for acquiring a reference time indicative of the time and date of a main event in an album; an image capturing timing specifying section for specifying an image capturing timing indicative of a period for the reference time acquired by the reference time acquiring section; a title determining section for determining a title to be inserted into the album; and an album creating section for creating the album by laying out the title determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Kimiko TACHIKAWA, Shinsuke Zetsu, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Album creating apparatus and method
    Patent number: 8111303
    Abstract: An album creating apparatus is provided to insert a title appropriate for the timing at which the image stored in the album is captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Album generating apparatus, album generating method and computer readable medium
    Patent number: 8098896
    Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album in which a desirable combination of images is disposed in one and same page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Ayumu Isomura, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Masahiro Matsushita, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • ALBUM GENERATING APPARATUS, ALBUM GENERATING METHOD AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20120008873
    Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Masahiro MATSUSHITA, Kenji Kojima, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Ayumu Isomura, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Album generating apparatus, album generating method and program
    Patent number: 8086612
    Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Ayumu Isomura, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • ALBUM GENERATING APPARATUS, ALBUM GENERATING METHOD AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20110305373
    Abstract: There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Ayumu Isomura, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Album generating apparatus, album generating method and computer readable medium
    Patent number: 8055080
    Abstract: An album generating apparatus that stores a plurality of images, sorts the plurality of images stored per event based on image capturing environments, selects a main image that is to be a primary image in the album out of the plurality of images stored per event sorted, selects subsidiary images that are to be images subsidiary to the main image selected in the album out of the plurality of images stored per event sorted based on the contents of the main image and determines a layout of the main image selected and the subsidiary images selected based on the contents of the main image selected and the subsidiary images selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: FujiFilm Corporation
    Inventors: Ayumu Isomura, Shuji Ono, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Masahiro Matsushita, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, album creating apparatus, album creating method, album creating system and computer readable medium
    Patent number: 7868924
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing section for capturing an image; a person determining section for determining whether the image captured by the image capturing section includes any person; an input notification section for notifying a user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted when the image determining section determines that the image includes the person; a personal identification information input section for causing the user to input personal identification information indicative of the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section by a predetermined timing after the input notification section notifies the user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted; and an image storage section for storing the personal identification information inputted by the personal identification information input section in association with the image captured by the ima
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Hajime Shirasaka, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Ayumu Isomura, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Album Creating Apparatus, Album Creating Method and Program Therefor
    Publication number: 20090225191
    Abstract: An album creating apparatus is provided to insert a title appropriate for the timing at which the image stored in the album is captured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • ALBUM CREATING APPARATUS, ALBUM CREATING METHOD AND ALBUM CREATING PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20090116752
    Abstract: An album creating apparatus for crating an album by automatically selecting an appropriate image to be laid out in an image layout frame arranged in a template and laying out the selected image in the image layout frame is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ayumu Isomura, Yasuyo Nenoki, Akira Yoda, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinzuke Zetsu, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Album generating apparatus, album generating method and computer readable medium
    Publication number: 20080089590
    Abstract: There is provided an album whose contents of images is well balanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayumu Isomura, Shuji Ono, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Yasuyo Nenoki, Masahiro Matsushita, Hiroyuki Funakura, Hideaki Yoshihara
  • Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, album creating apparatus, album creating method, album creating system and computer readable medium
    Publication number: 20080062283
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing section for capturing an image; a person determining section for determining whether the image captured by the image capturing section includes any person; an input notification section for notifying a user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted when the image determining section determines that the image includes the person; a personal identification information input section for causing the user to input personal identification information indicative of the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section by a predetermined timing after the input notification section notifies the user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted; and an image storage section for storing the personal identification information inputted by the personal identification information input section in association with the image captured by the ima
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Hajime Shirasaka, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Ayumu Isomura, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Hideaki Yoshihara