Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Takao
Hiroaki Takao 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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Publication number: 20240056689Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki TAKAO, Kentaro TOKIWA, Hirofumi HORII, Yuichi FUJIMURA, Takeshi MISAWA, Atsushi MISAWA
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Patent number: 11838642Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takao, Kentaro Tokiwa, Hirofumi Horii, Yuichi Fujimura, Takeshi Misawa, Atsushi Misawa
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Publication number: 20220337733Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki TAKAO, Kentaro TOKIWA, Hirofumi HORII, Yuichi FUJIMURA, Takeshi MISAWA, Atsushi MISAWA
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Patent number: 11477389Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takao, Kentaro Tokiwa, Hirofumi Horii, Yuichi Fujimura, Takeshi Misawa, Atsushi Misawa
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Publication number: 20220256067Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki TAKAO, Kentaro TOKIWA, Hirofumi HORII, Yuichi FUJIMURA, Takeshi MISAWA, Atsushi MISAWA
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Patent number: 11330188Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takao, Kentaro Tokiwa, Hirofumi Horii, Yuichi Fujimura, Takeshi Misawa, Atsushi Misawa
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Publication number: 20210014400Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki TAKAO, Kentaro TOKIWA, Hirofumi HORII, Yuichi FUJIMURA, Takeshi MISAWA, Atsushi MISAWA
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Patent number: 10873705Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takao, Kentaro Tokiwa, Hirofumi Horii, Yuichi Fujimura, Takeshi Misawa, Atsushi Misawa
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Publication number: 20200177783Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki TAKAO, Kentaro TOKIWA, Hirofumi HORII, Yuichi FUJIMURA, Takeshi MISAWA, Atsushi MISAWA
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Patent number: 10616494Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takao, Kentaro Tokiwa, Hirofumi Horii, Yuichi Fujimura, Takeshi Misawa, Atsushi Misawa
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Patent number: 10215557Abstract: Disclosed are a distance image acquisition apparatus and a distance image acquisition method capable of acquiring a distance image with satisfactory accuracy based on a first pattern projected from a host apparatus even in a case where patterns of structured light having the same shape are projected simultaneously from the host apparatus and another apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takao, Takeshi Misawa, Takeshi Kamiya, Tomonori Masuda, Koudai Fujita
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Publication number: 20190014248Abstract: There is provided a camera of which operability is good regardless of the brightness of the surrounding environment. The brightness of the surrounding environment is detected by a brightness detection unit provided in a camera. The contents of settings of the camera are displayed on a sub-display 18 in a situation in which the surrounding environment is bright. The contents of settings of the camera and an image representing the set state of a shutter speed dial 33 are displayed on the sub-display 18 in a case in which the surrounding environment is dark.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki TAKAO, Kentaro TOKIWA, Hirofumi HORII, Yuichi FUJIMURA, Takeshi MISAWA, Atsushi MISAWA
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Patent number: 10041784Abstract: A distance image acquisition apparatus includes a projection unit which performs a plurality of times of light emission with a plurality of light emission intensities to project a first pattern of structured light onto a subject within a distance measurement region, an imaging unit which is provided in parallel with and apart from the projection unit by a baseline length, images the subject in synchronization with each of the plurality of times of light emission, and generates a plurality of captured images corresponding to the plurality of light emission intensities, a normalization unit which normalizes a plurality of captured images with coefficients corresponding to the plurality of light emission intensities to acquire a plurality of normalized images, a discrimination unit which compares a plurality of normalized images and discriminates the first pattern projected from the projection unit, and a distance image acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takao, Takeshi Misawa, Takeshi Kamiya, Tomonori Masuda, Koudai Fujita
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Patent number: 9953433Abstract: A distance image acquisition apparatus includes a projection unit which projects a first pattern of structured light in a plurality of wavelength bandwidths, an imaging unit which is provided in parallel with and apart from the projection unit by a baseline length, performs imaging with sensitivities to a plurality of wavelength bandwidths, and generates a plurality of captured images corresponding to a plurality of wavelength bandwidths, a determination unit which determines whether or not a second pattern of structured light projected from another distance image acquisition apparatus is included in the captured images, and a pattern extraction unit which extracts the first pattern from a captured image determined as the second pattern being not included by the determination unit, and a distance image acquisition unit which acquires a distance image indicating a distance of a subject within a distance measurement region based on the first pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takao, Takeshi Misawa, Takeshi Kamiya, Tomonori Masuda, Koudai Fujita
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Patent number: 9927223Abstract: The distance image acquisition apparatus (10) includes a projection unit (12) which projects a first pattern of structured light distributed in a two-dimensional manner with respect to a subject within a distance measurement region, a light modulation unit (22) which spatially modulates the first pattern projected from the projection unit (12), an imaging unit (14) which is provided in parallel with and apart from the projection unit (12) by a baseline length, and captures an image including the first pattern reflected from the subject within the distance measurement region, a pattern extraction unit (20A) which extracts the first pattern spatially modulated by the light modulation unit (22) from the image captured by the imaging unit (14), and a distance image acquisition unit (20B) which acquires a distance image indicating a distance of the subject within the distance measurement region based on the first pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Takao, Takeshi Misawa, Takeshi Kamiya, Tomonori Masuda, Koudai Fujita
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Publication number: 20180080761Abstract: Disclosed are a distance image acquisition apparatus and a distance image acquisition method capable of acquiring a distance image with satisfactory accuracy based on a first pattern projected from a host apparatus even in a case where patterns of structured light having the same shape are projected simultaneously from the host apparatus and another apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki TAKAO, Takeshi MISAWA, Takeshi KAMIYA, Tomonori MASUDA, Koudai FUJITA
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Publication number: 20180073873Abstract: A distance image acquisition apparatus includes a projection unit which performs a plurality of times of light emission with a plurality of light emission intensities to project a first pattern of structured light onto a subject within a distance measurement region, an imaging unit which is provided in parallel with and apart from the projection unit by a baseline length, images the subject in synchronization with each of the plurality of times of light emission, and generates a plurality of captured images corresponding to the plurality of light emission intensities, a normalization unit which normalizes a plurality of captured images with coefficients corresponding to the plurality of light emission intensities to acquire a plurality of normalized images, a discrimination unit which compares a plurality of normalized images and discriminates the first pattern projected from the projection unit, and a distance image acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki TAKAO, Takeshi MISAWA, Takeshi KAMIYA, Tomonori MASUDA, Koudai FUJITA
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Publication number: 20180012372Abstract: A distance image acquisition apparatus includes a projection unit which projects a first pattern of structured light in a plurality of wavelength bandwidths, an imaging unit which is provided in parallel with and apart from the projection unit by a baseline length, performs imaging with sensitivities to a plurality of wavelength bandwidths, and generates a plurality of captured images corresponding to a plurality of wavelength bandwidths, a determination unit which determines whether or not a second pattern of structured light projected from another distance image acquisition apparatus is included in the captured images, and a pattern extraction unit which extracts the first pattern from a captured image determined as the second pattern being not included by the determination unit, and a distance image acquisition unit which acquires a distance image indicating a distance of a subject within a distance measurement region based on the first pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki TAKAO, Takeshi MISAWA, Takeshi KAMIYA, Tomonori MASUDA, Koudai FUJITA
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Publication number: 20180010903Abstract: The distance image acquisition apparatus (10) includes a projection unit (12) which projects a first pattern of structured light distributed in a two-dimensional manner with respect to a subject within a distance measurement region, a light modulation unit (22) which spatially modulates the first pattern projected from the projection unit (12), an imaging unit (14) which is provided in parallel with and apart from the projection unit (12) by a baseline length, and captures an image including the first pattern reflected from the subject within the distance measurement region, a pattern extraction unit (20A) which extracts the first pattern spatially modulated by the light modulation unit (22) from the image captured by the imaging unit (14), and a distance image acquisition unit (20B) which acquires a distance image indicating a distance of the subject within the distance measurement region based on the first pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroaki TAKAO, Takeshi MISAWA, Takeshi KAMIYA, Tomonori MASUDA, Koudai FUJITA
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Patent number: 7692260Abstract: A light shielding film, an insulating layer, a planarizing layer, and a color filter are formed consecutively on a semiconductor substrate having plural photodiodes in a matrix arrangement. A transparent conductive film is formed on the color filter, and micro-lenses are formed directly on the conductive film such that they reside above each photodiode. Static charges on a surface of each micro-lens are discharged to the conductive film, and static charge buildup on the micro-lenses is therefore prevented.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2007Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Takao