Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Hidari

Hirofumi Hidari 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: 20020024638
    Abstract: An image input/output apparatus includes an image-capturing device that captures an image of a subject placed on a stage and a projection-type display device that generates an image based upon an input image signal and projects the image onto a screen. If the image-capturing device is detected to be in the operating state, an illuminating lamp and a projection lamp are turned on and one of the input terminals is selected at a selection means switch. Thus, the image signal from the image-capturing device is selected and an image based upon the image signal is projected from the projection-type display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventors: Hirofumi Hidari, Satoru Sanada, Toshio Suzuki, Keiichi Nitta, Takashi Tanemura
  • Patent number: 5905533
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a number of times of integration determiner for determining a number of times of integration based on stop information representing a stop value of an image pickup unit for picking up a still object, and an integrator for integrating the still image data produced by the image pickup unit by the number of times determined by the determiner. The apparatus modifies the still image data integrated by the integrator for each integration in accordance with the current number of times of integration and the stop information. In another aspect of the invention, the apparatus comprises a calculator for sequentially and circulatively adding K times (0<K<1) of an input video signal and (1-K) times of a past image signal correlated to the input video signal to reduce a noise component of a still image or a still image area in a motion picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Hirofumi Hidari
  • Patent number: 5777756
    Abstract: A video processing apparatus uses multiple image signal integration and reduction for decreasing noise. A television camera picks up an image of a still object and outputs image signals repetitively. An adder adds each newly outputted signal to the sum of previously outputted image signals stored in a memory and stores each new sum of image signals in the memory. A circuit divides each new sum of image signals by the number of times the adder has performed additions, thereby providing a signal that is displayed on a monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Hirofumi Hidari
  • Patent number: 5719793
    Abstract: A recursive noise reduction device which has adaptability with respect to changes in input image data which are not noise, resulting from, e.g., scene changes and subject movement, and in which a rise in the black level and a drop in the white level does not occur. The recursive noise reduction device includes a storage unit which stores image signals in field or frame units, and a computation unit which multiplies by an input image signal A by K (0<K<1), and multiplies by (1-K) an image signal B from a previous recursive calculation, which is output from the storage unit. The computation unit adds the input image signal A, which has been multiplied by K, to the signal B, which has been multiplied by (1-K), and the computation results are stored in the storage unit. A comparison device compares the signal A with the signal B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Nitta, Hirofumi Hidari, Takashi Matsukuma
  • Patent number: 5103300
    Abstract: A camera of the type in which a rotary filter having color filter sections formed for three different colors is rotated between an image pickup and an object and the image pickup repeatedly stores one frame of a video signal therein. The camera comprising a rotation controller, a memory and an output controller. The rotation controller controls the rotation of the rotary filter in such manner that the image pickup scans by at least two frames of the video signal for a certain residence time during which each of the color filter sections is disposed between the image pickup and the object. The output controller controls the outputting of the video signal from the image pickup into the memory. The output controller inhibits the image pickup from outputting into the memory the first frame of the video signal during residence time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Nitta, Hirofumi Hidari, Kiyoshige Shibazaki, Yasunobu Nakagawa, Junya Yamashita, Takaaki Hashimoto