Patents by Inventor Hironori Kaida

Hironori Kaida 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: 20240147078
    Abstract: A photographing system includes an image capturing device and a sensor device worn on a subject. The image capturing device includes an image sensor, a subject motion detector, a receiver, and an exposure controller. The image sensor is configured to capture an image of the subject. The subject motion detector is configured to detect a motion of the subject using the captured image. The receiver is configured to receive a sensing result transmitted from an external device. The exposure controller is configured to control exposure of the image sensor. The sensor device includes a sensor and a transmitter. The sensor is configured to acquire information on the subject. The transmitter is configured to transmit the sensing result of the sensor to the image capturing device. The exposure controller receives the sensing result and controls the exposure using the sensing result and a detection result of the motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: HIRONORI KAIDA
  • Patent number: 11818466
    Abstract: There is provided a notifying apparatus. A detecting unit detects a motion amount of an object from an image obtained through first shooting, the first shooting being carried out repeatedly at predetermined intervals of time. A converting unit converts the motion amount into a motion blur amount that will arise in second shooting, on the basis of the predetermined intervals of time and an exposure time used in the second shooting. A notifying unit makes a notification of motion blur on the basis of the motion blur amount. The notifying unit changes a form of the notification in accordance with a magnitude of the motion blur amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukiko Kubo, Hironori Kaida
  • Publication number: 20230269488
    Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging apparatus and a sensor device, the imaging apparatus including an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of an object, an object motion detection unit configured to detect motion of the object using the captured image, a reception unit configured to receive a sensing result associated with the motion of the object, and an exposure control unit configured to control exposure of the image capturing unit, the sensor device attached to the object to be captured and comprising: a sensor unit configured to acquire motion information regarding the object, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a sensing result of the sensor unit to the imaging apparatus, wherein the imaging apparatus receives the sensing result of the sensor unit and controls the exposure of the image capturing unit using the sensing result from the sensor device and the detected motion of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: HIRONORI KAIDA, NAOKO WATAZAWA
  • Patent number: 11568517
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to the present invention, includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information indicating a position of an object in a captured image; a display control unit configured to perform control such that an item having a length in a first direction, which corresponds to a range in a depth direction in the image, is displayed in a display, and a graphic indicating presence of the object is displayed in association with a position corresponding to the positional information in the item; a reception unit configured to be able to receive an operation of specifying a set range which is at least part of the item; and a processing unit configured to perform predetermined processing based on the set range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida
  • Publication number: 20230007155
    Abstract: There is provided a notifying apparatus. A detecting unit detects a motion amount of an object from an image obtained through first shooting, the first shooting being carried out repeatedly at predetermined intervals of time. A converting unit converts the motion amount into a motion blur amount that will arise in second shooting, on the basis of the predetermined intervals of time and an exposure time used in the second shooting. A notifying unit makes a notification of motion blur on the basis of the motion blur amount. The notifying unit changes a form of the notification in accordance with a magnitude of the motion blur amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yukiko Kubo, Hironori Kaida
  • Publication number: 20220394174
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of first captured images captured by first image capturing using a first image capturing parameter and to acquire motion information about a subject in the plurality of first captured images, an estimation unit configured to estimate a motion blur of the subject in a second captured image captured by second image capturing based on a second image capturing parameter for the second image capturing to be performed using the second image capturing parameter, a setting unit configured to set the first image capturing parameter and the second image capturing parameter. The acquisition unit acquires the motion information from the plurality of first captured images captured using the first image capturing parameter changed so that the changed first image capturing parameter corresponds to an exposure time for the second image capturing relating to the second image capturing parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida
  • Patent number: 11463623
    Abstract: There is provided a notifying apparatus. A detecting unit detects a motion amount of an object from an image obtained through first shooting, the first shooting being carried out repeatedly at predetermined intervals of time. A converting unit converts the motion amount into a motion blur amount that will arise in second shooting, on the basis of the predetermined intervals of time and an exposure time used in the second shooting. A notifying unit makes a notification of motion blur on the basis of the motion blur amount. The notifying unit changes a form of the notification in accordance with a magnitude of the motion blur amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukiko Kubo, Hironori Kaida
  • Patent number: 11375132
    Abstract: The imaging apparatus of the present invention determines the cumulative amount of motion amounts of the object between frames of multiple pieces of image data, which are captured by a second imaging device, and starts the exposure for the image data for a first frame by the first imaging device in accordance with a result of comparison between the cumulative amount and a first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida
  • Publication number: 20210287343
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to the present invention, includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information indicating a position of an object in a captured image; a display control unit configured to perform control such that an item having a length in a first direction, which corresponds to a range in a depth direction in the image, is displayed in a display, and a graphic indicating presence of the object is displayed in association with a position corresponding to the positional information in the item; a reception unit configured to be able to receive an operation of specifying a set range which is at least part of the item; and a processing unit configured to perform predetermined processing based on the set range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida
  • Patent number: 10885690
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a memory that stores instructions, and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor executes the instructions to set a plurality of image sets according to a predetermined rule using a plurality of images obtained by continuous photography, to generate a first conversion coefficient corresponding to a moving amount of an object between images in each of the plurality of image sets, and to generate a second conversion coefficient used for an alignment process of a base image and a correction target image other than the base image by using a plurality of first conversion coefficients. The base image and the correction target image are included in the plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida
  • Publication number: 20200244863
    Abstract: The imaging apparatus of the present invention determines the cumulative amount of motion amounts of the object between frames of multiple pieces of image data, which are captured by a second imaging device, and starts the exposure for the image data for a first frame by the first imaging device in accordance with a result of comparison between the cumulative amount and a first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida
  • Publication number: 20200213497
    Abstract: There is provided a notifying apparatus. A detecting unit detects a motion amount of an object from an image obtained through first shooting, the first shooting being carried out repeatedly at predetermined intervals of time. A converting unit converts the motion amount into a motion blur amount that will arise in second shooting, on the basis of the predetermined intervals of time and an exposure time used in the second shooting. A notifying unit makes a notification of motion blur on the basis of the motion blur amount. The notifying unit changes a form of the notification in accordance with a magnitude of the motion blur amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yukiko Kubo, Hironori Kaida
  • Patent number: 10419675
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup sensor, at least one memory that stores instructions, and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory and configured to execute the instructions to detect motion information of the image pickup sensor when a plurality of images is continuously shot while the image pickup sensor is being moved in a predetermined direction, to calculate a motion vector indicating a moving amount of a subject between the plurality of images shot by the image pickup sensor, by changing a search position for calculating the motion vector from a default setting value based on the motion information of the image pickup sensor, and to align and to synthesize the plurality of shot images to thereby generate a composite image based on the motion vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida
  • Publication number: 20190228555
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a memory that stores instructions, and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor executes the instructions to set a plurality of image sets according to a predetermined rule using a plurality of images obtained by continuous photography, to generate a first conversion coefficient corresponding to a moving amount of an object between images in each of the plurality of image sets, and to generate a second conversion coefficient used for an alignment process of a base image and a correction target image other than the base image by using a plurality of first conversion coefficients. The base image and the correction target image are included in the plurality of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida
  • Patent number: 10282880
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a memory configured to store instructions, and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to set up a plurality of image sets according to a predetermined rule using a plurality of images obtained by continuous photography, to calculate a first conversion coefficient corresponding to a moving amount of an object between images in each of the plurality of image sets, to calculate a second conversion coefficient used for an alignment process about a correction target image other than a base image included in the plurality of images by multiplying a plurality of first conversion coefficients, and to generate an alignment image in which the object in the correction target image is aligned to the object in the base image by applying a conversion process to the correction target image using the second conversion coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida
  • Patent number: 10142541
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines whether a feature amount in a partial region of an image satisfies a preset condition, selects a second image to be combined with a first image from a plurality of images based on the result of the determination, and performs a composition process on the aligned first image and second image based on a motion vector between these images. From the plurality of images, the image processing apparatus selects as the second image at least any one of an image having a partial region with the feature amount determined to satisfy the preset condition and an image corresponding to a partial region out of a plurality of partial regions set in the first image with the feature amount determined to satisfy the preset condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida
  • Patent number: 9973693
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is capable of generating a wide-angle composite image in which halation and black collapse are reduced without needing lots of memory quantity. An obtaining unit obtains images that are photographed with different exposure values while changing a photographing target area continuously. A detection unit detects an overlapped area where an object overlaps between adjacent images among the images obtained by the obtaining unit. A generation unit generates a composite area in which overlapped areas detected by the detection unit are overlapped so as not to exceed a predetermined count. A computation unit computes composition ratios of the images obtained by the obtaining unit based on the exposure values and signal values at the times when the images are photographed. A composition unit generates a wide-angle composite image by compositing images in the composite area with the composition ratios computed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida
  • Publication number: 20170358115
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is capable of performing an alignment process with sufficient accuracy, even if a moving amount of an object is large among a plurality of images. A setting unit sets up image sets using a plurality of images obtained by continuous photography. A first calculation unit calculates a first conversion coefficient corresponding to a moving amount of an object between images in each of the image sets. A second calculation unit calculates a second conversion coefficient used for an alignment process about a correction target image other than a base image included in the images by multiplying a plurality of first conversion coefficients. A generation unit generates an alignment image in which the object in the correction target image is aligned to the object in the base image by applying a conversion process to the correction target image using the second conversion coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida
  • Patent number: 9826148
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises an input unit configured to input an image; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a parameter for adjusting an image quality, reference environment information serving as a reference when adjusting the image quality by applying the parameter, and shooting environment information representing an environment upon shooting the image; an adjustment unit configured to adjust the image by using the parameter; and a determination unit configured to determine, based on a difference between the reference environment information and the shooting environment information, whether adjustment by the parameter is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Hironori Kaida
  • Publication number: 20170280055
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines whether a feature amount in a partial region of an image satisfies a preset condition, selects a second image to be combined with a first image from a plurality of images based on the result of the determination, and performs a composition process on the aligned first image and second image based on a motion vector between these images. From the plurality of images, the image processing apparatus selects as the second image at least any one of an image having a partial region with the feature amount determined to satisfy the preset condition and an image corresponding to a partial region out of a plurality of partial regions set in the first image with the feature amount determined to satisfy the preset condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventor: Hironori Kaida