Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kibayashi
Hiroshi Kibayashi 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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Patent number: 7524068Abstract: A projection optical system that performs enlargement projection of an image on a display device surface formed of a plurality of pixels onto a screen surface, in which pixel shift by less than a pixel pitch is performed on the screen surface in a vertical direction, a horizontal direction, an oblique direction, or a vertical and horizontal directions, and in which conditional formulae (1) and (2) below are fulfilled over the entire image range: (1)|?RG|?0.5 d and (2)|?BG|?0.5 d, where d represents the amount of pixel shift (>0), ?RG represents lateral chromatic aberration in the direction of pixel shift of colored light R having a wavelength of 640 nm with respect to colored light G having a wavelength of 546 nm, and ?BG represents lateral chromatic aberration in the direction of pixel shift of colored light B having a wavelength of 450 nm with respect to the colored light G having a wavelength of 546 nm.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2006Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventors: Kohtaro Hayashi, Masayuki Imaoka, Yuichi Atarashi, Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Publication number: 20070086769Abstract: An image taking apparatus comprising a frame, an image taking lens that includes at least one movable lens that can be moved in a direction of the optical axis of the image taking lens with respect to said frame, a lens frame that supports the movable lens, an actuator for moving the movable lens; and a movable frame that is coupled to a movable element of said actuator, wherein the lens frame and the movable frame are formed integrally.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2006Publication date: April 19, 2007Applicant: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.Inventors: Kenji Watanabe, Hiroshi Kibayashi, Katsumi Ohtsuka, Chie Nemoto
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Publication number: 20060244930Abstract: A projection optical system that performs enlargement projection of an image on a display device surface formed of a plurality of pixels onto a screen surface, in which pixel shift by less than a pixel pitch is performed on the screen surface in a vertical direction, a horizontal direction, an oblique direction, or a vertical and horizontal directions, and in which conditional formulae (1) and (2) below are fulfilled over the entire image range: (1)|??RG|?0.5 d and (2)|?BG|?0.5 d, where d represents the amount of pixel shift (>0), ?RG represents lateral chromatic aberration in the direction of pixel shift of colored light R having a wavelength of 640 nm with respect to colored light G having a wavelength of 546 nm, and ?BG represents lateral chromatic aberration in the direction of pixel shift of colored light B having a wavelength of 450 nm with respect to the colored light G having a wavelength of 546 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2006Publication date: November 2, 2006Inventors: Kohtaro Hayashi, Masayuki Imaoka, Yuichi Atarashi, Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Patent number: 7088395Abstract: The invention concerns an image-capturing apparatus and an imager. The image-capturing apparatus includes the imager in which a plurality of circuit cells are two-dimensionally aligned, and an electronic charge, photo-electronically converted from a received light and stored in each circuit cell, can be discharged from an arbitral circuit cell. The imager includes first group circuit cells to generate electronic charges corresponding to the pixels of the image including a subject, and second group circuit cells to generate electronic charges corresponding to an amount of light coming from the subject, the electronic charges further being converted to a detected value. In the imager, at least one of two operations of halting a generating-action of the electronic charges in the first group circuit cells and discharging the electronic charges from the first group circuit cells is performed, when the detected value exceeds a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2002Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Jun Takayama, Tetsufumi Takaba, Kyosei Miyata, Takao Hosaka, Takenori Kitada, Koichi Sato, Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Publication number: 20060017834Abstract: An imaging optical system 100 has an imaging side prism 102 for bending incident light at about 90 degrees for reflection, and an image sensor 105 having a light receiving surface opposing to an exit surface 102b of the imaging side prism 102. At least one of an incident surface 101a of an incident side prism 101 and an incident surface 101a of the imaging side prism 102, or at least one of an exit surface 101b of the incident side prism 101 and the exit surface 102b of the imaging side prism 102 has an optical power. An arrangement relation between the exit surface 102b of the imaging side prism 102 and the image sensor 105 is established to satisfy the conditional formula (1): 0.0?d/a<0.8 ??(1) where d represents a distance between the exit surface 102b and the light receiving surface of the image sensor 105, and a represents a height of the light receiving surface of the image sensor 105 on a plane where an optical path of the imaging optical system 100 is folded, e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2005Publication date: January 26, 2006Inventors: Kenji Konno, Soh Ohzawa, Jun Ishihara, Mitsuaki Shimo, Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Publication number: 20050041301Abstract: In a lens device provided with a liquid optical element in which the conductive or polar first liquid and the second liquid which is not mixed with the first liquid each other, are sealed and housed in a container so that an interface has a predetermined shape, and when the voltage is impressed between the first liquid and an electrode provided on the container, a shape of the interface is changed and a refractive power is adjusted, because the present invention is characterized in that it has: a plastic lens whose optical characteristic is changed due to the temperature; a temperature detection means for detecting the temperature; and a control means for controlling the voltage to be impressed on the liquid optical element, corresponding the temperature detected by the temperature detection means, so that the influence due to the change of the optical characteristic of the plastic lens and the liquid optical element is decreased, irrespective of the temperature change, the dislocation of the image-formationType: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Inventor: Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Publication number: 20030055739Abstract: An image order receipt system including a client terminal for sending digital image signals; and an image order receipt apparatus having a receiving device for receiving said digital image signals, and a processor for applying an image processing unique to a photographing apparatus that has formed said digital image signals to said digital image signals so as to form digital image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2002Publication date: March 20, 2003Applicant: Konica CorporationInventors: Tetsufumi Takaba, Kozue Yogata, Kyosei Miyata, Hiroshi Kibayashi, Jun Takayama, Koichi Sato, Takenori Kitada
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Patent number: 6495225Abstract: Molding materials comprising a cellulose based fiber, and a thermoplastic resin in an amount of less than said cellulose based resin is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1999Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Akihisa Nakajima, Hiroshi Kibayashi, Yuji Hosoi, Yasuo Kurachi, Yuichi Atarashi
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Publication number: 20020101532Abstract: The invention concerns an image-capturing apparatus and an imager. The image-capturing apparatus includes the imager in which a plurality of circuit cells are two-dimensionally aligned, and an electronic charge, photo-electronically converted from a received light and stored in each circuit cell, can be discharged from an arbitral circuit cell. The imager includes first group circuit cells to generate electronic charges corresponding to the pixels of the image including a subject, and second group circuit cells to generate electronic charges corresponding to an amount of light coming from the subject, the electronic charges further being converted to a detected value. In the imager, at least one of two operations of halting a generating-action of the electronic charges in the first group circuit cells and discharging the electronic charges from the first group circuit cells is performed, when the detected value exceeds a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2002Publication date: August 1, 2002Applicant: Konica CorporationInventors: Jun Takayama, Tetsufumi Takaba, Kyosei Miyata, Takao Hosaka, Takenori Kitada, Koichi Sato, Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Patent number: 6393214Abstract: A lens-fitted film unit package, including: a lens-fitted film unit further including: (a) a preloaded photographic film; (b) a camera lens; (c) a shutter; (d) a diaphragm; and (e) an EV value switcher for switching the EV value of the lens-fitted film unit between the first EV value and the second EV value, which is greater than the first EV value; and a packing material; in which the lens-fitted film unit is packaged in the packing material under the condition that the EV value of the lens-fitted unit is switched to the second EV value.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2000Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Tetsufumi Takaba, Katsuyuki Koizumi, Hiromi Nakanishi, Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Publication number: 20020012534Abstract: A fixed focus camera equipped with a strobe, comprises a strobe circuit including a voltage raising circuit, a strobe light emitting circuit having a trigger circuit, a main capacitor, and a strobe light emitting tube, a light receiving element to receive light reflected from an object when the strobe light emitting tube emits light and to generate a light receiving signal, and a strobe light emission stopping circuit to stop light emission from the strobe light emitting tube on the basis of the light receiving signal generated by the light receiving element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 1999Publication date: January 31, 2002Inventors: HIROSHI KIBAYASHI, TAKAO HOSAKA, TAKURO MASUDA
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Patent number: 6341200Abstract: A lens-fitted film unit includes: a main body; a photographic lens provided in the main body, having an aperture value; an aperture provided in the main body; a shutter provided in the main body, having a shutter speed; a photographic film loaded in the main body, having image frames each including an unexposed portion and a pre-exposed portion on which a latent image has been formed; and a masking member for masking the pre-exposed portion of the photographic film when a photographing operation is conducted. The latent image has been formed on the photographic film with a same exposure amount as that obtained when an object to be photographed having a brightness of not less than 10 and not more than 12.5 in terms of light values in which a photographic film whose ISO sensitivity is 100, is exposed to light with an aperture value of the photographic lens set by the aperture and with the shutter speed of the shutter.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1999Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Nakanishi, Kunikazu Takano, Hiroshi Kibayashi, Hiromi Nakanishi, Tetsufumi Takaba, Wataru Hiroshima, Tsuyoshi Takeda, Akira Aoki, Kanichi Onda
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Publication number: 20010022617Abstract: The present invention concerns a system for recycling an electronic-image recording apparatus such as an electronic camera, etc., which can be used again. The system includes a restricting device to restrict an image-capturing operation under a predetermined condition occurring after use of the electronic-image recording apparatus, a readout section to read a first image signal in the basis of an image signal stored in the electronic-image recording apparatus, a converting section to convert the first image signal, read by the readout section, into a second image signal, and a canceling section to cancel the image-capturing restriction set by the restricting device included in the electronic-image recording apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2001Publication date: September 20, 2001Inventors: Tetsufumi Takaba, Jun Takayama, Koichi Sato, Kozue Yogata, Masami Fujita, Masaaki Takasaki, Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Patent number: 6233403Abstract: A lens-fitted film unit including a main body; a photographic film, pre-loaded in the main body; an electronic flash unit; a shutter unit; a camera lens; and a diaphragm. In the lens-fitted film unit, a guide number of the electronic flash unit, a T-number determined from the camera lens and the diaphragm and a shutter speed of the shutter unit are determined so that A is not more than 8.5 when A represents an EV value of a reference exposure amount of the lens-fitted film unit under a stroboscopic photographing state minus 1.5; and intensity of a latent image, formed on the photographic film under the condition that a reference reflection panel being placed at a predetermined distance between 2-3 m from the lens-fitted film unit is illuminated by the electronic flash unit without other lights in the stroboscopic photographing state, corresponds to intensity of a latent image obtained under a photographing condition of photographing luminance not more than A+5.0 in EV value.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Kazuhisa Aratame, Kijiro Suzuki, Kei Kaneiwa, Masami Fujita, Hideaki Haraga, Ken Ishida, Jun Kitahara, Hiroshi Kibayashi, Yoshichika Noda, Kiyoaki Hazama, Yuichi Atarashi, Kiyoshi Yamashita, Toshifumi Iijima, Shuri Mizoguchi, Takao Hosaka
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Patent number: D447501Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2000Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Shuri Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Patent number: D462373Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Nihei, Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Patent number: D476350Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Patent number: D478924Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2002Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Patent number: D479258Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2001Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Kibayashi
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Patent number: D427619Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1999Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Shuri Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Kibayashi