Patents by Inventor Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA

Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA 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).

  • Patent number: 11893594
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing system, an image processing method, and a program that can provide recommendation information according to a disposable income estimated on the basis of an analysis result of an image group. The image processing system, the image processing method, and the program include recognizing an object of an analysis target image of a user (44), converting information on the object into disposable income range information of the user (50), acquiring accessory information including imaging date information of the analysis target image, and deriving an appearance frequency of the object on the basis of the imaging date information (52), deriving a weighting coefficient on the basis of the appearance frequency information of the object (54), estimating the disposable income of the user using the disposable income range information and the weighting coefficient (56), and transmitting recommendation information corresponding to the disposable income of the user (58).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Yamaji, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya Tanaka, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20230325436
    Abstract: Provided are an information suggestion system, an information suggestion method, a program, and a recording medium capable of suggesting information of interest to many users to a product provider related to the information from an image group of a plurality of users. In the information suggestion system, the information suggestion method, the program, and the recording medium, an image group acquisition unit acquires an image group of a plurality of users, and an image analysis unit detects an imaging location of each image and an object appearing in each image. An imaging number count unit counts an imaging number of same-type images which are captured at the same imaging location and in which the same object appears, and an imaging frequency calculation unit calculates an imaging frequency of the same-type images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Kei YAMAJI
  • Publication number: 20230314793
    Abstract: A driving controller provides a first driving signal having a first driving frequency corresponding to a first set value to a first actuator, provides a second driving signal having a second driving frequency corresponding to a second set value to a second actuator, changes the first driving frequency by changing the first set value in units of a first number obtained by dividing the first set value by a greatest common divisor of the first set value and the second set value, and changes the second driving frequency by changing the second set value in units of a second number obtained by dividing the second set value by the greatest common divisor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230305293
    Abstract: A driving controller derives a first integrated value by integrating a first phase delay time of an output signal of a first angle detection sensor with respect to a first signal to be referred to corresponding to a first driving signal, the number of times that is greater by a factor of a natural number than the number of times corresponding to a period of time of one frame of a motion image to be drawn, and derives a second integrated value by integrating a second phase delay time of an output signal of a second angle detection sensor with respect to a second signal to be referred to corresponding to a second driving signal, the number of times that is greater by a factor of a natural number than the number of times corresponding to the period of time of one frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro SONODA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230252508
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing system, an image processing method, and a program that can provide recommendation information according to a disposable income estimated on the basis of an analysis result of an image group. The image processing system, the image processing method, and the program include recognizing an object of an analysis target image of a user (44), converting information on the object into disposable income range information of the user (50), acquiring accessory information including imaging date information of the analysis target image, and deriving an appearance frequency of the object on the basis of the imaging date information (52), deriving a weighting coefficient on the basis of the appearance frequency information of the object (54), estimating the disposable income of the user using the disposable income range information and the weighting coefficient (56), and transmitting recommendation information corresponding to the disposable income of the user (58).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kei YAMAJI, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11720625
    Abstract: Provided are an information suggestion system, an information suggestion method, a program, and a recording medium capable of suggesting information of interest to many users to a product provider related to the information from an image group of a plurality of users. In the information suggestion system, the information suggestion method, the program, and the recording medium, an image group acquisition unit acquires an image group of a plurality of users, and an image analysis unit detects an imaging location of each image and an object appearing in each image. An imaging number count unit counts an imaging number of same-type images which are captured at the same imaging location and in which the same object appears, and an imaging frequency calculation unit calculates an imaging frequency of the same-type images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya Tanaka, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Kei Yamaji
  • Publication number: 20230230112
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor, in which the processor is configured to acquire an image of a participant participating in an event, and output a two-dimensional code in which attribute information indicating an attribute of the participant estimated based on the image and identification information assigned for each participant are coded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Terayoko, Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya Tanaka, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20230185179
    Abstract: An image exposure device includes: an image display device that has a plurality of pixels and irradiates a photosensitive recording medium with light from the plurality of pixels; a support member that supports the photosensitive recording medium in a state in which an exposure surface of the photosensitive recording medium faces the image display device; a limiting member that is provided between the image display device and the support member and limits an angle of the light emitted from the image display device to the photosensitive recording medium; and a processor. The processor controls the image display device to display a display image generated by emphasizing only a dark portion among density differences of high-frequency components of an input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro SONODA
  • Publication number: 20230185083
    Abstract: An FPGA of a control device performs the following control in a case where laser light which is spatially modulated according to a Lissajous curve is scanned and an intensity of the laser light is time-modulated according to an image formed for each partial region divided from a scanning region of the laser light to form the image. The FPGA performs control of a region surrounded by a grid line passing through a plurality of intersections which are continuous in an X direction and a grid line passing through a plurality of intersections which are continuous in a Y direction that intersects the X direction among a plurality of intersections of the Lissajous curve to be the partial region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuya TANAKA, Shinichiro SONODA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11663619
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing system, an image processing method, and a program that can provide recommendation information according to a disposable income estimated on the basis of an analysis result of an image group. The image processing system, the image processing method, and the program include recognizing an object of an analysis target image of a user (44), converting information on the object into disposable income range information of the user (50), acquiring accessory information including imaging date information of the analysis target image, and deriving an appearance frequency of the object on the basis of the imaging date information (52), deriving a weighting coefficient on the basis of the appearance frequency information of the object (54), estimating the disposable income of the user using the disposable income range information and the weighting coefficient (56), and transmitting recommendation information corresponding to the disposable income of the user (58).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Yamaji, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya Tanaka, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 11620695
    Abstract: There are provided an information suggestion system, an information suggestion method, a program, and a recording medium capable of suggesting, to a user, information on a product matching a hobby and the preference of the user from an image group of the user. In the information suggestion system, the information suggestion method, the program, and the recording medium, an image group acquisition unit acquires an image group of a user, and an image analysis unit detects an attribute of each image. An imaging number count unit counts an imaging number of same-attribute images, and an imaging frequency calculation unit calculates an imaging frequency of the same-attribute images. An imaging purpose estimation unit estimates an imaging purpose of the same-attribute images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya Tanaka, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Kei Yamaji
  • Publication number: 20230005297
    Abstract: An information management system includes a reception device including a camera that images a face of a participant, and an information management apparatus. The information management apparatus issues a digital key assigned for each participant independently of personal information of the participant and transmits the digital key to the reception device. In a case where the reception device outputs an ID image of the participant, the information management apparatus acquires a face image from the reception device and stores the face image and the digital key in a database in association with each other. In a case where information including the digital key is received from a reading device installed in an event venue, the information management apparatus stores the received information in the database in association with the digital key as behavior information representing a behavior of the participant in the event venue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime TERAYOKO, Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220404613
    Abstract: A driving controller derives a first shift time that is a shift time used for correcting a generation timing of a first reference signal representing that an angle of a mirror portion around a first axis is equal to a first reference angle, and is a shift time of a point in time when the angle of the mirror portion around the first axis is equal to the first reference angle with respect to a point in time when an output signal of a first angle detection sensor represents that the angle of the mirror portion around the first axis is equal to the first reference angle, based on an output signal of a photodetector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro SONODA, Yoshikazu HISHINUMA, Nobuya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220382043
    Abstract: A driving controller provides a first driving signal having a first driving frequency to a first actuator that causes a mirror portion to swing around a first axis, provides a second driving signal having a second driving frequency to a second actuator that causes the mirror portion to swing around a second axis intersecting with the first axis, and derives a first driving condition of the first actuator under which the first driving frequency is less than a first resonance frequency around the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro SONODA, Yoshikazu HISHINUMA, Nobuya TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220385866
    Abstract: A driving controller provides a first driving signal having a first driving frequency to a first actuator, provides a second driving signal having a second driving frequency to a second actuator, derives a first average phase delay time by averaging a first phase delay time of an output signal of a first angle detection sensor with respect to the first driving signal in a plurality of cycles, derives a second average phase delay time by averaging a second phase delay time of an output signal of a second angle detection sensor with respect to the second driving signal in a plurality of cycles, generates a first reference signal based on the first driving signal and the first average phase delay time, and generates a second reference signal based on the second driving signal and the second average phase delay time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro SONODA, Yoshikazu HISHINUMA, Nobuya TANAKA, Yasushi ENDO
  • Publication number: 20220377185
    Abstract: The processor recognizes a first act for an imaging and print instruction that combines an imaging instruction and an instruction to print an image, the first act being performed by a person to be imaged who is included in a subject and within an imaging range of a camera unit, causes the camera unit to perform an imaging operation of outputting an image required to be printed in a case where the first act is recognized, recognizes a second act for an instruction to stop printing the image required to be printed, and causes a printer unit to print the image required to be printed in a case where the second act is not recognized during a predetermined print standby period and instructs the printer unit to stop printing the image required to be printed in a case where the second act is recognized during the print standby period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro SONODA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hajime TERAYOKO
  • Publication number: 20220375268
    Abstract: A gesture recognition device that recognizes, based on an image obtained by imaging a person to be imaged with a digital camera having an imaging range changing mechanism for changing an imaging range, a gesture represented by a hand of the person to be imaged includes at least one processor. The at least one processor controls, in a case where a position of a face of the person to be imaged in the image deviates from a predetermined set position, an operation of the imaging range changing mechanism to cause the digital camera to capture a proper face position image with the position of the face as the set position, and determines whether the hand detected from the proper face position image is a right hand or a left hand based on a positional relationship between a position of the detected hand and the set position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro SONODA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hajime TERAYOKO
  • Publication number: 20220368821
    Abstract: A CPU provided in an image display device of an image exposure device causes a display unit of the image display device to display a display image for divided exposure, which has a divided gradation value obtained by dividing a gradation value of a recorded image, and sequentially performs a plurality of exposures of the photosensitive recording medium by the display image for divided exposure to perform a divided exposure for recording the recorded image on the photosensitive recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro SONODA
  • Publication number: 20220357681
    Abstract: An information processing method comprising: exposing a correction image displayed on an image display device having a plurality of pixels to a photosensitive recording medium via a limiting member, the limiting member being provided between the image display device and an exposure surface of the photosensitive recording medium and limiting an angle of light emitted from the image display device to the photosensitive recording medium; acquiring recorded image data, which is data of a recorded image recorded on the photosensitive recording medium through the exposure of the correction image; and deriving a correction coefficient K for correcting a pixel value for each pixel of a display image for each pixel of the image display device based on the recorded image data such that the display image including unevenness of which brightness is complementary to unevenness that occur in the recorded image is displayed on the image display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro SONODA
  • Patent number: 11475567
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, an image processing program, and a recording medium that stores the program, capable of finding images of different persons captured in the same age. An image is specified as a first image, a user in the image is recognized as a first person, and an age thereof is estimated. An image is specified as a second image, a user in the image is recognized as a second person, and an age thereof is estimated. In a case where the user recognized as the first person and the user recognized as the second person are not the same person and a difference between the age of the user and the age of the user is within a range of a threshold value, the first image and the second image are detected as an image combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Matsumoto, Kei Yamaji, Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya Tanaka, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa