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).
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Patent number: 11455795Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, an image processing program, and a recording medium for the program, which make it possible to understand a unique way of spending time of a certain user at an event. A first attribute obtained from images captured by a first user and a second attribute obtained from images, captured by many second users whose number is larger than the number of the first user, among images of the same event are detected. The first attribute represents a feature of the first user having a unique way of spending time at the event. According to the first attribute, information on products or the like suitable for the first user is notified to the first user.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Matsumoto, Kei Yamaji, Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya Tanaka, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
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Publication number: 20220277374Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Kei YAMAJI
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Patent number: 11361412Abstract: The image exposure device includes an image display device that has a plurality of pixels and radiates light according to a display image represented by the plurality of pixels; a support portion that supports a photosensitive recording medium for recording a recorded image according to the display image in a state in which an exposure surface of the photosensitive recording medium faces the image display device; a louver film that is provided between the image display device and the support portion, and limits an angle of the light radiated from the image display device to the photosensitive recording medium; and a controller that controls the image display device to display the display image in which an image quality of an input image represented by input image data is deteriorated by emphasizing a density difference of a high-frequency component of the input image.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Shinichiro Sonoda
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Patent number: 11361367Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya Tanaka, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Kei Yamaji
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Publication number: 20220171274Abstract: There are provided an image exposure device, an image exposure method, and a program, the image exposure device including: an image display device; a support portion that supports a photosensitive recording medium for recording an image displayed on the image display device in a state in which an exposure surface thereof faces the image display device; a louver film that is provided between the image display device and the support portion and limits an angle of light radiated from the image display device; an image generation unit that generates a display image in which an image quality of a color input image is deteriorated by emphasizing a density difference of a high-frequency component of the input image; and a controller that performs a control for generating an image of an R component, an image of a G component, and an image of a B component from the display image and sequentially displaying each of the image of the R component, the image of the G component, and the image of the B component on the imageType: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro SONODA
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Patent number: 11277528Abstract: A mobile type apparatus, that derives, from a distance to a delivery target and a time period required from a start of forming of an image until completion of discharge, a movement speed at which a recording medium becomes a deliverable state at a position at which the recording medium is deliverable to the delivery target, wherein at least a partial period overlaps between a period from a start of forming of the image on the recording medium until completion of discharge of the recording medium, and a period from a start of movement until completion of the movement, and wherein the movement is controlled in accordance with the derived movement speed.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Shinichiro Sonoda
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Patent number: 11169451Abstract: An image exposure device includes an image display device having pixels that emit light having a plurality of wavelengths; a photosensitive recording medium support portion that supports a photosensitive recording medium for recording an image of the image display device; a collimation portion that is disposed between the image display device and the photosensitive recording medium support portion and makes radiation light including the light having a plurality of wavelengths radiated from the pixels into first transmitted light radiated within a range of a first radiation angle narrower than a radiation angle of the radiation light; and a dichroic filter that is disposed between the collimation portion and the photosensitive recording medium support portion, and makes the first transmitted light including the light having a plurality of wavelengths into second transmitted light radiated within a range of a second radiation angle equal to or smaller than the first radiation angle.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Shinichiro Sonoda, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 11019247Abstract: An imaging system that includes a plurality of mobile type apparatus. Each of the plurality of mobile type apparatuses performs, in a case where a preset imaging target and a mobile type apparatus to which a role of an imaging target is assigned are present in an acquired image, a control for forming an image on a recording medium, discharges the recording medium on which the image is formed, to a preset delivery target in a deliverable state, and controls movement of the mobile type apparatus for delivering the recording medium to a delivery target. The plurality of mobile type apparatuses include at least one mobile type apparatus to which the role of the imaging target is assigned, and at least one mobile type apparatus to which a role of a imaging responsibility is assigned.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Yoshihisa Usami, Shinichiro Sonoda, Hajime Terayoko, Erina Ogura, Nobuya Tanaka
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Patent number: 10969696Abstract: Provided is an image exposure device capable of recording a favorable image and capable of decreasing the size of the device. An image exposure device (10) includes an image display device (12) having pixels (13), a photosensitive recording medium support portion (21) that supports a photosensitive recording medium (14) for recording an image of the image display device (12) in a state in which an exposure surface (14A) of the photosensitive recording medium (14) faces the image display device (12), and a transmitted light control portion (16) that is provided between the image display device (12) and the photosensitive recording medium support portion (21) and is formed by laminating three or more layers of transmission members (100) that have a plurality of openings (102) formed therein and transmit only light incident on the openings (102).Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Shinichiro Sonoda, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
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Publication number: 20210058542Abstract: An imaging system that includes a plurality of mobile type apparatus. Each of the plurality of mobile type apparatuses performs, in a case where a preset imaging target and a mobile type apparatus to which a role of an imaging target is assigned are present in an acquired image, a control for forming an image on a recording medium, discharges the recording medium on which the image is formed, to a preset delivery target in a deliverable state, and controls movement of the mobile type apparatus for delivering the recording medium to a delivery target. The plurality of mobile type apparatuses include at least one mobile type apparatus to which the role of the imaging target is assigned, and at least one mobile type apparatus to which a role of a imaging responsibility is assigned.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Yoshihisa USAMI, Shinichiro SONODA, Hajime TERAYOKO, Erina OGURA, Nobuya TANAKA
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Publication number: 20210051237Abstract: A mobile type apparatus, that derives, from a distance to a delivery target and a time period required from a start of forming of an image until completion of discharge, a movement speed at which a recording medium becomes a deliverable state at a position at which the recording medium is deliverable to the delivery target, wherein at least a partial period overlaps between a period from a start of forming of the image on the recording medium until completion of discharge of the recording medium, and a period from a start of movement until completion of the movement, and wherein the movement is controlled in accordance with the derived movement speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro SONODA
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Publication number: 20210004596Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, an image processing program, and a recording medium for the program, which make it possible to understand a unique way of spending time of a certain user at an event. A first attribute obtained from images captured by a first user and a second attribute obtained from images, captured by many second users whose number is larger than the number of the first user, among images of the same event are detected. The first attribute represents a feature of the first user having a unique way of spending time at the event. According to the first attribute, information on products or the like suitable for the first user is notified to the first user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Kei YAMAJI, Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20210004401Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Kei YAMAJI
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Publication number: 20210004890Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Kei YAMAJI
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Publication number: 20200409991Abstract: There are provided information processing apparatus and method, and a program which can more accurately estimate user's preference. An information processing apparatus comprises an image information acquisition unit that acquires an image associated with a user and accessory information including information on at least an imaging date of the image; a news information acquisition unit that acquires news information indicating contents of news distributed by a news site; an image analysis unit that analyzes image contents from the image; and an estimation unit that estimates a preference of the user on the basis of the image contents grasped by processing of the image analysis unit and the news information at a time corresponding to the imaging date.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kei YAMAJI, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20200410569Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kei YAMAJI, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20200410680Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Kei YAMAJI, Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20200394768Abstract: The image exposure device includes an image display device that has a plurality of pixels and radiates light according to a display image represented by the plurality of pixels; a support portion that supports a photosensitive recording medium for recording a recorded image according to the display image in a state in which an exposure surface of the photosensitive recording medium faces the image display device; a louver film that is provided between the image display device and the support portion, and limits an angle of the light radiated from the image display device to the photosensitive recording medium; and a controller that controls the image display device to display the display image in which an image quality of an input image represented by input image data is deteriorated by emphasizing a density difference of a high-frequency component of the input image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro SONODA
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Patent number: 10857783Abstract: An image exposure device includes an image display device having pixels, a photosensitive recording medium support portion that supports a photosensitive recording medium for recording an image of the image display device in a state in which an exposure surface of the photosensitive recording medium faces the image display device, a louver film that is provided between the image display device and the photosensitive recording medium support portion, and in which light transmitting portions that transmit light and light shielding portions that block light are alternately arranged in a first direction, and light transmitting portions that transmit light and light shielding portions that block light are alternately arranged in a second direction, and a protective layer that is provided on the louver film on a side of the photosensitive recording medium support portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Shinichiro Sonoda, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 10777904Abstract: Provided is a radio wave absorber including: a support; a first radio wave absorption layer having a flat plate shape that is disposed on a surface of the support and includes a radio wave absorption material and a binder; and second radio wave absorption layers that are erected on a surface of the first radio wave absorption layer, include a radio wave absorption material and a binder, and are conical protrusions having bottom surfaces of which outer peripheral portions are in contact with each other, in which a distance between apexes of the conical protrusions adjacent to each other is 0.5 mm to ?a mm, in a case where a wavelength of a radio wave to be absorbed is set as ?a mm, and a manufacturing method of a radio wave absorber.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tatsuo Mikami, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa