Patents by Inventor Junichi Imamiya
Junichi Imamiya 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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Publication number: 20260205691Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2026Publication date: July 16, 2026Inventors: Yumi Takao, Nobutaka Mizuno, Junichi Imamiya
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Patent number: 12634580Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing device configured to photoelectrically convert a first optical image formed by a first imaging optical system, and configured to also photoelectrically convert a second optical image formed by a second imaging optical system arranged in parallel with the first optical system, a calculating unit configured to calculate a three-dimensional range, which is a range of a subject distance of the image capturing device in which a three-dimensional image looks three-dimensional, and a control unit configured to control the first imaging optical system and the second imaging optical system to limit a range of a subject distance in which automatic focusing of the first imaging optical system and the second imaging optical system is performed to within the three-dimensional range and perform automatic focusing.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2024Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junichi Imamiya, Tsukasa Hirabayashi
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Patent number: 12621567Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2024Date of Patent: May 5, 2026Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yumi Takao, Nobutaka Mizuno, Junichi Imamiya
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Publication number: 20260039955Abstract: An apparatus capable of visually indicates to a user whether or not execution of autofocusing at a set position is possible is provided. The apparatus includes a pickup device, and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit configured to function as a setting unit that sets a focus adjustment region, a detecting unit that detects a defocusing amount of an optical system, a determining unit that determines whether or not focus adjustment in the focus adjustment region is possible based on the defocusing amount, and a control unit that switches a display of a live view image between an unmagnification display and an enlargement display. The control unit varies a display method of the focus adjustment region between the unmagnification display and the enlargement display in accordance with to a determination result obtained by the determining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Inventor: JUNICHI IMAMIYA
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Patent number: 12470819Abstract: An apparatus capable of visually indicates to a user whether or not execution of autofocusing at a set position is possible is provided. The apparatus includes a pickup device, and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit configured to function as a setting unit that sets a focus adjustment region, a detecting unit that detects a defocusing amount of an optical system, a determining unit that determines whether or not focus adjustment in the focus adjustment region is possible based on the defocusing amount, and a control unit that switches a display of a live view image between an unmagnification display and an enlargement display. The control unit varies a display method of the focus adjustment region between the unmagnification display and the enlargement display in accordance with to a determination result obtained by the determining unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2024Date of Patent: November 11, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Junichi Imamiya
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Publication number: 20250126357Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing device configured to photoelectrically convert a first optical image formed by a first imaging optical system, and configured to also photoelectrically convert a second optical image formed by a second imaging optical system arranged in parallel with the first optical system, a calculating unit configured to calculate a three-dimensional range, which is a range of a subject distance of the image capturing device in which a three-dimensional image looks three-dimensional, and a control unit configured to control the first imaging optical system and the second imaging optical system to limit a range of a subject distance in which automatic focusing of the first imaging optical system and the second imaging optical system is performed to within the three-dimensional range and perform automatic focusing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventors: JUNICHI IMAMIYA, TSUKASA HIRABAYASHI
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Patent number: 12279041Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yumi Takao, Nobutaka Mizuno, Junichi Imamiya
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Publication number: 20240397202Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Inventors: Yumi Takao, Nobutaka Mizuno, Junichi Imamiya
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Patent number: 12088915Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yumi Takao, Nobutaka Mizuno, Junichi Imamiya
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Publication number: 20240259681Abstract: An apparatus capable of visually indicates to a user whether or not execution of autofocusing at a set position is possible is provided. The apparatus includes a pickup device, and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit configured to function as a setting unit that sets a focus adjustment region, a detecting unit that detects a defocusing amount of an optical system, a determining unit that determines whether or not focus adjustment in the focus adjustment region is possible based on the defocusing amount, and a control unit that switches a display of a live view image between an unmagnification display and an enlargement display. The control unit varies a display method of the focus adjustment region between the unmagnification display and the enlargement display in accordance with to a determination result obtained by the determining unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventor: JUNICHI IMAMIYA
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Publication number: 20240179406Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2024Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Yumi Takao, Nobutaka Mizuno, Junichi Imamiya
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Patent number: 11968446Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yumi Takao, Nobutaka Mizuno, Junichi Imamiya
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Patent number: 11924548Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yumi Takao, Nobutaka Mizuno, Junichi Imamiya
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Publication number: 20230300461Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Yumi Takao, Nobutaka Mizuno, Junichi Imamiya
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Publication number: 20230300462Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Yumi Takao, Nobutaka Mizuno, Junichi Imamiya
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Patent number: 11689805Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor configured to be able to output an image capturing signal and a focus detection image signal, a focus detection unit configured to set, on a screen of the image sensor, a focus detection range, and to perform focus detection, in each of a plurality of focus detection frames in the focus detection range, and a focus adjustment unit configured to perform a focus adjustment, during a shooting preparation operation and a shooting operation, based on an output of the focus detection unit, for tracking a subject, wherein the focus detection unit makes the focus detection range during the shooting operation broader than the focus detection range during shooting preparation operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Junichi Imamiya
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Publication number: 20220400208Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Yumi Takao, Nobutaka Mizuno, Junichi Imamiya
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Patent number: 11010030Abstract: A display controller including: a display control unit configured to, in response to a first case, perform control so that an image is displayed in a display mode among a plurality of display modes wherein the first case is a case where a receiving unit has received a manual focus operation in a first state in which a display item indicating information on focus is not superimposed or displayed on a live-view image captured by an imaging unit and the live-view image is displayed with a first magnification wherein the plurality of display modes include: a first display mode in which the display item is superimposed and displayed on the live-view image without enlarging the live-view image from the first magnification; and a second display mode in which the live-view image is displayed with a second magnification larger than the first magnification.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Junichi Imamiya
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Publication number: 20210120170Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor configured to be able to output an image capturing signal and a focus detection image signal, a focus detection unit configured to set, on a screen of the image sensor, a focus detection range, and to perform focus detection, in each of a plurality of focus detection frames in the focus detection range, and a focus adjustment unit configured to perform a focus adjustment, during a shooting preparation operation and a shooting operation, based on an output of the focus detection unit, for tracking a subject, wherein the focus detection unit makes the focus detection range during the shooting operation broader than the focus detection range during shooting preparation operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventor: Junichi Imamiya
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Patent number: 10616469Abstract: In an image capturing apparatus, an image sensor outputs an image converted from light entering through a diaphragm, an acquisition unit acquires an aperture state of the diaphragm, a generator generates a first indicator indicating a focus state of the image, a controller superimposes the image and an indicator indicating a focus state of the image, and displays a resultant image on a display device, a memory stores the indicator displayed on the display device as a second indicator, and a selector selects the first indicator in a case where the aperture state at least at a time of exposure of the image or of generating the first indicator by the generator is changing, and selects the second indicator in a case where the aperture state at these times is not changing. The controller displays the selected indicator.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Junichi Imamiya