Patents by Inventor Kaiji Nabetani

Kaiji Nabetani 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: 11057563
    Abstract: A smartphone includes a camera, a control section, and a storage section. The control section determines favorability of a composition of a target frame which is an arbitrary frame among a plurality of frames constituting the moving image. Then, in accordance with a result of determining the favorability of the composition of the target frame, the control section stores, in the storage section, a still image which corresponds to the target frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaiji Nabetani, Akihiro Kodama
  • Publication number: 20190320124
    Abstract: When a still image has been captured is determined within a display screen on which a moving image is displayed. A control device executes: a thumbnail displaying process for causing a thumbnail of a still image captured during capture of a moving image to be displayed at a predetermined position within a display screen; and a thumbnail moving process for moving this thumbnail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: CHIKAO MIZUGUCHI, JUNICHI SUDA, KAIJI NABETANI, YUSUKE OKUDA
  • Publication number: 20190320116
    Abstract: A smartphone includes a camera, a control section, and a storage section. The control section determines favorability of a composition of a target frame which is an arbitrary frame among a plurality of frames constituting the moving image. Then, in accordance with a result of determining the favorability of the composition of the target frame, the control section stores, in the storage section, a still image which corresponds to the target frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: KAIJI NABETANI, AKIHIRO KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20140085430
    Abstract: A mobile device (1) switches, according to whether or not the mobile device (1) is in a regular orientation in which a primary image capturing section (11) and a secondary image capturing section (12) can respectively capture left-eye and right-eye images, between (a) a 2D image capturing mode in which a recognizable direction of a sign on a display screen is changed and (b) a 3D image capturing mode in which a direction of the sign, which direction is displayed while the mobile device (1) is in the regular orientation, is maintained. Furthermore, the mobile device (1) switches to the 3D image capturing mode in a case where the primary image capturing section (11) and the secondary image capturing section (12) capture left-eye and right-eye images, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohji Komori, Kaiji Nabetani