Patents by Inventor Kazuaki Hagiwara

Kazuaki Hagiwara 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: 11496685
    Abstract: The present invention is to realize a simple communication connection. A shooting system S includes: a display device 2 configured to change identifiers periodically so as to present an identifier; a management server 1 configured to share the identifier with the display device 2; and a user terminal 4 configured to acquire the identifier presented on the display device 2 when an identifier acquisition operation by a user is detected, and to transmit, to the management server 1, the acquired identifier and an operation instruction to operate a camera 3 identified by the acquired identifier. The management server 1 includes an information control block 114 which performs control to associate image data acquired with the camera 3 based on the operation instruction transmitted by the user terminal 4 with the identifier presented on the display device 2 when the identifier acquisition operation by the user is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taku Koreki, Kazuaki Hagiwara, Kazunori Yanagi, Kunihiko Ohnaka
  • Publication number: 20220002953
    Abstract: An asphalt finisher includes a tractor, a hopper disposed in front of the tractor and configured to receive a pavement material, a conveyor configured to convey the pavement material in the hopper to a rear side of the tractor, a screw configured to spread the pavement material conveyed by the conveyor at the rear side of the tractor, a screed configured to compact the pavement material spread by the screw at a rear side of the screw, an information acquisition device configured to obtain information on a road to be paved, and a control device. The control device is configured to support an operation of aligning the center of the tractor with the center of a pavement target area based on the information obtained by the information acquisition device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuaki HAGIWARA, Tetsuya WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210067700
    Abstract: The present invention is to realize a simple communication connection. A shooting system S includes: a display device 2 configured to change identifiers periodically so as to present an identifier; a management server 1 configured to share the identifier with the display device 2; and a user terminal 4 configured to acquire the identifier presented on the display device 2 when an identifier acquisition operation by a user is detected, and to transmit, to the management server 1, the acquired identifier and an operation instruction to operate a camera 3 identified by the acquired identifier. The management server 1 includes an information control block 114 which performs control to associate image data acquired with the camera 3 based on the operation instruction transmitted by the user terminal 4 with the identifier presented on the display device 2 when the identifier acquisition operation by the user is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taku KOREKI, Kazuaki HAGIWARA, Kazunori YANAGI, Kunihiko OHNAKA
  • Patent number: 10616479
    Abstract: A image recording apparatus includes a processor. The processor recognizes a predetermined action by a user when an image is recorded by capturing. The processor adds additional information corresponding to the recognized predetermined action to the captured image obtained by the capturing. The processor controls recording of the captured image with the additional information added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 10500527
    Abstract: A ballast water production method is provided. The method includes a filtering step that passes raw water supplied into a housing through a filter from a primary side that is upstream of the filter to a secondary side that is downstream of the filter; a volume-increasing step after the filtering step that increases a volume of water present in a space on the secondary side of the housing while the supply of the raw water into the housing is stopped; a pressurizing step after the volume-increasing step that pressurizes an inside of the housing from the secondary side while the supply of the raw water into the housing is stopped; and a rinsing step after the pressurizing step that passes a fluid through the filter from the secondary side to the primary side while the supply of the raw water into the housing is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Yamamoto, Kazuaki Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Tajima
  • Patent number: 10237495
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a CPU which is operable to function as units comprising a processing unit which sets, as a first area, an area that is not a peripheral edge area in a captured image acquired by an imaging unit, sets an area including the peripheral edge area as a second area, and performs predetermined processing on one of the first area and the second area, and a specification unit which specifies whether the first area is subjected to the predetermined processing or the second area is subjected to the predetermined processing, based on orientation information of the imaging unit when the captured image is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Yoshizawa, Naoya Okamoto, Hitoshi Tanaka, Kazunori Yanagi, Kazuaki Hagiwara, Yoshihiro Takayama, Yoshiyuki Kato, Tomohiko Murakami, Ken Fujita, Kenji Iwamoto, Takashi Onoda, Genki Kumazaki
  • Publication number: 20190020813
    Abstract: A image recording apparatus includes a processor. The processor recognizes a predetermined action by a user when an image is recorded by capturing. The processor adds additional information corresponding to the recognized predetermined action to the captured image obtained by the capturing. The processor controls recording of the captured image with the additional information added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventor: Kazuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 9948862
    Abstract: In the present invention, a control section distinctly displays, as indexes for indicating that data (image) switching can be performed from a starting point that is the arrayed position of data selected as a display target from among a plurality of data arrayed in virtual and multiple dimensions based on plural types of imaging parameters, information regarding the array status of the plurality of data on a display section, in association with plural directions in which data switching can be performed. As a result of this configuration, when instructing to perform data switching in a direction arbitrarily selected from among a plurality of data switching directions, the user can instruct to perform data switching while visually checking information regarding the array status of data for each data switching direction. That is, by this configuration, data in each data switching direction becomes more recognizable visually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20180050290
    Abstract: A ballast water production method is provided. The method includes a filtering step that passes raw water supplied into a housing through a filter from a primary side that is upstream of the filter to a secondary side that is downstream of the filter; a volume-increasing step after the filtering step that increases a volume of water present in a space on the secondary side of the housing while the supply of the raw water into the housing is stopped; a pressurizing step after the volume-increasing step that pressurizes an inside of the housing from the secondary side while the supply of the raw water into the housing is stopped; and a rinsing step after the pressurizing step that passes a fluid through the filter from the secondary side to the primary side while the supply of the raw water into the housing is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuaki YAMAMOTO, Kazuaki HAGIWARA, Yasuhiro TAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170264832
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a CPU which is operable to function as units comprising a processing unit which sets, as a first area, an area that is not a peripheral edge area in a captured image acquired by an imaging unit, sets an area including the peripheral edge area as a second area, and performs predetermined processing on one of the first area and the second area, and a specification unit which specifies whether the first area is subjected to the predetermined processing or the second area is subjected to the predetermined processing, based on orientation information of the imaging unit when the captured image is acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji YOSHIZAWA, Naoya OKAMOTO, Hitoshi TANAKA, Kazunori YANAGI, Kazuaki HAGIWARA, Yoshihiro TAKAYAMA, Yoshiyuki KATO, Tomohiko MURAKAMI, Ken FUJITA, Kenji IWAMOTO, Takashi ONODA, Genki KUMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170223252
    Abstract: A camera operation apparatus including a display unit; and a processor which is configured to: list and display a profile image that is identification information of each camera corresponding to each of a plurality of cameras capable of synchronous photographing on a screen display of the display unit; receive a live view image of the camera corresponding to the profile image selected according to a selection of the profile image listed and displayed; and display the received live view image on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi TANAKA, Kazuaki HAGIWARA, Kazuya NARA, Toshiya KISO
  • Patent number: 9661206
    Abstract: A synchronous photographing system includes an operation terminal that performs a photographing operation; and a plurality of image capture apparatuses that performs synchronous photographing in response to an instruction from the operation terminal, in which, among the plurality of image capture apparatuses, one of a plurality of image capture apparatuses participating in synchronous photographing is set as a main image capture apparatus and other image capture apparatuses are set as sub image capture apparatuses, the main image capture apparatus performs control to perform synchronization of a photographing timing among the plurality of image capture apparatuses participating in synchronous photographing, and the operation terminal performs control to instruct the plurality of image capture apparatuses to perform instruction contents from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Tanaka, Kazuaki Hagiwara, Kazuya Nara, Toshiya Kiso
  • Publication number: 20170085841
    Abstract: An image recording system including a user wearable device which includes a visual field direction detection unit which detects a user's visual field direction, and an imaging device which includes an imaging unit which captures an image and is external to the user wearable device, in which a computing device in one of the user wearable device and the imaging device is operable to function as an image processing unit which performs predetermined image processing on the image captured by the imaging unit based on the user's visual field direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventor: Kazuaki HAGIWARA
  • Publication number: 20160227097
    Abstract: A communication system (S) exchanges data between a plurality of devices to execute a predetermined function. In addition, the communication system (S) connects one device and one other device by a plurality of difference communication methods, and in a case of data transfer being interrupted during data transfer by a first communication method, controls so as to establish the first communication method by way of a second communication method, and then causes data transfer by the first communication method to restart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi TANAKA, Kazuaki HAGIWARA, Yuji KURIYAMA, Yoshinori TOMIDOKORO, Jun HOSODA, Kazuya NARA, Toshiya KISO, Takuya YAMADA, Daisuke OTANI
  • Publication number: 20160088209
    Abstract: A synchronous photographing system includes an operation terminal that performs a photographing operation; and a plurality of image capture apparatuses that performs synchronous photographing in response to an instruction from the operation terminal, in which, among the plurality of image capture apparatuses, one of a plurality of image capture apparatuses participating in synchronous photographing is set as a main image capture apparatus and other image capture apparatuses are set as sub image capture apparatuses, the main image capture apparatus performs control to perform synchronization of a photographing timing among the plurality of image capture apparatuses participating in synchronous photographing, and the operation terminal performs control to instruct the plurality of image capture apparatuses to perform instruction contents from a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi TANAKA, Kazuaki HAGIWARA, Kazuya NARA, Toshiya KISO
  • Publication number: 20160088210
    Abstract: It is possible to perform synchronous photographing promptly and reliably using a plurality of image capture apparatuses. The synchronous communication start processing unit or the test shutter processing unit causes a plurality of image capture apparatuses to perform a rehearsal operation of the synchronous photographing to acquire result information relating to a result from the rehearsal operation from each of the plurality of the image capture apparatuses. The live shutter processing unit determines a photographing condition when performing an actual operation of synchronous photographing, based on the result information acquired from each of the image capture apparatuses by way of the synchronous communication start processing unit or the test shutter processing unit. The live shutter processing unit causes the plurality of the image capture apparatuses to perform the synchronous photographing based on the photographing condition determined by the live shutter processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi TANAKA, Kazuaki HAGIWARA, Kazuya NARA, Toshiya KISO
  • Publication number: 20150130981
    Abstract: In the present invention, a control section distinctly displays, as indexes for indicating that data (image) switching can be performed from a starting point that is the arrayed position of data selected as a display target from among a plurality of data arrayed in virtual and multiple dimensions based on plural types of imaging parameters, information regarding the array status of the plurality of data on a display section, in association with plural directions in which data switching can be performed. As a result of this configuration, when instructing to perform data switching in a direction arbitrarily selected from among a plurality of data switching directions, the user can instruct to perform data switching while visually checking information regarding the array status of data for each data switching direction. That is, by this configuration, data in each data switching direction becomes more recognizable visually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuaki HAGIWARA
  • Patent number: 8373760
    Abstract: A digital camera 1 comprising a key operation unit (27) for registering subject information for identifying the subject, and photography conditions or image processing conditions corresponding to the subject identified according to the subject information; image memory (31) for storing the subject information, and the photography conditions or image processing conditions registered by the key operation unit (27); and a CPU (20). The CPU (20) detects a characteristic portion of the subject from the acquired image, identifies a subject corresponding to the characteristic portion of the detected subject, by referring to the subject information stored in the image memory (31), acquires the photography conditions or image processing conditions corresponding to the identified subject identified from the image memory (31), and carries out image capturing or image processing based on the acquired photography conditions or image processing conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8023798
    Abstract: A recording apparatus receives, with respect to an identical program, high image quality digital broadcasting data and low image quality digital broadcasting data, records the high image quality program data and the low image quality program data in a recording medium. When a cellular phone device is connected to the recording apparatus, the recording apparatus transfers the recorded low image quality program data to the cellular phone device via a communication interface. The recording apparatus transmits, to the portable cellular phone device, management information of the end of playback and deletion of the first program data whose program is identical to that of the transferred second program data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hagiwara, Takashi Onoda
  • Patent number: 7822317
    Abstract: A recorded broadcast program including CM portions is reproduced with CM portions skipped. When an instruction to execute a fast forward operation is entered at the beginning of CM portion and an instruction to execute a reproducing operation is entered at the termination of CM portion while the recorded broadcast program data including CM data is read out and reproduced from a recording unit 111, CPU 110 stores in the recording unit 111 a time length obtained by subtracting a time at which the instruction to execute a fast forward operation is entered from a time at which the instruction to execute a reproducing operation is entered, an image which is being reproduced at the time at which the instruction to execute a fast forward operation is entered, and a title of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Kazuaki Hagiwara