Patents by Inventor Kazuki Inoue

Kazuki Inoue 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: 9488898
    Abstract: The invention provides an imaging apparatus and a focus control method in which an optimal AF system can be selected in accordance with an environment in which an image of a photographic subject is taken, an imaging condition in which the image is taken, etc. so that the quality of the taken image can be improved. A system control portion 11 of the imaging apparatus selects and executes one from focus control based on a phase difference AF system and focus control based on a contrast AF system in accordance with the magnitude relation between a determination threshold set for an F-number and the set F-number in the case where an AF instruction has been issued. The system control portion 11 can vary the determination threshold in accordance with an exposure value in the case where the AF instruction has been issued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Inoue, Takashi Aoki
  • Patent number: 9485408
    Abstract: It is intended to provide an imaging apparatus that enables proper exposure of phase difference detection pixels and thereby makes it possible to perform phase difference autofocusing with high accuracy. A system control unit 11 selects phase difference detection pixels from phase difference detection pixels 51R and 51L existing in a selected phase difference detection area 52 according to a position of the selected phase difference detection area 52 in a row direction X, and determines exposure conditions based on output signals of the selected phase difference detection pixels. A defocus amount calculation unit 19 calculates a defocus amount using output signals of the phase difference detection pixels 51R and 51L existing in the selected phase difference detection area 52 that are part of a shot image signal produced by shooting that is performed by an imaging device 5 under the exposure conditions determined by the exposure determining unit 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Inoue, Yoichi Iwasaki, Takashi Aoki
  • Patent number: 9485430
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a generation unit that generates a first display image on the basis of image signals from an imaging element that includes first and second pixel groups at which a subject image is pupil-divided and formed, and a second display image to be used for focus confirmation; a parallax calculation unit that calculates a parallax between pixels of a first image and pixels of a second image; a display unit that displays images; and a display control unit, wherein the generation unit generates the second display image by arranging the first divided image, which is a first image part, and the second divided image, which is the second image excluding regions corresponding to the first divided image, to be shifted by amounts corresponding to the parallax in opposing directions in an intersectional direction intersecting a division direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 9473694
    Abstract: An image processing device comprising: a determination section that, based on a factor defining a depth representing a permissible range for acceptable state of focus and on parallax computed by a parallax computation section, determines an operation movement ratio for converting an operation amount, that instructs movement of a focusing lens, into a movement amount of the focusing lens by using a function including the operation movement ratio as a dependent variable and an independent variable determined according to the factor and the parallax; and a control section that controls a movement section to move the focusing lens by an amount equivalent to a movement amount determined based on an operation movement ratio determined by the determination section and the operation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20160279678
    Abstract: A substrate processing device includes a holding member for holding a substrate, and an opposed member having a body portion and an extended portion extending from at least a part of a peripheral edge part of the body portion. A protrusion is provided on one part of a tip side part of the extended portion and a side surface part of the holding member, and the other part is provided with a restricting structure disposed opposite to the protrusion and restricting relative motion of the protrusion. The relative motion between the holding member and the opposed member is restricted, and the substrate processing device further includes a rotating mechanism, and a nozzle for discharging a processing solution and the protrusion and the restricting structure are disposed below an upper surface of the holding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Daichi YOSHITOMI, Kazuki INOUE, Masaki IWAMI, Hiroaki ISHII
  • Patent number: 9436064
    Abstract: The present invention provide an imaging device that includes an image generation device, a boundary change device configured to change a position of a boundary between the first image and the second image in the second image for display, in a direction orthogonal to the boundary, a selection device configured to select any one of the first image and the second image for each of a plurality of divisions in the second image for display, divided by the boundary changed by the boundary change device, a display device, and a display control device configured to allow the display device to display the first image for display, and allows the second image for display in which a position of the boundary is changed by the boundary change device to be displayed in a display area in the first image for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kawai, Yoichi Iwasaki, Kazuki Inoue, Takehiro Koguchi
  • Patent number: 9386216
    Abstract: The camera main body 200 stores sensitivity ratio data indicating a sensitivity ratio of a pixel 51R in the position and an imaging pixel 51 which is adjacent to the pixel 51R and a sensitivity ratio of a pixel 51L in the position and a pixel 51 which is adjacent to the pixel 51L, for every information of the different incident light ray angles in the arbitrary position of a light receiving surface 50 in an X direction. The system control unit 11 obtains information of the incident light ray angle in two positions on the light receiving surface 50 corresponding to the set optical condition and corrects the level difference of the output signals of the pixels 51R and 51L using the sensitivity ratio data corresponding to the obtained incident light ray angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 9332208
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus having a projector, includes: an imaging unit that photographs a subject; a mirror image converting unit that converts a live view image photographed by the imaging unit into a mirror image; a projector that projects the mirror image of the live view image in a direction opposite to a photographing direction of the imaging unit; a control unit that initiates actual photography for recording the subject by the imaging unit when a posture of a main subject satisfies a predetermined condition; and a pose image superimposing unit that superimpose a pose image on a projected image, in which the control unit determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied and performs the actual photography when a superimposition degree of the main subject in the projected image and the pose image is a threshold value or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Hayashi, Shigeru Kondou, Takashi Aoki, Kazuki Inoue, Hiroyuki Oshima, Takeshi Misawa, Atsushi Misawa
  • Patent number: 9325954
    Abstract: A color imaging element, includes a color filter array, in which the color filter array includes an array pattern of a 3×3 pixel group in which first filters corresponding to a green color and second filters corresponding to red and blue colors are arrayed, and the first filters are placed at a center and 4 corners in the 3×3 pixel group, and the array pattern is repeatedly placed in horizontal and vertical directions, and in a pixel group within a predetermined area of the color imaging element, phase difference detection pixels for acquiring phase difference information are placed in entire components of one direction among components in the horizontal direction and components in the vertical direction in the pixel group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Aoki, Kazuki Inoue, Seiji Tanaka, Hiroshi Endo, Kenkichi Hayashi, Yoichi Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 9264612
    Abstract: A digital camera 10 includes an imaging device 21a, a finder device 15, a phase difference information analyzing portion 71 and a control portion 32. In the finder device 15, an image in which an OVF optical image formed by an objective optical system 65 and an image displayed on a display portion 61 are superimposed on each other can be observed through an eyepiece window 17. The phase difference information analyzing portion 71 determines a focus region and a non-focus region in a photographic subject imaged by the imaging device 21a. The control portion 32 makes control to display an image Eg for highlighting the focus region E in the OVF optical image on the display portion 61 in the state in which the OVF optical image can be observed through the eyepiece window 17.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Inoue, Shigeru Kondou, Takashi Aoki, Hiroyuki Oshima, Daisuke Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20150304547
    Abstract: An generation section generates a first display image based on an image signal output from an image pick-up device including first and second pixel groups on which respective images are formed by a pupil-divided subject-image, and generates a second display image for use in focus verification from first and second images based on an image signal output from the first and second pixel groups. A display controller performs control to display the first display image on a display section, and to display the second display image on the display section within a display region of the first display image. An automatic focus section, in cases in which a predetermined instruction has been input, performs automatic focusing in a focus region having at least a portion that overlaps with at least a portion of a display region of the second display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki INOUE
  • Patent number: 9167166
    Abstract: An image display device includes a beam splitter that splits an incident light entering from a subject side, an imaging device that converts a first optical image generated by an one-side incident light split by the beam splitter into an electrical signal and outputs the converted electrical signal as a capture image, a synthesis image generating unit that generates an electronic information image, a display panel that displays the electronic information image, and an optical prism that emits an optical image of the electronic information image projected from the display panel to be superimposed on a second optical image generated by the other-side split incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Oshima, Shigeru Kondou, Takashi Aoki, Kazuki Inoue, Daisuke Hayashi, Takeshi Misawa, Atsushi Misawa
  • Patent number: 9167152
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing element in which a plurality of pixels and phase difference pixels are formed within an effective pixel region; a photographing lens; a phase difference amount detecting unit analyzing a captured image signal and obtaining a phase difference amount from detection signals of two of the phase difference pixels that make a pair; and a control unit obtaining a defocus amount of a photographic subject image from the detected phase difference amount and performing a focusing control, in which the control unit obtains a parameter value regarding a ratio of the defocus amount and the phase difference amount based on photographing lens information of the photographing lens and a light receiving sensitivity distribution indicating sensitivity for each incident angle of incident light for the two of the phase difference pixels that make the pair, and obtains the defocus amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Inoue, Takashi Aoki
  • Patent number: 9167183
    Abstract: It is an imaging element in which pixels which are photoelectric conversion elements are placed at respective square lattice positions, in which, when, in a predetermined region where pixels of the imaging element are placed, a plurality of pairs are arranged in a first line which is any one line among lines and a second line which is parallel to the first line, each pair having pair pixels which are first and second phase difference detection pixels placed adjacent to each other to detect a phase difference among the pixels of the imaging element, the pairs in the first line are placed to be spaced apart from each other by at least two pixels, and the pairs in the second line are placed at positions, which correspond to positions where the pair pixels in the first line are spaced apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Tanaka, Yoichi Iwasaki, Hiroshi Endo, Takashi Aoki, Kazuki Inoue, Kenkichi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20150286112
    Abstract: The invention provides an imaging apparatus and a focus control method in which an optimal AF system can be selected in accordance with an environment in which an image of a photographic subject is taken, an imaging condition in which the image is taken, etc. so that the quality of the taken image can be improved. A system control portion 11 of the imaging apparatus selects and executes one from focus control based on a phase difference AF system and focus control based on a contrast AF system in accordance with the magnitude relation between a determination threshold set for an F-number and the set F-number in the case where an AF instruction has been issued. The system control portion 11 can vary the determination threshold in accordance with an exposure value in the case where the AF instruction has been issued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki INOUE, Takashi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20150285648
    Abstract: A route guidance device configured so as to be freely attachable and detachable with respect to an in-vehicle device includes a route acquiring part that acquires a vehicle route calculated based on vehicle map data and acquires a pedestrian route calculated based on the pedestrian map data; and a display that outputs the vehicle route and the pedestrian route acquired by the route acquiring part. The route acquiring part, when the route guidance device has been detached from the in-vehicle device, acquires a pedestrian route calculated based on a destination having been set to acquire the vehicle route before detachment, or when the route guidance device has been attached to the in-vehicle device, acquires a vehicle route calculated based on a destination having been set to acquire the pedestrian route before attachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Masuda, Koichi Ushida, Shin Yanagisawa, Kazuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20150281560
    Abstract: An image processing device comprising: a determination section that, based on a factor defining a depth representing a permissible range for acceptable state of focus and on parallax computed by a parallax computation section, determines an operation movement ratio for converting an operation amount, that instructs movement of a focusing lens, into a movement amount of the focusing lens by using a function including the operation movement ratio as a dependent variable and an independent variable determined according to the factor and the parallax; and a control section that controls a movement section to move the focusing lens by an amount equivalent to a movement amount determined based on an operation movement ratio determined by the determination section and the operation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20150256738
    Abstract: It is intended to provide an imaging apparatus that enables proper exposure of phase difference detection pixels and thereby makes it possible to perform phase difference autofocusing with high accuracy. A system control unit 11 selects phase difference detection pixels from phase difference detection pixels 51R and 51L existing in a selected phase difference detection area 52 according to a position of the selected phase difference detection area 52 in a row direction X, and determines exposure conditions based on output signals of the selected phase difference detection pixels. A defocus amount calculation unit 19 calculates a defocus amount using output signals of the phase difference detection pixels 51R and 51L existing in the selected phase difference detection area 52 that are part of a shot image signal produced by shooting that is performed by an imaging device 5 under the exposure conditions determined by the exposure determining unit 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki INOUE, Yoichi IWASAKI, Takashi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20150244926
    Abstract: The camera main body 200 stores sensitivity ratio data indicating a sensitivity ratio of a pixel 51R in the position and an imaging pixel 51 which is adjacent to the pixel 51R and a sensitivity ratio of a pixel 51L in the position and a pixel 51 which is adjacent to the pixel 51L, for every information of the different incident light ray angles in the arbitrary position of a light receiving surface 50 in an X direction. The system control unit 11 obtains information of the incident light ray angle in two positions on the light receiving surface 50 corresponding to the set optical condition and corrects the level difference of the output signals of the pixels 51R and 51L using the sensitivity ratio data corresponding to the obtained incident light ray angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20150195473
    Abstract: An imaging device to which an imaging optical system is attachable, includes a correction data generating unit that generates correction data to correct a sensitivity difference of first phase difference detecting pixel cells and second phase difference detecting pixel cells; and a signal correcting unit that corrects at least one of an output signal of the first phase difference detecting pixel cells and an output signal of the second phase difference detecting pixel cells in accordance with the correction data, in which the correction data generating unit calculates two ratios to generate the correction data based on the two ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki INOUE, Yoichi IWASAKI, Takashi AOKI