Patents by Inventor Kazuyoshi Okada
Kazuyoshi Okada 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: 20220385863Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus and a method capable of capturing a high-quality multi spectral image. The imaging apparatus includes: an optical system that has three or more aperture regions at a pupil position or near the pupil position, each of the aperture regions being provided with a different combination of a polarizing filter and a bandpass filter such that the aperture region transmits light having a combination of a different polarization angle and a different wavelength range; an image sensor in which three or more types of pixels that receive light having different polarization angles are arranged two-dimensionally; and a processor that performs interference removal processing on a signal output from the image sensor and generates an image signal for each of the aperture regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasunobu KISHINE, Atsushi KAWANAGO, Kazuyoshi OKADA, Yuya HIRAKAWA
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Publication number: 20220365391Abstract: Provided are an image processing device, an imaging element, an image processing method, and an image processing program that satisfactorily generate a plurality of polarized image data from polarized image data acquired from an imaging element.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi OKADA, Yasunobu KISHINE, Atsushi KAWANAGO, Yuya HIRAKAWA
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Publication number: 20220350225Abstract: Provided are a lens device, an imaging apparatus, an optical member, an imaging method, and an imaging program that are used to acquire multispectral images having a good image quality. According to one aspect, a lens device includes: an imaging optical system that includes a lens forming an optical image of a subject; and an optical member that is disposed near a pupil of the imaging optical system in a state where an optical axis of the optical member coincides with an optical axis of the imaging optical system, and includes a frame that includes a plurality of aperture regions, a plurality of optical filters that are disposed in at least one of the plurality of aperture regions and include two or more optical filters transmitting light having at least some wavelength ranges different from each other, and a plurality of polarizing filters that are disposed in at least one of the plurality of aperture regions and have different polarization directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Atsushi KAWANAGO, Kazuyoshi OKADA, Yasunobu KISHINE, Yuya HIRAKAWA
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Publication number: 20220236463Abstract: One embodiment according to the technology of the present disclosure provides an optical element, an optical device, and an imaging apparatus, which can acquire a multispectral image having a good image quality. An optical element according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a frame having a plurality of aperture regions; and a plurality of optical filters that are mounted in the plurality of aperture regions, the plurality of optical filters including at least two types of filters having different wavelength ranges of transmitted light, and centroids of at least two types of aperture regions coincide with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasunobu KISHINE, Kazuyoshi OKADA, Atsushi KAWANAGO
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Publication number: 20220239850Abstract: Provided are an imaging device which can simultaneously capture images in different wavelength ranges and can improve a focusing accuracy of each image, an imaging optical system, and an imaging method.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi OKADA, Yasunobu KISHINE, Atsushi KAWANAGO
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Publication number: 20220078319Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus that captures a multispectral image having a good image quality. An imaging apparatus (1) includes an imaging optical system (10) that includes a pupil region which is split into a plurality of regions including a first pupil region and a second pupil region different from the first pupil region, and a polarization filter which polarizes light beams passing through the first pupil region and the second pupil region in directions different from each other, an imaging element (100) that includes a first pixel which receives the light beam passing through the first pupil region and a second pixel which receives the light beam passing through the second pupil region, and a signal processing unit (200) that processes signals output from the imaging element (100), and outputs at least first image data consisting of an output signal of the first pixel and second image data consisting of an output signal of the second pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi OKADA, YASUNOBU KISHINE, Atsushi KAWANAGO
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Publication number: 20220078359Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus that captures a multispectral image of four bands or more. An imaging apparatus (1) includes an imaging optical system (10), an image sensor (100), and a signal processing unit (200). The imaging optical system (10) includes a bandpass filter unit (16) of which at least one of aperture regions transmits light beams of a plurality of wavelength ranges, and a polarization filter unit (18) that polarizes the light beams transmitted through the bandpass filter unit (16) in a plurality of directions, in a vicinity of a pupil thereof. The image sensor (100) receives light beams transmitted through a plurality of types of spectral filter elements and a plurality of types of polarization filter elements. The signal processing unit (200) processes signals output from the image sensor (100) to generate a plurality of image signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasunobu KISHINE, Shuji ONO, Kazuyoshi OKADA
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Patent number: 11269249Abstract: The optical system having an imaging lens that images a first-plane and a second-plane which are discontinuous includes: a first-optical-system that images the first-plane; a second-optical-system that images the second-plane; and a common-optical-system that forms a subject image, which is incident through the first-optical-system, on the first-light-receiving-region of the image sensor and forms a subject image, which is incident through the second-optical-system, on the second-light-receiving-region of the image sensor. In the optical system, an angle of view, at which imaging is performed by the first-optical-system and the common-optical-system, overlaps with an angle of view, at which imaging is performed by the second-optical-system and the common-optical-system.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi Okada, Kenkichi Hayashi, Yasunobu Kishine
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Patent number: 11092788Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from an object side, a positive first lens group and a positive second lens group. During focusing, the first lens group does not move and the second lens group moves. First and second lenses from an object side in the first lens group are a negative lens. The second lens group consists of a stop disposed on the most object side, two negative lenses, and three or four positive lenses. A lens on the most object side of the second lens group is a negative lens. A lens on the most image side of the second lens group is a positive lens. Predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi Okada, Taro Asami
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Patent number: 11092790Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from an object side, a first lens group, a stop, and a positive second lens group. The second lens group has a negative lens on a side closest to an object and has a single lens or a cemented lens having a positive refractive power on a side closest to an image. Predetermined conditional expressions relating to a back focus, an incidence angle of a principal light ray on the image plane, a maximum image height, a distance from a lens surface on the side closest to the object to a lens surface on the side closest to the image, a distance from an object side principal point of the second lens group to a stop, and a focal length of the second lens group are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi Okada, Taro Asami
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Patent number: 11009676Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a positive first lens group that moves to the object side during focusing from a long distance to a short distance, and a second lens group that does not move during focusing. The first lens group has a first-B sub-lens group. The first-B sub-lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a positive b1 lens, a negative b2 lens concave toward the image side, an aperture stop, a negative b3 lens concave toward the object side, and a positive b4 lens. The second lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a negative lens, a positive lens, and a negative lens. Predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kazuyoshi Okada
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Patent number: 10852535Abstract: The imaging lens includes at least one negative lens that satisfies predetermined Conditional Expressions (1) to (3) indicating conditions in which dispersion is relatively low and refractive index is high while having a negative rate of change of the refractive index. A positive lens having a largest Abbe number at the d line among positive lenses included in the imaging lens satisfies predetermined Conditional Expressions (4) and (5).Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yukiko Nagatoshi, Shunsuke Miyagishima, Kazuyoshi Okada, Ukyo Tomioka, Masaru Yonezawa, Yasutaka Shimada
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Patent number: 10816759Abstract: The imaging lens includes at least one positive lens that satisfies predetermined conditional expressions (1) to (3) indicating conditions in which dispersion is relatively low and refractive index is high while having a negative rate of change of the refractive index. In a case where a lens that satisfies a conditional expression (4) meaning a low dispersion material is included, the lens that satisfies the conditional expression (4) satisfies a predetermined conditional expression (5).Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: NANCHANG O-FILM OPTICAL-ELECTRONIC TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaru Amano, Masao Mori, Taro Asami, Kazuyoshi Okada
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Patent number: 10788653Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a positive first lens group that has a positive refractive power and remains stationary during focusing, and a second lens group that moves toward an image side during focusing from a distant object to a close-range object. The first lens group has, successively in order from a position closest to the image side, a first-b sub-lens group having a positive refractive power, and an aperture stop. The imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions relating to the first-b sub-lens group, the second lens group, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi Okada, Takashi Kunugise
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Patent number: 10690893Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a first lens group, an aperture stop, a second lens group having a positive refractive power. During focusing from a distant object to a close-range object, the first lens group remains stationary, and the aperture stop and the second lens group integrally move to the object side. The imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions relating to a focal length of the whole system, a focal length of the first lens group, a principal point position of the second lens group, a focal length of the second lens group, a back focal length, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takashi Kunugise, Kazuyoshi Okada
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Publication number: 20200192210Abstract: The optical system having an imaging lens that images a first-plane and a second-plane which are discontinuous includes: a first-optical-system that images the first-plane; a second-optical-system that images the second-plane; and a common-optical-system that forms a subject image, which is incident through the first-optical-system, on the first-light-receiving-region of the image sensor and forms a subject image, which is incident through the second-optical-system, on the second-light-receiving-region of the image sensor. In the optical system, an angle of view, at which imaging is performed by the first-optical-system and the common-optical-system, overlaps with an angle of view, at which imaging is performed by the second-optical-system and the common-optical-system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi OKADA, Kenkichi HAYASHI, Yasunobu KISHINE
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Publication number: 20200103634Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from an object side, a positive first lens group and a positive second lens group. During focusing, the first lens group does not move and the second lens group moves. First and second lenses from an object side in the first lens group are a negative lens. The second lens group consists of a stop disposed on the most object side, two negative lenses, and three or four positive lenses. A lens on the most object side of the second lens group is a negative lens. A lens on the most image side of the second lens group is a positive lens. Predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi OKADA, Taro ASAMI
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Publication number: 20200103635Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from an object side, a first lens group, a stop, and a positive second lens group. The second lens group has a negative lens on a side closest to an object and has a single lens or a cemented lens having a positive refractive power on a side closest to an image. Predetermined conditional expressions relating to a back focus, an incidence angle of a principal light ray on the image plane, a maximum image height, a distance from a lens surface on the side closest to the object to a lens surface on the side closest to the image, a distance from an object side principal point of the second lens group to a stop, and a focal length of the second lens group are satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuyoshi OKADA, Taro ASAMI
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Publication number: 20200003991Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a positive first lens group that moves to the object side during focusing from a long distance to a short distance, and a second lens group that does not move during focusing. The first lens group has a first-B sub-lens group. The first-B sub-lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a positive b1 lens, a negative b2 lens concave toward the image side, an aperture stop, a negative b3 lens concave toward the object side, and a positive b4 lens. The second lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a negative lens, a positive lens, and a negative lens. Predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kazuyoshi OKADA
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Patent number: D975167Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Atsushi Kawanago, Kazuyoshi Okada, Yasunobu Kishine, Yuya Hirakawa