Patents by Inventor Keizo Ishiguro
Keizo Ishiguro 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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Patent number: 9280314Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling a cordless telephone device for use in a system that allows remote control of a home electric appliance. The method includes a first generation step of causing a first generation unit in a handset to encode audio input via a sound receiving unit in the handset to generate a first stream, and a first transmission step of transmitting the first stream to a base unit. The first generation step includes causing the first generation unit to generate instruction bit information and a first instruction stream when a first trigger indicating a request to start the remote control is given to the first generation unit. The first transmission step includes transmitting the instruction bit information and the first instruction stream to the base unit through a multiplexing scheme that is common to transmission of a first stream generated when the first trigger is not given.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Masayuki Kozuka, Shingo Matsumoto, Hideyuki Oka, Akihiko Inoue, Hiroshi Yahata, Tomoki Ogawa, Tohru Wakabayashi, Keizo Ishiguro
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Publication number: 20150112667Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling a cordless telephone device for use in a system that allows remote control of a home electric appliance. The method includes a first generation step of causing a first generation unit in a handset to encode audio input via a sound receiving unit in the handset to generate a first stream, and a first transmission step of transmitting the first stream to a base unit. The first generation step includes causing the first generation unit to generate instruction bit information and a first instruction stream when a first trigger indicating a request to start the remote control is given to the first generation unit. The first transmission step includes transmitting the instruction bit information and the first instruction stream to the base unit through a multiplexing scheme that is common to transmission of a first stream generated when the first trigger is not given.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: MASAYUKI KOZUKA, SHINGO MATSUMOTO, HIDEYUKI OKA, AKIHIKO INOUE, HIROSHI YAHATA, TOMOKI OGAWA, TOHRU WAKABAYASHI, KEIZO ISHIGURO
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Patent number: 8810717Abstract: The camera body includes an imaging element, a hot shoe, an internal light source, and a camera controller. The camera controller is configured to calculate an evaluation value on the basis of the image data produced by the imaging element, and perform video autofocusing on the basis of the evaluation value. When the camera controller decides that the auxiliary light is needed, and that the flash device mounted to the hot shoe has an external auxiliary light source arranged to emit near infrared light, the internal light source emits light during the video autofocusing.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenichi Honjo, Hideki Yoshida, Keizo Ishiguro, Takayuki Hayashi
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Publication number: 20120200765Abstract: The camera body includes an imaging element, a hot shoe, an internal light source, and a camera controller. The camera controller is configured to calculate an evaluation value on the basis of the image data produced by the imaging element, and perform video autofocusing on the basis of the evaluation value. When the camera controller decides that the auxiliary light is needed, and that the flash device mounted to the hot shoe has an external auxiliary light source arranged to emit near infrared light, the internal light source emits light during the video autofocusing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: KENICHI HONJO, HIDEKI YOSHIDA, KEIZO ISHIGURO, TAKAYUKI HAYASHI
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Patent number: 8218069Abstract: The camera body includes an imaging element, a hot shoe, an internal light source, and a camera controller. The imaging element is configured to convert an optical image of the subject into an electrical signal, and is configured to produce image data for the subject. The hot shoe allows the flash device to be mounted. The internal light source is arranged to shine light on the subject. The camera controller is configured to calculate an evaluation value on the basis of the image data produced by the imaging element, and is configured to perform video autofocusing on the basis of the evaluation value.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kenichi Honjo, Hideki Yoshida, Keizo Ishiguro, Takayuki Hayashi
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Publication number: 20100073551Abstract: The camera body includes an imaging element, a hot shoe, an internal light source, and a camera controller. The imaging element is configured to convert an optical image of the subject into an electrical signal, and is configured to produce image data for the subject. The hot shoe allows the flash device to be mounted. The internal light source is arranged to shine light on the subject. The camera controller is configured to calculate an evaluation value on the basis of the image data produced by the imaging element, and is configured to perform video autofocusing on the basis of the evaluation value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Honjo, Hideki Yoshida, Keizo Ishiguro, Takayuki Hayashi
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Patent number: 6999241Abstract: A zoom lens, having a camera shake correction function, that is capable of preventing degradation of chromatic aberration while correcting camera shake, and can be small, light-weight and power-saving, is provided. The zoom lens is composed of four groups of lenses having positive, negative, positive and positive refractive powers, arranged in that order from an object side to an image plane side, where a second lens group conducts zooming and a fourth lens group conducts focus adjustment. The second lens group is made of a concave meniscus lens, a concave lens, a double convex lens, and a concave lens, arranged in that order from the object side to the image plane side, and it includes also at least one aspheric surface. A third lens group includes a cemented lens having a cemented surface whose convex surface faces the object side, and can be shifted in a perpendicular direction with respect to an optical axis in order to correct image fluctuations during a camera shake.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2003Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsu Yamada, Keizo Ishiguro, Tsuyoshi Kakimoto
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Publication number: 20050254137Abstract: A zoom lens, having a camera shake correction function, that is capable of preventing degradation of chromatic aberration while correcting camera shake, and can be small, light-weight and power-saving, is provided. The zoom lens is composed of four groups of lenses having positive, negative, positive and positive refractive powers, arranged in that order from an object side to an image plane side, where a second lens group conducts zooming and a fourth lens group conducts focus adjustment. The second lens group is made of a concave meniscus lens, a concave lens, a double convex lens, and a concave lens, arranged in that order from the object side to the image plane side, and it includes also at least one aspheric surface. A third lens group includes a cemented lens having a cemented surface whose convex surface faces the object side, and can be shifted in a perpendicular direction with respect to an optical axis in order to correct image fluctuations during a camera shake.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2003Publication date: November 17, 2005Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsu Yamada, Keizo Ishiguro, Tsuyoshi Kakimoto
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Patent number: 6239840Abstract: An exposure controller comprises a discharge pulse calculation circuit for calculating a discharge pulse count to be output to a solid-state image pickup device within one field period, and a coring circuit for defining the quotient obtained from the discharge pulse count divided by a predetermined setting value and plus 1 as a coring value. In an electronic camera system incorporating an electronic iris, when one discharge pulse changes, the amount of change in the luminance level of an image signal becomes larger as an exposure time becomes shorter, whereby hunting is prevented from occurring at the convergent point of the luminance level, and an exposure controller which is compact and has excellent characteristics can be embodied.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1997Date of Patent: May 29, 2001Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fuminori Shibuya, Keizo Ishiguro
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Patent number: 5862272Abstract: In the image detector according to the present invention, a signal processing block generates a video signal by processing a pickup image signal corresponding to an image of an object which is picked up by an image pickup block and a motion detection block detects variations per unit time of luminance or a color of a portion or a whole of an image formed on the basis of the video signal as character variables of the image. A character analyzing block divides the video signal generated by the signal processing block into signals at durations each having the same character variable of the image detected by a motion detection block, and adds, to each of the divided video signals, an importance degree determined according to the character variables of the image and a duration of the signal, thereby making it possible to save memory capacities, accelerate retrieval of pickup images and enhance utilization efficiencies of transmission systems for lessening loads.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1997Date of Patent: January 19, 1999Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keizo Ishiguro, Minoru Nishioka, Hironori Nakano, Toshio Makabe
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Patent number: 5100223Abstract: A zoom lens of this invention comprises in successive order from the object side a first group having a positive refractive power and fixed, a second group having a negative refracting power for effecting a variation of image magnification by moving on the optical axis, a third group having a positive power for effecting a light condensing action and fixed, and a fourth group moving on the optical axis so as to keep an image surface position to be changed in response to a move of the second group and a move of the object in a constant positional relation with the reference surface. Comparatively large air space is provided between the third and fourth groups of the zoom lens.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1990Date of Patent: March 31, 1992Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shusuke Ono, Keizo Ishiguro, Yasuo Nakajima, Hisayuki Ii, Rieko Hiramoto
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Patent number: RE38771Abstract: An exposure controller comprises a discharge pulse calculation circuit for calculating a discharge pulse count to be output to a solid-state image pickup device within one field period, and a coring circuit for defining the quotient obtained from the discharge pulse count divided by a predetermined setting value and plus 1 as a coring value. In an electronic camera system incorporating an electronic iris, when one discharge pulse changes, the amount of change in the luminance level of an image signal becomes larger as an exposure time becomes shorter, whereby hunting is prevented from occurring at the convergent point of the luminance level, and an exposure controller which is compact and has excellent characteristics can be embodied.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2003Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fuminori Shibuya, Keizo Ishiguro
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Patent number: RE48232Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling a cordless telephone device for use in a system that allows remote control of a home electric appliance. The method includes a first generation step of causing a first generation unit in a handset to encode audio input via a sound receiving unit in the handset to generate a first stream, and a first transmission step of transmitting the first stream to a base unit. The first generation step includes causing the first generation unit to generate instruction bit information and a first instruction stream when a first trigger indicating a request to start the remote control is given to the first generation unit. The first transmission step includes transmitting the instruction bit information and the first instruction stream to the base unit through a multiplexing scheme that is common to transmission of a first stream generated when the first trigger is not given.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Masayuki Kozuka, Shingo Matsumoto, Hideyuki Oka, Akihiko Inoue, Hiroshi Yahata, Tomoki Ogawa, Tohru Wakabayashi, Keizo Ishiguro
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Patent number: RE49284Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling a cordless telephone device for use in a system that allows remote control of a home electric appliance. The method includes a first generation step of causing a first generation unit in a handset to encode audio input via a sound receiving unit in the handset to generate a first stream, and a first transmission step of transmitting the first stream to a base unit. The first generation step includes causing the first generation unit to generate instruction bit information and a first instruction stream when a first trigger indicating a request to start the remote control is given to the first generation unit. The first transmission step includes transmitting the instruction bit information and the first instruction stream to the base unit through a multiplexing scheme that is common to transmission of a first stream generated when the first trigger is not given.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Masayuki Kozuka, Shingo Matsumoto, Hideyuki Oka, Akihiko Inoue, Hiroshi Yahata, Tomoki Ogawa, Tohru Wakabayashi, Keizo Ishiguro