Patents by Inventor Kenichiro Sasai

Kenichiro Sasai 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).

  • Publication number: 20240107226
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of efficiently retrieving a subject generating a specific sound from an image is provided. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup circuit, a CPU, and a memory that stores a program that, when executed by the CPU, causes the image pickup apparatus to function as: detecting a specific sound from a sound acquired by a sound acquisition unit during moving image capturing, judging a direction in which the specific sound comes toward the image pickup apparatus and acquiring information about a sound direction indicating the direction of the specific sound judged, judging a direction in which the image pickup apparatus is facing and acquiring information about an image capturing direction indicating the direction of the image pickup apparatus judged, and performing control to store attribute information, a moving image acquired by the image pickup circuit, and the sound in a storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yudai ITOI, Shogo FUJIWARA, Kenichiro SASAI, Tatsuo NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20240107151
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of easily retrieving desired-state image and sound portions through attribute information is provided. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup circuit, a CPU, and a memory that stores a program that, when executed by the CPU, causes the image pickup apparatus to function as the following units a sound acquisition unit that acquires a sound, a sound recognition unit that recognizes a sound acquired during moving image capturing and detects a specific sound from the sound, an image recognition unit that recognizes a moving image acquired during the moving image capturing and detects a subject from the moving image, and a control unit that calculates an evaluation result by using a score weighted in response to a sound recognition result and an image recognition result and adds the evaluation result to the moving image and the sound as attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichiro SASAI, Shogo FUJIWARA, Tatsuo NISHINO, Yudai ITOI
  • Patent number: 11039073
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs first type processing or second type processing based on whether or not a predetermined touch operation that does not include a shift of a touch position onto an operation surface is detected after a touch on the operation surface is detected. The first type processing is processing of displaying an item on a display at a position which has shifted in accordance with an amount of a shift of the touch position from a position where the item was displayed before detection of the shift of the touch position without displaying, at a position corresponding to a touch start position, the item. The second type processing is processing of displaying the item at a position that is not based on the position where the item was displayed before detection of the touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichiro Sasai
  • Publication number: 20190158761
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs first type processing or second type processing based on whether or not a predetermined touch operation that does not include a shift of a touch position onto an operation surface is detected after a touch on the operation surface is detected. The first type processing is processing of displaying an item on a display at a position which has shifted in accordance with an amount of a shift of the touch position from a position where the item was displayed before detection of the shift of the touch position without displaying, at a position corresponding to a touch start position, the item. The second type processing is processing of displaying the item at a position that is not based on the position where the item was displayed before detection of the touch operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventor: Kenichiro Sasai