Patents by Inventor Kenji Onuki

Kenji Onuki 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: 12219253
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, a subject detection unit configured to detect a subject from the image, a motion amount detection unit configured to detect a motion amount of a first region of the subject and a motion amount of a second region of the subject, the second region being different from the first region, and an image capturing parameter determination unit configured to determine an image capturing parameter, wherein the image capturing parameter determination unit refers to the motion amount of the first region and the motion amount of the second region and determines the image capturing parameter so that a blur amount of the first region is less than a first standard and a blur amount of the second region is greater than a second standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Sasaki, Kenji Onuki, Jun Makino
  • Patent number: 11808561
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, comprises a projection unit configured to project an image, a measurement unit configured to measure a distance to an object, a projection control unit configured to control, based on the distance to the object measured by the measurement unit, projection of the image by the projection unit so that the image projected onto the object has a preliminarily set actual size length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Publication number: 20230269472
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, a subject detection unit configured to detect a subject from the image, a motion amount detection unit configured to detect a motion amount of a first region of the subject and a motion amount of a second region of the subject, the second region being different from the first region, and an image capturing parameter determination unit configured to determine an image capturing parameter, wherein the image capturing parameter determination unit refers to the motion amount of the first region and the motion amount of the second region and determines the image capturing parameter so that a blur amount of the first region is less than a first standard and a blur amount of the second region is greater than a second standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: TAKASHI SASAKI, KENJI ONUKI, JUN MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20220366542
    Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory and configured to execute the instructions to set an estimation area to acquired image data, execute calculation for estimating a degree of defocusing of an image in the estimation area, determine defocusing of the image data based on the estimated degree of defocusing, and display information which allows a user to adjust a threshold for determining defocusing on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Yohei Toyohara, Kenji Onuki
  • Publication number: 20220082370
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, comprises a projection unit configured to project an image, a measurement unit configured to measure a distance to an object, a projection control unit configured to control, based on the distance to the object measured by the measurement unit, projection of the image by the projection unit so that the image projected onto the object has a preliminarily set actual size length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Patent number: 11209262
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, comprises a projection unit configured to project an image, a measurement unit configured to measure a distance to an object, a projection control unit configured to control, based on the distance to the object measured by the measurement unit, projection of the image by the projection unit so that the image projected onto the object has a preliminarily set actual size length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Patent number: 11108944
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises at least one processor which function as: an obtaining unit configured to obtain one or more images; and a display control unit configured to display the one or more images on a display in a different display mode and to superimpose, on an image, information indicating a defocus range of the image on a basis of the display mode and defocus information. The display control unit changes, depending on whether a first number of images are displayed or a second number of images are displayed, displaying that uses information indicating a defocus range of focus or non-focus and information indicating a defocus range in which a focus position is changeable or a defocus range of a case where an aperture value is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Patent number: 11012650
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a first calculation unit configured to calculate, for an input image, a first range that is within a depth of field from a focus position, a second calculation unit configured to calculate, for the input image, a second range that is within a depth of field from the focus position corresponding to an aperture value virtually changed by a predetermined amount from an aperture value employed to capture the input image; and a display control unit configured to display an area in the first range or the second range on display apparatus depending on an image capturing mode employed to capture the input image, such that the area in the first range or the second range is distinguishable from an area other than the area in the first range or the second range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Publication number: 20200363189
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, comprises a projection unit configured to project an image, a measurement unit configured to measure a distance to an object, a projection control unit configured to control, based on the distance to the object measured by the measurement unit, projection of the image by the projection unit so that the image projected onto the object has a preliminarily set actual size length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Patent number: 10750100
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which is capable of obtaining a moving image having a special effect suitable for a scene while suppressing a load of a user. In the image processing apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires a first image generated by shooting, a division unit divides the first image into two or more regions according to a distribution of a distance of each subject, at the time of shooting, included in the first image, a detection unit detects one of the divided regions as a high brightness region where high brightness pixels exist, a first generation unit performs correction of the first image with different correction intensities with respect to the high brightness pixels and surrounding pixels thereof in the high brightness region to generate a plurality of second images, and a second generation unit generates a moving image using the generated second images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Publication number: 20200162660
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises at least one processor which function as: an obtaining unit configured to obtain one or more images; and a display control unit configured to display the one or more images on a display in a different display mode and to superimpose, on an image, information indicating a defocus range of the image on a basis of the display mode and defocus information. The display control unit changes, depending on whether a first number of images are displayed or a second number of images are displayed, displaying that uses information indicating a defocus range of focus or non-focus and information indicating a defocus range in which a focus position is changeable or a defocus range of a case where an aperture value is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Patent number: 10650526
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus. A line segment detecting unit detects line segments from an image. An obtainment unit obtains distance information indicating a distance in a depth direction of the image. A selecting unit selects a line segment for vanishing point detection from the line segments detected by the line segment detecting unit. A vanishing point detecting unit detects a vanishing point of the image on a basis of the line segment for vanishing point detection. For each line segment detected by the line segment detecting unit, the selecting unit selects the line segment in a case where the distance indicated by the distance information is in a monotonically changing trend along the line segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Patent number: 10650503
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains distance information indicating a distance to each of one or more objects of an image, performs grouping of the one or more objects in accordance with the distance to each object, extracts a plurality of object regions of the image in accordance with the grouping, and determines, in accordance with a number of the plurality of object regions extracted by the extraction unit, whether to perform tone conversion by applying a same tone characteristic to the image as a whole or to perform tone conversion by applying different tone characteristics for respective regions of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Publication number: 20190373202
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a first calculation unit configured to calculate, for an input image, a first range that is within a depth of field from a focus position, a second calculation unit configured to calculate, for the input image, a second range that is within a depth of field from the focus position corresponding to an aperture value virtually changed by a predetermined amount from an aperture value employed to capture the input image; and a display control unit configured to display an area in the first range or the second range on display apparatus depending on an image capturing mode employed to capture the input image, such that the area in the first range or the second range is distinguishable from an area other than the area in the first range or the second range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Publication number: 20190174073
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which is capable of obtaining a moving image having a special effect suitable for a scene while suppressing a load of a user. In the image processing apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires a first image generated by shooting, a division unit divides the first image into two or more regions according to a distribution of a distance of each subject, at the time of shooting, included in the first image, a detection unit detects one of the divided regions as a high brightness region where high brightness pixels exist, a first generation unit performs correction of the first image with different correction intensities with respect to the high brightness pixels and surrounding pixels thereof in the high brightness region to generate a plurality of second images, and a second generation unit generates a moving image using the generated second images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Publication number: 20190156489
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus. A line segment detecting unit detects line segments from an image. An obtainment unit obtains distance information indicating a distance in a depth direction of the image. A selecting unit selects a line segment for vanishing point detection from the line segments detected by the line segment detecting unit. A vanishing point detecting unit detects a vanishing point of the image on a basis of the line segment for vanishing point detection. For each line segment detected by the line segment detecting unit, the selecting unit selects the line segment in a case where the distance indicated by the distance information is in a monotonically changing trend along the line segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Publication number: 20180336670
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains distance information indicating a distance to each of one or more objects of an image, performs grouping of the one or more objects in accordance with the distance to each object, extracts a plurality of object regions of the image in accordance with the grouping, and determines, in accordance with a number of the plurality of object regions extracted by the extraction unit, whether to perform tone conversion by applying a same tone characteristic to the image as a whole or to perform tone conversion by applying different tone characteristics for respective regions of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Publication number: 20170372481
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus. A line segment detecting unit detects line segments from an image. An obtainment unit obtains distance information indicating a distance in a depth direction of the image. A selecting unit selects a line segment for vanishing point detection from the line segments detected by the line segment detecting unit. A vanishing point detecting unit detects a vanishing point of the image on a basis of the line segment for vanishing point detection. For each line segment detected by the line segment detecting unit, the selecting unit selects the line segment in a case where the distance indicated by the distance information is in a monotonically changing trend along the line segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Kenji Onuki
  • Patent number: 9231791
    Abstract: A differential transmission circuit comprises a sending unit that generates a pair of differential signals from an input signal, and sends the differential signals; a receiver that receives the differential signals sent by the sending unit; and a transmission path that transmits the differential signals from the sending unit to the receiver, wherein the sending unit has a selector that selects one of the input signal and a signal obtained by inverting a polarity of the input signal, and generates the differential signals from the signal selected by the selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Onuki, Hideyuki Rengakuji
  • Publication number: 20140328418
    Abstract: A differential transmission circuit comprises a sending unit that generates a pair of differential signals from an input signal, and sends the differential signals; a receiver that receives the differential signals sent by the sending unit; and a transmission path that transmits the differential signals from the sending unit to the receiver, wherein the sending unit has a selector that selects one of the input signal and a signal obtained by inverting a polarity of the input signal, and generates the differential signals from the signal selected by the selector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Kenji Onuki, Hideyuki Rengakuji