Patents by Inventor Kensei Ito

Kensei Ito 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: 20230394800
    Abstract: An inference learning device, comprising an input device for inputting data from a data acquisition device, a learning device for obtaining an inference model by learning using training data that has been obtained by performing annotation of the data, and a data processing device that, for data that has been obtained continuously in time series from the data acquisition device, makes provisional training data by performing the annotation on a plurality of items of data that have been obtained from data that was obtained at a given first time to a second time that has been traced back to a predetermined time, and makes data, among the provisional training data that has a high correlation of causal relationship with the data of the first time, into adopted training data, which is training data used in the learning device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi SHINTANI, Akira TANI, Manabu ICHIKAWA, Kensei ITO, Tomoko GOCHO, Osamu NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20220035874
    Abstract: A user guide method, comprising determining a reference area according to user behavior and target events the user is interested in, acquiring a reference target event heat map representing distribution of the target events within the reference area for a specified time point, and estimating conditions of a target event at a time when time has passed from the specified time, by referencing the reference target event heat map, and a database that shows chronological change of previous heat maps for the same or similar areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Koichi SHINTANI, Akira TANI, Manabu ICHIKAWA, Kensei ITO, Osamu NONAKA, Natsuko SATO
  • Patent number: 11010033
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a display control unit that controls a display of a condition setting screen for setting a condition for a device on a screen, wherein the display control unit displays a list screen in which setting items for conditions for a device are grouped and displays, according to an instruction, an item plate overlapping the list screen, in which one or more setting items in the list screen are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Kensei Ito, Naoki Fujii
  • Patent number: 10942872
    Abstract: A peripheral device communicates with a central control device. The peripheral device includes a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to acquire, from another peripheral device, first information including a topic provided for the central control device or a user of the central control device, integrate the first information with second information which is included in the peripheral device and includes a topic provided for the central control device or the user of the central control device, to generate third information, and transmit the third information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Toyoda, Koichi Shintani, Kensei Ito, Katsuhisa Kawaguchi, Yoshihisa Ogata, Keito Fukushima, Kazuhiko Osa, Osamu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10798283
    Abstract: An information apparatus for communicating with a portable information terminal includes a processor including hardware. The processor determines state information regarding a state of the information apparatus when the power state is switched, by the power switch, from the on state to the office state. The processor also determines whether the manually set parameter has been changed before and after the power state is switched from the on state to the off state, based on the use history information of a manually set parameter in the information apparatus. Finally, the information apparatus transmits, to the portable information terminal, the state information indicating that the set parameter in the information apparatus has been changed when the processor determines that the set parameter has been changed while keeping the processor energized after the power state is switched from the on state to the off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Shintani, Akira Tani, Kensei Ito, Yoshiyuki Fukuya, Kazuhiko Osa, Osamu Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20190324925
    Abstract: A peripheral device communicates with a central control device. The peripheral device includes a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to acquire, from another peripheral device, first information including a topic provided for the central control device or a user of the central control device, integrate the first information with second information which is included in the peripheral device and includes a topic provided for the central control device or the user of the central control device, to generate third information, and transmit the third information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsuya TOYODA, Koichi SHINTANI, Kensei ITO, Katsuhisa KAWAGUCHI, Yoshihisa OGATA, Keito FUKUSHIMA, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20190253491
    Abstract: A peripheral device communicates with a central control device. The peripheral device includes a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to transmit first information to the central control device. The first information includes a topic to be provided to the central control device or a user of the central control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Osamu NONAKA, Tetsuya TOYODA, Keito FUKUSHIMA, Yoshihisa OGATA, Kensei ITO, Koichi Shintani, Katsuhisa Kawaguchi, Kazuhiko OSA
  • Publication number: 20190158725
    Abstract: An information apparatus for communicating with a portable information terminal includes a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to determine a use situation based on an operating rate per unit time of the information apparatus and transmit the use situation to the portable information terminal at a specific timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Koichi SHINTANI, Akira TANI, Kensei ITO, Yoshiyuki FUKUYA, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA
  • Patent number: 10116860
    Abstract: An imaging operation guidance device, comprises an imaging sensor that obtains images of an object and outputs image data relating to the object, a memory that stores the image data and an operation history for the image sensor, and a controller that determines guidance for a current image being obtained, based on difference between at least one previous image and the current image, in accordance with the operation history that has been stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensei Ito, Takato Aoki, Osamu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10051256
    Abstract: An image observation apparatus 10 includes an imaging unit 30 that images a specimen K and obtains a magnified image of the specimen, a display 50 that displays an image, a condition determiner that determines whether a state of the specimen with respect to the imaging unit satisfies a specific condition, and a controller that displays the magnified image obtained by the imaging unit on the display when the condition determiner determines the state of the specimen with respect to the imaging unit satisfies the specific condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Kato, Sumito Honda, Kensei Ito, Hiroshi Kodama, Osamu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10043236
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display, a display control circuit for causing operation screens, for selection of setting items to be used from among a plurality of provided setting items, to be displayed on the display, and causing switching from the operation screen to another operation screen to be displayed, and an operation member for operating in order to switch from the operation screen to another operation screen, wherein the display control circuit causes display of change in display appearance of the setting items, when there is a switch from the operation screen to another operation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sato, Kensei Ito, Tomomi Kaminaga, Naoki Fujii, Kyoichi Numajiri
  • Patent number: 9927906
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a display control unit that displays, on a screen, a setting item list for setting a condition of an appliance, and further displays, for a designated item designated in the setting item list, an option row for selecting a specific condition in the designated item, and a selection operation guide for selecting an option from options arranged in the option row. The display control unit separates the option row and the selection operation guide, displays the option row and the selection operation guide by superposing them on the setting item list, and further displays an option selected in accordance with a touch operation performed on the selection operation guide so as to be identifiable in the option row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Kensei Ito, Kazuhiro Sato, Naoki Fujii, Kyoichi Numajiri
  • Publication number: 20180063503
    Abstract: An image observation apparatus 10 includes an imaging unit 30 that images a specimen K and obtains a magnified image of the specimen, a display 50 that displays an image, a condition determiner that determines whether a state of the specimen with respect to the imaging unit satisfies a specific condition, and a controller that displays the magnified image obtained by the imaging unit on the display when the condition determiner determines the state of the specimen with respect to the imaging unit satisfies the specific condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Shigeru KATO, Sumito HONDA, Kensei ITO, Hiroshi KODAMA, Osamu NONAKA
  • Patent number: 9787906
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes a display unit that includes a plurality of display areas, a display control unit that controls the display unit so that an image displayed in one of the plurality of display areas is changed from a live view image to an image obtained by an image pickup unit in accordance with a shooting instruction when a first reception unit has received the shooting instruction and so that an image displayed in a display area specified by a display position changing instruction is changed to a live view image when a second reception unit has received the display position changing instruction, and an image process unit that synthesizes image data of a plurality of images being displayed in the plurality of display areas and generates image data of a combined image in which the plurality of images are laid out as displayed in the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Shimamura, Kensei Ito, Maki Toida, Akira Tani, Manabu Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 9684988
    Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that images a subject so as to obtain first image data, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the first image data so as to obtain second image data, a first storage unit in which image data including one or both of the first image data and the second image data is stored, an image analysis unit that analyzes a feature of the image data stored in the first storage unit, a scenario generation unit that generates scenario data on the basis of an analysis result of the image analysis unit, a scenario changing unit that performs setting so as to change the scenario data, and an image collage processing unit that combines the plural pieces of image data stored in the first storage unit on the basis of the scenario data so as to generate the image collage data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Shimamura, Kensei Ito, Maki Toida, Akira Tani, Manabu Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20170078565
    Abstract: An imaging operation guidance device, comprises an imaging sensor that obtains images of an object and outputs image data relating to the object, a memory that stores the image data and an operation history for the image sensor, and a controller that determines guidance for a current image being obtained, based on difference between at least one previous image and the current image, in accordance with the operation history that has been stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensei ITO, Takato AOKI, Osamu NONAKA
  • Patent number: 9544462
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit, an image processing unit, a database, a display unit, a coordinate acquisition unit, a shooting parameter decision unit and a control unit. The image capturing unit acquires image data. The image processing unit performs image processing. The database includes a relationship between a sensitivity word pair and a change in a control parameter. The display unit displays an operation position together with the sensitivity word pair. The coordinate acquisition unit decides a value corresponding to the sensitivity word pair as a selected value. The shooting parameter decision unit decides a value of a shooting parameter based on the selected value. The control unit controls the image capturing unit or the image processing unit based on the value of the shooting parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Maruyama, Tomomi Nakajima, Kensei Ito, Naoki Fujii, Osamu Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20160246493
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a display control unit that controls a display of a condition setting screen for setting a condition for a device on a screen, wherein the display control unit displays a list screen in which setting items for conditions for a device are grouped and displays, according to an instruction, an item plate overlapping the list screen, in which one or more setting items in the list screen are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Kensei ITO, Naoki FUJII
  • Patent number: 9392177
    Abstract: An image processing device of the present invention comprises a designation section for designating an adjustment amount using a first adjustment axis for carrying out first adjustment to adjust so as to displace white balance of image data in a hue direction that has been designated by the user, and a second adjustment axis for carrying out second adjustment to adjust saturation of the image data that has had white balance adjusted by the first adjustment axis, an image processing section for applying first image processing corresponding to the first adjustment to the image data, and applying second image processing corresponding to the second adjustment to the image data that has been subjected to the first image processing, wherein the image processing section changes the second image processing depending on the first image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Takasumi, Hirozumi Arai, Izumi Sakuma, Maki Kawakami, Keiji Okada, Kensei Ito
  • Publication number: 20160077656
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a display control unit that displays, on a screen, a setting item list for setting a condition of an appliance, and further displays, for a designated item designated in the setting item list, an option row for selecting a specific condition in the designated item, and a selection operation guide for selecting an option from options arranged in the option row. The display control unit separates the option row and the selection operation guide, displays the option row and the selection operation guide by superposing them on the setting item list, and further displays an option selected in accordance with a touch operation performed on the selection operation guide so as to be identifiable in the option row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Kensei ITO, Kazuhiro SATO, Naoki FUJII, Kyoichi NUMAJIRI