Patents by Inventor Kideaki Yoshihara

Kideaki Yoshihara 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).

  • IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, ALBUM CREATING APPARATUS, ALBUM CREATING METHOD, ALBUM CREATING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20110085055
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing section for capturing an image; a person determining section for determining whether the image captured by the image capturing section includes any person; an input notification section for notifying a user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted when the image determining section determines that the image includes the person; a personal identification information input section for causing the user to input personal identification information indicative of the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section by a predetermined timing after the input notification section notifies the user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted; and an image storage section for storing the personal identification information inputted by the personal identification information input section in association with the image captured by the ima
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Masahiro Matsushita, Kenji Kojima, Hajime Shirasaka, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Ayumu Isomura, Kimiko Tachikawa, Shinsuke Zetsu, Kideaki Yoshihara