Patents by Inventor Kosuke Shingai

Kosuke Shingai 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: 10318053
    Abstract: A control device for an electronic apparatus including a touch panel display, in which it receives touch operations by setting a predetermined area as a touch area, a display size of an object displayed on the touch panel display is changed by setting a plurality of expanding touch areas as operations with respect to a function of expansion and contraction, and touch-operating intervals of the plurality of expanding touch areas, and the display position of the touch area is changed so as to widen the intervals when a touch operation for narrowing the intervals between the plurality of expanding touch areas more than a predetermined amount is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Shingai
  • Publication number: 20170371494
    Abstract: An electronic device has a touch panel configured to detect a touch position; and a controller configured to detect the touch position with greater precision in a first area that includes the touch position than in a second area that is different from the first area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Kosuke SHINGAI
  • Publication number: 20170249045
    Abstract: A control device for an electronic apparatus including a touch panel display, in which it receives touch operations by setting a predetermined area as a touch area, a display size of an object displayed on the touch panel display is changed by setting a plurality of expanding touch areas as operations with respect to a function of expansion and contraction, and touch-operating intervals of the plurality of expanding touch areas, and the display position of the touch area is changed so as to widen the intervals when a touch operation for narrowing the intervals between the plurality of expanding touch areas more than a predetermined amount is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventor: Kosuke SHINGAI
  • Patent number: 9053556
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus synthesizing a plurality of sub-images in a panoramic way to create a panoramic image includes a face recognizing unit recognizing a person's face from a plurality of the sub-images, a sampling image selecting unit selecting a sub-image which has a face recognized by the face recognizing unit, out of a plurality of the sub-images as a sampling image, a sampling unit sampling a plurality of pixels from the selected sampling image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Matsuhira, Kosuke Shingai, Makoto Oyanagi
  • Publication number: 20140293315
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a usage request acquiring part, first and second setting parts, a determining part, and an executing part. The first setting part sets first restriction information that shows whether the prescribed function is executable in response to a usage request that includes the authentication information. The second setting part sets second restriction information that shows whether the prescribed function is executable in response to a usage request that does not include the authentication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomotaka TAKARABE, Kosuke SHINGAI
  • Patent number: 8472751
    Abstract: An image processing device that executes deformation of an image. A candidate area setting unit sets candidate areas, each of which includes a specific image, on a target image used as a target for a deformation process. An exclusion determination unit, when there is a candidate area that partially extends off a cropped image that is clipped from the target image through predetermined cropping, excludes the candidate area, which at least partially extends off the cropped image, from the target for the deformation process. A deformation processing unit performs deformation of an image on the candidate areas other than the excluded candidate areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Yamazaki, Goro Ishida, Kosuke Shingai
  • Patent number: 8391646
    Abstract: An image processing device, which performs, on image data, image quality adjustment processing and resize processing to adjust an image size to a target size, and which outputs processed image data, including: an adjustment parameter creation unit which creates adjustment parameters for the image quality adjustment processing, on the basis of original image data; a contrast information creation unit which acquires the image size of the original image data and the target size, and creates size contrast information; a resize amount detection unit which determines the resize amount in the resize processing on the basis of the size contrast information; and an adjustment parameter modification unit which modifies the adjustment parameters in accordance with the resize amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kosuke Shingai, Nobutaka Sasazawa, Yukihito Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20130039581
    Abstract: An image processing device that executes deformation of an image. A candidate area setting unit sets candidate areas, each of which includes a specific image, on a target image used as a target for a deformation process. An exclusion determination unit, when there is a candidate area that partially extends off a cropped image that is clipped from the target image through predetermined cropping, excludes the candidate area, which at least partially extends off the cropped image, from the target for the deformation process. A deformation processing unit performs deformation of an image on the candidate areas other than the excluded candidate areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio YAMAZAKI, Goro ISHIDA, Kosuke SHINGAI
  • Patent number: 8351737
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus for performing a correction process with respect to object image data, the image processing apparatus including: a first determining unit that determines whether facial image data including a face of a person, which is extracted from the object image data, is attached to relevant object image data; a second determining unit that determines whether reduction image data of the object image data is attached to the relevant object image data; a selecting unit that selects the facial image data or the reduction image data as selection image data; a correction parameter setting unit that extracts a feature amount from the selection image data and sets a correction parameter for image correction based on the feature amount; and a correction processing unit that corrects the object image data based on the correction parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Shingai
  • Patent number: 8229181
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a face region extracting unit that extracts a face region of a person included in an image to be corrected. A correction region specifying unit specifies a region including the extracted face region as a reduction region and specifies a region excluding the reduction region as an enlargement region. A correction execution unit generates a correction image in which an image in the reduction region is reduced based on a predetermined reduction ratio and an image in the enlargement region is enlarged according to a ratio of the reduction region to the enlargement region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Shingai
  • Patent number: 8224117
    Abstract: An image processing device that executes deformation of an image includes a candidate area setting unit, an exclusion determination unit and a deformation processing unit. The candidate area setting unit sets candidate areas, each of which includes a specific image, on a target image used as a target for a deformation process. The exclusion determination unit, when there is an overlap between the candidate areas, excludes one or more candidate areas from the target for the deformation process so as to eliminate the overlap. The deformation processing unit performs deformation of the image on the candidate areas other than the excluded candidate areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Yamazaki, Goro Ishida, Kosuke Shingai
  • Patent number: 8218899
    Abstract: An image processing device that executes deformation of an image. A candidate area setting unit sets candidate areas, each of which includes a specific image, on a target image used as a target for a deformation process. An exclusion determination unit, when there is a candidate area that partially extends off a cropped image that is clipped from the target image through predetermined cropping, excludes the candidate area, which at least partially extends off the cropped image, from the target for the deformation process. A deformation processing unit performs deformation of an image on the candidate areas other than the excluded candidate areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Yamazaki, Goro Ishida, Kosuke Shingai
  • Patent number: 8174726
    Abstract: There is provided a printing device including a face detection unit for detecting a face area including a face of a person in an image to be a target for printing, and a print setting determination unit for determining a setting of a size of a print image used for a marginless printing based on a position of the face area detected by the face detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Shingai
  • Patent number: 8102571
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, includes: a first extractor, configured to extract compression data items of a plurality of images to extraction image data items; a corrector, configured to correct the extraction image data items, when the images are printed on a print medium; a second extractor, configured to extract one of the compression data items to a sample image data item; an acquirer, configured to acquire, from the sample image data item, a characteristic information item indicative of image characteristic to be corrected by the correction, in a case where at least parts of the images to be printed are to be overlapped when viewed from a first direction; and a calculator, configured to calculate correction amounts each of which is to be applied to an associated one of the extraction image data items based on the characteristic information item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Shingai
  • Publication number: 20100119174
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus for performing a correction process with respect to object image data, the image processing apparatus including: a first determining unit that determines whether facial image data including a face of a person, which is extracted from the object image data, is attached to relevant object image data; a second determining unit that determines whether reduction image data of the object image data is attached to the relevant object image data; a selecting unit that selects the facial image data or the reduction image data as selection image data; a correction parameter setting unit that extracts a feature amount from the selection image data and sets a correction parameter for image correction based on the feature amount; and a correction processing unit that corrects the object image data based on the correction parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kosuke Shingai
  • Publication number: 20100111408
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus synthesizing a plurality of sub-images in a panoramic way to create a panoramic image includes a face recognizing unit recognizing a person's face from a plurality of the sub-images, a sampling image selecting unit selecting a sub-image which has a face recognized by the face recognizing unit, out of a plurality of the sub-images as a sampling image, a sampling unit sampling a plurality of pixels from the selected sampling image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Matsuhira, Kosuke Shingai, Makoto Oyanagi
  • Patent number: 7675661
    Abstract: A technology is provided by which images can be specified in a moving picture and printed easily. First, a plurality of first still images are displayed on a display unit based on a plurality of images which are to be displayed at mutually differing times in a single moving picture. After receiving from a user a selection of a first still image from among the plurality of first still images, the moving picture is played on the display unit for a first time segment which is shorter than a playback time of the moving picture and includes a time at which the selected first still image is to be displayed. Then, according to an instruction by the user which is given during the playback of the moving picture, a second still image is displayed on the display unit based on an image which is to be displayed in the moving picture. The second still image is printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Shingai
  • Publication number: 20090244555
    Abstract: There is provided a printing device including a face detection unit for detecting a face area including a face of a person in an image to be a target for printing, and a print setting determination unit for determining a setting of a size of a print image used for a marginless printing based on a position of the face area detected by the face detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kosuke SHINGAI
  • Publication number: 20090245650
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a face region extracting unit that extracts a face region of a person included in an image to be corrected. A correction region specifying unit specifies a region including the extracted face region as a reduction region and specifies a region excluding the reduction region as an enlargement region. A correction execution unit generates a correction image in which an image in the reduction region is reduced based on a predetermined reduction ratio and an image in the enlargement region is enlarged according to a ratio of the reduction region to the enlargement region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kosuke SHINGAI
  • Publication number: 20090073497
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, includes: a first extractor, configured to extract compression data items of a plurality of images to extraction image data items; a corrector, configured to correct the extraction image data items, when the images are printed on a print medium; a second extractor, configured to extract one of the compression data items to a sample image data item; an acquirer, configured to acquire, from the sample image data item, a characteristic information item indicative of image characteristic to be corrected by the correction, in a case where at least parts of the images to be printed are to be overlapped when viewed from a first direction; and a calculator, configured to calculate correction amounts each of which is to be applied to an associated one of the extraction image data items based on the characteristic information item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kosuke SHINGAI