Patents by Inventor Masafumi Yamasaki

Masafumi Yamasaki 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: 10744052
    Abstract: A treatment table with which it is easy to perform treatments more appropriately and which is convenient to use is provided. The treatment table includes a head support for supporting the head of a patient, a body support for supporting the body of the patient, and a waist support for supporting the waist of the patient. The head support, the body support, and the waist support are arranged in a longitudinal direction. The head support and the waist support or the body support include a swing unit capable of swing in a width direction about a central position in the width direction. Adjustment operation units for adjusting the swing units are disposed at one concentrated position of the treatment table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Inventors: Masafumi Yamasaki, Kae Morita
  • Publication number: 20160296394
    Abstract: A treatment table with which it is easy to perform treatments more appropriately and which is convenient to use is provided. The treatment table includes a head support for supporting the head of a patient, a body support for supporting the body of the patient, and a waist support for supporting the waist of the patient. The head support, the body support, and the waist support are arranged in a longitudinal direction. The head support and the waist support or the body support include a swing unit capable of swing in a width direction about a central position in the width direction. Adjustment operation units for adjusting the swing units are disposed at one concentrated position of the treatment table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Masafumi YAMASAKI, Kae MORITA
  • Patent number: 7961233
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic blurring compensation device applied to a digital camera that includes an angular rate sensor for detecting blurring of an image, an solid-state image pickup element for shooting continuously over time a plurality of images, compensating mutual blurring of the plurality of shot images in accordance with the amount of blurring detected by the angular rate sensor, and generating one image by synthesizing the plurality of compensated images, and a CPU for controlling the number of continuous shootings by the solid-state image pickup element such that the total amount of blurring over the plurality of continuously shot images falls within a previously set predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignees: Olympus Corporation, Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 7711254
    Abstract: A blur correction device is disclosed, which acquires a plurality of time-division images, each captured for a time-division exposure time having a period that is an integral multiple of an image reading cycle of an image pickup device, to generate a blur-corrected image from the plurality of time-division images. According to this blur correction device, since the exposure times for the plurality of time-division images are substantially continuous, an image in which the trajectory of a moving body is continuous can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignees: Olympus Imaging Corp., Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 7664382
    Abstract: In an electronic blur correction device, imaging for a time-division exposure time is repeated m times (m is an integer of 2 or more), captured images are amplified by a factor of m to obtain a plurality of time-divided images, and an image for which blur is corrected is generated from the plurality of time-divided images. Here, the time-division exposure time is an exposure time that is obtained by dividing a proper exposure time by m and is shorter than a blur tolerable limit exposure time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignees: Olympus Imaging Corp., Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 7630000
    Abstract: An electronic blurring correction apparatus in the present invention includes a solid-state image-capturing device, which has an image-capturing section with photodiodes and vertical transfer CCD and an accumulation section with a vertical transfer CCD and a horizontal transfer CCD, wherein a first image transferred from the image-capturing section is accumulated in the vertical transfer CCD, relative blurring between the first image and a second image which is already accumulated in the horizontal transfer CCD is corrected by shifting the first image within the vertical transfer CCD and shifting the second image within the horizontal transfer CCD, and thereafter a composite image, which is obtained by combining the first image and the second image, is accumulated as a new second image in the horizontal transfer CCD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignees: Olympus Imaging Corp., Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20090290028
    Abstract: An electronic camera 1 comprises an image quality setting unit 37c for setting parameters that determine image quality, a camera-shake limit exposure time computation unit 35 for computing the camera-shake limit exposure time of the imaging device 7 on the basis of the focal length of the imaging lens 3 and the parameters for determining image quality set by the image quality setting unit 37c, an imaging unit 35 for accomplishing photography of the subject consecutively on the basis of the camera-shake limit exposure time, a camera-shake detection unit (39, 19, 43, 45, 47, 49) for detecting the camera-shake amount from the start of exposure of the subject, and an image composition unit (35, 15, 25) for correlating and summing a plurality of frames of image data so that the same portions of the plurality of frames of images displayed respectively by the plurality of frames of image data overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 7623154
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic blurring correction apparatus, comprising: a solid-state image-capturing device having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form; an angular speed sensor which detects blurring of an optical image formed on the solid-state image-capturing device; and a CPU which computes an optimum exposure time, time-divides this exposure time so that the time-divided exposure time becomes equal to or shorter than limit exposure time which is determined according to the focal distance for a shooting lens and in which blurring does not occur, and causes the solid-state image-capturing device to perform exposure a plurality of times, wherein the solid-state image-capturing device uses a horizontal transfer register and a vertical transfer register provided therein to shift and correct relative blurring among a plurality of images obtained in time-shared shooting, adds up the plurality of images after the blurring is corrected, and thereafter outputs the corrected images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 7593757
    Abstract: A mobile information apparatus having first and second operation modes includes upper, middle, and lower bodies of equipment arranged in layers, a hinge for pivotally connecting the upper body of equipment to the middle body of equipment so that the upper and middle bodies of equipment have folded and unfolded positions, a hinge for pivotally connecting the middle body of equipment to the lower body of equipment so that the middle and lower bodies of equipment have folded and unfolded positions, a first operation switch mounted on at least one of the upper body of equipment and the middle body of equipment and allowing the mobile information apparatus to operate in the first operation mode when the upper and middle bodies of equipment are in the unfolded positions, and a second operation switch mounted on at least one of the middle body of equipment and the lower body of equipment and allowing the mobile information apparatus to operate in the second operation mode when the middle and lower bodies of equipmen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignees: Olympus Corporation, Olympus Imaging Corp
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 7573525
    Abstract: A head-mounted camera of the present invention includes the following elements. A first image pickup device includes a first photographing optical system that can change the focal distance and a CCD for converting a subject image formed by the first photographing optical system into an image signal. A see-through image display portion displays a photographic frame indicating the photographic range as a virtual image so that it is superimposed on a subject substantially directly observed by a photographer. A remote controller includes a second operation switch for setting the visual angle of the photographic frame when viewed from the photographer. A controller/recorder includes a first CPU for setting the focal distance of the first photographing optical system so that the visual angle of the photographic frame set by the second operation switch coincides with the field angle of the first image pickup device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 7561185
    Abstract: A shake compensating device for optical devices includes an optical system for forming an image of an object; a reflecting surface placed in the optical path of the optical system, a first substrate having a first electrode, placed adjacent to the reflecting surface; a second substrate fixed to an optical device, placed opposite to the first substrate and having a second electrode at a position opposite to the first electrode; a voltage control circuit for applying voltages across the first electrode and the second electrode, one of which is divided into a plurality of electrodes; and a detecting unit for detecting the shake angle of the optical device. In this case, the voltage control circuit controls the voltages applied across the divided electrodes and the other electrode opposite thereto in accordance with the output of the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Yamasaki, Shinji Kaneko, Kimihiko Nishioka
  • Patent number: 7460771
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a biological information recording section for recording biological information concerning movement of a photographer in association with time information representing a relative elapsed time since commencement of recording of the biological information. An image data recording section records image data in association with the time information. The apparatus also includes an image editing processing section for reading the image data recorded by the image data recording section and performing a predetermined an editing processing on the read image data, on the basis of the biological information recorded at the same time as the read image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 7447330
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image capturing apparatus which captures moving images using a head mounted camera, records the obtained moving image data in a disk drive unit by dividing the moving image data into multiple blocks, records program chain information indicating the playback sequence of this moving image data, elapsed time relative from the time when the moving image data of each block is shot, biological information such as line-of-sight direction information detected simultaneously with the moving image data, the angular velocity information of the head, and the like, and information for detecting elapsed time relative from the time when this biological information is detected, in the disk drive unit, and automatically subjects the moving image data to editing such as cutting, blurring correction, zooming, electronic zooming, or the like based on the recorded biological information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20080152333
    Abstract: A shake compensating device for optical devices includes an optical system for forming an image of an object; a reflecting surface placed in the optical path of the optical system, a first substrate having a first electrode, placed adjacent to the reflecting surface; a second substrate fixed to an optical device, placed opposite to the first substrate and having a second electrode at a position opposite to the first electrode; a voltage control circuit for applying voltages across the first electrode and the second electrode, one of which is divided into a plurality of electrodes; and a detecting unit for detecting the shake angle of the optical device. In this case, the voltage control circuit controls the voltages applied across the divided electrodes and the other electrode opposite thereto in accordance with the output of the detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi YAMASAKI, Shinji Kaneko, Kimihiko Nishioka
  • Publication number: 20070297687
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing device for generating image data, a line-of-sight-direction/angular velocity detecting portion for detecting biological information, such as the direction of a line of sight of a photographer or the angular velocity of the head of the photographer, when the photographer observes a subject, and a controller/recorder. Among those elements, the image capturing device and the line-of-sight-direction/angular-velocity detecting portion are worn on the head of the photographer. The controller/recorder records, in a recording memory, the image data and the biological information in association with each other together with time information concerning a time at which the image data is obtained and a time at which the biological information is obtained. Then, based on the recorded biological information, the recorded image data is edited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 7286753
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing device for generating image data, a line-of-sight-direction/angular velocity detecting portion for detecting biological information, such as the direction of a line of sight of a photographer or the angular velocity of the head of the photographer, when the photographer observes a subject, and a controller/recorder. Among those elements, the image capturing device and the line-of-sight-direction/angular-velocity detecting portion are worn on the head of the photographer. The controller/recorder records, in a recording memory, the image data and the biological information in association with each other together with time information concerning a time at which the image data is obtained and a time at which the biological information is obtained. Then, based on the recorded biological information, the recorded image data is edited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20070212045
    Abstract: A blur correction device is disclosed, which acquires a plurality of time-division images, each captured for a time-division exposure time having a period that is an integral multiple of an image reading cycle of an image pickup device, to generate a blur-corrected image from the plurality of time-division images. According to this blur correction device, since the exposure times for the plurality of time-division images are substantially continuous, an image in which the trajectory of a moving body is continuous can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20070212044
    Abstract: In an electronic blur correction device, imaging for a time-division exposure time is repeated m times (m is an integer of 2 or more), captured images are amplified by a factor of m to obtain a plurality of time-divided images, and an image for which blur is corrected is generated from the plurality of time-divided images. Here, the time-division exposure time is an exposure time that is obtained by dividing a proper exposure time by m and is shorter than a blur tolerable limit exposure time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: D954960
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Masafumi Yamasaki, Kae Morita, Kalpna Tarak Mehta, Tarak Mahasukhlal Mehta
  • Patent number: D957644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventors: Masafumi Yamasaki, Kae Morita, Kalpna Tarak Mehta, Tarak Mahasukhlal Mehta