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).
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Patent number: 10744052Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Inventors: Masafumi Yamasaki, Kae Morita
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Publication number: 20160296394Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2014Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: Masafumi YAMASAKI, Kae MORITA
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Patent number: 7961233Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignees: Olympus Corporation, Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 7711254Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 2, 2007Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignees: Olympus Imaging Corp., Olympus CorporationInventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 7664382Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 2, 2007Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignees: Olympus Imaging Corp., Olympus CorporationInventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 7630000Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 2006Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignees: Olympus Imaging Corp., Olympus CorporationInventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Publication number: 20090290028Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 7623154Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2006Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 7593757Abstract: 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 equipmenType: GrantFiled: July 13, 2005Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignees: Olympus Corporation, Olympus Imaging CorpInventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 7573525Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 7, 2005Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 7561185Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 19, 2002Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Masafumi Yamasaki, Shinji Kaneko, Kimihiko Nishioka
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Patent number: 7460771Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 10, 2007Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 7447330Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 11, 2005Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Publication number: 20080152333Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2008Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi YAMASAKI, Shinji Kaneko, Kimihiko Nishioka
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Publication number: 20070297687Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2007Publication date: December 27, 2007Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 7286753Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 4, 2005Date of Patent: October 23, 2007Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Publication number: 20070212045Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2007Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Publication number: 20070212044Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2007Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventor: Masafumi Yamasaki
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Patent number: D954960Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Inventors: Masafumi Yamasaki, Kae Morita, Kalpna Tarak Mehta, Tarak Mahasukhlal Mehta
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Patent number: D957644Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Inventors: Masafumi Yamasaki, Kae Morita, Kalpna Tarak Mehta, Tarak Mahasukhlal Mehta