Patents by Inventor Masahiko Sugimoto

Masahiko Sugimoto 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: 10841499
    Abstract: The image display apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an image input device which inputs an image signal; a particular target detection device which detects a particular target included in the image signal based on a particular target evaluation value indicating the feature of the particular target; a frame display information generation device which generates frame display information indicating a frame surrounding the detected particular target and which causes the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the particular target evaluation value; and a display device which displays the frame based on the generated frame display information. That is, by causing the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the evaluation value of a particular target, it is possible to avoid sudden change in the frame display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Misawa, Masahiko Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10794298
    Abstract: An engine promoting activation of a catalyst is provided, including an exhaust manifold, an exhaust lead-out path led out from a manifold exit of the exhaust manifold, a catalyst case provided on the exhaust lead-out path, and a catalyst housed in the catalyst case. The exhaust manifold and the catalyst case are extended in the front-back direction of crankshaft extension and disposed side by side orthogonally to the front-back direction. The engine may further include a supercharger attached to the exit of the exhaust manifold, and the catalyst case is attached to a turbine exit of the supercharger. The engine may further include an exhaust relay pipe attached to the exit of the exhaust manifold, and the catalyst case is attached to a relay pipe exit of the exhaust relay pipe. The engine may further include an exhaust throttle device provided on an exhaust downstream side of the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Kai, Katsushi Inoue, Masahiko Sugimoto, Kentaro Kita, Hideo Shimoji, Hiroki Murata, Gen Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200273012
    Abstract: A mode switch changes a mode of a bag (container) into a blue LED turned-on state (first mode) indicative of being settled on a condition that a settlement process is performed by a settlement processor. The mode switch changes the mode of the bag (container) into a white LED turned-on state (second mode) indicative of being unsettled on a condition that an initialization process is performed by an initialization processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200234266
    Abstract: A sales data processing apparatus includes a housing section configured to house a container for at least one commodity, a settlement section configured to perform settlement processing based on tag information related to the at least one commodity read from a wireless tag attached to the at least one commodity in the container in the housing section, and a marking section configured to mark, upon completion of the settlement processing, the container to indicate completion of the settlement processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventor: Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200236333
    Abstract: A processing control unit 50 of an information processing apparatus 14 functions as an acquisition unit that acquires positional information representing an imaging position in which imaging is performed, time range information representing an imaging time range in which the imaging is performed, and color temperature information related to the imaging, from each of a plurality of imaging apparatuses 12. In addition, the processing control unit 50 functions as a derivation unit that derives recommended color temperature information recommended in a case of performing imaging in a specific position and a specific time range from information obtained by performing statistical processing on the acquired positional information, the time range information, and the color temperature information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200186692
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus 14 includes a reception unit 22 that receives information based on a captured image obtained by an imaging device, an extraction unit 28 that extract a plurality of image data of which a degree of similarity with a subject specified by the information received by the reception unit 22 is equal to or greater than a predetermined value from a first image data group obtained by the bracket imaging and/or a second image data group obtained by non-bracket imaging which are accumulated in advance, a generation unit 30 that generates the imaging condition of the bracket imaging by using the plurality of image data extracted by the extraction unit 28, and a transmission unit 32 that transmits the imaging condition of the bracket imaging generated by the generation unit 30 to the imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi KAMIYA, Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Yoshiaki ISHII
  • Publication number: 20200175582
    Abstract: Provided are an information terminal, an information processing method, a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing an information processing program, and an information processing system capable of reducing time and effort of a user related to rental of an imaging-equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya FUJIKAWA, Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Takeshi KAMIYA
  • Patent number: 10664991
    Abstract: There is provided an attention position recognizing apparatus, an image pickup apparatus, a display apparatus, an attention position recognizing method, and a program, in which it is possible to reliably recognize a position of a portion, to which attention is paid by a user, in an image. A gaze analyzing unit that performs detection of a gaze position of the user and determination of whether or not the gaze position is stable, as a gaze analysis of the user, an image analyzing unit that performs image analysis of the acquired image, and an attention position recognizing unit that recognizes an attention position which is a position of a portion in the image, to which attention is paid by the user, based on the result of the gaze analysis and the result of the image analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10641896
    Abstract: A distance measurement device includes a deriving unit that derives a dimension of a real-space region corresponding to an interval between a plurality of pixels associated with in-image irradiation positions derived as positions, which correspond to irradiation positions of laser beams onto a subject, within a captured image acquired by imaging the subject by an imaging unit, based on a distance measured by a measurement unit, an interval between a plurality of designated pixels, and a focal length of the imaging unit, and an output unit that derives derivation accuracy corresponding to an actually present factor based on a first correspondence relation between assumption factors assumed as factors influencing in-image irradiation positions and derivation accuracy derived by the deriving unit, and outputs information based on the derived derivation accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiko Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20200115061
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle includes: a plurality of rotary wings; a load object disposed on an airframe of the unmanned aerial vehicle, the load object being an external device or a piece of goods disposed at an outside of the airframe; and an air bag device configured to protect the external device. The air bag device includes: a sensor configured to detect a collision and/or a fall of the airframe; an air bag inflatable by a supply of gas; and an inflator configured to supply the gas to the air bag. The air bag includes a plurality of buffers each being a bag body inflatable into an approximately columnar shape. The plurality of inflated buffers are aligned in their radial direction such that the plurality of inflated buffers cover an outer surface of the load object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: PRODRONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji TAKEUCHI, Kiyokazu SUGAKI, Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200112682
    Abstract: The image display apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an image input device which inputs an image signal; a particular target detection device which detects a particular target included in the image signal based on a particular target evaluation value indicating the feature of the particular target; a frame display information generation device which generates frame display information indicating a frame surrounding the detected particular target and which causes the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the particular target evaluation value; and a display device which displays the frame based on the generated frame display information. That is, by causing the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the evaluation value of a particular target, it is possible to avoid sudden change in the frame display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi MISAWA, Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200099867
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: an image sensor that outputs an image signal obtained by image capturing by an imaging device, the imaging device performing image capturing of a photographic subject through an image capturing optical system; a display that displays a captured image based on the image signal; and a processor configured to determine, on the basis of a result of analysis of the captured image, a position of a boundary line along which the captured image is divided into a plurality of regions, adjust, in a case where a change occurs in the captured image, the determined position of the boundary line on the basis of the change in the captured image, and control, on the basis of a brightness of the captured image after the change, an exposure for at least one of the plurality of regions separated by the adjusted boundary line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200099841
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: an image sensor that outputs an image signal obtained by image capturing of a photographic subject by an imaging device through an image capturing optical system; a display that displays a captured image based on the image signal; and a processor configured to perform control to display, on the display, images in a plurality of division regions obtained by dividing a division target region that includes a photographic subject image in the captured image as images in the respective division regions among which a degree of exposure differs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200068107
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing unit that includes an imaging device and outputs an image signal obtained by image capturing of a subject by the imaging device through an image capturing optical system; a control unit that, in a case of controlling an exposure for each of three or more division regions obtained by dividing an image represented by the image signal and in a case of dividing the image into a plurality of segment regions that are different from the division regions and among which a segment region extends across a boundary between some of the division regions, controls an exposure of the segment region in accordance with information about at least one division region among the some of the division regions over which the segment region extends; and a display unit that displays the image for which the exposure is controlled by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori MASUDA, Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Kosuke IRIE
  • Patent number: 10554894
    Abstract: The image display apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an image input device which inputs an image signal; a particular target detection device which detects a particular target included in the image signal based on a particular target evaluation value indicating the feature of the particular target; a frame display information generation device which generates frame display information indicating a frame surrounding the detected particular target and which causes the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the particular target evaluation value; and a display device which displays the frame based on the generated frame display information. That is, by causing the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the evaluation value of a particular target, it is possible to avoid sudden change in the frame display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Misawa, Masahiko Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20190293719
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has a circuit block that includes scan chain circuitry for a scan test, and clock gating circuitry that switches supply and non-supply of a clock signal to the scan chain circuitry based on an enable signal. The circuit block includes a bypass path that bypasses the scan chain circuitry, and selection circuitry that selects one of an output signal from the scan chain circuitry and a signal passing through the bypass path based on the enable signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190227617
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic apparatus, a power-saving control method, and a program capable of realizing both ease of use for a user and power-saving. A determination unit that determines whether a non-operation state of a user continues for a reference time in a first power mode, a mode control unit that shifts a power mode to a second power mode in which power is saved in a case where determination is made that the non-operation state continues for the reference time in the first power mode, a time interval detection unit that detects a time interval from the shift to the second power mode to an operation by the user, and a time control unit that changes the reference time based on the detected time interval are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10353070
    Abstract: A distance measurement device includes an imaging unit, a measurement unit that measures a plurality of distances to the subject by emitting a plurality of directional light rays the subject and receiving reflection light rays, a control unit that controls the imaging unit to image the subject in an angle of view which includes irradiation positions of the directional light rays used in the measurement of the plurality of distances onto the subject, and a deriving unit that derives a dimension of a real-space region corresponding to an interval between a plurality of pixels associated with the in-image irradiation positions based on distances which are related to in-image irradiation positions derived as positions corresponding to the irradiation positions within a captured image acquired through imaging, among the plurality of measured distances, the interval for each distance within the captured image, and a focal length of the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiko Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10339638
    Abstract: An image processing device and an image processing method capable of satisfactorily performing a point image restoration process of a visible light image and a point image restoration process of a near-infrared light image are provided. A point image restoration process is performed on luminance data Y indicating a visible light image and IR data indicating a near-infrared light image using a first point image restoration filter based on a first point spread function with respect to visible light of an optical system and a second point image restoration filter based on a second point spread function with respect to near-infrared light of the optical system. An appropriate point image restoration process is performed on the IR data so that restoration strength (second gain ?) in the point image restoration process for the IR data captured with radiation of near-infrared light is higher than restoration strength (first gain ?) in the point image restoration process for the luminance data Y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kenkichi Hayashi, Junichi Tanaka, Yousuke Naruse, Masahiko Sugimoto, Kousuke Irie
  • Publication number: 20190186384
    Abstract: An engine promoting activation of a catalyst is provided, including an exhaust manifold, an exhaust lead-out path led out from a manifold exit of the exhaust manifold, a catalyst case provided on the exhaust lead-out path, and a catalyst housed in the catalyst case. The exhaust manifold and the catalyst case are extended in the front-back direction of crankshaft extension and disposed side by side orthogonally to the front-back direction. The engine may further include a supercharger attached to the exit of the exhaust manifold, and the catalyst case is attached to a turbine exit of the supercharger. The engine may further include an exhaust relay pipe attached to the exit of the exhaust manifold, and the catalyst case is attached to a relay pipe exit of the exhaust relay pipe. The engine may further include an exhaust throttle device provided on an exhaust downstream side of the catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiko KAI, Katsushi INOUE, Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Kentaro KITA, Hideo SHIMOJI, Hiroki MURATA, Gen NAKAMURA