Patents by Inventor Masayuki Ishizawa

Masayuki Ishizawa 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: 10277544
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to transmit transmission target data to another information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display at least one object corresponding to the transmission target data together with a live view image on a display screen, and a receiving unit configured to receive an association operation for associating any one of the objects with any one of photographic subjects included in the live view image on the display screen. The information processing apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to identify another information processing apparatus associated beforehand with the photographic subject to be subjected to the association operation received by the receiving unit as a transmission destination to which the transmission target data corresponding to the object associated with the photographic subject is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomonori Nakamura, Makoto Hirota, Yasuo Okutani, Kenichiro Nakagawa, Hiromi Omi, Rei Ishikawa, Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Patent number: 9460537
    Abstract: An apparatus designs an animation expressing a transition of display forms of an object. A reception unit receives an operation for setting key frames in the animation at one or more time points on a time axis displayed on a screen, the time axis corresponding to the animation, and instructs a display form of the object at each of the set key frames. The reception unit receives, in a state when one or more key frames are set on the time axis and a display form of the object is instructed at each of the set key frames, an instruction for reflecting a display form of the object instructed to a first key frame of an already set one or more key frames as a display form of the object at a second key frame set on the time axis. A display control unit displays indicators representing the key frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichiro Nakagawa, Makoto Hirota, Rei Ishikawa, Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Patent number: 9406136
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an imaging unit, a storage unit that stores face images of at least two persons, including an owner of the information processing device, in association with a communication device owned by each of the at least two persons, an identification unit that identifies, based on a first group of face images and a second group of face images, a person associated with a face image detected from an image including face images of a plurality of persons imaged by the imaging unit, the first group of face images includes the face image of each person detected from the image imaged by the imaging unit, and the second group of face images includes the faces stored in the storage unit, and a decision unit that decides a person as a receiver from the identified persons excluding the owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Ishizawa, Yasuo Okutani
  • Patent number: 9269331
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to providing, in a plurality of information processing apparatuses which transmits and receives objects, a technique for causing the display contents in the apparatuses to be related by the apparatuses performing simple exchange of information. An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to cause, based on the information on the azimuth direction in which an object displayed on a screen has been moved, from other apparatus that transmits the information and the information indicating the azimuth direction in which the screen of the information processing apparatus has been directed, an object which is the same as an object displayed on a screen of the other apparatus to appear from an azimuth direction opposite of the azimuth direction in which the object displayed on the screen of the other apparatus has been moved, in the screen of the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Publication number: 20160050173
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to transmit transmission target data to another information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display at least one object corresponding to the transmission target data together with a live view image on a display screen, and a receiving unit configured to receive an association operation for associating any one of the objects with any one of photographic subjects included in the live view image on the display screen. The information processing apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to identify another information processing apparatus associated beforehand with the photographic subject to be subjected to the association operation received by the receiving unit as a transmission destination to which the transmission target data corresponding to the object associated with the photographic subject is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Tomonori Nakamura, Makoto Hirota, Yasuo Okutani, Kenichiro Nakagawa, Hiromi Omi, Rei Ishikawa, Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Publication number: 20150010214
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an imaging unit, a storage unit that stores face images of at least two persons, including an owner of the information processing device, in association with a communication device owned by each of the at least two persons, an identification unit that identifies, based on a first group of face images and a second group of face images, a person associated with a face image detected from an image including face images of a plurality of persons imaged by the imaging unit, the first group of face images includes the face image of each person detected from the image imaged by the imaging unit, and the second group of face images includes the faces stored in the storage unit, and a decision unit that decides a person as a receiver from the identified persons excluding the owner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Masayuki Ishizawa, Yasuo Okutani
  • Publication number: 20140145988
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to providing, in a plurality of information processing apparatuses which transmits and receives objects, a technique for causing the display contents in the apparatuses to be related by the apparatuses performing simple exchange of information. An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to cause, based on the information on the azimuth direction in which an object displayed on a screen has been moved, from other apparatus that transmits the information and the information indicating the azimuth direction in which the screen of the information processing apparatus has been directed, an object which is the same as an object displayed on a screen of the other apparatus to appear from an azimuth direction opposite of the azimuth direction in which the object displayed on the screen of the other apparatus has been moved, in the screen of the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventor: Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Publication number: 20130305191
    Abstract: An image is selected from a plurality of non-selected images, an evaluation value is stored for each value of attribute information of a selected image (cluster) which is selected by the selection unit, and when an image is selected by the selection unit, a presentation priority of the non-selected images is determined based on a value of the attribute information of the non-selected images not selected by the selection unit so that the evaluation values are even.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventor: Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Patent number: 8514245
    Abstract: An image is selected from a plurality of non-selected images, an evaluation value is stored for each value of attribute information of a selected image (cluster) which is selected by the selection unit, and when an image is selected by the selection unit, a presentation priority of the non-selected images is determined based on a value of the attribute information of the non-selected images not selected by the selection unit so that the evaluation values are even.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Patent number: 8413076
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a touch-sensitive panel and processing a gesture input performed via the touch-sensitive panel accepts an instruction from a user for transitioning from a first processing state to a second processing state; sets a number of gesture-input-based operations in accordance with the instruction accepted; and executes corresponding processing as a gesture input in the second processing state with regard to gesture inputs of the number of operations set. The information processing apparatus executes corresponding processing as a gesture input in the first processing state with regard to a gesture input after the gesture inputs of the number of operations have been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Publication number: 20110157188
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises: a storage unit adapted to store information that associates information representing the key frame with information representing the display form of the object of the key frame; an assignment unit adapted to assign, to the time-points corresponding to the key frames, indicators with which a difference between the display forms of the objects is identifiable; and a control unit adapted to, when a new key frame is set at a time-point of interest on the time axis where no key frame is preset, and the same indicator as one of the indicators is assigned to the time-point of interest, cause the storage unit to store information representing the newly set key frame in association with information representing the display form of the object of each preset key frame, which is information representing the display form of the object at the time-point to which the same indicator is assigned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: KENICHIRO NAKAGAWA, Makoto Hirota, Rei Ishikawa, Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Publication number: 20110148918
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold information that associates objects constituting images, with layers to which the objects belong, a display control unit configured to display hierarchical relationship of the layers and the objects belonging to respective layers on a display unit, based on information held in the retention unit, and a control unit configured to, when an object of interest out of displayed objects is moved by a predetermined distance or more from a layer to which the object of interest belongs, create a new layer and cause the object of interest to belong to the created layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Ishizawa, Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100142833
    Abstract: An image is selected from a plurality of non-selected images, an evaluation value is stored for each value of attribute information of a selected image (cluster) which is selected by the selection unit, and when an image is selected by the selection unit, a presentation priority of the non-selected images is determined based on a value of the attribute information of the non-selected images not selected by the selection unit so that the evaluation values are even.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masayuki Ishizawa
  • Publication number: 20100146462
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a touch-sensitive panel and processing a gesture input performed via the touch-sensitive panel accepts an instruction from a user for transitioning from a first processing state to a second processing state; sets a number of gesture-input-based operations in accordance with the instruction accepted; and executes corresponding processing as a gesture input in the second processing state with regard to gesture inputs of the number of operations set. The information processing apparatus executes corresponding processing as a gesture input in the first processing state with regard to a gesture input after the gesture inputs of the number of operations have been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masayuki Ishizawa