Patents by Inventor Naomi Mori

Naomi Mori 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).

  • Publication number: 20240080551
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to set a focus mode to autofocus for automatically focusing on a subject or manual focus for manually focusing on a subject includes a control unit configured to perform control to set the focus mode to the autofocus when a dual-purpose member configured to switch to be operated as a first member for manual focus operation or to be operated as a second member for an operation other than the manual focus operation is operated as the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: NAOMI MORI
  • Publication number: 20240062583
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a control unit that performs control to acquire first orientation information indicating a first orientation of the body and first line-of-sight information about the user's line-of-sight, of a case where a first eye tracking calibration display is displayed on the screen, acquire second orientation information indicating a second orientation of the body different from the first orientation and second line-of-sight information about the user's line-of-sight, of a case where a second eye tracking calibration display is displayed on the screen, and cause, in a case where the second orientation information is different from the first orientation information, the screen to display a predetermined display that prompts the user to change the orientation of the body to the first orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Patent number: 11837022
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a control unit that performs control to acquire first orientation information indicating a first orientation of the body and first line-of-sight information about the user's line-of-sight, of a case where a first eye tracking calibration display is displayed on the screen, acquire second orientation information indicating a second orientation of the body different from the first orientation and second line-of-sight information about the user's line-of-sight, of a case where a second eye tracking calibration display is displayed on the screen, and cause, in a case where the second orientation information is different from the first orientation information, the screen to display a predetermined display that prompts the user to change the orientation of the body to the first orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Patent number: 11711606
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a line of sight of a user toward a display unit visually checked by the user through a viewfinder and a control unit configured to display on the display unit an image indicating, in a screen of the display unit, an effective display region in which a display element for calibration of the information is displayed. The control unit performs control so that the effective display region is displayed on the display unit based on any of a plurality of display settings including a first display setting for displaying the effective display region in a first size and a second display setting for displaying the effective display region in a second size smaller than the first size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Patent number: 11438509
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a detection unit that detects orientation of the imaging apparatus, a control unit that implements control such that a still image or a moving image captured by the imaging unit is recorded in a recording medium, a first setting unit that sets whether orientation information based on the orientation detected by the detection unit is recorded together with the still image captured by the imaging unit, and a second setting unit that sets whether the orientation information based on the orientation detected by the detection unit is recorded together with the moving image captured by the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuichiro Matsushima, Naomi Mori
  • Publication number: 20220272277
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a line of sight of a user toward a display unit visually checked by the user through a viewfinder and a control unit configured to display on the display unit an image indicating, in a screen of the display unit, an effective display region in which a display element for calibration of the information is displayed. The control unit performs control so that the effective display region is displayed on the display unit based on any of a plurality of display settings including a first display setting for displaying the effective display region in a first size and a second display setting for displaying the effective display region in a second size smaller than the first size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Publication number: 20220019789
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a control unit that performs control to acquire first orientation information indicating a first orientation of the body and first line-of-sight information about the user's line-of-sight, of a case where a first eye tracking calibration display is displayed on the screen, acquire second orientation information indicating a second orientation of the body different from the first orientation and second line-of-sight information about the user's line-of-sight, of a case where a second eye tracking calibration display is displayed on the screen, and cause, in a case where the second orientation information is different from the first orientation information, the screen to display a predetermined display that prompts the user to change the orientation of the body to the first orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Publication number: 20210348120
    Abstract: Polarised three-dimensional cellular aggregates (or gastmloids) generated in vitro from one or more pluripotent stem cells are provided. Methods for obtaining polarised three-dimensional cellular aggregates and cells (e.g. progenitor cells and derivatives thereof) obtained from the polarised three-dimensional cellular aggregates are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Alfonso Martinez Arias, Matthias Lutolf, Cristina Pina, Giuliana Rossi, Naomi Moris
  • Publication number: 20210348121
    Abstract: Human polarised three-dimensional cellular aggregates generated in vitro from one or more human pluripotent stem cells are provided. Methods for obtaining human polarised three-dimensional cellular aggregates and cells obtained from the human polarised three-dimensional cellular aggregates are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Alfonso Martinez Arias, Naomi Moris
  • Patent number: 11122207
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first selection unit which selects one of items in a first layer, a second selection unit which selects one of items in a second layer which become selectable when one of the items in the first layer is selected, a display controller which performs control such that the items in the first layer are displayed in a first direction and the items in the second layer are displayed in the first direction in a first display unit, and a controller which performs control such that, even when the first selection unit selects one of the items in the first layer, the items in the first layer are not shifted and the selected item in the second layer is displayed in a position corresponding to a display position of a corresponding one of the items in the first layer in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuro Miyajima, Ryu Wakui, Takeshi Kikkawa, Naomi Mori, Mayu Asano
  • Patent number: 11108965
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprising: an operation member configured to give an instruction to switch a power-on state and a power-off state; a detector configured to detect mounting of a battery on a battery mounting unit; and a memory and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit to perform the operations of the following units: first control unit configured to display remaining power of the battery on a display unit in a first display appearance in case where the electronic apparatus is in the power-on state; and a second control unit configured to perform control to display the remaining power of the battery on the display unit in a second display appearance with finer granularity than the first display appearance in case where the electronic apparatus is in the power-off state and the mounting of the battery is detected by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Publication number: 20200314337
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a detection unit that detects orientation of the imaging apparatus, a control unit that implements control such that a still image or a moving image captured by the imaging unit is recorded in a recording medium, a first setting unit that sets whether orientation information based on the orientation detected by the detection unit is recorded together with the still image captured by the imaging unit, and a second setting unit that sets whether the orientation information based on the orientation detected by the detection unit is recorded together with the moving image captured by the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Shuichiro Matsushima, Naomi Mori
  • Publication number: 20200162676
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first selection unit which selects one of items in a first layer, a second selection unit which selects one of items in a second layer which become selectable when one of the items in the first layer is selected, a display controller which performs control such that the items in the first layer are displayed in a first direction and the items in the second layer are displayed in the first direction in a first display unit, and a controller which performs control such that, even when the first selection unit selects one of the items in the first layer, the items in the first layer are not shifted and the selected item in the second layer is displayed in a position corresponding to a display position of a corresponding one of the items in the first layer in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Takuro Miyajima, Ryu Wakui, Takeshi Kikkawa, Naomi Mori, Mayu Asano
  • Patent number: 10616472
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus which is a first electronic apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire second correspondence information and second select-item information indicating one or more second select-items selected from a plurality of second items in a predetermined menu in a second electronic apparatus, and a control unit configured to perform control to generate first select-item information indicating one or more first select-items selected in the predetermined menu in the first electronic apparatus based on the one or more second select-items selected in the second electronic apparatus, using the acquired second select-item information and one correspondence information out of first correspondence information and the second correspondence information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Publication number: 20190342504
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprising: an operation member configured to give an instruction to switch a power-on state and a power-off state; a detector configured to detect mounting of a battery on a battery mounting unit; and a memory and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit to perform the operations of the following units: first control unit configured to display remaining power of the battery on a display unit in a first display appearance in case where the electronic apparatus is in the power-on state; and a second control unit configured to perform control to display the remaining power of the battery on the display unit in a second display appearance with finer granularity than the first display appearance in case where the electronic apparatus is in the power-off state and the mounting of the battery is detected by the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Publication number: 20180316848
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus which is a first electronic apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire second correspondence information and second select-item information indicating one or more second select-items selected from a plurality of second items in a predetermined menu in a second electronic apparatus, and a control unit configured to perform control to generate first select-item information indicating one or more first select-items selected in the predetermined menu in the first electronic apparatus based on the one or more second select-items selected in the second electronic apparatus, using the acquired second select-item information and one correspondence information out of first correspondence information and the second correspondence information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Patent number: 9996219
    Abstract: A system control unit displays, on a display unit, a menu screen corresponding to an operation mode designated through a mode change-over switch, and sets various conditions for the operation mode according to operation on an operation unit. The system control unit displays a predetermined menu item in a selected state on an initially opened menu screen. When a menu screen subjected to setting change is opened, the system control unit displays a menu item subjected to setting change last time in the selected state. A table indicating a menu item to be displayed in the selected state is stored in a nonvolatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Ksiaha
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Patent number: 9667876
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capture unit, a setting unit configured to set a sensitivity serving as a setting for shooting using the image capture unit, and a selection unit configured to be able to select one of a first selection method capable of selecting a sensitivity from out of a plurality of sensitivities at a first numerical value increment, and a second selection method capable of selecting a sensitivity from out of a plurality of sensitivities at a second numerical value increment, as a method for selecting the sensitivity, the second numerical value being smaller than the first numerical value. Options selectable with the first selection method include a predetermined sensitivity that does not correspond to the first numerical value increment and is selectable with the second selection method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Patent number: 9392157
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, which is mountable a lens apparatus thereon, obtains information of a mounted lens apparatus and if the lens apparatus is identified as the interchangeable lens which fails in firmware update based on the obtained information, controls to restrict an operation in which an interchangeable lens is used and to enable an operation which does not use the interchangeable lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naomi Mori, Takeshi Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20160080624
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capture unit, a setting unit configured to set a sensitivity serving as a setting for shooting using the image capture unit, and a selection unit configured to be able to select one of a first selection method capable of selecting a sensitivity from out of a plurality of sensitivities at a first numerical value increment, and a second selection method capable of selecting a sensitivity from out of a plurality of sensitivities at a second numerical value increment, as a method for selecting the sensitivity, the second numerical value being smaller than the first numerical value. Options selectable with the first selection method include a predetermined sensitivity that does not correspond to the first numerical value increment and is selectable with the second selection method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventor: Naomi Mori