Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Aoki

Nobuhiro Aoki 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: 12219104
    Abstract: A method for causing a computer to perform: causing a client to start displaying a predetermined notification; executing predetermined image processing on data; and causing the client to end the displaying of the notification in response to the predetermined image processing being completed and a predetermined time or longer elapsing from the start of the displaying of the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20240427517
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: set a grace period for image deletion in response to transferring one or more images from a first storage area to a second storage area different from the first storage area, according to a user's instruction; and give an instruction to delete, from the first storage area, an image corresponding to the transferred image, in response to a lapse of the grace period starting from the transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro AOKI
  • Patent number: 12125592
    Abstract: A diagnosis assistance device includes at least one microphone that collects voice around an affected area, and at least one processor. The at least one processor determines, based on image data that is data of a captured image of the affected area, whether the affected area is malignant, and stores in a memory the voice collected by the microphone when determination is made that the affected area is malignant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Aoki, Yoshiharu Houjou, Shigeki Mineo, Junichi Takei
  • Patent number: 12075164
    Abstract: A device includes a processor which controls a display operation of a display unit. The processor acquires a specified portion specified by a first user operation in an object image including an object to be imaged, sets an enlargement reference point in the object image according to the specified portion with respect to which a part of the object image is enlarged when performing enlargement display control, and extracts a display target range from the object image as the part of the object image to be enlarged. The display target range includes both the enlargement reference point and the specified portion, and the enlargement reference point is set so that the representative point approaches a middle of the display area in response to each input of a second user operation for performing enlargement display control, until the representative point coincides with the middle of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Aoki, Yuya Hayashi, Yuki Katada
  • Publication number: 20240211433
    Abstract: An information processing method includes analyzing image data of a first image file uploaded from a client apparatus and creating a second image file, the second image file including image data showing an analysis result of the image data and metadata having an identifier of a photographic subject included in metadata of the first image file, and outputting the second image file to the client apparatus in response to a request from the client apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro AOKI, Takeshi OOKI
  • Publication number: 20240212011
    Abstract: A method for causing a computer to perform: executing predetermined image processing on data in response to a request from a client; in response to the predetermined image processing being completed, transmitting a response to the client, the response including information indicating that the predetermined image processing is completed; and in response to transmitting the response to the client, billing a fee incurred as a result of executing the predetermined image processing based on a billing setting associated with the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240214497
    Abstract: A method for causing a computer to perform: causing a client to start displaying a predetermined notification; executing predetermined image processing on data; and causing the client to end the displaying of the notification in response to the predetermined image processing being completed and a predetermined time or longer elapsing from the start of the displaying of the notification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240211621
    Abstract: An information processing method for causing a computer to perform authentication processing by using authentication information in response to a request from a client apparatus for a Web application configured to provide an image analysis function, the request including the authentication information and information on an image file and predetermined processing in a case where the authentication processing is successful.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240031679
    Abstract: A device includes a processor which controls a display operation of a display unit. The processor acquires a specified portion specified by a first user operation in an object image including an object to be imaged, sets an enlargement reference point in the object image according to the specified portion with respect to which a part of the object image is enlarged when performing enlargement display control, and extracts a display target range from the object image as the part of the object image to be enlarged. The display target range includes both the enlargement reference point and the specified portion, and the enlargement reference point is set so that the representative point approaches a middle of the display area in response to each input of a second user operation for performing enlargement display control, until the representative point coincides with the middle of the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro AOKI, Yuya HAYASHI, Yuki KATADA
  • Patent number: 11812150
    Abstract: An imaging device comprises a processor configured to control a display operation of a display unit, in which the processor acquires a specified portion specified by a first user operation in an object image including an object to be imaged, performs enlargement display control of enlarging a part of the object image and displaying the enlarged part in a display area of the display unit in response to a second user operation, and sets an enlargement reference point in the object image according to the specified portion in the enlargement display control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Aoki, Yuya Hayashi, Yuki Katada
  • Patent number: 11800237
    Abstract: An imaging device that images a disease site as a subject includes a camera body, a light unit that is provided in the camera body and includes a first light source and a second light source that have different characteristics, and a filter unit that includes at least one independent filter capable of being positioned on and retracted from an optical axis of the camera body. The imaging device performs continuous imaging by imaging in a state in which the subject is illuminated with light from the first light source and, via a first mode, the filter is positioned on or retracted from the optical axis and, thereafter, imaging in a state in which the subject is illuminated with light from the second light source and, via a second mode that differs from the first mode, the filter is positioned on or retracted from the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Houjou, Nobuhiro Aoki, Shigeki Mineo
  • Publication number: 20220417439
    Abstract: An imaging device comprises a processor configured to control a display operation of a display unit, in which the processor acquires a specified portion specified by a first user operation in an object image including an object to be imaged, performs enlargement display control of enlarging a part of the object image and displaying the enlarged part in a display area of the display unit in response to a second user operation, and sets an enlargement reference point in the object image according to the specified portion in the enlargement display control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro AOKI, Yuya HAYASHI, Yuki KATADA
  • Publication number: 20220329721
    Abstract: An imaging device that images a disease site as a subject includes a camera body, a light unit that is provided in the camera body and includes a first light source and a second light source that have different characteristics, and a filter unit that includes at least one independent filter capable of being positioned on and retracted from an optical axis of the camera body. The imaging device performs continuous imaging by imaging in a state in which the subject is illuminated with light from the first light source and, via a first mode, the filter is positioned on or retracted from the optical axis and, thereafter, imaging in a state in which the subject is illuminated with light from the second light source and, via a second mode that differs from the first mode, the filter is positioned on or retracted from the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu HOUJOU, Nobuhiro AOKI, Shigeki MINEO
  • Patent number: 11405561
    Abstract: An imaging device that images a disease site as a subject includes a camera body, a light unit that is provided in the camera body and includes a first light source and a second light source that have different characteristics, and a filter unit that includes at least one independent filter capable of being positioned on and retracted from an optical axis of the camera body. The imaging device performs continuous imaging by imaging in a state in which the subject is illuminated with light from the first light source and, via a first mode, the filter is positioned on or retracted from the optical axis and, thereafter, imaging in a state in which the subject is illuminated with light from the second light source and, via a second mode that differs from the first mode, the filter is positioned on or retracted from the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Houjou, Nobuhiro Aoki, Shigeki Mineo
  • Publication number: 20210265060
    Abstract: A diagnosis assistance device includes at least one microphone that collects voice around an affected area, and at least one processor. The at least one processor determines, based on image data that is data of a captured image of the affected area, whether the affected area is malignant, and stores in a memory the voice collected by the microphone when determination is made that the affected area is malignant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Aoki, Yoshiharu Houjou, Shigeki Mineo, Junichi Takei
  • Publication number: 20200322521
    Abstract: An imaging device that images a disease site as a subject includes a camera body, a light unit that is provided in the camera body and includes a first light source and a second light source that have different characteristics, and a filter unit that includes at least one independent filter capable of being positioned on and retracted from an optical axis of the camera body. The imaging device performs continuous imaging by imaging in a state in which the subject is illuminated with light from the first light source and, via a first mode, the filter is positioned on or retracted from the optical axis and, thereafter, imaging in a state in which the subject is illuminated with light from the second light source and, via a second mode that differs from the first mode, the filter is positioned on or retracted from the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu HOUJOU, Nobuhiro AOKI, Shigeki MINEO
  • Patent number: 10542928
    Abstract: A medical imaging device changes a state between a first capturing state for capturing a lesion in a regular capturing state and a second capturing state for capturing a lesion in a capturing state that is different from the regular capturing state and captures an image for assisting in diagnosis of the lesion. The medical imaging device includes an imaging device body that includes a first light source, a second light source, an imaging element, a set of lenses that are situated on an optical axis that connects the imaging element and an object, uses at least the first light source as a light source that emits light to the object in the first capturing state, and uses at least the second light source as a light source that emits light to the object in the second capturing state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Houjou, Jumpei Ishibashi, Katsuyuki Matsuo, Nobuhiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 10404177
    Abstract: A switching power supply circuit preventing coil current reversal, while minimizing a current consumption and speeding up a switching frequency is provided. The switching power supply circuit under a synchronous rectification system compares a feedback voltage and a reference voltage by a comparator and, based on the results of the comparison, alternately turns on and off a main switching element and a subordinate switching element to convert a direct current input voltage into a direct current output voltage. The circuit includes: an on-time generation circuit which, based on the input voltage and the output voltage, defines the on-times of the main switching element and the subordinate switching element; and a switching signal generation unit which, based on the output signals of the comparator and the on-time generation circuit, generates switching signals for controlling the on/off operation of the main switching element and the subordinate switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Torex Semiconductor Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20190028030
    Abstract: A switching power supply circuit, which can achieve prevention of coil current reversal, while minimizing a current consumption and speeding up a switching frequency, without requiring a quick response, is provided. The switching power supply circuit under a synchronous rectification system compares a feedback voltage and a reference voltage by a comparator and, based on the results of the comparison, alternately turns on and off a main switching element and a subordinate switching element to convert a direct current input voltage into a direct current output voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20180279942
    Abstract: A medical imaging device changes a state between a first capturing state for capturing a lesion in a regular capturing state and a second capturing state for capturing a lesion in a capturing state that is different from the regular capturing state and captures an image for assisting in diagnosis of the lesion. The medical imaging device includes an imaging device body that includes a first light source, a second light source, an imaging element, a set of lenses that are situated on an optical axis that connects the imaging element and an object, uses at least the first light source as a light source that emits light to the object in the first capturing state, and uses at least the second light source as a light source that emits light to the object in the second capturing state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu HOUJOU, Jumpei ISHIBASHI, Katsuyuki MATSUO, Nobuhiro AOKI