Patents by Inventor Osamu Nojima

Osamu Nojima 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: 20090196592
    Abstract: A still image focused on a desired subject is captured and stored in a more reliable manner without particularly increasing in size and complicating an apparatus and circuits. There are provided a photographing system including a lens optical system which has an autofocus function and captures a subject image, a motor and a CCD, a key input section including a shutter key to instruct photography, and a control unit which causes the photographing system to sequentially capture a still image by actuating the autofocus function and a still image with a fixed focus allowing a fixed depth of field to be obtained, in accordance with the operation of the shutter key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu Nojima
  • Publication number: 20080129854
    Abstract: In a digital camera 1, when a lagged-timing is recorded (Yes at Step S9), from the frame image picked up when the shutter is fully depressed, a frame image picked up at a timing equivalent to the lagged-timing is displayed (Step S10). When the cross-shaped key is operated before the SET key is operated, the displayed frame image is changed based on the operation (Step S12 and Step S13). Next, when the SET key is operated, the displayed frame image is recorded. In addition, a lag between the timing at which the recorded frame image is picked up and the timing at which the frame image picked up when the shutter is fully depressed is picked up is recorded (Step S15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Onoda, Osamu Nojima
  • Publication number: 20080088710
    Abstract: When a continuous imaging mode is set, a screen is displayed for allowing input of a number of images to shoot and the imaging parameters for each of the images, a determination is made as to whether the number of images to shoot and the imaging parameters for each of the images have been input by the user. When the number of images to shoot and the imaging parameters for each of the images have been input, the input number of images and the imaging parameters are stored, and a direct image display is started. Moreover, when there is an imaging instruction, a continuous imaging process is started in which still imaging is performed continuously based on the stored number of images and the imaging parameters. When the continuous imaging process has been completed, the plurality of still image data, obtained with differing imaging parameters, is recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Iwamoto, Osamu Nojima
  • Publication number: 20080079822
    Abstract: An image correction apparatus comprises a sample image memory configured to store sample images corresponding to types of objects, a display unit configured to display the sample images stored in the sample image memory unit to make a user select one of the sample images, and a corrector configured to correct an image read from a storage based on a type of a sample image selected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu Nojima
  • Publication number: 20080079817
    Abstract: An image apparatus records images of a subject corresponding to a photo opportunity without intensifying complex operations after the imaging. When a SLOW button is depressed, a process is started in which frame image data that is obtained at an imaging frame rate is stored sequentially in a buffer memory. The frame image data is read out from the buffer memory at a display frame rate that is set in advance, and images are displayed on a display device based on this frame image data. When a shutter key is depressed, the frame image data read out from the buffer memory is recorded to storage memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Murata, Takashi Onoda, Osamu Nojima
  • Publication number: 20060171697
    Abstract: A still image focused on a desired subject is captured and stored in a more reliable manner without particularly increasing in size and complicating an apparatus and circuits. There are provided a photographing system including a lens optical system which has an autofocus function and captures a subject image, a motor and a CCD, a key input section including a shutter key to instruct photography, and a control unit which causes the photographing system to sequentially capture a still image by actuating the autofocus function and a still image with a fixed focus allowing a fixed depth of field to be obtained, in accordance with the operation of the shutter key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu Nojima
  • Patent number: 6233460
    Abstract: A portable telephone set is provided with a remote control button for remotely controlling the base station telephone set by operating the button. If the portable telephone set is out of the service area of the base station set when the remote control button is operated, the portable telephone set calls the base station set by using the telephone numbers of the base station set stored in the RAM of the portable telephone set to connect it to the base station set by way of a line and thereafter transmits a remote control signal for the operated remote control button to the base station set. If the portable telephone set receives control information from a radio base station as it enters the service area of the radio base station from outside the service area, the speaker of the portable telephone set sounds to notify the user of the situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu Nojima
  • Patent number: 5832386
    Abstract: A portable telecommunications apparatus which is capable of communicating with a destination communication apparatus, such as a public radio base station, through a radio telecommunications channel, including: a detector which detects if the portable telecommunication apparatus has entered a service area of the destination communication apparatus. A sound generator notifies a user by a sound when it is detected that the portable telecommunications apparatus has entered the service area of the destination communication apparatus, and a sounding mode setting device which sets a sounding mode in which the sound is generated by the sound generator when it is detected that the portable telecommunication apparatus has entered the service area of the destination communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Nojima, Noboru Yumoto
  • Patent number: 5617468
    Abstract: A portable telephone set is provided with a remote control button for remotely controlling the base station telephone set by operating the button. If the portable telephone set is out of the service area of the base station set when the remote control button is operated, the portable telephone set calls the base station set by using the telephone numbers of the base station set stored in the RAM of the portable telephone set to connect it to the base station set by way of a line and thereafter transmits a remote control signal for the operated remote control button to the base station set. If the portable telephone set receives control information from a radio base station as it enters the service area of the radio base station from outside the service area, the speaker of the portable telephone set sounds to notify the user of the situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Nojima, Noboru Yumoto