Patents by Inventor Osamu Nonaka

Osamu Nonaka 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: 10567675
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a first image processor, and a second image processor. The imaging unit sequentially acquires image frames whose photography conditions have been changed. The first image processor generates moving image data by performing image processing to maintain continuity between the image frames obtained by changing the photography conditions. The second image processor composes the image frames whose photography conditions have been changed, to generate condition-changed still image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Shintani, Masaomi Tomizawa, Osamu Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20200050850
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus generates a left-eye viewpoint image and a right-eye viewpoint image, detects one or more pairs that are each a pair of a partial image of the left-eye viewpoint image and a partial image of the right-eye viewpoint image that are similar to each other, performs, for each of the one or more pairs, image adjustment processing for adjusting the three-dimensionality of one of or both of the partial images of the left-eye and right-eye viewpoint images, displays the left-eye viewpoint image or the left-eye viewpoint image after the image adjustment processing in a manner such that this image is capable of being observed with a left eye, and displays the right-eye viewpoint image or the right-eye viewpoint image after the image adjustment processing in a manner such that this image is capable of being observed with a right eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya TOYODA, Kazumi ITO, Masayuki NAKATSUKA, Tatsuya KINO, Ryuhi OKUBO, Shigeru KATO, Tetsuya SHIROTA, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA
  • Patent number: 10554895
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a visual field determination section 122 that determines, for a predetermined subject distance and on the basis of two images with different parallaxes that have been captured by a plurality of imaging units that perform three-dimensional image shooting, a common visual field range of the two images with different parallaxes; and a display controller 138 that displays, on a display, information on the determined common visual field range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Yoshida, Hisayuki Harada, Toshikazu Hayashi, Keiji Okada, Osamu Nonaka, Yuichi Tsuchimochi
  • Patent number: 10541002
    Abstract: An imaging device, comprising, an image sensor that acquires a plurality of images by repeatedly shooting an object at a first timing, a memory that stores the plurality of images, a second selection section that selects images at a second timing from among images stored in the memory, and a controller that has a movie candidate section that determines movie candidate frames from among the plurality of images in accordance with comparison results of images that have been selected or not selected at the second timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Kawaguchi, Masaomi Tomizawa, Osamu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10529378
    Abstract: An information storage device, comprises an information input device for acquiring voice data and/or image data, a falsification prevention circuit that subjects the voice data and/or image data to falsification prevention processing, operation members for carrying out editing operations on the voice data and/or image data, and a controller for creating an editing evidence file that gives a history of editing operations on the voice data and/or image data, based on editing operations using the operation members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Miura, Kenta Yumoto, Masatoshi Tobinai, Osamu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10515229
    Abstract: An information discriminating device includes an information acquiring unit, an information discriminating unit, and an information superimposing unit. The information acquiring unit acquires private information to be privately used by a user of the information discriminating device. The information discriminating unit discriminates a public information portion that is also usable as public information accessible by a special majority in the private information acquired by the information acquiring unit from a private information portion unusable as the public information. The information superimposing unit superimposes the private information portion on the public information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Matsuzawa, Masaomi Tomizawa, Sumio Kawai, Hideaki Yoshida, Osamu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10511727
    Abstract: A communication device includes a communication unit, a communication function allocation unit, a communication status determination unit, and a communication control unit. The communication unit performs communications with another communication device using a plurality of communication paths. The communication function allocation unit allocates communication functions to each of the communication paths in the communication unit. The communication status determination unit determines a communication status for each of the communication paths. The communication control unit controls communications for each of the communication paths in accordance with allocation by the communication function allocation unit and a determination result of the communication status determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ogata, Keito Fukushima, Kazuo Kanda, Osamu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10506151
    Abstract: An information acquisition apparatus includes: a configuration information acquisition section that acquires configuration information that indicates a configuration of a plurality of portions to be photographed; a determination section that determines a photographing state of a portion indicated in the configuration information; and a photographing guide screen creation section that creates the photographing guide screen, wherein the photographing guide screen creation section includes the acquired configuration information in the photographing guide screen, and adds, to the portion indicated in the configuration information, state information that indicates a photographing state based on the determination performed by the determination section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Yoshida, Hisayuki Harada, Toshikazu Hayashi, Keiji Okada, Yuichi Tsuchimochi, Osamu Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20190370602
    Abstract: A learning management device comprising an inference engine that is input with image data and acquires output for performing guidance display to a user using an inference model that has been specifically learned, and a processor that confirms if there is a specified relationship between a trial input image and trial guidance display for this trial input image under conditions that have been assumed at the time of use, and that determines whether or not it is necessary to relearn the inference model that has been learned based on the result of this confirmation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiro HANEDA, Dai ITO, Zhen LI, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA
  • Patent number: 10482872
    Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus according to an embodiment includes a microphone that acquires an audio stream in which speech vocalized by a person is recorded, a camera that acquires an image data in which at least a mouth of the person is captured, and an operation element that recognizes speech including a consonant vocalized by the person, based on the audio stream, estimates the consonant vocalized by the person, based on the shape of the mouth of the person in the image data, and specifies the consonant based on the estimated consonant and the speech-recognized consonant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tokiwa, Kenta Yumoto, Osamu Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20190341129
    Abstract: A medical support system supporting medical services even at a remote location, by a first information terminal apparatus operated by a doctor that gives medical examination to a patient and a second information terminal apparatus by which a helper can photograph an image of the patient at a location away from the doctor sharing information about the patient, the medical support system including: the first information terminal apparatus configured to transmit information that is information corresponding to request information from the helper and is photographing condition information for the helper to photograph the patient; and the second information terminal apparatus configured to acquire information about the photographing condition information received from the first information terminal apparatus to photograph the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsuya TOYODA, Masaru IKEDA, Hideaki YOSHIDA, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA
  • Patent number: 10469746
    Abstract: A camera according to the present invention, which is capable of continuous shooting before and after a still image shot according to photographer's operation, comprises: an imaging section converting an object image into image data; a still image shooting section obtaining image data of the still image according to release operation; a continuous shooting section obtaining the image data by continuous shooting before and after the obtaining of the still image in the still image shooting section; an image processing section performing image processing which is different from that of the image data obtained by the still image shooting section and changed sequentially, on the image data obtained by the continuous shooting section; and a recording section recording the image data image-processed by the image processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Kunishige, Satoshi Miyazaki, Osamu Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20190332952
    Abstract: An image pickup system includes an input/output modeling section 24, the input/output modeling section 24 creating, as a population, an image group obtained when a specific target is photographed, (access image), and generating an inference model by using, as teacher data, sequential images selected from the image group created as the population, based on whether the specific target can be accessed, wherein each image of the image group is associated with date and time information and/or position information, and the input/output modeling section 24 generates an inference model for determining based on the date and time information and/or the position information whether a process to the specific target is good or bad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu NONAKA, Kazuhiko OSA, Yoichi YOSHIDA, Hirokazu NOZAKI, Masahiro FUJIMOTO, Hidekazu IWAKI, Koji SAKAI, Keiji OKADA, Yoshihisa OGATA
  • Publication number: 20190324925
    Abstract: A peripheral device communicates with a central control device. The peripheral device includes a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to acquire, from another peripheral device, first information including a topic provided for the central control device or a user of the central control device, integrate the first information with second information which is included in the peripheral device and includes a topic provided for the central control device or the user of the central control device, to generate third information, and transmit the third information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsuya TOYODA, Koichi SHINTANI, Kensei ITO, Katsuhisa KAWAGUCHI, Yoshihisa OGATA, Keito FUKUSHIMA, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA
  • Patent number: 10447919
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: a capture control unit configured to control the imaging device to execute movie capture while performing capture parameter alternation control based on capture parameter control information received from an external device, the capture parameter control information instructing alternation of a capture parameter, the alternation being changed in time series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Kanda, Yoshiyuki Fukuya, Kazuhiko Shimura, Osamu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10440282
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus, comprising a movement section having a thrust mechanism capable of movement, an imaging section that acquires image data, an imaging control section that acquires first image data using the imaging section with an examination chart under a first shooting condition, and that acquires second image data using the imaging section with a physical object under a second shooting condition, and a determination section for determining illuminated state for the physical object and the examination chart based on the first and second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Toshikazu Hayashi, Taichiro Kouchi, Osamu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10440309
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that includes a shooting lens for collecting an image of a subject to be shot; and an imaging element that forms the image collected by the shooting lens and generates image data through photoelectric conversion of formed image. The imaging apparatus also includes an inclination detector that detects an inclination of the imaging apparatus from a predetermined position, through a rotation around a shooting optical axis of the shooting lens. The apparatus also includes a control unit that changes an operating mode to a switchable state capable of switching between operating modes when a predetermined time has elapsed in a state in which the inclination detected by the inclination detector falls within a predetermined range in which the operating modes of the imaging apparatus are switched to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Shintani, Katsuhisa Kawaguchi, Haruyuki Ishihara, Osamu Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20190304122
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a signal processing device, and the signal processing device is configured to perform distance determination processing of determining, based on a depth map concerning an image displayed on a display, an image portion inside a target distance range which is a predetermined distance range in the image, and an image portion outside the target distance range, and perform image processing of subjecting at least the image portion outside the target distance range to image processing of monotonizing visibility based on a determination result of the distance determination processing and displaying the image on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya MATSUNAGA, Tatsuya KINO, Yoshiyuki FUKUYA, Nobuyuki SHIMA, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA
  • Patent number: 10432843
    Abstract: According an embodiment, an imaging apparatus includes an image acquiring unit which acquires a judgment image showing arranged judgment targets, and an interval judging unit which judges whether the interval between the judgment targets is proper on the basis of figures of the judgment targets shown in the judgment image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshikazu Hayashi, Osamu Nonaka
  • Publication number: 20190286908
    Abstract: A mobile image pickup instruction apparatus judges an image pickup result and an image pickup condition to acquire photographing tendency information showing a tendency of photographing of a predetermined image pickup target, generates target object identification information for identifying the predetermined image pickup target by inference using the photographing tendency information, and transmits the generated target object identification information to the mobile image pickup apparatus and a mobile image pickup apparatus controls an image pickup unit provided on a mobile body to pick up an image of the image pickup target based on the target object identification information received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Koichi SHINTANI, Kenji HOMMA, Akinobu SATO, Yoshihisa OGATA, Yoichi YOSHIDA, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA