Patents by Inventor Shigeki Okauchi

Shigeki Okauchi 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: 20140146189
    Abstract: An electronic system comprising an image pickup unit 1, a computer 2, and communication terminals for connecting the, unit and the computer, such as infrared communication ports 6, 10, a card slot 8, and serial communication terminals 5,9 wherein the necessary image data is allowed to be produced from the unit 1 and transmitted to the. computer through the communication terminals. The computer communicates with the image pick up unit by examining the port of each communication means in order to recognize whether a connected unit is the image pickup unit or a foreign unit and to determine and store the communication speed for each communication port. The image data and memory space information is then automatically transmitted to the computer and displayed on a device connected to said computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
  • Patent number: 8659665
    Abstract: An electronic system comprising an image pickup unit 1, a computer 2, and communication terminals for connecting the unit and the computer, such as infrared communication ports 6, 10, a card slot 8, and serial communication terminals 5,9 wherein the necessary image data is allowed to be produced from the unit 1 and transmitted to the computer through the communication terminals. The computer communicates with the image pick up unit by examining the port of each communication means in order to recognize whether a connected unit is the image pickup unit or a foreign unit and to determine and store the communication speed for each communication port. The image data and memory space information is then automatically transmitted to the computer and displayed on a device connected to said computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
  • Publication number: 20110254965
    Abstract: An electronic system comprising an image pickup unit 1, a computer 2, and communication terminals for connecting the unit and the computer, such as infrared communication ports 6, 10, a card slot 8, and serial communication terminals 5,9 wherein the necessary image data is allowed to be produced from the unit 1 and transmitted to the computer through the communication terminals. The computer communicates with the image pick up unit by examining the port of each communication means in order to recognize whether a connected unit is the image pickup unit or a foreign unit and to determine and store the communication speed for each communication port. The image data and memory space information is then automatically transmitted to the computer and displayed on a device connected to said computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
  • Patent number: 7986365
    Abstract: An electronic system comprising an image pickup unit 1, a computer 2, and communication terminals for connecting the unit and the computer, such as infrared communication ports 6, 10, a card slot 8, and serial communication terminals 5,9 wherein the necessary image data is allowed to be produced from the unit 1 and transmitted to the computer through the communication terminals. The computer communicates with the image pick up unit by examining the port of each communication means in order to recognize whether a connected unit is the image pickup unit or a foreign unit and to determine and store the communication speed for each communication port. The image data and memory space information is then automatically transmitted to the computer and displayed on a device connected to said computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
  • Publication number: 20100045804
    Abstract: An electronic system comprising an image pickup unit 1, a computer 2, and communication terminals for connecting the unit and the computer, such as infrared communication ports 6, 10, a card slot 8, and serial communication terminals 5,9 wherein the necessary image data is allowed to be produced from the unit 1 and transmitted to the computer through the communication terminals. The computer communicates with the image pick up unit by examining the port of each communication means in order to recognize whether a connected unit is the image pickup unit or a foreign unit and to determine and store the communication speed for each communication port. The image data and memory space information is then automatically transmitted to the computer and displayed on a device connected to said computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
  • Patent number: 7630004
    Abstract: An electronic system comprising an image pickup unit 1, a computer 2, and communication terminals for connecting the unit and the computer, such as infrared communication ports 6, 10, a card slot 8, and serial communication terminals 5,9 wherein the necessary image data is allowed to be produced from the unit 1 and transmitted to the computer through the communication terminals. The computer communicates with the image pick up unit by examining the port of each communication means in order to recognize whether a connected unit is the image pickup unit or a foreign unit and to determine and store the communication speed for each communication port. The image data and memory space information is then automatically transmitted to the computer and displayed on a device connected to said computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
  • Patent number: 7164786
    Abstract: Images sensed through object lenses 100R and 100L, having zoom lenses, with image sensors 102R and 102L are processed by image signal processors 104R and 104L, and an image of an object in each of the sensed images is separated from a background image on the basis of the processed image signals. The separated image signals representing the image of the object enter the image processor 220, where a three-dimensional shape of the object is extracted on the basis of parameters used upon sensing the images. The parameters are automatically adjusted so that images of the object fall within the both image sensing areas of the image sensors 102R and 102L and that they fall within the both focal depths of the image sensors 102R and 102L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsushi Katayama, Shigeki Okauchi, Nobuo Fukushima, Masakazu Matsugu, Katsumi Iijima, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Motohiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 7042830
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a phase-change optical information recording medium comprising a recording layer which reversibly phase-changes between the crystalline phase and the amorphous phase by irradiation of a light having a recording wavelength of 390 to 430 nm, and a light transmittance thermally controllable layer showing a light transmittance varying according to temperature, in which the light transmittance increases at a rate of 0.2 to 0.7% /10° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki Shinotsuka, Hiroyuki Iwasa, Takao Yamada, Toshio Matsushita, Yasuo Kanbara, Shigeki Okauchi
  • Patent number: 6823080
    Abstract: A three-dimensional information processing apparatus for obtaining three-dimensional information from an object having a three-dimensional shape, and performing predetermined information processing, comprises: a camera for sensing images of the object from a plurality of coordinate positions using an image sensing system having one or a plurality of optical systems. A plurality of depth information are extracted from image sensing related information sensed by the camera at the plurality of coordinate positions, and the plurality of extracted depth information are converted and unified into depth information expressed by a unified coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsumi Iijima, Shigeki Okauchi, Masakazu Matsugu, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Tatsushi Katayama, Katsuhiko Mori, Motohiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 6686958
    Abstract: An electronic system comprising an image pickup unit 1, a computer 2, and communication terminals for connecting the unit and the computer, such as infrared communication ports 6, 10, a card slot 8, and serial communication terminals 5,9 wherein the necessary image data is allowed to be produced from the unit 1 and transmitted to the computer through the communication terminals. The computer communicates with the image pick up unit by examining the port of each communication means in order to recognize whether a connected unit is the image pickup unit or a foreign unit and to determine and store the communication speed for each communication port. The image data and memory space information is then automatically transmitted to the computer and displayed on a device connected to said computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
  • Publication number: 20030206653
    Abstract: Images sensed through object lenses 100R and 100L, having zoom lenses, with image sensors 102R and 102L are processed by image signal processors 104R and 104L, and an image of an object in each of the sensed images is separated from a background image on the basis of the processed image signals. The separated image signals representing the image of the object enter the image processor 220, where a three-dimensional shape of the object is extracted on the basis of parameters used upon sensing the images. The parameters are automatically adjusted so that images of the object fall within the both image sensing areas of the image sensors 102R and 102L and that they fall within the both focal depths of the image sensors 102R and 102L.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventors: Tatsushi Katayama, Shigeki Okauchi, Nobuo Fukushima, Masakazu Matsugu, Katsumi Iijima, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Motohiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 6640004
    Abstract: Images sensed through object lenses 100R and 100L, having zoom lenses, with image sensors 102R and 102L are processed by image signal processors 104R and 104L, and an image of an object in each of the sensed images is separated from a background image on the basis of the processed image signals. The separated image signals representing the image of the object enter the image processor 220, where a three-dimensional shape of the object is extracted on the basis of parameters used upon sensing the images. The parameters are automatically adjusted so that images of the object fall within the both image sensing areas of the image sensors 102R and 102L and that they fall within the both focal depths of the image sensors 102R and 102L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsushi Katayama, Shigeki Okauchi, Nobuo Fukushima, Masakazu Matsugu, Katsumi Iijima, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Motohiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 6600461
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of adjustment units for performing diopter adjustment, base length adjustment, and vergence angle adjustment in accordance with the characteristics of users, and a storage unit for storing pieces of operation condition information of the users of the display apparatus. With this arrangement, when the display apparatus is to be used, the respective adjustment units can be adjusted in accordance with the operation condition information stored in the storage unit, thereby reducing troubles with adjusting operations and simplifying the adjusting operations of the respective adjustment units. In addition, the operability of the apparatus in consideration of a plurality of users is greatly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Okauchi, Sunao Kurahashi, Satoshi Tonosaki
  • Publication number: 20030128283
    Abstract: An electronic system comprising an image pickup unit 1, a computer 2, and communication terminals for connecting the unit and the computer, such as infrared communication ports 6, 10, a card slot 8, and serial communication terminals 5,9 wherein the necessary image data is allowed to be produced from the unit 1 and transmitted to the computer through the communication terminals. The computer communicates with the image pick up unit by examining the port of each communication means in order to recognize whether a connected unit is the image pickup unit or a foreign unit and to determine and store the communication speed for each communication port. The image data and memory space information is then automatically transmitted to the computer and displayed on a device connected to said computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
  • Publication number: 20030035360
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a phase-change optical information recording medium comprising a recording layer which reversibly phase-changes between the crystalline phase and the amorphous phase by irradiation of a light having a recording wavelength of 390 to 430 nm, and a light transmittance thermally controllable layer showing a light transmittance varying according to temperature, in which the light transmittance increases at a rate of 0.2 to 0.7% /10° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Inventors: Michiaki Shinotsuka, Hiroyuki Iwasa, Takao Yamada, Toshio Matsushita, Yasuo Kanbara, Shigeki Okauchi
  • Patent number: 6507359
    Abstract: Convergence angle information and image information of video cameras is transmitted from a multi-eye image-taking apparatus having two video cameras through a recording medium to a displaying apparatus. A convergence angle of display units in the displaying apparatus is controlled in accordance with the convergence angle information of the video cameras, permitting an observer to observe natural images. Since the convergence angle information is made ahead of the image information, the convergence angle of the display units can be changed with a natural feeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomotaka Muramoto, Jun Tokumitsu, Tsunefumi Tanaka, Hiroaki Hoshi, Shigeki Okauchi, Nobuo Fukushima, Katsumi Iijima, Atsushi Namba
  • Publication number: 20030007680
    Abstract: A three-dimensional information processing apparatus for obtaining three-dimensional information from an object having a three-dimensional shape, and performing predetermined information processing, comprises: a camera for sensing images of the object from a plurality of coordinate positions using an image sensing system having one or a plurality of optical systems. A plurality of depth information are extracted from image sensing related information sensed by the camera at the plurality of coordinate positions, and the plurality of extracted depth information are converted and unified into depth information expressed by a unified coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Katsumi Iijima, Shigeki Okauchi, Masakazu Matsugu, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Tatsushi Katayama, Katsuhiko Mori, Motohiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 6445814
    Abstract: A three-dimensional information processing apparatus for obtaining three-dimensional information from an object having a three-dimensional shape, and performing predetermined information processing, comprises: a camera for sensing images of the object from a plurality of coordinate positions using an image sensing system having one or a plurality of optical systems. A plurality of depth information are extracted from image sensing related information sensed by the camera at the plurality of coordinate positions, and the plurality of extracted depth information are converted and unified into depth information expressed by a unified coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsumi Iijima, Shigeki Okauchi, Masakazu Matsugu, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Tatsushi Katayama, Katsuhiko Mori, Motohiro Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20020081019
    Abstract: Images sensed through object lenses 100R and 100L, having zoom lenses, with image sensors 102R and 102L are processed by image signal processors 104R and 104L, and an image of an object in each of the sensed images is separated from a background image on the basis of the processed image signals. The separated image signals representing the image of the object enter the image processor 220, where a three-dimensional shape of the object is extracted on the basis of parameters used upon sensing the images. The parameters are automatically adjusted so that images of the object fall within the both image sensing areas of the image sensors 102R and 102L and that they fall within the both focal depths of the image sensors 102R and 102L.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: TATSUSHI KATAYAMA, SHIGEKI OKAUCHI, NOBUO FUKUSHIMA, MASAKAZU MATSUGU, KATSUMI IIJIMA, MASAYOSHI SEKINE, KOTARO YANO, SUNAO KURAHASHI, MOTOHIRO ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 6292272
    Abstract: A card-type image sensor used upon being inserted into the card slot of an external device such as a computer includes an image sensor head having image sensing device such as a CCD. A control panel having a zoom switch and a focus switch is provided on the image sensor head, which is rotatably attached to the rotary support portion of a card body having a main board. The control panel is disposed in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the image sensor head so that no portion of the image sensor head will project from below the lower side of the card body when the image sensor head is turned. In addition, a desk or the like will not interfere with the image sensor head when the head is turned. The results is improved operability. Further, the card body is provided with a finger catch used when the image sensor is detached from the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Taro Murakami