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).
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Publication number: 20140146189Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
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Patent number: 8659665Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
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Publication number: 20110254965Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
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Patent number: 7986365Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 4, 2009Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
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Publication number: 20100045804Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Inventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
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Patent number: 7630004Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
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Patent number: 7164786Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 5, 2003Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsushi Katayama, Shigeki Okauchi, Nobuo Fukushima, Masakazu Matsugu, Katsumi Iijima, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Motohiro Ishikawa
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Patent number: 7042830Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 9, 2002Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Michiaki Shinotsuka, Hiroyuki Iwasa, Takao Yamada, Toshio Matsushita, Yasuo Kanbara, Shigeki Okauchi
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Patent number: 6823080Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 29, 2002Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsumi Iijima, Shigeki Okauchi, Masakazu Matsugu, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Tatsushi Katayama, Katsuhiko Mori, Motohiro Ishikawa
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Patent number: 6686958Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 1997Date of Patent: February 3, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
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Publication number: 20030206653Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2003Publication date: November 6, 2003Inventors: Tatsushi Katayama, Shigeki Okauchi, Nobuo Fukushima, Masakazu Matsugu, Katsumi Iijima, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Motohiro Ishikawa
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Patent number: 6640004Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 26, 1996Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsushi Katayama, Shigeki Okauchi, Nobuo Fukushima, Masakazu Matsugu, Katsumi Iijima, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Motohiro Ishikawa
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Patent number: 6600461Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 11, 1995Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeki Okauchi, Sunao Kurahashi, Satoshi Tonosaki
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Publication number: 20030128283Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2003Publication date: July 10, 2003Inventors: Gaku Watanabe, Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Yuji Koide
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Publication number: 20030035360Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2002Publication date: February 20, 2003Inventors: Michiaki Shinotsuka, Hiroyuki Iwasa, Takao Yamada, Toshio Matsushita, Yasuo Kanbara, Shigeki Okauchi
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Patent number: 6507359Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 1997Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomotaka Muramoto, Jun Tokumitsu, Tsunefumi Tanaka, Hiroaki Hoshi, Shigeki Okauchi, Nobuo Fukushima, Katsumi Iijima, Atsushi Namba
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Publication number: 20030007680Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2002Publication date: January 9, 2003Inventors: Katsumi Iijima, Shigeki Okauchi, Masakazu Matsugu, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Tatsushi Katayama, Katsuhiko Mori, Motohiro Ishikawa
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Patent number: 6445814Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 30, 1997Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsumi Iijima, Shigeki Okauchi, Masakazu Matsugu, Masayoshi Sekine, Kotaro Yano, Sunao Kurahashi, Tatsushi Katayama, Katsuhiko Mori, Motohiro Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20020081019Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 1996Publication date: June 27, 2002Inventors: TATSUSHI KATAYAMA, SHIGEKI OKAUCHI, NOBUO FUKUSHIMA, MASAKAZU MATSUGU, KATSUMI IIJIMA, MASAYOSHI SEKINE, KOTARO YANO, SUNAO KURAHASHI, MOTOHIRO ISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 6292272Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 1, 1996Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeki Okauchi, Hitoshi Nabetani, Taro Murakami