Patents by Inventor Shigeyuki Mitani
Shigeyuki Mitani 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: 20230195692Abstract: There is provided a file processing apparatus. An identification unit identifies, among a plurality of files stored in a first storage region, two or more files that have different extensions from one another as a file group based on a commonality among predetermined portions of file names. A decision unit decides on new file names of respective files in the file group so that the commonality among the predetermined portions is maintained in the file group. A transfer unit transfers, to a second storage region different from the first storage region, the respective files in the file group as files with the new file names that have been decided on.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventor: Shigeyuki Mitani
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Patent number: 11647132Abstract: A communication terminal acquires a captured image from an image capturing apparatus and transfers the captured image to a server. The communication terminal includes: a first communication unit configured to communicate with the image capturing apparatus; a second communication unit configured to communicate with the server; a display unit configured to communicate with the image capturing apparatus, acquire, from the image capturing apparatus, a captured image managed by the image capturing apparatus, and display the captured image; a sound input unit configured to accept sound input for generating a terminal sound memo related to the displayed captured image; a storage unit configured to store the generated terminal sound memo in association with the captured image; and a control unit configured to perform control so that the second communication unit transfers, to the server, the acquired captured image and the generated terminal sound memo associated with the captured image.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeyuki Mitani
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Publication number: 20210014404Abstract: A communication terminal acquires a captured image from an image capturing apparatus and transfers the captured image to a server. The communication terminal includes: a first communication unit configured to communicate with the image capturing apparatus; a second communication unit configured to communicate with the server; a display unit configured to communicate with the image capturing apparatus, acquire, from the image capturing apparatus, a captured image managed by the image capturing apparatus, and display the captured image; a sound input unit configured to accept sound input for generating a terminal sound memo related to the displayed captured image; a storage unit configured to store the generated terminal sound memo in association with the captured image; and a control unit configured to perform control so that the second communication unit transfers, to the server, the acquired captured image and the generated terminal sound memo associated with the captured image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventor: Shigeyuki Mitani
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Publication number: 20200073858Abstract: A system is provided whereby a user can easily distinguish, in an editing history, an edit content being applied to an image and an edit content not being applied to the image. An image processing apparatus includes an editing unit configured to edit an image according to user's operation, a storage unit configured to store, in a storage medium, an editing history indicating an edit content executed by the editing unit by associating the editing history with the image. A display processing unit is configured to display each edit content on a screen in a different manner depending on being applied to the image or not being applied to the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Koji Maeda, Shigeyuki Mitani, Hiroyuki Owatari, Yumiko Kuno
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Patent number: 10200619Abstract: An electronic device generates, in accordance with an operation on an operation unit, a zoom control command for controlling a drive unit that mechanically drives a zoom position of a lens unit attached to an image capture apparatus from the outside of the lens unit, and transmits the zoom control command to the image capture apparatus via communication unit. The electronic apparatus obtains information related to the zoom position of the lens unit from the image capture apparatus, and displays, on a display apparatus, information indicating a current zoom position of the lens unit relative to a minimum zoom position and a maximum zoom position of the lens unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeyuki Mitani
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Patent number: 9848225Abstract: Data reception via an appropriate route is realized on an information processing apparatus that can receive data from a communication apparatus via one of a plurality of different routes, and in a control method therefor. If a first device has been discovered on a first network, data is received from the first device on the first network. If the data received from the first device on the first network is to be transferred from a second device existing on a second network, the data is uploaded onto the second device. At this time, whether or not data received by the first reception unit is to be transferred from the second device is determined in accordance with a setting at the time of the discovery of the first device.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Torikai, Koji Hatanaka, Ayumi Suzuki, Shigeyuki Mitani
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Patent number: 9756238Abstract: An image capturing apparatus, comprises an image capturing unit configured to capture an image; a detection unit configured to detect an object in a captured image; a first authentication unit configured to perform authentication on a photographer using first dictionary data in which feature information of the photographer is registered; a second authentication unit configured to perform authentication on the object in the captured image using second dictionary data in which feature information of the object is registered for each photographer; and a switching unit configured to switch the second dictionary data to be used by the second authentication unit in accordance with the photographer authenticated by the first authentication unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeyuki Mitani
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Publication number: 20170195577Abstract: An electronic device generates, in accordance with an operation on an operation unit, a zoom control command for controlling a drive unit that mechanically drives a zoom position of a lens unit attached to an image capture apparatus from the outside of the lens unit, and transmits the zoom control command to the image capture apparatus via communication unit. The electronic apparatus obtains information related to the zoom position of the lens unit from the image capture apparatus, and displays, on a display apparatus, information indicating a current zoom position of the lens unit relative to a minimum zoom position and a maximum zoom position of the lens unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventor: Shigeyuki Mitani
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Publication number: 20160198210Abstract: Data reception via an appropriate route is realized on an information processing apparatus that can receive data from a communication apparatus via one of a plurality of different routes, and in a control method therefor. If a first device has been discovered on a first network, data is received from the first device on the first network. If the data received from the first device on the first network is to be transferred from a second device existing on a second network, the data is uploaded onto the second device. At this time, whether or not data received by the first reception unit is to be transferred from the second device is determined in accordance with a setting at the time of the discovery of the first device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2014Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Hiroyuki Torikai, Koji Hatanaka, Ayumi Suzuki, Shigeyuki Mitani
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Patent number: 9213887Abstract: The present invention aims to encourage the input of comment on content requiring the viewing user's input and prevent the comment from failing to be input in a case where the content is displayed and the viewing user inputs the comment on the content. Therefore, according to the present invention, when the content is displayed on a display apparatus, the viewing user of the content is photographed to capture photographed image data. A face image included in the displayed content and the face image of the viewing user included in the photographed image data are compared, and, if they are similar, a comment input area is displayed to encourage the viewing user to input a comment.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeyuki Mitani
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Patent number: 9135230Abstract: The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page but is moved to and displayed in an evacuation area provided independently from the page area. In the evacuation area, such image is displayed together with a serial number of the page in which such image was present originally. Thus the page layout is not destructed in pages other than the page of image deletion, and the user can easily confirm later the image existed in such page.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosato Hitaka, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Shigeyuki Mitani
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Publication number: 20140333792Abstract: An image capturing apparatus, comprises an image capturing unit configured to capture an image; a detection unit configured to detect an object in a captured image; a first authentication unit configured to perform authentication on a photographer using first dictionary data in which feature information of the photographer is registered; a second authentication unit configured to perform authentication on the object in the captured image using second dictionary data in which feature information of the object is registered for each photographer; and a switching unit configured to switch the second dictionary data to be used by the second authentication unit in accordance with the photographer authenticated by the first authentication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shigeyuki Mitani
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Publication number: 20140321721Abstract: The present invention aims to encourage the input of comment on content requiring the viewing user's input and prevent the comment from failing to be input in a case where the content is displayed and the viewing user inputs the comment on the content. Therefore, according to the present invention, when the content is displayed on a display apparatus, the viewing user of the content is photographed to capture photographed image data. A face image included in the displayed content and the face image of the viewing user included in the photographed image data are compared, and, if they are similar, a comment input area is displayed to encourage the viewing user to input a comment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shigeyuki Mitani
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Patent number: 8824809Abstract: A sort-out cycle such as a judgment of three levels of “usable”, “unusable”, and “reserve” is made to images and, when the judgment of all images is completed, the judgment of the three levels is made again to the “reserve” images is repeated. The number of sort-out cycle times in which the judgment is made is applied as an evaluation to the images which are finally determined as “usable”.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeyuki Mitani
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Publication number: 20120254742Abstract: The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page but is moved to and displayed in an evacuation area provided independently from the page area. In the evacuation area, such image is displayed together with a serial number of the page in which such image was present originally. Thus the page layout is not destructed in pages other than the page of image deletion, and the user can easily confirm later the image existed in such page.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosato Hitaka, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Shigeyuki Mitani
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Patent number: 8223170Abstract: The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page but is moved to and displayed in an evacuation area provided independently from the page area. In the evacuation area, such image is displayed together with a serial number of the page in which such image was present originally. Thus the page layout is not destructed in pages other than the page of image deletion, and the user can easily confirm later the image existed in such page.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2011Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosato Hitaka, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Shigeyuki Mitani
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Patent number: 8204894Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a method of controlling a server apparatus for disclosing image data with a representation effect to a third party without any operation of a user, a program for causing a computer apparatus to execute the method, a storage medium which stores the program, and a computer apparatus. The server apparatus which stores image data received from the user via a network in a memory sets a representation effect used to disclose image data. The server apparatus creates page information for displaying the image data with the representation effect, and notifies a third party of the URL of the page information. The third party can browse the image data with the representation effect on the basis of the URL.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2007Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Chikara Morisada, Shigeyuki Mitani
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Patent number: 8149246Abstract: The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page but is moved to and displayed in an evacuation area provided independently from the page area. In the evacuation area, such image is displayed together with a serial number of the page in which such image was present originally. Thus the page layout is not destructed in pages other than the page of image deletion, and the user can easily confirm later the image existed in such page.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yosato Hitaka, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Shigeyuki Mitani
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Publication number: 20120001940Abstract: The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page but is moved to and displayed in an evacuation area provided independently from the page area. In the evacuation area, such image is displayed together with a serial number of the page in which such image was present originally. Thus the page layout is not destructed in pages other than the page of image deletion, and the user can easily confirm later the image existed in such page.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yosato Hitaka, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Shigeyuki Mitani
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Publication number: 20110262046Abstract: A sort-out cycle such as a judgment of three levels of “usable”, “unusable”, and “reserve” is made to images and, when the judgment of all images is completed, the judgment of the three levels is made again to the “reserve” images is repeated. The number of sort-out cycle times in which the judgment is made is applied as an evaluation to the images which are finally determined as “usable”.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shigeyuki Mitani