Patents by Inventor Shinga Nakashima

Shinga Nakashima 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: 11592643
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of stably detecting rotating operations of a rotary ring provided on an outer periphery of a lens barrel or the like. A holding member is provided on an inner periphery of the rotary ring to hold the rotary ring. A rotation detecting member detects a rotation direction and a rotation amount of the rotary ring when the rotary ring has been rotated. An urging member urges the rotary ring against the holding member in an urging direction perpendicular to a rotational axis of the rotary ring. A detecting direction of the rotation detecting member and the urging direction of the urging member are parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinga Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20230059185
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a rotation operation unit including a rotation operation member, and a finger placing portion configured so that a finger is placed on it when the electronic device is gripped. The rotation operation unit and the finger placing portion are located in close proximity to each other on a surface on a user side of the electronic device. The rotation operation unit is tilted with respect to the electronic device toward the finger placing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventor: Shinga Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11500466
    Abstract: A space-saving image pickup apparatus capable of appropriately vibrating the image pickup apparatus locally or as a whole using one vibration device is provided. The image pickup apparatus comprising an operation member, a vibration device configured to generate a vibration, a vibration transmission member fixed to the vibration device, and a controller configured to drive the vibration device in response to an operation of the operation member. Part of the vibration transmission member comes into contact with part of the operation member, and the operation member vibrates due to a vibration transmitted from the vibration device via the vibration transmission member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinga Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11442340
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus to which an external apparatus is detachably attachable includes a controlling unit configured to make a vibration device vibrate by using a vibration parameter corresponding to a type of the external apparatus to be attached to the electronic apparatus, the vibration device being provided on at least one of the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsuto Noda, Shinga Nakashima, Akira Watanabe, Takazumi Seo, Kohei Uemura, Toshihiro Ogawa, Hiroshi Toriumi
  • Patent number: 11391907
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a rotary ring that has a plurality of groove portions formed in an inner periphery in a rotation direction, a holding member that holds the rotary ring, a click member that generates a click feel by repeating an abutting state in which the rotary ring abuts on the groove portion and a non-abutting state in which the rotary ring does not abut on the groove portion when the rotary ring is rotated, and an urging member that urges the click member from an inside of the rotary ring toward an outside of the rotary ring. The click member which protrudes from a cutout portion obtained by cutting out a portion of the holding member abuts on the groove portion from the inside of the rotation ring toward the outside of the rotation ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinga Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11297235
    Abstract: An optical apparatus configured to correct an image blur by moving an image stabilization unit in a first direction different from an optical axis direction based on shake information obtained by a shake detector includes a vibration device configured to generate a vibration in order to transmit to a user a tactual sense according to an operation of an operation unit by the user. During an imaging and recording period, the vibration device generates the vibration having a vibration intensity in a second direction different from the first direction higher than that in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takazumi Seo, Toshihiro Ogawa, Kohei Uemura, Shinga Nakashima, Atsuto Noda, Akira Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210357033
    Abstract: A space-saving image pickup apparatus capable of appropriately vibrating the image pickup apparatus locally or as a whole using one vibration device is provided. The image pickup apparatus comprising an operation member, a vibration device configured to generate a vibration, a vibration transmission member fixed to the vibration device, and a controller configured to drive the vibration device in response to an operation of the operation member. Part of the vibration transmission member comes into contact with part of the operation member, and the operation member vibrates due to a vibration transmitted from the vibration device via the vibration transmission member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventor: Shinga Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11150732
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a vibration device configured to generate a vibration to transmit to a user a touch sense in response to an operation of a user on an operation unit, and a grip portion gripped by the user. A lens barrel is attached to a front surface side of the image pickup apparatus. The grip portion covers a rear surface side and the front surface side of the image pickup apparatus. The grip portion that covers the front surface side of the image pickup apparatus includes a protrusion portion. The vibration device is disposed inside the protrusion portion and on a side facing an optical axis of the lens barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinga Nakashima, Toshihiro Ogawa, Takazumi Seo, Akira Watanabe, Kohei Uemura, Atsuto Noda
  • Publication number: 20210227106
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus that does not disturb a photographing operation, has high portability, and facilitates attachment and detachment. The image pickup apparatus includes a body part and a frame part. The body part has an image pickup lens. The frame part has an opening. The frame part is provided with a notch section that is formed by cutting out a part of the frame part in a direction different from a natural falling direction of the image pickup apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Shinga Nakashima, Ryoji Okuno
  • Publication number: 20210105391
    Abstract: An optical apparatus configured to correct an image blur by moving an image stabilization unit in a first direction different from an optical axis direction based on shake information obtained by a shake detector includes a vibration device configured to generate a vibration in order to transmit to a user a tactual sense according to an operation of an operation unit by the user. During an imaging and recording period, the vibration device generates the vibration having a vibration intensity in a second direction different from the first direction higher than that in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Takazumi SEO, Toshihiro OGAWA, Kohei UEMURA, Shinga NAKASHIMA, Atsuto NODA, Akira WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10911648
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of being downsized even when provided with an eye detection sensor when the apparatus includes an electronic viewfinder. The image pickup apparatus includes an electronic viewfinder for viewing an image through an eyepiece and a display unit provided with a display on which the image is displayed. The eye detection sensor detects whether an eye of a photographer approaches the electronic viewfinder. The electronic viewfinder and the display are controlled selectively according to an eye detection result by the eye detection sensor. The eye detection sensor is disposed on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinga Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20210018820
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus to which an external apparatus is detachably attachable includes a controlling unit configured to make a vibration device vibrate by using a vibration parameter corresponding to a type of the external apparatus to be attached to the electronic apparatus, the vibration device being provided on at least one of the electronic apparatus and the external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Atsuto NODA, Shinga NAKASHIMA, Akira WATANABE, Takazumi SEO, Kohei UEMURA, Toshihiro OGAWA, Hiroshi TORIUMI
  • Patent number: 10623590
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a USB connector compliant with a USB standard, and is configured to be electrically connectable to a device including an adaptor apparatus via the USB connector. The imaging apparatus includes a system control circuit that detects whether the adaptor apparatus is electrically connected via the USB connector, and a switch that performs processing for changing a signal group to be assigned to terminals of the USB connector, according to a result of detection by the system control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Odagaki, Shinga Nakashima, Katsuhiro Doshin
  • Publication number: 20200106938
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of being downsized even when provided with an eye detection sensor when the apparatus includes an electronic viewfinder. The image pickup apparatus includes an electronic viewfinder for viewing an image through an eyepiece and a display unit provided with a display on which the image is displayed. The eye detection sensor detects whether an eye of a photographer approaches the electronic viewfinder. The electronic viewfinder and the display are controlled selectively according to an eye detection result by the eye detection sensor. The eye detection sensor is disposed on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: Shinga Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20200096724
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a rotary ring that has a plurality of groove portions formed in an inner periphery in a rotation direction, a holding member that holds the rotary ring, a click member that generates a click feel by repeating an abutting state in which the rotary ring abuts on the groove portion and a non-abutting state in which the rotary ring does not abut on the groove portion when the rotary ring is rotated, and an urging member that urges the click member from an inside of the rotary ring toward an outside of the rotary ring. The click member which protrudes from a cutout portion obtained by cutting out a portion of the holding member abuts on the groove portion from the inside of the rotation ring toward the outside of the rotation ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Shinga Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20200096725
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of stably detecting rotating operations of a rotary ring provided on an outer periphery of a lens barrel or the like. A holding member is provided on an inner periphery of the rotary ring to hold the rotary ring. A rotation detecting member detects a rotation direction and a rotation amount of the rotary ring when the rotary ring has been rotated. An urging member urges the rotary ring against the holding member in an urging direction perpendicular to a rotational axis of the rotary ring. A detecting direction of the rotation detecting member and the urging direction of the urging member are parallel to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Shinga Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20190391650
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a vibration device configured to generate a vibration to transmit to a user a touch sense in response to an operation of a user on an operation unit, and a grip portion gripped by the user. A lens barrel is attached to a front surface side of the image pickup apparatus. The grip portion covers a rear surface side and the front surface side of the image pickup apparatus. The grip portion that covers the front surface side of the image pickup apparatus includes a protrusion portion. The vibration device is disposed inside the protrusion portion and on a side facing an optical axis of the lens barrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Shinga Nakashima, Toshihiro Ogawa, Takazumi Seo, Akira Watanabe, Kohei Uemura, Atsuto Noda
  • Publication number: 20180205836
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a USB connector compliant with a USB standard, and is configured to be electrically connectable to a device including an adaptor apparatus via the USB connector. The imaging apparatus includes a system control circuit that detects whether the adaptor apparatus is electrically connected via the USB connector, and a switch that performs processing for changing a signal group to be assigned to terminals of the USB connector, according to a result of detection by the system control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Koichi Odagaki, Shinga Nakashima, Katsuhiro Doshin
  • Patent number: 8740485
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an open/close lid configured to close or open a paper conveyance path of a recording paper, and a locking member configured to hold a closing state of the open/close lid by engaging with an engaging portion of the open/close lid, and to be capable to move to a position engageable with the engaging portion of the open/close lid or a position of retracting from the position engageable with the engaging portion of the open/close lid. The locking member moves to the position engageable with the engaging portion of the open/close lid at non-print time, and further moves to the position of retracting from the position engageable with the engaging portion of the open/close lid at print time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinga Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20120020717
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an open/close lid configured to close or open a paper conveyance path of a recording paper, and a locking member configured to hold a closing state of the open/close lid by engaging with an engaging portion of the open/close lid, and to be capable to move to a position engageable with the engaging portion of the open/close lid or a position of retracting from the position engageable with the engaging portion of the open/close lid. The locking member moves to the position engageable with the engaging portion of the open/close lid at non-print time, and further moves to the position of retracting from the position engageable with the engaging portion of the open/close lid at print time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinga Nakashima