Patents by Inventor Shingo Nozawa
Shingo Nozawa 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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Patent number: 11653089Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes a sensor unit, a front engine that generates compressed raw image data by processing image data acquired from the sensor unit, a main engine that executes a development process on the compressed raw image data acquired from the front engine, and a display unit that displays an image. The front engine controls the display unit to display an image based on the image data acquired from the sensor unit, and the main engine records the image data subjected to the development process in a recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenichi Murata, Shingo Nozawa, Takayuki Sekine
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Publication number: 20220337750Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes a sensor unit, a front engine that generates compressed raw image data by processing image data acquired from the sensor unit, a main engine that executes a development process on the compressed raw image data acquired from the front engine, and a display unit that displays an image. The front engine controls the display unit to display an image based on the image data acquired from the sensor unit, and the main engine records the image data subjected to the development process in a recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Kenichi Murata, Shingo Nozawa, Takayuki Sekine
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Patent number: 11412138Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes a sensor unit, a front engine that generates compressed raw image data by processing image data acquired from the sensor unit, a main engine that executes a development process on the compressed raw image data acquired from the front engine, and a display unit that displays an image. The front engine controls the display unit to display an image based on the image data acquired from the sensor unit, and the main engine records the image data subjected to the development process in a recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenichi Murata, Shingo Nozawa, Takayuki Sekine
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Publication number: 20210058552Abstract: An imaging apparatus according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes a sensor unit, a front engine that generates compressed raw image data by processing image data acquired from the sensor unit, a main engine that executes a development process on the compressed raw image data acquired from the front engine, and a display unit that displays an image. The front engine controls the display unit to display an image based on the image data acquired from the sensor unit, and the main engine records the image data subjected to the development process in a recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Kenichi Murata, Shingo Nozawa, Takayuki Sekine
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Patent number: 10360660Abstract: An image processing apparatus that handles RAW images favorably performs display when shooting and display when reproducing. The apparatus images a subject and generates RAW images, and reduces the RAW images and generates reduced RAW images. The RAW images and reduced RAW images are recorded in a recording medium. When shooting, the reduced RAW images are subjected to developing processing for display, and when reproducing, the reduced raw images recorded in the recording medium are acquired and subjected to developing processing in accordance with instructions to reproduce, and each is used for display.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shingo Nozawa, Masamichi Ito
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Patent number: 10003767Abstract: An image processing apparatus that handles RAW images efficiently performs editing for reproducing RAW images. The apparatus compresses each of RAW images and reduced RAW images which are reduced from the RAW images, and records each in a recording medium. When editing, the image processing apparatus communicates with an external apparatus and transmits the reduced RAW images stored in the recording medium to the external apparatus, and causes the external apparatus to perform editing processing of the reduced images. Further, the image processing apparatus uses editing information representing the content of editing processing from the external apparatus to execute editing of the RAW image corresponding to the reduced RAW image on which the editing processing has been performed, by referencing the editing information.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shingo Nozawa, Masamichi Ito
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Patent number: 9894270Abstract: An image processing apparatus is configured to capture an object image, generate a RAW image, perform simple development on the RAW image during the image capturing operation, and store not only the developed image but also the RAW image. In a predetermined interval, in an idle state, or in predetermined enlargement processing, the image processing apparatus reads a RAW file stored in a storage medium and performs high-quality image development to generate an image having higher image quality than that obtained by the simple development. If development processing has been completed by a high-quality image development unit, the image processing apparatus replaces the image obtained by the simple development with the image obtained by the high-quality image development and reproduces the image obtained by the high-quality image development.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shingo Nozawa, Masamichi Ito
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Publication number: 20170264858Abstract: An image processing apparatus that handles RAW images efficiently performs editing for reproducing RAW images. The apparatus compresses each of RAW images and reduced RAW images which are reduced from the RAW images, and records each in a recording medium. When editing, the image processing apparatus communicates with an external apparatus and transmits the reduced RAW images stored in the recording medium to the external apparatus, and causes the external apparatus to perform editing processing of the reduced images. Further, the image processing apparatus uses editing information representing the content of editing processing from the external apparatus to execute editing of the RAW image corresponding to the reduced RAW image on which the editing processing has been performed, by referencing the editing information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2015Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Shingo Nozawa, Masamichi Ito
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Publication number: 20170256032Abstract: An image processing apparatus that handles RAW images favorably performs display when shooting and display when reproducing. The apparatus images a subject and generates RAW images, and reduces the RAW images and generates reduced RAW images, The RAW images and reduced RAW images are recorded in a recording medium. When shooting, the reduced RAW images are subjected to developing processing for display, and when reproducing, the reduced raw images recorded in the recording medium are acquired and subjected to developing processing in accordance with instructions to reproduce, and each is used for display.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shingo Nozawa, Masamichi Ito
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Patent number: 9723169Abstract: An imaging apparatus is configured to capture an object image, generate a RAW image, perform simple development on the RAW image during the image capturing operation, and store not only the developed image but also the RAW image in a storage medium. If the imaging apparatus displays an image during the image capturing operation and immediately after the image capturing operation, the imaging apparatus displays the image processed by the simple development. When the imaging apparatus completes processing of high-quality image development, the imaging apparatus replaces the image processed by the simple development with the image processed by the high-quality image development and displays the image processed by the high-quality image development.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shingo Nozawa, Masamichi Ito
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Patent number: 9686435Abstract: An imaging apparatus is configured to capture an object image, generate a RAW image, perform simple development on the RAW image during the image capturing operation, and store not only the developed image but also the RAW image in a storage medium. If the imaging apparatus displays an image during the image capturing operation and immediately after the image capturing operation, the imaging apparatus displays the image processed by the simple development. When the imaging apparatus completes processing of high-quality image development, the imaging apparatus replaces the image processed by the simple development with the image processed by the high-quality image development and displays the image processed by the high-quality image development.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shingo Nozawa, Masamichi Ito
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Patent number: 9300971Abstract: When encoding moving images using an encoding scheme in which a termination process is performed, controlling so that a picture to be encoded after a picture whose encoding has been forcibly terminated does not refer to the picture whose encoding has been forcibly terminated. By so doing, encoding using a reference picture with low correlation is suppressed and encoding efficiency can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shingo Nozawa
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Publication number: 20160037014Abstract: An imaging apparatus is configured to capture an object image, generate a RAW image, perform simple development on the RAW image during the image capturing operation, and store not only the developed image but also the RAW image in a storage medium. If the imaging apparatus displays an image during the image capturing operation and immediately after the image capturing operation, the imaging apparatus displays the image processed by the simple development. When the imaging apparatus completes processing of high-quality image development, the imaging apparatus replaces the image processed by the simple development with the image processed by the high-quality image development and displays the image processed by the high-quality image development.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2014Publication date: February 4, 2016Inventors: Shingo Nozawa, Masamichi Ito
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Publication number: 20160037122Abstract: An image processing apparatus is configured to capture an object image, generate a RAW image, perform simple development on the RAW image during the image capturing operation, and store not only the developed image but also the RAW image. In a predetermined interval, in an idle state, or in predetermined enlargement processing, the image processing apparatus reads a RAW file stored in a storage medium and performs high-quality image development to generate an image having higher image quality than that obtained by the simple development. If development processing has been completed by a high-quality image development unit, the image processing apparatus replaces the image obtained by the simple development with the image obtained by the high-quality image development and reproduces the image obtained by the high-quality image development.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2014Publication date: February 4, 2016Inventors: Shingo NOZAWA, Masamichi ITO
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Patent number: 8588540Abstract: The number of times of processing to increment the number of reserved bits in arithmetic coding processing is reduced. For this purpose, upon inputting a binary symbol, a zone is divided into two zones at a ratio between occurrence probabilities of MPS and LPS, and one of the divided zones is selected according to the input symbol. When the length of the selected zone is shorter than a predetermined length, normalization is performed. Then it is determined whether or not a threshold for determining a decimal place of interest exists within the zone of interest. When the threshold exists within the zone of interest, the number of reserved bits is incremented by one. When the threshold exists without the zone, 1-bit data determined based on a relative position between the zone of interest and the threshold is outputted, bit data corresponding to the number of reserved bits is determined and outputted, and the number of reserved bits is cleared to zero.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shingo Nozawa
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Patent number: 8023801Abstract: A video recording/reproducing apparatus includes a first recording unit that records video information on a first recording medium, a second recording unit that records video information on a second recording medium, a remaining capacity detecting unit that detects a remaining capacity of the first recording medium, a recording controlling unit that controls transferring of the video information on the first recording medium to the second recording medium when the remaining capacity of the first recording medium is not greater than a first reference value (?), and a reproducing unit that reproduces the video information from the second and first recording media when it is recorded on the second and first recording media, respectively, and that sequentially reproduces the video information on the second and first recording media when part of the video information is recorded on the second recording medium and the rest is recorded on the first one.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shingo Nozawa
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Publication number: 20110038417Abstract: When encoding moving images using an encoding scheme in which a termination process is performed, controlling so that a picture to be encoded after a picture whose encoding has been forcibly terminated does not refer to the picture whose encoding has been forcibly terminated. By so doing, encoding using a reference picture with low correlation is suppressed and encoding efficiency can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2008Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shingo Nozawa
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Patent number: 7756203Abstract: A signal processing apparatus includes a conversion unit, an encoding unit, and a control unit. The conversion unit converts first moving image data having a first frame rate into second moving image data having a second frame rate by inserting a new frame into the first moving image data having the first frame rate at predetermined timing. The encoding unit encodes the second moving image data having the second frame rate by selectively using intra-frame encoding and inter-frame prediction encoding. The encoding unit classifies each frame of the second moving image data as a first frame type which is not referred to in the inter-frame prediction encoding and a second frame type which is referred to in the inter-frame prediction encoding, and the encoding unit encodes the second moving image data according to the classification result.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shingo Nozawa
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Patent number: 7693400Abstract: An imaging apparatus for encoding a moving picture signal output by imaging means using intraframe encoding and interframe encoding. An encoded image signal which includes picture groups comprising n frames of an image signal including intraframe-encoded pictures and interframe-encoded pictures is generated. An instruction starts a recording of the encoded image signal. The encoded image signal is transmitted to an external device while the signal is in an encoded state and the encoded image signal is transmitted to an external device while the encoded image signal is not being recorded. Upon detection of the instruction during transmission of the encoded image signal to the external device, recording of the encoded image signal starts, from the leading end of a picture group that contains a frame, corresponding to the instruction.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2003Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shingo Nozawa
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Publication number: 20100054328Abstract: The number of times of processing to increment the number of reserved bits in arithmetic coding processing is reduced. For this purpose, upon inputting a binary symbol, a zone is divided into two zones at a ratio between occurrence probabilities of MPS and LPS, and one of the divided zones is selected according to the input symbol. When the length of the selected zone is shorter than a predetermined length, normalization is performed. Then it is determined whether or not a threshold for determining a decimal place of interest exists within the zone of interest. When the threshold exists within the zone of interest, the number of reserved bits is incremented by one. When the threshold exists without the zone, 1-bit data determined based on a relative position between the zone of interest and the threshold is outputted, bit data corresponding to the number of reserved bits is determined and outputted, and the number of reserved bits is cleared to zero.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2007Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shingo Nozawa