Patents by Inventor Shinichi Shimotsu
Shinichi Shimotsu 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: 12111560Abstract: An imaging lens including: a plurality of lenses; and a coating provided on at least a part of the plurality of lenses. In a near-infrared light wavelength region, by the coating, light transmittance on a short wavelength side of a near-infrared light peak wavelength region including 1550 nm is reduced from light transmittance at a short wavelength end of the near-infrared light peak wavelength region as a wavelength is decreased, and light transmittance on a long wavelength side of the near-infrared light peak wavelength region is reduced from light transmittance at a long wavelength end of the near-infrared light peak wavelength region as the wavelength is increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shinichi Shimotsu
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Publication number: 20240276085Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus and a control method of the imaging apparatus which are for reducing noise included in an output image of an imaging element having a photosensitive layer on a silicon substrate. An imaging apparatus (1-1) includes an imaging element (12) having a photosensitive layer on a silicon substrate, a cooling unit (14) that cools the imaging element (12), a temperature detection unit (16) that detects a temperature of the imaging element (12), and a CPU (26) functioning as a processor, in which the processor (26) controls the cooling unit (14) based on a first frame rate at which the imaging element is driven (12) and the temperature of the imaging element (12) detected by the temperature detection unit (16).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki KAWAI, Shinichi SHIMOTSU, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA, Tomoharu SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20240233105Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image processing device, an imaging apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of accurately extracting an abnormal region of a subject from an image. In the image processing device according to one aspect of the present invention, a processor generates a first mask image showing a first region where an abnormality exists on a surface of a subject and a second region including a region where an abnormality exists inside the subject, based on a visible image and a first near-infrared image, acquires a second near-infrared image of the subject captured with light in a second wavelength range in a state where the subject is held in focus with the light in the second wavelength range, and extracts an abnormal region in the first region and the second region based on the first mask image and the second near-infrared image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2024Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tomoharu SHIMADA, Shinichi SHIMOTSU, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA, Tomoyuki KAWAI
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Publication number: 20240015377Abstract: Provided is an imaging control device including: a processor; and a memory connected to or built in the processor. The processor acquires a first image by causing an image sensor of an imaging apparatus to image first light with a first sensitivity, and acquires a second image by causing the image sensor to image second light with a second sensitivity. The first sensitivity is a sensitivity for representing shape information of a subject with a first gradation in the first image. The second sensitivity is a sensitivity for representing temperature information of the subject with a second gradation in the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tomoharu SHIMADA, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA, Shinichi SHIMOTSU, Toshihiro AOI
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Publication number: 20230333401Abstract: Provided is a lens device provided in an imaging apparatus body including an image sensor, the lens device including a processor, a a memory coupled to or integrated with the processor, a lens that includes a movement lens and that images incident light on the image sensor, and a drive mechanism that moves the movement lens by applying power to the movement lens along a coordinate plane intersecting an optical axis of the lens. The processor is configured to perform, with respect to the drive mechanism, control of changing a movement amount of the movement lens based on a wavelength range of the light transmitted through the movement lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Toshihiro AOI, Taro ASAMI, Shinichi SHIMOTSU, Koichi TANAKA
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Publication number: 20230333400Abstract: A processor of a lens device is configured to acquire inclination information related to at least one of an inclination of a first drive axis of a drive mechanism with respect to a first axis of an image sensor or an inclination of a second drive axis of the drive mechanism with respect to a second axis of the image sensor, and perform, with respect to the drive mechanism, control of moving a movement lens along at least one of the first axis or the second axis based on the inclination information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Koichi TANAKA, Shinichi SHIMOTSU, Taro ASAMI, Toshihiro AOI
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Publication number: 20230333399Abstract: Provided is a lens device provided in an imaging apparatus body including an image sensor, the lens device including a lens that includes a shake correction lens correcting a shake of an image obtained by imaging light on the image sensor, and images the light, which is incident, on the image sensor, a first drive mechanism that moves the shake correction lens in a direction in which the shake of the image is corrected, by applying power to the shake correction lens along a coordinate plane intersecting an optical axis of the lens, and a second drive mechanism that moves the shake correction lens in a direction in which the image is shifted, by applying power to the shake correction lens along the coordinate plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichi SHIMOTSU, Koichi TANAKA, Toshihiro AOI, Taro ASAMI
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Publication number: 20230185214Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an optical element that extracts a plurality of pieces of band light from incident light incident on an optical system, a photoelectric conversion device capable of imaging the plurality of pieces of band light extracted from the incident light by the optical element, and a processor that outputs image data obtained by imaging band light, among the plurality of pieces of band light, selected according to an imaging condition determined based on a field of view by the photoelectric conversion device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Toshihiro AOI, Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Shinichi SHIMOTSU, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA
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Publication number: 20230171474Abstract: Provided are an imaging controller, an operation method and program of the imaging controller, and a camera capable of presenting a radiation image of a subject to a user in an easy-to-understand manner. An image sensor driving control unit causes an image sensor to image a visible ray to acquire a first image including a reflected image of a subject. The image sensor driving control unit causes the image sensor to image an infrared ray to acquire a second image including the reflected image and a radiation image of the subject. A zoom lens driving control unit moves a zoom lens along an optical axis to correct a difference in angle of view between the first image and the second image. Image processing units output difference images between the first image and the second image acquired in a state in which the difference in angle of view is corrected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichi SHIMOTSU, Masahiko Sugimoto, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Toshihiro Aoi
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Publication number: 20220404579Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a first optical system, a first separation optical system that separates the light transmitted through the first optical system into the first wavelength range light and the second wavelength range light, a second optical system that transmits the first wavelength range light obtained by the first separation optical system, a third optical system that transmits the second wavelength range light obtained by the first separation optical system, a first image sensor that receives the first wavelength range light, a second image sensor that receives the second wavelength range light, and a first light source that emits the first wavelength range light, in which the first optical system emits the first wavelength range light emitted from the first light source to a subject, and transmits subject light including first wavelength range reflected light obtained by reflecting the first wavelength range light by the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Toshihiro AOI, Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Shinichi SHIMOTSU, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA
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Publication number: 20220397740Abstract: A lens control device includes a processor that performs a control of generating image data for each of first wavelength range light and second wavelength range light by an image sensor, in which the processor estimates a first focus position of a focus lens for the first wavelength range light based on a first focus evaluation value determined in accordance with the image data of the first wavelength range light, estimates a second focus position of the focus lens for the first wavelength range light based on a second focus evaluation value determined in accordance with the image data of the second wavelength range light, and performs a control of moving the focus lens along an optical axis based on the first focus position in a case in which a comparison result obtained by comparing the first focus position with the second focus position satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Shinichi SHIMOTSU, Toshihiro AOI, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA
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Publication number: 20220400240Abstract: An imaging system includes an imaging apparatus including a first optical system that transmits first wavelength range light, and a first image sensor that receives the first wavelength range light guided by the first optical system, and a projector including a first light source that emits the first wavelength range light, and a second optical system that emits the first wavelength range light emitted from the first light source to a subject side, in which an optical specification of the first optical system and an optical specification of the second optical system correspond to each other, the first optical system includes a first optical element that is displaced by receiving power generated by a first drive source, and the second optical system includes a second optical element that is displaced by receiving power generated by a second drive source.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsuya FUJIKAWA, Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Shinichi SHIMOTSU, Toshihiro AOI
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Publication number: 20220385839Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system that has a light transmission characteristic of transmitting near-infrared light in a near-infrared light wavelength range including 1550 nm, and an imaging sensor that outputs an imaging signal by imaging the near-infrared light transmitted through the imaging optical system, the imaging sensor has sensitivity to heat radiation from a subject, and the imaging signal includes information regarding a heat radiation image by the heat radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: SHINICHI SHIMOTSU, Masahiko SUGIMOTO, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA, Toshihiro AOI
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Publication number: 20210208476Abstract: An imaging lens including: a plurality of lenses; and a coating provided on at least a part of the plurality of lenses. In a near-infrared light wavelength region, by the coating, light transmittance on a short wavelength side of a near-infrared light peak wavelength region including 1550 nm is reduced from light transmittance at a short wavelength end of the near-infrared light peak wavelength region as a wavelength is decreased, and light transmittance on a long wavelength side of the near-infrared light peak wavelength region is reduced from light transmittance at a long wavelength end of the near-infrared light peak wavelength region as the wavelength is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shinichi SHIMOTSU
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Patent number: 10473883Abstract: There are provided a variable magnification optical system and a control method thereof which are capable of relatively accurately adjusting a positional relationship between a variable magnification optical device and an imaging surface of an imaging device according to a zoom amount. A zoom lens included in the variable magnification optical device is positioned at a telephoto end and a wide angle end, and shift amounts ?S1 and ?S2, tilt angles ?1 and ?2, rotation angles ?1 and ?2, and focusing adjustment amounts ?1 and ?2 of the variable magnification optical device are set by a user and are stored. In a case where a zoom amount of the zoom lens is set to a desired value by the user, a shift amount corresponding to the set zoom amount is calculated by using the stored shift amounts ?S1 and ?S2. The positional relationship between the variable magnification optical device and the imaging surface of the imaging device is adjusted so as to have the calculated shift amount.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichi Shimotsu, Yoshitaka Mori, Takayuki Matsuura
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Publication number: 20190011662Abstract: There are provided a variable magnification optical system and a control method thereof which are capable of relatively accurately adjusting a positional relationship between a variable magnification optical device and an imaging surface of an imaging device according to a zoom amount. A zoom lens included in the variable magnification optical device is positioned at a telephoto end and a wide angle end, and shift amounts ?S1 and ?S2, tilt angles ?1 and ?2, rotation angles ?1 and ?2, and focusing adjustment amounts ?1 and ?2 of the variable magnification optical device are set by a user and are stored. In a case where a zoom amount of the zoom lens is set to a desired value by the user, a shift amount corresponding to the set zoom amount is calculated by using the stored shift amounts ?S1 and ?S2. The positional relationship between the variable magnification optical device and the imaging surface of the imaging device is adjusted so as to have the calculated shift amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: SHINICHI SHIMOTSU, Yoshitaka MORI, Takayuki MATSUURA
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Patent number: 10088654Abstract: This invention provides a lens device and a correction method therefor whereby the focal position of the lens device can be corrected with high accuracy even if a lens surface shape or the like is not uniform. A ring-shaped lens fixing frame 52 is mounted on the outer periphery of a lens 51. A gear 53 is formed on the lens fixing frame 52 in the circumferential direction. A gear 54, which engages with the gear 53, is rotated by a motor 20A. Then, the lens 51 rotates about the optical axis L thereof. Further, a rack 57, which extends in the direction of the optical axis L, is formed on a part of the lens fixing frame 52. A pinion 58 engages with the teeth 57A of the rack 57, and the pinion 58 is rotated by another motor 20B. Then, the rack 57 moves in the direction of the optical axis L, and thus the lens 51 moves in the direction of the optical axis L.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shinichi Shimotsu
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Patent number: 9571825Abstract: Notification is given of the fact that a television camera lens has developed a malfunction. An extender lens includes an imaging lens having a 1× magnification and an imaging lens having a 2× magnification. For each of these imaging lenses, a master lens is adjusted in such a manner that the light-receiving surface of an image sensor will be brought to an in-focus position. The master lens adjustment processing is executed periodically and data indicating a history of amounts of adjustment of the master lens is stored in memory per imaging lens. Data indicating the history of amounts of adjustment of the master lens is read from the memory. Whether the television camera lens is malfunctioning is detected from the read data indicating the history. If a malfunction is detected, an error LED emits light to notify of the malfunction.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazunori Otani, Shinichi Shimotsu
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Publication number: 20160341941Abstract: This invention provides a lens device and a correction method therefor whereby the focal position of the lens device can be corrected with high accuracy even if a lens surface shape or the like is not uniform. A ring-shaped lens fixing frame 52 is mounted on the outer periphery of a lens 51. A gear 53 is formed on the lens fixing frame 52 in the circumferential direction. A gear 54, which engages with the gear 53, is rotated by a motor 20A. Then, the lens 51 rotates about the optical axis L thereof. Further, a rack 57, which extends in the direction of the optical axis L, is formed on a part of the lens fixing frame 52. A pinion 58 engages with the teeth 57A of the rack 57, and the pinion 58 is rotated by another motor 20B. Then, the rack 57 moves in the direction of the optical axis L, and thus the lens 51 moves in the direction of the optical axis L.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shinichi SHIMOTSU
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Patent number: 9500838Abstract: A lens driving apparatus for a lens includes a voice coil motor. A coil position of a coil is detected. A table memory stores a correction factor for each one of plural values of the coil position according to flux density distribution. The correction factor is read from the table memory according to the detected coil position. A coil current is corrected by use of the correction factor for each coil position. The corrected coil current is caused to flow through the coil, with which the lens is moved together along an optical axis. Consequently, changes in a moving speed of the lens can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Shinichi Shimotsu