Patents by Inventor Shinichiro FUJIKI

Shinichiro FUJIKI 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: 11968448
    Abstract: An imaging support device that supports imaging performed by an imaging apparatus includes an acquisition portion that acquires an in-image shift amount between a predetermined position in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region by an imaging element and a position of a target subject image showing a target subject, and a focal length of the imaging apparatus, a derivation portion that derives a movement amount required for moving the position of the target subject image to a specific position by a position adjustment portion which adjusts the position of the target subject image in the captured image, based on the in-image shift amount acquired by the acquisition portion, the focal length acquired by the acquisition portion, and information related to a pixel interval of pixels in the imaging element, and an output portion that outputs the movement amount derived by the derivation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Fujiki, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Junichi Tanaka, Atsushi Kawanago
  • Publication number: 20240114245
    Abstract: An imaging support method includes acquiring a focal length of an imaging apparatus, detecting a subject image position of a target subject image showing a target subject in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region including the target subject by the imaging apparatus, and performing registration control for setting the detected subject image position to a specific position in the captured image by increasing a ratio of application of an image region movement component compared to a lens moving mechanism in a case where the acquired focal length is greater than or equal to a threshold value, and increasing a ratio of application of the lens moving mechanism compared to the image region movement component in a case where the focal length is less than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Tetsuya FUJIKAWA, Shinichiro FUJIKI, Junichi TANAKA, Atsushi KAWANAGO
  • Publication number: 20240087489
    Abstract: A processor is configured to display a first display image that displays information related to an object existing in a real space and a second display image on a transmissive display device, change a display position of the second display image based on a change of a relative position between the display device and the object, and perform a control to make a change amount of a display position of the first display image smaller than a change amount of the display position of the second display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichiro FUJIKI
  • Patent number: 11930280
    Abstract: A processor of an imaging support device is configured to acquire data related to a shake correction amount of a shake correction mechanism and a focal length of an imaging apparatus in a state where the shake correction mechanism of the imaging apparatus is operating, and adjust an irradiation range of light from an irradiation apparatus for a target subject based on the acquired data related to the shake correction amount and the acquired data related to the focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Fujikawa, Shinichiro Fujiki, Junichi Tanaka, Atsushi Kawanago
  • Patent number: 11917297
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging support device including an acquisition portion that acquires reversal information indicating that a revolution direction of an imaging apparatus that is caused to revolve about one axis out of a first axis and a second axis intersecting with the first axis as a central axis by a revolution mechanism enabling the imaging apparatus to revolve about each of the first axis and the second axis as the central axis is reversed, and a control portion that, in a case where the reversal information is acquired by the acquisition portion, performs a control of operating an adjustment portion capable of adjusting a position of a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Fujiki, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Junichi Tanaka, Atsushi Kawanago
  • Patent number: 11895403
    Abstract: An imaging support method includes acquiring a focal length of an imaging apparatus, detecting a subject image position of a target subject image showing a target subject in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region including the target subject by the imaging apparatus, and performing registration control for setting the detected subject image position to a specific position in the captured image by increasing a ratio of application of an image region movement component compared to a lens moving mechanism in a case where the acquired focal length is greater than or equal to a threshold value, and increasing a ratio of application of the lens moving mechanism compared to the image region movement component in a case where the focal length is less than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Fujikawa, Shinichiro Fujiki, Junichi Tanaka, Atsushi Kawanago
  • Patent number: 11892755
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a guided portion that includes a first bearing portion and a second bearing portion disposed to be spaced apart from each other in a direction X and is slidably supported by a guide shaft, and a lens holding member. The lens unit includes a first tilt-preventing member having a linear expansion coefficient lower than a linear expansion coefficient of the lens holding member. The first tilt-preventing member is fixed to a region of the guided portion positioned between the first bearing portion and second bearing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeya Abe, Keito Kamio, Ryosuke Nagami, Shinichiro Fujiki, Kazuaki Okamori, Yuya Sakai
  • Patent number: 11830169
    Abstract: Provided are an image blur correcting device that capable of improving a degree of freedom in design and realizing miniaturization or weight reduction, a lens device including the image blur correcting device, and an imaging device including the lens device. An image blur correcting device includes a fixing member, a first movable member that is supported by the fixing member in a state of being movable in a direction X, and a second movable member that is supported by the first movable member in a state of being movable in a direction Y A second coil that drives the second movable member is fixed to one first surface of the second movable member in a direction Z, and a first coil that drives the first movable member is fixed to the other second surface of the second movable member in the direction Z.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Keito Kamio, Kazuaki Okamori, Shinichiro Fujiki, Ryosuke Nagami
  • Publication number: 20230308757
    Abstract: An imaging support device that supports imaging performed by an imaging apparatus includes an acquisition portion that acquires an in-image shift amount between a predetermined position in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region by an imaging element and a position of a target subject image showing a target subject, and a focal length of the imaging apparatus, a derivation portion that derives a movement amount required for moving the position of the target subject image to a specific position by a position adjustment portion which adjusts the position of the target subject image in the captured image, based on the in-image shift amount acquired by the acquisition portion, the focal length acquired by the acquisition portion, and information related to a pixel interval of pixels in the imaging element, and an output portion that outputs the movement amount derived by the derivation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Shinichiro FUJIKI, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA, Junichi TANAKA, Atsushi KAWANAGO
  • Publication number: 20230273441
    Abstract: A glasses-type information display device includes a first transmission unit and a second transmission unit, a projection unit that projects an image onto the first transmission unit, a visibility reduction unit that reduces visibility of a real image visually recognized by a user through the second transmission unit, and a processor that performs a control to cause the visibility reduction unit to reduce the visibility on the basis of a display priority given to the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: FUIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichiro FUJIKI
  • Publication number: 20230276128
    Abstract: An imaging support device includes a detection portion that, by operating a revolution mechanism that causes an imaging apparatus including a variable magnification mechanism to revolve, detects a subject image position of a target subject image showing a target subject in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region including the target subject by the imaging apparatus, and a control portion that perform a registration control of setting the subject image position detected by the detection portion to a specific position in the captured image for a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus in accordance with changing of magnification to a telephoto side by the variable magnification mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi KAWANAGO, Junichi TANAKA, Shinichiro FUJIKI, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11711612
    Abstract: An imaging support device that supports imaging performed by an imaging apparatus includes an acquisition portion that acquires an in-image shift amount between a predetermined position in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region by an imaging element and a position of a target subject image showing a target subject, and a focal length of the imaging apparatus, a derivation portion that derives a movement amount required for moving the position of the target subject image to a specific position by a position adjustment portion which adjusts the position of the target subject image in the captured image, based on the in-image shift amount acquired by the acquisition portion, the focal length acquired by the acquisition portion, and information related to a pixel interval of pixels in the imaging element, and an output portion that outputs the movement amount derived by the derivation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Fujiki, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Junichi Tanaka, Atsushi Kawanago
  • Publication number: 20230185167
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a guided portion that includes a first bearing portion and a second bearing portion disposed to be spaced apart from each other in a direction X and is slidably supported by a guide shaft, and a lens holding member. The lens unit includes a first tilt-preventing member having a linear expansion coefficient lower than a linear expansion coefficient of the lens holding member. The first tilt-preventing member is fixed to a region of the guided portion positioned between the first bearing portion and second bearing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeya ABE, Keito Kamio, Ryosuke Nagami, Shinichiro Fujiki, Kazuaki Okamori, Yuya Sakai
  • Patent number: 11678055
    Abstract: An imaging support device includes a detection portion that, by operating a revolution mechanism that causes an imaging apparatus including a variable magnification mechanism to revolve, detects a subject image position of a target subject image showing a target subject in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region including the target subject by the imaging apparatus, and a control portion that perform a registration control of setting the subject image position detected by the detection portion to a specific position in the captured image for a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus in accordance with changing of magnification to a telephoto side by the variable magnification mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Kawanago, Junichi Tanaka, Shinichiro Fujiki, Tetsuya Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11609484
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a guided portion that includes a first bearing portion and a second bearing portion disposed to be spaced apart from each other in a direction X and is slidably supported by a guide shaft, and a lens holding member. A first distance between the center of a fixing portion of the lens holding member and the center of the first bearing portion in the direction X is set to be longer than a second distance between the center of the fixing portion and the center of the second bearing portion in the direction X. A first tilt-preventing member having a linear expansion coefficient lower than that of the lens holding member is fixed to a region, which is closer to the first bearing portion than the center of the fixing portion, of a portion of the guided portion positioned between the first and second bearing portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeya Abe, Keito Kamio, Ryosuke Nagami, Shinichiro Fujiki, Kazuaki Okamori, Yuya Sakai
  • Patent number: 11467367
    Abstract: An imaging device stores a focal length and a position of a focus lens in a storage unit in a case in which a focal state is determined to be a focus state in which a subject is in focus and at least one of the imaging device or the subject is determined to be stationary; generates tracking data for changing the position of the focus lens according to a change in focal length, using a plurality of stored focal lengths and a plurality of stored positions of the focus lens; and performs a zoom tracking control using the generated tracking data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Fujiki, Akihiro Uchida, Koichi Tanaka, Kenkichi Hayashi, Seiichi Izawa
  • Publication number: 20220294967
    Abstract: A processor of an imaging support device is configured to acquire data related to a shake correction amount of a shake correction mechanism and a focal length of an imaging apparatus in a state where the shake correction mechanism of the imaging apparatus is operating, and adjust an irradiation range of light from an irradiation apparatus for a target subject based on the acquired data related to the shake correction amount and the acquired data related to the focal length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya FUJIKAWA, Shinichiro FUJIKI, Junichi TANAKA, Atsushi KAWANAGO
  • Publication number: 20220286613
    Abstract: An imaging support device includes a processor, and a memory that is connected to or incorporated in the processor, in which the processor is configured to derive information related to inclination of an imaging apparatus with respect to a revolution mechanism that enables the imaging apparatus to revolve about each of a first axis and a second axis intersecting with the first axis as a central axis, based on a time series change in revolution angle of the imaging apparatus, the inclination of the imaging apparatus being inclination in a rotation direction about a third axis intersecting with the first axis and the second axis as the central axis, and adjust a position of a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus based on the information related to the inclination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichiro FUJIKI, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA, Junichi TANAKA, Atsushi KAWANAGO
  • Publication number: 20220256086
    Abstract: An imaging support method includes acquiring a focal length of an imaging apparatus, detecting a subject image position of a target subject image showing a target subject in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region including the target subject by the imaging apparatus, and performing registration control for setting the detected subject image position to a specific position in the captured image by increasing a ratio of application of an image region movement component compared to a lens moving mechanism in a case where the acquired focal length is greater than or equal to a threshold value, and increasing a ratio of application of the lens moving mechanism compared to the image region movement component in a case where the focal length is less than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya FUJIKAWA, Shinichiro FUJIKI, Junichi TANAKA, Atsushi KAWANAGO
  • Publication number: 20220256083
    Abstract: An imaging support device that supports imaging performed by an imaging apparatus includes an acquisition portion that acquires an in-image shift amount between a predetermined position in a captured image obtained by capturing an imaging region by an imaging element and a position of a target subject image showing a target subject, and a focal length of the imaging apparatus, a derivation portion that derives a movement amount required for moving the position of the target subject image to a specific position by a position adjustment portion which adjusts the position of the target subject image in the captured image, based on the in-image shift amount acquired by the acquisition portion, the focal length acquired by the acquisition portion, and information related to a pixel interval of pixels in the imaging element, and an output portion that outputs the movement amount derived by the derivation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichiro FUJIKI, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA, Junichi TANAKA, Atsushi KAWANAGO