Patents by Inventor Shinichiro Sonoda
Shinichiro Sonoda 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: 20220377185Abstract: The processor recognizes a first act for an imaging and print instruction that combines an imaging instruction and an instruction to print an image, the first act being performed by a person to be imaged who is included in a subject and within an imaging range of a camera unit, causes the camera unit to perform an imaging operation of outputting an image required to be printed in a case where the first act is recognized, recognizes a second act for an instruction to stop printing the image required to be printed, and causes a printer unit to print the image required to be printed in a case where the second act is not recognized during a predetermined print standby period and instructs the printer unit to stop printing the image required to be printed in a case where the second act is recognized during the print standby period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichiro SONODA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hajime TERAYOKO
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Publication number: 20220375268Abstract: A gesture recognition device that recognizes, based on an image obtained by imaging a person to be imaged with a digital camera having an imaging range changing mechanism for changing an imaging range, a gesture represented by a hand of the person to be imaged includes at least one processor. The at least one processor controls, in a case where a position of a face of the person to be imaged in the image deviates from a predetermined set position, an operation of the imaging range changing mechanism to cause the digital camera to capture a proper face position image with the position of the face as the set position, and determines whether the hand detected from the proper face position image is a right hand or a left hand based on a positional relationship between a position of the detected hand and the set position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichiro SONODA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hajime TERAYOKO
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Publication number: 20220368821Abstract: A CPU provided in an image display device of an image exposure device causes a display unit of the image display device to display a display image for divided exposure, which has a divided gradation value obtained by dividing a gradation value of a recorded image, and sequentially performs a plurality of exposures of the photosensitive recording medium by the display image for divided exposure to perform a divided exposure for recording the recorded image on the photosensitive recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro SONODA
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Publication number: 20220357681Abstract: An information processing method comprising: exposing a correction image displayed on an image display device having a plurality of pixels to a photosensitive recording medium via a limiting member, the limiting member being provided between the image display device and an exposure surface of the photosensitive recording medium and limiting an angle of light emitted from the image display device to the photosensitive recording medium; acquiring recorded image data, which is data of a recorded image recorded on the photosensitive recording medium through the exposure of the correction image; and deriving a correction coefficient K for correcting a pixel value for each pixel of a display image for each pixel of the image display device based on the recorded image data such that the display image including unevenness of which brightness is complementary to unevenness that occur in the recorded image is displayed on the image display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro SONODA
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Patent number: 11490785Abstract: A measurement support device including a head configured to emit measurement auxiliary light, an imaging unit to capture an image of a subject on which a spot is formed by the measurement auxiliary light via an imaging optical system, a measurement unit to measure a position of the spot in the image, and a display control unit to display an indicator figure, and information indicating a trajectory along which the spot moves on the image when an imaging distance of the image is changed, wherein, in a case where an optical axis of the measurement auxiliary light is projected on a plane including an optical axis of the imaging optical system, the head emits the measurement auxiliary light that has an inclination angle, which is not 0 degrees with respect to the optical axis of the imaging optical system, and crosses an angle of view of the imaging optical system.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takeichi Tatsuta, Shinichiro Sonoda, Issei Suzuki
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Patent number: 11475567Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, an image processing program, and a recording medium that stores the program, capable of finding images of different persons captured in the same age. An image is specified as a first image, a user in the image is recognized as a first person, and an age thereof is estimated. An image is specified as a second image, a user in the image is recognized as a second person, and an age thereof is estimated. In a case where the user recognized as the first person and the user recognized as the second person are not the same person and a difference between the age of the user and the age of the user is within a range of a threshold value, the first image and the second image are detected as an image combination.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Matsumoto, Kei Yamaji, Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya Tanaka, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 11455795Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, an image processing program, and a recording medium for the program, which make it possible to understand a unique way of spending time of a certain user at an event. A first attribute obtained from images captured by a first user and a second attribute obtained from images, captured by many second users whose number is larger than the number of the first user, among images of the same event are detected. The first attribute represents a feature of the first user having a unique way of spending time at the event. According to the first attribute, information on products or the like suitable for the first user is notified to the first user.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsuya Matsumoto, Kei Yamaji, Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya Tanaka, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
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Publication number: 20220277374Abstract: There are provided an information suggestion system, an information suggestion method, a program, and a recording medium capable of suggesting, to a user, information on a product matching a hobby and the preference of the user from an image group of the user. In the information suggestion system, the information suggestion method, the program, and the recording medium, an image group acquisition unit acquires an image group of a user, and an image analysis unit detects an attribute of each image. An imaging number count unit counts an imaging number of same-attribute images, and an imaging frequency calculation unit calculates an imaging frequency of the same-attribute images. An imaging purpose estimation unit estimates an imaging purpose of the same-attribute images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichiro SONODA, Nobuya TANAKA, Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Tetsuya MATSUMOTO, Kei YAMAJI
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Patent number: 11419694Abstract: An endoscope system includes a measurement support device and an endoscope. The measurement support device includes a head emitting measurement auxiliary light, an imaging unit capturing an image of a subject on which a spot is formed by the measurement auxiliary light via an imaging optical system, and a processor measuring a position of the spot and displaying an indicator figure. The endoscope includes a memory, an insertion part and an operating part. In a case where the measurement auxiliary light is projected on a plane including an optical axis of the imaging optical system, the measurement auxiliary light has an inclination angle and crosses an angle of view of the imaging optical system. In a case where the indicator figure is displayed in a vicinity of the measured position, the indicator figure is displayed in different aspects according to measurement of the specific region is effective or not.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takeichi Tatsuta, Shinichiro Sonoda, Issei Suzuki
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Patent number: 11361412Abstract: The image exposure device includes an image display device that has a plurality of pixels and radiates light according to a display image represented by the plurality of pixels; a support portion that supports a photosensitive recording medium for recording a recorded image according to the display image in a state in which an exposure surface of the photosensitive recording medium faces the image display device; a louver film that is provided between the image display device and the support portion, and limits an angle of the light radiated from the image display device to the photosensitive recording medium; and a controller that controls the image display device to display the display image in which an image quality of an input image represented by input image data is deteriorated by emphasizing a density difference of a high-frequency component of the input image.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Shinichiro Sonoda
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Patent number: 11361367Abstract: There are provided an information suggestion system, an information suggestion method, a program, and a recording medium capable of suggesting, to a user, information on a product matching a hobby and the preference of the user from an image group of the user. In the information suggestion system, the information suggestion method, the program, and the recording medium, an image group acquisition unit acquires an image group of a user, and an image analysis unit detects an attribute of each image. An imaging number count unit counts an imaging number of same-attribute images, and an imaging frequency calculation unit calculates an imaging frequency of the same-attribute images. An imaging purpose estimation unit estimates an imaging purpose of the same-attribute images.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinichiro Sonoda, Nobuya Tanaka, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Kei Yamaji
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Publication number: 20220171274Abstract: There are provided an image exposure device, an image exposure method, and a program, the image exposure device including: an image display device; a support portion that supports a photosensitive recording medium for recording an image displayed on the image display device in a state in which an exposure surface thereof faces the image display device; a louver film that is provided between the image display device and the support portion and limits an angle of light radiated from the image display device; an image generation unit that generates a display image in which an image quality of a color input image is deteriorated by emphasizing a density difference of a high-frequency component of the input image; and a controller that performs a control for generating an image of an R component, an image of a G component, and an image of a B component from the display image and sequentially displaying each of the image of the R component, the image of the G component, and the image of the B component on the imageType: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Shinichiro SONODA
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Patent number: 11277528Abstract: A mobile type apparatus, that derives, from a distance to a delivery target and a time period required from a start of forming of an image until completion of discharge, a movement speed at which a recording medium becomes a deliverable state at a position at which the recording medium is deliverable to the delivery target, wherein at least a partial period overlaps between a period from a start of forming of the image on the recording medium until completion of discharge of the recording medium, and a period from a start of movement until completion of the movement, and wherein the movement is controlled in accordance with the derived movement speed.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Shinichiro Sonoda
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Patent number: 11194078Abstract: Provided is an antireflection film that is formed by laminating an interlayer, a silver-containing metal layer containing silver, and a dielectric layer, in this order, on a substrate, in which the interlayer is a multilayer film having two or more layers, in which a layer of high refractive index having a relatively high refractive index and a layer of low refractive index having a relatively low refractive index are alternately laminated, and the dielectric layer has a surface to be exposed to air and is a multilayer film having two or more layers including an oxide layer and a fluorocarbon layer which is a self-assembled film that is formed by a silane coupling reaction to the oxide layer in this order.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Seigo Nakamura, Kenichi Umeda, Yuichiro Itai, Shinichiro Sonoda
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Patent number: 11169451Abstract: An image exposure device includes an image display device having pixels that emit light having a plurality of wavelengths; a photosensitive recording medium support portion that supports a photosensitive recording medium for recording an image of the image display device; a collimation portion that is disposed between the image display device and the photosensitive recording medium support portion and makes radiation light including the light having a plurality of wavelengths radiated from the pixels into first transmitted light radiated within a range of a first radiation angle narrower than a radiation angle of the radiation light; and a dichroic filter that is disposed between the collimation portion and the photosensitive recording medium support portion, and makes the first transmitted light including the light having a plurality of wavelengths into second transmitted light radiated within a range of a second radiation angle equal to or smaller than the first radiation angle.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Shinichiro Sonoda, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 11160438Abstract: An endoscope device includes a signal processing unit that processes a captured image signal, which is obtained by imaging a subject through an imaging optical system including an objective lens of an endoscope, to generates captured image, an auxiliary measurement light emitting unit that emits planar auxiliary measurement light from the distal end part, a display control unit that causes a display unit to display the captured image including an intersection line formed in a portion where a plane formed by the auxiliary measurement light intersects the subject. The auxiliary measurement light emitting unit emits the auxiliary measurement light in a state where the plane and an optical axis intersects each light at one specific point on the optical axis of the objective lens. A distance from a distal end part of the objective lens of the one specific point is 5 mm or more and 20 mm or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takeichi Tatsuta, Shinichiro Sonoda, Issei Suzuki
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Patent number: 11019247Abstract: An imaging system that includes a plurality of mobile type apparatus. Each of the plurality of mobile type apparatuses performs, in a case where a preset imaging target and a mobile type apparatus to which a role of an imaging target is assigned are present in an acquired image, a control for forming an image on a recording medium, discharges the recording medium on which the image is formed, to a preset delivery target in a deliverable state, and controls movement of the mobile type apparatus for delivering the recording medium to a delivery target. The plurality of mobile type apparatuses include at least one mobile type apparatus to which the role of the imaging target is assigned, and at least one mobile type apparatus to which a role of a imaging responsibility is assigned.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Hirotoshi Yoshizawa, Yoshihisa Usami, Shinichiro Sonoda, Hajime Terayoko, Erina Ogura, Nobuya Tanaka
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Patent number: 10969696Abstract: Provided is an image exposure device capable of recording a favorable image and capable of decreasing the size of the device. An image exposure device (10) includes an image display device (12) having pixels (13), a photosensitive recording medium support portion (21) that supports a photosensitive recording medium (14) for recording an image of the image display device (12) in a state in which an exposure surface (14A) of the photosensitive recording medium (14) faces the image display device (12), and a transmitted light control portion (16) that is provided between the image display device (12) and the photosensitive recording medium support portion (21) and is formed by laminating three or more layers of transmission members (100) that have a plurality of openings (102) formed therein and transmit only light incident on the openings (102).Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Usami, Shinichiro Sonoda, Hirotoshi Yoshizawa
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Publication number: 20210058542Abstract: An imaging system that includes a plurality of mobile type apparatus. Each of the plurality of mobile type apparatuses performs, in a case where a preset imaging target and a mobile type apparatus to which a role of an imaging target is assigned are present in an acquired image, a control for forming an image on a recording medium, discharges the recording medium on which the image is formed, to a preset delivery target in a deliverable state, and controls movement of the mobile type apparatus for delivering the recording medium to a delivery target. The plurality of mobile type apparatuses include at least one mobile type apparatus to which the role of the imaging target is assigned, and at least one mobile type apparatus to which a role of a imaging responsibility is assigned.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Hirotoshi YOSHIZAWA, Yoshihisa USAMI, Shinichiro SONODA, Hajime TERAYOKO, Erina OGURA, Nobuya TANAKA
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Patent number: 10927446Abstract: This method for producing a transparent optical film includes a film formation step of forming a silver layer and a high standard electrode potential metal layer so as to be laminated on a substrate, the film formation step including a silver deposition step of forming the silver layer, at a thickness of 6 nm or less by vacuum deposition, and a high standard electrode potential metal deposition step of forming the high standard electrode potential metal layer formed of a high standard electrode potential metal having a higher standard electrode potential than that of silver by vacuum deposition, and an alloying step of forming a silver alloy layer by diffusing the high standard electrode potential metal within the silver layer by performing a heating treatment at a temperature of 50° C. or higher and 400° C. or lower.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Seigo Nakamura, Kenichi Umeda, Yuichiro Itai, Shinichiro Sonoda