Patents by Inventor Shinpei Fukumoto
Shinpei Fukumoto 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: 8488840Abstract: A clipping processing portion is provided with: a subject detection portion that detects a main subject and a sub-subject from an input image; a degree-of-relationship calculation portion that calculates the degree of relationship between the main subject and the sub-subject; a clip region setting portion that sets a clip region based on the positions of the main subject and the sub-subject in the input image and the degree of relationship; a clipping portion that clips the clip region from the input image. The clip region setting portion sets the clip region so as to include the main subject and the sub-subject having the high degree of relationship thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinpei Fukumoto, Satoru Takeuchi, Kazuhiro Kojima, Norikazu Tsunekawa
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Publication number: 20120287308Abstract: Aan electronic device includes: a focus degree map generation portion that generates a focus degree map indicating a focus degree in each position on an input image; an output image generation portion that performs image processing corresponding to the focus degree map on the input image to generate an output image; and a record control portion that sets the input image or the output image at a record target image and that records the record target image and the focus degree map in a recording medium such that the record target image and the focus degree map are associated with each other or that records the record target image in the recording medium such that the focus degree map is embedded in the record target image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro KOJIMA, Haruo HATANAKA, Shinpei FUKUMOTO
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Publication number: 20120147150Abstract: Electronic equipment is equipped with a distance information generating portion that generates distance information of a subject group. The distance information generating portion includes a first distance detecting portion that detects a distance of the subject group based on a plurality of input images obtained by simultaneously photographing the subject group from different visual points, a second distance detecting portion that detects a distance of the subject group by a detection method different from the detection method of the first distance detecting portion, and a combining portion that generates the distance information based on a detection result of the first distance detecting portion and a detection-result of the second distance detecting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro KOJIMA, Shinpei FUKUMOTO
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Publication number: 20120105657Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a region setting portion that sets a clipping region as an image region in each input image based on image data of an input image sequence consisting of a plurality of input images, a clipping process portion that extracts an image within the clipping region as a clipped image from each of a plurality of target input images included in the plurality of input images, and an image combining portion that arranges and combines a plurality of clipped images that are extracted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro YOKOHATA, Haruo HATANAKA, Shinpei FUKUMOTO
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Publication number: 20120105590Abstract: Electronic equipment includes a target output image generating portion that generates a target output image by changing a depth of field of a target input image by image processing, a monitor that displays on a display screen a distance histogram indicating a distribution of distance between an object at each position in the target input image and an apparatus that photographed the target input image, and displays on the display screen a selection index that is movable along a distance axis in the distance histogram, and a depth of field setting portion that sets a depth of field of the target output image based on a position of the selection index determined by an operation for moving the selection index along the distance axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinpei FUKUMOTO, Akihiko YAMADA, Kanichi KOYAMA, Yoshiyuki Tsuda
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Patent number: 7893964Abstract: In an imaging device that generates a correction image by performing, on the basis of shake information on a target image, shake correction processing on the target image when a correction instruction is issued by a user while the target image is displayed on a display unit, and that displays the corrected image on the display unit, preceding correction performs the shake correction processing before the issuing of the correction instruction. To suppress an increase in power consumption, due to the preceding correction, however, the preceding correction is not performed when the amount of camera shake of a target image is determined to be too small by referring to the amount of shake of a target image. Moreover, the frequency of the issuing of correction instructions for a target image in the past is referenced, and in a case where the frequency is low, the preceding correction is not performed.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2007Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruo Hatanaka, Hideto Fujita, Shinpei Fukumoto
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Patent number: 7787018Abstract: An amplification signal of a difference signal between a sensor signal and an offset signal to be variably set is converted into a digital signal. The sensor signal is in accordance with shake of an imaging device and outputted from a sensor. The first digital signal is obtained while a conversion ratio between the difference signal and the digital signal is set to a first conversion ratio. The second digital signal is obtained while the conversion ratio is set to a second conversion ratio. In relation to a certain difference signal, the value of the second digital signal is smaller than that of the first signal. The offset signal is updated based on the second digital signal. The shake information is generated based on the first digital signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2007Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruo Hatanaka, Shinpei Fukumoto, Hideto Fujita, Haruhiko Murata
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Publication number: 20100103192Abstract: A clipping processing portion is provided with: a subject detection portion that detects a main subject and a sub-subject from an input image; a degree-of-relationship calculation portion that calculates the degree of relationship between the main subject and the sub-subject; a clip region setting portion that sets a clip region based on the positions of the main subject and the sub-subject in the input image and the degree of relationship; a clipping portion that clips the clip region from the input image. The clip region setting portion sets the clip region so as to include the main subject and the sub-subject having the high degree of relationship thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinpei Fukumoto, Satoru Takeuchi, Kazuhiro Kojima, Norikazu Tsunekawa
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Patent number: 7574122Abstract: An image stabilizing device has an image restoration processor configured to perform image restoration process for stabilizing hand movement included in an input image by using an image restoration filter created based on hand movement information, and an edge emphasizing processor configured to perform edge emphasizing process for emphasizing an edge of the input image. The image stabilizing device has a stabilization mode determiner configured to determine an image stabilization mode for stabilizing the input image based on a size of the hand movement created by the hand movement information. The image stabilization mode includes a first mode for performing the image restoration process, a second mode for performing the edge emphasizing process, and a third mode for performing none of the image restoration process and the edge emphasizing process.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2006Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinpei Fukumoto, Hiroshi Kano, Haruo Hatanaka, Yutaka Kawamoto
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Patent number: 7536090Abstract: A hand shake blur signal reduction means for reducing the hand shake blur signal using given reduction ratio in the horizontal direction and reduction ratio in the vertical direction; an image restoration filter generating means for generating the image restoration filter based on the hand shake blur signal reduced by the hand shake blur signal reduction means; an image reduction means for reducing the hand shake blur image at the reduction ratio same as the reduction ratios in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction used in reducing the hand shake blur signal in the hand shake blur signal reduction means; an image restoration means for performing image restoration on the hand shake blur image reduced by the image reduction means using the image restoration filter generated by the image restoration filter generating means; and an image enlargement means for generating the restored image for the hand shake blur image by enlarging the restored image restored by the image restoration means are arrangType: GrantFiled: September 20, 2006Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinpei Fukumoto, Hiroshi Kano, Hideto Fujita, Haruo Hatanaka
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Patent number: 7529474Abstract: A hand shake blur detecting apparatus for detecting hand shake blur of an imaging device based on an output signal of a hand shake blur sensor for detecting the hand shake blur of the imaging device is provided, the hand shake blur detecting apparatus including a high pass filter calculating part for removing low frequency component from the output signal of the hand shake blur sensor; an inverse high pass filter calculating part, having an inverse transfer function of a transfer function of the high pass filter calculating part, for filtering an output signal of the high pass filter calculating part; an offset value calculating part for calculating the offset value based on an output data of the inverse high pass filter calculating part; and an offset value subtracting part for subtracting the offset value calculated by the offset value calculating part from the output data of the inverse high pass filter calculating part.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2006Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruo Hatanaka, Shinpei Fukumoto
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Publication number: 20080170124Abstract: A blur detection apparatus that detects blur contained in a first image acquired by shooting by an image sensor based on the output of the image sensor has a blur information creator adapted to create blur information reflecting the blur based on the first image and a second image shot with an exposure time shorter than the exposure time of the first image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2008Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruo HATANAKA, Shinpei Fukumoto
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Publication number: 20080136926Abstract: An amplification signal of a difference signal between a sensor signal and an offset signal to be variably set is converted into a digital signal. The sensor signal is in accordance with shake of an imaging device and outputted from a sensor. The first digital signal is obtained while a conversion ratio between the difference signal and the digital signal is set to a first conversion ratio. The second digital signal is obtained while the conversion ratio is set to a second conversion ratio. In relation to a certain difference signal, the value of the second digital signal is smaller than that of the first signal. The offset signal is updated based on the second digital signal. The shake information is generated based on the first digital signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruo HATANAKA, Shinpei Fukumoto, Hideto Fujita, Haruhiko Murata
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Publication number: 20080136931Abstract: In an imaging device that generates a correction image by performing, on the basis of shake information on a target image, shake correction processing on the target image when a correction instruction is issued by a user while the target image is displayed on a display unit, and that displays the corrected image on the display unit, preceding correction performs the shake correction processing before the issuing of the correction instruction. To suppress an increase in power consumption, due to the preceding correction, however, the preceding correction is not performed when the amount of camera shake of a target image is determined to be too small by referring to the amount of shake of a target image. Moreover, the frequency of the issuing of correction instructions for a target image in the past is referenced, and in a case where the frequency is low, the preceding correction is not performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Haruo HATANAKA, Hideto FUJITA, Shinpei FUKUMOTO
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Publication number: 20070065126Abstract: A hand shake blur detecting apparatus for detecting hand shake blur of an imaging device based on an output signal of a hand shake blur sensor for detecting the hand shake blur of the imaging device is provided, the hand shake blur detecting apparatus including a high pass filter calculating means for removing low frequency component from the output signal of the hand shake blur sensor; an inverse high pass filter calculating means for performing on the output signal of the high pass filter calculating means, a filter calculation of an inverse transfer function of the high pass filter; an offset value calculating means for calculating the offset value based on the output data of the inverse high pass filter calculating means; and an offset value subtracting means for subtracting the offset value calculated by the offset calculating means from the output data of the inverse high pass filter calculating means.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruo Hatanaka, Shinpei Fukumoto
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Publication number: 20070065130Abstract: A hand shake blur signal reduction means for reducing the hand shake blur signal using given reduction ratio in the horizontal direction and reduction ratio in the vertical direction; an image restoration filter generating means for generating the image restoration filter based on the hand shake blur signal reduced by the hand shake blur signal reduction means; an image reduction means for reducing the hand shake blur image at the reduction ratio same as the reduction ratios in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction used in reducing the hand shake blur signal in the hand shake blur signal reduction means; an image restoration means for performing image restoration on the hand shake blur image reduced by the image reduction means using the image restoration filter generated by the image restoration filter generating means; and an image enlargement means for generating the restored image for the hand shake blur image by enlarging the restored image restored by the image restoration means are arrangType: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinpei Fukumoto, Hiroshi Kano, Hideto Fujita, Haruo Hatanaka
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Publication number: 20060291841Abstract: An image stabilizing device has an image restoration processor configured to perform image restoration process for stabilizing hand movement included in an input image by using an image restoration filter created based on hand movement information, and an edge emphasizing processor configured to perform edge emphasizing process for emphasizing an edge of the input image. The image stabilizing device has a stabilization mode determiner configured to determine an image stabilization mode for stabilizing the input image based on a size of the hand movement created by the hand movement information. The image stabilization mode includes a first mode for performing the image restoration process, a second mode for performing the edge emphasizing process, and a third mode for performing none of the image restoration process and the edge emphasizing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2006Publication date: December 28, 2006Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinpei Fukumoto, Hiroshi Kano, Haruo Hatanaka, Yutaka Kawamoto
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Publication number: 20040184040Abstract: In a shape measuring device comprising a measuring head for measuring the shape of an object to be measured at a plurality of measuring positions on a guide rail while moving along the guide rail, the guide rail is in a U shape, and the measuring head makes measurement for measuring the shape of the object to be measured which is arranged inside the U-shaped guide rail at the plurality of measuring positions on the guide rail while moving along the guide rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventors: Hideto Fujita, Hiroshi Kano, Masayuki Tejima, Hiroaki Yoshida, Shinpei Fukumoto
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Patent number: 6633326Abstract: The invention provides a device for capturing images three-dimensionally which comprises a rail 2 extending around a three-dimensional object images of which are to be captured, an image pickup head 3 movable along the rail 2, a signal cable 8 interconnecting a head terminal 81 on the head 3 and a signal relay terminal 82 on the rail 2, an auxiliary cable 83 interconnecting a head-side connecting point 85 on the head 3 and a rail-side connecting point 84 on the rail 2, and a connecting member 9 having the signal cable 8 and the auxiliary cable 83 slidably reeved therearound for turning back the cables in directions opposite to each other. The signal cable 8 extends from the head terminal 81 in one direction, is turned back on the connecting member 9 and extends to the signal relay terminal 82, while the auxiliary cable 83 extends from the head-side connecting point 85 in the opposite direction, is turned back on the connecting member 9 and extends to the rail-side connecting point 84.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2001Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinpei Fukumoto, Hiroshi Kano, Hideto Fujita, Hiroaki Yoshida
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Publication number: 20020039134Abstract: The invention provides a device for capturing images three-dimensionally which comprises a rail 2 extending around a three-dimensional object images of which are to be captured, an image pickup head 3 movable along the rail 2, a signal cable 8 interconnecting a head terminal 81 on the head 3 and a signal relay terminal 82 on the rail 2, an auxiliary cable 83 interconnecting a head-side connecting point 85 on the head 3 and a rail-side connecting point 84 on the rail 2, and a connecting member 9 having the signal cable 8 and the auxiliary cable 83 slidably reeved therearound for turning back the cables in directions opposite to each other. The signal cable 8 extends from the head terminal 81 in one direction, is turned back on the connecting member 9 and extends to the signal relay terminal 82, while the auxiliary cable 83 extends from the head-side connecting point 85 in the opposite direction, is turned back on the connecting member 9 and extends to the rail-side connecting point 84.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2001Publication date: April 4, 2002Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinpei Fukumoto, Hiroshi Kano, Hideto Fujita, Hiroaki Yoshida