Patents by Inventor Shinsaku Watanabe
Shinsaku Watanabe 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: 20240411210Abstract: An accessory that is attached to and detachable from an attachment portion provided to an electronic apparatus includes an engagement portion configured to engage the accessory with the attachment portion to hold the accessory in a case where the accessory disposed at a first position relative to the attachment portion is rotated to a second position in a first direction, and a plurality of contacts arranged in the first direction and connectable to corresponding terminals among a plurality of terminals arranged in the first direction and provided to the attachment portion at the second position. An interval angle between adjacent contacts among the plurality of contacts is larger than a rotational angle of the accessory from the first position to the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventor: SHINSAKU WATANABE
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Patent number: 12155962Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which reduces variations in volume of voice data recorded by a voice memo function without increasing the number of components therein. The image pickup apparatus, having a first and a second display part, determines a display destination of image data according to a detection result of an eye approach detection part, and performs synthesis processing of adding voice data recorded by a sound collecting member to the image data, wherein in a case where user's eye approach is detected by the eye approach detection part and the image data is displayed on the second display part, when voice recording is started by a user operation, a first sound collecting sensitivity adjustment process of adjusting a sound collecting sensitivity of the sound collecting member is performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shinsaku Watanabe
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Patent number: 12052485Abstract: In an electronic apparatus using the Molded Interconnect Device technology, a circuit member includes a fastened portion, to which the fastening member is fixed, and a plurality of convex portions arranged in an approximately circular shape around the fastened portion as a center. Each of the plurality of convex portions has a first contact pattern. A substrate has a hole portion into which the fastening member is inserted. The substrate has a plurality of second contact patterns arranged in an approximately circular shape on the substrate around the hole portion as a center so that each of the second contact patterns faces a corresponding one of the first contact patterns. The first contact patterns and the second contact patterns are brought into contact with each other by fixing the fastening member to the fastened portion through the hole portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinsaku Watanabe
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Patent number: 12040133Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a control apparatus having a main body, a rotatable member rotatably supported by the main body, a magneto rheological fluid provided between the main body and the rotatable member, and a magnetic field generator configured to apply a magnetic field to the magneto rheological fluid, a plurality of rotatable operation members, and an operational feeling transmitter configured to transmit an operational feeling of the control apparatus to the plurality of rotatable operation members. When a switching member changes a transmission state of the operational feeling transmitter, a rotatable operation member to be used is selected from the plurality of rotatable operation members.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Yoshida, Hideki Dobashi, Shinsaku Watanabe, Shingo Iwatani
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Publication number: 20230179848Abstract: In an electronic apparatus using the Molded Interconnect Device technology, a circuit member includes a fastened portion, to which the fastening member is fixed, and a plurality of convex portions arranged in an approximately circular shape around the fastened portion as a center. Each of the plurality of convex portions has a first contact pattern. A substrate has a hole portion into which the fastening member is inserted. The substrate has a plurality of second contact patterns arranged in an approximately circular shape on the substrate around the hole portion as a center so that each of the second contact patterns faces a corresponding one of the first contact patterns. The first contact patterns and the second contact patterns are brought into contact with each other by fixing the fastening member to the fastened portion through the hole portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventor: Shinsaku Watanabe
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Patent number: 11605511Abstract: A control apparatus includes a main body unit, a plurality of moving members each of which is movably supported by the main body unit, a magneto rheological fluid provided between the main body unit and each of the plurality of moving members or between each of the plurality of moving members, and one magnetic field generator configured to apply a magnetic field to the magneto rheological fluid.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideki Dobashi, Takashi Yoshida, Shinsaku Watanabe, Shingo Iwatani
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Publication number: 20220329752Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which reduces variations in volume of voice data recorded by a voice memo function without increasing the number of components therein. The image pickup apparatus, having a first and a second display part, determines a display destination of image data according to a detection result of an eye approach detection part, and performs synthesis processing of adding voice data recorded by a sound collecting member to the image data, wherein in a case where user's eye approach is detected by the eye approach detection part and the image data is displayed on the second display part, when voice recording is started by a user operation, a first sound collecting sensitivity adjustment process of adjusting a sound collecting sensitivity of the sound collecting member is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventor: Shinsaku Watanabe
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Publication number: 20210407719Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a control apparatus having a main body, a rotatable member rotatably supported by the main body, a magneto rheological fluid provided between the main body and the rotatable member, and a magnetic field generator configured to apply a magnetic field to the magneto rheological fluid, a plurality of rotatable operation members, and an operational feeling transmitter configured to transmit an operational feeling of the control apparatus to the plurality of rotatable operation members. When a switching member changes a transmission state of the operational feeling transmitter, a rotatable operation member to be used is selected from the plurality of rotatable operation members.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Takashi Yoshida, Hideki Dobashi, Shinsaku Watanabe, Shingo Iwatani
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Publication number: 20210407744Abstract: A control apparatus includes a main body unit, a plurality of moving members each of which is movably supported by the main body unit, a magneto rheological fluid provided between the main body unit and each of the plurality of moving members or between each of the plurality of moving members, and one magnetic field generator configured to apply a magnetic field to the magneto rheological fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Hideki Dobashi, Takashi Yoshida, Shinsaku Watanabe, Shingo Iwatani
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Patent number: 9380696Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board having a copper foil character with good visibility and without copper foil pattern peeling. The flexible printed circuit board has a base material having optical transparency, a wiring pattern formed on one surface of the base material; a first opaque cover lay film covering a surface of the wiring pattern, a character formed on the other surface of the base material; and a second opaque cover lay film covering a surface of the character. The first opaque cover lay film has an opening portion is formed therein, and the character is formed so as to be visually recognizable through the opening portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinsaku Watanabe
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Publication number: 20140174796Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board having a copper foil character with good visibility and without copper foil pattern peeling. The flexible printed circuit board has a base material having optical transparency, a wiring pattern formed on one surface of the base material; a first opaque cover lay film covering a surface of the wiring pattern, a character formed on the other surface of the base material; and a second opaque cover lay film covering a surface of the character. The first opaque cover lay film has an opening portion is formed therein, and the character is formed so as to be visually recognizable through the opening portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shinsaku Watanabe