Patents by Inventor Shogo FUJIWARA

Shogo FUJIWARA 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).

  • Publication number: 20240107226
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of efficiently retrieving a subject generating a specific sound from an image is provided. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup circuit, a CPU, and a memory that stores a program that, when executed by the CPU, causes the image pickup apparatus to function as: detecting a specific sound from a sound acquired by a sound acquisition unit during moving image capturing, judging a direction in which the specific sound comes toward the image pickup apparatus and acquiring information about a sound direction indicating the direction of the specific sound judged, judging a direction in which the image pickup apparatus is facing and acquiring information about an image capturing direction indicating the direction of the image pickup apparatus judged, and performing control to store attribute information, a moving image acquired by the image pickup circuit, and the sound in a storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yudai ITOI, Shogo FUJIWARA, Kenichiro SASAI, Tatsuo NISHINO
  • Publication number: 20240107151
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus capable of easily retrieving desired-state image and sound portions through attribute information is provided. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup circuit, a CPU, and a memory that stores a program that, when executed by the CPU, causes the image pickup apparatus to function as the following units a sound acquisition unit that acquires a sound, a sound recognition unit that recognizes a sound acquired during moving image capturing and detects a specific sound from the sound, an image recognition unit that recognizes a moving image acquired during the moving image capturing and detects a subject from the moving image, and a control unit that calculates an evaluation result by using a score weighted in response to a sound recognition result and an image recognition result and adds the evaluation result to the moving image and the sound as attribute information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kenichiro SASAI, Shogo FUJIWARA, Tatsuo NISHINO, Yudai ITOI
  • Patent number: 11749028
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a positional relationship between a subject and the electronic device, a normalization unit configured to normalize posture information of the subject based on a positional relationship acquired by the acquiring unit and a controlling unit configured to perform control to perform predetermined notification in a case where posture information of the subject that is normalized satisfies a predetermined condition, and control not to perform the predetermined notification in a case where posture information of the subject that is normalized is not the predetermined posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuki Totori, Tomohiro Taguchi, Hideta Nishizawa, Shinya Nakano, Shogo Fujiwara, Hiroaki Kubo
  • Publication number: 20230270188
    Abstract: A garment that includes a right chest panel; a left chest panel; a back panel; and a collar coupled to the right chest panel, the left chest panel, and the back panel. The collar may include a collar zipper controlling access to a collar pocket, the collar zipper extending around at least 80% of an outer circumference of the collar; and a collar-side row of hood-connection zipper teeth positioned in the collar pocket, the collar-side row of hood-connection zipper teeth having a length that is at least 80% of a length of the collar zipper. The garment may also include a removable hood. The removable hood may include a hood-side row of hood-connection zipper teeth, the hood-side row of hood-connection zipper teeth having a length that is substantially equal to the length of the collar-side row of hood-connection zipper teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: KJUS North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Shogo Fujiwara, Amanda Frank, Adam Mueller
  • Publication number: 20230185370
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprising at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an eyeball information acquisition unit configured to acquire eyeball information of a user; an estimation unit configured to estimate a user state based on the eyeball information; an operation process information acquisition unit configured to acquire operation process information that allows to identify operation content of the user; and a storage unit configured to record, in a time series, at least one of the eyeball information and the user state in association with the operation process information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: Shogo Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11409074
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a sight position detection unit configured to detect region of a sight positon to a display unit which displays an object, and a control unit configured to perform control to, in a case where a state where the detected region of the sight position is not moving continues for a first time period, select an object corresponding to the region of the sight position, and in a case where a state where the detected region of the sight position is moving and a direction of movement of the region of the sight position and a direction of movement of an object satisfy a predetermined condition continues for a second time period, select the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shogo Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11385711
    Abstract: An image capturing control apparatus includes: a line-of-sight detection unit detecting a line-of-sight position of a user; a setting unit setting a region, in which specific processing related to image capturing is performed, in accordance with the detected line-of-sight position; and a control unit implementing control such that in a case of a first state, where a change of at least a predetermined amount does not occur in a captured image and an imaging unit, during recording a moving image, a region in which the specific processing is performed based on the line-of-sight position of the user is not set, and that in a case of a second state, which is different from the first state and satisfies a predetermined condition, a region in which the specific processing is performed based on the line-of-sight position of the user, detected by the line-of-sight detection unit, is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shogo Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11240419
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising: a line-of-sight detection unit configured to detect a viewed position of a user; and a control unit configured to perform control such that, 1) in a first operation mode, a first function corresponding to a fact that there is gazing is executed in accordance with a state in which a first condition is satisfied, and 2) in a second operation mode, a second function corresponding to a fact that there is gazing is executed in accordance with a state in which a second condition is satisfied, wherein the first condition is a condition regarding the viewed position representing a fact that the user has been gazing for a first period, the second condition is a condition regarding the viewed position representing a fact that the user has been gazing for a second period longer than the first period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shogo Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20210264143
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a positional relationship between a subject and the electronic device, a normalization unit configured to normalize posture information of the subject based on a positional relationship acquired by the acquiring unit and a controlling unit configured to perform control to perform predetermined notification in a case where posture information of the subject that is normalized satisfies a predetermined condition, and control not to perform the predetermined notification in a case where posture information of the subject that is normalized is not the predetermined posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki Totori, Tomohiro Taguchi, Hideta Nishizawa, Shinya Nakano, Shogo Fujiwara, Hiroaki Kubo
  • Publication number: 20210223860
    Abstract: An image capturing control apparatus includes: a line-of-sight detection unit detecting a line-of-sight position of a user; a setting unit setting a region, in which specific processing related to image capturing is performed, in accordance with the detected line-of-sight position; and a control unit implementing control such that in a case of a first state, where a change of at least a predetermined amount does not occur in a captured image and an imaging unit, during recording a moving image, a region in which the specific processing is performed based on the line-of-sight position of the user is not set, and that in a case of a second state, which is different from the first state and satisfies a predetermined condition, a region in which the specific processing is performed based on the line-of-sight position of the user, detected by the line-of-sight detection unit, is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventor: Shogo Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20210003817
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a sight position detection unit configured to detect region of a sight positon to a display unit which displays an object, and a control unit configured to perform control to, in a case where a state where the detected region of the sight position is not moving continues for a first time period, select an object corresponding to the region of the sight position, and in a case where a state where the detected region of the sight position is moving and a direction of movement of the region of the sight position and a direction of movement of an object satisfy a predetermined condition continues for a second time period, select the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventor: Shogo Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20200382693
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising: a line-of-sight detection unit configured to detect a viewed position of a user; and a control unit configured to perform control such that, 1) in a first operation mode, a first function corresponding to a fact that there is gazing is executed in accordance with a state in which a first condition is satisfied, and 2) in a second operation mode, a second function corresponding to a fact that there is gazing is executed in accordance with a state in which a second condition is satisfied, wherein the first condition is a condition regarding the viewed position representing a fact that the user has been gazing for a first period, the second condition is a condition regarding the viewed position representing a fact that the user has been gazing for a second period longer than the first period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Shogo Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 10619093
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photoluminescent material that emits visible light by irradiation of light, which is a sodalite containing a given amount of a silver atom (excluding a sodalite containing an oxalic acid anion) or a sodalite containing given amounts of a silver atom and a zinc atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: RENGO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouju Sugiyama, Kaoru Yamaguchi, Shinji Fujiki, Minoru Matsukura, Shogo Fujiwara, Fumio Kurosaki, Akio Taniguchi, Junichi Uchita
  • Patent number: 10477109
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus can mount a lens device, which is an external device, on the main body thereof. The main body includes a shake detection unit that detects a shake amount and a power supply fluctuation detection unit that detects a fluctuation in power supply supplied from a power supply unit to the lens device. A frequency calculation unit calculates a driving frequency of the lens device based on the fluctuation in power supply during lens driving. If the driving frequency of the lens device interferes with the driving frequency of the shake detection unit, the system control unit inhibits or restricts a function using the shake detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shogo Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20190153312
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photoluminescent material emitting a visible light by irradiation of light, which is zeolite A comprising silver ion, zinc ion and at least one selected from the group consisting of cesium ion and rubidium ion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: RENGO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouju SUGIYAMA, Toshikazu HANATANI, Kaoru YAMAGUCHI, Shinji FUJIKI, Minoru MATSUKURA, Shogo FUJIWARA, Akio TANIGUCHI, Junichi UCHITA
  • Publication number: 20180376070
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus can mount a lens device, which is an external device, on the main body thereof. The main body includes a shake detection unit that detects a shake amount and a power supply fluctuation detection unit that detects a fluctuation in power supply supplied from a power supply unit to the lens device. A frequency calculation unit calculates a driving frequency of the lens device based on the fluctuation in power supply during lens driving. If the driving frequency of the lens device interferes with the driving frequency of the shake detection unit, the system control unit inhibits or restricts a function using the shake detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventor: Shogo Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20180148642
    Abstract: The present invention provides a photoluminescent material that emits visible light by irradiation of light, which is a sodalite containing a given amount of a silver atom (excluding a sodalite containing an oxalic acid anion) or a sodalite containing given amounts of a silver atom and a zinc atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicants: RENGO CO., LTD., UNION SHOWA K.K., SINANEN ZEOMIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouju SUGIYAMA, Kaoru YAMAGUCHI, Shinji FUJIKI, Minoru MATSUKURA, Shogo FUJIWARA, Fumio KUROSAKI, Akio TANIGUCHI, Junichi UCHITA