Patents by Inventor Shuji Ono

Shuji Ono 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).

  • IMAGING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150156478
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a multifocal main lens having different focal distances for a plurality of regions, an image sensor having a plurality of pixels configured of two-dimensionally arranged photoelectric converting elements, a multifocal lens array having a plurality of microlens groups at different focal distances disposed on an incident plane side of the image sensor, and an image obtaining device which obtains from the image sensor, a plurality of images for each of the focal distances obtained by combining the multifocal main lens and the plurality of microlens groups at different focal distances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventor: Shuji ONO
  • TITLING APPARATUS, A TITLING METHOD, AND A MACHINE READABLE MEDIUM STORING THEREON A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR TITLING
    Publication number: 20150103203
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a titling apparatus which can give a title proper for a user to an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Shuji Ono, Akira Yoda
  • Imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 8994794
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a first light-shielding member formed in a predetermined optical member included in a photographing optical system, the first light-shielding member dividing a pupil region of the photographing optical system into a first region and a second region and a second light-shielding member letting only a light beam passing through the first region enter a first light-receiving element and letting only a light beam passing through the second region enter a second light-receiving element other than the first light-receiving element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Ono
  • Imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 8964110
    Abstract: In the imaging apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, the aperture area ratio between the plurality of regions of the multifocal lens is appropriately configured. Thereby, it is configured such that, when a plurality of images are simultaneously imaged via the plurality of regions using the illumination light source, brightness of the image of the subject at an in-focus distance corresponding to one region of the plurality of regions, the image imaged via the one region, the brightness arising from the illumination light, is substantially equal to brightness of the image of another subject at an in-focus body distance corresponding to another region, the image imaged via the other region except the one region, the brightness arising from the illumination light. Accordingly, the subject at any of the distances does not suffer excess or deficient exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Ono
  • Image capturing module and image capturing apparatus with multiple image capturing systems of multiple wavelength regions
    Patent number: 8953069
    Abstract: A subject image with little blur is provided even when the subject exists in a wide range of distance. An image capturing module includes: a plurality of image capturing systems, each including an optical system and capturing a an image of a subject by light in a wavelength region different from each other to generate a wavelength component signal representing an image of light in the corresponding wavelength region; and an image generating section that combines the wavelength component signals generated by the plurality of image capturing systems thereby generating an image signal representing an image of the subject, where an image capturing system, from among the plurality of image capturing systems, which generates a wavelength component signal having a greater contribution to brightness in the image of the subject includes an optical system having a deeper focal depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Ono
  • Titling apparatus, a titling method, and a machine readable medium storing thereon a computer program for titling
    Patent number: 8953065
    Abstract: A titling apparatus for giving a title to a captured image includes a captured image storing unit, an image capturing time storing unit, an image capturing period judging unit, a period terminology storing unit and a titling unit. A title to a captured image group is determined by using terminology corresponding to a period and a season.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuji Ono, Akira Yoda
  • IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND IMAGING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150015677
    Abstract: An image processing method according to the present invention acquires a first image and second image that are picked up through a single image-taking optical system, that are images after a pupil division, and that have a parallax to each other, and then performs a filtering process for each pixel of the first and second images, using first and second transform filters that correspond to the parallax for the pixel and that are of first and second transform filter groups to be respectively applied to the first and second images for the transform into third and fourth images in which the parallax amount and blur amount of the first and second images have been altered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsutoshi IZAWA, Shuji ONO, Junji HAYASHI, Tomoyuki KAWAI, Takashi AOKI
  • IMAGING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150009395
    Abstract: An imaging device according to one mode of the present invention includes a taking lens formed of two or more physically separated lenses and having a plurality of regions each having an individual focal distance corresponding to a combination of the two more lenses, an image pickup element having a plurality of light-receiving sensors provided to correspond to the plurality of regions, the plurality of light-receiving sensors each selectively receiving a light beam passing through any of the plurality of regions, and an image generating unit which generates an image of a subject from an imaging signal outputted from the image pickup element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: SHUJI ONO
  • IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD
    Publication number: 20150009369
    Abstract: In an imaging method according to the present invention, in an imaging device including a taking lens having a plurality of regions each with an independent characteristic and an image pickup element having a plurality of light-receiving sensors provided so as to correspond to the plurality or regions, the plurality of light-receiving sensors performing pupil division of a light beam passing through any of the plurality of regions for selective light-receiving, from an imaging signal from a light-receiving sensor corresponding to one region of the plurality of regions, an image corresponding to the one region is generated. When the generated image is corrected, an influence of a light beam passing through a region other than the one region is removed from the image generated so as to correspond to the one region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: SHUJI ONO
  • Stereoscopic image display control apparatus, and method and program for controlling operation of same
    Patent number: 8878902
    Abstract: It is so arranged that margins will not be produced in an image compositing area. Specifically, a user sets an amount of parallax. A stereoscopic image is displayed in an image compositing area and the stereoscopic image is adjusted to as to take on the set amount of parallax. It is determined whether margins will be produced within the image compositing area owing to the adjustment of amount of parallax. If margins will be produced, the stereoscopic image is enlarged in size to such an extent that margins will not be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Yamaji, Atsushi Misawa, Shuji Ono
  • IMAGING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140267825
    Abstract: In the imaging apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, the aperture area ratio between the plurality of regions of the multifocal lens is appropriately configured. Thereby, it is configured such that, when a plurality of images are simultaneously imaged via the plurality of regions using the illumination light source, brightness of the image of the subject at an in-focus distance corresponding to one region of the plurality of regions, the image imaged via the one region, the brightness arising from the illumination light, is substantially equal to brightness of the image of another subject at an in-focus body distance corresponding to another region, the image imaged via the other region except the one region, the brightness arising from the illumination light. Accordingly, the subject at any of the distances does not suffer excess or deficient exposure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji ONO
  • Imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 8823858
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image generating unit obtaining a first imaging signal or a second imaging signal from a first light-receiving element group or a second light-receiving element group of an image pickup device, respectively and generating a first image or a second image, and the first light-receiving element group and the second light-receiving element group of the image pickup device are configured to obtain a first image and a second image with different weights according to a first characteristic and a second characteristic, respectively, of a photographing optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Ono
  • IMAGING METHOD
    Publication number: 20140232928
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is an imaging method using a multifocal lens having a plurality of regions, the plurality of regions having different focal lengths, and the imaging method includes a focusing state control step of controlling a focusing state of the multifocal lens, and an imaging step of obtaining an image of a subject in the controlled focusing state. In the focusing state control step, the focusing state is controlled so that a main subject is focused via a region with a shortest required focusing time among the plurality of regions in response to a picture taking instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji ONO
  • STEREOSCOPIC ENDOSCOPE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140210945
    Abstract: Provided is a stereoscopic endoscope device enabling precise observation based on a 3D-image and observation of a wide field of view range based on a 2D-image and enabling the change of the field of view range according to the situation with a simple structure without increasing the size of an imaging unit or complicating the configuration. An imaging unit 50 disposed in a distal portion of a stereoscopic endoscope includes a pair of left and right imaging units 50L, 50R that capture a parallax image of a subject of a part of interest. The left and the right imaging unit 50L, 50R include a left and a right imaging optical system 60L, 60R, which form a subject image, and reflecting mirrors 302L and 302R located on the rear end sides of the left and the right imaging optical system 60L, 60R, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki MORIZUMI, Shuji ONO, Seiichi WATANABE
  • Lens apparatus and image capturing apparatus
    Patent number: 8780450
    Abstract: Provided is a lens apparatus in which a plurality of lenses are formed, including: a housing filled with a first liquid and a second liquid that do not mix with each other; a partition to divide the inside of the housing into a plurality of regions, each of the regions being filled with one of the first liquid and the second liquid; and a pressure control section that controls the internal pressure of the region filled with the first liquid, where the partition is provided with a plurality of openings, in which a plurality of lenses having different characteristics from each other are formed by the interface between the first liquid and the second liquid, and the regions inside the housing filled with the first liquid are linked to each other so that the first liquid can move therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Ono
  • IMAGING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140176681
    Abstract: In an imaging apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, the light-shielding member performing light shielding so that the light beam passing through the second region does not enter the first light-receiving element is provided only to the first light-receiving element. That is, no light-shielding member is provided to the second light-receiving element. Therefore, the number and types of light-shielding members can be reduced, and pupil division can be performed with a simple structure. Also, various products can be easily supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji ONO
  • IMAGING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140168498
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image generating unit obtaining a first imaging signal or a second imaging signal from a first light-receiving element group or a second light-receiving element group of an image pickup device, respectively and generating a first image or a second image, and the first light-receiving element group and the second light-receiving element group of the image pickup device are configured to obtain a first image and a second image with different weights according to a first characteristic and a second characteristic, respectively, of a photographing optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji ONO
  • IMAGING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140152779
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a first light-shielding member formed in a predetermined optical member included in a photographing optical system, the first light-shielding member dividing a pupil region of the photographing optical system into a first region and a second region and a second light-shielding member letting only a light beam passing through the first region enter a first light-receiving element and letting only a light beam passing through the second region enter a second light-receiving element other than the first light-receiving element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji ONO
  • IMAGING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140139645
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor having a plurality of light receiving elements arranged therein; a light shielding member disposed between an imaging optical system and the image sensor, the light shielding member configured to make only a light flux, which has passed through a predetermined area of the imaging optical system, incident on a first light receiving element which is a part of the plurality of light receiving elements; and an image generation device configured to generate an image of a subject from an imaging signal of the first light receiving element, in which the light shielding member is a plate-shaped member having a first light shielding material configured to shield a light flux, which has passed through an area other than the predetermined area, formed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji ONO
  • Stereoscopic image pasting system, and method and program for controlling operation of same
    Patent number: 8687876
    Abstract: It is arranged so that stereoscopic images will not overlap one another. A stereoscopic image to be pasted in a free-layout electronic album is selected. The amount of parallax of the stereoscopic image to be pasted in this electronic album is set. When this is done, the selected stereoscopic image is enlarged or reduced in size so as to take on the set amount of parallax. Automatic layout for pasting enlarged or reduced stereoscopic images on each page of the electronic album in such a manner that these stereoscopic images will not overlap one another is carried out. The result of the layout is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Yamaji, Atsushi Misawa, Shuji Ono