Patents by Inventor Takayuki Sakanaba

Takayuki Sakanaba 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).

  • Patent number: 9549122
    Abstract: A digital camera includes an image sensor unit, a display that displays an image photographed by the image sensor unit, and a photographing guide generating unit that displays a photographing guide on the display when the image sensor unit obtains a stereo image or a panoramic image. The photographing guide generating unit displays, on the display as the photographing guide, an aiming mark that displays a fixed point positioned substantially at the center of the display and a guide mark that is a fixed point in the image photographed by the image sensor unit and has a length necessary for the stereo image or the panoramic image in a moving direction of the digital camera on a screen. Then, it is possible to provide an imaging apparatus capable of stably moving the imaging apparatus upon photographing a panoramic picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Sakanaba
  • Patent number: 9179069
    Abstract: A photographing device includes a display unit, a movement detection unit and a display control unit. The display unit displays a preview image of being a target to photograph. The movement detection unit detects the preview image being moving from status at which the preview has been photographed as a reference photographed image. The display control unit displays a reference line on the preview image. The reference line has been set in the reference photographed image. The display control unit changes a display position and a direction of the reference line in the display unit based on a detected result by the movement detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: LENOVO INNOVATIONS LIMITED (HONG KONG)
    Inventors: Takashi Moriyama, Takayuki Sakanaba
  • Publication number: 20140313131
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which enables a pointer to move a long distance on a screen at a time is provided. The present invention comprises an operation means equipped with a plurality of keys, a display means which displays a pointer for indicating a position on a screen, and a control means which divides at least part of the screen of the display means into a plurality of areas corresponding to plurality of keys, and when either key among plurality of keys is selected in order to move the pointer, moves the pointer to the area corresponding to the selected key and makes a display means perform a display highlighting the pointer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki SAKANABA
  • Publication number: 20130314493
    Abstract: A digital camera includes an image sensor unit, a display that displays an image photographed by the image sensor unit, and a photographing guide generating unit that displays a photographing guide on the display when the image sensor unit obtains a stereo image or a panoramic image. The photographing guide generating unit displays, on the display as the photographing guide, an aiming mark that displays a fixed point positioned substantially at the center of the display and a guide mark that is a fixed point in the image photographed by the image sensor unit and has a length necessary for the stereo image or the panoramic image in a moving direction of the digital camera on a screen. Then, it is possible to provide an imaging apparatus capable of stably moving the imaging apparatus upon photographing a panoramic picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CASIO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takayuki Sakanaba
  • Publication number: 20130188064
    Abstract: Even when image data in which a top-bottom orientation has been recorded is transmitted to equipment that is provided outside a photographing apparatus and does not support an image rotation function, an image can be displayed in an appropriate top-bottom orientation. A photographing apparatus includes a photographing unit; an addition unit which adds data indicating a top-bottom orientation at the time of photography to image data of an image captured using the photographing unit and stores resultant image data, a transmission unit which transmits the image data to external equipment; and an editing unit which rotates the top-bottom orientation of the image corresponding to the image data prior to transmitting the image data to the external equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Inventor: Takayuki Sakanaba
  • Publication number: 20110058015
    Abstract: To provide are a photographing device, a portable information processing terminal, a monitor display method for the photographing device, and a program, which can easily perform a panoramic photographing by simplifying a monitor display figure to support photographing of a panoramic image. Monitor means 41, movement detection means 42, and monitor control means 43 are included. The monitor means 41 displays an image obtained through the lens 44 in a screen as a preview image. The movement detection means 42 detects a movement of a photographing area from a position at which the image in the photographing area displayed as the preview image has been photographed as a reference photographed image and outputs the detected result as a movement detection signal. The monitor control means 43 makes the monitor means 41 display a predetermined reference line 46 set in an area including the outline of the reference photographed image together with the preview image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventors: Takashi Moriyama, Takayuki Sakanaba
  • Publication number: 20100257489
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which enables a pointer to move a long distance on a screen at a time is provided. The present invention comprises an operation means equipped with a plurality of keys, a display means which displays a pointer for indicating a position on a screen, and a control means which divides at least part of the screen of the display means into a plurality of areas corresponding to plurality of keys, and when either key among plurality of keys is selected in order to move the pointer, moves the pointer to the area corresponding to the selected key and makes a display means perform a display highlighting the pointer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventor: Takayuki Sakanaba
  • Patent number: 7376423
    Abstract: When an operational mode of a mobile terminal is set to a memory mode, the location information of an area of a base station as a contacted party is registered. When the operational mode of a mobile terminal is set to a notification mode, a determination is made whether the base station as a contacted party is a base station in an unregistered area which is not registered into the storage means. Then, when the contacted party is the base station in the unregistered area, any deviation from an activity range is sent to a registered contact. This can automatically transmit any deviation from the normal activity range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Sakanaba
  • Publication number: 20040203769
    Abstract: When an operational mode of a mobile terminal is set to a memory mode, the location information of an area of a base station as a contacted party is registered. When the operational mode of a mobile terminal is set to a notification mode, a determination is made whether the base station as a contacted party is a base station in an unregistered area which is not registered into the storage means. Then, when the contacted party is the base station in the unregistered area, any deviation from an activity range is sent to a registered contact. This can automatically transmit any deviation from the normal activity range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Sakanaba