Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Hirama

Tomohiro Hirama 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: 20240115719
    Abstract: Compounds or salts thereof represented by formula (I): wherein X indicates a leaving group, Y indicates an affinity peptide having a binding region in a CH2 domain in an immunoglobulin unit comprising two heavy chains and two light chains, M indicates a trivalent group linking the carbon atom in C?O adjacent to M and the carbon atom in C?W via a main chain portion consisting of 3 to 5 carbon atoms, O indicates an oxygen atom, S indicates a sulfur atom, W indicates an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, N3 indicates an azide group, La indicates a bond or a divalent group, and Lb indicates a bond or a divalent group; and antibodies or salts thereof which can be prepared using such a compound or salt thereof, are useful for controlling the bonding ratio of an antibody and a modifying group within a desired range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Tomohiro FUJII, Kei YAMADA, Yutaka MATSUDA, Ryusuke HIRAMA, Noriko HATADA, Naoko ARASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240036438
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises: an operation member used to move a position of focus lens included in an attached optical system; a recording unit that records the position of the focus lens as an index value in a memory in association with information of the attached optical system including the focus lens in response to a registration instruction; an acquisition unit that acquires information for identifying the attached optical system; a readout unit that, if there is an index value recorded in association with the information of the attached optical system corresponding to the information acquired by the acquisition unit, reads out the index value from the memory; and a control unit that controls a display device to display the read index value and a current position of the focus lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventor: Tomohiro HIRAMA
  • Publication number: 20230281776
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit for acquiring an image obtained by an image capturing apparatus including an image sensor for capturing a light beam from a subject through an optical lens, and a generation unit for generating first subject distance information indicating a distance from the image capturing apparatus to the subject based on information corresponding to an entrance pupil position of the optical lens used to capture the image, a focus position, and second subject distance information indicating a distance from the image sensor to the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: TOMOHIRO HIRAMA, TAKUMI TOSAKI
  • Patent number: 11431904
    Abstract: An image blur correction apparatus comprises an obtainment unit configured to obtain shake information; a plurality of image blur correction amount calculation units including a first image blur correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate image blur correction amounts that respectively correspond to partial images included among a plurality of continuous images, and a second image blur correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate image blur correction amounts that respectively correspond to partial images included among the plurality of continuous images with use of a method different from a method used by the first correction amount calculation unit; and control unit configured to control the plurality of image blur correction amount calculation units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Hirama
  • Patent number: 11361465
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises an angular velocity detection sensor that detects an angular velocity, an acceleration detection sensor that detects an acceleration, a motion vector detection unit that detects a motion vector on the basis of an image captured by the image capturing apparatus; and a calculation unit that calculates an orientation angle of the image capturing apparatus on the basis of a detection value from the angular velocity detection sensor, a detection value from the acceleration detection sensor, and a detection value from the motion vector detection unit, wherein the calculation unit corrects an output of the angular velocity detection sensor using the detection value obtained by the motion vector detection unit, and calculates an orientation angle of the image capturing apparatus on the basis of the corrected value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Hirama
  • Publication number: 20220070377
    Abstract: An image blur correction apparatus comprises an obtainment unit configured to obtain shake information; a plurality of image blur correction amount calculation units including a first image blur correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate image blur correction amounts that respectively correspond to partial images included among a plurality of continuous images, and a second image blur correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate image blur correction amounts that respectively correspond to partial images included among the plurality of continuous images with use of a method different from a method used by the first correction amount calculation unit; and control unit configured to control the plurality of image blur correction amount calculation units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Tomohiro Hirama
  • Patent number: 11190694
    Abstract: An image stabilization apparatus comprises a calculation unit configured to, based on a detection result of shake detection unit for detecting a shake of an image capturing apparatus, calculates an image blur correction amount for correcting an image blur by changing a relative position of a subject image and the image capturing element, wherein the calculation unit, based on information of an imaging lens that is used when capturing a captured image, calculates the image blur correction amount at a different scaling factor for each of a plurality of axes of a two-dimensional plane of the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Hirama, Hidetaka Uemura, Michinori Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20210058553
    Abstract: An image stabilization apparatus comprises a calculation unit configured to, based on a detection result of shake detection unit for detecting a shake of an image capturing apparatus, calculates an image blur correction amount for correcting an image blur by changing a relative position of a subject image and the image capturing element, wherein the calculation unit, based on information of an imaging lens that is used when capturing a captured image, calculates the image blur correction amount at a different scaling factor for each of a plurality of axes of a two-dimensional plane of the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohiro Hirama, Hidetaka Uemura, Michinori Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20200342618
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises an angular velocity detection sensor that detects an angular velocity, an acceleration detection sensor that detects an acceleration, a motion vector detection unit that detects a motion vector on the basis of an image captured by the image capturing apparatus; and a calculation unit that calculates an orientation angle of the image capturing apparatus on the basis of a detection value from the angular velocity detection sensor, a detection value from the acceleration detection sensor, and a detection value from the motion vector detection unit, wherein the calculation unit corrects an output of the angular velocity detection sensor using the detection value obtained by the motion vector detection unit, and calculates an orientation angle of the image capturing apparatus on the basis of the corrected value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventor: Tomohiro Hirama