Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Nagai

Toshiaki Nagai 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: 11937072
    Abstract: An out-of-head localization filter determination system according to an embodiment includes headphones, a microphone unit, a measurement processor, and a server device. The measurement processor measures first ear canal transfer characteristics from a first position to a microphone, measures ear canal transfer characteristics from a second position to a microphone, and transmits user data related to the first ear canal transfer characteristics to the server device. The server device includes a storage unit that stores first preset data and a second preset data in association with each other, a comparison unit that compares the second preset data with the user data, and an extraction unit that extracts the first preset data according to a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisako Murata, Yumi Fujii, Toshiaki Nagai
  • Publication number: 20240029212
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image to be processed from a storage unit in which a captured image having first date/time information indicating a time of imaging is stored, a date/time information acquisition unit that acquires the first date/time information and acquires second date/time information indicating a date/time when the captured image to be processed is acquired, an elapsed date/time calculation unit that calculates an elapsed date/time from the time of imaging by making a comparison between the first date/time information and the second date/time information, and an image processing unit that selects image processing based on a length of the elapsed date/time from among a plurality of kinds of image processing that change according to the length of the elapsed date/time and performs the selected image processing on the captured image to be processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Rina FUJINO, Toshiaki NAGAI, Tsuneo SATO
  • Patent number: 11842461
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image to be processed from a storage unit in which a captured image having first date/time information indicating a time of imaging is stored, a date/time information acquisition unit that acquires the first date/time information and acquires second date/time information indicating a date/time when the captured image to be processed is acquired, an elapsed date/time calculation unit that calculates an elapsed date/time from the time of imaging by making a comparison between the first date/time information and the second date/time information, and an image processing unit that selects image processing based on a length of the elapsed date/time from among a plurality of kinds of image processing that change according to the length of the elapsed date/time and performs the selected image processing on the captured image to be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Rina Fujino, Toshiaki Nagai, Tsuneo Sato
  • Publication number: 20230239569
    Abstract: A digital camera with a printer is a digital camera with a printer and includes a communication unit that communicates with a digital camera with a printer that is another apparatus, and an image composition unit that generates a composite image in which a first image captured by the digital camera with a printer that is an owned apparatus and a second image captured by the other apparatus are composited, in which the communication unit transmits the composite image to the other apparatus. A user of the other apparatus can also obtain the composite image. Accordingly, the composite image can be enjoyed by capturing images using a plurality of cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Rina FUJINO, Toshiaki NAGAI, Tsuneo SATO
  • Patent number: 11671538
    Abstract: An image to be printed is displayed in an image display region EA1 set on a center line L passing through a center of a screen in a width direction. A print button PB for providing an instruction for printing of the image and an image editing menu buttons EB1 to EB3 are displayed in a button display region EA2 side by side along the width direction of the screen. The print button PB is disposed on the center line L and displayed in a larger size than other buttons EB1 to EB3. In a case in which the image editing menu button is touch-operated, a plurality of operation buttons for image editing are expanded and displayed in an operation region EA3 between the button display region EA2 and the image display region EA1. The operation buttons for image editing are displayed in a radial pattern on the same circumference around a point set on the center line L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Nagai, Tsuneo Sato
  • Patent number: 11662433
    Abstract: In a distance measuring apparatus, an irradiating unit irradiates a measurement region with a pattern light comprised of first and second luminous patterns. The second luminous pattern has a relatively low intensity lower than the intensity of the first luminous pattern. A light receiving sensor receives, for each pixel, a return light component based on reflection of the pattern light by a target object. A measurement controller determines whether an intensity of each return light component received by the corresponding pixel satisfies a measurement condition, and obtains, as effective distance information, at least one distance value of at least one pixel of the light receiving sensor when it is determined that the intensity of the return light component received by the at least one pixel satisfies the measurement condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sakito Miki, Toshiaki Nagai
  • Patent number: 11647309
    Abstract: A method for operating an image sensor with a 4 rows×4 columns pixel group including 4 sub-pixel groups each including 4 pixels of 2 rows×2 columns includes: selecting and reading out a first pixel among 4 pixels in a first row of the pixel group; selecting and reading out, in a second row of the pixel group, a second pixel from a sub-pixel group other than a sub-pixel group including the first pixel; selecting and reading out, in a third row of the pixel group, a third pixel from a column other than a column including the first pixel and a column including the second pixel; and selecting and reading out, in a fourth row of the pixel group, a fourth pixel from a column other than the columns including the first pixel, the second pixel and the third pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Nagai
  • Patent number: 11647282
    Abstract: A digital camera with a printer is a digital camera with a printer and includes a communication unit that communicates with a digital camera with a printer that is another apparatus, and an image composition unit that generates a composite image in which a first image captured by the digital camera with a printer that is an owned apparatus and a second image captured by the other apparatus are composited, in which the communication unit transmits the composite image to the other apparatus. A user of the other apparatus can also obtain the composite image. Accordingly, the composite image can be enjoyed by capturing images using a plurality of cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Rina Fujino, Toshiaki Nagai, Tsuneo Sato
  • Publication number: 20230081441
    Abstract: A method for operating an image sensor with a 4 rows×4 columns pixel group including 4 sub-pixel groups each including 4 pixels of 2 rows×2 columns includes: selecting and reading out a first pixel among 4 pixels in a first row of the pixel group; selecting and reading out, in a second row of the pixel group, a second pixel from a sub-pixel group other than a sub-pixel group including the first pixel; selecting and reading out, in a third row of the pixel group, a third pixel from a column other than a column including the first pixel and a column including the second pixel; and selecting and reading out, in a fourth row of the pixel group, a fourth pixel from a column other than the columns including the first pixel, the second pixel and the third pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventor: Toshiaki NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20220303690
    Abstract: A processing device according to this embodiment includes: a measurement signal output unit configured to output a frequency sweep signal whose frequency is swept as a measurement signal; a sound pickup signal acquisition unit configured to acquire L-ch and R-ch sound pickup signals obtained by picking up the measurement signal by a left microphone and a right microphone; an evaluation signal acquisition unit configured to calculate an evaluation signal in a time domain in accordance with the L-ch and R-ch sound pickup signals; an extraction unit configured to extract a partial section of the evaluation signal as an extraction section; a comparison unit configured to compare the L-ch sound pickup signal with the R-ch sound pickup signal using the evaluation signal in the extraction section; and a determination unit configured to determine whether the fit of the right and left microphones or the output unit is good or not based on the results of the comparison made in the comparison unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Yumi FUJII, Toshiaki NAGAI, Hisako MURATA
  • Patent number: 11438721
    Abstract: To provide an out-of-head localization system, a filter generation device, a method, and a program capable of appropriate processing, an out-of-head localization system according to this embodiment includes a measurement device that measures transfer characteristics by using a microphone worn on a user's ear before the user U sits on a seat, an out-of-head localization device that is installed in the seat and performs out-of-head localization by using a filter appropriate to the transfer characteristics, and a server terminal that transmits the filter appropriate to the transfer characteristics to the out-of-head localization device on the basis of identification information of the user U.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisako Murata, Masaya Konishi, Yumi Fujii, Takahiro Gejo, Kuniaki Takachi, Toshiaki Nagai
  • Publication number: 20220174448
    Abstract: An out-of-head localization filter determination system according to an embodiment includes headphones, a microphone unit, a measurement processor, and a server device. The measurement processor measures first ear canal transfer characteristics from a first position to a microphone, measures ear canal transfer characteristics from a second position to a microphone, and transmits user data related to the first ear canal transfer characteristics to the server device. The server device includes a storage unit that stores first preset data and a second preset data in association with each other, a comparison unit that compares the second preset data with the user data, and an extraction unit that extracts the first preset data according to a comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Hisako Murata, Yumi Fujii, Toshiaki Nagai
  • Patent number: 11340351
    Abstract: A digital signal processing circuit measures a distance according to a plurality of modulation frequencies including a first modulation frequency and a second modulation frequency lower than the first modulation frequency. The digital signal processing circuit is configured such that, when measuring the distance at the first modulation frequency, a storage capacitance of a light receiving element 6 stores or discharges electric charges according to the timing when the polarity of a phase is controlled by a light emission control unit at each transmission of a sub sequence and the distance is measured according to the electric charges stored in the storage capacitance. The digital signal processing circuit corrects the distance measurement result based on the measurement result at the first modulation frequency and the measurement result at the second modulation frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiaki Nagai
  • Patent number: 11307296
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a time-of-flight distance measuring device. The light source (24) includes a plurality of emitting portions (70, 72), each of which illuminates a respective one of the sub-regions (R1, R2). The light receiver (26) includes a plurality of receiving portions (74, 76) corresponding to respective ones of the emitting portions (70, 72). The first controller (28) controls (i) a first emitting portion (70) to emit the emitted light including an Nth-order harmonic component of a fundamental frequency and (ii) a second emitting portion (72) to emit the emitted light including an Mth-order harmonic component. The second controller (30) controls a particular receiving portion (74) corresponding to the first emitting portion (70) to be sensible to the Nth-order Mth-order harmonic components. The multipath detector (82) detects occurrence of the multipath error when the particular receiving portion (74) senses both the Nth-order and Mth-order components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, ESPROS PHOTONICS AG
    Inventors: Toshiaki Nagai, Martin Popp, Cengiz Tugsav Kupcu
  • Publication number: 20220113408
    Abstract: An optical distance measuring device using light includes a light-emitting part in which a first and second light-emitting elements that have a light-emitting region, in which a length in a first direction is longer than that in a second direction intersecting the first direction, are separated from each other in the second direction; two projection lenses that are respectively provided to correspond to the first and second light-emitting elements, and are separated from each other in the second direction and arranged at positions overlapping each other in the first direction; a scanner that scans a measurement region with emitted beams emitted from the light-emitting part and have passed through the projection lenses; a light receiving part that receives reflected light of the emitted beams emitted from the light-emitting part; and a measurement section measuring a distance to an object according to a time period from light emission to light reception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Teiyuu KIMURA, Toshiaki NAGAI, Sakito MIKI, Akifumi UENO
  • Patent number: 11228837
    Abstract: Provided are an out-of-head localization system, a filter generation device, a method, and a program capable of appropriate processing. A processing device according to an embodiment includes a frequency information acquisition unit that acquires frequency information on the basis of a frequency response of a filter used in filter processing on a reproduction signal, a time information acquisition unit that acquires, on the basis of the frequency information, time information of a reproduction signal, a time signal extraction unit that extracts, on the basis of the time information, a time signal corresponding to at least some time of the reproduction signal, a filter processing unit that performs filter processing on the time signal, and a gain acquisition unit that acquires a gain on the basis of the time signal not having undergone filter processing and a processed time signal having undergone filter processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kuniaki Takachi, Hisako Murata, Masaya Konishi, Takahiro Gejo, Yumi Fujii, Toshiaki Nagai
  • Publication number: 20210409596
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image to be processed from a storage unit in which a captured image having first date/time information indicating a time of imaging is stored, a date/time information acquisition unit that acquires the first date/time information and acquires second date/time information indicating a date/time when the captured image to be processed is acquired, an elapsed date/time calculation unit that calculates an elapsed date/time from the time of imaging by making a comparison between the first date/time information and the second date/time information, and an image processing unit that selects image processing based on a length of the elapsed date/time from among a plurality of kinds of image processing that change according to the length of the elapsed date/time and performs the selected image processing on the captured image to be processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Rina FUJINO, Toshiaki NAGAI, Tsuneo SATO
  • Publication number: 20210409553
    Abstract: An image to be printed is displayed in an image display region EA1 set on a center line L passing through a center of a screen in a width direction. A print button PB for providing an instruction for printing of the image and an image editing menu buttons EB1 to EB3 are displayed in a button display region EA2 side by side along the width direction of the screen. The print button PB is disposed on the center line L and displayed in a larger size than other buttons EB1 to EB3. In a case in which the image editing menu button is touch-operated, a plurality of operation buttons for image editing are expanded and displayed in an operation region EA3 between the button display region EA2 and the image display region EA1. The operation buttons for image editing are displayed in a radial pattern on the same circumference around a point set on the center line L.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki NAGAI, Tsuneo SATO
  • Publication number: 20210396876
    Abstract: An optical distance measurement apparatus includes a light source unit configured to emit pulsed light in units of the number of times determined in advance, a light receiving unit including a light receiving element which receives pulsed light reflected from a first object and configured to output a response signal in accordance with received light intensity of the pulsed light, and a control unit configured to generate a histogram by accumulating and recording the response signal output from the light receiving unit, corresponding to the number of times, in a time bin in accordance with time of flight of the pulsed light and calculate a distance to the object on the basis of the histogram. The control unit changes a light emission interval of the pulsed light by the light source unit within a unit of the number of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Toshiaki NAGAI
  • Patent number: D944269
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takeharu Omata, Toshiaki Nagai