Patents by Inventor Toshio Minoshima

Toshio Minoshima 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: 20230247172
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus performs generating metadata related to capturing by an image capture element for each video frame of the video, and outputting a video frame to which the generated metadata has been added, wherein the generated metadata includes information indicating a delay amount based on a difference between a video frame that the generated metadata corresponds to and a video frame that is outputted after the generated metadata is added thereto in the outputting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: TOSHIO MINOSHIMA, HIDETAKA UEMURA, KOICHI KUMAGAI, MAKOTO YOKOZEKI
  • Publication number: 20220405325
    Abstract: A recording apparatus to record, to a recording medium, a moving image file including video data and an additional information file, which is a file of additional information of the video data; and a control unit configured to perform control to record identification information for identifying category information of the additional information file or a data structure of the additional information file on the recording medium as a file other than the additional information file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Toshio Minoshima, Tomoaki Komiyama
  • Publication number: 20220321742
    Abstract: An apparatus that is capable of achieving the effect of a cyclic noise reduction process even for a first frame of video. The apparatus obtains video and subjects, when playing the video, a first frame for starting playing the video to the cyclic noise reduction process using one or more frames after the first frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hidetaka Uemura, Toshio Minoshima, Takayuki Sudo
  • Patent number: 11089212
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus capable of reproducing or outputting moving image data at a rate corresponding to the real time even if the frame rate is changed during recording of a time code adapted to a high frame rate. A time code to be added to each frame of moving image data is generated. The time code includes a type for differentiating between frames at a high-frame rate. The time code is added to each frame of the moving image data. An image-capturing frame rate of the moving image data is changed according to a frame rate-changing request from a user. The image-capturing frame rate of the moving image data is changed at a timing at which the value of sub frame of the time code becomes zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshio Minoshima
  • Patent number: 10834297
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image capturing unit configured to acquire a video signal including frames, and an output unit configured to output the video signal, a first time code for a time at which each frame of the video signal is acquired by the image capturing unit and information related to a second time code for a time at which each frame of the video signal is output by the output unit, to an external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadanori Saito, Michinori Nakajima, Toshio Minoshima, Kazuyuki Iimura, Kazuya Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20200275020
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus capable of reproducing or outputting moving image data at a rate corresponding to the real time even if the frame rate is changed during recording of a time code adapted to a high frame rate. A time code to be added to each frame of moving image data is generated. The time code includes a type for differentiating between frames at a high-frame rate. The time code is added to each frame of the moving image data. An image-capturing frame rate of the moving image data is changed according to a frame rate-changing request from a user. The image-capturing frame rate of the moving image data is changed at a timing at which the value of sub frame of the time code becomes zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Toshio Minoshima
  • Publication number: 20190199890
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image capturing unit configured to acquire a video signal including frames, and an output unit configured to output the video signal, a first time code for a time at which each frame of the video signal is acquired by the image capturing unit and information related to a second time code for a time at which each frame of the video signal is output by the output unit, to an external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Tadanori Saito, Michinori Nakajima, Toshio Minoshima, Kazuyuki Iimura, Kazuya Kitamura
  • Patent number: 9646647
    Abstract: A content management apparatus, which includes a recording unit for recording a content, and an operation unit for accepting a user operation required to append additional information to the content, executes at least one of a first process for recording additional information in association with a latest content of already recorded contents and a second process for recording additional information in association with a content to be recorded, and a third process for recording additional information in association with a currently recording content in response to respective execution instructions. Enabling and disabling user operations required to issue execution instructions of the first to the third processes are switched based on whether or not a content recording operation of the recording unit is in progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihito Ishihara, Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Toshio Minoshima
  • Patent number: 9390753
    Abstract: A content management apparatus, which includes a recording unit for recording a content, and an operation unit for accepting a user operation required to append additional information to the content, executes at least one of a first process for recording additional information in association with a latest content of already recorded contents and a second process for recording additional information in association with a content to be recorded, and a third process for recording additional information in association with a currently recording content in response to respective execution instructions. Enabling and disabling user operations required to issue execution instructions of the first to the third processes are switched based on whether or not a content recording operation of the recording unit is in progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihito Ishihara, Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Toshio Minoshima
  • Patent number: 9338388
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate first moving image data and second moving image data corresponding to the first moving image data and having a smaller amount of data than that of the first moving image data, an output unit configured to output the moving image data, a recording unit configured to record the moving image data on a recording medium, and a control unit configured to generate identification information for identifying the second moving image data and to control the recording unit to add the identification information to the second moving image data and record the resultant second moving image data on the recording medium, wherein the control unit controls the output unit to add the identification information of the second moving image data corresponding to the first moving image data to the first moving image data and output the resultant first moving image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshio Minoshima
  • Patent number: 9277197
    Abstract: A recording apparatus of moving image data generates first moving image data and second moving image data having less number of pixels than the first moving image data, outputs the generated moving image data by using a plurality of output channels which conform with a predetermined format, determines the number of the second moving image data to be generated on the basis of an output state of the moving image data which is output by using the output channels in the case where the first moving image data is output in accordance with the predetermined format, and generates the second moving image data of the determined number in parallel with the outputting of the first moving image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshio Minoshima
  • Publication number: 20150356995
    Abstract: A content management apparatus, which includes a recording unit for recording a content, and an operation unit for accepting a user operation required to append additional information to the content, executes at least one of a first process for recording additional information in association with a latest content of already recorded contents and a second process for recording additional information in association with a content to be recorded, and a third process for recording additional information in association with a currently recording content in response to respective execution instructions. Enabling and disabling user operations required to issue execution instructions of the first to the third processes are switched based on whether or not a content recording operation of the recording unit is in progress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Akihito Ishihara, Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Toshio Minoshima
  • Patent number: 8774591
    Abstract: A content management apparatus, which includes a recording unit for recording a content, and an operation unit for accepting a user operation required to append additional information to the content, executes at least one of a first process for recording additional information in association with a latest content of already recorded contents and a second process for recording additional information in association with a content to be recorded, and a third process for recording additional information in association with a currently recording content in response to respective execution instructions. Enabling and disabling user operations required to issue execution instructions of the first to the third processes are switched based on whether or not a content recording operation of the recording unit is in progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihito Ishihara, Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Toshio Minoshima
  • Publication number: 20140169756
    Abstract: A content management apparatus, which includes a recording unit for recording a content, and an operation unit for accepting a user operation required to append additional information to the content, executes at least one of a first process for recording additional information in association with a latest content of already recorded contents and a second process for recording additional information in association with a content to be recorded, and a third process for recording additional information in association with a currently recording content in response to respective execution instructions. Enabling and disabling user operations required to issue execution instructions of the first to the third processes are switched based on whether or not a content recording operation of the recording unit is in progress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Ishihara, Hiroyuki Hasegawa, Toshio Minoshima
  • Publication number: 20140044414
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate first moving image data and second moving image data corresponding to the first moving image data and having a smaller amount of data than that of the first moving image data, an output unit configured to output the moving image data, a recording unit configured to record the moving image data on a recording medium, and a control unit configured to generate identification information for identifying the second moving image data and to control the recording unit to add the identification information to the second moving image data and record the resultant second moving image data on the recording medium, wherein the control unit controls the output unit to add the identification information of the second moving image data corresponding to the first moving image data to the first moving image data and output the resultant first moving image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshio Minoshima