Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki KANBARA
Toshiyuki KANBARA 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).
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Publication number: 20230328395Abstract: An image capturing device includes: an image capturing element having a first image capturing region that captures an image of a photographic subject and outputs a first signal, and a second image capturing region that captures an image of the photographic subject and outputs a second signal; a setting unit that sets an image capture condition for the first image capturing region to an image capture condition that is different from an image capture condition for the second image capturing region; a correction unit that performs correction upon the second signal, for employment in interpolation of the first signal; and a generation unit that generates an image of the photographic subject that has been captured by the first image capturing region by employing a signal generated by interpolating the first signal according to the second signal as corrected by the correction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi SHIONOYA, Toshiyuki KANBARA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230283910Abstract: An image-capturing device includes: an image sensor that includes an imagecapturing area where an image of a subject is captured; a setting unit that sets imagecapturing conditions to be applied to the image-capturing area; a selection unit that selects pixels to be used for interpolation from pixels present in the image-capturing area; and a generation unit that generates an image of the subject captured in the image-capturing area with signals generated through interpolation executed by using signals output from the pixels selected by the selection unit, wherein: the selection unit makes a change in selection of at least some of the pixels to be selected depending upon the image-capturing conditions set by the setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi SHIONOYA, Toshiyuki KANBARA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230283881Abstract: An electronic device includes: a display control unit that is configured to display at a display unit a first image generated by capturing an image with light having entered a first area of an image sensor and a second image generated by capturing an image with light having entered a second area at the image sensor different from the first area; and a selection unit that is configured to select either the first area or the second area as an area for image-capturing condition adjustment in reference to the first image and the second image displayed at the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi TSUCHIYA, Yuuki ASANO, Shuhei YOSHIKAWA, Iori NODA, Takashi SHIONOYA, Toshiyuki KANBARA, Aiko NAMIKAWA
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Patent number: 11716545Abstract: An image capturing device includes: an image capturing element having a first image capturing region that captures an image of a photographic subject and outputs a first signal, and a second image capturing region that captures an image of the photographic subject and outputs a second signal; a setting unit that sets an image capture condition for the first image capturing region to an image capture condition that is different from an image capture condition for the second image capturing region; a correction unit that performs correction upon the second signal, for employment in interpolation of the first signal; and a generation unit that generates an image of the photographic subject that has been captured by the first image capturing region by employing a signal generated by interpolating the first signal according to the second signal as corrected by the correction unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Shionoya, Toshiyuki Kanbara, Naoki Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20230231966Abstract: To generate multiple types of images of the same subject, an electronic apparatus includes a drive control unit that controls the drive of an image sensor, a division unit that divides an image capture region of the image sensor into at least first and second regions, and an image generation unit that generates a first image by capturing an image of the same subject in the first region and generates a second image by capturing an image of the same subject in the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi SHIONOYA, Toshiyuki KANBARA, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11689798Abstract: An electronic device includes: a display control unit that is configured to display at a display unit a first image generated by capturing an image with light having entered a first area of an image sensor and a second image generated by capturing an image with light having entered a second area at the image sensor different from the first area; and a selection unit that is configured to select either the first area or the second area as an area for image-capturing condition adjustment in reference to the first image and the second image displayed at the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Tsuchiya, Yuuki Asano, Shuhei Yoshikawa, Iori Noda, Takashi Shionoya, Toshiyuki Kanbara, Aiko Namikawa
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Patent number: 11641522Abstract: An image-capturing device includes: an image sensor that includes an image capturing area where an image of a subject is captured; a setting unit that sets image capturing conditions to be applied to the image-capturing area; a selection unit that selects pixels to be used for interpolation from pixels present in the image-capturing area; and a generation unit that generates an image of the subject captured in the image-capturing area with signals generated through interpolation executed by using signals output from the pixels selected by the selection unit, wherein: the selection unit makes a change in selection of at least some of the pixels to be selected depending upon the image-capturing conditions set by the setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Shionoya, Toshiyuki Kanbara, Naoki Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 11637970Abstract: To generate multiple types of images of the same subject, an electronic apparatus includes a drive control unit that controls the drive of an image sensor, a division unit that divides an image capture region of the image sensor into at least first and second regions, and an image generation unit that generates a first image by capturing an image of the same subject in the first region and generates a second image by capturing an image of the same subject in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Shionoya, Toshiyuki Kanbara, Masakazu Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20230029722Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an imaging element having a plurality of image capture regions, each of the image capture regions having a plurality of pixels for generating an image signal; a setting unit that sets different image capture conditions for the plurality of image capture regions; and a control unit that corrects a portion of an image signal of a photographic subject captured under first image capture conditions in an image capture region among the plurality of image capture regions so that it is as if the portion of the image signal was captured under second image capture conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki KANBARA, Takashi SHIONOYA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11483467Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an imaging element having a plurality of image capture regions, each of the image capture regions having a plurality of pixels for generating an image signal; a setting unit that sets different image capture conditions for the plurality of image capture regions; and a control unit that corrects a portion of an image signal of a photographic subject captured under first image capture conditions in an image capture region among the plurality of image capture regions so that it is as if the portion of the image signal was captured under second image capture conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Kanbara, Takashi Shionoya, Naoki Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20210321031Abstract: An image-capturing device includes: an image sensor that includes an image capturing area where an image of a subject is captured; a setting unit that sets image capturing conditions to be applied to the image-capturing area; a selection unit that selects pixels to be used for interpolation from pixels present in the image-capturing area; and a generation unit that generates an image of the subject captured in the image-capturing area with signals generated through interpolation executed by using signals output from the pixels selected by the selection unit, wherein: the selection unit makes a change in selection of at least some of the pixels to be selected depending upon the image-capturing conditions set by the setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi SHIONOYA, Toshiyuki KANBARA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11095830Abstract: An image-capturing device includes: an image sensor that includes an imagecapturing area where an image of a subject is captured; a setting unit that sets imagecapturing conditions to be applied to the image-capturing area; a selection unit that selects pixels to be used for interpolation from pixels present in the image-capturing area; and a generation unit that generates an image of the subject captured in the image-capturing area with signals generated through interpolation executed by using signals output from the pixels selected by the selection unit, wherein: the selection unit makes a change in selection of at least some of the pixels to be selected depending upon the image-capturing conditions set by the setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Shionoya, Toshiyuki Kanbara, Naoki Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20210118100Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an imaging element having a plurality of image capture regions, each of the image capture regions having a plurality of pixels for generating an image signal; a setting unit that sets different image capture conditions for the plurality of image capture regions; and a control unit that corrects a portion of an image signal of a photographic subject captured under first image capture conditions in an image capture region among the plurality of image capture regions so that it is as if the portion of the image signal was captured under second image capture conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki KANBARA, Takashi SHIONOYA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20210037218Abstract: An image capturing device includes: an image capturing element having a first image capturing region that captures an image of a photographic subject and outputs a first signal, and a second image capturing region that captures an image of the photographic subject and outputs a second signal; a setting unit that sets an image capture condition for the first image capturing region to an image capture condition that is different from an image capture condition for the second image capturing region; a correction unit that performs correction upon the second signal, for employment in interpolation of the first signal; and a generation unit that generates an image of the photographic subject that has been captured by the first image capturing region by employing a signal generated by interpolating the first signal according to the second signal as corrected by the correction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi SHIONOYA, Toshiyuki KANBARA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10885610Abstract: An imaging device includes: an image capture unit having a first image capture region that performs image capture under first image capture conditions, and a second image capture region that performs image capture under second image capture conditions that are different from the first image capture conditions; and a generation unit that generates an image of a photographic subject captured in the first image capture region according to image data for a photographic subject captured in the second image capture region.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Kanbara, Takashi Shionoya, Naoki Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20200412978Abstract: To generate multiple types of images of the same subject, an electronic apparatus includes a drive control unit that controls the drive of an image sensor, a division unit that divides an image capture region of the image sensor into at least first and second regions, and an image generation unit that generates a first image by capturing an image of the same subject in the first region and generates a second image by capturing an image of the same subject in the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi SHIONOYA, Toshiyuki KANBARA, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10841512Abstract: To generate multiple types of images of the same subject, an electronic apparatus includes a drive control unit that controls the drive of an image sensor, a division unit that divides an image capture region of the image sensor into at least first and second regions, and an image generation unit that generates a first image by capturing an image of the same subject in the first region and generates a second image by capturing an image of the same subject in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Shionoya, Toshiyuki Kanbara, Masakazu Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 10810716Abstract: An image capturing device includes: an image capturing element having a first image capturing region that captures an image of a photographic subject and outputs a first signal, and a second image capturing region that captures an image of the photographic subject and outputs a second signal; a setting unit that sets an image capture condition for the first image capturing region to an image capture condition that is different from an image capture condition for the second image capturing region; a correction unit that performs correction upon the second signal outputted from the second image capturing region, for employment in interpolation of the first signal outputted from the first image capturing region; and a generation unit that generates an image of the photographic subject that has been captured by the first image capturing region by employing a signal generated by interpolating the first signal according to the second signal as corrected by the correction unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Shionoya, Toshiyuki Kanbara, Naoki Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20200228705Abstract: An image-capturing device includes: an image sensor that includes an imagecapturing area where an image of a subject is captured; a setting unit that sets imagecapturing conditions to be applied to the image-capturing area; a selection unit that selects pixels to be used for interpolation from pixels present in the image-capturing area; and a generation unit that generates an image of the subject captured in the image-capturing area with signals generated through interpolation executed by using signals output from the pixels selected by the selection unit, wherein: the selection unit makes a change in selection of at least some of the pixels to be selected depending upon the image-capturing conditions set by the setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi SHIONOYA, Toshiyuki KANBARA, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10638037Abstract: An image-capturing device includes: an image sensor that includes an image-capturing area where an image of a subject is captured; a setting unit that sets image-capturing conditions to be applied to the image-capturing area; a selection unit that selects pixels to be used for interpolation from pixels present in the image-capturing area; and a generation unit that generates an image of the subject captured in the image-capturing area with signals generated through interpolation executed by using signals output from the pixels selected by the selection unit, wherein: the selection unit makes a change in selection of at least some of the pixels to be selected depending upon the image-capturing conditions set by the setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Shionoya, Toshiyuki Kanbara, Naoki Sekiguchi