Patents by Inventor Wataru Kaku

Wataru Kaku 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: 20180074628
    Abstract: A display control apparatus that is capable of making a user feel a fact that a user's operation is received and of notifying the user that an end of a scrolling range has come. A display unit displays a displaying object. An operation detection unit detects a user's operation to the display unit. A display control unit scrolls the displaying object when the operation detection unit detects an instructing operation of scrolling, and displays a shadow of the displaying object and moves the shadow in a direction opposite to a direction of scrolling by the instructing operation when the instructing operation is not completed even if the displaying object has been scrolled to an end of a scrolling range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hideki Narushima, Kazuya Horikirikawa, Shingo Yamazaki, Wataru Kaku, Soushi Takita, Yuko Hokari
  • Patent number: 9696855
    Abstract: An information processing terminal includes an imaging unit images a video in front of a user, a display unit overlaps and displays an image of a keyboard therein as a virtual object on a scene in the real world, a recognition unit recognizes a touch on an actual object in the real world, a determination unit, when the recognition unit recognizes a touch on the actual object, determines that a touch operation is performed on the keyboard overlapped and displayed on the actual object, and a generation unit generates a character string by key codes of keys corresponding to touch positions on the displayed keyboard that is a virtual object, wherein when the generated character string is a meaningless character string, one or more modified candidate character strings obtained by shifting each character included in the character string by a predetermined amount on the keyboard are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Nakata, Wataru Kaku
  • Publication number: 20170172506
    Abstract: Employed is a probe support apparatus having: a base stand; an arm connected to an upper end of the base stand so that the arm can be tilted and rotated in a horizontal direction; and a probe support section connected to a distal end of the arm at a side opposite that of a portion connected to the base stand. The probe support section is constituted by a deformable section and a non-deformable section, and the non-deformable section is connected to a distal end of the arm so that the non-deformable section can rotate about an axis parallel to a rotation axis about which the arm is tilted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Wataru Kaku, Sakiko Yamaguchi, Shihoko Morota, Yoshiki Kuno, Emi Nagamine, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Nakata, Takahiro Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9648195
    Abstract: There is provided an image capturing apparatus. A first image capturing unit captures an image of a subject to generate image data. A second image capturing unit captures an image of a user who captures the image of the subject, for a predetermined period before and after the image of the subject is captured. An obtainment unit obtains first classification information by analyzing, in the image captured by the second image capturing unit, each of a state of the user before the image of the subject is captured and a state of the user after the image of the subject is captured. A recording unit records the first classification information in association with the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Wataru Kaku, Keita Takatani, Kazuhiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9615795
    Abstract: Employed is a probe support apparatus having: a base stand; an arm connected to an upper end of the base stand so that the arm can be tilted and rotated in a horizontal direction; and a probe support section connected to a distal end of the arm at a side opposite that of a portion connected to the base stand. The probe support section is constituted by a deformable section and a non-deformable section, and the non-deformable section is connected to a distal end of the arm so that the non-deformable section can rotate about an axis parallel to a rotation axis about which the arm is tilted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Kaku, Sakiko Yamaguchi, Shihoko Morota, Yoshiki Kuno, Emi Nagamine, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Nakata, Takahiro Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9612665
    Abstract: A distance measuring unit measures a distance from a picked-up image by an image pickup unit to a tip portion of a finger. When the measured distance is less than a reference distance, a CPU displays an identification mark at a position corresponding to the finger on a display image, and takes in a locus of the finger as a handwritten character/figure. When the measured distance is the reference distance or more, the CPU hides the identification mark, and does not take in the locus of the finger as the handwritten character/figure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Wataru Kaku, Takeshi Nakata
  • Patent number: 9542098
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read allocation data in which categories of images to be displayed in a slide show are associated with display periods, a display control unit configured to display a selection screen that allows selection of a plurality of images for each of the categories based on the allocation data read by the reading unit, a selection unit configured to select images to be allocated to each of the categories based on a user operation performed on the selection screen, and a playing unit configured to sequentially play a plurality of images based on the images allocated to each of the categories in the selection and also based on the allocation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Wataru Kaku, Hiroyuki Fukushima
  • Patent number: 9427145
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic measurement apparatus includes a measurement unit that acquires an image of an eye to be inspected, a main unit in which the measurement unit is placed and which includes a holding part for holding the main unit with a hand, an eyepiece part having a shape asymmetric about a measurement optical axis of the measurement unit and capable of being in contact with an area around an eye to be inspected, a position detection unit that detects a position of the eyepiece part, an acquisition unit that acquires eye distinguishing information indicating whether the eye is a right eye or a left eye, and a display control unit that controls a display unit to display an image of the eye such that the image of the eye is rotated in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction based on the eye distinguishing information and a resultant image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Sakiko Yamaguchi, Naofumi Sekine, Wataru Kaku
  • Patent number: 9414794
    Abstract: A mobile X-ray imaging apparatus includes: a mobile cart having a casing as an exterior member; an X-ray generation unit that can be stored in the casing; a handle portion arranged on an upper portion of the casing; and a movable portion having the handle portion and configured to be alternately stored in and pulled out from the casing, wherein an upper portion of the movable portion is pulled out in an inclined state from the mobile cart through a drawing-out operation performed on the handle portion by the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Wataru Kaku, Naofumi Sekine, Nobuo Komiya, Yoshiki Kuno
  • Patent number: 9292947
    Abstract: To generate a high-quality mosaic image even in a case where a material image having a shape different from that of a region in which the material image is to be placed is used. A target image is divided into a plurality of different-sized regions. The size of a material image is changed in accordance with the area of corresponding one of the regions, and is placed in the region on the basis of the chromatic component of the region. In the case of overlapping material images that have been placed, control processing is performed so that a smaller one of them is placed on a larger one of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Wataru Kaku, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Kaori Miyake
  • Patent number: 9270902
    Abstract: Conventionally, on a subject in which range, refocus can be performed at the time of image capturing or at the time of editing an image is not specified clearly, and therefore, it is difficult for a user to capture an image or to edit an image in a manner the user intends. An image processing apparatus has an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image including a plurality of subject areas and distance information corresponding to the plurality of subject areas and a generation unit configured to generate a shifted image in which positions of the plurality of subject areas are shifted in the image based on the distance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Osamu Sakata, Keita Takatani, Wataru Kaku
  • Publication number: 20150351623
    Abstract: An ophthalmologic measurement apparatus includes a measurement unit that acquires an image of an eye to be inspected, a main unit in which the measurement unit is placed and which includes a holding part for holding the main unit with a hand, an eyepiece part having a shape asymmetric about a measurement optical axis of the measurement unit and capable of being in contact with an area around an eye to be inspected, a position detection unit that detects a position of the eyepiece part, an acquisition unit that acquires eye distinguishing information indicating whether the eye is a right eye or a left eye, and a display control unit that controls a display unit to display an image of the eye such that the image of the eye is rotated in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction based on the eye distinguishing information and a resultant image is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Sakiko Yamaguchi, Naofumi Sekine, Wataru Kaku
  • Publication number: 20150342458
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus includes an image-capturing unit that captures an image of an eye to be examined, a main body having in a rod-like shape and that accommodates the image-capturing unit, an eyepiece portion that is positioned at a first end of the main body in an axial direction of the main body and that is brought into contact with a portion around the eye to be examined, and a display that is positioned at a second end of the main body in the axial direction of the main body and that displays an image of the eye to be examined. The main body includes a holding portion that is to be held by a hand of an examiner and that extends in the axial direction of the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Sakiko Yamaguchi, Naofumi Sekine, Tetsuya Sekine, Hideki Hayashi, Wataru Kaku
  • Publication number: 20150338924
    Abstract: A distance measuring unit measures a distance from a picked-up image by an image pickup unit to a tip portion of a finger. When the measured distance is less than a reference distance, a CPU displays an identification mark at a position corresponding to the finger on a display image, and takes in a locus of the finger as a handwritten character/figure. When the measured distance is the reference distance or more, the CPU hides the identification mark, and does not take in the locus of the finger as the handwritten character/figure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Wataru Kaku, Takeshi Nakata
  • Patent number: 9183888
    Abstract: An object three-dimensionally represented by frames contained in a moving image and a time axis indicative of a playback time of the moving image is displayed on a display unit, and, while the three dimensional image being displayed, and an object representative of a moving image of a part between two points detected on the time axis is displayed in response to an instruction by a thing approaching to the display unit and is moved in accordance with a moving operation on the thing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Wataru Kaku, Daijirou Nagasaki, Nobuo Oshimoto, Susumu Oya, Yusuke Hokari, Eri Kanai
  • Publication number: 20150293644
    Abstract: An information processing terminal includes an imaging unit images a video in front of a user, a display unit overlaps and displays an image of a keyboard therein as a virtual object on a scene in the real world, a recognition unit recognizes a touch on an actual object in the real world, a determination unit, when the recognition unit recognizes a touch on the actual object, determines that a touch operation is performed on the keyboard overlapped and displayed on the actual object, and a generation unit generates a character string by key codes of keys corresponding to touch positions on the displayed keyboard that is a virtual object, wherein when the generated character string is a meaningless character string, one or more modified candidate character strings obtained by shifting each character included in the character string by a predetermined amount on the keyboard are generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Nakata, Wataru Kaku
  • Publication number: 20150287244
    Abstract: An eyepiece-type display apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to capture a video of reality, a display unit configured to display a virtual image while superimposing the virtual image on the video of reality, a determination unit configured to determine whether a video being captured by the imaging unit is a video during advancing, and a display control unit configured to change a display mode of the virtual image so as not to block a user's viewing field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Nakata, Wataru Kaku
  • Publication number: 20150272502
    Abstract: Employed is a probe support apparatus having: a base stand; an arm connected to an upper end of the base stand so that the arm can be tilted and rotated in a horizontal direction; and a probe support section connected to a distal end of the arm at a side opposite that of a portion connected to the base stand. The probe support section is constituted by a deformable section and a non-deformable section, and the non-deformable section is connected to a distal end of the arm so that the non-deformable section can rotate about an axis parallel to a rotation axis about which the arm is tilted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Wataru Kaku, Sakiko Yamaguchi, Shihoko Morota, Yoshiki Kuno, Emi Nagamine, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takeshi Nakata, Takahiro Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20150253951
    Abstract: A GUI member is operated to let a user feel as if operation of a real object is realized. An imaging unit captures fingers of an operator. A system control unit detects the finger portion from the image captured by the imaging unit. The system control unit combines images in such a manner that the GUI member is positioned on a finger portion of a palm side and a finger portion of a back side is positioned on the GUI member from the image of the finger portions detected from the captured image, and displays the combined image on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Wataru Kaku, Osamu Sakata, Daijirou Nagasaki, Kaoru Konishi, Satoshi Shinata
  • Patent number: 9125623
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging apparatus for acquiring a radiographic image includes: a position detector configured to detect a position of an X-ray receiver, in which the X-ray receiver is configured to receive a radiant ray radiated by an X-ray radiator, which radiates a radiant ray, and output an electrical signal in accordance with the received radiant ray; and a display controller configured to display, on a display unit, image data pertaining to the X-ray receiver and image data pertaining to a radiating area of the radiant ray of the X-ray radiator, overlapped with each other based on the position of the X-ray receiver detected by the position detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Sakiko Yamaguchi, Kotaro Izumiya, Takeshi Nakata, Wataru Kaku