Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Tamekuni
Yasuhiro Tamekuni 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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Patent number: 7307599Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit, a time setting unit, a detection unit and an image changing unit. The display unit is configured to display a color image. The time setting unit is configured to set a time. The time to be set by the time setting unit can be changed by a user. The detection unit is configured to detect whether the time set by the time setting unit is passed. The image changing unit is configured to change a color image to be displayed on the display unit to a monochrome image so as to warn the user that the time set by the time setting unit is passed, if the detection unit detects that the time set by the time setting unit is passed.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2003Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Akihiro Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi Morofuji
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Publication number: 20040025175Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention is arranged to inform a user that the set time of a timer circuit capable of setting an arbitrary time will end shortly, immediately before the end of the set time, or inform the user that the set time has ended, immediately after the end of the set time, thereby preventing the user from using the display apparatus for an excessively long time without noticing the lapse of the use time of the display apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2003Publication date: February 5, 2004Inventors: Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Akihiro Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi Morofuji
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Patent number: 6630914Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention is arranged to inform a user that the set time of a timer circuit capable of setting an arbitrary time will end shortly, immediately before the end of the set time, or inform the user that the set time has ended, immediately after the end of the set time, thereby preventing the user from using the display apparatus for an excessively long time without noticing the lapse of the use time of the display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1997Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Akihiro Fujiwara, Tsuyoshi Morofuji
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Patent number: 6249362Abstract: In an image read system which reads an image recorded on a film capable of holding incidental information of the image in an area different from the area where the image is recorded, the incidental information of the image recorded on the film is read, and the read image and the incidental information is processed and outputted as data of a single image.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1997Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidekage Sato, Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Ryoichi Suzuki, Takashi Amikura
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Patent number: 5905530Abstract: An image pickup apparatus is disclosed which is provided with a distortional-aberration memorizing element for memorizing distortional-aberration information about an objective lens, a state-of-objective-lens detecting circuit for detecting a state of the objective lens, an image correcting circuit for reading out distortional-aberration information about distortional aberration occurring during photography from the distortional-aberration memorizing element on the basis of information supplied from the state-of-objective-lens detecting circuit, and electrically correcting a distortion of an image due to the objective lens with a predetermined image height in a photographed image selected as a datum.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1996Date of Patent: May 18, 1999Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Yokota, Hiroyuki Hamano, Masaharu Suzuki, Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Takashi Kato, Katsumi Azusawa, Hidekage Sato
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Patent number: 5672862Abstract: An optical apparatus or a control device to be used for a light flux deflecting apparatus is arranged to include at least two light flux deflecting portions and a control portion which control the driving actions of the at least two light flux deflecting portions in such a manner that, with the light flux deflecting portions applied as image shake preventing mechanisms to an optical apparatus using a plurality of light fluxes, such as a binocular, the arrangement effectively prevents such inconveniences as the necessity of using a plurality of control portions in controlling each of the light flux deflecting portions and giving a disagreeable feeling to the user due to a discrepancy arising in the amount of deflection between two light fluxes.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1994Date of Patent: September 30, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toru Ohara, Akihiro Fujiwara, Hidefumi Notagashira, Toshimi Iizuka, Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Yoshiki Kino, Tsuyoshi Morofuji, Katsumi Azusawa, Hidekage Sato
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Patent number: 5649239Abstract: A camera includes a focus adjusting circuit for performing focus adjustment of an objective lens, a panning detecting circuit, and a controlling circuit for controlling, on the basis of a detection signal provided by the panning detecting circuit, the focus adjustment of the objective lens which is performed by the focus adjusting circuit, so that a focus adjusting operation can be restrained from being repetitively performed during panning.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1994Date of Patent: July 15, 1997Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasuhiro Tamekuni
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Patent number: 5291151Abstract: The present invention relates to an amplifier for amplifying an input signal. In a sensor amplifier construction according to the present invention, a series arrangement made up of a resistor and a transistor is inserted in a feedback path for an amplifier, and the collector of the transistor is connected to one input of the amplifier and a capacitor is connected between the emitter and the base of the transistor. According to the above-described arrangement, there is provided a sensor amplifier which can eliminate noise with a small-scale construction.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1993Date of Patent: March 1, 1994Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihiro Fujiwara, Takashi Amikura, Toru Ohara, Yasuhiro Tamekuni
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Patent number: 5173807Abstract: This specification discloses an optical instrument comprising a focusing lens, a zooming lens, first detecting means for detecting the focus state of the focusing lens, and control means for moving the zooming lens in conformity with the output of the first detecting means and making the size of an object which is occupied in the picture plane substantially constant, the control means varying the movement speed of the zooming lens in conformity with the output of the first detecting means.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1990Date of Patent: December 22, 1992Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoya Kaneda, Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Youichi Iwasaki
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Patent number: 4977457Abstract: Disclosed is an autofocus device, particularly an autofocus device in which focus detection is effected repeatedly. A determination is made as to whether or not a determination of the in-focus state is made continuously for a predetermined duration upon repeated detection of focus after an initial in-focus determination is made. While the determinations of the in-focus state are being made for the predetermined duration after the initial determination on the in-focus state is made, the terminals of the motor are short-circuited to apply brakes to it, and after the aforementioned duration, the motor terminals are opened, thereby stopping the motor.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1989Date of Patent: December 11, 1990Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Tamekuni, Takashi Amikura, Toru Ohara