Patents by Inventor Yasunori Kudo
Yasunori Kudo 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: 11906894Abstract: A lens control device, comprising a first stepping motor that drives a zoom lens contained in the photographing lens, a second stepping motor that drives a focus lens contained in the photographing lens, and a processor that controls the first stepping motor and the second stepping motor, whereby, within a given section in which the zoom lens and the focus lens are driven, there is a period in which at least one of the first stepping motor and the second stepping motor is driven at a constant rate, and the processor makes a time, required to move the specified section with a specified number of pulses, a specified time.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Yasunori Kudo
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Publication number: 20220137487Abstract: A lens control device, comprising a first stepping motor that drives a zoom lens contained in the photographing lens, a second stepping motor that drives a focus lens contained in the photographing lens, and a processor that controls the first stepping motor and the second stepping motor, whereby, within a given section in which the zoom lens and the focus lens are driven, there is a period in which at least one of the first stepping motor and the second stepping motor is driven at a constant rate, and the processor makes a time, required to move the specified section with a specified number of pulses, a specified time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventor: Yasunori KUDO
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Patent number: 10356326Abstract: A camera includes an image pickup device configured to receive a light flux passing through a photographing lens and to convert the light flux into an electric signal, a display device configured to perform a live-view display on the basis of the electric signal output from the image pickup device, an aperture driving actuator configured to adjust a light amount passing through the photographing lens, and a controller configured to control a stop timing of the live-view display performed before an exposure at the time of a still-image photography on the display device in accordance with an operation condition of the aperture driving actuator at the time of the still-image photography.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Yasunori Kudo
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Publication number: 20180152612Abstract: An imaging device includes an image sensor that converts a subject image formed by a photographing lens into an electrical signal and outputs the electrical signal, a mechanical shutter that controls the image sensor to be in a light-shielding state or in an exposed state, and a display device that performs a live-view display according to an output of the image sensor. The imaging device causes the image sensor to start imaging of a live view after photographing a still image, detects that the mechanical shutter is in a fully open state, after the start of the imaging, and performs a ranging operation or the like according to the output of the image sensor obtained by imaging the live view, after the detection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Yasunori KUDO, Tetsuo KIKUCHI, Satoshi HARA
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Patent number: 9736357Abstract: A display device includes a display section, a visual line detecting section, a visual line judging section, a display control section, and a display changing section. The visual line judging section acquires a visual point position on the display screen corresponding to the visual line direction detected by the visual line detecting section, and judges whether or not the visual point position has entered into the a display region. The display changing section changes the display of at least one of a first display region and a second display region, if it is judged by the visual line judging section that the visual point position has entered into the second display region in the state where the visual point position is in the first display region.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori Kudo
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Publication number: 20170230583Abstract: A camera includes an image pickup device configured to receive a light flux passing through a photographing lens and to convert the light flux into an electric signal, a display device configured to perform a live-view display on the basis of the electric signal output from the image pickup device, an aperture driving actuator configured to adjust a light amount passing through the photographing lens, and a controller configured to control a stop timing of the live-view display performed before an exposure at the time of a still-image photography on the display device in accordance with an operation condition of the aperture driving actuator at the time of the still-image photography.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventor: Yasunori KUDO
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Patent number: 9578250Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: a stability brightness calculation unit for calculating a stability brightness obtained by modifying a temporal change in a brightness of a subject to a slower temporal change on the basis of a change in the brightness of the subject detected by a brightness detection unit; and a display brightness control unit for controlling a following speed of the change in the brightness of a display image with respect to a change in the brightness of the subject on the basis of the calculated stability brightness so that an amount of a change in the brightness related to the display image can become longer than the amount of the change in the brightness of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori Kudo
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Patent number: 9571720Abstract: An image processing device includes: a determining unit configured to determine, in accordance with two images corresponding to temporally adjacent image data input from an external device, whether or not a field area at a time of imaging has been changed; and a suppressing unit configured to generate and output suppressed image data with an amount of visually recognizable information included in the images being suppressed by performing image processing of reducing at least one of a contrast and a chroma of the images at a time the determining unit determines that the field area at the time of imaging has been changed.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Yasunori Kudo, Ryo Karasawa, Kyoko Iijima, Osamu Nonaka
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Publication number: 20160105614Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: a stability brightness calculation unit for calculating a stability brightness obtained by modifying a temporal change in a brightness of a subject to a slower temporal change on the basis of a change in the brightness of the subject detected by a brightness detection unit; and a display brightness control unit for controlling a following speed of the change in the brightness of a display image with respect to a change in the brightness of the subject on the basis of the calculated stability brightness so that an amount of a change in the brightness related to the display image can become longer than the amount of the change in the brightness of the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori KUDO
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Publication number: 20150163396Abstract: An image processing device includes: a determining unit configured to determine, in accordance with two images corresponding to temporally adjacent image data input from an external device, whether or not a field area at a time of imaging has been changed; and a suppressing unit configured to generate and output suppressed image data with an amount of visually recognizable information included in the images being suppressed by performing image processing of reducing at least one of a contrast and a chroma of the images at a time the determining unit determines that the field area at the time of imaging has been changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2015Publication date: June 11, 2015Inventors: Yasunori KUDO, Ryo KARASAWA, Kyoko IIJIMA, Osamu NONAKA
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Publication number: 20150062402Abstract: A display device includes a display section, a visual line detecting section, a visual line judging section, a display control section, and a display changing section. The visual line judging section acquires a visual point position on the display screen corresponding to the visual line direction detected by the visual line detecting section, and judges whether or not the visual point position has entered into the a display region. The display changing section changes the display of at least one of a first display region and a second display region, if it is judged by the visual line judging section that the visual point position has entered into the second display region in the state where the visual point position is in the first display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yasunori KUDO
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Patent number: 8958008Abstract: A camera includes: a taking lens forming an image of a subject; an image pickup unit; a subject brightness acquisition unit acquiring the brightness information of the subject on the basis of the output of the image pickup unit; a control unit controlling the exposure according to the brightness information acquired by the subject brightness acquisition unit; and a storage unit storing the information indicating the optical state of the taking lens before the subject brightness acquisition unit acquires the brightness information. The control unit determines whether or not the brightness information is acquired again by the subject brightness acquisition unit according to the information about the optical state of the taking lens stored in the storage unit when the subject brightness acquisition unit previously acquired the brightness information, and the information about the optical state of the taking lens when the latest brightness information is acquired.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2010Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventor: Yasunori Kudo
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Patent number: 8295697Abstract: A camera comprises: a photographing unit converting an image formed by a shooting lens into an electric signal; a subject brightness obtaining unit; an exposure computing unit computing a shutter speed and an aperture value; a shutter controlling a time period in which the photographing unit accumulates the electric signal; and an aperture control unit controlling an aperture value of an aperture unit that limits a quantity of light incident from the shooting lens, wherein the exposure computing unit calculates a deviation between a previous exposure amount and a proper exposure amount on the basis of brightness information relating to a previous exposure and output by the subject brightness obtaining unit, the aperture value of the aperture unit, and the shutter speed of the shutter, and computes an aperture value of the aperture unit for a subsequent exposure on the basis of the deviation.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventor: Yasunori Kudo
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Publication number: 20110206360Abstract: The present invention provides, a camera comprises: a photographing unit converting an image formed by a shooting lens into an electric signal; a subject brightness obtaining unit; an exposure computing unit computing a shutter speed and an aperture value; a shutter controlling a time period in which the photographing unit accumulates the electric signal; and an aperture control unit controlling an aperture value of an aperture unit that limits a quantity of light incident from the shooting lens, wherein the exposure computing unit calculates a deviation between a previous exposure amount and a proper exposure amount on the basis of brightness information relating to a previous exposure and output by the subject brightness obtaining unit, the aperture value of the aperture unit, and the shutter speed of the shutter, and computes an aperture value of the aperture unit for a subsequent exposure on the basis of the deviation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2011Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventor: Yasunori KUDO
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Publication number: 20110122310Abstract: A camera includes: a taking lens forming an image of a subject; an image pickup unit; a subject brightness acquisition unit acquiring the brightness information of the subject on the basis of the output of the image pickup unit; a control unit controlling the exposure according to the brightness information acquired by the subject brightness acquisition unit; and a storage unit storing the information indicating the optical state of the taking lens before the subject brightness acquisition unit acquires the brightness information. The control unit determines whether or not the brightness information is acquired again by the subject brightness acquisition unit according to the information about the optical state of the taking lens stored in the storage unit when the subject brightness acquisition unit previously acquired the brightness information, and the information about the optical state of the taking lens when the latest brightness information is acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2010Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventor: Yasunori KUDO
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Patent number: 7806608Abstract: A half cut portion is provided with a receiving base for receiving a tube, and a cutter for cutting the tube. The receiving base is provided with a stroke adjusting lever on an upper portion of the receiving base, and the stroke adjusting lever is provided with a cam face in which an amount of projecting is varied by being rotated. The cutter butts to the cam face and a depth of a half cut is set according to a displacement of the amount of projecting of the cam face from the receiving base.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2005Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masao Saito, Hiroaki Sudo, Yasunori Kudo
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Publication number: 20070253759Abstract: A half cut portion is provided with a receiving base for receiving a tube, and a cutter for cutting the tube. The receiving base is provided with a stroke adjusting lever on an upper portion of the receiving base, and the stroke adjusting lever is provided with a cam face in which an amount of projecting is varied by being rotated. The cutter butts to the cam face and a depth of a half cut is set according to a displacement of the amount of projecting of the cam face from the receiving base.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2005Publication date: November 1, 2007Inventors: Masao Saito, Hiroaki Sudo, Yasunori Kudo
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Patent number: 6647206Abstract: A camera includes a stroboscopic light emission unit capable of operating at least in an intermittent light emission mode, wherein the camera has a photographing mode setting unit for setting the camera either in a single photographing mode or in a sequential photographing mode, and a light emission period setting unit for setting the period of the intermittent light emission for said stroboscopic light emission unit in accordance with the photographing mode set by the photographing mode setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2002Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasunori Kudo
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Publication number: 20030095799Abstract: The present invention provides a camera including a stroboscopic light emission unit capable of operating at least in an intermittent light emission mode, wherein the camera comprising photographing mode setting unit for setting said camera either in a single photographing mode or in a sequential photographing mode, and light emission period setting unit for setting the period of the intermittent light emission for said stroboscopic light emission unit in accordance with the photographing mode set in said photographing mode setting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2002Publication date: May 22, 2003Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasunori Kudo
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Patent number: 5556213Abstract: A tape printer including: a printer head for printing characters, figures, etc. on a laminated tape which is formed by laminating a printing tape and a separate paper a tape releasing section for feeding the laminated tape from the tape printer and a cutter for cutting the laminated tape. A half-cut mechanism for cutting only the printing tape of the laminated tape is provided on the tape out-going side of the cutter.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1994Date of Patent: September 17, 1996Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasunori Kudo, Manabu Shibata, Takahisa Misawa