Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Funatsu

Yoshihiro Funatsu 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).

  • Patent number: 11843850
    Abstract: A method for an apparatus includes setting, as a first setting, a first item relating to a type of a detection target, setting, as a second setting, a second item relating to an AF area, executing object detection processing on an object of the type set in the first setting, executing focus detection processing based on information about the AF area set in the second setting, and storing the settings as a combination of the set first item and the set second item, wherein the stored settings are called by a user through a specific operation, and the object detection processing and the focus detection processing are executed based on the called settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20230289995
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus calls stored settings related to an automatic focus (AF) area and a type of object to be detected based on a user's specific operation, and performs object detection processing and focus detection processing based on the called settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventor: YOSHIHIRO FUNATSU
  • Publication number: 20230291995
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a step of controlling first processing for setting a tracking start position at a tracking position immediately before and second processing for setting the tracking start position at a predetermined tracking start position. The electronic apparatus switches and performs the first processing and the second processing depending on a state when the tracking is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshihiro FUNATSU
  • Publication number: 20230156326
    Abstract: A first image capturing unit (203 to 205) configured to capture an image using a lens placed on a first surface, a second image capturing unit (201 and 202) configured to capture an image using a lens placed on a second surface, the second image capturing unit being configured to switch to first image capturing using a first lens and second image capturing using a second lens with a wider angle than an angle of view of the first lens, and a control unit configured to perform control to, during the image capturing by the second image capturing unit, in response to a user operation for changing from a still image capturing mode to a moving image capturing mode, switch to the moving image capturing mode and also switch from the first image capturing using the first lens to the second image capturing using the second lens, are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: YOSHIHIRO FUNATSU, KOKI KITAYA, Junko MORIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11650661
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a gaze detecting unit configured to detect a position of gaze input on an image displayed on a display unit; a subject detecting unit configured to detect from the image a subject of a specific type and a region included in the subject of the specific type; and a control unit configured to execute control so that, in a case where a position selected prior to a user operation on an operating member is not on the subject in the position of gaze input, a region corresponding to the user operation, which is included in the subject in the position of gaze input, is selected in response to the user operation, regardless of the position selected prior to the user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20220400207
    Abstract: A control method for an electronic apparatus includes tracking a tracking target included in an image, moving a tracking start position, starting tracking of the tracking target from the tracking start position, stopping tracking of the tracking target, controlling first processing for, at the stopping of tracking, setting the tracking start position to a position at which the tracking target has been tracked until immediately before the stopping of tracking and second processing for, at the stopping of tracking, setting the tracking start position to a previously determined tracking start position, and selecting one of the first processing and the second processing according to a state obtained at the stopping of tracking and performing the selected first or second processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20220400201
    Abstract: A method for an apparatus includes setting, as a first setting, a first item relating to a type of a detection target, setting, as a second setting, a second item relating to an AF area, executing object detection processing on an object of the type set in the first setting, executing focus detection processing based on information about the AF area set in the second setting, and storing the settings as a combination of the set first item and the set second item, wherein the stored settings are called by a user through a specific operation, and the object detection processing and the focus detection processing are executed based on the called settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Patent number: 11178325
    Abstract: There is provided an image capturing control apparatus. A non-blur region setting unit sets, within a screen, a non-blur region to which blur processing is not applied. In response to an operation performed by a user, a focus detection region setting unit sets, within the screen, a focus detection region in which focus detection is performed. When the focus detection region is outside the non-blur region, a control unit performs control to issue a notification that is not issued when the focus detection region is inside the non-blur region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20210157400
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a gaze detecting unit configured to detect a position of gaze input on an image displayed on a display unit; a subject detecting unit configured to detect from the image a subject of a specific type and a region included in the subject of the specific type; and a control unit configured to execute control so that, in a case where a position selected prior to a user operation on an operating member is not on the subject in the position of gaze input, a region corresponding to the user operation, which is included in the subject in the position of gaze input, is selected in response to the user operation, regardless of the position selected prior to the user operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Patent number: 10904442
    Abstract: An image sensing apparatus, comprising: an image sensor to capture an image; a display to display a full screen image and a display controlling unit to switch an image to be displayed by the display between an enlarged image and the full screen image; and a control unit to perform, in accordance with a predetermined operation, a first setting for determining a setting parameter of the image sensor in a first state and a second setting for determining a predetermined range of the live view image in a second state, wherein when the predetermined operation is performed while the display displays the enlarged image, the display controlling unit does not switch the image displayed to the full screen image, and the control unit performs the first setting if the display is in the first state, and performs the second setting if the display is in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Patent number: 10873696
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus controls the image capture apparatus, in a case where a subject image can be viewed via a viewfinder, so that a moving distance of a predetermined item, which indicates a designated area on a display unit within the viewfinder that can be viewed via the viewfinder, moves for a first moving distance of a touch position on a touch panel is larger when the designated area has a second size larger than a first size, than when the designated area has the first size. It is possible to increase operability for a user in the case of moving an item, whose size is variable, by moving the touch position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Patent number: 10750081
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided for performing control, in a case where a touch is started on an area corresponding to a detected first face, and then the touch position of the touch moves in a first direction, to select a first organ area included in the first face, and, in a case where the touch is started on the area corresponding to the detected first face, and then the touch position of the touch moves not in the first direction but in a second direction, to select a second organ area included in the first face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Patent number: 10630904
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display control unit configured to perform control to display a first display item and a predetermined item on the display screen, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner that, according to an operation on the display screen in a first state, the first state transitions to a second state for changing a display position of the first display item, wherein, in a case where the first state transitions to the second state, the predetermined item is displayed regardless of the display position of the first display item, and in a case where an operation for changing the display position of the first display item is performed in the second state, the predetermined item is displayed at a position corresponding to the changed display position of the first display item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20200021748
    Abstract: An image sensing apparatus, comprising: an image sensor to capture an image; a display to display a full screen image and a display controlling unit to switch an image to be displayed by the display between an enlarged image and the full screen image; and a control unit to perform, in accordance with a predetermined operation, a first setting for determining a setting parameter of the image sensor in a first state and a second setting for determining a predetermined range of the live view image in a second state, wherein when the predetermined operation is performed while the display displays the enlarged image, the display controlling unit does not switch the image displayed to the full screen image, and the control unit performs the first setting if the display is in the first state, and performs the second setting if the display is in the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20190199934
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a display control unit configured to perform control to display a first display item and a predetermined item on the display screen, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner that, according to an operation on the display screen in a first state, the first state transitions to a second state for changing a display position of the first display item, wherein, in a case where the first state transitions to the second state, the predetermined item is displayed regardless of the display position of the first display item, and in a case where an operation for changing the display position of the first display item is performed in the second state, the predetermined item is displayed at a position corresponding to the changed display position of the first display item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20190116312
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided for performing control, in a case where a touch is started on an area corresponding to a detected first face, and then the touch position of the touch moves in a first direction, to select a first organ area included in the first face, and, in a case where the touch is started on the area corresponding to the detected first face, and then the touch position of the touch moves not in the first direction but in a second direction, to select a second organ area included in the first face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20180220062
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus controls the image capture apparatus, in a case where a subject image can be viewed via a viewfinder, so that a moving distance of a predetermined item, which indicates a designated area on a display unit within the viewfinder that can be viewed via the viewfinder, moves for a first moving distance of a touch position on a touch panel is larger when the designated area has a second size larger than a first size, than when the designated area has the first size. It is possible to increase operability for a user in the case of moving an item, whose size is variable, by moving the touch position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20180205874
    Abstract: There is provided an image capturing control apparatus. A non-blur region setting unit sets, within a screen, a non-blur region to which blur processing is not applied. In response to an operation performed by a user, a focus detection region setting unit sets, within the screen, a focus detection region in which focus detection is performed. When the focus detection region is outside the non-blur region, a control unit performs control to issue a notification that is not issued when the focus detection region is inside the non-blur region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Patent number: 9344617
    Abstract: An image sensor has multiple pixel units in correspondence with each microlens, and focus detection is performed with a phase-difference detection method using output from the image sensor. The signals to be used in the focus detection can be combined, and a larger signal combining amount is set in the case of output from the image sensor with a first thinning amount than in the case of output from the image sensor with a second thinning amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20140320734
    Abstract: An image sensor has multiple pixel units in correspondence with each microlens, and focus detection is performed with a phase-difference detection method using output from the image sensor. The signals to be used in the focus detection can be combined, and a larger signal combining amount is set in the case of output from the image sensor with a first thinning amount than in the case of output from the image sensor with a second thinning amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Funatsu