Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Tomikura

Yoshihiro Tomikura 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: 10397492
    Abstract: The imaging device includes a camera body, a first imaging unit, a display unit, a second imaging unit and a controller. The first imaging unit is fixedly disposed on the camera body and generates a first image data by capturing a subject image. The display unit is rotatable with respect to the camera body via a hinge unit. The second imaging unit is variably disposed on a side different from the hinge unit across the display face of the display unit and generates a second image data by capturing a subject image. The controller causes the display unit to display a superimposed image obtained by superimposing an image represented by the second image data on an image represented by the first image data. The image represented by the second image data is displayed on a side of the second imaging unit on the image represented by the first image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takenori Sakai, Yoshihiro Tomikura
  • Patent number: 9843737
    Abstract: The imaging device comprises: an imaging unit, a shooting processor, an exposure information setter, and an image processor. The imaging unit stores electric charges in response to an incident light for each frame, thereby outputting an image signal. The shooting processor controls storage times, during which the imaging unit stores the electric charges. The exposure information setter sets first exposure control information that controls brightness of a first image signal generated based on a first storage time and second exposure control information that controls brightness of a second image signal generated based on a second storage time. The image processor combines the first and the second image signal. In the case where the first exposure control information satisfies a given condition, the exposure information setter sets the first and the second exposure control information such that storage times corresponding to frames adjacent to each other become equal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Tomikura, Nao Kataoka, Yuki Sato, Shuji Goto, Takashi Yamana, Hiroyuki Miyahara
  • Publication number: 20170134665
    Abstract: The imaging device of the present disclosure combines and records a plurality of images, and the imaging device includes a first imaging unit, a communicator and a controller. The first imaging unit generates a first image data by capturing a subject image. The communicator receives an image data from an electronic device. The controller generates a superimposed image obtained by superimposing an image represented by the image data received from the electronic device on an image represented by the generated first image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Takenori SAKAI, Yoshihiro TOMIKURA
  • Patent number: 9641762
    Abstract: To notify that focusing operations are completed in an imaging device with a plurality of camera modules, in a form that is easy for a user to check. The imaging device of the present disclosure includes a display unit, a first imaging unit configured to generate a first image data by capturing a subject image, a second imaging unit configured to generate a second image data by capturing a subject image, and a controller configured to cause the display unit to display a superimposed image obtained by superimposing an image represented by the generated second image data on an image represented by the generated first image data, and to display a sign that a focusing operation on the subject image being captured by the second imaging unit is completed, in a position other than on the image represented by the second image data in the superimposed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takenori Sakai, Yoshihiro Tomikura
  • Publication number: 20170118416
    Abstract: The imaging device includes a camera body, a first imaging unit, a display unit, a second imaging unit and a controller. The first imaging unit is fixedly disposed on the camera body and generates a first image data by capturing a subject image. The display unit is rotatable with respect to the camera body via a hinge unit. The second imaging unit is variably disposed on a side different from the hinge unit across the display face of the display unit and generates a second image data by capturing a subject image. The controller causes the display unit to display a superimposed image obtained by superimposing an image represented by the second image data on an image represented by the first image data. The image represented by the second image data is displayed on a side of the second imaging unit on the image represented by the first image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Takenori SAKAI, Yoshihiro TOMIKURA
  • Patent number: 9491358
    Abstract: An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: an axially rotatable imaging unit; a detector that detects a photographing direction of the imaging unit; a processor that performs image processing on image data generated by the imaging unit; and a controller that changes a setting method of an image processing parameter depending on the photographing direction detected by the detector, the image processing parameter being given to the image data by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukitaka Tsuchida, Yoshihiro Tomikura, Masahiro Yamada, Nao Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20160219207
    Abstract: The imaging device comprises: an imaging unit, a shooting processor, an exposure information setter, and an image processor. The imaging unit stores electric charges in response to an incident light for each frame, thereby outputting an image signal. The shooting processor controls storage times, during which the imaging unit stores the electric charges. The exposure information setter sets first exposure control information that controls brightness of a first image signal generated based on a first storage time and second exposure control information that controls brightness of a second image signal generated based on a second storage time. The image processor combines the first and the second image signal. In the case where the first exposure control information satisfies a given condition, the exposure information setter sets the first and the second exposure control information such that storage times corresponding to frames adjacent to each other become equal to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshihiro TOMIKURA, Nao KATAOKA, Yuki SATO, Shuji GOTO, Takashi YAMANA, Hiroyuki MIYAHARA
  • Publication number: 20150181120
    Abstract: An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: an axially rotatable imaging unit; a detector that detects a photographing direction of the imaging unit; a processor that performs image processing on image data generated by the imaging unit; and a controller that changes a setting method of an image processing parameter depending on the photographing direction detected by the detector, the image processing parameter being given to the image data by the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Yukitaka TSUCHIDA, Yoshihiro TOMIKURA, Masahiro YAMADA, Nao KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20150163409
    Abstract: To notify that focusing operations are completed in an imaging device with a plurality of camera modules, in a form that is easy for a user to check. The imaging device of the present disclosure includes a display unit, a first imaging unit configured to generate a first image data by capturing a subject image, a second imaging unit configured to generate a second image data by capturing a subject image, and a controller configured to cause the display unit to display a superimposed image obtained by superimposing an image represented by the generated second image data on an image represented by the generated first image data, and to display a sign that a focusing operation on the subject image being captured by the second imaging unit is completed, in a position other than on the image represented by the second image data in the superimposed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Takenori SAKAI, Yoshihiro TOMIKURA
  • Patent number: 8255590
    Abstract: Even if a write operation onto a storage media on an external storage device is interrupted, consistency of management information on the storage media is improved. An image file transfer device includes a transferor which transfers an image file stored on a storage media to an external device, a retriever which obtains management information in relation to a file system from a storage media included in the external device, before the transfer of the image file by the transferor, a non-volatile storage which stores the management information obtained by the retriever, and a deleter which deletes the management information stored in the non-volatile storage in response to a completion of the transfer of the image file by the transferor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Tomikura, Masafumi Nosaka, Ryohei Wakai, Ryohei Kinugawa
  • Patent number: 7817517
    Abstract: A disc recording and reproducing device and method record video data using a new file system other existing device cannot recognize. However, when a disc thus recorded is loaded in the existing device, the user is prevented from being instructed to format the disc (initialize the file system) or inadvertently erasing data thereon. The disc recording and reproducing device comprises the following elements. A first write-enable state setting unit checks a write inhibit flag when a disc is loaded, and sets the flag on the disc to a write-enable state when the flag is in a write-protect state. A first write-protect state setting unit checks information in a record history information storage when the disc is unloaded, and sets the flag on the disc to the write-protect state when data is recorded thereon or the flag in the memory is in the write-protect state and no data is recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Tomikura, Junji Soga
  • Publication number: 20100005348
    Abstract: Even if a write operation onto a storage media on an external storage device is interrupted, consistency of management information on the storage media is improved. An image file transfer device includes a transferor which transfers an image file stored on a storage media to an external device, a retriever which obtains management information in relation to a file system from a storage media included in the external device, before the transfer of the image file by the transferor, a non-volatile storage which stores the management information obtained by the retriever, and a deleter which deletes the management information stored in the non-volatile storage in response to a completion of the transfer of the image file by the transferor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Tomikura, Masafumi Nosaka, Ryohei Wakai, Ryohei Kinugawa
  • Publication number: 20080106992
    Abstract: A disc recording and reproducing device and method record video data using a new file system other existing device cannot recognize. However, when a disc thus recorded is loaded in the existing device, the user is prevented from being instructed to format the disc (initialize the file system) or inadvertently erasing data thereon. The disc recording and reproducing device comprises the following elements. A first write-enable state setting unit checks a write inhibit flag when a disc is loaded, and sets the flag on the disc to a write-enable state when the flag is in a write-protect state. A first write-protect state setting unit checks information in a record history information storage when the disc is unloaded, and sets the flag on the disc to the write-protect state when data is recorded thereon or the flag in the memory is in the write-protect state and no data is recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Tomikura, Junji Soga
  • Patent number: 5963563
    Abstract: The present invention provides an FM multiplex information receiving apparatus capable of reducing a required time for indicating a received program to a necessary minimum time and capable of executing update process for a update program. An FM multiplex information receiving apparatus is configured so as to operate as follows. The apparatus stores a received program into the memory in case that a program number which is the same as the received program is present in memory and these update code differ. The apparatus deletes the program-related information at power off or on. The apparatus retains the non-program related information in the memory until a lapse of a certain time after power off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Tomikura, Noriaki Furuta, Masayoshi Yano