Patents by Inventor Yuichi Kosaka

Yuichi Kosaka 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: 20250102897
    Abstract: A stereoscopic optical system includes two optical systems arranged in parallel. Optical images corresponding to the two optical systems are formed on different areas in a single image sensor. Each of the two optical systems includes a plurality of lens units. A distance between adjacent lens units changes when a focal length changes in each of the two optical systems. One of the plurality of lens units is a movable lens unit. A predetermined inequality is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Fumihiro SHINOBU, Akira MIZUMA, Yuichi KOSAKA, Shinichiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20250093761
    Abstract: A stereoscopic optical system includes two optical systems arranged in parallel. Each of the two optical systems includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front group, an aperture stop, and a rear group. Predetermined inequalities are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Yuichi KOSAKA, Akira MIZUMA, Fumihiro SHINOBU
  • Publication number: 20250067965
    Abstract: An optical system includes a first optical system configured to form an optical image of an object in a first imaging area, and a second optical system disposed in parallel with the first optical system and configured to form an optical image of the object in a second imaging area. Each of the first optical system and the second optical system includes an aperture stop fixed in an optical axis direction relative to a position of an image plane, and a lens unit disposed on an image plane side of the aperture stop and movable in the optical axis direction. A predetermined inequality is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Akira MIZUMA, Yuichi KOSAKA, Fumihiro SHINOBU
  • Patent number: 11378787
    Abstract: A lens apparatus includes an optical system including a front lens group having a positive refractive power and configured to move to an object side during focusing from infinity to a close-distance object, and a rear lens group arranged on an image side of the front lens group and configured to be immovable during focusing, a motor configured to move the front lens group, and a holding member including a flange portion, on the object side, extending in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the optical system and configured to hold at least part of the rear lens group, wherein the motor includes a coil, a casing housing the coil, and a shaft portion extending from the casing in an optical-axis direction of the optical system, and arranged at a position at which an end surface on the image side of the casing is on the object side with respect to the flange portion in the optical-axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Kosaka, Shinsuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11104476
    Abstract: A package is formed of a die cut paperboard that includes a cutout that is covered by a polymer sheet. The sheet holds an item, such as by stretching, against the bottom side of the unpadded paperboard, which is chosen according to its ability to be transported on metal roller conveyors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Zhang, Ryo Igarashi, Yuichi Kosaka, Masahiro Uchida, Susumu Yamasaki, Shigekazu Ishiguro, Sayaka Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 10917554
    Abstract: A lens apparatus detachably attachable to an image capturing apparatus including a focus detection unit having a focus detection optical system and performing focus detection process, and a controller controlling driving of a focusing lens unit based on a result of the focus detection process, via an extender including an extender optical system, includes an image capturing optical system including the focusing lens unit, and a determination unit determining a first correction value used for correcting the result of the focus detection process. When the lens apparatus is attached to the image capturing apparatus via the extender, the determination unit determines the first correction value using first information regarding a diameter of a pupil of the focus detection optical system and second information regarding a diameter of a pupil of an optical system including the image capturing optical system and the extender optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichi Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20200073094
    Abstract: A lens apparatus includes an optical system including a front lens group having a positive refractive power and configured to move to an object side during focusing from infinity to a close-distance object, and a rear lens group arranged on an image side of the front lens group and configured to be immovable during focusing, a motor configured to move the front lens group, and a holding member including a flange portion, on the object side, extending in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the optical system and configured to hold at least part of the rear lens group, wherein the motor includes a coil, a casing housing the coil, and a shaft portion extending from the casing in an optical-axis direction of the optical system, and arranged at a position at which an end surface on the image side of the casing is on the object side with respect to the flange portion in the optical-axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichi Kosaka, Shinsuke Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20200031515
    Abstract: A package is formed of a die cut paperboard that includes a cutout that is covered by a polymer sheet. The sheet holds an item, such as by stretching, against the bottom side of the unpadded paperboard, which is chosen according to its ability to be transported on metal roller conveyors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Qi Zhang, Ryo Igarashi, Yuichi Kosaka, Masahiro Uchida, Susumu Yamasaki, Shigekazu Ishiguro, Sayaka Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20190306406
    Abstract: A lens apparatus detachably attachable to an image capturing apparatus including a focus detection unit having a focus detection optical system and performing focus detection process, and a controller controlling driving of a focusing lens unit based on a result of the focus detection process, via an extender including an extender optical system, includes an image capturing optical system including the focusing lens unit, and a determination unit determining a first correction value used for correcting the result of the focus detection process. When the lens apparatus is attached to the image capturing apparatus via the extender, the determination unit determines the first correction value using first information regarding a diameter of a pupil of the focus detection optical system and second information regarding a diameter of a pupil of an optical system including the image capturing optical system and the extender optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventor: Yuichi Kosaka
  • Patent number: 10244157
    Abstract: The interchangeable lens apparatus provided with an image capturing optical system and being detachably attachable to an image capturing apparatus, the image capturing apparatus being configured to detect a defocus amount of the image capturing optical system by using a signal acquired by photoelectric conversion of an optical image formed by the image capturing optical system. The interchangeable lens apparatus includes a focus lens included in the image capturing optical system, and a memory to store information on a focus sensitivity indicating a relation between a unit movement amount of the focus lens and a displacement amount of the optical image. The information on the focus sensitivity is information for enabling acquiring the focus sensitivity different depending on an image height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Yuichi Kosaka, Takahito Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 9906705
    Abstract: The image pickup apparatus includes a focus detector to produce, by using a light from an object passing through an image-taking optical system, focus information indicating a focus state of the image-taking optical system, a light-receiving sensor including visible-light receiving elements each receiving the light from the object and respectively having sensitivity centroids in mutually different wavelength ranges of a visible wavelength range, and a controller. The light-receiving sensor includes, separately from the visible-light receiving elements, infrared receiving elements each having a sensitivity centroid in an infrared wavelength range. An infrared-cutting filter disposed on a light-entering side further than the light-receiving sensor has a half-value wavelength longer than a wavelength of the sensitivity centroid of the infrared receiving elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichi Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20160073005
    Abstract: The interchangeable lens apparatus provided with an image capturing optical system and being detachably attachable to an image capturing apparatus, the image capturing apparatus being configured to detect a defocus amount of the image capturing optical system by using a signal acquired by photoelectric conversion of an optical image formed by the image capturing optical system. The interchangeable lens apparatus includes a focus lens included in the image capturing optical system, and a memory to store information on a focus sensitivity indicating a relation between a unit movement amount of the focus lens and a displacement amount of the optical image. The information on the focus sensitivity is information for enabling acquiring the focus sensitivity different depending on an image height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Shigenobu Sugita, Yuichi Kosaka, Takahito Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 9140889
    Abstract: A finder optical system includes an erecting optical system, an eyepiece optical system, and a light metering optical system. An optical axis of the light metering optical system is non-parallel to an optical axis of the eyepiece optical system. The light metering optical system includes a first lens having positive refractive power and a second lens having negative refractive power in this order from a side of the erecting optical system to a side of an image sensor, and the second lens is a prism body reflecting a light flux incoming from an incident surface off an inner reflection surface and outputting the light flux from a light outputting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichi Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20150116500
    Abstract: The image pickup apparatus includes a focus detector to produce, by using a light from an object passing through an image-taking optical system, focus information indicating a focus state of the image-taking optical system, a light-receiving sensor including visible-light receiving elements each receiving the light from the object and respectively having sensitivity centroids in mutually different wavelength ranges of a visible wavelength range, and a controller. The light-receiving sensor includes, separately from the visible-light receiving elements, infrared receiving elements each having a sensitivity centroid in an infrared wavelength range. An infrared-cutting filter disposed on a light-entering side further than the light-receiving sensor has a half-value wavelength longer than a wavelength of the sensitivity centroid of the infrared receiving elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Yuichi KOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20140240583
    Abstract: A finder optical system includes an erecting optical system, an eyepiece optical system, and a light metering optical system. An optical axis of the light metering optical system is non-parallel to an optical axis of the eyepiece optical system. The light metering optical system includes a first lens having positive refractive power and a second lens having negative refractive power in this order from a side of the erecting optical system to a side of an image sensor, and the second lens is a prism body reflecting a light flux incoming from an incident surface off an inner reflection surface and outputting the light flux from a light outputting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichi Kosaka
  • Patent number: 8531545
    Abstract: The image processing apparatus performs image processing on an input image produced by image pickup of a scene through an optical system, the scene including plural objects whose object distances are mutually different. The apparatus includes a filter acquisition part acquiring a chromatic aberration correction filter for an out-of-focus area in the input image and an image restoration filter, and a processing part performing chromatic aberration correction processing using the chromatic aberration correction filter and image restoration processing using the image restoration filter on the input image. The filter acquisition part acquires the chromatic aberration correction filter by using information on chromatic aberration of the optical system, information on an in-focus distance of the optical system in the image pickup of the scene, and information on the distances to the respective objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuichi Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20110242372
    Abstract: The image processing apparatus performs image processing on an input image produced by image pickup of a scene through an optical system, the scene including plural objects whose object distances are mutually different. The apparatus includes a filter acquisition part acquiring a chromatic aberration correction filter for an out-of-focus area in the input image and an image restoration filter, and a processing part performing chromatic aberration correction processing using the chromatic aberration correction filter and image restoration processing using the image restoration filter on the input image. The filter acquisition part acquires the chromatic aberration correction filter by using information on chromatic aberration of the optical system, information on an in-focus distance of the optical system in the image pickup of the scene, and information on the distances to the respective objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichi Kosaka
  • Patent number: D599654
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
    Inventors: Yuichi Kosaka, Daniel Tabrah