Patents by Inventor Yuji Miyauchi
Yuji Miyauchi 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: 10542198Abstract: To provide an operation support system capable of performing evidence recording of each of performed operations, an operation support system includes a first image pickup apparatus configured to mainly acquire movie data, a second image pickup apparatus configured to mainly acquire still image data, a control apparatus configured to control the first image pickup apparatus and the second image pickup apparatus in cooperation with each other while acquiring operation information about a predetermined operation, and a database storing defined operation information about the predetermined operation in advance, in which the predetermined operation is supported based on image data acquired by causing the first image pickup apparatus and the second image pickup apparatus to cooperate with each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiko Shimura, Kazuo Kanda, Yoshiyuki Fukuya, Takashi Muroi, Yuji Miyauchi
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Publication number: 20190122047Abstract: A work support system according to the present invention includes: an image pickup apparatus configured to acquire image data; a control apparatus configured to acquire pieces of process information chronologically managed in a database; and a recording apparatus configured to record the image data acquired by the image pickup apparatus, in association with meta data including a piece of process information corresponding to the image data, from among the pieces of process information acquired by the control apparatus, and shooting time information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuyuki UEMURA, Yoji OSANAI, Yuji MIYAUCHI, Kazuhiko OSA, Osamu NONAKA
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Publication number: 20190058818Abstract: To provide an operation support system capable of performing evidence recording of each of performed operations, an operation support system includes a first image pickup apparatus configured to mainly acquire movie data, a second image pickup apparatus configured to mainly acquire still image data, a control apparatus configured to control the first image pickup apparatus and the second image pickup apparatus in cooperation with each other while acquiring operation information about a predetermined operation, and a database storing defined operation information about the predetermined operation in advance, in which the predetermined operation is supported based on image data acquired by causing the first image pickup apparatus and the second image pickup apparatus to cooperate with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiko SHIMURA, Kazuo KANDA, Yoshiyuki FUKUYA, Takashi MUROI, Yuji MIYAUCHI
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Patent number: 9025044Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that images a subject and that continuously creates image data on the subject; a display unit that chronologically displays live view images associated with the image data created by the imaging unit; a face detector that detects the face of a subject included in the live view image; a trimming unit that creates a face image by cutting out, from the live view images, a face area including the face of the subject detected by the face detector; and a display controller that displays the face image created by the trimming unit at a display position specified in a display area of the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Fukuya, Kensei Ito, Hideaki Matsuoto, Yuji Miyauchi, Osamu Nonaka
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Publication number: 20120307101Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging unit that images a subject and that continuously creates image data on the subject; a display unit that chronologically displays live view images associated with the image data created by the imaging unit; a face detector that detects the face of a subject included in the live view image; a trimming unit that creates a face image by cutting out, from the live view images, a face area including the face of the subject detected by the face detector; and a display controller that displays the face image created by the trimming unit at a display position specified in a display area of the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: Yoshiyuki FUKUYA, Kensei ITO, Hideaki MATSUOTO, Yuji MIYAUCHI, Osamu NONAKA
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Patent number: 7605982Abstract: The invention relates to an image pickup system comprising an electronic view finder suitable for achieving compactness and having a sufficient viewing angle of field and satisfactory optical performance. The image pickup system comprises an image pickup device, an image display device for displaying an image, a controller for converting image formation obtained from the image pickup device into a signal that enables the image information to be formed on the image display device, and a viewing optical system for guiding an image displayed on the display device to a viewer's eye. The viewing optical system comprises at least three lenses.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Yuji Miyauchi, Hirohiko Kimata
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Patent number: 7602437Abstract: An optical system is presented that enables images of a wide range of natural subjects to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including, at least, an image pickup optical system, an electronic image pickup device having three or more different spectral characteristics to obtain a color image, and a controller for implementing signal processing or image processing on the basis of an output from the electronic image pickup device. The optical element that takes part in determining the focal length in the image pickup system includes an optical element making use of a refraction phenomenon alone.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2006Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Shinichi Mihara, Hisashi Goto, Yuji Miyauchi, Toyoharu Hanzawa, Masahiro Imamura, Yuko Kobayashi, Tsutomu Uzawa, Toshihide Nozawa, Takuji Horie, Kouki Hozumi
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Patent number: 7599121Abstract: The invention relates to an image pickup system comprising an electronic view finder suitable for achieving compactness and having a sufficient viewing angle of field and satisfactory optical performance. The image pickup system comprises an image pickup device, an image display device for displaying an image, a controller for converting image formation obtained from the image pickup device into a signal that enables the image information to be formed on the image display device, and a viewing optical system for guiding an image displayed on the display device to a viewer's eye. The viewing optical system comprises at least three lenses.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Yuji Miyauchi, Hirohiko Kimata
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Patent number: 7593162Abstract: The invention relates to an image pickup system comprising an electronic view finder suitable for achieving compactness and having a sufficient viewing angle of field and satisfactory optical performance. The image pickup system comprises an image pickup device, an image display device for displaying an image, a controller for converting image formation obtained from the image pickup device into a signal that enables the image information to be formed on the image display device, and a viewing optical system for guiding an image displayed on the display device to a viewers eye. The viewing optical system comprises at least three lenses.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2005Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Yuji Miyauchi, Hirohiko Kimata
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Patent number: 7567288Abstract: An optical system is presented that enables images of a wide range of natural subjects to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including, at least, an image pickup optical system, an electronic image pickup device having three or more different spectral characteristics to obtain a color image, and a controller for implementing signal processing or image processing on the basis of an output from the electronic image pickup device. The optical element that takes part in determining the focal length in the image pickup system includes an optical element making use of a refraction phenomenon alone.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2006Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Shinichi Mihara, Hisashi Goto, Yuji Miyauchi, Toyoharu Hanzawa, Masahiro Imamura, Yuko Kobayashi, Tsutomu Uzawa, Toshihide Nozawa, Takuji Horie, Kouki Hozumi
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Patent number: 7564497Abstract: An optical system enables images to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including an image pickup optical system, an electronic image pickup device to obtain a color image and a controller for implementing signal processing or image processing on the basis of an output from the electronic image pickup device. The optical element that takes part in the determination of a focal length includes an optical element making use of a refraction phenomenon alone. The 400-nm wavelength input/output ratio is 10% or less with respect to an input-output ratio for a 400-nm to 800-nm wavelength at which an output signal strength ratio with respect to an input quantity of light is highest when the input quantity of light is defined by the quantity of a light beam emanating from the same object point and entering the image pickup optical system and the output signal strength is defined by the strength of a signal produced from the controller in response to the light beam.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2006Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Shinichi Mihara, Hisashi Goto, Yuji Miyauchi, Toyoharu Hanzawa, Masahiro Imamura, Yuko Kobayashi, Tsutomu Uzawa, Toshihide Nozawa, Takuji Horie, Kouki Hozumi
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Patent number: 7529031Abstract: The invention relates to an image pickup system comprising an electronic view finder suitable for achieving compactness and having a sufficient viewing angle of field and satisfactory optical performance. The image pickup system comprises an image pickup device, an image display device for displaying an image, a controller for converting image formation obtained from the image pickup device into a signal that enables the image information to be formed on the image display device, and a viewing optical system for guiding an image displayed on the display device to a viewer's eye. The viewing optical system comprises at least three lenses.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Yuji Miyauchi, Hirohiko Kimata
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Publication number: 20080291297Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging system in which, while high image quality is maintained with the influence of diffraction minimized, the quantity of light is controlled, and which enables the length of the zoom lens to be cut down. The imaging system comprises a zoom lens comprising a plurality of lens groups G1 and G2 wherein the spacing between individual lens groups is varied to vary a focal length and an aperture stop located in an optical path for limiting at least an axial light beam diameter, and an electronic image pickup device I located on the image side of the zoom lens. The aperture stop has a fixed shape, and a filter S2 for performing light quantity control by varying transmittance is located on an optical axis of a space located at a position different from that of a space in which the aperture stop is located.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Masahito Watanabe, Shinichi Mihara, Azusa Noguchi, Toru Miyajima, Yuji Miyauchi
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Patent number: 7420611Abstract: The invention makes a suitable selection from zoom modes and lens elements so thin that the thickness of each lens group can reduced, thereby slimming down a zoom lens with great thoroughness and, hence, an electronic image pickup system. The electronic image pickup system a zoom lens and an electronic image pickup device located on the image plane side of the zoom lens. The zoom lens comprises, in order from the object side, a first lens group G1 comprising two lens components and having generally negative power and a second lens group G2 comprising two lens components and having generally positive power. The focal length of the zoom lens can be varied by varying the air separation between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2. The zoom lens should satisfy at least one of conditions (a) to (n).Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2006Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Masahito Watanabe, Toru Miyajima, Shinichi Mihara, Yuji Miyauchi, Toshihide Nozawa, Hisashi Goto
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Patent number: 7417684Abstract: The invention makes a suitable selection from zoom modes and lens elements so thin that the thickness of each lens group can reduced, thereby slimming down a zoom lens with great thoroughness and, hence, an electronic image pickup system. The electronic image pickup system a zoom lens and an electronic image pickup device located on the image plane side of the zoom lens. The zoom lens comprises, in order from the object side, a first lens group G1 comprising two lens components and having generally negative power and a second lens group G2 comprising two lens components and having generally positive power. The focal length of the zoom lens can be varied by varying the air separation between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2. The zoom lens should satisfy at least one of conditions (a) to (n).Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Masahito Watanabe, Toru Miyajima, Shinichi Mihara, Yuji Miyauchi, Toshihide Nozawa, Hisashi Goto
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Patent number: 7414665Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging system in which, while high image quality is maintained with the influence of diffraction minimized, the quantity of light is controlled, and which enables the length of the zoom lens to be cut down. The imaging system comprises a zoom lens comprising a plurality of lens groups G1 and G2 wherein the spacing between individual lens groups is varied to vary a focal length and an aperture stop located in an optical path for limiting at least an axial light beam diameter, and an electronic image pickup device I located on the image side of the zoom lens. The aperture stop has a fixed shape, and a filter S2 for performing light quantity control by varying transmittance is located on an optical axis of a space located at a position different from that of a space in which the aperture stop is located.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2003Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Masahito Watanabe, Shinichi Mihara, Azusa Noguchi, Toru Miyajima, Yuji Miyauchi
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Patent number: 7289152Abstract: The invention makes a suitable selection from zoom modes and lens elements so thin that the thickness of each lens group can reduced, thereby slimming down a zoom lens with great thoroughness and, hence, an electronic image pickup system. The electronic image pickup system a zoom lens and an electronic image pickup device located on the image plane side of the zoom lens. The zoom lens comprises, in order from the object side, a first lens group G1 comprising two lens components and having generally negative power and a second lens group G2 comprising two lens components and having generally positive power. The focal length of the zoom lens can be varied by varying the air separation between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2. The zoom lens should satisfy at least one of conditions (a) to (n).Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Masahito Watanabe, Toru Miyajima, Shinichi Mihara, Yuji Miyauchi, Toshihide Nozawa, Hisashi Goto
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Patent number: RE39899Abstract: The invention provides a zoom lens system much more reduced in size and cost than ever before and best-suited for use on portable information terminals of small size. The zoom lens system comprises, in order from an object side thereof, a first lens group G1 having positive refracting power and designed to be fixed during zooming, a second lens group G2 having negative refracting power and designed to move from the object side to an image plane side of the system for zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end of the system, a third lens group having refracting power and designed to move from the image plane side to the object side for zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, and a fourth lens group G4 having positive refracting power and designed to be movable during zooming.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2004Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Yuji Miyauchi
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Patent number: RE40563Abstract: The invention relates to an image pickup system comprising an electronic view finder suitable for achieving compactness and having a sufficient viewing angle of field and satisfactory optical performance. The image pickup system comprises an image pickup device, an image display device for displaying an image, a controller for converting image formation obtained from the image pickup device into a signal that enables the image information to be formed on the image display device, and a viewing optical system for guiding an image displayed on the display device to a viewer's eye. The viewing optical system comprises at least three lenses.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2006Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Yuji Miyauchi, Hirohiko Kimata
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Patent number: RE40582Abstract: The invention provides a zoom lens system that is reduced in terms of both size and cost. The zoom lens system comprises a first positive lens group G1, a second negative lens group G2, a stop S, a third positive lens group G3 and a fourth positive lens group G4. During zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end of the system, while the first lens group G1 remains fixed, the second lens group G2 moves from an object side to an image plane side of the system, the third lens group G3 moves from the image plane side to the object side, and the fourth lens group G4 moves to keep an image plane at a constant position.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2003Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Atsujiro Ishii, Yuji Miyauchi