Patents by Inventor Yukinori Nishiyama
Yukinori Nishiyama 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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Publication number: 20240119599Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus including an image sensor and a processor, in which the processor acquires distance data related to distances between the imaging apparatus and a plurality of subjects within an imaging area imaged by the image sensor, generates boundary data indicating a region of a boundary subject that is present at a distance of a boundary portion of a depth of field among the plurality of subjects, based on the distance data, generates moving image data including the boundary data based on image data obtained by imaging with the image sensor, and outputs the moving image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinya FUJIWARA, Taro SAITO, Yukinori NISHIYAMA, Takehiro KOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20240015404Abstract: Provided are an imaging device, an imaging method, and an imaging program capable of easily acquiring a slow moving image with good image quality. In one aspect of the present invention, an imaging device includes an optical system, an imaging element, and a processor, and the processor performs detection processing of detecting a movement of a subject based on an image signal output from the imaging element, frame rate control of increasing a frame rate of a moving image output from the imaging element based on the detected movement, exposure control processing of maintaining a rate of an exposure time per frame of the moving image constant according to the increase in the frame rate, and dimming control processing of changing a degree of dimming of the optical system according to the exposure control processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takehiro KOGUCHI, Taro SAITO, Yukinori NISHIYAMA, Tomoharu SHIMADA
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Publication number: 20240013343Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor and a processor. The processor performs demosaicing processing on captured image data obtained by being imaged by the image sensor, acquires distance data representing a distance between the imaging apparatus and a subject for each of a plurality of pixels included in a captured image represented based on the captured image data, specifies a correction target pixel from among the plurality of pixels based on the distance data, and performs correction processing of correcting a false signal generated by the demosaicing processing, on correction target pixel data of the correction target pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Taro SAITO, Takehiro KOGUCHI, Shinya FUJIWARA, Yukinori NISHIYAMA
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Patent number: 11871106Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that change a display form of a display unit in accordance with whether or not a display content of the display unit is visually recognizable. An imaging apparatus (10) includes a first display unit (13), and a processor (40), in which the processor (40) performs a determination process for determining whether or not a display content of the first display unit (13) is visually recognizable by a user, and a display control for displaying a first display including at least one of a captured image or a character in a case where it is determined through the determination process that the display content is visually recognizable, and for causing the first display unit (13) to display a second display that is a surface display in a case where it is not determined through the determination process that the display content is visually recognizable.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Taro Saito, Takehiro Koguchi, Yukinori Nishiyama, Tomoharu Shimada
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Publication number: 20230419520Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus including an image sensor, and a processor, in which the processor acquires first distance data related to a distance between the imaging apparatus and a first object included in a moving image, which is shown by moving image data obtained by being imaged by the image sensor, and second distance data related to a distance between the imaging apparatus and a second object included in the moving image, and controls a focus position according to whether or not a first object position in a depth direction based on the first distance data and a second object position in the depth direction based on the second distance data are within a depth of field.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yukinori NISHIYAMA, Shinya FUJIWARA, Taro SAITO, Takehiro Koguchi
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Publication number: 20230412921Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus including an image sensor, and a processor, in which the processor is configured to detect a focus region within an imaging area based on imaging data obtained by the image sensor, generate moving image data based on the imaging data obtained by the image sensor, generate information image data representing information related to the moving image data, output the moving image data and the information image data, which is associated with a window region in an image represented by the moving image data, and control a position of the window region according to the focus region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Taro SAITO, Takehiro KOGUCHI, Shinya FUJIWARA, Yukinori NISHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230396882Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus including an image sensor, and a processor, in which the processor is configured to acquire information related to distances at a plurality of positions within an imaging area of the image sensor, generate moving image data represented with a vertical axis and a lateral axis, based on imaging data obtained by the image sensor, generate distance image data in which a first axis corresponds to the vertical axis or the lateral axis and a second axis represents the information related to the distance, and output the moving image data and the distance image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinya FUJIWARA, Taro SAITO, Yukinori NISHIYAMA, Takehiro KOGUCHI
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Patent number: 11805320Abstract: Provided are an imaging device, an imaging method, and an imaging program capable of easily acquiring a slow moving image with good image quality. In one aspect of the present invention, an imaging device includes an optical system, an imaging element, and a processor, and the processor performs detection processing of detecting a movement of a subject based on an image signal output from the imaging element, frame rate control of increasing a frame rate of a moving image output from the imaging element based on the detected movement, exposure control processing of maintaining a rate of an exposure time per frame of the moving image constant according to the increase in the frame rate, and dimming control processing of changing a degree of dimming of the optical system according to the exposure control processing.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takehiro Koguchi, Taro Saito, Yukinori Nishiyama, Tomoharu Shimada
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Publication number: 20230300460Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system, an imaging element, and a processor, in which, in a first focus mode, the processor outputs moving image data captured by the imaging element via the imaging optical system to a display destination, detects an in-focus region in an image represented by the moving image data based on the moving image data, senses, in a case where a focus operation is performed, a termination of the focus operation based on a time related to the focus operation, sets, in a case where the termination of the focus operation is sensed, a subject present in the in-focus region as a tracking target to continuously perform tracking processing and auto focus control, and terminates, in a case where the focus operation is performed again after the tracking processing and the auto focus control are started, the tracking processing and the auto focus control.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Taro SAITO, Takehiro Koguchi, Shinya Fujiwara, Yukinori Nishiyama, Tomoharu Shimada
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Publication number: 20230283904Abstract: An imaging apparatus facilitating recording of a video within an extraction range while moving the extraction range within an angle of view are provided, which includes an image sensor that captures a reference video which is a motion picture, a housing that accommodates the image sensor, a detection portion for detecting a motion of the housing, and a processor configured to execute setting processing of setting an extraction range smaller than an angle of view within the angle of view in a case of capturing the reference video, extraction processing of extracting an extraction video within the extraction range from the reference video, movement processing of moving the extraction range within the angle of view over time in accordance with the motion detected by the detection portion, and recording processing of recording the extraction video during movement of the extraction range in the movement processing on a recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsu WADA, Koichi TANAKA, Yukinori NISHIYAMA, Yuya NISHIO, Kenkichi HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230276017Abstract: A video creation method of creating a video is provided. The method includes setting, in an imaging region of a reference video having a first angle of view, one or more regions having a second angle of view different from the first angle of view, determining a selection region that is the region in which a subject of a recording target is included, switching the selection region, displaying an insertion video in a period between a display period of a pre-switching video which is a video of the selection region before the switching and a display period of a post-switching video which is a video of the selection region after the switching, and executing, during a display period of the insertion video, a process to change a displayed video from one of the pre-switching video or the post-switching video to the other of the pre-switching video or the post-switching video.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Koichi TANAKA, Tetsu WADA, Yukinori NISHIYAMA, Yuya NISHIO
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Publication number: 20230254580Abstract: Provided are a display method and a video recording method for a user to perceive a position of an extraction range moving within an angle of view, wherein the display method includes an acquisition step of acquiring a reference video that is a motion picture, an extraction step of extracting an extraction video set to be smaller than an angle of view of the reference video within the angle of view from the reference video, a movement step of moving an extraction range of the extraction video over time, a first display step of displaying the extraction video on a display device, and a second display step of displaying a support video based on a positional relationship between the angle of view and the extraction range on the display device, in which the second display step is executed during execution of the first display step.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuya NISHIO, Tetsu WADA, Koichi TANAKA, Yukinori NISHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230247279Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of improving operability in a case in which manual focus adjustment is performed. Processing of extracting a plurality of subjects from moving image data obtained by imaging is performed, first moving image data in which a region including a specific subject among the plurality of subjects is magnified is output to a display destination, and, in a case in which a change has occurred in any of the plurality of subjects in the moving image data, second moving image data in which a region of each of the plurality of subjects is magnified is output to the display destination instead of the first moving image data, and then, in a case in which an instruction to select the subject is given, third moving image data in which a region including a selected subject is magnified is output to the display destination instead of the second moving image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tomoharu Shimada, Takehiro KOGUCHI, Shinya FUJIWARA, Taro SAITO, Yukinori NISHIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230232114Abstract: Provided are an imaging device, an imaging method, and an imaging program capable of easily capturing a moving image under an imaging condition desired by a user. In one aspect of the present invention, an imaging device includes an imaging unit and a processor. The processor sets a first imaging parameter applied to moving image data captured by the imaging unit, records first moving image data captured based on the first imaging parameter on a recording device before a first operation by a user of the imaging device is received, sets a second imaging parameter applied to the moving image data in a case where the first operation is received, and records the second moving image data captured based on the second imaging parameter on the recording device in a case where a second operation by the user is received after the reception of the first operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Takehiro KOGUCHI, Shinya FUJIWARA, Taro SAITO, Yukinori NISHIYAMA, Tomoharu SHIMADA
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Patent number: 11696033Abstract: An imaging apparatus and an imaging method that further facilitate recording of a video within an extraction range while moving the extraction range within an angle of view are provided. An imaging apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an image sensor that captures a reference video which is a motion picture, a housing that accommodates the image sensor, a detection portion for detecting a motion of the housing, and a processor.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Tetsu Wada, Koichi Tanaka, Yukinori Nishiyama, Yuya Nishio, Kenkichi Hayashi
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Patent number: 11689687Abstract: Provided is a video creation method in which, in a configuration in which a part of a captured video is extracted and displayed, the adjustment of an exposure amount and the video display in a case in which an extracted region is changed are appropriately executed.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Koichi Tanaka, Tetsu Wada, Yukinori Nishiyama, Yuya Nishio
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Publication number: 20230188835Abstract: Provided are an imaging device, an imaging instruction method, and an imaging instruction program capable of efficiently changing an imaging condition during capturing of a moving image. In one aspect of the present invention, an imaging device is an imaging device including an imaging unit that captures a moving image and a processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yukinori NISHIYAMA, Takehiro KOGUCHI, Shinya FUJIWARA, Taro SAITO, Tomoharu SHIMADA
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IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM
Publication number: 20230188849Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor (16) and a memory, in which the processor (16) performs processing of generating first moving image data for recording based on input imaging data, processing of setting a specific subject region including a specific subject in an imaging region represented by the imaging data or the first moving image data, processing of evaluating a focus state based on the imaging data or the first moving image data, processing of generating second moving image data for display in which a focus state of the specific subject region is visually recognizable based on data of the specific subject region, an evaluation result of the focus state, and the first moving image data, and processing of outputting the second moving image data to a display destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: FUJIFIM CorporationInventors: Shinya FUJIWARA, Takehiro KOGUCHI, Taro SAITO, Yukinori NISHIYAMA, Tomoharu SHIMADA -
Patent number: 11665429Abstract: Provided are a display method and a video recording method for a user to perceive a position of an extraction range moving within an angle of view. A display method according to an aspect of the present invention includes an acquisition step of acquiring a reference video that is a motion picture, an extraction step of extracting an extraction video set to be smaller than an angle of view of the reference video within the angle of view from the reference video, a movement step of moving an extraction range of the extraction video over time, a first display step of displaying the extraction video on a display device, and a second display step of displaying a support video based on a positional relationship between the angle of view and the extraction range on the display device, in which the second display step is executed during execution of the first display step.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuya Nishio, Tetsu Wada, Koichi Tanaka, Yukinori Nishiyama
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Publication number: 20230142489Abstract: Provided are an image processing device, an image processing method, an image processing program, and an imaging device capable of generating two pieces of moving image data subjected to different pieces of image processing. A processor is configured to perform processing of calculating a first image processing parameter from first moving image data obtained by imaging, processing of generating second moving image data from the first moving image data based on the first image processing parameter, processing of storing the first moving image data in the memory, and processing of generating third moving image data from the first moving image data stored in the memory based on a second image processing parameter calculated from the first moving image data with a lapse of a time (T) after the first moving image data starts to be stored in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2023Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Taro SAITO, Takehiro KOGUCHI, Yukinori NISHIYAMA, Tomoharu SHIMADA, Shinya FUJIWARA