Patents by Inventor Yuya HIRAKAWA

Yuya HIRAKAWA 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: 12192627
    Abstract: Provided are a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a signal processing program, an imaging apparatus, and a lens apparatus capable of accurately calculating an amount of blurring on the basis of a signal which is output from a blurring detection sensor. The signal processing device processes a signal which is output from a blurring detection sensor in progress of exposure of an imaging element. The signal processing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform processing of generating a second signal obtained by performing high-pass filter processing on a first signal which is output from the blurring detection sensor; and processing of calculating an amount of blurring on the basis of the first signal or the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiki Kobayashi, Yota Akashi, Yuya Hirakawa, Yuta Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12177568
    Abstract: Provided are a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a signal processing program, an imaging apparatus, and a lens apparatus capable of accurately removing an offset from an output signal of a blurring detection sensor. The signal processing device comprises the blurring detection sensor and a processor. The processor is configured to execute processing of extracting a first feature amount relating to the offset from the output signal of the blurring detection sensor, processing of integrating the output signal, processing of extracting a second feature amount relating to the offset from a value obtained by integrating the output signal, processing of calculating the offset on the basis of the first feature amount and the second feature amount, and processing of subtracting the calculated offset from the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiki Kobayashi, Yota Akashi, Yuya Hirakawa, Yuta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240371052
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to generate a channel image for each channel by performing assignment processing of assigning a plurality of different spectral images to different channels, and generate a first pseudo-color image based on a plurality of the channel images. The assignment processing includes processing of generating the channel image based on an operation including subtraction for a first spectral image among the plurality of spectral images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunobu KISHINE, Kazuyoshi OKADA, Atsushi KAWANAGO, Takashi KUNUGISE, Yuya HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240353652
    Abstract: An imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens group, a stop, a second lens group, and a third lens group. At least a spacing between the second lens group and the third lens group changes during focusing. The number of lenses included in the imaging lens is equal to or greater than 7 and equal to or less than 10. The imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya HIRAKAWA, Masato KONDO, Shunsuke MIYAGISHIMA, Yasutaka SHIMADA
  • Patent number: 12096135
    Abstract: Provided are an imaging apparatus and a method capable of capturing a high-quality multi spectral image. The imaging apparatus includes: an optical system that has three or more aperture regions at a pupil position or near the pupil position, each of the aperture regions being provided with a different combination of a polarizing filter and a bandpass filter such that the aperture region transmits light having a combination of a different polarization angle and a different wavelength range; an image sensor in which three or more types of pixels that receive light having different polarization angles are arranged two-dimensionally; and a processor that performs interference removal processing on a signal output from the image sensor and generates an image signal for each of the aperture regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunobu Kishine, Atsushi Kawanago, Kazuyoshi Okada, Yuya Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20240265510
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus, a method, a program, and a multispectral camera that can favorably remove an interference component and reduce noise included in a plurality of images output from an image sensor of a multispectral camera are provided. In a data processing method, first captured data that corresponds to a plurality of wavelength ranges output from an image sensor of a multispectral camera and that includes first noise is processed. In the data processing method, an interference removing parameter for removing an interference component included in the first captured data is acquired (step S30), and the interference component included in the first captured data is removed based on the interference removing parameter (step S40). Then, noise reducing processing of reducing second noise included in second captured data after interference removing is performed (step S60).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi TANAKA, Yasunobu KISHINE, Kazuyoshi OKADA, Takashi KUNUGISE, Yuya HIRAKAWA, Tatsuro IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240242468
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to detection of crosstalk included in images output from an image sensor. An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to process images output from an image sensor of an imaging apparatus that captures images having different characteristics by splitting a pupil. The processor is configured to acquire a first image that is captured by the imaging apparatus under a first imaging condition and that is output from the image sensor, acquire a second image that is captured by the imaging apparatus under a second imaging condition different from the first imaging condition and that has the same characteristic as the first image among the images output from the image sensor, and detect crosstalk included in the images based on a correlation between feature amounts of the first image and the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro IWASAKI, Yasunobu KISHINE, Kazuyoshi OKADA, Takashi KUNUGISE, Koichi TANAKA, Yuya HIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240236508
    Abstract: Provided are an image data processing device and an image data processing method that can generate a high-quality image. An image data processing device for processing first image data obtained by imaging light of a subject, which has been spectrally separated into a plurality of wavelengths through a band-pass filter, with an image sensor includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire the first image data, to calculate a feature amount in a transmission wavelength range of the band-pass filter on the basis of the first image data, and to calculate information of spectral characteristics of the subject on the basis of the feature amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi KUNUGISE, Kazuyoshi OKADA, Yasunobu KISHINE, Koichi TANAKA, Yuya HIRAKAWA, Tatsuro IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240230971
    Abstract: Provided are a lens device, an imaging apparatus, and a filter unit capable of suppressing occurrence of ghosts and flares. The lens device includes a first optical filter and a second optical filter in order from an object side in an optical path. The first optical filter is composed of an optical filter (for example, a band-pass filter) that has a light transmission band in a specific wavelength region. The second optical filter is composed of an optical filter (band-stop filter) that has a light absorption band in a wavelength region which is different from the light transmission band of the first optical filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi OKADA, Yasunobu KISHINE, Yuya HIRAKAWA, Koichi TANAKA, Takashi KUNUGISE, Tatsuro IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240212107
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an information processing method, an information processing apparatus, an information processing program, and an information processing system that can acquire a multispectral image having a good image quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya HIRAKAWA, Kazuyoshi OKADA, Yasunobu KISHINE, Takashi KUNUGISE, Koichi TANAKA, Tatsuro IWASAKI
  • Patent number: 11982899
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing device, an imaging element, an image processing method, and an image processing program that satisfactorily generate a plurality of polarized image data from polarized image data acquired from an imaging element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Okada, Yasunobu Kishine, Atsushi Kawanago, Yuya Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20240134100
    Abstract: Provided are a lens device, an imaging apparatus, and a filter unit capable of suppressing occurrence of ghosts and flares. The lens device includes a first optical filter and a second optical filter in order from an object side in an optical path. The first optical filter is composed of an optical filter (for example, a band-pass filter) that has a light transmission band in a specific wavelength region. The second optical filter is composed of an optical filter (band-stop filter) that has a light absorption band in a wavelength region which is different from the light transmission band of the first optical filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi OKADA, Yasunobu KISHINE, Yuya HIRAKAWA, Koichi TANAKA, Takashi KUNUGISE, Tatsuro IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240129603
    Abstract: An imaging method of imaging a subject through a multispectral camera including a processor, includes: causing the processor to perform: a data acquisition step of acquiring first spectral data of a first subject, second spectral data of a second subject, and third spectral data of a third subject; a wavelength selection step of selecting a plurality of wavelengths from a wavelength region of the acquired first to third spectral data, the wavelength selection step being for determining, as a computational amount, a difference or a ratio between feature amounts of two pieces of spectral data, from among the first spectral data, the second spectral data, and the third spectral data, and obtaining computational amounts to select the plurality of wavelengths; and an imaging step of imaging a subject including at least one of the first subject, the second subject, or the third subject at the plurality of wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunobu KISHINE, Kazuyoshi OKADA, Atsushi KAWANAGO, Yuya HIRAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11960200
    Abstract: A lens device includes an imaging optical system and an optical member. The optical member is disposed near a pupil of the imaging optical system in a state where an optical axis of the optical member coincides with an optical axis of the imaging optical system. The optical member includes a frame that includes a plurality of aperture regions, a plurality of optical filters that are disposed in at least one of the plurality of aperture regions and include two or more optical filters transmitting light having at least some wavelength ranges different from each other, and a plurality of polarizing filters that are disposed in at least one of the plurality of aperture regions and have different polarization directions. The lens barrel has a slit, and the optical member is insertable into and removable from the imaging optical system through the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kawanago, Kazuyoshi Okada, Yasunobu Kishine, Yuya Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20240107164
    Abstract: Provided are a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a signal processing program, an imaging apparatus, and a lens apparatus capable of accurately removing an offset from an output signal of a blurring detection sensor. The signal processing device comprises the blurring detection sensor and a processor. The processor is configured to execute processing of extracting a first feature amount relating to the offset from the output signal of the blurring detection sensor, processing of integrating the output signal, processing of extracting a second feature amount relating to the offset from a value obtained by integrating the output signal, processing of calculating the offset on the basis of the first feature amount and the second feature amount, and processing of subtracting the calculated offset from the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiki KOBAYASHI, Yota AKASHI, Yuya HIRAKAWA, Yuta WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240019762
    Abstract: A lens device includes an imaging optical system and an optical member. The optical member is disposed near a pupil of the imaging optical system in a state where an optical axis of the optical member coincides with an optical axis of the imaging optical system. The optical member includes a frame that includes a plurality of aperture regions, a plurality of optical filters that are disposed in at least one of the plurality of aperture regions and include two or more optical filters transmitting light having at least some wavelength ranges different from each other, and a plurality of polarizing filters that are disposed in at least one of the plurality of aperture regions and have different polarization directions. The lens barrel has a slit, and the optical member is insertable into and removable from the imaging optical system through the slit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi KAWANAGO, Kazuyoshi OKADA, Yasunobu KISHINE, Yuya HIRAKAWA
  • Patent number: 11877061
    Abstract: Provided are a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a signal processing program, an imaging apparatus, and a lens apparatus capable of accurately removing an offset from an output signal of a blurring detection sensor. The signal processing device comprises the blurring detection sensor and a processor. The processor is configured to execute processing of extracting a first feature amount relating to the offset from the output signal of the blurring detection sensor, processing of integrating the output signal, processing of extracting a second feature amount relating to the offset from a value obtained by integrating the output signal, processing of calculating the offset on the basis of the first feature amount and the second feature amount, and processing of subtracting the calculated offset from the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiki Kobayashi, Yota Akashi, Yuya Hirakawa, Yuta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230419458
    Abstract: An image data processing device processes image data captured by an imaging device that includes an optical system which spectrally separates incident light and polarizes light with the spectrally separated wavelengths, and emits the polarized light in a specific direction and an imaging element including a plurality of pixel sets each of which includes different types of polarizers. The image data processing device performs processes of: acquiring the image data; detecting a pixel whose pixel value is out of a predetermined range as an abnormal pixel from the acquired image data; correcting a pixel value of the abnormal pixel on the basis of pixel values of peripheral pixels in a case in which the abnormal pixel is detected; and generating images of the spectrally separated wavelengths from the image data in which the pixel value of the abnormal pixel has been corrected when the abnormal pixel is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya HIRAKAWA, Kazuyoshi OKADA, Atsushi KAWANAGO, Yasunobu KISHINE
  • Patent number: 11841487
    Abstract: The imaging lens includes, in order from a position closest to an object side to an image side: a front lens group that has a positive refractive power and is immovable during focusing; a stop that is disposed subsequent to the front lens group; a first focus lens group that has a positive refractive power; a second focus lens group that has a negative refractive power; and a final lens group that has a positive refractive power, is disposed closest to the image side, and is immovable during focusing. During focusing from an infinite distance object to a short range object, the first focus lens group and the second focus lens group move to increase a mutual distance therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yuya Hirakawa
  • Publication number: 20230393059
    Abstract: Provided are a data processing apparatus, a data processing method, a data processing program, an optical element, an imaging optical system, and an imaging apparatus which can select two or more wavelengths suitable for discrimination of a desired subject among a plurality of subjects. In a data processing apparatus (10-1) including a processor, the processor performs data acquisition processing of acquiring first spectral data of a first subject and second spectral data of a second subject, and wavelength selection processing of selecting a plurality of specific wavelengths from wavelength ranges of the acquired first spectral data and second spectral data, and in the wavelength selection processing, the plurality of specific wavelengths are selected based on a difference in a feature amount between the first spectral data and the second spectral data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi KAWANAGO, Yasunobu KISHINE, Kazuyoshi OKADA, Yuya HIRAKAWA