Assignee: Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.

Location: Tokyo, JP
No. of patents: 78

Number	Title	Issue Date
7978240	Enhancing image quality imaging unit and image sensor There is provided an imaging unit: including an image sensor with a number of pixels arranged in a matrix, the pixels having color pixels where color filters are disposed, and white pixels where the color filters are not disposed; a sampling circuit section for samp...	07/12/2011
7859562	Visual aid display apparatus A visual aid display apparatus 1 includes, an image capturing section 50 for image capturing of a subject; an image processing section 60 for processing the image, information obtained from the image capturing section 50 so that the image...	12/28/2010
7839440	Enhancing image quality imaging unit and image sensor There is provided an imaging unit: including an image sensor with a number of pixels arranged in a matrix, the pixels having color pixels where color filters are disposed, and white pixels where the color filters are not disposed; a sampling circuit section for samp...	11/23/2010
7835050	Optical holographic device with a hologram optical element on an area smaller than an irradiation area, holographic image display device and head mounted display with a hologram optical element on an area smaller than an irradiation area A hologram optical element is formed on a substrate so as to make an optical device. The hologram optical element is formed in an area smaller than an irradiation area of a beam for reproduction such as image light or object light on the substrate. Supposing that th...	11/16/2010
7747148	Shake detecting apparatus, shake correcting apparatus and image pickup apparatus A shake detecting apparatus includes a shake detecting sensor for outputting signals resulting from shake given to the shake detecting apparatus. In the case of application, for example, to an image pickup apparatus, the shake detecting sensor detects camera shake g...	06/29/2010
7692869	Image-taking lens unit An image-taking lens unit includes: a variable magnification optical system for forming an optical image of an object with a variable magnification; and an image sensor for converting the optical image into an electrical signal. The image-taking lens unit changes th...	04/06/2010
7623159	Shake correction mechanism and image sensing apparatus using the same A shake correction mechanism 1 has an elastic support member 2 for elastically and oscillatingly supporting a lens barrel 10 at one point, and first and second actuators 3a and 3b for applying oscillating forces to th...	11/24/2009
7599201	Method of controlling the duty of a PWM signal, PWM signal generating circuit, and image forming apparatus using same A PWM signal generating circuit that generates a PWM signal having a period controlling portion for slightly fluctuating a period of the PWM signal; and a duty controlling portion for changing a duty of the PWM signal by changing a duty ratio in the period fluctuate...	10/06/2009
7592759	Stepping motor servo driving method and driving mechanism A servo driving method of the present invention to drive a stepping motor driven by a predetermined driving pulse, by a servo control method, is comprising a setting step of setting a driving mode of the stepping motor switchable at least between a first driving mod...	09/22/2009
7577290	Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image processing program The image for the face candidate region is obtained, extraction conditions are determined for extracting the eye and the mouth pixels from the face candidate region based on the size of the face candidate region. The eye pixels and the mouth pixels are then extracte...	08/18/2009
7576778	Shake correcting mechanism and camera having same shake correcting mechanism A camera with shake correction mechanism according to the invention comprises: an image pickup device for picking up object light; shake detecting device for detecting a shake exerted to a camera body; a shake correction unit provided with a driving section for exer...	08/18/2009
7573647	Optical unit and image capturing apparatus including the same In zooming, an optical unit moves the lens unit located at the most image side and the image sensor along the optical axis while not moving at least one lens unit, of a plurality of lens units, other than the lens unit located at the most image side. ...	08/11/2009
7561787	Reduction optical system with a meniscus single-lens element A reduction optical system for forming, without re-imaging, a reduced image of a subject image formed by a main lens system. The reduction optical system has on the most object side a meniscus single-lens element convex to the object side, allowing for a high-perfor...	07/14/2009
7561345	Method for fabricating lens unit, lens unit and imaging apparatus The present invention provides a method for fabricating a lens unit in which an inter-barrel member can be fixed with a high degree of accuracy without enlarging the lens barrels and the accuracy of the dimension of the inter-barrel member is not required. The metho...	07/14/2009
7557852	Image-taking apparatus, magnification variation control method, and lens unit A digital still camera switches an image sensor between moving picture shooting and still picture shooting. The digital still camera includes a variable-magnification optical system having a plurality of lens groups of which four are movable. At least one of the mov...	07/07/2009
7553797	Thermal transfer recording material and thermal transfer recording method A thermal transfer recording material contains at least one colorant represented by the following general formula (I): wherein R1 represents a trifluoromethyl, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, alkoxy...	06/30/2009
7548685	Rotating device, barrel unit, image sensing apparatus installed with the same A rotating device 9 is for rotating a vertically long drivable element 90 about specified two axes (rotation axis A, rotation axis B) and is provided with a first and a second actuators 91A, 91B for giving torques to the drivable element ...	06/16/2009
7533999	Auxiliary lighting device of camera Presented is an auxiliary lighting device that is incorporated in a camera and is disposed at a position apart from an optical axis of a photographic lens for capturing a subject. The device includes a light emitting member with a cylindrical shape to emit light for...	05/19/2009
7519283	Barrel unit, image pickup apparatus installed with the same, and method for correcting shake of barrel A barrel unit includes a barrel having an image sensing device and a photographing optical system built therein, a supporting member for pivotally supporting the barrel, a steel ball functioning as a pivot bearing portion provided between the barrel and the supporti...	04/14/2009
7499635	Image pickup apparatus incorporating shake correction An imaging apparatus of the invention includes an image pickup device for picking up object light; a mirror section for switching an optical path of the object light; a retaining member for retaining at least the mirror section; and a shake detection section for det...	03/03/2009
7489451	Taking lens system and image capturing apparatus A taking lens system is provided with, from the side of the object to be photographed, a first lens unit (G1) having positive optical power, a second lens unit (G2) having negative optical power, a third lens unit (G3) having positive optical po...	02/10/2009
7489450	Lens unit and an image-sensing apparatus therewith In a lens unit including a plurality of lens groups, the first, most object-side lens group includes a prism that changes the optical axis. In this lens unit, during zooming, while the first lens group is kept stationary, an image-sensing device is moved along the o...	02/10/2009
7474845	Lens barrel with a releasable engagement The lens barrel of the present invention, in order to provide a lens barrel capable of reliably and easily preventing the breakage of the tooth of the revolving shaft of the driving motor and the tooth of the rack which teeth are engaged with each other, the lens ba...	01/06/2009
7471886	Camera with shake correction mechanism A camera casing 100 accommodates therein a shake correction unit 2 for oscillatingly supporting an image sensor 20, a control circuit board 6 loaded with electronic components such as ASIC 61 and a driving control circuit 62...	12/30/2008
7470649	Thermal transfer image receiving sheet A thermal transfer image receiving sheet containing a substrate having thereon a porous intermediate layer and an image receiving layer in that order, wherein the porous intermediate layer has a void ratio of not less than 30%; the porous intermediate layer contains...	12/30/2008
7460286	Method for producing an optical device, optical device, image display apparatus, and head-mounted display The exposure amounts of R, G, and B laser light emitted from a fabrication light source are so adjusted that the diffraction efficiency at R, G, and B wavelengths in an optical element is commensurate with the light intensity at the R, G, and B wavelengths in the li...	12/02/2008
7458735	Image-taking lens unit An image-taking lens unit has an image-taking lens system that forms an optical image of an object and an image sensor that receives the optical image in a rectangular image-sensing region and converts the optical image into an electrical signal. The image-taking le...	12/02/2008
7450155	Image capturing apparatus The image capturing apparatus extracts and records an effective image Ap from a captured image Ao obtained by imaging of incident light from a subject on an image capturing element by an optical system composed of optical members. When an angle of view of an image t...	11/11/2008
7450154	Digital camera performing pixel shift based on electronic zoom In an electronically zoomable digital camera having a hand shake correction mechanism, when electronic zoom operates, pixel shift is carried out in such manner of capturing a reference image and then capturing a shifted image after moving an image capturing element ...	11/11/2008
7446947	Variable magnification optical system and image taking apparatus provided therewith A variable magnification optical system includes lens units that focus a ray of light from an object side on an image sensor, in which the lens unit located at a first position from the object side toward the image side includes an optical path changing element for ...	11/04/2008
7443620	Lens barrel unit and imaging apparatus There are provided a lens barrel unit and an imaging apparatus in which a plurality of constituent elements can be driven using a linear driving mechanism. The lens barrel unit 6 comprises: an actuator 31 for positioning a driving member 40 that...	10/28/2008
7436995	Image-processing apparatus, image-capturing apparatus, image-processing method and image-processing program An image processing apparatus for converting photographed image data representing a scene luminance into visual image data representing a visual image, comprises a data analyzing section to obtain a viewing condition to view a visual image, to analyze the photograph...	10/14/2008
7433584	Variable-magnification optical system and image-taking apparatus therewith A variable-magnification optical system has, from the object side to the image side, at least a first lens group having a positive optical power, a second lens group having a negative optical power, and a third lens group having a positive optical power. The first l...	10/07/2008
7382548	Variable magnification optical system A variable magnification optical system of the present invention for forming an optical image of an object on a light-receiving surface of an image sensor with variable magnification includes: from the object side, at least a first lens unit having a positive optica...	06/03/2008
7379115	Image capturing apparatus and image capturing system A photocurrent corresponding to the intensity of the light from the subject which photocurrent is successively generated at predetermined intervals is converted into a voltage by being logarithmically compressed by a logarithmic compression circuit in a divisional c...	05/27/2008
7375905	Optical unit and image pickup apparatus having the same An optical unit for forming an object image according to the present invention includes: a reflection member for bending an optical axis of the optical unit; a front lens group arranged closer to an object side of the optical unit than the reflection member; a rear ...	05/20/2008
7375900	Variable power optical system and image pickup apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a compact size variable power optical system capable of producing a high quality image. The variable power optical system comprises a plurality of lens groups for forming an optical image on an image surface of an ima...	05/20/2008
7369326	Imaging optical system and image pickup apparatus A compact bent zooming imaging optical system characterized by sufficient aberration correction. The imagining optical system contains, in order from the object, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group with negative power which has a...	05/06/2008
7339747	Variable magnification optical system A variable magnification optical system for forming an optical image of an object on the light receiving surface of the image sensor so that the magnification is variable includes from the object side: a first lens unit GR1 having negative optical power; a se...	03/04/2008
7339748	Variable magnification optical system A variable magnification optical system for forming an optical image of an object on a light-receiving surface of an image sensor with variable magnification includes: from the object side, at least a first lens unit having a positive optical power, a second lens un...	03/04/2008

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Assignee: Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.