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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127329 | STABILIZING A SUBJECT OF INTEREST IN CAPTURED VIDEO A method of stabilizing a subject of interest in captured video includes identifying the subject of interest within a crop window and establishing a first subject bounding window that includes the subject of interest. The method continues with refraining from substantia... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127330 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE Provided is an image pickup device that enables distortion compensation with high precision. Exposure and reading are conducted on pixel rows that are discontinuous with respect to a vertical direction of an image pickup element, and multiple low resolution images are o... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105657 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes a region setting portion that sets a clipping region as an image region in each input image based on image data of an input image sequence consisting of a plurality of input images, a clipping process portion that extracts an image... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105655 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD An image processing device extracts, in an image block selection section 226, a plurality of image block pairs from a degraded image and a provisional restored image, each of the image block pairs being formed by two image blocks at identical coordinates in the d... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105656 | OPTICAL DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL DEVICE CONTROL METHOD An optical device comprises an image blur compensation unit which compensates a blur in an image formed by an imaging optical system, the image blur compensation unit being movable in directions not parallel to an optical axis of the imaging optical system, a shake dete... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105572 | AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING A VIDEO-CAPTURE DEVICE A video-capture device is configured to determine when it is disposed on a supporting surface and, in response, automatically adjust one or more device settings to optimize the device settings for automatic mode. In various embodiments, a sensor, such as a grip sensor, ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105654 | Methods and Systems for Processing a Video for Stabilization and Retargeting Methods and systems for processing a video for stabilization and retargeting are described. A recorded video may be stabilized by removing shake introduced in the video, and a video may be retargeted by modifying the video to fit to a different aspect ratio. Constraints... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120069204 | MOTION BLUR CORRECTION DEVICE AND MOTION BLUR CORRECTION METHOD A motion blur correction device includes a motion blur correction section which performs motion blur correction processing on an intended video data, and a correction intensity judgment section which instructs the motion blur correction section to cancel the execution o... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050552 | Rotation Cancellation for Moving Obstacle Detection A moving image capture device captures a first image at a first location along a motion path and captures a second image at a second location along the motion path. The optic center of the first image and the optic center of the second image are determined and a line in... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044369 | IMAGING APPARATUS, ABERRATION CORRECTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An imaging apparatus includes: a shift lens driven to be shifted; a uniform aberration correction data storing unit storing uniform aberration correction data for correcting uniform aberration; a shift amount calculating unit calculating an amount of aberration correcti... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120026350 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS Provided is an image display apparatus whose display images can be viewed regardless of an orientation or an aspect ratio of a display image. When a user sets the orientation and the aspect ratio of a live view display, a background frame corresponding to the orientatio... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026348 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SLEEP MODE THEREOF In an embodiment, when a sleep mode is turned off, if vibration less than a limit value occurs, the sleep mode is turned on and a hand shake correction unit is turned off so that power consumption may be reduced. Moreover, when the sleep mode is turned on, if vibration ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026349 | IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE An image-capturing device of the present invention includes an image-capturing element 10 including a plurality of light-sensing cells arranged on an image-capturing surface; an optical system (14, 20) for forming a first image which is in focus on an imag... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019677 | IMAGE STABILIZATION IN A DIGITAL CAMERA Disclosed is a method for processing a digital image, the method comprising: selecting a set of frames from a plurality of frames captured by a digital imaging device: identifying a set of pixel blocks from the set of frames; and integrating the set of pixel blocks to p... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019679 | IMAGING APPARATUS In an imaging apparatus, a control unit can operate in one of a first mode which corresponds to an image capturing mode and which controls an image-blur correcting unit, and a second mode corresponding to a playback mode. When the image capturing mode is switched to the... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019678 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR An image processing apparatus sets one of a plurality of obtained images as a reference image, and detects a motion vector relative to the reference image for the other images. A scalar amount of the detected motion vector is compared with a threshold value representing... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013752 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME An image processing device calculates a coordinate transformation coefficient for each of a plurality of regions, and, for at least one point of interest in a local region, calculates a correction amount that is used when blur in a target image is corrected using a coor... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120007996 | Method and Apparatus for Imaging There is disclosed a method and apparatus for setting imaging parameters. Information of several images of a scene is received. The images are captured with different exposure times. Also information of motion of the apparatus is received. On the basis of the motion of ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002060 | OPTICAL APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF An image sensing device includes two, left- and right-eye image sensors, and detects the rotation amount around the optical axis of the image sensing device, and the displacement amounts of the two image sensors in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis. The image se... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110304738 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE Provided is an image pickup device which can prevent a camera-shaken image from being captured unexpectedly and optimally perform auxiliary light photographing and camera-shake prevention. In this device, an image pickup unit (105) picks up an image by using an i... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298936 | IMAGE STABILIZATION DEVICE, IMAGE STABILIZATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Provided is an image stabilization device including an image capturing unit for capturing an image of a face of a user, a motion detection unit for detecting motion of the face whose image has been captured by the image capturing unit, a motion prediction unit for predi... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298937 | IMAGE STABILIZATION DEVICE, IMAGE STABILIZATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Provided is an image stabilization device including a motion sensor for detecting motion data, an image data display unit for displaying image data, a shake coefficient calculation unit for calculating a shake coefficient indicating intensity of shaking based on time-se... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292226 | CONTROL CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD FOR MOTOR A control circuit generates a driving signal indicating an actuator torque. A first operation unit generates position, speed, and acceleration signals, based upon a detection signal indicating the actuator mover state. A second operation unit generates a first differenc... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110279693 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CAMERA SHAKE CORRECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing unit capturing an image of an object; an image capture controller that causes the image capturing unit to capture first color component images having a first color component by multi-shot exposure, and causes the... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110273572 | IMAGING APPARATUS An imaging apparatus includes a correction lens configured to correct a shake of a subject image formed on an imaging device, a driver configured to drive the correction lens, a detector configured to detect an amount of shake of the imaging apparatus, a determining uni... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267480 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD The present invention provides an image processing apparatus capable of obtaining good shake-corrected images in electronic image stablization irrespective of changes of image-taking conditions. An image processing apparatus comprises a shake correcting part that perfor... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110242334 | Time Interleaved Exposures And Multiplexed Illumination Samples of a scene are acquired in synchronization with finely interleaved varying conditions such as lighting, aperture, focal length, and so forth. A time-varying sample at each pixel for each condition is reconstructed. Time multiplexed interleaving allows for real-t... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110242339 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes: a matching processing unit calculating positions of center coordinates of all video data forming one frame image of multi-viewpoint video data with respect to coordinates of the origin of the one frame image using at least two pie... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110234823 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME The correction amount of an aberration caused in each pixel of the region by the optical system is calculated. A predetermined number of peripheral pixels center on a position apart from the pixel by the distance corresponding to the calculated aberration correction amo... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110234824 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE According to one embodiment, an image processing method includes storing, in a frame memory, first and second images of continuously taken N (however, N is not less than 2) images, cutting an image as an image for correction from a plurality of reference areas of the fi... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110228112 | USING ACCELEROMETER INFORMATION FOR DETERMINING ORIENTATION OF PICTURES AND VIDEO IMAGES A computing device, such as a mobile device, can capture pictures or video images using a digital camera and obtain associated orientation information using an accelerometer. The orientation information can be used to adjust one or more of the captured pictures or video... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110211082 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO STABILIZATION OF ROLLING SHUTTER CAMERAS Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards rolling shutter video stabilization utilizing three dimensional motion analysis. In stabilizing the rolling shutter video, a three dimensional motion of the device capturing the image may be determined or estimat... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110211083 | BORDER HANDLING FOR MOTION COMPENSATED TEMPORAL INTERPOLATOR USING CAMERA MODEL In one embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided for providing border handling in motion compensated interpolation, wherein a camera model is used to detect areas of predominant movements in a displayable output, and for each reveal or conceal area: it i... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205377 | DIGITAL CAMERA WITH INTEGRATED ACCELEROMETERS A digital camera system has integrated accelerometers for determining static and dynamic accelerations of the digital cameral system. Data relating to static and dynamic accelerations are stored with recorded image data for further processing, such as for correcting ima... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199494 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS An imaging device includes an imager, with which an optical image of an object scene is repetitively captured. A first movement detector detects, as to each of a plurality of object scene images according to a time series output from the imager, a movement of a first fe... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110187877 | Image Correction For Image Capturing With an Optical Image Stabilizer In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: capturing, by a camera, first image data for at least one first image, where the first image data is captured with an optical image stabilizer of the camera deactivated; capturing, by the camera, second image data for at l... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181741 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING AN IMAGE STABILIZING DEVICE FOR AN IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS The disclosure relates to a test process of an image stabilization system in an image capture apparatus, comprising steps of: submitting the stabilization system to rotation vibratory movements around two distinct rotation axes, measuring characteristics of rotation vib... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181742 | ELECTRONIC CAMERA The present invention relates to an electronic camera which images an object image and records image data. Particularly, the present invention relates to technology to record image data in a good shooting state, such as with little blurring due to hand shaking. The inve... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110176013 | METHOD TO ESTIMATE SEGMENTED MOTION A method to estimate segmented motion uses phase correlation to identify local motion candidates and a region-growing algorithm to group small picture units into few distinct regions, each of which has its own motion according to optimal matching and grouping criteria. ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110176014 | Video Stabilization and Reduction of Rolling Shutter Distortion A method of processing a digital video sequence is provided that includes estimating compensated motion parameters and compensated distortion parameters (compensated M/D parameters) of a compensated motion/distortion (M/D) affine transformation for a block of pixels in ... | 07/21/2011 |
