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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120069236 | CAMERA DEVICE, LIQUID LENS, AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD A camera device is provided which has a compound eye structure only by a liquid lens unit and a control unit without requiring a plurality of lenses to be mounted in advance and is capable of taking a three-dimensional stereoscopic video image. In addition, a compact an... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050539 | CAMERA HAVING A TEMPERATURE BALANCING FEATURE A camera system is provided. The camera system includes an optical sensing unit which is surrounded by a camera housing and at least one temperature balancing fixture which is in thermal contact with a surface of the camera housing The temperature balancing fixture is c... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120038763 | MEASURING APPARATUS AND MEASURING METHOD THEREOF, APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING PROCESSING POSITION OF CUTTING MACHINE AND METHOD THEREOF FOR CORRECTING PROCESSING POSITION, AND IMAGING APPARATUS AND CUTTING MACHINE COMPRISING THE SAME Provided is an apparatus and a method thereof which can detect a displacement amount of a cutting tool with respect to a workpiece with high accuracy and can correct a processing position with high accuracy. Accordingly, a turret gauge 46 is comprised of an invar... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038738 | GAZE CORRECTING APPARATUS, A METHOD OF VIDEOCONFERENCING AND A VIDEOCONFERENCING SYSTEM This disclosure provides an apparatus for correcting gaze, a videoconferencing system and a method of videoconferencing. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes: (1) a monitor configured to provide a remote image for viewing, (2) a camera located in front of the monit... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033124 | OPTICAL PHOTOGRAPHING LENS ASSEMBLY This invention provides an optical photographing lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces the... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026382 | WIDE FIELD OF VIEW LWIR HIGH SPEED IMAGER Various embodiments provide an optical system including a first lens group having a plurality of lenses, the first lens group being configured to correct for an axial chromatic aberration; a second lens group having a least one lens, the second lens group being disposed... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019704 | AUTOMATIC DIGITAL CAMERA PHOTOGRAPHY MODE SELECTION A digital camera having a plurality of photography modes, comprising: an imaging sensor; an optical system for imaging a scene onto the imaging sensor; an image capture control for initiating an image capture operation; a photography mode user interface for selecting be... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020655 | LENS MODULE AND TEMPERATURE-COMPENSATING METHOD THEREOF Embodiments of the present invention disclose a lens module and its temperature-compensating method. The lens module primarily includes several lenses and a compensating lens. The several lenses comprise two plastic lenses and the ratio of the focal length of one plasti... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120002096 | IMAGING DEVICE INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF IMAGING UNITS An imaging device with a plurality of imaging units is provided. The imaging device includes a supporting substrate, a flexible substrate and a movable unit. The supporting substrate is formed with a hard material, and the flexible substrate includes a plurality of imag... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002097 | DUAL-PURPOSE HARDWARE APERTURE Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system which supports a dual-purpose aperture for an electronic device. This system includes a first component configured to perform an acoustic function through the aperture and a second component configured to perfor... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317061 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS, CAMERA BODY AND CAMERA SYSTEM An interchangeable lens that is detachably mounted at a camera body includes: a photographic optical system that includes a first drive target member and a second drive target member, a drive condition of each of which changes; and a drive condition information transmis... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110304762 | LENS MODULE HAVING LIQUID CRYSTAL LENS AND IMAGE PICK-UP DEVICE USING SAME A lens module includes a liquid crystal lens, a lens barrel and two electrically conductive traces. The liquid crystal lens includes a light incident surface, a light output surface facing away from the light incident surface, and a number of side wall surfaces intercon... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110292270 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTERCHANGEABLE LENS, AND PROGRAM An interchangeable lens includes an acquiring section that acquires an amount of supply power from an imaging apparatus to which the interchangeable lens is attached, and operation information related to an operation of the imaging apparatus in a period during which the... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110261246 | VIBRATING DEVICE AND IMAGE EQUIPMENT HAVING THE SAME A dust-screening member is shaped like a plate as a whole, and has at least one side that is symmetric with respect to a virtual axis on a surface of the member. A vibrating member is adjacent to one side of the dust-screening member, arranged on the surface along the o... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261245 | VIBRATING DEVICE AND IMAGE EQUIPMENT HAVING THE SAME A dust-screening member is shaped like a plate as a whole. A vibrating member is adjacent to one side of the dust-screening member and arranged on the surface along the one side. A drive unit is configured to drive the vibrating member to produce a vibration having a vi... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110228156 | DIGITAL CAMERA A digital camera of the present invention has: a lens group reflecting photographic object light entering along a first optical axis to a second optical axis direction perpendicular to the first optical axis and forming an image of light flux thereof on an image pickup ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110228154 | CAMERA MODULE BACK-FOCAL LENGTH ADJUSTMENT METHOD AND ULTRA COMPACT COMPONENTS PACKAGING The present invention relates to methods of manufacturing ultra-compact camera modules, adjusting them, post production, to precise focal point settings, and sealing the precisely aligned assembly to maintain the focal point. Also, the invention specifically relates to ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110221950 | CAMERA DEVICE, WAFER SCALE PACKAGE A camera device comprising an image capturing element, one or more lens elements for projecting an object on the image capturing element, one or more spacer means for maintaining a predetermined distance between the lens and the image capturing element, and one or more ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110211104 | OPTICAL FIBER SCANNING PROBE The invention relates to optical probes for miniature applications, e.g. medical inspections and procedures or in industrial inspections, in particular a probe applying a confocal scanning-scanning endoscope. The probe comprises an optical guide (2), a first lens... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205420 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS The image pickup apparatus includes an image taking optical system, an optical filter into which the light from the image taking optical system enters, an image pickup element electrically converting the optical image formed by the light that has passed through the opti... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110205370 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE CAPTURE, PROCESSING AND STORAGE A method for image data capture and storage is provided, where a reference and an image are optically captured and then processed. The reference is used to assist in determining a normalization operation that can be performed in order to correct for skew, rotation, and ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199529 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An information processing apparatus prevents the physical switch operation from being wrongly detected as the tapping operation to thereby cause the intended process to be surely performed. The information processing apparatus has an operation member. The vibration of t... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110194012 | Camera To provide a camera having improved efficiency. A camera is provided with a fitting portion to which a lens barrel is detachably fitted, and a first driving portion capable of driving an aperture portion included in the lens barrel. The first driving portion can be swit... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110187915 | Waterproof Camera Sealing Device and Sealing Method Thereof A waterproof camera sealing method includes steps of: the chamber body of the camera is provided with a charging valve installation hole, a camera lens, a circuit board, a data line and the chamber body of the camera are assembled as a waterproof camera semi-finished pr... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110176046 | LENS DRIVING APPARATUS A lens driving apparatus comprises a lens portion having at least one lens (21), a first driving portion (39) to cause a movement of said lens portion relatively to a base portion (40) along a vertical direction of a light axis (L) of said lens port... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110176047 | DRIVING DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE Provided is a driving device having a rod-like terminal capable of stably fixing an SMA and connecting a conductive member without preventing the size of the driving device from being reduced and affecting the performance of the SMA. Also provided is an imaging device. ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110164157 | IMAGING APPARATUS An imaging apparatus includes a half mirror that splits light from a subject having passed through a photographic optical system into transmitted light and reflected light, a first light receiving sensor that receives the transmitted light, the first light receiving sen... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110157450 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE A portable electronic device includes a housing defining a through hole, a barrel positioned in the housing, a lens fixed at an end of the barrel and a light detection unit fixed at the other end of the barrel away from the lens. The lens includes an imaging portion fac... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157449 | Photographing Lens Assembly This invention provides a photographing lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a second lens element with negative ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157393 | LENSLESS IMAGING WITH CONTROLLABLE APERTURES Embodiments of the present invention provide a lensless optical device for acquiring an image. The device can include a light attenuating layer having a plurality of elements, where transmittance of each of the plurality of elements is controllable, and an image detecto... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110141321 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFORMING A LENS-DISTORTED IMAGE TO A PERSPECTIVE IMAGE IN BAYER SPACE A method and apparatus is provided for rendering an image. The method includes capturing a distorted input image using a color filter array to obtain an input image pattern having a single color channel per pixel. The input image is transformed to an input image signal.... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110141335 | LENS MODULE OF AN IMAGING DEVICE AND A METHOD OF USING THE SAME A lens module of an imaging device includes a lens-barrel plate, a shutter plate and at least one elastic device. The lens-barrel plate includes at least one guide post, which is vertically arranged on the surface of the lens-barrel plate. The shutter plate includes at ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110141338 | CAMERA MODULE A camera module is disclosed. The camera module in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a housing, which has a hollow part formed therein, a lens module, which has a lens and is installed in the hollow part of the housing in such a way that th... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110134262 | CAMERA MODULE, IMAGE RECORDING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE According to one embodiment, a camera module includes two or more sub camera modules and a block matching unit. The two or more sub camera modules are fixed in an arrangement in which directions of optical axes of the imaging optical systems differ to each other. The bl... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110122281 | IMAGING DEVICE An image processing method and apparatus operable for processing images is disclosed. The image processing method allows for drawing any given image in an output image on which various types of image processing have been performed. Such various types of image processing... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110115962 | IMAGE-CAPTURING LENS ASSEMBLY This invention provides an image-capturing lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third len... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110109786 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS A manual input via a manual input unit while automatically changing a zoom magnification via a zoom control unit is permitted, and after the manual input, the zoom magnification is automatically changed so that a size of an object output from an object extraction unit b... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110109787 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having negative optical power, a second lens unit having positive optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optic... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110103789 | CAMERA BODY, ADAPTER, IMAGING DEVICE A camera body includes a housing, an imaging element and a body mount. The body mount is fixed to the housing, and has a portion to which an adapter can be mounted. The body mount is disposed at a position away from the light receiving face of the imaging element by the... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110102660 | Lens component, image forming optical system, and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same A lens component of the present invention is made by cementing a lens LA and a lens LB having a refracting power smaller than a refracting power of the lens LA, and satisfies predetermined conditional expressions. Moreover, in an image forming optical system of the pres... | 05/05/2011 |
