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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120105708 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS WITH THE ZOOM LENS A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, an aperture stop, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit h... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105699 | PORTABLE DEVICE A portable device includes an imaging unit that creates image data of a subject; a contrast detector that detects contrast information on the image data; a movement detector that detects movement information of the portable device; and a control unit that controls, in a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105707 | Imaging device, imaging method, and program An imaging device includes a detector that repeatedly carries out a series of operation of generating an evaluation value to evaluate the degree of focusing of a position after driving of a lens toward one end part in the drive range of the lens, and detects the evaluat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105709 | CAMERA, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, AND LENS POSITION CONTROL METHOD When a lens position is assumed on the basis of a control result by an AF control, the accuracy of the assumption of the lens position can be improved. A camera resets the position of a lens to a reference position when the number of AF operations, the number of frames ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105710 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD An imaging device is configured to include an imaging lens, an imaging unit which acquires image data based on an optical image of a subject received via the imaging lens, a motion detector which detects a motion of the subject based on image data sequentially obtained ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105612 | IMAGING APPARATUS, ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS, AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD An imaging apparatus includes an image acquisition section, an exposure adjustment section, and a synthetic image generation section. The image acquisition section acquires a near point image in which a near-point object is in focus, and a far point image in which a far... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081597 | FOCUS CONTROL APPARATUS USEFUL FOR IMAGE PICK UP APPARATUSES EQUIPPED WITH AN AUTO FOCUS FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREFOR A focus control apparatus and method capable of shortening a focus adjustment time in focus control. The method includes extracting a first high frequency component depending upon a first cutoff frequency and a second high frequency component depending upon a second cut... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069239 | IMAGE TAKING OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH SAME An image taking optical system includes, in order from the object side, a stop, a first lens having a biconvex shape and having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a concave surface facing the image side and having a negative refractive power, a third lens... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050488 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF LENS DEVIATIONS Optical apparatus includes an image sensor, which outputs a signal responsively to an optical image formed on the image sensor. Objective optics focus optical radiation from an object so as to form the optical image on the image sensor, while superimposing a characteris... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044406 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS An imaging device includes: a microlens that focuses subject light; a light receiving element that receives the subject light focused by the microlens to thereby generate a signal for making focus determination through phase-difference detection; and a light blocking po... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044409 | IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM, CAMERA AND INTERCHANGEABLE LENS The image pickup system includes a camera and an interchangeable lens having an image-taking optical system. The camera includes an image sensor to photoelectrically convert an object image formed by the image-taking optical system and to be moved in an optical axis dir... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044400 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS An image pickup apparatus includes an operating portion that receives an operation to instruct to obtain a target input image based on an output signal of an image pickup portion, an aimed image generating portion that generates an aimed image in which a specific subjec... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044408 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF An image capturing apparatus senses a subject by an image sensor to acquire image data, detects a face from the image data, estimates a distance from the image sensor to the detected face in a real space, obtains first and second depths of field based on a focal length,... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044407 | MOUNT ADAPTER AND IMAGING DEVICE A mount adapter includes: a camera cone having a length of adjusting a flange focal length between an imaging device provided with an imaging element and an interchangeable lens; a focus detection unit carrying out focus detection from a phase difference; an optical dev... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044405 | FOCUSING IMAGE VERIFYING DEVICE An autofocus system is provided that includes a focus-verification image-recapturing processor and a focus-verification image display processor. The focus-verification image-recapturing processor sets ISO sensitivity to a value lower than a predetermined value and incre... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120038817 | Focusing Mechanisms for Compressive Imaging Device A compressive imaging (CI) device including a light modulator and a light sensor (e.g., a single-element sensor or a sensor array). The CI device may support the focusing of light on the light modulator and/or on the light sensor in a number of ways: (1) determining a f... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038816 | Imaging unit and imaging apparatus An imaging unit includes: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having positive refractive power; and a solid-state imaging device that images an optical image formed by the first le... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038786 | Decreasing Image Acquisition Time for Compressive Imaging Devices Mechanisms for increasing the rate of acquisition of compressed/encoded image representations are disclosed. An imaging system may deliver subsets of a modulated light stream onto respective light sensing devices. The light sensing devices may be sampled in parallel. Sa... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033127 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS An image capture apparatus comprises an image sensor, a detection unit which detects an object area based on at least one of color information and luminance information of an image obtained from the image sensor, a setting unit which sets a plurality of focus detection ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026385 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH POWER SAVING FUNCTION AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF An electronic device with power saving function is provided. When the power saving function of the electronic device is active, the electronic device obtains the distance between any object in a proximal area of the electronic device and the electronic device and stores... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026386 | FOCUS ADJUSTMENT DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE The focus adjustment device is characterized by comprising: a driver 231 that drives a focus adjustment optical system 213 to change a focus status; a focus detector 170 that detects evaluation values with respect to contrast of images to perform fo... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019676 | AUTOFOCUS APPARATUS AND METHOD In automatically focusing on a subject in the field of view of a camera device, the camera device sets a focal length successively at one or more focal positions with an angle of the focus plane tilted so as not to be orthogonal to a normal optical path through the came... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019675 | OPTICAL IMAGE STABILISATION A camera apparatus capable of providing optical image stabilisation comprises a support structure and a camera unit, that comprises an image sensor and a lens system for focussing an image thereon, supported on the support structure in a manner allowing it to tilt aroun... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013786 | FOCUS ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A focus adjustment apparatus comprises a detection unit that detects a subject/subjects having a predetermined characteristic from an image obtained while shooting a moving picture, a selection unit that, in the case where a subject/subjects having the predetermined cha... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013785 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH NUMERIC APERTURE IMAGING SYSTEMS A system and method for high numeric aperture imaging systems includes a splitter, a defocusing system, and a combiner. The splitter reflects a portion of collected light and transmits another portion of the collected light. The defocusing system is configured to modify... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008037 | TRACKING CONTROLLABLE IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS The image pickup apparatus includes a memory storing first tracking data indicating a positional relationship of a magnification-varying lens and a correction lens and second tracking data indicating a positional relationship of the magnification-varying lens and an ima... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008036 | ZOOM LENS SYSTEM, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS APPARATUS AND CAMERA SYSTEM A zoom lens system comprising: a first lens unit having negative optical power; a second lens unit; and at least one subsequent lens unit, wherein in zooming, the first lens unit moves along an optical axis, and at least an interval between the second lens unit and a le... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110315772 | FOCUS ADJUSTMENT WITH MEMS ACTUATOR IN IMAGING SCANNER A method and apparatus for using in an imaging scanner. The apparatus includes a solid-state imager, an imaging lens assembly comprising a base lens and a MEMS lens, and an electric circuitry operative to transfer the image captured by the solid-state imager to a decodi... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317013 | AUTOFOCUS CAMERA SYSTEMS AND METHODS In an example embodiment, a method for focusing a miniature camera includes applying a signal to an actuator in the camera, moving a MEMS stage movably supported by one or more flexures in response to the application of the signal, moving a lens in response to the movin... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317041 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING MICROPHONES WITH CONTROLLABLE FRONT-SIDE GAIN AND REAR-SIDE GAIN An electronic apparatus is provided that has a rear-side and a front-side, a first microphone that generates a first signal, and a second microphone that generates a second signal. An automated balance controller generates a balancing signal based on an imaging signal. ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317059 | IMAGING APPARATUS An imaging apparatus includes an optical system; an imaging unit; an extractor that extracts a part of a first image as a reference image, the first image being received via the imaging unit; a first detector that obtains a first similar image from within the first imag... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310288 | METHOD OF DETERMINING AUTO-FOCUSING FAILURE There is provided a method of determining an auto-focusing failure in which the auto-focusing failure may be rapidly determined even in the case that a lens moving for auto-focusing does not detect auto-focusing evaluation values while moving along the entire moving dis... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310289 | AUTOMATIC FOCUSING CAMERA WITH MOVING MIRROR BETWEEN FIXED LENS AND FIXED IMAGE SENSOR An automatic focusing camera which includes an image sensor is provided having a fixed lens system with a lens having an object side and an image side. The fixed lens system is located in a fixed position relative to the image sensor. A mirror is moveably positioned bet... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304765 | IMAGING APPARATUS An imaging apparatus which allows selection of a preferable measurement point. An imaging apparatus (100) includes: an imaging device (10) configured to perform photoelectric conversion to convert light from an object into an electrical signal; a phase dif... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304764 | LENS ELEMENT, IMAGING LENS, AND IMAGING MODULE In order to provide (i) a simple-structured imaging module that is arranged to have resolution good enough to satisfy required specifications both in photographing a near-by object and in photographing a distant object, (ii) a lens element constituting the imaging modul... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298963 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus includes: an optical imaging system; an image pickup device; a defocus quantity calculation circuit for calculating a defocus quantity based on a phase difference between a plurality of signals for focus detection obtained from a plurality of p... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298964 | IMAGING APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE RECORDING METHOD, AND REPRODUCTION DISPLAYING METHOD An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system, an image pickup device, a photographing position determining device configured to determine a plurality of photographing positions to continuously photograph a subject, and an image data dividing device configured... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292275 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME An imaging apparatus (100) of the present invention includes a shift control unit (22) shifting an object-space focal point of the imaging apparatus (100) by shifting an image-space distance; and a shift pattern determining unit (21) determin... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292274 | Image detection device, focusing device, image-capturing device, image detection method, and focusing method An image detection device includes: a subject detector that acquires image information in an image field of an imaging optics with an image sensor, and detects a position of a subject in the image field based upon reference information related to an image of the subject... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292272 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND IMAGING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM In an imaging apparatus, an imager generates an imaged picture by converting incident light from a subject that is incident via a focus lens. A setting unit sets, as a movement range for the focus lens, a range of focus lens positions corresponding to imaging magnificat... | 12/01/2011 |
