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| 20120039588 | A/D CONVERSION CIRCUIT, SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, AND SHAKE DETECTION DEVICE The A/D conversion circuit may include A/D conversion units each of which converts input analog signals into digital signals, a switch unit that receives a first and second analog signals among the analog signals, the switch unit alternately switching output destination... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20110286732 | LENS DRIVING APPARATUS A lens driving apparatus has a lens portion 21, a first driving portion 36 and 37 to cause a movement of a movable unit 20 including said lens portion 21 relatively to a fixed portion 10 along a vertical direction of a light axi... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110286731 | DETERMINING CAMERA ACTIVITY FROM A STEADINESS SIGNAL A method of identifying the activity of a camera used for capturing an image or video, such activity not being related to the activity of subjects of the scene being captured includes determining a steadiness signal related to movement of the camera while capturing an i... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110286730 | ESTIMATING GENDER OR AGE OF A PHOTOGRAPHER A method of estimating the gender or approximate age of a photographer, includes: determining a steadiness signal related to movement of a camera held by a photographer while capturing an image or video, wherein the steadiness signal identifies the motion of the camera ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110286729 | IDENTIFYING A PHOTOGRAPHER A method of identifying a photographer includes determining a steadiness signal related to movement of a camera held by a first photographer while capturing an image or video, wherein the steadiness signal identifies the motion of the camera in at least two dimensions a... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110164864 | Vibration detection device, optical device, and method of operation of vibration detection device A vibration detection device provided with a vibration detection sensor 51A (51B) that outputs a detection signal corresponding to a detected vibration, a wave filter 52A (52B) that filters a detection signal in accordance with a cut-off freq... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110019069 | IMAGING APPARATUS An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit operable to capture a subject image via an optical system and generate image data, a regulating unit operable to regulate an exposure amount for the imaging unit; a shake detector operable to detect a shake of the imaging ap... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100232774 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING HAND-SHAKE IN DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS Provided is a digital image processing apparatus that supports a hand-shake correcting function. The digital image processing apparatus includes: a shutter button operating in two stages that comprises a half-shutter state and a full-shutter state; a first filter filter... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100183287 | CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE IMAGING APPARATUS In a mode in which a lens barrel need not be extended, if it is determined that a vibration is larger than a reference value, the lens barrel is driven so as to be retracted to a predetermined position.... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100086290 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME An image pickup apparatus which is capable of achieving excellent moving image shooting even when strobe popup is not successfully performed during moving image shooting. A camera implementing the image pickup apparatus has a strobe that shifts between a retracted posit... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100014846 | JIGGLE MEASURING SYSTEM AND JIGGLE MEASURING METHOD A camera shake measurement system includes a display unit for sequentially displaying a plurality of distinguishable test patterns, a first storage unit for storing as a template each of the plurality of test patterns to be displayed, a second storage unit for storing a... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090169192 | Device and Method for Reducing Optical Blurring A camera-movement compensation device includes a first liquid-crystal cell with a pair of parallel transparent plates and a first voltage source coupled to the first liquid-crystal cell and able to apply and alter a first voltage gradient across the plates of the first ... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090059372 | OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZER Disclosed is an optical image stabilizer having a low sliding load, a smooth operation, and a small thickness. When a lens holder and an X slider are moved in the X direction, small balls roll between the side surface of the lens holder and the inner surface of a frame ... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090060484 | PORTABLE APPARATUS A portable apparatus, comprising a first detector, a second detector, and a controller, is provided. The portable apparatus has a photographing function. The first detector detects a movement in a first direction. The second detector detects a second direction. The seco... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090040633 | Imaging Unit and Electronic Device Using the Same An imaging unit, including: a lens housing section to accommodate a lens; a lens driving section, including: a moving member which supports the lens and moves the lens in an optical axial direction, and an electro-mechanical transduction element to drive the moving memb... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20080310830 | IMAGE TAKING APPARATUS AND IMAGE TAKING METHOD The power consumption is reduced by efficiently using C-AF (continuous autofocus). An angular velocity detection circuit calculates angular velocity based on output from a yaw direction angular velocity sensor and a pitch direction angular velocity sensor. Based on the ... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080298789 | Control Method, Control Apparatus and Control Program For Photographing Apparatus The present invention relates to a control method of a photographing apparatus, the photographing apparatus and a control program, which are capable of automatically determining a photographing mode capable of generating a sharper image. If a first exposure time is equa... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080284858 | Image pickup apparatus equipped with function of detecting image shaking In an initial stage, using a global motion vector, a rough degree of image shaking is determined. After the image shaking is determined to have converged to some measure, using the difference values between frames, the finer degree of the image shaking is determined. An... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080260366 | IMAGE STABILIZATION WITH ADAPTIVE SHUTTER CONTROL An apparatus to facilitate image stabilization with adaptive shutter control is described. An embodiment of the apparatus includes an image sensor, a movement detector, and a shutter controller. The movement detector is coupled to the image sensor. The shutter controlle... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080231713 | Handheld Article with Movement Discrimination A digital camera has a pair of angular rate-sensing gyroscopic sensors with mutually perpendicular axes and an electronic circuit responsive to the sensor output signals to discriminate between voluntary and involuntary movements of the article as a function of the numb... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080166114 | IMAGE DEBLURRING SYSTEM The invention provides a method and a portable imaging device for deblurring a blurred image recorded by said device comprising; an image recording arrangement for recording image representations of the environment surrounding the device, and a motion-indicator for sens... | 07/10/2008 |
| 20080136931 | IMAGE CORRECTION APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF AND ELECTRONICS DEVICE In an imaging device that generates a correction image by performing, on the basis of shake information on a target image, shake correction processing on the target image when a correction instruction is issued by a user while the target image is displayed on a display ... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080044170 | Image Capturing System And Method Of Operating The Same An image capturing system capable of providing an optimal exposure setting and method of operating the same are disclosed. The image capturing system includes a CMOS image sensor having photosensitive cells; a lens module having a mechanical shutter; a memory having a p... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080008463 | Actuator, and lens unit camera with the same The present invention is directed to an actuator capable of locking a movable member without additional purpose-made components such as a lock ring, and another actuator used to drive them. The actuator (10) of the present invention ... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20070286586 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS HAVING AUTOFOCUS FUNCTION, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME An image sensing apparatus performs focus control based upon image data of a region corresponding to a focus control region, the image data being a part of one screen of image data. The apparatus includes a camera-shake detector for detecting camera shake, and a focus d... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070258706 | Method for deblurring images using optimized temporal coding patterns A method and system deblurs images acquired of a scene by a camera. A light field acquired of a scene is modulated temporally according to a sequence of ons and offs. An optimal coding pattern is selected. The modulated light field is integrated by a sensor of a camera ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070258707 | Method and apparatus for deblurring images A method and system deblurs images acquired of a scene by a camera. A light field acquired of a scene is modulated temporally according to a sequence of ons and offs. The modulated light field is integrated by a sensor of a camera during an exposure time to generate an ... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070248341 | Method and apparatus for reducing shutter lag in a digital imaging device A digital imaging device, such as a digital camera, minimizes shutter lag by determining some capture parameters, such as focus and exposure settings, before a user of the device has indicated that a photograph is to be taken. The parameters are updated when the device ... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070237506 | IMAGE BLURRING REDUCTION Operating a camera by detecting a motion of a camera, capturing an image of an object at a first shutter speed determined by the camera if camera motion is not detected, and capturing the image of the object at a second shutter speed determined by the camera if camera m... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070188868 | IMAGE STABILIZING APPARATUS An image stabilizing apparatus of the present invention includes a laminated substrate 19 that has a coil pattern, a hall element 21 fixed to the laminated substrate 19, a magnet 20, a back yoke 22, an opposing yoke 23, and a fl... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070183761 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS An imaging apparatus that photographs a subject to obtain digital image information includes: a photographing operation detection unit that detects angular rate data in a photographing operation over a predetermined sampling period; a polynomial coefficient calculation ... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070166020 | HAND JITTER REDUCTION SYSTEM FOR CAMERAS A camera system in normal mode and hand jitter reduction (hjr) mode may comprise generating a first exposure time-gain product by multiplying the normal mode exposure time with the normal mode gain. It may further comprise modifying the normal mode exposure time and gai... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070146883 | OPTICAL APPARATUS An optical apparatus is disclosed which is capable of acquiring images with a good quality and saving power. The optical apparatus comprises a movable unit which is supported by an elastic member and movable for image stabilization and a controller. The controller perfo... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070140674 | Shake correction device, filming device, moving image display device, shake correction method and recording medium A filming device according to the invention includes a filming unit which imports a plurality of frames configuring a moving image at a prescribed sampling rate, a shake amount detection unit which detects a shake amount of each of the frames, a frame position calculati... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070127902 | Avoiding image artifacts caused by camera vibration Methods and apparatus are disclosed for avoiding image artifacts caused by camera vibration. The taking of one or more photographic exposures is timed in relation to the vibration, so as to avoid motion blur, video jitter, or both. The vibration may be characterized by ... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070127903 | Photographic apparatus, method of controlling photographic apparatus, and recording medium A photographic apparatus includes a shooting section for performing shooting based on an operation of an operation part for instructing shooting, a tremor detection section for detecting a tremor amount of the shooting section, and a shooting control section for causing... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070122130 | CONTROLLER, PHOTOGRAPHING EQUIPMENT, CONTROL METHOD OF PHOTOGRAPHING EQUIPMENT, AND CONTROL PROGRAM A controller is provided which includes a photographing control unit controlling an image pickup unit to take a photograph and a shake detecting unit detecting an amount of shake even time the image pickup unit takes a photograph. Here, the photographing control unit al... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070122131 | Recording and playback apparatus and recording and playback method, recording apparatus and recording method, playback apparatus and playback method, and program A recording and playback apparatus includes a first obtaining unit configured to obtain one or more moving parameters regarding motion from a first image; a converter configured to convert the first image into a second image composed of a lesser amount of data than the ... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070122129 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An image pickup device is provided which includes: an auto focus control unit sampling contrast values as a function of a relative distance from an object by detecting a contrast of an image of the object while driving a lens in an optical axis direction, calculating a ... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070110417 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method This invention provides an image processing apparatus that corrects an image blur by using a plurality of images acquired by image capturing means. The apparatus comprises: blur detection means that detects a blur amount between the plurality of images; image compositio... | 05/17/2007 |
