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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179445 | Providing improved high resolution image A method for producing an improved high resolution image is disclosed including capturing low resolution images and a high resolution image; combining the low resolution images to provide an aggregate low resolution image; reducing the resolution of the high resolut... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169486 | Image acquisition method and apparatus An image acquisition sensor of a digital image acquisition apparatus is coupled to imaging optics for acquiring a sequence of images. Images acquired by the sensor are stored. A motion detector causes the sensor to cease capture of an image when the degree of moveme... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8115818 | Imaging device and image processing method of same An imaging device and its image processing for creating an image with less blur from a small number of images under different exposure conditions in a shortened processing time. The imaging device 10 captures an image by means of an optical system 11 a... | 02/14/2012 |
| 7990420 | Image capturing device and auto-photographing method thereof A method of auto-photographing for an image capturing device is disclosed. A predetermined time for auto-photographing is counted down. Consecutive preview images of a scene to be photographed are acquired after the predetermined time begins to be counted. Whether a... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986343 | Multi-eye imaging apparatus A multi-eye imaging apparatus comprises a plurality of imaging systems (106a, 106b) each including an optical system (107a, 107b) and an imaging element (108a, 108b) and having a dif... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7944475 | Image processing system using motion vectors and predetermined ratio An image processing apparatus and method is disclosed that is applied for image stabilization. The method comprises the following steps of: At least two images are captured by the image capture module. A sharpest image and a sharper image are selected from the at le... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7791642 | Image-taking apparatus Provided is an image-taking apparatus having an easier human machine interface than before. Instead of operating an operator, a mode for a flash condition among multiple shooting conditions displayed on a display panel of a liquid crystal display device is switched ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7773115 | Method and system for deblurring digital camera images using reference image and motion estimation Deblur digital camera image captured in low-light, long-integration-time conditions by deconvolution based on motion estimation from preceding and following reference images. Alternatively, capture multiple short-integration-time images and fuse after motion estimat... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7701485 | High resolution imaging apparatus with reduced data An imaging apparatus is disclosed which can increase recording resolution while reducing data amount handled during compression processing. The imaging apparatus includes a first imaging unit capturing an image of a subject and outputting a frame in first resolution... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7593037 | Imaging device and method for capturing image An imaging device includes: a capturing unit that captures a motion picture at one of a plurality of frame rates; a buffer that temporary stores the motion picture captured by the capturing unit; a signal generation unit that generates a signal used for specifying a... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7428019 | System and method for increasing space or time resolution in video A system and method for increasing space or time resolution of an image sequence by combination of a plurality input sources with different space-time resolutions such that the single output displays increased accuracy and clarity without the calculation of motion v... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7397501 | Digital camera with viewfinder designed for improved depth of field photographing The present invention aims at depth or field improvements or digital cameras, where differently-focused images of a scene, to be photographed, are exposed. A final image is produced from these primary-shots, where depth of field-limitations related to classic photo-... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397499 | Image pickup device and chromatic aberration correction method An image pick-up device and a chromatic aberration correcting method are provided in which a satisfactory correction processing can be performed even when the image pickup device, such as a camera, simultaneously performs shake correction. An output signal from a ca... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394939 | Managing file stream generation An image capturing device is capable of capturing and encoding image data so as to output a streaming media file from the device. Vector information derived from the captured image data may be altered to change, i.e., the frame capture rate of subsequent image data,... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7375746 | Forming a manipulated image using a printed medium having an image manipulation instruction A camera for creating a manipulated image. The camera has an image capture device, an input device, an image manipulator, an output device and a display device. The image capture device is designed to capture a captured image. The input device is designed to receive... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372487 | Image pick-up device and record medium having recorded thereon computer readable program for controlling the image pick-up device An image pick-up device for producing a synthesized image signal having a wide dynamic range by partially exchanging a plurality of image signals from a solid state image sensing element in an image synthesizing unit (41), said image signals being obtained by... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365779 | Image processing apparatus for selectively storing specific regions of an image The invention provides an image processing apparatus that can reduce the memory capacity of a memory forming part of the image processing apparatus and can correct the optical axis misalignment of a video camera in a simple manner. The image processing apparatus ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365781 | Camera apparatus and method for synchronized transfer of digital picture data and compressed digital picture data An image signal processor 12 inputs digital picture data 101 into a compressor 13 and into a resolution changer 16 in parallel. The compressor 13 outputs compressed data 102, which is compressed digital picture data 101 | 04/29/2008 |
| 7336832 | Processor and processing method for an image signal, image display apparatus, generation apparatus and generation method for coefficient data used therein, program for executing each of these methods, and computer-readable medium recording the program A class sorting section obtains a class code CL indicating a class to which pixel data y of a target position in an image signal Vb belongs using motion compensation vector information mi stored in a buffer memory in pair with pixel data of an image signal Va corres... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7321391 | Camera apparatus, photographing method and a storage medium that records method of photographing A camera has a provisional photographing mode in which a human model image is displayed on a through image in an overlapping manner on a display, and the user moves the human model image to a desired position in the through image and records a composition indicating... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7301563 | Image pickup apparatus A short-time exposure image data and a long-time exposure image data of the same object to be photographed are stored to SE memory and LE memory and then transferred to CPU, motion thereof being detected at a motion detecting section on the basis of the two image da... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295232 | Camera and program A camera which can obtain an image without image blur is disclosed. The camera which obtains a synthesized image whose exposure has been corrected by synthesizing a plurality of images obtained through successive image-taking, comprising: a detection unit which dete... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289157 | Method for detecting saturation of a motion vector field The process is characterized in that it performs: counting of the number of motion vectors, at least one component of which is greater than a predetermined value less than the maximum value, comparision of this num... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286164 | Method of and unit for inputting an image, and computer product The image input unit comprises a pixel shift evaluation value and reliability calculating section that calculates a pixel shift evaluation value based on image data for a plurality of images photographed before and after an image sensing device is displaced for a pr... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286157 | Computerized method and apparatus for determining field-of-view relationships among multiple image sensors A computerized method of image analysis that includes receiving first image data for a plurality of first video frames representing a first scene. Each first video frame is composed of a plurality of image regions, and a first object is present in an image region of... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280673 | System and method for searching for changes in surveillance video Systems and methods for determining when a change has occurred in an area-of-interest included in an image region are disclosed. The system and methods may perform a specially modified background subtraction method. The systems and methods may initialize a backgroun... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7221775 | Method and apparatus for computerized image background analysis A computerized method of video analysis including receiving image data for a plurality of video frames depicting a scene that includes at least one of a plurality of background features. Each video frame includes a plurality of image regions and at least one video f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7209166 | Wide dynamic range operation for CMOS sensor with freeze-frame shutter Wide dynamic range operation is used to write a signal in a freeze-frame pixel into the memory twice, first after short integration and then after long integration. The wide dynamic range operation allows the intra-scene dynamic range of images to be extended by com... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7194676 | Performance retiming effects on synchronized data in an editing system A retiming function that defines a rampable retiming effect is used to generate new audio and video samples at appropriate output times. In particular, for each output time, a corresponding input time is determined from the output time by using the retiming function... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7126642 | Image display apparatus There is provided an image display apparatus which automatically detects a picture defect and shifts an image region to eliminate the picture defect. The image display apparatus includes a memory unit for temporarily storing an input image signal, a memory control u... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7110031 | State image pickup apparatus having pixel shift layout A color shooting solid state image pickup apparatus is composed by using a solid state image pickup device having a number of color pixels disposed in a plurality of rows and columns in a pixel shift layout with distributing at least one color-type color pixels in a... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7075567 | Method and apparatus for controlling a plurality of image capture devices in a surveillance system A method and apparatus for controlling the operation of a system having a plurality of video cameras. The cameras are linked to a control unit which has a motion detection apparatus for monitoring the images received from the cameras and detecting motion therein. Th... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7057645 | Camera system that compensates low luminance by composing multiple object images In a digital camera using an image pickup device such as CCD, a high resolution and properly exposed image is obtained by composition a plurality of image data of the same object taken by a plurality of image pickup operation when a luminance of the object is lower.... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050094 | Wide dynamic range operation for CMOS sensor with freeze-frame shutter Wide dynamic range operation is used to write a signal in a freeze-frame pixel into the memory twice, first after short integration and then after long integration. The wide dynamic range operation allows the intra-scene dynamic range of images to be extended by com... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6999092 | Image display apparatus in which a specific area display attribute is modifiable In an image display apparatus in which a display attribute of a specific area of the display can be modified based on an information input from a processor, a resolution of the image is determined from the input vertical and horizontal synchronization signals, dot c... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996271 | Apparatus and method for image processing and storage medium for the same An apparatus and a method as well as a storage device of the present invention transform intensity levels with consideration of both features of the intensity levels in an input image and human visual characteristics, wherein the present invention includes the steps... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6987530 | Method for reducing motion blur in a digital image Method and apparatus for detecting and reducing motion blur caused by the movement between a camera and an object including calculation of first and second figures of merit associated with two substantially orthogonal directions and comparison of the figures of meri... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6963361 | Image sensing method and apparatus capable of performing vibration correction when sensing a moving image A correction variable is calculated based on vibration data of an image sensing apparatus. Based on the calculation result, timing of reading image signals from an image sensing device is controlled. The read image signals are delayed by predetermined time, the read... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6930676 | Anti motion blur display A method, a circuit arrangement and a display device which suppresses motion blur due to motion integration carried out along a motion trajectory on the image data, which occurs in matrix type displays in which a motion trajectory is integrated by the viewer and/or ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6903764 | Image capturing apparatus, method for capturing image and camera An image sensor comprises a photoelectric conversion element group and a charge storage element group connected through a plurality of charge transfer routes by achieving a multiplexed relationship. A hand movement detection unit detects a hand movement during an ex... | 06/07/2005 |
