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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169487 | Image-shake correction apparatus and imaging apparatus An image-shake correction apparatus includes a shake detection unit configured to detect a shake applied to the image-shake correction apparatus, a shake correction unit configured to correct the shake of an image caused by the shake, a drive unit configured to driv... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8159541 | Image stabilization method and apparatus An image stabilization apparatus includes accelerometers, a proximity sensor and a processor. Each accelerometer determines acceleration along an axis of a plane parallel to a focal plane of an image capture device. The accelerometers output respective acceleration ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8089517 | Image stabilization control circuit In an image stabilization control circuit of an image-capturing device, a gyro-equalizer (24) is used to integrate an angular velocity signal corresponding to vibration, and determine a required magnitude of displacement of a lens. The gyro-equalizer (24 | 01/03/2012 |
| 8068139 | Image stabilization control circuit An image stabilization control circuit controls an optical element driving element configured to move an optical element provided in an imaging apparatus based on an output signal of a vibration detection element provided in the imaging apparatus. The image stabiliz... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8049782 | Image blur correction device and imaging device furnished therewith Provides an image blur correction device capable of accurately moving an imaging element, and an imaging device equipped therewith. The image blur correction device of the present invention includes a fixed plate (12); a moving base (14) to which an im... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8026947 | Image sensor This image sensor includes a flexible wiring board connected with an optical sensor, bent around the portion connected with the optical sensor and so formed as to generate urging force oppositely to the bent direction and a support portion having a first support sur... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8026948 | Imaging apparatus and portable device and portable telephone using same An imaging apparatus includes an imaging part that images a subject to generate image data, an image storage part that temporarily stores original image data that was imaged by the imaging part, an image data size reducing part that forms image data for display by r... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8022996 | Image stabilizing device of the MEMS type, in particular for image acquisition using a digital-image sensor A device for stabilizing images acquired by a digital-image sensor includes a motion-sensing device, for detecting quantities correlated to pitch and yaw movements of the digital-image sensor, and a processing unit, connectable to the digital-image sensor for receiv... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7932925 | System and method for stabilizing an image System for producing a stabilized image of a scene viewed by an image detector, the image detector detecting a plurality of images of the scene, the image detector being supported by gimbals, the gimbals including a servo system for moving the gimbals at least one d... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7916176 | Device of offset compensation for solid-state imaging device and related method A method of offset compensation for solid-state imaging devices is provided. In the method a first and second detection signal are obtained. The two signals are compared to obtain a difference value. A variable voltage is output according to the difference value to ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7868918 | Image stabilization control circuit of image pickup apparatus An image stabilization control circuit comprises a plurality of vibration detecting elements for detecting vibration of an image pickup apparatus; a plurality of position detecting elements for detecting a position of an optical component; an analog/digital converte... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7852373 | Anti-shake apparatus including calculation of angular velocity An anti-shake apparatus comprises an angular velocity sensor and a controller. The angular velocity sensor detects an angular velocity. The controller controls the angular velocity sensor and performs an anti-shake operation based on the output signal from the angul... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7796158 | Disk type image pickup apparatus A disk type image pickup apparatus wherein a disk type recording medium is used as a recording medium on which a picked up image is to be recorded, including: a gyro sensor configured to detect impact or vibration to an apparatus body of the disk type image pickup a... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7791644 | Shake-amount detecting device and imaging device When a camera body is shaken, a piezoelectric element generates a signal corresponding to angular velocity. The output signal of the element is amplified by a synchronous detection amplifier and is sent to a high-pass filter. An output signal of the filter is integr... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7791643 | Sequenced response image stabilization A method and apparatus are described wherein the composition responsiveness of a camera comprising an image stabilization system is adjusted. In example embodiments, the composition responsiveness may be adjusted in response to a particular photographic situation, i... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787018 | Apparatus and method for shake detection, and imaging device An amplification signal of a difference signal between a sensor signal and an offset signal to be variably set is converted into a digital signal. The sensor signal is in accordance with shake of an imaging device and outputted from a sensor. The first digital signa... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7719571 | Wireless video surveillance system and method with DVR-based querying A surveillance system and method for activating communication between at least one wireless input capture device ICD(s) and a corresponding digital input recorder (DIR) and/or another ICD, including the steps of providing base system; at least one user accessing the... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7679646 | Image pickup systems Image pickup systems capable of preventing blurred images are provided, in which a first sensor detects a variation in inclination of an image pickup device to generate a first sensing data, a second sensor detects a position movement from an image sensor in the ima... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7525572 | Video camera with anti-shake system A shake sensor outputs an analog shake detection signal representative of a shake of a camera body. An amplifier operates for amplifying the analog shake detection signal to generate an analog amplification-resultant signal. The analog shake detection signal and the... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525573 | Camera provided with tremble correcting function Rotations of a camera around two axes are detected by two gyro sensors. A color temperature of a photographing location is detected by an AWB sensor. One of a plurality of low-pass filters, the cut-off frequency component of which is different, can be connected to o... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7460154 | Vibration compensation apparatus using a coordinate conversion A vibration compensation apparatus comprises: an angular velocity detector that detects a plurality of angular velocities in two orthogonal detection axes directions and outputs corresponding angular velocity signals; a compensation unit that compensates vibration i... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7436435 | Image taking device having image-blur compensator A compensator for correcting a possible blur of image caused by a shake of an image pickup apparatus in which the compensator is arranged, and in which a downsize circuit board having a diminished area thereof and holding an image taking component is swung or moved.... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430367 | Image pickup apparatus, camera main body thereof and interchangeable lens The present invention provides a camera system which is provided with signal processing control means for changing the filter characteristic of parallel vibration signal processing means in conformity with the output signal of rotation vibration signal processing me... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430000 | Image-shake correcting device There is provided an image-shake correcting device that is comprised of a detecting unit that detects shakes of the image-shake correcting device, a filter circuit that cuts off low frequency components of a detecting signal output from the detecting unit, a control... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430366 | Image capture device An image capture device is disclosed which is equipped with an imaging unit, a first motion detector adapted to detect the rotational component of motion, a second motion detector adapted to detect the translational component of the motion, and an image blur compens... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426340 | Stage apparatus and camera shake correction apparatus using the stage apparatus A stage apparatus in which a movable stage is guided in first and second directions orthogonal to each other on a stationary member, includes a pair of first elongated holes formed on one of the movable stage and the stationary member and are elongated in the first ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424212 | Camera shaking correcting method, camera shaking correcting device, and image pickup device Output of a gyro sensor is read at intervals of control time ts, time integration is carried out, an integrated value is computed, and an amount of change in an integrated value is determined from a difference between the calculated integrated value and an integrate... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7403220 | Apparatus, methods, and systems for viewing and manipulating a virtual environment Components for generating, reviewing, processing, storing, retrieving, analyzing, and optimizing information input to or output from a virtual environment. The components may be a video camera component, a stand-alone or device mountable on a tripod to permit a came... | 07/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7385643 | Image pickup apparatus utilizing a geomagnetic sensor An image pickup apparatus comprises an image pickup device (e.g., a lens, a CCD) for picking up an image of an object, a shutter button having a magnetic member thereunder, an XY-axes geomagnetic sensor, a decoder for decoding an output of the XY-axes geomagnetic se... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382400 | Image stabilization system and method for a video camera A video image stabilization system including a camera having an image capturing device configured to capture a video image. The camera has a selectively adjustable field of view and at least one processing device is operably coupled to the system wherein the process... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379091 | Method and apparatus for computing an image stability measure A camera computes an image stability measure by measuring the variability of an edge-detect figure of merit evaluated from several immediate past photographs. ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7355630 | Anti-shake apparatus with position detecting magnet An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing-apparatus comprises a movable-unit and a fixed-unit. The movable-unit has an imaging-device and a position-detecting magnet. The movable-unit can be moved in a first-direction and a second-direction. The fixed-unit has a ha... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352389 | Anti-shake apparatus for correcting hand shake effect through first and second drive coil units An anti-shake-apparatus of a photographing-apparatus comprises a movable-unit and a fixed-unit. The movable-unit has an imaging-device, a first coil-unit having a first driving-coil and a first position-detecting-coil, and a second coil-unit having a second driving-... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349022 | Image shift correcting device, image capturing device, and digital camera using same A image shift correcting device to prevent the user's erroneous recognition while ensuring the accuracy of the AF processing even when a hand shake occurs in the photographing preparation period, is provided with: a image capturing element for performing image captu... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339612 | Vibration isolating device, method, and system for correcting image blur in a camera A vibration isolator determines a speed of a vibration applied to a camera with a vibration speed sensor, and differentiates and integrates the speed, and corrects the integrated value to zero when the differentiated value is zero, and determines the position of the... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327276 | Security system for power and display of consumer electronic devices A security system for powering and displaying a handheld electronic device includes a stand assembly mounted to a support and a housing removably mounted on a top portion of the stand assembly. The handheld electronic device is secured to a top portion of the housin... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324134 | Apparatus for correction based upon detecting a camera shaking An apparatus for detecting a deviation of a camera as a result of a shaking. The apparatus includes a shaking detector which detects a deviation of the camera from shaking based upon an output of at least two pairs of acceleration sensors which are located on differ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7292270 | Image blurring correction apparatus When the camera is performing the pan or tilt operation on performing image blurring correction, the image blurring correction is stopped and a vibration-proof lens is returned to a reference position at a speed that is changed according to a focal length of the zoo... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7280696 | Video detection/verification system Detecting video phenomena, such as fire in an aircraft cargo bay, includes receiving a plurality of video images from a plurality of sources, compensating the images to provide enhanced images, extracting features from the enhanced images, and combining the features... | 10/09/2007 |
