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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8120660 | Image data up sampling Forming image information of image units (e.g. pixels) of a higher resolution by convoluting information of image units of a lower resolution with coefficients of a multiphase filter. The information of one set of higher resolution image units is formed by convoluti... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8089518 | System and method for automatic image capture in a handheld camera with a multiple-axis actuating mechanism A system and method for automatically and optically capturing an image in a handheld image capture device. The system includes an imager and an actuated mounting mechanism attached to the imager. The imager has one or more degrees of freedom (DOF) and includes at le... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085306 | Imaging apparatus having a biasing part configured to generate a biasing force to bias a part of the image pickup device The magnitude of magnetic attraction generated between an electromagnetic coil and a magnetic metal member (or an amount of electric current flowed to the electromagnetic coil) is controlled depending on a direction of acceleration (acceleration caused by the gravit... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8068141 | Imaging device An imaging device ICD, which realizes an image blurring compensation function which achieves image blurring compensation during a framing period and image blurring compensation during releasing, is provided. In the imaging device (ICD), an OIS unit control section (... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8040381 | Image blur correction for a camera system and display of comparison of camera and lens blur correction specifications There are provided a camera system which operates the proper image blur corrector when image blur correction devices are incorporated in a camera body and in an interchangeable lens, and a method for controlling this camera system. The camera system (1) inclu... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8022998 | Imaging apparatus and imaging method Exposed images from a CCD are each captured to Surfaces A, B and C in an SDRAM in a repeated sequence from A, B to C, and the latest image among the images thus captured is displayed. While an image on Surface B is being transferred, an image on Surface A is used as... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8013896 | Imaging apparatus including shaking correction for a second imaging sensor An imaging apparatus includes a first imaging sensor, a second imaging sensor, a display unit, an electronic viewfinder unit, a position changing unit and a sensor-shift shaking correction unit. The first imaging sensor acquires an image relating to a subject at the... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8004570 | Image processing apparatus, image-pickup apparatus, and image processing method The present invention provides an image processing apparatus capable of obtaining good shake-corrected images in electronic image stabilization irrespective of changes of image-taking conditions. An image processing apparatus comprising: a shake correcting part that... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7978222 | Systems and methods for image stabilization An image capture device includes a frame buffer, a processor, a shutter, an actuator, a three-axis optical motion sensor and an image sensor. The image sensor defines an optical axis. The three-axis optical motion sensor provides information concerning rotational mo... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7889237 | Digital camera A digital camera, comprising a live view display section for repeatedly acquiring a subject image, cropping and enlarging part of the subject image, and displaying as a moving image, a vibration detection section for detecting vibration of the digital camera and cal... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7692688 | Method for correcting distortion of captured image, device for correcting distortion of captured image, and imaging device A method for correcting distortion of a captured image is provided. The method includes receiving a detection output from a sensor; optically correcting distortion of a captured image in image data from the element due to the positional change of the imaging element... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692687 | Anti-shake apparatus An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit and a fixed unit. The movable unit has an imaging device and can be moved and rotated on a plane which is perpendicular to an optical axis of a camera lens of the photographing apparatus. ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7688353 | Image-taking apparatus and image-taking method An image-taking apparatus is disclosed which allows a selection of a type of image stabilization to be used from optical image stabilization and electronic image stabilization as required to provide an excellent output image. The image-taking apparatus has an image ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7683936 | Angular velocity detection apparatus An angular-velocity detector includes a first sensor, a second sensor, and a controller. The first sensor is used for detecting motion around an axis of a second direction perpendicular to a first direction. The second sensor is used for detecting motion around an a... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7675546 | Imaging device having function for correcting image shake of acquired image An imaging device photoelectrically converts a subject image to generate image data. The imaging device has a function of selectively performing two types of image vibration correction processings on this image data. The imaging device makes a selection/switching be... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7643063 | Dual loop stabilization of video camera images Dual loop stabilization of video images is disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a video camera having a first image stability control component configured to stabilize a video image in a first motion environment. A second image stability control compo... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7576778 | Shake correcting mechanism and camera having same shake correcting mechanism A camera with shake correction mechanism according to the invention comprises: an image pickup device for picking up object light; shake detecting device for detecting a shake exerted to a camera body; a shake correction unit provided with a driving section for exer... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7479985 | Variable magnification lens having image stabilizing function An image stabilizer for stabilizing an image against unexpected vibrations or shaking of a zoom lens includes a diaphragm arranged to vary its full-open-aperture diameter according to a magnification varying (zooming) action from a wide-angle end position to a telep... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7450155 | Image capturing apparatus The image capturing apparatus extracts and records an effective image Ap from a captured image Ao obtained by imaging of incident light from a subject on an image capturing element by an optical system composed of optical members. When an angle of view of an image t... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7436436 | Signal processing device, image pickup device and signal processing method A signal processing device including: a detecting mechanism that, based upon a predetermined stable state, outputs a shake signal corresponding to shake of a device body from the stable state; a DC removing mechanism that outputs a DC component removing signal obtai... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432953 | Image-taking apparatus detecting vibration and correcting image blurring An image-taking apparatus which improves accuracy of taken images by correcting image blurring is disclosed. The image-taking apparatus comprises an image pickup element which photoelectrically converts an object image formed by an image-taking optical system; a det... | 10/07/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7409150 | Lens driving mechanism, lens unit and image pickup device Disclosed herein is a lens driving mechanism which can achieve simplification of the mechanism and provision of appropriate control relating to a correction against a shake. The lens driving mechanism includes a piezoelectric element that is deformed when energized ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7385632 | Lens, camera body and camera system A camera system has a recording portion for recording an object image, a display portion for displaying an object image, a first blur correction portion for correcting blur of the object image displayed on the display portion by signal processing, and a second blur ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7355631 | Camera shake correction device and imaging apparatus having the same The present invention provides a camera shake correction device enabled to quickly correct a camera shake. This device has a sensor for detecting movement of a camera, a high-pass filter, an amplifier, an A/D converter, a camera-shake/pan/tilt detection unit, and a ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352390 | Digital camera for capturing image data with rapid response between activating a capture trigger and capturing image data A digital camera has an image sensor, a capture trigger, a processing system, and a capture buffer having multiple buffer locations. The processing system receives auxiliary image frames from the image sensor and stores each auxiliary image frame in a buffer locatio... | 04/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7305179 | Anti-shake apparatus An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit, and a control apparatus. The movable unit has an imaging device, and can be moved in first and second directions. The control apparatus moves the movable unit to first, second, third, and... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292000 | Angular velocity measuring device and leg-moving robot An angular velocity measuring device (1) includes a first sensor (2) (vibration gyro) and a second sensor (3) (gas rate gyro). The detection output of the first sensor (2) is inputted to a high pass filter (4). Output of the filter... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286163 | Image taking device with bent optical system A digital camera having an image shake correction apparatus and a method of preventing the image shake of an image taken by the digital camera. The digital camera includes optical elements arranged along a bent line for focusing an object image upon a light receivin... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7272080 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus of the present invention includes a management information processing portion for generating management information describing a reproducing procedure for reproducing a series of information data by designating positions of from a head to an en... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7221390 | Computer-assisted motion compensation of a digitized image Motion estimation is in each case carried out for the entire image, for that image and for a predetermined number of previous images, with an image motion vector being determined in each case. The images are stored in a memory having been compensated for motion, usi... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7212231 | Photographing apparatus having variable image blur correction control characteristics for still photography and motion picture photography A photographing apparatus capable of photographing still pictures and motion pictures has an image stabilizing feature arranged so as to achieve an appropriate image stabilization characteristic in response to a photography start switch which is turned on and off, a... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7181074 | Image coding apparatus and method An original image shot by a shooting unit is read in a frame buffer and transformed by a wavelet transformer. An evaluating unit monitors the coefficients of the HL, LH, HH sub-bands generated by the wavelet transformer and checks the number of the high frequency co... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180043 | Image taking apparatus An image taking apparatus which takes a first and a second images by using an image pickup device is disclosed. The image taking apparatus comprises a controller which detects a displacement amount of the second image with respect to the first image which is a refer... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171052 | Apparatus and method for correcting motion of image An apparatus and method for correcting motion of an image, which occurs due to a shake of a hand or vibration of a system, considering the correlation between frames are provided for an image processing system, which performs motion estimation and compression on an ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7098955 | Optical apparatus operable in static and dynamic image taking modes An optical apparatus includes a photographic optical unit including a movable optical component for varying a focal length, a light amount adjusting unit disposed in an optical path of the photographic optical unit, the light amount adjusting unit varying an apertur... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095001 | Image sensing apparatus and method performing blur correction using electrical coordinate conversion An image sensing apparatus performs a plurality of times of image sensing on a subject, superpose-combines the obtained plurality of subject images into one subject image. The apparatus has an image sensing unit that converts a subject optical image into an electric... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7064777 | Blur correction aparatus, control apparatus to be used in a blur correction apparatus, image taking apparatus, control method to be used in these apparatuses and computer program product to be used with these apparatuses Apparatuses are provided such as a blur correction apparatus for limiting operation of a blur correction in accordance with the size of a vibration detected by a vibration detection means, a time period for the taking of an image and the frequency of the vibration; ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7053353 | Image taking apparatus An image taking apparatus which takes a first and a second images by using an image pickup device is disclosed. The image taking apparatus comprises a controller which detects a displacement amount of the second image with respect to the first image which is a refer... | 05/30/2006 |
