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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7353069 | Electronic apparatus capable of adjusting display direction and display-direction adjusting method thereof An electronic apparatus capable of adjusting display direction and display-direction adjusting method thereof are disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a sensing unit, a processing unit, and a display unit. The sensing unit is for outputting a sensing signal ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349625 | Intermediate adapter There is provided an intermediate adapter having a camera shake correction function, in which an exchange head provided with an image taking optical system and an imaging device is applicable to a camera system, and a camera system having the intermediate adapter. T... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337650 | System and method for aligning sensors on a vehicle A vehicle sensor system consisting of video, radar, ultrasonic or laser sensors, oriented to obtain a 360 degree view around the vehicle for the purpose of developing a situation or scene awareness. The sensors may or may not have overlapping field of views, or supp... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7327952 | Stage apparatus and camera shake correction apparatus using the stage apparatus A stage apparatus includes a Y-direction deformable body including a stationary support member, a movable support member and a pair of X-direction leaf springs to form a substantially rectangular shape in a free state; and an X-direction deformable body, positioned ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324748 | Focal plane shutter and image sensing apparatus The size of the opening 1094a of the shutter base plate 1094 is set, considering driving amounts of the image sensor 101 and the low pass filter 108 during shake correction, so that the size of the opening 1094a in X-... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7307653 | Image stabilizer for a microcamera module of a handheld device, and method for stabilizing a microcamera module of a handheld device A method and a handheld device for stabilizing an image captured by an optical lens of a micro camera integral with the handheld device, which may, for example, be a mobile phone. Motion sensors sense motion of the device and are used to cause movement of the micro ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7295770 | Anti-shake apparatus An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus, comprises a movable unit, a fixed unit, and an urging member. The movable unit has one of an imaging device and a hand-shake correcting lens, and can be moved in first and second directions. The first direction i... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7224893 | Anti-shake apparatus An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus includes a signal processor. A fixed unit slidably supports, in perpendicular first and second directions, a movable unit having an imaging device or a hand-shake correcting lens. The movable unit or fixed unit ha... | 05/29/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7173653 | Imaging stabilizer using micromirror array lens A vibration correction device in an imaging device includes a micromirror array lens, configured to focus an object image onto an image sensor, and a vibration determination device, communicatively coupled to the micromirror array lens, configured to determine vibra... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162151 | Camera A camera comprises an optical photographing system, an image pickup device which receives a luminous flux via the optical photographing system to output image data, a monitor on which an image is displayed based on the image data, an actuator which controls a positi... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7057644 | Camera system, camera, and lens apparatus with variable length vibration correction data A camera control circuit of a camera system sends vibration correction data with two different data lengths during image-taking and during image-taking preparation, respectively. The latter data length is shorter. A lens control circuit controls a vibration correcti... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6987529 | Camera having shake correction device mounted thereon A camera of this invention is a camera containing a shake correction device for correcting the shake by reading out application voltage data corresponding to a detected shake amount by use of parameters stored in an EEPROM indicating the relation between a voltage a... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6967679 | Imaging apparatus, imaging optical unit, and imaging system The present invention discloses an imaging apparatus constructed as follows. The imaging apparatus picks-up a subject image formed by a imaging optical unit, and comprises an image pickup device for photoelectrically converting a subject image, a memory for storing ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6953432 | Imager cover-glass mounting Devices and methods for protecting components of imaging devices are provided. In the illustrative embodiment, a plano-concave protective cover is provided which is bonded to an imager window by applying a thick, quick-setting adhesive to the exterior of the cover a... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6937286 | Vibration proof adapter The vibration proof adapter is arranged between a lens and a camera. Indicators for indicating an ON/OFF status of a vibration proof function are provided on both of the right and left sides of the vibration proof adapter, and the indicators can be checked by a came... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6924941 | Optical apparatus An optical apparatus is disclosed which comprises an optical system provided with a zoom lens for performing zooming by moving along the optical axis and a focus lens for performing correction and focusing at the time of zooming, an imaging device for imaging an opt... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6798984 | Image pick-up device on board a space craft, space craft and image sensing method comprising same The present invention provides a camera device for mounting on board a spacecraft, the camera device having at least one observation sensor and displacement means (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) for controlled displacement of said device relative to the spacecraft with at... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6781622 | 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... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6127667 | Mechanism and method for correcting trembling of focused image An angular speed of an optical axis of an optical device is detected by a gyro sensor, and inputted to a first A/D converting input terminal of a CPU. A position data of a correction optical system is sensed by a PSD, and inputted to a second A/D converti... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6122102 | Sighting apparatus for aiming an optical device A sighting apparatus is provided for aiming an optical device mounted on a moving platform and having both coarse and fine adjustment. The sighting apparatus includes a fixed base and an outer support ring that is capable of rotation by a drive motor abou... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6070015 | Image blur prevention apparatus with rewritable memory for storing image blur response A control apparatus for an image blur prevention device having a feedback loop for performing control of image blur prevention comprises a rewritable memory for storing outset information of a characteristic of the feedback loop for performing control of ... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5956529 | Hand tremor compensating apparatus using magnets A hand tremor compensating apparatus for a video camera has a bobbin for supporting and protecting a mirror section. The bobbin has a contact portion with a groove provided therein. A barrel is disposed at an outside of the bobbin. The barrel has a boss i... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5608703 | Image blur prevention apparatus An apparatus includes a control unit for switching image blur prevention operations between a first image blur prevention operation and a second image blur prevention operation with respect to the same image blur state in accordance with a start of a phot... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5587739 | Variable magnification image taking device A variable-magnification image taking device comprising a phototaking lens for varying magnification, a solid-state image pickup device for receiving an object image formed by the phototaking lens and recording the image information of the object image, a... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5465924 | Inertial stabilizing system An inertial stabilizing system for a platform supported on a carrier, which is moved in a dynamically high-frequency and low-frequency manner, in which a base is arranged between the carrier and the platform which is mounted on the carrier so that it is v... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5460341 | Disturbance compensation system for a camera on board a spacecraft A disturbance compensation system for a camera on board a spacecraft and having an imaging device and condensing means for condensing light onto the imaging device. Linear actuators adjust the position of the imaging device by moving it with multifreedom.... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5450126 | Image blur correcting apparatus An image blur correcting apparatus includes a lens-barrel part having a lens and an imaging device, an image signal processing device for forming a video signal from an electrical signal obtained at the imaging device, a supporting body for supporting the... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5438361 | Electronic gimbal system for electronically aligning video frames from a video sensor subject to disturbances This invention is directed to an electronic gimbal system (10) which stabilizes a digital video image of a particular scene taken by a sensor which is under disturbance forces. The video image is stored as a two-dimensional array of pixel locations (12) a... | 08/01/1995 |
| 4774589 | Optical system image stabilizer employing electromechanical torque sensors An image stabilizer for optical systems is disclosed as are its use with optical systems and its combination with such systems. The stabilizer measures the torque applied to the visual system about an axis and applies a reactive countertorque. More than o... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4731669 | Camera apparatus with movably supported lens barrel A camera apparatus having a image fluctuation suppressing function has a fixed body and a lens barrel. The lens barrel is supported rotatably in at least one of panning and tilting directions by a supporting frame. The lens barrel is rotated by a panning ... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4713697 | Camera apparatus The present invention provides a novel camera apparatus which can be discretely split into two parts; a lens barrel unit and a lens-barrel-support unit which allows the lens barrel unit to freely turn its direction. A built-in angular rate detector detect... | 12/15/1987 |
| 3952151 | Method and apparatus for stabilized reproduction of remotely-sensed images Disclosed is a method and apparatus for reproducing remotely sensed images in which the effect of attitude perturbation in the sensing device is removed from the image. The image is acquired by means of an electromagnetic radiation sensor mounted on a non... | 04/20/1976 |
