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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7388604 | Image pickup device and apparatus including vibration correction means An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup element for converting an optical image on a focal plane into an electrical image signal and outputting the electrical image signal. A vibration sensor detects a vibration amount of an image pickup apparatus main bo... | 06/17/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7250966 | Method and device for determining a displacement of images in an image sequence A device and a method for determining a displacement of images in an image sequence, which are specially used to compensate for a camera movement. A plurality of image regions of the images is available for determining the displacement, each image region being provi... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7208905 | Driving method, driving mechanism, and image capturing apparatus The driving method of the present invention is a driving method to drive a stepping motor driven by a predetermined driving pulse, by the servo driving method, and is characterized in that a predetermined sampling period is set, and the generation condition of the d... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7161621 | Image-capturing device with position detector for vibration reduction An image-capturing device includes: an image-capturing element that converts light to an electrical signal; a photographic lens member that condenses subject light at the image-capturing element; a board on which the image-capturing element is mounted; and an elasti... | 01/09/2007 |
| 6992700 | Apparatus for correction based upon detecting a camera shaking An apparatus for detecting a deviation of a camera as a result of the camera shaking, for example resulting from a hand of the camera operator shaking. The apparatus includes a shaking detector which detects a deviation of the camera from shaking based upon an outpu... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6992843 | Precision optical wedge light beam scanner An apparatus for steering a light beam having a first lens element, a second lens element, a spacer element and a lubricative optical fluid. The first lens element has a convex lens surface. The second lens element has a concave lens surface. The concave lens surfac... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6967686 | Image sensing method, image sensing apparatus, lens control method therefor, and storage medium It is an object of this invention to provide an image sensing method which allows object focus tracking during zooming regardless of the shutter speed. In order to achieve this object, a zoom motor for driving a zoom lens is controlled by a lens control microcompute... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6933968 | 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... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930708 | Apparatus and system for correction based upon detecting a camera shaking A detecting system for detecting a deviation of a camera from shaking has at least two shaking detectors and one correcting device. The first shaking detector detects a camera shaking corresponding to one axis of a camera coordinate system. The second shaking detect... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6924837 | Digital camera with attitude and shake detection A digital camera with an anti-blur function is provided with simple structures. The digital camera comprises an automatic exposure control mechanism for an automatic exposure mode and inclinometer. As sub-modes, the automatic exposure mode comprises a normal program... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6924932 | Binocular device A binocular device arranged to enable images recorded by an image recording unit to be reproduced and checked on the site without using a reproduction device provided separately from the binocular device. The binocular device has an image pickup unit for obtaining a... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6901160 | Directional lighting and method to distinguish three dimensional information The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for evaluating the surfaces of substrates for three dimensional defects. The present invention uses low-angled lighting positioned on opposite sides of the substrate. A camera positioned above the substrate ca... | 05/31/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6734902 | Vibration correcting device A vibration correcting device comprises first vibration correcting amount output unit for obtaining and outputting a vibration correcting amount from the amount of vibration of the apparatus, second vibration correcting amount output unit for obtaining and outputtin... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6734901 | Vibration correction apparatus A vibration correction apparatus has a motion vector detection circuit for detecting a motion vector signal at a predetermined sampling period, a signal processing circuit for calculating a correction target value in accordance with the motion vector signal detected... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6720995 | Optical apparatus with a voltage controlled variable density element An optical apparatus capable of performing an image-taking operation in a plurality of image-taking modes includes a selecting part for selecting one image-taking mode from among a plurality of image-taking modes, a variable density element, and a density control pa... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6233009 | Image-shake correcting device for detecting vibration frequency and for changing vibration characteristics An image-shake correcting device includes a vibration sensor for detecting a vibration of an apparatus, a correcting member for correcting a movement of an image due to a vibration, a first controlling circuit for controlling the correcting member on the ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6211910 | Image pickup apparatus with image shake correction and resolving power change An image pickup apparatus in which an actuator varies an image forming position with respect to an image forming plane. The apparatus has a control mechanism for controlling the actuator. This control is such that the actuator performs a first operation f... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6208377 | Image-shake correcting device for detecting vibration frequency and for changing vibration characteristics An image-shake correcting device includes a vibration sensor for detecting a vibration of an apparatus, a correcting member for correcting a movement of an image due to a vibration, a first controlling circuit for controlling the correcting member on the ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6191813 | Image stabilizing device operable responsively to a state of optical apparatus using the same An image stabilizing device removably mountable on a camera or other optical apparatus includes an image stabilizer for accomplishing image stabilization of the camera, a detector for detecting the operative state of the camera, and a controller responsiv... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6157405 | Apex-angle variable prism and video camera In an apex-angle variable prism comprising a combination of a planoconcave lens and a planoconvex lens, at least one lens is simply and stably rotated along the spherical surfaces of these lens by using a compact actuator. In order to rotate the planoconv... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6130709 | Image processing apparatus for correcting image vibration An image processing apparatus comprising a signal conversion circuit for changing input/output characteristics in accordance with a shift position of an image is arranged between a detection circuit for detecting a relative movement between a camera and a... | 10/10/2000 |
| 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 |
| 6047134 | Image shake detecting device An image shake detecting device for detecting a shake of an image on an image sensing plane on the basis of a video signal output from an image sensor includes detection circuits arranged to detect image displacement in a plurality of areas set on the ima... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6046768 | Apparatus used for image blur prevention A control apparatus for an image blur prevention apparatus adapted to an optical apparatus having an optical device, light receiving structure for receiving light from the optical device, and image processing structure for processing light received from t... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6014169 | Pickup device apparatus including vibration correction means An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup element for converting an optical image on a focal plane into an electrical image signal and outputting the electrical image signal. A vibration sensor detects a vibration amount of an image pickup appara... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5990943 | Optical apparatus with a plurality of zooming control means An imaging apparatus is disclosed which is integrally provided with two image pickup systems for respectively converting subject light into image signals and two displays for respectively displaying images relative to the image signals obtained by the two... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5982421 | Image-shake correcting device utilizing optical correcting means and electronic correcting means An image-shake correcting device including a motion-vector detecting circuit for detecting a motion vector of an image in the horizontal and vertical directions thereof, an optical correcting device for optically correcting a movement of the image in the ... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5949481 | Image sensing and processing device In an image sensing an processing device, a movement vector of an image is detected in each of detection blocks formed by dividing an image sensing plane, and a distributed state of the image movement within the image sensing plane is detected by statisti... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5946032 | Camera shake correcting apparatus having damping coils for yaw and pitch A camera shake correcting apparatus includes a variable angular prism assembly, a microcomputer to produce signals for driving the variable angular prism assembly, prism actuators, vertical angle sensors, angular velocity sensors for detecting an angular ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5873004 | Image stabilizing apparatus An image stabilizing apparatus is provided with a plurality of gain setting means arranged in a feedback loop system, a gain switching means for, when an oscillation of the feedback loop system is detected based on an output from a deviation amount detect... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5867213 | Image pickup apparatus having image-shake correcting devices determined according to zoom magnifying power An image pickup apparatus is provided with a vibration sensor for detecting vibrations of the apparatus, an optical image-shake correcting device for optically correcting an image shake according to an output of the vibration sensor, an electronic image-s... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5861916 | Apparatus for detecting movement using a difference between first and second image signals A movement detection apparatus comprises a first circuit for detecting a difference signal between first and second image signals, a second circuit for integrating the difference signal detected by the first circuit, a third circuit for detecting respecti... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5861915 | Temperature-dependant, frequency-compensated hand deviation correction device for video camera A hand deviation correction apparatus of a simplified construction for correcting hand deviation effects over a wide frequency range in a hand-held video camera unit includes an oscillation quantity detection unit for detecting an oscillation quantity of ... | 01/19/1999 |
