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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184172 | Solid-state imaging device and driving control method A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array section formed by a plurality of pixels including a photoelectric conversion element disposed in the form of a matrix; and control means for selectively controlling shutter operations and readout operations perfor... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174584 | Image shooting apparatus and control method and program thereof An apparatus which concurrently shoots a movie and a still image, comprises an image sensing unit which generates movie data and still image data; a storage unit which stores the generated still image data in a temporary memory area at predetermined time intervals; ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169494 | Image sensing apparatus and method of controlling image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus comprises: a pixel array including a first pixel group and a second pixel group; a first readout unit which reads out a first signal from the first pixel group in a readout period which remains constant regardless of the operation modes; a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8144205 | Electronic camera with feature image recognition An electronic camera includes an image sensor, and an object scene image is repetitively output from the image sensor. A CPU repetitively determines whether or not the object scene image output from the image sensor has a face image turned to the imaging surface pri... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134607 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus of the present invention includes a recording unit for recording in a recording medium, motion image data in accordance with a predetermined movie recording method and recording still image data in accordance with a still image recording method... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130279 | Image sensing apparatus sensing moving and still images, method thereof, storage medium and computer program An image sensing apparatus includes an imager, an image reducer for reducing an image size from imaging data obtained from the imager, a moving image configurer for rendering an image reduced by the image reducer as a moving image, an image processor for image-proce... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8120663 | Image sensing apparatus and correction method An image sensing apparatus comprises an image sensor, a driving unit that drives the image sensor so as to output electrical signals through multiple readout modes including at least a full pixel readout mode and a thinning readout mode, an acquisition unit that acq... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111297 | Image processing apparatus, program, and method for performing preprocessing for movie reproduction of still images An apparatus takes in a plurality of still image frames, to generate an interpolated image frame. Next, moving addition of the still image frame and an interpolated image frame is performed in time-axis direction, to generate a superimposed image frame. At this time... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106955 | Solid-state image sensing device and image sensing system A solid-state image sensing device comprises a first readout circuit configured to read out a signal from a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, a signal holding unit configured to hold the signal read out from the first readout circuit, a second readout cir... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102434 | Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and program An imaging apparatus capturing and recording a moving image and a static image at the same time includes a converter converting an optical image of a subject into a pixel signal, performing decimation on the pixel signal and outputting the pixel signal that has been... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098292 | Method of capturing still image during capture of moving image and image capture apparatus According to an electronic camera capable of capturing a still image during capturing of a moving image, by storing the zoom lens position information at that time when capturing of the moving image is temporarily stopped for capturing of the still image and using t... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098291 | Image pickup apparatus, control method, and control program, and data processing apparatus, method, and program for recording a moving image and a still image An image pickup apparatus performing moving-image data processing and still-image data processing in parallel includes an image pickup unit converting a ray into an electric signal and outputting an image pickup signal, a buffer unit temporarily storing the image pi... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094202 | Moving image capture apparatus and moving image capture method A moving image capture apparatus generates a data file to record, on a recording medium, an image signal output from an imaging unit, extracts character information from the image signal to be recorded on the recording medium, sets a parameter value used for selecti... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089521 | Imaging device, image processing method, image processing program, and recording medium Disclosed is an imaging device including: imaging means for capturing an image; moving image data generation means for generating moving image data as image data for a moving image from an image captured by the imaging means; still image data generation means for, w... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085311 | Optical apparatus with motor drive control selected based on rotor position sensor or determined time interval An optical apparatus having a recording mode that is switchable between motion picture recording and still picture recording includes an optical element, a motor that includes a rotor having a magnet, and a stator having a coil configured to provide a rotational for... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8068143 | Camera apparatus with saliency signal generation An electronic still, video or hybrid camera has a physically or mechanically operable user control receiving an input from a user and generates a binary, continuous or multi-level saliency signal while an image signal is being produced. The user control may be the s... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068144 | Image recording and reproducing apparatus An image recording and reproducing apparatus that records and reproduces image data shot at a frame rate higher than a normal reproduction rate employed during reproduction of a moving image can generate a still image by attaching still image recording information t... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8049787 | Image processing circuit, mobile terminal and method for controlling sensor An image processing circuit capable of shooting a desired subject is provided in which increasing the size of the digital camera has been avoided. Sensor control unit 31 includes a moving image mode and a still image shooting mode. If a shutter button is oper... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8035695 | Image sensing apparatus, method of controlling image sensing apparatus and image recording apparatus, and method of designing optical system An image sensing apparatus which has an optical system, the focal length of which is variable, and an image sensing element that converts an image formed by the optical system into an electrical signal, and can sense and record a moving image and still image, includ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8004574 | Portable electronic devices with picture in picture capability A system and method for simultaneously capturing multiple pictures or videos on an electronic device. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the electronic device includes a first camera and a second camera. The first camera is capable of taking a first picture... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995103 | Imaging apparatus and control method thereof, storage medium and program An imaging apparatus which can capture a still image while capturing a moving image, can capture images in consideration of the aspect ratio settings of the moving image and the still image. For example, in the case where a user instructs to capture the still image ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995897 | Video recording and reproducing method, and video reproducing apparatus and method A video recording method used for a video recording apparatus which enables recording of both moving and still pictures on a recording medium, including: recording moving pictures encoded by a first encoding method, recording first still pictures encoded by a second... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995104 | Image pick-up apparatus, image data processing apparatus, and recording medium In a moving image recording process, a shooting operation using a short exposure time appropriate for shooting a still image, and a shooting operation using a long exposure time appropriate for shooting a moving image are performed repeatedly in turn. Plural pieces ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990424 | Imaging data processing device, imaging data processing method, and imaging element A device is provided for taking high resolution still pictures while recording video without pausing video recording. Plural channels are provided for reaching pixel values from a CMOS sensor, and the output of each channel is input to a corresponding A/D conversion... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990423 | Apparatus, method and program for generating frame image of moving picture for timing at which still image is captured An image capturing apparatus being capable of generating a frame for a moving image at a desired timing using a still image captured during capturing a moving image is provided. The image capturing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a still image... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986345 | Image pickup apparatus, image processing method, and program An image pickup apparatus having an image capturing unit capturing an image, a first recording unit temporarily recording an original image signal output from the image capturing unit, a processing unit performing predetermined signal processing upon the original im... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982780 | Photographing apparatus having multiple control button sets and displays and method of displaying image A photographing apparatus having a plurality of displays and a method of displaying an image. A photographing apparatus to photograph and record an image includes a lens unit, first and second photograph buttons to input commands to photograph the image, first and s... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978225 | Image recording apparatus, image playback control apparatus, image recording and playback control apparatus, processing method therefor, and program for enabling computer to execute same method An image recording/playback control apparatus includes a moving image capturing section capturing a moving image and generating moving image data; a still image capturing section capturing a still image and generating still image data; a still image information gene... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7956901 | Live-view optical system and image capture apparatus A live-view optical system A is, in an image capture apparatus capable of obtaining an image of an object in a moving picture mode by reflecting an optical image formed on a focusing plate D from a part of a reflective surface F of a penta-dach mirror B and by re-fo... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948522 | Method for processing film images extracted from a film recording beam path of a moving image camera A method for processing film images which are extracted from a recording beam path of a moving image camera and which are converted into digital assist signals by an optoelectronic transducer arranged in an assist beam path of the moving image camera is provided. Sa... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948523 | Image sensing apparatus and method of controlling the image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus having an image sensing unit that converts light into an electric signal corresponding to a quantity of incident light, and outputs an image signal obtained by the conversion, and that outputs an image signal obtained by the conversion, a ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7920170 | Image sensing apparatus and method which combine a plurality of images obtained from different areas at different time intervals An image sensing apparatus has first and second image sensors is provided. In the image sensing apparatus, an optical system forms an optical image on the first and second image sensors; an area-of-interest extracting unit extracts an area of interest from image dat... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7907183 | Image generation apparatus and image generation method for generating a new video sequence from a plurality of video sequences Provided is an image generation apparatus that generates a new video sequence from video sequences including image regions for which corresponding point detection and motion estimation cannot be performed correctly. The image generation apparatus includes: an exposu... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907182 | Image data reduction apparatus and method, program, storage medium, and image sensing apparatus An object of the invention is to prevent degradation of an image as much as possible when data of the number of original pixels of an image sensing element is converted into data of a smaller number of pixels. In order to achieve this object, an image data reduction... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7898573 | Camera with high-quality still capture during continuous video capture A method for processing a source frame is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating an intermediate frame by digitally processing the source frame, wherein the intermediate frame has an intermediate resolution and has an intermediate color... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7889240 | Digital camera which detects a connection to an external device An electronic camera and method of operating an electronic camera which detects whether an external device such as a personal computer is properly connected to the camera and in a state which permits communication. The camera monitors a data terminal ready (DTR) sig... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7868920 | Mobile communication terminal having function of photographing moving picture, and method for operating same Provided are a mobile communication terminal having a function of photographing a moving picture, and a method for operating the same. The terminal includes a camera, an input unit, a video processor, and a controller. The input unit inputs a section setting command... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7855733 | Electronic camera and recording medium for images and image information and recording image reproduction program An electronic camera that generates a still image by photographing a subject, generates image information related to the still image having a data volume smaller than a data volume of the still image and records the still image and the image information, includes: a... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7847827 | Method and apparatus for photographing an object to produce still image while recording moving picture Provided is a method and apparatus for photographing an object to produce a still image while recording a moving picture. If a request for recording a moving picture is input by a user, image resolution of preview image data is changed to pre-set image resolution of... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847828 | Image capturing apparatus having a moving image capture function, and program and method for controlling same An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit, a first storage unit configured to store sample images and corresponding image capture frame rates, a display unit configured to display the sample images stored in the first storage unit at a predeterm... | 12/07/2010 |
