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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189066 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable medium An image processing apparatus includes an evaluation value calculation unit configured to acquire an evaluation value from image data, a reduction coefficient calculation unit configured to calculate a reduction coefficient based on the evaluation value, a reduction... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189061 | Digital still camera with multiple frames combined into a single frame for digital anti-shake/anti-blur A method of capturing a still frame is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a plurality of initial frames with a sensor in response to an optical signal and (B) generating the still frame by combining the initial frames using a noise ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189062 | Image pick-up module and method for assembling such an image pick-up module An image pick-up module comprises an electronic image sensor, single-piece circuit board electrically bonded to the image sensor, and at least one cable electrically bonded and leading away from the circuit board. The circuit board has at least three sections, first... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189063 | Image pickup system and image pickup program An image pickup system includes a verification unit for verifying a reliability related to a plurality of image signals obtained by an image-pickup operation performed by setting a spectral characteristic of a color image sensor system different; a correction unit f... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189064 | Imaging apparatus An imaging device includes a color filter having a predetermined color array and converts an optical image into image data of an electrical signal. A coordinate transforming unit transforms a first coordinate value of the imaging device into a second coordinate valu... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189065 | Methods and apparatus for full-resolution light-field capture and rendering Method and apparatus for full-resolution light-field capture and rendering. A radiance camera is described in which the microlenses in a microlens array are focused on the image plane of the main lens instead of on the main lens, as in conventional plenoptic cameras... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184175 | System and method for detecting a camera A system and method for detecting a camera. In one embodiment, although not limited thereto, an illuminator illuminates an area of interest. A camera then takes multiple pictures of the illuminated area and an algorithm is then used to compare the pictures and locat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184174 | Image processor and image processing program to correct a spatial frequency band of an image The digital camera (100) has an image processor that corrects an input image for a spatial frequency band. The edge enhancement block (106) computes an edge component for band correction. A signal interpolated at color interpolation block (107) ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184173 | Method and device for reading a pixel A method for reading a pixel, the method includes: (i) generating a first signal responsive to light sensed by the pixel during a first exposure period; (ii) comparing a first threshold to a first value of the first signal; (iii) writing a second value to the pixel;... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184176 | Digital camera blending and clashing color warning system A system, method and program product for detecting and warning of problematic color combinations. A system is disclosed that includes a color warning system having: a scanning system for detecting proximately located objects appearing in an electronic view finder of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179448 | Auto depth field capturing system and method thereof The invention presents a system and method for obtaining object depth through digital signal processing. The auto depth-field capturing method for a camera includes the steps of a) taking plural images; b) estimating plural epipolar data of the plural images for obt... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179449 | Portable electronic apparatus including a display and method for controlling display content based on movement of the display and user position A portable electronic apparatus includes a display, a user position estimating unit and a display movement estimating unit. The user position estimating unit is for estimating the user position with respect to the display. The display movement estimating unit is for... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179450 | Electronic camera An electronic camera includes an imager. The imager, having an imaging surface capturing an object scene, outputs an object scene image. A CPU searches a face portion of a person from the object scene based on the object scene image outputted from the imager. Moreov... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169500 | Dynamic range compression apparatus, dynamic range compression method, computer-readable recording medium, integrated circuit, and imaging apparatus A dynamic range (D-range) compression apparatus that uses a look-up table (LUT) is capable of dynamic compression that compresses the peak input value to the full output range, even when image signals with variable D-ranges are inputted. According to this D-range co... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169497 | Method of segmenting videos into a hierarchy of segments A method of segmenting a compressed video containing a plurality of frames into a multi-level hierarchy of video segments. The method comprises the steps of determining differences between the size of successive compressed frames in media time. The method then group... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169496 | Image processing system and image acquisition method An image processing system includes an illumination unit and an illumination control unit configured to adjust light emitted from the illumination unit so as to illuminate a limited area in a space, the system generates a timing signal for controlling emission/non-e... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169499 | Solid-state image pick-up device, data transmission method, and image pickup apparatus A video camera (100) for transmitting image data from an image pickup device to an image processing device with reduced electric power includes a C-MOS image sensor (110) that reads captured image data on the basis of a reference clock CLK0, a f... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169498 | Nonlinear error correction processor for an image sensor An image pickup device is provided, capable of complete correction with data of once analog-to-digital conversion, and prevention of excess use of switches and analog devices and/or erroneous correction, including: an image sensor having a plurality of analog-to-dig... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169501 | Output apparatus, output method and program There is provided an output apparatus which is capable of outputting a moving image in such a manner as to enable an observer to easily judge whether a quick movement made by a suspicious individual is an abnormal behavior. The output apparatus includes a moving ima... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169495 | Method and apparatus for dynamic panoramic capturing A method and apparatus for capturing an image depicting an area or region of interest. The method and apparatus use a large sensor, and a sampling function, which can be non-uniform, so that sensor cells depicting the region or object of interest are sampled more de... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164645 | Image processing apparatus, method of controlling image processing apparatus, and program for controlling image processing apparatus An apparatus received input of a base image and a reference image that are images picked up by two cameras provided on left and right. A window setting portion determines a size of a window based on an edge value of an image around a gaze point in the base image. A ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164646 | Image capturing apparatus, image capturing sensor, and image capturing processing method This invention is directed to reduce a deterioration in image quality after thinning operation when pixels are read out upon thinning. An image sensor is designed such that different gains are applied on a pixel basis. After periodical gains are applied to the respe... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164643 | Composition determining apparatus, composition determining method, and program A composition determining apparatus includes a subject detecting unit configured to detect existence of one or more specific subjects in an image based on image data; and a composition determining unit configured to determine a composition in accordance with the num... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164642 | Image-capturing device with a destructive read-type image sensor An image-capturing device includes: a destructive read-type image sensor that executes photoelectric conversion of a light flux from an optical system at a plurality of pixels, stores electrical charges resulting from the photoelectric conversion at the plurality of... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164644 | Method and apparatus for generating media signal by using state information Provided are a method and apparatus for generating a media signal by using state information. The method using the apparatus includes acquiring at least one type of state information selected from state information about a subject and state information about the app... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159548 | Modular architecture having reusable front end for processing digital video data A device is described that includes an encoder/decoder (CODEC) in which functionality is partitioned between a video front end (VFE) and a video back end (VBE). The VFE encapsulates functionality and image processing operations to support a variety of applications, ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159552 | Apparatus and method for restoring image based on distance-specific point spread function An apparatus and method for restoring an image are provided. The apparatus includes an edge-strength-detection module which detects an R-channel edge strength, a G-channel edge strength and a B-channel edge strength from an input image and generates an R-channel edg... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159550 | Presenting images as mosaics Apparatus, methods and systems for creating mosaics are described. A method is provided that includes identifying an image for presentation as a mosaic; dividing the identified image into a plurality of tiles; scoring each tile; identifying a matching image from an ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159553 | Generating a color characterization model for an input imaging device A method of generating a color characterization model for an input imaging device includes capturing a target having plural patches using the input imaging device to produce plural digital values in a device-dependent color space, the plural digital values having co... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159554 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image capturing apparatus, and medium storing a program for processing an image based on spread of light Provided is an image processing apparatus, comprising an image generating section that generates a converted image by performing a coordinate conversion on a captured image captured through an optical system, such that a spread of light from the optical system has a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159551 | Portable electronic equipment with automatic control to keep display turned on and method Apparatus and method provide a hold on function in a mobile phone or other portable electronic equipment keeps the display thereof turned on in spite of a screensaver or other power saving feature while a user is reading or watching the display and allows activating... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159549 | System and method for in-vivo imaging An in-vivo imaging device including a camera may include a frame storage device. Systems and methods which vary the frame capture rate of the camera and/or frame display rate of the display unit of in-vivo camera systems are discussed. The capture rate is varied bas... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154615 | Method and apparatus for image display control according to viewer factors and responses A device and system and a method for selecting and displaying images in accordance with attention responses of an image viewer. An image capture device captures a viewer image of a spatial region potentially containing a viewer of the image display device and a view... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154612 | Systems, methods, and apparatus for image processing, for color classification, and for skin color detection Embodiments include a method of image processing including decomposing a reflectance spectrum for a test surface into a linear combination of reflectance spectra of a set of test targets. The coefficient vector calculated in this decomposition is used to predict a r... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154613 | Signal processing apparatus and method for reducing jaggedness on color image edge and image sensing apparatus having same In a signal processing apparatus for processing an image signal, a hue difference between adjoining pixels is detected by a color image edge detector, and an aperture control main gain circuit amplifies a luminance signal using a gain determined on the basis of the ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154614 | Image playback device and method and electronic camera with image playback function An image playback device, which may be part of an electronic camera, reads out recorded information that has been recorded on a recording medium. A time period discriminator receives the recorded information read out by the image playback device and discriminates pe... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154616 | Data processing apparatus and method, and recording medium A data processing apparatus acquires images captured by cameras. A data processing apparatus 2 calculates relative positional relationship between the camera that captured an image and a camera that is captured in the captured image, by image recognition of t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154617 | Method of detecting the existence of visually sensitive thin lines in a digital image A method of detecting existence of visually thin lines in images is described herein. The method includes profile generation, profile analysis and deciding the existence of thin lines. The profile generation includes generating a profile in each direction of the inp... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149289 | Pseudo-digital average sub sampling method and apparatus A method of k*k subsampling, where k is an integer greater than one, a full frame readout on a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, each pixel belonging to one of at least two sets, a first set configured to sense a first value of an image parameter and... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149288 | Image capture device that records image accordant with predetermined condition and storage medium that stores program An image capture device sets a central vicinity of a frame of a predetermined area as a focus region upon detecting a half-press operation of a shutter button in a through-the-lens image displaying, designates a central vicinity pixel region of the region as a pixel... | 04/03/2012 |
