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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159572 | Image pickup apparatus, apparatus and method for processing information, program, and program recording medium An image pickup apparatus, an apparatus and a method for processing information, a program, and a program recording medium that can provide a user with an image optimum for the user are provided. A recording medium 4 records a large-size image and a playback ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7961234 | Electronic equipment and method in electronic equipment for forming image information and a program product or implementation of the method The invention relates to electronic equipment. The equipment includes camera means for forming data from an object located in the imaging direction, in which case the said camera means include at least two camera units (CAM1, CAM2) and data-processing ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7911516 | Camera module and electronic apparatus provided with it A camera module that can be made thinner and achieves a beautiful image over an entire image region regardless of a subject distance is provided. The camera module includes a plurality of lens portions, each including at least one lens, a plurality of imaging region... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7336308 | Digital camera with sensitivity compensation Voltage signals outputted from a CCD are subjected to correlated double sampling processing by a correlated double sampling circuit (CDS), after which digital gain processing is carried out at a gain control amplifier (GCA). A gain difference between G color signals... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333146 | Image capturing apparatus for adjusting a relative position between an image sensor and an optical axis The image sensor 52 is provided with a chip 53 having a image capturing surface 31 and a packaged to which the chip 53 is attached. The image capturing surface include a plurality of blocks 31a to 31d. Each of ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324144 | Solid image pickup device, image pickup system and method of driving solid image pickup device The solid image pickup device of the present invention comprises a photoelectric conversion part, a charge-voltage conversion part for converting electric charges from the photoelectric conversion part to voltage signals, a signal amplifier for amplifying the voltag... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7295765 | Digital image recording and reproducing apparatus having formats corresponding to pixel configurations In a digital image recording/reproducing apparatus of the invention, image data obtained via a charge-coupled-device (CCD) is processed by a processing circuit so as to produce a luminance signal and color-difference signals, which are supplied to corresponding firs... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7271837 | Method and apparatus for acquiring line signals When signal charges are read from light receiving pixels of each of CCD sensors, which are arrayed linearly such that end regions of CCD sensors adjacent to each other overlap with respect to a direction intersecting with the linear array direction of the CCD sensor... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266237 | System and method for a heuristics-based approach for determining a number of colors in an image A method for determining a number of colors in a digital image includes receiving a digital image and determining a total number of pixels in the digital image. A proportion of the total number of pixels is selected as having an infrequent color and a respective col... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262799 | Image sensing apparatus and its control method, control program, and storage medium This invention has as its object to provide an image sensing apparatus which can satisfactorily correct misregistration among images, and can composite the images. To achieve this object, an image sensing apparatus includes: a plurality of apertures that receives ex... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7256834 | Digital camera having panning and/or tilting functionality, and an image rotating device for such a camera A digital camera (300) has panning and/or tilting functionality and comprises: a camera housing (6) with an optical input (400), such as a lens or objective (8); an image capturing unit (500) for producing a digital image from ligh... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7236196 | Solid-state image pickup apparatus for reading out image signals with pixels reduced in a horizontal direction and a signal reading method for the same A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a color filter having an R (red), G (green) and B (blue) vertical stripe pattern. During preliminary pickup, a signal feeding section feeds particular drive signals for reading signal charges out of only odd-numbered col... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233355 | Imaging apparatus utilizing image pickup devices used for an interlaced scanning The invention provides a convenient way of generating image signals on a progressive scanning basis. Multiple image pickup devices used for an interlaced scanning drive and generate chrominance signal DGi on the interlaced scanning basis with an interlace field and ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230646 | Single sensor electronic video camera technique with diagonally coupled pixels A method for producing electronic video signals representative of color images of a scene, includes the following steps: providing a sensor having a color filter thereover; providing a motion picture film camera type of lens system that focuses light from the image ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218348 | Solid-state electronic imaging device and method of controlling opertion thereof An object is to prevent a false signal from being generated. In a CCD comprising a lot of photodiodes, vertical transfer paths, and a horizontal transfer path, signal charges respectively representing R, G and B color components are mixed in the horizontal transfer ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7176966 | Image processing device In short, the image processing device for obtaining a single image by using a plurality of image-pickup elements comprises a plurality of image-pickup signal processing circuits that are provided for each of the image-pickup elements, an image arrangement conversion... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170554 | Method for processing signals representing color pictures A method for processing at least a part of a color picture comprises at least one pixel defined by a plurality of color values. Each color value is variable between black and a color clip value. The method comprises, determining for each color value the quantity of ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7142238 | Image pick-up device An image pick up device includes a pick-up unit for picking up an image condensed on a line sensor through a lens; a chromatic aberration correction board with a predetermined pattern in accordance with a pick-up resolution; an interpolation factor calculation unit ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7123382 | Method for bayer mosaic image conversion A method of, and an apparatus for, image conversion. The three color channels of a Bayer mosaic image are up-interpolated from input space to output space. The pixels sampled from each two-dimensional color plane of the Bayer image are convolved with a coefficient k... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123277 | Conversion of a sub-pixel format data to another sub-pixel data format In a first embodiment, a method of converting a source pixel data of a first format for a display of a second format having a plurality of three-color pixel elements comprises determining implied sample areas for each data point of each color in the source pixel dat... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7098936 | Image display system and method including optical scaling A method of displaying an image having a first aspect ratio with a display device having a second aspect ratio includes receiving image data for the image, buffering the image data and creating a frame of the image at the first aspect ratio, defining a first sub-fra... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095443 | Focusing state determining apparatus In a color separation optical system in a camera, subject light entering focus-imaging elements, to which optical path lengths from the taking lens are different, is obtained with a light dividing face. The focusing state is determined with focus evaluation values a... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095446 | Method and device for phase correction of a vertically distorted digital image A device for correcting the phase of a vertically distorted digital picture receives picture data and a vertical phase correction signal, and assigns lines of the digital picture to a first half picture and to a second half picture. The lines of the second half pict... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092026 | Optical carrier and housing arrangement for receiving a color splitter system and several image converters The invention relates to an optical carrier and housing arrangement to accommodate a color-separation system as well as several image converters, in particular CCD receivers, which is based on a preferably metallic housing block with a radiation entrance opening in ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7071980 | Image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus provided with a plurality of image sensing elements each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections and an adding circuit adapted to add signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion sections to obtain a one-pixel ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7064781 | Apparatus and methods of calibrating pixel off set and pixel gain using digitial hardware A calibration system in accordance with the invention, which is implemented at least in part in digital hardware, can calibrate for at least one of pixel offset and pixel gain. Calibration for pixel offset can include a pixel range adjust process which sets up the r... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061674 | Electronic binoculars Electronic binoculars comprise an imaging unit, an image-signal processing unit, and first and second ocular units. First and second optical images, obtained by the optical system, are converted to first and second electric signals, due to imaging operations of the ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7043291 | Fluorescence image display apparatus A fluorescence image display apparatus is provided; wherein, when a pseudo color image representing the tissue state of a target subject is obtained, based on a fluorescence image emitted from the target subject upon the irradiation thereof by an excitation light, t... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7034928 | Reading apparatus A reading apparatus comprises a plurality of sensor modules having different resolutions. The sensor modules are arranged in a main scanning direction on a read surface to be used for different purposes of inspecting or identifying. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7025454 | Extended depth of field optics for human vision The present invention provides extended depth of field to human eyes by modifying contact lenses, intraocular implants, and/or the surface of the eye itself. This may be accomplished by applying selected phase variations to these optical elements (e.g., by varying s... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027085 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus that has a reduced circuit scale and efficiently operates a plurality of solid-state imaging devices. The imaging apparatus includes first and second solid-state imaging devices, first and second drive circuits for driving the first and second s... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023587 | Image scanning apparatus, recording medium which stores image scanning programs, and data structure The present invention provides an image scanning apparatus having an illuminating device which irradiates illumination, an imaging element which has a light receiving part for receiving light and for generating signal charges, in which the light is an illumination i... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019777 | Multispectral imaging system with spatial resolution enhancement A spatial resolution enhancement and dynamic range extension for a Computerized Airborne Multicamera Imaging System (CAMIS). CAMIS is a multispectral imaging system for diverse manned and unmanned aerial vehicles to fly along flexible paths and altitudes for a wide ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7006132 | Aperture coded camera for three dimensional imaging Determining instantaneously the three-dimensional coordinates of large sets of points in space using two or more CCD cameras (or any other type of camera), each with its own lens and pinhole. The CCD's are all arranged so that the pixel arrays are within the same pl... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6992713 | Fully integrated solid state imager and camera display There is shown an single chip CMOS device for capturing a video image. The device includes an APS imager containing an array of pixels for providing a signal representing a scene, a row of extended dynamic range sample and hold circuits for receiving a signal from t... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6975353 | Immersive camera system An immersive scanning camera provides for a high speed imager to capture a scene of interest on a pixel by pixel basis. Distance data is collected for each pixel. This distance data is representative of the distance from the immersive camera of the object depicted b... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6963375 | Image altering device for an image producing apparatus A digital camera has a plurality of fields of view combined with a panning and/or tilting functionality. The camera comprises: a camera housing (6) with an optical input (5), such as a lens or objective. The camera also has an image capturing unit for ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961092 | Three-dimensional image capturing device A three-dimensional image capturing device comprises a light emitting device and an imaging device, such as a CCD, having a plurality of photo-diodes, a vertical transfer unit and a substrate. A pulse-modulated distance measuring light beam is radiated from the ligh... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6950132 | Image sensor and method for driving an image sensor for reducing fixed pattern noise There is provided a method of driving an image sensor which can remove FPN resulting from inter-chip variations without requiring any dark correction. A semiconductor photosensor chip has a plurality of sensor modules mounted on a mounting substrate, and a semicondu... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6937276 | Digital camera with low memory usage A digital camera has an image sensor system, a first compression system, a frame buffer, a first decompression system, and an image processing system. The image sensor system provides n pixels of initial image information. The n pixels each have m bits of intensity ... | 08/30/2005 |
