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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085335 | Image pickup apparatus with a fixed aperture stop having an aperture with different, repetitive first and second wave patterns An image pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup optical system, three color separation prisms separating incident light guided by the image-pickup optical system into three-primary-color light components and emitting the light components, and three image pickup e... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8045042 | Image rotating adapter and camera having the same An image rotating adapter includes: a first prism forming a subject image transmitted through an imaging lens on a position; and a second prism further reversing the subject image reversed by the first prism. The adapter also includes: a rotation drive unit rotating... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7916203 | Image capture apparatus and prism assembly and method of manufacturing the same An image capture apparatus is provided. The image capture apparatus includes a prism that separates light incident through a lens into at least two color components of light to be output and an image capture device that converts light separated by and output from th... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7817204 | Optical device module and method for fabricating the same A solid-state image sensor includes a first image sensing device, a first flexible substrate connected to the first image sensing device, a second solid-state image sensing device, and a second flexible substrate connected to the second solid-state image sensing dev... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7724298 | Image processing system and method for pick up and display of an object including division of an optical image of the object into a spectrum The present invention relates to an image processing system and an image processing method, an image pickup apparatus and an image pickup method, and an image display device and an image display method, which can faithfully pick up and display the colors of an objec... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7663687 | Variable speed, variable resolution digital cinema camera system A digital cinema camera includes a plurality of imagers and a plurality of shutters mounted radially on a frame. A beam splitter disposed at a center of the frame rotates to provide an input optical beam sequentially to the plurality of imagers. When the input optic... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7359001 | Camera device and vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus A pair of left and right prisms are disposed on part of the region in front of the image pickup unit. A wide-angle lens is disposed on another part of region in front of the image pickup unit. Tapered supporting members of a prism holder for supporting the prisms lo... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357511 | Stress birefringence compensation in polarizing beamsplitters and systems using same Some projection systems use a polarization beamsplitter (PBS) for coupling light to and from an image-forming device. The PBS is typically formed with a reflective polarizing layer disposed between glass covers. Stress birefringence in the glass cover lying between ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7339617 | Image providing device and its providing method, image processing device and processing method, and storage medium In this invention, a transmit/receive section 34 receives, from monitor, request for transmission of picture image through network and transmits, to the monitor, the entirety or a portion of picture image from which distortion has been eliminated. A memory se... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336307 | Camera having accumulation operation in the period between the time of fully opening a leading shutter and the time of starting of a trailing shutter Disclosed is a camera including: an image-taking device; a shutter unit having a first shutter member that travels from a position where a shutter opening is closed to a position which is retreated from the opening, and a second shutter member that travels from the ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327521 | Colored light synthesis element and projection device therewith The invention includes a first incidence plane, a second incidence plane, a third incidence plane, a first synthesis plane and a second synthesis plane that are interiorly orthogonal to each other. The first synthesis plane reflects light of a first color component ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319216 | Light receiving unit and image taking apparatus A first prism 11a and a second prism 12a are joined together on a face-to-face basis. A dichroic mirror 13a is interposed into the junction plane to reflect only G-light. A first imaging device 111a receives th... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7207266 | Printing press A printing press contains a distributor roller, an oscillating roller which has a roller axle and a roller barrel, and a switching device for optionally releasing, in a first operating mode, and locking, in a second operating mode, an oscillating movement of the rol... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7199436 | Attachment structure for solid-state imaging device An attachment structure is used for attaching a solid-state imaging device to a light exit end face of a color-separating prism. When bonding the light exit end face on the color-separating prism side and the light entrance face on the solid-state imaging device sid... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7180542 | Imaging lens device and digital camera having the imaging lens device Imaging lens device has a zoom lens system and an image sensor. The zoom lens system has a first reflecting surface, a first movable lens unit, an aperture stop, a second reflecting surface, a second movable lens unit. A first reflecting surface bends a first optica... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176446 | Method and apparatus for distributing light onto electronic image sensors An apparatus that directs light onto individual photodetectors in an electronic image sensor array is disclosed. In one embodiment, refractive elements are used to appropriately refract different colors of light onto matching photodetector elements for different col... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170558 | Compact and low-profile digital camera A digital camera which allows to make thickness, height and width of its camera body small. The camera has a first optical member for generally perpendicularly bending a first optical axis of light coming from an object through a lens opening part, a second optical ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7088391 | Color video camera for film origination with color sensor and luminance sensor A technique for producing electronic video signals representative of color images of a scene includes use of a regular CCD for the color channel and a back-thinned CCD for a luminance channel; a technique for deriving blue and reconstructing full resolution R, G, B ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7071966 | Method of aligning lens and sensor of camera A method for aligning a lens of a camera with a sensor of the camera. The method includes positioning a test object a predetermined distance away from the lens of the camera, photographing the test object with the camera to produce image data, and outputting the ima... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7030927 | Apparatus for detecting focusing status of taking lens The number of pixels of image pickup devices for detecting a focusing status is smaller than the number of pixels of an image pickup device for image-output, or an image pickup size of the image pickup devices for detecting the focusing status is smaller than the im... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7023480 | Aligned mounting of a photodetector array in a color splitting prism A joining construction is described for mounting the CCD cells of a color line camera on a color splitting prism (30) attached to a prism housing (2) for each CCD cell (6, 7, 8) attached by a first glue joint (13), to its fastening elemen... | 04/04/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6999237 | Method and apparatus for configuration and assembly of a video projection light management system A pathlength matched prism assembly is constructed from Polarizing Beam Splitter optical components having varying degrees of precision by arranging them in pathlength matched positions and fixing them to a baseplate or frame. Gaps between the optical components are... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6956551 | Device for displaying images by projection, comprising dichroic filters with a gradient Device comprising: matrices of reflecting elements which can be electrically driven, and means for deconstructing a beam of polychromatic light and means for reconstructing complementary reflected beams, comprising... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6956610 | Shock mounting system for CCD camera A shock mounting system for a 3-chip video camera. The system comprises a pair of support plates for spanning the junctions between the various components (prisms, etc.) of a standard charge coupled device (CCD) color camera having 3 CCD's, and an elastomeric boot m... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6927792 | Television camera and white balance correcting method The white balance of a television camera is not lost and kept properly even if the diaphragm is opened to the utmost limit at a dark place. A signal F representing the diaphragm value of the taking lens is inputted from an iris part 2 into a microcomputer ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6924842 | Focusing state determining adapter for taking lens The focusing state determining adapter is detachably mounted between an interchangeable taking lens and a camera body in a camera system. The focusing state determining adapter includes a focus-imaging element and a beam splitter, which divides the subject light ent... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6909556 | Design of prism assemblies and kernel configurations for use in projection systems Kernels are designed in different configurations based on design properties of an enclosure or other requirements. A prism assembly having various types of filters, waveplates, beam splitters (e.g., path length matched beam splitters) and/or other optical components... | 06/21/2005 |
| RE38740 | Dichroic prism and projection display apparatus The invention provides a dichroic prism capable of reducing displacements of projection pixels of colors caused by chromatic aberration of magnification. A dichroic prism is formed in the shape of a quadrangular prism as a whole by joining four rectangular prisms to... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6903774 | Viewfinder device including first and second prisms to reflect light from outside the viewing area A thin viewfinder device includes, in order an object side to a viewing eye side, a first prism, and a second prism disposed separately from the first prim across an air gap. The first prism, the air gap and the second prism are arranged in such a manner that an obj... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6885403 | Color separation beam splitter for projectors A color separation beam splitter for projectors is provided, which comprises a plurality of prisms connected with each other and three optical interference filters having different wavelength ranges respectively formed on side surfaces of the plurality of prisms. Th... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6850279 | Optical image recording system, and associated processing system An optical image recording system for electronic recording of optical information comprising a lens system and a body. The body has a configuration with a low height and with broad surfaces. Optical information is received through one of these surfaces. An image rec... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6798586 | Corrector optic compensating spherical and coma aberrations generated by a prism A corrector optic is provided, for use in a camera system that includes a thick prism in front of the focal plane. The corrector optic includes preferably two lenses to be aligned on the optical axis of the camera system. When coupled within the camera system, the c... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6788343 | Image-forming optical system A high-performance image-forming optical system made compact and thin by folding an optical path using reflecting surfaces arranged to minimize the number of reflections. The image-forming optical system has a single prism. When image-side three surfaces of the pris... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6741014 | Light emitting device and camera having the same There is provided a light emitting device that is capable of changing the illumination angle in the transverse and vertical directions. An emission unit includes at least an arc tube being elongated in a longitudinal direction thereof, and a reflection umbrella. A l... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6710806 | Automatically focusing system and focusing method therefor An automatically focusing system comprises a distance-direction calculating section for calculating defocusing characteristic information of the picture image data in the respective AF areas of the black and white image sensors, which have been disposed in such that... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6624847 | Imaging system The present invention is directed to an imaging system which corrects colors of taken images of objects at practical speed and displays the image colors correctly. The imaging system comprises an imaging device (23) for taking a color image and a lens (21... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6614478 | Color separation prisms having solid-state imagers mounted thereon and camera employing same A method for attaching imagers to color-separation prisms includes the steps of: arranging three solid-state array image sensor integrated circuits behind and in close proximity to the output faces of a color-separating prism having substantially equal op... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6476870 | Method for adjusting a photodetector array and a beam-splitting and detector structure for a line scan camera The present invention relates to a method for adjusting a photodetector array, and a beam-splitting and detector structure for a line scan camera, which structure comprises a photodetector array which is protected by a casing (10) from at least the back, ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6351285 | Motion correction device for moving images A motion correction device for images recorded by a camcorder from incident light having an incident direction. The device comprises at least one of horizontal and vertical component pick-ups. Each component pick-up comprises a converter for converting li... | 02/26/2002 |
