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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7173653 | Imaging stabilizer using micromirror array lens A vibration correction device in an imaging device includes a micromirror array lens, configured to focus an object image onto an image sensor, and a vibration determination device, communicatively coupled to the micromirror array lens, configured to determine vibra... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170649 | Scanning module having an adjustable height A scanning module having an adjustable height includes a CIS module having two ends along a longitudinal direction each provided with a distance adjusting member. Thus, when the CIS module is scanning the reflective document and the transparency, the distance adjust... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167202 | Image pick-up apparatus and distance measuring device An image pick-up apparatus comprises a distance measuring unit that measures a distance to a subject, and a stroboscope that emits light of an intensity determined based on the measured distance. There are further provided a distance calculating section that calcula... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167203 | Digital camera having controller for reducing occurrences of blur in displayed images A digital camera comprises a camera body and an image sensing unit. The image sensing unit is provided with a taking lens and an image sensing device for taking images and with an optical viewfinder. The camera body is provided with a controller for controlling the ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164518 | Fast scanner with rotatable mirror and image processing system A scanner for obtaining an image of an object placed on an at least partially transparent platform, wherein the platform is defined by edge portions and has at least including a first scan area and a second scan area. In one embodiment, the scanner includes a white ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161628 | Image-pickup apparatus outputting signals for finder display and signals for focal-point detection, control method applied to the apparatus, and computer readable medium having encoded thereon a program implementing a method using the apparatus An image-pickup apparatus, a control method applied to the image-pickup apparatus, and a control program for operating a computer used for the image-pickup apparatus are provided. The image-pickup apparatus comprises an image-pickup element for picking up the images... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158182 | Camera that engages in a focusing operation through a contrast method A camera includes: an image-capturing element that captures a subject image through a photographic lens having a focusing lens; an evaluation value calculation unit that calculates focus evaluation values at a plurality of lens positions assumed by the focusing lens... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154074 | Telescope main body and spotting scope A telescope main body, which is provided with an objective optical system, a focusing system, an imaging device, a beam splitter, and a correcting system that performs a correcting operation for correcting a position shift between an image forming position of an obj... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154547 | Solid-state image sensor having control cells for developing signals for image-shooting control under poor illumination A solid-state image sensor and a digital cameral capable of executing accurate image-shooting adjustment even in a low illumination environment. A charge coupled device type of image sensor includes red, green and blue pixel cells provided with color filter segments... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155031 | Moving object detection method From a plurality of pictures 1-1 through 1-3 captured at successive time intervals, pictures 2-1 through 2-3 of regions determined in accordance with the movement of the celestial object are cut out. By derivin... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151570 | Imaging apparatus with interchangeable lens apparatus, the lens apparatus having a memory for storing optical performance data of the lens apparatus An optical apparatus including an imaging apparatus and a lens apparatus each having a communicating portion performing communications is disclosed. The optical apparatus is provided with: an imaging optical unit; a memory in which information of an optical performa... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149420 | Auto-focusing lens with progressive variable focal element An improved method and module for auto focusing utilizes a variable thickness focus element. A different thickness, and thus a different focus, is optically coupled to an image sensor by rotating the focus element. Movement along the optic axis is not required. This... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145598 | Image pickup apparatus capable of making effective depiction by reducing pixel signals An image pickup apparatus is provided with a number-of-pixels reducing circuit arranged to form a reduced image by reducing to a predetermined number the effective pixels among all pixels owned by an image sensor in such a manner that the method for reducing the eff... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145602 | Exposure control method for digital camera An apparatus and method for controlling exposure of a digital camera with high precision by setting a proper exposure amount by emitting auxiliary light during auto-focusing, detecting the luminance level of an object, and carrying out an exposure controlling operat... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139019 | Image processing device The present invention enables a movement vector of a moving object to the detected, by detecting a mixture ratio indicating the proportion of mixing with an image, or taking into consideration a region mixed with the image. A weighted frame difference computation un... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133077 | Auto focus camera, lens apparatus and camera system with a vibration motor drive A camera comprising the following components is disclosed: a vibrating motor which drives a focus lens of an image-taking optical system, and a control circuit which controls the vibrating type motor to repeatedly drive and stop the focus lens, extract... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129980 | Image capturing apparatus and automatic exposure control correcting method When a shutter release button of an image capturing apparatus is half pressed, an exposure time t is determined by a normal AE function. Then, if a shutter release button is fully pressed, an image is captured with the exposure time t, and the captured image is stor... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129984 | Electronic device using operating system for overall apparatus control including mechanical operation A control method for an electronic device such as a digital camera, having a mechanical driving member comprising a collapsible barrel, a lens barrier and the like, which performs mechanical operations, and a system controller which controls the overall device inclu... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7129460 | Electronic imaging apparatus with high resolution and wide field of view and method Electronic imaging apparatus includes a main mirror that rotates about two transverse axes to reflect light for an array of subimages through a lens to a correcting mirror that reflects the light to an image detector. The correcting mirror moves in translation and t... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126098 | Taking lens having focus determination optical system The taking lens comprises a picture-taking optical system, which allows object light to enter an image-capturing element for picture-taking of a camera, and a focus determination optical system, which splits the object light and allows the split light to enter a foc... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7125378 | Hermetically sealed imaging system for medical applications An imaging system includes: an optical-system holding member for holding an optical system to form an optical image of a subject; an imaging-device holding member for holding an imaging device to obtain the optical image formed by the optical system; a case for herm... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127125 | Registration of separations Images may be registered using temporal (time-based) and spatial information. In a film implementation, because film is a sequence of frames, using information from neighboring frames may enable a temporally smoother visual experience. In addition, it may be benefic... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126640 | Autofocus strobe control in image sensing apparatus Provided is control relating to autofocusing in an image sensing apparatus having an image sensing unit for photoelectrically converting an optical image of a subject to obtain an image signal representing the subject, and an autofocus function, the apparatus being ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123425 | Light path reflecting optical system and apparatus provided with the same An optical system comprises, at least, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refracting power, a second lens group having negative refracting power, a third lens group having positive refracting power, and a fourth lens group having positi... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119319 | Solid-state image sensing element and its design support method, and image sensing device A solid-state image sensing element has a photoelectric conversion element which converts incoming light into an electrical signal in accordance with an amount of the light, a microlens which is arranged on an incident surface, a light guide which is arranged betwee... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116502 | Optical apparatus An optical apparatus is disclosed which can control a position of a driven member with precision using a simple control algorithm. The optical apparatus includes an actuator, a driven member, a transmission mechanism for transmitting a driving force from the actuato... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116371 | Three dimensional image capturing device and its laser emitting device A three-dimensional image capturing device comprises a plurality of laser devices, and an imaging device, such as a CCD, having a plurality of photo-diodes. Each of the laser devices radiates a pulse modulated laser beam so as to detect distance information or data ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116492 | Imaging apparatus A lens-controlling device controls a first lens unit which moves for zooming and a second lens unit which moves for correcting the displacement of an image plane caused by zooming and for focusing. The lens-controlling device includes a memory which stores data for ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110035 | Device and a method for an infrared image analyzing autofocus An apparatus and a method is introduced by which infrared image analysing automatic focusing is made possible. The invention among others comprises a focus function to be used by a search operation in order to control a moving means (50) adjusting a focusing ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110037 | Automatic focus control based on voltage, temperature, and power supply A digital camera is provided with, a voltage detection unit for a driving power supply, a temperature detection unit which detects an inner temperature and an outer temperature of the apparatus, a power supply detection unit which detects whether the power supply is... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110582 | Method for determining binocular balance and disorders of binocularity of an individual or clinical groups of individuals A method for identifying particular disorders of the eyes is disclosed. Initially, an image of the eyes in digital format is taken by a reflex photometer and the image provided to a computer programmed to run a plurality of algorithms that are associated with each t... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7108378 | Method and devices for displaying images for viewing with varying accommodation Light (22) is projected from an image projector (20), in response to an image information signal (18) and is controllably refracted in response to a first control signal (26), for projecting refracted light (27) onto a screen (2... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106376 | Method and system for improving image quality of portrait images using a focus zone shift A method for capturing an image using an image capture device is disclosed. The image is capable of including a plurality of objects. Each of the plurality of objects is a corresponding distance from the imaging device. The image is associated with a focus zone. The... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106511 | Imaging system with large depth of field An optical imaging system and method for achieving a large depth of field without decreasing the relative aperture of an imaging lens. The imaging system has a light source for sequentially illuminating an object to be imaged with light of different ones of a plural... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102681 | Focus detecting apparatus In a focus detection apparatus, an accumulation-type sensor formed of a plurality of sensor cells accumulates an image signal, and a component of the image signal is read from each cell for a focus detection calculation. A signal is read from a part of the cells in ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7097101 | Interface for interfacing an imaging engine to an optical code reader An optical code reader having means for focusing an imaging optics assembly on a target image. The optical code reader includes a chassis and an imaging optics assembly pivotally mounted on the chassis. The imaging optics assembly is housed within an opto-mechanical... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099575 | Manual focus device and autofocus camera A digital still camera includes an aperture stop opening, a taking lens system, and a CCD pickup element. In a manual focus device, an iris shifting mechanism sets the aperture stop opening in an aperture stop unit with reference to a first light amount gravity cent... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099089 | Zoom lens control apparatus, zoom lens system, and image-taking system A control apparatus of a zoom lens is disclosed which automatically and accurately performs flange focal distance adjustment with a simple structure in a zoom lens of a rear focus type. The control apparatus comprises a memory which stores in-focus position data of ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099093 | Compact lens module Provided is a compact lens module which enables zoom and auto-focus functions even in a small lens module by providing a lens carrying structure using a supersonic driving unit. A lens unit is positioned in a case and has at least one lens. A carrying member is rota... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099555 | Light amount adjusting apparatus, optical equipment, optical filter and image-taking apparatus An optical filter is disclosed which adjusts the contours of blurred images and maintains the size of blurred images. The optical filter includes a substrate being substantially transparent and a first layer whose optical density changes continuously, formed on the ... | 08/29/2006 |
