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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190017 | Electro-mechanical shutter control A method in a camera device having an image sensor and an electro-mechanical shutter mechanism is as follows. A constant drive current is applied to the shutter mechanism to close shutter at the end of a first exposure. Then, a decaying drive current is applied to t... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8032019 | Camera body and imaging apparatus A camera body is provided, to which an interchangeable lens is mountable, the interchangeable lens including a diaphragm and capable of sending driving speed information of the diaphragm. The camera body has a receiving unit operable to receive the driving speed inf... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8014663 | Camera, accessory, and camera system A camera includes a camera control unit configured to acquire information on an accessory mounted on the camera by performing communication with an accessory control unit included in the accessory and to control a photographing operation based on the information on ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7995913 | Electronic camera An electronic camera and method include an imaging device, a luminance detection device, a selection device, a first control circuit, a second control circuit and a third control circuit. The first control circuit re-executes an exposure calculation by adjusting the... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7962032 | Portable composite apparatus and method of controlling photographing modes A portable composite apparatus and a method of controlling photographing modes. The portable composite apparatus includes a decision unit to decide whether current time information is included in a time range corresponding to a current photographing mode by referrin... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957639 | Method and system for determining optimal exposure of structured light based 3D camera Provided are a method and system for determining an optimal exposure of a structured light based 3D camera. The system includes a projecting means for illuminating a predetermined pattern on a target object, an image capturing means for capturing an image of the tar... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949250 | Electro-mechanical shutter control A method in a camera device having an image sensor and an electro-mechanical shutter mechanism is as follows. A constant drive current is applied to the shutter mechanism to close shutter at the end of a first exposure. Then, a decaying drive current is applied to t... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945155 | Apparatus for capturing images, method of controlling exposure in the apparatus, and computer readable recording medium storing program A method of controlling exposure under low brightness conditions, comprising calculating an automatic exposure time such that an exposure time is substantially in inverse proportion to the brightness of a subject; when the automatic exposure time is smaller than a f... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7925153 | Imaging apparatus and control method thereof An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a diaphragm control unit configured to control an aperture value of a diaphragm, and an electronic shutter control unit configured to control an operation of an electronic shutter for adjusting a charge accumulation tim... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925152 | Exposure control method An exposure control method adjusts an exposure setting used for capturing an image including a foreground object and a background. The foreground object is extracted from the image by an object detection procedure. If the area of the foreground object is greater tha... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7783189 | Imaging apparatus and control method thereof An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a diaphragm control unit configured to control an aperture value of a diaphragm, and an electronic shutter control unit configured to control an operation of an electronic shutter for adjusting a charge accumulation tim... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7761002 | Image capture apparatus and image capture method In an image capture apparatus which captures an image, with respect to one or a plurality of types of parameters to be set at a photo opportunity, a desired set value of the parameter is registered beforehand, and it is possible to easily change to a setting for the... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7742694 | Optical apparatus with aperture controller An optical apparatus, such as an image pickup apparatus, includes a detector configured to detect whether a manual aperture operation unit is operated by an amount greater than or equal to a predetermined amount during automatic aperture control. When an aperture fi... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7706676 | Automatic exposure control method An automatic exposure control method is used to control a shooting exposure parameter for shooting an image by a shooting end. At least one middle brightness value is acquired between a brightness value of a background region and an overall brightness value, and the... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702236 | Digital image acquisition device with built in dust and sensor mapping capability A digital image acquisition device has an image acquisition sensor, a shutter, an aperture and optical elements for focusing an image on the sensor. The device includes a light source located in the body of the device. The light source is periodically activated with... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7684690 | Method and system for automatic exposure compensation A method for automatic exposure compensation is disclosed. A shutter is activated and the environmental brightness is detected using a sensor. An exposure value is calculated according to the detection result to obtain a default exposure time. It is determined wheth... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7668452 | Apparatus for automatically controlling exposure of image sensor An automatic exposure control apparatus employed by an image sensor module including a lens unit, an image sensing unit having a shutter, and an image signal processing unit, the apparatus including: a brightness calculator extracting average brightness of a image s... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7646976 | Digital camera A digital camera includes an imaging device for capturing images of an object, a signal processor which performs signal processing on a signal captured by the imaging device to obtain an image signal, and a single measuring device for measuring color of at least a p... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7590346 | Digital camera A digital camera includes: an image sensor that captures an image of a subject and outputs an image signal; and a control device that engages the image sensor to capture an image at an exposure value having been set, makes a decision as to whether or not an overflow... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7532814 | Electronic camera A digital camera (10) includes a CCD imager (16). An image signal corresponding to an optical image is output from the CCD imager (16), and an incident light amount to the CCD imager (16) is restricted by an aperture unit (14). A C... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7526194 | Method and apparatus for adjusting exposure for a camera A camera phone and method for automatically adjusting the exposure of a camera in order to improve image of an object is previewed with a current exposure, data is extracted from frames of the previewed image and analyzed to determine illumination of the previewed o... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7474847 | Method and system in digital imaging for adjusting exposure and a corresponding device The invention relates to a method in digital imaging for adjusting exposure, in which one or more exposure parameters (ET, AG) of a camera device are adjusted in connection with imaging. In the method, a histogram formed from a raw image frame (12) is analyse... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7444075 | Imaging device, camera, and imaging method At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an imaging device, for taking images under different exposure conditions to create a single image, which includes a first condition-obtaining device configured to obtain a first exposure condition candidate for an Nth... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7403707 | Method for estimating camera settings adaptively A camera is configured to adaptively determine camera settings. The camera includes a plurality of sensors elements configured to acquire a current image of a scene according to a current set of camera settings. A number of sensor elements having a set of desirable ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7369762 | Projector device, and photographing method and program of projected image A protector device is provided which includes a projecting system, a photographing system, and a control section. The projecting system includes a light source lamp, a micromirror element, and a projecting lens, and each image for each of a plurality of color compon... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7292280 | Camera, aperture controlling method and apparatus, lens controlling method and apparatus, and edging amount controlling method and apparatus Maximum and minimum aperture sizes are regulated with regard to a diaphragm in order to secure predetermined optical capability in an optical unit which includes a taking lens and the diaphragm. In a normal taking, the diaphragm is used within a normal taking range ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283171 | Image pickup apparatus with external device An image pickup apparatus including an image pickup device configured to convert a monitored object image into an electrical image signal and to output the image signal, a clock generator configured to generate a constant cyclic drive frequency to drive the image pi... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7270422 | Image processing system, projector, program, information storage medium, and image processing method A projector includes an image projection section, a sensor that senses a projected first calibration image at a low resolution and generates first sensing information, senses the first calibration image at a high resolution and generates third sensing information, a... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268337 | Optical sensor, output processing method of optical sensor, display device, and electronic apparatus An optical sensor includes a light receiving element in which a current corresponding to the amount of received light flows between one end and the other end thereof, a comparator which compares a voltage at the one end of the light receiving element with a predeter... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7200513 | Method for clocking speed using wireless terminal and system implementing the same A system and method are provided for clocking the speed of a moving object using a wireless terminal in a preview mode of a camera, wherein the method includes the steps of entering a preview mode for speed measurement when a speed measurement function is selected i... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7178778 | Portable easel This invention is a collapsible panel assembly having a front panel, a back panel, and at least one dry erase sheet carried by said front panel. The invention can have a first position where the collapsible panel assembly is generally a triangular shape and a second... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7167645 | Image processing system, projector, information storage medium, and image processing method A projector includes an image projection section which projects a white image and a black image, a sensor which has an exposure adjustment function, generates first sensing information by sensing the white image, and generates second sensing information by sensing t... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7133608 | Camera A camera divides a light beam having passed through a taking lens unit into two light beams. One light beam forms an image on a silver salt film. Another light beam forms an image on a CCD. A light path for said another light beam is provided with an aperture diaphr... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7093414 | Articulated mower for mowing around fenceposts and other upright obstructions A pull-behind mower for cutting ground vegetation. The mower generally includes a rolling frame and a mowing deck. The deck is independently articulatable relative to the frame on two distinct pivot axes. ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7071987 | Digital camera having automatic exposure control for different photographing modes A digital camera includes an image pick-up element which receives light reflected from an object and generates image data of the object, and a light-receiving element which receives light reflected form the object and outputs light-quantity data for the object. The ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7053938 | Speech-to-text captioning for digital cameras and associated methods A digital camera includes a processor and a microphone. The camera captures audio speech and converts the speech to text. The text can be combined with a captured image to provide a composite file. The processor executes an instruction set which performs the audio t... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7012590 | Motionless-image display with auto-adjusting light system and the method for forming the same An auto-adjusting light system includes an inputting sub-circuit, a photosensitive sub-circuit, a controlling sub-circuit, a starting sub-circuit, and a display. The inputting sub-circuit is used to input a setting value. The photosensitive sub-circuit is used to ca... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6989761 | Photo-timer module A photo-timer module, including a upper cover which has a hollow window; a lower cover which could affix to said upper cover; a control and power circuit which is placed into said upper cover, wherein a portion of said control and power circuit is revealed in said h... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6930723 | Quantity-of-light adjusting apparatus In a quantity-of-light adjusting apparatus having an iris and an ND filter which limit incident light, a control method for the quantity-of-light adjusting apparatus, and a computer program product providing a control program for the quantity-of-light adjusting appa... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6900886 | Photometric apparatus A photometric apparatus includes an exposure value calculator for calculating an exposure value based on light data from a photo sensor and an inputted photosensitivity; an exposure value difference calculator for calculating a difference between a calculated exposu... | 05/31/2005 |
