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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107805 | Photographing control device and method, as well as program An image is obtained using a photographing unit including an optical system provided with an aperture and focus adjusting mechanism. Two or more types of subjects are detected from the image. When the two or more types of subjects are detected from the image, one pr... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8059953 | Retractable zoom lens A zoom lens includes a zoom optical system including movable lens groups for zooming which are moved between a ready-to-photograph position and an accommodated position, a diaphragm mechanism, and a lens shutter. One of the movable lens groups serves as an aperture-... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7409151 | Photographing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium for recording image processing program, capable of improving contrast characteristics in high zooming magnification In a photographing apparatus, while a deterioration of a contrast characteristic caused by an optical zooming operation is prevented, superior photographic images are continuously acquired. Magnification set by an optical zooming function is acquired, and a gamma cu... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7372486 | Photographing apparatus and method of adjusting an image of a photographing object A photographing object image adjusting apparatus including a plurality of adjusting operation devices corresponding to a plurality of object image adjusting modes, respectively, and an object image adjusting device. Each of the plurality of adjusting operation devic... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7289139 | Endoscope reader A system for automatically setting video signal processing parameters for an endoscopic video camera system based upon characteristics of an attached endoscope, with reduced EMI and improved inventory tracking, maintenance and quality assurance, and reducing the nec... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7262798 | System and method for simulating fill flash in photography A digital camera simulates the use of fill flash. The camera takes a series of photographs of a scene at various focus distances. The photographs are stored, along with their corresponding focus distances. The photographs are analyzed to determine the distance to ob... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7221394 | Digital camera A digital camera comprises a solid state imaging device provided with an optical low-pass filter. A photographing optical system forms an object image on a light receiving surface of a CCD through the optical low-pass filter. An electronic-charge accumulation-time c... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7180545 | System and method for redeye strobe mode control A method and apparatus for controlling a flash that automatically selects between normal flash mode and redeye reduction flash mode is disclosed. The apparatus measures the light in the scene, and based on this measurement, chooses between the redeye reduction flash... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177103 | Optical lens adjusting device and adjusting method thereof When a voltage is applied between outside electrodes and a common electrode that constitute driving parts of a driving unit provided between a holder holding a lens and a lens barrel, as shown in FIG. 9, respective dielectric elastomers provided in the drivin... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7161748 | Zoom lens barrel and optical equipment For the purpose of miniaturizing a zoom lens barrel, a zoom lens of the present invention comprises one lens group which moves at the time of variable power, one diaphragm member which moves at the time of variable power, and a cam member which has a cam section for... | 01/09/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7145733 | Projector and exposure adjustment method The CPU 120 acquires zoom level sent by the zoom lens position detector 122, and on the basis of the acquired zoom level calculates a exposure target value depending on the particular zoom level. The CPU 120 establishes in the imaging controller... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7113204 | Image sensing apparatus, control method of image sensing apparatus, and computer program product An image sensing apparatus capable of optically correcting blur of an object image by an optical blur correction unit comprises an image sensing unit for converting an optical image of an object into image signals; a display unit for displaying image signals convert... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7095892 | Object-of-interest image capture A method and apparatus for object-of-interest image capture accomplishes the functions of capturing (120) a current image, determining (125) an object region of the object-of-interest in the current image, calculating (130) a contrast measuremen... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7084910 | System and method for using multiple images in a digital image capture device A digital image capture and processing system, comprising a lens coupled to a lens control element is disclosed. The image capture system includes an image sensor configured to capture images from the lens, and a memory element and a processor coupled to the lens co... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7075101 | Method of and apparatus for managing image recording medium The type information of stimulable phosphor sheets is read from cassettes which store the stimulable phosphor sheets in cassette storage apparatus, and storage position information of the stimulable phosphor sheets is acquired. When subject information is set by ID ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7019917 | Lens barrel A lens barrel includes an optical system including a short focal length for a wide angle of view; and an ND filter in the shape of a disc which is provided on an optical axis of the optical system. An optical density of the ND filter decreases in a direction radiall... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6978089 | Retractable lens system and method of retracting a retractable lens system A retractable lens system includes a plurality of optical elements. All of the plurality of optical elements are positioned on a common optical axis when the retractable lens is in use. A removable element of the plurality of optical elements is moved to a removed p... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6952291 | Imaging device An imaging device according to the present invention has: a photometric circuit that detects a brightness of a photographic subject based on a light flux from the photographic subject that passes through a photographic lens; an exposure calculation circuit that calc... | 10/04/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6903777 | Lens shutter for digital still cameras A lens shutter has a diaphragm blade, a shutter blade, and a motor with a rotor reciprocatingly turned between an initial position and a final position by a current applied to a coil, to move the diaphragm blade to stop at an aperture regulating position and the shu... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6614996 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus automatically determines the photographing mode and displays on a display a kind of the photographing mode with the image of the subject. The image forming apparatus comprises an image pickup part for forming an image of the sub... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6603928 | Photometry device A photometry device for a camera is provided with a normal light sensor having a spectral sensitive characteristics close to those of a human eye, and a plurality of colorimetric sensors. The device further includes a photometry value determining system, ... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6571058 | Photometry device A photometry device for a camera is provided with a normal light sensor having a plurality of photometry areas, and a plurality of photometric sensors for colorimetry. A photometry value determining system determines a photometry value at each photometry ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6529640 | Image processing apparatus The image reading-out apparatus is capable of always obtaining a good image irrespective of a luminance difference. A control unit controls storage times of a pair of image pickup devices through a timing generator independently, thus controlling these st... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6389229 | Optical fstop/resolution apparatus and method for specified depth-of-field A method and apparatus to determine the fstop that provides optimal image resolution for a predetermined depth-of-field. An approximate and exact method and apparatus are provided to determine the optimal resolution fstop. The optima... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6385399 | Optical apparatus and shooting system including zoom function having electrical operation mode and other mode An optical apparatus includes a first movable optical member, a second movable optical member, different from the first optical member, and a driving mechanism engaged with the second optical member, and operable in a first operation mode, in which the se... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6343186 | Lens-fitted film unit A fixed making frame for blocking the peripheral light is disposed between a taking lens aperture and an exposure frame of a film surface. The effective diameter of the taking lens aperture is variable so as to make an angular field of a photogtaphing lig... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6272289 | Camera A camera using an image blur prevention device including exposure time calculating apparatus which calculates a first exposure time from at least photometry data, sensitivity data of a recording medium and brightness of a photographic lens, a strobe light... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6246832 | Camera and lens barrel for use in the camera In order to realize a lens barrel or camera which is light in weight and small in size and which has performance as high as a single-focus lens, a photographing optical system employed in the lens barrel or camera has four lens groups, and at least two di... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6141499 | Camera capable of displaying the level of visual effect A camera is provided with a photographing device for setting various photographing conditions which determine a state of a subject image to be obtained as a picture, the photography device including an exposure device having a Plurality of selectively set... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6081669 | Photometric operation system of camera A photometric operation system of a camera includes a photographing lens with a variable focal length. A plurality of photometering devices independently receive and detect rays of object light within a plurality of photometering areas of different sizes.... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5987265 | Photometry device of camera A photometry device of a camera has a photometry circuit which measures the luminance value of the object field, a colorimetry circuit which measures the color balance of the object field, and a scene discrimination unit which discriminates the scene on t... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5956530 | Lens barrel and camera system to output data about a focal length of the lens barrel A lens barrel and a camera system are capable of precisely calculating a photographic magnification and a field range. The lens barrel having a focusing or zooming movable lens unit is stored with effective focal length data corresponding to a position of... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5926287 | Imaging device An imaging device according to the present invention has: a photometric circuit that detects a brightness of a photographic subject based on a light flux from the photographic subject that passes through a photographic lens; an exposure calculation circui... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5915133 | Camera with a photographic mode automatic selecting apparatus A camera having a photographic mode automatic selecting apparatus. A photographic mode selecting device selects a photographic mode from a plurality of photographic modes. A photographic distance detecting device detects photographic distance data of a ph... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5815094 | Position detecting device A position detecting device comprises a pattern member having conductive patterns arranged in plural tracks; a slidable member having plural sliding pieces capable of sliding on the conductive patterns, wherein each of the sliding pieces assumes either a ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5815743 | Flash-assisted photographing system and a device for use in the same A flash-assisted photographing system including a camera having a taking lens capable of varying the focal length and a flash is provided with a light receiving unit having a plurality of receiving areas operable to separately receive light reflected by d... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5748996 | Device and method for sensing brightness A device and a method for sensing brightness, by which a sensing area for measuring the brightness of an object is varied. The variation of the brightness sensing unit is in response to the variation of an image angle that varies according to the zoom pos... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5687400 | Built-in flash camera A photometry part measures a brightness within a shot visual field. A focusing part measures a distance up to a main subject. A focal length measuring part measures a focal length of a taking lens. A strobe light control part directs a strobe to flash reg... | 11/11/1997 |
