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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7433807 | Facial image processing In the described embodiment, methods and systems for processing facial image data for use in animation are described. In one embodiment, a system is provided that illuminates a face with illumination that is sufficient to enable the simultaneous capture of both stru... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7412159 | Image pickup apparatus and defocus amount correction value calculation method An image pickup apparatus, in which a light is projected toward a physical object by projection means, and based on the reflected light by the physical object of the light, a defocus amount is detected (steps S2003 to S2008) by the first focus detectio... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405762 | Camera having AF function A camera having an electronic image pickup element and a distance-measuring circuit that uses light signals obtained from light images of a plurality of distance-measuring areas set in a photographing screen to select a main subject and measure the distance to the s... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403705 | Camera device having automatic focusing function A camera device is provided which has an optical system including a focus lens, focus control for focusing the optical system on a subject by driving the focus lens, and display control for causing a display to display numerals indicating a first distance of a close... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7342608 | Focus detecting method, focus detecting mechanism and image measuring device having focus detecting mechanism Focus detecting methods and focus detecting mechanisms of an image measuring device able to execute focus detection at high speed with high accuracy, and image measuring device having the focus detecting mechanisms are provided. A rotation driving device rotates and... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7312432 | Single axis illumination for multi-axis imaging system A single-axis illumination system for a multiple-axis imaging system, particularly an array microscope. A single-axis illumination system is used to trans-illuminate an object viewed with an array of imaging elements having multiple respective axes. The numerical ap... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312920 | Confocal microscope A confocal microscope including a first condenser optical system that condenses light from a light source onto a sample; a pinhole member having a pinhole; a second condenser optical system that condenses light from the sample into the pinhole; a polygon mirror havi... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7289737 | Communication optical system and free-space optics communication apparatus A communication optical system having a compact structure and capable of preventing crosstalk is disclosed. The communication optical system includes a light source, a light-receiving element and a beam-splitting member. The beam-splitting member performs one of tra... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7266248 | Method and apparatus for generating data representative of an image A method and device for generating image data are disclosed herein. One embodiment of the method comprises focusing an image of an object onto a two-dimensional photosensor array, wherein an optical element is located between the object and the two-dimensional photo... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262805 | Focus detecting system A focus detecting system for determining the focus state of an imaging lens, such as a camera lens, is disclosed. Object light not forming an image for image production is deflected along an optical axis through a relay lens to a focus state detection unit that incl... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260270 | Image creating device and image creating method An image-capturing unit generates an image signal corresponding to an image of a subject formed by a photographing optical system. A point spread function generating unit generates varying point spread functions corresponding to various distances based upon two-dime... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7209175 | Autofocus apparatus An autofocus apparatus with a photographic optical system having a movably disposed focus adjusting lens, an optical element to split light beams received from an object, a plurality of image forming lenses to form images from portions of the split light beams, a pl... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7183530 | Imaging device and electronic apparatus with the same An electronic apparatus with an imaging device has a photographing optical system that forms an object image, an image pick-up device that has a photo-receiving area and generates image-pixel signals from the object image formed on the photo-receiving area. The phot... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180379 | Laser powered clock circuit with a substantially reduced clock skew A synchronous clock signal is generated in a large number of local clock circuits at the same time by exposing photoconductive regions in each local clock circuit to a pulsed light source that operates at a fixed frequency. The photoconductive regions generate photo... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171054 | Scene-based method for determining focus A method and application specific integrated circuit for determining focus for an image capture system using scene content within an image, including the steps of: acquiring, from the image, image data having different focus positions; dividing the image data into s... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167194 | Printing a code on a product A method for printing is described. The method includes providing a printing system for printing a code on a product moving in a direction. The code is constructed from a plurality of pixels in a first data set indicating the positions of the pixels and generates a ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164108 | Detection system for optical beam pointing and shaping Apparatus for circularizing an optical beam and directing the beam into an optical system has mutually perpendicular X, Y, and Z axes. The Z-axis is the propagation axis of the beam. A detector arrangement receives a sample of the optical beam. The detector arrangem... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7133078 | Automatic focal point sensing device An automatic focal point sensing device includes an image sensor on which an optical image is projected and which photoelectrically converts the image pixel by pixel to generate image data, a first calculation circuit which generates more than one pixel block, each ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7132634 | Distance measuring apparatus using passive AF sensor A distance measurement object is imaged by a pair of line sensors of an AF sensor, and sensor data showing the sensor images is generated. A CPU generates AF data showing the contrast of sensor images with the sensor data being sequentially acquired by the CPU for e... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7095904 | Method and apparatus for determining best focus using dark-field imaging A method and apparatus (10) for determining a best focus position of an object (30) relative to a reference position (e.g., axis A) of a dark-field optical imaging system (20), with an effective focusing range up to 10 times of the depth of fiel... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085488 | Automatic focusing apparatus This invention has as its object to execute an optimal automatic focusing operation in both a case that attaches an importance on the focusing precision, and a case that attaches an importance on quick photographing. To this end, an apparatus includes a focus lens u... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7058294 | Passive autofocus system for a camera An autofocus system for a camera includes a contrast focus detector which detects a position of a focusing lens group, at which the contrast of an object image reaches a maximum as a contrast in-focus position; a phase-difference focus detector which separates the o... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7041950 | Image sensing element for sensing an image formed by an image sensing lens This invention realizes high-precision exposure regardless of the F-number of an image sensing lens in photography. One pixel includes a first light-receiving region (119c) which includes a region where the principal ray of an image sensing lens is inc... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7016110 | Microscope suitable for high-throughput screening having an autofocusing apparatus The apparatus for automatically focusing an image in a microscope includes onto an object plane includes an optical system configured to form an optical image of a sample plane to be observed, an autofocusing detection system, and a focus correction system. The auto... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7003224 | Automatic focusing device and method of controlling the same An automatic focusing device for camera is provided which makes it possible to sequentially photograph a large number of frames while ensuring a high focusing accuracy. A first focusing unit carries out a first focusing operation. After the first focusing unit carri... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999684 | Camera system and camera A camera system which is capable of performing highly accurate focusing in a short time by using two kinds of AF methods, is disclosed. The camera system calculates the target driving amount of the focusing lens based on the result of detection by a first focus dete... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6973262 | Camera and wide-angle field distance-measuring camera A camera includes a sensor array which can detect a brightness signal of a subject and has a plurality of segments for focal point detection, a first photometry unit for calculating the brightness signal of the subject on the basis of an output of one segment or out... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972409 | Mid-infrared spectrometer attachment to light microscopes A mid-IR spectrometer attachment performs reflection spectroscopy measurements using commercially available infinity corrected light microscopes without degrading the microscope's performance. The mid-IR spectrometer attachment, which is mounted to and supported by ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973264 | Focal point detection apparatus, focusing system, camera, and focal point detection method First to third liquid crystal filters are arranged at first to third different distances from a predeterminate image formation surface. Light flux passing through the liquid crystal filters is received by a photodiode and converted into an electric signal. A variabl... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970287 | Confocal 3D inspection system and process An inspection device comprises a light source, a pellicle beamsplitter for receiving light from the light source and for redirecting the light, and an aperture array for receiving light from the pellicle beamsplitter. The aperture array is a two dimensional array of... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6967644 | Coordinate input apparatus and control method thereof, and computer readable memory A coordinate input apparatus comprising: a designation device having a light emission device for designating a three-dimensional position; and a photoreception unit having a plurality of line sensors for receiving light emitted by the light emission device and deter... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6963388 | Focus adjustment apparatus, control method therefor, and medium for supplying control program therefor This invention provides an apparatus such as a focus adjustment apparatus capable appropriately adjusting focusing in accordance with chromatic aberration, a control method therefor, and a medium such as a storage medium for supplying a control program therefor. An ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6954233 | Electronic image pick-up apparatus and method of adjusting the focal position thereof An electronic image pick-up apparatus acquires auto-focus data from each of an AF sensor module and an image sensor disposed in conjugate positions in a test mode, stores data on any relative deviation between those items of auto-focus data and drives a photographic... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6941068 | Image pickup apparatus and image pickup system An image pickup apparatus which can perform focusing control with high speed and high precision is disclosed. The image pickup apparatus comprises a focus detection unit that detects a focusing state of the image-taking lens by phase difference detection method usin... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6927376 | Autofocusing method for telescopes pertaining to surveying equipment The invention relates to an autofocusing method, particularly for telescopes for surveying instruments which are fitted with image sensors that resolve the image signal into individual image elements (pixels), such as CCD lines and/or matrices as well as CMOS image ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6677568 | Surveying instrument having a phase-difference detection type focus detecting device A surveying instrument includes a sighting telescope having an objective lens and an eyepiece; a Porro-prism erecting system; a semitransparent surface formed on a reflection surface of the Porro-prism erecting system; a beam splitting prism adhered to th... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6580062 | Contrast focus figure-of-merit method that is insensitive to scene illumination level A method, system and program product for providing automatic focus adjustment for an image device, comprising the steps of: differentiating an image along some axis to obtain a difference image; computing a variance of the difference image; determining a ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6487517 | Target for photogrammetric analytical measurement system A control unit box and one of standard point members are provided close to a connection of first and second bars. A standard plane is defined by the standard point members. A loop antenna is provided in a mount unit situated on the top surface of the cont... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6396873 | Optical device Stereoscopic device including a lenticular lens layer and light sensor array, the lenticular lens layer includes a plurality of lenticular elements, the sight sensor array includes a plurality of light sensors, wherein selected ones of the light sensors d... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6376818 | Microscopy imaging apparatus and method An object is illuminated by a light source, and a periodic pattern of transparent and non-transparent stripes is superimposed onto the object. At least three images are recorded at different spatial phases of the pattern by means of a microscope of shallo... | 04/23/2002 |
