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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189054 | Motion estimation method, device, and system for image processing A motion estimation method is provided for processing successive images in an image sequence, with a motion vector being associated with each of the processed images. For a current image, motion vectors associated with images that precede the current image in the se... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8174582 | Drive device and image pickup apparatus Disclosed herein is a drive device including an imaging element creating a image signal relating to an object image, a securing body, a displacement body capable of displacement in a predetermined direction in a predetermined plane having a light-receiving surface o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8159540 | Semiconductor device and imaging capturing apparatus A MCP semiconductor device with an “anti-shake” function includes a driver chip and a logic chip. The logic chip includes a correction signal processing unit which obtains a value for vibration of apparatus based on a vibration detection signal to generate a cor... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154604 | Camera motion parameter retrieving system and solving process A camera motion parameter retrieving system and solving process begins with using the equation of that the vector field divergence volume integral is equal to the total outgoing throughput passing through the surface area of the volume through the vector in conjunct... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8134601 | Lens barrel having camera shake corrector and photographing apparatus equipped therewith A camera shake corrector includes: a first moving member that holds an image sensor or a prescribed lens and is capable of moving in a first direction; a first motor that moves the first moving member; a second moving member that holds the first moving member and is... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130277 | Method and system for intelligent and efficient camera motion estimation for video stabilization Disclosed herein is a method for global motion estimation for video stabilization. The method enables selecting a video frame from a video stream. The method further enables downscaling the video frames by factor close to 2 in a two dimensional range, dividing the d... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8115817 | Anti-shake circuit for an imaging device In an anti-shake circuit for an imaging device, a differential circuit receives an analog sensing signal and a target signal and then generates a difference signal. An analog mathematical circuit performs at least one mathematical operation on the difference signal,... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102427 | Camera egomotion estimation from an infra-red image sequence for night vision A method for estimating egomotion of a camera mounted on a vehicle that uses infra-red images is disclosed, comprising the steps of (a) receiving a pair of frames from a plurality of frames from the camera, the first frame being assigned to a previous frame and an a... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098286 | Shake correction control circuit and image pickup apparatus provided with the same An optical shake correction unit corrects an optical axis in response to an output signal of an vibration detecting element. An electronic shake correction unit adaptively varies an effective region in image signals of an image pickup region formed by image pickup d... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8072496 | Motion smoothing in video stabilization A motion stabilizing techniques are described. A frame of video is represented at least by frame position information. Savitzky-Golay filtering may be applied on frame position information. The resulting filtered video may have reduced visible jitteriness. ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068138 | Image pickup apparatus for reducing fixed pattern noise An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup optical system having an optical axis and configured to form a subject image, an image pickup element configured to pick up the subject image and output the picked-up subject image as an image, an optical axis contr... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8054335 | Methods and system for digitally stabilizing video captured from rolling shutter cameras An imaging device and methods of stabilizing video captured using a rolling shutter operation. Motion estimation is used to determine a row motion vector for individual rows of a current frame of a pixel array. The row motion vectors are used to map the location of ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8022994 | Image sensor with high dynamic range in down-sampling mode An image sensor has an array of photo-sensitive pixels and supports a line-by-line read out of rows. In a normal resolution each row has the same nominal gain and exposure time. In a down-sampling mode the exposure times of the rows are varied according to an altern... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8009197 | Systems and method for de-blurring motion blurred images Systems and methods for providing a substantially de-blurred image of a scene from a motion blurred image of the scene are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a primary detector for sensing the motion blurred image and generating primary image information repres... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7982771 | Method of emendation for attention trajectory in video content analysis A method for emendation of attention trajectory in video content analysis is disclosed. The method includes steps of extracting attention area for each frame in a video sequence, each attention area of a frame selectively being a reference for the other frames, proj... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982770 | Method and apparatus to provide improved image quality in a camera A method and apparatus for providing improved images utilizing acceleration data is described. In one embodiment, the method utilizes the accelerometer data to time the taking of the image to minimize motion effects. ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7952611 | Method and apparatus to provide improved image quality in a camera A method and apparatus for providing improved images utilizing acceleration data is described. In one embodiment, the method utilizes the accelerometer data to time the taking of the image to minimize motion effects. ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7880768 | Mobile communication terminal The mobile communication terminal includes a body, a lens module, a first accelerator sensor, a second accelerator sensor, a range finder, and a processor. The lens module, the first accelerator sensor, a second accelerator sensor, and a range finder are disposed on... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7817185 | Image processing device, image processing method, image pickup device, and image pickup method for superimposing a plurality of pictures on each other An image processing device is provided. The image processing device includes per-block motion vector calculating means for calculating a motion vector between two pictures of an image input in picture units sequentially, performing block matching in each of divided ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7800651 | Image-stabilization driving device Disclosed is an image-stabilization driving device including a first sliding member connected to an image sensor; a first piezoelectrical element for driving the first sliding member to move linearly along a first direction; a second sliding member connected to the ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7791641 | Systems and methods for utilizing activity detection information in relation to image processing Imaging systems and methods for processing images. Various of the imaging systems include a motion detection and/or estimation engine. Information from such a motion engine can be used by one or more of a scene definition engine, a blur reduction engine, an anti-sha... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787015 | Apparatus and method for reducing image blur in a digital camera A digital camera delays the capture of a digital image after image capture has been requested until the motion of the digital camera satisfies a motion criterion. The digital camera thereby reduces image blur that would otherwise occur due to camera motion. ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7777780 | Image motion display method and apparatus In a display apparatus connected to an image processing apparatus which detects the change amount in an input image and stores, as a detected image, an image during a period with a change amount equal to or more than a predetermined amount, the change log of the cha... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7755665 | Method and apparatus for automatic recognition of the relative motion direction of an object relative to a multiline camera A multi-line camera such as a two-line camera acquires image data of an object moving relative to the camera. An output of a first sensor line is connected through a first time-delay memory to a first comparator, and is connected directly to a second comparator. An ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755663 | Image signal processing device and method, and image signal processing system In an image signal processor, a camera operation estimating part detects a movement vector of an input image in order to estimate, for example, a panning operation in a horizontal direction, a tilting operation in a vertical direction, or a zooming operation such as... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755664 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus having a function for generating wide dynamic range, synthesized image by synthesizing image signals corresponding to a plurality of frames of different exposure amounts. A correcting section for correcting exposure amounts of at least one ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7750942 | Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program for correcting camera shake The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method enabling to correct for camera shake given in image capturing, a recording medium, and a program. Discrete data pieces indicating shifts are obtained. The discrete data pieces are interpolated... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7724283 | Electronic camera An electronic camera includes: an image capturing unit that captures a subject image; an image compression unit that executes a specific type of compression processing on image data obtained by the image capturing unit; and a decision-making unit that makes a decisi... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7656428 | Imaging device employing optical motion sensor as gyroscope A motion sensor configured to control compensation for movement of an imaging device receiving light representative of a selected scene on an image plane. The motion sensor includes and array of photoelements and a controller. The array of photoelements is configure... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7619653 | Motion detection imaging device A motion detection imaging device comprises an imaging element and an optical lens system for collecting light entering in a capture range to form images on the imaging element. The optical lens system comprises: an optical lens array having center lenses for collec... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7609292 | Signal processing device, method, and program An image processing device and method, where the device includes an image data continuity detector configured to detect data continuity of first image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cast upon a plurality of dete... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7564482 | Image capturing device, correction device, mobile phone, and correcting method An image capturing device is adapted to capture an object image and to generate an image data. Each of a plurality of image capturers is adapted to perform an image capturing of a part of the object image and to generate a partial image data which constitutes a part... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7545408 | Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method The present invention provides an image pick up apparatus having means for cumulatively adding image signals and storing the image signals in memory, which is capable of preventing cumulative addition of image signals for which camera-shake correction is insufficien... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7538794 | Method and apparatus for motion estimation in a digital imaging device A digital imaging device having a CCD sensor array with one or more fields captures both short and long exposures of a particular field during the capture of a single image frame. The short-exposure image data and the long-exposure image data from the particular fie... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7483054 | Image unsharpness test method for a camera device An image unsharpness test method for a camera device, wherein firstly, during the focusing stage of an electronic camera device, the image with the highest sharpness is selected to be a contrast image; next, the contrast image is compared with a captured image to ob... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7468743 | Photographing device and method for obtaining photographic image having image vibration correction A photographing device comprises a detecting unit for extracting at least one characteristic point in each image of multiple images and detecting movement of the characteristic point on another image as to a characteristic point on a reference image; a coordinate co... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7466342 | Method of notification of inadequate picture quality In a digital camera including a digital signal processing portion processing a digital image and a display device displaying the image according to a digital signal from the digital signal processing portion, and a control portion controlling overall operation, afte... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7463284 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for producing an image from a plurality of images An image processing apparatus comprises a detection unit adapted to detect a positional shift of a main object in each of the images, a coordinate converting unit adapted to convert coordinates of each of the images using a detection result of the detection unit, an... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7443421 | Camera sensor A camera has a motion detector and a sensor with a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes shift transistors to shift charge between pixels as a function of motion sensed by the motion detector. ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7436984 | Method and system for stabilizing video data The invention relates to a method for stabilizing a video recording of a scene made by a video camera and represented by video data, said method comprising the steps of subdividing said video data into a plurality of successive frames themselves divided into a plura... | 10/14/2008 |
