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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189055 | Digital photographing apparatus and method of controlling the same A digital photographing apparatus that is capable of detecting the shaking of the apparatus by using an autofocusing (AF) process and a method of controlling the digital photographing apparatus are provided. These involve calculating a first focal value while focusi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8164636 | Digital still camera with multiple frames combined into a single frame for digital anti-shake/anti-blur A method of capturing a still frame is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a plurality of initial frames with a sensor in response to an optical signal and (B) generating the still frame by combining the initial frames using a noise ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8149283 | Image processing device, electronic camera, image processing method, and image processing program To provide a technique to obtain a synthesized image with an expanded dynamic range with ease and a technique to reduce workload of a user while maintaining the degree of freedom relating to image processing. There provides an image inputting part taking in at least... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8120658 | Hand jitter reduction system for cameras A camera system in normal mode and hand jitter reduction (hjr) mode may comprise generating a first exposure time-gain product by multiplying the normal mode exposure time with the normal mode gain. It may further comprise modifying the normal mode exposure time and... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8106950 | Digital camera A digital camera includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a photographic subject, and outputs the captured image; a shake amount detection unit that detects a shake amount of the digital camera; a shake correction actuation unit that is actuated f... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098287 | Digital camera with a number of photographing systems A digital camera comprises two photographing systems which are independent of and substantially identical to each other, and each of which includes a photographing optical system and an image pickup device. The photographing optical system is configured to include a... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8081220 | Digital still camera and method of controlling image combination A solid-state electronic image sensing device senses the image of a subject repeatedly for an exposure time over which camera shake is thought not to occur, and repeatedly outputs image data representing the image of the subject. A combining device generates one fra... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081221 | Digital image processing method for correcting shaking blur A digital image processing method for correcting a shaking blur corrects a blurred image caused by a shake when a user shoots an image with a digital camera, which includes the following steps obtaining a safe shutter time of the digital camera; performing an exposu... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8059156 | Imaging apparatus controlling blurring correction during switch between image capture mode and playback mode In an imaging apparatus, a control unit can operate in one of a first mode which corresponds to an image capturing mode and which controls an image-blur correcting unit, and a second mode corresponding to a playback mode. When the image capturing mode is switched to... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7999855 | Image capture device having motion sensing means An image capture device (10) incorporates motion sensing means (12a/12b), a controller (16) and setting controls (14) for the image capture device (10), wherein the controller (16) is operable to store a... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7978221 | Method and apparatus for capturing an image A method for capturing an image using an image capturing module with multiple pixels configured in a 2-dimensional matrix and a focal plane electronic shutter function which sequentially slides the exposure timing by constant interval by pixel group which is a unit ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7944474 | Image pickup apparatus, image pickup method and program An image pickup apparatus which includes a camera shake correction mechanism and determines exposure conditions including at least a shutter speed in response to brightness of an image pickup object, including acquisition means, decision means, and setting means. Th... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940306 | Camera capable of displaying moving image and control method of the same There is disclosed a camera capable of display a moving image, which executes auto focusing of a hill-climbing system while executing a blur correcting operation to reduce image blur generated by vibration applied to the camera. Examples of the blur correcting opera... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7884853 | Imaging device having a consecutive shooting mode An imaging device, such as a digital camera, has a mechanism for compensating an image blur caused by hand jiggling and is capable of consecutively shooting, through one operation of a shutter operation section (36), frames of an image in a state where the me... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7817186 | Camera and image processing method for synthesizing plural images forming one image group to generate a synthesized image A camera includes an image taking system for taking plural images to be synthesized into a first image for recording use, and an image generator for generating a second image for display use by image-processing a specific image among the plural images. ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7750943 | Image processing device that removes motion blur from an image and method of removing motion blur from an image A shooting-information-detecting section detects shooting information from an image pick-up section. A motion-detecting section detects a motion direction of an image on an overall screen based on a motion direction of the image pick-up section contained in the shoo... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7701484 | Digital still camera and image blur correction apparatus Prior to a photographing operation, an image blur quantity indicating the extent to which the image becomes blurred during the photographing operation is calculated based upon an image-capturing sensitivity having been set, and a decision is made as to whether or no... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7667735 | Image pickup device and image processing method having a mask function There is provided an image pickup device in which an overall output image can be prevented from being affected by an image signal of a mask area. According to the image pickup device, a prescribed area in a pickup image is masked to keep the masked area non-displaye... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7619654 | Camera and lens device A taking lens consists of first to third lens groups. The second lens group is held in a lens frame that is coupled through an arm to a supporting shaft, and is able to rotate about the supporting shaft, to move the second lens group in a circular direction in a pla... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7586518 | Imaging technique performing focusing on plurality of images A focusing technique detects motion vectors of a plurality of images, combines the images in accordance with the detected motion vectors, extracts a signal corresponding to a focusing state of a lens unit with respect to a subject, and controls the lens unit in acco... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7580058 | Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method An image signal obtained by a CCD image sensor is amplified by an amplifier. A gain of the amplifier is changed according to an ISO sensitivity. An AE circuit measures light intensity of a subject. According to the measured light intensity, a correct exposure time o... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7557830 | Image processing apparatus, method, and medium for converting and reducing image data without deterioration of image quality The invention provides an image processing apparatus wherein, when an image of an imaging object is picked up and converted into image data and the image data is compressed, the data amount can be reduced without deteriorating the picture quality. The image processi... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7450154 | Digital camera performing pixel shift based on electronic zoom In an electronically zoomable digital camera having a hand shake correction mechanism, when electronic zoom operates, pixel shift is carried out in such manner of capturing a reference image and then capturing a shifted image after moving an image capturing element ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7432953 | Image-taking apparatus detecting vibration and correcting image blurring An image-taking apparatus which improves accuracy of taken images by correcting image blurring is disclosed. The image-taking apparatus comprises an image pickup element which photoelectrically converts an object image formed by an image-taking optical system; a det... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430000 | Image-shake correcting device There is provided an image-shake correcting device that is comprised of a detecting unit that detects shakes of the image-shake correcting device, a filter circuit that cuts off low frequency components of a detecting signal output from the detecting unit, a control... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7414648 | Camera and camera system capable of changing gain value and exposure time An image-pickup apparatus which improves the S/N ratio of an image-pickup system, prevents image blur and saturation of signals from an image-pickup device, and enables taking an excellent image, is disclosed. The camera of the invention which takes images through a... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7391461 | Apparatus, method and control computer program for imaging a plurality of objects at different distances In an image pickup apparatus and method, and an image-pickup control computer program, a photographing optical system is driven, when a plurality of objects are present at different distances in a same detection field of view for identifying an object to be focused,... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379094 | Electronic still imaging apparatus and method having function for acquiring synthesis image having wide-dynamic range A still imaging apparatus includes an imaging device, a storage device, and a positional displacement correcting device. The imaging device continuously executes imaging of a plurality of times with exposure amounts different from each other. The storage device stor... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7352390 | Digital camera for capturing image data with rapid response between activating a capture trigger and capturing image data A digital camera has an image sensor, a capture trigger, a processing system, and a capture buffer having multiple buffer locations. The processing system receives auxiliary image frames from the image sensor and stores each auxiliary image frame in a buffer locatio... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7345704 | Imaging apparatus for capturing an object with low luminance by adding pixels of the same color from different fields In the present invention, first of all, an image in each field is monitored by carrying out monitoring. An evaluation value of an AE is calculated from a result of the monitoring, and if the result of the calculation shows that the image is not in low luminance, dat... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339612 | Vibration isolating device, method, and system for correcting image blur in a camera A vibration isolator determines a speed of a vibration applied to a camera with a vibration speed sensor, and differentiates and integrates the speed, and corrects the integrated value to zero when the differentiated value is zero, and determines the position of the... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7335905 | Radiation image information reading apparatus with radiation conversion panel, and method of correcting sensitivity of radiation conversion panel Corrective image data obtained by reading a stimulable phosphor sheet which is uniformly irradiated with a radiation are masked, and added and averaged into reference data. The ratio between the reference data and the corrective image data is generated as sensitivit... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7295243 | Autofocus apparatus having a flash synchronized to an autofocus sampling time The autofocus apparatus determines a focus position according to a result of sampling an AF evaluated value and drives a lens system to the focus position. This autofocus apparatus further performs a flash in synchronism with a sampling timing of an AF evaluated val... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7280149 | Method and apparatus for detecting optimum lens focus position The present invention is a technique for measuring optimum focus position of a lens to include the steps of capturing a digital image in the field of view, digitally compressing the image to provide a compressed file having a file size and providing a focus accuracy... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7248284 | Calibration targets for digital cameras and methods of using same Calibration targets for use with digital cameras comprise black and white target areas to which digital cameras are exposed simultaneously to provide proper settings for highlight and shadow sensitivity prior to making a digital photograph. In addition a white or gr... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242817 | System and method for detecting obstacle A system for realizing support of safety driving or automatic driving is provided, in which a vehicle-mounted stereo camera is used to detect obstacles on a road surface such as vehicles going ahead and pedestrians with a high accuracy even in a situation in which a... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239342 | Image processing apparatus and method An object of the present invention is to generate an image which is prevented from being influenced by a movement while suppressing increase in noise components. When a movement is detected during exposure of an image capturing device to light, an image capturing ap... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7224397 | AF control apparatus and AF control method A CPU performs a control for photographing a main subject in absence of auxiliary light, whereby an image signal is outputted from an analogue signal processing section. Next, the CPU performs a control for photographing the main subject in presence of the auxiliary... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221805 | Method for generating a focused image of an object A method is provided for computing a composite image representing a focused image of an object in an application of machine vision in an optical inspection system. An image tessellated into focus regions is evaluated by region for fine feature sharpness. A sharpness... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7187412 | Pointing device for digital camera display A process and apparatus is described to improve a digital camera user interface and increase ease of use and functionality of a digital camera by quickly, accurately and robustly permitting cursor control and designation in a digital camera display. A digital camera... | 03/06/2007 |
