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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154611 | Methods and systems for improving resolution of a digitally stabilized image A method for increasing resolution of a focal plane array having a plurality of pixels dispersed across a total pixel area is described. The method includes providing an active pixel area for the focal plane array that is less than the total pixel area, acquiring im... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7847826 | Moving imager camera for track and range capture A precision motion platform carrying an imaging device under a large-field-coverage lens enables capture of high resolution imagery over the full field in an instantaneous telephoto mode and wide-angle coverage through temporal integration. The device permits automa... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7683939 | Method of and unit for inputting an image, and computer product The image input unit comprises a pixel shift evaluation value and reliability calculating section that calculates a pixel shift evaluation value based on image data for a plurality of images photographed before and after an image sensing device is displaced for a pr... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7486311 | Moving imager camera for track and range capture A precision motion platform carrying an imaging device under a large-field-coverage lens enables capture of high resolution imagery over the full field in an instantaneous telephoto mode and wide-angle coverage through temporal integration. The device permits automa... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7440009 | High definition imaging method and imaging apparatus having electro-optical polarization element between two birefrigent elements forming alternately on sensor single and overlapping images In a method for forming an image of a subject on a solid-state imaging device, a first time period for splitting a light beam from a subject into a plurality of light beams that have different polarization directions and then combining the plurality of light beams t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7420592 | Image shifting apparatus for enhanced image resolution An image shifting apparatus may capture multiple frames of an image, with each frame offset by a sub-pixel offset distance. After capture, the various sub-pixel offset images may be registered together and analyzed using known resolution enhancement algorithms. Supe... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7391447 | Method and apparatus for removing noise from a digital image An apparatus and method of removing fixed pattern noise in a digital image processing apparatus are provided. The apparatus includes a controlling unit adjusting a number of image frames of a same image photographed by an imaging device and an exposure time of a shu... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7373015 | Image processing device and method In an image processing method for reducing an input image while preventing moire without deterioration of image quality, presence/absence of periodicity is detected for each pixel on the input image, and if there is periodicity, an image period is detected (S4 | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369712 | Automated statistical self-calibrating detection and removal of blemishes in digital images based on multiple occurrences of dust in images A method automatically corrects dust artifact within images acquired by a system including a digital acquisition device including a lens assembly. Multiple original digital images are acquired with the digital acquisition device. Probabilities that certain pixels co... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369144 | Method and device for correcting the rotation of a video display A method for displaying a video image on a display screen by a scanning of the display screen along lines inclined by a first angle with respect to a reference direction by at least one electron beam modulated by a modulation signal. The method includes the steps of... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365774 | Device with camera modules and flying apparatus provided with such a device A device for positioning camera modules includes a frame, at least two camera modules, and an orientor adapted for orienting the central optical axis of each camera module with respect to the frame. The orientor is adapted for orienting at least the central optical ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7352320 | FM-CW radar An FM-CW radar includes a transmitting section, a mixing section, an A/D conversion section, a storage unit, and a signal processing section. The transmitting section transmits a continuous wave frequency-modulated with a triangular wave. The mixing section mixes th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352405 | Optical axis varying imaging device An imaging device includes a matrix array of photosensor pixels. An effective area in the array is set to a first region during a first mode of operation of the imaging device, and is set to a second region during a second mode of operation of the imaging device. Th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343291 | Multi-pass variable bitrate media encoding An encoder uses multi-pass VBR control strategies to provide constant or relatively constant quality for VBR output while guaranteeing (within tolerance) either compressed file size or, equivalently, overall average bitrate. The control strategies include various te... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333137 | Image processing method for computing limit values of interpolated pixel data A camera signal process and apparatus processing for interpolating, at least on two directions, pixel data based on an imaging signal from a solid-state image sensor in which an imaging light enters through a color filter having a different spectral characteristic f... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333146 | Image capturing apparatus for adjusting a relative position between an image sensor and an optical axis The image sensor 52 is provided with a chip 53 having a image capturing surface 31 and a packaged to which the chip 53 is attached. The image capturing surface include a plurality of blocks 31a to 31d. Each of ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327388 | Method and apparatus for producing a high resolution image A method and apparatus serves for converting a low resolution first image to a high resolution second image. The apparatus is includes a light sensor for receiving incident light radiated from a scene. The light sensor has a number of cells, each defining a predeter... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319962 | Automatic voice and data recognition for implanted medical device instrument systems The voice controlled system of the present invention permits hands-free interactive control of a medical data processing instrument that interfaces with an implanted medical device. In an example embodiment, the system includes a microphone and a speech recognition ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319776 | Image processing method and image processing program An overall image obtained by successively imaging different imaging regions a plurality of times during an image period using an imaging device is separated into a plurality of partial images respectively corresponding to each of the plurality of imaging operations.... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319482 | Camera image interpolation apparatus An apparatus and method for generating an image by interpolating, at least on two directions, pixel data based on an imaging signal from a solid-state image sensor in which an imaging light enters through a color filter having a different spectral characteristic for... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319481 | Image processing system for generating interpolated data based on color-difference signals An apparatus and method for generating an image by interpolating, at least on two directions, pixel data based on an imaging signal from a solid-state image sensor in which an imaging light enters through a color filter having a different spectral characteristic for... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315658 | Digital camera A digital camera that automatically corrects dust artifact regions within acquired images by compiling a statistical dust map from multiple images acquired under different image acquisition conditions includes an optical system for acquiring an image including a len... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313272 | Image compression apparatus and image processing system Disclosed herein is an image compression apparatus including: a pre-processing means for effecting preprocessing to generate color imaging signals of locations spatially equivalent to the relative locations of pixels on a color filter from color imaging signals outp... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7300157 | Pixel-shifting projection lens assembly to provide optical interlacing for increased addressability A projection display system includes a projection lens assembly that has multiple projection lens elements that are configured to receive light imparted with display information by a pixelated display device. The projection lens elements project the light toward a d... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301563 | Image pickup apparatus A short-time exposure image data and a long-time exposure image data of the same object to be photographed are stored to SE memory and LE memory and then transferred to CPU, motion thereof being detected at a motion detecting section on the basis of the two image da... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7291861 | Solid-state imaging device, method for driving the same, method for manufacturing the same, camera, and method for driving the same A solid-state imaging device includes a two-dimensional array of photosensor sections on a semiconductor substrate, and a vertical transfer section including two-layer vertical transfer electrodes. The photosensor sections store signal charges generated by photoelec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289806 | Method and apparatus for context enabled search Techniques and structures are disclosed for allowing context-based searches to be performed from a wireless device. In at least one embodiment, a wireless device may append context-specific information, collected by at least one local sensor to a network search quer... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289153 | Scanning type image pick-up apparatus and a scanning type laser beam receive apparatus The present invention has an object of realizing highly reliable search with high precision by obtaining a clear view image over a wide view. In particular, a reflection mirror is formed so as to correspond to an image pick-up element at a focus surface of a converg... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286164 | Method of and unit for inputting an image, and computer product The image input unit comprises a pixel shift evaluation value and reliability calculating section that calculates a pixel shift evaluation value based on image data for a plurality of images photographed before and after an image sensing device is displaced for a pr... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286163 | Image taking device with bent optical system A digital camera having an image shake correction apparatus and a method of preventing the image shake of an image taken by the digital camera. The digital camera includes optical elements arranged along a bent line for focusing an object image upon a light receivin... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7274480 | Portable communicator This communicator makes it possible for the user to do telephone, facsimile, and data communication at any location. On a pen input device, a space eye 2, a telephone control system, a facsimile control system, and a data transmission system are mounted. All ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268816 | Camera unit having lenses mounted in movable elements which are made to abut against a movement regulating member Electrode substrates, a movable element which can freely move reciprocally by being guided by the electrode substrates, and in which electrodes are formed on a pair of surfaces thereof facing one another, and which has a lens, an image pickup element imaging an imag... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268336 | Image detecting module An image detecting module. The image detecting module comprises a base, a seat movably disposed on the base, an image detecting unit disposed on the seat, a first guide member by which the seat is joined to the base, moving relative to the base in a first direction,... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262795 | Image processing method for generating weighted interpolated pixel data Camera signal processing comprising interpolating, at least on two directions, pixel data based on an imaging signal from a solid-state image sensor in which an imaging light enters through a color filter having a different spectral characteristic for each pixel sep... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7253836 | Digital camera, storage medium for image signal processing, carrier wave and electronic camera A CCD captures a subject image having passed through a taking lens and an image processing circuit performs various types of image pre-treatment including gamma correction and white balance on image data corresponding to n lines×m rows output by the CCD. The image ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7227526 | Video-based image control system A method of using stereo vision to interface with a computer is provided. The method includes capturing a stereo image, and processing the stereo image to determine position information of an object in the stereo image. The object is controlled by a user. The method... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218751 | Generating super resolution digital images Slight camera movement between capture of successive images is advantageously utilized to minimize or eliminate the need to interpolate in order to fill in the “holes” in a Bayer pattern. The captured color values from multiple appropriately positioned images ar... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209142 | Image display method and an image display apparatus for implementing the method The image display method and apparatus display a monochromatic image with a color display device in which a unit pixel is composed of R, G and B cells and display the monochromatic image having a higher gradation resolution than reproduction performance of each of t... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206017 | Image reproduction apparatus with panoramic mode based on aspect ratio An image reproduction apparatus includes display-image discrimination unit for discriminating a display mode (normal display, at-a-glance display, panoramic display, etc.) in which selected image data is to be displayed, display-mode setting unit for setting the dis... | 04/17/2007 |
