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| 8427547 | Camera with high-quality still capture during continuous video capture A method for processing a source frame is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating an intermediate frame by digitally processing the source frame, wherein the intermediate frame has an intermediate resolution and has an intermediate color... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8427546 | Imaging apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide an imaging apparatus for simultaneously taking a still image and a moving image that hardly causes a fail in taking a moving image. The imaging apparatus is characterized by including an imaging means capable of ta... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8416310 | Imaging device and imaging processing apparatus capable of recording and generating movie image data Provided are: an imaging sensor that captures light from a subject; a first instruction unit that instructs to capture a still image by using the imaging sensor; a recording control unit that records a single movie image file containing a first movie image produced ... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8417088 | Video recording and reproducing method, and video reproducing apparatus and method A recording apparatus, including: a camera which picks up a picture from an optical image; a first encoder which encodes the picture by a first encoding method; a second encoder which encodes the picture by a second encoding method which is different from the first ... | 04/09/2013 |
| 8411157 | Solid-state image pickup device and image pickup device A solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel unit in which pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional manner, the pixels including a photoelectric conversion element, a charge holding unit, a transmission unit, and a first output unit and a second output unit; a... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411158 | Image sensing apparatus and storage medium An image sensing apparatus includes an image sensing unit which sequentially generates still image data, a holding unit which holds a plurality of still image data, a display unit which displays the still image data, a setting unit which sets a predetermined state a... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8405734 | Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method and program for the image capturing apparatus An image capturing apparatus being capable of generating a frame for a moving image at a desired timing using a still image captured during capturing a moving image is provided. The image capturing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a still image... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8379099 | Image capturing device, image generating device, moving picture generating method and computer-readable recording medium An image capturing unit outputs an image data signal. A first moving picture data generating unit generates first moving picture data based on the image signal from the image capturing unit. A trigger signal generating unit causes a trigger signal to be generated, e... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8373765 | Image capturing device, image generating device, moving picture generating method and computer-readable medium An image capturing unit outputs an image data signal. A first moving picture data generating unit generates first moving picture data based on the image signal from the image capturing unit. A trigger signal generating unit causes a trigger signal to be generated, e... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8368770 | System and method for in-vivo imaging An in-vivo imaging device including a camera may include a frame storage device. Systems and methods which vary the frame capture rate of the camera and/or frame display rate of the display unit of in-vivo camera systems are discussed. The capture rate is varied bas... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8368769 | Imaging device and camera A camera body includes an imaging unit, a reflecting mirror, a determination unit, and a mirror controller. The imaging unit is configured to convert the optical image into an image signal and acquires an image of the subject. The reflecting mirror has a first state... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8363121 | Digital photographing device, method of controlling the same, and computer-readable storage medium to select between a still and a moving image capturing mode Provided are a digital photographing device, a method of controlling the same, and a computer-readable storage medium for storing a program for executing the method. The method includes calculating a degree of motion of a subject; determining whether a photographing... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8350918 | Image capturing apparatus and control method therefor In an image capturing apparatus with an operation mode for carrying out expression detection, it is determined whether or not the image capturing apparatus is operated in the operation mode for carrying out expression detection. In a case in which the image capturin... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8350919 | Configuration of a device based upon orientation An application for a device that includes an image sensor, an orientation sensor and image capture capabilities. Operation of the device is based upon a detected orientation of the device by the orientation sensor. In one embodiment, when the device is in a horizont... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8310558 | Imaging apparatus having a recording function of a still image and a moving image and displaying a through image An imaging apparatus fetches an optical image of an object so as to produce an image signal, records on a recording medium an image signal corresponding to a still-image-use image size according to a still-image recording instruction, records on the recording medium... | 11/13/2012 |
| 8300109 | Image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus comprises: a pixel array; a driving unit; a readout unit which, when performing still image shooting parallel to movie shooting, reads out, in each of successive frame periods, first signals from a first pixel group, and reads out, over th... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8289410 | Recording apparatus and method, playback apparatus and method, and program A recording apparatus includes: a still image acquiring unit configured to acquire a still image from a moving image during recording or playback of the moving image; an information adding unit configured to add information related to the moving image at or slightly... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8289411 | Image processing apparatus, program, and method for performing preprocessing for movie reproduction of still images An apparatus takes in a plurality of still image frames, to generate an interpolated image frame. Next, moving addition of the still image frame and an interpolated image frame is performed in time-axis direction, to generate a superimposed image frame. At this time... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8284269 | Image pickup apparatus When the shooting mode selector lever switches the shooting mode to the still image shooting mode, the viewfinder mode is switched to the optical viewfinder mode, and switching from the optical viewfinder mode to the electronic viewfinder mode is performed by operat... | 10/09/2012 |
| 8279298 | Imaging apparatus having improved usability when moving images and still images are recorded An imaging apparatus includes a signal processing unit that generates moving image data and still image data using image data output from an imaging unit, a moving image coding unit that encodes the moving image data, a still image coding unit that encodes the still... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8279299 | Imaging device and associated methodology of setting adjustable aspect ratios According to the invention, extracting still and moving pictures having different aspect ratios from an original picture from within an extraction range suitable for an imaging mode can be performed. An embodiment of the invention, according to the selected imaging ... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8274576 | Still image and moving image capturing device When still images are captured, signals read from all pixel cells of a pixel cell array having a Bayer array of color filters are selected, as a first output to be recorded and displayed, by an output selector. When moving images are captured, a 9-pixel binned signa... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8274574 | Imaging apparatus for outputting an image signal according to a set shooting mode An imaging apparatus having as a shooting mode a normal shooting mode and a continuous shooting mode for generating a plurality of pieces of image data, includes a setting unit operable to set a shooting mode, an imaging element having as a read mode a normal read m... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8264561 | Image pickup apparatus detachably connecting to light emitting device and control method thereof An image pickup apparatus detachably connecting to a light emitting device. Still image shooting is performed during moving image recording being paused according to a still image shooting instruction received during the moving image recording being performed and th... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8228393 | Imaging apparatus capable of recording a moving image and a still image An imaging apparatus capable of recording a moving image and a still image includes a recording unit for recording image data of the moving image or the still image generated by an imaging unit in a recording medium, and a display unit for displaying first capacity ... | 07/24/2012 |
| 8218022 | Imaging apparatus and associated methodology of independently powering components to limit power consumption An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit configured to photoelectrically convert light into an electrical signal serving as an imaging signal and output the imaging signal at predetermined frame intervals, a memory configured to store the imaging sign... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8218023 | Method and apparatus for processing continuous image data captured by digital image processor Provided are a method and apparatus for processing continuous image data captured by a digital image processor which encodes/decodes a plurality of continuous images in a Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG) format. The apparatus includes a digital signal processing u... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8212884 | Scanning beam device having different image acquisition modes A method of one aspect may include monitoring movement of a scanning beam image acquisition device. Images may be acquired with the scanning beam image acquisition device using a first image acquisition mode when the monitoring indicates that the scanning beam image... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8194144 | Image data processing method An image data processing method to capture still images while capturing motion images is disclosed. The method includes stopping a motion image capturing according to a first instruction to generate a first motion image data with a first resolution, thereafter, carr... | 06/05/2012 |
| 8194143 | Digital camera apparatus and recording method thereof A camera apparatus for encoding a video signal received from a photographing means in MPEG video format or equivalent format, encoding an audio signal received from an audio inputting means in MPEG audio format or equivalent format, multiplexing the encoded MPEG vid... | 06/05/2012 |
| 8184172 | Solid-state imaging device and driving control method A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array section formed by a plurality of pixels including a photoelectric conversion element disposed in the form of a matrix; and control means for selectively controlling shutter operations and readout operations perfor... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174584 | Image shooting apparatus and control method and program thereof An apparatus which concurrently shoots a movie and a still image, comprises an image sensing unit which generates movie data and still image data; a storage unit which stores the generated still image data in a temporary memory area at predetermined time intervals; ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169494 | Image sensing apparatus and method of controlling image sensing apparatus An image sensing apparatus comprises: a pixel array including a first pixel group and a second pixel group; a first readout unit which reads out a first signal from the first pixel group in a readout period which remains constant regardless of the operation modes; a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8144205 | Electronic camera with feature image recognition An electronic camera includes an image sensor, and an object scene image is repetitively output from the image sensor. A CPU repetitively determines whether or not the object scene image output from the image sensor has a face image turned to the imaging surface pri... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134607 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus of the present invention includes a recording unit for recording in a recording medium, motion image data in accordance with a predetermined movie recording method and recording still image data in accordance with a still image recording method... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130279 | Image sensing apparatus sensing moving and still images, method thereof, storage medium and computer program An image sensing apparatus includes an imager, an image reducer for reducing an image size from imaging data obtained from the imager, a moving image configurer for rendering an image reduced by the image reducer as a moving image, an image processor for image-proce... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8120663 | Image sensing apparatus and correction method An image sensing apparatus comprises an image sensor, a driving unit that drives the image sensor so as to output electrical signals through multiple readout modes including at least a full pixel readout mode and a thinning readout mode, an acquisition unit that acq... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111297 | Image processing apparatus, program, and method for performing preprocessing for movie reproduction of still images An apparatus takes in a plurality of still image frames, to generate an interpolated image frame. Next, moving addition of the still image frame and an interpolated image frame is performed in time-axis direction, to generate a superimposed image frame. At this time... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106955 | Solid-state image sensing device and image sensing system A solid-state image sensing device comprises a first readout circuit configured to read out a signal from a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, a signal holding unit configured to hold the signal read out from the first readout circuit, a second readout cir... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102434 | Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and program An imaging apparatus capturing and recording a moving image and a static image at the same time includes a converter converting an optical image of a subject into a pixel signal, performing decimation on the pixel signal and outputting the pixel signal that has been... | 01/24/2012 |
