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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189073 | Tone adjustment method for digital image and electronic apparatus using the same A tone adjustment method for a digital image and an electronic apparatus using the same are presented. A digital image is loaded. A detail image layer and a primary image layer are generated according to the digital image. A tone mapping procedure is performed on th... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7825963 | Method and system for capturing an image from video A method including presenting a video sequence on a display where the video sequence includes video frames, calculating a quality indicator with respect to the video frames and automatically indicating which video frames meet or exceed a predetermined image quality ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7688362 | Single sensor processing to obtain high resolution color component signals A method for generating color video signals representative of color images of a scene includes the following steps: focusing light from the scene on an electronic image sensor via a filter having a tri-color filter pattern; producing, from outputs of the sensor, fir... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7639288 | Color separation In a color separation circuit, a camera comprising such a color separation circuit and a color separation method, an adapted luminance signal is recovered from an image sensor signal using an adaptive wide band filter, wherein the adaptive wide band filter is contro... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7570286 | System and method for creating composite images A support apparatus for sense of vision includes: a filter device that extracts low frequency components, and respective high frequency components in at least a horizontal direction and a vertical direction from original images obtained by image capture by a plurali... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7456873 | Image signal processing system and camera for obtaining luminance-system signal and color-system signal Briefly, a camera according to the present invention includes a first signal processing system having a first gamma conversion processing unit for subjecting an output from an image pick-up device to gamma conversion processing and a luminance signal generating unit... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7382403 | Apparatus and method for synthesizing image signals into a wide dynamic range image that has been processed with saturation correction An imaging apparatus is provided with an imaging element for outputting both a color signal of high-power image data and a color signal of low-power image data; gamma correcting means for gamma-correcting the high-power image data and for gamma-correcting the low-po... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7355635 | Electronic camera capable of having results of previous image pickup processing reflected in current image pickup processing An electronic camera according to the present invention includes an imaging part, a conditional information determining part, a storage part and a correction processing part. The imaging part images a subject to produce image data. The conditional information determ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7327395 | Autofocus apparatus When a high-frequency component of a video signal that is output from a CCD image sensor (1-2) can be extracted from band-pass filters (1-13, 1-14), the band-pass filters (1-13, 1-14) are changed in accordance ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7265784 | Image processor with noise reduction circuit A digital imaging system includes an image sensor, an interface circuit, a frame buffer and an image processor. The image sensor includes a two-dimensional array of pixel elements and outputs digital signals on a pixel bus as pixel data representing an image of a sc... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7233355 | Imaging apparatus utilizing image pickup devices used for an interlaced scanning The invention provides a convenient way of generating image signals on a progressive scanning basis. Multiple image pickup devices used for an interlaced scanning drive and generate chrominance signal DGi on the interlaced scanning basis with an interlace field and ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7167597 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes a determination part, an information obtaining part, a dynamic range setting part and a processing part. The determination part determines whether or not an image includes an area where destruction of gradation due to contrast ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158323 | Apparatus for switching optical low pass filters for use in optical instrument Disclosed is an optical filter switching apparatus used in an optical instrument for converting externally input image information into video image information and outputting the video image information. The apparatus comprises: an optical filter holding section hol... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7110031 | State image pickup apparatus having pixel shift layout A color shooting solid state image pickup apparatus is composed by using a solid state image pickup device having a number of color pixels disposed in a plurality of rows and columns in a pixel shift layout with distributing at least one color-type color pixels in a... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7095438 | Image signal processing device for minimizing false signals at color boundaries An image signal processing device of the present invention includes an RGB-YC conversion for converting color component signals output from a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image sensor to luminance signals and components thereof lying in a high frequency range. The lu... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7071978 | Image mosaic data reconstruction This invention relates to the reconstruction of a full colour image from image mosaic data in particular where the image mosaic data is unequally weighted between different colours. The image mosaic is composed of a plurality of image pixels. Each image pixel has on... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7006686 | Image mosaic data reconstruction This invention relates to the reconstruction of a full colour image from an image mosaic composed of a plurality of image pixels that have one of at least three colour values. The pixels are interleaved in rows and columns across the mosaic with pixels of different ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6965406 | Image processor and image processing method The present invention relates to an image processor and an image processing method for compensating gradation by effectively avoiding drop of partial contrast through application to an image processor such as television receiver, video tape recorder, television came... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963364 | Method of improving a signal in a sequence of images acquired with a digital color video camera A method of improving a signal in an image sequence acquired with a digital color video camera creating a digital video signal (1) including a brightness signal component (3) and a color signal component (4) includes the steps (6, 7) of c... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6906748 | Electronic camera An interpolation calculation circuit for improving the image quality for recording and display is provided. The interpolation calculation circuit interpolates a necessary pixel on the basis of interpolation calculation (cubic interpolation processing) by an approxim... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6870566 | Image sensing system for sensing an image and converting the image into image signals with a controlled operating rate In an image sensing apparatus using an image sensing device, such as a CCD, to be used by connecting to an external device, such as a computer, an operating rate of the CCD is changed in accordance with a rate at which the computer receives image signals from the im... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6837584 | Peak brightness improvement for LC/DLP based RPTV A method and apparatus for producing an apparent increase in display brightness in an RPTV engine without an actual increase in total light output. Light is generated with an illumination source and optically processed to produce a light beam of rectangular format. ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6816193 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes: an image pickup section for converting an object light into image signals of Bayer RGB array; a color information detecting section for obtaining color information of the object from the image signals obtained by the image pic... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6774937 | Image processing system and camera system In the case where an output signal of an image pickup device is compressed and is transmitted through a transmission path with band limitation, when a conventional compression and expansion technique is directly applied, there is a lot of waste and a circuit scale b... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6753910 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method The invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method and can be applied to an image information apparatus such as, for example, a television receiver, a video tape recorder, a television camera and a printer so that the gradation can b... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6750907 | Imaging apparatus with low-illuminance imaging capability Low illuminance shooting is achieved by raising the gain or sensitivity through noise reduction while mitigating the deterioration in resolution. An image signal that has been imaged by CCD and amplified CDS is converted into a series of digital pixel values. A weig... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6747694 | Television signal processor for generating video signal of wide dynamic range, television camera using the same, and method for television signal processing A television signal processor generates a wide dynamic range video signal on the basis of a first video signal matched to the brightness of a low-brightness region of an object image, and a second video signal matched to the brightness of a high-brightness region of... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6690418 | Image sensing apparatus image signal controller and method Two image signals from a non-interlace scanning type CCD at predetermined horizontal and vertical sampling frequencies are respectively inputted to automatic gain controllers, then to a color separator where the input signals are separated into luminance ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6614606 | Methods and apparatus for providing color images from monochromatic night vision and other electro-optical viewing devices Apparatus and methods for converting a monochrome night vision or other electro-optical device into one that provide a sensation of full color, including from red to blue with white and black. Preferred apparatus of the invention comprise an electro-optic... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6542187 | Correcting for chrominance interpolation artifacts A method for correcting chrominance interpolation artifacts in a digital color image having color pixels in which each colored pixel is expressed as one luminance and two chrominance color values including computing a test value at each pixel which indica... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6456325 | Image signal processing device for minimizing false signals at color boundaries An image signal processing device of the present invention includes an RGB-YC conversion for converting color component signals output from a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image sensor to luminance signals and components thereof lying in a high frequency ra... | 09/24/2002 |
| 5945977 | Luminance signal producing circuits A luminance signal producing circuit comprises a signal input portion to which an image pickup signal is supplied from a solid-state image sensor provided with a color filter array comprising a plurality of color filter units arrayed in the manner of a ch... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5767899 | Image pickup device In an image pickup device for generating a corrected luminance signal by subtracting two color difference signals as correction signals from a luminance signal, a correction signal is generated by base-clipping at least one of the two color difference sig... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5671013 | Luminance correction apparatus for image signals An apparatus for correcting a luminance level of a still picture obtains first and second images of the same object to produce two sets of pixels of image information. A boundary luminance level is set between the maximum and minimum luminance levels of t... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5661522 | TV camera provided with solid image pick-up element Each solid image pick-up element of G, R and B channels has a light-receiving portion composed of light-receiving pixels arranged two-dimensionally, that is, in the horizontal and the vertical scanning directions. The light-receiving pixels of the second ... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5581357 | Color signal processing apparatus using a common low pass filter for the luminance signal and the color signals Digital filter apparatus using a plurality of elements in common to process different signal components receives an image pickup signal from an image sensor and provides different image signal components from the image pickup signal. The digital low-pass ... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5349381 | Video camera with aperture correction having reduced power consumption In a video camera having three image pickup devices in which a pixel of one channel of channels forming three primary colors is spatially displaced from other pixels of two channels by 1/2 pixel, when three primary color signals output from the three imag... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5345264 | Video signal processing circuit for a video camera using a luminance signal Auto focus control and/or auto exposure control is carried out by using a luminance signal before gamma correction, before addition of aperture signal but after hand shake correction. Auto white balance control is carried out by using a color signal after... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5337152 | Solid-state color imaging apparatus A first solid-state imaging element and second and third solid-state imaging elements are arranged spatially so as to be horizontally shifted half a pixel pitch from one another so that a light-sensitive portion of each pixel of the second and third solid... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5307159 | Color image sensing system In a color image sensing system, a solid state image sensor has every four adjacent picture elements thereof grouped as one set, and combinations of color filters are arranged to cover almost all the picture elements of the image sensor. The color filters... | 04/26/1994 |
