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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189074 | Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system A zoom lens system is provided that includes a compactly constructed focusing lens unit and that has a suppressed change in the image magnification at the time of movement of a focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system according to the present invention comprises a p... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8174588 | Stereo video microscope An optical apparatus relates to the field of optical magnification and stereoscopy, more specifically to the problem of optically magnifying an area stereoscopically and displaying this information to an operator in a comfortable manner. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8159565 | Zoom optical system and electronic imaging apparatus having the same An electronic imaging apparatus includes a zoom optical system having, in order from the object side, a first lens unit with positive power, a second lens unit with negative power, and an aperture stop, in which the first lens unit is composed of a single positive p... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149297 | Zooms lens system, imaging device and camera A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit of positive power, a second lens unit of negative power, a third lens unit of positive power, and a fourth lens unit of positive power, wherein the first lens unit is com... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8125541 | Image-sensing apparatus An image-sensing apparatus has: an optical zoom control portion varying the size of the subject image on the source images by optical zooming; a particular subject detection portion detecting the position and size of a particular subject on the source images based o... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115831 | Portable multi position magnifier camera Disclosed is a portable magnifier camera that can be selectively positioned into a variety of configurations. At least four distinct viewing configurations are provided: a reading mode wherein the camera rests flatly upon the viewed object; a writing mode wherein th... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115832 | Zoom system for an optical stereo device A zoom system (10) for an optical stereo device is provided. The zoom system (10) comprises a front plate (30) and a lens plate (60) disposed in a fixed spatial relationship and defining two optical paths within the zoom system (10... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8098301 | Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus Provided is a zoom lens including a first lens group, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein conditional expressions f12 | 01/17/2012 |
| 8004585 | Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system A zoom lens system is provided that includes a compactly constructed focusing lens unit and that has a suppressed change in the image magnification at the time of movement of a focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system according to the present invention comprises: a ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990438 | Imaging apparatus adapted to implement electrical image restoration processing The invention relates to an imaging apparatus that makes effective use of an image restoration processing method, thereby working favorably for size reductions while making sure zoom ratios and brightness, and ensuring good images. The imaging apparatus includes a z... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7973834 | Electro-optical foveated imaging and tracking system Conventional electro-optical imaging systems can not achieve wide field of view (FOV) and high spatial resolution imaging simultaneously due to format size limitations of image sensor arrays. To implement wide field of regard imaging with high resolution, mechanical... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969486 | Image-capture apparatus and variable magnification lens An image-capture apparatus includes a variable magnification lens, imaging means for converting an image taken by the variable magnification lens into an electrical image signal, and imaging control means. By referring to a conversion coordinate coefficient, the ima... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7884862 | Camera and camera zoom control method The present invention provides a camera and a camera zoom control method that can reduce power consumption at the time of zooming and shorten the time difference between the timing of a photographing instruction and the timing of actual photographing. Until a releas... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7864227 | Image sensing apparatus with variable rate zoom (auto zoom) and fastest rate zoom (quick zoom) In an image sensing apparatus having a zoom lens, a zoom ring that designates driving of the zoom ring at the time of image sensing, a power switch, and a zoom controller of the zoom lens that is capable of changing a driving speed of the zoom lens, it is determined... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7773129 | Image pickup device, imaging apparatus containing the same, and control method thereof An object of the present invention is to provide an imaging apparatus capable of obtaining a sufficient resolution in a picture signal for zooming in on an output signal of an image pickup device by means of an electronic zoom process and a control method thereof. T... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7697041 | Zoom lens system and camera using the same At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a rear zoom lens system which includes focus preset devices 15 and 16 for controlling the storage of a given distance from a subject (camera-to-subject distance) and shift of focus to the position. Traje... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7564488 | Surveying instrument A surveying instrument, comprising a first image pickup unit for obtaining a first image in a collimating direction, a second image pickup unit for obtaining a second image highly magnified than the first image pickup unit, a display unit for displaying the images o... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7561193 | Mobile communication terminal with integrated photographic apparatus and method for operating the same Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal with an integrated photographic apparatus having an optical zoom function. The terminal comprises of a body, a display, one or more input devices to enter terminal and photographic commands, and a photographic apparatus h... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7557839 | Electronic imaging device and mobile terminal including the electronic imaging device An electronic imaging device includes a zoom lens that includes a plurality of lens groups and an imaging element that converts an optical image formed by the zoom lens into an electric signal. The zoom lens includes at least a first lens group having a negative foc... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7535500 | Image sensing apparatus, method of controlling image sensing apparatus and image recording apparatus, and method of designing optical system An image sensing apparatus which has an optical system, the focal length of which is variable, and an image sensing element that converts an image formed by the optical system into an electrical signal, and can sense and record a moving image and still image, includ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7525581 | Compact digital zoom camera and cellular phone having the same A compact digital zoom camera includes a module base having an image sensor therein, a gear train installed at a side of an upper surface of the module base, a lens guide base installed on the module base and having a guide cylinder portion integrally formed thereon... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7446804 | Camera system and zoom lens The present invention provides a camera system which comprises: a zoom lens; phototaking means converting an image captured by the zoom lens into an electric image signal; and image control means, in which the zoom lens is made up of a first lens group having positi... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7436449 | Electronic imaging system The invention relates to an electronic imaging system such a video camera or digital camera, whose thickness or size is reduced while performance degradation is reduced as much as possible. The system comprises a zoom lens system comprising a first G1, a seco... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433584 | Variable-magnification optical system and image-taking apparatus therewith A variable-magnification optical system has, from the object side to the image side, at least a first lens group having a positive optical power, a second lens group having a negative optical power, and a third lens group having a positive optical power. The first l... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7420611 | Electronic image pickup system The invention makes a suitable selection from zoom modes and lens elements so thin that the thickness of each lens group can reduced, thereby slimming down a zoom lens with great thoroughness and, hence, an electronic image pickup system. The electronic image pickup... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418200 | Optical unit and imaging device A collapsible type optical unit is described that is capable of moving its optical system between a working position and a retracted position as well as an image-pickup apparatus including the optical unit. The optical unit and the image-pickup apparatus are capable... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418199 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus including a first lens unit with positive power in which the most object-side surface is concave and the most image-side surface is convex, an aperture stop, a second lens unit with positive power in which the most object-side surface is convex ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417674 | Multi-magnification color image sensor A color image sensor has imaging elements each structured to form, at an image plane, an image of a subject having a respective magnification. Ones of the imaging elements forming respective ones of the images with the same magnification in light of mutually differe... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417684 | Electronic image pickup system The invention makes a suitable selection from zoom modes and lens elements so thin that the thickness of each lens group can reduced, thereby slimming down a zoom lens with great thoroughness and, hence, an electronic image pickup system. The electronic image pickup... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414665 | Imaging system The invention relates to an imaging system in which, while high image quality is maintained with the influence of diffraction minimized, the quantity of light is controlled, and which enables the length of the zoom lens to be cut down. The imaging system comprises a... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7408583 | Taking lens apparatus A taking lens apparatus includes a zoom lens system that is composed of a plurality of lens units and that achieves zooming by varying the distances between the lens units and an image sensor that converts the optical image formed by the zoom lens system into an ele... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400458 | Imaging optics with wavelength dependent aperture stop An imaging system includes a wavelength dependent aperture stop, which transmits light with different ranges of wavelengths through apertures of different diameters. Thus, different colored light will have different F-stops, which can be selected based on the power ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7375900 | Variable power optical system and image pickup apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a compact size variable power optical system capable of producing a high quality image. The variable power optical system comprises a plurality of lens groups for forming an optical image on an image surface of an ima... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369322 | Imaging optical system and image pickup apparatus An imaging optical system which is a small-sized and wide angle of view a zoom lens, and whose aberration is finely corrected, is provided. In the imaging optical system, it has the first lens group of negative power, the second lens group of positive power, the thi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369326 | Imaging optical system and image pickup apparatus A compact bent zooming imaging optical system characterized by sufficient aberration correction. The imagining optical system contains, in order from the object, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group with negative power which has a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362966 | Controlling apparatus for photographing system To provide a controlling apparatus for a photographing system that enables effective use of a memory zoom function regardless of whether a zoom position is within an optical-zoom region or a digital zoom region. The present invention provides a controlling apparatus... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356200 | Method and device for determining skew angle of an image Methods and apparatuses for determining a skew angle of text relative to an axis are disclosed herein. One exemplary embodiment of the method comprises locating a first portion of the text that has a spatial frequency greater than a first preselected value. The meth... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349013 | Imaging apparatus having a lens device for a zooming control operation and the method of using the same An object of the present invention is to suitably perform a zooming control operation in the case that a zoom ring is provided at a lens-side portion and zoom switches are provided at a camera-body-side portion of a lens-interchangeable video camera. To achieve this... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342606 | Zoom lens system for camera A zoom lens system includes a zoom base to which an image pickup device can be coupled, a driving source for generating rotational force in accordance with a control signal of a control unit disposed in the electronic facility, plural power transmission gears dispos... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339749 | Zoom lens and imaging system incorporating it The invention concerns a zoom lens that has a zoom ratio of the order of 3, and is of sufficiently compact size and improved optical properties. The zoom lens comprises, in order from its object side, a first lens unit having negative refracting power, a second lens... | 03/04/2008 |
