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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149298 | Imaging device and method An image processing method and apparatus operable for processing images is disclosed. The image processing method allows for drawing any given image in an output image on which various types of image processing have been performed. Such various types of image proces... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8130287 | Magnifying playback/display An image sensing apparatus which stores an image signal from an image sensing element and reads out and processes the stored image signal to magnify and display an image on a display device includes a designation unit that designates the magnification ratio of the i... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125542 | Imaging device using a first motion vector in an image that is obtained via an imaging system that can perform zooming and a second motion vector caused by performing zooming of the image At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an imaging device which includes a detecting unit that detects a first motion vector in an image that is obtained via an imaging system that can perform zooming, and a storage unit that stores in advance a second moti... | 02/28/2012 |
| RE42898 | Electronic zoom image input method An electronic zoom image input method that enables zooming without declining the resolution by receiving an input image transmitted through a fixed focal distance optical system having a function of compressing the circumferential part of the input image by means of... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7978236 | Image-capturing device that displays a shifted enlargement area An image-capturing device includes: an image-capturing unit that captures a subject image formed via a photographic optical system; a display unit that displays a through image of the subject image captured by the image-capturing unit; an enlargement area setting un... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7936385 | Image pickup apparatus and imaging method for automatic monitoring of an image An embodiment of the invention provides an image pickup apparatus to which a zoom lens having a variable imaging angle of view is mounted, including: a dynamic body detecting portion for detecting a dynamic body from an image signal obtained by capturing an image; a... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7880776 | High resolution zoom: a novel digital zoom for digital video camera A camera system and a method for zooming the camera system is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating an electronic image by sensing an optical image received by the camera, the sensing including electronic cropping to a window size to e... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7864228 | Image pickup apparatus for photographing desired area in image with high image quality and control method for controlling the apparatus An object area in an image is determined, and an area image representing the object area is superimposed on the object in the image. In this image, an area to be photographed with high quality is specified using the area image, and a control parameter for controllin... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7742085 | Zoom method of a digital camera based on extracted values A zoom method of a small digital camera is provided that includes searching a center search line of a photographic screen according to a set photographic mode and searching upper and lower lines based on the center search line so as to extract a color average value ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7688364 | Decimating and cropping based zoom factor for a digital camera A camera system and a method for zooming the camera system is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating an electronic image by sensing an optical image received by the camera, the sensing including electronic cropping to a window size to e... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7616236 | Control method used by digital image processing apparatus Provided is a control method used by a digital image processing apparatus, and more particularly, to a control method used by a digital image processing apparatus that records motion image data in a recording medium in a motion image photographing mode. The method i... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7583300 | Imaging device and zoom lens An image pickup apparatus having a plurality of image pickup modes and a zoom lens for use with the image pickup apparatus is configured such that, even if the dimension of an effective screen region of an image pickup element changes as a result of changeover of th... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7557840 | Control method and system for a remote video chain Process for commanding a remote video processing chain producing a video stream transmitted to a terminal with a view to acting on the transmitted video stream, this process including steps in which the terminal transmits a command to the remote video processing cha... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7522198 | Electronic device, a method and a program product for determining a show zoom ratio for an image An electronic equipment is disclosed, which includes screen means for showing an image by using the set show zoom ratio and processor means for performing zooming of the image in a selected zooming direction in ord... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7515182 | Digital camera with a hollow portion for saving an image taking lens In a digital camera, a solid state imaging device is used to catch subject light so that an image signal is created. The digital camera contributes to effectively implementing further thinness as compare with the conventional ones. A second lens group is revolved be... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7502056 | Movement signal generation apparatus, optical device, optical device control apparatus, and video production system A movement signal generation apparatus is disclosed which can convert an analog position signal of an optical adjustment unit into digital signals representing a movement amount and a movement direction of the optical adjustment unit and output the digital signals. ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7486315 | Image sensing apparatus and control method therefor An image sensing apparatus having an image sensing mode for electrically sensing an object and storing an acquired image and a reproduction mode for reproducing and displaying the stored image includes a view angle changing unit for changing an angle of view of an i... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7468748 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes: a zoom lens system including a plurality of groups and performing variable magnification by changing intervals of the lens groups; a color-separation optical system configured to carry out color separation of a light flux from the zoom... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7463292 | Lens system To provide a lens system which is to be used with a virtual system and which can curtail time and labor required by settings of the virtual system by outputting data pertaining to an angle of view, an object distance, and a principal point position, all being requir... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7443445 | Lens unit and image pickup apparatus A lens unit of the present invention has a mounting cradle, a lens frame holding portion fixed to a mounting cradle in an optical axis direction, a lens frame which is held to the lens frame holding portion to be capable of moving to the optical axis direction, and ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440021 | Image capturing apparatus and an image capturing method An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit for capturing an image of an object; a light quantity storing unit for storing light quantity of the object which is outside of an image capturing region of the image capturing apparatus by corresponding ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7430004 | Volume control linked with zoom control Digital cameras and methods wherein volume control is linked with zoom control. The present invention captures audio along with recorded images at different zoom settings, and upon playback adjusts the sound output volume (audio apparatus gain) based upon the zoom c... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430368 | Zoom lens assembly capable of macro photography A zoom lens assembly includes an optical system forming an optical axis and having at least one lens group, a base member (1), a macro ring member (2) rotatably engaged with the base member for accomplishing both zooming and focusing operations, a lens... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7423669 | Monitoring system and setting method for the same In order to facilitate a setting of multiple parameters of a tracking function of a camera, in a setting window, an image display window is displayed in which a picked-up image sent from a camera server and an indicator indicating a change detection maximum area as ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7417673 | Optical and digital zooming for an imaging device The invention relates to photographing process, where zooming is carried out. In a method an image is formed through imaging optics onto a light sensitive image sensor in an imaging device and wherein the device is capable of both optical and digital zooming. The me... | 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 |
| 7400351 | Creation of image based video using step-images The subject invention provides a system and/or method that facilitates encoding a source image associated with a motion vector by employing at least one step image, wherein such step image provides a reduction in the amount of stored video. A step image component de... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7391446 | Digital camera having circuitry shortening processing time to correct distortion A telephoto side distortion allowable lens or a wide-angle side distortion allowable lens is used as a zoom lens of a digital camera. Image data photographed by the telephoto side distortion allowable lens is subject to only a telephoto side distortion correction. I... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386323 | Systems and methods for operating a computing device having image capture capabilities Systems and methods for operating a portable computing device having a broad set of functionality, such as image or audio/video capture capabilities, are provided. One or more specialized modes are provided in a portable computing device, such as a smart phone, for ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7375747 | Method of driving solid-state image pickup device In an CCD image sensor, when an image of a partial area is used, a frame rate is enhanced. Horizontal transfer of signal charges of an i-th line read out to a horizontal transfer portion is stopped at the time point when all or a part of a tail portion 74 sub... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372486 | Photographing apparatus and method of adjusting an image of a photographing object A photographing object image adjusting apparatus including a plurality of adjusting operation devices corresponding to a plurality of object image adjusting modes, respectively, and an object image adjusting device. Each of the plurality of adjusting operation devic... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365779 | Image processing apparatus for selectively storing specific regions of an image The invention provides an image processing apparatus that can reduce the memory capacity of a memory forming part of the image processing apparatus and can correct the optical axis misalignment of a video camera in a simple manner. The image processing apparatus ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7362816 | Inversion of channel distortion by adaptive wavelet lifting A method for inverting telecommunication channel distortion by adaptive wavelet lifting. The distortion signal is analyzed using wavelet lifting and the inverse filter is computed. Coefficients of the inverse filter are used to either compute a transmission pre-filt... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355643 | Image pickup device An image pickup control unit specifies a scan area of a frame based on a scaling factor for electronic zooming. An image sensor converts incoming light signals into electric signals by performing reset scanning on each line of the specified scan area of the frame, a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356250 | Systems and methods for creating a single video frame with one or more interest points Systems and methods for creating virtual stop-off points in a movie title, where the viewer can explore interesting content using zoom, pan and gamma controls are provided. Methods include creating an interest point from one or more digital video titles. Systems inc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356252 | Auto-focusing zoom lens mechanism An auto-focusing zoom lens mechanism includes a base unit forming a space; an auto-focusing (AF) lens unit located in the base unit and having a trajectory bar engaged therewith; a zoom lens unit located in the base unit and mounted on the AF lens unit and having a ... | 04/08/2008 |
