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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169516 | Electo-optical color imaging systems having strong lateral chromatic aberration compensated by digital image processing A spatially-varying sharpening filter and a color registration module compensate for significant lateral color in poorly corrected optics. In one aspect, a color imaging system includes image-forming optics, a sensor array and a processing module. The processing mod... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7847843 | Image sensing apparatus and its control method, control program, and storage medium for correcting position deviation of images This invention has as its object to provide an image sensing apparatus which can satisfactorily correct misregistration among images, and can composite the images. To achieve this object, an image sensing apparatus includes: a plurality of apertures that receives ex... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7639293 | Imaging apparatus and imaging method Subject images are formed on the image surface of an imaging device through a number of holes formed in a light shielding part arranged opposite to the image surface of the imaging device. Electric signals produced from the subject images on the image surface by pho... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7589772 | Systems, methods and devices for multispectral imaging and non-linear filtering of vector valued data An apparatus and method for multispectral imaging comprising an array of filters in a mosaic pattern, a sensor array and an acquisition and processing module. The sensor array being disposed to receive an image that has been filtered by the array of filters. The acq... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7444020 | Reduction of rounding errors during the processing of digital image data In order to avoid rounding errors as a result of restricted accuracy of the processing unit in a video processing arrangement, a comparison is carried out between processed image data and unprocessed image data. For this purpose, the unprocessed image data is buffer... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7372989 | Color misregistration reducer A color shift reducing apparatus includes: a color shift area detecting unit for detecting a color shift area on the basis of input image data and image data delayed through a memory; a color shift degree calculating unit for calculating data indicating the degree o... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7339699 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a first sensor having a plurality of reading elements arranged in the primary scanning direction, a second sensor disposed in parallel with the first sensor and by a predetermined lines in the secondary scanning direction, an i... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324598 | Apparatus and method to reduce quantization error An apparatus includes a quantizer to generate a quantized signal from an input signal and a function unit may be included to generate an output signal by applying a predetermined function to the quantized signal. The apparatus further may include a correction unit t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7304672 | Contour correcting video signal processing apparatus The contour correction processing of a still picture that can suppress the generation of a black edge due to an undershoot in a contour portion is enabled while increasing a feeling for resolution. Moreover, an interpolation device that improves the sharpness of a d... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7262799 | Image sensing apparatus and its control method, control program, and storage medium This invention has as its object to provide an image sensing apparatus which can satisfactorily correct misregistration among images, and can composite the images. To achieve this object, an image sensing apparatus includes: a plurality of apertures that receives ex... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7248296 | Automatic gain control device for electronic endoscope An automatic gain control device for an electronic endoscope is provided and comprises a controllable gain amplifier, an A/D converter, a histogram circuit, and a CPU. The controllable gain amplifier amplifies image signals from an imaging device. Amplified image si... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7224384 | 3D imaging system An optical imaging system comprising: a taking lens system that collects light from a scene being imaged with the optical imaging system; a 3D camera comprising at least one photosurface that receives light from the taking lens system simultaneously from all points ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218793 | Reducing differential resolution of separations Certain disclosed implementations use digital image processing to reduce the differential resolution among separations or images in film frames, such as, for example, red flare. A location in the red image may be selected using information from another image. The se... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209601 | CMOS image sensor using high frame rate with frame addition and movement compensation A method of forming a composite image using a CMOS image sensor. The method comprises capturing a plurality of frames using the image sensor, identifying a reference point in each of the frames, and aligning the frames using the reference point. Finally, the frames ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7202847 | Voltage modulated driver circuits for electro-optic displays A method and system for applying addressing voltages to pixels of a display involves receiving input data. The input data includes an indication of an addressing voltage impulse to be applied to a pixel via an electrode. One or more voltage sources are selected, to ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7163844 | Monolithic common carrier A common carrier for forming multiple printheads thereon and method of forming thereof is described. The common carrier includes a carrier substrate for adhering a plurality of unprocessed, integrateable semiconductor chips. Once adhered, the carrier substrate is li... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161627 | Apparatus and method of registration correction for video signal processor and a television camera having registration correcting function A registration correction apparatus having interpolation circuits. The interpolation circuits receives digital sampled pixel signals from at least one channel of a plurality of color signal channels. The digital sampled pixel signals have been obtained by sampling c... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151560 | Method and apparatus for producing calibration data for a digital camera Producing calibration data (to remove vignetting, e.g., color-dependent vignetting) for a digital camera includes: arranging, in front of the camera, a white reference surface that is to be imaged; capturing, via the camera, a characteristic array of data correspond... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151565 | Monitor camera capable of recording operation history, and method of recording operation history A storage means (47) formed of a rewritable non-volatile memory for recording the operation history of the surveillance camera is provided within the surveillance camera apparatus. An auto panning operation time, a power supply turn-on time, a temperature wit... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7142238 | Image pick-up device An image pick up device includes a pick-up unit for picking up an image condensed on a line sensor through a lens; a chromatic aberration correction board with a predetermined pattern in accordance with a pick-up resolution; an interpolation factor calculation unit ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7102654 | Driving circuit A driving circuit of this invention has a comparator that compares an input signal with a sampling signal to perform a pulse width modulation to the input signal, a driving transistor circuit that switches according to an output signal of the comparator, and a filte... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095421 | Selective super-sampling/adaptive anti-aliasing of complex 3D data A system and method is provided for preventing the occurrence of aliasing at the edges of polygons in 3D graphics. The system may detect both polygon geometric edges and Z edges due to intersection of multiple polygons. In one embodiment, the system includes an edge... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092019 | Image capturing apparatus and method therefor An image capturing apparatus and a method therefor are proposed for the production of a natural composite image corresponding to an object to be imaged. A misregistration amount (d) of each image (xS1) except for a reference image (xL1) is detected wit... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7086736 | Display system with sequential color and wobble device A display system for displaying an image includes a modulator configured to produce a light beam that sequentially bears a plurality of color image sub-frames, where each color image sub-frame corresponds to one color in a plurality of colors; display optics configu... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7019777 | Multispectral imaging system with spatial resolution enhancement A spatial resolution enhancement and dynamic range extension for a Computerized Airborne Multicamera Imaging System (CAMIS). CAMIS is a multispectral imaging system for diverse manned and unmanned aerial vehicles to fly along flexible paths and altitudes for a wide ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015959 | Image pickup apparatus for picking up and recording still or moving images and a method for controlling the same When an image pickup apparatus is changed over to a mode different from a photographing mode, such as a power-off mode or a reproducing mode, priority is given to writing a temporarily-recorded image in a recording medium, so that it is possible to surely preserve t... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6927792 | Television camera and white balance correcting method The white balance of a television camera is not lost and kept properly even if the diaphragm is opened to the utmost limit at a dark place. A signal F representing the diaphragm value of the taking lens is inputted from an iris part 2 into a microcomputer ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6870564 | Image processing for improvement of color registration in digital images A method for improving the wavelength dependent registration of digital images includes the steps of (a) detecting a similar feature in two or more digital records of the same scene, (b) determining from the feature a shift due to misregistration of at least one of ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6859228 | Least squares method for color misregistration detection and correction in image data A method for color misregistration detection. Input image data is buffered and transferred to vector space. An examination window for a current pixel is established and foreground and background pixels within that window are selected. The current pixel is examined t... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6809768 | Double slope pixel sensor and array A double-slope MOS active pixel sensor disposed on a semiconductor substrate has a first light-to-output-voltage transfer gain up to a first charge accumulation threshold, has a second light-to-output-voltage transfer gain lower than the first light-to-output-voltag... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6724937 | Method of identifying image frames suitable for printing A method for identifying one or more image frames (100) from a series (104) of video image frames, in order to print, store or flag the selected frames. The method calculates a gradient value for each image frame in a video shot (102) series, id... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6697114 | Triple slope pixel sensor and arry A triple-slope MOS active pixel sensor disposed on a semiconductor substrate comprises first and second capacitive storage elements each having a first terminal connected to a fixed potential and a second terminal. First and second photodiodes each have a... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6295083 | High precision image alignment detection High precision image alignment detection uses an iterative part pixel shift detection algorithm to accurately determine the displacement of a received image with respect to a reference image. An alignment pattern is inserted into the original image and a ... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6184925 | Lens having color correction data A lens having color correction data includes a memory in which the color correction data necessary to make the color of an image of an object to be recorded, formed by the lens, coincident with the color of the object perceived through the naked eye is st... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6025586 | Image processing device, image recording apparatus, and image reading device and image forming apparatus According to the present invention, an image processing/converting section comprises a pixel position calculating section, a pulse width changing section, a pixel value shifting section, and a recording device driving pulse generating section. The pixel p... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6002434 | Registration correction waveform determination method and system for a television camera Horizontal and vertical registration errors in a color television camera are automatically error corrected by detecting registration errors in live scenes. Each error is associated with the preselected region of the raster in which it was detected. The er... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5900942 | Multi spectral imaging system An optical imaging system provides automatic co-registration of a plurality of multi spectral images of an object which are generated by a plurality of video cameras or other optical detectors. The imaging system includes a modular assembly of beam splitt... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5790190 | Electronic development type image pickup device An electronic development type image pickup device includes an optical color separation system which separates an object image formed by a photographing optical system into different color light components and converges the latter onto respective image fo... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5764386 | Method and system for automatically monitoring the colors of an object at a vision station Color balance of a sample image is compared with a previously learned template image utilizing an appropriately programmed machine vision system including a color camera at a vision station. The sample image, preferably captured from a web scanner attache... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5650864 | Full color single-sensor-array contact image sensor (CIS) using advanced signal processing techniques A color-reproducing contact image sensing (CORCIS) system that eliminates the use of multiple arrays of photodetectors with separate color filters and which permits the use of any of various signal-processing improvements such as voltage pickoff, transduc... | 07/22/1997 |
