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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8228422 | System and method for automatic exposure Disclosed are an auto exposure system and a method thereof. The auto exposure system may check whether an exposure target value is correct using brightness information of an input image. When the exposure target value is not proper, the auto exposure system may read... | 07/24/2012 |
| 8174610 | Camera A camera includes an image sensor, and a plurality of metering areas are assigned to an object scene captured by the image sensor. A CPU evaluates a luminance of the object scene for each metering area, and binarizes each of the plurality of obtained luminance evalu... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8144241 | Imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, and exposure control method An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to capture an image of an object to obtain an image signal, a detection unit configured to set a detection area in a captured image based on the image signal obtained by the imaging unit and calculate a detect... | 03/27/2012 |
| 7990465 | Imaging apparatus, imaging method, storage medium, and integrated circuit An imaging apparatus for capturing a moving image performs backlight correction of an image and outputs a natural image. The imaging apparatus electronically captures an image of a subject. An optical system has a light amount adjustment function. An imaging unit re... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7777806 | Camera, method, and program which captures a field of an object to generate an image, and image processing program and imaging device for applying image processing to an image A digital still camera according to the present invention can obtain an image with appropriate brightness easily without an increase in memory capacity. The digital still camera of the present invention includes: an image-capturing unit which captures a field of obj... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7420612 | Digital camera A digital camera includes a CCD imager. If brightness of an object is not enough, a frame rate of the CCD imager at a time of a focus adjustment is changed from 30 fps to 15 fps. This also lowers a reading speed of a camera signal, and reduces noise included in the ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7362370 | Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and computer-readable medium storing program using a distance measure for image correction An image capturing apparatus, an image capturing method, and a computer-readable medium storing program for correcting appropriately an image for each area independently. A digital camera for capturing a subject includes an image pick-up unit for capturing a first i... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7319478 | Solid-state video camera and method for brightness control A solid-state video camera is equipped with pixel addition logic such that, if the measured object brightness falls below a certain threshold value, a brightening of the image is effected without increasing the noise component accepting a loss in real-time represent... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7256833 | Method and apparatus for automatically optimizing optical contrast in automated equipment Techniques for automatically adjusting and/or optimizing the color and/or intensity of the illuminating light used in a vision system is presented. The intensity of each of a plurality of illuminating light colors is allowed to be independently adjusted to adapt the... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7212234 | Image device having a selectively adapted white balance control An imaging device is provided for reproducing light incident thereto as an image. The image device included a photodetector adapted to translate incident light of an image to a representative electronic signal. A white balance control configures the white balance of... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212251 | Broadcasting system of data broadcast in television broadcasting To present a broadcasting system of data broadcast capable of changing the screen display in a receiver, by displaying selectively the broadcast contents of plural channels on a receiving screen of digital satellite broadcasting of one channel, and selecting desired... | 05/01/2007 |
| 6989860 | Method and apparatus for auto-exposure control in the presence of artificial illumination A method and apparatus is disclosed for auto-exposure control in a scene under artificial illumination that synchronizes the exposure control algorithm and final image capture with the intensity variations in the artificial illumination. ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6967680 | Method and apparatus for capturing images A method and a camera perform processing functions based on a preliminary frame of light before capturing a second frame of light that forms a final camera image. After the light for the final image is captured, additional post-capture processing is performed on ima... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6937774 | Apparatus and method for efficiently increasing the spatial resolution of images A method increases the spatial resolution of a source image based on an auxiliary, co-registered image of a higher spatial resolution. Each of the source and auxiliary images includes a plurality of pixels with corresponding spectral intensities and the method inclu... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6936994 | Electrostatic energy generators and uses of same Methods and devices are disclosed for electrostatically generating electrical energy in response to state changes of external energy sources. In a simple embodiment, a first diode directs priming current from a first rechargeable battery into a variable capacitor me... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6816191 | Image processing method for the adjustment of photographic contrast and the relevant apparatus An image processing method for the adjustment of photographic contrast which utilizes a user interface to display digital image data captured by an image processing apparatus, and allows the user to adjust the set value of the image data and then to store this adjus... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6570620 | Exposure control device An exposure control device having a light measuring area setting circuit which sets a light measuring area on an image sensing plane, a discriminating circuit which discriminates from each other varied states of the image sensing plane through video signa... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6307597 | Apparatus for sampling and displaying an auxiliary image with a main image Apparatus for displaying a combined image of an auxiliary image and a main image includes a source of a main image signal and a source of samples representing an auxiliary image signal. A quincunx subsampler is coupled to the auxiliary image sample source... | 10/23/2001 |
| 5963254 | Technique for backlight compensation by selecting most appropriate compensation area and controlling iris in accordance with luminance level thereof A technique for backlight compensation in a monitoring camera performs automatic backlight compensation without any need for manually redesignating a backlight compensation area, despite changes in ambient illumination, by selecting the most appropriate b... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5959670 | Image pickup apparatus with exposure control correction An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup element for picking up an image of a subject and outputting a picked-up image signal, an electronic image magnification enlarging circuit for enlarging an image magnification of the subject by intermitten... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5798793 | Automatic focusing device capable of detecting panning An automatic focusing device includes an image pickup device for outputting an image signal by performing photoelectric conversion of an image of an object, a band-pass filter for extracting a sharpness signal corresponding to the sharpness from among the... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5751354 | Image sensing apparatus and method with exposure performed based on focus evaluation values A digital electronic camera has a first stroke switch and a second stroke switch. When the first stroke switch is pressed, adjustment of focus, coarse adjustment of exposure and detection of light-source flicker are detected using a signal from an image s... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5694168 | Auto focus control device and method including selecting a zone for detecting an evaluative value for focusing in accordance with photographing direction A zone for measuring distance is enlarged by adding an area where a contrast ratio is relatively high in the case of the photographing against the light. Thus, the sensitivity for judging a contrast ratio is increased and improper focusing is prevented. T... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5677733 | Exposure control device having a plurality of light detecting areas An exposure control device having a light measuring area setting circuit which sets a light measuring area on an image sensing plane, a discriminating circuit which discriminates from each other varied states of the image sensing plane through video signa... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5406349 | Interchangeable lens and interchangeable lens system Disclosed is an interchangeable lens system which comprises an interchangeable lens and a camera. the interchangeable lens includes a driving circuit controlled by data transmitted from the camera to the lens such that it displaces a controlled member of ... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5293241 | Method and circuit for controlling opening/closing of a camcorder iris diaphragm A circuit for controlling the opening and closing of a camcorder iris diaphragm including a luminance signal detector for detecting a luminance signal from an image signal of an object received therein, a buffer for buffering the luminance signal from the... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5264940 | Image sensing apparatus having exposure level and dynamic range control circuit In the exposure control circuit of an image input device according to the present invention, the rays of light from the subject pass through a diaphragm adjusting the amount of light and undergoes photoelectric conversion at a CCD imaging element. The ima... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5189519 | Electronic camera with exposure control An electronic camera having an image sensor responsive to a preliminary exposure for producing an output signal, a computing circuit for computing a proper exposure condition on the basis of the signal, and a compensating circuit for compensating the expo... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5185671 | Adaptive control of an electronic imaging camera A CCD imaging camera is adaptively controlled by: illuminating a reflectance field of view, selectively sensing a desired image field area within the field of view and generating an image signal thereof, reducing low frequency components of the sensed are... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184172 | Method of and apparatus for automatically controlling exposure In an automatic exposure (AE) controlling method and apparatus according to the invention, a picturing area or a view is divided into a plurality of zones of which the central one is usually used for iris adjustment with the largest weight. The central zo... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5065247 | Automatic iris correction apparatus for use in automatically adjusting exposure in response to a video signal In an image sensing apparatus such as a video camera, an evaluating value for exposure control and determination of a gamma correction value is computed in response to a video signal obtained by an image sensing device for each of a plurality of sampling ... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5036400 | Automatic iris correction apparatus for use in automatically adjusting exposure in response to a video signal In an image sensing apparatus such as a video camera, an evaluating value for exposure control and determination of a gamma correction value is computed in response to a video signal obtained by an image sensing device for each of a plurality of sampling ... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5016110 | Automatic focusing control of a video camera for industrial and military purposes A video camera is used for controlling the adjustment of a manipulator unit. An object is imaged by the video camera which is optimumly focused with respect to the object as a function of the mean brightness of a predetermined image from containing the im... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4978990 | Exposure control apparatus for camera An optical image of an object is incident on a light-receiving unit of a two-dimensional matrix through a photographing lens. An output from the light-receiving unit is input to a first arithmetic logic unit to calculate an actual object brightness value ... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4969045 | Image sensing apparatus having automatic iris function of automatically adjusting exposure in response to video signal In a video camera having an automatic iris function and a gamma correcting function, an object evaluating value is calculated based on an exposure evaluating value in a sampling area designated as a priority area, a target luminance level for exposure con... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4843476 | System for controlling the amount of light reaching an image pick-up apparatus based on a brightness/darkness ratio weighing A light signal control circuit for an image pick-up apparatus detects a substantially peak value of image pick-up signals by a first level detection circuit, detects a substantially average value of the image pick-up signals by a second level detection ci... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4752567 | Method of visualizing individual submicroscopic metal particles A method of visualizing individual submicroscopic metal particles by subjecting said particles to bright field or epi-polarization microscopy and enhancing the contrast of the image so obtained by electronic means.... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4737855 | Automatic diaphragm control device for TV camera objective An automatic diaphragm control device for a TV camera objective utilizing a video signal from the TV camera includes a circuit for adjustment of a low contrast video signal, a circuit for adjustment of a high contrast video signal and for preventing varia... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4717960 | Automatic diaphragm control device of variable photometry type used in objective for television camera An automatic diaphragm control device for the objective of a television camera, utilizing a video signal coming from the television camera to effect the diaphragm control The present invention provides a device including a fixed photometric circuit of a d... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4562476 | Automatic diaphragm control device for use IWT CCTV camera The present invention relates to an automatic diaphragm control device for use with a CCTV camera in which a video signal applied from the CCTV camera is utilized for diaphragm control, and provides an automatic diaphragm control device for use with the C... | 12/31/1985 |
