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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8421910 | Electronic flash, electronic camera and light emitting head R, G and B LEDs are used as a light source of an electronic flash. Electric energy is supplied to a capacitor to the LEDs. A system controller controls light emitting amounts of the LEDs so that a color temperature of the electronic flash light becomes a color tempe... | 04/16/2013 |
| 8405764 | Imaging apparatus On a drive ring, a first cam and a second cam are formed. The first cam engages with a slider when a light emitting unit is in a stored state. The second cam releases engagement between the slider and the first cam to engage with the slider when the light emitting u... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8400559 | Imaging apparatus On a drive ring, a first flash lamp cam and a second flash lamp cam are formed. The first flash lamp cam engages with a flash unit to bring the flash unit into an in-use state when an imaging apparatus becomes a imaging state, and to bring the flash unit into a stor... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8379143 | Electronic device having a camera and method of controlling a flash A method of controlling a flash output for capturing an image in a portable electronic device having a digital camera includes receiving light at an image sensor, determining a flash output adjusted for color and brightness based on the light received at the image s... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8373795 | Camera body and imaging device to which a lens unit configured to form an optical image of a subject can be mounted A camera body allows the mounting of a lens unit configured to form an optical image of a subject, and includes a body mount, an imaging element, a shutter, a shutter drive device, and an electronic viewfinder. The body mount allows a lens unit to be mounted. The im... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8363157 | Mobile communication device with multiple flashpoints A mobile communication device includes a wireless communication interface arranged to transmit and receive data with a wireless data network; a microprocessor in operable connection with memory storing one or more computer applications that include a digital image c... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8358370 | Flash light compensation system for digital camera system The invention refers to a flash light compensation system and corresponding method for digital camera systems, wherein a luminance compensation is carried out on an image of a scene (3) picked-up by an image sensor (1), on the basis of a respective int... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8294813 | Imaging device with a scene discriminator The imaging device of the present invention includes an image generator that generates an electric image from optical information inputted thereto; an operation portion that receives an instruction for a shooting preparation operation or a shooting operation from a ... | 10/23/2012 |
| 8284301 | Camera body A camera body includes an imaging element, a hot shoe, and a camera controller. The imaging element is configured to convert an optical image of the subject into an electrical signal, and is configured to produce image data about the subject. The hot shoe allows the... | 10/09/2012 |
| 8264597 | Image pickup apparatus that enables shooting with light emission device, and control method therefor An image pickup apparatus that enables shooting with a light emission device. An image pickup unit accumulates electric charge corresponding to an incident light. A mechanical shutter runs from an impervious position that blocks the incident light to the image picku... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8248520 | Imaging apparatus and imaging method An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device; an imaging device control portion supplying the imaging device with a read command signal; an operation input portion accepting an input of a flash light emission command; a control portion setting a predetermined in... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8243192 | Electronic device having light source An electronic device includes a body, a camera module, a light source, and a lens. The body includes an upper surface defining a blind hole and a primary recess communicated with the blind hole. The camera module is embedded in the upper surface of the body near the... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8237854 | Flash emission method and flash emission apparatus According to the method and apparatus of the present invention, when a non-flash image that is taken without a flash emitted before main photographing and a flash image that is taken with the flash pre-emitted before the main photographing are obtained so that an am... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8233080 | Electronic flash apparatus adjusting a light distribution field angle and camera provided with the same To provide a flash apparatus and a camera provided with the same which can carry out more appropriate adjustment of the light distribution field angle. An electronic flash apparatus with a variable light distribution field angle wherein the light distribution field ... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8228423 | Imaging apparatus and method for controlling flash emission An imaging apparatus includes: flash driving means for driving a flash during a set preliminary emission period and a set main emission period; and an image sensor constituted by a plurality of photoelectric converting elements which are arranged in a matrix and cap... | 07/24/2012 |
| 8223260 | Electronic device having a camera and method of controlling a flash A method of controlling a flash output for capturing an image in a portable electronic device having a digital camera includes receiving light at an image sensor, determining a flash output adjusted for color and brightness based on the light received at the image s... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8223261 | Image capture device and control method thereof An image capture device includes an image capture unit, a calculation unit, an assist unit, a determination unit, a storage unit, a processing unit and a first assist light control unit. The image capture unit captures information under current ambient illumination ... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8218069 | Camera body with which various flash devices can be interchangeably used The camera body includes an imaging element, a hot shoe, an internal light source, and a camera controller. The imaging element is configured to convert an optical image of the subject into an electrical signal, and is configured to produce image data for the subjec... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8199249 | Image capture using display device as light source A digital image capture system and method uses a display device to illuminate a target with light for improved image capture under poor lighting conditions. Various characteristics of the flash (e.g., brightness, color, duration, etc.) can be adjusted to improve ima... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8189097 | Adjusting method of flash intensity An adjusting method of flash intensity is applied in an image capture apparatus with a flash lamp, where two pre-flash images corresponding the object are retrieved under two different pre-flash lights, respectively, and then a flash intensity of main-flash light is... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8174611 | Digital image segmentation using flash A digital camera function, such as can be implemented in a cellular telephone handset, and that includes automated segmentation of foreground subjects in acquired digital photos and images. Successive images are captured by the digital camera function at different f... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8154650 | Electronic device having a camera flash redirector An electronic camera device has an imaging sensor to capture an image of a scene, a flash to illuminate the scene for capture by the sensor, and an evaluator to detect a condition in the scene. A redirector shifts the peak of a spatial energy profile of light from t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8130312 | Reflowable camera module with integrated flash A reflowable camera module is implemented using a Chip Scale Package (CSP). An image sensor is formed on one portion of the carrier. A light emitting diode (LED) is formed on another portion of the carrier. The LED serves as an integrated camera flash. Additional op... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130311 | Method of capturing an image with a mobile device A mobile device including an image capturing unit, a flash unit and a control unit. The control unit may initiate the image capturing unit to capture an image with activating the flash unit. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130313 | System and method to estimate autoexposure control and auto white balance In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes determining at least one ambient exposure parameter using an ambient illumination, the at least one ambient exposure parameter including a first sensitivity parameter of an autoexposure controller using... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8120699 | Digital camera for shooting a plurality of images to be synthesized to form one image in a special shooting mode A digital camera capable of setting a special shooting mode for shooting a plurality of images to be synthesized to form one image and comprises an imaging device, a strobe device, a storage unit temporarily storing at least one image shot by the imaging device, a s... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115861 | Image pickup system, image capturing method, and computer-readbale storage medium storing program for performing image capturing method An image pickup system causes a first illumination unit to emit light toward a subject at a first angle without causing a second illumination unit for emitting light toward the subject at a second angle different from the first angle, and causes an image pickup unit... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115860 | LED flash control An image recording apparatus with a solid state light emitting device is provided that controls one or more exposure settings for an image recording in low light conditions in response to a level of light reflected from a scene illuminated with the solid state light... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8072533 | Conductive holder for flash and flash assembly having same A conductive holder for a flash comprises a base, an elastic first holding arm, and an elastic second holding arm. The base includes a first end and an opposite second end. The first holding arm extends from the first end. The second holding arm extends from the sec... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059190 | Portable electronic apparatus and supplementary light device A portable electronic apparatus includes a main body, a camera device, and a supplementary light device. The camera device and the supplementary light device are fixed on the main body. The supplementary light device includes a light module, a lens module, and a mot... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8035730 | Digital camera and flash emission control method based on face detection A digital camera includes an imaging unit for generating image data, an emission unit for emitting a flash, a face detection unit for detecting face information in the image data, and an emission amount control unit for controlling the emission amount of a flash. A ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026976 | Digital camera and method for controlling emission amount of flash A digital camera including an imaging unit, a flash device, a face region extraction unit for detecting a face region from image data generated by the imaging unit, and a flash control unit for controlling emission amount of the flash using the region information ou... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018525 | Camera flash module and method for controlling same An auto-exposure algorithm for controlling a camera flash uses image processing to identify important areas of the image affected by the flash, while disregarding highly reflective/illuminated areas and uses a ND filter to linearize the flash triggering with highly ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8004600 | Composite image device and related portable electronic device A composite image device having image capturing, laser pointing, lighting and related functions in one includes a first perspective window, a second perspective window, a third perspective window, an image capturing module, laser source module, a light source module... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7978260 | Electronic camera and method with fill flash function A method and camera for electronic image capture provide an electronic image capture device, a scanning aperture shutter located to control light energy received by the image capture device, a flash unit oriented to illuminate an image scene, a photocell unit adapte... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978262 | Digital camera and flash emission control method A digital camera including an imaging unit, a flash unit, a face detection unit that performs face detection on image data generated by the imaging unit, and an emission control unit that controls a redeye reduction emission and a main emission performed by the flas... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978261 | Image pickup device, automatic focusing method, automatic exposure method, electronic flash control method and computer program An image pickup device provided with an electronic flash function including an image pickup unit configured to input image data corresponding to a subject, a face detection unit configured to detect a human face from the image data input from the image pickup unit, ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969504 | Camera system and camera A camera system including a camera having an image displaying unit that displays various images and an external flash device that is connected to the camera when in use. To the camera is connectable either a first external flash device whose light emission amount is... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969503 | Portable electronic device for capturing images A portable electronic device having a main body, the device including a camera arrangement for capturing images in a plurality of directions relative to the main body of the device; a lighting element; and a reflector, at least a portion of which is movable about th... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965335 | Wireless camera flash trigger device A flash accessory device readily adaptable to most compact digital camera models provides a hand grip with a mounting base for attachment to the bottom of a compact digital camera. The hand grip contains a multi-mode digital pre-flash detector circuit, a wireless tr... | 06/21/2011 |
