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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184968 | Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus having a light receiving element having a micro lens array provided with a plurality of micro lenses, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, and outputting a light receiving signal obtained by receiving a light beam from an optica... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8135270 | Imaging device and imaging method When the total number of pairs of a feature point and a corresponding point, which are detected from a first image data and a second image data that are in focus, respectively, exceeds a predetermined threshold th1, a parallax histogram generation unit is con... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8059954 | Single lens reflex camera comprising a focus detecting apparatus and method of photographing An SLR camera having a focus detecting apparatus and a photographing method thereof are disclosed. The SLR camera may include an AF sensor, the pixels of which may be disposed in various arrangements, for example, in different sizes, in different gaps between the pi... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8036521 | Image pickup apparatus and focus control method An image pickup apparatus includes an imaging element having a group of AF pixel pairs that realizes a pupil-dividing function and a group of normal pixels without such a pupil-dividing function. The image pickup apparatus performs focus control for driving a focus ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027582 | Autofocus with confidence measure Autofocusing is performed in response to a weighted sum of previous blur difference depth estimates at each focus adjustment iteration. Variance is also determined across both past and present estimations providing a confidence measure on the present focus position ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8009975 | Imaging apparatus and focusing control method An imaging apparatus sets a main area and a plurality of subareas around the main area in an image obtained from an image sensor, and acquires each focusing state and each in-focus point based on the each focusing state of the main area and the plurality of subareas... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7945150 | Image-pickup apparatus and focus control method An image-pickup apparatus is disclosed which is capable of restricting unnecessary focus control by an AF method other than the TV-AF method in the hybrid AF. The image-pickup apparatus includes a first detector which generates first information corresponding to a c... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7936987 | Method and apparatus for auto focusing A method and apparatus to auto focus are provided. A distance classifier to auto focus includes a distance-calculating module calculating a focal distance on the basis of blur levels of at least two images; a precise distance-calculating module calculating the exact... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7889984 | Focal point detection device of camera and method of detecting focal point thereof A focal point detection device includes a focal point detection section which detects a focal point state of an object image corresponding to each of focal point detection regions. A group selection section selects focal point detection regions as a group. A judgmen... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7873267 | Focus detection device, focusing state detection method and imaging apparatus A focus detection device comprises: focus detection elements including light-receiving elements that generate a pair of signals corresponding to a pair of light fluxes each passing through an imaging optical system that includes a lens and an aperture stop; and a fo... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7860386 | Imaging apparatus, control method of imaging apparatus, and computer program An imaging apparatus includes: a face detecting part configured to detect a face area from the input image inputted from an imaging apparatus; a subject distance computing part configured to compute a subject distance based on the size of a face detected in the face... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7778539 | Optical apparatus An optical apparatus which achieves fast focusing operation and allows accurate focusing is disclosed. The optical apparatus includes a first focus detector which detects a focus state on a subject, a second focus detector which detects a focus state on the subject ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7773873 | Image-pickup apparatus and focus control method An image-pickup apparatus is disclosed which is capable of restricting unnecessary focus control by an AF method other than the TV-AF method in the hybrid AF. The image-pickup apparatus includes a first detector which generates first information corresponding to a c... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7764876 | Image-pickup apparatus and focus control method An image-pickup apparatus includes a first detector generating first information corresponding to a contrast state, a focus lens controller, a second detector outputting second information used for calculating an in-focus position, and a focus lens position detector... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761000 | Imaging device In an imaging device, a photographic scene is automatically determined with high accuracy. Distance information is acquired, through a TTL-AF, from an image signal produced by a CCD. Further, a face recognition circuit detects the face of a person in a subject. An A... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7734166 | Photographing apparatus, photographing method and a computer readable medium of instructions for controlling the photographing apparatus A photographing apparatus and method prevent a resolution of a peripheral portion of an image from being degraded with a simple structure. These employ an in-focus state detector for detecting evaluation values for auto in-focus operation representing an in-focus st... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734165 | Imaging apparatus When focus adjustment operation is performed, a first measured distance acquired by utilization of TTL-AF and a second measured value acquired by utilization of a distance between the eyes have been computed in advance. The degree of reliability of the first measure... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7697830 | Digital camera that performs focus detection using phase difference and contrast value A digital camera includes a phase difference AF sensor unit, phase difference AF detection unit, contrast AF detection unit, lens driving unit which focuses a taking lens, shading determination unit which determines based on lens information of the taking lens wheth... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7526192 | Focus detection method and focus detection apparatus A focus detection method, for detecting a focus state of an object image in accordance with a contrast of the object image which is formed in a focus detection area, includes capturing the object images while moving a focusing lens group of a photographing lens step... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7469098 | Optical apparatus An optical apparatus which achieves fast focusing operation and allows accurate focusing is disclosed. The optical apparatus includes a first focus detector which detects a focus state on a subject, a second focus detector which detects a focus state on the subject ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7412159 | Image pickup apparatus and defocus amount correction value calculation method An image pickup apparatus, in which a light is projected toward a physical object by projection means, and based on the reflected light by the physical object of the light, a defocus amount is detected (steps S2003 to S2008) by the first focus detectio... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7355647 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus including a first photoelectric conversion circuit that has a photoelectric conversion area and is used for performing focus adjustment; a second photoelectric conversion circuit that has a photoelectric conversion area and is used for perf... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355634 | Moving image pickup apparatus carrying out automatic focus adjustment and still image recording method therefor A moving image pickup apparatus which is capable of attaining both enhanced focusing accuracy and increased chances of snapshooting. A predetermined time period is determined according to a designated image pickup period. Responsive to designation of still image rec... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7345706 | Auto focus system Auto focus control is exerted based on a focus evaluation value indicating a degree of sharpness of an image obtained from a plurality of image pickup devices placed at positions of different light path lengths. There is provided a device which makes a correction on... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333541 | Variable square-wave drive device A variable square-wave drive device for controlling square waves using feedback- and bias-control methods. The variable square-wave drive device includes an oscillator for generating a clock pulse; a frequency-divider/duty controller for frequency-dividing the clock... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327440 | Distance measuring device A distance measuring device is disclosed which can measure the distance to an object located within a known range. The device uses beam splitters and lenses to focus and direct energy reflected from an object onto at least two bi-sensors. The bi-sensors each have an... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7301579 | Imaging apparatus An AF controlling unit (83) starts an outside light AF operation controlled by an outside AF unit (81) by a half-pressing of a shutter release button (61), and a change over between the outside AF operation and a CCDAF operation controlled by a ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7283736 | Imaging apparatus and imaging method An imaging apparatus including a ranging device for measuring a distance to a subject, a device for radiating fill-light to the subject, and a re-ranging determining device for determining as to whether re-measurement is executed based on a measured result of the ra... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280149 | Method and apparatus for detecting optimum lens focus position The present invention is a technique for measuring optimum focus position of a lens to include the steps of capturing a digital image in the field of view, digitally compressing the image to provide a compressed file having a file size and providing a focus accuracy... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7260270 | Image creating device and image creating method An image-capturing unit generates an image signal corresponding to an image of a subject formed by a photographing optical system. A point spread function generating unit generates varying point spread functions corresponding to various distances based upon two-dime... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7250974 | Image pickup apparatus with improved auto focusing and method of autofocusing An image pickup apparatus for electronically photographing a still image using a photo-voltaic transducer device. The focusing position of a focusing lens is detected from the contrast of the photographed image as AF supplementary light is illuminated on the object.... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248795 | Image projection apparatus, projection image pattern, laser drive apparatus, camera apparatus Image projection apparatus wherein, a focusing lens is controlled when a shutter is operated so that a contrast signal, obtained when a luminance signal from a camera signal processing circuit is supplied to an auto focusing detection circuit, may become maximum. A ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236310 | Device for equalizing the back foci of objective and camera A device for adjusting the back foci of an objective and a camera to one another has a housing by which a graphic pattern and an optics are mounted at a predetermined distance F′ from each other. The temperature compensation for the distance F′ is constant to ±... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7221400 | Sensor device for automatic exposure and automatic focus An image pickup apparatus including a first photoelectric conversion circuit that has a photoelectric conversion area and is used for performing focus adjustment; a second photoelectric conversion circuit that has a photoelectric conversion area and is used for perf... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218341 | Apparatus capable of shake estimation A camera is provided with: a detector for detecting a shake amount of the apparatus with respect to an object at an interval; a calculator for calculating a shake speed and a shake acceleration rate based on detected shake amounts, and calculates an estimative shake... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210798 | Image projection lighting device and control system The methods and apparatus for lighting systems provide a camera integral to a particular image projection lighting device (IPLD) to capture the projected image from the particular IPLD. The captured image can then be sent over a communication system to the operator ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209175 | Autofocus apparatus An autofocus apparatus with a photographic optical system having a movably disposed focus adjusting lens, an optical element to split light beams received from an object, a plurality of image forming lenses to form images from portions of the split light beams, a pl... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7176962 | Digital camera and digital processing system for correcting motion blur using spatial frequency First image data and second image data are generated by capturing a subject image at a CCD. The first image data captured over a first exposure time manifest a relatively small extent of image blur. The second image data are captured over a second exposure time set ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7099574 | Distance measuring apparatus Correlation value calculation is carried out while a pair of window ranges being shifted using uncorrected AF data, and a pair of window ranges providing the highest correlation value is determined. Then, the difference between the smallest values in the respective ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7084920 | Image pickup apparatus In an image pickup apparatus comprising an optical finder for optically displaying an object image, an image pickup device for receiving the object image and converting it into an image signal for photographing, an electronic finder for displaying the object image r... | 08/01/2006 |
