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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111983 | Camera A camera includes a display device capable of displaying on a single screen a plurality of images, each of which can be observed from one of a plurality of directions; a selection device that selects any one of a plurality of operating modes; and a display control d... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8023816 | Camera and control method thereof A camera can display, record and play image data after converting a captured image into the digital data. The camera comprises a guidance display setting means for causing a hierarchical guidance display to be made in order to set at least a control of a shooting op... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7822337 | Apparatus and method for image capturing, apparatus and method for playback, and program An image capturing apparatus for capturing a first image of a subject may include a detecting unit, a determining unit, and a display control unit. The detecting unit detects a user's operation for instructing activation of a function. The determining unit determine... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7706677 | Mobile communication terminal device A mobile communication terminal device, capable of implementing large screen and displaying stereoscopic images, includes: a first case and a second case; a first and a second display part mounted on the first case and the second case, respectively; lens modules mou... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702237 | Observation device, camera and observation method An observation device capable of observing a first image formed by an objective optical system, includes: a display element into which an illumination light emitted from an illumination source is incident and that generates a second image with the illumination light... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7689115 | Camera A camera includes a display device capable of displaying on a single screen a plurality of images, each of which can be observed from one of a plurality of directions; a selection device that selects any one of a plurality of operating modes; and a display control d... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7630625 | Image pickup device An image pickup device which makes it possible to perform shooting without moving a device body in response to motion of an object, and also even if an eye gaze direction of a shooter changes in response to the motion of the object, to perform the shooting while tur... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7606482 | Image capturing apparatus having a small removable memory and a small display, image capturing method and image storing apparatus thereof There is provided an image capturing apparatus that enables a user to confirm images already captured by the user on the image capturing apparatus even when the captured images have been transferred to another storage unit other than the image capturing apparatus an... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7603032 | Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method that instructs a user to capture an image before an image is captured based on a necessary image type The image capturing apparatus instructs a user to take an image of a type not stored among types of images necessary for making an album. The image capturing apparatus of the present invention includes: a necessary image type storing section that stores types of ima... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7570884 | Electronic camera, information device and portable information apparatus An electronic camera comprising an LCD panel for image reproduction and an imaging device is disclosed, in which private information attaching a predetermined attribute to a designated photographed image can be input, and in accordance with the private information, ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7558475 | Image display apparatus and sorting method An image display apparatus comprising: a first storage device which stores an image file including an image and the photographing date and time information of the image; an operation device which performs a predete... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7542668 | Photographic device A photographic device equipped with a camera capable of photographing a 360-degree all-round image at a time includes a memory for recording the all-round image photographed by the camera, a control unit for specifying a predetermined range within the all-round imag... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539410 | Camera system, camera body, and lens assembly A camera system includes: a lens assembly and a camera body. The lens assembly has: an image-taking optical system, a storage section that stores screen information for display on an input screen, a screen transmission section that transmits the screen information, ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7539409 | Camera having cross-shaped operation member A camera has an operation member and a display processor. The operation member is operated to select specific camera information from a series of camera information associated with a photograph. The display processor displays the plurality of setting items with a ca... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7532815 | Lens unit, method of identifying characteristics thereof and method of judging deterioration thereof, and digital camera A digital camera is constituted of a camera body and a lens unit. The lens unit is removably attached to the camera body. When the lens unit is attached to the camera body, they are electrically connected through connection terminals. A nonvolatile memory in the len... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529479 | Camera viewer device A camera viewer device including an assembling sheet member developed and changed in shape between a box-shaped angle finder and a direct viewing finder. The sheet member includes first and second mirror wall portions with first and second inner mirrors, an attachme... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526195 | Digital photographing apparatus having two display panels, and method of controlling the same A digital photographing apparatus includes: a first display panel; and a second display panel which performs a first motion that moves the second display panel between a first position, where the second display panel covers the first display panel, and a second posi... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7515825 | Display control device and method A display control device having a pointing device adapted to perform an operation associated with image capture or playback includes, mode setting switches and/or components for setting at least one of operation modes of recording, playback and communication, compon... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515826 | Image pickup apparatus and electronic apparatus An image pickup apparatus has a display unit which is movably coupled with an apparatus main body 1 through coupling portion 5. The display unit has fastening members 21 and 22 for fixing exterior members 3 and 4 of a casing... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512334 | Dust excluding packing sheet and method of integrating dust excluding sheet A flexible sheet member having a first dust excluding packing and a first auxiliary piece is tackedly held by an exfoliating sheet by an adhering layer 8 at a back face thereof. When the first dust excluding packing is exfoliated from the exfoliating sheet, a... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509045 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program Disclosed is an information processing apparatus, wherein an operation mode at power-on is set to an optimal operation mode for a user in accordance with a state of a display panel unit. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an information processing ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7471890 | Mobile communication terminal with dual-display unit having function of editing captured image and method thereof A mobile communication terminal with a camera and a dual-display unit, whereby, in an image capturing mode, a first display unit displays an image of a subject received through a camera in real time and a second display unit displays a still image of the subject cap... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7447427 | Digital camera image display apparatus and digital camera provided with the apparatus A digital camera includes an imaging unit provided in a camera body to take an image electrically, an optical finder provided at an edge portion of the body, and a display apparatus provided in the body to display the taken image. The display apparatus includes a pa... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7432959 | Image acquiring device and method capable of performing optimum time lapse imaging easily An imaging portion performs imaging of a subject. A time lapse imaging condition setting portion sets a time lapse imaging condition including at least an exposure time and an imaging interval, prior to the imaging of the subject by the imaging portion. A determinin... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428380 | Portable electronic device A portable electronic device adopts a modular design structure and includes a display screen, a picture taking module and a control module that can be swiveled relative to one another at various angles to provide different operation modes. When in use, due to the sw... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428379 | Reproduction apparatus and display control method Described is an image data reproduction apparatus including a reproduction section for reproducing image data from a recording medium. A display section shows the image data. An operation section gives a command for switching the display from a one frame image data ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424217 | Method of evaluating image information, photographing device, and storage medium having program stored thereon An evaluation on image information is indicated before operating a shutter operating section. For example, a method of evaluating image information includes: (a) a step of converting an optical image of an object to be photographed into electrical image information;... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7403705 | Camera device having automatic focusing function A camera device is provided which has an optical system including a focus lens, focus control for focusing the optical system on a subject by driving the focus lens, and display control for causing a display to display numerals indicating a first distance of a close... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7382977 | Image capture apparatus An image capture apparatus has a continuous photographing mode for continuously photographing still images. The image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, a pseudo shutter curtain generating unit, an image synthesizing unit, and a display unit. The imag... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373174 | Method and apparatus for reducing the effect of EMI on receiver sensitivity in a camera phone A mobile communication device (100) includes a camera module (102) which provides an image stream when the camera module is active. The image stream is used to display images on a display (114) to provide a viewfinder function so that a user of ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369177 | Electronic image pickup apparatus having parallel circuit board arrangement This electronic image pickup apparatus converts a subject image formed by an image-taking optical system into an electrical signal. In order to realize miniaturization by efficiently arranging components in the apparatus, this apparatus includes a plurality of elect... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366409 | Dial position changing device of a camera A camera includes a dial body provided on a camera body to be manually rotatable; and a manual operation device, provided on the camera body separately from the dial body, for rotating the dial body. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362368 | Perfecting the optics within a digital image acquisition device using face detection Within a digital acquisition device, acquisition parameters of a digital image are perfected as part of an image capture process using face detection within said captured image to achieve one or more desired image acquisition parameters. Default values are determine... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362967 | Digital camera and manual focus method thereof A digital camera and a method for manually focusing the digital camera are disclosed. The digital camera includes an image sensing unit, a buffer memory unit, an image processing unit, and an image display unit. The image sensing unit senses a signal and produces a ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356255 | Electronic camera, information device and portable information apparatus An electronic camera comprising an LCD panel for image reproduction and an imaging device is disclosed, in which private information attaching a predetermined attribute to a designated photographed image can be input, and in accordance with the private information, ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352415 | Electronic image display systems An electronic image display system that provides a wall-mounted television/electronic display. Dual display screens are oriented back-to-back such that one display screen is visible in a first room and one display screen is visible in an adjacent room. The invention... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7336896 | Display magnifier for digital camera A display magnifier for digital cameras is removably mounted to a camera using a screw tightened into a standard threaded tripod hole under the camera. A photographer views the display through the magnifier. When it is not in use, the magnifier can be folded for sav... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324943 | Voice tagging, voice annotation, and speech recognition for portable devices with optional post processing A media capture device has an audio input receptive of user speech relating to a media capture activity in close temporal relation to the media capture activity. A plurality of focused speech recognition lexica respectively relating to media capture activities are s... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319962 | Automatic voice and data recognition for implanted medical device instrument systems The voice controlled system of the present invention permits hands-free interactive control of a medical data processing instrument that interfaces with an implanted medical device. In an example embodiment, the system includes a microphone and a speech recognition ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317815 | Digital image processing composition using face detection information A method of automatic or assisted recomposing of digital image processing uses face detection. Pixels that correspond to a face within a digital image are identified. A re-compositioned image is based on spatial or other parameters of the detected image, particularl... | 01/08/2008 |
