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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160439 | Methods and apparatus for full-resolution light-field capture and rendering Method and apparatus for full-resolution light-field capture and rendering. A radiance camera is described in which the microlenses in a microlens array are focused on the image plane of the main lens instead of on the main lens, as in conventional plenoptic cameras... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8078048 | Imaging device and video recording/reproducing system An imaging device includes a photographing lens configured to focus light from a subject, a splitter configured to split the focused light to left and right in an area, in which light diffused from one point of the subject becomes parallel light, so as to respective... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073322 | Simultaneous exposure of parallel rolls of film for existing film cameras Embodiments of the disclosed technology are designed for creation of a photographic image comprising an upper and lower portion from two rolls of film whereby the picture is created by simultaneous exposure within a single camera housing, or emulation thereof. This ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7991285 | Using a captured background image for taking a photograph A device may receive a background image, capture the background image, receive a subject image, modify the background image, superimpose the modified background image on the subject image to obtain a composite image, display the composite image, and capture the subj... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7941044 | Image capturing device This image capturing device includes a fitting member, a lens attached by adhesive to the fitting member, and a light reception element. The light reception element is disposed so as to face the lens attached to the fitting member, and an image of a photographic sub... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7885536 | Infrared and near-infrared camera hyperframing Systems and techniques for improving the dynamic range of infrared detection systems and for determining physical properties of a graybody are disclosed. For example, a mechanical superframing technique may comprise positioning a first set of filters in the optical ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7873271 | Photography apparatus and photography method Two photography operations are performed without emitting flash during a second photography operation, to obtain image signals P1 and P2. A flash influence signal value F1 is calculated in image signal P1. A flash influence signal value F... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7801441 | Method and an apparatus for the taking of an image, in particular by a CCD sensor A camera comprises a line sensor or an areal sensor (1) and an optical imaging system (2) for the projection of an image onto the sensor (1). To increase the resolution, a displacement device (6) is provided for the displacement of the im... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7697839 | Parametric calibration for panoramic camera systems Architecture for spatially calibrating a multi-sensor panoramic camera. A panorama warping calibration model and manufacturing calibration data is characterized in a parametric model that is stored on the camera and utilized for camera calibration. Calibration techn... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7689116 | Thinner mobile camera optical lens system and image forming method using the same The present invention provides a mobile camera optical lens system which assures a wide view angle by dividing a view angle into two or more view angles, and simultaneously achieves the thinness of the mobile camera optical lens system by providing separate off-axis... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7623781 | Image shooting apparatus An image pickup device capable of dividing an image into two or three portions and capturing the image portions as divided. The image pickup device comprises a splitting part (135), which includes both a bi-prism for splitting an incident light into two and a... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7606484 | Infrared and near-infrared camera hyperframing Systems and techniques for improving the dynamic range of infrared detection systems. For example, a mechanical superframing technique may comprise positioning a first filter in the optical path of an infrared camera at a first time, receiving infrared light from an... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7593635 | Digital imaging apparatus capable of creating panorama image and a creating method thereof A digital imaging apparatus for creating a panorama image and a method thereof, wherein the digital imaging apparatus comprises a capture part for consecutively capturing a plurality of images, an image information detection part for detecting image information rega... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7574131 | Object detection system and method An object detection system and method is applied to an active surveillance system for detecting at least one target object appeared in an area of interest. The object detection system includes a processor for defining the area of interest into at least a first and a... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7480457 | Photographing apparatus A photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit, a fixed unit, and a control unit. The movable unit has an imaging device, and can be moved in a first direction. The first direction is perpendicular to an optical axis of a photographing optical system of the phot... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7450839 | Photographing device and method for panoramic imaging A photographing device supporting a panoramic imaging includes an image capture section for photographing a subject and outputting image data representing the subject, a sensor module for computing and outputting an azimuth of a photographing direction toward the su... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7433589 | Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method An image capturing apparatus performs photographing multiple times and composing the multiple images to obtain one image of a correct exposure. The apparatus includes an image capturing unit, an illumination unit and an image composition unit. The image capturing un... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424218 | Real-time preview for panoramic images A “Panoramic Viewfinder” provides an intuitive interactive viewfinder display which operates on a digital camera display screen. This interactive viewfinder provides real-time assistance in capturing images for constructing panoramic image mosaics. The Panoramic... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7403709 | Structure for attaching stereoscopic camera in vehicle A structure for attaching a stereoscopic camera to a vehicle, by which a plurality of cameras are attached to a body frame of the vehicle in order to stereoscopically capture images surrounding the vehicle; and the same structure includes a lateral stay for coupling... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7392330 | Memory access bandwidth allocation and latency control in a digital camera Memory access bandwidth within a digital camera is allocated among several requestors by assigning each requester a “tokens per snapshot” (TPS) value. Each requestor has a DMA engine and a DMA entry queue. If the requester wishes to access the memory, then a DMA... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7333725 | Method and apparatus for metadata synchronization A method and apparatus provides for accurately synchronizing a plurality of sensors, as well as for providing accurate timing information (e.g. timing metadata) associated with the synchronized data capture. According to one aspect of the invention, an apparatus inc... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321724 | Photographic method and photographic apparatus The photographic method and apparatus take, at the same shooting position, a background image without a subject, a first principal image for outputting, and a second principal image whose shooting conditions differ from those of the first principal image with a came... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7310477 | Photographic film cartridge or cassette systems with microlens Cartridge and camera systems are provided that have a cartridge with a photosensitive element having an exposure surface and a housing having a storage area for storing the photosensitive element and an opening adapted to permit transport of the photosensitive eleme... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305181 | Imaging device An imaging device, such as a digital camera, has a mechanism for compensating an image blur caused by hand jiggling and is capable of consecutively shooting, through one operation of a shutter operation section (36), frames of an image in a state where the me... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305179 | Anti-shake apparatus An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit, and a control apparatus. The movable unit has an imaging device, and can be moved in first and second directions. The control apparatus moves the movable unit to first, second, third, and... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305180 | Digital camera using multiple lenses and image sensors to provide an extended zoom range A digital camera includes a first image sensor, a first wide angle lens for forming a first image of a scene on the first image sensor; a second image sensor, a zoom lens for forming a second image of the same scene on the second image sensor, a control element for ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7274478 | Image printing apparatus and image printing control method A print-direct printer for receiving and printing JPEG data from a DSC divides the area of a memory into a plurality of blocks, stores the received JPEG data in the memory on a block-by-block basis and decompresses the compressed JPEG data that has been stored in th... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7260323 | Imaging using silver halide films with micro-lens capture, scanning and digital reconstruction The present invention resides in a method and apparatii for using a photosensitive element that is photosensitive to light within a predetermined range of exposures to capture images including exposures that are outside of the predetermined exposure range. In this m... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251415 | Photographic film container, film assembly and loading method A method of loading a film assembly comprising a first film container (13) which may be a conventional film cassette and an additional film container (15, 102, 202, 302, 402, 502) having a length of film wound in one of the containers and extending to ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7242478 | Spatially corrected full-cubed hyperspectral imager A hyperspectral imager that achieves accurate spectral and spatial resolution by using a micro-lens array as a series of field lenses, with each lens distributing a point in the image scene received through an objective lens across an area of a detector array formin... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239805 | Method and system for combining multiple exposure images having scene and camera motion A panoramic high-dynamic range (HDR) image method and system of combining multiple images having different exposures and at least partial spatial overlap wherein each of the images may have scene motion, camera motion, or both. The major part of the panoramic HDR im... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231144 | Element layout apparatus, element layout program and element layout method Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide an element layout apparatus, an element layout program and an element layout method which lay out a plurality of images taken by a camera, a video recorder or the like, so as to express a sense of time or ambience with ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7221863 | Image processing apparatus and method, and program and recording medium used therewith An image processing apparatus displays a realistic image depending on a user's viewpoint. A sensor control unit 41 detects a user's viewpoint and a point of interest based on signals from various sensors, and outputs the detected viewpoint and point to a dept... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221866 | Methods for creating spherical imagery High Dynamic Range (HDR) spherical images can be obtained without a requirement for special purpose cameras having linear optical sensors. Various examples of the present invention can use a standard single lens reflex (SLR) camera with a fisheye lens to obtain sphe... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215364 | Digital imaging system using overlapping images to formulate a seamless composite image and implemented using either a digital imaging sensor array An imaging system for obtaining a wide field of view comprises a plurality of imaging devices each having a defined field of view and each of the imaging devices having a mechanism for capturing an image at a selected time instant. The imaging devices are positioned... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206136 | Digital camera using multiple lenses and image sensors to provide an extended zoom range A digital camera includes a first image sensor, a first wide angle lens for forming a first image of a scene on the first image sensor; a second image sensor, a zoom lens for forming a second image of the same scene on the second image sensor, a control element for ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202888 | Electronic imaging device resolution enhancement A method of enhancing resolution in an electronic imaging device includes capturing an electronic image through a fisheye lens with a photodetector at a resolution native to the photodetector. A resolution is selected that is higher than the native resolution of the... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200261 | Parallax image capturing apparatus and parallax image processing apparatus An image capturing apparatus for obtaining information regarding a depth of a subject, includes: a capturing section for performing image capturing for the subject at a plurality of viewpoints; and a controller for controlling the capturing section to successively p... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7181133 | Camera with film chamber for selective loading of film roll or cartridge and method of selective loading A camera assembly includes an endcap assembly for closing off the bottom end of a second film chamber, which is sized to selectively receive a roll of film or a secondary film cartridge housing a roll of film. The endcap assembly can include a movable shutter blade ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7142241 | Image pickup device An image pickup device has an image sensor having rectangular light receiving portions arranged in a matrix, and microlenses disposed in correspondence with said light receiving portions, said light receiving portions and said microlenses being formed integrally wit... | 11/28/2006 |
