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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8401380 | Stereo camera with preset modes A stereographic camera and a method of operating a stereographic camera are disclosed. The stereographic camera may include a left camera and a right camera having respective lenses and an interface for receiving a selection of a selected preset operating mode from ... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8401379 | Optical path adjusting device and photographing apparatus having the same An optical path adjusting device includes a supporting plate having a hole through which light travels, a two-dimensional (2D) aperture disposed in the supporting plate so as to adjust an open area of the hole, and a three-dimensional (3D) aperture having a pluralit... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8355627 | 3D camera with foreground object distance sensing A stereographic camera system and a method of operating a stereographic camera system. The stereoscopic camera system may include a left camera and a right camera having respective left and right lenses, a zoom mechanism to set a focal length of the left and right l... | 01/15/2013 |
| 8265477 | Stereo camera with preset modes There is disclosed a stereographic camera system and method. A stereographic camera may include a left camera and a right camera including respective lenses and an interface for receiving a selection of a selected mode from a plurality of preset operating modes. One... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8160440 | Three-dimensional image pickup apparatus and three-dimensional image pickup method A three-dimensional image pickup apparatus for capturing a three-dimensional image which includes a left-eye image and a right-eye image includes: a first imaging unit having a first optical system and operable to take the left-eye image; a second imaging unit havin... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7856180 | Camera device Stereo photographs and panoramic photographs can be taken separately without enabling cameras to rotate relative to a casing in which the cameras are placed. A camera device capable of selectively photographing panoramic images and stereo images includes a casing ( | 12/21/2010 |
| 7856181 | Stereoscopic imaging device A compound-eye camera comprises: a camera body substantially shaped like a rectangular solid having a front side and a back side larger than other sides and including a display device on the back side; and substantially L-shaped first and second lens barrels, each s... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7747163 | Testing matter photographing apparatus attached three dimensional image photographing device The present invention relates to an apparatus for photographing an experimental object or animal. The apparatus comprises: a two-dimensional image photographing device which includes a light source, a first optical filter wheel, a first motor, a beam splitter, a sec... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7616885 | Single lens auto focus system for stereo image generation and method thereof The invention presents a single lens auto focus system of stereo image generation and a method thereof. The stereo three-dimensional (3D) image capturing method of a single lens auto focus camera, includes the steps of a) taking plural multi-focus images; b) estimat... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7599616 | Image shooting apparatus, display apparatus and image shooting and display apparatus An image shooting and display apparatus includes: a plurality of image pickup portions. An image pickup controller switches image pickup portions to be used in accordance with the image shooting mode. It also switches the image shooting mode in accordance with the i... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7493037 | Digital stereo camera/digital stereo video camera, 3-dimensional display, 3-dimensional projector, and printer and stereo viewer A matching adjustment between left and right screens is easily and accurately performed in a digital stereo camera and/or a digital stereo video camera at or after the time of photographing. A stereo viewfinder 3 of a digital stereo camera 1 comprises ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7437066 | Stereo optical module and stereo camera In this stereo optical module, a constituent member is arranged in at least one of a circuit arrangement space which exists substantially behind a front lens unit and above a primary deflecting mirror and a secondary deflecting mirror and a circuit arrangement space... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7409152 | Three-dimensional image processing apparatus, optical axis adjusting method, and optical axis adjustment supporting method The present invention provides a technique for enabling even a person having no expert knowledge to adjust the direction of an optical axis easily with high precision. In a three-dimensional image processing apparatus having plural image capturing apparatuses, optic... | 08/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7372642 | Three-channel camera systems with non-collinear apertures A three-dimensional imaging system uses a single primary optical lens along with three non-collinear apertures to obtain three offset optical channels each of which can be separately captured with an optical sensor. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7349568 | Method and apparatus for handling stereoscopic images utilizing parallax images An image acquiring unit acquires a two-dimensional image from a digital camera and a stereoscopic image from a stereo image storage, and sends those images to a pixel replacing unit. The pixel replacing unit replaces pixels, among the two-dimensional image, correspo... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7338286 | Dental implant system An implant comprising two internal anti-rotational features. One anti-rotational feature is adapted to engage a driving tool, while the other anti-rotational feature is adapted to engage an abutment. An implant abutment system is provided with an angled abutment ada... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7292261 | Virtual reality camera A camera including a camera lens, acquisition circuitry receiving images via the camera lens, for acquiring a first field of view when the camera lens is in a first orientation and for acquiring a second field of view when the camera lens is in a second orientation,... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277125 | Image processing system, method and program for image sensing using plural image sensing devices, wirelessly transmitting plural image data and processing the image data An image processing system or image processing method for performing image sensing by an image sensing unit having plural image sensing devices then outputting plural image data, wireless-transmitting the plural image data, and generating a combined image based on t... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274816 | Method and apparatus of generating three dimensional image data having one file structure and recording the image data on a recording medium, and recording medium for storing the three dimensional image data having one file structure A data structure of a stereo image file recorded on a recording medium which is readable by a computer to be applied to an image processing apparatus includes first monocular image data; second monocular image data having parallax with respect to the first monocular... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7233441 | Stereoscopic display The invention provides a stereoscopic display to display a high-quality three-dimensional video which can be viewed without using polarizing glasses. A stereoscopic display according to the present invention includes an electronically-formed, multi-viewpoint light b... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227116 | Very fast time resolved imaging in multiparameter measurement space Plural electronic or optical images are provided in a streak optical system, as for instance by use of plural slits instead of the conventional single slit, to obtain a third, fourth, etc. dimension—rather than only the conventional two, namely range or time and a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224384 | 3D imaging system An optical imaging system comprising: a taking lens system that collects light from a scene being imaged with the optical imaging system; a 3D camera comprising at least one photosurface that receives light from the taking lens system simultaneously from all points ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218376 | Adapter for three-dimensional moving image photographing device An adapter for a three-dimensional moving image photographing device includes a lens unit and a half-reflecting mirror. The lens unit comprises entrance and exit lens parts, each including release lenses disposed in the middle of the lens unit. The entrance and exit... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215475 | Lens array structure A lens array structure comprises two birefringent lens arrays arranged in series, both being capable of operating to direct incident light of one polarisation into a respective directional distribution and to have substantially no effect on incident light of a polar... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210259 | Film holder A film holder includes a base, a cover, and a flattening mechanism. The base has a film panel for receiving a film and a plurality of sliding slots formed at its two opposite sides. The cover is mounted on the base and is slidable on the base in a first direction, a... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7194112 | Three dimensional spatial panorama formation with a range imaging system Deriving a three-dimensional panorama from a plurality of images of a scene generated by a range imaging camera of the type that produces ambiguities in range information includes the steps of: (a) acquiring a plurality of adjacent images of the scene, wherein there... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7187401 | System and a method of three-dimensional modeling and restitution of an object A system for three-dimensionally modeling and restitution a subject, the system comprising a housing suitable for being carried in the hand by an operator, the housing having an optical unit with stereoscopic digital video cameras co-operating with an inertial navig... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7181061 | Digital camera for taking a stereoscopic pair of images The digital camera being capable of recording stereoscopic first and second still images includes an imaging device that captures the first and second still images in this order, a display unit that displays a moving image captured by the imaging device to allow fra... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178997 | Arrangement for holding a camera behind a monocular or binocular A holding device holds a camera rearward of an ocular of a glass such as a monocular or binocular to record an image utilizing the camera. The image is made available by the glass. This holding arrangement is usable with many cameras and binoculars or monoculars. A ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7173662 | Foveating imaging system and method employing a spatial light modulator to selectively modulate an input image An imaging system includes an image receiving unit for receiving an input image, and a spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator is interposed between the image receiving unit and an input image. The spatial light modulator is for selectively modulating t... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162083 | Image segmentation by means of temporal parallax difference induction An image compositing and compression method based on the creation and processing of parallax differences in motion photography. A parallax scanning MOE lens creates discrete parallax differences in the objects in the recorded scene that are perceived by the viewer a... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7148916 | Photographing system A photographing lens unit, a photographing apparatus, and a photographing system are capable of always reproducing good stereoscopic images. Information regarding the focal length of a photographing optical system, a base line length, which is the interval between t... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7112774 | CMOS stereo imaging system and method A pair of CMOS image sensors is provided. One of the pair of CMOS image sensors is assigned as a master CMOS image sensor and the other is assigned as a slave CMOS image sensor. The slave CMOS image sensor is synchronized to the master CMOS image sensor during image... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7093742 | Belt clip attachment device and method of use A method of connecting a belt clip attachment device to a personal electronic device such as a mobile phone includes providing a belt clip attachment device for connecting the mobile phone to a belt clip, the belt clip attachment device and the rear of the mobile ph... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7010157 | Stereo image measuring device The present invention discloses a stereo image measuring device capable of carrying out high-speed and highly reliable three-dimensional measurement for a stereo image, easily correcting any omitted measurement, measurement errors or the like, and achieving a much h... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006132 | Aperture coded camera for three dimensional imaging Determining instantaneously the three-dimensional coordinates of large sets of points in space using two or more CCD cameras (or any other type of camera), each with its own lens and pinhole. The CCD's are all arranged so that the pixel arrays are within the same pl... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002618 | Plano-stereoscopic DVD movie A stereoscopic media player is implemented by a software application loaded onto a PC having a DVD player and a video monitor interconnected therewith. The software application includes program instructions for mapping stereoscopic images stored in a side-by-side fo... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003178 | Color matching image data A method of matching image color and or luminance characteristics in an image processing system. In order to match an input image with a reference image, a color transformation M is initialised (601). An output image is copied (602) from the input imag... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6996339 | Three-dimensional photographing apparatus and three-dimensional photographing method, and stereo adapter A three-dimensional photographing apparatus includes a photographing unit configured to photograph an object from a plurality of viewpoints and a projecting unit configured to project a pattern on the object in photographing. The projecting unit including an optical... | 02/07/2006 |
