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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8155511 | Camera system and method for controlling the same A camera system includes an interchangeable lens unit including an optical lens and an imaging device for taking an image of light from a subject having passed through the optical lens, a body unit to and from which the interchangeable lens unit is attachable and de... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8126321 | Imaging equipment, photographic setting determination method, and photographic setting determination program Imaging equipment includes: a position acquisition unit that acquires a current position; a memory unit in which a plurality of pieces of setting information representing photographic settings suitable for photography at positions and being associated in advance wit... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8027577 | Camera A camera comprising a location sensor, a first recorder, a first calculator, and a first motor, is provided. The location sensor detects the present location of the camera. The first recorder records a past location. The past location is a location where an image wa... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7869701 | Adaptive autofocus lens positioning A method and system for effecting adaptive autofocusing, such as for a camera, are disclosed. The method can comprise obtaining focusing information, such as historic focusing actuator current or voltage information or focusing lens position information, storing the... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7805066 | System for guided photography based on image capturing device rendered user recommendations according to embodiments Guided photography with image capturing device rendered user recommendations. Data is accessed that is associated with an intended photograph. A knowledge base is accessed to obtain data that is related to the data that is associated with the intended photograph. Re... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7676145 | Camera configurable for autonomous self-learning operation The present disclosure relates to an image capture device and a technique for capturing an image. The technique includes configuring an image capture device in a learning mode for sensing at least one variable in the device's surroundings and defining a normal state... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7362369 | Image-taking control apparatus for controlling a plurality of drivable parts of said apparatus such that each drivable part finishes its operation at substantially the same time An image-taking control apparatus lets the operations of a plurality of drivable parts, including a first drivable part whose driving speed can be switched only in steps, finish substantially simultaneously. A speed selector selects an operation speed for each of th... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7233359 | Image sensing apparatus having image signals generated from light between optical elements of an optical element array It is an object of this invention to realize an image sensing apparatus which satisfies both the requirements for focus detection performance and high-resolution, high image quality. In order to achieve this object, there is provided an image sensing apparatus chara... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7149422 | Motion detector camera A motion detector camera includes a camera mechanism mounted inside a housing, a motion detector exposed on a surface of the housing, and a controller for controlling the camera mechanism in response to signals received from the motion detector. The camera can inclu... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7030917 | Image demosaicing and enhancement system A method for operating a data processing system to generate a second image from a first image. The first image includes a two dimensional array of pixel values, each pixel value corresponding to the light intensity in one of a plurality of spectral bands at a locati... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6999126 | Method of eliminating hot spot in digital photograph A method of eliminating a hot spot of a digital photograph. A light recording area for receiving a light reflected from a scene to be photographed is segmented into a grid of a plurality of squares. Each of the squares is identified with a coordinate. An exposure va... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6992719 | Method and device for focusing a camera utilizing filters contained in a processor This digital camera comprises a lens system (5) for focusing the image of a subject (10) on a sensitive plate (7), a control system formed, inter alia, by a motor (8) that act on the lens system to ensure a sharp image of the subject on t... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6972789 | Electronic device, control method therefor, and storage medium A system including an external apparatus and digital camera allows the external apparatus to set a set value which cannot be set by the stand-alone digital camera. In response to a request from the external apparatus (computer), the digital camera updates an image s... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6963360 | Adaptive and learning setting selection process with selectable learning modes for imaging device A method of configuring settings in an imaging device includes configuring the settings with default values. If at least one value for the settings is externally adjusted, the settings in the imaging device are configured with the at least one value. If the user ind... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6917034 | Electronic equipment equipped with position detection means for detecting position of moving body utilizing incremental-type encoder An electronic equipment has a movable body and a position detecting device having an incremental-type encoder and an incremental-type counter. The position detecting device detects a position of the movable body by setting a starting point of position detection by t... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914624 | Adaptive and learning setting selection process for imaging device A method of configuring settings in an imaging device includes retrieving the previous state of a plurality of settings in the imaging device. The new state of the settings in the imaging device are determined. The new state is combined with the previous state to fo... | 07/05/2005 |
| 5973846 | Offset spectra lens system for a two spectra automatic focusing system An improved auto-focus system for a digital camera has a lens designed to have the focus of two spectra offset from each other by a predetermined amount. The two offset spectra are used to calculate two focus signals. Once the two focus signals are calcul... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5774746 | Camera with learning function A camera wherein exposure parameters fixed by a program line can be shifted along an exposure value EV line so that exposure parameters for an exposure operation are based on the shifted program line according to the preference of the camera user. The cam... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5751844 | Method and apparatus for image acquisition with adaptive compensation for image exposure variation In an image acquisition system, which produces at least one image, each of which is scorable with reference to at least one image quality criterion, a control system is provided for optimizing the image quality criterion. Typically, the image quality crit... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5732288 | Auto-focusing device for camera An auto-focusing device for a camera according to the present invention comprises many different systems. Included is a focus detection section which intermittently calculates focus detection information corresponding to the distance to the photographic s... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5687407 | Exposure calculation device for camera An exposure calculation device for use in a camera, is provided with a light metering device for effecting light metering in each of plural areas divided in the object field and generating a light metering signal, containing information relating to the co... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5682558 | Camera with learning function A camera having a zoom lens. The camera includes a shutter, an aperture and program exposure mode control. The program exposure control includes one or more reference program characteristics representing combinations of shutter speed and aperture correspo... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5666562 | Automatic focusing system An automatic focusing system comprises a focus detecting circuit arranged to detect the state of focus on the basis of a signal component which is extracted from an image signal and varies with the state of focus, a speed control circuit arranged to colla... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5634140 | Camera having learning function A camera according to the present invention comprises a taking lens whose focal length is variable. A focal length thereof is determined based on a subject distance measured by a distance measuring circuit and a relation between a subject distance and a f... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5572278 | Camera having learning function A camera according to the present invention comprises a taking length whose focal length is variable. A focal length thereof is determined based on a subject distance measured by a distance measuring circuit and a relation between a subject distance and a... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5566380 | Automatic focusing system with response control using fuzzy interference An automatic focusing system is arranged to use as a parameter a signal component which is extracted from an image signal and varies with the state of focus, to compute an evaluation value on the basis of a degree to which the signal component satisfies p... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5379088 | Automatic focusing camera with improved determination of operation modes An automatic focusing camera according to the present invention is an automatic focusing camera having a plurality of operation modes, including an information input device for entering a plurality of types of photographing information, an information ana... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5376991 | Control system A control system computes a plurality of detection data and outputs a control amount for a control target. The control system includes a detecting circuit for detecting the plurality of detection data, a first computing circuit for quantitatively computin... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5374984 | Camera having learning function A camera according to the present invention comprises a taking lens whose focal length is variable. A focal length thereof is determined based on a subject distance measured by a distance measuring circuit and a relation between a subject distance and a f... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5359385 | Camera having learning function A camera having a learning function which automatically sets data for current photographing in accordance with a tendency of data set in the past (learned data) and takes a photograph in accordance with the data thus set. The camera comprises a light meas... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5285231 | Camera having learning function A camera according to the present invention comprises a taking lens whose focal length is variable. A focal length thereof is determined based on a subject distance measured by a distance measuring circuit and a relation between a subject distance and a f... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5266984 | Exposure calculating apparatus for camera An exposure calculating apparatus for a camera has a plurality of processing devices for variously processing photometric outputs from regions of an object field divided into plural sections according to photographic conditions so as to determine the opti... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5250979 | Technique suited for use in fixed focus cameras for improving image quality for non-standard display sizes and/or different focal length photographing modes Exposure control apparatus, and various accompanying methods, for use in a photographic camera for improving the overall quality of photographed images, i.e. increasing the number of acceptable and higher quality images, that are produced by the camera fo... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5249015 | Exposure calculation device An exposure calculation device comprises: first composite photometered value calculation apparatus means for classifying areas of divisional photometering means to a first pattern and calculating a composite photometered value for each classified area bas... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5227835 | Teachable camera A teachable camera 8 which includes an alterable template matching neural network 40 positioned between a microprocessor 10 that performs camera picture taking algorithms and the units 24-32 such as the shutter which control the characteristics of the pic... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5227830 | Automatic camera In a focus detection device for a camera, a plurality of distance sensors each for detecting a distance to an object in a plurality of areas of a photographing image plane are provided and distance data obtained by the distance sensors for each object in ... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5218394 | Automatic focusing camera with improved determination of operation modes An automatic focusing camera according to the present invention is an automatic focusing camera having a plurality of operation modes, including an information input device for entering a plurality of types of photographing information, an information ana... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5210562 | Motor driving control apparatus with movement distance estimating function A target position output unit outputs stop target position information of a driven member which is driven by a motor. A speed detecting unit outputs movement speed data of the driven member in accordance with a pulse from an encoder which generates a puls... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5111232 | Camera having fuzzy inference function A camera includes a measuring circuit for outputting data about an object to be photographed. A fuzzy computer receives an output from the measuring circuit as an input value, obtains a fitting degree of the input value with respect to a then-part members... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5083150 | Automatic focusing apparatus An automatic focusing apparatus of this invention includes a photographing optical system for forming an optical image of an object, an image pickup element for converting the optical image formed by the photographing optical system into an electrical sig... | 01/21/1992 |
