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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189053 | Camera based interaction and instruction Disclosed are methods and apparatus for instructing persons using computer based programs and/or remote instructors. One or more video cameras obtain images of the student or other participant. In addition images are analyzed by a computer to determine the locations... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189066 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable medium An image processing apparatus includes an evaluation value calculation unit configured to acquire an evaluation value from image data, a reduction coefficient calculation unit configured to calculate a reduction coefficient based on the evaluation value, a reduction... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189096 | Video light system and method for improving facial recognition using a video camera A video lighting system (100) for use with a personal computer or other electronic device (103) includes a display (105) that is used in connection with a microprocessor running facial recognition software that is used to prevent unauthorized ac... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189067 | Determining the illuminant in a captured scene A method for determining an illuminant in a scene includes, applying, to sampled outputs of a sensor array used to capture the scene, a plurality of color-correction profiles, wherein each color-correction profile corresponds to a particular illuminant, thereby form... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184170 | Imaging apparatus, information processing apparatus and method, and computer program therefor An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that captures an image; a recording unit that records the image on a recording medium; a first position estimating unit that estimates a position of the imaging apparatus using a first position estimation technique to ge... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184165 | Apparatus and method for running dual cameras in a portable terminal An apparatus and method for separating and connecting a main camera and a sub camera in a portable terminal are provided. The portable terminal includes a main camera for receiving a main clock signal from a main chip and transmitting a main camera pixel clock signa... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179471 | Focusing device and image pickup apparatus A focusing device includes a distance information acquisition section acquiring information on a distance to a subject based on a plurality of image data acquired by taking images of the subject at a plurality of different viewpoint positions. A subject detection se... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179451 | Image sensing apparatus The present invention relates to an image sensing apparatus that photographs a moving image and records moving image data, and the image sensing apparatus has an image sensing unit and a recording unit which records moving image data obtained by the image sensing un... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179470 | Image-capturing lens assembly This invention provides an image-capturing lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174583 | Optical image stabilizer for camera module assembly Provided is an optical image stabilizer for a camera module assembly including at least one or more guide portions for guiding linear movement while preventing friction in first and second drive portions. The optical image stabilizer includes a first drive portion i... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169525 | Image sensing device and image sensing system An image sensing device comprises a readout unit, an output amplifier, and a horizontal scanning unit, wherein the horizontal scanning unit scans a plurality of column signal holding circuits in a plurality of holding blocks in the readout unit in a direction along ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169493 | Image acquisition system and method of authenticating image acquisition device in the image acquisition system An image acquisition system includes an image acquisition device and a commanding device configured as a separate member from the image acquisition device to transmit an image acquisition execution command to the image acquisition device and thereby to cause the ima... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169528 | Photographing lens assembly This invention provides a photographing lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a second lens element with negat... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169489 | Multi view imaging device and method for correcting image blur A multi view imaging device according to an aspect of the present invention detects vibration applied to a plurality of imaging means and corrects, for each of a plurality of imaging means, an image blur of a subject image taken by the imaging means caused by the vi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169514 | Defective pixel detecting device, defective pixel detecting method, record medium storing a program for detecting defective pixels, and imaging apparatus A defective pixel detecting device determining defective pixels as correction targets in an imaging device that produces image signals is provided, and the device includes: defect information storage configured to store priority of defective pixels to be corrected; ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169492 | Panoramic experience system and method In one general sense, a user may be presented with a multimedia experience corresponding to an entertainment event or venue by managing a sensor array having at least two sensors that are made configured to provide a stream of data units, associating location inform... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169499 | Solid-state image pick-up device, data transmission method, and image pickup apparatus A video camera (100) for transmitting image data from an image pickup device to an image processing device with reduced electric power includes a C-MOS image sensor (110) that reads captured image data on the basis of a reference clock CLK0, a f... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169531 | System and method for automatically focusing an optical lens of an image measuring machine A system and method for automatically focusing an optical lens controls the light generated by a light-emitting device of an image measuring machine to penetrate a glass sheet, so as to project a picture of the glass sheet onto an object. The system and method furth... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169504 | Image processing device and image processing method This invention provides an image processing device and an image processing method capable of performing image processing of higher accuracy using the synthetic image data with enlarged dynamic range. An image processing method including the steps of acquiring a plur... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164683 | Auto-focus method and digital camera An auto-focus method for camera is provided. First, a digital signal processor sets a first parameter p and a second parameter q. An image capture unit captures an only image. Then, the digital signal processor utilizes the only image, the first parameter p and the ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159588 | Exposure control for image sensors An imaging system utilizes an exposure control circuit to control the length of an exposure in full frame mode. The exposure control circuit receives as an input the antiblooming current from at least a representative sample of pixels and determines when to end an e... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159561 | Digital camera with feature extraction device This invention includes an imaging device that photographs a subject image, a first storage device that stores image data output from the imaging device at a first time interval, a display device that reads the image data stored in the first storage device at the fi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159558 | Image processing circuit, semiconductor device and image processing device According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image processing device that performs brightness conversion processing according to a brightness conversion coefficient on each pixel of an input image and produces an output image. The image pro... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159590 | Solid-state image sensing device When a signal output by a solid-state image sensing device is clamped to a predetermined reference potential, a high voltage generated in a transfer suspension period after the clamping as generally supplied to an A/D converter is generated. A sample/hold output Va ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154607 | Method and apparatus to correct digital image blur due to motion of subject or imaging device Signal processing techniques are applied to digital image data to remove the distortion caused by motion of the camera, or the movement of the subject being photographed, or defective optics, or optical distortion from other sources. When the image is captured, the ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154605 | Image tracking apparatus, image tracking method and camera for improved recognition of a target object An image tracking apparatus includes: an imaging device that generates image information by capturing an image formed through an image forming optical system; a setting unit that sets, based upon the image information, first reference image information that includes... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154646 | Image capturing apparatus with zoom function An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit which captures image data of an object, a zoom image data generating unit which generates items of zoom image data having different zoom magnifications, a display control unit which displays through imag... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154624 | Image pickup apparatus and control method thereof An image pickup apparatus that has an optical zooming unit and an electronic zooming unit includes a temperature detector configured to detect a temperature of the image pickup apparatus, and a controller configured to move the electronic zooming unit along with an ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149317 | Display device, photographing apparatus, and display method A feature area having a visual feature is analyzed for each of at least three of similar images in a memory card, and the analyzed feature areas are displayed on a display screen while overlapped with a reference image. The visual feature is used to distinguish an i... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149295 | Digital camera with external storage medium detector A digital camera comprises an imaging device; an internal memory; an attachment device that attaches a storage medium; a medium detector that detects whether the storage medium attached to the attachment device is a storage medium limiting overwrite; and a record co... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149297 | Zooms lens system, imaging device and camera A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit of positive power, a second lens unit of negative power, a third lens unit of positive power, and a fourth lens unit of positive power, wherein the first lens unit is com... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144242 | Image sensor holder An image sensor holder includes a frame, first and second slidable holders, first and second driving devices, first and second driving arms, and at least two elastic members. The first slidable holder is slidably mounted on the frame. The second slidable holder is s... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144218 | Image signal processing apparatus, image signal processing program, and image signal processing method An image signal processing apparatus including a first corrected tone processing section for performing such a corrected tone process which extends a tone width of a high luminance region or a low luminance region in an image signal, a tone processing section for pe... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144204 | Self-contained wireless camera device, wireless camera system and method A self-contained wireless camera (10) and a wireless camera system (25) having such a device and a base station (20). Video processing circuitry (200, 210) of the camera device receives video signals from a camera (130) and provide... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144207 | Computer program product for photographic subject tracking, photographic subject tracking device, and camera A computer executes performing template matching upon each frame of an input image with each of a plurality of template images, extracting a plurality of regions whose similarities with each of the template images are the highest from within the input image, classif... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139130 | Image sensor with improved light sensitivity An image sensor for capturing a color image is disclosed having a two-dimensional array having first and second groups of pixels wherein pixels from the first group of pixels have narrower spectral photoresponses than pixels from the second group of pixels and where... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139135 | Imaging apparatus and semiconductor device An imaging apparatus using a CCD image sensor in which a size of a circuit for generating a voltage to be applied to a substrate of the CCD image sensor is reduced. A partial range within a voltage range from a supply voltage Vcc to 0 V is divided by a resistance vo... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139118 | Optimal-state image pickup camera A digital camera that picks up an image of a print/picture and displays it in a monitor frame image. The camera comprises a CPU that identifies an area of the image of the print/picture and drives an image pickup unit such that the identified area of the image of th... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139129 | High sensitivity color filter array A color filter array (CFA) and image processing system wherein a color filter overlaying an image sensor has a luminance element (i.e. green filter in RGB space, or yellow in CMY space) that is made larger than the other two chrominance elements (i.e. red, blue or c... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139148 | Cap structure A cap 1 attached to housings 2 and 3 can be opened and closed. The cap 1 includes a tongue portion 1a protruding from a cap body 1d; and claw portions engaging with the housing (second outer housing) 3. ... | 03/20/2012 |
