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7019775 Image sensing apparatus and control method thereof  
An image sensing apparatus capable of operating in at least a single-shot mode and a sequential mode, includes: an image sensor that outputs charge signals from a plurality of divided areas. A...
7015959 Image pickup apparatus for picking up and recording still or moving images and a method for controlling the same  
When an image pickup apparatus is changed over to a mode different from a photographing mode, such as a power-off mode or a reproducing mode, priority is given to writing a temporarily-recorded...
7015962 Integrated color interpolation and color space conversion algorithm from 8-bit Bayer pattern RGB color space to 12-bit YCrCb color space  
An integrated color interpolation and color space conversion technique and apparatus. A raw image that is arranged in a Bayer pattern where each pixel has only one of the color components needed to...
7015941 Hybrid cameras that download electronic images in selected geometric formats and methods  
In a camera and method, a plurality of image pairs are captured. Each image pair has an archival image of a scene and an initial electronic image of the same scene. The archival image of each pair...
7015961 Digital image system and method for combining demosaicing and bad pixel correction  
A digital image system and method for combining bad pixel correction and demosaicing in a single process is provided by interpolating sensor values for pixels immediately spatially adjacent to the...
7012639 Image pickup system with color space conversion  
In order to transfer at a high speed a large amount of data, such as data of a moving image, an image pickup system having an image pickup apparatus is arranged to convert an object image inputted...
7012633 Color calibration method for imaging color measurement device  
A color calibration method for an imaging color measurement device utilizes a detector array, a plurality of optical elements, and multiple instances of irradiation of the detector array for a...
7006135 Camera capable of white balance correction  
A camera capable of white balance correction (WBC) of this invention has an image pickup optical system, an image sensor for receiving light from an object, a three-primary-color (3-color)...
7006134 Pen type input device with camera  
A pen type input device with a camera has improved usability as a result in improved construction of the device. The pen type input device with the camera is adapted for use in detecting both of a...
7006133 Image input apparatus operable under low power consumption without employing buffer memory  
A compact image input apparatus is operable under low power consumption, while omitting a buffer memory for storing image data, which is originally required to transfer image data between this...
7002622 Area separating apparatus, image processing apparatus employing the same, and area separating method  
An area separating apparatus for judging whether or not each object pixel belongs to a photograph image area in an image. The apparatus includes: an average value calculating circuit for...
7002628 Analog to digital converter with internal data storage  
An analog-to-digital converter in an active pixel sensor array includes on board memory elements for storing results. The stored results can be read out in a different order than the order in which...
6999115 Image taking apparatus with an A/D converter and DSP with variable quantization bit numbers  
An image taking apparatus, which can reduce the power consumption of the total system of the image taking apparatus without deteriorating image quality when an image is displayed on a liquid...
6999116 Image processing apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium having a color suppression mechanism  
An image processing apparatus for reducing image deterioration caused by a saturated area of an image signal obtained from an image sensor. Specifically, an image signal output from a CCD has a...
6999117 Image pickup device and method for automatically inputting predefined information and processing images thereof  
When using a digital still camera to sense and capture an image of a medium with a bar code being recorded thereon for indication of information to be input to the digital still camera (such as...
6995790 Image processing apparatus for joining a plurality of images  
In an image processing apparatus of the present invention, which displays image data, such as images photographed by imaging apparatus such as a digital camera and photographing conditions as...
6992708 Signal processing circuit of image input apparatus  
A signal processing circuit is provided which can perform high-speed image rotation, reflection, and the like, by such a configuration that an image input apparatus, e.g., a digital still camera,...
6992705 Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program  
An image processing apparatus, for equally dividing an area of an arbitrary figure by pixel units by a number of parallel lines, which includes an input element for inputting a dividing number for...
6989859 Camera having user interface ambient sensor viewer adaptation compensation and method  
The camera has a body and an electronic imager disposed in the body. The electronic imager captures an ambient light image as a multicolored electronic image. Memory is operatively connected to the...
6985179 Determining image quality for improving object trackability  
A method and apparatus are provided that determine the suitability of an image for use by an object tracking system. According to one embodiment of the present invention an image is preprocessed to...
6982757 Image sensing apparatus  
Disclosed is an image sensing apparatus having a function of removing a dark current noise component of an image sensor. This image sensing apparatus includes an image sensor such as a CCD, at...
6982752 Circuit and method for correcting a digital color sampled signal  
A method and a color correction circuit ( 2 ) for color correcting a digital color sampled signal. The color correction circuit ( 2 ) has three color input channel processing circuits ( 31,32,33 )...
6982753 Image pickup apparatus  
An image pickup method and apparatus which can realize accurate white balance reproduction and shorten the loop processing time for white balance processing are provided. A system controller...
6980231 Color reproduction system  
A color reproduction system includes a tristimulus value calculation unit for calculating tristimulus values (X, Y, Z) under observation illumination light corresponding to the spectral reflectance...
6977673 Portable moving picture recording device including switching control for multiple data flow configurations  
A portable moving picture recording device includes switching control to enable multiple data flow configurations. Two output encoders receive either composite or component digital video signals....
6972793 Video signal processing device and its method  
The object of the present invention is to improve the quality of picture in the image. According to the present invention, by forming the luminance signal of pixel based on red signal, green signal...
6972790 Host interface for imaging arrays  
An interface for receiving data from an image sensor having an imaging array and a clock generator and for transferring the data to a processor system is described. The interface comprises a memory...
6970192 Imaging apparatus with selective allocation of first and second image data based on operation instruction  
An imaging apparatus for recording image data picked up by an image pickup unit until a recording medium is presented. In response to an instruction from an instruction operation unit capable of...
RE38896 Apparatus and method for rotating the display orientation of a captured image  
The apparatus of the present invention preferably comprises an image sensor, an orientation sensor, a memory and a processing unit. The image sensor is used for generating captured image data. The...
6970196 High-speed vision sensor with image processing function  
A high-speed vision sensor includes: an analog-to-digital converter array 13 , in which one analog-to-digital converter 210 is provided in correspondence with all the photodetector elements 120...
6971066 System and method for deploying a graphical program on an image acquisition device  
A computer-implemented system and method for deploying a graphical program onto an image acquisition (IMAQ) device. The method may operate to configure an image acquisition (IMAQ) device to perform...
6967680 Method and apparatus for capturing images  
A method and a camera perform processing functions based on a preliminary frame of light before capturing a second frame of light that forms a final camera image. After the light for the final...
6965400 Video input apparatus and image pickup system including the apparatus  
A video input apparatus and image pickup system having a camera section having a camera unit, and a video processing section for processing an image signal from the camera section so as to supply...
6963369 Method for capturing and storing image information for multiple sampling operations in a digital pixel sensor  
A method for storing image information in a digital pixel sensor is disclosed for reducing the size of the memory needed to facilitate multiple sampling and correlated double sampling. In one...
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...
6961085 Digital image processing and data compression circuit  
CCD data is compressed by compression means and stored in a raw image data buffer (step 10 ). Then, the compressed data is expanded by expansion means, so that pixel data thereof is sequentially...
6961084 Programmable image transform processor  
A programmable image transform system has a programmable addressing and arithmetic blocks. In the programmable addressing block, an input address generator has an input addressing microsequencer...
6958772 Image sensing apparatus and image processing method therefor  
An image sensing apparatus comprising: a CCD, optical system for forming an image on the CCD; A/D converter for converting an image signal outputted by the CCD to a digital signal; color...
6958774 Electronic camera capable of storing lossless compressed data based on a threshold value  
An electronic camera according to the invention is provided with an imaging unit for generating image data by taking a subject image; a lossless compression unit for generating compressed data by...
6954227 Method, apparatus, and recording medium for image correction  
An image correction method obtains scanned image data by photoelectrically reading a proof print obtained from original image data representing an original image. The method carries out a first...
6954228 Image processing methods and apparatus  
A method includes capturing an optical image to form raw data indicative of the optical image and using a look-up table to transform the raw data into transformed data that indicates a second...
6954229 Storing image data to digital cameras  
A system for outputting camera-formatted data to a digital camera interface, wherein the camera-formatted data corresponds to application-formatted data from an application program. A print...
6952223 Image processing method and apparatus  
In an image processing method for carrying out image processing on digital image signals, which have been acquired with digital cameras, image processing is carried out on the digital image signals...
6950127 Digital camera  
A camera is provided with a photographing element for converting photoelectrically image information of a object into electrical signals and for outputting first image data; first image processor...
6947077 Fast and accurate adjustment of gain and exposure time for image sensors  
A proportional counting circuit generates count values for use in variably adjusting gain and exposure time of an image sensor array. The count values are adjusted in proportion to the current...
6943834 Apparatus and method of converting image data to video signals  
A method and system are provided which involve a first memory used for storing first image data, an image processing unit adapted to change the first image data read from the first memory to second...
6943832 Hysteresis in image processing algorithms  
A method and system that utilizes hysteresis in image processing algorithms to minimize interframe noise in video frames is provided. The method includes receiving a video frame and determining a...
6943831 Method and apparatus to extend the effective dynamic range of an image sensing device and use residual images  
An image capture system includes a sparsely sampled extended dynamic range image sensing device having fast photosites interspersed with slow photosites for producing a sparsely sampled high...
6940545 Face detecting camera and method  
A method for determining the presence of a face from image data includes a face detection algorithm having two separate algorithmic steps: a first step of prescreening image data with a first...
6937276 Digital camera with low memory usage  
A digital camera has an image sensor system, a first compression system, a frame buffer, a first decompression system, and an image processing system. The image sensor system provides n pixels of...