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7496238 |
Method and apparatus for retouching photographed image
A method and an apparatus for retouching a photographed image is provided. The method includes steps for recognizing an image region which is to be retouched in the photographed image and for...
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7492400 |
Adaptive pixel for high dynamic range and disturbance detection and correction
A new adaptive pixel architecture, folded-multiple-capture (FMC), integrates synchronous self-reset and multiple capture schemes and advantageously eliminates the requirement of a high-frame-rate...
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7492397 |
CMOS active pixel sensor with a sample and hold circuit having multiple injection capacitors and a fully differential charge mode linear synthesizer with skew control
An CMOS active pixel sensor (APS) imaging system include circuitry to compensate for different analog offset levels from the CMOS pixel array. More specifically, the compensation is performed in...
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7489344 |
Image recorder
The present invention relates to an image recorder including a selector circuit. Image data output from the image recorder, or output data of an encoder, is format converted in a format conversion...
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7489345 |
Image processing apparatus, image-taking system, image processing method and image processing program
An image processing apparatus is disclosed which can provide a high-quality image by specifying an image corresponding to an image resulting from non-image forming light in image information...
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7489803 |
Object detection
Object detection apparatus for detecting objects in a test image comprises means for comparing blocks of a test window of the image with reference data indicative of the presence of an object to...
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7486310 |
Imaging apparatus and image processing method therefor
A digital camera has a CPU and an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus acquires a contour from an image acquired by shooting a whiteboard as a shooting target by using a...
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7486312 |
Brightness correction for image
A CPU 200 determines whether or not a picked up image that corresponds to image data is a backlit portrait image by analyzing the image data on a pixel-by-pixel basis, and if the picked up image...
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7486316 |
Image pickup device
An image pickup device has an image sensor generating an image signal, a pulse pattern generator generating a driving signal for the image sensor and an amplifier for amplifying the image signal...
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7483566 |
Digital picture signal processing apparatus, method thereof, digital picture recording apparatus, method thereof, transmitting method thereof, and data record medium thereof
A digital picture signal processing apparatus is disclosed, that comprises a picture processing means for compressing a captured digital picture signal, and a mode designating means for generating...
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7483051 |
Image data generation suited for output device used in image output
An image generation device generates high-definition image data representing a high-definition image higher in definition than images represented by a plurality of image data. This device comprises...
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7483059 |
Systems and methods for sampling an image sensor
Systems and methods according to the present invention provide techniques which adjust the sampling scheme associated with an image sensor in order to provide high quality renditions, e.g., printed...
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7483065 |
Multi-lens imaging systems and methods using optical filters having mosaic patterns
Imaging systems and methods are provided. One exemplary system incorporates multiple lenses that are individually configured to receive visible light from an object to be imaged, and to direct this...
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7483058 |
Video imaging system including a digital image sensor and a digital signal processor
A video imaging system includes a digital image sensor for performing image capture operations and a digital image processor for performing image processing operations. The digital image sensor...
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7479988 |
Video camera apparatus using an image sensor
The video camera apparatus obtains a still image sensing signal with high image quality in a progressive scan mode and is capable of recording onto a recording medium by a recording means which...
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7479989 |
Method for chroma upsampling with luma reference
Chroma upsampling is performed by setting a chroma of a target pixel according to luma of neighboring pixels. When a luma of the target pixel differs from the luma of both of the reference pixels,...
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7479998 |
Image pickup and conversion apparatus
The present invention related to an image pickup apparatus which can produce a color and sensitivity mosaic image which can be converted into a color image signal having a wide dynamic range by...
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7477290 |
Image recording/reproducing apparatus, image pick-up apparatus, and color aberration correcting method
An image recording and reproducing apparatus, an image pickup apparatus, and a chromatic aberration correcting method capable of performing excellent correction processing of an aperture amount of...
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7477285 |
Non-intrusive data transmission network for use in an enterprise facility and method for implementing
The present invention is directed to a non-intrusive data transmission network for use in a healthcare facility and method for implementing such network. Each individual patient's room is equipped...
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7477303 |
Anti-aliasing video camera processing apparatus and method
High frequency components of a video signal are attenuated for avoiding aliasing when the video signal is corrected by a non-linear gamma correction circuit. Such high frequency components arise...
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7474337 |
Method and apparatus to provide edge enhancements as part of a demosaicing process
A method and apparatus provide edge enhancements as part of a demosaicing process in which an image is captured. By providing edge enhancements as part of the demosaicing process, the edge...
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7474341 |
Portable digital camera with red eye filter
A digital camera has an integral flash and stores and displays a digital image. Under certain conditions, a flash photograph taken with the camera may result in a red-eye phenomenon due to a...
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7474338 |
Image correction processing device
An image recording medium includes an image recording area in which an image signal can be recorded. The image signal is subjected to multiple image correction processes in a process order. The...
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7471312 |
Printing system, image operating system, printing method, and storage medium
A printing system includes: a camera unit for performing an electro-optic conversion on an image from a subject, generating image data storable in a storage unit, and storing print instruction...
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7468747 |
Image management system to obtain images of persons with open eyes
A subject user is photographed in a photographing system in a theme park. At this time, photographs are taken a plurality of times at a predetermined time interval. Further, an instruction is given...
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7468749 |
Image taking apparatus, and a method of controlling an edge enhancing level of an original image signal
According to the image taking apparatus and the method of controlling an edge enhancing level of an original image signal, as the electronic zooming rate for the original image signal increases, an...
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7466866 |
Digital image adjustable compression and resolution using face detection information
A method of adjustable spatial and/or temporal compression of an image including a face includes identifying a group of pixels that correspond to a face within a digitally-acquired image. A first...
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7466346 |
Image processing device and camera
An image processing device for performing image processing for an image signal output from an image sensor, including: a preprocessing circuit for generating a correction signal based on the image...
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7466358 |
Solid-state imaging device for enlargement of dynamic range
An inter-line CCD(IT-CCD) capable of reading signals in two read modes, a field read mode and a frame read mode, is used to control, by a system control means, a CCD exposure and a signal read...
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7466345 |
Readout apparatus and imaging apparatus
An imaging apparatus includes a sensor array, readout apparatus, and control circuit. The readout apparatus includes first LPFs arranged in correspondence with signal lines, an analog multiplexer,...
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7463286 |
Image data processing apparatus
A first processing circuit subjects image data output from an A/D converter circuit to a first signal process to produce first image data. A second processing circuit subjects image data to a...
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7463769 |
Radiometric calibration from a single image
Radiometric calibration of an image capture device (e.g., a digital camera) using a single image is described. The single image may be a color image or a grayscale image. The calibration identifies...
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7460158 |
Recording material consumption control for an image forming apparatus
An image processing apparatus, which supplies image signals to an image forming apparatus, includes a storage unit that stores a limiting value of a sum of signal levels of output image signals, an...
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7460168 |
Image processing apparatus for generating a wide dynamic range image
An image processing apparatus for generating a wide dynamic range image to enable contrast to be maintained in low luminance image areas and high luminance image areas when the image is displayed...
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7456866 |
Correction of barycenters of signals obtained by adding and reading charges accumulated in solid-state image sensing device
A signal processing apparatus processes an image signal outputted from an image sensing device which has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements covered with a color filter and which can...
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7456876 |
Image processing circuit providing improved image quality
An image processing circuit for a color image sensor, comprising a color sensitivity correction circuit which adds/subtracts a predetermined offset to/from pixel signals being output by amplifying...
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7456877 |
Image sensing apparatus, control method therefor, and printer
In an image sensing apparatus having an electronic flash that illuminates an object and an image sensor that acquires an image of the object as an image signal, whether to perform a process...
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7456881 |
Method and apparatus for producing Bayer color mosaic interpolation for imagers
A method and system for color plane interpolation in a color pattern which selects a color-interpolation point within a pixel image offset from the center of the pixel image for which the color...
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7456865 |
Imaging apparatus and imaging method
An image shooting unit 21 generates an image signal Spa having an image shooting frame rate. A frame addition unit 41 performs frame addition on the image signal DVb having the image shooting...
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7454136 |
Method and apparatus for acquiring HDR flash images
A method generates a high dynamic range image by first acquiring a set of images of a scene illuminated by different lighting conditions. The set of images are then combined to generate a high...
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7453504 |
Signal processing method and apparatus, and image sensing apparatus
At least two high-frequency signals are generated using luminance signals of at least two color components contained in a video signal, and a high-frequency signal for edge emphasizing processing...
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7453497 |
Object trackability via parametric camera tuning
A method and apparatus are described for improving object trackability via parametric camera tuning. In one embodiment, a determination is made as to whether the camera settings loaded cause...
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7453519 |
Method and apparatus for converting images at a given frame or field rate to second and third frame or field rates while maintaining system synchronism
This imaging device includes an imaging element, a field rate conversion processing section, and a frame rate conversion processing section. The imaging element converts an image of a photoelectric...
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7453498 |
Electronic image capture device and image file format providing raw and processed image data
An electronic image capture device for capturing a color image, comprising an image sensor comprised of discrete light sensitive picture elements overlaid with a color filter array (CFA) pattern to...
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7450168 |
Digital camera having flash memory for setting start information signal and method of controlling the digital camera
Provided is a digital camera which displays an object image while generating a digital image signal from light received from the object, stores the digital image signal in a memory card attachable...
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7450166 |
Digital signal processing apparatus in image sensor
Disclosed is an apparatus for processing a digital signal in an image sensor. The apparatus includes: a line memory unit for storing an inputted digital signal of red (R), green (G) and blue (B); a...
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7450158 |
Spectrum and color reproduction system to convert a color signal from a color-image input into a color signal for a color-image output
A spectrum and color reproduction system has a multi-band camera ( 1 ), a six-primary-color display ( 3 ), and an image converting device ( 2 ) which converts a 16-band photographing signal from...
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7450152 |
Digital camera, customer authentication communication terminal equipment, and encoding service system
The digital camera comprises a photoelectric conversion part configured to perform a photoelectric conversion of a field image and output a first image signal, a first processing part configured to...
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7450159 |
Image pick-up apparatus and endoscope apparatus
An image pick-up apparatus includes an image pick-up device which picks-up an image of a subject and outputs an image signal, a first-amplitude changing portion which varies an amplitude of the...
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7443426 |
Image capturing system and control method of the same
An image capturing system includes an image-capturing unit and a main unit, capable of serial communication therebetween. The main unit generates a first clock signal, converts data to be...
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