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7236190 Digital image processing using white balance and gamma correction  
A method and system for digital cameras provides improved automatic exposure control, improved automatic white balance, improved color interpolation, improved automatic gamma correction, and...
7236194 Image signal processing apparatus  
An image signal processing apparatus includes a line separation circuit. When interpolated image data is generated based on low resolution raw image data having color information distributed on a...
7236195 Method and system for optimizing a selection of spectral sensitivities  
A method for optimizing a selection of spectral sensitivities for an imaging device includes determining a first set of spectral sensitivities from an initial set of spectral sensitivities based on...
7230642 Apparatus and method for converting spectral data of an object in a photographing environment into spectral data in an observation environment  
A photographing environmental light spectral distribution detector acquires spectral distribution data of photographing environmental light upon photographing an object image, and an observation...
7227573 Apparatus and method for improved-resolution digital zoom in an electronic imaging device  
An electronic imaging device produces higher quality digitally zoomed images than can be obtained by simple cropping and resealing. An array of imaging sensors that places more resolution near the...
7221392 Color imaging apparatus and method for generating digital component signal  
In a color imaging apparatus, a problem of occupying a transmitting line can be avoided without changing color resolution and angle of view in the case of connecting to the external unit. The...
7221391 Image sensing apparatus, image processing apparatus and method, and image processing system  
A camera includes an image sensing unit that generates unprocessed image data, an image processing unit that processes the unprocessed image data, an embedding unit that embeds first additional...
7215365 System and method for effectively calculating destination pixels in an image data processing procedure  
A system and method for effectively performing an image data processing procedure may include an image manager configured to access raw image data and responsively process the raw image data to...
7215370 Pseudo-BJT based retinal focal-plane sensing system  
A Pseudo Bipolar Junction Transistor(Pseudo-BJT) based retinal focal-plane sensing system is an instant image sensing and front-end processing system with the advantages of high dynamic range and...
7212239 Device and method for image pickup which corrects data for the picked-up image  
An image pickup device includes a CCD which picks up an image of a subject, and a front end process or which corrects data for the picked-up image by a light quantity distribution correction table...
7209163 Image processing apparatus, image output apparatus, and camera  
A camera includes a release button, an input unit, an A/D converter, a memory, a control unit, a recording unit and an output unit. The release button outputs a signal to instruct the input unit to...
7209161 Method and apparatus for aligning a pair of digital cameras forming a three dimensional image to compensate for a physical misalignment of cameras  
An apparatus and method for detecting and correcting for physical misalignments of a pair of digital cameras creating a composite, three dimensional (3D) image of a target. The method involves...
7206021 Hybrid pixel interpolating apparatus and hybrid pixel interpolating method  
A hybrid pixel interpolating apparatus ( 1 ) has a function of converting raw image data (D 1 ) having one color component for each pixel into pixel interpolated data in which each pixel has a...
7199825 Image generating system  
A digital camera includes a sensor ( 205 ) for sensing an image and producing a first signal. A Bayer pattern producer ( 210 ) is coupled to the sensor and structured to produce a Bayer pattern...
7193636 Image processing device and method therefor and program codes, storing medium  
Firstly, a template image is created (S 501 ). Then, an image I t is photographed (S 502 ). And the sensor output is acquired (S 503 ). A model view matrix M t is calculated on the basis of the...
7184078 Image-processing apparatus and image-quality control method  
A digital camera is provided with a plurality of image-pickup modes to carry out an optimal controlling process in accordance with an image-pickup scene. With respect to mode selection settings, a...
7184590 Algorithm selector  
A method and system for processing image data to identify characteristics of a captured scene. Image data corresponding to a captured scene is processed by processing algorithms to produce...
7184089 Electronic camera and photographing composition determination apparatus mountable on electronic camera  
A photographing composition determination apparatus of an electronic camera includes an area sensor having a plurality of light receiving elements and disposed in an area shape so as to correspond...
7176965 Method of adjusting the brightness of an image, digital camera and image processor using the method  
The brightness of image data is previously defined based on the R, G, and B values of each pixel. In an image considered to have been exposed appropriately by a conventional method, when the...
7176963 Method and system for real-time image fusion  
A system, a method, and software for image fusion are disclosed. Image sensors sense light and generate image sensor data in response to the light. Spectral detectors detect energy of the light...
7176966 Image processing device  
In short, the image processing device for obtaining a single image by using a plurality of image-pickup elements comprises a plurality of image-pickup signal processing circuits that are provided...
7173660 Method for displaying an information image on a screen  
For an image to be displayed on a liquid crystal display, a thinning process is executed to reduce a number of pixels constructing the image. An original image of an information image is produced...
7173656 Method and apparatus for processing digital pixel output signals  
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a digital camera includes: a digital imaging array including a plurality of pixels, and image processing circuitry to process the...
7173657 System and method for analyzing, optimizing and/or designing spectral sensitivity curves for an imaging device  
A method and system for analyzing a color rendering capability of at least one color imaging device with multiple color channels obtaining includes obtaining spectral sensitivity curves for two or...
7170553 Image processing apparatus, image processing method and portable imaging apparatus  
An apparatus for processing an image includes a memory for storing the image data of each pixel in the plurality of unit blocks, a direct memory access controller for reading the image data from...
7170633 Imaging apparatus  
In an imaging apparatus such as a digital still camera, a scene is judged with using an image data outputted from an area sensor in a preparation state in which an image displayed on a monitor...
7170556 Image sensor providing improved image quality  
An image sensor for capturing image, has: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix each including a photoelectric conversion element for generating current according to received light intensity...
7164439 Flicker correction apparatus and flicker correction method, and recording medium storing flicker correction program  
A flicker correction apparatus for correcting a flicker component of an image signal obtained by imaging an object using an imaging device is provided. The apparatus comprises an image average...
7161625 Image pickup apparatus  
For preventing the blooming phenomenon, there is provided an image pickup apparatus comprising a solid-state image pickup device adapted for a first readout method in which plural pixels are added...
7158173 Method for determining environmental brightness to control display brightness in mobile communication terminal including camera having automatic gain control function, and method for controlling display brightness using the same  
Disclosed is a method for determining environmental brightness to appropriately control display brightness according to variations of the environmental brightness in different places in a mobile...
7154541 Image processing device  
In accordance with the present invention, a mixture ratio indicating the state of mixture of a plurality of objects such as a background image and the image of an object is detected. A pixel value...
7154550 Electronic camera for quickly confirming a recorded image  
An electronic camera includes a mode change switch to select a camera mode. When the camera mode is selected by this switch, a real-time motion image of a subject is displayed on the monitor. If an...
7154540 System for enhancing video  
Pan, tilt and zoom sensors are coupled to a broadcast camera in order to determine the field of view of the broadcast camera and to make a rough estimate of a target's location in the broadcast...
7154547 Solid-state image sensor having control cells for developing signals for image-shooting control under poor illumination  
A solid-state image sensor and a digital cameral capable of executing accurate image-shooting adjustment even in a low illumination environment. A charge coupled device type of image sensor...
7145597 Method and apparatus for image processing  
The image processing method and apparatus capture image data of a photographing scene in which a subject is photographed with a camera, as well as, capture camera information acquired or input in...
7146042 Image processing apparatus and colorimetric system conversion method  
The first image processing apparatus that converts a first image having a plurality of pixels and expressed in a first calorimetric system constituted of a plurality of color components with each...
7145598 Image pickup apparatus capable of making effective depiction by reducing pixel signals  
An image pickup apparatus is provided with a number-of-pixels reducing circuit arranged to form a reduced image by reducing to a predetermined number the effective pixels among all pixels owned by...
7142233 Image pickup element  
To output a color image signal of an arbitrary basic block and facilitate processing on the output side, an image pickup element including a plurality of photodetectors each having a color filter...
7142237 Imaging apparatus and processing method for converting the number of pixels of an input image  
An imaging apparatus uses an imaging device to generate an image signal corresponding to an image having an arbitrary number of H pixels by W pixels which is not greater than a predetermined number...
7142731 Image processing system  
An image processing system whose circuit size is small, and whose dissipation power is small is provided. The image processing system executes digital image processing of an interval of active...
7142239 Apparatus and method for processing output from image sensor  
An apparatus and method for processing the output data of an image sensor are provided. According to the apparatus and method, high quality pictures can be obtained regardless of whether the...
7139019 Image processing device  
The present invention enables a movement vector of a moving object to the detected, by detecting a mixture ratio indicating the proportion of mixing with an image, or taking into consideration a...
7138617 Solid-state image pickup device and output method thereof  
A solid-state image pickup device has a differential output configuration for an output stage thereof and an IC in a next stage has a differential amplifier configuration for an input stage...
7136097 Camera system for high-speed image processing including selection of at least one frame based on processed results  
The analog-to-digital converter array 13 includes one analog-to-digital converter 210 for each row of photodetectors 120 in the photodetector array 11 . The image-processing unit 14 ...
7133068 System and method for creating still images by utilizing a video camera device  
A system and method for creating still images by utilizing a video camera comprises a cradle device that transports the video camera across a target object during a scanning procedure that captures...
7133073 Method and apparatus for color interpolation  
An imaging method and system that flexibly accesses light sensor elements and processes imaging signals. The imaging system comprises an array of pixel sensor cells, an array controller and a...
7130478 Method and apparatus for image data correction  
An apparatus and a method for correcting image data detected by an image sensor with less used memory space and fewer arithmetic operation executions is provided for. A data correcting apparatus of...
7126635 Video apparatus and method featuring multiple scan mode implementation  
The video camera apparatus and image sensing method are capable of obtaining a still image without blurring even when a moving object is picked up with use of a solid image sensor capable of...
7123297 Processing a sensor output signal including a clip  
A signal processing device for a sensor output signal from a sensor covered by a color mask pattern having a plurality of colors, the signal processing device comprising a reconstruction unit ( 5 )...
7123293 Image processing method to compensate for color differences due to a type of image sensing device  
In image processing on digital image signals, a color difference due to a type of image sensing device by which the image signals have been acquired is compensated. For this purpose, a...