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7123302 Semiconductor device  
A semiconductor device equipped with an area sensor 2 including a plurality of image sensors S 11– Smn outputting analog image signals corresponding to the amount of received light; an A/D...
7119839 High resolution CMOS circuit using a matched impedance output transmission line  
Image sensor with CMOS output, an another circuit receiving input. The circuit operates like a transmission line, in current mode, with substantially zero voltage. The impedances are matched by...
7119838 Method and imager for detecting the location of objects  
A device detects the location of objects in an environment by receiving an optical image and converting the optical image of the lost object into a color digital image. The device employs software...
7116360 Image signal processing circuit and semiconductor device  
An image signal processing circuit is provided that can narrow the bus width of a bus that outputs data. The circuit is equipped with resistances R 1 ˜R 511 that are serially connected between a...
7116358 Image processing circuit of image input device  
In image input devices such as digital still cameras, processing is speeded up and power consumption is reduced by arranging in a RPU ( 23 ) performing real time processing of a pixel data from a...
7116359 Image capture device and method of controlling blur in captured images  
An image acquired by an image sensor is recorded, and the blur amount of the recorded image is changed in accordance with a blur amount determined beforehand.
7113203 Method and system for single-chip camera  
Method and system for a single-chip camera where an image sensor is a single-chip digital color imaging device that incorporates a sensor array that captures still or full-motion video and converts...
7113206 Image signal processor  
According to the present invention, it is possible to display an image signal with as a high picture quality as would have been obtained with a solid image pick-up device having color filters...
7113207 Chrominance signal processing apparatus, image-sensing apparatus and control methods for same  
The present invention relates to a chrominance signal processing apparatus and method for providing optimal color processing according to the hue of the color image data. Red, green and blue...
7109981 Generating and displaying spatially offset sub-frames  
A method of displaying an image with a display device includes receiving image data for the image. A first sub-frame and a second sub-frame corresponding to the image data are generated. The first...
7106367 Integrated CMOS imager and microcontroller  
A method and apparatus providing a CMOS imager with an integrated controller on a common integrated circuit substrate. Also integrated on the common substrate are, a serializer circuit including a...
7106365 Stereo camera apparatus with a main camera and a sub-camera where the sub-camera has a point of view difference from the point of view of the main camera  
A stereo camera unit 2 is constructed mainly of a main camera 4 , a sub-camera 5 and a camera stay 3 . The main camera 4 and the sub-camera 5 are assembled to the camera stay 3 in such...
7106366 Image capture system incorporating metadata to facilitate transcoding  
A method for generating an enhanced compressed digital image, including the steps of: capturing a digital image; generating additional information relating to the importance of photographed subject...
7106370 Signal difference correction of picture signals read from multiple readout type image sensing device  
An image sensing apparatus includes an image sensing device having an image sensing section which is divided into a plurality of image sensing sections and generates electric signals corresponding...
7103357 Media spooler system and methodology providing efficient transmission of media content from wireless devices  
A media spooler system is described that provides a methodology for efficient transmission of media content from client devices, such transmission of digital images from wireless digital cameras....
7102669 Digital color image pre-processing  
In one embodiment, the invention involves a method for processing an image. A sensor output is provided. An automatic gain control of the sensor output is performed to generate a first output. An...
7098953 Imaging apparatus including a plurality of photoelectric transfer devices  
An imaging apparatus including at least an imaging device having a plurality of photoelectric transfer devices arranged in matrix-shape to detect a light irradiated to each photoelectric transfer...
7098944 Image processing apparatus and method  
In converting image sensing data into image data, a plurality of image sensing data meeting a predetermined condition are processed as a group of image sensing data. An image reproduction parameter...
7095435 Programmable multifunction electronic camera  
A programmable multifunction electronic camera uses a commercial pixel digital energy sensor to generate detector element signal digital data normally generated by expensive, custom designed,...
7092015 Apparatus and method for stereo matching and method of calculating an infinite distance corresponding point  
The reference image data corresponding to one pixel block stored in a reference image line memory 6 is output to a stereo matching circuit 8 . The comparative image data corresponding to a...
7091897 Analog-to-digital converting circuit and image processing circuit cyclically repeating AD conversion  
A first AD converting part of an AD converter converts an input voltage into a digital value of a predetermined number of bits and output the digital value to a digital output circuit and a DA...
7092019 Image capturing apparatus and method therefor  
An image capturing apparatus and a method therefor are proposed for the production of a natural composite image corresponding to an object to be imaged. A misregistration amount (d) of each image...
7088392 Digital image system and method for implementing an adaptive demosaicing method  
An adaptive demosaicing method interpolates images based on color edge detection and neighborhood voting. The adaptive demosaicing algorithm uses a voting scheme to determine the direction of...
7088860 Dynamically reconfigurable signal processing circuit, pattern recognition apparatus, and image processing apparatus  
A plurality of signal processing functions are achieved with the same arithmetic processing circuit by controlling wiring arrangements or signal modulation in accordance with a predetermined...
7088389 System for displaying information in specific region  
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system for displaying information in a specific region includes a capturing unit for capturing a desired subject, an image capturing unit for...
7084905 Method and apparatus for obtaining high dynamic range images  
Disclosed are method and apparatus for obtaining relatively high dynamic range images using a relatively low dynamic range image sensor without significant loss of resolution. The image sensor has...
7084906 Reducing computation time in removing color aliasing artifacts from color digital images  
A method of reducing color aliasing artifacts from a color digital image having color pixels including providing luminance and chrominance signals from the color digital image; downsampling the...
7079179 Image processing apparatus for performing image restoration  
In an image processing apparatus for performing image restoration by utilizing iterative calculations based on a captured degraded image and a degradation function obtained in or before...
7079178 High dynamic range active pixel CMOS image sensor and data processing system incorporating adaptive pixel reset  
A high Dynamic Range Active Pixel CMOS image sensor architecture has incorporated therein an adaptive pixel reset. The individual sensor pixels are reset only when accumulated charge, or the...
7076119 Method, apparatus, and program for image processing  
Tag information that accompanies image data obtained by a digital camera is used efficiently and a high-quality image is reproduced. An image processing apparatus comprises a first color conversion...
7075574 Shading correction circuit and digital camera signal processing circuit using the same  
A shading correction circuit is disclosed which prevents unevenness and partial dull of an edge caused by noise which remains when noise is sliced using a fixed value as a threshold level to be...
7071974 Image processing apparatus  
An image processing apparatus obtains moving image data picked up by an image pickup unit and operation information concerning an operation condition of the image pickup unit as a time when the...
7061529 Solid-state image sensing apparatus  
A solid-state image sensing apparatus in which a first signal converted linearly to the intensity of incident light, and a second signal converted logarithmically to the intensity of light, can be...
7061528 Signal processing apparatus which suppresses a color signal according to luminance level  
To provide a signal processing apparatus and an image pickup signal processing method both of which restrain a color signal from being influenced by band limitation in a color processing system,...
7058238 Image pick-up apparatus and image picking-up method  
A current frame portion ( 21 ) stores therein the most recent information of an image of those fingerprint images input from an inputted unit ( 1 ), while a previous frame portion ( 22 ) stores...
7053935 Apparatus and method for accurate electronic color capture and reproduction  
An electronic color image capture system includes an optical section for separating an input image into its separate color content and directing the separate color content toward an imaging...
7053934 Video camera apparatus  
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...
7050095 Method and apparatus for image processing using a template image  
A digital camera includes a memory card. The memory card is previously recorded with template image data that has been subjected to conversion of Y-data effective range and JPEG compressing. A CPU...
7049571 Focus detection device  
A focus detection device includes a plurality of line sensors, each having a plurality of pixels, the line sensor photoelectrically converting and integrating light from a photographic object...
7046291 Image photographing system having timer function, and medium  
An image photographing system in which one button is used in common for a function of prompt photographing and a function of photographing after a predetermined time has elapsed, comprises a button...
7046277 Image interpolating device, including interpolation and modification processors  
An image interpolating device comprises a color filter, in which R, G, and B color filter elements are disposed in a checkerboard arrangement, and an imaging device which generates R, G, and...
7042502 Electronic camera achieving higher frame speed  
An electronic camera includes: an image-capturing device that stores a signal electrical charge achieved by performing photoelectric conversion on a subject image projected on a photosensitive...
7042524 Video data correction device and video data correction method  
An average luminance calculation section 7 calculating an average luminance of video data to output an average luminance level, latches 8 to 10 delaying said average luminance levels by...
7042501 Image processing apparatus  
There is provided an image processing apparatus comprising a display, a display switching section, a designation section and a red eye correction section, wherein the display switching section...
7042505 Red-eye filter method and apparatus  
A digital camera has an integral flash and a means for storing and displaying a digital image. Under certain conditions, a flash photograph taken with the camera may result in a red-eye phenomenon...
7038715 Digital still camera with high-quality portrait mode  
A digital still camera ( 10 ) receives and digitizes visible radiation ( 17 ) and sound waves ( 32 ) from a scene ( 12 ). When an operator actuates a shutter release ( 46 ), the camera detects and...
7034867 Digital camera  
A digital camera includes an LCH conversion circuit. The LCH conversion circuit detects an L component value, a C component value and an H component value from each of pixel signals forming an...
7034869 Image processing method, image pickup apparatus and program  
To suppress false color satisfactorily and not to suppress colors other than the false color, in a false color suppression process to a color signal generated in a color interpolation process to a...
7034868 Image processing circuit  
A pixel clock is switched to a high speed for reading culled pixel data from a CCD or switched to a low speed for reading all pixels from the CCD when picking up an image of an object, so that a...
7034879 Imaging device for ID card preparation and associated method  
The imaging device displays an image under imaging at present and also past images picked up before it on the display means, thus at the time of continuous imaging, even when the next imaging is...