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7391452 |
Successive approximation calibration apparatus, system, and method for dynamic range extender
A gain characteristic correctable dynamic range enhancement system (DRES) receives input signals from an imager device connected to a correlated double sampling (CDS) circuit for receiving the...
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7391446 |
Digital camera having circuitry shortening processing time to correct distortion
A telephoto side distortion allowable lens or a wide-angle side distortion allowable lens is used as a zoom lens of a digital camera. Image data photographed by the telephoto side distortion...
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7391444 |
Image pickup apparatus capable of selecting output according to time measured by timer
In an image pickup apparatus, timer 2 starts a time measuring operation when a shutter button is pressed. When a time T 1 is measured by timer 2 , the image from CCD 1 is output as a...
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7391442 |
Digital camera including a distortion correction system
A digital camera system includes a camera body; a lens mounted to the camera body, and an image processor operatively coupled to the lens. The image processor converts a visual image passing into...
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7391441 |
Electronic image sensor and evaluation method
An electronic image sensor is used for evaluating an image. Several individual sensors, each of which is provided with several pixels, are utilized in the electronic image sensor. The pixels of at...
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7391437 |
Image sensor interface
A system includes an image sensor and an interface to receive image data from the image sensor. The interface selects between providing at least one synchronization signal to the image sensor and...
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7391436 |
Image processing apparatus with comparing of difference of camera operation information between image data of plural sections in input image data
The invention provides an image processing apparatus, capable of selecting arbitrary plural sections in input image data, designating an order of reproduction of the image data of the selected...
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7385639 |
Digital camera utilizing autofocus settings for image manipulation
A digital camera is provided for generating a manipulated output image. The camera focuses an image using an automatic focusing technique thereby generating focus settings. The focus settings are...
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7385635 |
Electronic image processing device and system for image data transfer operation
An electronic device comprises an image-capturing device that captures an image of a subject, a recording device that records image files of images captured by the image-capturing device into a...
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7382401 |
Data processing apparatus
A digital video camera ( 10 ) includes a microphone ( 34 ). When audio data fetched through a microphone ( 34 ) and an A/D converter ( 36 ), and a plurality of screens of JPEG data generated by a...
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7379114 |
Image determination apparatus and individual authentication apparatus
An image determination apparatus is provided which obtains a first image which is picked up by illuminating the subject of image pickup from a first position and a second image which is picked up...
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7379104 |
Correction apparatus
An object of this invention is to correct the non uniformity between a plurality of image sensing regions in real time and cope with even dynamic variations such as temperature variations or...
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7379099 |
Image playback device and method and electronic camera with image playback function
An image playback device, which may be part of an electronic camera, reads out recorded information that has been recorded on a recording medium. A time period discriminator receives the recorded...
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7379098 |
Interpolation process for an image processing apparatus
Camera signal processing for interpolating, at least on two directions, pixel data based on an imaging signal from a solid-state image sensor in which an imaging light enters through a color filter...
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7379097 |
Method and apparatus for providing live view and instant review in an image capture device
A method and system for providing instant review of a last image in an image capture device is disclosed. The image capture device includes a viewfinder for displaying a live image and each image...
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7379096 |
Image processing method for processing image data based on conditions customized for each user
Preference of tone and color for a specific target is reflected on image data obtained by a digital camera, and colors and tones can be set as desired for each model of a digital camera. A...
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7376249 |
Determination of a motion of a background in a series of images
The movement of an imaging of a background in a sequence of images of a scene determined. A combination image is composed with pixels which have been built up through combination of several...
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7375746 |
Forming a manipulated image using a printed medium having an image manipulation instruction
A camera for creating a manipulated image. The camera has an image capture device, an input device, an image manipulator, an output device and a display device. The image capture device is designed...
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7372489 |
Signal processing circuit and solid-state image pickup device
A VI conversion circuit 40 n inputs a voltage output from a hold circuit 30 n , converts this input voltage to a current based on the resistance value of a resistor R 40 , and outputs this...
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7372484 |
Method and apparatus for reducing effects of dark current and defective pixels in an imaging device
A method and apparatus for identifying and compensating for the effects of defective pixels in high resolution digital cameras having image processing apparatus. The apparatus includes a storage...
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7371564 |
Apparatus for automatically analyzing genetic and protein materials using photodiodes
An apparatus for automatically analyzing genetic and protein materials using photodiodes. The apparatus comprises a computer for controlling the entire operation of the apparatus and analyzing a...
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7369163 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program using condition information for image processing
An image processing apparatus performs image processing to image information including condition information at the time of obtaining an image for setting a pertinent image correction condition...
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7369162 |
Image sensing apparatus
An Image sensing apparatus employing a multi-chip system and having a super-parallel circuit structure capable of performing processes such as image processing in real time. A first chip of a first...
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7369161 |
Digital camera device providing improved methodology for rapidly taking successive pictures
An in-camera two-stage compression implementation is described that reduces the latency between snapshots to a fraction of that otherwise required by other systems that either process complete...
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7365778 |
Electronic camera and white balance correction circuit
The invention relates to an electronic camera and a white balance correction circuit both capable of setting white balance correction values properly at stroboscope imaging by relatively simple...
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7365777 |
Digital camera
First to third processors are arranged in a digital camera, one image (one frame) obtained by one photographing operation is divided into three regions (assigned regions), and photographing signal...
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7365776 |
Image pickup device
The present invention provides an imaging apparatus for converting a 24p imaging signal generated with a frame frequency of 24 Hz according to a progressive scanning system into a 60 i signal...
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7365775 |
Image compression apparatus and method, image regeneration apparatus, camera and camera system
A process and apparatus for displaying and recording image data can be smoothly performed in characteristic methods by computing a quantization parameter for use in compression of image data,...
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7362355 |
Digital CMOS image sensor incorporating a programmable multi-functional lookup table
A system-on-chip imaging system includes an image sensor of a two-dimensional array of pixel elements providing pixel data representing an image of a scene, a data memory for storing pixel...
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7362354 |
Method and system for assessing the photo quality of a captured image in a digital still camera
A method for assessing the photo quality of a captured image in a digital camera comprises the steps of checking in-camera the photo quality of the captured image to determine if the photo quality...
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7358988 |
Image signal processor for performing image processing appropriate for an output device and method therefor
A signal processor of an electronic still camera stores image data, obtained during photographing, into a buffer memory. A gain adjusting circuit performs multiplication on the stored image data...
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7355635 |
Electronic camera capable of having results of previous image pickup processing reflected in current image pickup processing
An electronic camera according to the present invention includes an imaging part, a conditional information determining part, a storage part and a correction processing part. The imaging part...
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7352398 |
Image pick-up apparatus and method for picking up and synthesizing plural images to generate a dynamic range image
The present invention is directed to a digital still camera ( 1 ) using CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image sensor as image pick-up device. This camera ( 1 ) comprises an image memory ( 18 ) in which...
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7352397 |
Circuit and method for contour enhancement
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a differential calculating unit which obtains a differential between a value of a pixel of interest and values of surrounding pixels contained in an...
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7352396 |
Edge emphasizing circuit
An edge emphasizing circuit includes a first high-frequency detection circuit and a second high-frequency detection circuit. A spatial frequency of a raw image signal corresponding to a...
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7352394 |
Image modification based on red-eye filter analysis
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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7349012 |
Imaging apparatus with higher and lower resolution converters and a compression unit to compress decreased resolution image data
In an imaging apparatus, an image is to be displayed in real-time on a finder. In the finder mode, a CCD interface 21 a thins out horizontal components of image data supplied from an image...
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7345701 |
Line buffer and method of providing line data for color interpolation
A line buffer and a method of providing data to a 3×3 line interpolation processor using the line buffer in an image processing system, such as a digital camera, includes a readable and writable...
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7345613 |
Image processing circuit, imaging circuit, and electronic device
An image processing circuit for reducing noise. The image processing circuit includes a CDS circuit for taking a potential difference between a pixel signal at a reset of an image pickup device and...
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7343043 |
Image compression apparatus, method and recording medium storing an image compression program
An image compression apparatus and method, and a carrier wave encoded with a computer readable control program having instructions for use by a computer, perform an image compression process. A...
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7342607 |
Mathematical calculation method for an image capturing device
A mathematical calculation method for an image-capturing device includes steps: estimating a green value of a red, blue pixel; calculating four differences between an estimated red value and four...
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7339618 |
Image chromatism compensation method for adjusting image dispersion distances of an image
A method for compensating image chromatism is provided. As each RGB channel has different wavelength and refractive index, image dispersion will always occur when capturing an image from a lens. If...
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7339617 |
Image providing device and its providing method, image processing device and processing method, and storage medium
In this invention, a transmit/receive section 34 receives, from monitor, request for transmission of picture image through network and transmits, to the monitor, the entirety or a portion of...
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7339611 |
Method and arrangement for carrying out an information flow and data flow for geodetic instruments
A method and an arrangement for carrying out an information flow and data flow in a geodetic instrument with image processing is disclosed. For this purpose, the data flow and information flow...
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7339151 |
Image pickup device with time division output of pixel signal and inverted pixel signal
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...
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7333141 |
Resampling methods for digital images
Polyphase filtering, such as resampling for image resizing, on a processor with parallel output units is cast in terms of data access blocks and data coverage charts to increase processor...
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7333139 |
Digital camera having correction of center positions of color pixels generated by mixing of pixels of the same color
In a digital camera by the use of a CCD of a honeycomb array, the center positions of mixed pixels of colors B and G are fixed in (4k+1)th and (4k+2)th rows, wherein k represents an integer 0 or...
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7333137 |
Image processing method for computing limit values of interpolated pixel data
A camera signal process and apparatus processing for interpolating, at least on two directions, pixel data based on an imaging signal from a solid-state image sensor in which an imaging light...
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7333136 |
Image processing apparatus for carrying out tone conversion processing and color correction processing using a three-dimensional look-up table
When tone conversion processing and color correction processing is carried out on image data obtained by a digital camera, processed image data enabling reproduction of a high quality image can be...
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7329057 |
Image pickup processing method and image pickup apparatus
A roll correction section ( 21 ) performs correction to an image captured by a camera ( 11 ). A region limiting section ( 15 ) limits image data of an image in an upper region of the image and...
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