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7385634 Image pickup apparatus adapted to carry out parallel operations and control method  
For achieving high-speed continuous shooting and increasing the number of shots that can be picked-up continuously, within a limited buffer memory size, an image pickup apparatus is provided with a...
7385633 Image pickup apparatus  
An image pickup apparatus which can improve convenience of white sheet data used for correcting the color of a picked-up image. Each image pickup data is converted into a file by an image filing...
7382405 Electronic apparatus having a user identification function and user identification method  
In an electronic apparatus having a user identification function or in a user identification method, an electronic apparatus and an electronic instrument having stored therein user personal...
7373109 System and method for registering attendance of entities associated with content creation  
A system and method for registering or otherwise associating items with generated content. Identification of who and/or what is present in connection with the generation of content is determined....
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...
7365781 Camera apparatus and method for synchronized transfer of digital picture data and compressed digital picture data  
An image signal processor 12 inputs digital picture data 101 into a compressor 13 and into a resolution changer 16 in parallel. The compressor 13 outputs compressed data 102 , which is...
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...
7356250 Systems and methods for creating a single video frame with one or more interest points  
Systems and methods for creating virtual stop-off points in a movie title, where the viewer can explore interesting content using zoom, pan and gamma controls are provided. Methods include creating...
7355638 Image pickup apparatus having function of suppressing fixed pattern noise  
An image pickup apparatus comprises an image pickup unit including a light receiving pixel area including plural pixels each configured to accumulate photoelectric charge and to output signal and a...
7355637 Apparatus and method for managing image data by obtaining spectral reflectance  
Object color data without an effect of illumination light is stored together with thumbnail image data generated on the basis of the object color data and data regarding illumination light so as to...
7355636 Image processing apparatus enabled to generate image processing information usable by other image processing devices  
An object of this invention is to provide an image processing system capable of providing a high-quality pickup image by an arrangement in which white balance control to a pickup image can always...
7350086 Creation of image file  
The technique of the present invention ensures generation of an image file, in which image data and additional data are included, with the confidentiality of specific data kept. An image output...
7349023 Camera-integrated video recording and reproducing apparatus, and record control method thereof  
A video recording/reproducing apparatus combined with a camera adapted to control a target information amount according to the nature and properties of an animated image to be photographed, and a...
7349010 Digital camera including an on-line sales mode  
A digital camera comprises an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images; a processor for processing the plurality of images and producing a corresponding plurality of digital image files; a...
7336817 Processing raw and pre-processed digital images  
A unified method for processing Raw and pre-processed digital images is provided. The method may include receiving digital image data and determining if the data is Raw or pre-processed. If the...
7327390 Method for determining image correction parameters  
In order to reduce image degradation due to image capture problems, a method utilizes image data corresponding to a captured image and image capture metadata that refers specifically to information...
7324135 Panoramic composition of multiple image data  
The present invention is an image file selection method of selecting multiple image files available for composing a panoramic image from a plurality of image files including image data and image...
7319485 Apparatus and method for recording data in a circular fashion  
The present invention includes a method and apparatus for recording data. According to the present invention, the method and apparatus includes the implementation of a “circular” buffer whereby...
7312822 Attachment of additional information to stored or streamed image  
A method for storing or streaming images, wherein the images can be further processed after the storing or during the streaming includes the steps of choosing a span of the initially captured data,...
7307659 Method of fixed pattern noise-reduction and system thereof  
An array of photosensitive sensors each has a storage element to store a pixel value. A repeating fixed pattern noise correction module may be coupled to the photosensitive sensors to correct a...
7304668 Printer system and image processing system having image correcting function  
A setting for white balance used by a camera during image-capturing can be reflected in a printer, thereby preventing, during printing, execution of such correction as negates an atmosphere of a...
7292268 Image processing system, image capturing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method for performing edge enhancement  
An image capturing apparatus which records information, indicating a procedure of resolution conversion processing performed on the image, into image data and outputs the image and the information....
7289142 Monolithic integrated circuit having a number of programmable processing elements  
A monolithic integrated circuit includes programmable processing circuitry. The processing circuitry includes four programmable circuitry elements. Switching circuitry is operatively connected to...
7286167 Digital camera recording dynamic range compression information  
A digital camera has a feature to photograph a subject and record the image data onto a recording medium in a dynamic range wider than that required for printing, the digital camera further having...
7283158 Digital camera and function appending method for the same  
There is provided a digital camera to which external programs can be installed for appending desired functions thereto. Print image data generating programs to be stored in a recording medium in...
7265782 Image recording device with a post-recording function  
A digital camera comprises a CCD, sample-and-hold circuit, analog to digital converter, color processing circuit, microphone, voice processing section, flash memory in which voices input from the...
7259786 Image processing method and apparatus, and image sensing apparatus  
In an image processing method for processing complex data including at least RAW data, first simulation image data of which data amount is less than the RAW data, and a first processing condition...
7259783 Image processing system for high performance digital imaging devices  
An image processing system for high performance digital imaging in a digital camera. The reflected light from an image is focused through a lens and optically filtered. A CCD array converts this...
7249898 Function control method for camera  
In a camera which obtains a still image and/or a moving image, at least a part of functions of the camera are previously restricted. To lift the restrictions, an operation restriction code (key...
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...
7233352 Method and apparatus for color non-uniformity correction in a digital camera  
Reducing or eliminated color-dependent vignetting in a digital camera includes: providing, for each color that said camera can image, a raw array of data corresponding to a desired scene; and...
7233350 Image sensor with interleaved image output  
An image sensor with a light reader circuit coupled to a pixel array. The light reader circuit retrieves a first image and a second image generated by the pixel array. The image sensor may also...
7221811 Method and apparatus for conveying image attributes  
Attributes of a digital image are conveyed using the case of letters in an extension of a file name associated with the digital image. The technique is applicable to a wide variety of image...
7196805 Consumer level device for automatically transferring digital images to an internet-based service provider  
An apparatus and method are provided for processing digital imagery. A reference platform device is provided with network and telephone connectivity that enable it to establish a connection with a...
7193649 Image processing device supporting variable data technologies  
A method for processing image data using a digital camera includes providing a digital camera having a first transformation program as a default program, the first transformation program supporting...
7187407 Control system for image file  
A control system for an image file eliminating saving of an overlapped image data part and saving files in a short time and in a power-saving manner. When a digital camera and a personal computer...
7184082 Image displaying system, image displaying method, image printing system, and image printing method  
An image displaying system comprises a display unit displaying an image, an extracting unit extracting an image based on a predetermined rule from among images which are recorded on a recording...
7180629 Methods and apparatus for color device characterization  
Methods and apparatus for color correction of color image data obtained by an electronic camera determine a correction to data representative of the color image based upon an estimated illuminant...
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...
7170632 Image reproducing method and apparatus, image processing method and apparatus, and photographing support system  
The image reproducing method and apparatus capture photographing information in association with the photographed image, obtain supplementary information relating to at least one of the captured...
7164857 Communication terminal and program  
To provide a mechanism that enables preparation of a program for photographing regardless of the type of camera device and obtaining image data in a unified format. Mobile phone 10 comprises:...
7151565 Monitor camera capable of recording operation history, and method of recording operation history  
A storage means ( 47 ) formed of a rewritable non-volatile memory for recording the operation history of the surveillance camera is provided within the surveillance camera apparatus. An auto...
7151564 Image recording apparatus and method  
An image processing part performs image processing for processing signals outputted from an imaging device, and the image processing includes deficient pixel correction, optical black and white...
7139407 Image generation apparatus, image file generation method, image verification apparatus and image verification method  
An image generation apparatus includes an image file generating unit operable in one of first, second and third modes, wherein (a) if the first mode is selected, the image file generating unit...
7133071 Image pickup apparatus  
An image pickup apparatus using white sheet data for correcting the color of a picked-up image. Each image pickup data is converted into a file by an image filing unit and recorded by a...
7123296 Digital camera device for facilitating a recovery and recycling system  
In a digital camera in which a photographic field is photographed and which has an image pick-up device 102 for outputting an image signal corresponding to a photographic field, an analog signal...
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...
7110026 Image tagging for post processing  
A method of processing image data includes providing an image capturing apparatus. A host device for receiving image data generated by the image capturing apparatus is provided. An image to be...
7102670 Bookmarking captured digital images at an event to all present devices  
An event bookmarking device detects input signals corresponding to events of interest, generates event bookmarks in response to receiving the input signals so that the event bookmark identifies the...
7092024 Electronic camera having pen input function  
An electronic camera of the present invention includes an imaging element that forms an image of an object, a display device that displays the formed image; a memory that stores the image formed by...
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