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7623180 Image pickup apparatus having compact, light weight, rigid internal chassis  
An image pickup apparatus having large rigidity, even if a thin steel plate is used for a main chassis, includes a solid-state image pickup device for converting an object image into an electric...
7623177 Image capturing device having multiple optical systems  
In a digital camera having multiple optical systems, multiple image capturing elements are effectively driven to reduce power consumption. A digital camera has a first image capturing optical...
7619684 Camera module, manufacturing method of camera module, electronic apparatus, and manufacturing method of electronic apparatus  
An optical structure is disposed on a surface of a device substrate, and a lens system for introducing external light into a solid-state image pickup device is placed in the center of the optical...
7619653 Motion detection imaging device  
A motion detection imaging device comprises an imaging element and an optical lens system for collecting light entering in a capture range to form images on the imaging element. The optical lens...
7616842 End-to-end design of electro-optic imaging systems with constrained digital filters  
A unified design strategy takes into account different subsystems within an overall electro-optic imaging system. In one implementation, the design methodology predicts end-to-end imaging...
7616841 End-to-end design of electro-optic imaging systems  
A unified design strategy takes into account different subsystems within an overall electro-optic imaging system. In one implementation, the design methodology predicts end-to-end imaging...
7616249 Image sensing device, image sensing apparatus, and image sensing position switching method  
An image sensing device includes a prism unit, image sensing element, fixing member, case member, support member, and a switching mechanism. The prism unit has at least two reflecting surfaces each...
7613389 Image taking apparatus and assembling method thereof  
The image taking lens has the minimum effective diameter lens whose effective diameter is minimum, and the maximum effective diameter lens whose effective diameter is maximum on the most image...
7612805 Digital imaging system and methods for selective image filtration  
A system is disclosed for the automated correction of optical and digital aberrations in a digital imaging system. The system includes digital filtration and digital system corrections to optical...
7609963 Apparatus to produce spectrums  
A method of placing a grating material at an optimum distance from a sensor that will produce a reference spectrum on that sensor. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a device with...
7609314 Image pickup apparatus, method of controlling the image pickup apparatus, and control program for implementing the method  
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of removing foreign substance, such as dust, attached to an optical member disposed in front of an image pickup element, even when accessories are...
7609313 Image pick-up lens, image pick-up unit and mobile terminal  
An image pick-up lens for forming an image of an object on a solid image pick-up element having a rectangular effective pixel area, has a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; and a diaphragm...
7609305 Methods and systems for anti shading correction in image sensors  
Embodiments of the current invention provide for systems and methods for correcting shading effects in image sensors. More specifically, but not by way of limitation, embodiments of the current...
7609294 Image pick-up apparatus capable of taking moving images and still images and image picking-up method  
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an apparatus where a still image can be picked up during the recording of moving images, where still images are picked-up in a first state, in which...
7605859 Image pickup device and image pickup optical system that optically reduce color flares  
An optical system enables images of a wide range of natural subjects to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including, at least, an image pickup optical...
7605858 Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and program  
An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit which converts an optical image of an object into an electrical signal, and an optical member arranged on the object side of the image...
7605857 Methods of manufacturing microlenses, microlens arrays and image sensors  
A method of manufacturing a microlens is provided. The method includes forming a first lens pattern, forming a second lens pattern on a portion of the first lens pattern in a manner which controls...
7605856 Camera unit and apparatus for monitoring vehicle periphery  
In a camera unit, with respect to a relationship between an image height of respective image portion on an image formed on the pickup element and an image angle of the light lays made incident into...
7602437 Image pickup device and image pickup optical system  
An optical system is presented that enables images of a wide range of natural subjects to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including, at least, an image...
7602434 Solid-state imaging device  
A solid-state imaging device has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements two dimensionally arrayed in an imaging area, a light shielding film that regulates the amount of external light...
7602433 Drive controlling apparatus of optical apparatus and optical apparatus  
The drive controlling apparatus has a memory of storing preset drive information of each of the optical adjusting members, and a controller for performing a preset drive control for controlling the...
7601938 Imaging system, methodology, and applications employing reciprocal space optical design  
An imaging system, methodology, and various applications are provided to facilitate optical imaging performance. The system includes a sensor having one or more receptors and an image transfer...
7595838 Multi-view imaging apparatus  
Systems and methods are provided for taking images of a sample. The sample is placed in an imaging box comprising a moveable stage that allows images of the sample to be taken from various...
7595835 Image sensing apparatus having an alien substance removing unit and control method thereof  
In a case where a request for an operation related to photographic operation is input during an alien substance removing operation of removing an alien substance sticking to an optical element...
7590305 Digital camera with built-in lens calibration table  
A digital camera that automatically corrects dust artifact regions within acquired images by compiling a dust map includes an optical system for acquiring an image with a corresponding dust...
7586702 Camera module  
A camera module includes a lens unit, a magnet mounted around the lens unit, a stator receiving the lens unit and the magnet therein and an elastic element. The stator includes a coil seat and a...
7586534 Multi-eye image pickup device, adjusting method and device therefor, and image-area adjusting system and method  
A multi-eye image pickup device includes a left-side optical unit and a right-side optical unit. At a time of adjustment, an adjustment target mark is located so as to be slightly shifted in a...
7583315 Image pickup apparatus, camera module and image pickup method having a transmission member which is selectively engageable with a shutter gear or a gear formed on the outer periphery of the lens frame  
When half depression of a camera key is detected, a narrow pulse voltage is applied to a piezoelectric element such that the AF gear meshes with a gear provided on the lens frame. Then, a wide...
7583311 Automatic focusing device and focusing method  
In an automatic focusing device generating a luminance signal by scanning a picked-up digital image signal, evaluating the contrast of the luminance signal, and driving its focusing based on the...
7583310 Taking apparatus  
The present invention concerns an imaging apparatus which works for size reductions, power savings, the efficient attainment of the quantity of light sensed, and prevention of contrast decreases...
7583308 Image capturing apparatus  
The present invention provides a digital camera which has a plurality of image capturing optical systems and quickly performs automatic focusing. A digital camera includes a first image capturing...
7580628 Optical apparatus with dust reduction capability  
The present invention realizes efficient dust removal in an optical apparatus in such a manner that a single circuit drives a plurality of dust reduction optical elements to vibrate. When the...
7576792 Lens module for digital camera  
A digital camera module ( 100 ) includes a barrel ( 1 ), an IR-cut filter ( 3 ) and at least one lens element ( 4 ). The IR-cut filter is fixed to the barrel. The at least one lens element is...
7576791 Method and apparatus for signature reduction using wavefront coding  
The invention applies wavefront coding to the front of an electro-optic/infrared device to minimize the amount of light which is retroreflected by systems, such as Fowarding Looking Infrared...
7567290 Camera system, camera body, imaging lens unit, and interchangeable lens camera  
A camera with a removable imaging lens unit is a small and reliable camera which can prevent electrostatic discharge from causing breakdown or malfunctions. Electrical contact points on a camera...
7567288 Image pickup device and image pickup optical system  
An optical system is presented that enables images of a wide range of natural subjects to be well reproduced with their colors, and provides an image pickup system including, at least, an image...
7567286 Image pickup apparatus  
A light quantity control device includes a diaphragm for controlling an incident light quantity and an ND filter insertable into and retractable from an effective ray in a plane approximately...
7567285 Camera lens device for suppressing reflection waves generated by incident waves  
An optical device for a camera including a lens array for focusing incident optical signals, a window glass positioned in front of the lens array to prevent alien substances from contacting the...
7567284 Encoder, lens-implement and digital camera  
All members of a lens-implement are arranged in a rectangular space of a main lens frame. A lens prism is fixed, three movable lens frames for zoom and focusing inserted the two guide shafts are...
7567283 Rotary camera for mobile communication device  
A camera that is mountable in a mobile communications device is disclosed. The camera allows the user of the device to precisely adjust the acute rotational angle of the camera with respect to the...
7564495 Thin image-capturing device  
An image-capturing device for forming an image of an uneven surface of an object includes a light-guiding plate that has a detection surface for contacting the uneven surface of the object, a pair...
7564031 System and method for wide angle optical surveillance  
An imaging system ( 30, 30′ ) and corresponding method has a two-dimensional imaging sensor array ( 32 ) and an associated optical system. The optical system includes at least one optical...
7561202 Image device with lens adjustment for various environmental conditions  
A digital camera 100 including a lens unit 1 a , and a first actuator 71 and a second actuator 72 , which deform by being supplied with electric power, thereby moving the lens unit. The...
7557852 Image-taking apparatus, magnification variation control method, and lens unit  
A digital still camera switches an image sensor between moving picture shooting and still picture shooting. The digital still camera includes a variable-magnification optical system having a...
7556443 Shock damping of optical lens components  
A shock and/or vibration damped optical lens assembly for electronic equipment. The optical lens assembly of the present invention is particularly useful for electronic equipment such as mobile...
7554597 Optical image recording system, and associated processing system  
An optical image recording system for electronic recording of optical information comprising a lens system and a body The body having a configuration with a low height and with broad surfaces...
7554596 Method and apparatus for recording a sequence of images using a moving optical element  
An imager ( 200 ) including a spatially varying optical element ( 204 ) which moves while the imager records a sequence of images. The optical element ( 204 ) can be an intensity reduction filter,...
7554572 Image pickup apparatus for capturing spectral images of an object and observation system including the same  
An image pickup apparatus has a construction in which a diffraction element is provided in an observation optical system. Zero-order light that is transmitted straight through the diffraction...
7548373 Image pickup device  
An image pickup device which can obtain an image of wide range picked up by a plurality of cameras is provided by preventing occurrence of parallax.
7545430 Moving mechanism, and compact camera, goniometer and fiberscope using the moving mechanism  
The present invention provides a movement mechanism, in which a liquid arranged between a first structural member and a second structural member, wherein the interval between the first structural...