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8184198 |
Image-taking apparatus having optical view finder and autofocus capability
Disclosed herein is an image-taking apparatus including, a image pickup device, an optical viewfinder, focusing controlling means, display controlling means, setting means, and alarming means.
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8150061 |
Sound generating method, sound generating apparatus, sound reproducing method, and sound reproducing apparatus
The present invention provides a sound generating method of generating sound signals related to a video signal, which comprises a step of generating independently each of the sound signals matched...
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8106999 |
Focus adjustment apparatus, method, and program
A focus adjustment apparatus including a face detector for detecting a person's face included in an image obtained by photographing, an eye detector for detecting an eye of the person included in...
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8106997 |
Image pickup apparatus
In an image pickup apparatus, a light receiving unit produces a first signal at a first timing and a second signal at a second timing later than the first timing. First and second parameters for...
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8106998 |
Image pickup apparatus and focusing condition displaying method
In an image pickup apparatus of the present invention, an image of an object is picked up and an image signal representing the object is continuously captured so that a through-the-lens image is...
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8089550 |
Image sensing apparatus, control method thereof, and program
An image sensing apparatus includes a display control unit which controls an image display unit to display an image sensed by an image input unit. The image sensing apparatus also includes a signal...
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8072495 |
Automatic image capturing system
An automatic image capturing system includes a computer, an image capturing device, a monitor and an automatic image capturing program. The automatic image capturing program is installed in the...
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8059183 |
Image sensing apparatus and method for controlling the same
When a chart is used as a subject, whether or not the chart can be captured for storage is determined based on the result obtained through distance measurement at a plurality of locations in a...
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8049810 |
Imaging apparatus and method
If an aperture of the objective-imaging is the same as an aperture when a state has turned into a focused state with autofocus before the objective-imaging or if an F value of the objective-imaging...
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8040428 |
Method for focus control
A camera or other optical system is focused by generating a plurality of digital images each obtained with a different focus setting of the optical system. These images are analysed to generate for...
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8026974 |
Imaging apparatus, method and program
An imaging apparatus that images an image with a solid-state imaging device includes an area defining section that defines an unnecessary image detection area, which may contain an unnecessary...
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8018520 |
Imaging device, imaging method, display control device, display control method, and program
An imaging device includes an image obtaining unit configured to capture an image of a subject to obtain video data; an extraction unit configured to extract high-frequency components in at least...
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8013929 |
Image display control apparatus
An image display control apparatus includes a determination unit (step S903) adapted to determine whether an image to be displayed is an image captured in a shooting mode in which at least one of...
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8004598 |
Focus adjustment apparatus and image capturing apparatus
A focus adjustment apparatus or an image capturing apparatus is provided with a system controller. The system controller calculates a correlation value between an image in a focus detection area...
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7986221 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing apparatus system and control method of information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus, an information processing apparatus system and a control method of an information processing apparatus are provided. The information processing apparatus...
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7982792 |
Image processing apparatus
Provided is an image processing apparatus that judges an in-focus degree of a motion picture related to a motion picture signal based on control information inputted along with the motion picture...
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7978247 |
Focusing information visualization device, and corresponding method, program and recording medium
The focusing information visualization system of the invention extracts an edge having an edge intensity of not less than a first reference value Th1 and an edge width of not greater than a second...
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7973851 |
Auto-focus system
An auto-focus system comprising an AF area indicating device for indicating a range of an AF area in the shooting screen, an AF area changing device for changing a range of an AF area to be set in...
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7948549 |
Camera system
A camera system 100 has an imaging optical system L, an imaging component 45, a liquid crystal monitor 16, a body microprocessor 12, an aperture setting component 29, and an image display...
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7932949 |
Manual focus adjustment apparatus and focus assisting program
According to the present invention, when a lens is moved in an operation of an operation device, the focal information calculated for each travel position of the lens can be graphed corresponding...
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7889270 |
Image pickup apparatus and display control method
An image pickup apparatus using a solid image pickup device includes a manual focus adjusting unit configured to control the position of a focus lens in response to a user's input operation; an...
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7889266 |
Image capture in auto-focus digital cameras
In an AF camera having a two-stage capture button or a three-stage capture button, a timing control module or algorithm is used to control the type of image a user can obtain after the user presses...
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7877006 |
Focus information display system
A focus information display system is provided in which focus state detection that is performed during automatic focusing (AF) and the like is also performed during manual focusing (MF) and the...
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7859584 |
Camera system
A camera system 100 has an imaging optical system L, an imaging component 45, a liquid crystal monitor 16, and an image display controller 15. The liquid crystal monitor 16 allows a plurality of...
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7855744 |
Image pickup apparatus and a notification operation control method
An image-pickup apparatus which includes an imaging unit configured for obtaining object images, a notification unit configured to perform notification that images are being obtained by the imaging...
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7809260 |
Image capturing apparatus and method for controlling same
The present invention further improves operability related to setting the position and size of a focus detection region. An image capturing apparatus of the invention is provided with an image...
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7796879 |
Autofocus system
The present invention provides an autofocus system comprising: a lens device interchangeably attached to a camera and provided with an autofocus device which controls focus so that a subject within...
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7796182 |
Image-taking apparatus and focusing method
An image-taking apparatus is disclosed which can record a still image in sharp focus during moving-image recording without a large change in the focus state of the recorded moving image. The...
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7796183 |
Focus state display
A portable telephone 10 comprises: focus state judging means 30 for judging whether or not an image captured from a camera 12 is in a focus state; focus state display means 31 for indicating both...
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7791669 |
Picture taking apparatus having focusing device
A plurality of distance measuring points in a picture can be correctly and rapidly focused on. Images at a plurality of distance measuring points in the picture can be detected through a...
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7782385 |
AF-area display apparatus and AF-area operation apparatus
The present invention provides an AF-area display apparatus integrated in a lens unit that is interchangeably mounted on a camera and has an automatic focusing device for controlling focusing in...
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7733410 |
Electronic camera and focus control method which minimizes the time required for adjusting a focus
An electronic camera includes a shutter button. When the shutter button is half-depressed, a focal level of an object is determined on the basis of an image signal outputted from an imaging device,...
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7711256 |
Camera-steady focus requirements for preventing inconspicuous use of cameras on handheld mobile communication devices
Methods and devices for implementing a camera restriction on a wireless handheld communication device. As more handheld devices incorporate camera functionalities, organizations and individuals...
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7697057 |
Image-pickup apparatus indicating a focused area and camera
An image-pickup apparatus including: a photographing optical system (100); an image-pickup device (102) having a first driving mode for outputting charges in a predetermined number of pixels and a...
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7689112 |
Lens system having a function of displaying an operating direction of a focus operation member for setting a focus in a lens
A lens system according to an aspect of the present invention includes a focus operation member for manual operation of a focus of a taking lens, a focusing direction detecting device which detects...
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7683963 |
Method of distance estimation to be implemented using a digital camera
A method of distance estimation is to be implemented using a digital camera, and includes: selecting a pre-established reference dimension corresponding to a target whose distance is to be...
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7643742 |
Electronic camera, image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing computer program
An electronic camera detects a person's face image from an object image obtained by photographing an object, executes an enlarging process on the detected face image so as to obtain a face image...
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7630623 |
Optical apparatus, imaging apparatus, and control method
An optical apparatus includes a control unit configured to perform an operation for moving a focusing lens at a first speed to detect a first position corresponding to an in-focus state and then...
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7623178 |
Focus verification in a digital imaging device
Disclosed are digital imaging devices that embody a method or algorithm for transitioning from a displayable focus process to a high speed focus process which can be displayed, and wherein the...
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7616884 |
Viewfinder for single lens reflex camera
In a viewfinder for a single lens reflex camera, in which a focused image of an object formed on a ground glass by a photographing lens is transmitted to an ocular optical system through a...
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7590343 |
Autofocus system
An autofocus system includes: an imaging device which captures a subject image; a matching image detection device which detects an image that most matches a stored reference pattern image of a...
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7551223 |
Apparatus, method, and computer program for imaging and automatic focusing
In a still image shooting mode, when a user does not specify a position of an AF frame, an AF process is performed for an AF region of a comparatively large range whose center is in a center of a...
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7548269 |
System for autofocusing a moving object
The present invention provides an autofocus system for controlling the focus of a taking lens by specifying a subject to be autofocused within an AF area, which is part of the field of view of a...
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7545433 |
Image pickup apparatus, image pickup method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of accurately detecting a blur of a shot image. AF evaluation values are calculated before and after shooting for recording an image representing the...
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7539405 |
Image pickup apparatus with autofocus function
An image pickup apparatus comprises a setting unit which arbitrarily sets different auto focus search ranges, a selection unit which selects a desired auto focus search range from said different...
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7512332 |
Camera with superimpose indication function
A camera has a viewfinder that forms a subject image to be observed, a multipoint auto-focus adjuster that focuses the subject image on the basis of multiple focus points defined on the subject...
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7469097 |
Method and apparatus for coping with condition in which subject is too close to digital imaging device for acceptable focus
A digital imaging device automatically detects that a subject is too close to the device for acceptable focus to be achieved and informs the user, takes automatic corrective action, or both.
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7433586 |
Camera with an auto-focus function
A first area of a predetermined size is set as a focus area from which AF evaluation values are picked up in AF control when a focus mode is a normal one. When the focus mode changes to a macro...
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7424217 |
Method of evaluating image information, photographing device, and storage medium having program stored thereon
An evaluation on image information is indicated before operating a shutter operating section. For example, a method of evaluating image information includes: (a) a step of converting an optical...
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7421195 |
Apparatus for acquiring focussing information and method of acquiring focusing information
A storage unit is configured to store beforehand a table that shows a relation between spread parameters and command values supplied to a control unit to acquire a focused image of an object, and...
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