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7412159 Image pickup apparatus and defocus amount correction value calculation method  
An image pickup apparatus, in which a light is projected toward a physical object by projection means, and based on the reflected light by the physical object of the light, a defocus amount is...
7411624 Image sensing apparatus, control method therefor, program, and storage medium  
An object of this invention is to increase the precision and speed of autofocusing operation. To achieve this object, an image sensing apparatus includes a photographing optical system which forms...
7408585 Auto-focus apparatus, focus adjusting method, image capturing apparatus and image capturing method  
An auto-focus apparatus, a focus adjusting method, an image capturing apparatus and an image capturing method make it possible to perform accurate focus adjustment on a subject for which the focus...
7405762 Camera having AF function  
A camera having an electronic image pickup element and a distance-measuring circuit that uses light signals obtained from light images of a plurality of distance-measuring areas set in a...
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...
7365790 Autofocus system for an image capturing apparatus  
A digital camera 100 includes a photographic optical system ( 21 ) for projecting an image of a subject; a CCD ( 24 ) for converting the projected image into an image signal and outputting it; a...
7362367 Digital camera having composition determining operation for temporarily storing freeze image data representative of a composition  
It is an object of the present invention to provide a digital camera that forms, on a solid state imaging device, an object image resulting from object light transmitted via a photographing optical...
7298412 Image pickup device, automatic focusing method, automatic exposure method, electronic flash control method and computer program  
There are provided an image memory which stores one image of a subject, an image fetch section which takes in an image from the image memory to another memory or register in a predetermined unit, a...
7280147 Auto focusing apparatus and image inputting apparatus  
An auto focusing apparatus comprises a contrast AF (auto focusing) means ( 10 ), an outside light AF means ( 20 ), a release button ( 30 ), a focusing accurate priority button ( 40 ) and control...
7259375 Special effects video camera  
The invention provides a video camera fitted with telemetry means which provide, in parallel with the image, information relating to the distance of each of the filmed points of an image. A clip...
7228070 Image projection apparatus, projection image pattern, laser drive apparatus, camera apparatus  
Image projection apparatus wherein, a focusing lens is controlled when a shutter is operated so that a contrast signal, obtained when a luminance signal from a camera signal processing circuit is...
7224397 AF control apparatus and AF control method  
A CPU performs a control for photographing a main subject in absence of auxiliary light, whereby an image signal is outputted from an analogue signal processing section. Next, the CPU performs a...
7199821 Imaging apparatus and method for controlling white balance  
An imaging apparatus has: a white balance control circuit for detecting an achromatic portion of an image of an object and controlling gains of the chrominance; an object distance detecting circuit...
7184090 Camera  
A camera includes: an image-capturing element that captures a subject image through a photographic lens; an evaluation value calculation unit that calculates a focus evaluation value based upon an...
7184089 Electronic camera and photographing composition determination apparatus mountable on electronic camera  
A photographing composition determination apparatus of an electronic camera includes an area sensor having a plurality of light receiving elements and disposed in an area shape so as to correspond...
7184088 Apparatus and method for obtaining 3D images  
An apparatus and method particularly, but not exclusively, suited for use in survey applications are disclosed which allow a three dimensional image of a target or target area to be created. An...
7167202 Image pick-up apparatus and distance measuring device  
An image pick-up apparatus comprises a distance measuring unit that measures a distance to a subject, and a stroboscope that emits light of an intensity determined based on the measured distance....
7136521 Optical arrangement for producing stereoscopic images  
An optical arrangement for stereoscopic viewing of objects which is outfitted with an imaging system and with at least one lens group with a fixed focal length which is arranged between the imaging...
7119842 Image capturing device including a spectrally-selectively transmissive diaphragm  
An image-capturing device includes a photographing lens, a first imaging device, a second imaging device and a diaphragm. The photographing lens forms subject images on the first and second imaging...
7116371 Three dimensional image capturing device and its laser emitting device  
A three-dimensional image capturing device comprises a plurality of laser devices, and an imaging device, such as a CCD, having a plurality of photo-diodes. Each of the laser devices radiates a...
7110035 Device and a method for an infrared image analyzing autofocus  
An apparatus and a method is introduced by which infrared image analysing automatic focusing is made possible. The invention among others comprises a focus function to be used by a search operation...
7102681 Focus detecting apparatus  
In a focus detection apparatus, an accumulation-type sensor formed of a plurality of sensor cells accumulates an image signal, and a component of the image signal is read from each cell for a focus...
7098946 Image pickup apparatus  
An image pickup apparatus having function for synthesizing image signals corresponding to a plurality of frames of different exposure amounts to generate wide dynamic range, synthesized image is...
7084923 Display system having improved multiple modes for displaying image data from multiple input source formats  
Systems and methods are herein given to effect a multiple mode display system that may accept multiple input image data formats and output several possible image data format. In a first embodiment,...
7079188 Object detecting apparatus  
An object detecting apparatus according to the present invention has: an image sensor capturing a plurality of object images in time sequence; a first detection start signal generator generating a...
7068317 Photoelectric conversion apparatus  
This invention is to decrease the sensor pitch, prevent saturation by external light, accurately determine skimming, simplify skimming determination, and prevent any difference in influence of the...
7053350 Autofocus control apparatus and method  
Provided is an autofocus control apparatus in an image sensing apparatus which includes: an optical system including a focus lens; a solid-state image sensing device that photoelectrically converts...
7009690 Three-dimensional measurement device and three-dimensional measurement method  
The purpose of the present invention is to realize a compact three-dimensional measurement device of high resolution. In the present invention, a pulse light is projected on an object, the light...
7006142 Three-dimensional image capturing device  
A three-dimensional image-capturing device comprises R, G, and B light sources, a CCD, a light-source control processor, a CCD drive circuit, and a distance-information sensing processor. Each of...
6987531 Imaging system, photographing device and three-dimensional measurement auxiliary unit used for the system  
An imaging system in which a two-dimensional photographing device and a unit for three-dimensional measurement are removably attached to each other is provided. The system can be easily used for...
6982761 Device for capturing three-dimensional images with independently controllable groups of photoelectric conversion elements  
A three-dimensional image capturing device comprises an imaging device, such as a CCD, having a plurality of photo-diodes, a vertical transfer unit and a substrate. The plurality of photo-diodes is...
6975359 Method and system for motion and edge-adaptive signal frame rate up-conversion  
A method and system for edge-adaptive frame rate up-conversion are disclosed. One embodiment of the system of the present invention comprises: a capture block for receiving and processing an input...
6972797 Automatic focusing device and the electronic image pickup apparatus using the same  
An auto-focusing device and an electronic image pickup apparatus facilitates realizing a high focusing accuracy and a quick focusing operation simultaneously using an inexpensive plastic lens...
6970647 Image projection apparatus, projection image pattern, laser drive apparatus, camera apparatus  
Image projection apparatus wherein, a focusing lens is controlled when a shutter is operated so that a contrast signal, obtained when a luminance signal from a camera signal processing circuit is...
6970198 Digital camera and method of improving image quality in live view mode  
In accordance with the present invention, a new and improved digital camera has a capture mode of operation where a scene to be captured can be captured and stored in a removable memory device as a...
6963388 Focus adjustment apparatus, control method therefor, and medium for supplying control program therefor  
This invention provides an apparatus such as a focus adjustment apparatus capable appropriately adjusting focusing in accordance with chromatic aberration, a control method therefor, and a medium...
6940555 Image taking apparatus having focus control  
An image taking apparatus includes an image sensor which takes a plurality of images different in focal distance, a processor which creates a pan-focus image focused on each of different...
6917386 Auto-focus apparatus, focus adjusting method, image capturing apparatus and image capturing method utilizing an emitting device to focus an image  
An auto-focus apparatus, a focus adjusting method, an image capturing apparatus and an image capturing method make it possible to perform accurate focus adjustment on a subject for which the focus...
6900842 Electronic still camera  
An electronic still camera, comprises a lens to form an image of a subject; a distant measuring section to measure a distance to a subject and to output a distance signal; an image capturing...
6888562 Integral eye-path alignment on telephony and computer video devices using a pinhole image sensing device  
A two-way visual communication device and methods for operating such a device are disclosed. An embodiment of the disclosed invention may comprise a visual display device and one or more pinhole...
6876392 Rangefinder for obtaining information from a three-dimensional object  
A rangefinder according to the present invention includes light source section, camera section, distance-measuring sensor, exposure controller and shutter. The light source section projects light...
6867808 Time domain imager  
The distance and external contour of objects are imaged using time domain measurement. An array of pixel cells receives a time-varying waveform (e.g., a ramp voltage) time synchronized to a...
6867798 Monitor camera system and method of displaying picture from monitor camera thereof  
In a monitor camera system capable of understanding a direction, a monitor camera follows, through a picture taken by the monitor camera, the monitor camera makes 360-degree pan rotation and...
6839086 Camera including multiple lenses, a ranging means, and multiple image processors  
The present invention relates to an image capturing apparatus incorporating a zoom lens system which performs variable power operations and focus adjustment by means of a driving action of a...
6822687 Three-dimensional image capturing device and its laser emitting device  
A three-dimensional image capturing device comprises a plurality of laser devices, and an imaging device, such as a CCD, having a plurality of photo-diodes. Each of the laser devices radiates a...
6812968 Camera with configurable focus area  
An imaging device having a configurable focus area comprising: (a) an imaging system for generating a video signal of an image within a field of view, wherein the imaging system is adapted to...
6778219 Three-dimensional image capturing device  
A three-dimensional image capturing device obtains distance information of a standard subject, to which the distance from the device to each point of a surface of the standard subject is known....
6765618 Subject selection device and in-focus portion indicating device  
A subject selection device comprises a light source and an imaging device, such as a CCD, having a plurality of photo-diodes. The light source radiates a distance measuring light beam toward a...
6721007 Three-dimensional image capturing device  
A three-dimensional image capturing device comprises an imaging device, such as a CCD, having a plurality of photo-diodes, a vertical transfer unit and a substrate. First and second electric charge...
6704054 Autofocusing system  
An autofocusing system is comprised of an image pickup device which performs a photoelectric conversion of an image of a subject, formed through an imaging optical system, to produce an electric...
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