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7623781 |
Image shooting apparatus
An image pickup device capable of dividing an image into two or three portions and capturing the image portions as divided. The image pickup device comprises a splitting part ( 135 ), which...
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7611293 |
3D rover camera system and method
Systems, methods and apparatus related to a motorized platform for use in creating three dimensional images. The motorized platform includes a symmetrical steering system such that a digital camera...
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7609290 |
Surveillance system and method
A method and apparatus for detecting motion in a large area with a single imaging device, such as a camera. A fixed object is located in the area and a camera is panned across the area with the...
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7609289 |
Methods and apparatus for capturing images with a multi-image lens
An apparatus for imaging a scene is provided. The apparatus including: a charged coupled device (CCD) in optical communication with the scene along an optical path; a multi-image lens disposed in...
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7602412 |
Temperature compensation in multi-camera photographic devices
A temperature measuring device measures ambient temperature in which a multi-camera photographic device is operated. A remapping function that maps individual images into a panoramic space is...
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7595833 |
Visualizing camera position in recorded video
Disclosed is an arrangement ( 100 ) for displaying video footage captured by a controllable camera ( 103 ), the arrangement comprising a memory ( 107 ) storing the captured footage, means for...
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7593057 |
Multi-view integrated camera system with housing
A panoramic camera design that is lower cost, robust, stable and more user friendly than prior art designs. The camera design makes use of a unified molded structure of optical material to house a...
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7593042 |
Maintenance of panoramic camera orientation
Systems and methods for maintaining orientation of a non-cylindrical panorama is described wherein an initial magnetometer reading is obtained for a panoramic camera. If the panoramic camera is...
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7590290 |
Fail safe image processing apparatus
Methods of capturing image pixel data representing a scene may be practiced using a camera and may be implemented as software, such as an application program executing within the camera. The...
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7583293 |
Apparatus and method for generating multi-image scenes with a camera
An apparatus configured for use in a camera identifies appropriate times to capture optical images with the camera. The apparatus includes a motion detector for generating movement data based on...
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7583288 |
Panoramic video
A system and process for generating a panoramic video. Essentially, the panoramic video is created by first acquiring multiple videos of the scene being depicted. Preferably, these videos...
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7576925 |
System for increasing horizontal field of view of a camera
A terrestrial imaging device includes an objective lens which accepts light within an intrinsic angular field of view onto a focal plane and two pairs of plane mirrors. The first pair of plane...
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7576767 |
Panoramic vision system and method
A distortion corrected panoramic vision system and method provides a visually correct composite image acquired through wide angle optics and projected onto a viewing surface. The system uses image...
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7573601 |
Digital camera
There are provided a framing assisting means for displaying as a moving picture object data as well as a profile of an area that is synthesized with a foreground of selected background data on an...
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7570280 |
Image providing method and device
Visual-field information including information on sight-line direction (theta, phi) and on field angle (gamma) in visual-field area of input fish-eye image is input in real-time. From the input...
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7565019 |
Method of volume-panorama imaging processing
The present invention discloses a method of volume-panorama imaging processing, which generates a volume-panorama image by subsequently splicing respective image frames from an image sequence...
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7542671 |
Omni directional photographing device
Provided is a specific configuration of an omnidirectional photographing device which includes one camera module equipped with a lens for directly taking a 360-degree annular image. More...
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7542668 |
Photographic device
A photographic device equipped with a camera capable of photographing a 360-degree all-round image at a time includes a memory for recording the all-round image photographed by the camera, a...
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7542592 |
Systems and methods for face detection and recognition using infrared imaging
Methods for image processing for detecting and recognizing an image object include detecting an image object using pose-specific object detectors, and performing fusion of the outputs from the...
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7542218 |
Optical system
A curved surface image-conversion optical system is configured to take an image of a hemispherically curved object or project it as a curved surface image, which optical system includes a front...
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7538956 |
Panoramic imaging device
A panoramic imaging device comprises: a lens array having a center lens for receiving light entering in a front range of at most 60° in a capture angle and left and right side lenses formed on the...
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7529430 |
System and method for displaying an image indicating a positional relation between partially overlapping images
A device includes a display monitor configured to display on a screen of the display monitor at least one of a current image and a preceding image taken by an optical unit, a storage unit...
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7528864 |
Processing apparatus and computer program for adjusting gamma value
To provide a processing apparatus for performing synthesis of video data to which video data of optically overlapped (duplicated overlap) video images are imparted. An image processor includes...
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7525576 |
Method and apparatus for panning and tilting a camera
A camera is disclosed which includes: at least two image sensors, an image sensor selector, a multiplexer and an image processor. The at least two image sensors are configured to synchronously...
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7525567 |
Recording a stereoscopic image of a wide field of view
A scanning camera with a rotating drum has one or more sensors characterized by a non-radial optical axis. With two sensors on opposite sides of the drum and facing in substantially the same...
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7515177 |
Imaging device
An image pickup apparatus is able to shoot an image of a wide range by a plurality of image pickup units, it is able to obtain excellent image quality and it can be miniaturized. An image pickup...
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7500756 |
Monitoring apparatus
A monitoring apparatus includes plural imaging units; a viewpoint conversion unit making viewpoint conversion of each imaged picture of the plural imaging units into an overhead picture with the...
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7495694 |
Omni-directional camera with calibration and up look angle improvements
Improved camera calibration techniques, including an improved up look angle and an improved method for calibrating a virtual center of projection. By using a view camera technique for the up look...
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7489330 |
Scanning type image pick-up apparatus and a scanning type laser beam receive apparatus
The present invention has an object of realizing highly reliable search with high precision by obtaining a clear view image over a wide view. In particular, a reflection mirror is formed so as to...
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7483588 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an icosahedron panorama image
A method of and apparatus for efficient encoding and decoding by reconstructing an icosahedron panorama image are provided. The method includes: dividing patches forming a top part and a bottom...
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7463280 |
Digital 3D/360 degree camera system
The digital 3D/360° camera system is an omnidirectional stereoscopic device for capturing image data that may be used to create a 3-dimensional model for presenting a 3D image, a 3D movie, or 3D...
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7460777 |
Covert wide-angle camera adapter
A reflective tube centered on a lens of a camera is used in covert wide-angle photography in which and at least one reflected annular image is rotated by 180° to register it with the open-hole...
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7457051 |
Imaging apparatus
The present invention provides an imaging apparatus capable of imaging a wide area, controlling parallax to achieve an excellent image quality, and utilizing an imaging element with a relatively...
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7436429 |
Virtual pan/tilt camera system and method for vehicles
The present disclosure is directed to a virtual pan/tilt camera system and method for use with vehicles, and particularly ground vehicles (MGVs). The disclosure utilizes autonomous navigation...
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7429996 |
Apparatus and method for sensing depth in every direction
An imaging system configured to take panoramic pictures is disclosed. In one embodiment, the imaging system includes a camera, range finder associated with the camera and configured to provide...
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7428345 |
Apparatus and method for spatio-temporal alignment of image sequences
A method and system for aligning in at least one of time and space temporally ordered sequences of images comprising receiving a plurality of sequences of images, each sequence including a...
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7428007 |
Image pickup apparatus and image processing method for picking up an image of a target in divisions
An image pickup apparatus for picking up an image of a target object in divisions as a plurality of partial images which overlap by a predetermined quantity, is provided with a field angle setting...
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7428006 |
Digital camera, mobile terminal, and method of displaying images for user controlled image connection
The digital camera includes a photographing unit which picks-up image data, a storage control unit which stores the image data, a reconstruction control unit which reconstructs the stored image...
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7424218 |
Real-time preview for panoramic images
A “Panoramic Viewfinder” provides an intuitive interactive viewfinder display which operates on a digital camera display screen. This interactive viewfinder provides real-time assistance in...
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7423671 |
Image pickup apparatus and photographing method with image angle correction for combining image data
Two sets of image data are combined into one set of image data producing no unnatural feeling with a simple procedure. A direction for each set of image data is designated on a touch panel ( 26 )....
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7420177 |
High-resolution-imaging system for scanned-column projectors
A system and method for generating a high-resolution image using a scanned-column projector is disclosed. The method includes the operation of generating a time-varying line image. A further...
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7411628 |
Method and system for scaling, filtering, scan conversion, panoramic scaling, YC adjustment, and color conversion in a display controller
Techniques for performing panoramic scaling are disclosed that reduce visible distortion in a panoramic image. Further, techniques for performing combined YC adjustment and color conversion are...
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7411612 |
Photographed image composing apparatus and a storage medium storing a photographed image composing program
A photographed image composing apparatus includes a CPU and an imaging unit. In this photographed image composing apparatus, an operator photographs an object's face in at least two partial images...
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7406213 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and computer program
A representative point for pixel value adjustment at which the same pixel value is to be set is selected from each of a correction image to be corrected and a reference image of a mosaic image. A...
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7399095 |
Apparatus for mounting a panoramic mirror
The present invention is directed to a mounting apparatus for mounting a panoramic mirror in front of the focal point of a camera. The mounting apparatus comprises a conical optical stage...
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7386188 |
Merging images to form a panoramic image
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for merging images of segments of a view. Methods include: receiving, from a network, a first image representing a first...
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7385624 |
Remote image display method, image capturing device, and method and program therefor
An omnidirectional camera performs image sensing of a panoramic object 6 surrounding it, and sends the video signal to an image capturing device 1 , then the image capturing device 1 extracts...
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7382399 |
Omniview motionless camera orientation system
A method and apparatus for capture of a spherical image is disclosed. The present invention includes at least one camera having a lens with at least a 180° field-of-view for capturing a...
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7379621 |
Method and system for composing universally focused image from multiple images
The system and method speeds up the image composition process based upon the blurring function and the blurring function determination process; facilitates the confirmation and correction of the...
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7373017 |
System and method for capturing adjacent images by utilizing a panorama mode
A system and method for capturing adjacent images includes an imaging device with a panorama manager that performs various procedures to manipulate one or more image parameters that correspond to...
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