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7626613 |
Image sensing apparatus and control method therefor
Auto focus control processing for still image recording is performed while continuously performing movie recording when an initiation instruction for a still image recording preparation process is...
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7623775 |
Camera, aperture controlling method and apparatus, lens controlling method and apparatus, and edging amount controlling method and apparatus
Maximum and minimum aperture sizes are regulated with regard to a diaphragm in order to secure predetermined optical capability in an optical unit which includes a taking lens and the diaphragm. In...
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7612801 |
Calibration methods and apparatus for digital cameras
Digital cameras are calibrated so that detailed highlights and shadows in scenes being photographed are reproduced in digital images of those scenes by calibrating holographic data obtained from...
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7589766 |
Selectable threshold multimode gain control apparatus and method for setting mutually continuous analog, digital, and shutter gain levels
A selectable threshold multimode gain control apparatus and method for a charge coupled device (CCD) or CMOS imaging system includes an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit which continuously...
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7580067 |
Method for managing digital slow shutter mode in monitor camera
Disclosed is a method for managing a DSS (Digital Slow Shutter) mode in a monitoring camera. When an iris of the monitoring camera is maximally opened and a shutter speed is minimum, the DSS mode...
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7557839 |
Electronic imaging device and mobile terminal including the electronic imaging device
An electronic imaging device includes a zoom lens that includes a plurality of lens groups and an imaging element that converts an optical image formed by the zoom lens into an electric signal. The...
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7554601 |
Digital video camera with automatic white balance and a method thereof
Disclosed is a digital video camera performing white balance adjustment according to a photographing condition. The digital video camera with automatic exposure comprises an iris state detector for...
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7545435 |
Automatic backlight compensation and exposure control
In some embodiments, images for the video conference may be white balanced and/or exposure controlled. White balancing may include dividing an image's pixels into multiple ranges according to their...
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7538817 |
Digital camera for portable equipment
A digital camera for portable equipment includes a light emitting device; an electrically-driven light quantity controller for controlling a quantity of light emitted from the light emitting...
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7538816 |
Image-taking apparatus and control method of image-taking apparatus
The present invention provides an image-taking apparatus having an image-pickup device which accumulates charge in accordance with an amount of light received thereon, a light-shielding device...
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7518643 |
Camera device and shooting method
A camera device and method for performing a shooting operation by converting image light into an electrical signal. The location of a dark distribution is determined, and a dark distribution...
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7505076 |
Digital camera having red-eye reduction bracket photographing mode
In a digital camera having a red-eye reduction bracket photographing mode, a plurality of bracket photographing operations are carried out at a predetermined second interval, in which a strobe unit...
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7479985 |
Variable magnification lens having image stabilizing function
An image stabilizer for stabilizing an image against unexpected vibrations or shaking of a zoom lens includes a diaphragm arranged to vary its full-open-aperture diameter according to a...
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7477314 |
Exposure control method and apparatus for an image pickup apparatus
The invention concerns with an exposure control mechanism for use in an image pickup apparatus in which a diaphragm aperture formed by a plurality of diaphragm blades moving straightforward in...
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7477313 |
Light-quantity adjusting apparatus, optical apparatus, and camera
A light-quantity adjusting apparatus which can temporarily suppress an MTF (contrast) from being deteriorated by small-aperture diffraction is disclosed. The light-quantity adjusting apparatus...
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7471331 |
Lens apparatus including image pick-up optical unit and controller for controlling change of aperture diameter
This invention discloses an optical apparatus including an image pickup optical unit, a light quantity adjustment unit inserted in the optical axis of the image pickup optical unit, the light...
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7468746 |
Digital camera
A digital camera is provided with: a diaphragm for controlling an amount of incident light; a solid-state imaging element for receiving the incident light passing through the diaphragm, in which a...
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7460171 |
Lens apparatus having stop blade, optical filter and shutter blade
A lens apparatus capable of efficiently arranging a stop blade, an optical filter and a shutter blade to reduce the size of the apparatus is disclosed. The lens apparatus comprising a lens, a lens...
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7450159 |
Image pick-up apparatus and endoscope apparatus
An image pick-up apparatus includes an image pick-up device which picks-up an image of a subject and outputs an image signal, a first-amplitude changing portion which varies an amplitude of the...
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7436451 |
Image sensing apparatus and its control method
An image sensing apparatus in which time required before the apparatus becomes in an image-sensing possible status is reduced. The image sensing apparatus has a constituent element comprising a...
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7436449 |
Electronic imaging system
The invention relates to an electronic imaging system such a video camera or digital camera, whose thickness or size is reduced while performance degradation is reduced as much as possible. The...
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7420611 |
Electronic image pickup system
The invention makes a suitable selection from zoom modes and lens elements so thin that the thickness of each lens group can reduced, thereby slimming down a zoom lens with great thoroughness and,...
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7414665 |
Imaging system
The invention relates to an imaging system in which, while high image quality is maintained with the influence of diffraction minimized, the quantity of light is controlled, and which enables the...
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7394498 |
Liquid-crystal light-amount adjusting device, method of driving liquid-crystal light-amount adjusting device, and camera including the liquid-crystal light-amount adjusting device
A liquid-crystal light-amount adjusting device in which the effective power of driving pulses for acceleration is optimized to improve response characteristics of optical transmittance, a method of...
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7394493 |
CCD camera utilizing an IRIS and method for controlling the same
A Charge Coupled Device (CCD) camera and a method for controlling the same. When a photographing command is input from the input unit by operation of user, the controller controls the iris drive...
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7372498 |
Image pickup apparatus having a shutter clutch
In an image pickup apparatus having an openable and closable shutter mechanism to protect an image pickup lens portion of a ultra-small and light-weight video camera, the shutter mechanism is...
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7365791 |
Image pickup apparatus having iris member and filter units
An image pickup apparatus capable of preventing a decline of resolution of a still image while keeping a dynamic range of exposure control. The image pickup apparatus capable of photographing with...
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7338174 |
Shutter device and projection type video display
Each shading plate comprises a rotating shaft and a driving shaft arranged vertically. First divided shading plate is loosely fitted to and supported by (not adhere to) the rotating shaft and...
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7304683 |
Method of automatically adjusting exposure in a shutterless digital camera
In accordance with the present invention a shutterless single lens digital still camera includes an internal processor and auto exposure algorithm that automatically adjusts the exposure of the...
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7292280 |
Camera, aperture controlling method and apparatus, lens controlling method and apparatus, and edging amount controlling method and apparatus
Maximum and minimum aperture sizes are regulated with regard to a diaphragm in order to secure predetermined optical capability in an optical unit which includes a taking lens and the diaphragm. In...
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7280150 |
Video camera with aperture blade
A video camera ( 10 ) includes a photographing device ( 16 ). The photographing device ( 16 ) generates an image signal corresponding to an optical image irradiated on a light-receiving surface,...
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7245325 |
Photographing device with light quantity adjustment
The photographing device includes an optical lens, a photographing unit for taking an image of a subject imaged through the optical lens and a light quantity adjustment unit for partially adjusting...
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7233354 |
Digital camera that adjusts resolution for low light conditions
A digital camera including a photosensor with a plurality of picture elements that define an image resolution that is adjustable.
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7190393 |
Camera with improved illuminator
An illumination and imaging system is provided with a co-axial illuminator that does not include a beamsplitter. The co-axial illuminator achieves efficiencies substantially in excess of those...
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7110020 |
Film digitizer
A method for producing electronic signals representative of images on a source film includes the following steps: illuminating the film with a light source to obtain an illuminated frame; providing...
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7098955 |
Optical apparatus operable in static and dynamic image taking modes
An optical apparatus includes a photographic optical unit including a movable optical component for varying a focal length, a light amount adjusting unit disposed in an optical path of the...
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7079186 |
Diaphragm device of a television camera lens for a CCTV surveillance camera
A diaphragm device of a lens for a CCTV camera includes a lens barrel, a diaphragm, a base plate which supports the diaphragm, a diaphragm driver for driving the diaphragm to adjust a size of an...
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7057647 |
Dual-mode camera system for day/night or variable zoom operation
A dual camera system uses a single lens and no moving parts in the optical path. A single lens directs a desired scene to a partially reflective beamsplitting mirror, thence to a pair of image...
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7023484 |
Exposure control apparatus and method thereof
The exposure control apparatus comprises screen divider which divides the screen into a many areas, and high luminance decider which decides, for each area of the screen, whether a main subject...
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7019917 |
Lens barrel
A lens barrel includes an optical system including a short focal length for a wide angle of view; and an ND filter in the shape of a disc which is provided on an optical axis of the optical system....
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7009653 |
Photographing apparatus having function of preventing blur of still image
The present invention discloses a photographing apparatus having the function of preventing blur of a still image. A diaphragm unit controls the amount of light incident on a photoelectric...
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6999125 |
Image pickup apparatus
An image pickup apparatus comprising: right and left optical systems; shutters disposed in correspondence with each of the right and left optical systems, for time-divisionally switching between...
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6992720 |
Optical apparatus including image pick-up device and interchangeable lens with controller for controlling change of aperture
This invention discloses an optical apparatus including an image pickup optical unit, a light quantity adjustment unit inserted in the optical axis of the image pickup optical unit, the light...
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6980251 |
Image sensing apparatus which carries out optimum exposure control of subject
The state of exposure of a video zone corresponding to position information from a two-dimensional position selecting circuit that allows a photographer to select a desired video zone is detected,...
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6963437 |
Devices incorporating electrochromic elements and optical sensors
The device of the present invention includes an electrochromic element having a transmittance that varies in response to an electrical signal, a base substrate disposed in spaced relation to the...
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6958778 |
Iris control method and apparatus for television camera for controlling iris of lens according to video signal, and television camera using the same
An image frame of a long-time exposure video signal from a solid stage imaging device outputting the long-time exposure video signal and a short-time exposure video signal on a time division basis...
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6952291 |
Imaging device
An imaging device according to the present invention has: a photometric circuit that detects a brightness of a photographic subject based on a light flux from the photographic subject that passes...
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6952234 |
Image pickup apparatus and method for broadening apparent dynamic range of video signal
An image pickup method and an image pickup apparatus are provided which can pick up an image with a broad substantial dynamic range even with a video camera or the like which is likely to be...
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6933980 |
Shutter for digital still camera
A rotor is constituted by a two-pole permanent magnet, and enabled to rotate by a predetermined angle in a direction corresponding to the direction electric current supplied to a stator coil. Two...
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6927798 |
Light amount adjusting apparatus and optical apparatus having the same
A light amount adjusting apparatus is constructed by a driving source, a plurality of light shielding members each having a notched portion adapted to form a light passing port, in which the light...
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