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8139143 |
Solid-state imaging apparatus and camera system
A solid-state imaging apparatus has a plurality of read out circuits (128) reading out pixel output signals from pixels in a pixel region, a common signal output line (123) connected to the...
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8139262 |
Image output apparatus and image output method for printing out the photographed image which is captured by a digital camera
A terminal 102 creates setting data 400 and inputs setting data 400 into an image output apparatus 101. The image output apparatus 101 sets the initial settings, operation settings, equipment...
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8059954 |
Single lens reflex camera comprising a focus detecting apparatus and method of photographing
An SLR camera having a focus detecting apparatus and a photographing method thereof are disclosed. The SLR camera may include an AF sensor, the pixels of which may be disposed in various...
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8051214 |
Laser data communication system
A system and method are provided for accelerating data transfer between networked databases. First provided are a plurality of databases coupled by a network. At least one laser unit is coupled to...
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8036523 |
Focus adjustment device, imaging device and focus adjustment method
A focus adjustment device includes an image sensor that includes imaging pixels for capturing an image formed via an imaging optical system and focus detection pixels for detecting a focus...
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8009976 |
Camera having face detection and with automatic focus control using a defocus amount
A camera has a face detecting section, a focusing section, and a controlling section. The face detecting section detects a face area in a shooting image plane. The focusing section calculates a...
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8005271 |
Face detection method and digital camera
A face detection method is provided, including: classifying into levels time-wise continuously captured images by increasing/reducing the total number of pixels; selecting sequentially and reading...
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7995910 |
Imaging device and focal point detector
A focal point detector includes: a condenser lens for transmitting a light image from an optical system; and a distance measurement sensor group for receiving a luminous flux which has passed...
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7965935 |
Control device and method for camera unit and program for implementing the control method
A camera unit which is capable of coping with both a case where it is largely displaced from a preset position and a case where it is slightly displaced from the same, and makes it possible to...
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7941042 |
Auto-focus method, medium, and apparatus for image-capturing
An auto-focus method, medium, and apparatus for image-capturing. The auto-focus method includes obtaining a first image by placing a focus lens of a corresponding image-capturing apparatus at a...
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7920782 |
Imaging device
An imaging device having a shooting optical system, including an imaging element having a pixel array capable of generating image signals regarding light from a subject coming through the shooting...
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7894716 |
Optical apparatus with a plurality of selectable auto-focus areas within a focus-range
An optical apparatus includes a detector detecting information used for focus control in each of a plurality of detection areas set in an image-pickup area, a selecting member being operated to...
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7844176 |
Imaging device, and control method for imaging device
An imaging device comprising a first contrast AF unit that obtains contrast information of a subject image from subject image data, and guides a photographing lens to within a first in-focus...
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7822334 |
Imaging device and in-focus control method
An imaging device includes an imaging unit that obtains an image signal relating to a subject, a driving unit that drives a focus lens, a first detecting unit that performs focus detection based on...
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7787759 |
Camera with autofocus system
A camera has a contrast detector that successively detects contrast data of an object image that is formed on a light-receiving surface of an image sensor, and a focus detector that successively...
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7783184 |
Optical zoom tracking apparatus and method, and computer-readable recording medium for performing the optical zoom tracking method
In an optical zoom tracking apparatus and method, and a computer-readable recording medium for performing the optical zoom tracking, the optical zoom tracking apparatus commands a focus lens to...
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7751700 |
Focus adjustment device, imaging device and focus adjustment method
A focus adjustment device includes an image sensor that includes imaging pixels for capturing an image formed via an imaging optical system and focus detection pixels for detecting a focus...
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7745772 |
Image forming state detection device
An image forming state detection device comprises a micro-lens array that is disposed at a position set apart from a predetermined focal plane of an image forming optical system by a specific...
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7711260 |
Digital camera and camera system
There is disclosed a digital camera which detects a focus of a lens unit by a method selected from a plurality of focus detection methods based on information on the lens unit taken from the lens...
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7702230 |
Digital camera and exposure condition determining method
To provide a digital camera capable of causing a focus sensor to detect a focus while outputting to an image sensor image data for providing appropriate exposure after having adjusted an aperture...
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7672580 |
Imaging apparatus and method for controlling display device
An imaging apparatus automatically detects an object and displays information on a display device based on a comparison between detected data and memorized (stored) data. The imaging apparatus...
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7620312 |
Focus detection apparatus and signal processing method for focus detection
A focus detection apparatus includes an image sensor that applies photoelectric conversion to incident light and accumulates charge, a first output unit that outputs electric signals based on the...
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7577351 |
Image data processing method and apparatus
A method for automatic focus for an image capture device comprising a lens, the method comprising, for a first lens position, processing image data generated at a plurality of local focus positions...
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7485837 |
Image sensor
In an autofocus image sensor, monitoring pixels are disposed adjacent to a pixel array over a length equal to that of the pixel array in each of a standard portion and a reference portion. Signals...
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7430369 |
Image capture apparatus and control method therefor
An image capture apparatus, such as a digital camera or a digital still camera, is capable of easily capturing an optimal image by determining a state of a subject via image processing during...
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7403707 |
Method for estimating camera settings adaptively
A camera is configured to adaptively determine camera settings. The camera includes a plurality of sensors elements configured to acquire a current image of a scene according to a current set of...
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7358999 |
Focus sensing apparatus, focus sensing method using phase-differential detection and computer-readable storage medium therefor
An apparatus comprising: an image sensing device having a plurality of pixels for receiving light from an object upon separating the light into respective ones of different color components; an...
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7006140 |
Digital still camera with shifting focus lens
A digital still camera of the present invention has a photographing optical system, a body, an image sensor, a half mirror, a phase difference focus detector. The image sensor is arranged in the...
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6996291 |
Systems and methods for correlating images in an image correlation system with reduced computational loads
After one or both of a pair of images are obtained, an auto-correlation function for one of those images is generated to determine a smear amount and possibly a smear direction. The smear amount...
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6859620 |
Rangefinder apparatus and camera equipped therewith
A rangefinder apparatus forms an image of light from an object to be subjected to rangefinding onto a pair of line sensors, each line sensor including light-detecting elements, and generates...
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6768540 |
Phase difference detection method, phase difference detection apparatus, range finding apparatus and imaging apparatus
A phase difference detection apparatus for detecting a phase difference between images formed on a pair of optical sensor arrays in which the possibility of unproductive compensation is reduced by...
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6700615 |
Autofocus apparatus
An autofocus apparatus sets a portion of an image frame as an AF area. Then, in first image-pickup, acquires first image data for the AF area within the image frame according to a first light flux...
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6697146 |
Range finder for finding range by image realization
A range-finder, capable of finding a range by image realization, having two distantly arranged imaging devices. The first pattern having a predetermined size and the first positional information is...
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6370262 |
Information processing apparatus and remote apparatus for object, using distance measuring apparatus
An information processing apparatus using a distance measuring apparatus includes a distance measuring device for producing distance information related to a distance for each of different areas in...
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6332061 |
Focus detecting device and automatic focusing camera
A focus detecting device for performing focus detection of passive type using phase-difference detection includes a sensor composed of a plurality of pixels which are paired, and a judgment circuit...
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6301440 |
System and method for automatically setting image acquisition controls
A system and method use computer image processing for setting the parameters for an image acquisition device of a camera. The image parameters are set automatically by analyzing the image to be...
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6108495 |
Camera
In addition to a focus detecting sensor for phase difference detection, a camera is provided with a light source or a generator for emitting light or ultrasonic waves, and a light receiver or a...
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6108435 |
Method of detecting phase difference between a pair of images
A method of detecting a phase difference between a pair of images of an object which are formed on a pair of optical sensor arrays through different optical paths, with presence of flare in one of...
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6052175 |
Method for measuring a distance
In a method of measuring a distance, an evaluation function indicating a degree of coincidence of a pair of image data projected onto a pair of sensor arrays through a pair of focusing lenses is...
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6046795 |
Distance measuring instrument
A measuring instrument is formed of an image pickup device having a pair of image-forming lenses and photosensor arrays; and an arithmetic device using two images of a measured object photographed...
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6047136 |
Distance meter and an apparatus having a distance meter
An apparatus includes a detecting device provided with a first sensor having an arrayed pixels and a second sensor having an arrayed pixels, a selector for selecting predetermined pixels within the...
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5943514 |
Focusing system
A focusing system receives object light by a light receiving device having an array of light receiving elements. An amount of defocus or an object distance can be detected in accordance with the...
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5939705 |
Image information detection system and optical equipment using the system
The difference in brightness between the brightest area and the darkest area of the object of distance measurement can be speedily detected, as described above, and it can be determined before...
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5940634 |
Range finding device
Minimum value calculator 125 detects the minimum value of a correlation value series, and waveform analyzer 126 analyzes the waveform of the correlation value series in the close shift range which...
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5930532 |
Automatic focusing device of camera having highly reliable movement prediction feature
An automatic focusing device of camera is adapted to control the lens to focus on an object moving along the optical axis of the lens. The focus detecting section of the device outputs a plurality...
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5920382 |
Distance-measuring apparatus
A distance-measuring apparatus includes light-sensitive devices formed of optical sensor arrays disposed on image-forming surfaces of right and left image-forming lenses, respectively. The...
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5915033 |
Method for correcting detected distance values
A method of the invention corrects a detection error, caused by an assembly error, in a distance or a distance-related index detected from an image captured in the visual field of an image...
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5913082 |
Image signal processing apparatus
An image signal processing apparatus for detecting a focusing state or a distance state by performing a correlation calculation of two images received by a light receiving section that includes a...
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5892578 |
Focus detection device
The invention relates to a multipoint focus detection device and is to provide a device which determines a sampling point of an output of a sensor in accordance with a movement speed distribution...
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5825016 |
Focus detection device and accompanying optical equipment
Where a person is being photographed, for example, both light from the person located at closer range and light from the background located farther away enter the photodetector elements. Where the...
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