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7417803 Focusing mechanism for a vision detector  
A machine vision image acquisition system is provided with a housing or enclosure that protects the acquisition system components from an industrial environment. The machine vision image...
7415199 Image capture apparatus, methods and computer program products using auto-focus-generated distance estimates to control flash and image stabilization  
A distance to a subject in a scene is determined using an automatic focus (AF) system of a digital camera. Image stabilization and flash are selectively automatically enabled based on the...
7409150 Lens driving mechanism, lens unit and image pickup device  
Disclosed herein is a lens driving mechanism which can achieve simplification of the mechanism and provision of appropriate control relating to a correction against a shake. The lens driving...
7405750 Position-detecting apparatus  
An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable-unit and a fixed-unit. The movable-unit has an imaging-device and is movable in first and second directions. The fixed-unit...
7400823 Camera provided with camera-shake compensation functionality  
A camera provided with camera-shake compensation functionality that comprises a camera-shake detector, a photographing mode selector, an adjuster, and an anti-shake mechanism. The camera-shake...
7400825 Imaging device and method of controlling the same  
An imaging apparatus measures shake of the apparatus using a gyro sensor, performs “a center stop control” until receiving an instruction to start recording the still picture, and performs “a...
7388604 Image pickup device and apparatus including vibration correction means  
An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup element for converting an optical image on a focal plane into an electrical image signal and outputting the electrical image signal. A vibration...
7372483 Image pickup device and camera shake correction method  
In an image pickup device, a controller includes a surplus area calculation unit to detect a surplus area for use in correcting camera shake based upon a size of an effective area on an image...
7369313 Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus  
A zoom lens wherein the image plane movement upon lens shifting is minimized. A power variation section and a final lens group are disposed in order from an object side. The power variation section...
7362966 Controlling apparatus for photographing system  
To provide a controlling apparatus for a photographing system that enables effective use of a memory zoom function regardless of whether a zoom position is within an optical-zoom region or a...
7355630 Anti-shake apparatus with position detecting magnet  
An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing-apparatus comprises a movable-unit and a fixed-unit. The movable-unit has an imaging-device and a position-detecting magnet. The movable-unit can be moved...
7352390 Digital camera for capturing image data with rapid response between activating a capture trigger and capturing image data  
A digital camera has an image sensor, a capture trigger, a processing system, and a capture buffer having multiple buffer locations. The processing system receives auxiliary image frames from the...
7352389 Anti-shake apparatus for correcting hand shake effect through first and second drive coil units  
An anti-shake-apparatus of a photographing-apparatus comprises a movable-unit and a fixed-unit. The movable-unit has an imaging-device, a first coil-unit having a first driving-coil and a first...
7349022 Image shift correcting device, image capturing device, and digital camera using same  
A image shift correcting device to prevent the user's erroneous recognition while ensuring the accuracy of the AF processing even when a hand shake occurs in the photographing preparation period,...
7349625 Intermediate adapter  
There is provided an intermediate adapter having a camera shake correction function, in which an exchange head provided with an image taking optical system and an imaging device is applicable to a...
7339612 Vibration isolating device, method, and system for correcting image blur in a camera  
A vibration isolator determines a speed of a vibration applied to a camera with a vibration speed sensor, and differentiates and integrates the speed, and corrects the integrated value to zero when...
7330312 Image blur compensation device  
An image blur compensation device for use with an image capture device including an imaging optical system and an imaging unit which converts a subject image captured on a light receiving surface...
7327952 Stage apparatus and camera shake correction apparatus using the stage apparatus  
A stage apparatus includes a Y-direction deformable body including a stationary support member, a movable support member and a pair of X-direction leaf springs to form a substantially rectangular...
7324748 Focal plane shutter and image sensing apparatus  
The size of the opening 1094 a of the shutter base plate 1094 is set, considering driving amounts of the image sensor 101 and the low pass filter 108 during shake correction, so that the...
7315015 Image detecting module  
An image detecting module. The image detecting module comprises a base, a seat movably disposed on the base, an image detecting unit disposed on the seat, a first guide member by which the seat is...
7307653 Image stabilizer for a microcamera module of a handheld device, and method for stabilizing a microcamera module of a handheld device  
A method and a handheld device for stabilizing an image captured by an optical lens of a micro camera integral with the handheld device, which may, for example, be a mobile phone. Motion sensors...
7305179 Anti-shake apparatus  
An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit, and a control apparatus. The movable unit has an imaging device, and can be moved in first and second directions. The...
7302172 Anti-shake apparatus  
An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus comprises a movable unit and a fixed unit. The movable unit has an imaging device and can be moved and rotated on a plane which is perpendicular...
7292270 Image blurring correction apparatus  
When the camera is performing the pan or tilt operation on performing image blurring correction, the image blurring correction is stopped and a vibration-proof lens is returned to a reference...
7253976 Optical apparatus  
An optical apparatus includes a light-quantity-adjusting unit, a first lens unit disposed closer to an object than the light-quantity-adjusting unit, a second lens unit disposed closer to an image...
7239342 Image processing apparatus and method  
An object of the present invention is to generate an image which is prevented from being influenced by a movement while suppressing increase in noise components. When a movement is detected during...
7224893 Anti-shake apparatus  
An anti-shake apparatus of a photographing apparatus includes a signal processor. A fixed unit slidably supports, in perpendicular first and second directions, a movable unit having an imaging...
7218457 Interchangeable lens  
Providing an interchangeable lens capable of carrying out quick focus from infinity to a close object with a magnification of almost life size by a light-weight moving lens group, exhibiting...
7208905 Driving method, driving mechanism, and image capturing apparatus  
The driving method of the present invention is a driving method to drive a stepping motor driven by a predetermined driving pulse, by the servo driving method, and is characterized in that a...
7209165 Vibration correction for image sensing apparatus  
The present invention provides an image sensing apparatus which comprises a vibration detector that detects vibration of the apparatus, a vibration correction unit that corrects vibration of an...
7190534 Image pick up apparatus  
An object is to provide an image pick up apparatus in which positioning of a lens barrel unit relative to a front cover with respect to the optical axis direction and directions perpendicular to...
7177538 Camera  
A camera includes a movement detection unit which detects camera movement. A blurring detection unit reduces image deterioration due to camera movement based on an output from the movement...
7164531 Image stabilization apparatus  
An image stabilization apparatus comprises a housing accommodating an optical system in the interior thereof. A part of optical members that compose the optical system is held to allow angular...
7164853 Vibration detection device and vibration correcting optical device  
A vibration correcting optical device includes: a vibration detection unit that detects a vibration of the vibration correcting optical device and outputs a vibration detection signal corresponding...
7149419 Position control device, image blur correction device, and optical apparatus  
A position control device having first and second movable members. A first detector outputs a position signal when the first movable member is looked in a first predetermined position in a first...
7142780 Camera system and lens barrel  
A camera system comprises a camera body; a lens barrel having a photographing optical system, which can be mounted at the camera body; a shutter release switch disposed at the camera body and...
7139130 Zoom lens, and optical apparatus using the same  
A zoom lens includes, arranged in order from an object side to an image plane side, a first lens group having a positive optical power, fixed with respect to an image plane; a second lens group...
7133067 Instrument and method for digital image stabilization  
The invention relates to a high-precision digital image stabilization of an image recording with a CCD sensor utilized in a moving or flying carrier. For the digital image stabilization, the...
7123290 Blur correction optical device and lens barrel  
A blur correction device comprises a blur correction optical system that corrects an image blur caused by a vibration; a drive device that drives the blur correction optical system; a locking...
7106960 Optical device having image blur prevention function  
The present invention provides a camera system with an image blur prevention function, including: an interchangeable lens, a camera main body to which the interchangeable lens is detachably...
7088512 Image stabilization apparatus and binocular equipped with image stabilization apparatus  
An image stabilization apparatus is adapted, in order to maintain the position of at least one optical member that constitutes an optical system, to control the angle of the at least one optical...
7085484 Driving device, position controller provided with driving device, and camera provided with position controller  
A driving device for an ultrasonic actuator for driving a movable member is provided with a member sensor for detecting a present position of the movable member, a calculator for calculating a...
7064777 Blur correction aparatus, control apparatus to be used in a blur correction apparatus, image taking apparatus, control method to be used in these apparatuses and computer program product to be used with these apparatuses  
Apparatuses are provided such as a blur correction apparatus for limiting operation of a blur correction in accordance with the size of a vibration detected by a vibration detection means, a time...
7057645 Camera system that compensates low luminance by composing multiple object images  
In a digital camera using an image pickup device such as CCD, a high resolution and properly exposed image is obtained by composition a plurality of image data of the same object taken by a...
7057644 Camera system, camera, and lens apparatus with variable length vibration correction data  
A camera control circuit of a camera system sends vibration correction data with two different data lengths during image-taking and during image-taking preparation, respectively. The latter data...
7050244 Zoom lens barrel  
A zoom lens barrel comprises an exterior unit, which mainly forms an exterior portion, an optical unit having an image pickup optical system built therein, and a control unit and can be detachably...
7015952 Image processing apparatus and a method to compensate for shaking during image capture  
An image processing apparatus comprises an image capture device which generates a video image containing an image shake caused by a shake of the image capture device, a region selector which...
7009781 Zoom lens mechanism partly foldable and retractable  
A zoom lens mechanism foldable and retractable to be used in a digital still camera to control zooming of the zoom lens uses programmed data written in a micro controller unit (hereinafter referred...
6987529 Camera having shake correction device mounted thereon  
A camera of this invention is a camera containing a shake correction device for correcting the shake by reading out application voltage data corresponding to a detected shake amount by use of...
6985177 Image sensing system and its control method  
In an image sensing system having an image sensing optical system, and an image sensing element for photoelectrically converting incoming light from the image sensing optical system, a...