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7616874 |
Image-taking apparatus
An image-taking apparatus includes two-dimensionally arranged LEDs for emitting fill lights to eradiation areas. The image-taking apparatus also includes light-receiving sensors for respectively...
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7606480 |
Photographic illuminating device and camera
A photographic illuminating device comprises a discharge-controlled illumination unit that emits illuminating light in response to a light emission instruction, a current-controlled illumination...
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7551797 |
White balance adjustment
A method ( 100 ) of generating a digital image of a scene is disclosed. The method ( 100 ) is particularly advantageous in situations where a light source illuminating the scene is unknown. The...
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7522827 |
Projection system and cooling system of the same
A projection system may include a lamp irradiating a light, an illumination unit providing a plurality of lenses on light paths, a composition unit providing an image by separating/composing the...
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7499636 |
Method for automatically coordinating flash intensity and camera system as the same
A camera system with function of automatically coordinating flash intensity includes a lens, an image sensor, a focus system, a focus sensor and a control unit. The lens controls light amount that...
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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...
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7385641 |
Camera arrangement with multiple illuminators for close in photography
A camera arrangement comprising an illumination assembly for illuminating an object to be photographed by the camera arrangement, the illumination assembly comprising a sensor for sensing the...
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7355648 |
Camera having a through the lens pixel illuminator
A camera comprising: a photosurface comprising light sensitive pixels that generate signals responsive to light incident thereon and optics that focus an image of a scene onto the photosurface; and...
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7321725 |
Light-amount control device for photographing
A light-amount control device includes a plurality of lighting units each of which emits light for illuminating a photographing area of a photographing optical system. Further, the light-amount...
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7254321 |
Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and computer program
An image capturing apparatus in which the ratio between the brightness just before preliminary light emission and the brightness at preliminary light emission is calculated for each of a plurality...
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7130535 |
Camera system with flash control based on focal length
When the focal length of a photographic lens is less than a first focal length, a dimming correction amount deltaY is set to a certain minus value (deltaYW=−WddY) (S 100 , S 150 ). When the focal...
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7092625 |
Camera with an exposure control function
A camera according to this invention determines whether a subject to be photographed is backlit; and when it is backlit, compares a brightness of the subject with a brightness of a background of...
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7027726 |
Camera having proper exposure controlling function
A camera includes a luminance distribution detecting unit, a changing point determining unit, and an exposure controller. The luminance distribution detecting unit detects distribution of...
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6993255 |
Method and apparatus for providing adaptive illumination
An illumination system ( 20, 72, 110, 142 ) for illuminating a scene comprising: an illuminator ( 24, 74, 116 ) having a plurality of substantially contiguous independently controllable light ( 26,...
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6952525 |
Method of photographing by varying flash trigger time and camera adopting the same
Provided herein is a method of photographing in a camera having a flash and a distance measurement unit to measure a distance from the camera to the object, which includes determining whether...
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6941067 |
Camera and multiple flash photographing system
Guide numbers tgn 1, tgn 2 as expected light amounts of a main flashlight and a remote flashlight are added for the calculation of an expected illumination amount of each divided photometric...
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6928239 |
Strobe light photographing system
Strobe light emission is controlled with precision with precision of distance information. A photometry unit measures light reflected by an object to be photographed by preliminary emission in a...
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6859618 |
Exposure compensation method and system employing meter matrix and flash
Mechanisms for compensating for backlight conditions in a scene for use in an image capture device that includes a flash and a flash control signal for activating the flash when the flash control...
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6801716 |
Flash control device, electronic flash device, and photographing system
A flash control device comprises a distance input part, a calculating part, and an emission control part. When an electronic flash device is in an FP flash mode, the calculating part calculates a...
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6784938 |
Electronic camera
An electronic camera of the present invention includes a CCD, a diaphragm, an EEPROM, and a CPU. The CCD has a condenser micro-lens opposed to a light receptor. The diameter of the diaphragm is...
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6778769 |
Camera
A computation expression is stored by which an emission time period for obtaining a predetermined amount of emitted light is obtained by using temperature as a variable. An emission time period is...
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6771897 |
Lens barrel and camera
The present invention discloses a lens apparatus that can switch the aperture diameter of the light-blocking member using a body structural member constituting a portion of the lens apparatus. The...
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6760545 |
Method and camera for image capture
A camera and method for image capture at less than a nominal minimum focus distance provide for initiating image capture through a variable aperture at a first aperture size, collecting a...
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6693673 |
Digital camera for adjusting charge accumulation time in response to object distance
In a digital camera, when flash shooting is performed, a maximum distance at which a subject can be illuminated to appropriate brightness is calculated based on the guide number of a flash and the...
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6654556 |
Camera with through-the-lens lighting
A camera with through-the-lens lighting, comprising: a light source that produces incoherent light; a photosensitive surface; focusing optics, having an optical axis, that forms an image of a...
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6614995 |
Apparatus and method for compensating auto-focus of image capture device by utilizing red-eye eliminating function
There are provided an apparatus and a method for compensating auto-focus of image capture device by utilizing red-eye eliminating function. An auto-focus module preliminarily determines a first...
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6516147 |
Scene recognition method and system using brightness and ranging mapping
A method of controlling exposure of a scene image comprising the following steps: sensing a scene for image data; deriving values representative of a brightness map of the scene; sensing the scene...
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6498903 |
Zoom finder device
A driving gear is rotated in cooperation with zooming of a taking lens. The driving gear and a cam cylinder are attached to an axis that is supported by a finder frame. A projection of the driving...
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6351606 |
Electronic camera, method for detecting obstruction to electronic flash and method for correcting exposure level
A signal level determining block determines whether a solid-state imaging device is under-exposed in accordance with image data captured at an electronic flash shooting. The electronic flash output...
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6349172 |
Lens drive device
A lens drive device that is located inside a camera main body and can drive lenses that are interchangeably mounted to the camera main body, said lens drive device having a coupler that transmits...
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6345155 |
Light-emission control apparatus camera apparatus and light-emission control method
A light-emission control apparatus comprising a light-receiving element 2, an A/D converting section 6, an integrating section 7, a comparing section 8, and a control section 9. The...
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6330399 |
Photographic camera
A photographic camera changeable between a normal photographic mode in which an almost entire area of an exposure frame of a photographic film is exposed with an intention of making a print from...
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6304331 |
Exposure control device and distance measuring device
A disadvantage can be solved, in which an amount of light passing through a shutter aperture varies depending upon different reflection coefficients of objects. When a switch is set ON, a control...
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6272289 |
Camera
A camera using an image blur prevention device including exposure time calculating apparatus which calculates a first exposure time from at least photometry data, sensitivity data of a recording...
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6246321 |
Movement detector
A device having an image-providing sensor, hereinafter designated as "image sensor," operating in the visible and near-infrared range, an thermal image-providing sensor, hereinafter designated as...
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6240253 |
Automatic focusing camera
An automatic-focusing camera is provided with a multiple-point distance-measurement device having a plurality of distance-measurement areas, a multiple-division photometry device having a plurality...
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6233404 |
Electronic flash device for camera
An electronic flash device for a camera includes a flash emitting component, substantially quadrilateral, having vertical and horizontal side lines, for emitting flash light. A light reducing plate...
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6185374 |
Mechanism for controlling flash light emission, camera with the mechanism, and its control method
A mechanism, of a camera, to let a light adjustment operation for a flash light be performed with a higher precision in a shorter time. The mechanism includes: a first device for taking an image of...
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6160960 |
Image pick-up apparatus
An image pick-up apparatus includes: an image pick-up device for picking up an object image by converting the object image to an electric image signal; an image pick-up optical system having a...
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6154612 |
Electronic flash control device
A flash control device for a camera includes a light emission unit which emits light to illuminate a subject to be imaged by the camera, a preliminary light emission control unit which causes the...
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RE36945 |
Shutter device in automatic focusing and exposure camera
A shutter device of a camera which includes first and second sector mechanisms which constitute a lens shutter and which are independently opened and closed to define an aperture. A photometer, for...
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6118944 |
Flashlight control apparatus
A flashlight control apparatus having a device for emitting flashlight towards a subject and a device for receiving the light reflected from the subject through a photographing lens. An output is...
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6101333 |
Method and apparatus for acquiring electronic and/or photographic images
A method and apparatus are disclosed whereby generally matched exposures for at least first and second photoresponsive materials generally concurrently can be obtained, wherein the first...
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6085040 |
Apparatus and method for controlling an amount of light emitted by an electronic flash device
Apparatus and method for regulating and controlling the amount of light emitted by a flash unit for use with an imaging device. The apparatus and method include and involve a light source...
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6081669 |
Photometric operation system of camera
A photometric operation system of a camera includes a photographing lens with a variable focal length. A plurality of photometering devices independently receive and detect rays of object light...
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6072954 |
Interlocking mechanism for camera
A camera interlocking mechanism adjusts a visual field angle of a finder and/or an irradiation angle of a strobe in synchronization with a lens barrel being further extended from a photographable...
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6035135 |
Control of flash device included in or connected to image sensing device
An image sensing apparatus having or capable of connecting to a flash device. First, an object is illuminated in predetermined radiant by controlling the flash device, and light reflected by the...
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6029015 |
Camera with built-in electronic flash
An ever-flash exposure control system for a built-in flash camera controls a shutter to open and close so as to provide a standard exposure for scene brightness which are higher than standard scene...
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5999747 |
Camera with device to prevent image blurs
An image deflection preventing device for a camera, such as a still camera which is used to drive a deflection preventing optical system in accordance with readings from angular velocity sensors...
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5987261 |
Strobe device
A strobe device including a preparatory light radiator for generating a fixed amount of preparatory light a plurality of times to set an amount of actual light to be generated when radiating...
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