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20080273098 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING IMAGE DATA, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING ZOOMED IMAGES - The sizes of images obtained by electronic zoom processing are rendered constant to a certain degree. To accomplish this, an image within a zoom area is enlarged or reduced to the size of a super-extended graphics array (SXGA), and the resulting image data is recorded on a memory card, if the zoom area has a size near that of the SXGA. The image within the zoom area is recorded on the memory card upon being enlarged or reduced to the size of a super VGA (SVGA) if the zoom area has a size near that of the SVGA. The image within the zoom area is recorded on the memory card upon being enlarged or reduced to the size of a VGA if the zoom area has a size near that of the VGA. Thus, when Images represented by image data recorded on the memory card are zoomed, the sizes of the zoomed images are limited. | 11-06-2008 |
20090021608 | ELECTRONIC ZOOMING APPARATUS AND DIGITAL CAMERA - A digital camera includes a memory, and pixel data cut out from the memory is subjected to ½ horizontal thinning processing by a ½ horizontal thinning circuit when a zooming magnification is equal to or larger than “2”, and the thinned pixel data is written to an image buffer. A zooming circuit performs zooming processing on the thinned pixel data stored in the image buffer. Here, when the zooming magnification is smaller than “2”, the zooming circuit performs the zooming processing on original pixel data being read from the memory and then stored in the image buffer. | 01-22-2009 |
20090051789 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a zoom operation unit operable to perform a zoom operation, an extraction unit configured to extract a main object from an captured image plane, and a control unit configured to control a zoom speed by using the size of a region occupied by the main object with respect to the captured image plane and operation information of the zoom operation unit. | 02-26-2009 |
20090102950 | Multiple-View Processing in Wide-Angle Video Camera - A motion video camera that removes the need for mechanical pan, tilt, and zoom apparatus is disclosed. The video camera includes the following. A wide-angle optical system is configured to receive an optical image. An image sensor is coupled to the optical system and is configured to convert the optical image to an electronic image. An image processing circuit is coupled to the image sensor and is configured to receive the electronic image and to execute movement and zoom operations by correcting distortions in the electronic image introduced by the wide-angle optical system and image sensor. | 04-23-2009 |
20090147107 | Electronic camera - An electronic camera includes a face detecting section, a setting section, and a controlling section. The face detecting section detects a face of a subject. The setting section sets a scene shooting mode to adjust a shooting condition to an optimum shooting condition in accordance with each pre-assumed shooting scene. The controlling section controls the face detection of the face detecting section only when the setting section has set a scene shooting mode for shooting a scene including a person. | 06-11-2009 |
20090153704 | RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND METHODS, AND A STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON COMPUTER PROGRAM TO PERFORM THE METHODS - Recording and reproduction apparatus, recording and reproduction methods, and a storage medium storing a computer program to execute the methods to retain magnification information regarding digital zoom manipulation during capturing of an image, prevent decrease in image quality of recorded images, and reproduce high-quality images with digital zoom. The recording apparatus includes an image processor for processing raw data, sequentially output from an imaging device in frames, into reproducible image data and generating processed image data in frames, a magnification information obtaining unit for obtaining magnification information, which is information regarding magnification process performed during the image processes, and a storage medium recorder sequentially recording the raw data in frames, the processed image data in frames, and the magnification information in frames to a storage medium per frame. | 06-18-2009 |
20090167899 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to perform photoelectric conversion of an optical image, an optical zoom unit configured to perform optical magnification variation in response to a zooming operation, an electronic zoom unit configured to perform electronic magnification variation on a signal output from the imaging unit, and a controller configured to operate the electronic zoom unit together with the optical zoom unit in a first zoom range in response to the zooming operation, to operate the optical zoom unit without operating the electronic zoom unit in response to the zooming operation in a second zoom range, which is closer to a telephoto side than the first zoom range, and to operate the electronic zoom unit together with the optical zoom unit in response to the zooming operation in a third zoom range, which is closer to the telephoto side than the second zoom range. | 07-02-2009 |
20090278960 | Method Of Processing Digital Image In A Digital Camera - A method of processing a digital image in a digital camera is provided in which structures within a digital image produced by the digital camera utilising an adjustable focusing technique of the digital camera are detected by processing the digital image with a processor of the digital camera utilising focusing settings of the adjustable focusing technique as an indicator of positions of said structures, and image effects are applied to the detected structures with the processor. | 11-12-2009 |
20090309997 | Image Capturing Device - An image-capturing device, such as a camera or a camera-equipped wireless communication device, includes touch-sensitive user controls disposed on a housing of the device. The touch-sensitive user controls detect user movement along the controls, and allow a user to control one or more image-capturing functions of the device based on a detected direction of user movement along the touch-sensitive user controls. | 12-17-2009 |
20090322910 | SUPER-RESOLUTION DIGITAL ZOOM - When a user selects digital zooming in a camera such as might be included in a wireless telephone or PDA, a series of images are automatically obtained and superimposed using super-resolution techniques to produce an improved digital zoom image transparently to the user. | 12-31-2009 |
20100020202 | CAMERA APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is a camera apparatus capable of displaying an image where a wide range is imaged, and enlarging an image of a narrow range when required for display, thereby facilitating to distinguish the content of the image. The camera apparatus generates a reduced image where the entire captured image is displayed in a certain area of the display screen of the display means, corrects a distortion caused by a wide-angle lens with respect to one or more portions of the captured image, generates an enlarged image enlarged in comparison with the reduced image, and displays both of the reduced and enlarged images on the display screen. | 01-28-2010 |
20100026853 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZING A FLASH TO AN IMAGER - A digital camera system synchronizes a flash to an array of image sensing elements. The array of image sensing elements senses an image focused on the array by a lens. The system includes an array controller that implements an electronic rolling shutter to capture the image as a frame. The electronic rolling shutter includes read and reset pointers that the array controller scans through the array to capture integrated photo charges on the image sensing elements to generate the frame. The number of lines between the reset and read pointers defines the integration time of the imager. The system also includes a flash controller that synchronizes the flash to a portion of the frame. When the flash is activated, the camera system reduces the integration time and synchronizes the flash to the scanning of a selected portion of the array. | 02-04-2010 |
20100039535 | PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - A photographic apparatus comprises a monitor, a face detector, and an electronic zoom controller. The monitor displays a first through-image based on image data. The face detector performs face detection on an image of an area displayed on the monitor, based on the image data. The electronic zoom controller performs first electronic zoom control that enlarges and displays a second through-image corresponding to a predetermined area including a face area detected by the face detector, to the size of a display area of the first through-image, on the monitor. The electronic zoom controller performs second electronic zoom control that enlarges and displays an intermediate through-image corresponding to an intermediate area including the predetermined area and larger than the predetermined area, to the size of the display area of the first through-image, on the monitor, before performing the first electronic zoom control. | 02-18-2010 |
20100053377 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus having an electronic zoom function, comprising an image sensing element, a zoom magnification setting unit, a pixel signal readout unit, an image processor, and a controller which, when the zoom magnification is between first and second zoom magnifications, controls to read out pixel signals of a first pixel count, and to generate the image using pixel signals of a second pixel count, and when the zoom magnification is between third and fourth zoom magnifications, controls to read out pixel signals of a third pixel count, and to generate the image using pixel signals of a fourth pixel count, the second pixel count is not larger than the first pixel count, the fourth pixel count is not larger than the third pixel count. | 03-04-2010 |
20100165151 | PROCESSING IMAGE FRAMES IN DIFFERENT FORMATS WITH REDUCED MEMORY REQUIREMENTS IN DIGITAL STILL CAMERAS - In a digital still camera, pixel values representing an image frame in a first format are stored in a memory. The pixel values of the image frame in the first format are converted to a second format. The pixel values in the second format are stored in the memory by overwriting at least a portion of the pixel values in the first format. Memory space is thus conserved by the overwriting, thereby requiring reduced memory for storage of pixel values in the digital still camera. The minimum delay (shot to shot interval) required between user-indicated image capture instances is also reduced. | 07-01-2010 |
20100177216 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image recording apparatus for recording an image captured by use of electronic zoom, comprises an electronic-zoom setting unit configured to set a zoom magnification when using the electronic zoom, a recording-mode selection unit configured to select at least either a non-compression format or a compression format as a recording mode in recording the captured image, a recording-size setting unit configured to set a recording size in each recording mode, and a control unit configured to, when the zoom magnification is set to a magnification at which an image is enlarged, control a recording size in the non-compression format to be larger than the recording size set by the recording-size setting unit. | 07-15-2010 |
20100194927 | IMAGE TAKING APPARATUS - According to an aspect of the present invention, once the mode setting device sets the person photographing mode, and the face zooming instruction device instructs zooming to the face of the person, the detection device detects the size of the face of the person captured by the image pickup device. The zooming device is then controlled so as to capture the face of the person in a certain size based on the detection result. Subsequently, the photographer instructs zooming in the telephoto direction or the wide direction using the zooming instruction device as necessary to thereby allow fine adjustment of the composition. This enables to easily and quickly photograph an image in a user's desired composition. | 08-05-2010 |
20100214449 | IMAGING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - Acquired is a photographed image with a framing intended by a photographer. There is provided an imaging system including an operation detection unit for detecting a photographing operation by a photographer; an imaging unit for acquiring a through image prior to the photographing operation and acquiring an actually photographed image with a photographing field angle wider than a photographing field angle set by the photographer when the photographing operation is performed; a framing information acquiring unit for acquiring framing information created based on the through image when the photographing operation is performed, and related to framing in time of the photographing operation or immediately before the photographing information; and a trimming unit for trimming the actually photographed image acquired by the imaging unit based on the framing information. | 08-26-2010 |
20100220220 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - A method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus to display an image is provided. The method includes obtaining an input image from an image input unit, and displaying, on a display unit, each of a plurality of display regions of the input image to be enlarged as an enlarged image. | 09-02-2010 |
20100277621 | Imaging method and imaging apparatus - An imaging method includes a step of setting, when a digital zoom operation mode for enlarging an image imaged by a imaging part of an X-Y address type is selected, a zoom magnification and enlarging the image at the zoom magnification set. The imaging method includes the steps of: setting an imaging range in a vertical direction of the imaging part according to the zoom magnification set in the digital zoom step; outputting a driving signal for scanning the shutter signal and the readout signal to perform exposure in the imaging range set in the imaging range setting step and driving the, imaging part; and discarding, when the zoom magnification is changed in the digital zoom step, images imaged by the imaging part before and after the change of the zoom magnification to prevent the images from being used. | 11-04-2010 |
20100321535 | ADJUSTMENT OF SHARPNESS DURING DIGITAL ZOOM IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY - Different sharpness values are assigned to different digital zoom levels for generation of preview images from cropped images, where the dimensions of the cropped images correspond to the different digital zoom levels. | 12-23-2010 |
20110007188 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes: a brightness information acquisition unit configured to acquire brightness information indicating brightness of each pixel in a target image, wherein high-frequency components are eliminated from the target image; a correction magnification setting unit configured to set, for each pixel of the target image, a correction magnification based on the brightness information, wherein the correction magnification is substantially inversely proportional to the brightness of the pixel; and a gradation correction unit configured to correct the brightness of each pixel based on the correction magnification. | 01-13-2011 |
20110007189 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC CONVERSION TO DIGITAL ZOOM MODE - Provided are an apparatus and method of automatic conversion to a digital zoom mode allowing a digital zoom to be executed by automatically converting to a highest resolution mode supporting the digital zoom when a digital zoom key is pushed, in a high-resolution mode that a wireless communication terminal does not support such a digital zoom. The apparatus includes a key pad having a digital zoom key, a video processing unit for processing video data from the camera unit to determine a resolution and execute a digital zoom function, and a control unit for controlling the video processing unit to convert a resolution mode that does not support the digital zoom function to a highest resolution mode among resolution modes supporting the digital zoom function and execute the digital zoom function when the digital zoom key is pressed in the resolution mode that does not support the digital zoom function. | 01-13-2011 |
20110043662 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ZOOM USING TOUCH SCREEN - A method and apparatus for controlling zoom of a digital photographing apparatus using a touch screen. According to the method, a view angle may be modified by inputting a zooming gesture to the touch screen and zooming operation may be conveniently performed on a reproduced image. | 02-24-2011 |
20110050962 | ELECTRONIC ZOOMING DEVICE - A vertical zooming unit vertically resizes image data by a tap number m. A horizontal zooming unit horizontally resizes the vertically-resized image data outputted from the vertical zooming unit by a tap number n. A tap coefficient setting unit arbitrarily sets respective tap coefficients when the vertical zooming unit or the horizontal zooming unit is operated. A memory stores the image data therein. A memory controller controls input and output of the image data among the memory, the vertical zooming unit and the horizontal zooming unit. | 03-03-2011 |
20110050963 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS - On an operation monitor, a portion of an image captured by a wide-angle optical system which is to be zoomed in is selected, and an image in the area is captured by a telephoto optical system. Then, both of the images are multiplexed in a signal processor, and the multiplexed images are recorded on a recording medium. | 03-03-2011 |
20110063478 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An image pickup apparatus which has at least an optical zooming function, determines a layout of image data to be picked up by an image pickup unit, and displays the picked-up image data with the determined layout by superimposing the image data with a frame which excludes an image pickup area additionally obtained when an image pickup range corresponding to a focal length for the determined layout is zoomed a predetermined amount in a wide-angle direction. | 03-17-2011 |
20110080504 | AUTOMATIC TRIMMING METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - Trimming is automatically performed based on a person or persons in whom a photographer has interest. All of facial images included in a whole image are detected. Then, judgment is made as to whether each of the detected facial images is a facial image of a specific person, face information about whom is stored in a face database. If the detected facial images include a facial image or images of the specific person or persons, trimming is performed based on the facial image or images of the specific person or persons. | 04-07-2011 |
20110141318 | IMAGE SENSOR MODULES, METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE IMAGE SENSOR MODULES - An image sensor module is provided. The image sensor module includes a printed circuit board (PCB), an image sensor chip disposed on a first plane of the PCB and electrically connected to the PCB, and an image signal processing chip disposed on the first plane of the PCB and electrically connected to the PCB. An aspect ratio of the image signal processing chip is at least two times greater than an aspect ratio of the image sensor chip. A minimum feature size of a metal line implemented in the image sensor chip is at least 1.5 times greater than a minimum feature size of a metal line implemented in the image signal processing chip. | 06-16-2011 |
20110141319 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Upon capturing an image, distances to subjects are measured. The captured image is divided into a plurality of different layers that each has a set distance interval, so that subjects which are located within the same distance range belong to the same layer. Furthermore, enlargement ratios are set for the plurality of divided layers to execute resizing processing, and the resized layers are composited, so that layers having shorter distances to a subject are overlaid as upper layers, thereby obtaining an image which is resized for respective distances to subjects. | 06-16-2011 |
20110157428 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a video signal processing apparatus including an image outputting portion, a manipulation portion, and a video signal extracting portion. | 06-30-2011 |
20110176034 | Electronic camera and control program of same - The invention relates to an electronic camera having self-detection function of foreign materials and a control program thereof. The electronic camera includes: an image sensor having an image pickup plane on an image plane of an optical system; a formation changing section changing a state of image formation of the optical system on the image pickup plane; and a control section driving and controlling the image sensor and formation changing section. The control section drives the formation changing section to set a plurality of states of image formation different from each other, and it drives the image sensor to obtain a plurality of images in each of the states and compares the plurality of images to find a part of the image which has not varied with a change in the state of image formation, and determines the found part as image of a foreign material. | 07-21-2011 |
20110216224 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING - A digital image processing apparatus includes an image capturing unit that captures an image of a subject and converts the image into image data, a storage unit that stores the image data, a successive capturing information generating unit that adds successive capturing photographing information to image data of images that are obtained by the image capturing unit when successively capturing a plurality of images, a display unit that displays an image representing the image data, a user input unit that generates an input signal when an input is received from a user, and a slide show control unit that displays successively captured images obtained by a single successive capturing photographing operation on the display unit at predetermined time intervals based on the successive capturing photographing information included in the image data, wherein a portion of the successively captured images is enlarged and sequentially displayed. | 09-08-2011 |
20110242369 | IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD - In a stereoscopic imaging device including a plurality of imaging optical systems, a wide-image in which a principal subject is shifted from the center is taken, and also, a tele-image in which the principal subject is enlarged is taken at the same time. A size of a wide-side frame W, that is, a size of an angle of view of a trimming wide-image is decided based on a size of a tele-side frame T, that is, a zoom magnification of a tele-side imaging optical system, a position of the wide-side frame W displayed in the decided size is arbitrarily moved depending on an instruction from an operation unit, an area delimited by the wide-side frame W moved to any position is clipped from a default wide-image, and thereby, the trimming wide-image is obtained. Thereby, the tele-image which is a telephoto image in which a desired subject is zoomed, and the trimming wide-image which is a wide-angle image in which the subject can exist at a position other than the center of the image are simultaneously obtained. | 10-06-2011 |
20110273593 | DIGITAL ZOOM ON BAYER - A method and apparatus for performing a digital zoom operation on an input Bayer format image is provided, the output of the digital zoom operation being a second Bayer format image corresponding to the input Bayer format imaged enlarged by a zoom factor. | 11-10-2011 |
20110273594 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - A method for processing an image includes: obtaining depth values of an image including a target region and a non-target region; obtaining a scaling ratio of the target region; obtaining a scaling ratio of the non-target region according to the depth values of the image and the scaling ratio of the target region; scaling respectively the target region and the non-target region according to the scaling ratio of the target region and the scaling ratio of the non-target region, and obtaining a scaled image. | 11-10-2011 |
20110298952 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE - The image capture device of this invention includes: an optical system for producing a subject image; an imager, which receives the subject image and outputs an image signal representing the subject image; and an image processing section for zooming in on, or out, a given image based on the image signal and in accordance with information about a zoom power specified, to generate a new image signal with the zoom power changed. Until the zoom power specified reaches a predetermined value, the processing section zooms in on the image by interpolating pixels so that degree of sharpness given to the image increases. If a value representing illuminance of the image is a predefined value or more and if the zoom power is the predetermined value or more, the processing section fixes the degree of sharpness given to the image. And if the value representing the illuminance of the image is less than the predefined value and if the zoom power specified is the predetermined value or more, the processing section decreases the degree of sharpness given to the image. | 12-08-2011 |
20110317039 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image pickup apparatus capable of improving a conversion speed of column parallel A/D converters, while preventing a gradation representation of image pickup signals from becoming rough. The image pickup apparatus includes a CMOS sensor having A/D converters provided on output sides of column amplifiers for respective columns of two-dimensionally arranged pixels. The A/D converters have a first operation mode in which they operate with a first number of conversion bits and at a first conversion speed and a second operation mode in which they operate with a second number of conversion bits and at a second conversion speed. A signal processing circuit adds together plural pieces of two-dimensionally arranged pixel data output from the A/D converter that operate in the second operation mode, thereby expanding the number of gradation bits of the pixel data from the second number of conversion bits. | 12-29-2011 |
20120002084 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL IMAGE CAPTURE WITH VARIABLE DENSITY DISPLAY AND HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRONIC ZOOM - Disclosed herein are systems, apparatus, and methods for real-time image capture with variable density display, high resolution electronic zoom, and improved depth of field. The systems, apparatus, and methods used to view a target site include: at least one image sensor with an energy receiving surface having X pixels for producing one or more signals that correspond to the target site; at least one display for presenting N fields of view, wherein each field of view is comprised of at least one image produced by the signals; and an electronic zoom mechanism that can switch between N fields of view with little or no loss of resolution, wherein the first field of view is comprised of input from no more than X/N non-adjacent pixels and at least one zoom field of view is comprised of input from no more than X/N adjacent active pixels. | 01-05-2012 |
20120026366 | CONTINUOUS ELECTRONIC ZOOM FOR AN IMAGING SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE IMAGING DEVICES HAVING DIFFERENT FIXED FOV - A method for continuous electronic zoom in a computerized image acquisition system, the system having a wide image acquisition device and a tele image acquisition device having a tele image sensor array coupled with a tele lens having a narrow FOV, and a tele electronic zoom. The method includes providing a user of the image acquisition device with a zoom selecting control, thereby obtaining a requested zoom, selecting one of the image acquisition devices based on the requested zoom and acquiring an image frame, thereby obtaining an acquired image frame, and performing digitally zoom on the acquired image frame, thereby obtaining an acquired image frame with the requested zoom. The alignment between the wide image sensor array and the tele image sensor array is computed, to facilitate continuous electronic zoom with uninterrupted imaging, when switching back and forth between the wide image sensor array and the tele image sensor array. | 02-02-2012 |
20120038796 | APPARATUS AND METHOD PROVIDING AUTO ZOOM IN RESPONSE TO RELATIVE MOVEMENT OF TARGET SUBJECT MATTER - Methods and apparatus enable an image-viewing system to automatically zoom in and out as target subset matter is tracked. A hand-held body with a lens gathers an image including target subject matter. An image sensor having a resolution in pixels receives the image, and a viewfinder displays at least a portion of the image received by the image sensor. By virtue of the invention, apparatus for automatically zooming out the image displayed in the viewfinder if relative movement is detected between the target subject matter and the body and, and automatically zooming in the image displayed in the viewfinder if the relative movement of the target subject matter slows down or becomes stationary. A power zoom lens may effectuate the automatic zooming, or the zooming may be accomplished digitally without moving parts. The body may form part of a camera, video recorder, binoculars or telescope. | 02-16-2012 |
20120062769 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an image processing device and method, and a program whereby a subject can be imaged in a simpler manner with a desired imaging range. | 03-15-2012 |
20120092530 | CAPTURING DEVICE, CAPTURING SYSTEM AND CAPTURING METHOD - A capturing device includes an image sensor that generates an image signal by performing photoelectric conversion for light from a subject, a control unit that generates a setting value for setting a range where an image resulting from the image signal is cut, based on a first instruction input from a user, a setting value storage unit that stores the setting value generated by the control unit, an image conversion unit that reads the setting value from the setting value storage unit, and cuts a specific region specified by the setting value from the image and enlarges the cut region, when there is a second instruction input from the user, and an output unit that converts a signal of the image cut and enlarged by the image conversion unit into an image signal of a predetermined format and outputs the converted image signal. | 04-19-2012 |
20120113298 | IMAGE EVALUATION METHOD, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD AND DIGITAL CAMERA THEREOF FOR EVALUATING AND CAPTURING IMAGES ACCORDING TO COMPOSITION OF THE IMAGES - An image evaluation method for a digital camera includes analyzing the composition of an image for obtaining a characteristic of the composition of the image, computing information of an ideal composition based on the obtained characteristic of the composition of the image, and generating an indication according to the information of the ideal composition to guide a photographer to compose toward the ideal composition. | 05-10-2012 |
20120162483 | Mobile communicator with curved sensor camera - Methods and apparatus for combining a mobile communication device having a camera ( | 06-28-2012 |
20120188412 | IMAGING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - The present invention aims to provide an imaging device viewing an image exceeding an image of a range framed at the time of shooting after the shot has been taken, a control method thereof, an imaging system, and a program. An imaging device includes a digital zoom function, and includes an image acquisition processing unit that acquires image data of a predetermined range, an image process controlling unit that holds information of a live view range B, smaller than the predetermined range, and an image display processing unit that digitally zooms and displays a part corresponding to the live view range B from the acquired image data, and a data save processing unit that provides the information of the live view range B held by the image process controlling unit to the image data acquired by the image acquisition processing unit and saves the image data. | 07-26-2012 |
20120194708 | Digital Camera Devices and Methods for Implementing Digital Zoom in Digital Camera Devices and Corresponding Program Products - A device having a digital zoom function to form an output image, including a sensor and optics to produce a primary image, a display in which the primary image is arranged to be cropped in connection with the digital zoom function to form said output image, user interface means to set one or more settings relating to the digital zoom function and a image processor arranged to put a size for said output image based on the cropping of the primary image. The user interface arranged to be set as said setting one or more size limit for said output image and based on the one or more size limit and the size of the cropped primary image, the image processor arranged to perform scaling operations for the cropped primary image at least in part of the digital zoom range defined by said one or more size limit. | 08-02-2012 |
20120206627 | COMPACT DISTORTED ZOOM LENS FOR SMALL ANGLE OF VIEW - Providing for optical imaging lenses employing non-linear distortion for image magnification is described herein. By way of example, a five-lens system can perform magnification functions by producing distortion that expands the image in the center of the field of view and compresses the image in the periphery of the field of view. This distortion can be corrected through image processing to yield a rectified image. Further, the five-lens system can be implemented as part of a fixed-focus imaging system, or in conjunction with a variable focus optical magnification imaging system. | 08-16-2012 |
20120212650 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, PHOTOGRAPHING CONTROL METHOD AND PHOTOGRAPHING CONTROL PROGRAM - An electronic device and method of controlling the electronic device in which the electronic device includes a digital camera function. A touchless screen is configured to display an image. A control unit is configured to sense an operation member held over an area of the touchless screen without the operation member touching the touchless screen, and the control unit is further configured to determine at least one of a size or a position of the operation member held over the area of the touchless screen, and to control at least one digital camera operation based on the sensed at least one of size or position. | 08-23-2012 |
20120236181 | GENERATING A ZOOMED IMAGE - An apparatus and method of generating a zoomed image is disclosed. A particular method includes receiving an instruction to perform a zoom operation. Window information is sent to an image sensor based on the instruction. The window information corresponds to a portion of the image sensor. In addition, a request to reduce the pixel clock rate may be sent to the image sensor. The request may cause the image sensor to reduce the pixel clock rate such that a frame rate of image data captured by the image sensor is maintained. Cropped image data corresponding to the portion of the image sensor is received. The cropped image data is upscaled to generate a zoomed image | 09-20-2012 |
20120242867 | Simulated Large Aperture Lens - A camera apparatus includes a photogrammetric range sensor, small aperture lens and a processor configured to carry out a method for simulating a large aperture lens. The method includes capturing a photographic image data of a scene using the camera with the lens set to a small aperture size. Simultaneously or near-simultaneously with capturing the image, the camera captures photogrammetric range data pertaining to depth of objects in a field of view of the camera, using the range sensor. The processor then processes the photographic image data using the photogrammetric range data to obtain second photographic data simulating an image captured using a lens set to an aperture size larger than the small aperture size. | 09-27-2012 |
20120281119 | IMAGE DATA CREATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND IMAGE DATA CREATION SUPPORT METHOD - A user enters an input for selecting an image-capturing mode. The user then captures the image of a target with a desired zoon factor as a target image. An image-capturing device determines a zoom factor for an image to be captured starting from the target image and then captures an image while zooming out to the determined zoom factor. A process of changing the zoom factor and capturing an image is repeated until the smallest zoom factor among determined zoom factors is used. When image capturing of an image of the smallest zoom factor is completed, metadata is created that includes the respective zoom factors of images and relative position information of the images, and the metadata is stored in a memory unit in relation with the data of the captured images. | 11-08-2012 |
20120287311 | DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A digital image processing device and processing method thereof are provided. The device includes a digital image capturing module, an image enlarging module, an image correcting module, and an image blending module. The digital image capturing module captures a plurality of first resolution images. The image enlarging module enlarges the first resolution images and produces a plurality of second resolution images. The image correcting module selects a target image and produces a plurality of corrected images. The image blending module performs direction gradient operation on each of the pixels of the target and corrected images and produces a plurality of gradient differential values. The image blending module performs a weighting sum operation on each of the pixels of the target and corrected images and produces a third resolution images. | 11-15-2012 |
20120327274 | OPTICAL INSTRUMENT, AND METHOD FOR OPTICAL INSTRUMENT - An optical instrument of the present invention comprises a ring member which is arranged to be rotatable with respect to a lens barrel, and also to slide in an optical axis direction, a movement mechanism for slide movement of the ring member to a first position or a second position in the optical axis direction, an encoder that generates signals in accordance with a rotation operation of the ring member, a slide position determination section for determining positional change accompanying slide movement to the first position or the second position by the movement mechanism, and a control section for performing determination of the signals from the encoder to switch the display operation, and prohibiting switching of the display operation when the slide position determination section has determined a positional change accompanying the slide operation. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327275 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a control unit which switches between a first display mode and a second display mode based on whether a zoom state is equal to or greater than a predetermined zoom magnification. The imaging apparatus, in a zoom state where a part of an imaging area is clipped and recorded, switches between the first display mode, which displays on a display unit a clipped recording area, and the second display mode, which displays on the display unit an area which is wider than the clipped recording area. | 12-27-2012 |
20130002907 | METHOD AND/OR ARCHITECTURE FOR MOTION ESTIMATION USING INTEGRATED INFORMATION FROM CAMERA ISP - A camera comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to perform image signal processing using encoding related information. The second circuit may be configured to encode image data using image signal processing related information. The first circuit may be further configured to pass the image signal processing related information to the second circuit. The second circuit may be further configured to pass the encoding related information to the first circuit. The second circuit may be further configured to modify one or more motion estimation processes based upon the information from the first circuit. | 01-03-2013 |
20130016255 | Zooming to Faces Depicted in ImagesAANM Bhatt; NikhilAACI CupertinoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Bhatt; Nikhil Cupertino CA US - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, are described for zooming into a portion of an image that is associated with a specified feature, for example, a portion of an image that depicts a human or an animal face. In one aspect, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving user input requesting to zoom to faces depicted in one or more digital images, where the faces include either human faces or animal faces. Additionally, in response to said receiving the user input and for each of the one or more digital images, the methods include the actions of presenting a zoomed view of the digital image that shows an instance of a face depicted in the digital image, such that the zoomed view is presented at a zoom-level that is selected (i) to be less than or equal to a predetermined zoom-level and (ii) to maximize a fraction occupied by the depicted instance of the face within the zoomed view of the digital image. | 01-17-2013 |
20130016256 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHODAANM Yahagi; KoichiAACI Saitama-shiAACO JPAAGP Yahagi; Koichi Saitama-shi JPAANM Watanabe; MikioAACI Saitama-shiAACO JPAAGP Watanabe; Mikio Saitama-shi JP - An image processing apparatus having: an image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of viewpoint images; a disparity map generation unit that generates a disparity map representing a disparity distribution; a multi-viewpoint image generation unit that generates a multi-viewpoint image including a plurality of viewpoint images the number of which is larger than the number of the plurality of viewpoint images based on the plurality of viewpoint images and the disparity map; an image processing unit that performs image processing for a subject image of the multi-viewpoint image based on the multi-viewpoint image and the disparity map and switches an amount of image processing for the subject image depending on the disparity; and an output unit that switches the plurality of viewpoint images included in the multi-viewpoint image, which has been subjected to image processing by the image processing unit, and sequentially outputs the viewpoint images. | 01-17-2013 |
20130076944 | IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus that includes a camera unit including an imaging sensor that captures an image; a display that displays an image; and a processor that: clips an image region having a size corresponding to a photography zoom power from an image captured by the camera unit; adjusts a clipping position at a time of clipping the image region from the image; and controls the display to display the clipped image region on the display. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076945 | CAMERA APPARATUS AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A processor ( | 03-28-2013 |
20130100319 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a captured image, an object region detection unit configured to detect the main object region in a photographic screen, a determination unit configured to determine whether the main object region is in a focused state, an enlarge unit configured to enlarge and display the main object region in focus on the display unit larger than when the main object region is not in focus, an object movement detection unit configured to detect whether the main object in the main object region moves in the photographic screen, and an enlarge control unit configured to, when the object movement detection unit detects that the main object is moving, limit the enlarge from performing enlargement and display. | 04-25-2013 |
20130113962 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR PRODUCING BACKGROUND BLURRED IMAGE AND IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE THEREOF - An image processing method for producing background blurred image and an image capturing device thereof are provided. The image processing method for producing background blurred image includes following steps. First, a plurality of live-view images are continuously captured on a subject and a target image is captured. Next, a geometric correction on the live-view images is performed so as to produce a plurality of corrected live-view images. Then, a correlation comparison on the corrected live-view images is performed so as to produce a relative depth of field (DOF) map. Further, the relative DOF map is enlarged. Finally, a subject area containing a subject in the target image is determined according to the enlarged relative DOF map and a blurring processing on a remained area except for the subject area is performed so as to produce a background blurred image. | 05-09-2013 |
20130120617 | ZOOM CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - A zoom control method and apparatus. The zoom control method allows a subject to be photographed by automatically performing a zooming operation with a proper composition and resolves a problem where a subject disappears from a screen due to the zooming operation. | 05-16-2013 |
20130128081 | Methods and Apparatus for Reducing Plenoptic Camera Artifacts - Methods and apparatus for reducing plenoptic camera artifacts. A first method is based on careful design of the optical system of the focused plenoptic camera to reduce artifacts that result in differences in depth in the microimages. A second method is computational; a focused plenoptic camera rendering algorithm is provided that corrects for artifacts resulting from differences in depth in the microimages. While both the artifact-reducing focused plenoptic camera design and the artifact-reducing rendering algorithm work by themselves to reduce artifacts, the two approaches may be combined. | 05-23-2013 |
20130155292 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An imaging apparatus and method are provided. Pixel values of each line of a resized image are sequentially obtained by resizing an input image using pixel values of the input image that are sequentially obtained from an imaging element, wherein the resized image has a first number of lines. Pixel values of each line of a distortion-corrected image are sequentially obtained by performing distortion correction on the resized image using pixel values of one or more lines of the resized image, wherein the distortion-corrected image has a second number of lines. The first number of lines is set to have any two of positions in the resized image that are closest to each other in a vertical direction and that correspond to pixels of the distortion-corrected image, which have a distance that is greater than or equal to a line distance of the resized image. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155293 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, METHOD OF PROVIDING COMPOSITION OF IMAGE PICKUP AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image pickup apparatus includes an image capturing unit which captures an image, a control unit which controls the image capturing unit to generate a wide-angle image, a composition calculating unit which calculates an optimum composition of image pickup using the generated wide-angle image, and a user interface unit which provides composition guide information to capture the image according to the calculated optimum composition of image pickup. | 06-20-2013 |
20130176462 | SUPER-RESOLUTION DIGITAL ZOOM - When a user selects digital zooming in a camera such as might be included in a wireless telephone or PDA, a series of images are automatically obtained and superimposed using super-resolution techniques to produce an improved digital zoom image transparently to the user. | 07-11-2013 |
20130201368 | ALTERING FOCUS LENS MAGNIFICATION IN A VIDEO FRAME - A focus lens is moved to a position within a range of focus lens positions. A video frame is captured with the focus lens at that position. The magnification of the first video frame is altered according to a maximum magnification threshold associated with the range of focus lens positions. | 08-08-2013 |
20130222648 | IMAGING METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging method includes a step of setting, when a digital zoom operation mode for enlarging an image imaged by a imaging part of an X-Y address type is selected, a zoom magnification and enlarging the image at the zoom magnification set. The imaging method includes the steps of: setting an imaging range in a vertical direction of the imaging part according to the zoom magnification set in the digital zoom step; outputting a driving signal for scanning the shutter signal and the readout signal to perform exposure in the imaging range set in the imaging range setting step and driving the imaging part; and discarding, when the zoom magnification is changed in the digital zoom step, images imaged by the imaging part before and after the change of the zoom magnification to prevent the images from being used. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222649 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus which includes an image processing unit and a system control unit, wherein this system control unit adds information for determining an image height reference position of an image before cropping processing is performed to an image cropped by the image processing unit, and records the resultant image in an external storage device. Alternatively, information for determining an image height reference position of an image before rotation processing is performed is added to an image rotated by the image processing unit, and the resultant image is recorded in an external storage device. | 08-29-2013 |
20130265468 | CAMERA, DISTORTION CORRECTION DEVICE AND DISTORTION CORRECTION METHOD - An electronic zoom and distortion correction processing unit ( | 10-10-2013 |
20130286256 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING IMAGE - A method for recognizing an image in an electronic device is provided so as to determine whether or not a specific object is actually within the presence of (immediate photographable vicinity) of the electronic device based on certain characteristics of one or more images of the specific object. Images of the specific object which is focused and shot at different magnifications are obtained. Characteristics of an object region and a background region between the obtained images are compared. Whether the object is real is determined depending on the comparison result. An apparatus hardware configured for operation of the method in electronic devices including but limited to mobile terminals. | 10-31-2013 |
20130314569 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image capturing apparatus capable of switching between an optical viewfinder and live view which involves periodically reading out an image signal out of an image sensor and sequentially displaying the image signal on a display unit, comprises a phase difference focus control unit that performs auto focus control using a phase difference detection method; a selection unit that selects one of a plurality of focus detection areas used for the auto focus control; an electronic zoom unit that changes an angle of view; and a control unit that causes the phase difference focus control unit to perform auto focus control by the phase difference detection method using the selected focus detection area if the selected focus detection area is located within the changed angle of view, otherwise not to perform auto focus control by the phase difference detection method using the selected focus detection area. | 11-28-2013 |
20130342734 | SUPER-RESOLUTION DIGITAL ZOOM - When a user selects digital zooming in a camera such as might be included in a wireless telephone or PDA, a series of images are automatically obtained and superimposed using super-resolution techniques to produce an improved digital zoom image transparently to the user. | 12-26-2013 |
20140085512 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - An image pickup apparatus including an image pickup device having a pixel section with a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged pixels and a frame memory which temporarily stores, in an analog manner, analog image data read out from the pixel section and first to third readout control sections which perform first readout control that reads out image data of all pixels obtained through one exposure from the pixel section and stores the image data in the frame memory and perform second readout control that nondestructively reads out a piece of image data of a smaller number of pixels than all the pixels from the image data of all the pixels stored in the frame memory a plurality of times such that the piece of image data each has different object region size. | 03-27-2014 |
20140104459 | IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - For pixel signals of a plurality of pixels arranged in a first pixel area arranged in a two dimensional matrix form, a size of the first pixel area is converted to output first image data, and for pixel signals of pixels arranged in a second pixel area smaller than the first pixel area, a size of the second pixel area is converted to output second image data, wherein an operating mode is changed in response to the size of the second pixel area. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104460 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state image sensor that has a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix form and outputs pixel signals according to subject light incident on each of the plurality of pixels in at least two or more drive modes, a first processing unit that performs, on the pixel signals output by the solid-state image sensor according to any one drive mode, the equal process to a first process performed when the solid-state image sensor outputs the pixel signals according to another drive mode and a pixel signal selection unit that selects any one of the pixel signals that are subject to the equal process to the first process performed by the first processing unit or the pixel signals that are subject to the first process performed by the solid-state image sensor according to the latter drive mode. | 04-17-2014 |
20140118577 | IMAGING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A mobile phone ( | 05-01-2014 |
20140168477 | INTERACTIVE IMAGE CAPTURE, MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION - Automated systems and methods for capturing digital images of a customer with multiple high-definition video cameras mounted in a venue such as a stadium, interactively communicating with venue customers to receive customer requests for images and information regarding customer locations in the venue and in response identify camera images containing the requested images and pixel groups therein containing images requested by customers, processing the requests to generate preview and send to customers for approval and ordering, and generating and sending final images in response to purchase requests and calculating and automatically applying charges to customers and third parties for promotional material sent to customers and making payments to third parties having rights in image content sent to customers. Variations of embodiments are suitable for venues such as a museum, a garden, a zoo, a religious institution, a theme park, or any other venue where imaging is possible and practical, or in a defined time period, such as a trip or vacation. The systems and methods can be essentially fully automated, using automated cameras and essentially only electronic communications between a customer and a computerized central facility, or can include a human representative or contractor for some of the operations. The souvenir can include other customer-related elements, such as “stock” images, composited images that include the customer or customer-related people or objects, and text and sound. | 06-19-2014 |
20140176767 | HANDHELD MAGNIFICATION DEVICE WITH A TWO-CAMERA MODULE - A handheld magnification device for displaying a magnified representation of an object in a see-through manner is provided. The handheld magnification device includes a casing and a first and a second camera both adapted to acquire an image of the object, and having respectively a first working range proximate the handheld magnification device and a second working range different from and extending beyond the first working range. The handheld magnification device also includes a distance-sensitive sensor for measuring a distance parameter representative of a distance between the object and the handheld magnification device, as well as a processing unit for automatically selecting, based on the distance parameter and the first and second working ranges, one of the first and second cameras as a selected camera. The handheld magnification device further includes a display for displaying the magnified representation of the object based on the image acquired by the selected camera. | 06-26-2014 |
20140184854 | FRONT CAMERA FACE DETECTION FOR REAR CAMERA ZOOM FUNCTION - A method is described herein for controlling a zoom mode function of a portable imaging device equipped with multiple camera modules, such as a dual camera imaging device like a digital still camera, a smart phone, a tablet or a camcorder. Including, a method for enabling an automatic zoom mode operation for one of the camera modules is described based on the size of an identified user's face or based on at least one of the user's facial features as detected by a front-facing camera module. In response to detecting the size of the user's face or of his or her facial features, a zooming coefficient for the rear-facing camera module is automatically determined as the user moves the imaging device closer or farther away from his face. | 07-03-2014 |
20140184855 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus having an electronic zoom function, comprising an image sensing element, a zoom magnification setting unit, a pixel signal readout unit, an image processor, and a controller which, when the zoom magnification is between first and second zoom magnifications, controls to read out pixel signals of a first pixel count, and to generate the image using pixel signals of a second pixel count, and when the zoom magnification is between third and fourth zoom magnifications, controls to read out pixel signals of a third pixel count, and to generate the image using pixel signals of a fourth pixel count, the second pixel count is not larger than the first pixel count, the fourth pixel count is not larger than the third pixel count. | 07-03-2014 |
20140198237 | GENERATING A ZOOMED IMAGE - An apparatus and method of generating a zoomed image is disclosed. A particular method includes receiving an instruction to perform a zoom operation. Window information is sent to an image sensor based on the instruction. The window information corresponds to a portion of the image sensor. In addition, a request to reduce the pixel clock rate may be sent to the image sensor. The request may cause the image sensor to reduce the pixel clock rate such that a frame rate of image data captured by the image sensor is maintained. Cropped image data corresponding to the portion of the image sensor is received. The cropped image data is upscaled to generate a zoomed image. | 07-17-2014 |
20140204247 | GESTURE RESPONSIVE IMAGE CAPTURE CONTROL AND/OR OPERATION ON IMAGE - Methods, apparatuses and storage medium associated with controlling capture of images and/or processing captured images are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a storage medium may include instructions configured to enable a device having an image capture component, in response to execution of the instructions by the device, to enable the device to provide one or more sendees to control the image capture component responsive to a gesture, to perform a post-capture processing operation on an image captured by the image capture component responsive to the gesture, or to do both. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed, | 07-24-2014 |
20140211046 | Apparatus and Method for Processing Digital Image - An apparatus and method for processing a digital image that allow a user to selectively set a composition in an image by setting a selected location and a selected size of an image of a subject to be photographed in advance. The apparatus for processing a digital image includes a digital signal processor, wherein the digital signal processor sets the selected location and the selected size of an image of a subject to be photographed, zooms corresponding to the set selected size, and induces a composition change corresponding to the set selected location. An optimal image is obtained by enabling selective composition change in an image by a user by setting location and size of an image of a subject to be photographed in advance. | 07-31-2014 |
20140240553 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY RENDERING DOLLY ZOOM EFFECT - Various methods are provided for automatically adjusting a zoom feature in accordance with a camera movement to perform a dolly zoom effect. One example method may include causing reception of a first image frame from video data, wherein the first image frame comprises two or more interest points, causing reception of a second image frame from the video data, wherein the second image frame comprises the two or more interest points in a different location, and tracking a difference in location of the two or more interest points from the first image frame to the second image frame. The method may also include calculating a scaling factor and applying the scaling factor to the second image frame. | 08-28-2014 |
20140253761 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A control device includes: a detection section configured to detect setting to a predetermined imaging mode; and a control section configured to set a predetermined method of zooming in response to the setting to the imaging mode, and to perform zoom control with a subject distance fixed. | 09-11-2014 |
20140293093 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING ZOOM MICROPHONE FUNCTIONAL IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus support a zoom microphone function in a mobile terminal. The apparatus includes a plurality of microphones, a camera, and a controller. Each of the plurality of microphones has a different directional characteristic. The camera captures an image. And the controller determines a zoom level of the camera, and adjusts gains of the plurality of microphones based on a zoom range to which the zoom level belongs. | 10-02-2014 |
20140368698 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - There is provided a display control apparatus, including: a composition determining section configured to determine recommended composition of an input image; an image generating section configured to generate an image based on the recommended composition; and a display controller configured to control displaying the input image, the recommended composition, and the image based on the recommended composition, on a display section. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368699 | Zoom Lens and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - A zoom lens comprising, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power. Each distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit, between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit, and between the fourth lens unit and the fourth lens unit at the telephoto end is longer than at the wide angle end, and a distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit at the telephoto end is shorter than at the wide angle end, and the following conditional expressions are satisfied. | 12-18-2014 |
20150009366 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device according to the present disclosure includes: a locating unit which locates a first in-focus region of each of plural images which are obtained by capturing a same subject and have different in-focus positions; and a display unit which displays a first image among the plural images, wherein when a certain position is designated on the first image displayed by the display unit, at least a second image having the first in-focus region which includes the certain position is selected from among the plural images, and the selected second image is displayed on the display unit. | 01-08-2015 |
20150062384 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A device includes: an image acquisition device acquiring a taken image in which a subject is imaged; a smoothing device generating a smoothed image by smoothing the taken image; a noise extraction device extracting a difference noise component from a difference between the taken image and the smoothed image; a noise addition device adding the difference noise component to the smoothed taken image; a map acquisition device acquiring a blurring strength map that represents a distribution of blurring strengths for the taken image; and an image combining device combining the taken image with the smoothed image on the basis of the blurring strength map, and generating an output image. | 03-05-2015 |
20150085164 | ABERRATION CORRECTION APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS AND ABERRATION CORRECTION METHOD - An aberration correction apparatus includes an aberration information acquisition unit which acquires aberration information from an imaging lens; a spectroscopic characteristic information acquisition unit which acquires spectroscopic characteristic information of an imaging device which performs a photoelectric conversion of an optical image that is formed in the imaging lens; and an aberration information correction unit which performs a correction according to the spectroscopic characteristic information with respect to the acquired aberration information. | 03-26-2015 |
20150350525 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS THAT PERFORMS ZOOMING OPERATION, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image pickup apparatus which enhances usability in shooting in a case where a user sets an initial lens position. A system control unit starts shifting a zoom position of a taking lens in response to start of a zooming operation in which the zoom position is changed, and stops shifting the zoom position in response to termination of the zooming operation. When the zoom position reaches a predetermined zoom position, which is inside an optical zoom range and is neither an optical wide-angle end nor an optical telephoto end, while the zoom position is being shifted in a first direction in response to a first zooming operation for shifting the zoom position in the first direction, the system control unit provides control to fix the zoom position at the predetermined zoom position even when the first zooming operation has not been terminated. | 12-03-2015 |
20150365604 | DUAL SENSOR CAMERA - A dual sensor camera that uses two aligned sensors each having a separate lens of different focal length but the same f-number. The wider FOV image from one sensor is combined with the narrower FOV image from the other sensor to form a combined image. Up-sampling of the wide FOV image and down-sampling of the narrow FOV image is performed. The longer focal length lens may have certain aberrations introduced so that Extended Depth of Field (EDoF) processing can be used to give the narrow FOV image approximately the same depth of field as the wide FOV image so that a noticeable difference in depth of field is not see in the combined image. | 12-17-2015 |
20150365605 | DUAL SENSOR CAMERA - A dual sensor camera that uses two aligned sensors each having a separate lens of different focal length but the same f-number. The wider FOV image from one sensor is combined with the narrower FOV image from the other sensor to form a combined image. Up-sampling of the wide FOV image and down-sampling of the narrow FOV image is performed. The longer focal length lens may have certain aberrations introduced so that Extended Depth of Field (EDoF) processing can be used to give the narrow FOV image approximately the same depth of field as the wide FOV image so that a noticeable difference in depth of field is not see in the combined image. | 12-17-2015 |
20160028966 | METHODOLOGY FOR GENERATING HIGH FIDELITY DIGITAL ZOOM FOR MOBILE PHONE CAMERAS - A mobile device includes an embedded digital camera that is configured to capture a burst of N images. The mobile device includes processing circuitry comprising a registration module configured to, for each image within the burst of images: analyze an amount of warp of the image and generate a set of affine matrices indicating the amount of warp of the image. The processing circuitry includes a High Fidelity Interpolation block configured to, for each image within the burst of images: perform affine transformation using the set of affine matrices associated with the image, apply an aliasing-retaining interpolation filter, and implement rotation transformation and sub-pixel shifts, yielding an interpolated image. The processing circuitry includes a blending module configured to receive the N interpolated images and blend the N interpolated images into a single-blended image having a user-selected digital zoom ratio. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028967 | IMAGE SET ALIGNMENT AND COMBINATION PROCESSING - A method and apparatus for aligning and combining images. The method includes identifying feature points in an image in images generated of a scene by a camera and identifying locations of the identified feature points in remaining images in the images. The method also includes selecting a group of the identified feature points indicative of relative motion of the camera between image captures and aligning a set of the images using the selected group of feature points. The method may further include selecting a reference image from the set of aligned images, weighting other images the set, and combining the reference image with the weighted images. Weighting of the other images may include, for each other image in the set, comparing the other image and the reference image to identify one or more moving objects in the other image and applying a weight to pixel locations in the other image. | 01-28-2016 |
20160037086 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME - Provided is a compound-eye image pickup apparatus in which a plurality of imaging units, each of which configured to photoelectrically convert an optical image focused by a single focal lens with different focal length so as to output a signal, are arranged in the form of a matrix. An image processing unit performs an electronic zoom process for changing a cut-out area of an image and a filtering process for an image signal. A system controller obtains information relating a change in zoom magnification from a zoom changing unit and data relating to a zoom control method from a zoom control method storage unit so as to instruct a zoom controller to perform zoom control. Upon change of an angle of view by controlling the electronic zoom process and the switching of the single focal lens, the zoom controller controls the filtering process performed by the image processing unit so as to equalize the resolution before and after the switching of the single focal lens. | 02-04-2016 |
20160044236 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a display unit, an interested-position obtaining unit, a zoom operation obtaining unit and an image-processing unit. The imaging unit is configured to image an image of an object through a lens. The display unit is configured to display the image imaged by the imaging unit. The interested-position obtaining unit is configured to obtain specification of an interested position in the image displayed on the display unit. The zoom operation obtaining unit is provided for the lens and is configured to obtain a zoom operation. The image-processing unit is configured to perform, on the image, an electronic zoom processing of enlarging the interested position, in accordance with the zoom operation. | 02-11-2016 |
20160085266 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a mobile terminal of a watch type and controlling method thereof, by which a photographing device can be remotely controlled. The present invention includes a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with a photographing device, a display unit configured to display a preview image inputted through a camera of the photographing device before a photo is photographed through the photographing device, and a controller, if a preset user input is received while the preview image is outputted, controlling a remote photograph command to be transmitted to enable the photo to be photographed through the photographing device. | 03-24-2016 |
20160112646 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a determination unit ( | 04-21-2016 |
20160142627 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND DIGITAL ZOOMING METHOD THEREOF - An image capturing device and a digital zooming method thereof are proposed in the invention. The method includes the following steps. A scene is captured by a primary lens and a secondary lens to generate a primary image and a secondary image. Image rectification is then performed on the primary and the secondary images to obtain two corresponding rectified images. Feature points detected and matched from the two rectified images are used to determine a corresponding overlapping region, respectively. Pixel displacement and depth map in the two overlapping regions could be calculated and estimated. Image zooming and warping techniques are performed on the two rectified images to obtain corresponding warped images using a recalculated homography matrix according to each specific zooming factor. Finally, the two overlapping regions in the warped image are fused by a weighted blending approach to generate a digital zoomed image. | 05-19-2016 |
20160191809 | ZOOM CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF ZOOM CONTROL DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A subject detection unit of an imaging apparatus detects a subject image from an image. An automatic zoom control unit designates the subject image detected by the subject detection unit and cancels the designation. The automatic zoom control unit automatically selects a specific composition among a plurality of compositions and sets a reference size of the subject image used to control a zoom magnification based on the elected composition. The automatic zoom control unit controls the zoom magnification based on the reference size and a size of the subject image sequentially detected by the subject detection unit. At least one of composition selection candidates selected by the automatic zoom control unit is different according to whether the subject image is designated by the automatic zoom control unit. | 06-30-2016 |
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