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20130002830 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING THE FOCAL POINT OF A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING DEVICE - A stereoscopic imaging device comprising: a second focus adjusting unit that operates a second focus lens to carry out a search within a second search range and searches for a second lens position at which a subject to be imaged is brought into focus; and a photographing unit that performs a photographing of a first viewpoint image and a second viewpoint image when a photographing instruction is inputted after a process by a first focus adjusting unit and a second focus adjusting unit, wherein the second focus adjusting unit calculates the second lens position based upon a first lens position and a focus positional deviation amount stored in a storage unit, and shifts the second focus lens to the second lens position, if it is not possible to acquire the second lens position within the second search range as a result of the search. | 01-03-2013 |
20130070061 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING DEVICE AND AUTOFOCUS ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING DEVICE - An autofocus adjustment method for a three-dimensional imaging device, includes: a step of, when a first lens position is not found during search operation of a first focus lens of a first imaging optical system within a first search range, allowing a second focus lens of a second imaging optical system to perform search operation within the first search range, and during the search operation, searching for a second lens position at which the second focus lens focuses on the subject based on a second viewpoint image from the second imaging unit; a step of allowing the second focus lens to move to the second lens position; a step of calculating the first lens position based on the second lens position and a focus position displacement amount preliminarily stored in a storage; and a step of allowing the first focus lens to move to the first lens position thus calculated. | 03-21-2013 |
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20090051805 | FOCUSING APPARATUS AND FOCUSING METHOD - A focusing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an image pickup device which obtains an image signal of a subject that is captured by an image capturing device, wherein the image capturing device incorporates a focus optical system therein; a search interval calculating device which acquires contrast characteristics that are obtained for a subject of a predetermined spatial frequency at a predetermined focal length and calculates a search interval in capturing of an image based on the contrast characteristics; a focus evaluation value acquiring device which moves a focus lens to a detecting point for each search interval in a predetermined searching range and acquires a focus evaluation value at each detecting point from the image signal; and a focus detecting device which detects a focus position by using the focus evaluation value at each detecting point that is acquired by the focus evaluation value acquiring device. | 02-26-2009 |
20110012998 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging method includes: calculating an amount of parallax between a reference optical system and an adjustment target optical system; setting coordinates of an imaging condition evaluation region corresponding to the first viewpoint image outputted by the reference optical system; calculating coordinates of an imaging condition evaluation region corresponding to the second viewpoint image outputted by the adjustment target optical system, based on the set coordinates of the imaging condition evaluation region corresponding to the first viewpoint image, and on the calculated amount of parallax; and adjusting imaging conditions of the reference optical system and the adjustment target optical system, based on image data in the imaging condition evaluation region corresponding to the first viewpoint image, at the set coordinates, and on image data in the imaging condition evaluation region corresponding to the second viewpoint image, at the calculated coordinates, and outputting the viewpoint images in the adjusted imaging conditions. | 01-20-2011 |
20110018972 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING METHOD - A stereoscopic imaging method using: first and second imaging devices including first and second imaging optical systems with first and second focus lenses and imaging a subject to generate first and second images; and a lens driving device configured to move the first and second focus lenses along the first and second optical axes of the first and second imaging optical systems, respectively, the method includes: moving the focus lenses to detect first and second focus positions in an imaging space of the first and second focus lenses, respectively; calculating a stereoscopic view possible range where a parallax amount of the first and second imaging device is within an acceptable range; determining whether the focus positions are between an intersection of the optical axes and a near point of the stereoscopic view possible range; and causing the lens driving device to focus the first and second focus lens on the determined focus position. | 01-27-2011 |