Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110128432 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD, AND IMAGING PROGRAM - An imaging device is provided for generating image data on the basis of light received by an imaging element. The imaging device includes a display unit which displays an image, a focus unit which detects a focus deviation, and a display controller which causes the display unit to display a composite image in which a first image of a region of at least a portion of a second image of the image data, and the second image are superposed and combined. The region is in a position in accordance with the focus deviation. | 06-02-2011 |
20110157403 | CAMERA AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A camera with a focusing function is provided. The camera includes a first imaging unit configured to generate a first image by a photoelectric conversion from an image of a subject obtained via a first lens, a second imaging unit configured to generate a second image by a photoelectric conversion from an image of the subject obtained via a second lens, where the second imaging unit being different from the first imaging unit, an focusing amount acquiring unit configured to acquire amount of focusing, a composite image generating unit configured to set a cutout position on the second image, to cut out an partial image at the cutout position, on the basis of the operation amount and a predetermined cutout rule, and to generate a composite image by superimposing the partial image on the first image, and an image display unit configured to display the composite image. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157404 | DIGITAL CAMERA AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A digital camera is provided with a focusing function and a focal length varying function of a main lens. The digital camera includes a main imaging unit configured to generate a main image by performing a photoelectric conversion from a subject obtained via the main lens, a sub-imaging unit configured to generate a sub-image by performing a photoelectric conversion from the subject obtained via a sub-lens, a focal length acquiring unit configured to acquire the focal length of the main lens, a magnification setting unit configured to set a level of magnification on the basis of the focal length, a composite image generating unit configured to generate a composite image by combining the main image and the sub-image, after at least one of the main image and the sub-image is magnified at the level of magnification, and an image display unit configured to display the composite image. | 06-30-2011 |
20110298962 | IMAGE-DISPLAYING DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL CIRCUIT - An image-displaying device includes a display control section and an index display control section. The display control section is configured to display in a display section an image of a subject based on image data indicative of the image of the subject generated based on output data from an image-capturing section that captures the image of the subject. The index display control section is configured to display in an index display section an index corresponding to a delay between a timing corresponding to image-capture of the subject by the image-capturing section and a timing corresponding to display of the image of the subject by the display section. | 12-08-2011 |
20110310268 | IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE AND TIMING CONTROL CIRCUIT - An image-capturing device includes an image-capturing section, an image-data-generation section, a progress-information-acquiring section, and an image-capture control section. The image-capturing section captures an image of a subject and repeatedly generates image-capture data of frames which represent single video frames. The image-data-generation section carries out processing for generating image data indicating an image of the subject, on the basis of image-capture data of the image-capturing section. The progress-information-acquiring section acquires progress information indicating progress of processing for generating the image data. The image-capture control section controls, on the basis of the progress information, a timing for starting the generating of the image-capture data for the next frame in the image-capturing section. | 12-22-2011 |
20110310269 | IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE AND TIMING CONTROL CIRCUIT - An image-capturing device includes image-capturing section, an image-data-generation section, and an image capture control section. The image-capturing section is for capturing an image of a subject and starting generating of image-capture data corresponding to a single frame in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal, The image-data-generation section is for carrying out processing for generating image data showing an image of the subject, on the basis of the image-capture data. The image capture control section is for varying, at a minimum, either a number of pulses of subsignals generated a plurality of times within a period of one cycle of the vertical synchronization signal, or the cycle for generating the vertical synchronization signal. | 12-22-2011 |
20120069214 | IMAGE CORRECTION CIRCUIT, IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD, AND IMAGE CORRECTION PROGRAM - An image capture device for capturing an image of an object includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements configured to output a signal corresponding to the image based on an amount of exposure between a first shutter operation for starting exposure and a second shutter operation for ending exposure, a controller configured to control the first shutter operation and the second shutter operation, and an image generation section configured to correct the signal, and to generate an output image corresponding to the signal after being corrected. The image generation section is configured to correct the signal based on variance in exposure duration among the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements between the first shutter operation and the second shutter operation. | 03-22-2012 |
20120092542 | TIMING GENERATOR, IMAGING DEVICE, AND DOT-CLOCK OUTPUT METHOD - A timing generator includes a frame rate information receiver, a display control section, and a determination unit. The frame rate information acquisition section is configured to receive information indicating a frame rate of an image sensor. The display control section is configured to output dot clocks in a first cycle to a display which includes a counter being configured to count the number of the dot clocks for a synchronization period, where the dot clocks are a synchronization signal. The determination unit is configured to determine whether or not the number of the dot clocks in the synchronization period is expected to exceed a predetermined number, where length of the synchronization period is based on at least the frame rate of the image sensor. The display control section is configured to switch from the first cycle to a second cycle, if the number of dot clocks is expected to exceed the predetermined number. | 04-19-2012 |
20120120291 | IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE, IMAGE-CAPTURING METHOD, AND IMAGE-CAPTURING PROGRAM - An electronic shutter control part is configured to control an electronic shutter. A mechanical shutter has a light-shielding part. The mechanical shutter is configured to end exposing the first and second photoelectric conversion elements by moving the light-shielding part. The assessing part is configured to assess whether the length of a exposure time is longer or less than a threshold value. The electronic shutter control part is configured to control the electronic shutter to start exposing the first photoelectric conversion element at a first exposure-start timing and control the electronic shutter to start exposing the second photoelectric conversion element at a second exposure-start timing in order to make the first exposure time to be closer to the second exposure time when the exposure time is less than a threshold value, than when the exposure time is longer than a threshold value | 05-17-2012 |
20130148013 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - A first state where an image is captured with a predetermined exposure in which an aperture of a diaphragm is a first aperture and a shutter speed is a first shutter speed is changed to a second state where an image is captured with the predetermined exposure in which the aperture of the diaphragm is a second aperture larger than the first aperture and the shutter speed is a second shutter speed higher than the first shutter speed, and a focal point is adjusted. The second aperture is set to be as large as possible within a range of maintaining the predetermined exposure. | 06-13-2013 |
20130194594 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING PRINTING MATERIAL - A basic color to be printed in achromatic colors (a layer superimposed with another layer) is changed in response to the brightness of a pixel indicated by the original image data. | 08-01-2013 |
20140009452 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEIVCE - A display control device includes an image data generating section and a control section. The image data generating section is configured to perform generation processing for generating image data in a predetermined processing sequence for each of a plurality of predetermined data units of the image data. The control section is configured to control a display unit to execute display processing based on the image data in the processing sequence for each of the predetermined data units. The control section is configured to control the display unit so that the longer a first time relating to the generation processing for one of the predetermined data units of the image data is, the longer a second time until the display processing starts for the one of the predetermined data units of the image data is. | 01-09-2014 |
20140125839 | IMAGE-DISPLAYING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE-DISPLAYING DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to reduce display delay time in a live view display. An image capturing device has an image data generation unit that generates image data per line of a display section based on an output of an image capturing sensor in which a start and an end of charge storing are controlled per line, a display control unit that causes the display section to display generated image data sequentially per line, and a control unit that ends charge storing after a first amount of time passes since charge storing of an image capturing target line is started, and starts displaying image data of a display target line corresponding to the image capturing target line after a second amount of time passes since charge storing of an image capturing target line is ended. The second amount of time is time required for starting displaying image data in a display target line after charge storing of an image capturing target line is ended. The control unit starts charge storing of an image capturing target line such that the first amount of time is equal to or less than a vertical synchronization period of the image capturing sensor minus the second amount of time. | 05-08-2014 |
20140139701 | IMAGE CORRECTION CIRCUIT, IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD, AND IMAGE CORRECTION PROGRAM - A device includes a correction section configured to correct an image of an object captured by using a first shutter operation for starting exposure of a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and a second shutter operation for ending exposure of the photoelectric conversion elements. The correction section is configured to correct the image according to a distance from an optical axis center to the photoelectric conversion elements to minimize variance in exposure duration among the photoelectric conversion elements between the first shutter operation and the second shutter operation. | 05-22-2014 |
20140160339 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - An object of the invention is to display image data generated based on output data of an image capturing sensor and information other than such image data in a period of the same length as a frame image capturing period of the image capturing sensor. With the invention, image data showing an image of an object is generated per line of a display section based on output data of an image capturing sensor, display data including the image data is caused to be displayed on a first display region of a display screen of the display section constructed by the first display region and a second display region with a line display period having a length of “a” or more to “b” or less after the image data of a plurality of lines is stored in the buffer, and display data that does not include the image data is caused to be displayed on the second display region with a line display period having a length of “a”. “a” refers to a shortest length of the line display period of the display section in which a frame rate as display capability is higher than the frame rate of the image capturing sensor. Length “a” is shorter than “b” that refers to a maximum length of a period for generating image data of one line in a case where the image capturing sensor is operated at the image capturing sensor frame rate. | 06-12-2014 |
20140184870 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD, AND IMAGING PROGRAM - An imaging device includes a display unit which displays an image, a focus unit which detects a focus deviation, and a display controller which causes the display unit to display a composite image in which a first image of a region of at least a portion of a second image of the image data, and the second image are superposed and combined. The region is in a position in accordance with the focus deviation. | 07-03-2014 |
20140327803 | IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE AND TIMING CONTROL CIRCUIT - An image-capturing device includes an image-capturing section, an image-data-generation section, a display section, and a timing generator. The image-capturing section is configured and arranged to capture an image of a subject at a timing on the basis of a vertical synchronization signal inputted and generate image-capture data corresponding to a frame. The image-data-generation section is configured and arranged to generate image data on the basis of the image-capture data corresponding to the frame. The display section is configured and arranged to display the image data. The timing generator is configured and arranged to output the vertical synchronization signal. The timing generator outputs the vertical synchronization signal at a variable timing in accordance with a generating condition of the image data corresponding to the frame. The image-capturing section generates the image-capture data corresponding to another frame at the timing on the basis of the vertical synchronization signal. | 11-06-2014 |
20140333804 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE - An imaging device includes a lens unit, an image sensor, a processing unit, and a display unit. The image sensor is configured to output a first data based on a subject image through the lens unit. The processing unit is configured to correct a distortion of the first data caused by an optical property of the lens unit and to output a second data. The display unit is configured to display based on the second data for each of predetermined lines in a display area. The first predetermined line is a line displayed at a first or last horizontal synchronization time. The second predetermined line is a line displayed at horizontal synchronization time other than the first or last horizontal synchronization time. The first or last horizontal synchronization time is longer than the horizontal synchronization time other than the first or last horizontal synchronization time. | 11-13-2014 |
20150022688 | IMAGE-DISPLAYING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE-DISPLAYING DEVICE - An image capturing device includes an image data generation unit, a display control unit and a control unit. The control unit ends charge storing after a first amount of time passes since charge storing of an image capturing target line is started, and starts displaying image data of a display target line corresponding to the image capturing target line after a second amount of time passes since charge storing of an image capturing target line is ended. The second amount of time is time required for starting displaying image data in a display target line after charge storing of an image capturing target line is ended. The control unit starts charge storing of an image capturing target line such that the first amount of time is equal to or less than a vertical synchronization period of the image capturing sensor minus the second amount of time. | 01-22-2015 |
20150042860 | IMAGE-DISPLAYING DEVICE AND DISPLAY TIMING CONTROL CIRCUIT - An image-displaying device includes a storage section, an image data generation section, a timing information acquisition section, and a display control section. The image data generation section is configured to generate image data indicative of an image of a subject and output to the storage section the image data including an Nth image data and an (N+i)th image data. The timing information acquisition section is configured to acquire timing information indicative of a timing related to generation of the image data and a timing at which output of each of the Nth image data and the (N+i)th image data to the storage section is completed. The display control section is configured to control a display section to commence reading and displaying the Nth image data in accordance with acquisition of the timing information indicating that the output of the (N+i)th image data to the storage section is completed. | 02-12-2015 |