Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110164170 | IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS, LENS APPARATUS AND IMAGE-PICKUP SYSTEM - An image-pickup system is disclosed which is capable of performing highly accurate back focus adjustment for each combination of an image-pickup apparatus and a lens apparatus. The system includes a first memory provided in the image-pickup apparatus and stores first identification information unique to a combination of the image-pickup apparatus and a certain lens apparatus, a second memory provided in the lens apparatus and stores second identification information unique to a combination of the lens apparatus and a certain image-pickup apparatus. A comparator compares the first identification information with the second identification information. The generator generates, when the comparison results that the first identification information does not match the second identification information, identification information unique to the combination of the image-pickup apparatus and the lens apparatus. The controller causes the first memory and the second memory to store the identification information generated by the generator. | 07-07-2011 |
20110199502 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus includes a face area selecting unit configured to select at least a face area situated at a first object distance and a face area situated at a second object distance, and to select a face area occupying the smallest area in a picked-up image among two or more face areas in a case where the two or more face areas are situated at the first object distance or at the second object distance. | 08-18-2011 |
20110310484 | OPTICAL DEVICE - An optical device includes a shake detection unit configured to detect shake of the optical device; a correction unit configured to correct image blur in a sensed image; a position detection unit configured to detect position of the correction unit; a correction control unit configured to control driving of a shake correction unit based on the output of the shake detection unit and on the position of the correction unit; a panning detection unit configured to detect whether the optical device is panning and detect a direction of the panning; an eccentricity direction detection unit configured to detect an eccentricity direction based on the output of the position detection unit; and a changing unit configured to change correction characteristics of the correction control unit, wherein the changing unit changes the correction characteristics of the correction control unit based on the eccentricity direction and the panning direction. | 12-22-2011 |
20120134642 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS IMAGES IN PARALLEL ON DISPLAY UNIT HAVING TOUCH PANEL FUNCTION AND OTHER DISPLAY UNIT, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image pickup apparatus that is capable of producing displays according to situations and limiting touch operations to be accepted, so that, for example, erroneous operations using a touch panel function can be reduced. The position of a touch panel portion with respect to an image pickup apparatus main body is detected, and it is determined whether or not an EVF is in use. When a display surface of the touch panel portion being at such a position as to face a subject taken by an image pickup unit is detected, and it is determined that the EVF is in use, control is performed to produce displays on the touch panel portion and disable at least a part of the touch panel function. | 05-31-2012 |
20120162479 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Grain noise and scratches are applied to an input image as random noise to generate a combined image. When applying grain noise clipped from two-dimensional noise data to the input image, each time clipping is performed, a positional difference from a last clipping position is evaluated. When the positional difference is determined to be small, a current clipping position is changed. When applying scratches clipped from noise data of a plurality of patterns to an input image, when a condition for successively applying scratches for a predetermined time period is selected, a positional difference from a last pasting position is evaluated. When the positional difference is determined to be large, the application of scratches is invalidated. | 06-28-2012 |
20120237089 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a segmentation unit configured to segment image data into a plurality of segments to create a plurality of segmented image data, a detection unit configured to execute face detection processing for detecting a face area from image data before being segmented and each of the plurality of segmented image data, a recognition unit configured to execute recognition processing for determining whether the face detected by the detection unit is a face of a registered person, in each of the plurality of segmented image data, and a control unit configured to control whether to cause the recognition unit to execute the recognition processing as to each of the plurality of segmented image data depending on a result of the face detection in the image data before being segmented. | 09-20-2012 |
20130188076 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image processing apparatus generates an image by adding a plurality of different film-tone image effects to an input image. When the plurality of different film-tone image effects is added to an input image, if the effects include image slurring or blinking, an addition order is determined so that such effects can be added after the other effects. | 07-25-2013 |
20140023349 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Grain noise and scratches are applied to an input image as random noise to generate a combined image. When applying grain noise clipped from two-dimensional noise data to the input image, each time clipping is performed, a positional difference from a last clipping position is evaluated. When the positional difference is determined to be small, a current clipping position is changed. When applying scratches clipped from noise data of a plurality of patterns to an input image, when a condition for successively applying scratches for a predetermined time period is selected, a positional difference from a last pasting position is evaluated. When the positional difference is determined to be large, the application of scratches is invalidated. | 01-23-2014 |