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| 20080231713 | Handheld Article with Movement Discrimination - A digital camera has a pair of angular rate-sensing gyroscopic sensors with mutually perpendicular axes and an electronic circuit responsive to the sensor output signals to discriminate between voluntary and involuntary movements of the article as a function of the number of zero crossings per unit time of the signal and the average of the absolute amplitude of the signal. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090040317 | CAMERA MODULE HAVING IMAGE SENSOR - A camera module having an image sensor, which forms a low-pixel image sensor integrated with an image signal processing unit such as Image Signal Processor (ISP)/Analog Front End (AFE) includes: an image sensor unit for converting light being incident after passing through a prism into image data and applying image data, which is hand shake-corrected by movements between a plurality of positions, to a multimedia processor of a product, a drive controller for receiving and calculating hand-shake information acquired by a plurality of gyrosensors and calculating an amount of correction to control driving of a sensor driver, a motor, and lenses, and the sensor driver for moving the image sensor unit to correct a hand shake under control of the drive controller. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090086033 | IMAGE STABILIZATION CONTROL CIRCUIT - An image stabilization control circuit controls an optical element driving element configured to move an optical element provided in an imaging apparatus based on an output signal of a vibration detection element provided in the imaging apparatus. The image stabilization control circuit includes an analog-digital conversion circuit configured to receive an analog signal from a position detection element that detects the position of the optical element and convert the input analog signal into a digital signal, and a servo circuit configured to generate a correction signal for correcting the position of the optical element based on an output signal of the analog-digital conversion circuit and output the generated correction signal to the optical element driving element. The servo circuit includes a digital filter circuit and a register. The digital filter circuit performs filter processing based on a filter coefficient stored in the register. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090128638 | Imaging apparatus - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device for subjecting an optical subject image to photoelectric conversion to generate an image signal; an angular velocity sensor for detecting angular velocity with the imaging apparatus; a first shaking amount calculation unit for integrating detection values from the angular velocity sensor to calculate first shaking amount of the imaging apparatus; a second shaking amount calculation unit for calculating second shaking amount of the imaging apparatus based on image data from the imaging device; a third shaking amount calculation unit for correcting the first shaking amount to calculate third shaking amount of the imaging apparatus based on first amplitude which is a fluctuation range relating to the first shaking amount, and second amplitude which is a fluctuation range relating to the second shaking amount; and a correction control unit for correcting the shaking of the imaging apparatus based on the third shaking amount. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090160948 | Image stabilization control circuit - In an image stabilization control circuit for an image capturing device, a gyro-equalizer ( | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090174782 | Method and Apparatus for Improving Photo Image Quality - A method and apparatus for receiving motion data and determining acceleration vectors based on biomechanical data and the received motion data. The method further comprises creating an improved image based on the acceleration vectors. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090174783 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND PORTABLE DEVICE AND PORTABLE TELEPHONE USING SAME - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging part that images a subject to generate image data, an image storage part that temporarily stores original image data that was imaged by the imaging part, an image data size reducing part that forms image data for display by reducing the size of image data stored in the image storage part, and an image display part that displays image data for display that was formed by the image data size reducing part; the imaging apparatus further comprising a camera shake state detection part that detects a camera shake occurrence state of the imaging part, a camera shake decision part that decides whether or not camera shake occurred for image data for display that was reduced by the image data size reducing part based on a camera shake state that was detected by the camera shake state detection part, and a camera shake correction part that, when a result decided by the camera shake decision part is that a camera shake occurrence state exists, subjects the image data for display to camera shake correction and displays corrected image data for display on the image display part. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090219400 | Imaging Unit and Electronic Camera - An imaging unit having: an image pickup element for imaging a subject; a camera shake correction unit for correcting camera shake by moving the image pickup element, wherein the camera shake correction unit includes a stage which carries the image pickup element; and a reference bedplate supporting the camera shake correction unit; at least two guide members which support the stage movably with respect to the reference bedplate in a predetermined direction respectively; and wherein the camera shake correction unit further includes a biasing member for biasing the stage in one direction except the predetermined directions with respect to the reference bedplate, thereby removing mechanical play in at least two directions out of the three dimensional directions of the guide member. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090231445 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus, includes: an imaging optical system; an image pickup device; and a control device which is configured to control the image pickup device, wherein the control device is configured to preliminarily decide an exposure order of a relatively short time exposure in a prescribed image size; an exposure with almost the same exposure time as the relatively short time in a smaller image size than the prescribed image size, and a relatively long time exposure in the prescribed image size, and to perform an imaging operation once by exposing the image pickup device by the decided exposure order. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090309982 | Method and System for Image Stabilization - An optical image stabilizer for use in a camera to compensate for an unwanted movement of camera, wherein two bending actuators are used to shift a lens element or the image sensor in different directions in a plane so as to shift a projected image on the image sensor in response to the unwanted camera movement. The plane is substantially perpendicular to the optical axis of camera, and longitudinal axis of each bending actuator is substantially parallel to the optical axis. The actuator can be fixedly mounted on one end so that the other end is allowed to bend. The actuator can be fixedly mounted on both ends so that the middle section is allowed to bend. Alternatively, the middle section is fixedly mounted and both ends can be used for shifting an imaging component. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100002086 | METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE FOR RESTORING IMAGE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In order to restore blurred images more efficiently, the invention provides a method for restoring an image for an electronic device. The method for restoring the image includes steps as follows. An acceleration signal is generated when an image of a photographed object is received. The distance between the electronic device and the photographed object is measured for generating an object distance. The image is restored according to the acceleration signal and the object distance. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100013937 | IMAGE STABILIZATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image stabilization control apparatus includes a vibration correction unit configured to correct an image shake occurring due to vibration, a first vibration detection unit configured to detect and output an angular velocity of the vibration, a second vibration detection unit configured to detect and output an acceleration of the vibration, a first extractor configured to extract a signal in a predetermined frequency band based on an output of the first vibration detection unit, a second extractor configured to extract a signal in a predetermined frequency band based on an output of the second vibration detection unit, an output correction unit configured to correct the output of the first vibration detection unit based on the signals extracted by the first and second extractors, and a driving unit configured to drive the vibration correction unit based on the output of the first vibration detection unit as corrected. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100073493 | Blast resistant video recording device - A video recording device adapted to be resistive to thermal and mechanical shocks experienced in a catastrophic event, the device including a plurality of interchangeable components, the device comprising: a housing; a video component releasably mounted in the housing and having a lens for capturing images from an external environment of the device and a digital processor for producing digital data from the captured images; a memory component releasably mounted in the housing and releasably coupled to the video component adapted for storing the digital data received from the video component, the memory component including a non-volatile memory unit and an enclosure adapted for inhibiting the transfer of thermal and mechanical shocks from the external environment to the non-volatile memory unit, the non-volatile memory unit enclosed in the enclosure; and an interface component releasably mounted in the housing and releasably coupled to the video component and the memory component, the interface component adapted for providing power and data communication from the external environment to the video component and the memory component. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100110202 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - Exposed images from a CCD ( | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100134638 | Gain-Adjusting Apparatus For Optical Image Stabilizer And Method Thereof - A gain-adjusting apparatus and method thereof are described. The gain-adjusting apparatus includes an integrator, a first register, a control unit, and a second register. The integrator integrates the gyro signal data to generate the integral data. The control unit is coupled to the first register and the second register, respectively. The control unit determines whether the gyro signal data is either greater than an upper gyro threshold or less than a lower gyro threshold to detect the gyro signal data and decrease the gain value stored in the second register. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100157071 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD ON PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - Provided is a photographing apparatus including at least one shake correction lens through which image light is transmitted; a first driving unit moving the shake correction lens; an imaging device converting the image light transmitted through the shake correction lens to an electronic signal; a rotating unit rotating the imaging device about an optical axis of the image light; and a controller controlling the first driving unit and the rotating unit. A method on a photographing apparatus. The method including sensing shaking of the photographing apparatus; compensating for the shaking of the photographing apparatus by rotating an imaging device, the imaging device generating electrical signals from light incident to a subject image; and compensating for the shaking of the photographing apparatus by moving a shake correction lens in two directions, wherein light incident to the subject image passes through the shake correction lens and strikes the imaging device. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100177197 | IMAGING APPARATUS, METHOD, SYSTEM INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus wherein a captured image is subjected to a rotational transform so as to correct the inclination of one or more subjects in the captured image. The imaging apparatus defines, with reference to a physical inclination detected by a sensor, an angle range in which the image is to be processed. The imaging apparatus then processes the captured image and detects lines therein and inclination angles thereof. The imaging apparatus then creates histograms indicative of frequency distributions of the inclination angles of those lines, and selects, in the created histograms, an inclination angle having a frequency that satisfies a predetermined criterion, as a rotational angle to be used for the rotational transform. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100177198 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device capable of detecting and correcting, with high accuracy, the motion (image rotation) in the rolling direction of the image caused by the camera shake during imaging without being influenced by the individual variation, temperature characteristic, and variation with time of the sensor. To correct the motion (image rotation) in the rolling direction of the image caused by the camera shake during imaging, the result of detection of the angle of inclination of the device by an angle sensor ( | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100253792 | IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POWER OF IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device according to the present invention comprises: an imaging section photoelectrically converting an object image and outputting image data; a display section displaying the object image based on the image data; an acceleration sensor section detecting vibration in at least one direction among a plurality of directions of a camera; a determination section continuously determining an output equal to or greater than a gravity force by means of the acceleration sensor section; and a power supply control section supplying power to the imaging section upon detection of an output equal to or greater than the gravity force by the determination section and also upon detection of an attitude change in a vertical direction or the like or a predetermined acceleration when a photographer sets the camera while viewing the display section of the camera. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100309321 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICES USING ORIENTATION DETECTORS TO IMPLEMENT AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE MECHANISMS - Several methods and apparatuses for implementing automatic exposure mechanisms for image capturing devices are described. In one embodiment, an orientation detector located in the device determines orientation data for the device. The automatic exposure mechanism projects an orientation vector into an image plane of an image sensor. Next, the automatic exposure mechanism adjusts an initial position of a metering area used for automatic exposure towards a target position based on the projected orientation vector. The automatic exposure mechanism optionally dampens the adjustment of the metering area. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100309322 | OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZER FOR CAMERA MODULE ASSEMBLY - Provided is an optical image stabilizer for a camera module assembly including at least one or more guide portions for guiding linear movement while preventing friction in first and second drive portions. The optical image stabilizer includes a first drive portion including a tip provided between a housing and a first drive plate to drive the first drive plate in a first direction, a second drive portion including a tip provided between the first drive plate and a second drive plate to drive the second drive plate in a second direction, and first and second guide portions formed in the first and second drive plates in positions corresponding to the tips of the first and second drive portions such that the first and second guide portions guide linear movement of the tips and prevent friction when the first and second drive portions are driven in the first and second directions. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110050916 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image capturing apparatus includes an acceleration sensor having a first measurement axis and a second measurement axis that intersect each other, and arranged on a plane that intersects the imaging optical axis of the image capturing apparatus while inclining the first and second measurement axes by about 45° in the vertical direction, and a calculation unit that calculates the arc tangent of the ratio of the detection result of an acceleration due to gravity by the first measurement axis and the detection result of an acceleration due to gravity by the second measurement axis, thereby obtaining the inclination degree of the image capturing apparatus in the rolling direction. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110050917 | ANTI-SHAKE APPARATUS - An anti-shake apparatus comprises an angular velocity sensor and a controller. The angular velocity sensor detects an angular velocity. The controller controls the angular velocity sensor and performs an anti-shake operation based on the output signal from the angular velocity sensor. The controller calculates an angular velocity signal, based on the output signal from the angular velocity sensor before a predetermined period which is longer than a predetermined time interval and the output signal from the angular velocity sensor after the predetermined period, at the predetermined time interval, during the predetermined period. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110063458 | IMAGE STABILIZATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image stabilization control apparatus including a mechanism which causes a vibration when the mechanism moves is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a vibration correction unit configured to correct image shake occurring due to vibration applied to the image stabilization control apparatus. A correction value of an angular velocity of the vibration is calculated based on signals based on the angular velocity and an acceleration of the vibration, frequency bands of the signals are narrowed. During the mechanism is moving, the image shake is corrected by driving the vibration correction unit based on the angular velocity of the vibration which is corrected by the corrected value calculated before the mechanism moves. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110096178 | PHOTOGRAPHY DEVICE WITH ANTI-SHAKE FUNCTION - The present invention is for sensing camera shake and moving a lens toward a direction to correct the camera shake when photographing an object so that the object may be clearly photographed. A coil and a magnet are included in the invention, and the coil moves in a direction perpendicular to the optical-axis of the lens as a result of magnetic fields generated by the magnet and the coil when electric power is applied to the coil. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110115928 | Image Acquisition Method and Apparatus - An image acquisition sensor of a digital image acquisition apparatus is coupled to imaging optics for acquiring a sequence of images. Images acquired by the sensor are stored. A motion detector causes the sensor to cease capture of an image when the degree of movement in acquiring the image exceeds a threshold. A controller selectively transfers acquired images for storage. A motion extractor determines motion parameters of a selected, stored image. An image re-constructor corrects the selected image with associated motion parameters. A selected plurality of images nominally of the same scene are merged and corrected by the image re-constructor to produce a high quality image of the scene. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110122263 | CAMERA SYSTEM FOR WITH VELOCITY SENSOR AND DE-BLURRING PROCESSOR - A camera system for outputting deblurred still images includes a portable handheld camera device comprising an image sensor for recording an image; a two-dimensional accelerometer for detecting an angular velocity of the camera system relative to an external environment and to produce an angular velocity output indicative thereof; a linear image sensor for sensing data provided on an encoded card inserted into the camera system, the encoded card containing instructions for the manipulation of the image; and a processor for receiving the image from the image sensor, receiving the angular velocity output from the two-dimensional accelerometer, and processing the image in accordance with the instructions sensed from the encoded to deblur any blurred pixels present in the image in consideration of the angular velocity output. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110157379 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - A wearable camera that is an imaging device includes a sensing unit that senses motion of a camera, and a prediction unit that calculates a pixel shift distance (d) between frames based on the results of the sensing. The prediction unit obtains a position (p | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110176012 | Antivibration actuator and lens unit and camera equipped with same - The present invention is an antivibration actuator including an affixing plate ( | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110181740 | IMAGE BLUR CORRECTION DEVICE, IMAGING LENS UNIT, AND CAMERA UNIT - An image blur correction device according to the present invention includes an a base ( | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110193976 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING IMAGES - A system and method for capturing images acquires vibration data of a vehicle by an acceleration sensor, and transfers the vibration data to a digital video recorder (DVR) device. The system and method further adjusts a position of a lens of an image obtaining device according to the vibration data by the DVR device, controls the lens to capture images by the image obtaining device, and stores the captured images in a storage device of the DVR device. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110193977 | VIBRATION COMPENSATION CIRCUIT AND IMAGING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention comprises: an analog/digital conversion means for converting vibration detection signals output from a vibration detection element that detects vibrations of an imaging device into digital signals; a gyro filter that obtains the amount of movement of the imaging device based on the vibration detection signals digitalized by the analog/digital conversion means; a rotation control means for generating an amount of rotary drive in a stepping motor based on both the current position and amount of movement of an optical component or an imaging element; and a stepping control means for generating and outputting pulse signals that drive the rotation of the stepping motor in each phase according to the amount of rotary drive, wherein the stepping control means enables pulse-width modulation of the ratio between the periods in which high-level pulse signals and low-level pulse signals are respectively applied to the same phase of the stepping motor. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110205375 | DIGITAL CAMERA WITH INTEGRATED ACCELEROMETERS - A digital camera system has integrated accelerometers for determining static and dynamic accelerations of the digital cameral system. Data relating to static and dynamic accelerations are stored with recorded image data for further processing, such as for correcting image data for roll, pitch and vibrations and for displaying recorded images with a predetermined orientation using information about, e.g., roll. Data may also be used on-the-fly for smear suppression caused by vibrations. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205376 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A MOBILE COMPUTING PRODUCT/ARRANGEMENT - Described is a system and method for monitoring a mobile computing Arrangement. The arrangement may include a sensor and a processor. The sensor detects first data of an event including a directional orientation and a motion of the arrangement. The processor compares the first data to second data to determine if at least one predetermined procedure is to be executed. The second data may include a predetermined threshold range of changes in the directional orientation and the motion. If the predetermined procedure is to be executed, the processor selects the predetermined procedure which corresponds to the event as a function of the first data. Subsequently, the predetermined procedures is executed. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110211082 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO STABILIZATION OF ROLLING SHUTTER CAMERAS - Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards rolling shutter video stabilization utilizing three dimensional motion analysis. In stabilizing the rolling shutter video, a three dimensional motion of the device capturing the image may be determined or estimated. In some example embodiments the three dimensional motion may be a purely rotational motion, a purely translation motion, or a rotational and translational motion. The estimated three dimensional motion may be utilized to adjust the pixels of an image frame in order to rectify and stabilize the video image. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110221914 | ELECTRONIC CAMERA - An electronic camera includes an imaging device. An imaging device outputs a scene image produced on an imaging surface capturing a scene. A rotator performs a rotating process in a direction around an optical axis on the scene image outputted from the imaging device in response to a recording operation. A recorder records the scene image rotated by the rotator on a recording medium. A determiner determines a rotation of the imaging surface in the direction around the optical axis in response to the recording operation. An adjuster adjusts a rotation angle of the rotator to an angle which is different corresponding to a determined result of the determiner. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110228111 | IMAGING MODULE - An imaging module is provided with an image pickup device unit having an image pickup device; an optical unit to form a subject image on the image pickup device; and an image stabilization mechanism having a first drive unit to move an image stabilization object element that is at least one of the image pickup device and the optical unit in a first direction that is parallel with an imaging area of the image pickup device, and a second drive unit to move the image stabilization object element in a second direction that is parallel with the imaging area and intersects with the first direction, wherein the imaging module has a rectangular shape on a plane that is parallel with the imaging area, and the first drive unit and the second drive unit are respectively arranged around the optical unit and at two neighboring sides of the imaging module. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110242338 | Stabilization of Captured Images - Images captured by an image capture device on a line of sight with an associated gyrometric system designed to supply gyrometric measurement data relating to the line of sight are stabilized. To this end, a first series of captured images is obtained. Then, a second series of stabilized images is obtained by applying, to the first series of images, an image stabilization based on gyrometric information. Then, a residual stabilization error is determined by applying a digital processing to the second series of stabilized images. Finally, the preceding three steps are repeated. On initialization, the gyrometric information corresponds to the measurement data supplied by the gyrometric system. Then, subsequently, the gyrometric information is obtained by correcting, on the basis of the residual error, the measurement data supplied by the gyrometric system. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110279692 | CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE - Performing data processing more effectively for camera shake correction is desirable. Movement of an image-capturing device is compensated on the basis of displacement velocity of the image-capturing device detected by a displacement velocity detector and position regarding a focus adjustment member of the image-capturing device detected by a position detector. An input data format converter converts the displacement velocity detected at the displacement velocity detector from fixed-point format to floating-point format and converts the detected position of the focus member to floating-point data. Furthermore, a gyro filter uses data processing in floating-point format to calculate displacement data for a required amount the image-capturing device is to be displaced and a Hall filter uses data processing in floating-point format to generate drive data for the focus adjustment member. Then, the drive data in floating-point format from the Hall filter is converted to drive data in fixed-point format. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120007996 | Method and Apparatus for Imaging - There is disclosed a method and apparatus for setting imaging parameters. Information of several images of a scene is received. The images are captured with different exposure times. Also information of motion of the apparatus is received. On the basis of the motion of the apparatus at least one of the exposure times is estimated. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120019675 | OPTICAL IMAGE STABILISATION - A camera apparatus capable of providing optical image stabilisation comprises a support structure and a camera unit, that comprises an image sensor and a lens system for focussing an image thereon, supported on the support structure in a manner allowing it to tilt around two notional axes perpendicular to each other and to the optical axis. An SMA actuation system comprises two SMA actuator subsystems each comprising plural SMA actuators connected between the camera unit and the support structure. The SMA actuators of the respective SMA actuator subsystems are arranged, on contraction, to drive displacement of the camera unit in opposite directions along the optical axis. The SMA actuators of each SMA actuator subsystem are also arranged, on differential contraction, to drive rotation of the camera unit around a respective one of said notional axes. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019676 | AUTOFOCUS APPARATUS AND METHOD - In automatically focusing on a subject in the field of view of a camera device, the camera device sets a focal length successively at one or more focal positions with an angle of the focus plane tilted so as not to be orthogonal to a normal optical path through the camera device. An image is taken at each of the focal positions. A comparison of data from each image is made so as to determine best focus. This comparison includes comparing data from at least two different locations along the tilted focus plane of at least one of the images. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120026347 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A digital photographing apparatus includes an optical system, an optical image stabilization (OIS) unit adapted to move the optical system, and a digital signal processor in communication with the OIS unit. The digital signal processor sets an operating ratio of the OIS unit by reducing the operating ratio to a previously set value of 100% or below after a still image or a moving picture is captured, and the OIS unit moves the optical system while a live view mode is turned on. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120033093 | IMAGE STABILIZER CONTROL DEVICE - An image stabilizer control device includes a biaxial gyroscope, a processing unit and an actuator unit. The biaxial gyroscope senses movement of an imaging module and detects a first angular velocity of the imaging module in two reference planes perpendicular to each other. The processing unit generates a first driving signal in response to the first angular velocity. The actuator unit moves the imaging module to compensate the movement in response to the first driving signal. The biaxial gyroscope detects a second angular velocity of the imaging module in the two reference planes upon completing movement compensation associated with the first driving signal. The processing unit converts the second angular velocity into a second angle, compares the second angle with a predetermined angle range and generates a second driving signal in response to the comparison result. The actuator unit moves the imaging module in response to the second driving signal. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120038783 | IMAGE STABILIZATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image stabilizer has a shooting optical system shooting an object whose principal point moves between first and second principal points in an optical axis direction, an acceleration detector detecting acceleration applied to the image stabilizer and disposed between the first and second principal points in the optical axis direction. An angular velocity detector detecting angular velocity applied to the image stabilizer, an acceleration detector disposed between principal points for proximity and infinity shootings and detecting acceleration applied to the image stabilizer, a rotation angular velocity calculator calculating rotation angular velocity component around the principal point of the shooting optical system based on the angular velocity detector, a revolution angular velocity calculator calculating revolution angular velocity component around the object based on the acceleration detector and the rotation angular velocity calculator, and a controller performing image stabilization control based on a difference between the rotation and revolution angular velocity components. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120044368 | OPTICAL IMAGE SYSTEM - An optical image system includes an image pickup module, a swinging mechanism, a first swinging calibration element and a second swinging calibration element. When the optical image system is tilted because of handshaking, the image pickup module is swung by the swinging mechanism. At the same time, the first swinging calibration element and the second swinging calibration element detect whether the image pickup module is swung to an ideal position where the handshaking problem is eliminated. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120057035 | FORCE COMPENSATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A positioning system and method are disclosed. The system includes an external force sensor configured to measure a magnitude of at least one external force acting upon a movable object disposed within a camera and to generate a force signal that is indicative of the magnitude of the at least one external force. The system also includes a positioning motor configured to control a physical location of the movable object in response to a positioning signal. The system further includes a position controller configured to generate the positioning signal at a magnitude that is adjusted in response to the force signal to substantially compensate for the at least one external force in controlling the physical location of the movable object. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120075487 | IMAGE APPARATUS WITH MOTION CONTROL - An image apparatus ( | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120092511 | OPTICAL APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPTICAL APPARATUS - An image capturing apparatus detects the angular rotational shake and translational shake generated in the apparatus using an angular velocity sensor and an accelerometer. The camera CPU computes a correction amount for angular rotational and translational shake using the first correction coefficient calculated by an angular rotational shake correction coefficient calculation unit and the second correction coefficient calculated by a translational shake correction coefficient calculation unit, produces both of the correction amounts to thereby calculate an image shake correction amount so as to suppress an increase in an image magnification for controlling image stabilization in a direction of increasing an imaging magnification. A driving unit drives a shake correction unit in accordance with an image shake correction amount, and a shake correction unit corrects image shake generated in the image surface of an imaging optical system. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120162447 | Electronic Device, Image Capturing Device and Control Method Thereof - The present invention discloses an electronic device, an image capturing device and a control method thereof. The image capturing device comprises a vibration sensing unit, a storage unit and a processing unit. The vibration sensing unit detects the vibration of the image capturing device to generate the vibration information correspondingly. The storage unit stores a plurality personal setting files. The processing unit is electronically connected to the vibration sensing unit and the storage unit. Also, the processing unit, based on the vibration information, generates an analysis result automatically or upon receipt of the trigger signal, and stores the analysis result in one of the plurality of personal setting files. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120169891 | IMAGE STABILIZATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image stabilization control apparatus includes a vibration correction unit configured to correct an image shake occurring due to vibration, a first vibration detection unit configured to detect and output an angular velocity of the vibration, a second vibration detection unit configured to detect and output an acceleration of the vibration, a first extractor configured to extract a signal in a predetermined frequency band based on an output of the first vibration detection unit, a second extractor configured to extract a signal in a predetermined frequency band based on an output of the second vibration detection unit, an output correction unit configured to correct the output of the first vibration detection unit based on the signals extracted by the first and second extractors, and a driving unit configured to drive the vibration correction unit based on the output of the first vibration detection unit as corrected. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120212633 | Three-Axis Image Stabilization System - An image stabilization system includes an optical assembly configured to receive electromagnetic radiation emitted by a target and produce focused image of the target; a focal plane array, the focal plane array being configured to receive the image and integrate at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation making up the image to produce an electrical representation of the image; sensors configured to provide kinematic data; a control system receiving the kinematic data and estimating jitter-induced motion of the image on the focal plane and outputting a control signal; and piezo-electric actuators configured to receive the control signal and to translate the focal plane along two orthogonal axes and rotate the focal plane about a third orthogonal axis such that jitter-induced motion of the image on the focal plane is reduced. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120224072 | BLURRED IMAGE DETECTION FOR TEXT RECOGNITION - Techniques are described for identifying blurred images and recognizing text. One or more images of text may be captured. A change of movement associated with each image of the one or more images may be calculated. The change of movement associated with an image of the one or more images represents a change in an amount of acceleration of the device used to capture the image while the image was being captured. A steady image may be selected from the one or more images to use for text recognition. The steady image can be selected using the variances of acceleration associated with each image of the one or more images. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120236167 | FLEXIBLE WIRING STRUCTURE, FLEXIBLE WIRING METHOD, AND IMAGING DEVICE - A flexible wiring structure includes a first and a second flexible wiring section divided with a relay section provided on one end side of an L-shaped section of a flexible wire having the L-shaped section. The first flexible wiring section includes a first raised surface and a first post-bend raised surface bent in a first bent section, which is a bent section of the L-shaped section, from the first raised surface. The second flexible wiring section includes a second raised surface and a second post-bend raised surface bent in a second bent section, which is a bent section of the L-shaped section and provided above the first bent section, from the second raised surface and parallel to the first post-bend raised surface. The second post-bend raised surface is folded back in a raised surface bending section provided on the second raised surface and overlaps the first post-bend raised surface. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120307084 | CORRECTING ROLLING SHUTTER USING IMAGE STABILIZATION - Several methods, devices and systems for correcting rolling shutter artifacts are described. In one embodiment, an image capturing system includes a rolling shutter image sensor that may cause a rolling shutter artifact (e.g., warping). The system includes a processing system that is configured to perform an automatic rolling shutter correction mechanism that utilizes calibration data based on a relationship between pixel locations in an image plane of the image sensor and their corresponding rays of light in a coordinate space. The rolling shutter mechanism determines pixel velocity components based on the calibration data and estimates for each image an aggregate pixel velocity based on an aggregation of the pixel velocity components. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20130010138 | Digital Camera with an Image Processor - A method operable in a digital image acquisition system having no photographic film is provided. The method comprises receiving a relatively low resolution image of a scene from an image stream, wherein the scene potentially includes one or more faces. At least one high quality face classifier is applied to the image to identify relatively large and medium sized face regions and at least one relaxed face classifier is applied to the image to identify relatively small sized face regions. A relatively high resolution image of nominally the same scene is received and at least one high quality face classifier is applied to the identified small sized face regions in the higher resolution version of said image. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130038744 | FAST ZERO RECOVERY WITH ALPHA BLENDING IN GYROSCOPIC IMAGE STABILIZATION - Systems and methods for performing fast zero recovery with alpha blending with digital image stabilization implemented in a digital camera. The digital camera includes a gyroscope to measure motion of the digital camera and processes the signals from the gyroscope to track the total displacement of an image sensor over a series of frames of video. If the motion is a sustained motion in a substantially uniform direction, then the digital camera recognizes the motion as a panning-type motion and activates a fast-zero recovery with alpha blending operation to retrace the displacement of active pixel locations to the center of the image sensor. Alpha blending is performed to smooth the transition from a normal image stabilization operation to the fast-zero recovery with alpha blending operation. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130044228 | Motion-Based Video Stabilization - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for stabilizing video frames based on information from a motion sensor are described. In general, digital video stabilization techniques are disclosed for generating and applying image-specific transformations to individual frames (images) in a video sequence after, rather than before, the image has been captured. The transformations may be used to counter-balance or compensate for unwanted jitter occurring during video capture due to, for example, a person's hand shaking. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130070112 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention prevents unnecessary imaging operations when imaging is not required to be performed. In the present invention, a display panel includes a touch panel provided on the top surface thereof. An image sensor of an imaging section captures an image. A gyro sensor detects the movement of an imaging device. When the movement of the imaging device is detected by the gyro sensor, a control section prohibits an imaging operation by the imaging section in response to a touch operation performed on the touch panel. Conversely, when the movement of the imaging device is not detected by the gyro sensor, the control section performs an imaging operation by the imaging section in response to a touch operation on the touch panel. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130076919 | OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZATION USING TANGENTIALLY ACTUATED MEMS DEVICES - In one example, an actuator device useful in, e.g., a camera for, e.g., optical image stabilization (OIS), includes a stage resiliently supported for movement within a plane, three or more actuators, each coupled to an outer periphery of the stage and operable to apply a force acting in the plane and tangentially to the stage when actuated, and an outer frame surrounding and supporting the stage and the actuators. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130107064 | SENSOR AIDED IMAGE STABILIZATION | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130120599 | Positionable Mechanism With An Optical Image Stabilizing Unit - A positionable mechanism includes a base unit, a frame unit, an optical image stabilizing (OIS) unit and a positioning unit. The frame unit and the OIS unit are mounted on the base unit. The frame unit is retractable with respect to the base unit between a storage position and a working position, and has a first surface. The OIS unit includes a movable carrier that has a second surface facing the first surface, an optical element that is mounted on the movable carrier, and a driving element that is operable to drive the movable carrier to move with respect to the base unit. The positioning unit is disposed between the first surface and the second surface, and is configured to position the movable carrier with respect to the frame unit when the frame unit is at the storage position. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130141600 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING GYROSCOPIC IMAGE STABILIZATION - Systems and methods for performing digital image stabilization implemented in a digital camera. The digital camera includes a gyroscope to measure motion of the digital camera and processes the signals from the gyroscope to track the total displacement of an image sensor over a series of frames of video. The algorithm implemented by the digital camera includes a processing block for correcting a DC bias in the signals from the gyroscope, a filter for attenuating the signals during periods of high acceleration, a processing block for detecting the start of a panning motion, and a processing block for quickly retracing the digital image stabilization correction back to the center of the image sensor during a panning motion. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130147975 | CAPTURE DEVICE MOVEMENT COMPENSATION FOR SPEAKER INDEXING - Embodiments of the invention compensate for the movement of a meeting capture device during a live meeting when performing speaker indexing of a recorded meeting. In one example, a first position of a capture device is determined. A second position of the capture device is determined after the capture device has been moved from the first position to the second position. The movement data associated with movement of the capture device from the first position to the second position is determined. The movement data is outputted and used in speaker indexing of the recorded meeting. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130147976 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An apparatus capable of capturing a still image in a moving image capturing mode includes an instruction unit configured to instruct still image capturing, a vibration detection unit configured to detect vibration applied to the apparatus, a control unit configured to control driving of a correction member in a driving range according to whether still image capturing or moving image capturing is performed, based on an output from the vibration detection unit, a position detection unit configured to detect a position of the correction member, and a determination unit configured to determine a reference position of a range in which the correction member is driven, wherein, if the instruction unit instructs image capturing in the moving image capturing mode, the detected position is set as the reference position. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130169832 | CAMERA MODULE AND AUTO FOCUSING METHOD OF CAMERA MODULE - A camera module and an auto focusing method of the camera module are provided, the camera module including a VCM (Voice Coil Motor) including a rotor including a lens distanced from a reference plane, in a case no driving signal is applied, a posture detection sensor determining a posture of the VCM; an ISP (Image Signal Processor) generating a driving signal for driving the VCM using an optimum focus value of the lens calculated by an auto focus algorithm in response to a posture of the VCM determined by the posture detection sensor, an image sensor changing lens-passed light to a digital signal, and a controller controlling the VCM, the posture detection sensor, the image signal processor and the image sensor. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130176446 | Positionable Mechanism With An Optical Image Stabilizing Unit - A positionable mechanism includes a frame unit, an OIS unit, and a positioning unit that are mounted on a base unit. The frame unit is retractable with respect to the base unit between a storage position and a working position. The positioning unit is movable with respect to the OIS unit between an abutting position and a releasing position, and is subjected to a restoring force. When the frame unit is at the storage position, a pressing part of the frame unit presses the positioning unit to the abutting position where the positioning unit abuts against a movable carrier of the OIS unit. When the frame unit is at the working position, the positioning unit is restored to the releasing position and releases the movable carrier. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130208133 | TERMINAL DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM EXECUTED BY A TERMINAL DEVICE - A terminal device is mounted on and used in a movable body such as a vehicle. The terminal device includes an image capturing unit, an image generating unit and a display unit. The image generating unit corrects the captured image captured by the image capturing unit based on the deviation of the image capturing direction of the image capturing unit with respect to the traveling direction of the movable body, and generates a display image. Thus, based on the deviation angle of the image capturing direction with respect to the traveling direction of the movable body, the captured image can be appropriately corrected to generate the display image. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130250133 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH MOTION RESPONSE AND RELATED METHODS - Electronic devices with motion response and related methods are provided. In this regard, a representative electronic device includes: an image capturing device operative to acquire image data; an accelerometer operative to sense an acceleration of the electronic device; and a motion response system operative to receive acceleration information corresponding to a sensed acceleration and to alter a mode of operation of the image capturing device based, at least in part, on the acceleration information. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130300881 | IMAGE STABILIZATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image stabilization control apparatus including a mechanism which causes a vibration when the mechanism moves is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a vibration correction unit configured to correct image shake occurring due to vibration applied to the image stabilization control apparatus. A correction value of an angular velocity of the vibration is calculated based on signals based on the angular velocity and an acceleration of the vibration, frequency bands of the signals are narrowed. During the mechanism is moving, the image shake is corrected by driving the vibration correction unit based on the angular velocity of the vibration which is corrected by the corrected value calculated before the mechanism moves. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130300882 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image capturing apparatus includes an acceleration sensor having a first measurement axis and a second measurement axis that intersect each other, and arranged on a plane that intersects the imaging optical axis of the image capturing apparatus while inclining the first and second measurement axes by about 45° in the vertical direction, and a calculation unit that calculates the arc tangent of the ratio of the detection result of an acceleration due to gravity by the first measurement axis and the detection result of an acceleration due to gravity by the second measurement axis, thereby obtaining the inclination degree of the image capturing apparatus in the rolling direction. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130342714 | AUTOMATED TRIPOD DETECTION AND HANDLING IN VIDEO STABILIZATION - An apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for motion sensor-based video stabilization. A motion sensor may capture motion data of a video sequence. A controller may compute instantaneous motion of the camera for a current frame of the video sequence. The controller may compare the instantaneous motion to a threshold value representing a still condition and reduce a video stabilization strength parameter for the current frame if the instantaneous motion is less than the threshold value. A video stabilization unit may perform video stabilization on the current frame according to the frame's strength parameter. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140055630 | OPTICAL IMAGE STABILISATION - A camera apparatus capable of providing optical image stabilisation comprises: a support structure; a camera unit comprising an image sensor and a lens system; a suspension system comprising a plurality of flexure elements supporting the camera unit on the support structure in a manner allowing the camera unit to tilt; and a plurality of SMA actuators. A sensor arrangement, whose output is used as the basis for generating drive signals, is mounted on the camera unit. A control circuit generates drive signals for the SMA actuators, by deriving closed-loop control signals representative of a desired degree of variation in the power of the drive signals from the output signals of the sensor arrangement without dependence on any measurement of the resistance of the SMA actuators, and generating the drive signals with powers that varies from a set-point power in correspondence with the closed-loop control signal. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140063272 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image capture device includes: an image capturing section which captures a subject image and generates an image; an acceleration sensor which detects acceleration; an angular velocity sensor which detects angular velocity; a controller which determines, according to a result of detection obtained by the angular velocity sensor, a first correction angle that is based on a result of detection obtained by the acceleration sensor and a second correction angle that is based on a result of detection obtained by the angular velocity sensor; and an image processing section which rotates the generated image based on an angle obtained by adding together the first and second correction angles. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140063273 | Camera Module - The present disclosure relates to a camera module including a fixture; a moving part centrally coupled with a lens and arranged to move relative to the fixture; three or more magnets arranged at a periphery of the moving part; and three or more coils arranged from an inner surface of the fixture to areas opposite to the three or more magnets, where each of the coils independently receives a control signal so that the moving part moves to a height direction and tilted relative to a central axis of the moving part, whereby a lens can be axially moved and tilted at the same time using arrangement of a single set of coils and magnets. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140063274 | HANDSHAKE CORRECTION APPARATUS OF PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a handshake correction apparatus of a photographing apparatus. The handshake correction apparatus includes a lens support plate that supports a correction lens and operates in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis; a base that supports the lens support plate to be movable; and magnets and driving coils which are assembled on the lens support plate and the base to face each other, wherein the magnets are tight-fitted in assembly grooves of the lens support plate or the base, and wherein one or more protrusions that protrude from internal walls of the assembly grooves toward the magnets and elastically press the magnets are formed in the assembly grooves. Control performance of a correction operation of the handshake correction apparatus may be improved by ensuring alignment between assembly structures of assembly parts including magnets and yokes. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140078322 | Image Acquisition Method and Apparatus - An image acquisition sensor of a digital image acquisition apparatus is coupled to imaging optics for acquiring a sequence of images. Images acquired by the sensor are stored. A motion detector causes the sensor to cease capture of an image when the degree of movement in acquiring the image exceeds a threshold. A controller selectively transfers acquired images for storage. A motion extractor determines motion parameters of a selected, stored image. An image re-constructor corrects the selected image with associated motion parameters. A selected plurality of images nominally of the same scene are merged and corrected by the image re-constructor to produce a high quality image of the scene. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140078323 | MOVEMENT DETECTION APPARATUS AND MOVEMENT DETECTION METHOD - A movement detection apparatus that detects a shake added by an operator to execute a function of a device, the apparatus comprises an acceleration detection unit configured to detect accelerations caused by a shake in at least three-axis directions; a determination unit configured to determine an axis with a minimum value of acceleration and an axis with a maximum value of acceleration among the accelerations in at least three-axis directions detected by the acceleration detection unit; a decision unit configured to decide a direction of the shake added by the operator based on the axis with the minimum value and the axis with the maximum value determined by the determination unit; and a selection unit configured to select a predetermined function based on the result of the decision unit. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140104445 | GYROSCOPE CONDITIONING AND GYRO-CAMERA ALIGNMENT - An apparatus and method for generating parameters for an application, such as an augmented reality application (AR app), using camera pose and gyroscope rotation is disclosed. The parameters are estimated based on pose from images and rotation from a gyroscope (e.g., using least-squares estimation with QR factorization or a Kalman filter). The parameters indicate rotation, scale and/or non-orthogonality parameters and optionally gyroscope bias errors. In addition, the scale and non-orthogonality parameters may be used for conditioning raw gyroscope measurements to compensate for scale and non-orthogonality. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140146191 | AMOUNT-OF-SHAKE SENSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE AMOUNT OF SHAKE - The apparatus of the invention is characterized by executing radius-of-rotation calculation operation for calculating a radius of rotation from a velocity change found by time integration of acceleration, and an angular velocity; velocity calculation operation in which during a given time from a start of exposure, velocity is calculated based on the angular velocity and the radius of rotation calculated before the start of exposure, and after a lapse of the given time, the acceleration is cumulatively added to the velocity detected during the given time to calculate the velocity, and amount-of-movement calculation operation for time-integrating the velocity calculated in the velocity calculation operation to calculate the amount of movement. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140152858 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a camera; an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration applied to a housing; a posture determining unit that determines a posture of the housing based on a value detected by the acceleration sensor; and an activation control unit that activates the camera when the posture determining unit determines that the posture of the housing becomes an upright posture. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140176738 | IMAGE CAPTURE METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Image capture methods and systems are provided. First, at least one preview image is captured via an image capture unit of an electronic device. It is determined whether an image capturing status is stable or not according to the preview image. When the image capturing status is stable, the electronic device is enabled to perform a photography process to obtain an image via the image capture unit. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140176739 | IMAGE STABILIZATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image stabilization control apparatus including a mechanism which causes a vibration when the mechanism moves is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a vibration correction unit configured to correct image shake occurring due to vibration applied to the image stabilization control apparatus. A correction value of an angular velocity of the vibration is calculated based on signals based on the angular velocity and an acceleration of the vibration, frequency bands of the signals are narrowed. During the mechanism is moving, the image shake is corrected by driving the vibration correction unit based on the angular velocity of the vibration which is corrected by the corrected value calculated before the mechanism moves. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140198227 | ORIENTATION DETERMINATION BASED ON VANISHING POINT COMPUTATION - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, devices, methods, computer program products, and other implementations, including a method that includes capturing an image of a scene by an image capturing unit of a device that includes an accelerometer, and determining orientation of the device based, at least in part, on determined location of a vanishing point (e.g., a single vanishing point) in the captured image of the scene and at least one measurement obtained from the accelerometer. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140267803 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A photographing apparatus includes an image pickup section configured by a photographing optical system for aiming at a target, and an image pickup device, a display section for receiving an image signal outputted from the image pickup section, and for displaying an image, a display control section for controlling display on the display section, a main object setting section for setting the target based on the image signal outputted from the image pickup section, and a zoom control section for performing zooming with respect to the target, wherein auxiliary displaying for clearly indicating a position of the target set by the main object setting section is performed, being superimposed on the image displayed on the display section. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140267804 | TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED MICROSURGERY STABILIZATION TOOL - The invention relates to medical intervention systems with integrated imaging and microsurgery subsystems, in which the microsurgery subsystem employs hardware that is used for imaging in the imaging subsystem to provide a stabilization feedback loop to prevent unwanted vibrations or motions in a microsurgery tool. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140267805 | METHOD FOR ENABLING MANUAL ADJUSTMENT OF A POINTING DIRECTION OF AN ACTIVELY STABILIZED CAMERA - A method for adjusting a pointing direction of a camera housed by an active stabilization system is disclosed. The active stabilization system executes a stabilization process to stabilize the pointing direction of the camera. The method comprises: detecting an externally applied force, disabling the stabilization process upon detecting a manual adjustment condition, adjusting the pointing angle of the camera in a direction of the externally applied force, measuring a current pointing angle of the camera; and re-enabling the stabilization process to stabilize the pointing direction of the camera based on the measured pointing angle of the camera in response to detecting that the detected manual adjustment condition failed. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140300766 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an information processing terminal, an information processing method, and a program capable of naturally suppressing camera shake with a target object being arranged at a certain position on an image. An information processing terminal of an aspect of the present technology includes an imaging unit that takes an image; a display unit that displays the taken image; a measuring unit that measures a motion occurring in the terminal itself; and a display control unit that displays an indicator composed of a plurality of components arranged in a nested structure on the image and varies a position and a size of each component in accordance with the motion. The present technology is applicable to a mobile terminal provided with a camera and a display unit. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140320679 | MOTION BLUR AVOIDANCE - Various embodiments provide a wearable camera that is configured to take a cluster of photographs and use image processing techniques to select a photograph with a lesser amount of blur than other photographs in the cluster. The wearable camera can include one or more of a gyroscope or accelerometer for ascertaining the camera's motion. Motion data associated with the camera's motion is utilized to ascertain when to take an automatic photograph. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140333784 | Optical Image Stabilizer - An optical image stabilizer furnished in an image sensing module includes a casing having a compartment, a fixing plate fixed to the casing, a movable part supporter, a movable part connected to the movable part supporter, a coil, at least one magnet, at least one compensation module, a suspension module connecting the movable part, and a base. The coil furnished outside the movable part is corresponding to the magnet located on the inner surface of the movable part supporter. The base to support the casing is located on the image sensing module. The vertical distance between the compensation module and the image sensing module is larger than that between the coil and the image sensing module. A light inlet side of the movable part is near to the compensation module, while a light outlet side thereof is near to the image sensing module. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20150009345 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME - An image pickup apparatus performs image shake correction by driving a correction member which is movable for image shake correction. An image sensing device receives light focused by an imaging optical system and then photoelectrically converts the optical image into an image signal so as to output the image signal. An attitude sensor unit detects the attitude of the image pickup apparatus, and a drive control unit performs drive control of the correction member and position detection. A geometric deformation amount calculating unit decomposes distortion of an image into a first distortion component which varies due to the driving of the correction member and a second distortion component which does not vary due to the driving of the correction member so as to calculate correction values for the first and second distortion components. An image processing unit corrects the first and second distortion components by image processing based on the calculated correction values. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150029348 | BLUR CORRECTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS - Upon detecting the start of a panning operation, an adder-subtractor applies an offset from an offset change circuit to the output of an HPF (High-Pass Filter) representing the shake amount of an image capturing apparatus to decrease the shake amount. The offset value is set to be larger as the value of shake correction data output from a focal length calculation circuit is closer to the correction limit of a blur correction circuit. Upon detecting the end of the panning operation, the offset value is returned to zero. This invention provides a blur correction apparatus capable of suppressing degradation of a blur correction effect even when in a panning state. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150036007 | IMAGE SHAKE CORRECTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME, LENS BARREL, OPTICAL APPARATUS, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an angular velocity sensor for detecting shake thereof. A CPU calculates an image shake correction amount. A shake correcting unit corrects image shake based on the calculated image shake correction amount. An HPF removes an offset component from a shake detection signal. A reference value calculating unit calculates an offset reference value (initial offset) for the shake detection signal. The CPU performs image shake correction control by calculating an image shake correction amount from the output of the HPF during the time period until the reference value calculating unit calculates an offset reference value after start of the operation of the angular velocity sensor. The CPU performs image shake correction control by calculating an image shake correction amount from a signal obtained by subtracting the offset reference value from the shake detection signal after the reference value calculating unit calculates the offset reference value. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150042827 | IMAGE STABILIZATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH IMAGE STABILIZATION APPARATUS - An image stabilization (IS) apparatus that is capable of preventing change of a field angle due to unnecessary mode transition. A selection unit transfers from a first IS mode to a second IS mode with a larger IS effect when a detected shake amount is maintained below a first threshold beyond first determination time and the shake amount is not maintained below a second threshold that is lower than the first threshold beyond a third determination time that is shorter than a second determination time, and transfers from the first IS mode to a third IS mode with the smallest IS effect when the shake amount is maintained below the second threshold beyond the second determination time that is shorter than the first determination time. A control unit controls an IS unit that corrects an image blur using the shake amount in the selected IS mode. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150062359 | SPORTS CAMERA - Disclosed is a sports camera, which comprises a main control unit, an image processing module, a motion parameter detection display module, a power supply module and a memory. The power supply module is connected with the main control unit and the image processing module. The image processing module comprises a digital signal processor and an image sensor, and the motion parameter detection display module comprises a GPS module and an acceleration sensor. The main control unit is connected with the digital signal processor, the memory, the GPS module and the acceleration sensor, and said digital signal processor is connected with the memory and the image sensor. The sports camera of the present invention can make sure that the image is normal and vertical when playing back the photo or video taken by the camera, thereby improving the image effect and increasing the ease of use of the sports camera. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150070518 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE ADJUSTMENT METHOD - An electronic device includes a camera module and an image module. The camera module captures a number of static images of an object. The image module includes a detecting unit and an image combining unit. The image module detects an edge response value of each image. The image combining unit selects and combines two images having maximum edge response values in turn according to a rate of the edge response values. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150097977 | IMAGE BLUR CORRECTION APPARATUS, LENS APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE BLUR CORRECTION APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image blur correction apparatus includes a vibration detection unit configured to detect vibration information of the image blur correction apparatus to output a vibration signal, a signal separation unit configured to separate the vibration signal into a first vibration signal and a second vibration signal, a first sensitivity correction unit configured to correct an amplitude of the first vibration signal, a second sensitivity correction unit configured to correct an amplitude of the second vibration signal, a first drive unit configured to drive the first optical correction unit based on an output signal from the first sensitivity correction unit, and a second drive unit configured to drive the second optical correction unit based on an output signal from the second sensitivity correction unit. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150103189 | Applying Video Stabilization to a Multimedia Clip - In one embodiment, a method includes determining one or more motions of a camera, where the motions correspond to movements of the camera during recording of a multimedia clip. The method also includes determining one or more amounts of light present during the recording, and from the determined motions and amounts of light, determining a motion-blur metric for the multimedia clip. The method further includes determining whether to apply a video-stabilization routine to the multimedia clip based on the motion-blur metric. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150103190 | IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH MEMS OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZATION (OIS) - An image acquisition sensor of a digital image acquisition apparatus is coupled to imaging optics for acquiring a sequence of images. Images acquired by the sensor are stored. A motion detector causes the sensor to cease capture of an image when the degree of movement in acquiring the image exceeds a threshold. A controller selectively transfers acquired images for storage. A motion extractor determines motion parameters of a selected, stored image. An image re-constructor corrects the selected image with associated motion parameters. A selected plurality of images nominally of the same scene are merged and corrected by the image re-constructor to produce a high quality image of the scene. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150130954 | IMAGE CORRECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - Embodiments of the invention provide an image correcting apparatus for an imaging device including a camera module having a first motion sensor. The image correct apparatus includes a second motion sensor sensing a movement, and a controller determining whether the movement gets out of an operation range of the first motion sensor, and correcting an image obtained from the camera module based on movement data sensed by the second motion sensor, when the movement gets out of the operation range of the first motion sensor. Generation of blur in an image when a displacement of handshaking is at an angle equal to or greater than a correction angle of an optical image stabilizer (OIS) module is prevented, and thus, a clear image is obtained. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150138381 | CAMERA MODULE - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a first board mounted with an image sensor, a first holder coupled to an upper surface of the first board, a second holder arranged at an upper surface of the first holder and mounted at a periphery with a plurality of magnets, a first elastic member supporting the second holder, and a ball guide unit interposed between the first holder and the second holder. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150138382 | IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Various embodiments provide methods, apparatus, and electronic devices for image capturing. An exemplary image capturing method can include first acquiring image information via a camera contained in an electronic device and then detecting whether a shake amplitude of the electronic device is within a pre-set range. When the shake amplitude of the electronic device is detected within the pre-set range, the image information acquired by the camera can be captured. An exemplary image capturing apparatus can include an acquisition module for acquiring image information; a first detection module for detecting whether a shake amplitude of an electronic device is within a pre-set range; and a capturing module for capturing the image information, when the first detection module detects that the shake amplitude of the electronic device is within the pre-set range. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150326785 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A first anti-shake unit included in an image processing apparatus executes an anti-shake process for image data relating to a captured image and records image data after the anti-shake process on a recording unit. Also, a second anti-shake unit executes a re-anti-shake process while performing a control process of removing influence of the anti-shake process executed by the first anti-shake unit on the image data after the anti-shake process recorded on the recording unit based on auxiliary information regarding the anti-shake process output by the first anti-shake unit. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150334281 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - There is provided an image capturing apparatus including a movable unit. An acceleration detection unit detects an acceleration of the image capturing apparatus. A geomagnetic detection unit detects geomagnetism. A determining unit determines a direction of the image capturing apparatus by using the acceleration detected by the acceleration detection unit and the geomagnetism detected by the geomagnetic detection unit. When determining the direction of the image capturing apparatus at a predetermined timing during an operation period of the movable unit, the determining unit determines the direction of the image capturing apparatus by using the acceleration detected by the acceleration detection unit before start of the operation period of the movable unit and the geomagnetism detected by the geomagnetic detection unit during the operation period of the movable unit. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150341536 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORIENTING AN IMAGE - Various embodiments relate to systems and methods for orienting an image captured by a camera (e.g., on a wearable computing device such as a smartwatch). The system can include an orientation sensor (e.g., one or more accelerometers) for detecting the orientation of the camera. In some embodiments, a controller can modify (e.g., crop and/or rotate) a first image captured by the camera (e.g., at a misaligned orientation) to produce a second image. In some embodiments, an actuator can move (e.g., rotate) the camera to an aligned position before the image is captured. The controller can use information from the orientation sensor to determine an amount of rotation to be applied to the camera and/or to the first image in order to orient the image at the desired orientation. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150346508 | ACTUATOR INSIDE OF MOTION CONTROL - A device can comprise an outer frame, a platform, and a motion control mechanism. The motion control mechanism can be adapted to permit movement of the platform in a desired direction with respect to the outer frame and inhibit rotation of the platform with respect to the outer frame. An actuator can be contained at least partially within the motion control mechanism. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350507 | OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZATION COMPENSATIONS - Some embodiments include an optical image stabilization system. The optical image stabilization system includes a sensor. The sensor is configured for measuring movements of a camera module stabilized by the optical image stabilization system. Some embodiments further include an optical image stabilization control system for calculating from the movements a calculated position of a moving body. In some embodiments, the moving body is part of a camera module. Some embodiments further include an actuator control for generating electrical signals to move at least two actuators to achieve a calculated position of the moving body. In some embodiments, the actuator control system receives measurements from positions sensors that assess the position of the moving body. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150358522 | Stabilization Of Gyro Drift Compensation For Image Capture Device - An image capture system comprises an image capture device driven by a motor to a desired angle. A gyro senses a rate and a system senses an angle of the image capture device relative to a surface. A control removes a gyro bias error estimated by the system in real time for correcting a position of the image capture device. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358546 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR COMPOSITING STILL PICTURES - An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a blur of an image-capturing apparatus, a change in a subject brightness, or a change in a color of a subject, an image-capturing control unit configured to perform control so that the image-capturing apparatus performs image-capturing a plurality of times in accordance with a single image-capturing command, a composite unit configured to composite a plurality of images captured in accordance with the single image-capturing command, and a control unit configured such that when the control unit obtains information indicating that a predetermined blur, a change in a predetermined subject brightness, or a change in a color of a predetermined subject is detected based on a detection result, the control unit controls the composite unit so as to generate a composition image made by compositing a plurality of images captured before the detection. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150362122 | FOLDING IMAGE STABILIZER - The invention is directed to a folding image-device stabilizer comprising a three-axis gimbal assembly adapted to be mounted as close to the image device payload to minimize the overall deployed size. The gimbal assembly includes mechanisms to adjustably position an image device so that the stabilizer is in balance fore and aft around the ‘tilt’ axis repeatedly when the stabilizer is folded and unfolded. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365598 | SHAKE AMOUNT DETECTION DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE - A shake amount detection device includes an acceleration sensor. A vibration period detector detects a vibration period during which vibration that becomes a predetermined acceleration is applied to a body. A velocity variation estimation unit estimates a first movement velocity which is a component velocity due to an attitude movement of the body during the vibration period. A velocity calculator calculates a second movement velocity that is a velocity of the body and corrects the second movement velocity in a case of the vibration period as a detection result of the vibration period detector. A shake amount calculator calculates an image blur correction amount relative to the vibration applied to the body, based on the second movement velocity corrected by the velocity calculator. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20160006930 | Method And System For Stabilization And Reframing - A method and apparatus for dynamically maintaining a horizontal framing of a video. The system permits the user to freely rotate the device while filming, while visualizing the 5 final output in an overly on the device viewfinder or screen during shooting. The resulting recording is subsequently corrected to maintain a single orientation with a stable horizon. The system and method is operative display an overly over a captured representation of the captured video wherein the overlay indicates a modified image with respect to said orientation. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160028956 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING POINTING CONTROL OF AN ACTIVELY STABILIZED CAMERA - A method for adjusting a pointing angle of an actively stabilized camera is provided. The camera is housed by an active stabilization system configured to stabilize the camera in accordance with a commanded pointing angle. The active stabilization system comprises a steering member rotatable around one or more of a pan axis, tilt axis, and roll axis of the system. The method comprises: deriving a joint angle measurement of the steering member associated with a rotational movement of the steering member and adjusting the pointing angle of the camera, based on the derived joint angle measurement, in a direction of the rotational movement of the steering member, if the joint angle measurement exceeds the threshold window. If the joint angle measurement is within the threshold window, the pointing angle of the camera is actively stabilized in accordance with the commanded pointing angle. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028957 | IMAGING DEVICE, A CONTROL METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PICTURE SIGNALS, AND A PROGRAM - An imaging device including an image mode determining unit, a reading method setting unit, and a control unit is provided. The image mode determining unit determines an image mode among a plurality of image modes corresponding to the position or angle of the imaging device. The reading range setting unit sets the reading range for the image sensor to correspond with the image mode determined by the image mode determining unit. The control unit temporarily stores pixel data in a frame buffer based on the output picture signal in association with the output of a picture signal which is obtained by optic-electrical conversion from the image sensor according to the reading range based on the setting of the reading range setting unit. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160037073 | PIECEWISE PERSPECTIVE TRANSFORM ENGINE - An image signal processor of a device, apparatus, or computing system that includes a camera capable of capturing image data may apply piecewise perspective transformations to image data received from the camera's image sensor. A scaling unit of an Image Signal Processor (ISP) may perform piecewise perspective transformations on a captured image to correct for rolling shutter artifacts and to provide video image stabilization. Image data may be divided into a series of horizontal slices and perspective transformations may be applied to each slice. The transformations may be based on motion data determined in any of various manners, such as by using gyroscopic data and/or optical-flow calculations. The piecewise perspective transforms may be encoded as Digital Difference Analyzer (DDA) steppers and may be implemented using separable scalar operations. The image signal processor may not write the received image data to system memory until after the transformations have been performed. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160048005 | Imaging Lens, and Electronic Apparatus Including the Same - An imaging lens includes first to sixth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant optical parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160057350 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus includes: an image-acquiring unit that acquires an image of an object of photography through a lens; an image display unit that displays the image acquired by the image-acquiring unit to an operator; an angular movement amount detecting unit that detects an angular movement amount of the imaging apparatus; an image movement amount calculation unit that calculates an image movement amount based on the angular movement amount detected by the angular movement amount detecting unit; and an object-position display unit that displays a current position of the object of photography superimposed onto the image displayed by the image display unit based on the image movement amount calculated by the image movement amount calculation unit. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160065854 | OFFSET CANCELLATION APPARATUS AND VOICE COIL MOTOR DRIVER INCLUDING THE SAME - There is provided an offset cancellation apparatus including: a power amplifier forcibly generating an offset; a replica amplifier, which is the same replica amplifier as the power amplifier, having a non-inverting input terminal and an inverting input terminal connected to a non-inverting input terminal and an inverting input terminal, respectively, of the power amplifier and outputting an offset compensation determining signal; and an offset compensating unit applying an offset compensating current to the power amplifier and the replica amplifier based on the offset compensation determining signal. According to the offset cancellation apparatus, whether or not the offset is compensated may be accurately determined and additional switches for sensing the offset are not required, and since the same replica amplifier as the power amplifier is used, a configuration is simple and an operation for canceling the offset is simple, thereby making it possible to rapidly cancel the offset. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160073028 | WIRE SUSPENSION MOUNTING APPROACH FOR REDUCED OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZATION PACKAGE SIZE - Some embodiments include an optics assembly. In some embodiments, the optics assembly includes an optics component. In some embodiments, the optics assembly is configured to move within the apparatus on one or more axes orthogonal to an optical axis of the optics component. In some embodiments, the optics assembly is suspended by a plurality of wires on a base component of the apparatus, each wire of the plurality of wires being substantially parallel to the optical axis of the optics component. Some embodiments include a base assembly component or substrate having an upper surface plane and a lower surface plane. In some embodiments, one or more terminations are disposed around the plurality of wires. In some embodiments, the terminations are located beyond the upper surface plane of the base assembly component. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160094764 | Security Camera having a Body Orientation Sensor and Method of Use - A security camera includes a camera body and a body orientation sensor for detecting an orientation of the camera body. The security camera can include an orientation feedback system used with the body orientation sensor to adjust a position of the security camera to true camera. This orientation feedback system indicates degree to which the camera body is off horizontal/vertical. The security camera is part of a video security system that has an image processing unit for de-warping and/or rotating (e.g., 90 degrees) a raw image based on the orientation detected by the body orientation sensor. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094766 | ORIENTATION DETERMINATION FOR DEVICES GENERATING ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE - A mechanism is provided to determine orientation of a device that includes sources of electromagnetic interference. Data generated by one or more gyroscopes in the device, in conjunction with data generated by one or more accelerometers, can be used to generate an estimate of the change of orientation of the device from the time of a last accurate magnetometer reading. In one embodiment, in order to conserve system power, the gyroscope is kept powered down or in a stand-by state until receiving a control signal to power up. The control signal is provided in advance of the source of electromagnetic interference being powered up, thereby providing an accurate starting point from which magnetometer orientation estimates may be calculated during such interference. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160100081 | COVER PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS, PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF COVER PHOTOGRAPHY APPARATUS - Provided herein is a cover photography apparatus, portable terminal apparatus, and a control method of the cover photography apparatus, the cover photography apparatus including an imaging device configured to generate image data; a communicator configured to receive motion information from a portable terminal apparatus; and a controller configured to: determine that the image data is captured during motion of the cover photography apparatus based on the motion information, and correct the image data in response to determining that the image data is captured during motion of the cover photography apparatus; and control the communicator to transmit the corrected image data to the portable terminal apparatus. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160112640 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus and an imaging method are provided. The imaging apparatus includes an imager configured to output image data for a subject, a motion detector configured to detect motion of the imaging apparatus, and a controller configured to control the imager to suspend output of the image data in response to the motion detector detecting the motion. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160127646 | OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZATION FOR THIN CAMERAS - Systems and methods for optical image stabilization of thin cameras are disclosed. An image stabilization system for a camera system includes a stabilization platform configured to support a camera system, a camera housing, a fulcrum rotationally and pivotally connecting the stabilization platform to the camera housing, the fulcrum configured such that the stabilization platform can tilt and rotate relative to the camera housing in at least one of the pitch, roll, and yaw directions, at least one gyroscope rigidly connected to the stabilization platform, and at least one actuator coupled to the stabilization platform and configured to cause tilting or rotation of the stabilization platform in at least one of the pitch, roll, and yaw directions. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160142634 | Stabilizer for an Optical Device and Electronic Device Comprising the Same - There is provided a stabilizer for an optical device that forms part of an electronic device and an electronic device including the stabilizer. The stabilizer includes two first actuators, each of which includes a first coil assembly and a first block of ferromagnetic material, each of the two first coil assemblies being configured to generate, in response to a first electrical signal applied thereto, a first attraction force toward a respective first block of ferromagnetic material, the first blocks of ferromagnetic material being attached to a socket for the optical device; and a rotating device configured to rotate the socket around an optical axis of the optical device in response to the first attraction force. The image stabilization solution according to the present invention is both applicable to AF camera modules and to fix focus camera modules. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160150158 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF - Provided is a photographing apparatus including: a photographer configured to photograph a moving image; a sensor configured to detect shaking of the photographing apparatus; an image processor configured to correct a photographed frame of the photographed moving image; and a controller configured to determine a processing mode for processing the photographed moving image based on at least one of shaking information of the photographing apparatus which is detected through the sensor and motion estimation information of the photographed moving image, and to control the image processor to process the moving image in the determined processing mode. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160156848 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160165140 | METHOD FOR CAMERA MOTION ESTIMATION AND CORRECTION - A motion estimation and correction system and methods are shown comprising: an image acquisition device configured to acquire an image via scanning an image frame over a period of time, an inertial measurement unit configured to measure at least one of a position, an orientation, and a movement of the image acquisition device during the period of time and output an indication of the movement as detected; and a state estimation module, operatively coupled to the inertial measurement unit and the image acquisition device, configured to estimate a state related to at least one of position and orientation of the image acquisition device based on the at least one of the position, the orientation, and the movement. In one example, systems and methods include using an inertial measurement unit along with an image acquisition device. In one example, the image acquisition device includes a rolling-shutter camera. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160198092 | ELECTRONIC BINOCULARS | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160205324 | MOTION BLUR AVOIDANCE | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160381271 | HANDHELD CAMERA STABILIZER WITH INTEGRATION OF SMART DEVICE - A handheld stabilizer for automatically stabilizing a camera device, such as a smartphone, when the camera device is mounted on the stabilizer is provided. The stabilizer comprises a camera device mount for holding the camera device, a plurality of motors collectively arranged to cause the camera device mount to be rotatable about three predetermined substantially-orthogonal axes, an inertial-measurement unit (IMU) sensor for measuring an angle and an angular velocity experienced by the camera device about each of the three axes, and a controller. By means of the IMU sensor, an attitude of the camera device is measured. The controller is configured to estimate an attitude error of the camera device according to the measured attitude, and to automatically control the plurality of motors in response to the attitude error so as to controllably rotate the camera device about each of the three axes to counter the attitude error. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381288 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one aspect, an electronic device includes an image acquiring unit; a display that is configured to display an image acquired by the image acquiring unit; a first sensor that is configured to measure a first information on an environment around the electronic device for detecting a change in the environment; at least one controller that is configured to detect the change and, when the change is detected, conduct correction of an image acquired by the image acquiring unit; and a second sensor that is configured to measure a second information on a movement of the electronic device. The at least one controller is configured to, when shooting of a movie has been started by the image acquiring unit before the change is detected, set the adjustment duration time for correction of the image in accordance with the second information. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381295 | LENS DRIVING APPARATUS AND CAMERA MODULE INCLUDING FUNCTION OF SHAKING COMPENSATION - Disclosed is a camera module. The camera module includes a lens barrel disposed in a housing to receive a lens; and a driving unit moving the lens barrel relative to the housing, wherein the driving unit comprises: a first driving unit in the lens barrel; and a second driving unit in the housing, and wherein the lens barrel comprises a central area on which the lens is disposed; and a peripheral area surrounding the central area, in which the first driving unit is disposed in the peripheral area. The camera module includes a lens barrel disposed in a housing to receive a lens; and a plurality of driving units moving the lens barrel relative to the housing, wherein a first direction is defined perpendicularly to an optical axis of the lens, a second direction is defined perpendicularly to the optical axis of the lens and the first direction, and the driving units including coils and moving the lens barrels in the same direction along the first direction or the second direction have coil winding directions corresponding to each other. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20180024336 | CATA-DIOPTRIC SYSTEM AND IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE | 01-25-2018 |
| 20180024350 | IMAGING DEVICE | 01-25-2018 |
| 20220141367 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STABILIZING VIDEOS - Visual content is captured by an image capture device during a capture duration. The image capture devices experiences motion during the capture duration. The intentionality of the motion of the image capture device is determined based on angular acceleration of the image capture device during the capture duration. A punchout of the visual content is determined based on the intentionality of the motion of the image capture device. The punchout of the visual content is used to generate stabilized visual content. | 05-05-2022 |
