| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 348211110 | Plural cameras being controlled | 18 |
| 20080303910 | Imaging apparatus - A camera is provided with a control signal communication unit and a video and audio signal communication unit. A main camera operated by a shooter captures camera driving and operation control information such as panning, tilting, zooming, recording and reproduction conducted by the shooter and transmits the information to a sub camera through the control signal communication unit. The sub camera reflects the received control signal to itself to operate the camera. The sub camera transmits the video which is shot by itself to the main camera through the video and audio signal communication unit. At this point, the main camera receives videos of one or more sub cameras to simultaneously output the videos on a monitor. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20110058051 | MOBILE TERMINAL HAVING PHOTOGRAPHING CONTROL FUNCTION AND PHOTOGRAPHING CONTROL SYSTEM - In a mobile terminal having a photographing control function based on an image recognition technique and a photographing control system employing an image recognition technique, a specific action is detected from a user image taken by one camera, and the operation of another camera or the processing of an image taken by the camera is controlled when the specific action has been detected, thereby controlling photographing without direct physical manipulation of a user. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110261214 | REMOTE CONTROL OF AN IMAGE CAPTURING UNIT IN A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and computer program product are described herein for remotely controlling a first image capturing unit in a portable electronic device as well as to such a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device may include a first and a second image capturing unit. The device detects and tracks an object via the second capturing unit and detects changes in an area of the object. These changes are then used for controlling the first image capturing unit remotely. When the control involves capturing of images an improved image quality can be obtained. Also the time it takes to capture an image is reduced. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20120062755 | CAMERA SYSTEM, SIGNAL DELAY AMOUNT ADJUSTING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A system and method for adjusting one or more signal delays. The signal delays are adjusted by obtaining delay amounts of video signals associated with respective camera units and respective camera control units, the camera units being coupled to respective ones of the camera control units via an asynchronous network, and adjusting one or more of the delay amounts. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120147204 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND METHOD OF PICKING UP IMAGE USING THE SAME - An image pickup device includes an image processing unit which processes an image input through the plurality of image pickup units, a plurality of microphones which are spaced apart from each other, an audio processing unit which senses a voice of a photographer using the plurality of microphones, and a control unit which, when the voice of a photographer is sensed through the audio processing unit, controls the image processing unit to combine an image of an image pickup unit corresponding to a location of the photographer with an image of an image pickup unit currently performing photographing. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20130021486 | HOSTED CAMERA REMOTE CONTROL - A motion capture system includes motion capture cameras positioned in various locations and orientations with respect to a motion capture volume. The motion capture system includes a host computing device that is operatively coupled with the motion capture cameras. The host computing device remotely controls operation of the motion capture cameras to record movement within the motion capture volume. At least one of the motion capture cameras includes a user-interface that is operable by a user to remotely initiate a control operation of the host computing device. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20140002683 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM, IMAGE PICKUP METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140022404 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND METHOD OF PICKING UP IMAGE USING THE SAME - An image pickup device includes an image processing unit which processes an image input through the plurality of image pickup units, a plurality of microphones which are spaced apart from each other, an audio processing unit which senses a voice of a photographer using the plurality of microphones, and a control unit which, when the voice of a photographer is sensed through the audio processing unit, controls the image processing unit to combine an image of an image pickup unit corresponding to a location of the photographer with an image of an image pickup unit currently performing photographing. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140049659 | CONSUMPTION AND CAPTURE OF MEDIA CONTENT SENSED FROM REMOTE PERSPECTIVES - Embodiments of apparatus, packages, computer-implemented methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media (transitory and non-transitory) are described herein for enabling a first mobile device to control a second mobile device, to enable media content sensed from a perspective of the second mobile device to be consumed using the first mobile device or captured by the second mobile device under control of the first mobile device. In various embodiments, control may include provision of one or more commands to the second mobile device using at least a persistent communication link between the first and second mobile devices. In various embodiments, control may further include receipt of at least a view of media content currently sensed by the second mobile device using a stateless communication protocol. In various embodiments, the first mobile device may control more than one remote mobile devices. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140192212 | Image Processing Method and Apparatus - Embodiments of the present invention disclose an image processing method and an apparatus. The image processing method includes: receiving information of starting a first camera and a second camera simultaneously to perform photographing; using the first camera to photograph and obtain a first image, and using the second camera to photograph and obtain a second image; and displaying the first image and the second image simultaneously. In the embodiments of the present invention, two cameras are started simultaneously to perform bidirectional photographing, and the images taken by both cameras are displayed simultaneously, so that front and back scene images are captured simultaneously and a panoramic image is obtained. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140267814 | CAMERA CONTROLLER DEVICE - A camera controller device of the present technique includes a switching operation unit for switching a camera to be controlled, an adjuster for adjusting adjustment elements of a camera to be controlled, and a controller for controlling the entire device. The adjuster has a start point and an end point of an adjustment range. The controller compares a setting value of the adjustment element of the camera before switching with a setting value of the adjustment element of the camera after switching, and when both the setting values do not match with each other, the controller prohibits an operation of the cameras until the setting value of the adjustment element of the camera after switching matches with a setting value set by the adjuster. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140293078 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - To enable satisfactory simultaneous and widely varied pictures to be obtained, for example, by allowing a common user to obtain an overall picture while the common user performing desired image capturing, or the like. A first image capturing device image-captures a subject to record this image, and also transmits a trigger signal to a second image capturing device. The second image capturing device image-captures an image to record this image in accordance with the trigger signal. Thus, the first and second image capturing devices enable both of an overall image and a zoomed image to be obtained with simultaneous timing. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20150116524 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND SYSTEM - A system in which an image capturing apparatus is externally operated by a terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus comprises a unit which instructs the image capturing apparatus to start image capture processing, a unit which receives a first image acquired by the image capturing apparatus, a unit which acquires a second image by executing image capture processing for an object in response to the instruction, and a unit which records the first image and the second image in association with each other, and the image capturing apparatus comprises a unit which acquires the instruction for starting the image capture processing from the terminal apparatus, a unit which acquires the first image, and a unit which transmits the first image to the terminal apparatus. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150124110 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - To enable satisfactory simultaneous and widely varied pictures to be obtained, for example, by allowing a common user to obtain an overall picture while the common user performing desired image capturing, or the like. A first image capturing device image-captures a subject to record this image, and also transmits a trigger signal to a second image capturing device. The second image capturing device image-captures an image to record this image in accordance with the trigger signal. Thus, the first and second image capturing devices enable both of an overall image and a zoomed image to be obtained with simultaneous timing. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150146028 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGING DIRECTION AND ANGLE OF VIEW OF CAMERA - In a system and a method of controlling an imaging direction and an angle of view of a camera according to an aspect of the present disclosure, infrared light may be irradiated toward pupils of eyes of a user, and a position of infrared light reflected from the pupils of the eyes of the user may be detected by a first camera to track a line of sight of the user and calculate a viewing angle of the user. In addition, an imaging direction of a second camera may coincide with the line of sight of the user and an angle of view of the second camera may coincide with the viewing angle of the user to allow an image actually viewed by the user and an image captured by the camera to coincide with each other. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20160065825 | CONTROLLING METHOD FOR IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - A controlling method, suitable for a first camera unit and a second camera unit, is disclosed herein. The controlling method include following steps. The first camera unit is triggered to generate a first media data by shooting a first image or recording a first video. In response to the first media data is generated, the second camera unit is automatically triggered to generate a second media data by shooting a second image or recording a second video. The first media data and the second media data are configured to be integrated into a third media data. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160165121 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE COMPOSING METHOD - An image composing method searches other electronic devices nearby via a communication unit, selects a number of electronic devices from the searched other electronic devices to determine slave members of a sharing community, and selects a number of slave members from the slave members of the sharing community to be capturing devices. The method identifies an object, determines a capturing position of each capturing device according to the object, the number of the capturing devices, and a predetermined manner, and controls each capturing device to move to a corresponding capturing position. The method further instructs each capturing device to take image according to the predetermined manner and receives the image from each capturing device, and integrates the images taken by the capturing devices to generate a single composed image. A related electronic device and a related non-transitory storage medium are also provided. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160182799 | Audio Processing Based Upon Camera Selection | 06-23-2016 |
