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| 20090046193 | Digital camera - A digital camera includes a signal processing circuit. The signal processing circuit makes signal processing on the camera data read from a camera data area of an SDRAM to produce YUV data for record. A thin-out circuit makes a thin-out processing on the recording YUV data to produce YUV data for display. The display YUV data and the recording YUV data thus produced are written respectively to a display data area and a recording data area of the SDRAM and thereafter processed for display on a display and record to a flash memory. The access speed to SDRAM is 48 MHz and the processing speed of the signal processing circuit and thin-out circuit is 12 MHz. Consequently, the YUV data for display and YUV data for record is written concurrently with reading out of the camera data. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090059053 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device acquiring a captured image on a subject; a display section; setting means for setting whether to make effective a temporary recording mode in which the captured image is temporarily recorded in a first storage section; if the temporary recording mode is effective, display control means for playback displaying the captured image recorded in the first storage section from when the temporary recording mode has been effective on the display section in response to an instruction operation of a user; and recording control means for recording an image specified by the user from the playback-displayed captured images in a second storage section as an image to be saved. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090059054 | Apparatus, method, and recording medium containing program for photographing - A photographing apparatus, such as a digital camera, provided with a scene recognition function is disclosed, in which images photographed according to a photographing mode or color candidate corresponding to a recognized scene are played back according to a predetermined classification. Live view data and actually-photographed image data representing a subject are acquired, and the live view data is analyzed to recognize at least one scene representing the subject. Then, a photographing mode or a color candidate corresponding to the scene is selected. The photographing mode or color candidate selected for each actually-photographed image data is recorded together with the actually-photographed image data acquired according to the selected photographing mode or color candidate. A photographing mode or color candidate for playing back the actually-photographed image data is specified to play back all the actually-photographed image data acquired according to the specified photographing mode or color candidate. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090091650 | DIGITAL CAMERA CAPABLE OF APPROPRIATELY DISCRIMINATING THE FACE OF A PERSON - In a digital camera, when a shutter button is depressed into its half stroke, a subject is photographed as a preparatory image, in which the face of a person is identified as a face area. Such a face area at the latest time is compared with a corresponding face area in another preparatory image taken immediately preceding to the latest time. If no substantial difference exists between both, the face area is determined as a stationary object and excluded from a set of identified face areas, of which the remaining ones are adopted as the face areas selected, based on which, optimum exposure and focusing values are calculated. When the shutter button is depressed into its full stroke, the calculated optimum exposure is carried out with the optimum focusing value to photograph a subject as a live image. The face area of the subject is freely selectable. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090160996 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM THEREOF, RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING THE PROGRAM, AND IMAGING DEVICE - Relative to an image processing apparatus that processes image data containing a distortion of an image pickup optical section, which is obtained by picking up an optical image from a subject through the image pickup optical section giving the distortion, an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program therefor, a recording medium in which the program is recorded, an image pickup apparatus, which are easily used by the user conveniently, are provided. A data output section ( | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090167921 | IMAGE ROTATING ADAPTER AND CAMERA HAVING THE SAME - An image rotating adapter includes: a first prism forming a subject image transmitted through an imaging lens on a position; and a second prism further reversing the subject image reversed by the first prism. The adapter also includes: a rotation drive unit rotating the second prism; a control unit controlling the rotation drive unit; a rotation instruction unit instructing the control unit to start or stop rotation; a target position setting unit previously setting one or more target positions to stop the second prism; a preset instruction unit instructing the control unit to perform a preset function for moving the second prism to the target position; a speed control unit adjusting rotation speed of the second prism; and a detection unit detecting a rotation position and a rotation direction of the second prism. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090185064 | IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD FOR IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS - The image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup element photoelectrically converting an object image, an image generating unit configured to generate a first image by using an output from the image-pickup element, a focus controller configured to perform focus control of an image-pickup optical system, and an enlarging processing unit configured to enlarge a partial area including a specific object in the first image to generate a second image larger than the partial area. A display controller configured to cause a display state of a monitor to shift from a state where the first image is displayed on the monitor to a state where the second image is displayed on the monitor together with the first image, in response to acquisition of an in-focus state of the image-pickup optical system for the specific object by the focus control. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090195686 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus capable of readily specifying undesirable photographing parameters from auto photographing parameters. This apparatus includes: a parameter determining section that determines a plurality of photographing parameters to set when a subject is photographed; a parameter setting section that sets each value of part of the plurality of determined photographing parameters; a moving image acquiring section that acquires a moving image using the part of set photographing parameters; a display section that displays the acquired moving image; an evaluation button that evaluates the photographing parameters; and a parameter changing section that, when the evaluation button is operated while the moving image is displayed, changes at least one of values of the part of set photographing parameters. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090262230 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RANGING AREA - An image pickup apparatus includes a motion amount detecting unit that detects an amount of motion of an object on the basis of an image signal of the object, a type information storage unit that stores a plurality of type information items used for detecting the type of the object, a type detecting unit that detects a type of the object on the basis of the stored type information items and the image signal of the object, a moving distance estimating unit that estimates a distance through which the object moves in an imaging screen on the basis of the detected amount of motion of the object and the object type detected by the type detecting unit, and a ranging area control unit that controls the size of a ranging area on the basis of the estimated distance through which the object moves in the imaging screen. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090273699 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - An image processing method, an electronic device thereof, and a recording medium thereof are provided, which are applicable for processing an image captured by an electronic device. In this method, a default direction is defined first, and a current usage direction of the electronic device is obtained then. If the usage direction is not consistent with the default direction, the image is adjusted to a correct direction according to both the usage direction and the default direction. Finally, the adjusted image is recorded. Therefore, regardless of the direction along which the user holds the electronic device when capturing the image, the recorded image is always in the correct direction. The rotation operations performed to the images that are not in the correct direction can be omitted when browsing the images, so as to greatly increase the convenience and smoothness in browsing images. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090284636 | DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING TAKEN IMAGE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING TAKEN IMAGE - A camera-equipped mobile telephone terminal with which a portion that the user can not view can be confirmed with simple operation. In the mobile telephone terminal ( | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090295976 | TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A terminal and method of controlling the same are disclosed, by which a user's convenience for photography using a terminal can be further enhanced. The terminal includes a camera, a display, a user input having a camera shutter key for photography, and a controller controlling at least one of more menu icons displayed in a standby mode to be displayed by being overlapped with a preview image obtained for the photography by the camera. A see-through image seen through a transparent display can become a camera preview image. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100013977 | ELECTRONIC CAMERA - It is enabled to check a detail of a subject being a tracking object more rapidly and easily by including an image-capturing unit capturing a subject image and generating an image, a selecting unit continuously selecting a focus detection object area at the time of image-capturing by the image-capturing unit based on the image generated by the image-capturing unit, a displaying unit capable of displaying the image generated by the image-capturing unit, a generating unit cutting out a part corresponding to the focus detection object area from the image generated by the image-capturing unit and generating a tracking object checking image, and a controlling unit displaying on the displaying unit by overlapping a through image for a composition checking based on the image generated by the image-capturing unit and the tracking object checking image at the time of image-capturing by the image-capturing unit. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100020224 | METHOD FOR SELECTING DESIRABLE IMAGES FROM AMONG A PLURALITY OF IMAGES AND APPARATUS THEREOF - An image processing method includes calculating a desirability score which indicates a desirability of the image, for each of a series of images captured in a time-sequential manner, based on a recognition result of the image, and selecting a plurality of images as best-shots in which desirability scores are a local maximum value in a time-sequence, from the series of images. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100045843 | CAMERA AND CONTROL METHOD OF CAMERA - An apparatus includes an imaging unit to capture an image of an object, a selection unit to select one of a plurality of shooting modes of the imaging unit, a recording unit to record the captured image onto a recording medium, a switching unit to switch between a reproduction mode in which recorded image data is readout and displayed on a display device, and a shooting processing mode in which shooting processing is performed in the selected shooting mode and a reproduction control unit to cause the display device to display the read out image data. When the switching unit switches the mode to the reproduction mode, the reproduction control unit changes an operation that can be instructed in the reproduction mode according to the selected shooting mode. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100053410 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING QUADRANGLE AREA IN IMAGE - An image processing apparatus includes: a line segment detecting unit configured to detect vertical line segments and horizontal line segments in an image; a facing-lines candidate generating unit configured to generate vertical and horizontal facing-lines candidates from the vertical and horizontal line segments, the vertical and horizontal facing-lines candidates being candidates for pairs of facing lines configuring quadrangle areas in the image; a rectangle candidate generating unit configured to generate a plurality of pairs of one of the vertical facing-lines candidates and one of the horizontal facing-lines candidates, and to generate the quadrangle areas as rectangle candidates; and a calculating unit configured to calculate likelihood of each of the rectangle candidates based on a relationship between line segments constituting the vertical facing-lines candidates and the horizontal facing-lines candidates and the rectangle candidates. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100066891 | IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to an image sensing apparatus that photographs a moving image and records moving image data, and the image sensing apparatus has an image sensing unit and a recording unit which records moving image data obtained by the image sensing unit on a storage medium; the image sensing device extracts frames of a portion of the moving image data in accordance with a predetermined condition during recording of the moving image data by the recording unit, and stores the extracted frames in a memory as image data for RecReview. Here, the number of frames of the image data for RecReview is set, and a review unit reads out image data of frames of the set number in accordance with termination of recording of moving image data, outputs the image data of frames to a display device, and displays the RecReview images. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100157131 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. The light-emitting layer contains an organic compound emitting photoluminescent light with a peak wavelength of 430 to 480 nm. The organic compound has a profile factor of 0.02 or less at a wave number of 1,300 to 1,680 cm | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100171863 | METHOD TO ENLARGE AND CHANGE DISPLAYED IMAGE AND PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A method to enlarge and change an image displayed by a photographing apparatus, and a photographing apparatus using the same. The enlargement method includes adding guide information regarding a zoom-in area and compensating the guide information based on the zoom-in command. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100182481 | IMAGING APPARATUS, USER INTERFACE, AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY FOR A CO-EXISTENT SHOOTING AND REPRODUCTION MODE - A currently captured image R of an object is displayed nearly at a center portion of a display frame SC on a display screen ST | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100194963 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A user-preferred image is easily displayed for a plurality of images generated by bracketing capture. A recording control unit | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100245652 | IMAGE PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - An image playback apparatus has a recording section which records shot images, and a display section which displays the images. The apparatus includes a motion detection section which detects a motion applied to the image playback apparatus in a state where hold of the image playback apparatus is detected, and a display control section which, when application of a particular motion set in advance is detected by the motion detection section, sorts and displays the images displayed on the display section. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100315543 | METHOD FOR CONVERTING A RESOLUTION AND IMAGE SENSOR THEREOF - A method for converting resolution of images for a preview mode from an image sensor to provide the images through a display apparatus is provided, which includes (a) providing resolution information of the display apparatus to the image sensor side, (b) providing the images having the resolution that coincides with the resolution information from the image sensor to the display apparatus side, and (c) providing the images from the image sensor to the user. A method for converting resolution of images for a preview mode from an image sensor to provide the images through a display apparatus is also provided, which includes (a) providing resolution information of the display apparatus to the image sensor side, and (b) providing the images having the resolution that coincides with the resolution information from the image sensor to the display apparatus side, wherein the step (b) alternately removes pixels constituting the images, and removes pixels in different positions among the neighboring images. In addition, an image sensor for providing images of an object to a user through a display apparatus by executing a preview mode is provided, which includes a plurality of pixels for detecting successive images from light incident from the object, a digital conversion unit for converting analog images provided from the respective pixels to digital images, and a resolution conversion unit for converting the digital images provided from the digital conversion unit into images having resolution that coincides with resolution of the display apparatus to provide the converted images to the display apparatus. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110043677 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGING DEVICE - There are provided an image display device and an imaging device with which efficiency can be improved in the comparison of a plurality of images. A digital camera includes a liquid crystal monitor, a body microcomputer, and an image display controller. The body microcomputer has a display manager and a selector. The liquid crystal monitor has a first display region and a second display region and is configured to display images recorded to a recording medium. The display manager is configured to manage as display objects one or more images that have yet to be displayed on the liquid crystal monitor in a specific mode. The selector is configured to select an image from among the display objects as a selected image for display on the liquid crystal monitor. The image display controller is configured to display the selected image in the first display region or the second display region. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110141334 | IMAGING DEVICE - Provided are: an imaging sensor that captures subject light via a photographic optical system having a focusing lens; a display unit that displays a through image based upon an imaging signal from the imaging sensor; an area setting unit that sets at least two areas on the through image displayed on a display surface of the display unit; a movement control unit that adjusts a focus position to a subject in one area of the at least two areas set by the area setting unit and moves the focus position from the subject in the one area to a subject in the other area, which is different from the one area, of the at least two areas over a predetermined time by controlling drive of the focusing lens; and a movie image data creation unit that creates movie image data, which includes a movie image having the focus position moved from the subject in the one area to the subject in the other area by the movement control unit, based upon the imaging signal from the imaging sensor. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110187914 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A digital photographing apparatus and method of applying settings, including acquiring a sample image, determining types of preview image setting values, generating a plurality of preview images having different groups of setting values, and displaying the plurality of preview images. A user may select a preview image to apply the corresponding setting types and values. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110194010 | IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention provides an image search apparatus including a control unit configured to, when a search key image is set, perform an obtaining process of obtaining at least either of feature amounts of the search key image, a generation process of generating a plurality of search conditions different from each other from the at least either of the feature amounts and the image capturing conditions, a search process of searching the plurality of images except the search key image for an image matching or similar to the search condition for each of the plurality of search conditions, the display control process of displaying a plurality of images that are images found for the plurality of search conditions, a selection process of selecting one image from the plurality of images, and a setting process of setting, as a new search key image, the image selected. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110216235 | Electronic Mirror - The present invention is directed to an electronic mirror designed to replace a pocket or purse mirror. The electronic mirror has a housing with an electronic display. The electronic mirror includes a processor driving the display. An image sensor is connected to the processor by an electronic cord. The electronic cord is held in place by a retraction mechanism. In use the owner can pull out the image sensor to view the back, top and sides of their head. The electronic mirror includes a freeze frame feature and zoom feature. The electronic mirror also includes a stand to free up a user's hands. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110267530 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF PHOTOGRAPHING IMAGE USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a mobile terminal and a method of capturing an image using the same. The mobile terminal controls a camera conveniently and efficiently to capture an image and performs focusing in various manners to capture an image. Accordingly, a user can obtain a desired image easily and conveniently. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110317057 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING PHOTOGRAPHIC AND/OR VIDEOGRAPHIC IMAGES - A photographic system and integrated methods thereof that makes use of four frames and light heads on robotic brackets, which can be positioned automatically using a mechanical gantry device. The lights can be positioned, rotated and adjusted automatically in response to a user input selection based on a desired photographic result selected at a user interface. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120002094 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING REFERENCE IMAGE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REFERENCE IMAGE THEREOF - A image pickup apparatus and a method for providing a reference image thereof are provided. The image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup unit; a storage unit which stores image data captured by the image pickup unit is stored; an image processing unit which generates a preview image of a subject currently captured by the image pickup unit; a controlling unit which selects a reference image from the previously stored image data in the storage unit; and a display which displays the selected reference image together with the preview image. Thus, as the preview image is displayed together with the reference image when taking a photograph, a user is able to compare the preview image with the previously photographed image and take the photograph accordingly. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002095 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PORTABLE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES - Methods and apparatus for providing portable photographic images are described. The present invention includes a small, portable electronic display unit that may be placed within a wallet or purse. The display unit may include an input port for downloading digital images from a computer or digital camera. The display unit may also include one or more buttons to provide a user with the ability to select an image for display from a given set of digital images that have been stored in memory. The display unit may be preloaded with one or more digital images, or it may be configured to be loaded by a user. The digital images may, for example, include still digital photographs or short video clips that have been captured from a digital camera. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120044402 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - An image capturing device includes an assistant image synthesizing unit that changes a degree of transparency of a first assistant image in a transparent background area set in a second assistance image, when generating a synthesized assistant image by synthesizing the first and second assistant images providing assistance information for capturing, and a display control unit that overlaps the synthesized assistant image with a captured image and displays the image on a display unit. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120057063 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HANDHELD DEVICES - Image processing methods and systems for handheld devices are provided. First, an image effect is determined. Then, a plurality of preview images is continuously captured by an image capture unit of an electronic device. After the respective preview image is captured, the image effect is applied to the preview image, and the preview image applied with the image effect is displayed in a display unit of the electronic device. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120069235 | IMAGE CAPTURE WITH FOCUS ADJUSTMENT - An image capture device includes capture optics for capturing light-field information for a scene. A display screen displays a preview of the scene by using the captured light-field information at a default focal plane. The display displays a user interface for accepting a user selection of a region in the preview together with a user selection of focus for the selected region. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120105703 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A method for controlling a mobile terminal includes displaying a preview image input by a camera in an augmented reality (AR) mode, displaying AR data corresponding to at least one object in the preview image, and providing a user interface for editing at least a portion of the preview image including the AR data in the AR mode in order to generate an edited preview image. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120147245 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM - An image pickup apparatus sets focusing time for changing an in-focus state onto each in-focus point by the optical system in accordance with a plurality of in-focus points set by a setting unit and controls the change of the in-focus state by the optical system on the basis of the set focusing time and evaluation by a focus estimation unit in response to a recording instruction given to a recording unit, so that the plurality of set in-focus points are made intop the in-focus state in turn. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120200761 | METHOD FOR CAPTURING PICTURE IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method for capturing a picture in a portable terminal is provided, in which a capturing position is set on a preview screen in a capturing mode, it is determined whether an object is inside the capturing position, then a user is notified when the object is inside and of the picture is taken when a predetermined condition is satisfied. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120218453 | IMAGE TAKING DEVICE AND IMAGE TAKING METHOD - Provided is an image taking device having high image taking efficiency when a plurality of images are continuously taken. The image taking device comprises an image taking unit which performs image capturing processing and processing for creating a taken image, a first image processing unit which creates a live view image from a captured image captured by the image taking unit, a second image processing unit which creates a preview image from the taken image, a third image processing unit which performs processing for storing the taken image, and a display unit which displays the live view image and displays the preview image. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120229687 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A digital photographing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. A continuous shooting speed of the digital photographing apparatus may be improved by simultaneously performing a shutter operation and a read out operation of image data. A disclosed method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus includes displaying an image signal input through an image pickup device as a live view image, performing a first operation by driving a shutter, reading data from the image pickup device, and performing a second operation by driving the shutter during a time period overlapping the reading of the data. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120249857 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD - A Digital photographing apparatus having a replaceable lens mounted thereon, a method of controlling the digital photographing apparatus, and a recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method are provided. The digital photographing apparatus includes an imaging device generating an image signal by imaging light through the mounted lens, a user interface receiving a selection of a user of one of a plurality of replaceable lenses, a reading unit reading specification information regarding the selected lens, a changing unit changing the image signal based on the read specification information regarding the selected lens, and a display unit displaying the changed image signal as a preview image. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120268641 | IMAGE APPARATUS - An image apparatus, including a main optical system that captures a first image, a sub optical system that captures a second image to assist capturing the first image, a display device that displays the first image and the second image in a live view, and a signal processor that controls at least one of a frame rate of the first image from the main optical system and a frame rate of the second image from the sub optical system. The signal processor controls the frame rate of the first image data and the second image data such that the first and second frame rates become the same, and the display device displays the first image and the second image on the display device. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120274832 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus arranged to set a correction value for adjusting a focus position obtained by a predetermined detection method at a time of photographing, is arranged such that if a limitation processing is executed with respect to selection of an AF frame at the time of photographing, a display manner at the time of selection of an AF frame which is to be used when the correction value is set and stored is made different between a selectable AF frame and an unselectable AF frame or is made by applying the same limitation as the limitation processing at the time of photographing. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120307126 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Accessing an Application in a Locked Device - While an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface is in a locked, passcode-protected state, the device displays a lock screen user interface on the display. The lock screen user interface includes a plurality of restricted application launch icons, each restricted application launch icon corresponding to an application. The device also detects user input to activate a respective restricted application launch icon; and, in response to detecting the user input to activate the respective restricted application launch icon, starts a restricted session for a respective application that corresponds to the respective restricted application launch icon, wherein the respective application is configured to generate one or more content items while in the restricted session, and maintains the device in the locked, passcode-protected state for applications in the device other than the respective application. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20130002928 | ADJUSTMENT OF IMAGING PROPERTIES FOR AN IMAGING ASSEMBLY HAVING LIGHT-FIELD OPTICS - Image capture using an image capture device which includes an imaging assembly having a spectral sensitivity tunable in accordance with a spectral capture mask and light-field optics for projecting a light-field of a scene onto the imaging assembly. A first spectral capture mask is applied to the imaging assembly and preview image data of a scene is captured under the first capture mask. A designation of a region of interest, and a designation of a capture preference in the region of interest are received. A second spectral capture mask is calculated by calculations which use the preview image data and the capture preference for the region of interest. The second spectral capture mask is applied to the imaging assembly, and light-field image data of the scene is captured under the second spectral capture mask. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130070144 | OPTICAL APPARATUS - An optical apparatus is configured to execute a manual focus mode in which focusing is performed by an operation of a manual operating unit by moving an image pickup optical system configured to form an optical image of an object. The optical apparatus includes a diaphragm configured to adjust a light quantity, and a controller configured to control a movement of the image pickup optical system in accordance with an operating amount of the manual operating unit so that a unit moving amount that is a moving amount of an in-focus position of the image pickup optical system per unit operation of the manual operating unit corresponds to a product between a diameter of a minimum confusion circle of the image pickup optical system, a diaphragm value of the diaphragm in the manual focus mode, and a coefficient that is a natural number or a reciprocal of the natural number. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130107102 | DISPLAYING OF IMAGES WITH LIGHTING ON THE BASIS OF CAPTURED AUXILIARY IMAGES | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130148003 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING AN IMAGE CAPTURED ON AN IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE - A method of selecting an image captured on an image capture device ( | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130155309 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling Camera Functions Using Facial Recognition and Eye Tracking - A device is provided. The device includes a primary camera to capture images, a secondary camera to capture images, a viewfinder, and a processor. The viewfinder can display images captured by the primary camera. The processor can provide eye tracking analysis on images captured by the secondary camera in order to determine a region of interest in the viewfinder. The processor further associates the region of interest with a portion of an image captured by the primary camera. The processor further initiates an autofocus procedure based on the region of interest. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130162880 | CAMERA MODULE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a camera module and a method for driving the camera module, the module including: a photographing unit controlling a shutter speed to photograph an image in response to an inputted control signal; a display unit displaying the image; and a controller outputting a first shutter speed control signal to the photographing unit to allow an average brightness of two or more particular areas to become a set reference brightness, in a case the two or more particular areas in a plurality of divided areas in the display unit are selected. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130162881 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes an image data interface unit that outputs the first image data according to a pixel signal from a solid-state imaging device, an image data reading unit that reads image data from a storage unit and outputs the read image data as second image data, an image synthesizing unit that outputs third image data in which the first image data is synthesized with the second image data, an evaluation value generating unit that generates an evaluation value based on image data, a first image data selecting unit that inputs selected image data to the evaluation value generating unit, an image data writing unit that stores input image data in the storage unit via the data bus, a second image data selecting unit that inputs selected image data to the image data writing unit, and a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the third image data. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130176474 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING CAMERA VIEW AREA IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method of displaying a camera view area in a portable terminal that addresses the scenario of a viewing angle of a user taker being different from that of the camera, particularly in the case of transparent display panel. The method preferably includes: receiving a first image including a shape of a user when requesting a picture; identifying a position of the shape of the user within the first image; determining whether the identified position of the shape of the user is included in a pre-designated area; calculating a view direction and a view angle of the user by the shape of the user when the identified position of the shape of the user is not included in the pre-designated area as a result of the determination; and rotating a second camera for photographing a second image based on the calculated view direction and view angle. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130182168 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the present invention, a control section determines the type of a touch operation performed on a touch panel during review display that is performed in a display section (monitor screen) for a predetermined amount of time after an image is captured by an imaging section, and performs type-specific processing according to the determined type on the image being review displayed. For example, when a slide operation is performed as a touch operation on the touch panel, the control section determines the slide direction as the type of the operation and performs type-specific processing based on the slide direction (direction-specific processing). | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130208166 | Focus Adjusting Method and Image Capture Device thereof - By determining using a linear adjustment, a directional adjustment, or a focus scan adjustment on a movable lens unit according to which range region the sharpness of a digital image or a region of interest of the digital image falls in, best focus control performance may be simply and rapidly fulfilled. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130208167 | Image Capture Method and Mobile Camera Device thereof - By grading preview images of original images for the purpose of filtering eye blink patterns off and/or introducing face smile patterns, a result image can be generated with least eye blink patterns and most face smile patterns for satisfying image quality. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130215314 | CAMERA USING PREVIEW IMAGE TO SELECT EXPOSURE - A digital camera comprises an image sensor for providing initial sensor image data and final sensor image data; a lens for exposing the image of a scene onto the image sensor; an exposure control system for adjusting an exposure level of a final image on the image sensor in response to a scene type; and a processor for processing the initial sensor image data to select one of a plurality of scene types, and to process the final sensor image data in response to the scene type. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130222670 | Electronic Device and Image Processing Method Thereof - An electronic device and an image processing method are provided. The present invention can pre-capture images or pre-record video into a special buffer during the launching time of an image application upon the image application being launched. Accordingly, whether a user interface corresponding to the image application is ready or not, once a user triggers a camera event via a touch screen and/or other input modules for capturing images or recording video, the pre-captured image frames can be provided instantly to the user without long waiting. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130222671 | Burst Image Capture Method and Image Capture System thereof - The present invention discloses an image capture method comprises capturing a sequence of image frames; providing the sequence of image frames for preview along a first path and buffering the sequence of image frames into a buffer along a second path separately and concurrently; receiving an input command via an input interface unit; and in response to the input command, extracting a portion of the sequence of image frames from the buffer and encoding the portion of image frames along the second path; and storing the portion of encoded image frames in a memory unit. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130222672 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING THE OPERATION STATE OF AN EXTERNAL DEVICE - The present invention provides a method for providing the operation state of an external device and an apparatus using the method. A method for providing the operation state of an external device according to the present invention comprises displaying a preview image of a camera; identifying an external device displayed on the preview image; generating an indicator corresponding to the operation state of the external device; and displaying the indicator by matching the indicator to an area in the preview image to which a component related to the operation state belongs. According to the present invention, information about the operation state of a component disposed inside of an external device can be checked by making use of augmented reality. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130258160 | PORTABLE DEVICE, PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that includes a camera unit that captures image data; a display unit that displays the image data captured by the camera unit; a control unit that sets a photographing target region specified at a desired position on a screen of the display unit, and instructs the camera unit to start photographing when a photographing target is detected in the photographing target region in the image data captured by the camera unit; and a memory unit that stores an image captured by the camera unit after the instruction to start photographing. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130271637 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FOCUS - A focus control apparatus and method for controlling the focus manually is provided. The focus control apparatus includes a shutter button, a display for displaying an image whose focus is changed depending on a moving direction of a drag occurring after the shutter button is touched in a preview mode, and a controller for controlling the display to display the image whose focus is changed depending on the moving direction of the drag occurring after the shutter button is touched in the preview mode. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130293759 | IMAGE CAPTURE METHOD AND PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An image capture method is provided for a portable communication device having a display unit, which real-time displays an image at least including an object to be shot. The method includes sensing a moving acceleration of the portable communication device based on a first gravity-sensing threshold value. A touch focus signal is received so that the portable communication device focuses on one of the objects to be the focus-lock object. Then, according to the touch focus signal, the first gravity-sensing threshold value is changed to a second gravity-sensing threshold value, which is larger than the first gravity-sensing threshold value. The image at least including the focus-lock object is captured. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130308032 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARTUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A user-preferred image is easily displayed for a plurality of images generated by bracketing capture. A recording control unit adds the same group identifier to a plurality of captured images generated by the same bracketing-capture operation, allocates the plurality of captured images to the same folder, and records the plurality of captured images on a recording unit as bracketing-captured images. A priority image setting unit adds priority information to a bracketing-captured image selected by a user among the bracketing-captured images recorded on the recording unit, and sets a priority image. In addition, the priority image setting unit allocates the priority image to a main folder, and allocates bracketing-captured images other than the priority image to a sub-folder. In a predetermined display mode, a display control unit displays only the priority image among the bracketing-captured images on the display unit on the basis of the priority information. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130314580 | PREVIEW SYSTEM FOR CONCURRENTLY DISPLAYING MULTIPLE PREVIEW IMAGES GENERATED BASED ON INPUT IMAGE GENERATED BY IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS AND RELATED PREVIEW METHOD THEREOF - A preview system of an image capture apparatus has a processing circuit and a display apparatus. The processing circuit reads an input image, scales at least a portion of the input image to generate a first preview image, and derives a second preview image from a selected portion of the input image. The display apparatus displays the first preview image and the second preview image, concurrently. Besides, a preview method for an image capture apparatus includes at least the following steps: reading an input image; scaling at least a portion of the input image to generate a first preview image; deriving a second preview image from a selected portion of the input image; and displaying the first preview image and the second preview image on a display apparatus, concurrently. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130321687 | LIGHT METERING IN CAMERAS FOR BACKLIT SCENES - In various embodiments, a camera may use novel techniques to calculate proper exposure for a backlit scene, or a scene that otherwise has very high contrast ratios between different parts of the scene. In one embodiment, a touchscreen is used as a viewfinder, and the user may touch the viewfinder to indicate that part of the scene where proper exposure is desired. In another embodiment, a rear-facing exposure meter may use the light levels from the photographer to set the exposure levels for the front facing camera. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130335614 | FOCUS ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A focus adjustment apparatus that displays an in-focus state in a display region in association with control of a focus lens position. The apparatus includes a signal generation unit configured to output a pair of image signals from a focus detection region having a plurality of corresponding display regions, the image signals being generated by photoelectrically converting light having passed through an imaging optical system, and a control unit configured to detect a phase difference of the pair of image signals output from the focus detection region, and to control a position of the focus lens based on the phase difference detection result. The control unit detects the phase difference corresponding to divided regions formed by dividing the focus detection region, and displays an in-focus state in the display region in accordance with the control of the focus lens position control based on the phase difference detection result. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130342747 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - A control method of a digital photographing apparatus includes displaying an image that is being input through a photographing unit on a touch screen, recognizing touch inputs with respect to two points on the touch screen, detecting a focusing area by using coordinate values of the two touched points, and performing auto focusing based on the focusing area, and when a photographing command is input, capturing an image on which the auto focusing is performed. Therefore, a user may view an image while performing auto-focusing commands without covering a focusing area that the user wants to photograph. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140016013 | IMAGE CAPTURE METHOD - The present disclosure provides an image capturing method including: detecting whether a first trigger signal has been received; performing a first facial recognition process on a preview image captured by an image capture device to produce a first facial recognition result, when the first trigger signal has been received; determining whether a number of people indicated by the first facial recognition result is equal to a predetermined number of participants indicated by an input signal; and activating an output device to display a correct signal when the number of people indicated by the first facial recognition result is equal to the predetermined number of participants. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140036131 | METHOD OF CAPTURING AN IMAGE IN A DEVICE AND THE DEVICE THEREOF - A method of capturing an image in a device and the device thereof are provided. The method comprises displaying a preview of an image to be captured on a screen of the device; allowing a user to execute an action input through a spatial relationship with a region, wherein the region is any area on the surface of the screen; sensing the action input; comparing the action input to a template stored in a memory of the device, wherein the template is associated with image capturing; and capturing the image if the action input substantially matches the template. The method of capturing images in the device and the device thereof provided by the present disclosure permit a user to easily capture images without clicking a fixed area on the screen. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140063320 | IMAGE CAPTURE METHODS AND SYSTEMS WITH POSITIONING AND ANGLING ASSISTANCE - Image capture methods and systems with positioning and angling assistance are provided. A reference image having a first set of feature points is provided. A preview image is captured and analyzed using a feature detecting algorithm to obtain a second set of feature points. A variation is calculated according to the first set of the feature points corresponding to the reference image and the second set of the feature points corresponding to the preview image, and a present-marker is rendered on a display unit according to a preset position and the variation. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140071325 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING PROCESSING METHOD CAPABLE OF CHECKING COMPOSITION IN ADVANCE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140071326 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CAMERA PREVIEW SCREEN IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method for displaying a camera preview screen of a portable terminal is provided. The method includes displaying a camera preview screen at the preset output frame rate when starting an image capture mode, confirming whether the output frame rate change condition is satisfied, and displaying the camera preview screen at the changed output frame rate when confirmed that the change condition is satisfied. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140118600 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CAMERA OF DEVICE AND DEVICE THEREOF - Provided are a method of controlling a camera of a device capable of minimizing a vision difference between a front camera and a user by displaying a reduced size preview image within a partial region of a display proximate to a lens of the front camera. When a photo is taken while the user views the reduced size preview image, a more natural image is captured. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140118601 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An imaging apparatus and a control method thereof includes an image unit adapted to perform imaging, a drive unit adapted to move a location of a lens in the imaging unit to adjust a focus, a touch screen adapted to display a live view generated by the imaging unit and receive a touch gesture for the live view, and a controller adapted to set an auto focus mode corresponding to the touch gesture among a plurality of auto focus modes when the touch gesture is input, and to control the drive unit to move the location of the lens so that the focus can be adjusted based on the set auto focus mode. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140132817 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING AND DISPLAYING AN IMAGE - A method and apparatus for displaying an image. The method includes: recognizing a movement of an object that approaches an image capture button; capturing a plurality of frames in response to the recognized movement of the object; and displaying a predetermined frame from among the plurality of captured frames on a display unit. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140160339 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - An object of the invention is to display image data generated based on output data of an image capturing sensor and information other than such image data in a period of the same length as a frame image capturing period of the image capturing sensor. With the invention, image data showing an image of an object is generated per line of a display section based on output data of an image capturing sensor, display data including the image data is caused to be displayed on a first display region of a display screen of the display section constructed by the first display region and a second display region with a line display period having a length of “a” or more to “b” or less after the image data of a plurality of lines is stored in the buffer, and display data that does not include the image data is caused to be displayed on the second display region with a line display period having a length of “a”. “a” refers to a shortest length of the line display period of the display section in which a frame rate as display capability is higher than the frame rate of the image capturing sensor. Length “a” is shorter than “b” that refers to a maximum length of a period for generating image data of one line in a case where the image capturing sensor is operated at the image capturing sensor frame rate. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140160340 | Methods for Enhancing Perception of Image Quality at Capture Using Gaze Detection and Devices Thereof - The method enhances the perceived quality of the main subject matter in an image at capture by determining where in the scene the photographer is looking using gaze-tracking technology. The device includes an image management computing device coupling a processor, memory, input and display device interface, optional network interface device, and camera directed at the photographer as well as the scene. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140176776 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a display control apparatus including a predicted-image generation unit configured to generate a predicted image of an imaging result based on a shutter speed, and a display control unit configured to update display of the predicted image in an update cycle corresponding to the shutter speed. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140176777 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - a method for controlling an electronic device and an electronic device are provided, the method being applicable to an electronic device including a display unit, a first image acquisition unit and a second image acquisition unit, wherein the first image acquisition unit can determine a different acquisition region based upon a different focusing parameter, and the method includes: in the case where an image of a first acquisition region is acquired by the first image acquisition unit, obtaining by the second image acquisition unit a first line-of-sight focus of a first user observing a preview image displayed on the display unit; determining a first photographing focus of the first image acquisition unit based upon the first line-of-sight focus; and acquiring by the first image acquisition unit a first image of the first acquisition region based upon the first photographing focus. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140184870 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD, AND IMAGING PROGRAM - An imaging device includes a display unit which displays an image, a focus unit which detects a focus deviation, and a display controller which causes the display unit to display a composite image in which a first image of a region of at least a portion of a second image of the image data, and the second image are superposed and combined. The region is in a position in accordance with the focus deviation. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140192246 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A digital photographing apparatus is provided. The digital photographing apparatus includes a photographing unit that generates photographed images from incident light, a live view generator that generates a live view image from the photographed images, and a display unit that displays the live view image. The live view generator determines the number of real-time photographed images to be combined, according to a set exposure time. The live view generator combines the real-time photographed images of the determined number to generate the live view image. The live view generator combines latest real-time photographed images of the determined number to update the live view image whenever a real-time photographed image is input. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140192247 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CAMERA OPERATION BASED ON HAPTIC FUNCTION AND TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method for providing camera operations using a haptic function, and an electronic device implementing the same are provided. The method of operating the electric device includes receiving, by an electronic device including a camera, an input to activate the camera; receiving a request to output guidance information for assisting with photographing with the camera; determining haptic feedback corresponding to the guidance information; and outputting the determined haptic feedback. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140204263 | IMAGE CAPTURE METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Image capture methods and systems are provided. A definition of a specific region in a preview area is received. At least one preview image is captured via an image capture unit of the electronic device. It is determined whether a specific object exists in the preview image using an object recognition algorithm. If a specific object exists in the preview image, it is determined whether at least a predefined percentage of the specific object is within the specific region. If at least the predefined percentage of the specific object is within the specific region, the electronic device is enabled to perform a photography process to obtain an image via the image capture unit. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140232923 | Device independent color differences - In the present disclosure techniques related to display of device independent color differences are described. In examples, a color comparison graphical user interface (GUI) is operated. The GUI displays a color of a sample object. Further, the GUI displays a color of a reference object. Further, the GUI displays a device independent color difference between the sample color and the reference color. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140240579 | PORTABLE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TAKING A PHOTOGRAPH BY USING WIDGET - A method and an apparatus for taking a photograph by using a widget are provided. The method includes displaying, on a touch screen, a widget including a storage location name corresponding to a storage location where an image photographed in a camera application is stored, a preview area which displays a photo image stored in the storage location, and a photographing button, changing the preview area to a view finder area in response to a first touch detected in the widget, photographing a subject displayed on the view finder area in response to a second touch detected in the photographing button, and storing a photographed image corresponding to the subject in the storage location. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140253779 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal including a touch screen; a camera configured to acquire an image; and a controller configured to: display the acquired image on the touch screen; enable a note function on the touch screen while the acquired image is displayed; receive a touch input for performing the note function on the image, a touch trajectory corresponding to the touch input being displayed on the image as a note; and store the note on the acquired image in a memory of the mobile terminal. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140267873 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - The present invention is an image pickup apparatus including: an image processing section configured to be capable of outputting a cut-off image (cropped image) corresponding to an optical image formed on a specified area of an image pickup device; an image display device; a touch panel provided on the image display device; and a control section; wherein if the touch panel detects a drag operation during a live view display operation being performed on the image display device, the specified area is caused to relatively move with respect to the optical image according to a movement direction and movement distance of the drag operation. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140293113 | METHOD OF PROVIDING AN ADJUSTED DIGITAL IMAGE REPRESENTATION OF A VIEW, AND AN APPARATUS - According to one aspect of the inventive concept there is provided a method of providing an adjusted digital image representation of a view, the method comprising providing a set of images, wherein the images of said set depict a same view and are captured with a digital camera using different configurations of the digital camera; determining an initial representation of the view by providing a primary image based on image data of at least a first image of said set; sending the primary image for presentation of the initial representation on a display; providing a secondary image based on image data of at least a second image of said set, wherein the first image and the second image are different images; and sending, in response to receiving a user command, the secondary image for presentation of an adjusted representation of the view on the display. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140307146 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTO-FOCUSING IN DEVICE HAVING CAMERA - This disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for auto-focusing in a device having a camera. The method includes displaying a focus item in a preview screen while driving a camera, auto-focusing by searching an image of the focus item from a preview image and displaying a focus mark, and processing a focused image if the auto-focusing is completed. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140320724 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION IN PORTABLE DEVICE - A method of processing information of a portable device includes displaying a preview image output from a camera when a camera application is executed; displaying communication applications corresponding to recognition information of a selected image in the displayed preview image; executing a selected communication application among the displayed communication applications; and transmitting a content/file through the communication application. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140320725 | DIGITAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A digital device according to an embodiment includes a sensor unit configured to sense a user input to the digital device and to provide a signal corresponding to a sensed result to a processor, a camera unit configured to acquire an image, a display unit configured to display the acquired image, and the processor configured to control the sensor unit, the camera unit, and the display unit. The processor is further configured to: display the image acquired through the camera unit on the display unit, and provide a preview interface indicating a to-be-captured area in the displayed image, wherein the preview interface includes a first frame indicating a preview area of a first picture and a second frame indicating a preview area of a second picture. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140362274 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN CAMERA INTERFACES - A method is performed at an electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and a camera. The device displays a first camera interface on the display for a first virtual camera that produces media with first output dimensions. While displaying the first camera interface on the display, the device detects a first gesture that includes movement of a contact in a first direction on the touch-sensitive surface. The first gesture does not interact with a predefined camera-switching affordance. In response to detecting the first gesture, the device switches from displaying the first camera interface to displaying a second camera interface for a second virtual camera that produces media with second output dimensions different from the first output dimensions. The second camera interface is different from the first camera interface. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20150015764 | COMPRESSION AND DECODING OF SINGLE SENSOR COLOR IMAGE DATA - A method is described to greatly improve the efficiency of and reduce the complexity of image compression when using single-sensor color imagers for video acquisition. The method in addition allows for this new image compression type to be compatible with existing video processing tools, improving the workflow for film and television production. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150055006 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Provided are photographing apparatuses and methods of controlling the same. The photographing apparatuses may set an auto-focusing (AF) region according to a touch, a drag, and a touch release on a touchscreen, thereby making it possible to prevent the AF region from being easily shifted by an unintended touch of a user. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150055007 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - A display control apparatus performs control so as to enlarge and display a portion of an image in response to a TELE operation performed while the entire image is being normally displayed, and performs control so as to change an enlargement area of the image to an area corresponding to an in-focus position within an area of the image in response to a press of a set button while the image is being enlarged and displayed. The set button has a function of displaying a FUNK menu when the set button is pressed while the entire image is being normally displayed. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150062403 | IMAGE FORMING OPTICAL SYSTEM, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An optical system includes, in order from the object side, an aperture, a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power and having a meniscus shape with a convex surface facing the image side, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power. The optical system satisfies a certain condition. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150085172 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image sensor; a setting unit configured to set, in the image sensor, a first region for obtaining a focus detection signal, and a second region, larger than the first region and contains the first region, for obtaining an image signal; a focus control unit configured to carry out focus control by finding an in-focus position of a focus lens using the focus detection signal output from the first region; and a readout unit configured to read out the focus detection signal from the first region and the image signal from the second region in parallel. The readout unit sets a framerate for reading out the focus detection signal to be higher than a framerate for reading out the image signal. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150085173 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF PERFORMING MULTI-FOCUSING AND PHOTOGRAPHING IMAGE INCLUDING PLURALITY OF OBJECTS USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a mobile terminal and a method of capturing an image using the same. The mobile terminal controls a camera conveniently and efficiently to capture an image and performs focusing in various manners to capture an image. Accordingly, a user can obtain a desired image easily and conveniently. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150092098 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In an image capturing apparatus comprising an image sensor has focus detection pixels and image forming pixels, a calculation unit calculates first and second charge accumulation periods, a control unit reads out an image forming signal from the image forming pixels accumulated for the first charge accumulation period and a focus detection signal from the focus detection pixels accumulated for the second charge accumulation period, a display unit displays the image forming signal, and a focus control unit performs phase difference focus control process based on the focus detection signal. When the second charge accumulation period is longer than the first charge accumulation period, the control unit reads out the focus detection signal and the image forming signal in parallel, and sets a readout rate of the focus detection signal to be lower than that of the image forming signal. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150098002 | OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods are provided for optical systems and methods. A compact optical system can include a fore optical assembly, an aft optical assembly, and a phase corrector plate located between the fore optical assembly and the aft optical assembly. The phase corrector plate can have a substantially flat first surface and a set of high order aspherical coefficients on the second surface. In one aspect, the fore optical assembly and the aft optical assembly comprise achromatic doublets, apochromatic triplets, or a combination of elements. In another aspect, a surface of the phase corrector plate is located near or at an optical stop. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150124146 | IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image-capturing apparatus includes an image-capturing device having an image-capturing surface, a shutter unit having an aperture configured to allow light from an object to pass through the aperture, and a controller that controls the shutter unit. The shutter unit includes a curtain unit that selectively executes an opening operation of opening the aperture and a closing operation of closing the aperture, and an actuator that drives the curtain unit. The controller is operable to control the shutter unit to execute: an image-capturing operation in which the shutter unit executes the closing operation after resetting an electric charge stored in the image-capturing device; and a pre-driving operation in which the actuator drives the curtain with a small motion before executing the image-capturing operation. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150124147 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR) IMAGE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR RECORDING THE METHOD, AND DIGITAL IMAGING APPARATUS - A method of displaying a high dynamic range (HDR) image is described. An HDR mode is entered based on a user input. A preview image is received. An HDR image is obtained based on the received preview image. The obtained HDR image and the preview image are displayed together. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150138419 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A shutter lag from when a shutter button is fully pressed to when an exposure is actually performed may be reduced by performing a precedence operation for a state transition of a shutter when the shutter button is half pressed. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150304567 | Photographic apparatus and photographing method - The present disclosure provides a photographic apparatus and a photographing method. The photographic apparatus includes a display module configured to display an image, a receiving module configured to receive a command indicating an operation on the image displayed on the display module, and a processing module configured to select a metering position and/or a focusing position according to the command received by the receiving module. The present disclosure allows the user to select the focus area and the metering area to compose images according to different scenes, thereby improving the user experience. Furthermore, the user can respectively drag the focusing frame or the metering frame during the view-finding process, improving the playability and the user experience. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150326779 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND INEFFECTIVE REGION SETTING METHOD - [Structure] A mobile phone | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150334307 | Organizational Visual Media Capture - An electronic device ( | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150358549 | IMAGE CAPTURING PARAMETER ADJUSTMENT IN PREVIEW MODE - A method, which is performed by an electronic device, for adjusting at least one image capturing parameter in a preview mode is disclosed. The method may include capturing a preview image of a scene including at least one text object based on a set of image capturing parameters. The method may also identify a plurality of text regions in the preview image. From the plurality of text regions, a target focus region may be selected. Based on the target focus region, the at least one image capturing parameter may be adjusted. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160006942 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND A CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND AN IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND A CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image pickup apparatus includes a first image reduction unit configured to reduce the size of an image output by an image pickup element, a memory configured to store the image reduced by the first image reduction unit, an external output unit configured to output the image stored in the memory, a display configured to display an image being shot, a second image reduction unit configured to reduce, to the display size on the display, the image reduced by the first image reduction unit, without causing the reduced image to be stored in the memory and a signal processor for the display configured to perform signal processing of the image reduced to the display size on the display. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160014331 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160028961 | Visual Media Capture Device For Visual Thinking - An electronic device ( | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160065856 | PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A photographing method is provided. The photographing method includes photographing, by an electronic device, a plurality of images through a photographing module functionally connected to the electronic device, providing a photographing guide associated with a validity of at least one photographed image during the photographing of the plurality of images, and generating a single image using the at least one photographed image. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160073034 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display method is provided. The image display method includes displaying a camera preview screen that provides an image of a subject in real time, capturing one or more images by capturing the camera preview screen, and displaying a photo reel on the camera preview screen, the photo reel being generated by arranging thumbnails of the captured one or more images in a row. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160073035 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND NOTIFICATION CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a processor. The processor detects a first region of a first image where a glare occurs, the first image including a subject. The processor notifies a user of information based on the first region to determine a capturing position of the subject when a preview image of the subject captured with a camera is displayed on a screen. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160088228 | PHOTOGRAPH METHOD AND PHOTOGRAPH DEVICE - A photographing method is provided. The method includes: displaying, in a display of an electronic device, a preview of an object to be photographed; generating at the electronic device, in response to a user input, a brightness control command; modifying, at the electronic device, a current brightness of the display in response to the brightness control command; and photographing, at the electronic device, the object. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160119547 | IMAGING APPARATUS, USER INTERFACE AND ASSOCIATED METHODOLOGY FOR A CO-EXISTENT SHOOTING AND REPRODUCTION MODE - A currently captured image R of an object is displayed nearly at a center portion of a display frame SC on a display screen that is a shooting mode. When a time dial | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160165145 | CONFIGURATION AND MANAGEMENT OF LIGHT POSITIONING SYSTEM USING DIGITAL PULSE RECOGNITION - In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for a method for hiding a camera preview feed of a mobile device application. The method may proceed by the mobile device application enabling an imaging sensor of the mobile device, where the software of the mobile device requires the mobile device application to display the camera preview feed when the imaging sensor is enabled. The method may continue by creating a camera preview surface for displaying the camera preview feed. The method may further continue by modifying the camera preview surface to be hidden from the mobile device user. The method may end by setting the camera preview feed to be displayed on the camera preview surface. In another aspect, the present disclosure further relates to modifying the camera preview surface by resizing the camera preview surface to be one pixel large. | 06-09-2016 |
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| 20160191783 | AUTO-FOCUSING METHOD AND AUTO-FOCUSING DEVICE - An auto-focusing method for use in a device, includes: after performing a manual focusing on a target object through receiving a user operation on the target object in a viewfinder of the device, acquiring first spatial data of the target object; when detecting a change of contents of a view in the viewfinder, acquiring position variation data of the target object; acquiring second spatial data of the target object according to the first spatial data and the position variation data; and performing an auto-focusing on the target object according to the second spatial data. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191805 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD WHICH PERFORM FOCUS ADJUSTMENT WHILE PERFORMING LIVE-VIEW DISPLAY - An imaging apparatus performing live-view display by generating image data using an exposure parameter calculated from a brightness value in a photometric area for the live-view display which is different from a photometric area for focus adjustment when not performing the focus adjustment, the imaging apparatus comprising: a first calculating section for calculating a first brightness value in the photometric area for the live-view display; a second calculating section for calculating a second brightness value in the photometric area for focus adjustment; a comparison section for determining whether or not a brightness difference between the first brightness value and the second brightness value is within a predetermined range; and, an imaging section for obtaining image data by performing exposure using the first brightness value when the brightness difference between the first brightness value and the second brightness value is within the predetermined range. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160255250 | Combination Mirror and Camera Device | 09-01-2016 |
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| 20160381293 | IMAGE-DISPLAYING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE-DISPLAYING DEVICE - An image capturing device includes an image capturing unit capturing an image at a timing based on a first frame rate and outputs data corresponding to the image after a first period, an image data generation unit generating image data based on the output data and outputting the image data after a second period, a display unit displaying a display image based on the image data after the second period and at a timing based on a second frame rate, and a mode selecting unit selecting a first or second mode. The first mode prioritizes reduction in a display delay time. The second mode prioritizes image quality of the display image over reduction in the display delay time. A total period of the first and second periods is less than or equal to a first vertical synchronization period based on the first frame rate when the first mode is selected. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381296 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a display unit, an image acquiring unit, a reduction processor, a combining unit, and a display processor. The display unit displays images. The image acquiring unit acquires a plurality of photographed images, with photography ranges thereof being gradually changed. The reduction processor reduces the photographed images acquired by the image acquiring unit. The combining unit combines the photographed images reduced by the reduction processor to generate a preview image. The display processor displays the preview image on part of the display unit that displays the photographed images acquired by the image acquiring unit. | 12-29-2016 |
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