37th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130235156 | 3D VIDEO TRANSMISSION ON A LEGACY TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE - The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting two consecutive pairs of images. The method may include decimating each image with a ratio of 2, assembling the two decimated images of each pair in a composite image, transmitting the composite images, and reconstructing complete images from the composite images. In decimation, the information removed from the images of the first pair may be kept in the images of the second pair, from the spatial point of view, and the complete images may be reconstructed by de-interlacing processing from the composite images. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235157 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FRAME BUFFER COMPRESSION AND MEMORY RESOURCE REDUCTION FOR 3D VIDEO - A video receiver receives a compressed 3D video comprising a base view video and a residual view video from a video transmitter. The video receiver decodes the received base view video and an enhancement view video of the received compressed 3D video into a left view video and a right view video. Base view pictures are generated selectively based on available memory resource. The residual view video is generated by subtracting base view pictures from corresponding enhancement view pictures. The received base view and residual view videos are buffered for video decoding. Pictures in the buffered residual view video are added to corresponding pictures in the buffered base view video for enhancement view decoding. The left view video and/or the right view video are generated from the resulting decoded base view and enhancement view pictures. A motion vector used for a disparity predicted macroblock is applied to adjacent macroblock pre-fetching. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235158 | Stereoscopic Image Display Apparatus and Stereoscopic Image Eyeglasses - According to an embodiment, a stereoscopic image display apparatus comprises a video receiver, an information receiver, a measurement module, a converter and a display controller. The receiver is configured to receive wearing state information from stereoscopic image eyeglasses. The measurement module is configured to measure, when the received wearing state information indicates that the stereoscopic image eyeglasses are being worn, distance and angle information. The converter is configured to convert, when the received wearing state information indicates that the stereoscopic image eyeglasses are being worn, a plane image of the video into a stereoscopic image based on the measured distance and the measured angle. The display controller is configured to control the display unit to display the stereoscopic image and control the display unit to display a plane image when the received wearing state information indicates that the stereoscopic image eyeglasses are not being worn. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235159 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A VIDEO COMPRESSION STANDARD IN A 3DTV SERVICE - A method and apparatus for determining an image compression format of a 3-dimensional television (3DTV). The method may include encoding a high-quality image and transmitting the encoded high-quality image through a first channel, determining an image compression format in which a resolution of the encoded low-quality image is higher than or equal to a reference value in comparison to the high-quality image, and encoding the low-quality image according to the determined image compression format and transmitting, the encoded low-quality image through a second channel. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235160 | OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING - An embodiment of the invention relates to providing a method of illuminating a scene imaged by a camera, which includes illuminating the scene with a train of light pulses and adjusting exposure times of the camera relative to transmission times of the light pulses so that the light pulses emulate a light pulse having a desired pulse shape. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235161 | System and method for pulsed illumination interferometry - A scanning interferometer for obtaining surface profile data for an object to be scanned in which a carriage-driven focal mechanism moves through a range of predetermined scan positions at which interference fringe images are to be captured while using a high resolution, linear position measurement device attached to the motor-driven carriage in order to identify its precise vertical scan position, and both light pulses are emitted and an image capture device is triggered into simultaneous operation only upon the position measurement device signaling that the focal mechanism is arrived at one of the predetermined scan positions. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235162 | 3D IMAGE-CAPTURING METHOD, 3D CAMERA AND LEVEL-ALIGNMENT MACHINE FOR 3D CAMERA - A 3D image-capturing method, a 3D camera and a level-alignment machine for a 3D camera are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: capturing a left- and a right-eye image by a left- and a right-eye camera, respectively; comparing the left- and right-eye images to observe similar columns between the left- and right-eye images; comparing the left- and right-eye images once again over the similar columns to observe similar rows between the left- and right-eye images; and, referring to the similar columns between the left- and right-eye images, vertically shifting the left- and right-eye images to horizontally align the left- and right-eye images to generate a 3D image. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235163 | CAMERA SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL THERMAL IMAGING - Provided is a system for displaying a 3D thermal image by using two thermal imaging cameras and extracting distance/depth data in the thermal images. The system includes two thermal imaging cameras where one thermal imaging camera is used as a master camera serving as a reference and the other is used as a slave camera to correct gain and offset of the thermal images and ensure uniformity. In addition, provided is an apparatus and method for correcting gain and offset of the thermal images to be identical to each other and ensuring uniformity by using a process module separately from two thermal imaging cameras. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235164 | STEREO IMAGERS AND PROJECTORS, AND METHOD - Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to capture a portion of an omniscopic or omni-stereo image using one or more image capture media. The media may be located substantially perpendicular to a converging ray originating at a viewpoint on an inter-ocular circle and having a convergence angle between zero and ninety degrees from a parallel viewpoint baseline position that includes a non-converging ray originating at the viewpoint. The media may also be located so as to be substantially perpendicular to a non-converging ray originating at a first viewpoint at a first endpoint of a diameter defining an inter-ocular circle, wherein the origin of the non-converging ray gravitates toward the center of the inter-ocular circle as spherical imagery is acquired. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235165 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING SYSTEM - Hardware and software configurations, optionally, for performing profilometry of an object are disclosed. An advantageous imaging device is described. An advantageous approach to determining imager position is also described. Each aspect described may be used independently of the other. Moreover, the teaching may find use in other fields including velocimetry, etc. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235166 | SYNCHRONISATION METHOD - A method by which a transmitter and receiver synchronise. The transmitter and receiver are operable in accordance with a protocol which mandates that some transmissions are jittered. The method comprises the transmitter transmitting a pseudo-random seed to the receiver; determining a jitter value based on the pseudo-random seed; and transmitting a synchronisation packet to the receiver at a time determined by the jitter value. The receiver receives the pseudo-random seed from the transmitter; determines timing of a receive window for the synchronisation packet based on the pseudo-random seed; opens the receive window at the determined time; and receives the synchronisation packet within the receive window. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235167 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes: a size acquisition section that acquires a first display size of an output target display device that performs 3D display; a storage section that stores respective parallax amounts adjusted by a user during performing 3D display of 3D display image data respectively on display devices of different types, and stores respective second display sizes of the display devices; a parallax amount computation section that computes a parallax amount for the first display size based on a relationship between the parallax amounts and the second display sizes stored in the storage section; and an output section that outputs to the output target display device the computed parallax amount and the 3D display image data. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235168 | IMAGE PROJECTOR SYSTEM FOR A SCANNING ROOM - The invention relates to a method and a system for reducing anxiety of patients before and during e.g. MR scanning examinations. The method is based on displaying images on walls ( | 2013-09-12 |
20130235169 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY AND POSITION GAP ADJUSTMENT METHOD - An HMD includes: a display which displays a three-dimensional video image; a position obtaining unit which measures a position of an inner corner or tail of an eye of a viewer with respect to the display; a standard position storage unit which obtains and stores, as a standard position relating to the position, the measured position of the inner corner or outer corner of the eye, in calibration for determining the standard position; a position gap detecting unit which detects, as a position gap, a difference between the standard position and a newly measured position of the inner corner or outer corner of the eye of the viewer viewing content with respect to the display; and an image processing unit which performs image processing on the 3D video image to be displayed on the display, to rotated or parallely move the 3D video image according to the detected position gap. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235170 | Electronic Apparatus and Method Utilized in Stereo Glasses - An electronic apparatus utilized in stereo glasses is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a first receiver, a second receiver, and a synchronization controller. The first receiver receives a first synchronization signal, and the second receiver receives a second synchronization signal. The transmission mechanism of the second synchronization signal is different from that of the first synchronization signal. The synchronization controller coupled to the first and the second receivers synchronizes left-eye/right-eye shutter glasses of the stereo glasses with a corresponding left-eye/right-eye frame of a stereo image according to at least one of the first and second synchronization signals. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235171 | STEREO VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND STEREO VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A stereo video image display apparatus includes a data obtaining unit, a video image generator and an image quality degradation unit. The data obtaining unit obtains left eye video image data and right eye video image data. The video image generator generates sequential data in which a left eye video image data sequence repeating the left eye video image data and a right eye video image data sequence repeating the right eye video image data are arranged alternately to generate a control signal controlling opening and closing of shutter glasses according to the sequential data. The image quality degradation unit processes image quality degradation for object data which is frame data corresponding to one frame either before the switching between the left eye video image data and the right eye video image data and one frame after the switching, or two frames before and after the switching. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235172 | Method and System for Time-Multiplexed Shared Display - A method is provided for sharing a display. The method includes displaying periodically a first image sequence on the display in synchronicity with a first signal, and displaying periodically a second image sequence on the display in synchronicity with a second signal. The method also includes selecting by a user the first image sequence for viewing, and shuttering periodically a set of goggles for the user in synchronicity with the first signal. A method is provided for sharing a display. The method includes displaying periodically a private image sequence on the display in synchronicity with a first signal, and displaying periodically a non-private image sequence on the display. In the method, the private image sequence and the non-private image sequence combine to form a public image sequence on the display. A system is provided for sharing a display. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235173 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM - An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup section that acquires an image by image pickup of an object and acquire digital data of the image, a determining section that determines whether there are a predetermined number or more of consecutive bits with a first bit value or a second bit value in data per pixel included in the digital data, a bit value inversion processing section that inverts, when a determination result that there are the predetermined number or more of consecutive bits with the first or the second bit value is obtained, the bit values so that a ratio between the first bit value and the second bit value included in the corresponding pixel data becomes a predetermined ratio, and a serial conversion section that serializes and outputs the respective bit values of the digital data obtained as the processing result of the bit value inversion processing section. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235174 | Image Pickup Apparatus and Image Pickup Apparatus System - An image pickup apparatus includes: an objective optical system for focusing a bundle of light rays from an object into an image; an image sensor placed in the vicinity of the image-forming position of the objective optical system; a dividing element placed between the objective optical system and the image sensor and used for dividing a bundle of light rays from the objective optical system into reflected and transmitted bundles of light rays; a first reflection member for reflecting back the bundle of light rays reflected by the dividing element; and a second reflection member for reflecting the bundle of light rays transmitted by the dividing element, wherein the bundle of light rays reflected by the first reflection member via the dividing element is focused to form an image on a first area of the image sensor, and the bundle of light rays reflected by the second reflection member is focused to form an image on a second area of the image sensor, the second area of the image sensor being different from the first area of the image sensor. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235175 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM - Provided is an endoscope system in which an insertion unit includes a distal end, an optical fiber cable configured to transmit a first image signal output by an image signal generating unit as an optical signal, and an electric cable configured to transmit the second image signal output by the image signal generating unit as an electrical signal. An image signal processing unit performs image processing of any one of the first image signal or the second image signal transmitted by the insertion unit. A scope distal end includes an imaging unit configured to include a plurality of pixels to output a pixel signal, and the image signal generating unit configured to generate the first image signal and the second image signal having a data volume smaller than that of the first image signal using the pixel signal output by the imaging unit. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235176 | IMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging optical system comprises a first lens group composed of a negative single lens, a second lens group composed of a positive lens element and a negative lens element attached together, an aperture stop, a third lens group composed of a positive lens element and a negative lens element attached together, and a fourth lens group composed of a negative single lens, in this order from an object side. Expressions 0.372013-09-12 | |
20130235177 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, PROCESSOR DEVICE THEREOF, AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ENDOSCOPIC VIDEO IMAGE - In a special mode, a first frame image including a blue signal B | 2013-09-12 |
20130235178 | MULTI-BAND INFRARED CAMERA SYSTEM OPTIMIZED FOR SKIN DETECTION - What is disclosed is a system and method for selecting the optimal wavelength ban combination for a multi-band infrared camera system which is optimized for skin detection. An objective function is constructed specifically for this application from classified performance and the algorithm generates wavelengths by maximizing the objective function. A specific wavelength band combination is selected which maximizes the objective function. Also disclosed is a 3-band and 4-band camera system with filters each having a transmittance of one of a combination of wavelength bands optimized to detect skin in the infrared band. The camera systems disclosed herein find their intended uses in a wide array of vehicle occupancy detection systems and applications. Various embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235179 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL BASED ON FACE OR HAND GESTURE DETECTION - System and method for control using face detection or hand gesture detection algorithms in a captured image. Based on the existence of a detected human face or a hand gesture in an image captured by a digital camera, a control signal is generated and provided to a device. The control may provide power or disconnect power supply to the device (or part of the device circuits). The location of the detected face in the image may be used to rotate a display screen to achieve a better line of sight with a viewing person. The difference between the location of the detected face and an optimum is the error to be corrected by rotating the display to the required angular position. A hand gesture detection can be used as a replacement to a remote control for the controlled unit, such as a television set. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235180 | SUPER-OSCILLATORY LENS APPARATUS AND METHODS - An imaging apparatus is disclosed which uses a super-oscillatory lens to obtain sub-diffraction limit resolution. The super-oscillatory lens is arranged to receive a light beam from a light source, the lens having a pre-defined pattern to spatially modulate the light beam in amplitude and/or phase so that it focuses the light beam to a focus at a first focal point having a full width half maximum of less than half the wavelength. Collection optical elements are arranged to focus the first focal point to a second focal point conjugate to the first focal point. An object for imaging is scanned over the first focal point and a detector is arranged to collect light from a collection region centered on the second focal point. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235181 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING OPTICAL MICROSCOPE - An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section and a correction section. The acquisition section acquires information of lightness distribution of a first image captured by an imaging section capable of capturing an image of an observed area provided on an optical path of an optical system of an optical microscope, the image of the observed area being obtained by the optical microscope, the first image being an image of the observed area in a state where no sample is placed therein, the lightness distribution resulting from the optical system of the optical microscope. The correction section corrects, based on the information of lightness distribution acquired by the acquisition section, lightness unevenness of a second image captured by the imaging section, the second image being an image of the observed area in a state where the sample is placed therein. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235182 | DEFECT INSPECTION METHOD AND DEVICE THEREFOR - In imaging a sample using an electron microscope, in order to reduce a time for focusing, a scanning range of a Z coordinate is reduced to complete focusing by obtaining SEM images such that: for a first predetermined number of portions, focal positions of an electron beam in obtaining each SEM image are moved in a predetermined range; then, a curved surface shape of the surface of the sample is estimated by using information relating to the focal positions of the electron beam in the first predetermined number of portions; after the images are taken, the range in which the focal positions of the electron beam are moved for scanning the electron beam on the surface of the sample is made to be narrower than the predetermined range by using the curved surface information estimated, thereby performing scanning to take the images of the sample. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235183 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED PLANT NECROSIS - A method of distinguishing individual plants within a row of plants, including directing radiation at the row of plants at an angle selected to illuminate a portion of the plant and cast a shadow at the plant center, collecting an image from the radiation reflected off of two or more contiguous plants with a detector, identifying a continuous foreground region indicative of a plant within the image, identifying points of interest within the region, classifying the points of interest as plant centers and non-plant centers, and segmenting the region into sub-regions, each sub-region encompassing a single point of interest classified as a plant center. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235184 | SYSTEM FOR ALIGNING AND ATTACHING A 3D IMAGE DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING A PHASE RETARDER SUBSTRATE - A method for positioning a phase retarder substrate includes the following steps. A phase retarder substrate is provided, wherein the phase retarder substrate includes a first align mark which includes a patterned phase retarder film. An image capturing unit is disposed at one side of the phase retarder substrate. A light source is disposed at the other side of the phase retarder substrate. An upper polarizing sheet is disposed between the image capturing unit and the patterned phase retarder film, and a lower polarizing sheet is disposed between the light source and the patterned phase retarder film. An image of the light which passes through the lower polarizing sheet, the patterned phase retarder film and the upper polarizing sheet is captured so as to position the phase retarder substrate. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235185 | BUILDING INSPECTION DEVICE - The invention is a building inspection device for inspecting a side of a building comprising a body having a under-side, a line attachment means connected to the body for movably connecting the body to a guide line, an alignment means for aligning the body so that the underside of the body faces the side of the building, a system controller for controlling the inspection device, and a sensing device disposed in the body having a sensor located on the underside of the body for inspecting a portion of the side of the building, wherein the sensing device is controlled by the system controller. The line attachment means may be connected to a vertical weight-bearing guide line, and the alignment means may comprise a second vertical guide line also connected to the line attachment means. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235186 | Apparatus and Method for Inspecting Chip Defects - Disclosed is a chip defect inspection apparatus including a linear array image acquisition module, an illumination control module, a chip defect detection module connected to the LIA module, and an operations and management module connected to the LIA module, the illumination control module and the chip defect detection module. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235187 | POSITION CHECKING DEVICE OF LED OF LED LIGHT BAR - A checking device of an SMT placement machine for checking positions of LEDs mounted on a circuit board includes a shell, a light source and an imaging module. The shell is used for covering the LEDs and the circuit board to be checked. The shell includes an opening and an atomized reflecting layer facing the LEDs. The opening is defined for exposing the LEDs through the shell to the imaging module whereby images of the LEDs can be taken by the imaging module and positions of the LEDs can be checked thereby. The atomized reflecting layer is formed on an inner surface of the shell. The light source is covered by the shell and faces the atomized reflecting layer. The imaging module is aligned with the opening. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235188 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR GERMINATION TESTING USING OPTICAL IMAGING - A system prepares plant specimens, tracks the plant specimens, captures images of the plant specimens, and evaluates growth parameters of the plant specimens in the captured images. The system prepares receptacles by placing a predetermined quantity of gel, if required by a particular test, into a receptacle and a layer of material, if required by a particular test, on top of the gel. The system separates a quantity of seeds into individual seeds and places an individual seed in each receptacle between the gel layer and the cover layer. The receptacles are then arrayed into decks and carts and subjected to controlled stress conditions and conditions conducive to germination and growth. An image capture device captures backlit images of the receptacles, and a processor analyzes the captured images for growth parameters of the plant specimens and enters those parameters into a database together with a unique identifier of the plant specimen. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235189 | Imaging Apparatus - An apparatus for measuring oil droplets and other bodies in a liquid, the apparatus comprising a body having an imaging device mounted therein, said body having a measurement window adjacent a measuring region through which an image of a fluid within the measurement region may be viewed by the imaging device, wherein a light source is provided for illuminating said measurement region, said light source being directed towards the imaging device by a light directing means, the apparatus including an ultrasonic transducer mechanically coupled to the measurement window for removing fouling from the measurement window and for creating cavitation within said measurement region, wherein said light directing means is located in or adjacent said measurement region to be exposed to said cavitation created by the ultrasonic transducer to remove fouling from said light directing means. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235190 | LEAF AREA INDEX MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A leaf area index measurement system includes: imaging means for capturing an image of a measurement target plant and outputting the captured image; a light source placed either on a side of the measurement target plant opposite to the imaging means or at a position of the measurement target plant; intensity calculation means for calculating an intensity of light when the light source emits light, based on the captured image output from the imaging means; and leaf area index calculation means for calculating a leaf area index, based on the intensity of light calculated by the intensity calculation means. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235191 | NEAR-TO-EYE DISPLAY WITH AN INTEGRATED OUT-LOOKING CAMERA - Embodiments of a near-to-eye display include a light guide with a proximal end, a distal end, a front surface spaced apart from a back surface, an ambient input region on the front surface and an output region on the back surface. A display and a camera are positioned at or near the proximal end. A proximal optical element is positioned in the light guide and optically coupled to the display and the camera. A distal optical element is positioned in the light guide and optically coupled to the proximal optical element, the ambient input region and the output region. The proximal optical element can direct display light toward the distal optical element and ambient light to the camera, and the distal optical element can direct display light to the output region and ambient light to the output region and to the proximal optical element. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235192 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT IN A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE NETWORK - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes creating a key from a hash of a resource identifier associated with a video object; storing the video object in a distributed hash table with the key; and replicating the video object in the distributed hash table based on a redundancy factor associated with the video object. In more particular embodiments, the method can include fragmenting the video object into segments; creating sub-keys with a hash of resource identifiers associated with each of the segments; storing the segments in the distributed hash table with the sub-keys; and replicating the segments in the distributed hash table based on the redundancy factor. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235193 | License Plate Image-Pickup Device and Image White Balance Adjustment Method Thereof - A license plate image-pickup device and an image white balance adjustment method thereof applicable to vehicles. The license plate image-pickup device comprises an image-sensing module, a recognition module, a data base and a processing module. The image-sensing module senses a scene to produce an image. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235194 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE TRANSMITTING METHOD - Disclosed herein is an imaging apparatus including: an imaging portion capturing an image of a subject, thereby acquiring a video signal; a first coding portion compression-coding the video signal through intra-frame compression and inter-frame compression, thereby generating a first coded signal; a second coding portion compression-coding the video signal through the intra-frame compression, thereby generating a second coded signal an amount of information on which is less than that of the first coded signal; and a signal sending portion sending the first coded signal and the second coded signal to a coaxial cable. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235195 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device has an image input part to which a frame image of an imaging area taken with an infrared camera is input, a background model storage part in which a background model is stored with respect to each pixel of the frame image input to the image input part, a frequency of a pixel value of the pixel being modeled in the background model, a background difference image generator that determines whether each pixel of the frame image input to the image input part is a foreground pixel or a background pixel using the background model of the pixel, which is stored in the background model storage part, and generates a background difference image, and an object detector that sets a foreground region and detects an imaged object based on the foreground pixel in the background difference image generated by the background difference image generator. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235196 | REAL-TIME MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A real-time multimedia signal transmission device includes a case including a multimedia information capture section, a processing unit, a signal conversion section and a wireless transceiver section. The processing unit processes output of the multimedia information capture section to generate a multimedia signal. The signal conversion section processes the multimedia signal to generate a multimedia packet signal. The wireless transceiver section transmits the multimedia packet signal to at least one smart handheld device wirelessly linking the real-time multimedia signal transmission device. If receiving a remote control command from the at least one smart handheld device via the wireless transceiver section, the processing unit controls the real-time multimedia signal transmission device to perform a function control corresponding to the remote control command. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235197 | METHOD FOR INITIATING A CONSUMABLE-BASED CYCLE OF OPERATION - A method of initiating a cycle of operation based on a consumable includes providing a consumable reader having a software architecture configured to image data, communicate over a network, and identify functionalities of appliances based on a unique identifier associated with each instance of a functionality, imaging data about the consumable using the consumable reader; retrieving cycle data associated with the consumable based on the imaged data; ascertaining in the software architecture at least one functionality associated with the cycle data; selecting from the plurality of appliances an appliance having the at least one functionality using the unique identifier associated with an instance of the at least one functionality; and communicating the cycle data to the selected appliance over the network of appliances wherein the selected appliance can conduct a cycle of operation associated with the consumable using the cycle data. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235198 | IMAGE PROCESSING - A method and apparatus for processing a sequence of images of a scene, includes: a controller; a first module; and a second module; wherein the first module is arranged to perform an image registration process on the sequence to produce a registered set; the second module is arranged to perform a change detection process on the registered set; and the controller is arranged to provide: to the first module, an instruction to perform the image registration process on the sequence to produce the registered set; to the second module, an instruction to perform the change detection process on the registered set; and an instruction to transfer the registered set between the modules. The sequence of images may be a sub-sequence of a larger sequence. The apparatus can include a third module arranged to separate the larger sequence into sub-sequences. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235199 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CAPTURING LARGE AREA IMAGES IN DETAIL INCLUDING CASCADED CAMERAS AND/OR CALIBRATION FEATURES - A method and system are presented in which images are captured from overview and detail imaging devices such that overview images are created with a first degree of redundancy, and detail images are captured with less overlap and a second degree of redundancy. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235200 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A REPRESENTATION IN A MOTOR VEHICLE DEPENDING ON A VIEWING DIRECTION OF A VEHICLE OPERATOR - The physiological characteristics of the eye are particularly well taken into account in a motor vehicle by selecting a representation at a representation site from at least two types of representations depending on whether the respective representation site is located in a central field of view of the vehicle operator or is located in a peripheral field of view of the vehicle operator. Preferably, intensive colors and strong color contrasts are selected in the central field of view of the vehicle operator, whereas representations that change over time are selected in the peripheral field of view. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235201 | Vehicle Peripheral Area Observation System - To provide a vehicle peripheral area observation system that can, with a simple configuration, detect a pedestrian who has a possibility of hitting against the vehicle by removing an appearance motion due to water vapor or a light source fluctuation. A water vapor region is detected from motion information and luminance information from videos captured with an on-vehicle camera, and recognition of a moving object in the water vapor region is invalidated for a given period of time. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235202 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETERMINING TYPE OF OBJECT FOR USE IN VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING APPARATUS - If a pedestrian head candidate extractor extracts a light as a pedestrian head candidate, then when an other vehicle candidate detector detects a horizontal high-luminance area which is greater in area than the light extracted as the pedestrian head candidate, within a prescribed range beneath the horizontal position of the light, an other vehicle determiner determines the light extracted as the pedestrian head candidate as part of another car. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235203 | INDICIA IDENTIFYING SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an indicium identifying system. The system comprises at least one image sensor ( | 2013-09-12 |
20130235204 | CAMERA UNIT FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - Camera unit ( | 2013-09-12 |
20130235205 | METHOD FOR MONITORING WOOD HARVESTING, AND A SYSTEM - A method and a system for monitoring wood harvesting. According to the method, image data, measuring device data and location data are generated on wood harvesting at a forest working site. The produced data is conveyed from a forest machine ( | 2013-09-12 |
20130235206 | System and Method of On-Shelf Inventory Management - An inventory management system is described that includes two or more cameras mounted on a retail display space. The cameras are positioned to capture images showing the presence of items of interest in the retail display space. A hub is in communication with each of the cameras mounted on the retail display space and is operable to aggregate information from the cameras related to the items of interest in the retail display space, and to communicate data regarding the status of the item of interest to an inventory management system operable to receive the data from the hub. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235207 | DOOR ALARM SYSTEM AND ALARMING METHOD THEREOF - An alarming method includes: capturing images around a door; determining whether a user has passed through the door by analyzing the captured images; detecting whether the door is closed after determining that the user has passed through the door; and executing an alarm operation to alarm the user to close the door after determining that the user has passed through the door and the door is opened. A door alarm system is also described. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235208 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - At least one particle p is set on a target | 2013-09-12 |
20130235209 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPATCHING VIDEO RECORDING - A system and a method for dispatching of video recording are provided. In the method, one or more video recording servers having an available CPU utilization larger than an average CPU loading per task is found from one or more video recording servers having a task capability greater than zero. One of the found one or more video recording servers is selected to execute a video recording task whose execution status is indicated as unexecuted in a video recording task status table. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235210 | 3D STACKED UNCOOLED IR SENSOR DEVICE AND METHOD - A 3D wafer-integration uncooled infrared (IR) microbolometer focal plane array (FPA) sensor includes a first die with an FPA of uncooled IR microbolometers, a second die signal-processing layer. The dies are vertically aligned, stacked with 3D wafer bonding, and interconnected. Interconnection include vertical electrical interconnects. Separate optimized manufacturing processes are used for die, so that additional processing costs of the FPA die are leveraged and 3D integration is completed at wafer level, minimizing total device cost and maximizing die count per wafer. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235211 | Multifunctional Bispectral Imaging Method and Device - A multifunctional device and method for bispectral imaging are provided. The device and method include acquiring a plurality of bispectral images (IBM), each bispectral image being the combination of two acquired images (I | 2013-09-12 |
20130235212 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROJECTOR - A projector that acquires evaluation values representing how well projection light is brought into focus on a screen, outputs the acquired evaluation values and a maximum value of the acquired evaluation values, and updates the maximum value to a new value at a predetermined timing. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235213 | System And Method For Determining The Current Focal Length Of A Zoomable Camera - An accurate camera pose is determined by pairing a first camera with a second camera in proximity to one another, and by developing a known spatial relationship between them. An image from the first camera and an image from the second camera are analyzed to determine corresponding features in both images, and a relative homography is calculated from these corresponding features. A relative parameter, such as a focal length or an extrinsic parameter is used to calculate a first camera's parameter based on a second camera's parameter and the relative homography. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235214 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING QUALITY OF VIDEO BASED ON FRAME LOSS PATTERN - A method and apparatus for measuring the quality of a video is provided. The method comprises: generating a frame loss pattern of the video by indicating whether each frame in the video is lost or successfully transmitted; and evaluating the quality of the video as a function of the generated t came loss pattern. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235215 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image capture device as an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an image capturing section configured to generate video data by performing an image capturing session; a first interface that is connectable to a first storage medium; a second interface that is connectable to a second storage medium; a network interface configured to transmit and receive data by connecting itself to a network; and a controller configured to control writing the video data on the first and second storage media so that if the image capturing section's image capturing session overlaps with transmission of the video data from the first storage medium over the network via the network interface, the video data that has been generated as a result of the image capturing session is written on the second storage medium. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235216 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - An image capturing device includes an image capturing module and a base module. The image capturing module includes a sub base unit and an image capturing unit. The image capturing unit generates an image signal to the sub base unit. The base module receives the image signal from the sub base unit and transmits the image signal to an electronic device via wireless transmission. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235217 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - There is provided a communication apparatus. The holding unit holds communication setting information for communicating wirelessly with an external apparatus. The communication unit communicates wirelessly with the external apparatus using the communication setting information held by the holding unit. The connection unit connects a recording medium. The determination unit determines whether or not the recording medium connected to the connection unit has a communication function for communicating wirelessly with an apparatus, which is different from the communication apparatus, using communication setting information that has been written into a specific recording region of the recording medium. The writing unit writes the communication setting information held by the holding unit into the specific recording region of the recording medium in a case where it has been determined that the recording medium connected to the connection unit has the communication function. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235218 | Virtual Gravestone - A system for remotely perceiving images and sounds associated with a gravestone, including a gravestone, a power source, a camera, a video screen, at least one speaker, a computer, a database, a website, and an internet connection. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235219 | PORTABLE TERMINAL AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A portable terminal and a computer readable storage medium are described. According to one implementation, a portable terminal includes, a storage section, an imaging section, a notifying section and a control section. The storage section stores item identification information to identify an item with a RFID tag attached corresponded with tag position information which shows a position of the RFID tag. The control section retrieves item identification information of an item corresponding to image data imaged by the imaging section from the stored item identification information, and allows the notifying section to notify the tag position information corresponding to the retrieved item identification information. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235220 | INTRA-FRAME OPTICAL-STABILIZATION WITH INTENTIONAL INTER-FRAME SCENE MOTION - In an imaging system, intentional scene motion across the image detector from frame-to-frame, and more particularly the rate of intentional scene motion is “decoupled” from smearing of the scene in the detected image by applying the intentional scene motion in the interval between frames to produce the intentional scene motion in a discrete step across the image detector from frame-to-frame. The intentional scene motion may be quantized or provided as a sub-pixel dither signal to control the sub-pixel phase frame-to-frame. In register/sum applications, this substantially eliminates misregistration of the images and may allow for super-sampling of the images onto a higher resolution grid. The ability to decouple intentional scene motion from smearing and to control the sub-pixel phase defines a new trade space that relaxes the limitations on intentional scene motion across the image detector. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235221 | CHOOSING OPTIMAL CORRECTION IN VIDEO STABILIZATION - To correct for the motion a perspective transform of a pair of matrices can be applied to an input image to provide an output frame. The first matrix can represent a transform to be applied to the input frame and the second matrix can represent an identity matrix. Each matrix can contribute to the output frame according to a respective weighting factor. The weighting factors for the two matrices can be determined based on an estimate of the overscan. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235222 | DIGITAL CAMERA SYSTEM HAVING REMOTE CONTROL - A digital camera system includes an image capture module and a remote control module. The image capture module includes an image capture system and a first wireless communication system. The remote control module includes a status display with one or more status display elements for displaying status information pertaining to the image capture module, a battery-operated power supply, one or more user controls, a second wireless communication, and a power management system providing a normal-power state and a low-power state. The system is configured such that when a user activates one of the user controls while the remote control module is in the low-power state the remote control module is set to operate in the normal-power state, a status inquiry is sent to the image capture module, and returned status information is displayed on the status display. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235223 | COMPOSITE VIDEO SEQUENCE WITH INSERTED FACIAL REGION - A method for forming a composite video sequence, from a first digital video sequence captured of a scene by a photographer, and a second digital video sequence captured simultaneously with the first digital video sequence that includes the photographer. The first digital video sequence is analyzed to determine a low-interest spatial image region. A facial video sequence including the photographer's face is extracted from the second digital video sequence, and inserted into the low-interest spatial image region in the first digital video sequence to form the composite video sequence. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235224 | VIDEO CAMERA PROVIDING A COMPOSITE VIDEO SEQUENCE - A digital camera system including a first video capture unit for capturing a first digital video sequence of a scene and a second video capture unit that simultaneously captures a second digital video sequence that includes the photographer. A data processor automatically analyzes first digital video sequence to determine a low-interest spatial image region. A facial video sequence including the photographer's face is extracted from the second digital video sequence, and inserted into the low-interest spatial image region in the first digital video sequence to form the composite video sequence. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235225 | ARRAY-CAMERA MOTION PICTURE DEVICE, AND METHODS TO PRODUCE NEW VISUAL AND AURAL EFFECTS - A system and method for creating special effects comprising capturing an image of an object or objects in motion from each of a plurality of cameras aligned in an array, assembling the images from each camera into a series of images in a manner providing a simulation of motion from a perspective along the array with respect to the object or objects within the images when a series of images is displayed in sequence, wherein certain object or objects appear substantially stationary in time during the simulation of motion. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235226 | DIGITAL CAMERA HAVING LOW POWER CAPTURE MODE - A digital camera system providing a low-power image capture mode includes an image capture system, an image display and a power management system. The power management system is used to provide a normal image capture mode wherein captured digital images are displayed on the image display as they are captured, and a low-power image capture mode wherein captured digital images are not displayed on the image display as they are captured. A user interface includes a first user control for selecting between the normal image capture mode and the low-power image capture mode, and a second user control for initiating a video capture operation. The system is configured such that if the first user control is activated while a digital video is being captured, the power management system switches between the normal image capture mode and the low-power image capture mode without interrupting the video capture operation. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235227 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF AND HUMAN RECOGNITION PHOTOGRAPH SYSTEM - This invention discloses an image capturing device, an image capturing method, and a human recognition photograph system. The image capturing device comprises: a capturing module sensing an image; a human detecting module detecting the number of at least one person in an image generating detecting signal; a face recognition module generates recognition signal by recognizing a face condition of the at least one person in the image; and a processing module that receives detecting signal and recognition signal and calculates the number of at least one person and face condition value according to the detecting signal and the recognition signal respectively. The processing module determines whether the number of at least one person and face condition value correspond to a predetermined number and a predetermined face condition value respectively; if so, generating an image capturing signal to control the capturing module to capture image and generate image data. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235228 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a face detection unit which detects faces from an input image, an evaluation value calculation unit which calculates an evaluation value expressing a degree of a facial expression for each of the facial expressions of the faces detected by the face detection unit, and a control unit which changes a standard for extracting an image such that an image including the facial expressions, that a small number of people have, is easily extracted, based on the number of people for each of the facial expressions of the faces detected by the face detection unit and an evaluation value for each facial expression of the face calculated by the evaluation value calculation unit. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235229 | IMAGING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SPECIFYING SHOOTING POSTURE, METHOD FOR SPECIFYING SHOOTING POSTURE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - There is provided an imaging apparatus including an imaging unit, an orthogonal axis information detecting unit that detects orthogonal axis information indicating an inclination of an orthogonal axis perpendicular to an optical axis of the imaging unit after imaging by the imaging unit, and a specifying unit that specifies a shooting posture of an apparatus body at time of imaging, based on the orthogonal axis information detected by the orthogonal axis information detecting unit. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235230 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a solid-state image pickup device including a solid-state image pickup element operable to produce an electric charge according to the amount of light received, a lens disposed on the upper side of a pixel of the solid-state image pickup element, a protective film which covers the upper side of the lens and a surface of which is flattened, and a surface film which is formed at the surface of the protective film and which is higher in hydrophilicity than the inside of the protective film. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235231 | VECTOR EMBEDDED GRAPHICS CODING - A method of coding High Definition (HD) color pictures is described. The method divides the HD picture into individual bit planes of the three colors. The method then interleaves the bit planes such that bit planes of the three colors having the same significance are coded together. The method codes a block of the picture based on the bit distribution in corresponding groups of the corresponding bit planes of the three colors. The method performs a first level grouping of bits in a bit plane of an image and a second level grouping of the first level grouping bits of different color components within a group. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235232 | Electronic Apparatus and Adjustment Method Thereof - Electronic apparatuses and adjustment methods thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a camera module and a processor. The camera module is enabled into an HDR mode and captures a reference frame according to a first exposure setting, wherein the reference frame corresponds to a plurality of luminance values. The processor calculates a weighted luminance value of the reference frame according to the luminance values, generates a comparison result by comparing the weighted luminance value and a luminance target of the HDR mode, and decides a second exposure setting according to the comparison result. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235233 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CAPTURING IMAGES - Methods and electronic devices for capturing images are described. In one aspect, the present disclosure describes a processor-implemented method for capturing an image at an electronic device. The method includes: receiving at the processor a signal instructing the electronic device to capture an image; and in response to receiving the signal instructing the electronic device to capture the image: i) capturing a non-flash image; ii) triggering a flash; and iii) capturing a flash image. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235234 | DIGITAL CAMERA HAVING MULTIPLE IMAGE CAPTURE SYSTEMS - A digital camera system providing two different image capture systems, comprising a camera body including a first surface having an image display; a second surface opposite to the first surface; a third surface transverse to the first and second surfaces and having a smaller surface area than the first and second surfaces; and a fourth surface opposite to the third surface. A first image capture system has a first optical axis directed outward from the second surface, and a second image capture system has an optical axis directed outward from the third surface. Camera mounts are provided on the fourth and first or second surfaces to facilitate mounting the digital camera system such that either the first optical axis or the second optical axis can be oriented in a substantially horizontal direction. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235235 | DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - A data transfer apparatus includes a cache memory having a storing portion for writing and reading data at a higher speed than an image data storing portion which stores image data GD of an input image, and data transfer request means for outputting, to the cache memory, a transfer request for image data in a certain region of the input image. The cache memory reads unstored image data from the image data storing portion beyond a reading region corresponding to a transfer request every pixel row if image data in a pixel row included in the reading region is not stored in the storing portion of the cache memory. Moreover, the data transfer request means sequentially gives, in arrangement order in a horizontal direction of an input image, a transfer request for image data in each of reading regions arranged in the horizontal direction. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235236 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RADIATION SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus for a radiation image obtains radiation image data obtained by radiation imaging using a radiation detector, and dark current data based on a signal obtained from the radiation detector without irradiating any radiation from a radiation generator. The image processing apparatus generates correction data by changing a ratio of frequency components based on the dark current data, and corrects the radiation image data based on the generated correction data. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235237 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A first substrate has a plurality of photoelectric conversion units. A second substrate has through vias connected to the first substrate, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion units. A third substrate has vias connected to the second substrate, and a circuit that processes a signal. Wiring lines of the first substrate select the angle of a light ray that is transmitted through the first substrate and enters the second substrate. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235238 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a binning unit configured to calculate, based on, as a binning area, an area including two or more adjacent pixels in a unit area including m pixels in a lateral direction and n pixels in a perpendicular direction on an image sensor, a sum of output values of the pixels in the binning area as an addition output value for each of m×n binning areas that are different to each other; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a pixel value of each pixel in the binning area based on m×n addition output values obtained for the unit area. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235239 | POWER SAVING TECHNIQUES FOR IMAGE SENSORS - Power saving techniques are provided for processing circuitry on image sensors. Processing circuitry may include one or more processing blocks. The processing blocks may receive pixel data in the form of lines separated by blanking time. To reduce power consumption, each processing block may have a clock that is enabled when processing data and disabled during blanking time. The processing blocks may have respective clocks that are enabled and disabled at different times. Timing control circuitry may provide a clock enable signal to a first processing block. Each processing block may receive a clock enable signal and output a time-shifted clock enable signal for a subsequent processing block. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235240 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND DRIVING METHOD OF IMAGING DEVICE - Each of pixels in an imaging device includes a photoelectric converter and a first transistor. A signal based on a charge generated by the photoelectric converter is to be input into the first transistor. The imaging device includes a second transistor arranged at a ratio of one as to the pixels. A reference signal is to be input into the second transistor. The second transistor defines a differential pair together with the first transistor. The imaging device includes a comparator including the first transistor and the second transistor. Each of the pixels includes a selecting unit configured to turn off the first transistor by applying the first voltage to a control node of the first transistor. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235241 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging apparatus that shortens a time for reading out pixel signals of all pixels and improves the aperture ratio of pixels is provided. The solid-state imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixels ( | 2013-09-12 |
20130235242 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device including a pixel array, two vertical scanning circuits, and a control part. The pixel array has a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix form. The two vertical scanning circuits are configured to sequentially select and scan each of the pixels in a vertical direction per row. The control part is configured to generate, based on a mode signal corresponding to an imaging mode, a driving switch signal to stop driving of one of the two vertical scanning circuits. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235243 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element are arranged, transfer wirings formed on the pixel region in parallel to each other with uniform opening widths, and different wirings formed in a wiring layer above the transfer wirings. At least a part of the different wirings is overlapped with the transfer wirings on a plan position. The transfer wirings and the different wirings form a light shielding structure in the pixel region. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235244 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - An image pickup device is provided, capable of complete correction with data of once analog-to-digital conversion, and prevention of excess use of switches and analog devices and/or erroneous correction, including: an image sensor having a plurality of analog-to-digital converters determining conversion results from a digital signal of higher order bit through separate steps of two or more times; a first correction unit which has a correction factor for correcting nonlinear errors of the plurality of analog-to-digital converters so as to adapt to the analog-to-digital converters and corrects a nonlinear error of a digital signal output from respective analog-to-digital converters based on a correction factor corresponding to respective analog-to-digital converters, characterized in that the first correction unit corrects the nonlinear errors after converting the digital signals from the plurality of analog-to-digital converters into a serial output. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235245 | MANAGING TWO OR MORE DISPLAYS ON DEVICE WITH CAMERA - What is disclosed is a novel device and method to manage displays in a device with a camera. In one example, a first display is on a first side of the wireless device and a second display along with a camera is on the second side of the device. A facial detector detects a presence of a human face in an image captured by the camera. A power control circuit turns on the first display and/or second display in response to receiving a signal from the facial detector that a human face is detected. In a further example, a matching algorithm is used to determine if the human face in front of the camera matches a previously stored human face. In response to a match being found, an image associated with the previous stored human face is presented on the second display. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235246 | DISPLAY DEVICE, TRANSMITTING TERMINAL, RECEIVING TERMINAL AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A display device may include: an acquisition unit acquiring transmitting terminal identification information that is identification information of a transmitting terminal transmitting image data by wireless communication, and receiving terminal identification information that is identification information of a receiving terminal receiving the image data by wireless communication; and an information display unit displaying the transmitting terminal identification information and the receiving terminal identification information. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235247 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus whose posture is easily adjustable is provided. The imaging apparatus is configured to include an inclination detector detecting a degree of inclination of one of the imaging apparatus and an image captured by the imaging apparatus relative to a horizontal direction orthogonal to a direction of gravity; a display unit; a first inclination indicator unit allowing the display unit to display an indicator to indicate the degree of inclination according to a detection result from the inclination detector; a second inclination indicator unit notifying via sound according to a detection result from the inclination detector that the degree of inclination is over a predetermined value; and a selector unit allowing at least one of the first and second inclination indicator units to operate. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235248 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - This image display apparatus includes a display unit that displays at least an image, an operation input unit that is divided into a plurality of areas, predetermined operations being assigned to the respective areas, and a control unit that displays an operation manual screen on the display unit for a predetermined time when a full-screen display process starts, that presents content of the operations assigned to the respective areas of the operation input unit by the screen, and that performs control to perform, when one of the areas is pressed, the operation assigned to the area. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235249 | SPECTROMETER, AND IMAGE EVALUATING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE INCORPORATING THE SAME - A spectrometer includes a light source to project a light beam to a target object, a spectral element to disperse the light beam reflected by the target object and including a diffraction element to diffract the light beam, and a light receiving element to receive, at pixels, light beams with different spectral characteristics from each other dispersed by the spectral element, wherein the diffraction element and the light receiving element are integrally formed. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235250 | FAST AUTO FOCUS TECHNIQUES FOR DIGITAL CAMERAS - Embodiments are directed towards using a color filtration system to generate multiple color images of a same single image that is displayed on a photo sensor plane to determine a lens adjustment position for a defined region of interest usable to automatically focus at least the defined region of interest using the single image. In one embodiment, the color filtration system employs a multiple color aperture filter and two single element lenses to generate multiple color images when an object within the single image is out of focus. In another embodiment, a metal dielectric interference filter is mounted directly in front of the photo sensor, to generate the multiple color images. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235251 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A zoom lens includes: first, second, third and fourth lens groups having negative power, positive power, negative power and positive power, respectively, and sequentially arranged from an object side toward an image side. When the magnification at a wide angle side is changed to the magnification at a telescopic side, the first lens group is so moved along an optical axis that the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group decreases, and the second third and fourth lens groups are moved from the image side toward the object side, the third lens group is moved along the optical axis for focusing, and the zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expression (1) | 2013-09-12 |
20130235252 | Electronic Device and Focus Adjustment Method Thereof - An electronic device and a focus adjustment method thereof are provided. The electronic device and the focus adjustment method thereof pre-process the image frames captured to provide focus information of the image frames and adjust the focus according to the focus information. Therefore, as the subject followed or the current scene is out of focus in response to movement of the electronic device, the present invention can immediately obtain the change of focus via the focus information and effectively adjust the focus according to the focus information. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235253 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS - An image capture apparatus includes: an image sensor having a plurality of pixels that photoelectrically convert an object image formed by an imaging optical system, each of the pixels having one microlens and a photoelectric conversion portion that has been divided into a plurality of portions; a focus detection unit configured to correct an image shift amount detected with a phase difference detection method using focus detection signal arrays of two images obtained by the photoelectric conversion portions divided into a plurality of portions; and a controller that calculates information corresponding to a movement amount of a lens of the imaging optical system based on the image shift amount detected and corrected by the focus detection unit, and controls movement of the lens of the imaging optical system. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235254 | DEVICE FOR ASSISTING FOCUSING OF A CAMERA - A device for assisting focusing of a camera that is equipped with a manual focus-adjusting unit and that provides digital image contents, such as a smart camera. The device includes a means for determining a focus value of the camera depending on an operation of the manual focus-adjusting unit and means for displaying focusing information on the basis of the determined focus value to a user being provided. | 2013-09-12 |
20130235255 | OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM FOR MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING - An optical imaging system for multispectral imaging. A filter arrangement for selecting particular spectral ranges is located in a beam path coming from an object to be imaged, and at least one detection device is provided for receiving the selected spectral ranges. The imaging system comprises optical assemblies for generating an imaging beam path of polychromatic light coming from the object to be imaged, a filter arrangement for sequentially or simultaneously selecting particular spectral ranges provided for imaging the object from the imaging beam path, at least one detection device for the light of the selected spectral ranges, and an image display and/or image analysis device connected to the detection device, wherein the filter arrangement comprises a plurality of individual filter areas disposed adjacent to each other and lateral to the extension direction of the imaging beam path, said areas being designed for selecting different spectral ranges, and a deflecting device for aligning the imaging beam path to individual filter areas. | 2013-09-12 |