Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130050567 | Zoom Lens System and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - A zoom lens system comprising in order from an object side to an image side:
| 02-28-2013 |
20130097072 | INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE AND INFORMATION SERVICE SYSTEM - The present invention provides an information storage device includes a first storage unit stores an arbitrary information file transmitted via a wide area information network, a second storage unit stores an information file in a predetermined form, which is derived from the first storage unit, an information file determination unit determines whether or not the information file in the first storage unit is the information file in the predetermined form, a file conversion unit converts an information file into the predetermined form, and a storage management unit manages the information file, and stores in the second storage unit. In the information storage device, if a copy of the information file in the first storage unit is not in the predetermined form when the copy is stored in the second storage unit, the copy converted into the information file in the predetermined form, and stored in the second storage unit. | 04-18-2013 |
20130100312 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device may include an image processing pipeline in which at least a magnification chromatic aberration correction processing unit that corrects magnification chromatic aberration of an imaging optical system, a distortion aberration correction processing unit that corrects distortion aberration of the imaging optical system, and an imaging processing unit that performs image processing with respect to image data and outputs image processed-image data to the distortion aberration correction processing unit are included in one pipeline, magnification chromatic aberration of the image data having been corrected by the magnification chromatic aberration correction processing unit, a sequencer that controls operations of respective elements included in the image processing pipeline, and a distortion correction range calculation unit that calculates a distortion aberration correction input range. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101268 | 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. | 04-25-2013 |
20130114854 | TRACKING APPARATUS AND TRACKING METHOD - A tracking apparatus includes an image data acquisition unit, a tracking process unit, a contrast information acquisition unit, a contrast information similarity evaluation unit, and a control unit. The image data acquisition unit acquires image data. The tracking process unit detects a candidate position of a tracking target in image data. The contrast information acquisition unit acquires contrast information at the candidate position. The contrast information similarity evaluation unit evaluates a similarity between contrast information at a position of the tracking target decided in a past frame and current frame. The control unit decides the position of the tracking target in the current frame based on the evaluation of the similarity. | 05-09-2013 |
20130135495 | IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING A SEARCH CONDITION SETTING UNIT FOR SETTING A SEARCH CONDITION OF IMAGE DATA AND A NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM FOR SETTING A SEARCH CONDITION OF IMAGE DATA - An imaging apparatus sets a search condition of image data so as to contain a condition that image data to be searched is created between a latest send image data that has most recently been sent among pieces of image data, which are read from a storage unit and sent to a display device or which are sent from either the imaging apparatus or other imaging apparatus to the display device, and image data that is created at the earliest time after the latest send image data has been created among the pieces of the image data stored in the storage unit; determines image data to be sent to the display device from among pieces of image data stored in each of the imaging apparatus and the other imaging apparatus, based on a search result sent from the other imaging apparatus as a response to the sent search condition. | 05-30-2013 |
20130141624 | IMAGING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING SYSTEM - An imaging system of the present invention comprises a lens unit having a barrel section that contains a photographing optical system, and an operating section provided on the barrel section, and a camera body having an imaging section for converting a subject image formed by the photographing optical system into electrical signals, and a display section for displaying the subject image based on the electrical signals, wherein the lens unit has a transmission section for transmitting information relating to the operation section, and the camera body has a receiving section for receiving information relating to the operating section that has been transmitted from the transmission section, and an association section for displaying the information relating to the operation section that has been received by the receiving section on the display section, and associating information relating to the operating section with functions of the camera body. | 06-06-2013 |
20130147987 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes an image recording section which records a plurality of image data items obtained on different dates and including image data items including a person, and a control section which displays one of the image data items selected from the image data items on a display section, retrieves another one of the image data items obtained on a date different from a date of the selected image data item and including the person, and displays the another one of the image data items on the display section. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148007 | CAMERA SYSTEM - A camera system of this invention includes: a fixed member; a focusing lens; a drive portion that drives the focusing lens; a rotational member to be engaged; an operation ring that can be positioned at a first position and a second position in the optical axis direction; an engagement portion that, when the operation ring is at the second position, causes the rotational member to be engaged and the operation ring to engage with each other; and a control portion that, when the operation ring is at the first position and the operation ring is rotated, drives the focusing lens in accordance with the rotation, and when the operation ring is at the second position, drives the focusing lens in accordance with a relative movement position between the rotational member to be engaged and the fixed member. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151971 | SERVER APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME - A server apparatus is provided with a memory unit to store at least one content; an editing unit to produce video data by editing a material which is including at least one motion picture and is uploaded through a network and the content stored in the memory unit, in accordance with the information indicating editing operation of a user in a terminal apparatus connected to the network; and a quality reducing unit to produce a low-quality content by reducing quality of a high-quality original content stored in the memory unit. The editing unit produces first video data by editing the material and the low-quality content, and then produces second video data including the material and the original content of the low-quality content. | 06-13-2013 |
20130162839 | TRACKING DEVICE AND TRACKING METHOD FOR PROHIBITING A TRACKING OPERATION WHEN A TRACKED SUBJECT IS OBSTRUCTED - A tracking device includes an imaging part for repeatedly acquiring image data on a subject image, a tracking processing part for setting a tracking position based on first image data to perform tracking processing on a subject in the tracking position based on second image data, and a relative distance information calculating part for calculating relative distance information using (1) a determined information about a distance to the tracking position and (2) a determined information about a distance to a surrounding area around the tracking position. When the tracking processing part determines that another subject in the surrounding area is located at the closer range than the subject in the tracking position, the tracking processing part prohibits tracking processing. | 06-27-2013 |
20130162886 | Inner Focus Lens System and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - An inner focus lens system includes, from the object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, an aperture stop, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit. The first lens unit includes a plurality of negative lenses and at least one positive lens, the lens located closest to the object side is a negative lens. The second lens unit includes at least one negative lens and at least one positive lens, and moves toward the object side for focusing from an infinite object distance to a close object distance such that the distance between the second lens unit and the aperture stop decreases and that the distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit increases. The lens system satisfies the following conditions: 106-27-2013 | |
20130162887 | Inner Focus Lens System and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - An inner focus lens system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit, an aperture stop, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens unit has at least one negative lens and at least one positive lens, the second lens unit has at least one negative lens and at least one positive lens, the third lens unit has at least one negative lens, the fourth lens unit has at least one positive lens, at the time of focusing on an object at a short distance from an object at infinity, the third lens unit moves to an image side so as to lengthen a distance to the second lens unit and to shorten a distance to the fourth lens unit, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied: | 06-27-2013 |
20130163975 | CAMERA SYSTEM AND LENS BARREL - A lens barrel of the present invention includes: a first barrel; a second barrel capable of relative rotation around an optical axis with respect to the first barrel; a focusing lens; a drive portion that drives the focusing lens; a rotational operation member that can move in the optical axis direction to a first position, and a second position; and an engagement portion that, when the rotational operation member is at the second position, causes the second barrel and the rotational operation member to engage with each other and rotates the second barrel accompanying rotation of the rotational operation member, and when the rotational operation member is at the first position, disengages the second barrel and the rotational operation member from each other. | 06-27-2013 |
20130169846 | Zoom Lens and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - A zoom lens comprises in order from an object side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, and at the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, the first lens unit moves, and the zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expression (1). | 07-04-2013 |
20130169849 | IMAGING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CONCURRENTLY SHOOTING IMAGE DISPLAYED BY DISPLAY AND DETERMINED SUB-AREA DESIGNATED IN THE IMAGE - An imaging apparatus is capable of concurrently shooting an image displayed by a display and a determined sub-area designated in the image. The imaging apparatus includes an optical system that collects light from a subject for image formation, an imaging device that generates image data by photoelectrically converting the light, a display that can display an image corresponding to the image data, an input unit, an effective region determination unit that determines an effective region in which the determined sub-area can be set through input of a signal from the input unit, based on characteristic information of the optical system corresponding to a shooting condition, and a display control unit that causes the display to display information indicating the effective region in accordance with a result of determination by the effective region determination unit. | 07-04-2013 |
20130176475 | IMAGING DEVICE WITH CONTRAST AF, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE WITH CONTRAST AF - According to the present invention, there is provided an imaging device, comprising: an imaging unit for receiving subject light flux, that has been made incident by the photographing lens, on an imaging surface, and photoelectrically converting a formed subject image to output image data; a display unit for carrying out a live view display operation using image data acquired by the imaging unit; a first contrast. AF unit for obtaining contrast information of the subject information from image data acquired by the imaging unit and guiding the photographing lens into a first in-focus permissible range based on the contrast information, and a control unit for, when the live view display operation has started, executing a focus adjustment operation using the first contrast AF unit at a first time interval. | 07-11-2013 |
20130188090 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS - In an image capture apparatus, when a first object and a second object are designated via a touch operation unit during live view display, focus information of each of the first and second objects is stored, and then a focus moving time is set. In execution of image capture, image capture where a focusing point and an exposure value are adjusted to the first object is executed and, after an interval corresponding to the focus moving time, image capture where the focusing point and the exposure value are adjusted to the second object is executed. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188091 | Taking Lens System and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - A taking lens system comprises a frontmost lens unit, a rearmost lens unit, and a plurality of lens units arranged between the frontmost lens unit and the rearmost lens unit. One of the plurality of lens units is a first focusing lens unit. During focusing from an infinite object distance to a close object distance, only the first focusing lens unit moves toward the image side in a first shooting mode, and at least two lens units in the taking lens system move in a second shooting mode. In the state in which the taking lens system is focused on an object at infinity, the positions of the first focusing lens unit and at least one lens unit in the taking lens system in the first shooting mode are different from those in the second shooting mode. The taking lens system satisfies the condition M | 07-25-2013 |
20130194215 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTINUOUS SHOOTING IMAGING METHODS USING A CONTINUOUS TOUCH USER INPUT - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging part for capturing a subject image, a touch panel for acquiring a touch position input by a user, and a control part for controlling an imaging operation performed by the imaging part. The control part acquires the touch position to cause the imaging part to perform the imaging operation each time the touch position is displaced on the touch panel by a predetermined amount repeatedly during a continuous touch user input. | 08-01-2013 |
20130201382 | Zoom Lens and Image Pickup Apparatus Equipped with Same - A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power. The first lens unit includes a negative lens and a positive lens. The zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expression ( | 08-08-2013 |