Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110134284 | IMAGING DEVICE - Provided are: an imaging sensor that captures subject light via a photographic optical system provided with a zoom lens and a focus lens; a display unit that displays a through image based upon an imaging signal from the imaging sensor; a predetermined area setting unit that sets a predetermined area on the through image displayed on a display surface of the display unit in a state which is set to a first angle of view or a second angle of view different from the first angle of view by driving the zoom lens; a movement control unit that moves positions of the zoom lens and the focus lens by controlling drive of the zoom lens and the focus lens, so as to change from a first state, which is set to the first angle of view and serves as an in-focus state focused on the predetermined area set by the predetermined area setting unit to a second state, which is set to the second angle of view and serves as an out-of-focus state defocused on the predetermined area, or from the second state to the first state over a predetermined time; and a movie image data creation unit that creates movie image data, which includes a movie image changed from the first state to the second state by the movement control unit over the predetermined time, based upon the imaging signal from the imaging sensor. | 06-09-2011 |
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 |
20110221916 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided are: an imaging sensor that captures light from a subject; a first instruction unit that instructs to capture a still image by using the imaging sensor; a recording control unit that records a single movie image file containing a first movie image produced based upon an imaging signal output from the imaging sensor during a period from when the still image is captured by the capturing instruction by the first instruction unit until before a first predetermined time and a second movie image produced by using the still image during a period from when the still image is captured until after a second predetermined time, or recording a single movie image file containing the second movie image and a third movie image produced based upon the imaging signal output from the imaging sensor during a period from when the still image is captured until after a third predetermined time, in a recording unit; and a detection unit that detects movement information of the subject, and the recording control unit sets at least one length of the first predetermined time, the second predetermined time, and the third predetermined time, based upon the movement information detected by the detection unit. | 09-15-2011 |
20110293244 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes a storage unit that sequentially stores a plurality of frame images based on an imaging signal from an imaging sensor that images light from a subject, a moving image data generation unit that generates slow motion moving image data that is to be played at a second frame rate lower than a first frame rate that represents the number of frame images stored per unit time in the storage unit, based on the plurality of frame images stored in the storage unit during a predetermined time period, a still image data generation unit that generates at least one piece of still image data based on at least one frame image of the plurality of frame images stored in the storage unit during the predetermined time period, and a record control unit that associates the slow motion moving image data generated by the moving image data generation unit and the still image data generated by the still image data generation unit and records the slow motion moving image data and the still image data in a recording medium. | 12-01-2011 |
20110310274 | IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE, IMAGE REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND IMAGE REPRODUCTION METHOD - An image-capturing device includes: an image sensor that captures an image of a photographic subject and outputs the image; an image size conversion unit that converts a whole of the image outputted from the image sensor to an entire region image having a lesser number of pixels than a number of pixels of the whole of the image; a cutting out region setting unit that sets a cutting out region for a partial region image to be cut out from the image outputted from the image sensor; an image cutting out unit that cuts out the partial region image corresponding to the cutting out region from the image outputted from the image sensor; and a recording control unit that records the entire region image converted by the image size conversion unit and the partial region image cut out by the image cutting out unit in an image recording unit, while establishing a relation to each other. | 12-22-2011 |
20120219264 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - Image processing unit for executing, on movie images that have been recorded in a recording medium, image processing of at least one of imparting or removing an electronic zoom effect, or imparting or removing an electronic blurring effect; a first setting unit that sets, in the movie images, a processing section in which the image processing is to be executed by the image processing unit; a second setting unit that sets, for the processing section in the movie images, at least one of either the zoom factor processing or the amount of blurring having time-series changes to be imparted by the second image processing; and a movie image data creation unit that creates movie image data including the movie images on which the image processing has been performed by the image processing unit, on the basis of the content set by the first setting unit and the second setting unit. | 08-30-2012 |
20120281101 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE REPRODUCTION METHOD, IMAGE REPRODUCTION PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM WITH IMAGE REPRODUCTION PROGRAM RECORDED THEREUPON, AND IMAGE REPRODUCTION DEVICE - An electronic device includes: a communication unit that performs communication with an external device; and a control unit that issues a command to the external device via the communication unit, on the basis of at least one of capacity of the external device, and capacity of the electronic device. | 11-08-2012 |
20130114938 | IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image-capturing apparatus includes: a storage unit into which a plurality of image frames, generated based upon imaging signals provided from an image sensor that captures a subject image via a photographic optical system, are sequentially stored; an optical system drive unit that drives the photographic optical system in response to a still image shooting instruction; and a video data generation unit that generates image data to be played back in time series based upon the plurality of image frames stored into the storage unit over a predetermined time length during which the still image shooting instruction is issued. | 05-09-2013 |
20130141602 | IMAGING DEVICE - This imaging device comprises: a storage unit that sequentially stores a plurality of frame images based on an imaging signal from an imaging sensor for capturing images of a subject light and also stores a still image corresponding to any of the plurality of frame images; a movie image generation unit that generates slow-motion movie images to be played back at a second frame rate lower than a first frame rate indicative of the number of frame images stored in the storage unit in a unit of time, on the basis of the plurality of frame images stored in the storage unit; and an image stabilization amount calculation unit that uses, as a reference, the frame image corresponding to the still image from among the plurality of frame images, to calculate an image stabilization amount for the slow-motion movie images. | 06-06-2013 |
20130188921 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes an imaging sensor that outputs an imaging signal representing a sequence of frame images of a photographic subject. A buffer memory temporarily stores data of the sequence of frame images from the imaging signal. A release switch is actuated by a user to output an image-taking signal. A controller, upon receipt of the image-taking signal from the release switch: (i) generates moving image data from at least some of the plurality of frame images stored in the buffer memory, (ii) generates at least one piece of still image data based on at least one frame image of the plurality of frame images stored in the buffer memory, and (iii) associates the moving image data with the still image data and records the moving image data and the still image data in a recording medium. | 07-25-2013 |
20140368679 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE REPRODUCTION METHOD, IMAGE REPRODUCTION PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM WITH IMAGE REPRODUCTION PROGRAM RECORDED THEREUPON, AND IMAGE REPRODUCTION DEVICE - An electronic device includes: a communication unit that performs communication with an external device; and a control unit that issues a command to the external device via the communication unit, on the basis of at least one of capacity of the external device, and capacity of the electronic device. | 12-18-2014 |
20150077590 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging element comprising: an imaging unit that has: a plurality of groups each including at least one pixel; and a plurality of signal readout units that are each provided to each of the groups and read out a signal from the pixel; and a control unit that controls the signal readout unit in at least one group among the plurality of groups is provided. Each of the plurality of groups may include a plurality of the pixels. The control unit may select at least one group among the plurality of groups and control the signal readout unit by using a control parameter that is different from a control parameter that is used for another group among the plurality of groups. | 03-19-2015 |