Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100053378 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A synchronization processing in which an image data having a plurality of color components per pixel is generated based on the image data obtained by an imaging apparatus which includes an image sensor arranged with a plurality of color filters is performed. Then, a predetermined granular pattern is added to the image data subjected to the synchronization processing. | 03-04-2010 |
20100128142 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus comprises a white balance setting unit that performs a setting of white balance correction processing on an image data, a white balance correction unit that performs white balance correction processing corresponding to the setting by the white balance setting unit on each of a plurality of RAW image data obtained in a photography operation, and an image synthesizing unit that generates synthesized image data by synthesizing a plurality of image data subjected to the white balance correction processing. | 05-27-2010 |
20110090376 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Edge enhancement processing is implemented on an image data, and distortion correction processing is implemented on the image data subjected to the edge enhancement processing to correct a distortion by executing local enlargement processing or reduction processing corresponding to an optical distortion characteristic of a lens employed during an image pickup operation. At this time, the edge enhancement processing performed on the image data to be subjected to the distortion correction processing is modified in accordance with the local enlargement processing or reduction processing. | 04-21-2011 |
20110304747 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus includes a lens unit condensing light from a visual field region, an imaging unit including an imaging element which converts light condensed by the lens unit into an electric signal and continuously generating electronic image data based on the electric signal, a storage unit storing the image data generated by the imaging unit, a display unit displaying an image based on the image data generated by the imaging unit, an input unit receiving an input of a change instruction signal used to change a first capturing mode at a first vertical-to-horizontal ratio to a second capturing mode at a second vertical-to-horizontal ratio and an image trimming unit generating a captured image by trimming an image included in image data generated by the imaging unit at a vertical-to-horizontal ratio between the first and second vertical-to-horizontal ratios, when the change instruction signal is input during the first capturing mode. | 12-15-2011 |
20120069233 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD - A digital camera includes: a display section displaying a photographing image obtained by photographing a subject; a signal processing and control section reading out information related to the subject and information related to surroundings of the subject from a database on the basis of position information and compass direction information about the digital camera; and a display control section selecting the information related to the subject according to the lens condition and performing control so as to display the selected information on the display section by superimposing the selected information on the photographing image. | 03-22-2012 |
20120120278 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus including an imaging unit that captures images of a photographic subject and continuously generates electronic image data; a display unit that displays, at a predetermined display frame rate, images corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit; an image processing unit that either performs a first-type special effect operation that can be displayed at the predetermined display frame rate or performs a second-type special effect operation that can be displayed at a faster display frame rate than the predetermined display frame rate; an operation input unit that receives input of a change instruction signal that provides an instruction for changing a combination of image processing operations during a special effect operation performed by the image processing unit; and a control unit that instructs the image processing unit to switch the special effect operation from the first-type special effect operation to the second-type special effect operation. | 05-17-2012 |
20120154642 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a noise reduction intensity control unit that controls a noise reduction intensity, which indicates a degree to which noise reduction is applied to image data, on the basis of a luminance variation ratio, which indicates a variation amount by which a luminance of the image data gradually varies, and a noise reduction unit that reduces a noise in the image data on the basis of the noise reduction intensity controlled by the noise reduction intensity control unit. | 06-21-2012 |
20120287328 | DRIVING CONTROL DEVICE AND OPERATION DEVICE - A driving control device according to the present invention includes: a fixed member; an operation member arranged to be manually rotatable with respect to the fixed member; a transducer arranged in one of the fixed member and the operation member and arranged to come into contact with an opposed surface of the other of the fixed member and the operation member; a position detecting section for detecting a position of the operation member with respect to the fixed member; and an operation force amount control section for controlling driving of the transducer to change contact friction force generated when the transducer contacts with the fixed member or the operation member. The operation force amount control section controls the transducer such that the contact friction force applied to the operation member when the operation member is manually rotated with respect to the fixed member changes to a sense of click. | 11-15-2012 |
20120307103 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit that generates electronic image data; a display unit that displays an image; an image processor that produces a visual effect on the image data in combination with a plurality of image processes to generate processed image data; a release input unit that accepts an input of a release signal of instructing the imaging apparatus to execute shooting; an image process controller that executes the plural kinds of special effect processes on one piece of image data generated after the acceptance of the input of the release signal and to generate plural pieces of processed image data; and a display controller that controls the display unit to display, for a predetermined time, one of an image corresponding to the piece of image data and at least one processed image corresponding to at least a part of the plural pieces of processed image data. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307112 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus including a shooting unit consecutively generating electronic image data by imaging a subject and photoelectrically converting the imaged subject; a display unit displaying images corresponding to the image data in a generation sequence; an image processing unit generating processed image data by performing special effect processing of generating a visual effect by combining plural image processing operations with respect to the image data; an image processing controller generating plural processed image data by allowing the image processing unit to perform plural special effect processing operations with respect to the image data when there are plural special effect processing operations to be performed by the image processing unit; and a display controller collectively displaying one or more processed images corresponding to at least some of the processed image data generated by the image processing unit and an image corresponding to the image data on the display unit. | 12-06-2012 |
20130230232 | Three-Dimensional Image Processing Device, And Three-Dimensional Image Processing Method - A three-dimensional image processing device for visually applying a special effect by subjecting raw data that has been acquired by imaging to image processing, and creating image data capable of being viewed stereoscopically. The device comprises a tone conversion section for tone converting the raw data in accordance with the special effect, a three-dimensional image data processing section for carrying out at least one of clipping image data that has been tone converted by the tone conversion section as image data to be viewed stereoscopically, or carrying out geometric processing, to create three-dimensional image data, and a special effect image processing section for subjecting the three-dimensional image data to special image processing to apply a special effect that is analogous to an image that has been formed optically or formed by photographic film or by development and printing processing, and creating a three-dimensional special-effect image. | 09-05-2013 |
20130293733 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGING METHOD - An image processing unit performs image processing with respect to image data. A still image information storage unit stores still image data in accordance with an instruction from a still image shooting instruction unit. A moving image recording unit records moving image data in accordance with an instruction from a moving image shooting instruction unit. The timing information acquisition unit acquires timing information. The image processing unit performs special effect image processing of combining the still image data to image data associated with the timing information in the pieces of image data constituting the moving image data. | 11-07-2013 |
20140036129 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD - A digital camera includes: a display section displaying a photographing image obtained by photographing a subject; a signal processing and control section reading out information related to the subject and information related to surroundings of the subject from a database on the basis of position information and compass direction information about the digital camera; and a display control section selecting the information related to the subject according to the lens condition and performing control so as to display the selected information on the display section by superimposing the selected information on the photographing image. | 02-06-2014 |
20140043503 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging apparatus including an imaging unit that captures images of a photographic subject and continuously generates electronic image data; a display unit that displays, at a predetermined display frame rate, images corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit; an image processing unit that either performs a first-type special effect operation that can be displayed at the predetermined display frame rate or performs a second-type special effect operation that can be displayed at a faster display frame rate than the predetermined display frame rate; an operation input unit that receives input of a change instruction signal that provides an instruction for changing a combination of image processing operations during a special effect operation performed by the image processing unit; and a control unit that instructs the image processing unit to switch the special effect operation from the first-type special effect operation to the second-type special effect operation. | 02-13-2014 |
20140085508 | IMAGE EDITING DEVICE AND IMAGE EDITING METHOD - An image editing device of the present invention, for editing a combined photographic image formed by combining a plurality of images, comprises a first image processing section for carrying out first image processing on the image and creating a first image, a second image processing section for carrying out second image processing on the first image to create a second image, a combined photograph processing section for creating a combined photograph by combining the second image in accordance combining position of the combined photograph, and a control section for, after the first image processing has been carried out, creating a combined photograph by combining the second image that has been subjected to the second image processing in accordance with combining position of the combined photograph by the combined photograph processing section, and storing the combined photograph and the first image as a single image file. | 03-27-2014 |
20140085509 | IMAGE EDITING DEVICE AND IMAGE EDITING METHOD - An image editing device, for editing a combined photographic image formed by combining a plurality of images with a predetermined background image, comprises a combined photograph processing section for creating a combined photograph by combining a plurality of images with the background image in accordance with combining position of the combined photograph, an image compression section for dividing the combined photograph into a number of blocks of a specified number of pixels, and subjecting an image to lossy compression, a background portion image selection section for dividing the background image into the blocks, and selecting a plurality of blocks that include at least the combining position as a background portion image, and a storage section for storing an image that has been compressed by the image compression section, and the background portion image that has been selected by the background portion image selection section, as a single image file. | 03-27-2014 |
20140085510 | IMAGE EDITING DEVICE AND IMAGE EDITING METHOD - An image editing device of the present invention, for editing a combined photographic image formed by combining a plurality of images, comprises a combined photograph editing section for carrying out editing of the combined photograph using the combined photographic image and the images that have been expanded, an image quality control parameter calculating section, for calculating image quality control parameters for combined photograph data that has been edited by the combined photograph editing section, in accordance with first image quality control parameters for when creating the combined photograph, and second image quality control parameter for when creating the compressed image, wherein, in the case where a combined photograph that has been edited by the combined photograph editing section is subjected to image compression, the image quality control parameters that have been calculated by the image quality control parameter calculating section are used. | 03-27-2014 |
20140085511 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing device lays out a plurality of images to generate image data of a combined image, and includes: a feature value calculation unit which calculates from an image configuring the combined image a feature value indicating a feature of the image; an image correction unit which corrects the image whose feature value is calculated so that the feature value calculated by the feature value calculation unit approaches a target feature value; and a combined image generation unit which generates image data of the combined image by combining image data of the plurality of images including the image corrected by the image correction unit. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086506 | IMAGE EDITING DEVICE AND IMAGE EDITING METHOD - An image editing device of the present invention replaces part of a first image that has been subjected to lossy compression with a second image, and comprises a image quality adjustment section for carrying out image quality conversion processing that is the same as image quality variation arising due to the lossy compression, and an editing section for carrying out editing processing using the second image that has been adjusted by the image quality adjustment section. | 03-27-2014 |
20140111674 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus for the present invention comprises an image sensor which repeatedly reads out image data, an OB calculating unit which calculates a representative value of OB output levels read from the image sensor; and a memory which stores the representative value of OB pixel output levels calculated by the OB calculating unit in a manner of dividing into a part for subtraction (a integer part) and a part for carrying-over (a decimal part); and an image synthesizing unit which sequentially adds the image data read from an effective pixel region in the image sensor and generates an added image, wherein the above-described image synthesizing unit subtracts the part for subtraction of the representative value of OB pixel output levels stored in the memory (OB subtraction part) from either the generated added image, or the image read from the effective pixel region, and, when a next OB value for addition after second addition is calculated, the OB calculating unit adds the carrying-over (decimal) part to the representative value of OB output levels stored in the memory for the representative value of OB output levels calculated using the image data read from the OB pixel regions. | 04-24-2014 |
20140176775 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging device, capable of shooting a combined photograph that is a single image made up of a plurality of images, and capable of live view display, comprises a first display section, a second display section, an imaging section for converting a subject image to image data, an image processing section for subjecting the image data to image processing, and a combined photograph processing section, for combining a plurality of image data subjected to image processing by the image processing section to create a single image, wherein, when a live view image is to be displayed on the first display section an image that has been subjected to processing by the combined photograph processing section is displayed, while when a live view image is to be displayed on the second display section an image that has been subjected to image processing by the image processing section is displayed. | 06-26-2014 |
20140320692 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a random seed generating unit, a pseudo-random number generating unit, and a special image processing unit. The imaging unit photographs a subject to obtain image data. The random seed generating unit generates a random seed to decide a pseudo-random number sequence. The pseudo-random number generating unit generates a pseudo-random number in accordance with the generated random seed. The special image processing unit performs special image processing to apply a special effect to the image data based on the generated pseudo-random number. The random seed is decided during photography. | 10-30-2014 |
20140333798 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD - To provide an image pickup apparatus which enables acquisition, by a simple configuration, of a natural image of a dark place or the like at the time of image pickup in a dark environment by eliminating an influence from the surrounding environmental light, an image pickup apparatus of the invention includes an image pickup section for picking up an image of an object and acquiring an image signal, an accumulation section for sequentially accumulating outputs from the image pickup section, a display section for visibly displaying an accumulated image signal of the accumulation section, a position identification section for identifying a position specified on an image displayed on the display section; and a correction section for performing an image correction process on the accumulated image signal of the accumulation section according to an identification result of the position identification section. | 11-13-2014 |
20140362258 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a special image processing unit. The special image processing unit includes an image resize unit that performs a resize process of resizing an image size of at least a partial area of an image area of image data by using one position in at least the partial area as a center, and an image composition unit that performs a composition process of compositing the image data and image data obtained through the resize process such that the respective one positions coincide with each other. | 12-11-2014 |
20150077603 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH IMAGE FILE IS RECORDED, RECORDING METHOD, IMAGE PLAYBACK METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An imaging device includes: an imaging unit having an imaging element formed of a plurality of pixels, and configured to perform imaging under a first exposure condition to generate first image data and to perform imaging under a second exposure condition different from the first exposure condition to generate second image data; an image composition unit configured to generate composite image data with an expanded dynamic range based on the first image data and the second image data; and an image file generation unit configured to generate an image file in which the first image data, the second image data, the composite image data, and position information on positions of pixels mutually replaced in a first image corresponding to the first image data and a second image corresponding to the second image data when the image composition unit generates the composite image data, are recorded in association with one another. | 03-19-2015 |