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| 20080298789 | Control Method, Control Apparatus and Control Program For Photographing Apparatus - The present invention relates to a control method of a photographing apparatus, the photographing apparatus and a control program, which are capable of automatically determining a photographing mode capable of generating a sharper image. If a first exposure time is equal to or shorter than a first threshold value, a control circuit | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080303941 | PICTURE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PICTURE PROCESSING METHOD, PICTURE DATA STORAGE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - In an apparatus and a method for executing generation and reproduction processing of picture data suitable for picture display devices having differing processable frame rates, low frame rate picture data is generated on the basis of a plurality of temporally continuous pictures having a high frame rate to provide picture data having a plurality of layers. Decimated data may be set as the high frame rate layer data. In this manner, the quantity of data to be transmitted or stored is reduced. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080306366 | BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION OBTAINING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A biological-information obtaining apparatus includes a light-emitting unit configured to emit light, an image-capturing unit configured to capture images, in time sequence, obtained by irradiating a living body with the light emitted and by causing the light to be transmitted through or reflected by the living body, the image-capturing unit being sensitive to at least two color components, an extreme generation unit configure to generate, for each of the captured images in the time sequence, a maximum value and a minimum value of each of the color components in a certain area of the captured image, and an oxygen-saturation calculation unit configured to calculate oxygen saturation on the basis of the maximum value and the minimum value of each of the color components in the certain area of the captured image. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080306372 | BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION OBTAINING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A biological-information obtaining apparatus includes a light-emitting unit, an image sensor configured to capture images, in time sequence, relating to a living body, a lens, an extreme-occurrence-time obtaining unit configured to obtain times T | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090006773 | Signal Processing Apparatus - A signal processing apparatus able to raise a processing capability in processing accompanying access to a storing means is provided. Stream control units (SCU) | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090110295 | PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS, PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A product identification apparatus for determining whether an inspection target product to be identified is the same as a predetermined verification product includes: an extraction unit configured to extract an input pattern formed of asperities on the surface of a predetermined part of the inspection target product from a captured image obtained by capturing the image of the predetermined part of the inspection target product; and a comparison unit configured to compare the input pattern with an identification pattern extracted from a captured image obtained by capturing in advance the image of a part of the verification product so as to determine whether the input pattern is the same as the identification pattern or the input pattern includes the identification pattern. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20100053703 | APPARATUS FOR IMAGING OBJECTS OF CHANGING LUMINANCE - In an imaging apparatus, a function whose value increases in time is used as a threshold electric-signal level, and an electric-signal level of a photoreceptor element is compared with the threshold electric-signal level. Even if a light received by the photoreceptor element has a low luminance, the electric-signal level of the photoreceptor element crosses the threshold electric-signal level in a short time, allowing calculation of the amount of optical energy received by the photoreceptor element. Furthermore, when an object having a region where brightness changes in time and also having a region with a low luminance is imaged, imaging interval is changed in accordance with luminance. Accordingly, information regarding how the brightness of the object is rapidly changing in time can be obtained more precisely, and an image can be output without making a projection image of the dark region completely black. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100066859 | Image Signal Processing Device, Image Signal Processing Method, Program, Image Imaging Device, and Imaging System - An image signal processing device includes: an image signal capturing unit capturing first and second image signals obtained by consecutive photographing performed under first and second photographing conditions; an image signal calculation unit obtaining, with the first and second image signals, a weighted addition signal of an image signal based on ambient light and an image signal based on light from a flash device; a display control unit controlling the display of an image based on the weighted addition signal; an input device used to set respective weighting factors of the image signal based on ambient light and the image signal based on light from the flash device subjected to weighted addition; and a photographing condition determination unit determining, on the basis of the weighting factors, the aperture of an aperture mechanism, the exposure time of a solid-state image pickup device, and the light emission amount of the flash device. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100080458 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An apparatus and a method for efficiently executing correction of false color, such as purple fringe, caused by chromatic aberration and for generating and outputting high-quality image data are provided. A white-saturated pixel is detected from image data, a false-color-pixel detection area is set around the detected white-saturated pixel, and pixels having color corresponding to false color such as purple fringe are detected from the set area. The detected pixels are determined as false-color pixels and correction processing based on the values of the surrounding pixels is performed on the determined false-color pixels. With this configuration, an area of false color such as purple fringe generated in the neighborhood of a white-saturated pixel can be efficiently detected, pixel values can be partially corrected, and high-quality image data can be generated and output without affecting the entire image. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100149358 | Method and apparatus for producing a panoramic plurality of partly overlapping unit images - A whole image showing the entire range of the object of shooting is generated by picking up unit images, each constituting a part of the scenic range to be imaged, by sequentially shifting the image pickup direction, cutting out image regions of a predetermined size, each constituting a part of each of the unit images picked up in the image pickup step, so as to produce overlapping areas and sequentially and partly superposing the image region. The noise components of the image regions are uniformized to improve the image quality by cutting out image regions as to make two or more than two image regions overlap each other in average for the position of each unit image of the whole image to be generated. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100171810 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method and Program - An image processing apparatus includes a first image processor receiving, as a sequence of images, a plurality of images captured by sequentially shifting a shooting position in a predetermined direction, and setting a first overlapping area overlapping a priority area which is to be used preferentially in the sequence of images, as a use-prohibited area with respect to images in the sequence of images other than the first image, the images including the first overlapping area; a second image processor setting a second overlapping area of a second or third image as a use-prohibited area, the second and third images having sequence orders being separated by a predetermined spacing in the sequence of images; and an image generator generating an output image using areas of the plurality of images included in the sequence of images, excluding areas set as the use-prohibited areas by the first and second image processors. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100172589 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, Program, and Image Processing Apparatus - An information processing apparatus includes a band-shaped area selecting section, an angle selecting section, and a control section. The band-shaped area selecting section selects, from among band-shaped areas each having a first angle with respect to a second direction orthogonal to a first direction, a first band-shaped area having a maximum height, which satisfies a condition that the first band-shaped area is on one side of a first point group, which is in the first direction and on one side of a second point group, which is in a direction opposite to the first direction. The angle selecting section selects a candidate for the first angle. The control section effects control to repeat selecting of the first band-shaped area and selecting of the candidate for the first angle, and obtains the finally selected first band-shaped area as a processing result. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100238313 | Imaging Apparatus and Method, and Program - The present invention relates to an imaging apparatus and method and program whereby composition can more readily be confirmed. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100253763 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP METHOD - This invention makes it possible to produce a high quality synthesized panoramic image when it is difficult to highly precisely shift the image pickup direction. The present invention provides an image pickup apparatus for synthetically generating a first image, or a whole image of an entire object of shooting, the apparatus comprising an image pickup section that sequentially changes the image pickup direction and picks up section of images of the object of shooting to be imaged, a reading section that reads second images, each having a predetermined width and constituting a part of the image picked up on an imaging plane in the image pickup section, a defining section that defines a reading range of each second image to be read by the reading section, a relative position identifying section that identifies the relative position of each second image relative to the first image, and a synthesizing section that generates the first image by sequentially and synthetically combining the second images read out by the reading section, the defining section being adapted to determine the first quantity of movement of each second image by referring to the relative position thereof as identified by the relative position identifying section and define the reading range of the second image to be read out next according to the first quantity of movement. | 10-07-2010 |
