Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080240693 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device, and an optical system configured to image light from an imaging subject on the imaging device. The optical system includes a group of lenses and an aperture diaphragm. When NP point is defined as a point where an extended linear component in an object space of a principal ray located in a Gauss region and selected from among principal rays passing through a center of the aperture diaphragm of the optical system crosses an optical axis of the optical system, D represents a diameter of a lens at the closest side to the imaging subject, and LN represents a distance from a lens surface of the lens at the closest side to the imaging subject to the NP point, a formula; 0≦LN≦D (1) is satisfied. | 10-02-2008 |
20100085422 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device capturing a subject image through an optical system; an image signal processor having a function of combining multiple captured images into a single image, the images being captured during the period when the imaging apparatus is moved; an attitude sensor providing information on the attitude of the imaging apparatus; and a control unit processing the information from the attitude sensor and performing coordinated control on the processed result of the attitude information and the processed result from the image signal processor, wherein the image signal processor uses image recognition to determine the relative positional relationship between adjacent images, and the control unit determines the positional relationship between adjacent images based on an initial value of the attitude information, directional data and a relative positional relationship determined by the image signal processor, and judges whether or not the determined result is correct. | 04-08-2010 |
20100085442 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device capturing a subject image through an optical system; an image signal processor having a function of combining multiple captured images into a single image, the images being captured during the period when the imaging apparatus is moved; and a control unit, wherein the image signal processor detects any effect of parallax or a moving subject based on the similarity among motion vectors between adjacent images, and the control unit issues a warning when the image signal processor detects any effect of the moving object or parallax to prompt image recapturing. | 04-08-2010 |
20100141735 | Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and program - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device that images an object image through an optical system; an image signal processing section having a function of combining a plurality of imaged images into a combined image piece, the imaged images being obtained while the imaging apparatus is swept; a position sensor capable of obtaining position information of the imaging apparatus; and a controller that processes information of the position sensor, wherein the controller sends a notification of an appropriate value of a sweeping angular velocity based on the detection information of the position sensor and outputs a warning signal when the sweeping angular velocity exceeds an appropriate range. | 06-10-2010 |
20100141799 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes: an optical system having an optical axis changing element; an imaging device that images an object image through the optical system; an image signal processing section having a function of combining a plurality of imaged images into a combined image piece, the imaged images being obtained while the imaging apparatus is moved; and a controller that controls the optical axis changing element so that the optical axis is changed in a direction for negating the movement of the imaging apparatus, at least during periods when an electronic shutter of the imaging device is open, and that the optical axis returns to the vicinity of approximately the center of the movement of the imaging apparatus during periods when the electronic shutter is closed, wherein the controller performs the control of the optical axis with respect to a partial line in the central direction of the imaging device. | 06-10-2010 |
20100149368 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device that images an object image through an optical system; an image signal processing section having a function of combining a plurality of imaged images into a combined image piece using a given initial value, the imaged images being obtained while the imaging apparatus is moved; a position sensor capable of obtaining the position information of the imaging apparatus; a controller that processes the information of the position sensor to perform collaborative control based on the processing results and processing the results of the image signal processing section, wherein the image signal processing section obtains the relative positional relationship of the images via image recognition; and the controller obtains the positional relationship of the images, specifies the absolute positional relationship of the respective images, and supplies the absolute positional relationship to the image signal processing section as the initial value. | 06-17-2010 |
20110058014 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An imaging processing device includes: a position information generation section that generates position information which represents a relative positional relationship of captured images when the captured images are aligned on a predetermined plane so as to overlap same subjects, which are included in the different captured images, with each other; a strip image generation section that cuts out an area on each captured image from a predetermined reference position on the captured image to the reference position on another captured image which is aligned on the plane so as to overlap with the captured image and generates a strip image including the area, when the captured images are aligned on the plane on the basis of the position information; and a panoramic image generation section that generates a single panoramic image by aligning and stitching the strip images which are obtained from the captured images. | 03-10-2011 |
20110085027 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device includes an output image creation unit configured to create a plurality of consecutive output images; a detection unit configured to detect a moving subject having motion; a correction unit configured to correct a predetermined output image by substituting a subject area, where the moving subject of the predetermined output image is displayed, with an image of an area corresponding to the subject area of another different output image when the moving subject is included in the predetermined output image; and a 3D output image creation unit configured to create a 3D output image including the output image having a predetermined disparity from the predetermined output image. | 04-14-2011 |
20120169840 | Image Processing Device and Method, and Program - The present invention relates to an image processing device and method, and a program, whereby a subject image imaged in a more effective manner can be displayed. | 07-05-2012 |
20120182400 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program capable of displaying a stereoscopic image having a more appropriate parallax. | 07-19-2012 |
20120242780 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program capable of presenting a stereoscopic image having different parallaxes. | 09-27-2012 |
20120268555 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device that images an object image through an optical system; an image signal processing section having a function of combining a plurality of imaged images into a combined image piece, the imaged images being obtained while the imaging apparatus is swept; a position sensor capable of obtaining position information of the imaging apparatus; and a controller that processes information of the position sensor, wherein the controller sends a notification of an appropriate value of a sweeping angular velocity based on the detection information of the position sensor and outputs a warning signal when the sweeping angular velocity exceeds an appropriate range. | 10-25-2012 |
20140028670 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technique relates to a display device and method, and a program for presenting high-quality stereoscopic images in a simpler manner. | 01-30-2014 |
20140049622 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to a display device, a method, and a program for allowing a high quality stereoscopic image to be presented more easily. A display unit is a display device for four viewpoints, including a parallax barrier, and a plurality of block regions, each including pixels in channels CH0 to CH3 arranged in a parallax direction, are arranged on the display unit in the parallax direction. An assignment control unit assigns a parallax image for a left eye or for a right eye to a pixel in each channel in a block region according to the viewpoint position of a user. For example, the same parallax image is assigned to pixels in two different channels that are adjacent to each other in the parallax direction. A generation unit generates a combined image by combining parallax images for a left eye and for a right eye according to the assignment by the assignment control unit, and causes the combined image to be stereoscopically displayed on the display unit. The present invention may be applied to a display device. | 02-20-2014 |
20140098187 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An imaging processing device includes: a position information generation section that generates position information which represents a relative positional relationship of captured images when the captured images are aligned on a predetermined plane so as to overlap same subjects, which are included in the different captured images, with each other; a strip image generation section that cuts out an area on each captured image from a predetermined reference position on the captured image to the reference position on another captured image which is aligned on the plane so as to overlap with the captured image and generates a strip image including the area, when the captured images are aligned on the plane on the basis of the position information; and a panoramic image generation section that generates a single panoramic image by aligning and stitching the strip images which are obtained from the captured images. | 04-10-2014 |
20140176730 | PROJECTION-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE PROJECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided a projection-type image display device including a projection section configured to project an image onto a projection body, a camera section, provided at a position different to an irradiation position of the projection section, configured to image the image projected onto the projection body, a correction amount detection section configured to remove a background from a test image imaged by the camera section at a time when a test pattern is projected onto the projection body from the projection section, detect information of coordinates related to the test pattern within the test image after background removal, and calculate correction parameters for correcting the image projected from the projection section based on the information of the coordinates, and an image correction section which corrects the image projected from the projection section based on the correction parameters. | 06-26-2014 |