Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080229559 | POSITIONING AND CLAMPING APPARATUS - A positioning and clamping apparatus, capable of positioning and clamping a panel material and removing the panel material from a locating pin under a state of releasing the clamping, is provided. A base having a contact surface contacting with the panel material is provided with the locating pin that penetrates through a through-hole of the panel material. A clamp arm moving between an escaping position and a clamping position is provided in a slit, and the clamp arm is moved between these positions by a reciprocating cam. When the clamp arm reaches the clamping position, the panel material is clamped by a clamp portion which is a tip of the clamp arm. A pusher driven by a pushing piston is provided inside the base, and the panel material is removed from the locating pin by the pusher. | 09-25-2008 |
20080230973 | POSITIONING AND CLAMPING APPARATUS - A positioning and clamping apparatus, capable of positioning and clamping of a panel material and removing the panel material from a locating pin by releasing the clamping, is provided. A support cylinder, having a contact face with which the panel material contacts, is provided with a locating pin that protrudes from the contact face. An opening/closing piston is received reciprocably into a cylinder body linked to the support cylinder. A piston rod is linked to a clamp arm provided in a slit of the locating pin. When the opening/closing piston moves forward, the clamp arm moves to an escaping position. When the opening/closing piston moves backward, the clamp arm reaches a clamping position where the panel material is clamped between the clamp portion and the contact face. The panel material is driven at a removal position where it is removed from the locating pin by a pusher. | 09-25-2008 |
20080292148 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE EDITING PROGRAM - An image editing apparatus includes an image input unit including an image pickup circuit which takes a picture of a subject to obtain an image of a subject. A face detection circuit detects an image of a face of the subject from the image obtained from the image input unit. A face expression detection circuit detects at least any one of direction and expression of the face of the subject, based on the image of the face detected by the face detection circuit. A pupil detection circuit detects images of pupils of the subject, based on the image of the face detected by the face detection circuit. A catch-light composition circuit composes different catch-lights on the images of the pupils detected by the pupil detection circuit, according to any one of the direction and expression of the face detected by the face expression detection circuit. | 11-27-2008 |
20090034955 | IMAGING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device comprising an imaging unit for receiving subject light flux, incident via a photographing lens, on an imaging surface, and photoelectrically converting a subject image that has been formed on the imaging surface to output subject image data; a display unit for carrying out a live view display operation using the subject image data acquired by the imaging unit; a first contrast AF unit that obtains contrast information of the subject image from subject image data, and guides the photographing lens to within a first focus permissible based on the contrast information; a phase difference AF unit for placing the movable mirror in the optical path of the photographing lens, receiving subject light flux reflected by the movable mirror to detect a defocus amount of the photographing lens by the phase difference method, and guiding the photographing lens to within a third in-focus permissible range in response to the detection results; a release button having a two stage operating arrangement of half pressed and fully pressed; and a control unit for, when the release button has been pressed down halfway during execution of the live view display operation, executing a focusing operation using the first contrast AF unit, and after that, when the release button is pressed down fully, executing a focusing operation using the phase contrast AF unit. | 02-05-2009 |
20090051807 | IMAGING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device, comprising a photographing lens having a manual focus mechanism, an imaging unit for receiving subject light flux, that has been made incident by the photographing lens, on an imaging surface, a display unit for carrying out a live view display operation using image data acquired by the imaging unit, a 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 specified focus permissible range based on the contrast information, and a control unit for, when a manual focus operation is carried out after executing a focus adjustment operation using the contrast AF unit during the live view display, carrying out control so that there is a transition to a shooting operation without again executing the focus adjustment operation. | 02-26-2009 |
20090086083 | IMAGING DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - 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. | 04-02-2009 |
20090096149 | POSITIONING AND CLAMPING APPARATUS - A positioning and clamping apparatus clamps a panel material by moving a clamp arm to a clamping position while the panel material positioned by a locating pin is supported by a workpiece supporting face of a workpiece support. An extruding member having a plurality of extruding rods protruding from the workpiece supporting face is slidably provided in the workpiece support, and the panel material is detached from the locating pin since the extruding member causes a tip face of the extruding rods to be moved to a carry-out position by the hollow piston. The extruding member is caused to protrude by a spring force up to a standby position located between the carrying-out position and the workpiece supporting position, thereby being pushed down up to the workpiece supporting position by the panel material. | 04-16-2009 |
20090135295 | IMAGING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device of the present invention comprises an imaging section, including an image sensor for imaging a subject, for generating image data based on output signals of the image sensor; a control section for casing repeated operation of the imaging section in accordance with a single release operation; an adding processing section for sequentially adding image data repeatedly output from the imaging section and generating added mage data; an image display section for displaying the added image data; and a setting section for setting a repeat period for the imaging section and instructing to the control section. Also, an imaging device of the present invention, comprises an imaging section for repeatedly forming an image of a subject at a set period, while performing a bulb exposure operation, and outputting image data; an adding processing section for performing adding processing of the image data and previously output image data; an added image storage section for respectively independently storing a plurality of added images that have been added by the adding processing section, and a display section for displaying, in a list, the plurality of added images that have been stored in the added image storage section after completion of the bulb exposure operation. | 05-28-2009 |
20100078685 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - There is provided a semiconductor memory device including: a first wiring layer; a second wiring layer; a third wiring layer; a memory array region; a first gate array region being formed at a region at which the first wiring layer, the second wiring layer and the third wiring layer can be used in wiring of the plural unit cells; and a second gate array region being formed at a region at which two wiring layers that are the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer can be used in wiring of the plural memory cells, and the plural unit cells are arrayed so as to be separated at an interval needed for placement, by using the first wiring layer, of wiring that should be placed by using the third wiring layer. | 04-01-2010 |
20100157084 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD USED IN IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that photoelectrically converts an object image to generate image data; a face detecting unit that detects a face in the generated image data; and a number-of-people detecting unit that detects the number of faces detected in the image data based on a face detection result by the face detecting unit. The imaging apparatus also includes a feature determining unit that determines a feature of the detected face based on a face detection result by the face detecting unit; a face selecting unit that selects a face that satisfies a predetermined correction condition set in advance among the detected faces based on at least one of a detection result of the number of people and a determination result of the feature; and a face-image processing unit that performs a predetermined correction process on at least the selected face. | 06-24-2010 |
20100218072 | MEMORY DEVICE - An exemplary memory device has at least one memory chip that stores data and error correcting information. An error detecting circuit in the memory chip performs a calculation on the data and error correcting information to obtain error detection information indicating the locations of bit errors in the data. The uncorrected data and the error detection information are output from the memory chip. The uncorrected data and error detection information may also be output from the memory device, or the memory device may include a memory controller chip with an error correcting circuit that uses the error detection information to correct the bit errors and outputs corrected data from the memory device. | 08-26-2010 |
20100315521 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE, PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD, AND PLAYBACK METHOD - A photographing device according to the present invention comprises: an imaging section that captures a subject image and outputs image data; a motion picture recording section that records a motion picture based on the image data; a parameter setting section that sets a photographing parameter to change a photographing state; and a parameter control section that automatically changes the photographing parameter during the recording of the motion picture regardless of the set photographing parameter. | 12-16-2010 |
20110025865 | CAMERA AND CAMERA CONTROL METHOD - A camera according to the present invention, which is capable of continuous shooting before and after a still image shot according to photographer's operation, comprises: an imaging section converting an object image into image data; a still image shooting section obtaining image data of the still image according to release operation; a continuous shooting section obtaining the image data by continuous shooting before and after the obtaining of the still image in the still image shooting section; an image processing section performing image processing which is different from that of the image data obtained by the still image shooting section and changed sequentially, on the image data obtained by the continuous shooting section; and a recording section recording the image data image-processed by the image processing section. | 02-03-2011 |
20110309525 | MULTI-CHIP PACKAGE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - An MCP type semiconductor memory device having a structure in which a stack memory chip including a plurality of stacked memory chips and a memory controller chip are juxtaposed on a substrate is provided, which achieves a reduction in package size. The semiconductor memory device includes a stack memory chip including a plurality of stacked memory chips, a substrate on which the stack memory chip is provided, and a memory controller chip provided adjacent to the stack memory chip on the substrate. The stack memory chip is constructed such that an upper memory chip is stacked so as to shift toward a mounting position of the memory controller chip relative to a memory chip immediately below the upper memory chip. At least a part of the memory controller chip is received within a space between the substrate and a part of the stack memory chip that protrudes toward the memory controller chip. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314234 | MULTI-CHIP PACKAGE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - An MCP type semiconductor memory device having a defective cell remedy function, which enables easy design and manufacture while minimizing chip area increase, is provided. The semiconductor memory device includes memory chips and a memory controller chip that designates an address of a memory chip according to an access request received from outside and controls access to the designated address. Each memory chip includes first and second storage regions and an information holder that holds address information representing associations between addresses in the first and second storage regions. The memory controller chip includes an address translating part that performs, upon receiving a request to access a specific address in the first storage region indicated by the address information, address designation by translating the specific address in the first storage region to an address in the second storage region corresponding to the specific address based on the associations represented by the address information. | 12-22-2011 |
20120249825 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE EDITING PROGRAM - An image editing apparatus includes an image input unit including an image pickup circuit which takes a picture of a subject to obtain an image of a subject. A face detection circuit detects an image of a face of the subject from the image obtained from the image input unit. A face expression detection circuit detects at least any one of direction and expression of the face of the subject, based on the image of the face detected by the face detection circuit. A pupil detection circuit detects images of pupils of the subject, based on the image of the face detected by the face detection circuit. A catch-light composition circuit composes different catch-lights on the images of the pupils detected by the pupil detection circuit, according to any one of the direction and expression of the face detected by the face expression detection circuit. | 10-04-2012 |
20120300110 | IMAGING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device comprises an imaging section for outputting image data every set time, in association with bulb exposure commencement; an adding processing section for generating an added image by adding images that were output after commencement of the bulb exposure; an image display section for displaying each generated added image; and a display illumination section for illuminating a display screen of the image display section, and if an update period for image display on the image display section is a predetermined time or longer, illuminates the display screen of the image display section for a time that is shorter than the update period, in response to update of image display on the image display section, while if the update period is less than the predetermined time, continuously carries out illumination. | 11-29-2012 |
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 |
20130321659 | CAMERA AND CAMERA CONTROL METHOD - A camera according to the present invention, which is capable of continuous shooting before and after a still image shot according to photographer's operation, comprises: an imaging section converting an object image into image data; a still image shooting section obtaining image data of the still image according to release operation; a continuous shooting section obtaining the image data by continuous shooting before and after the obtaining of the still image in the still image shooting section; an image processing section performing image processing which is different from that of the image data obtained by the still image shooting section and changed sequentially, on the image data obtained by the continuous shooting section; and a recording section recording the image data image-processed by the image processing section. | 12-05-2013 |
20140240530 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE, PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD, AND PLAYBACK METHOD - A photographing device according to the present invention comprises: an imaging section that captures a subject image and outputs image data; a motion picture recording section that records a motion picture based on the image data; a parameter setting section that sets a photographing parameter to change a photographing state; and a parameter control section that automatically changes the photographing parameter during the recording of the motion picture regardless of the set photographing parameter. | 08-28-2014 |
20140241648 | PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE, PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD, AND PLAYBACK METHOD - A photographing device according to the present invention comprises: an imaging section that captures a subject image and outputs image data; a motion picture recording section that records a motion picture based on the image data; a parameter setting section that sets a photographing parameter to change a photographing state; and a parameter control section that automatically changes the photographing parameter during the recording of the motion picture regardless of the set photographing parameter. | 08-28-2014 |