Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080211916 | IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Visible light image capturing is performed at appropriate timing that corresponds to the action of a subject. An image capturing system includes: an infrared light image capturing section that successively captures a plurality of infrared light images of a subject, by means of infrared light; a timing predicting section that predicts timing at which the subject included in the plurality of infrared light images matches a predetermined condition, based on timing at which each of the plurality of infrared light images is captured and image content of the plurality of infrared light images; and a visible light image capturing section that captures a visible light image by means of visible light at the timing predicted by the timing predicting section. | 09-04-2008 |
20080297643 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA - Provided is an image capturing apparatus, including: an optical system causing a light receiving section to receive, in substantially the same spread, light from positions within a predetermined range of positional relation, and has different optical transfer functions for light from different positions lying within the predetermined range; a storage storing each process parameter for correcting the effect of an optical transfer function on the captured image, in association with a condition regarding a positional relation between a subject and the optical system to be satisfied in performing correction using the process parameter; an obtaining section obtaining positional information indicating a positional relation between a subject and the optical system; and a selecting section selecting a process parameter stored in the process parameter storage in association with a condition that the positional relation indicated by the positional information obtained by the positional information obtaining section satisfies. | 12-04-2008 |
20080308712 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image capturing apparatus is provided that simultaneously captures a visible light image and an infra-red light image in which the same subject is in focus. The image capturing apparatus includes a light receiving section that receives light from a subject; a partial wavelength spectrum diaphragm section that is disposed between the subject and the light receiving section and that includes a light passing section that allows light in a first wavelength spectrum and light in a second wavelength spectrum to pass through and a filter section, which is disposed on a periphery of the light passing section, that allows the light in the first wavelength spectrum to pass through but does not allow the light in the second wavelength spectrum to pass through; and an image generating section that generates a first image based on the light in the first wavelength spectrum received by the light receiving section via the light passing section and the filter section and generates a second image based on the light in the second wavelength spectrum received by the light receiving section via the light passing section. | 12-18-2008 |
20090046169 | Image Selecting Apparatus, Camera, and Method of Selecting Image - An image selecting apparatus comprises an input unit | 02-19-2009 |
20090195672 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus comprising a region identifying section that identifies a partial region that fulfills a preset condition in a main image captured through an optical system in which an optical transfer function relating to light from an object point is substantially uniform regardless of a distance to the object point; and a correcting section that corrects an image of the partial region identified by the region identifying section, according to the optical transfer function of the optical system. The image processing apparatus may further comprise a condition storing section that stores the condition to be fulfilled by the partial region corrected by the correcting section, and the region identifying section may identify a partial region of the main image that fulfills the condition stored by the condition storing section. | 08-06-2009 |
20090201386 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus, comprising an image generating section that generates a converted image by performing a coordinate conversion on a captured image captured through an optical system, such that a spread of light from the optical system has a shape that is spatially substantially uniform; a correcting section that corrects the converted image based on the spread of the light modified by the image generating section to have the shape that is substantially uniform; and an inverse converting section that performs an inverse conversion of the coordinate conversion on the converted image corrected by the correcting section. | 08-13-2009 |
20090201387 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORING MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus includes an optical system that forms an image of light and a gradation processing section that converts gradation of a captured image captured through the optical system in accordance with a spatial frequency transfer characteristic of the optical system. The image capturing apparatus may further include a light receiving section that receives light from a subject through the optical system, and the gradation processing section may convert gradation of a captured image obtained by light received by the light receiving section in accordance with a spatial frequency transfer characteristic at the position at which the light receiving section is provided. | 08-13-2009 |
20090201411 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image capturing apparatus includes an optical system that focuses light from a subject, a light receiving section that includes a plurality of light receiving elements for receiving the light from the subject that is focused by the optical system, a correcting section that corrects, in accordance with an optical transfer function of the optical system, a plurality of pixel values that are linearly related to amounts of the light received by the plurality of light receiving elements, and a non-linear processing section that converts the plurality of pixel values that have been corrected by the correcting section into a plurality of pixel values that are non-linearly related to the amounts of the light received by the plurality of light receiving elements. | 08-13-2009 |
20100073547 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image capturing apparatus including a light receiving section that receives light from an object, an optical system that passes the light from the object therethrough so as to cause the light receiving section to receive the light from the object, where the optical system includes an optical modulating section which causes an optical transfer function of the light from the object to remain substantially constant at a position where the light receiving section is provided on condition that an object distance of the object falls within a predetermined range in a direction parallel to an optical axis of the optical system, a diaphragm section that blocks at least partially the light from the object to be received by the light receiving section, a light quantity detecting section that detects a quantity of the light from the object, and an image capturing control section that, when the light quantity detected by the light quantity detecting section is smaller than a predetermined light quantity, (i) sets an aperture size of the diaphragm section so as to be larger than a predetermined value and (ii) causes the light receiving section to receive the light from the object at least part of which is modulated by the optical modulating section. | 03-25-2010 |
20120044393 | IMAGE CAPTURING MODULE AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A subject image with little blur is provided even when the subject exists in a wide range of distance. An image capturing module includes: a plurality of image capturing systems, each including an optical system and capturing a an image of a subject by light in a wavelength region different from each other to generate a wavelength component signal representing an image of light in the corresponding wavelength region; and an image generating section that combines the wavelength component signals generated by the plurality of image capturing systems thereby generating an image signal representing an image of the subject, where an image capturing system, from among the plurality of image capturing systems, which generates a wavelength component signal having a greater contribution to brightness in the image of the subject includes an optical system having a deeper focal depth. | 02-23-2012 |
20120069219 | IMAGE CAPTURING MODULE AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An image capturing module comprising a first optical system that focuses light in a first wavelength region; a second optical system that focuses light in a second wavelength region and has a different focal position than the first optical system; a first light receiving section that includes a plurality of light receiving elements for receiving light from a subject through the first optical system; a second light receiving section that includes a plurality of light receiving elements for receiving light from the subject through the second optical system; and an image processing section that generates a composite image to have, as a brightness component over the first and second wavelength regions, an edge component extracted from a focused image, which is whichever of a first image captured by the first light receiving section and a second image captured by the second light receiving section the subject is more focused in. | 03-22-2012 |
20120093366 | IMAGE SELECTING APPARATUS, CAMERA, AND METHOD OF SELECTING IMAGE - An image selecting apparatus comprises an input unit | 04-19-2012 |
20140210945 | STEREOSCOPIC ENDOSCOPE DEVICE - Provided is a stereoscopic endoscope device enabling precise observation based on a 3D-image and observation of a wide field of view range based on a 2D-image and enabling the change of the field of view range according to the situation with a simple structure without increasing the size of an imaging unit or complicating the configuration. An imaging unit | 07-31-2014 |