Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080260213 | FACE IMAGE DETECTION DEVICE, FACE IMAGE DETECTION METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An face image detection device capable of detecting the location of the face image with high accuracy without increasing time for detecting the location of the face image or electric consumption required for detecting the location of face image includes: a rotated reduced image data generation unit operable to generate n pieces of rotated reduced image data by reducing the input image data and rotating the reduced input image data by 360×i/n, where n is an integer equal to or larger than 2 and i ranges from 0 to n−1, each of the rotated reduced image data is rotated at intervals of 360/n degrees; and a face detection unit operable to detect the location of the face image from among the n pieces of rotated reduced image data. | 10-23-2008 |
20090316022 | IMAGE RESIZING DEVICE AND IMAGE RESIZING METHOD - The present invention offers images fully satisfactory to a user with simple processing schemes. An image resizing device, resizing at least a part of an input image, includes: a first boundary setting unit which sets n−1 first boundaries perpendicular to a first direction; a second boundary setting unit which sets m−1 second boundaries perpendicular to a second direction, where n and m are integers not less than 2; and a resizing unit which resizes a first divided area with a first ratio in the first direction, and to resize a second divided area with a second ratio in the second direction, the first and second divided areas being defined by one or two of the first and second boundaries, respectively, and by outer edges of the input image. | 12-24-2009 |
20100314632 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGE - A portion of a package in which a silicon chip ( | 12-16-2010 |
20100328497 | WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A memory control block performs in parallel a process of writing a current frame of image data captured by an image capturing device into a system shared memory, a process of reading out a previous frame of image data stored in the system shared memory, and a process of writing combined image data generated in an image combining block into the system shared memory. | 12-30-2010 |
20110058064 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A line-by-line filter process is performed to extract luminance data and color carrier data from an original image (i.e., a CCDRAW image) obtained from a single-sensor color imaging element, without separating the original image into R, G, and B data corresponding to a Bayer array. A color difference data demodulation process and a median noise removal process are performed with respect to the color carrier data to obtain color difference data. Band limitation filter processes having different characteristics are performed with respect to the luminance data and the color difference data, respectively. Moreover, separate resizing processes are performed with respect to the luminance data and the color difference data, respectively. A modulation process is performed to convert the resized color difference data to color carrier data. A color array reproduction process is performed to recombine the color carrier data and the resized luminance signal. | 03-10-2011 |
20110193988 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The semiconductor device having task processing units which perform predetermined functional processes and are capable of freely accessing memories independently of each other, includes: the task processing units provided on the semiconductor substrate and configured to select at least one of the memories independently of each other and issue requests for memory access to the selected memory; and memory control units which are capable of operating independently of each other, correspond to the respective memories independently of each other, and are each configured to arbitrate the requests for memory access from the task processing units and connect, to the respective memories, the task processing units which have issued the arbitrated requests for memory access so that data can be transferred between the task processing units and the memories. | 08-11-2011 |
20110205398 | IMAGING PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DIGITAL CAMERA - To prevent the S/N performance of signals handled by an analog front-end from deteriorating, an imaging processing system according to the present invention has an analog front-end device configured to output a first digital data in a blanking period of a solid imaging sensor, and a digital signal processing device configured to enable an internal operation of the processing device during the blanking period and render the internal operation standby during any period but the blanking period. | 08-25-2011 |
20120008007 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND SIGNAL CONVERSION METHOD - An adjacent color difference data generator calculates a differential between adjacent data in a data row having different color information per pixel of the digital signal to thereby generate a first color difference data having a first code format. A code converter converts the first color difference data into a second color difference data having a second code format. The second code format is a code format where only a small number of bits change before and after the code conversion from the first code format. The number of changing bits in the switching between codes when, for example, an image monochromatic but having gradation change is imaged to reduce any noise generated when digital image data is outputted. | 01-12-2012 |
20130010084 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING DEVICE AND THREE-DMENSIONAL IMAGING METHOD - A camera processor image-processes an image for left eye captured by a left-eye image capturing unit and an image for right eye captured by a right-eye image capturing unit to generate a parallax image of the left-eye image and the right-eye image. A vertical timing adjuster adjusts timings of driving a left-eye image sensor and a right-eye image sensor using a frame synchronizing drive controller to reduce as close to zero as possible an amount of vertical displacement between a framing position of a target object image in the left-eye image and a framing position of a target object image in the right-eye image. | 01-10-2013 |
20130242199 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In a first filtering processing step, RAW data of a source image is subjected to a pixel-based filtering process along a first array direction to divide the RAW data into a first luminance data and a first color carrier data. In a first luminance distribution equalization processing step, the luminance distribution of the first luminance data in the first array direction is corrected to be uniform to produce a second luminance data. In a first color array reproduction processing step, the first color carrier data is re-synthesized with the second luminance data to produce a first multiple-color array data. In a second filtering processing step, the first multiple-color array data is subjected to a pixel-based filtering process along a second array direction to divide the first multiple-color array data into a third luminance data and a second color carrier data. In a second luminance distribution equalization processing step, the luminance distribution of the third luminance data in the second array direction is corrected to be uniform to produce a fourth luminance data. In a second color array reproduction processing step, the second color carrier data is re-synthesized with the fourth luminance data to produce a second multiple-color array data. | 09-19-2013 |
20140078338 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND DIGITAL CAMERA - An image processor includes: a reduction (resizing) processor | 03-20-2014 |
20140085498 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND DIGITAL CAMERA - A digital camera includes: a horizontal reduction (resizing) processor | 03-27-2014 |