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| 20100194972 | FOCUSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A focusing device includes a distance information acquisition section acquiring information on a distance to a subject based on a plurality of image data acquired by taking images of the subject at a plurality of different viewpoint positions. A subject detection section detects a first area and a second area based on the distance information and threshold information for the distance range within which a subject of interest that obstructs a main subject in the subject is present. In the first area, the subject of interest is present in each of the plurality of image data. In the second area, the subject of interest is not present. A focusing estimation section estimates the focusing of the main subject based on the distance information on the second area in each of the plurality of image data. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100260428 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes image processors and a margin storing buffer. The image processors read an input image data from a frame memory for each image data of a plurality of block lines each having a first number of pixels along the columns and a second number of pixels along the rows. The margin storing buffer stores the image data of the margin portion used also in the image processing of the image data of the next block line, among the image data of the present block line input to each of the image processors. Each of the image processors performs the image processing on an image data including the image data of the present block line and the image data of the margin portion, at the time of image processing on the image data of the next block line. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100309319 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element, a transfer unit, a storage unit, a signal processing unit, a write control unit, a read control unit, and a clock generation unit. The imaging element outputs image signals. The transfer unit serially transfers the image signals by using transfer channels. The storage unit stores the image signals transferred. The signal processing unit processes the image signals stored. The write control unit controls the writing of the image signals to the storage unit, in synchronism with a first clock signal synchronous with the image signals. The read control unit controls the reading of the image signals from the storage unit, in synchronism with a second clock signal for driving the signal processing unit. The clock generation unit generates the second clock signal having a frequency that accords with an amount of data constituted by the image signals transferred. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100321538 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a distortion correction unit, a distortion correction range calculation unit, a control unit, a storage control unit, and a margin storage memory. The distortion correction unit performs a distortion correction processing on image data stored in a frame memory. The distortion correction range calculation unit calculates distortion correction ranges. The control unit determines an input image range from present distortion correction range and next distortion correction range. The storage control unit calculates a range for a part of the image data corresponding to the input image range from the present distortion correction range and the next distortion correction range. The margin storage memory stores the image data of the range calculated by the storage control unit. The image data input to the distortion correction unit includes both the image data from the frame memory and the image data from the margin storage memory. | 12-23-2010 |
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| 20090152960 | MICRO ACTUATOR - Disclosed is a micro actuator capable of being formed in compact as a whole, such as 10 mm in diameter by diminishing a difference between a stroke distance of a moving member and an overall length, and by reducing a sectional area taken in a direction orthogonal to a stroke direction. The micro actuator includes: a spline shaft formed as a cylinder with a hollow part and having an axially extending slit opening; a spline nut fit-engaged with the spline shaft and axially guiding the spline shaft; a pair of end caps fixed to openings at both ends of the spline shaft; a magnet rod supported at both ends within the hollow part of the spline shaft by the end caps; and a forcer loosely fit-engaged with a periphery of the magnet rod within the hollow part of the spline shaft to constitute a linear motor together with the magnet rod and connected with the spline nut through the slit opening. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20120027320 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus may include a distortion correcting unit performing distortion correction processing on input image data to generate output image data. The distortion correcting unit may include a distortion correction coordinate transforming unit that obtains coordinates indicating a position of the input image data corresponding to a position of the output image data, a range calculating unit that calculates a range of the input image data to be used in the distortion correction processing based on the coordinates of the input image data obtained by the distortion correction coordinate transforming unit, a correction information storage unit, an input image data storage unit, and an interpolation calculating unit that checks an amount of the input image data stored in the input image data storage unit based on the information regarding the range of the input image data. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120110224 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A data processing apparatus may include a buffer unit, a data write control unit, a data read control unit, and a buffer area determination unit. The data write control unit may write the input data to the storage area determined by the buffer area determination unit, and output a data write completion signal indicating that the writing of the data is completed when the writing of the input data is completed. The data read control unit may read the data from the storage area determined by the buffer area determination unit, and output a data read completion signal indicating that the reading of the data is completed when the output of the output data generated based on the read data is completed. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110283 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A data processing apparatus may include a plurality of buffer units that stores data, a data write control unit that writes input data to any one of the plurality of buffer units by exclusively controlling the plurality of buffer units, and a data read control unit that reads data to be output from any one of the plurality of buffer units by exclusively controlling the plurality of buffer units. The data write control unit may output a data write completion signal indicating that the writing of the data is completed when the writing of the input data is completed. The data read control unit may output a data read completion signal indicating that the reading of the data is completed when the reading of the data to be output is completed. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120127344 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - An image pickup device may include an image pickup unit that includes two-dimensionally arranged pixels, the image pickup unit generating image signals of a plurality of series based on light incident to the pixels, the image pickup unit outputting the image signals of the plurality of series in parallel, a memory that stores the image signals output from the image pickup unit, a reading unit that sequentially reads the image signals from the memory, the reading unit sequentially outputting the image signals of the pixels as an image signal of one series in the same order as an alignment order of the pixels in a line direction, and an evaluation value calculating unit that processes the image signals output from the reading unit, the evaluation value calculating unit calculating an evaluation value necessary for controlling image pickup. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120131315 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A data processing apparatus may include a processing unit that performs processing related to data, a first register that holds a value for defining an operation of the processing unit, a second register that holds a value output from the first register, the second register outputting the value to the processing unit, a first control unit that performs control for writing a value in the first register, a second control unit that performs control for rewriting the value held by the second register with the value output from the first register, after the value is written in the first register, and a third control unit that performs control for rewriting the value held by the second register with an invalid value, at which the processing of the processing unit is stopped, during a period for which the value is written in the first register. | 05-24-2012 |
