22nd week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 25 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150146002 | DOOR WITH SECURITY FEATURES AND INTEGRATED SYSTEM - Devices and systems according to the present disclosure include doors with integrated security features, for example, surveillance devices, observation interfaces and locking mechanisms. In some embodiments, these doors can include cameras integrated into the doors, surfaces connected to the doors, or surfaces adjacent to the doors such as adjacent walls. In some embodiments, locking mechanisms integrated with the doors can be configured to send a signal activating one or more additional security features while sounding an alarm and/or alerting authorities. In some embodiments, door or adjacent surfaces can further comprise receiving compartments allowing for secure installation and access to internal surveillance equipment. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146003 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED BOCCE MEASUREMENT AND SCORING - Systems and methods for measuring distances between a pallino and one or more bocce balls on a bocce court. More particularly, one or more cameras are mounted above the bocce court which detect the position of the bocce balls and the pallino and use one or more algorithms to make a distance measurement from each bocce ball to the pallino. These distances can then be sorted from closest to furthest such that scoring results can instantly be shown on a monitor mounted in or near the bocce court. A scoring function can keep track of a cumulative score, round by round, until a team or player is declared the winner. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146004 | CENTRALIZED VIDEO SURVEILLANCE DATA IN HEAD MOUNTED DEVICE - An apparatus includes a security location module that tracks a location of a user. The user has a heads-up display with a display that allows viewing by the user of items along with electronic display images. An object identification module identifies an object for tracking using cameras. A selection module selects the identified object for tracking, an object location module identifies a location and direction information of the selected object and an alert module sends the location and the direction information of the selected object to the heads-up display. A display module identifies the selected object in the heads-up display of the user when the object is in the field of view of the heads-up display, or provides instruction on the heads-up display to direct the user to move the heads-up display so that the selected object is in the field of view of the heads-up display. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146005 | MOUNTING AND INSPECTION DATA CREATION DEVICE AND MOUNTING AND INSPECTION DATA CREATION METHOD - A number one camera and number two camera are provided in the top section and lower section of a mounting and inspection data creation device. A number one lighting device and top side shielding plate are provided on the lower side of a lens of number one camera. A number two lighting device and lower side shielding plate are provided on the top side of a lens of number two camera. Component is set on transparent setting plate that is positioned between top side shielding plate and lower side shielding plate, and when imaging the top side (pickup side) of component with number one camera, top side shielding plate is slid out of the imaging area of number one camera. When imaging the bottom side (mounting side) of component with number two camera, lower side shielding plate is slid out of the imaging area of number two camera. Mounting data is created based on component bottom side image taken by number two camera, and inspection data is created based on component top side image taken by number one camera. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146006 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control apparatus for controlling display of images captured by a plurality of cameras compares an analysis result corresponding to an image captured by a first camera of the plurality of cameras with an analysis result corresponding to an image captured by a second camera corresponding to the first camera, and controls to display the image captured by the first camera in a form based on a comparison result. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146007 | MAINTENANCE ASSISTANT SYSTEM - A maintenance assistance system and method of operating are provided. The maintenance assistance system may include, but is not limited to, a camera, a heads-up display, a memory configured to maintenance task data, and a processor communicatively coupled to the camera, the heads-up display and the memory, the processor configured to determine a component to be serviced, determine a location of the component based upon data from the camera and the maintenance task data stored in the memory, generate graphical data based upon a maintenance step associated with the component, and output the generated graphical data to the heads-up display | 2015-05-28 |
20150146008 | MAINTENANCE ASSISTANT SYSTEM - A maintenance assistance system and method of operating are provided. The maintenance assistance system may include, but is not limited to, a camera, a speaker, a technician marker, a memory configured to store a location of a plurality of tags and a location of at least one component relative to at least one of the plurality of tags, and a processor communicatively coupled to the camera, the speaker and the memory, the processor configured to receive an indication of one of the components, determine a location of the technician marker relative to the location of the indicated component based upon data from the camera and the location of the indicated component relative to the at least one of the plurality of tags, and output position information to the speaker based upon the determined location of the technician marker relative to the location of the indicated component. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146009 | ALIGNMENT OF VISIBLE LIGHT SOURCES BASED ON THERMAL IMAGES - Various techniques are disclosed for providing systems for providing alignment guide information to selectively direct a visible light source to substantially align the visible light source with a desired subject and to project a visible light beam substantially on the desired subject. For example, a system may include a small form factor infrared imaging module to capture thermal images of a scene, which may be received by a processor to generate alignment guide information such as a user-viewable image of the scene, a user-viewable cue, and a framing reticle. In another example, such a system may be implemented as a camera. In yet another example, such a system may be implemented as a spotlight. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146010 | OBJECT DETECTING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OBJECT DETECTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An object detecting apparatus includes a detecting unit configured to detect an area of a predetermined object from an image, a calculating unit configured to calculate an evaluation value on the area detected by the detecting unit, and a control unit configured, when the evaluation value satisfies a predetermined criterion, to determine that the area is the predetermined object. The predetermined criterion is set depending on an amount of distortion of an image displayed on a display unit. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146011 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING FA ZOOM FUNCTION, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image pickup apparatus includes a movement detector detecting movement of the apparatus, a subject detector detecting a subject, a setting unit setting a mode for controlling a zoom operation which is enabled as a first mode or second mode, and a controller controlling the zoom operation based on the enabled mode. In the first mode, the controller controls the zoom operation based on at least one of position or size of the detected subject. In the second mode, the controller performs a first zoom operation for changing a zoom magnification to a wide-angle side when a movement amount of the apparatus is a first amount larger than a predetermined amount and performs a second zoom operation for changing the zoom magnification to a telephoto side when a movement amount of the apparatus detected after execution of the first zoom operation is a second amount smaller than the predetermined amount. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146012 | VIDEO PRESENTATION QUALITY DISPLAY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A wireless communication device displays video presentation quality for an identified video. The wireless communication device processes its device configuration data and wireless network performance data to estimate presentation quality of the identified video. The wireless communication device displays a video presentation activator that graphically indicates the estimated presentation quality for the identified video. If the video presentation activator is activated by a user, then the wireless communication device initiates a download and display of the identified video. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146013 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING A MARKER - A marker generating method is provided for facilitating the finding of positions which correspond to one another among a plurality of images associated with a video signal. A position within an image ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150146014 | IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION-SPECIFIC IMAGE FLARE MITIGATION - An imaging system may include a camera module with an image sensor having an array of image sensor pixels and one or more lenses that focus light onto the array. The system may include processing circuitry configured to mitigate flare artifacts in image data captured using the array based on at least one image flare map. The image flare map may identify a portion of the captured image data on which to perform image flare mitigation operations. The processing circuitry may perform image flare mitigation operations such as pixel value desaturation on the identified portion of the captured image data without desaturating portions of the image data that do not include flare artifacts. The flare map may be generated using a calibration system that characterizes the location, intensity, and color of all possible image flare artifacts that may be generated by the imaging system during normal imaging operations. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146015 | COLLABORATIVE SIGHTING - Collaborative sighting is performed using plural optical sighting apparatuses that each comprise: a camera unit and a display device. Geometric calibration of the camera units with respect to the imaged scene is performed by detecting features within captured images, generating descriptors from respective patches of the image at the features; detecting corresponding descriptors from different images, Position and deriving the geometric calibration from the positions in the respective images of the corresponding descriptors. A target location in the image captured by a first optical sighting apparatus is designated and a corresponding location relative to the image captured by the second one optical sighting apparatus is identified from the geometric calibration. The display device of the second optical sighting apparatus indicates where the corresponding location lies relative to the displayed image. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146016 | Camera Test Apparatus - A camera testing apparatus includes a frame assembly, a control unit, and a plurality of first light sources and second light sources coupled to the frame assembly and in communication with the control unit. Each of the first and second light sources is in one of an illuminated first state or a non-illuminated second state, and each of the plurality of first and second light sources is adapted to be within a field of vision of a camera disposed remote from the first and second light sources. The control unit sends a first command to each of the first light sources to change a first operational parameter. The control unit sends a second command to a first one of the second light sources to illuminate at a first brightness and a third command to a second one of the second light sources to illuminate at a second brightness. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146017 | LUMINANCE CORRECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Luminance correction systems and methods capable of reducing or removing luminance mura of display devices are provided. One luminance correction system includes: a display device including a plurality of pixels, the pixels including a plurality of sub-pixels, each of the pixels comprising at least two of the sub-pixels; an image capturing unit including a plurality of charge-coupled device (CCD) image capturing elements, an n×n arrangement of the image capturing elements corresponding torn of the pixels, n and m being natural numbers greater than or equal to 2; and a luminance correction device configured to generate a representative luminance value with respect to the m of the pixels based on luminance values measured by the n×n arrangement of the image capturing elements, and calculate a correction value with respect to the m of the pixels according to a difference between the representative luminance value and a target luminance value. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146018 | CAMERA SYSTEM WITH INDUCTIVE POWERING OF WIRELESS CAMERA TAGS - Wireless camera tags, inventory management systems with wireless camera tags, and methods for making and methods for using wireless camera tags are disclosed. A wireless camera tag is disclosed for a camera system with a mounting rail having one or more electrical conductors connected to a power source. The camera tag includes an outer housing for mounting to the mounting rail proximate the electrical conductors. A digital camera for generating image data signals is attached to the outer housing. An inductor coil is attached to the outer housing and electrically connected to the digital camera. The inductor coil inductively couples power from the electrical conductors of the mounting rail and transmits the power to the digital camera. The inductor coil may comprise an air core coil. The camera tag may further include a rectifier circuit, and a capacitor connected in parallel to the inductor coil to form a resonant circuit. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146019 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is provided a communication control apparatus comprising connection means for connecting a storage medium that has a memory function for reading and writing data, and a wireless communication function for communicating with an external apparatus. Control means supplies a clock to the storage medium at a predetermined timing and controls the wireless communication function of the storage medium. Obtaining means obtains, after the storage medium is supplied with the clock by the control means, communication protocol information on a communication protocol with which the wireless communication function is compatible from the storage medium. Display means performs display according to the communication protocol information obtained by the obtaining means. The control means stops supplying the clock to the storage medium after the communication protocol information has been obtained by the obtaining means. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146020 | DETERMINING APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A determining apparatus of the present invention includes: a feature extracting section configured to extract, as a feature from at least one captured image, at least one piece of information on the at least one captured image out of (i) a piece of information on a blur, (ii) a piece of information on a skew, and (iii) a piece of information on an image type; and a captured image determining section configured to determine whether or not the at least one captured image is suitable for conversion into a compressed image in a platform independent file format, by determining whether or not the extracted feature satisfies a given condition. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146021 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - A control method for a communication apparatus includes communicating with an external device using a communication application including a first program for receiving a user operation to communicate with the communication apparatus, and a second program for communicating with the communication apparatus, notifying the external device of an operation available for the external device among operations for controlling the communication apparatus in the communication between the communication apparatus and the external device, and determining the type of the second program used by the external device. In the notifying, a different operation to be notified is provided according to the type of the second program. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146022 | RAPID SHAKE DETECTION USING A CASCADE OF QUAD-TREE MOTION DETECTORS - A method of determining stability of a camera comprises capturing an image with the camera and then (A) determining a magnitude of motion for each region of a current sub-division of the image. A step (B) then determines a number of the magnitudes of motion not larger than a magnitude threshold associated with the current sub-division, and where the determined number is greater than or equal to a region threshold associated with the number of regions in the current sub-division, (i) determining the camera to be stable, or otherwise (ii) dividing the current sub-division of the image into a further sub-division and repeating steps (A) and (B) upon the further sub-division. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146023 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An image shake correcting device includes a shake detecting unit configured to detect a shake of an image pickup apparatus; a first optical correcting unit and a second optical correcting unit configured to correct optically an image shake by using a shake signal output from the shake detecting unit; a first position detecting unit configured to detect a position of the first optical correcting unit and output a first position detection signal; and a calculating unit configured to calculate a target position signal for controlling the first optical correcting unit based on the shake signal. The calculating unit calculates a target position signal for controlling the second optical correcting unit by using the signal that is obtained by subtracting the first position detection signal for detecting the position of the first optical correcting unit controlled by the target position signal from the target position signal. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146024 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An image pickup apparatus includes a shake detecting unit configured to detect a shake of the image pickup apparatus; a first and a second optical correcting unit configured to move in a direction different from an optical axis so as to correct optically an image shake; a first position detecting unit configured to detect a position of the first optical correcting unit and output a first position detection signal; a second position detecting unit configured to detect a position of the second optical correcting unit and output a second position detection signal; and a controlling unit configured to control the first optical correcting unit and the second optical correcting unit. A range for detecting a position of the first position detecting unit is different from that of the second position detecting unit. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146025 | OPTICAL ADJUSTING APPARATUS - An optical adjusting apparatus having an optical adjusting lens to perform image stabilization and auto focusing includes a base supporting a lens barrel on which the optical adjusting lens is mounted, a first driver to move the lens barrel in a first direction, a plurality of first ball bearings disposed between the base and the first driver, a second driver to move the lens barrel in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, and a plurality of second ball bearings disposed between the first driver and the second driver. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146026 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CAPTURING AND MANAGING IMAGES - According to one embodiment of the invention, a camera determines whether to acquire an image (e.g., automatically), determines whether to store the acquired image, and determines how to store the acquired image. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146027 | STRATEGIES FOR TRIGGERING DEPTH SENSORS AND TRANSMITTING RGBD IMAGES IN A CLOUD-BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM - Systems, apparatus and methods for triggering a depth sensor and/or limiting bandwidth and/or maintaining privacy are presented. By limiting use of a depth sensor to times when an optical image alone is insufficient, mobile device power is saved. Furthermore, by reducing a size of an optical image to only the portion of the image needed to detect an object, bandwidth is saved and privacy is maintained by not communicating unneeded or undesired information. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146028 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGING DIRECTION AND ANGLE OF VIEW OF CAMERA - In a system and a method of controlling an imaging direction and an angle of view of a camera according to an aspect of the present disclosure, infrared light may be irradiated toward pupils of eyes of a user, and a position of infrared light reflected from the pupils of the eyes of the user may be detected by a first camera to track a line of sight of the user and calculate a viewing angle of the user. In addition, an imaging direction of a second camera may coincide with the line of sight of the user and an angle of view of the second camera may coincide with the viewing angle of the user to allow an image actually viewed by the user and an image captured by the camera to coincide with each other. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146029 | Array Camera Configurations Incorporating Multiple Constituent Array Cameras - Systems and methods for implementing array camera configurations that include a plurality of constituent array cameras, where each constituent array camera provides a distinct field of view and/or a distinct viewing direction, are described. In several embodiments, image data captured by the constituent array cameras is used to synthesize multiple images that are subsequently blended. In a number of embodiments, the blended images include a foveated region. In certain embodiments, the blended images possess a wider field of view than the fields of view of the multiple images. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146030 | Array Camera Configurations Incorporating Constituent Array Cameras and Constituent Cameras - Systems and methods for implementing array camera configurations that include a plurality of constituent array cameras, where each constituent array camera provides a distinct field of view and/or a distinct viewing direction, are described. In several embodiments, image data captured by the constituent array cameras is used to synthesize multiple images that are subsequently blended. In a number of embodiments, the blended images include a foveated region. In certain embodiments, the blended images possess a wider field of view than the fields of view of the multiple images. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146031 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CHANGING DRIVE MODE AND IMAGE SIGNAL CONTROL METHOD - An image pickup apparatus capable of changing a live view photographing drive mode without causing freezing of live view display is demonstrated. When a switch is operated in a state where image signals output from an image pickup device sent via a first path are used for live view and image signals output from the image pickup device sent via a second path are used for AF, a drive mode of the image pickup device is changed such that image signals from the second path can be used for live view, then an acquisition destination of the live view signals is changed from the first path to the second path, then the drive mode is changed such that high-definition live view image signals are output from the first path, and then the acquisition destination of the live view signals is changed from the second path to the first path. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146032 | LIGHT FIELD PROCESSING METHOD - A light field processing method for processing data corresponding to a light field, comprising:
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20150146033 | DISTANCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND DISTANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD - A distance measurement apparatus includes: an imaging element that images an object by performing exposure and readout of electric charges sequentially for each row or column; an optical system that has a controllable in-focus position; an imaging control unit that moves the in-focus position at constant speed, and causes the imaging element to image the object sequentially while the in-focus position is being moved, to obtain blurred images; a distance measurement unit that measures a distance from a reference position in the optical system to the object using the blurred images and a point spread function dependent on object distance; and a correction unit that performs a correction process on the distance for each row or column according to a movement range of the in-focus position in which the in-focus position is moved during the exposure for each row or column when the blurred images are obtained. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146034 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND DIGITAL CAMERA - According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes a demosaic processing unit. A pixel block includes a red pixel, a blue pixel, a first green pixel, and a second green pixel. A first green component detected by the first green pixel and a second green component detected by the second green pixel are green components of the same wavelength region. The demosaic processing unit generates image signals of four components. The four components are a red component, a blue component, the first green component, and the second green component. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146035 | LENS BARREL AND LENS UNIT - A lens barrel includes: a motor; an input transmission ring that is rotated by the motor and is rotatable around the optical axis; and a lens drive cylinder connected to the input transmission ring so that rotating force can be transmitted from the input transmission ring, the lens drive cylinder moving a lens in the optical axis direction and being rotatable. The lens drive cylinder is placed on one side of the motor in the optical axis direction, and the input transmission ring is placed on the same side of the motor as the lens drive cylinder. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146036 | Image Forming Lens System and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - An image forming lens system includes a front lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear lens unit, and does not include any other lens unit. The front lens unit includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power and a second lens unit having a negative refractive power. Each of the first lens unit and the second lens unit includes a positive lens and a negative lens. The second lens unit is a focusing lens unit. The rear lens unit includes a positive lens and a negative lens. The second lens unit is the only lens unit that moves, in the front lens unit, and the following conditional expressions (1) and (2′) are satisfied: | 2015-05-28 |
20150146037 | IMAGING SYSTEMS WITH BROADBAND IMAGE PIXELS FOR GENERATING MONOCHROME AND COLOR IMAGES - An image sensor may have an array of image pixels that includes red image pixels that generate red image signals, blue image pixels that generate blue image signals, and broadband image pixels that generate broadband image signals in response to detecting at least two of red, blue, and green light. The image sensor may be operable in a monochrome imaging mode in which monochrome images are generated using the broadband signals and in a color imaging mode in which color images are generated using the red, green, and broadband signals. The image sensor may be coupled to processing circuitry that processes the image signals and that instructs the image sensor to perform imaging operations in either the monochrome imaging mode or the color imaging mode. The image sensor may be switched between the color imaging mode and the monochrome imaging mode autonomously and/or via input from a user. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146038 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE IMAGE PROCESSING - The disclosed subject matter includes an apparatus configured to remove a shading effect from an image. The apparatus can include one or more interfaces configured to provide communication with an imaging module that is configured to capture the image, and a processor, in communication with the one or more interfaces, configured to run a module stored in memory. The module is configured to receive the image captured by the imaging module under a first lighting spectrum, receive a per-unit correction mesh for adjusting images captured by the imaging module under a second lighting spectrum, determine a correction mesh for the image captured under the first lighting spectrum based on the per-unit correction mesh for the second lighting spectrum, and operate the correction mesh on the image to remove the shading effect from the image. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146039 | RADIAL FPA BASED ELECTRO-OPTIC IMAGER - A radial based approach to electro-optic imagers, rather than the conventional rectilinear approach, would have basic overall system design advantages. Those system design advantages would apply to the components and the entire system implementation and include approaches to objective optical design, focal plane array FPA with fill factor, FPA layout and associated read-out integrated circuit ROIC, support electronics architecture and associated memory requirements, image processing IP algorithms, display layout and format, and eyepiece optics. A radial based approach to EO imagers would yield a device/system with attributes requiring less complicated optical components, with potentially fewer elements, for both the objective and eyepiece lenses. In addition, alternative objective optics could be more easily employed, such as holographic or wave front coded, due to reduced complexity of implementing correction algorithms as a result of referencing the system around its optical axis. The radial readout EO system would have pixel ‘one’ at the center and be ‘read out and displayed’ like the rings of a tree rather than words on a page. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146040 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to generate image data, an image data analyzing unit configured to analyze the image data to determine an age group or a sex of an image of a person included in the image data, a voice data generating unit configured to generate voice data, a voice data analyzing unit configured to analyze the voice data, a shooting condition information generating unit configured to generate shooting condition information based on a result of an analysis by the voice data analyzing unit and the age group or the sex of the image of the person determined by the image data analyzing unit, an image data recording unit, and a recording controller configured to record the image data and the shooting condition information in the image data recording unit. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146041 | IMAGE JOINING APPARATUS, IMAGE JOINING METHOD, AND IMAGE JOINING PROGRAM - Provided is an image joining apparatus that creates a joined image by joining multiple consecutive still images on a time axis, the image joining apparatus including: a past image confirmation unit that confirms whether there is a past still image located before the previous still image in terms of time in at least a part of a portion to be joined to the target still image; an angle calculation unit that calculates an angle formed between a motion vector associated with the target still image and a motion vector associated with the past still image, when the past image confirmation unit has confirmed that the past still image is present; and a stop processing unit that stops joining of the target still image when the angle calculated by the angle calculation unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined angle. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146042 | Template Photography and Methods of Using the Same - The present invention relates to posing subjects for a photograph. Specifically, the present invention relates to a device and method for posing subjects. Even more specifically, the present invention relates to providing pre-determined stencil filters that photographers may use to pose or otherwise arrange subjects on camera. The pre-determined stencil filters allow amateur artists to take professional quality photographs. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146043 | Electronic Device and Method In An Electronic Device For Processing Image Data - The invention relates to an electronic device for performing imaging, including a camera for creating image data (ID) from an imaging target (IT), the imaging target (IT) including at least one primary image object (I | 2015-05-28 |
20150146044 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a zoom lens, including, in order from object side to image side: first and second lens units having positive and negative powers, respectively; and three or more lens units. An interval between adjacent ones of the lens units is changed during zooming. An N-th lens unit, where 5≦N holds, counted from object side has negative refractive power, and moves to image side during focusing from infinite object to a close distance object. The N-th lens unit includes, in order from object side to image side, negative, positive, negative, and positive lenses. A focal length (f | 2015-05-28 |
20150146045 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, a third lens unit having positive refractive power, and a rear lens group including one or more lens units. An interval between adjacent lens units is changed in zooming, the first lens unit is moved closer to the object side at a telephoto end than at a wide-angle end. The first lens unit includes at least four lenses. An Abbe number and a material of a positive lens included in the first lens unit satisfy predetermined values. And, a focal length f1 of the first lens unit, and an amount of movement M1 of the first lens unit at zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end are appropriately set. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146046 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, DIGITAL CAMERA, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes an image sensor and a resolution reconstruction circuit. The image sensor captures an object image. The resolution reconstruction circuit performs a resolution reconstruction process on the object image. The resolution reconstruction circuit performs a filtering process as the resolution reconstruction process. A filter has a filter property of reducing a modulation transfer function relative to an ideal modulation transfer function in a frequency range of a frequency higher than a frequency set in advance. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146047 | IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE PROJECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image projection apparatus includes a projection unit that projects a pattern image on a projection surface; an image capturing unit that captures the projected pattern image; and a corrector that corrects the captured image so that an imaging distortion caused due to image capturing and a projection distortion caused due to projection are corrected. The projection unit projects the corrected captured image at a predetermined position on the projection surface. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146048 | RADIAL DISTORTION PARAMETER ACQUIRING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a radial distortion parameter acquiring method and apparatus. The method includes: randomly selecting a plane as a first plane; making an optical axis of a digital image capture device perpendicular to the first plane, and photographing the first plane to obtain a distorted image of the first plane; acquiring n arcs from the distorted image; and obtaining, by calculation, a radial distortion parameter of the digital image capture device according to the arcs. The apparatus includes: a selecting unit, a photographing unit, an acquiring unit, and a calculating unit. By applying the embodiments of the present invention, only one distorted image needs to be photographed to acquire a radial distortion parameter of a digital image capture device, and the distorted image can be acquired depending on a natural environment. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146049 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, COMPUTER, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND NON TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image reduction processing section | 2015-05-28 |
20150146050 | COORDINATED SIMULTANEOUS REAL AND FOURIER PLANE IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHODS - Imaging systems and methods for simultaneous real and Fourier plane imaging. In one example, an imaging system includes at least one optical element configured to receive and focus incident electromagnetic radiation from a viewed scene, a first detector positioned at an image plane of the at least one optical element and configured to produce a first image of the viewed scene, and a second detector positioned at a Fourier plane of the at least one optical element and configured to produce a second image of the viewed scene, the first and second detectors configured to receive the electromagnetic radiation and produce the first and second images, respectively. The system may additionally include an optical component, such as a beamsplitter, for example, configured to divide and direct the incident electromagnetic radiation to the first and second detectors. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146051 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image pickup device includes a first image sensor for photoelectrically converting subject light and generating an image, a second image sensor for photoelectrically converting the subject light and generating an image for a live view, a first optical member for transmitting the subject light and allowing the subject light to enter the first image sensor, and at the same time, reflecting the subject light, and a second optical member for leading the subject light reflected by the first optical member to the second image sensor and allowing the subject light to enter the second image sensor. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146052 | IMAGING DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC FOCUS ADJUSTMENT METHOD - The present invention utilizes color mixings with angle dependencies from adjacent R pixels, and in the case where a subject color is red, uses first and second B pixels as phase-difference pixels, allowing for an accurate phase-difference AF based on the output signals of the first and second B pixels. Here, it is unnecessary to provide phase-difference pixels dedicated to the case where the subject color is red, and the phase difference is detected using ordinary B pixels of an imaging element. Therefore, the resolution is not sacrificed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146053 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging device includes: a filter formed of four different filter regions with four different spectral transmittances that three different spectral transmittances having characteristics of a color matching function and a spectral transmittance for extracting metallic black have been linearly transformed thereinto by a linear transformation matrix; and an imaging unit that takes an image of light which has come out from a subject, and has been collected by an optical system, and then has passed through the filter. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146054 | IMAGE SENSORS WITH COLOR FILTER ELEMENTS OF DIFFERENT SIZES - An image sensor may be provided with an array of imaging pixels. A color filter array may be formed over photosensitive elements in the pixel array. The color filter array may include color filter elements of different sizes. The color filter array may include color filter elements of at least three different sizes. The color filter array may include color filter elements of only two different sizes. Each color filter element by be square, octagonal, or rectangular. Microlenses of different sizes may also be formed on top of the color filter elements of different sizes. Forming color filter elements with different sizes may help skew the quantum efficiency for light at particular wavelengths of interest so that smaller pixel sizes can be used without suffering from diffraction limits. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146055 | IMAGING PIXELS WITH IMPROVED ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CIRCUITRY - Imagers may include analog-to-digital converter circuitry that produces a digital output code from an analog input voltage. The analog-to-digital converter circuitry may include a series of capacitors including a first set of binary-mapped capacitors. The analog-to-digital converter circuitry may include a second set of one or more capacitors that have capacitances that are less than binary-mapped capacitance values. The digital output code may include bits having respective bit positions within the digital output code. During successive-approximation operations performed by the analog-to-digital converter circuitry, each bit of the digital output code may be produced using a corresponding capacitor. Digital processing circuitry such as an image processor may produce a digital value from the digital output code by multiplying the bits of the digital output code with respective weights determined based on the capacitance of the corresponding capacitors. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146056 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a solid-state imaging device including two or more photoelectric conversion layers that have photoelectric conversion portions divided on a pixel-by-pixel basis and are laminated. Light, which is incident into a single pixel of a first photoelectric conversion layer close to an optical lens, is received by the photoelectric conversion portions of a plurality of pixels of a second photoelectric conversion layer far from the optical lens. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146057 | NEAR-INFRARED CUT FILTER AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - There are provided a near-infrared cut filter that effectively uses near-infrared absorbing glass and a near-infrared absorbing dye and is excellent in a near-infrared shielding property, and a high-sensitivity solid-state imaging device including the same. A near-infrared cut filter includes: a near-infrared absorbing glass substrate made of CuO-containing fluorophosphate glass or CuO-containing phosphate glass; and a near-infrared absorbing layer containing a near-infrared absorbing dye (A) and a transparent resin (B), on at least one principal surface of the near-infrared absorbing glass substrate, wherein an average value of a transmittance in a 400 nm to 550 nm wavelength range is 80% or more, and an average value of a transmittance in a 650 nm to 720 nm wavelength range is 15% or less. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146058 | Focal-Plane Shutter - A focal-plane shutter is provided with a driving member that drives a fore-blade, a setting component that sets the driving member into a set position prior to a shutter action, a component being attracted provided in the driving member, and electromagnets that exert attracting action by means of electrical conduction to the component being attracted under a condition where the driving member is set into the set position. The component being attracted includes an axis, a part being attracted on one end of the axis, and a flange having a curved surface curved in a convex manner on the other end of the axis. The driving member includes through-holes at designated intervals that go through the axis and two flat inclined surfaces that receive the curved surface of the flange in two locations. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146059 | IMAGE SENSOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND DRIVING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An image sensor that has a pixel array section in which pixels are arrayed in a two-dimensional manner in vertical and horizontal directions and that controls an exposure time of each pixel in a rolling shutter method is disclosed. The sensor includes control means for determining an electronic shutter occurrence number within one horizontal scanning period, which is the number of rows where electronic shutters are simultaneously performed in one horizontal scanning period, by an operation based on an address addition amount (P | 2015-05-28 |
20150146060 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device is provided which can secure the dynamic range of a COMS imaging sensor, by storing a charge overflowing from a floating diffusion in a storage capacitance element and suppressing the increase of a pixel area which occurs if the storage capacitance element is formed by a MOS capacitor. The imaging device includes plural pixel circuits arranged in the row direction and the column direction, and plural storage capacitance lines arranged in the row direction and extending in the column direction. Each of the storage capacitance lines is coupled to the pixel circuits arranged in the same column. The pixel circuit includes a first photoelectric conversion element which stores a charge generated by being subjected to light, a floating diffusion to which the charge stored in the first photoelectric conversion element is transferred, and a first switching transistor coupling the floating diffusion and the storage capacitance line. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146061 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes pixels each including: a charge storage portion; an amplifier transistor having a gate connected to the charge storage portion; a selection transistor having a source connected to a source of the amplifier transistor and a drain connected to a column signal line; and a reset transistor having a source connected to the charge storage portion and a drain connected to the column signal line, and further includes a control unit which applies to a gate of the selection transistor a first voltage to place the selection transistor in a conductive state and applies to a gate of the reset transistor a second voltage to place the reset transistor in a non-conductive state in a pixel signal readout period, and applies to the gate of the selection transistor a voltage intermediate between the first voltage and the second voltage in a charge storage portion resetting period. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146062 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device includes a first chip and a second chip. The first chip includes a pixel array in which a plurality of photodiodes corresponding to each pixel of a captured image is disposed in a two-dimensional array shape. Each photodiode generates a pixel signal corresponding to a signal charge generated by the photoelectric conversion of the photodiode. The first chip is stacked on the second chip that includes a memory storing the pixel signals generated from the first chip, where the memory is located outside a projection region formed by projecting the pixel array and in a thickness direction of the first chip. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146063 | IMAGE SENSOR, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND CELLULAR PHONE - An image sensor in which a first chip and a second chip are stacked comprises: a pixel unit; output lines each configured to output a pixel signal from the pixel unit; and an analog-digital converter provided for each of the output lines. The analog-digital converter comprises a plurality of sets of the following configuration: reference signal generation units configured to generate a reference signal, a comparison unit configured to compare a signal level of a pixel signal output to one of the output lines with a signal level of the reference signal, a counter configured to count until the signal level of the pixel signal coincides with the signal level of the reference signal compared by the comparison unit. The pixel unit is arranged in the first chip and the analog-digital converter is arranged in the second chip. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146064 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes: a target position selecting unit to select a pixel position on an input image, as a target position; a candidate line setting unit to set two or more sets of candidate lines including a pixel with a value, in the vicinity of the target position; a weighted-value calculating unit to calculate a weighted value that corresponds to a degree of expectation that the target position and the pixel position on the candidate line are on the same pattern; a direction classifying unit to selectively determine a set of candidate lines that are close to a direction of a pattern of the target position in accordance with the weighted value of each pixel on the candidate lines; and a first interpolated-value calculating unit to calculate a pixel value of the target position in accordance with the weighted value of each pixel on the candidate lines. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146065 | IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD OF DRIVING IMAGE SENSOR - An image sensor includes a pixel array. The image sensor may include a photoelectric conversion device generating electric charges according to photoelectric conversion in each of a plurality of pixels, a shutter of each of the plurality of pixels controlling movements of the generated electric charges according to a drive signal, a driving line connecting the shutters of all of the plurality of pixels of the pixel array, through which the drive signal is transmitted, and a plurality of driving buffers applying the drive signal to the driving line. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146066 | SAR ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTING APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF AND CMOS IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING THE SAME - A Successive Approximation Register (SAR) analog-to-digital converting apparatus includes a reference voltage supply unit suitable for supplying different reference voltages depending on bits of a pixel output signal to be converted, an N bit SAR analog-to-digital conversion unit suitable for sequentially converting upper N−1 bits and lower N bits of the pixel output signal by selectively using the reference voltages supplied from the reference voltage supply unit, where N is a natural number, and an error correction unit suitable for calculating an error correction value based on a difference between conversion results of the lower N bits, and outputting a 2N−2 bit analog-to-digital conversion result by combining converted upper N−1 bits and converted lower N bits and correcting an error of the reference voltages using the error correction value in the combining. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146067 | PIXEL ARRAY AND IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING SAME - A pixel array to which a high dynamic range and a white pixel are applied, and an image sensor including the same are provided. The pixel array of the image sensor includes: a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group including one or more long exposure pixels and one or more short exposure pixels, wherein each pixel group includes a first pixel, among the one or more long exposure pixels and the one or more short exposure pixels, having a white component and second to fourth pixels, among the one or more long exposure pixels and the one or more short exposure pixels, having first to third color components, the first pixel belonging to a first pixel group is a long exposure pixel, and the first pixel belonging to a second pixel group that is adjacent to the first pixel group is a short exposure pixel. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146068 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING APPARATUS - The present technique relates to a solid-state imaging device and an imaging apparatus that enable provision of a solid-state imaging device having superior color separation and high sensitivity. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146069 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - To provide an electronic device capable of a variety of display. To provide an electronic device capable of being operated in a variety of ways. An electronic device includes a display device and first to third surfaces. The first surface includes a region in contact with the second surface, the second surface includes a region in contact with the third surface, and the first surface includes a region opposite to the third surface. The display device includes first to third display regions. The first display region includes a region overlapping with the first surface, the second display region includes a region overlapping with the second surface, and the third display region includes a region overlapping with the third surface. The first display region has a larger area than the third display region. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146070 | DISPLAY DEVICE, TRANSMITTING TERMINAL, RECEIVING TERMINAL AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A display device may include: an acquisition unit acquiring transmitting terminal identification information that is identification information of a transmitting terminal transmitting image data by wireless communication, and receiving terminal identification information that is identification information of a receiving terminal receiving the image data by wireless communication; and an information display unit displaying the transmitting terminal identification information and the receiving terminal identification information. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146071 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is disclosed a method for controlling a mobile terminal including implementing a camera application, displaying a preview image, requesting first information related with a person contained in the preview image from an external device, receiving the first information from the external device, and displaying the first information on the displayed preview image. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146072 | IMAGE FOCUSING - A device is provided, wherein a focus plane may be selected via a user input ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150146073 | CAMERA MODULE - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) mounted with an image sensor, a housing arranged on an upper surface of the PCB and including therein at least one or more lenses, an actuator positioned on the housing, and an electronic circuit pattern layer formed at an non-exposed surface of the housing. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146074 | OPTICAL MEMBER, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL MEMBER - An optical member including a porous glass layer on a base member is provided, wherein the reflectance is reduced and a ripple is suppressed. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146075 | MULTIBAND CAMERA, AND MULTIBAND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - A multiband camera comprises: a band-pass filter having four or more optical filters; a microlens array having arrayed microlenses; a photoelectric conversion element including a plurality of pixels; and a measurement unit for measuring spectral intensity. The multiband camera satisfies the expression below, where Pl is a pitch between the microlenses, Ps is a pitch between the pixels, n is a number of pixels corresponding to one microlens, u is an effective dimension in a prescribed direction of the pixels, t is a dimension in the prescribed direction of a real image that the band-pass filter forms on a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed pixels, Na is a number of microlenses arrayed in the prescribed direction, L is a distance from an exit pupil to the microlens, and f is a focal length of the microlens. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146076 | Image Pickup Optical System and Image Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - An image pickup optical system made of five lenses, includes in order from an object side, an aperture stop, a first lens L | 2015-05-28 |
20150146077 | IMAGING SYSTEMS WITH IMAGE PIXELS HAVING ADJUSTABLE SPECTRAL RESPONSES - An imaging system may include an image sensor having an array of image pixels. Some image pixels in the array may be provided with spectral response adjustment structures. For example, a plurality of broadband pixels in the array may include spectral response adjustment structures. The spectral response adjustment structures may be configured to narrow the spectral response of the broadband pixels in high light conditions. For example, the spectral response of the broadband pixels may transition from clear to gray, from clear to green, or from yellow to green as the light level increases. The spectral response adjustment structures may, for example, be formed from photochromic materials or electrochromic elements. Processing circuitry in the imaging system may generate a color correction matrix for an image based at least partly on the state of the spectral response adjustment structures. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146078 | SHIFT CAMERA FOCUS BASED ON SPEAKER POSITION - An image-capturing device includes a receiver that receives distance and angular direction information that specifies an audio source position from a microphone array. The device also includes a controller that determines whether to change an initial focal plane within a field of view based on the audio source position. The device includes a focus adjuster that adjusts an optical focus setting to change from the initial focal plane to a subsequent focal plane within the field of view to focus on at least one object-of-interest located at the audio source position, based on a determination by the controller. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146079 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PHOTOGRAPHING IMAGE THEREOF - A method for photographing an image by an electronic apparatus includes displaying an image as a live view; setting a plurality of focus areas from the image; when a photographing command is received, obtaining an Auto Focus (AF) evaluation value of a photographed image; detecting a plurality of focus positions corresponding to the plurality of focus areas by analyzing the AF evaluation value; and obtaining and storing a plurality of images corresponding to the plurality of detected focus positions. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146080 | DRIVE APPARATUS OF VIBRATION-TYPE ACTUATOR, INTERCHANGEABLE LENS, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE SAME - When a vibration-type actuator is in a non-driving period, at least one of a voltage amplitude and a phase difference of an alternate signal applied to an electrode of a piezoelectric element is set to be equal to a minimum value or a maximum value of a dead zone in terms of the voltage amplitude or the phase difference. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146081 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - [Object] To provide an image processing apparatus, an image processing program, and an image processing method capable of obtaining three-dimensional information of an observation target object. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146082 | SPECULAR AND DIFFUSE IMAGE GENERATOR USING POLARIZED LIGHT FIELD CAMERA AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image generator is provided which obtains a specular image and a diffuse image from an image acquired by a polarized light field camera by separating two reflection components of a subject, and a control method thereof. The image generator may include a main lens, a polarizing filter part, a photosensor, a microlens array, and a controller that generates a single image in response to the electrical image signal and extracts, from the generated image, a specular image and a diffuse image that exhibit different reflection characteristics of the subject. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146083 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An electronic apparatus includes a mount unit configured to fasten one of an interchangeable lens and an external speaker, and a controller configured to control lens driving of the interchangeable lens when the interchangeable lens is fastened to the mount unit and control audio output of the external speaker when the external speaker is fastened to the mount unit. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146084 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes: an imaging device which converts light into an image signal; a lens unit positioned in front of the imaging device to form an image on the imaging device from light incident from an object; a shutter unit interposed between the lens unit and the imaging device to expose the imaging device to the light incident from the object based on a predetermined exposure time and that includes a shutter curtain that regulates the light incident from the object; and a measurement unit which measures an actual exposure time of the shutter unit. The measurement unit is positioned behind the shutter curtain and includes a light-receiving sensor which receives light incident on the measurement unit from the light incident from the object other than the light of the effective image area incident on the imaging device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146085 | OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - In an optical system including, in order from an object side to an image side: a front unit (LF) having a negative refractive power; an aperture stop; and a rear unit (LR) having a positive refractive power, the front unit (LF) includes a meniscus-shaped negative lens (g1) closest to the object side, and a focal length (fw) of the entire optical system, a focal length (fg1) of the meniscus-shaped negative lens (g1), and a curvature radius (R2) of a lens surface on the image side of the meniscus-shaped negative lens (g1) are appropriately set. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146086 | SIX-PIECE OPTICAL LENS FOR CAPTURING IMAGE AND SIX-PIECE OPTICAL MODULES FOR CAPTURING IMAGE - The invention discloses a six-piece optical lens for capturing image and a six-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens element having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a second lens element having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fourth lens element with refractive power; a fifth lens element having a convex image-side surface; and a sixth lens element having a concave image-side; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the six lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can reduce the sensitivity for use in compact cameras with camera functionalities. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146087 | IMAGING APPARATUS HAVING BENDING OPTICAL ELEMENT - An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system, a bending optical element and an image sensor; an inclination adjusting plate which mounts the image sensor onto a housing with a pair of opposed sides of the image sensor extending in a direction orthogonal to a pre-bending optical axis, of the imaging optical system; a pair of end portions formed on the inclination adjusting plate and positioned outside the pair of opposed sides of the image sensor; a swing fulcrum formed between an inner end portion, which is closest to the pre-bending optical axis, and the housing; and an inclination adjuster provided between an outer end portion, which is farthest from the pre-bending optical axis out, and the housing, to make the inclination adjustment plate swing about the swing fulcrum to adjust the inclination adjustment plate. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146088 | INTERCHANGEABLE LENS CAMERA, CAMERA BODY, LENS UNIT, AND BUSY SIGNAL CONTROL METHOD - An aspect of the present invention provides an interchangeable lens camera having a camera body and a lens unit that is freely attachable and detachable to the camera body. In the interchangeable lens camera, a communications unit in the camera body sends via communications terminals (MT_MOSI and MT_MISO) an INTR_BUSY control instruction that instructs whether to make notification with a busy signal (INTR_BUSY signal) for any operation out of a plurality of types of operations that can be executed, and the lens unit or camera body communications unit sets the busy signal (INTR_BUSY) to an ON state (low level) only during the period of operation of the type indicated by the INTR_BUSY control instruction. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146089 | IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH PIXEL SENSITIVITY ADJUSTMENTS - Imaging systems, such as time-of-flight imaging systems, and methods with pixel sensitivity adjustments. An embodiment includes a method, comprising: for a plurality of pixels having a first output and a second output, measuring the first outputs and the second outputs in response to a demodulation signal; and adjusting the demodulation signal such that a combination of the first outputs is substantially similar to a combination of the second outputs. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146090 | SYSTEM FOR CAMERA VIEWING AND ILLUMINATION ALIGNMENT - The system includes a camera contained with a housing and a lighting fixture that is pivotedly attached to the housing. An angle adjuster attached to a proximate end of each of the housing and the lighting fixture converts a linear movement to the adjuster into an angular adjustment of the lighting fixture with regard to an optical axis of a camera contained with the housing. In another aspect of the invention, the system of aligning a camera view and light fixture may be attached to a magnification lens in order to align the magnified view with the camera view and the illumination of the lighting fixture. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146091 | SYSTEM FOR CAMERA VIEWING AND ILLUMINATION ALIGNMENT - A system for aligning a camera view and the illumination of a lighting fixture is disclosed. The system includes a camera contained with a housing and a lighting fixture that is pivotedly attached to the housing. An angle adjuster attached to a proximate end of each of the housing and the lighting fixture converts a linear movement to the adjuster into an angular adjustment of the lighting fixture with regard to an optical axis of a camera contained with the housing. In another aspect of the invention, the system of aligning a camera view and light fixture may be attached to a magnification lenswear and a focal point of the magnification lenswear may be aligned with the aligned camera view and the illumination of the lighting fixture. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146092 | PHOTOGRAPHING LENS ASSEMBLY, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A photographing lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element, which has a total of six non-cemented lens elements with refractive power. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The third and the fourth lens elements have refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146093 | IMAGING LENS ASSEMBLY AND MOBILE DEVICE - An imaging lens assembly includes a barrel and a lens assembly, wherein the lens assembly is disposed in the barrel. The barrel has an incident light surface and a barrel cylindrical axis, wherein the incident light surface includes a specular region including at least one specular protrusion region disposed thereon. An angle between a shortest line from an innermost edge to an outermost edge of the specular protrusion region and a normal line to the barrel cylindrical axis is θ. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146094 | Module device for a camers system, retaining spring device and corresponding camera system - A module device for a camera system having a housing device, which is provided with an inner opening and configured to allow an adjustment of an installation position of the module device in a motor vehicle; it also includes a sensor holder device which has an upper region and a base region, is coupled to the housing device via at least one support element and configured to accommodate an image sensor; a lens apparatus which is coupled to the sensor holder device in the upper region via at least one connection element and configured to generate an optical image on the image sensor; and a retaining spring device which is coupled to the housing device and the base region of the sensor holder device and is configured to press the image sensor against the sensor holder device. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146095 | CONFERENCE DEVICE - A conference device receives and transmits at least one of images and voice via a communication network. The conference device includes a housing having an upper wall; and an operating unit installed on the upper wall. The operating unit includes a first operating member group made up of a plurality of operating members, and at least one different operating member that has a lower frequency of usage as compared to each of the plurality of operating members of the first operating member group. The plurality of operating members of the first operating member group are arranged in a first direction along a top face of the upper wall. The at least one different operating member is disposed, along with one of the plurality of operating members of the first operating member group, in a second direction that runs along the top face and that intersects with the first direction. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146096 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image-processing device is configured to detect a motion region within an input image; generate an intermediate image from an N-th frame and an (N+1)-th frame; perform processing of reducing a high-frequency component of spatial frequency on the intermediate image; and output an image of which a frame rate is increased by insertion of the intermediate image having undergone the processing between the N-th frame and the (N+1)-th frame. When a target position at which a pixel value of the intermediate image is to be calculated lies within the motion region, a pixel value of the intermediate image at the target position is calculated using a pixel value of the N-th frame and a pixel value of the (N+1)-th frame at a position in the vicinity of the target position and outside the motion region. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146097 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control device includes a determining portion determining a frame rate in displaying a frame image on a display portion as a determined frame rate; and a converter converting a present frame rate into the determined frame rate when the determined frame rate is different from the present frame rate. The determining portion determines, based on information about an OSD image, whether the determined frame rate is set to a frame rate identical to or higher than the present frame rate, and when determining that the determined frame rate is set to the frame rate higher than the present frame rate, determines the frame rate as the determined frame rate to display the frame image at the determined frame rate starting from a frame image which is K frames after a currently displayed frame image, where K is an integer not less than 1 and not more than 10. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146098 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The objective of the present invention is to provide a display device which, when transforming three primary colors of input to four primary colors of output and displaying the same, is capable of performing accurate color reproduction using a simple method. A display device is provided with a color transformation portion ( | 2015-05-28 |
20150146099 | IN-LINE SIGNAL PROCESSOR - The present invention provides for a cable which enhances an audio signal between two devices, such as an mp3 player and a speaker system, or a set-top box and home theater system. The cable includes integrated hardware and software elements for processing the signal. In various embodiments the cable may also include a user interface and selectable profiles which adjust the processing scheme for various purposes, such as a profile for environments with high ambient noise, or profiles for certain styles of music. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146100 | ILLUMINATION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND PROJECTOR USING THE SAME - A projector in an illumination optical system includes a laser light source, a synchronization signal processor that converts synchronization signals that are synchronized with video signals input from outside the projector into video signals to be used inside the projector, an LD driver that controls a lighting state of the laser light source according to the synchronization signals output from the synchronization signal processor, an LED (Light Emitting Diode) light source, an LED driver that controls a lighting state of the LED light source according to the synchronization signals output from the synchronization signal processor, a rotational state detector that detects a rotational state of a phosphor wheel, and a phosphor wheel driver that, based on a detected result of the rotational state detector, controls the rotational state of the phosphor wheel. | 2015-05-28 |
20150146101 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A SIGNAL PROCESSING PROGRAM - In a communication system incorporating a communication apparatus that transfers/receives a TS packet using MPEG-2-TS to synchronize a video signal with an audio signal includes a communication circuit to pad the TS packet with a null frame to reach a prescribed frame size when storing the TS packet that includes a PCR value in a frame. In the communication apparatus, the communication circuit deletes the null frame in the TS packet when receiving the TS packet. The communication apparatus further includes an encoder that outputs a PCR report signal that indicates that the generated TS packet includes the PCR value to the communication circuit. In the communication apparatus, the size of the frame is set in multiples of the size of the TS packet. The communication apparatus further includes an input device to configure whether the TS packet is padded automatically or manually. | 2015-05-28 |