Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system, an imaging element acquiring an image of an object, a unit that acquires distance information corresponding to distance between the imaging optical system and the object, a unit that generates a map information corresponding to the image based on the distance information, a unit that is able to detect touch operation of a user on a display unit displaying the image and that detects a position in the image corresponding to a position touched by the user, and a control unit configured to acquire the distance information at the position of the acquired image from the map information to set the position as a focus point according to the acquired distance information, or configured to display, on the display unit, an enlarged image obtained by cutting an area of part of the image including the position.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus. A focal position determining unit determines, for each of a plurality of captured image data, a focal position in a depth direction at a target position. The focal position determining unit determines a position at which a subject at the target position is in focus as the focal position if a first focus mode has been selected by a selecting unit, and determines the focal position for each of the plurality of captured image data such that the focal positions track a position at which a subject at the target position is in focus at a speed that is less than or equal to a threshold value, in an order of generation of the plurality of captured image data, if a second focus mode has been selected by the selecting unit.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus. A focal position determining unit determines, for each of a plurality of captured image data, a focal position in a depth direction at a target position. The focal position determining unit determines a position at which a subject at the target position is in focus as the focal position if a first focus mode has been selected by a selecting unit, and determines the focal position for each of the plurality of captured image data such that the focal positions track a position at which a subject at the target position is in focus at a speed that is less than or equal to a threshold value, in an order of generation of the plurality of captured image data, if a second focus mode has been selected by the selecting unit.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system, an imaging element acquiring an image of an object, a unit that acquires distance information corresponding to distance between the imaging optical system and the object, a unit that generates a map information corresponding to the image based on the distance information, a unit that is able to detect touch operation of a user on a display unit displaying the image and that detects a position in the image corresponding to a position touched by the user, and a control unit configured to acquire the distance information at the position of the acquired image from the map information to set the position as a focus point according to the acquired distance information, or configured to display, on the display unit, an enlarged image obtained by cutting an area of part of the image including the position.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system, an imaging element acquiring an image of an object, a unit that acquires distance information corresponding to distance between the imaging optical system and the object, a unit that generates a map information corresponding to the image based on the distance information, a unit that is able to detect touch operation of a user on a display unit displaying the image and that detects a position in the image corresponding to a position touched by the user, and a control unit configured to acquire the distance information at the position of the acquired image from the map information to set the position as a focus point according to the acquired distance information, or configured to display, on the display unit, an enlarged image obtained by cutting an area of part of the image including the position.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system, an imaging element acquiring an image of an object, a unit that acquires distance information corresponding to distance between the imaging optical system and the object, a unit that generates a map information corresponding to the image based on the distance information, a unit that is able to detect touch operation of a user on a display unit displaying the image and that detects a position in the image corresponding to a position touched by the user, and a control unit configured to acquire the distance information at the position of the acquired image from the map information to set the position as a focus point according to the acquired distance information, or configured to display, on the display unit, an enlarged image obtained by cutting an area of part of the image including the position.

Abstract: The amount of parallax of a 3D image can be adjusted by intuitive operation. A zoom lever is thrown to telephoto side to cause the graphic processing unit to generate images for the left eye and the right eye adjusted such that a position where a component is drawn is far from a center line and the zoom lever is thrown to wide angle side to cause the graphic processing unit to generate images for the left eye and the right eye adjusted such that the position where the component is drawn is near the center line.

Abstract: An image synthesis method includes a placement information obtaining step of obtaining placement information about a plurality of images in which adjacent images have a common subject region, and a synthesis step of combining the images using a mapping mode in accordance with the placement information. Prior to performing mapping transformation of the input images, coordinate-space transformation parameters for transforming the coordinate space of one image among the images into the coordinate space of another image are generated. The images are combined based on a given mapping mode and the coordinate-space transformation parameters.

Abstract: The amount of parallax of a 3D image can be adjusted by intuitive operation. A zoom lever is thrown to telephoto side to cause the graphic processing unit to generate images for the left eye and the right eye adjusted such that a position where a component is drawn is far from a center line and the zoom lever is thrown to wide angle side to cause the graphic processing unit to generate images for the left eye and the right eye adjusted such that the position where the component is drawn is near the center line.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of appropriately displaying a face frame in a manner superimposed on a three-dimensional video image. In a three-dimensional photography image pickup apparatus as the image processing apparatus, two video images are acquired by shooting an object, and a face area is detected in each of the two video images. The face area detected in one of the two video images and the face area detected in the other video image are associated with each other. The three-dimensional photography image pickup apparatus generates face area-related information including positions on a display panel where face area images are to be displayed. The face area images are generated according to the face area-related information. The two video images are combined with the respective face area images, and the combined video images are output to the display panel.

Abstract: A display control apparatus that is capable of searching for a desired image from massive images listed by scrolling on a display unit. The display control apparatus controls a display unit to display a list of images. A display control unit controls so that the images are displayed in a predetermined order on the display unit. A scrolling control unit controls so as to scroll the images displayed on the display unit. A control unit configured to control the display control unit to decrease the number of images displayed in a screen and to increase a size of the displayed images when the scrolling control unit changes scrolling speed from low speed to high speed.

Abstract: A digital camcorder records an image of an object as a moving image on a recording medium, and displays an image recorded during a period from the start of image taking to a predetermined time on a screen while recording a currently taken image.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical information reproducing method of detecting a record mark formed in an optical information recording medium and generating a reproduced signal, comprising the steps of: detecting a mark length of each record mark on basis of a reproduced signal, and correcting the reproduced signal by a correction amount corresponding to the detected mark length, and an optical information reproducing apparatus for detecting a record mark formed in an optical information recording medium and generating a reproduced signal, comprising: a detection circuit for detecting a mark length of each record mark on basis of a reproduced signal, and a correction circuit for correcting the reproduced signal by a correction amount corresponding to the detected mark length.

Abstract: Provided is a digital camcorder, in which it is detected whether a disk is an unused disk or a used disk, and a timing for starting image taking is set for each of a case of the unused disk and a case of the used disk, respectively. The timing for starting image taking is notified to a user through voice, a display of a message, or the like.

Abstract: An information reproduction apparatus using maximum likelihood decoding for calculating likelihood of a value of a reproducing signal to a plurality of reference values, the reproducing signal obtained from a recording medium, to decode the reproducing signal on the basis of the likelihood, the apparatus includes a circuit for detecting the reproducing signal from the recording medium, a circuit for detecting the reference values corresponding to a characteristic of the reproducing signal, and a correction circuit for correcting the reproducing signal or the calculated likelihood according to the detected reference values.

Abstract: An image synthesization method, whereby a plurality of images, each of which has a partially overlapping image area, are synthesized to create a single synthetic image, comprises a determination step of inputting a plurality of image data sets that correspond to the plurality of images that are input, and of determining whether or not an image in the partially overlapping image area of each of images that are indicated by the plurality of image data sets includes mainly characters an image processing step of performing, for the plurality of image data sets that are input, image processing in consonance with a result of a determination performed at the determination step and an image synthesization step of synthesizing images that are indicated by the resultant plurality of image data, for which the image processing has been performed at the image processing step. With this arrangement, a plurality of images can be easily and effectively synthesized.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided in which a parameter of Viterbi decoding is adjusted on the basis of a metric difference for evaluation of PRML signal quality to increase the error rate even when using a medium on which recording is performed under a large-distortion condition. When a reproduced signal is binarized by maximum likelihood decoding such that a state transition sequence most probable to be correct of m kinds of state transition sequences from a first state at time n?1 to a second state at time n is selected, a metric difference between the most probable state transition sequence and a second most probable state transition sequence at a predetermined time is computed, and a parameter (a reference amplitude value or a metric) of a maximum likelihood decoder is corrected on the basis of the metric difference to optimize maximum likelihood decoding operation.

Abstract: The digital camcorder of the present invention is a digital camcorder which records an image of an object as a moving image on a recording medium, and displays an image corresponding to a period from start of image taking to a predetermined time on a screen while recording a currently taken image.

Abstract: Provided is a digital camcorder, in which it is detected whether a disk is an unused disk or a used disk, and a timing for starting image taking is set for each of a case of the unused disk and a case of the used disk, respectively. The timing for starting image taking is notified to a user through voice, a display of a message, or the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical information reproducing method of detecting a record mark formed in an optical information recording medium and generating a reproduced signal, comprising the steps of: detecting a mark length of each record mark on basis of a reproduced signal, and correcting the reproduced signal by a correction amount corresponding to the detected mark length, and an optical information reproducing apparatus for detecting a record mark formed in an optical information recording medium and generating a reproduced signal, comprising: a detection circuit for detecting a mark length of each record mark on basis of a reproduced signal, and a correction circuit for correcting the reproduced signal by a correction amount corresponding to the detected mark length.