Abstract: Provided are an apparatus of and method for correcting dust spot position in which a position of a dust spot is detected from an image and corrected in a digital image processing apparatus. The dust spot position correcting apparatus of the digital image processing apparatus includes: a dust sensor sensing dust attached on an imaging device that captures an image; and a digital signal processing unit correcting the sensed dust spot with a color value of the surroundings of a position of the dust spot.

Abstract: Disclosed is a handshake correction apparatus of a photographing apparatus. The handshake correction apparatus includes a lens support plate that supports a correction lens and operates in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis; a base that supports the lens support plate to be movable; and magnets and driving coils which are assembled on the lens support plate and the base to face each other, wherein the magnets are tight-fitted in assembly grooves of the lens support plate or the base, and wherein one or more protrusions that protrude from internal walls of the assembly grooves toward the magnets and elastically press the magnets are formed in the assembly grooves. Control performance of a correction operation of the handshake correction apparatus may be improved by ensuring alignment between assembly structures of assembly parts including magnets and yokes.

Abstract: Provided is a digital image processing apparatus that supports a hand-shake correcting function. The digital image processing apparatus includes: a shutter button operating in two stages that comprises a half-shutter state and a full-shutter state; a first filter filtering shock-waves generated in the half-shutter state when a half-shutter signal is in an ON state; and a second filter filtering shock-waves generated in the full-shutter state when a full-shutter signal is changed from an ON state to an OFF state.

Abstract: A photographic lens of a photographic apparatus which includes a plurality of lens groups may be manufactured using a method which includes correcting a focus deviation from a designed value generated in one lens group by adjusting a distance between lenses of another lens group. The distance between lenses may be adjusted using a washer. The lenses between which the distance is adjusted may include a positive lens and a negative lens, and the lens group having the lenses between which the distance is adjusted may have a negative refractive power.

Abstract: A method and apparatus successively reproduce moving picture files stored in a digital image processing apparatus. The digital image processing apparatus includes a moving picture detector that detects one or more moving picture files from a storage unit which stores one or more kinds of files, a frame classifier that classifies the one or more detected moving picture files based on index frames of the moving picture files, and a successive reproducing unit that reproduces the classified moving picture files successively.

Abstract: A telephoto lens system and a photographing device including the telephoto lens system. The telephoto lens system includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power, which are sequentially disposed from an object side, wherein the second lens group performs focusing, and the third lens group includes a front lens group having a negative refractive power and a back lens group having a positive refractive power, and vibration correction is performed by moving the front lens group of the third lens group in a perpendicular direction to the optical axis.

Abstract: A digital image processing apparatus that detects a moving object included in an input image, establishes a shutter speed according to an amount of movement of the moving object, and performs a capturing operation based on the established shutter speed, and a method of controlling the digital image processing apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving an input image; detecting a moving object in the input image; measuring an amount of movement of the moving object; and establishing a shutter time for a capturing operation according to the amount of movement of the moving object and according to at least one of: an established file size of an image to be captured or an established image size of the image to be captured.

Abstract: A barrel module and an imaging apparatus including the same. The barrel module includes: a base having a surface on which an image pickup device is disposed; a lens barrel disposed on the base; a driver for providing driving power to move the lens barrel up and down over the base; a clip connected to the driver to be disposed between the driver and the lens barrel; and an elastic member for providing elasticity between the lens barrel and the clip, wherein the lens barrel moves from an original position toward the base according to an external force is applied, and when the external force is removed, the lens barrel goes back to the original location due to the elasticity of the elastic member.

Abstract: To easily combine a lens holding barrel with a mobile barrel, or separate the lens holding barrel from the mobile barrel, and to protect the lens holding barrel in an assembling process, a lens barrel and an optical device including the same are provided. The lens barrel includes: a first barrel including: a first cylinder that includes a lens and is cylindrical, and a first flange formed around an outer surface of the first cylinder; and a second barrel including: a second cylinder that is cylindrical and aligned with respect to the first cylinder, a second flange that is formed on an inner surface of the second cylinder and supports one surface of the first flange, and a plurality of supports that protrude from the inner surface of the second cylinder in a direction parallel to a surface of the second flange and support another surface of the first flange.

Abstract: Provided are a digital photographing apparatus, and associated method and recording medium with method instructions, by which smear generation during moving picture photographing or moving picture display is effectively reduced. The digital photographing apparatus includes an imaging device having an effective area that generates first image data from incident light and an optical black area that is disposed outside the effective area and extends horizontally; a first smear correction unit that corrects the first image data generated by the effective area by using smear data generated by the optical black area, thereby acquiring second image data corresponding to a second frame image comprising less smear than a first frame image corresponding to the first image data; a unit corrects the second image data thereby acquiring third image data.

Abstract: A button assembly and a digital camera having the same include a key button, a first contact point switch that generates a switching signal when the key button slides, and a third contact point switch that generates a switching signal when the key button is pressed. Accordingly, it is possible to easily manipulate a camera and perform an associated set of operations by providing one integrated button that replaces a plurality of buttons.

Abstract: Provided are a digital image processing apparatus having improved hand-shake compensation performance by measuring a distance between the digital image processing apparatus and a subject to be photographed and performing hand-shake compensation by reflecting the measured distance, and a method of controlling the digital image processing apparatus. The method of controlling the digital image processing apparatus includes measuring a subject distance corresponding to a distance between a body of the digital image processing apparatus and a subject to be photographed; setting a first tuning coefficient for tuning hand-shake compensation according to the subject distance; sensing hand-shake that causes the body to shake; and compensating for the hand-shake by incorporating the first tuning coefficient.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses of classifying an image as either a text image or a non text image are provided. The method includes converting an input image into an image histogram comprising gray levels and a frequency of the gray levels; analyzing the image histogram to determine a characteristic of the image histogram; and classifying the input image as a text image or a non text image based on the characteristic. The characteristic of the image histogram may include the frequency of the gray levels, a number of peaks, a distance between peaks, and a peak width. The image may be split into blocks and a number of edge pixels determined for each block. The blocks with at least a predetermined number of edge pixels may then be classified. The entire image may then be classified based on the number of blocks determined to be a text image.

Abstract: Provided are a digital photographing apparatus and method of performing different degrees of image processing on one or more faces in an image according to the distances of faces from the digital photographing apparatus or whether auto-focusing has been performed on the faces. Also provided are a digital photographing apparatus and method of performing different degrees of image processing which assist in preventing faces at farther distances from appearing more processed, for example, more blurred, than faces at closer distances and which assist in preventing faces that have not been auto-focused from appearing more processed, for example, more blurred, than faces that have been auto-focused.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling an auto focus (AF) function. The method performs AF only on an area that is converted according to a shape of a subject, instead of on an area in a predetermined frame. Accordingly, focus is accurately adjusted even in a backlight situation or in a dark place, and also, an AF speed is increased since an AF area to be calculated is reduced.

Abstract: Provided are a digital photographing apparatus capable of accurate and quick auto-focusing, a method of controlling the digital photographing apparatus, and a recording medium storing a program for executing the method. The digital photographing apparatus includes: a lens unit including a focus lens; an imaging device generating data from light incident on the imaging device through the lens unit; a condition determining unit determining a photographing condition from the data generated by the imaging device; and an auto-focusing value detecting unit detecting an auto-focusing value from the data generated by the imaging device and comprising a first gamma correction unit, wherein the first gamma correction unit varies the degree of gamma correction according to the photographing condition determined by the condition determining unit, and the auto-focusing value detecting unit detects an auto-focusing value.

Abstract: Provided are a digital image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the apparatus, and more particularly, is a digital image processing apparatus which embodies a focusing screen digitally instead of optically, and a method of controlling the apparatus. The digital image processing apparatus includes: a lens; a photographing device obtaining data of an original image from light which has passed through the lens; and a digital signal processor performing a blurring treatment on the original image obtained from the photographing device and displaying the original image.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of processing image data sub-samples image data by generating a data patch by dividing the image data into a plurality of blocks and sequentially accessing pixel data values in each of the blocks through a plurality of line memories. The image data is divided into the plurality of blocks, the blocks are stored in each of the line memories, and the pixel data values stored in each of the line memories are sequentially accessed, so as to generate the data patch for sub-sampling the image data.

Abstract: A white balance adjusting apparatus and method generate a display image by performing display image signal processing to an input image, specify an area of the display image, output at least two sample images by applying at least two types of correction gains to the area of the display image, and apply the correction gain that is applied to one of the at least two sample images to the input image. Accordingly, a white subject does not have to be searched for to adjust white balance, and an image having a color sensitivity desired by the user can be obtained by performing white balance on colors other than white.

Abstract: A digital moving picture photographing apparatus and processing apparatus may generate vibration data when shooting a moving picture or may induce vibrations when displaying the moving picture. The digital moving picture photographing apparatus may include an image capture device that generates image data from incident light, a motion vector acquisition unit that acquires a motion vector based on the image data, a sound data generation unit that generates sound data from incident sound waves, a vibration data generation unit that generates vibration data based on the sound data or the motion vector, a storage medium that stores a moving picture file including at least one of the sound data and the vibration data along with the image data, a vibration unit that induces vibrations corresponding to the moving picture file, and a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data or the moving picture file.