Abstract: An digital camera device is disclosed having a digital zoom function in order to form an output image, which device includes a sensor and optics to produce an primary image, a display in which the primary image is arranged to be cropped in connection with the digital zoom function in order to form the said output image, user interface means to set one or more settings relating to the digital zoom function and a image processor which is arranged to put a size for the said output image based on the cropping of the primary image at least in part of an digital zoom range. In the user interface is arranged to be set as the said setting one or more size limit for the said output image and based on the one or more size limit and the size of the cropped primary image, the image processor is arranged to perform scaling operations for the cropped primary image at least in part of the digital zoom range defined by the said one or more size limit.

Abstract: An image correction apparatus comprises an image capture unit configured to capture image data, a separator unit configured to separate the image data into luminance data and color-difference data, a conversion unit configured to convert the color-difference data into a set of amplitude values in a spatial frequency domain, a light-source state detector configured to detect a light-source state when the image capture unit captures the image data, a correction unit configured to correct the set of amplitude values based on the light-source state so that a predetermined amplitude value is decreased, an inverse-conversion unit configured to inversely convert the set of the amplitude values which is corrected by the correction unit to produce corrected color-difference data, and a corrected image generator configured to generate corrected image data from the corrected color-difference data and the luminance data.

Abstract: An appropriate white balance coefficient is calculated using an evaluation value of a specific chromaticity or an imaging condition, in addition to face area detection information, in the following manner. A first white balance coefficient is calculated by a first white balance coefficient calculation unit based on a color image, and a second white balance coefficient is calculated by a second white balance coefficient calculation unit based on a specific subject of the color image. Then, a third white balance coefficient is calculated by a white balance combining unit by weighting the first white balance coefficient and the second white balance coefficient based on an evaluation result of a specific chromaticity evaluation unit or an imaging condition of an imaging condition control unit.

Abstract: A housing of a thermal imaging camera includes a camera portion, in which an thermal imaging assembly is mounted, and to which a focusing assembly is mounted, on a first side thereof, and to which a display is mounted, on a second side thereof; a handle portion of the housing extends from a bottom side of the camera portion of the housing at an angle, away from the first side of the camera portion. The housing is configured for ergonomic handling wherein an index finger of a hand may readily activate the focusing assembly, when the hand is wrapped about the handle portion of the housing. The hand may be a right hand or a left hand, and the camera may further include additional features to provide support for single-handed operation.

Abstract: Provided are a camera module and electronic equipment that are advantageous in alleviating a stress to be imposed on connectors and a flexible substrate at the time of attaching a printed wiring substrate. A first flank 44 of a lens barrel 22 and a second flank 46 thereof intersect each other. An image sensor 26 is mounted with the back surface 26A thereof directed to a flexible substrate. A signal processing unit 30 is formed on a rigid printed wiring substrate 32. A flexible substrate 28 has a projecting portion 50 that projects from an intersectional part 48 at which the first flank 44 and second flank 46 intersect each other. The printed wiring substrate 32 is disposed on the second flank 46 via a temporary lock mechanism 54. The projecting portion 50 of the flexible substrate 28 is folded at the intersectional part 48, a flexible substrate-side connector 52 is coupled to a printed wiring substrate-side connector 56, and an adhesive layer 58 is bonded to the second flank 46.

Abstract: The present invention is an image processing apparatus for converting an original image into an enlarged image on which enlargement processing has been performed with respect to a reference point.

Abstract: A moving image capture apparatus generates a data file to record, on a recording medium, an image signal output from an imaging unit, extracts character information from the image signal to be recorded on the recording medium, sets a parameter value used for selection as a file name according to a characteristic of appearance of the character information, calculates an evaluation value from the set parameter value, and sets character information based on the calculated evaluation value as a file name of the image signal. Furthermore, the moving image capture apparatus generates a thumbnail of the file based on an image signal from which character information for which the calculated evaluation value is relatively large has been extracted.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that facilitate mitigating column gain mismatch in a CMOS imaging System-on-Chip (iSoC) sensor. Tunable voltages that mimic presence of photo-charge can be provided to test pixels in one or more rows of a pixel array. Moreover, column-specific digital gain corrections can be calibrated based upon input data received from the test pixels. During calibration, actual data can be compared to a target expected to be obtained via an analog readout architecture. The calibrated, column-specific digital gain corrections can be utilized to correct for column gain mismatch to yield output data. Further, correction values corresponding to the column-specific digital gain corrections can be retained in and retrieved from memory. The correction values, for example, can be a function of a scaling parameter that is tuned to match an available memory dynamic to a range of uncorrected gain mismatch.

Abstract: In a camera in which a lens unit can be replaced, a camera, which individually grasps lens characteristics corresponding to a picked-up subject image, is provided. The camera is characterized by including a camera main body, a lens unit having an image pickup optical system for focusing a subject image, an image pickup means for picking up the subject image and converting it into electric image information, an optical characteristics memory unit for storing optical characteristics inherent to the image pickup optical system, an image memory unit for storing the image information and the optical characteristics of the lens unit used when the image information is obtained by causing them to correspond to each other, and an image processing means for subjecting the image information to image processing based on the optical characteristics which are caused to correspond to the image information.

Abstract: In a solid-state image pickup apparatus having a pixel array unit composed by two-dimensionally arranging pixels for detecting a physical quantity in a row-column manner, pixel signals of a plurality of systems having different sensitivities are read from the pixel array unit in an analog manner, the pixel signals of the plurality of systems are amplified at respective basis amplification rates when a gain setting of the analog pixel signals is lower than a predetermined gain, and a pixel signal of at least one system having a high sensitivity among the plurality of systems is amplified at a plurality of amplification rates including an amplification rate higher than a basis amplification rate of the system having the high sensitivity when the gain setting is equal to or higher than the predetermined gain.

Abstract: An image processor includes an inter-superimposed-image deformation acquisition unit configured to acquire deformation information between superimposed images included in a multiple image in which images of a subject are superimposed, an image deformation unit configured to generate at least two deformed images by performing deformation processing with respect to the multiple image at least twice to be geometrically deformed based on the acquired deformation information between superimposed images, and a signal intensity relationship acquisition unit configured to acquire signal intensity relationship information indicative of a relationship between signal intensities of the superimposed images included in the multiple image. The image processor further includes a signal processing unit configured to perform addition processing of the at least two deformed images generated from the deformation processing by using the acquired signal intensity relationship information.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of image elements configured to provide associated image element signals which are dependent on light intensities incident on the image elements. The image sensor includes an accumulation circuit with a plurality of charge storage elements, wherein the accumulation circuit is configured to change charges on the charge storage elements during a phase in dependence on image element signals of respectively associated image elements. The accumulation circuit is further configured to change an association between charge storage elements and associated image elements in successive phases, so that in operation, a charge on one of the charge storage elements depends on image element signals of plural image elements in a plurality of phases.

Abstract: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer programs comprise an input module to receive image data representing an image, wherein the image data includes radial distortion; and a zoom module to scale the image based on the image data and a scaling factor, wherein the zoom module comprises a radial distortion correction module to correct the radial distortion in the image data while the zoom module scales the image.

Abstract: The magnitude of magnetic attraction generated between an electromagnetic coil and a magnetic metal member (or an amount of electric current flowed to the electromagnetic coil) is controlled depending on a direction of acceleration (acceleration caused by the gravity (a gravitational acceleration) and acceleration caused by shake (shake acceleration)) working on an imaging apparatus. This magnetic attraction moves a second slider (including a CCD and a first slider) as a whole toward the electromagnetic coil. This movement brings two inclined surfaces (or fourth and fifth surfaces) of a shaft hole 10d into contact with a second guide shaft with no gap being interposed in between, and keeps the this contact condition.

Abstract: The image-pickup apparatus includes an image acquiring part respectively photoelectrically converting first and second object images respectively formed by first and second light fluxes into first image data and second image data, the first and second light fluxes being formed by dividing a light flux from an image-pickup optical system by a pupil divider, and photoelectrically converting a third object image formed by a third light flux of the light flux from the image-pickup optical system into third image data, the third light flux being not divided by the pupil divider, and a split image generating part which generates split image data to be displayed in the third image data. The split image generating part generates the split image data based on the first image data and the second image data, and adds color information extracted from the third image data to the split image data.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor having a plurality of pixels arranged in an array that captures an image of a subject and outputs pixel signals; a calculation unit that calculates a correction value for correcting an error of the pixel signals read out from the image sensor for each column of the array of the pixels; and a correction unit that corrects the image signals using the correction value calculated by the calculation unit. In a live view mode, the calculation unit calculates a new correction value by averaging the calculated correction value and a correction value for a previous frame.

Abstract: A solid-state electronic image sensing device senses the image of a subject repeatedly for an exposure time over which camera shake is thought not to occur, and repeatedly outputs image data representing the image of the subject. A combining device generates one frame of a combined image obtained by combining the image of the subject represented by image data that has been output from the solid-state electronic image sensing device with the image of the subject represented by image data that was output from the solid-state electronic image sensing device by an immediately preceding image sensing operation, in such a manner that the images of the subject coincide.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device for subjecting an optical subject image to photoelectric conversion to generate an image signal; an angular velocity sensor for detecting angular velocity with the imaging apparatus; a first shaking amount calculation unit for integrating detection values from the angular velocity sensor to calculate first shaking amount of the imaging apparatus; a second shaking amount calculation unit for calculating second shaking amount of the imaging apparatus based on image data from the imaging device; a third shaking amount calculation unit for correcting the first shaking amount to calculate third shaking amount of the imaging apparatus based on first amplitude which is a fluctuation range relating to the first shaking amount, and second amplitude which is a fluctuation range relating to the second shaking amount; and a correction control unit for correcting the shaking of the imaging apparatus based on the third shaking amount.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup element having a plurality of pixels; a drive unit moving the image pickup element; a defective position storage unit storing position data on the image pickup element about a defective pixel contained in the plurality of pixels; an image extraction unit extracting a moving picture regeneration area depending on the position of the image pickup element during capturing an image from a captured image obtained by the image pickup element; and a defect correction unit complementing a defective pixel of a captured image obtained by the image pickup element using image data of captured image obtained by the image pickup element in another position. Moving pictures are formed by continuously outputting captured images in the moving picture regeneration area for which the defect correction unit has complemented the defective pixel.

Abstract: Image processing parameters including the sensor pitch, optical low-pass filter, and spectral transmittances of color component filters of an image sensor are transmitted to a photographing lens. After the start of image capturing, it is determined whether to send a transmission request of recovery filters to the photographing lens. To send the transmission request, capturing parameters set for image capturing are sent to the photographing lens. Recovery filters corresponding to the capturing parameters, which is created by the photographing lens based on the image processing parameters, are received from the photographing lens, and stored in a memory.