Abstract: An apparatus can generates an image having a dioramic special effect so as to have high quality in a still image recording mode and generates the image having the dioramic special effect speedily in a live image display mode. The apparatus generates one or more blurred images from a captured image and combine the captured image with at least one of the generated blurred images by changing in areas. The number of blurred images to be generated for the combination in the live image display is smaller than the number of blurred images to be generated for the combination in the still image recording.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging apparatus capable of obtaining images of an object at high precision even if the intensities of illuminating light temporally varies. The imaging apparatus 1 comprises a lamp unit 10, lens 21, a half mirror 22, a lens 23, a liquid crystal tunable filter 24, a lens 25, a reference mirror 31, a reference mirror 32, an image capturing unit 40, an operation unit 50, and a display unit 60. The reference mirrors 31 and 32 are provided at the positions to which illuminating light led by an optical system for illuminating light is irradiated and which are located at a part of the view of the image capturing unit 40. The operation unit 50 corrects the value of the image part of the object 2 by using the value of the image part of the reference mirrors 31 and 32 out of the images captured by the image capturing unit 40.

Abstract: Described is a device (e.g., a cell phone incorporating a digital camera) that incorporates a graphics processing unit (GPU) to process image data in order to increase the quality of a rendered image. The processing power provided by a GPU means that, for example, an unacceptable pixel value (e.g., a pixel value associated with a malfunctioning or dead detector element) can be identified and replaced with a new value that is determined by averaging other pixel values. Also, for example, the device can be calibrated against benchmark data to generate correction factors for each detector element. The correction factors can be applied to the image data on a per-pixel basis. If the device is also adapted to record and/or play digital audio files, the audio performance of the device can be calibrated to determine correction factors for a range of audio frequencies.

Abstract: A test apparatus for testing electronic devices, comprising a control section for generating control signals based on a test program set in advance to test the electronic devices, a plurality of test modules for generating test signals to be supplied to the electronic devices on the basis of the control signals, a device interface having connectors, provided in correspondence to the plurality of test modules, for supplying the test signals generated by corresponding test modules to predetermined pins of the electronic devices, wherein a test module for generating source power to be supplied to the electronic device outputs the source power only when it is connected with a connector set in advance among the plurality of connectors and does not output source power when it is not connected with the connector set in advance.