Abstract: An electronic imaging device includes a zoom lens that includes a plurality of lens groups and an imaging element that converts an optical image formed by the zoom lens into an electric signal. The zoom lens includes at least a first lens group having a negative focal length and a second lens group having a positive focal length sequentially from an object side, and a diaphragm on the object side of the second lens group. The diaphragm includes a first diaphragm having an aperture size A and a second diaphragm having an aperture size B, where A is greater than B, and the diaphragm is controlled such that the first diaphragm is effective on a long focus end and the second diaphragm is effective on a short focus end.

Abstract: A print system comprises a digital camera and a printer. The digital camera photographs a subject and produces image data. Print data including print-setting data and printing data is produced from the image data and print setting information. The digital camera is provided with a high-speed radio I/F and a low-speed radio I/F. The printer is also provided with a high-speed radio I/F and a low-speed radio I/F. The setting data is transferred from the digital camera to the printer through the low-speed radio I/F. The printing data is transferred from the digital camera to the printer through the high-speed radio I/F. The printer prints an image of the subject on the basis of the print data transferred from the digital camera to the printer.

Abstract: A housing for a CCTV camera is easily opened and assembled. The housing includes a housing cap having a filter glass, which filters incident light from an external light source and supplies the filtered light to a CCTV camera lens, on its front surface. One or more connecting protrusions are formed on a rear end of the housing cap along a circumference having a predetermined curvature. A camera case having as many first slots as connecting protrusions formed on its front surface accommodates and fixes the CCTV camera. The housing cap is easily locked and unlocked from the camera case by rotating the housing cap.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical apparatus which can avoid the movement of an unnatural image by an image-shake correction function. An optical apparatus comprises a controller which performs an image-shake correcting control based on a signal generated by using an output of a shake detector which detects a shake. The controller performs filtering processing and integrating processing to the signal. The controller changes a cutoff frequency in the filtering processing and the integration constant according to the information on a focal length of an image-taking optical system which forms an object image and information on the object distance.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus comprises a semiconductor substrate, a multiplicity of photo electric conversion elements, a vertical electric charge transfer device having a plurality of vertical electric charge transfer channels and transfer electrodes, reading out parts and a driving device that imposes a first voltage to the reading out electrode for reading out the accumulated signal electric charge from the photo electric conversion elements to the transfer channels in a reading out period and at a same time during the reading out period imposes a second voltage to at least one of the transfer electrodes adjoining to the reading out electrode for each photo electric conversion element for accumulating the signal electric charge in the vertical electric charge transfer channel under the one of the transfer electrode. Damage in the dynamic range of the solid-state imaging apparatus can be prevented.

Abstract: An image sensor module with air escape hole includes a substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface. A chip is mounted on the upper surface of the substrate. A plurality of wires are electrically connected the chip to the upper surface of the substrate. An adhered layer is coated on the upper surface of the substrate. A lens holder is mounted on the upper surface of the substrate by the adhered glue, and formed with a top wall, a lateral wall, and an internal thread, wherein the top wall is formed with an air escape hole. A lens barrel is formed with an external thread screwed on the internal thread of the lens holder. And a filled glue is filled within the air escape hole of the lens holder.

Abstract: A mobile communication terminal comprising a main body, a folder having a display, a first hinge formed at an upper portion of the main body for rotating the folder about the main body in a first direction, a camera positioned at a surface of the first hinge, and a second hinge formed between the folder and the first hinge for rotating the folder about the main body in a second direction. An object can be easily photographed at various angles and, even with the folder in a closed position, the object can be photographed while checking an image through the display.

Abstract: A method and circuit for performing Correlated Double Sub-Sampling (CDSS) of pixels in an active pixel sensor (APS) array. The method and the apparatus subsamples a plurality (L2) of pixels by: storing L2 analog reset charges output from the L2 pixels into a first set of (N2) storage capacitors, and combining the (L2) reset charges; storing L2 analog image signal charges output from the L2 pixels into a second set of (N2) storage capacitors, and combining the (L2) image charges; and then obtaining a differential voltage (VS-VR) by subtracting (in the analog-domain) the voltage (VR) represented by the combined (L2) reset charges from the voltage (VS) represented by the combined (L2) image signal charges. When L equals one, the circuit performs conventional Correlated Double Sampling CDS upon the one pixel.

Abstract: In a state deciding apparatus, an information acquiring unit acquires pieces of information of different types related to a state of an image forming apparatus. An index value calculating unit calculates an index value based on the pieces of information acquired. A state change deciding unit decides a change in a subsequent state of the image forming apparatus, based on a temporal change in the index value calculated.

Abstract: A post-processor circuit subjects color processing to an output data of an imaging device, that is, CCD. The post-processor circuit is provided with RGB measurement circuits. Measurement points are located before and after processing circuits. RGB data obtained at these measurement points are selectively captured into the RGB measurement circuits to make measurement. By doing so, color data at a required portion is measured without using software processing, therefore, the measurement result is simply and rapidly obtained.

Abstract: An imaging device having an in vivo CMOS image sensor, at least one illumination source and a controller. The controller controls the illumination source to illuminate for a first period and to be shut off for a subsequent period.

Abstract: A method for processing an image sequence captured using an image capture device, wherein a captured sequence to be stabilized by estimating motion of the device, abstracting data from the image sequence, stabilizing the image sequence in response to the estimated motion of the device, and forming an output image sequence from the stabilized image sequence and the abstracted data.

Abstract: The subject of the present invention is the network video camera capable of delivering high-resolution digital images, comprising over a million of pixels per image, at full motion video frame rate.

Abstract: A method and a system for self-calibrating a wide field-of-view camera (such as a catadioptric camera) using a sequence of omni-directional images of a scene obtained from the camera. The present invention uses the consistency of pairwise features tracked across at least a portion of the image collection and uses these tracked features to determine unknown calibration parameters based on the characteristics of catadioptric imaging. More specifically, the self-calibration method of the present invention generates a sequence of omni-directional images representing a scene and tracks features across the image sequence. An objective function is defined in terms of the tracked features and an error metric (an image-based error metric in a preferred embodiment). The catadioptric imaging characteristics are defined by calibration parameters, and determination of optimal calibration parameters is accomplished by minimizing the objective function using an optimizing technique.

Abstract: A system for scanning objects having at least two linear array sensors, adapted to detect light input signals, is provided. A lens is optically connected to each of the linear array sensors, and are adapted to receive and transmit an optical image located in a respective lens field of view along a respective lens axis to the respective one of the at least two linear array sensor. A light source which generates an illumination stripe in general linear alignment with the lens axis across a depth of the field of view is provided. A cylindrical lens is positioned between the light source and an object to be scanned. The cylindrical lens adapted to collect, transmit and focus light from the light source to form the illumination stripe. This arrangement provides a wider system field of view with generally more uniform resolution.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided which includes: an image obtaining unit for obtaining a mosaic image by an image sensor having at least four kinds of filters with different spectral sensitivities, one of the at least four kinds of filters being used for each pixel; and an image processing unit for generating a color image such that intensity information at a position of each pixel, the intensity information corresponding to a number of colors determined by the spectral sensitivities of the filters, is computed for all pixels, from the mosaic image obtained by the image obtaining unit. In a color filter arrangement of the image sensor of the image obtaining unit, filters possessed by pixels arranged in a checkered manner in half of all the pixels have at least some spectral characteristics having a strong correlation with the spectral characteristic of luminance.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for creating a higher resolution still image from a multiple video frames having a lower resolution. The system includes a sampling mechanism for extracting multiple video frames captured by a video recording device and an output mechanism for outputting a single high resolution still image from the multiple extracted video frames. The system may include an analysis module for performing an analysis to determine if the selected lower resolution video frames can be combined into a single higher resolution still image.

Abstract: The present invention provides an autofocus system for controlling the focus of a taking lens by specifying a subject to be autofocused within an AF area, which is part of the field of view of a camera, and automatically focusing on the subject, comprising: a target subject specifying device which specifies a target subject to be focused, a target subject movement detection device which detects the movement of the target subject specified by the target subject specifying device, within the field of view, and an AF-area altering device which alters the extent of the AF area to track the movement of the target subject detected by the target subject movement detection device.

Abstract: A method of processing a plurality of digital images arranged in a preset order in a digital imaging device in response to user input includes determining a user scrolling direction in response to user scrolling inputs, at least partially deleting a displayed image in response to a user image deletion input, and based upon the determined scrolling direction, displaying at least a portion of the next image in the scrolling direction after the deleted image unless the deleted image was the first or last image in the preset order.

Abstract: There is provided an image pickup apparatus comprising a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit which converts incident light into an electrical signal and accumulates the electrical signal, an amplifier transistor which amplifies and outputs the signal from the photoelectric conversion unit, a transfer transistor which transfers the electrical signal accumulated in the photoelectric conversion unit to the amplifier transistor, and a processing transistor which performs predetermined processing, and a control circuit which sets the signal level supplied to the control electrode of the transfer transistor in order to turn off the transfer transistor to be lower than the signal level supplied to the control electrode of the processing transistor in order to turn off the processing transistor.