Abstract: An imaging device, comprising an image sensor having image pixels and phase difference pixels, a phase difference detection section that detects a phase difference based on pixel data of the phase difference pixels, a pixel data calculation section that calculates pixel data of virtual imaging pixels at positions of the phase difference pixels, a degree of coincidence calculation section that calculates a degree of coincidence between each pixel data of the virtual imaging pixels that has been calculated, a reliability determination section that determines reliability of the phase difference detection result in accordance with the degree of coincidence, and a focus adjustment section that performs focus adjustment based on the phase difference detection result and the reliability.

Abstract: An imaging device, comprising an image sensor having image pixels and phase difference pixels, a phase difference detection section that detects a phase difference based on pixel data of the phase difference pixels, a pixel data calculation section that calculates pixel data of virtual imaging pixels at positions of the phase difference pixels, a degree of coincidence calculation section that calculates a degree of coincidence between each pixel data of the virtual imaging pixels that has been calculated, a reliability determination section that determines reliability of the phase difference detection result in accordance with the degree of coincidence, and a focus adjustment section that performs focus adjustment based on the phase difference detection result and the reliability.

Abstract: An operation device includes a touch panel, a detection unit, and a line drawing determination unit. The touch panel detects a contact position where an object has contacted, and outputs a result of detection. The detection unit detects a trace from a start position of contact to an end position of the contact based on the result of the detection output by the touch panel, and detects a change of an area or a width of the contact of the object with the touch panel from the start position to the end position with time. The line drawing determination unit determines whether a line drawing operation to divide the touch panel by a straight line has been performed based on the trace and the change of the area or the width with time detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit which acquires image data by an imaging lens forming an image of an object on an imaging surface on which imaging pixels are arrayed; a designated position acquiring unit which acquires a designated position on the image data; a sighting device which allows a user to visually recognize an optical axial direction of the imaging lens; and a controller which, on the image data, adjusts a position of an object on an imaging optical axis of the imaging lens, based on the designated position.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit that displays a 3D image thereon, the 3D image being created by combining two pieces of image data in which adjacent right-side and left-side parts of respective fields of view overlap with each other; a touch panel that is provided on the display screen of the display unit and that detects a touch position of an external object or a nearby position of an object near a surface of the touch panel; and a sensitivity setting unit that sets, in accordance with the level to which the 3D image appears to protrude in a direction perpendicular to the display screen, the detection sensitivity of the touch panel.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit which acquires image data by an imaging lens forming an image of an object on an imaging surface on which imaging pixels are arrayed; a designated position acquiring unit which acquires a designated position on the image data; a sighting device which allows a user to visually recognize an optical axial direction of the imaging lens; and a controller which, on the image data, adjusts a position of an object on an imaging optical axis of the imaging lens, based on the designated position.

Abstract: An operation device includes a touch panel, a detection unit, and a line drawing determination unit. The touch panel detects a contact position where an object has contacted, and outputs a result of detection. The detection unit detects a trace from a start position of contact to an end position of the contact based on the result of the detection output by the touch panel, and detects a change of an area or a width of the contact of the object with the touch panel from the start position to the end position with time. The line drawing determination unit determines whether a line drawing operation to divide the touch panel by a straight line has been performed based on the trace and the change of the area or the width with time detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: Controlling a photographing apparatus that can play back an image on an external display device, to achieve energy savings when playing back the image on the external display device is provided. After a photographed image is transmitted to the external display device, if a control signal is sourced by a remote control power to a back-surface LCD 102a and/or the touch panel 102b is turned off.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a display unit, a touch panel, a frame display controller, an imaging controller. The frame display controller displays a frame for focus on the display unit if an operation portion approaches the touch panel, and moves the frame for focus in accordance with the movement of the operation portion that approaches the touch panel. The imaging controller performs focusing on the subject in the frame for focus and then performs imaging in response to a photography instruction.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a display unit, a touch panel, a frame display controller, an imaging controller. The frame display controller displays a frame for focus on the display unit if an operation portion approaches the touch panel, and moves the frame for focus in accordance with the movement of the operation portion that approaches the touch panel. The imaging controller performs focusing on the subject in the frame for focus and then performs imaging in response to a photography instruction.

Abstract: Controlling a photographing apparatus that can play back an image on an external display device, to achieve energy savings when playing back the image on the external display device is provided. After a photographed image is transmitted to the external display device, if a control signal is sourced by a remote control power to a back-surface LCD 102a and/or the touch panel 102b is turned off.

Abstract: Controlling a photographing apparatus that can play back an image on an external display device, to achieve energy savings when playing back the image on the external display device is provided. After a photographed image is transmitted to the external display device, if a control signal is sourced by a remote control power to a back-surface LCD 102a and/or the touch panel 102b is turned off.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit that displays a three-dimensional image generated by combining two pieces of image data; an area selecting-setting unit that selects an adjustment area in which an offset distance, which is a virtual distance from a display screen of the display unit in a direction perpendicular to the display screen in the three-dimensional image, is adjusted; an input unit that receives a change instruction signal for giving an instruction to change the offset distance in the adjustment area; an offset-distance adjustment unit that adjusts the offset distance in the adjustment area in accordance with the change instruction signal; and a display controller that causes the display unit to display a three-dimensional image by using the two pieces of image data in which the offset distance in the adjustment area is adjusted.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit that displays a 3D image thereon, the 3D image being created by combining two pieces of image data in which adjacent right-side and left-side parts of respective fields of view overlap with each other; a touch panel that is provided on the display screen of the display unit and that detects a touch position of an external object or a nearby position of an object near a surface of the touch panel; and a sensitivity setting unit that sets, in accordance with the level to which the 3D image appears to protrude in a direction perpendicular to the display screen, the detection sensitivity of the touch panel.

Abstract: Controlling a photographing apparatus that can play back an image on an external display device, to achieve energy savings when playing back the image on the external display device is provided. After a photographed image is transmitted to the external display device, if a control signal is sourced by a remote control power to a back-surface LCD 102a and/or the touch panel 102b is turned off.

Abstract: An IC card which has a timer circuit that shuts off the IC card within a predetermined time interval is used with a terminal which resets the timer circuit in the IC card in response to any terminal operations. This prevents the IC card from shutting itself off during the terminal operations.