Patents by Inventor Junji Kamimura

Junji Kamimura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Still picture recording digital camera which outputs a dynamic picture when incident light is limited and outputs a still picture when incident light is interrupted
    Patent number: 5512945
    Abstract: A still picture recording digital camera including a light quantity limiter for interrupting incident light to the camera; an image pickup unit including a pixel for converting the incident light to an electric pixel signal and outputting the pixel signal as a digital image signal; a signal processor for generating a digital image signal having a predetermined format; a recording unit for recording the digital image signal output from the image pickup unit or the signal processor; the light quantity limiter limiting the incident light quantity to a predetermined quantity and then interrupting the incident light; the image pickup unit outputting a dynamic picture digital image signal when the light quantity limiter is limiting the incident light quantity, and outputting a still picture image signal after the light quantity limiter has interrupted the incident light; and the signal processor performing different signal processing operations when the signal processor has received a digital image signal for a dyn
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sakurai, Hiroyasu Ohtsubo, Kouji Asada, Masaru Noda, Noriyuki Iura, Takuya Imaide, Junji Kamimura, Hiroyuki Komatsu, Toshiro Kinugasa