Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) includes a bus (B1) and a bus (B2). A series of processes for creating YUV image data for HDTV is executed by means of a bus (B1) and an SDRAM (32). Furthermore, a series of processes for creating YUV image data for LCD monitor (66) is executed by means of a bus (B3) and an SDRAM (54). Here, the resolution of the YUV image data for HDTV is higher than that of the YUV image data for LCD monitor. That is, the bus (B1) and the SDRAM (32) are utilized for high-resolution moving image data processing, and the bus (B3) and the SDRAM 54 are utilized for low-resolution moving image data processing.

Abstract: An electronic camera includes an imaging device. An imaging device outputs a scene image produced on an imaging surface capturing a scene. A rotator performs a rotating process in a direction around an optical axis on the scene image outputted from the imaging device in response to a recording operation. A recorder records the scene image rotated by the rotator on a recording medium. A determiner determines a rotation of the imaging surface in the direction around the optical axis in response to the recording operation. An adjuster adjusts a rotation angle of the rotator to an angle which is different corresponding to a determined result of the determiner.

Abstract: An imaging device includes an imager, with which an optical image of an object scene is repetitively captured. A first movement detector detects, as to each of a plurality of object scene images according to a time series output from the imager, a movement of a first feature point between the object scene image and the object scene images immediately before, and a clipper performs clipping processing on each of the plurality of object scene images on the basis of the detection result.

Abstract: An imaging device includes an imager, with which an optical image of an object scene is repetitively captured. A first movement detector detects, as to each of a plurality of object scene images according to a time series output from the imager, a movement of a first feature point between the object scene image and the object scene images immediately before, and a clipper performs clipping processing on each of the plurality of object scene images on the basis of the detection result.

Abstract: A color adjusting apparatus includes a first holder. A first holder holds a plurality of first color adjusting values respectively corresponding to a plurality of representative colors. An adjuster adjusts a color of an original image by referring to the plurality of first color adjusting values held by the first holder. An outputter outputs an image having the color adjusted by the adjuster, toward a display device. A first detector detects a color space adopted by the display device in association with the adjusting process of the adjuster. A first setter sets magnitudes of the plurality of first color adjusting values held by the first holder, to magnitudes corresponding to the color space detected by the first detector.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of dividers which fetch an original image in which a plurality of original pixels, each of which has any one of R, G, and B, are arrayed in a Bayer manner. A first color separating system and a second color separating system perform a color interpolating process on the fetched original image so as to create an interpolated image formed by a plurality of interpolated pixels, each of which has two colors. A first zoom system and a second zoom system perform a zoom process on the interpolated image created by the first color separating system and the second color separating system so as to create a zoom image in which a plurality of zoom pixels, each of which has any one of R, G, and B, are arrayed in a Bayer manner.

Abstract: An electronic camera includes an image sensor. The image sensor has an imaging surface capturing an object scene through a zoom lens, and outputs an image representing the object scene. The image outputted from the image sensor is reduced in size by a zoom circuit arranged in a pre-processing circuit. A post-processing circuit extracts a reduced image belonging to an extraction area of a predetermined size, out of the reduced image created by the pre-processing circuit. Depending on a change of a magnification of the zoom lens, a CPU changes a size of the reduced image created by the pre-processing circuit in the same direction as a change direction of the magnification of the zoom lens. An angle of view of the reduced image extracted by the post-processing circuit decreases by a rate exceeding a decrease rate resulting from an increase in optical zoom magnification.

Abstract: A super-resolution processing portion has a high-resolution image generation portion that fuses a plurality of first input images together to generate a high-resolution image. The first input images are shot at a shutter speed equal to or faster than the super-resolution limit shutter speed, which is the lower-limit shutter speed that enables super-resolution processing to make the resolution of the output image equal to or higher than that of the input images. According to the amount of exposure, one of the following different methods for super-resolution processing is selected: a first method that yields as the output image the high-resolution image; a second method that yields as the output image a weighted added image resulting from weighted addition of the high-resolution image and an image based on an averaged image; and a third method that yields as the output image a weighted added image resulting from weighted addition of the high-resolution image and an image based on a second input image.

Abstract: An electronic camera includes a CCD imager. The CCD imager has an imaging surface in which two sensor areas are formed. A raw image produced in one sensor area is output from a channel CH1, and a raw image produced in the other sensor area is output from a channel CH2. The raw image from the channel CH1 is clamped by a clamp circuit at a clamp level LV1, and the raw image from the channel CH2 is clamped by another clamp circuit at a clamp level LV2. The clamp level LV1 matches an optical black level VCL of the raw image from the channel CH1. The clamp level LV2 matches a subtraction level “VCL?(VAL?VAR)” determined by subtracting a difference between a preliminary feeding level VAL of the raw image from the channel CH1 and a preliminary level VAR of the raw image from the channel CH2, from the black level VCL of the raw image from the channel CH1.

Abstract: An electronic camera includes a pre-processing block. The pre-processing block fetches four partial images outputted in a parallel manner from an image sensor in response to a clock CLK1 having a frequency equal to or less than 432 MHz, and performs four pre-processes that have responded to a clock CLK2 having a frequency ¼ the frequency of the clock CLK1, on each of the fetched four partial images. An image based on the processed four partial images is outputted from an LCD monitor. An evaluation-image producing circuit responds to a clock CLK3 so as to create an evaluation image based on the processed four partial images. A frequency of the clock CLK3 is adjusted in a range in which ¼ of 432 MHz is the upper limit. A parameter for regulating a quality of an output image is adjusted based on the evaluation image thus created.

Abstract: A video camera includes an image sensor which repeatedly outputs an object scene image produced on an imaging surface by an exposure operation of a focal-plane electronic shutter system in a raster scanning manner. A post-processing circuit extracts a partial object scene image belonging to an extraction area, out of the object scene image outputted from the image sensor. A moving image based on the extracted partial object scene image is displayed on an LCD monitor by an LCD driver. A motion detecting circuit detects motion of the imaging surface in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis. A position of the extraction area is changed by a CPU so that the motion detected by the motion detecting circuit is compensated. The CPU also changes a shape of the extraction area so that a focal plane distortion is restrained, based on the motion detected by the motion detecting circuit.

Abstract: An image-data processing apparatus includes a pre-processing circuit for repeatedly fetching image data representing an object scene. A post-processing circuit, a video display circuit, and an H264 encoder perform a moving-image process according to a designated mode, on the image data fetched by the pre-processing circuit. The post-processing circuit and a JPEG encoder perform a still-image process on one portion of the image data fetched by the pre-processing circuit. Two memory control circuits access two SDRAMs, respectively, in order to write and/or read out the image data related to the moving-image process and the image data related to the still-image process. A CPU changes a memory control circuit responsible for a memory access operation of the image data related to the still-image process, between the two memory control circuits depending upon the designated mode.

Abstract: A data-processing circuit includes a distributor. Raw image data of horizontal 3840 pixels×vertical 2160 pixels that is periodically outputted from a CMOS-type imaging device is divided by the distributor into four blocks of partial image data. The divided four blocks of partial image data are subjected to a pre-process in parallel by first to fourth pre-processing blocks. On the other hand, raw image data of horizontal 1280 pixels×vertical 960 pixels that is periodically outputted from a CCD-type imaging device is serially subjected to a pre-process by a fifth pre-processing block. The number of pixels of the raw image data outputted from the CCD-type imaging device is equal to or less than ¼ the number of pixels of the raw image data outputted from the CMOS-type imaging device. A numerical value “4” is equivalent to the number of parallel pre-processes on the raw image data outputted from the CMOS imaging device.

Abstract: An imaging device includes an imager, with which an optical image of an object scene is repetitively captured. A first movement detector detects, as to each of a plurality of object scene images according to a time series output from the imager, a movement of a first feature point between the object scene image and the object scene images immediately before, and a clipper performs clipping processing on each of the plurality of object scene images on the basis of the detection result.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) includes a bus (B1) and a bus (B2). A series of processes for creating YUV image data for HDTV is executed by means of a bus (B1) and an SDRAM (32). Furthermore, a series of processes for creating YUV image data for LCD monitor (66) is executed by means of a bus (B3) and an SDRAM (54). Here, the resolution of the YUV image data for HDTV is higher than that of the YUV image data for LCD monitor. That is, the bus (B1) and the SDRAM (32) are utilized for high-resolution moving image data processing, and the bus (B3) and the SDRAM 54 are utilized for low-resolution moving image data processing.

Abstract: A digital camera includes an image sensor. Image data of an object photographed by the image sensor is subjected to a color adjustment on the basis of color adjustment values set to a signal processing circuit. If a shutter button is operated, an image file including the image data and the color adjustment values set to the signal processing circuit is recorded into a memory card. When the memory card is attached to a PC, and a color reproduction characteristic of the image data included in the image file is adjusted by the PC, the color adjustment values are, in company therewith, also changed. When the memory card is returned to the digital camera, a change in the color adjustment values is detected by a CPU, and the color adjustment values set to the signal processing circuit is overwritten by the color adjustment values included in the image file.

Abstract: A digital camera includes a CCD imager. When a display-use UYV signal is generated on the basis of an RGB signal of an object image photographed by the CCD imager, a CPU detects a color saturation degree of the RGB signal and reduces dynamic range of a U signal and a V signal on the basis of the detected color saturation degree. Thus, a color on the basis of the U signal and the V signal is aboundingly included within a color reproducing range of a monitor.

Abstract: A digital camera includes a CCD imager. Image data of an object photographed by the CCD imager is subjected to a color adjustment based on a plurality of first color adjustment values which correspond to a plurality of representative colors and a plurality of second color adjustment values which correspond to a plurality of non-representative colors. If a desired representative color is selected and a dial key is operated, the first color adjustment value of the desired representative color, that is, a desired first color adjustment value is changed.

Abstract: A digital camera includes a reference value table and a setting change-use table. The reference value table holds a plurality of reference values which respectively corresponds to a plurality of representative colors, and the setting change-use table holds a plurality of target values which respectively corresponds to a plurality of representative colors. Image data of a photographed object is applied to a signal processing circuit, and subjected to a color adjustment based on the reference value held by the reference value table and the target value held by the setting change-use table. An image based on the image data to which the color adjustment is subjected is displayed on a monitor in real-time. When a dial key is operated, the target value of a desired representative color held on the setting change-use table is changed. Therefore, a color tone of a real-time image displayed on the monitor also changes in response to an operation of the dial key.

Abstract: An electronic camera includes a CCD imager. The CCD imager has an imaging surface in which two sensor areas are formed. A raw image produced in one sensor area is output from a channel CH1, and a raw image produced in the other sensor area is output from a channel CH2. The raw image from the channel CH1 is clamped by a clamp circuit at a clamp level LV1, and the raw image from the channel CH2 is clamped by another clamp circuit at a clamp level LV2. The clamp level LV1 matches an optical black level VCL of the raw image from the channel CH1. The clamp level LV2 matches a subtraction level “VCL-(VAL-VAR)” determined by subtracting a difference between a preliminary feeding level VAL of the raw image from the channel CH1 and a preliminary level VAR of the raw image from the channel CH2, from the black level VCL of the raw image from the channel CH1.