Abstract: A camera apparatus includes a flexible carrier medium formed as a light guide and on which an input coupling region and an output region are disposed. Light, which is incident on the input coupling region from the surroundings, can be input into the carrier medium via the input coupling region. Internal reflection allows the light to be transmitted through the carrier medium from the input coupling region to the output coupling region. At the output coupling region, the transmitted light can be output from the carrier medium and be captured by an image capture device, which is disposed adjacent to the output coupling region.

Abstract: An artificial intelligence (A.I.) club fitting tool is disclosed herein. The AI engine includes mass properties and launch conditions in models. New product recommendations are immediately available to fitted golfers.

Abstract: An optical shutter apparatus for controllably blocking an aperture, the shutter apparatus having a rotary actuator configured to rotate a shaft about an axis from a closed-shutter angular position toward an open-shutter angular position and a shutter blade coupled to the shaft and extending along a plane that is in parallel with the axis of rotation, wherein a surface of the shutter blade is reflective. There is a ferromagnetic collar coupled to the shaft and having a protruding portion extending orthogonally from the shaft with respect to the axis. A stationary magnet is disposed to attract the protruding portion of the collar and urge the shaft toward the closed-shutter angular position.

Abstract: A system for selecting a golf ball comprises a ballistics data input configured to receive ballistics data for a plurality of golf balls and for a plurality of launch conditions; a material data input configured to receive material measurement data for each of the plurality of golf balls; a data structure generation module configured to generate a data structure for each of the plurality of golf balls based on the ballistics data and measurement data; an indexing module configured to index the data structures relative to each other; a interactive feedback module configured to solicit and receive launch monitor data and preferences; a modeling module configured to generate a performance model based on the launch monitor data and preferences; and a selection module configured to select one of the plurality of golf balls based on the index and the performance model.

Abstract: Alternate characterizations of golf ball striking ability is provided, as well as methods for determining the alternate characterizations and systems for carrying out such determinations. Such methods may include performing one or more golf strikes to impart trajectories to one or more golf balls. Such methods may also include measuring each of the golf strikes to determine golf club head, golf ball speed, side spin angle, and offline angle, calculating a trajectory magnitude factor and a trajectory offline factor on the basis of the measurements, and reducing the trajectory magnitude factor by the trajectory offline factor.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes: an imaging element formed on a semiconductor substrate, and comprising an imaging region including a plurality of pixel blocks each including a plurality of pixels; a first optical system forming an image of an object on an imaging plane; and a second optical system comprising a microlens array including a plurality of microlenses each corresponding to one of the pixel blocks, and reducing and re-forming the image to be formed on the imaging plane on the pixel blocks corresponding to the respective microlenses. The imaging plane of the first optical system is located further away from the first optical system than the imaging element when the object is located at an infinite distance.

Abstract: A method of making a panoramic image includes capturing a first image (30) defining a first overlap region (115) capturing a second image (40), and defining a second overlap region (215). Two points (150, 151) in the first overlap region are identified and a first vector (175) overlap region connecting the two points is defined. Two points (250, 251) in the second overlap region which correspond to the two points in the first overlap region are identified and a second vector (275) the two points is defined. If points in the first vector match points in the second vector, determine if the first and second vectors are parallel. If the vectors are not parallel, rotate the second vector image until the second vector is parallel to the first vector.

Abstract: A photographic stitching device that has a generally planar structure having an offset aperture, a capture device mount proximate to the offset aperture, and a mounting structure to accommodate a camera frame. The photographic stitching device allows a photographer to capture a matrix of precisely overlapping photographs that can later be electronically stitched together to create a higher resolution composite image, a panoramic image, a vista, a stereoscopic image, a 3-D image, an artistic rendering, or similar custom and unique photographic products.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a both sides exposure system including: a first exposure part exposing one side of a film transferred by a transfer unit; an inversion part inverting one side and the other side of the film passing through the first exposure part; and a second exposure part exposing the other side of the inverted film inverted while passing through the inversion part.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for correcting the backlight of a camera are disclosed. When the camera for photographing a moving image by a photographing device, such as a general-purpose CCD or a general-purpose CMOS, enters into a backlight shooting state for simultaneously photographing an object with a very high luminance level and an object with a very low luminance level, as the shutter speed of the photographing device is varied to a long shutter speed and a short shutter speed, an image shot with the long shutter speed and an image shot with the short shutter speed are synthesized and outputted, thereby enabling a proper luminance level object photographing operation for each of the objects. Accordingly, it is possible to efficiently prevent the phenomenon that the object with the low luminance level looks dark due to the object with the high luminance level.

Abstract: A new camera bellows of a rotating-mirror framing camera, without principle errors such as defocusing error of imaging points, non-uniform photographic frequency and each axial chief ray of exit-pupil and the corresponding relay lens being different with a corresponding reflective optical axis, is provided. This kind of camera bellows is carried out through centers of the exit-pupil diaphragms being disposed on a cylindrical surface aligned with a first Pascal spiral line, and principal points of the relay lenses of the relay lens array and the image recording surface being disposed on cylindrical surfaces aligned with second and third Pascal spiral lines respectively. The bellows is mainly composed of a box, and an aperture diaphragm, a field lens, a rotating mirror, a relay lens array, an exit-pupil diaphragm array and a record image surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for creating an enhanced picture by means of several consecutive exposures. The method comprises the steps of: exposing a light sensitive sensor to a series of exposures, wherein the whole light sensitive sensor in each exposure is exposed simultaneously, and all the exposures of the series are combined to form a finished picture. Preferably, the exposures are combined with a correction for sharpness enhancement. The problem of motion distortion in an image stabilization system is solved by letting each exposure of the series be exposed by means of a global shutter.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for improving the dynamic range of infrared detection systems. For example, a mechanical superframing technique may comprise positioning a first filter in the optical path of an infrared camera at a first time, receiving infrared light from an object through the first filter at a detector array, acquiring first subframe image data for the object, positioning a second filter in the optical path of the infrared camera at a later time, receiving infrared light from the object through the second filter, acquiring second subframe image data for the object, and generating first superframe data based on at least some of the first subframe image data and at least some of the second subframe image data.

Abstract: A method for obtaining an image having a plurality of exposure regions is described. The method includes exposing first and second regions of an image sensor, reading out first image data from the first region, pausing a clock signal to the image sensor after the reading out of the first image data, resuming the clock signal to the imaging module, and reading out second image data from the image sensor for the second region of the image. A graphics controller and imaging device for capturing images having multiple exposure regions are also described.

Abstract: A camera module comprises a lens array including at least one lens, a lens accommodating unit having an inner space, in which the lens array is arranged, and an incident hole, and a housing mounted on a circuit board. The housing has a counter-engagement part engaged with an engagement part formed at the lens accommodating unit such that the lens accommodating unit is moved in the direction of the optical axis. An image sensor has an image area on which light is focused. The image sensor is electrically connected to the circuit board. A filter is disposed between the lens array and the image sensor. The filter includes a transparent medium through which light introduced along the optical axis is transmitted to the image area, and a prevention film for preventing electromagnetic waves generated by the image sensor from being emitted out of the housing.

Abstract: This invention provides an image processing apparatus that corrects an image blur by using a plurality of images acquired by image capturing means. The apparatus comprises: blur detection means that detects a blur amount between the plurality of images; image composition means that performs the composition of the plurality of images using the detected blur amount; acquisition means that acquires, based on a difference value between the plurality of images and a threshold value thereof, region data for separating the image into regions by changing the threshold value; and display means that selectably displays the region data for each threshold value.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for creating an enhanced picture by means of several consecutive exposures. The method comprises the steps of: exposing a light sensitive sensor to a series of exposures, wherein the whole light sensitive sensor in each exposure is exposed simultaneously, and all the exposures of the series are combined to form a finished picture. Preferably, the exposures are combined with a correction for sharpness enhancement. The problem of motion distortion in an image stabilization system is solved by letting each exposure of the series be exposed by means of a global shutter.

Abstract: A method for obtaining an image having a plurality of exposure regions is described. The method includes exposing first and second regions of an image sensor, reading out first image data from the first region, pausing a clock signal to the image sensor after the reading out of the first image data, resuming the clock signal to the imaging module, and reading out second image data from the image sensor for the second region of the image. A graphics controller and imaging device for capturing images having multiple exposure regions are also described.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide an element layout apparatus, an element layout program and an element layout method which lay out a plurality of images taken by a camera, a video recorder or the like, so as to express a sense of time or ambience with the lapse of time on an album board.

Abstract: A personal optical viewer enables a person to view images of how the person looks wearing an accessory and compare images of how the customer looks wearing different accessories. A seller provides an accessory to a person. A capturing device captures a photograph or a video of the person and stores the image in a memory device. The personal optical viewer displays each image to the person and the person chooses which images to keep, reject, delete, or compare. The personal optical viewer replaces rejected images with other images stored in the memory device, and when the stored images have been exhausted the personal optical viewer automatically enlarges the remaining displayed images.

Abstract: A thin imaging apparatus with an extremely low profile captures high quality images with outstanding resolution. The imaging apparatus has a light guide, incidence mirror, imaging device, and aperture unit. The incidence mirror reflects and guides light from a subject into the light guide, and the imaging device receives the light from the subject reflected by the incidence mirror and passing through the light guide.

Abstract: Cameras and methods are provided for recording more than one image on a photosensitive element. The cameras and methods record the images in the form of separate patterns of concentrated image elements. Apparatuses and methods are provided for recovering images from the concentrated image elements.

Abstract: The invention relates to a camera system, especially for photogrammetric applications. The camera system contains at least two first cameras (1, 2), which are inclined towards each other so that the optical axes (7, 8) of the first cameras (1, 2) intersect at a common point of intersection (5). The camera system also has at least two second cameras (10, 11) which are located at a distance from the first cameras (1, 2), in the viewing direction of the first cameras (1, 2). The inclination of the optical axes (7, 8) of the first cameras (1, 2) towards each other provides an area (b) in which the envelope that surrounds the acceptance cones of the first cameras (1, 2) has an essentially constant diameter. The second cameras (10, 11) are located in this area (b) so that the second cameras (10, 11) avoid truncating the projection of the visual fields of the first cameras (1, 2). The first cameras are preferably panchromatic and the second cameras polychromatic.

Abstract: A sealed package of film to be opened, put into a camera and exposed to form a plurality of photographs, comprising a plurality of film items to be exposed, each film item comprising a first unexposed portion and a second exposed portion, whereby upon exposure of the first unexposed portion and development there is formed in said first portion a picture corresponding to the exposure alongside a picture corresponding to the second portion.

Abstract: A robot apparatus is provided with a photographing device for photographing subjects and a notifying device for making an advance notice of photographing with the photographing device. In addition, in a control method for the robot apparatus, an advance notice of photographing subjects is made and then photographs of the subjects are taken. As a result, a picture can be prevented from being taken by stealth, regardless of user's intention, and thus the user's privacy can be protected.

Abstract: A camera for composite photography for easily composing an object image of a picture on a pre-developed background image by using a composite film having an exposed portion of a pre-developed background image and an unexposed portion for taking a picture. The camera for composite photography comprises a main body including a case and a back cover, a lens, a front finder window on a front face of the main body for composition, a rear finder window on a rear face of the main body for composition, a non-adjustable iris diaphragm and a compartment inside of the main body for loading a composite film. The camera for composite photography is equipped with first and second location designators. The first location designator is inserted in front of the lens for locating an object of a picture on the composite film through the lens. The first location designator has a location designating hole.

Abstract: An apparatus (100) for pre-exposing a camera film with images has a microprocessor-based control unit having a storage device (300, 316) for storing said images, an image generator such as a cathode ray tube (110) or graphics display (301) controlled by the control unit to produce an image for pre-exposing the film with said images, and a lens (130, 306) for focusing the image onto the film for said image pre-exposure.

Abstract: The camera of this invention can create a composite image on a frame of film that includes an image of an object whose picture is being taken by the camera and an image stored on a mask disposed within the camera. The mask is preferably disposed on a mask cartridge that can be inserted and removed from the camera. Disposed on the mask is a plurality of mask objects whose images can be created on a frame of film. The camera preferably includes a first and a second film exposing chamber. A first section of the mask is preferably disposed in the first film exposing chamber. In this first film exposing chamber, a first portion of a frame of film is preferably exposed and an object image of the object whose picture is being taken with the camera is created on the first portion of the frame of film.

Abstract: A lens-fitted film unit includes: a main body; a photographic lens provided in the main body, having an aperture value; an aperture provided in the main body; a shutter provided in the main body, having a shutter speed; a photographic film loaded in the main body, having image frames each including an unexposed portion and a pre-exposed portion on which a latent image has been formed; and a masking member for masking the pre-exposed portion of the photographic film when a photographing operation is conducted. The latent image has been formed on the photographic film with a same exposure amount as that obtained when an object to be photographed having a brightness of not less than 10 and not more than 12.5 in terms of light values in which a photographic film whose ISO sensitivity is 100, is exposed to light with an aperture value of the photographic lens set by the aperture and with the shutter speed of the shutter.

Abstract: A photographing apparatus and method for a three-dimensional image and an image service system and method through communications networks are provided. The photographing apparatus for a three-dimensional image has a turning means for detecting the rotation state of the turning means by angle and outputting a signal at predetermined angles; a control unit for outputting a photographing timing signal and finishing the photographing if a predetermined number of output signals from the turning means are received; and a photographing means for photographing an object according to the photographing timing signal.

Abstract: An adapter enables three-dimensional motion photography by means of a single camera, video or film, that includes a single lens system and image pickup. The adapter is engageable to a conventional camera. An optical system within the adapter includes a mirror for detecting a second, distinct perspective of a field-of-view. The two perspective views are orthogonally polarized and applied to a single switchable liquid crystal polarization rotator that is driven by a periodic SYNC signal derived from the camera. A polarization filter receives the output of the rotator which alternately passes perspective views unaltered and rotated by ninety degrees in polarization, providing alternating frames of one or another perspective view to the camera. The stream of alternating perspectives provides a three-dimensional viewing effect when processed by conventional video and film systems.

Abstract: An accessory unit is mounted on an electronic camera, and a printer connects to the electronic camera via a SCSI terminal of the accessory unit. An image signal is captured from a CCD in response to the releasing operation, and the image signal is analog-to-digital converted before being transferred to the accessory unit. The accessory unit converts the image signal into RGB data suitable for the printer, and outputs the RGB data to the printer so that the captured image can be simultaneously with the image-capturing. Moreover, during sequential image-capturing, captured image data is sequentially stored in an uncompressed state in a frame memory of the accessory unit. After sequential image-capturing is completed, the image data is transferred to the camera in an order in which it is stored, and compressed. Further, a background image is recorded in a memory card in advance, and an image is composed from the background image and a captured image (or a reproduced image) in the accessory unit.

Abstract: A camera comprising a plurality of taking lenses, respective exposure apertures behind the taking lenses, and a shutter disk rotatable for moving various holes in the shutter disk to uncover and recover the exposure apertures, is characterized in that a restraining mechanism for engaging the shutter disk to prevent rotation of the shutter disk is movable out of engagement with the shutter disk to permit rotation of the shutter disk and into position for re-engagement with the shutter disk to stop rotation of the shutter disk, and a front cover part is movable in an exposure initiating direction to uncover the taking lenses and move the restraining mechanism out of engagement with the shutter disk and in an opposite resetting direction to recover the taking lenses and move the restraining mechanism into position for re-engagement with the shutter disk.

Abstract: A consecutive taking camera has 16 taking lenses (13a-13p). Time-sequential exposures can be taken in 16 sub-frames (74a-74h, 75a-75h) upon shutter releasing at one time, the sub-frames (74a-74h, 75a-75h) arranged on photo film in a direction of transport of the photo film. A stationary plate (26) is disposed behind the taking lenses (13a-13p), and has 16 stationary openings (31a-31p) through which light entered into respective the taking lenses (13a-13p) is passed. Shutter disks (32-39) are disposed behind the taking lenses (13a-13p), have a shutter slit, and are rotatable to move the shutter slit (32a-39a) past the 16 stationary openings (31a-31p). A consecutive mode and a one-shot mode are selectively designated: the former for taking the time-sequential exposures in 2 to 16 sub-frames (74a-74h, 75a-75h) upon the shutter releasing at the one time, and the latter for taking one exposure in one of the sub-frames (74a-74h, 75a-75h) upon shutter releasing.

Abstract: A consecutive taking camera has 16 taking lenses (13a-13p). Time-sequential exposures can be taken in 16 sub-frames (74a-74h, 75a-75h) upon shutter releasing at one time, the sub-frames (74a-74h, 75a-75h) arranged on photo film in a direction of transport of the photo film. A stationary plate (26) is disposed behind the taking lenses (13a-13p), and has 16 stationary openings (31a-31p) through which light entered into respective the taking lenses (13a-13p) is passed. Shutter disks (32-39) are disposed behind the taking lenses (13a-13p), have a shutter slit, and are rotatable to move the shutter slit (32a-39a) past the 16 stationary openings (31a-31p). A consecutive mode and a one-shot mode are selectively designated: the former for taking the time-sequential exposures in 2 to 16 sub-frames (74a-74h, 75a-75h) upon the shutter releasing at the one time, and the latter for taking one exposure in one of the sub-frames (74a-74h, 75a-75h) upon shutter releasing.

Abstract: A portion of a frame of film is pre-exposed to a first image by subjecting the film to a low intensity exposure while masking a portion of the film. The film is then used in a conventional camera along with a non-opaque exposure limiting device. The non-opaque exposure limiting device is positioned between the camera lens and the film. During exposure of the film to a second or target image, the first image is partially re-exposed thereby enhancing the stability of the picture while capturing the target image on the unexposed portion of the frame of film. The two images are then developed in a conventional manner to produce a relatively smoothly blended composite photograph.

Abstract: A photographic film sheet and a camera for using such film sheet is disclosed. The film sheet has a rectangular shape, a plurality of image areas disposed around the perimeter of the sheet and defining an orthogonal pattern, and the sheet defining a central opening for permitting spin processing of the images on the sheet.

Abstract: A multiple-image camera providing high-density use of conventional 35 mm film is disclosed. Many more individual exposures can be made using standard film and standard film processing services, which greatly reduces the cost of children's irratic and often unproductive experiments with photography. The mechanical simplicity of the camera make it both reliable and inexpensive, also make it useful as an expendable vacation camera for adults.

Abstract: An apparatus for recording and reproducing three-dimensional images comprises a non-transmittable or opaque surface having a plurality of transmission points at specified spaces, so that light from an object passes through them; a transmittable or transparent body which refracts the light from the transmission points; and a recording surface which records the light from the transmittable body. The apparatus is operative to record the light which has reached the recording surface as images, and to record the direction of the light in the form of a combination of information about each transmission point and the corresponding image. Also, the apparatus is operative to reproduce the recorded images, by illuminating the recording surface via the transmission points, with white light.

Abstract: A pseudo telephotographic camera includes a photographing device which photographs pictures in two separate pseudo telephotographic frames which together define a panoramic size picture frame. The panoramic size picture frame is formed by optically intercepting the upper and lower portions of a standard frame on a film. The pseudo telephotographic frames are formed on a left and right half of the panoramic size frame by a first mask and a second mask. Alternatively, the pseudo telephotographic frames are formed with a center mask and by moving the film in a predetermined sequence to expose a left half and a right half of the panoramic size frame.

Abstract: A camera back for sequentially exposing two spatially separate images on regular or self-developing film adapted for a variety of single lens cameras. The camera back includes an adapter plate disposed between the camera and a film back wherein a dark slide is movable by the force of gravity between two positions in the adapter plate, by rotating the adapter plate 180 degrees, thereby blocking a lower half of the film from the exposing radiation. The dark slide is moved exclusively by its own weight, thereby making complicated levers and light-tight feedthroughs unnecessary.

Abstract: Camera film has a pre-exposed image longitudinally thereon and is thereupon packaged into a canister for insertion into a camera. The canister carries a flexible masking strip. When the canister is inserted into the camera, the masking strip is spread across the camera film plane opening. As the film is advanced across the film plane opening for successive exposures, the masking strip prevents individual frame exposure of the previously exposed image. A masking insert can be alternatively inserted into the camera to mask the film edge.