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Abnormality detection and surveillance system

Patent Number: RE44225
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A surveillance system having at least one primary video camera for translating real images of a zone into electronic video signals at a first level of resolution. The system includes means for sampling movements of an individual or individuals located within the zone from the video signal output from at least one video camera. Video signals of sampled movements of the individual is electronically compared with known characteristics of movements which are indicative of individuals having a ...

Storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, and reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information

Patent Number: 8447171
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A storage medium for storing text-based subtitle data including style information, a reproducing apparatus and methods are provided for reproducing text-based subtitle data including style information separately recorded on the storage medium. The storage medium includes: multimedia image data; and text-based subtitle data for displaying subtitles on an image based on the multimedia image data, wherein the text-based subtitle data includes dialog information indicating subtitle contents to ...

Imaging apparatus

Patent Number: 8447161
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An imaging apparatus includes a setting unit and a display controller configured to control the display unit. A plurality of recording modes include a first recording mode which generates heat so that the temperature in the case reaches a predetermined temperature, and a second recording mode which generates heat so that the temperature in the case cannot reach the predetermined temperature. The display controller determines the remaining recording time based on the temperature of a case, ...

Television apparatus and method for controlling the same

Patent Number: 8446533
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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In an AV system in which a television apparatus and a recorder are individually connected to an AV amplifier through an HDMI, in the case where sound is output from the AV amplifier, if insertion of headphones into the television apparatus is detected, control information to switch the destination of the audio data is transmitted from the television apparatus to the AV amplifier. The AV amplifier switches the destination of the audio data that is input from the recorder from a speaker ...

Image processing apparatus for improving sharpness and image processing method

Patent Number: 8446532
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An image processing apparatus includes an image receiving unit, and an image processing unit which allows luminance of an image to be within a preset range of luminance and adjusts sharpness of the image. Accordingly, the problem that the luminance exceeds a digital value may be prevented, and the sharpness of the image may be effectively ...

System and method for clock offset detection

Patent Number: 8446531
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A system and method for detecting a sampling clock offset of an analog-to-digital converter used to digitize an analog image signal. A method comprises buffering samples of an analog image signal, computing a value of an autocorrelation function using the buffered samples and a delayed version of the buffered samples, and repeating the computing a value for delays in a range of delays. The method also comprises computing a sampling frequency offset from the values of the autocorrelation ...

Dynamic sampling

Patent Number: 8446530
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A sampling system adapts the sampling rate for sampling analog signals and/or the stored number of samples to the fixed or video image content, such that a higher rate, and equivalently a larger number of samples, are acquired for an image or video segment containing higher spatial frequencies while a lower number of samples (lower sampling rate) are retained for image or video segments containing lower spatial frequencies. The Nyquist theorem may still be satisfied for each individual ...

Image display apparatus

Patent Number: 8446529
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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The image display apparatus is capable of receiving a first video signal and image data. The apparatus includes a first electronic zoom processing part performing first electronic zoom processing on the first video signal to output a first electronic zoom processed video signal of a predetermined resolution, a video converting part converting the image data into a second video signal, a second electronic zoom processing part performing second electronic zoom processing on the second video ...

Display apparatus

Patent Number: 8446528
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A display apparatus transmits a picture acquisition request for getting picture information to an external image apparatus connected through a predetermined interface to the display apparatus from the external image apparatus at predetermined intervals and gets a plurality of pieces of picture information from the external image apparatus to be displayed. The plurality of pictures may be switched at predetermined intervals, for example, to be displayed, so that the plurality of pictures may ...

System of programmable time intervals used for video signal synchronization

Patent Number: 8446527
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A circuit and a method for using the circuit to provide synchronization between a first video signal and a second video signal are provided, comprising a circuit to capture a first video signal, a circuit to measure the timing format of the first video signal including an input clock and count input Vsync pulses, a circuit to measure a phase difference between the first video signal and the second video signal, a circuit to generate an output video signal comprising a number of output Vsync ...

Image displaying device and method, and image processing device and method

Patent Number: 8446526
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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It is an object to suppress a disturbance or distortion of an insertion image in the vicinity of an effective image edge portion such as an edge portion of a screen or the like caused by a moving compensation type frame rate conversion (FRC). An image processing device is provided with a moving vector detection circuit (2) for detecting a moving vector of an input image signal, an effective image edge portion judging circuit (5) for judging if a moving vector detecting ...

Edge detection

Patent Number: 8446525
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A technique for deinterlacing an interlaced video stream is disclosed. A embodiment of a method includes calculating a pixel using edge detection, calculating a pixel using vertical interpolation, calculating a pixel using weaving, calculating a confidence level, calculating a motion value, blending the edge pixel calculation with the vertical interpolation calculation to generate a first output pixel calculation, the blending being based on the confidence level, and blending the first ...

Apparatus and method for frame rate conversion

Patent Number: 8446524
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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The disclosure is regarding an apparatus and a method for frame rate conversion. The frame rate conversion apparatus, for receiving at least two input frames to generate at lease one output frame, comprises a motion estimation module for generating a candidate list comprising regional motion vectors and temporal motion vectors from the at least two input frames and choosing a winner motion vector from the candidate list, a motion compensation module for generating the at lease one output ...

Image processing method and circuit

Patent Number: 8446523
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An image processing circuit includes a de-interlace circuit, a motion interpolation circuit and a frame processing circuit. The image processing circuit receives a first field and a second field respectively from two successive film frames. A plurality of block motion vectors are calculated according to the first field and the second field. A plurality of interpolated frames are calculated according to the first field, the second field and the plurality of motion ...

Photoelectric conversion element unit and image pickup apparatus

Patent Number: 8446522
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A photoelectric conversion element unit includes a package includes a package including a photoelectric conversion element configured to perform a photoelectric conversion for an optical image of an object, a substrate mounted with an electronic component that includes a drive circuit configured to drive the photoelectric conversion element and a signal processing circuit configured to process a signal from the photoelectric conversion element, and a fixing plate having an opening, wherein ...

Distributed agile illumination system and method

Patent Number: 8446521
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A distributed agile illumination system and method associated with multiple coordinated illumination sources for projecting a large amount of illumination on a subject at a distance and with an eye safe level of illumination at a close range. An entire scene may be imaged via an image capturing device and a targeted subject with respect to the scene may be detected and prioritized. An initial calibration may be performed to determine a relative geometric location of the illumination sources ...

Zoom lens system, imaging device and camera

Patent Number: 8446520
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having negative optical power, a second lens unit having positive optical power, a third lens unit having positive optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power, wherein in zooming, the intervals between the respective lens units vary, and the condition (I-1): 2ω_W/F_W≧34 (f_T/f_W>2.0, ω_W: a half view angle (°) at a ...

Focus control apparatus and optical apparatus

Patent Number: 8446519
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A focus control apparatus includes a signal generator for generating a first signal in accordance with a predetermined frequency component of an image signal obtained by photoelectrically converting an image of a subject formed by an image-taking optical system, a detector for detecting a second signal different from the first signal, and a controller for detecting a movement of the subject based on the second signal and for switching driving of the image-taking optical system based on the ...

Photographing apparatus and method to control auxiliary light emission

Patent Number: 8446518
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A photographing apparatus and method are provided that can reduce power consumption by detecting a high precision focusing position for a predetermined range and controlling light emission according to a driving mode when performing focus control. The photographing apparatus includes: a lens movable in an optical axis direction and that focuses a subject image on an imaging surface; a photoelectric converter that converting the subject image into an electric signal; a focusing position ...

Imaging apparatus and method

Patent Number: 8446517
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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The present invention relates to an imaging apparatus and method capable of improving operability regarding a zooming operation and suppressing the photographing of an unstably focused image. A zoom information acquisition section 201 acquires the information specifying both a zoom direction of zoom-in or zoom-out and a zoom speed. A subject information acquisition section 202 acquires the information, which specifies the coordinate position of the upper left corner of an AF ...

Generating and outputting video data from refocusable light field video data

Patent Number: 8446516
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Systems and methods are directed to acquiring, generating, manipulating and/or editing refocusable video data/frames. The refocusable video frames may be light field video frames that may be focused and/or refocused after acquisition or recording of such video frames. In one aspect, a method comprises: selecting a first key frame, wherein the first key frame corresponds to one of a plurality of refocusable light field video frames; selecting a second key frame, wherein the second key frame ...

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

Patent Number: 8446515
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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It is determined whether or not there is inconsistency between image sensing mode data, which is set by an operator with respect to a scene including an object of shooting, and attribute data, e.g., focal length data or the like, that accompanies an obtained image. When it is determined that there is inconsistency between the image sensing mode data and attribute data, a caution is given to the operator that it is necessary to maintain ...

Capturing images using a switchable imaging apparatus

Patent Number: 8446514
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A method for capturing an image, comprising: providing a switchable imaging apparatus including a display screen having a first display state and a second transparent state, an optical beam deflector switchable between a first non-deflecting state and a second deflecting state, a camera positioned in a location peripheral to the display screen, and a controller; setting the switchable imaging apparatus to the image capture mode by using the controller to set the display screen to the second ...

Imaging apparatus with light transmissive filter

Patent Number: 8446513
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An imaging apparatus includes a light receiving device array having light receiving devices, a light transmissive filter including plural types of band-shape light transmissive sections arranged in sequence to form a light transmissive section pattern, and an arithmetic processing unit, wherein the arithmetic processing unit includes a first parameter generating unit configured to generate a first parameter indicative of a displacement of the light transmissive section pattern relative to ...

Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus equipped with same

Patent Number: 8446512
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An optical system includes, in order from its object side a negative first lens unit, a positive second lens unit, a negative third lens unit, and a positive fourth lens unit. The air gaps between the lens units are variable during zooming. The first lens unit includes one positive lens, the second lens unit includes one negative lens, the third lens unit consists of one or two lens components, and the fourth lens unit consists of one lens component, where the term “lens component” ...

Image forming optical system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same

Patent Number: 8446511
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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In an image forming optical system which includes in order from an object side, a first lens group G1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having a negative refractive power, an aperture stop, a third lens group G3 having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group G4 having a negative refractive power, and in which, at the time of zooming, air distances between lens groups are variable, and an air lens nearest to an image side in ...

Method and apparatus for improving face image in digital image processor

Patent Number: 8446510
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Provided are a method and apparatus for measuring the skin condition of a face detected from an image and improving the face image. The apparatus for improving a face image in a digital image processor comprises a digital signal processor measuring the skin condition of a face detected from an image, correcting a rough portion of the skin of the detected face according to the measured skin condition and displaying the corrected ...

Methods of creating a virtual window

Patent Number: 8446509
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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The systems and methods for real time transmission of an image from an image sensor having a field of view to a processor for selectively adjusting a resolution of the image as a function of a viewer's focus ...

Solid state imaging device with optimized locations of internal electrical components

Patent Number: 8446508
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A solid state imaging device improving and stabilizing imaging characteristic by optimizing a location of a positive hole accumulation layer to an electrode at the periphery of a light receiving portion, and having light receiving portions formed on a substrate and electrodes formed on the substrate at the periphery of the light receiving portion, each electrode including at least a first electrode to which a positive voltage is applied and a second electrode to which only 0 volt or a ...

Redundancy in column parallel or row architectures

Patent Number: 8446507
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A column circuitry architecture for an imager includes redundant column or row circuits. The column or row circuitry includes a number of redundant column or row circuits. Each column or row circuit include circuitry for controllably coupling the column or row circuit to one of plural signal lines from an array of pixels. A control mechanism is used to select a configuration of plural column or row circuits in the column or row circuitry. In this manner, some column or row circuits are ...

Solid-state imaging device

Patent Number: 8446506
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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According to one embodiment, the data transfer circuit outputs n bits for each N columns (n≧2) in the pixel array among digital data of a predetermined number of bits digitally converted in accordance with the column selection signal which collectively and sequentially selects N columns (N≧2) in the pixel array by using one data line. One data line is commonly and correspondingly connected to one differential input terminals of 2ⁿ−1 differential amplifier circuits arranged ...

Row and column jumping for pixel readout using burst switching mode

Patent Number: 8446505
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An imaging apparatus is described for obtaining images. The imaging apparatus includes a pixel array, a row decoder, a column decoder, and a trigger circuit. The pixel array integrates electrical signals corresponding to incident light from a scene. The row decoder enables a selected row of pixels within the pixel array. The column decoder enables readout of a pixel in a selected column of the selected row within the pixel array. The trigger circuit generates one or more burst pulses to ...

Solid-state imaging device including a pixel driving circuit

Patent Number: 8446504
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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According to one embodiment, the pixel driving circuit causes the amplifying transistor to form a source follower circuit without applying a bias voltage to the vertical signal line and connects the FD to the power source. Thereafter, the pixel driving circuit separates the current source from the vertical signal line to cancel the source follower circuit, applies a bias voltage to the vertical signal line so that the voltage of the FD is raised when the brightness of the subject is higher ...

Imaging system

Patent Number: 8446503
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An imaging system may include: at least one photon sensing pixel; at least one digital counting circuit; and at least one processing core programmed to apply at least one image processing algorithm to at least one pixel sample of the at least one digital counting ...

Time domain multiplexing for imaging using time delay and integration sensors

Patent Number: 8446502
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A time delay integration (TDI) sensor (22) comprises a sequence of cells (42, 44, 42, 44) numbered 1 to N. The TDI sensor is configured for transferring a charge from the cell numbered 1 via the cells numbered 2 to N−1 to the cell numbered N. Each cell (42; 44) in the sequence of cells is either sensitive or insensitive in the sense that when the TDI sensor (22) is evenly illuminated by light (46) having a first spectrum, the intensity of the light ...

Image pickup apparatus with focus detection

Patent Number: 8446501
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup element 106 including image pickup pixels photoelectrically converting an object image formed by a light flux from an image pickup optical system 202 and focus detection pixels photoelectrically converting two images formed by two divided light fluxes of the light flux from the image pickup optical system. The apparatus further includes an image generator 112 generating an image based on first pixel signals, a focus ...

Solid-state imaging device having photoelectric converting portions and first and second transfer portions

Patent Number: 8446500
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A solid-state imaging device 1 is provided with a plurality of photoelectric converting portions 3 and first and second shift registers 9, 13. Each photoelectric converting portion 3 has a photosensitive region 15 which generates a charge according to incidence of light and which has a planar shape of a nearly rectangular shape composed of two long sides and two short sides, and a potential gradient forming region 17 which forms a potential gradient ...

Image capturing apparatus, image capturing system, and processing method

Patent Number: 8446499
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An image capturing apparatus includes an infrared cutoff filter, an image capturing device having a plurality of pixels for detecting light transmitted through the infrared cutoff filter, and four optical filters disposed on a light-detecting surface of the image capturing device. The four optical filters include a first filter for transmitting light having a wavelength longer than a first wavelength, a second filter for transmitting light having a wavelength longer than a second ...

Solid-state imaging device, manufacturing method thereof, and camera with alternately arranged pixel combinations

Patent Number: 8446498
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A solid-state imaging device includes: photodiodes formed for pixels arranged on a light sensing surface of a semiconductor substrate; a signal reading unit formed on the semiconductor substrate to read a signal charge or a voltage; an insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate and including optical waveguides; color filters formed on the insulating film; and on-chip lenses formed on the color filters. The first and second pixel combinations are alternately arranged both in the ...

Multi-spectrum sensing device and manufacturing methods thereof

Patent Number: 8446497
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A multi-spectrum sensing device comprises a top layer and a bottom layer. The top layer comprises sensing pixels for sensing a first group of colors. The bottom layer comprises sensing pixels for sensing a second group of colors. At least one of the layers comprises sensing pixels having at least two or more than two ...

Knee correction device and knee correction method

Patent Number: 8446496
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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According to one embodiment, a knee correction device includes a generator, a detector, a mixer, and a calculator. The generator generates a luminance signal from R, G, and B color signals. The detector detects a color signal having a maximum value among the R, G, and B color signals. The mixer mixes the luminance signal generated by the generator and the color signal detected by the detector, at a predetermined mixing ratio. The supply module supplies a coefficient for performing level ...

Image pickup apparatus and image pickup system

Patent Number: 8446495
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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In an image pickup apparatus including a plurality of pixels arranged a matrix of rows and columns, a correction unit performs a correction process based on an electric signal output via a first switch element of a particular pixel and a correction electric signal output via a second switch element of the particular pixel. A correction image signal based on the correction electric signal output via the second switch element is acquired in a period that partially overlaps in time a period in ...

Automatic redeye detection based on redeye and facial metric values

Patent Number: 8446494
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Candidate redeye areas (24) are determined in an input image (20). In this process, a respective set of one or more redeye metric values (28) is associated with each of the candidate redeye areas (24). Candidate face areas (30) are ascertained in the input image (20). In this process, a respective set of one or more face metric values (34) is associated with each of the candidate face areas (30). A respective joint metric vector ...

Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, computer readable storage medium storing image processing program, and image processing method for performing color processing on a raw image

Patent Number: 8446493
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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In order to effectively and efficiently perform noise reduction by smoothing, an image processing apparatus of the present invention includes an image inputting part inputting an image in which a first pixels and a second pixels indicating mutually different color components are included and at least the second pixels are arranged at discrete positions, a color estimating part estimating first color component data at the second pixels based on first color component data of the first pixels, ...

Image capturing device, method of searching for occlusion region, and program

Patent Number: 8446492
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An image capturing device is equipped with an external parameter estimating unit for estimating external parameters using a distance image obtained by a TOF camera and a luminance image obtained by a CCD camera, a corresponding pixel determining unit for determining a correspondence relationship between pixel positions in the distance image and pixel positions in the luminance image, using previously stored internal parameters of the TOF camera and the CCD camera or the CCD camera, and the ...

Image capture device, method of controlling the same, and image capture system

Patent Number: 8446491
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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An image capture device of the present invention has an image shooting function, and is connectable to an external storage device. The image capture device includes: a memory in which image data obtained by image shooting is stored; a transmission unit for transmitting several pieces of image data stored in the memory at a time to the external storage device; and an allocation unit for allocating the several pieces of image data transmitted to the external storage device to one or a ...

Video capture system producing a video summary

Patent Number: 8446490
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A digital video capture system for capturing a digital video sequence and for producing a corresponding video summary, comprising: an image sensor; an optical system; a processor, a softcopy display and a means for providing a user with an option to view either a stored digital video sequence or a video summary on the softcopy display. The processor performs the steps of: capturing a digital video sequence; automatically analyzing the digital video sequence at the time the digital video ...

Imaging device, drive control method, and program

Patent Number: 8446489
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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The present invention relates to an imaging device, a drive control method, and a program configured to be capable of making sensitivity ratios constant and improving a S/N ratio. When a storage period of pixels (G pixels) with a green filter as a reference does not exceed a predetermined threshold value, an adjustment of the sensitivity ratio by gains by color is performed. When the storage period of the pixels with a green filter is larger than the predetermined threshold value, the ...

Method and system for focal length-specific color enhancement

Patent Number: 8446488
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A method of controlling a digital photographing device, the method including analyzing the color distribution of an input image, determining an enhancement color from the input image according to a predetermined criterion based on the analyzed color distribution, and enhancing the enhancement color in the input image. The predetermined criterion may be that a color distributed at a ratio higher than a predetermined ratio is determined as the enhancement color. The predetermined enhancement ...

White balance adjustment apparatus, white balance adjustment method, recording medium storing white balance adjustment program and imaging apparatus

Patent Number: 8446487
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A white balance adjustment apparatus comprises an area estimation unit that estimates at least one light, source color estimation area for estimating a light source color in a photographed image, a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance of the light source color estimation area in a depth direction of the photographed image as the distance of the light source color estimation area, a chromaticity calculation unit that calculates a chromaticity of the light source color ...