Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Akira Akashi

Yasuo Suda

Akira Ishizaki

Ichiro Ohnuki

Keiji Ohtaka

Terutake Kadohara

Masaki Higashihara

Akira Hiramatsu

Takeshi Koyama

Kenji Suzuki

Mamoru Miyawaki

Toshiki Nakayama

Hiroshi Ohmura

Keisuke Aoyama

Masaharu Kawamura

Akira Yamada

Yukio Odaka

Masanori Yamada

Hidehiko Fukahori

Makoto Katsuma

Syuichiro Saito

Shigeru Kamata

Hiroshi Matsushima

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Kenji Itoh

Akihiko Nagano

Ryuichi Kobayashi

Masayoshi Kiuchi

Tatsuyuki Tokunaga

Yoshiaki Irie

Satoru Wakao

A digital signature generating apparatus generates a digital signature of digital data. The digital signature generating apparatus includes a receiving unit, the secret key changing unit and a digital signature generating unit. The receiving unit receives one of a first command and a second command. The first command includes information indicating one of a plurality of secret keys, and the plurality of secret keys are included in the digital signature generating apparatus. The secret key changing unit changes a secret key used by the digital signature generating apparatus to a secret key specified by the first command, if the first command is received by the receiving unit. The digital signature generating unit generates the digital signature of the digital data from a hash value extracted from the second command, if the second command is received by the receiving unit.

Digital signature generating apparatus, method, computer program and computer-readable storage medium

This invention provides a digital camera having a watermarking function that obviates the need to set various settings again upon setting of an image sensing mode and embedding mode. To this end, an image recording apparatus according to the invention, which includes an image sensing means for sensing an object and a means for embedding predetermined data in image data obtained by the image sensing, comprises a means for setting a first item for defining a mode for the image sensing, and a means for setting a second item for defining a mode for the embedding on the basis of the first item. The image sensing means senses an object on the basis of the first item. The embedding means executes the embedding on the basis of the second item. Alternatively, the apparatus is configured such that the sequence of setting of items for defining an embedding mode and image sensing mode is reversed.

Image sensing apparatus and method for adaptively embedding a watermark into an image

A visual axis detecting apparatus includes a two-dimensional image sensor having a plurality of detecting lines for receiving light from an eye, a first calculator for (i) detecting a change of luminance for neighboring pixels on the detecting lines, for (ii) calculating a number of pixels whose luminance is changed and a position of a center of gravity of the change of luminance as coordinates of an edge of a pupil of the eye from an amount of the change of luminance, for (iii) obtaining a plurality of coordinates of the edge of the pupil from the plurality of detecting lines, and for (iv) performing a correcting calculation of the plurality of coordinates of the edge of the pupil on the basis of an aspect ratio of a pixel of the image sensor, a second calculator for calculating a position of a center of the pupil from the plurality of coordinates of the edge of the pupil corrected by the first calculator, and a visual axis calculator for calculating a position of a visual axis by using the position of the center of the pupil.

Apparatus for detecting visual axis

An apparatus having a line of sight detection device, comprises a viewfinder for observing a target object, a line of sight detection means for detecting a position of line of sight in the viewfinder of a user, focus detection means being possible to select a first operation mode for performing a first focus detecting operation or a second operation mode for performing a second focus detecting operation, and being possible to perform a focus detection to each of a plurality of focus detecting areas arranged in the viewfinder, range setting means for setting a plurality of determination range including the focus detecting areas, and for changing a size of the determination range to be set in accordance with the selection of the operation mode of the focus detecting means, selecting means for determining which determination range includes the position of line of sight detected by the line of sight detecting means, and for selecting at least one focus detecting area among the plurality of focus detecting areas, and focus adjusting means for adjusting a focus of an optical system based on a focus detecting result of the selected focus detecting area.

Optical apparatus having a line of sight detection device

A disclosed device detects an observer's visual axis bi-directionally, comprising a light receiver for receiving light from the observer's eyeball via multiple photoelectric transfer element arrays, a first storage means for storing positions of photoelectric transfer elements outputting signals representing Purkinje images; a second storage for referencing the photoelectric transfer signals originating from multiple photoelectric transfer elements arranged in the horizontal and vertical directions of the light receiver, and storing the positions of photoelectric transfer elements that indicate characteristic points representing the pupil of an eyeball, and a detector for detecting a view point using the positional information stored in the first and second storages.

View point detecting device

This invention relates to a focus detecting apparatus using an area sensor as an AF sensor, and particularly provides a focus detecting apparatus in which when any area in a scene is designated and the focus state in that area is to be detected, the output from an area on the sensor corresponding to the designated area of the scene is read and processed on the basis of the information of an area on the area sensor corresponding to the designated area of the scene pre-memorized in a memory circuit.

Focus detecting apparatus having photoelectric area sensors

An equipment having a line of sight detection device includes a line of sight detection device for detecting a user's line of sight, a first detector for performing a focus detecting operation in a plurality of focus detection areas, a selector for selecting a specific focus detection area from among the plurality of focus detection areas on the basis of the line of sight detected by the line of sight detection device, a second detector for detecting any change in the focus state in the specific focus detection area at least from the result of the past focus detection in the specific focus detection area, and a determination device for determining a reliability of the specific focus detection area selected by the selecting device, on the basis of the change in the focus state detected by the second detector.

Equipment having line of sight detecting means

A line of sight detecting device which detects the line of sight of the user. The device includes a determination unit for determining whether the line of sight detection is successful or not. An estimation unit estimates the cause of failure if line of sight detection can not be carried out. A notification unit provides information about the cause of failure of the line of sight detection. The information being estimated by the estimation unit.

Line of sight detecting device, and equipment comprising the device

Improved accuracy is contrived in a focus detecting device for finding the amount of correlation between signals corresponding to images received on first and second sensor arrays. A picture element signal of each sensor is duplicated and taken out as a signal of a double information amount, thereby enabling correlation calculation to be effected accurately.

Focus detecting device

A visual axis detection apparatus including a correction data storage section to store the correction data to correct errors in the detected visual information; an individual variation correction data detection system to detect the individual variation data related to the visual axis of an observer; a correction data updating section to update the correction data on the basis of the new individual variation data detected by the individual variation detection system and the correction data stored in the correction data storage section; and a visual axis correction section to correct the detected visual axis by use of the correction data updated by the correction data updating section and stored in the correction data storage section. The apparatus adds a weight to the already stored correction data in accordance with the individual variation data when obtaining individual variation data anew, and uses this weighted data as the correction data.

Visual axis detection device capable of reducing detection errors due to

A focus detecting apparatus for receiving light energy passed through an objective and detecting the focus adjusted state is provided with defocus amount detection means for repetitively detecting the defocus amounts of a plurality of areas in a view relating to the objective, operating means for starting the defocus amount detecting operation of the defocus amount detection means, selection means for selecting at least one of the plurality of areas, discrimination means for discriminating whether the selected area is an area of a predetermined condition, prohibition means for prohibiting a new selecting operation of the selection means as long as it is discriminated by the discrimination means that the selected area is an area of a predetermined condition, and release means for releasing the prohibiting operation of the prohibition means by the release of the operation of the operating means.

Focus detecting apparatus detecting focus to a plurality of areas

The present invention relates to an optical apparatus, which comprises a photoelectric conversion device for converting reflected light from an eye into an electric signal, and a calculating device for calculating a direction of a visual axis of the eye using the electric signal and correction data, wherein the calculating device obtains the correction data using an electric signal obtained from the photoelectric conversion device when the eye keeps directed to a specific portion in the field of view during an ordinary operation of the optical apparatus.

Optical apparatus having function to detect visual axis

A device is provided device for detecting the line of sight of an observer, based on the positions of the Purkinje's image and of the center of the pupil circle. The device is capable, in determining the pupil circle from the pupil edge data collected from the image sensor, of preventing erroneous estimation of the pupil circle resulting from false noise data, by partially excluding or adding the edge data in the estimation process of the pupil circle and evaluating the reliability of the obtained estimated circle.

Device for detecting line of sight

A photoelectric sensor device has a two-dimensional arrangement of a multiplicity of unit structures each including a pixel. The sensor device includes a circuit for simultaneously designating a plurality of pixel blocks of any desired sizes at any desired positions on the two dimensional arrangement of unit structures, each pixel block being composed of pixels which are to be actually used. The sensor device also includes a monitor output circuit for outputting, for each of the pixel blocks, at least one monitor output as the representative of the amounts of charges accumulated in the pixels in each of the pixel blocks. The sensor device further includes a circuit which executes the control of accumulation of charges and the control of outputting of the image signals on each of the pixel blocks independently of other pixel blocks. Disclosed also is a focus detection system using the sensor device.

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Yokohama, Japan

Akira Akashi