Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiraku Sonobe

Hiroshi Hara

Takayuki Seki

Shigeo Yoshida

Kiyoharu Yoshioka

Norio Hashimoto

Shinichi Matsumoto

Satoshi Ono

Keiji Ohara

Satoshi Ishiguro

Hiroaki Sato

Osamu Koyama

Hiroyuki Miyake

Jun Miyamoto

Masamichi Tateoka

Takahiro Kurosawa

Tetsuo Kikuchi

Hiroyuki Kuriyama

Ken Miyagi

Kazuhide Nagamine

Hideaki Yano

Munenori Shusa

Hidehiko Kajiya

Akihiro Kashiwabara

Makoto Shihou

Masashi Ishii

Koichi Ida

A communication device is provided which is capable of transmitting pickup images efficiently with high portability, manipulativity and instantaneous response. The communication device is disclosed in which according to one preferred embodiment, a control apparatus starts a communicating (such as radio transmission) operation in a communication apparatus simultaneous to an image pickup operation in an image pickup function when a predetermined operation is instructed by a manipulation of a manipulation apparatus from a user in a communication device having the image pickup function. Thereby, the pickup images obtained by the image pickup function are automatically transmitted to a specified transmission destination via a communicative apparatus. Thus, a user can transmit pickup images to a desired transmission destination simultaneously only by making a simple manipulation of changing the operating mode of the device to a predetermined mode or the like.

Communication device, image-pickup device, storage medium and communication method

A method for processing images comprises the steps of performing the reception of data through the net work, inputting image data obtainable in accordance with the designated input mode, managing the storage of the data received in the receiving step and the image data inputted in the input step to the memory, and intervening between the operations of the reception step and the input step in accordance with the storage management in the controlling step. With the method thus structured, the compression ratio of the input image is heightened by changing the current photographing mode if the added value of the estimated reception data through communicating means and the data side of photographed image predetermined by the current photographing mode should exceed the remainders of memory in the storage, hence making it possible to implement the compatibility of immediacy between the image input and the communication by dealing with any sudden reception during photographing.

Image processing method, an image processing apparatus, an image input device, a photographing device, a photographing system, a communication device, a communication system, and a storage medium

A communication device is provided which is capable of transmitting pickup images efficiently with high portability, manipulativity, and instantaneous response. A control apparatus starts a communication (such as a radio transmission) operation in a communication apparatus simultaneous with an image pickup operation in an image pickup operation when the operation is initiated by a user in a communication device having the image pickup function. Thereby, the pickup images obtained in the image pickup operation are automatically transmitted to a specified transmission destination via a communication apparatus. Thus, a user can obtain and transmit pickup images to a desired transmission destination simultaneously by simply setting the operating mode of the device to a predetermined mode or the like.

To solve the problems on camera control such as control of the zoom lens of a camera, caused by the delay time from the time when camera control is performed up to the time when a camera-controlled image arrives, the electronic zoom processing for a displayed image is executed in accordance with the zoom control command, when a zoom control command for the camera is input.

Camera control system with electronic zoom processing

The identification information of a base station used to identify this station is stored in relation to position information. If received identification information is stored when an image is photographed, position information corresponding to the stored identification information is added to the image data.

Image input apparatus such as digital cordless telephone having radio communication function for communicating with base station

Two systems each having an audio signal output unit are docked together, and audio signals are controlled in accordance with the characteristics of each system to thereby output sounds of good quality. If sounds are output from the two systems at the same time, the frequency band or sound volume of the audio signal is controlled in accordance with the characteristics of each speaker to thereby output sounds easy to listen.

Sound Processing method and system

An output apparatus comprises a recording sheet conveying section having two feeder portions; a reader section for reading information which has been outputted onto a recording sheet; and an output section for outputting information onto a recording sheet. The apparatus determines whether a sheet set in a feeder portion is a print sheet or an original document, and performs reading and/or recording in accordance with the determination and/or an application being executed. The apparatus further has a memory for storing information which has been outputted onto a sheet and a comparator for comparing the information stored in the memory with the information read from the sheet by the reading section. Based on the comparison, the apparatus determines a proper manner (i.e., proper output position and orientation of the data) to output information onto the other side of the sheet, and also selects information to be outputted.

Output apparatus and method for reading and recording

An optical recording apparatus is disclosed in which a recording medium is scanned by a beam of light to record information on the recording medium, to reproduce the recorded information and also to erase the recorded information. The beam spot formed on the recording medium for erasing has a larger spot width measured in the direction perpendicular to the scan direction than that of the beam spot for recording.

Optical recording apparatus having improved erasing capability

In an optical pickup apparatus comprising a light source for applying a light beam to an optical memory medium, a beam splitter disposed in the optical path from the light source to the medium to separate the reflected beam from the medium from the beam from the light source, and a photodetector for detecting the separated reflected beam, having a surface opposed to that surface of the beam splitter which faces the photodetector is formed so as to form an angle different from the perpendicular with respect to the optic axis of the separated reflected beam.

Optical pickup apparatus

An image information recording system reads image information out of a microfilm of which a plurality of image information items are recorded and records it onto a photodisk device. The microfilm has a Blip Mark indicative of the position of a frame. The mark is detected and index information for representing the address of image information recorded on the photodisk device is calculated. In another aspect, the recordable capacity of the photodisk device is sensed. As a result, when one unit of frames of image information is detected to be more than the photodisk device can hold, the one unit of image information is re-recorded on a second recording medium.

Image information recording system

A control device for use in maintaining a constant driving speed in various rotational objects such as a photosensitive drum, etc. for an electrophotographic reproduction apparatus, the control device being constructed with a driving device; a detecting device to sense a driving condition of the driving device; first and second control devices to drive control the driving device; and a change-over device to change the drive-control of the driving device from the first control device over to the second control device in accordance with an output from the detecting device, thereby quickly bringing the driving condition of the rotating object back to its original controlled condition, even under abrupt variations in the load imposed thereon.

Control device for controlling motor speed without hunting

There is disclosed an apparatus for reading a microfilmed image for image reproduction on a hard copy or the like. The operator can designate the area of image to be read, thus enabling exact image reproduction without loss of image or without unnecessary margins.

Film image processing apparatus

An optical assembly for forming an image of the original to be copied on a photosensitive member at a selected magnification, is detachably mounted in a copying apparatus. The optical assembly includes a number of small imaging elements which are arranged in a row or rows in the direction crossing the optical axes of the imaging elements. The copying apparatus is provided with a detector for detecting the imaging magnification of the optical assembly mounted in the copying apparatus. The optical assembly provided with a portion actable on the detector.

Copying apparatus and an optical assembly usable therewith

An automatic sheet processing device is adapted to be mounted to the sheet outputting portion of an image forming apparatus which outputs sheets one after another and used to receive the sheets successively output from the sheet outputting apparatus, automatically align the received sheets to one another, and then automatically bind the bundle of aligned sheets. The automatic sheet processing device comprises a sheet collecting tray rockably supported for receiving sheets output from a sheet outputting apparatus, tray rocking means for selectively changing over the tray to a first posture in which it is capable of receiving the output sheets from the sheet outputting apparatus and a second posture which is more steeply inclined than the first posture and in which it causes the bundle of sheets to be discharged out of the tray, sheet aligning means for aligning the sheets successively discharged into and piled in the tray in the first posture, binding means for binding the bundle of aligned sheets in the tray after a predetermined number of sheets has been output into the tray from the sheet outputting apparatus, and drive means for operating the tray rocking means on the basis of the operation completion signal of the binding means to change over the tray to the second posture.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiraku Sonobe