Fujifilm Corporation

Fujinon Corporation

Harada Industry Co., Ltd.

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Oki Data Corporation

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Hino Motors, Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Olympus Corporation

Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha

Hiroshi Endo

Kenkichi Hayashi

Yoshihiro Ito

Takashi Aoki

Akio Omiya

Takehiko Senba

Kazuki Inoue

Yoichi Iwasaki

Noriko Kawamura

Seiji Tanaka

Richard Jonathan Langley

Yousuke Naruse

Masatoshi Saito

Kousuke Irie

Hiroyuki Tachihara

Michio Cho

Noriyuki Takahashi

Takuya Takahashi

Hiroshi Akimoto

Yoji Naka

Seiya Takahashi

Masatoshi Saitoh

Akira Kuwahara

Yoshiaki Ishiyama

Takeshi Misawa

Jun Matsumoto

Tomoyuki Kawai

Masahiko Asakura

Kentaro Tokiwa

Tomoki Inoue

Shoji Yamamoto

Takao Suzuki

Kouhei Awazu

Masaaki Takagi

Shigeo Toji

Masayuki Kimura

Hirofumi Horii

Yasuhiko Tanaka

Koji Kobayashi

Kojiro Tsutsumi

Satoshi Yoshikawa

Jun Iida

Satoru Sunada

Kouzou Uekido

Susumu Aono

Koji Miyazaki

Mitsuo Komoto

Daisuke Yamaoka

Yu Nakashima

Tetsuro Tokaichi

Shigeki Kudo

Yoshio Hiraki

Nobumasa Toyoshima

Hidenori Esaki

Toru Okinaga

Masaki Kohama

Ryuko Komatsu

Mahmood Ahrabian

Toshiyuki Nihei

Hidemichi Inoue

David Briggs

Hideo Hosoya

Hidetaka Omine

Hideo Izumisawa

Kenzo Kimura

Ichiro Kagawa

Yoko Matsumoto

Kazunaga Shimizu

Michihiko Hashimoto

Hiroshi Tsukisaka

Akira Wakui

Chisato Yamamoto

A blowing device includes: a casing which is connected to an air conditioner of a vehicle; a ventilation path which is formed from an inlet to an outlet of the casing; a second inclined portion which is provided on the side of the outlet in the casing; an intermediate portion which is formed between the inlet and the second inclined portion; a wind direction variable member that is provided in the ventilation path and is able to change a wind direction of an inflow wind through the inlet toward the intermediate portion or the outlet; and a cover member that is provided with a hole portion penetrating therethrough in an X direction and the cover member is disposed in the +X direction in relation to an end portion of the second inclined portion in the &#x2212;X direction.

Blowing device of air conditioner

Disclosed is a water ingress preventive structure for a tailpipe which discharges exhaust gas outside of a vehicle at a terminal of an exhaust passage system. A curved shape is imparted to the tailpipe. A partition is mounted on an inner periphery of a curved portion outward of a curved direction so as to be gradually spaced apart from the inner periphery toward downstream in a direction of flow of the exhaust gas. Thus, a dead end portion is defined by the partition and the inner periphery of the curved portion outward of the curved direction.

Water ingress preventing structure for tailpipe

This imaging device is equipped with an interchangeable optical system, and includes: a sensor section that has a configuration allowing nondestructive reading of a signal from each pixel; a reading section that reads a signal from the sensor section in a nondestructive manner for each pixel; a signal storage section that is able to add up and store the signals for each pixel; and a correction control section that acquires shading characteristics and controls the reading section and the signal storage section. Each pixel has an organic layer that includes a photoelectric conversion layer. On the basis of the shading characteristics, the correction control section sets the number of operations of signal reading of peripheral pixels such that the number is greater than the number of operations of signal reading of central pixels, and generates image data from the signal of each pixel stored in the signal storage section.

Imaging device and imaging method

At a first point in time, the amount of opening of a diaphragm is controlled in such a manner that parallax is obtained in a plurality of images that are output as a result of imaging, whereby a parallax image is acquired. At a second point in time, the diaphragm is controlled in such a manner that the amount of opening thereof is made smaller than at the first point in time, whereby a planar image is acquired. Parallax information is calculated based upon the plurality of images acquired at the first point in time, and the planar image acquired at the second point in time is created. This stereoscopic imaging apparatus creates a stereoscopic image comprising parallax information and a planar image.

Stereoscopic imaging apparatus and stereoscopic imaging method

An image processing device includes a statistical information acquiring unit, an optical information acquiring unit, a filter information calculating unit and a filter coefficient calculating unit. The filter information calculating unit obtains filter information of a restoration filter for point image restoration processing according to at least one of statistical information and optical information. The filter information includes information related to number of taps of the restoration filter and information indicating a kind of symmetry of the restoration filter. The filter coefficient calculating unit calculates a filter coefficient of the restoration filter according to the statistical information and the optical information with at least the information related to the number of taps of the restoration filter and the information indicating the kind of the symmetry of the restoration filter of the filter information as a constraint condition.

Image processing device, imaging device, computer, image processing method and computer readable non-transitory medium

An imaging device, includes: a sensor including first phase difference detecting pixels arranged in a row direction and second phase difference detecting pixels arranged in the row direction; a defocus amount calculating unit which calculates a correlated amount of a first output signal group and a second output signal group while shifting the first output signal group and the second output signal group in the row direction by an arbitrary amount to calculate a defocus amount from a first shift amount of the first output signal group and the second output signal group when the correlated amount is at a maximum. The defocus amount calculating unit changes an upper limit of a shift amount of the first output signal group and the second output signal group in accordance with at least one of an F value, a focal distance, and a position of a focus lens.

Imaging device and focus control method

According to the present invention, even if variation (estimation variation) is caused in a subject distance estimated at the time of imaging when restoration processing of a taken image is performed using a restoration filter corresponding to the subject distance, since an optimal restoration filter that conforms to a subject distance taking into account the maximum infinity-side estimation variation and does not cause overcorrection is selected, it is possible to prevent resolution degradation due to overcorrection and achieve the improvement of resolution by the restoration filter.

Imaging device and image processing method

An imaging elementincludes an imaging pixeland phase difference detecting pixelsR andL. When there is an instruction to start capturing a moving image, a defocus amount calculating unitdetermines a shift amount of two output signal groups at the time of performing a correlation operation in accordance with information of an F value, a focal distance, and a focal position. The defocus amount calculating unitshifts two output signal groups by a unit amount within a range of a determined shift amount to perform a correlation operation and calculates a defocus amount from the result. Thereafter, when the distance to a major subject varies, the defocus amount calculating unit changes the shift amount which has been already set to a larger value.

According to the present invention, when restoration processing of a taken image by the use of a restoration filter corresponding to a subject distance is performed, by storing only a corresponding restoration filter in a subject distance range between the estimation variation close range and the infinity such that a restoration filter in a range on the nearer side than the estimation variation close range is not provided from the beginning, it is thereby possible to reduce the number of restoration filters held beforehand.

A color imaging element, includes a color filter array, in which the color filter array includes an array pattern of a 3&#xd7;3 pixel group in which first filters corresponding to a green color and second filters corresponding to red and blue colors are arrayed, and the first filters are placed at a center and 4 corners in the 3&#xd7;3 pixel group, and the array pattern is repeatedly placed in horizontal and vertical directions, and in a pixel group within a predetermined area of the color imaging element, phase difference detection pixels for acquiring phase difference information are placed in entire components of one direction among components in the horizontal direction and components in the vertical direction in the pixel group.

Color imaging element having phase difference detection pixels and imaging apparatus equipped with the same

The quality of a planar image is improved while maintaining the parallax of a stereoscopic image. An image capturing device includes an imaging element that performs photoelectric conversion on respective light fluxes passing through different regions of a single pickup lens. The image capturing device includes a neutral density filter an AE control unit that acquires subject brightness, and a diaphragm control unit that, in a case of the stereoscopic pickup, controls whether or not to reduce the amount of light which reaches the imaging element using the neutral density filter based on the subject brightness, and that, in a case of the plane pickup, causes a diaphragm value of the diaphragm to be greater than a diaphragm value in the case of the stereoscopic pickup while setting the light extinction filter to a non-insertion state.

Image capturing device and image capturing method

One aspect of the present invention thinning-reads pixel signals from the multiple pixels according to a thinning pattern from an image pickup element, or extracts pixel signals from the multiple pixels according to the thinning pattern from a color image that is read from the image pickup element and corresponds to the color filter array, and acquires a thinned color image. Then, moving image data is generated on the basis of the thinned color image. Adoption of the thinned color image as a target image to be subjected to moving image processing can facilitate reduction in processing time per frame, and prevent the frame rate from decreasing. Furthermore, thinning-reading pixels from the image pickup element can facilitate reduction in time of reading an image from the image pickup element.

Imaging device, and image processing method

According to the present invention, since a color image for a moving image including that for live view display includes image data on pixel lines including first and second phase difference pixels, phase difference AF can be accurately performed during the moving image taking. A color image for the moving image includes not only the image data on the pixel lines including the first and second phase difference pixels, but also image data on pixel lines that do not include the first and second phase difference pixels and only include normal pixels. Accordingly, the image quality of the color image for the moving image is improved, an image interpolation process can be accurately performed, and reduction in image quality of a taken image (still image and moving image) through the phase difference pixels can be prevented or alleviated.

It is an imaging element in which pixels which are photoelectric conversion elements are placed at respective square lattice positions, in which, when, in a predetermined region where pixels of the imaging element are placed, a plurality of pairs are arranged in a first line which is any one line among lines and a second line which is parallel to the first line, each pair having pair pixels which are first and second phase difference detection pixels placed adjacent to each other to detect a phase difference among the pixels of the imaging element, the pairs in the first line are placed to be spaced apart from each other by at least two pixels, and the pairs in the second line are placed at positions, which correspond to positions where the pair pixels in the first line are spaced apart from each other.

Imaging element and imaging apparatus employing phase difference detection pixels pairs

According to the present invention, the first and second phase difference pixels are arranged on the pixel lines in the first direction in the color image that is thinned during imaging of a moving image including that for live view display. Therefore, even during moving image taking, phase difference AF can be accurately performed. Furthermore, the pixel values at the pixel positions of the first and second phase difference pixels in the thinned color image can be accurately acquired on the basis of the pixel values of the surrounding pixels. Accordingly, reduction in the image quality of the taken image (still image or moving image) due to the phase difference pixels can be prevented or alleviated. Furthermore, the pixel values can be accurately acquired on the basis of the pixel values of the surrounding pixels during simultaneous processing.

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Saitama, Japan

Hiroshi Endo