Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Shimizu

Jun Muraki

Hiroyuki Hoshino

Erina Ichikawa

Hiroyasu Katagawa

An image-capturing apparatus includes the following. An image-capturing unit performs exposure of each frame to generate a captured image of a subject. A changing unit changes an image-capturing direction of the image-capturing unit. A control unit controls the changing unit to change the image-capturing direction of the image-capturing unit. The control unit determines a valid term in which the image-capturing direction is changed according to an exposure term of the image-capturing unit. The control unit controls the changing unit to change the image-capturing direction during the determined valid term.

Image-capturing apparatus which controls image-capturing direction

The present invention can easily acquire images having a uniform aspect ratio. In an imaging device of the invention, a control section detects the movement amount and the movement direction of the imaging device based on output from an acceleration sensor. Then, when the movement direction of the imaging device in its initial movement started at the beginning of imaging is substantially linear and a substantially horizontal or vertical direction, the control section calculates a reference movement amount by which a composite image having a predetermined aspect ratio can be generated, based on the movement amount of the imaging device, and controls the display section to display imaging area information (guide) indicating the final imaging area having the predetermined aspect ratio based on the reference movement amount.

Imaging device, imaging method and storage medium for combining images consecutively captured while moving

There is provided an imaging apparatus including an imaging unit, an orthogonal axis information detecting unit that detects orthogonal axis information indicating an inclination of an orthogonal axis perpendicular to an optical axis of the imaging unit after imaging by the imaging unit, and a specifying unit that specifies a shooting posture of an apparatus body at time of imaging, based on the orthogonal axis information detected by the orthogonal axis information detecting unit.

Imaging apparatus capable of specifying shooting posture, method for specifying shooting posture, and storage medium storing program

An image processing apparatus includes an obtainment section to obtain a face image; an area specifying section to specify a set of a plurality of corresponding areas in the face image obtained by the obtainment section; and a correction section to generate a face image in which one area of the plurality of corresponding areas of the face image is used as a reference to correct another area.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium recording a program

An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining section, a detection section, a first identification section and a second identification section. The obtaining section obtains image data of a first picked-up image and a second picked-up image picked up by an image pickup section. The detection section detects a brightness change region where brightness changes at predetermined time intervals in the first picked-up image on the basis of the obtained image data of the first picked-up image. The first identification section performs straight line detection processing on the obtained image data of the second picked-up image to detect a straight line, so as to identify a candidate straight line in a corresponding region corresponding to the brightness change region. The second identification section identifies a quadrilateral region including the candidate straight line as an extraction candidate region in the second picked-up image.

Image processing apparatus detecting quadrilateral region from picked-up image

An imaging apparatus includes a display section to sequentially display each of the images generated by the imaging section and an enlargement display control section to sequentially display parts of the images generated by the imaging section on the display section while enlarging the parts by a predetermined enlargement factor. The imaging section changes the enlargement factor of the enlargement display control section according to a shake quantity detected by the detecting section or an optical zoom magnification of an optical zoom section.

Imaging apparatus equipped with image enlarging display function, recording medium recording control program of the imaging apparatus, and control method of the imaging apparatus

A video playback device including a playback section which replays a video, a setting section which sets a predetermined area within the video frames being replayed by the playback section, a detecting section which detects whether or not a predetermined subject is included within the predetermined area, a selecting section which selectively switches between a first playback speed and a second playback speed based on the timing of the detection by the detecting section, and a control section which controls the playback speed of the playback section in accordance with a result of the selection by the selecting section.

Video playback device capable of controlling playback speed

A motion blur correction device includes a motion blur correction section which performs motion blur correction processing on an intended video data, and a correction intensity judgment section which instructs the motion blur correction section to cancel the execution of the motion blur correction processing when the frame rate of the video data is equal to or less than a predetermined value. As a result, motion blur correction is prevented from being automatically performed when motion blur correction is not required.

Motion blur correction device and motion blur correction method

A display control apparatus controls an input unit that inputs pieces of captured image data, an acquisition control unit that controls consecutive acquisition of a plurality of pieces of image data, a memory control unit that buffers in the memory unit the plurality of pieces of image data consecutively acquired by the acquisition control unit, an image compositor that composites the latest buffered image data and other (non-latest) pieces of image data successively buffered in the memory control unit, and a display control unit that displays chronologically an image represented by a image data composited by the image compositor.

Display control apparatus, display control method and recording non-transitory medium

An imaging device performs a process for dividing each of a plurality of image frames constituting moving image information generated by an imaging unit into a plurality of blocks; a process for tracking predetermined ones of the obtained blocks in one of two image frames before and after the image frame of interest to calculate a plurality of motion vectors of the blocks, respectively; a process for comparing one of the calculated motion vectors with each of other motion vectors, the one motion vector serving as an evaluation target, thereby calculating a global motion vector of the one image frame; and a process for excluding blocks present within a predetermined distance from one block related to one motion vector serving as the evaluation target from comparison targets the motion vectors of which are to be compared with the one motion vector, when the global motion vector calculation unit calculates the global motion vector.

Image processing apparatus for calculating global motion vector of plurality of image frames

An image capturing apparatuscomprising a built-in memorywhich stores a plurality of images captured by an image capturing unitand a system file Fthat registers reproduction control information involving a position where reproduction of each of the images by a displayis permitted or prohibited, a GPS unitto position the current position of the image capturing apparatus, and a CPUwhich compares the positioned current position of the image capturing apparatus with the reproduction control information registered in the system file to control reproduction of the image by the display.

Image reproduction apparatus

An image processing apparatus comprising: a block selector that selects one of blocks that contain an amount of features, larger than a predetermined amount of features, from among a plurality of blocks which compose a particular one of a plurality of frames of a moving image of a subject; a motion calculator that calculates a motion vector of each of blocks of a second particular one of the plurality of frames next to the first-mentioned particular frame and corresponding to a respective one of the selected blocks; a displacement calculator that calculates a displacement of the second particular frame based on the calculated motion vectors; and an image shake corrector that corrects an image shake in the moving image based on the calculated displacement.

Image shake correction image processing apparatus and program

An image synthesis device selects frame images in an order stored in a DRAM, and calculates the characteristic amount of the selected frame image. The image synthesis device searches a block having the calculated characteristic amount in a next frame, and calculates a moving vector. The image synthesis device sets an extraction width which is a width of a partial image to be extracted based on the calculated moving vector, and extracts an image at the extraction width from the central line in a current frame image. The image synthesis device combines and synthesizes the extracted partial image with the end portion, opposite to the moving vector, of a panorama synthetic image synthesized at this point, i.e., the end portion of the moving direction of an electronic camera.

Image synthesis device, image synthesis method and memory medium storage image synthesis program

Disclosed is an imaging device provided with a moving image decoding section to decode encoded moving image data encoded by MPEG technique into moving image data, blur total motion vector estimating section to obtain motion vector of macroblock selected by macroblock selecting section that is suitable for estimating a total motion vector as well as to estimate the total motion vector of frame according to the motion vector, and a total motion vector interpolating section to perform blur correction when replaying moving image according to the estimated total motion vector.

Image processing device and program

When a blurring correction is performed when shooting a moving image, a digital camera performs blurring correction on the picked up frames and successively records the frames. Then, when generating a moving image file, the digital camera records information stating that the blurring correction has been performed in the header of the file, thereby preventing the blurring correction from being performed again when the moving image is played back. In addition, in the case that only the blurring detection is performed when shooting the moving image, the digital camera detects the blurring in the frame, correlates the detected blurring amount in the frame with the frame, and successively records the blurring amounts. Then, when generating the moving image file, the digital camera records information stating that the blurring detection has been performed in the header of the file.

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Akishima, Japan

Hiroshi Shimizu