Sony Corporation

Hirotaka Sakaguchi

Yoichiro Sako

Masamichi Asukai

Taiji Ito

Akane Sano

Yoshiteru Kamatani

Hidehiko Sekizawa

Akinobu Sugino

Nozomu Ozaki

Itaru Kawakami

Kouichi Matsuda

Masaaki Tsuruta

Tatsuo Yoshida

Atsuto Ohashi

Hajime Terada

Hitoshi Tamai

Hiroshi Doihara

A picture imaging apparatus includes: an imaging means for imaging a subject picture to acquire taken picture data; a storage processing means for performing a storage process of taken picture data acquired by the imaging means; a motion detecting means for detecting motion of the picture imaging apparatus itself; a manipulating means for manipulating a shutter; and a control means for instructing the imaging means to perform a process in accordance with a shutter manipulation at a timing based on a result detected in the motion detecting means during a period during which the shutter is being manipulated by the manipulating means.

Picture imaging apparatus and imaging control method

An image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup section that picks up images to obtain picked-up-image-data items, a temporarily retaining section that temporarily retains the picked-up-image-data items, a storage-process section that performs a storage process on the picked-up-image-data items, a movement-detecting section that detects a movement of the image-pickup apparatus, an operation section that performs a shutter operation, and a control section that causes the temporarily retaining section to retain picked-up-image-data items in a shutter-operation period, that selects, on the basis of detection results obtained by the movement-detecting section in the shutter-operation period, a picked-up-image-data item from among the retained picked-up-image-data items, and that causes the storage-process section to perform the storage process on the selected picked-up-image-data item.

Apparatus and methods for reducing blur in camera images

Disclosed herein is an image-processing apparatus. The apparatus includes: a taken-image acquisition section configured to acquire a taken image; and a to-be-processed area setting section configured to carry out an analysis on a taken image acquired by the taken-image acquisition section and configured to use the pixel area of a photographed-subject image of a specific type in the taken image as a to-be-processed area of an image conversion process in accordance with the size of the photographed-subject image if a result of the analysis indicates that the photographed-subject image exists in the taken image. The apparatus further includes an image conversion section configured to carry out the image conversion process on the photographed-subject image with the pixel area thereof used as the to-be-processed area in order to generate a post-conversion image obtained as a result of the image conversion process.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

An imaging preventing apparatus includes imaging means for obtaining an imaged image signal by performing imaging processing, image analyzing means for performing image analyzing processing on the imaged image signal obtained by the imaging means, imaging preventing operation performing means for performing a preventing operation against imaging by a different camera system, and control means for determining the possibility of being imaged by a different camera system based on the analysis result information by the image analyzing means and, if it is determined that there is a possibility of being imaged, causing the imaging preventing operation performing means to perform the preventing operation.

Imaging preventing apparatus and imaging preventing method

Brightness of input data ranging from 0 to 20% (brightness close to black) is converted to gradation Y (black) and brightness ranging from 80 to 100% (brightness close to white) is converted to gradation Y (white). Ranges of brightness from 20 to 35%, 35 to 45%, 45 to 50%, 50 to 55%, 55 to 65%, and 65 to 80% are converted to gradations Y to Y respectively. While brightness of the input data is converted to eight gradations which an LCD can display, intervals of brightness assigned to each of gradations are so specified that they are narrower around medium brightness (around 50%) than around the minimum (0%) or maximum (100%) brightness, i.e., the conversion is performed in a nonlinear manner.

Apparatus for controlling display and method for gradation conversion

An electronic apparatus which is handy to carry. According to the present invention, in an electronic apparatus including a main portion, an electric connector for external connection, and a connecting line for electrically connecting the main portion with the connector, recesses are provided in the main portion for containing and removably holding the connector and connecting line, thereby the connector and the connecting line may be held in the main portion as one united body to make the drive unit handy, thus, it is possible to realize such an electronic apparatus that can be easily carried.

Electronic apparatus for reproducing data

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Hirotaka Sakaguchi