Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Olympus Corporation

Olympus Imaging Corporation

Izuru Kiyokawa

Yoshiaki Satoh

Yawara Saitoh

Koichi Takahashi

Naoya Sugimoto

Fumito Orii

Toshiya Sodeyama

Takahiro Shimizu

Wataru Koide

A camera unit capable of taking good visibility images covering a wide field of view, and having a thinner profile includes an imaging optical unit having free-curved surface prisms for forming subject images, a single imaging device for photoelectrically-converting the subject images from a plurality of directions formed by the imaging optical unit, a signal processing unit, a communication unit, and a control unit for controlling operation of the imaging device and the signal processing unit.

Panoramic camera unit and camera system with arrayed optical elements

In an electronic imaging apparatus, image information of an image signal photoelectrically converted from an image incident is stored in image information storing means in a format dependent upon a type of the applied storage device. Provided therein are communication means for transmitting and/or receiving image information generated in this apparatus or the other equivalent apparatuses while an operation mode of the apparatus is set for communication and switch means for causing the communication means to start a communication mode operation.

Electronic imaging apparatus

In an electronic imaging apparatus, image information of an image signal photoelectrically converted from an image incident is stored in image information storage in a format dependent upon a type of the applied storage device. Provided therein are communication devices for transmitting and/or receiving image information generated in this apparatus or the other equivalent apparatuses while an operation mode of the apparatus is set for communication and a switch for causing the communication device to start a communication mode operation.

An image display device capable of displaying an images on right and left image display elements (I, andR) by receiving right and left image signals for displaying three-dimensional images which are fed alternately in a field sequence manner. The degree of influence on the viewer is operated by measuring the parallax value of the right and left image signals fed to the right and left image display elements (L, andR) by a 3D protecting means (), and it is judged whether or not the operated degree of influence reaches a reference value. If the operated degree of influence reaches the reference value, the degree of influence of the 3D image on the viewer is reduced by selectively displaying the result of the judgment on the right and left image display elements (L, andR), so that the image can be viewed in a consistently suitable manner.

Image display device utilizing 3D protecting process by detecting a parallax value

According to this invention, a fingerprint sensor is mounted for fingerprint collation, and a movable protection unit which coverts the fingerprint sensor is arranged. In fingerprint authentication, the protection unit moves to expose the fingerprint sensor. Along with movement, the apparatus is powered on and activated, and the fingerprint sensor also operates to perform collation processing. The protection unit which covers the fingerprint sensor in normal use is formed by a member capable of handwriting input. This arrangement provides an information terminal apparatus which has a collation function and enables handwriting input.

Information terminal apparatus with collation function

A head-mounted audio/video playback system is provided which includes a main-body unit functioning as a pair of headphones worn on the head for playing back audio, to which a video playback unit having a video playback function, a battery unit having a power supplying function, and a protective cover are detachably connected. The main-body unit can be used alone, the video playback unit can be connected to only one of a left case and a right case of the main-body unit, or the video playback unit can be connected to one of the left case and the right case and the battery unit can be connected to the other.

Head-mounted audio/video playback system

In order to provide an electronic image pickup system which can simplify the system arrangement, and can perform mutual transmission of image data and a remote-controlling operation, an electronic still camera on the master side transmits operation data for defining a photographing operation in accordance with an operation with respect to the camera on the master side to an electronic still camera on the slave side. The electronic still camera on the slave side receives the operation data from the master side, and performs a photographing operation corresponding to the operation data. The electronic still camera on the slave side transmits a picked-up image signal to the electronic still camera on the master side to display the image signal on the electronic viewfinder of the electronic still camera on the master side.

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Izuru Kiyokawa