Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Kazunori Yanagi

Keiichi Imamura

Kazuaki Hagiwara

Yoshinori Abe

Junichi Miyasaka

Hitoshi Tanaka

Yoshiyuki Kato

Kenji Iwamoto

Kenji Yoshizawa

Tomohiko Murakami

Takashi Onoda

Taku Koreki

Yoshihiro Takayama

Ken Fujita

Naoya Okamoto

Kunihiko Ohnaka

Genki Kumazaki

The present invention is to realize a simple communication connection. A shooting system S includes: a display deviceconfigured to change identifiers periodically so as to present an identifier; a management serverconfigured to share the identifier with the display device; and a user terminalconfigured to acquire the identifier presented on the display devicewhen an identifier acquisition operation by a user is detected, and to transmit, to the management server, the acquired identifier and an operation instruction to operate a cameraidentified by the acquired identifier. The management serverincludes an information control blockwhich performs control to associate image data acquired with the camerabased on the operation instruction transmitted by the user terminalwith the identifier presented on the display devicewhen the identifier acquisition operation by the user is detected.

Information processing system, information processing method, medium, and management device

From among two images and whose imaging timings are the same and imaging directions are different, one image whose imaging direction has a predetermined relation with that of the other image is specified as a target to be divided, and this target image is divided into a first partial image and a second partial image. Then, the first partial image and the second partial image are combined with the edges of the other image located in the direction perpendicular to the imaging direction, respectively.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium

A still image mode for recording still images or a moving image mode for recording moving images is sequentially judged as to whether or not communication with a remote control device has been disconnected (wireless connection status). When the disconnection of the communication with the remote control device is detected, the current imaging mode is automatically switched to an interval imaging mode with its base imaging mode such as a still image mode or a moving image mode being maintained. During the disconnection period, that is, until the re-establishment of the communication is detected, an operation of recording a still image or a moving image is repeated at predetermined time intervals.

Imaging apparatus, imaging mode control method and storage medium

An image processing apparatus including a CPU which is operable to function as units comprising a processing unit which sets, as a first area, an area that is not a peripheral edge area in a captured image acquired by an imaging unit, sets an area including the peripheral edge area as a second area, and performs predetermined processing on one of the first area and the second area, and a specification unit which specifies whether the first area is subjected to the predetermined processing or the second area is subjected to the predetermined processing, based on orientation information of the imaging unit when the captured image is acquired.

A CPU of a camera unit controls a communication section to transmit live view images captured by an imaging section to a remote control unit. Further, in the case of receiving a rotation angle of the remote control unit (an angle with respect to the horizontal direction of a display surface of a display section of the remote control unit) transmitted from the remote control unit, the CPU sets a trimming frame for an image captured by the imaging section based on the rotation angle. In the case of receiving an image-taking instruction from the remote control unit, the CPU crops the image along a trimming frame at that point of time and stores the cropped image in a recording medium.

Imaging apparatus, camera unit, display unit, image-taking method, display method and computer readable recording medium recording program thereon

An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit which captures image data of an object, a zoom image data generating unit which generates items of zoom image data having different zoom magnifications, a display control unit which displays through images on a display unit based on the items of the generated zoom image data, a selection unit which selects one of the zoom magnifications by selecting one of the through images displayed on the display unit, and a recording control unit which records image data corresponding to the selected zoom magnification in a storing medium.

Image capturing apparatus with zoom function

When directed to transmit data in a personal computer (), a document image data generating section () generates document image data obtained by imaging a document content based on document data for every page. An index image generating section () composites a file name of the document data and icon image data corresponding to application software by which the document data is created, and thereby generates index image data. The folder generating section () generates a PC folder based on the document image data, the index image data, and the management data, and generated by a management file generating section () transmits the PC folder to a digital camera () via a data transmitting section ().

Data processing system, data processing device, image display device, and recording medium that records processing program thereof

A digital camera picks up an image of an object for face authentication prior to each of, for example, continuous photographing operations, and operates as follows if performing an actual photographing process only when a face of a designated person can be recognized in the acquired image. If the face of the designated person can be recognized at an arbitrary timing and the actual photographing process is performed, the digital camera changes a plurality of recognition conditions at the arbitrary timing, thereby reducing face recognition accuracy used if the face of the designated person is recognized at a time of second and following face recognitions. By reducing the face recognition accuracy, the second and following face recognitions can be performed at high speed. Besides, since the designated person can be recognized once during the previous face recognition, similar recognition accuracy to the unchanged and unreduced recognition accuracy (without changing the face recognition conditions) can be substantially ensured.

Image recognition device for performing image recognition including object identification on each of input images

When a digital camerais being swung, the CPUjudges whether or not a block group having motion vectors which are varyingly different from the motion vectors of a peripheral areain a field angle photographing area as shown in FIG.A exists in a center areaas shown in FIG.B. When judged that a block group having varyingly different motion vectors exists in the center area, the digital cameradetermines this block group as an observed photographic subject area. Subsequently, when the scalar quantity of the largest motion vector, among the motion vectors of each block in the determined observed photographic subject area, is smaller than a threshold v, the digital camerajudges that the user is attempting to perform a follow shot and there is no blurring of the photographic subject, and performs automatic shooting.

Imaging apparatus and recording medium

An imaging device equipped with an imaging system includes an imaging lens optical system which images an object, a flash emitting unit which synchronizes imaging in the imaging system to emit a flash having not less than a prescribed luminance in a charged state not less than a prescribed charged state by power to be charged, and a control unit which determines a charging amount of the charged state of the flash emitting unit and which controls imaging to be performed by using the flash emitting unit with an imaging sensitivity of the imaging lens optical system set in accordance with the charging amount of the charged state in imaging by the imaging lens optical system.

Imaging device, imaging method and program

A display screen of a liquid crystal display is divided into a main area and three sub-areas arranged vertically on the right thereof. A through image is displayed on the main area. On the respective sub-areas, composition images are displayed indicating different compositions and object regions different from each other. When any of the images is selected, the selection triggers the generation and recording of an image having composition similar to the selected composition image. When any of the composition images is selected, the selected composition image is enlarged and displayed on the main area.

Image capturing apparatus with through image display function

Image capturing apparatus with zoom image data generating, image display, image selection and image capture functions, and method for same

When a continuous-zoom-photographing mode is selected, a through image of a subject and first and second continuous-zoom-photographing frames are produced on an image-display section. When a user operates a cross key, recorded information about a trimming position of each of the first and second continuous-zoom-photographing frames is updated according to the cross-key operation, and the first and second continuous-zoom-photographing frames are produced at the updated trimming position recorded after the update. When a shutter button is operated, still-image photographing is started and obtained image data is stored in a buffer memory. On the basis of the obtained image data, image data is generated for each of the first and second continuous-zoom-photographing frames through trimming processing and stored in the buffer memory. The obtained image data and the generated image data are stored in a flash memory.

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Akishima, Japan

Kazunori Yanagi