Nikon Corporation

Sony Corporation

Seikosha Co., Ltd.

Kazuya Umeyama

Keiichi Hirose

Akihiko Meguro

Masakazu Sekiguchi

Hideo Hoshuyama

Keiichi Nitta

Hiroki Uwai

Hiroyuki Akiya

Kazuo Ishii

Hirotake Nozaki

Satoshi Ejima

Sakae Tanaka

Tetsuya Kohno

Shingo Takahashi

Toshihisa Kuroiwa

Tomoaki Kawamura

Nobuya Kawahata

Osamu Ota

Hidefumi Ota

Toshiaki Kobayashi

Tomotaka Shinoda

Takumi Kawahara

Hiromi Kuwata

Tatsuo Hayashi

Seiji Sanada

To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.

Information processing device, portable device and information processing system

An image-capturing device includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a photographic subject; a selection unit that selects, as a reference image, a single image from among a plurality of images that have been captured in succession by the image-capturing unit; a calculation unit that calculates an amount of positional deviation between the reference image and each of the plurality of images other than the reference image; and a generation unit that generates a combined image by positionally aligning and then combining the reference image and those ones of the plurality of images whose amounts of positional deviation are less than or equal to a predetermined amount of deviation. The selection unit selects the reference image so that the number of images for which the amount of positional deviation is less than or equal to the predetermined amount of deviation becomes large.

Image-capturing device, and image combination program

An electronic camera comprises a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication with a computer or a printer, and a power save mode changeover unit that changes over a power save mode to either an ON or an OFF state according to the operational state of the electronic camera, if the power save mode is changed over to ON by the power save mode changeover unit, the wireless communication unit stops its operation when radio waves are not being transmitted, and if the power save mode is changed over to OFF, the wireless communication unit operates in a standby state when radio waves are not being transmitted.

Electronic camera that wirelessly transfers data, which includes a power save mode

A moving image file producing method includes: inputting an image material; inputting a scenario information; and producing a moving image file that contains the image material based on the scenario information.

Moving image file producing method, computer program product and electronic camera

An electronic camera of the present invention includes: an imaging unit capturing a subject to generate an original image; a derivative image generating unit reducing resolution or color of the original image to generate a derivative image for transfer; a recording unit recording the original image and the derivative image thereon such that the original image and the derivative image get associated with each other; and a transfer unit transferring the derivative image recorded on the recording unit to an external transfer destination. In this configuration, the recording unit finds the derivative image (original image) by referring to the association with the original image (or derivative image), thereby collectively managing the original image and the derivative image. This makes it possible to prevent a user from being confused at image management due to the original image and the derivative image being the same image.

Electronic camera

An electronic camera includes: an image sensor having a charge transfer unit that transfers an electric charge for each pixel column; a correction unit that corrects an electric charge signal outputted from the charge transfer unit using a correction coefficient; and a control unit that controls the correction unit so that the correction coefficient is different according to operational conditions of the image sensor.

An image playback method that performs a sequential display of a plurality of image data including a moving image stored in a memory unit while each being switched at predetermined time intervals, includes converting a format of moving image data for the sequential display into a predetermined format for the sequential display prior to the sequential display.

Image playback method, music processing method, image playback apparatus, and computer program product

The image processing system is an image processing system including an electronic camera and an image output device, in which the electronic camera includes an image pickup unit capturing an object image by an image sensor and outputting raw data of a digital format, a recording unit recording the raw data, a conversion unit reading the raw data from the recording unit to convert the raw data to a data format which can be handled by the image output device, and a transfer unit transferring the converted raw data, and in which the image output device includes a receiving unit receiving the raw data transferred by the transfer unit, an image processing unit performing image processing for output on the raw data, and an image output unit outputting the raw data as an image, thereby shortening the processing time and improving the operability.

Image processing system and electronic camera

A digital camera includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a photographic subject, and outputs the captured image; a shake amount detection unit that detects a shake amount of the digital camera; a shake correction actuation unit that is actuated for enabling a shake correction function; and a control unit that, when the shake correction actuation unit is actuated, enables an operation of a first shake correction function that sets image capture conditions of the image-capturing unit to image capture conditions in which emphasis is placed upon high sensitivity, and an operation of a second shake correction function that performs shake correction processing by performing image processing upon the image captured by the image-capturing unit, and moreover controls, based upon the shake amount detected by the shake amount detection unit, whether or not the second shake correction function, whose operation has been enabled, can be applied to the image.

Digital camera

An electronic camera includes: a communication unit engaged in communication with an external device; a selection unit that selects a transfer method of a photographic image; a transfer control unit that controls the communication unit so as to start, in response to a command transmission from the communication unit to the external device, a transfer of the photographic image from the communication unit to the external device through the transfer method selected by the selection unit; a registration unit where information related to the photographic image to be transferred is registered; and a registration control unit that adjusts a registration method with which the information is registered in the registration unit in correspondence to the transfer method selected by the selection unit.

Electronic camera and image transfer method adopted in electronic camera

A digital still camera of the invention includes: an image-capturing unit which generates an image; a selecting unit which decides whether a date where the generating is done is to be written onto the image; a writing unit which writes the date when the selecting unit decides that the date is to be written; a creating unit which creates print-order information; a determining unit which determines whether the image has the date thereon, when the creating unit creates the print-order information for the image; a changing unit which deletes the date from the print-order information when the determining unit determines that the image has the date thereon, and the print-order information includes the date; and a recording unit which records the image and the print-order information, associating them with each other. Therefore, it can avoid a problem in printing the date, and properly set print-order information with simple operation.

Digital still camera with print-order information

An electronic camera includes: a luminance detection device that detects a luminance of a photographic field; an image sensor that captures an image of a photographic subject; a light reduction device that changes over between reducing an amount of light from the photographic subject that is conducted to the image sensor, and not performing such light amount reduction; and a calculation device that, when moving image photography is started with the image sensor, decides whether or not to perform the light amount reduction with the light reduction device according to the luminance detected by the luminance detection device, and then calculates a control exposure for this moving image photography.

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Kazuya Umeyama