Nikon Corporation

Nippon Kogaku K.k.

Kazuyuki Kazami

Norikazu Yokonuma

Hideo Hibino

Hiroshi Wakabayashi

Youichi Yamazaki

Koichi Daitoku

Hisashi Okutsu

Toshiyuki Nakamura

Akira Ezawa

Toshio Sosa

Tetsuro Goto

Hidenori Miyamoto

Naoki Tomino

Tsutomu Wakabayashi

Daiki Tsukahara

Yoshiaki Ohtsubo

Hideya Inoue

Hirotake Nozaki

Hiroshi Sakamoto

Kenji Toyoda

Tadashi Ohta

Yuji Katano

Akira Ohmura

Kiyosada Machida

Tomoaki Kawamura

Hideshi Naito

Takeaki Sugimura

Hideyo Nozawa

Kazuto Ohtsuka

Hidemori Miyamoto

Tetsuya Takano

Atsushi Tanaka

Masahide Tanaka

Osamu Ikeda

Akira Katayama

Yoshihiro Nakagawa

Masaru Muramatsu

Masaaki Yanagisawa

Hidehiro Ogawa

Hiroshi Terunuma

Toshiaki Kobayashi

Nobuyoshi Hagyuda

Shigeo Akasaka

Yoichi Yamazaki

Masaharu Itoh

Yoshio Matsuzawa

Takumi Kawahara

Isao Uchida

Junichi Yanai

Yasunori Kitamura

Daisuke Yuki

Soichiro Tsuboi

Genshi Yoshioka

Kazuto Otsuka

Mitsuru Higuchi

Masaharu Itou

An imaging device, including: a main body; a detector including: an imager that images an object; and a distance measurer that detects a distance from each point on a surface of the object; an information calculator that is provided in the main body and uses a detection result of the detector to calculate at least one of shape information or texture information on the object; and a communicator that transmits a calculation result of the information calculator.

Image pickup device, information processing device, and image pickup system

An information storage device is a device that communicates over a network with another device that is used by another user different from an own user who uses an own device, and includes a storage unit including a first storage area available to the own user and a second storage area available to the other user, an information output unit that outputs information of the own user stored in the first storage area to the other device over the network, an information writing unit that stores information of the other user output by the other device over the network, in the second storage area, and a use control unit that controls whether the second storage area is available to the own user on the basis of an instruction of the other user.

Information storage device, information storage system, and information storage control program

An electronic camera includes: an image capturing device that performs photoelectric conversion on a subject image formed by a photographic optical system and outputs image data; an image display device that displays an image based upon the image data; a first storage device achieving a first access speed; a second storage device achieving a second access speed lower than the first access speed; and a control device that, if image data for display are present in the first storage device when an image reproduction mode for displaying the image based upon the image data at the image display device is set, displays an image based upon the image data in the first storage device at the image display device, and if the image data for display are not present in the first storage device, displays an image based upon image data in the second storage device at the image display device.

Image processing apparatus and electronic camera that reduce the length of time required to complete reproduction of recorded image data

A video apparatus includes a memory in which image information denoting a moving image is recorded and a thumbnail creator that creates thumbnail information denoting thumbnails upon completion of recording of the image information in the memory. The apparatus also includes various types of user interfaces by which a user can designate frames of the moving image information for thumbnail creation.

Video apparatus and method

In a collaborating work, it is to provide a digital camera in which camera information about each camera is displayed on a monitor of a master camera and a memory status of each memory card in use is also displayed and further, when monitoring a video from a slave camera, a size of a display screen can be manually set and in a digital camera system at collaborating work, a first digital camera is provided with camera information about each digital camera, a total memory capacity, a total sum of shot-taken frame numbers, a total remaining memory capacity or a display device indicating a total sum of remaining frame numbers. Camera information is information that is required to be set when instructing a shooting work or a storage work or to specify a second digital camera.

Digital camera and digital camera system

The object of the present invention is to provide a digital camera system capable of transmitting image information suitable for the purpose of image usage in a peripheral. Special information in connection with an application program used in the peripheral is output to a digital camera, an image data processed in the digital camera on the basis of the special information is output to the peripheral, and the peripheral executes the application program by inputting the processed image data into the application program. The special information is the size of a character, the number of colors, resolution, and the like used in the application program.

Digital camera for outputting image data according to application program, and peripheral for carrying out application program

An image recording apparatus records image files on a recording medium. The image recording apparatus automatically selects disused files and automatically deletes them at the appropriate timing. A storage device acquires an image file from, e.g., an imaging component or an external terminal and records the image file together with time information on a recording medium. A controller monitors the recording area of the recording medium and automatically deletes image files for which the time information is old in accordance with the monitored usage status of the recording area.

Image recording apparatus and method for selecting and automatically deleting an image file

An electronic camera displays recorded information, such as image frames, to permit the selection of items of information to be transferred to external equipment. Each time an item of information is transferred, an informative indication (e.g., an icon) is displayed in association with the transferred item to confirm the transfer and to permit an operator to select items of recorded information that may be erased. If an error occurs during transfer of a series of items, the operator can determine from the display the point at which the error occurred, avoiding the need for transferring items that have already been transferred.

Electronic camera apparatus and method in which data are recorded, transferred, and erased

A digital camera comprises an internal memory, an insertion port into which a storage medium is inserted; an imaging device; a storage control device that stores an image taken by the imaging device in one of the internal memory and the storage medium inserted into the insertion port; and a residual capacity display device that displays information on residual capacity to store the image by the storage control device.

Digital camera

Image recording apparatus and method

An electronic camera includes: an image-capturing unit that creates an image by capturing an image of a subject; an enlarged image generating unit that creates an enlarged image by enlarging a portion of the image created by the image-capturing unit; an optical viewfinder that enables verification of a subject range corresponding to a range of the image created by the image-capturing unit; and a warning output unit that issues a warning when the enlarged image generating unit is in operation.

Electronic camera

Electronic camera and method of operating an electronic camera

A film image reading apparatus and method which more quickly reads images from a cartridge of developed film for production of thumbnail images which are displayed on a monitor. The apparatus reads a first image from the film cartridge using imaging condition values associated with each frame image. These imaging condition values include photographic information such as, exposure value, white balance value and focus adjustment. In the event that the first or current image being read by the apparatus is the start of a series of photographic images, the film image reading apparatus will set the exposure value, the white balance value and the focus adjustment only once for the entire series. The remaining images of the series are then read using the imaging condition values of the first image of the series. In this manner, these imaging condition values are not reset for each image and time is saved in reading the series of images from the film.

Film image reading apparatus and method

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuyuki Kazami